"Iran Must Capitulate To Us Until They Behave"

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning
0:04.4	new show so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Halper and hit that like. I'm Erin Matte. Thanks so much for being here. Great to start the week with you and some of the worst people on corporate TV. Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content if you thought that a blizzard
0:21.4	would stop us from giving you Monday morning you were sorely mistaken we we uh but it helps
0:28.2	we don't have to actually go outside to do the show we can just go to our laptops
0:31.7	open it up and here we are so that helps yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:38.1	There is a lot to get to, starting with, of course, the constant threat of a new U.S. attack on Iran.
0:49.0	U.S. under Trump, has sent the largest deployment of U.S. military assets since the Iraq war. And it does feel
0:57.6	when you're Donald Trump and you send one third of the U.S. Navy's deployed fleet, you constantly
1:05.6	threatened that war is inevitable. That's how it feels. And that's what I've been hearing from the people I talk to who know. But you never know. And the Trump administration is claiming that they're giving diplomacy a trial, though the last time they said that with Iran, then in the bombing Iran back in June. When you say people you know, you meet what kind of people are you talking about? I mean, don't name your sources. What genre of people are you talking about? Yeah, I'm not going to name my sources, but the people who I know who are in touch with people in the White House. Got it. Yeah. Wow. Everyone I speak to is very confident that some sort of U.S. military attack is imminent.
1:44.5	Oh, my gosh.
1:45.5	But they, hey, listen, you never know what's going on in Donald Trump's head.
1:49.5	So let's hope that sanity prevails.
1:53.1	And somebody trying to inject some sanity into the discussion is the foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Arachi, who went on face the nation to make the case for why
2:04.5	his country does not need to be attacked, because after all, it was Donald Trump who broke
2:11.2	the last diplomatic agreement between Iran and the U.S. that was working. That was the Iran nuclear
2:16.1	deal. And so here he is making
2:17.8	his case for a new round of diplomacy if Donald Trump can manage to ignore people like Lindsey Graham,
2:26.0	urging him to go to war. You continue to say that your nuclear program is peaceful. And you know
2:32.6	there are a lot of skeptics around the world,
2:34.6	including in the United States Congress.
2:37.3	There's pressure on President Trump from within his own party.
2:41.2	There were 52 Republican centers, 177 House Republicans
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