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It is not in Iran's interest to bring the US into a military action.

There's a lot of rhetoric on how a war would take place with Iran,

and without minimizing in any way the consequences of conflict,

it is just empirical an understanding of our capabilities that our military response

would be extraordinary, would be deep and vast, and Iran could not compete with that.

I'm very concerned. In large part because Iran is undertaking activities today,

which 10 years ago observers would justify a military strike.

Noir Murul is a former senior CIA operations officer and the former mission manager for Iran

for the entire US intelligence community. Noir Murul, who has been on our show before,

joins us today to talk about the ongoing and deteriorating situation with Iran.

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