All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the situation with Iran.

Trump is given it 10 days.

That is what Trump said yesterday at his board of peace or his peace board meeting.

He said 10 days is the amount of time left for Iran to agree to a deal. An ultimatum is really what we're

talking about. These aren't really negotiations that are taking place. Iran's trying to buy time,

it seems, in order to prepare. The United States is giving an ultimatum. And here we are with 10 days according to Trump. Of course,

with Trump, when he says 10 days, he may launch a strike tomorrow or within an hour,

or maybe he'll launch it after 10 days. You don't know. So where are we with all of this?

I think we are moving relentlessly now towards a fight, a battle, a war between Iran and the US.

I cannot see Iran capitulating to an ultimatum like this. The objective of the Iranians, of the Iranian

government, is to prevent regime change. I think what they realize, or at least what they

believe, is that if they did agree to the kind of

demands that Trump, the United States, and ultimately Israel are all making, then that is

inevitably going to lead in the end to regime change. The government itself, within Iran,

would be seriously undermined. It would

lose a great deal of its legitimacy and its authority. It would become clear to the many internal

factions that it can be pushed around. There would undoubtedly be pushed back of some of the

more hardline factions.

And Iran would also critically lose face in the Middle East.

And of course, if they agreed to the cap on their ballistic missiles, which the US and Israel,

and the Europeans, by the way, are all demanding, then Iran loses whatever

deterrent capability it has left, because their ability to deter an attack on themselves

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