00:00Well, I don't know what the strategy and the end goal here is exactly.
00:04Because if the problem is with Iran's nuclear program, that issue was being resolved at the negotiating table with the United States.
00:14And U.S. intelligence just yesterday in reporting reiterated that the program remains civilian.
00:20And yes, the Iranians had expanded the program, but that it wasn't weaponized and they didn't seem to have any plans to weaponize the program.
00:27So if that's the issue, that was being done through diplomacy.
00:32In fact, there was a round of talks scheduled on Sunday in Oman, which now is called off thanks to the Israeli attack that started two days before.
00:42And it seems like actually diplomacy was one of the main targets because the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu actually has been on the record.
00:50It's no secret on and off the record has been trying to sabotage any form of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington, any form of normalization, the removing of pressure, of sanctions, of this isolation that one political camp, at least in Iran, has been pushing for two decades.
01:07Netanyahu tried to sabotage diplomacy under President Obama.
01:10He tried to sabotage it, even though it wasn't going anywhere, under President Biden.
01:15He tried to pressure the U.S. for the past two decades to go to war with Iran.
01:22Since the invasion, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Netanyahu has been calling for a war in Iran on its nuclear sites, etc.
01:28So this seems to be, it's been out in the open.
01:31He wants a war with Iran.
01:32He doesn't want diplomacy, normalization.
01:34And I don't think the nuclear program is really the problem.
01:37The other thing I want to add here is the experience of these regime change wars for the Americans.
01:42The reason poll after poll has shown in the U.S. that there's no appetite for another big war in the Middle East is because of the failures that's in front of everyone's eye.
01:51Trillion-dollar wars, Afghanistan and Iraq.
01:54After 20 years, the U.S. had to give the keys back to the Taliban and return.
01:59In Iraq, U.S. interference, invasion brought more instability, more chaos to the entire region and not just Iraq.
02:05Beyond that, I mean, look at the birth of ISIS.
02:08The more instability that has been spread across the region.
02:11And then finally, the Iranian people, you know, the Iranian people, a lot of them, as we've seen in protests, are not very happy, big fans of this regime.
02:19But at the same time, bombs falling from the sky on their homes, hospitals, ambulances, a TV station that's having a live air show, you know, gas stations, all of these civilian infrastructures being bombed.
02:35This is not something nobody wants their family to be bombed when they're sleeping at night.
02:38So people are essentially being clear-eyed about what is happening to them, even though they may not be fans of the regime.
02:46And they may, in fact, not care so much about the attacks on the nuclear sites.
02:51But it's way beyond that, just nuclear, political, military targets.
02:55And the civilians are essentially paying the price for this, too.
02:58And then we're going to switch to the airport.
03:11You know, you've got an open space.
03:13You know, you know, a lot of people are in this, too.
03:15And we're going to be back to the other side.
03:18You know, we're going to be very, very smart on the line.
