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And that's when they spun up their highly enriched uranium.
So I think what President Trump has done, which is demonstrating overwhelming, devastating military and economic superiority, has given him the leverage to negotiate something meaningful, but also to damage the regime so badly.
As I said before, I don't know that they can recover.
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We'll see. Victoria Coates from the Heritage Foundation. Thank you.
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Let's bring in two experts, former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Victoria Coats, and Brent Sadler, a graduate of the Naval Academy and an expert on naval warfare. Welcome to you both. Victoria, we'll start with you. The Strait will be opening for shipping. The blockade is lifted. What is known about other parts of the agreement, in particular, sanctions relief and unfreezing assets?
Well, Trey, great to see you and good to see you too, Brent. You know, what we know about the deal is that it's performance-based. And this is what differentiates it from the JCPOA, the Obama-era nuclear deal in which they got all of the goodies up front, the sanctions relief, the pallets of cash. Instead, what we're going to do is see if they actually do what they're supposed to do. We're going to open up the Strait. That's very important.
And then we're going to start these negotiations on the nuclear deal, which aren't just to limit where they can enrich to, but rather to dismantle that program. To get the highly enriched uranium out.
If that all takes place, then great. Yes, we can talk about, you know, future incentives for them.
But they have to take those steps first. So that's the critical thing here.
And I would say this is opening the door to a new Middle East. This is a Middle East under President Trump's leadership where we can have our Gulf allies with Israel come together for a more prosperous, secure region.
That wasn't possible four months ago. Now it is.
And so for all the naysayers, all the deniers, let's see what's actually in the deal.
Let's go forward and get to a more positive outcome.
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All right, Brent. A Senate like me, for instance, might argue that this kind of takes us back to the status quo ante, where we were before the recent hostilities.
Is there more? Am I missing something?
Because before the most recent hostilities, their nuclear program was degraded - or obliterated, to use the administration's word. The Strait was open and there was no blockade. So how is this different?
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Brent Salder: Well, I can understand the cynicism about the Middle East. There's certainly lots of reasons for that. The region has changed fundamentally. And I think what we're seeing now is the beginning of a page of a new era in the Middle East. I mean, it's not going to be smooth, of course, but it's not the same.
Of course, Iran is alienated and actually agitated to actually force a bomb. It harms many of its neighbors and also rallied in unity with Israel, which was unheard of before, which probably means you're going to see an acceleration and a broadening benefits of things like the Abraham Accords.
So the region is fundamentally different now than it was several months ago.
And to include even the economics, to say nothing of the global energy markets that are now changed.
And it's not going to go back to the way it was before.
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