00:00OK, I mean, President Trump had said earlier in the week, quote, help is on the way.
00:05Why do you think he had the change of heart?
00:07I think several factors were at work.
00:10One, the U.S. goals were never defined as the U.S. bringing about regime change itself.
00:20If the protesters could do it, the U.S. would welcome that.
00:24But President Trump seems more restrained in his ambitions.
00:30He seems to want some kind of, as he puts it, deal with Iran to govern its nuclear activities, regional policies, and so on.
00:40And the protests helped achieve that.
00:44At least they put more pressure on the Iranian government and made clear that unless they solve their economic problems, they're likely to continue.
00:51And then there was a capacity problem.
00:55The U.S. doesn't have a lot of forces in the Gulf at the moment.
00:59It could launch maybe an initial wave of strikes, but the carriers, none of them are there.
01:07A lot of the forces of the U.S. would normally have in the Gulf were off Venezuela.
01:12So I think it was a prudent balance of goals and means.
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