"It Was A Disaster" – Former Political Prisoner Exposes Failed Iran MOU
Brian Kilmeade Show
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🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | For Iran, the Straits for Moose is a strategic asset. |
| 0:35.0 | No matter what happens here, they will continue to want to take it back from us, |
| 0:39.4 | because it's number one. They don't have a nuclear power capability. They're not even close |
| 0:46.2 | to developing a weapon now. This is their number one strategic asset. It gives them leverage over |
| 0:51.9 | the Gulf states in a region, and they truly want to have |
| 0:55.9 | an element of control here. And they are willing to fight us for it, and we have got to take |
| 1:00.9 | it away from them and prevent them from ever getting it back under their control again. |
| 1:05.5 | General Jack Keene with me on Fox and Friends an hour ago, and he says this is Operation |
| 1:09.8 | Freedom that stopped in 36 hours because the Saudis didn't want us using their bases. They were nervous about the retaliation. And now he said, screw that. We're going back. You saw that we tried to talk and you saw the results. I don't know the inner workings. That story will come out soon, I imagine. So now we're in day six of extreme and strategic bombing in Iran. Joining us now is |
| 1:30.4 | Kian Taj Bakash. He's a visiting professor of international relations at NYU. Iranian-American |
| 1:36.5 | scholar and former political prisoner released as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, an author of |
| 1:43.3 | the Iran Crisis Notebook. And you could see that on Substack. |
| 1:47.4 | Kian, how do you feel about the six-day strategic hit to take back to Strader for Moos? |
| 1:53.9 | Is it working? |
| 1:57.0 | Well, good morning, Brian, and thank you so much for inviting me on your show. |
| 2:03.6 | Well, I, you know, I don't have up-to-date, obviously, military intelligence to be able to assess whether it's going to meet its final objectives. |
| 2:18.2 | But the first thing I can say as a civilian and as a expert on Iranian and U.S. foreign policy |
| 2:26.1 | is that for American interests, it was the right thing to do. |
| 2:32.2 | That is to say, it was the right thing to do. That is to say, it was clearly, the MOU that was signed in June was not to the advantage of the United States. |
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