Will there be an Iran deal and how great is Clarence Thomas?

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always by the right, Honorable Charles, C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity of woods, Jim Garrity. You are, of course, listening to a national youth podcast. Our sponsors, this episode are made in Vair and Red Flag's Press. More about all of them. and due course. If for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service by the way,

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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. And 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 Jim Garrity, the Iran thing is completely clear to me from where I sit right now. There's either going to be a deal or not going to be a deal. And the deal is either going to be amazing or incredibly disappointing.

You know, for a couple of weeks now, we have just been in this seemingly endless cycle of the president has two major messages.

One message is the Iranians have just agreed to something terrific and the straight is open and, you know, happy days are here again.

And the other, you know, message when that doesn't, when events become clear that that is not the case,

it's some version of we're going to destroy you, we're going to destroy your civilization,

we're going to hit you harder than you've ever been hit before if you don't do X by a similar deadline.

And we just seem to be going flipping back and forth between this.

Apparently, Vance and Kushner and Whitkov are going out to Pakistan to talk with the Iranians again.

I don't understand why you'd think things would change very dramatically from this.

Because we see, you know, sometimes it feels like our conversations go in these circles.

Yes, the U.S. military has performed superlatively.

Yes, when we decide to restrict Iranianian ports, ships coming into and out of Iranian ports, we can do that and we are indeed

squeezing the finances of the regime pretty severely. With that said, it was just last week that

the director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, James Adams III,

testifying for the House Armed Services Committee, the sentence that jumped out at me was, quote,

Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs on manned aerial vehicles or drones that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region,

despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure, unquote.

And also, Iran poses a persistent threat to freedom of navigation

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