00:20This attack has been so shocking and so egregious, my consultations, my political consultations
00:27involved our bilateral relationship, our potential economic cooperation, should Iran resolve
00:34all its issues with the international community over its nuclear weapons program but also
00:39its ballistic missile weapons program and over its support for regional proxies.
00:44What has happened today though over the last 14 days has very much changed the mindset
00:49in the region and it is difficult to go back to a pre-28 February posture from where we
00:55are today as you look around at the destruction and the chaos that Iran has caused in the region.
01:02So I think you have to separate the U.S.-Israel campaign and its engagement with Iran militarily
01:09from Iran's egregious, illegal and unlawful attacks on Gulf countries in Jordan that had
01:15nothing to do with that campaign and that we're looking for a diplomatic de-escalation prior
01:20to these escalations that occurred.
01:23So let's separate the two.
01:25We've weathered such effects before, we've weathered the Covid pandemic, if you go back
01:29to 1991, we've weathered the Gulf War, we've weathered the second Gulf War, we've weathered
01:37a series of crises in the region, we've come out stronger each time.
01:41So we have structural resilience in our economy, but I think Iran is trying to attack this model,
01:48this model of openness, this model of diversity, this idea that you can have two regional economies
01:54so close to each other, so resource rich and you can see what the UAE has done for its population
01:59and its people and you can see what Iran has done for its population and its people and it's
02:04no surprise that 700,000 Iranians have chosen to live in the UAE as opposed to Iran.
02:10So you're really talking about competing models in the region.
02:14I think that's something at the end that is an idea worth fighting for and it's certainly
02:19one that will survive over ideas of nihilism or extremism or exporting terror around the
02:26region.
02:26So it's very hard to think about mediation when you're engaged in deterring over 1,800 projectiles
02:33that have been aimed, for example, the vast majority have been aimed at the United Arab Emirates,
02:36over 60%.
02:37Ultimately, it will be a diplomatic solution, but there needs to be that tipping point moment
02:43and I think President Trump will lead us all to that moment in his time.
02:49...and am the straight.
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