00:00But for the Iranian goal, I mean, what I would say is that it's not going to be similar to
00:04the situation before the war.
00:06The fact is that the Iranian regime is vulnerable and yet at the same time has found this new weapon
00:12through the Strait of Hormuz that is giving it leverage.
00:15And the Iranian regime, their one goal is to survive.
00:18And when I say survive, I don't just mean this bout in this summer.
00:23I mean for the next two and a half years so that they can wait Trump out.
00:26Their hope after having survived 47 years and grown the way it has and found, it has found different ways
00:35to maneuver itself so that it can survive attacks of this kind.
00:39Just like any terrorist organization, it is, it adapts and evolves to its environment and finds different ways of terrorizing
00:46people and exerting pressure.
00:49Their number one goal is to survive and to maintain some handle over their nuclear program or nuclear material until
00:56they find themselves under a new U.S. president.
00:59I think that that's going to be very difficult, to be honest with you, because again, their leadership is very
01:04fractured.
01:05They are, they don't have a lot of their military.
01:07And so even if they have found these new ways of exerting pressure, and they have, I don't want to
01:12dismiss the pressure that they've exerted over the Strait, the fact that they launched a terrorist organization in Europe right
01:20after the war started, HAI, which has pursued, I think now, 17 attacks in Europe.
01:25They are finding ways to exert pressure to terrorize individuals.
01:30But at the same time, it's not going to be back to square one.
01:34Still, both sides have these vulnerabilities and each is trying to play on the other.
01:39So what I expect is to see almost a war of attrition minus, where you're going to see this stability
01:44go up and down for a while.
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