Nayyera Haq: Iran Is ‘More Motivated’ and Has ‘Main Character Revenge Energy’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HAQ: “Well, that‘s because other other countries and even the United States have to look for alternative measures at this point. That‘s just the reality, economic reality. We‘re all facing. But Iran has been consistently resilient. And this is part of why presidents from George bush through until Trump have opted against striking Iran directly, because Iran is not a regime that cares about how much a people suffer. So you can win battles, you can destroy cities. You‘re not, at this moment winning the war. What does victory look like? Has not only not been declared or understood for this Trump Administration, but it‘s created a dynamic where every man is able to attack U.S. assets, attack U.S. Allies using cheap drones, and the United States is losing multi-million dollar fighter jets, tomahawk missiles. It is. It is the weirdest asymmetrical war when typically asymmetrical war would be about, you know, different resources or different spheres of influence. And this is, wow, literally, they are defending their land. The regime is intact. It is in some ways even stronger because it‘s a tighter unit. It is younger now. It is more motivated. They have main character revenge energy at this point. And the people of Iran continue to suffer. So this is part of the challenge. We‘ve seen this quagmire before. I experienced it when I was in the Pentagon and the State Department as a diplomat, and”