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that are killed off, like we just killed, you

know, Ali Larijani, um, who was a negotiator,

who who was eager to get us a deal. Again, look,

I've got no love for the IRGC, I've got no love

for the for the Iranians, but you've got to

realize if you want it to end... - Just to be

clear, in case you're tuning in right now, you

fought their proxies. - I fought their proxies.

I mean, I've put countless of them in flex cuffs

or much worse. Uh, I've gone after the Iranians.

I was in, you know, specialized outfits that

went after the Iranians and their proxies. Um,

these are very serious people. Uh, they're not,

you know, supermen by any means, they're they're

humans. Um, but they're serious. And if you

give the IRGC a reason to take more control

and they get support from the people, because

again, you know, you kill off the Ayatollah,

they can say, hey, the last guy was too moderate,

look at what it got us. Like, give us more more

control. - I get it. - And the Iranian people

are going to be like, well, actually, yeah,

I don't like getting bombed by the Americans

and the Israelis. Maybe we do need to listen

to the IRGC. So a lot of these, uh, the points

that you're making, I think are insightful,

but they're also pretty obvious if you kind

of game it out for 10 seconds. So it seems like

you've got two different goals. You've described

Israel's goal as just regime change, permanent

chaos, take Iran off the map as a coherent nation-state,

just tie them up with internal chaos, whatever

the effects of that are on the rest of the world,

all of them disastrous. Then on the American

side, you have the president's stated goal,

which is we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon,

which they didn't have and weren't trying to

build in any imminent way. - Right. - Okay.

So if you join those two together in a common

mission, in a war, like that's our partner in

this war... - Yeah. - ...then you create all

kinds of very bad incentives. And now Larijani,

I think, was killed by the Israelis. You saw

the Israelis blow up Qatari natural gas facilities

today in the Qatari natural gas field, which

feeds the rest of the world LNG. Those seem

like very obvious steps not to minimize the

threat from Iran, but to lock...