All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Iran and with the United States,

Iran and Israel. And let's approach this from the diplomacy front, if there is any diplomacy

going on, or is that over? We're done with negotiations. We're done with diplomacy. We were scheduled for a sixth round of talks between Whitkoff and the Iranian foreign minister, a technical talks of which about a month, month and a half ago, both Whitkoff and the Iranian foreign minister, they said that things were moving in a very positive direction.

That's what the Iranian foreign minister said. That's what Whitkoff said. And now we're heading

towards a war and the negotiations look like they're completely over. What are your thoughts?

Well, indeed. I think that we have to understand these Israeli attacks on Iran in the context of what the Israelis have been up to for about a year.

I mean, back in April last year, if you remember, the attack, the Iranian embassy buildings in Damascus.

That provoked a Iranian response.

Then there was a second round of strikes between Israel and Iran in the

autumn. I think it was in October. In the meantime, Netanyahu came to Congress and gave an

incredibly belligerent speech in which he was making it absolutely clear, that as far

as he was concerned, he wanted to go all out across the Middle East, take on all of Israel's

enemies, Houthis, Hezbollah, Hermes, whomever. We had a wave of assassination strikes against Hezbollah.

We had the successful assassination of the head of Hamas in Tehran and the head and Sinwa,

the military chief of Hamas in Gaza.

And then we got reports through the autumn that Netanyahu's people came and spoke

first to Biden. This is after the US presidential election, but before the inauguration

of Trump as president during the transition period, they came to

Biden and asked Biden for permission to launch missile strikes and bombing strikes against

Iran. And Biden said, look, this is something you need to talk to Trump about. And then the Israelis went and talked to Trump and that we got reports in Axios saying

that Trump wasn't happy and said no, he wanted to try negotiations first.

Then we got more negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians, but at the same

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