00:00So, Iran's Supreme Leader said Iran had slapped the U.S. in the face.
00:05How did you interpret this remark and the overriding message that he released today?
00:13Well, Supreme Leader Khamenei and really the Iranian elite system has this very bad habit of misinterpreting what they actually do,
00:22of trying to paint a picture for their own domestic audiences, of massive victory after every failure,
00:27and portraying most of their strikes on Americans as having killed hundreds and hundreds,
00:33when in reality they haven't killed an American in the last week, nor did they do so after the Soleimani strike.
00:40But there are a lot of Iranians inside the system at elite levels who believe that they killed dozens,
00:46maybe hundreds of Americans both five years ago after the Soleimani strike.
00:50They believe that they killed dozens or hundreds of Israelis last year in those strikes,
00:54and that's caused them to make a series of miscalculations that culminated in what led up to Israel's strike the past two weeks,
01:03which is they project strength they do not have, and they tempt fate in ways that are dangerous
01:09and cause them to get smacked around by their regional neighbors.
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