00:00Right. And so what you said at the beginning about how the United States wants some swift responses from the Iranians and the Iranians have a tendency to drag their heels.
00:09I mean, the presence of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the waters of the Persian Gulf, plus all of that other U.S. military material.
00:18I mean, time is not on the side of the Iranians, is it?
00:21Absolutely not. And this strategy of Trump has been used in other theories, including Venezuela.
00:27We had a huge military buildup in Venezuela that lasted for some six months before the operation to to kidnap and extradite or remove Maduro and then leave the regime in place, which creates all kinds of other speculation, which is what will make the U.S. happy?
00:48There's been a lot of discussion in Washington about a Venezuelan scenario, which could be as simple as the Iranian regime doing some sort of reconfiguration, like letting more opposition into the government and oil concessions.
01:04That's the Venezuelan solution. You know, while another aspect of this, which is sort of confusing, is that the goalposts and objectives keep changing.
01:14You know, is it the nuclear program? Is it regime change? Is it the proxy warfare in, you know, that seven front war of the Israelis, you know, and attacks on American interests?
01:27You know, is it just oil concessions? It's very unclear what the Trump administration views as a victory.
01:32And I don't think Trump even knows day to day what he will consider a victory.
01:37But the Iranians do need to move quickly and offer something big or that looks big when it's offered.
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