David Drucker: The Problem with Iran Was Always the Development of Nuclear Weapons and the Terrorism That They Spread Around the Globe

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DRUCKER: “And, you know, we’ve been talking about this here, think about how the discussion about Iran has transitioned from 2015 to 2026. Republicans were up in arms, and I think rightly so, about what turned out to be the, you know, the JCPOA, the Iran deal that Obama negotiated with Iran, because it never dealt with Iran’s proxy groups, their malign actions in the Middle East, it never permanently shut down their nuclear weapons capabilities and development. It simply delayed and put them out into the future when they could be, you know, hopefully dealt with by somebody else at a later date, and didn’t deal with Iran’s terrorism, right, the largest — the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. We’ve now moved from that debate to is it allowing them nuclear weapons capabilities in the future or allowing them to control the Strait of Hormuz, something they’ve never controlled before. And so Iran, with a much deeper threshold for pain than we have, because they don’t have voters, because they don’t allow their people to vote, and they kill their own people when they protest, they are now using this new chip that they have to try and salvage the nuclear program, and the administration isn’t even talking about the wielding of terror as a piece of diplomacy and military strength, which they have. And so our resounding military victory is impressive. It’s not a bad thing. But Iran’s conventional military was never the problem. The problem was the development of nuclear weapons, the terrorism that they spread around the globe and particularly in the Middle East, and we’re not even discussing those things. And that’s one of the reasons why, at this point, the outcome of the war geopolitically is completely up in the air."