00:00I mean, we've been saying how Iran has been behaving in a defiant manner, appointing a new supreme leader, as
00:06we said, under fire and coming out with some fiery statements themselves.
00:10We've heard Ali Larajani, Iran's top security official, you know, issuing a number of threats against the United States using
00:18language like be careful you don't get eliminated, he says, of President Trump and dismissing what the president has been
00:26saying.
00:27I mean, do regimes or leaders tend to use this kind of defiant language when they're sort of when they
00:37know that their number is up?
00:38Is there is there anything we could read into that? Do you think these sorts of warnings and stern words
00:43are likely to be taken seriously by Washington?
00:45I mean, you have to take everything your foe is saying seriously. Otherwise, you'll be surprised somehow.
00:52Yeah, those are all taken seriously. Remember, those kind of messages also are not directed against the United States and
01:00also directed domestically and directed to their allies worldwide.
01:06Some of the sleeper cells out there, also the proxies, whether Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Hezbollah or Hashtag in Iraq,
01:18and also Al-Houthis are still dormant, not interfering.
01:24There's always a possibility that they might also jump into the fight.
01:28So those are messages has directed, like I said, not only just to intimidate the United States, obviously, with the
01:36U.S., current U.S. military power in conjunction with the Israeli power, such statements are not going to intimidate
01:45anybody.
01:46But definitely they will put that into consideration and watch anything that might happen because of it.
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