The Iran War after a week, plus James Talariko in and Christy Knoem out. We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lorry. I'm joined as always by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the grillmaster, Phil Klein, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brennan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a Nashview podcast. Our sponsors episode are Avaire, Strawberry and Fast Growing Trees. More about all of them in due course. If for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, you can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. If you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So MBD, we're about at the one week mark.

We're recording Friday morning. I guess it'll be 2 a.m. our time, early Saturday morning.

That will be formally at the week mark, but signs of diminishing, well, we actually have diminishing Iran missile launches. There's some people say they're kind of preserving their stocks and hoping our interceptors. We run out of our

interceptors and then they can start hitting us. But it seems as though we're being successful

in targeting their missiles and especially their launchers. But they still have a lot of drones.

And it seems unlikely we're ever going to totally choke off the their ability to

launch these drones and it's really emerged over the last week that what everyone tended to say

was a huge mistake targeting these Gulf states willy-nilly is actually a strategic initiative

that makes some sense because the Gulf

states are one vulnerable they don't have a lot of interceptors and two key a key node of the

global economy that is under real pressure here so if the Iranian regime is going to survive

it has to survive. One, just

not fall, but two, continue to exact economic pain such as such that Trump eventually

concludes, ah, you know, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah, and we seem to be finding

out more about the conduct of the war on our side.

I mean, in the sense that, you know, in the middle of the week, Elbridge Colby went to the Council of Foreign Relations and kind of gave a presentation and was asked about America's war aims.

And then he explained very succinctly that our military was given the very specific instruction

to degrade the Iranian military, to prevent the emergence of nuclear weapons, to hit their missiles,

launchers, their production of missiles,

and to degrade their ability to hit our bases in the region and to hit our allies.

And then it seems also a little clear on the other side, partly betrayed by Trump's,

Trump just talking to the media and saying that

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