00:00General Taika, just looking at what's happened these last three days, I mean, events have moved extremely quickly.
00:06Iran has been striking U.S. bases across the region.
00:10It's also been striking some civilian targets across the Gulf region.
00:14What message do you think Tehran is trying to send out by doing this?
00:19Tom, I think it's been a bit of an act of desperation by the regime or what's left of it
00:25in Iran
00:26that all of those allies and partners in the region in the Middle East were intending to sit this one
00:33out,
00:34that they weren't going to allow the U.S. to fly strike sorties from their countries.
00:38But now that Iran has continued to show a complete disregard for the well-being of the people in the
00:43Middle East,
00:44that now they are absolutely defending themselves.
00:47And I suspect that many of those allies and partners in the region are going to start to allow U
00:52.S. forces
00:52to strike Iranian targets from their soil when they wouldn't otherwise be doing so.
00:58And I think it's pretty clear that Iran is further isolating themselves and reminding the world,
01:03and especially the Middle East, that they have been at the root of the primary concerns
01:08or problems within the Middle East for the last four and a half decades.
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