Trump’s Options on the Brink of War - with Mark Dubowitz and Nadav Eyal
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to an art media podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I think that the president should kill the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamene, and his designated successor in San Morshtaba, because I think that is the most powerful message to the regime and to the Iranian people. |
| 0:21.5 | Then there's Ali Larajani, who is the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, |
| 0:26.2 | who is Chaminet's closest advisor. He's a former Revolutioning Guards commander. He's really running |
| 0:30.6 | everything today inside Iran. And then there are a number of other former Revolutionary Guard |
| 0:35.3 | commanders or current commanders, all of whom then would be |
| 0:38.1 | getting the message that you could play this one of two ways, gentlemen. You can either go the way |
| 0:43.1 | of Hamene and Morstaba, and we will eliminate you, or you could seriously negotiate with us. And I think |
| 0:49.0 | for the president, that's sort of the Venezuela option when you remove Maduro and then said to |
| 0:53.8 | the remaining Venezuelan government, |
| 0:55.5 | you play by my rules, Donald Trump's rules, or you're going the way of Maduro? I also think that |
| 1:00.8 | if you're really serious about a major regime change operation, then you've got to go after the Guard |
| 1:06.1 | Corps and the Basij and probably the 20 top cities in Iran and eliminate their capabilities. |
| 1:12.4 | But between symbolism and a comprehensive campaign, I'm very confident General Kane has given |
| 1:16.9 | the president multiple options. |
| 1:18.6 | The Iranians are almost on the record now offering the United States some sort of deal |
| 1:23.8 | with their oil industry. |
| 1:25.4 | They are briefing in the last 24 hours that these offers have |
| 1:30.3 | been made to the United States, that they are not renegating their control of their national |
| 1:35.6 | interests with oil, but they are offering an entry to American companies to their oil industry. |
| 1:42.8 | What they want and seek is a recognition of their right to enrich. |
| 1:47.7 | It doesn't mean that they are talking about actual enrichment only held by them. |
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