00:00That has always been one of the burdens from the American side, that they're not quite clear what the political
00:06objectives are.
00:07We know that they don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon in the future, but you could do that
00:13diplomatically, as was done under the JCPOA.
00:17And of course, prior to the 28th of February, the Strait of Hormuz was open.
00:22One thing they or two other things that they'd really like is obviously to render the ballistic missile capability of
00:28the Iranians obsolete.
00:30Iran is not going to negotiate that way because it sees that as its strategic deterrent for the future.
00:35And of course, it would like to rein in the proxies, partly, I think, while we've seen this attack on
00:40the PMF in Iraq over the last couple of days.
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