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e Pompeo and President Trump, Iran would last another 10 minutes and then would be vaporized. So it's a bad idea. Maybe you should not chant these things. Perhaps less chanting, more peace. But here's the good news. The good news is that when you hear them chanting no no no it's really about the politics. It feels like a softening. In other words they're trying to make the case against war becaus…
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I'm going to talk to Brian of London. Let's add a guest here. See if this works. Brian I'm adding Brian of London here for a comment because I think Brian is in Israel. Brian are you there?
I am yes. I'm in Israel.
You're in Israel. So I am. And I know that you keep up with all this stuff. We've communicated before. So Brian what's the view from Israel about the news that there might be a peace plan in the making and what are people saying about Iran at the moment?
Well actually I just pressed join when you started saying about the Iranian people versus and that's absolutely correct and you don't hear about it. There has always been an underground pro-America thing. You know Iran back in 1979 was a pro-America country ruled by the Shah. It's more complicated than this and they've been taken over by this Islamic Republic since 1979. Doesn't mean everybody followed it always.
On the Israel and the peace process though, the Palestinian peace process, I still I'm sitting here and it doesn't make a difference for Shia versus Sunni for Iran versus Saudi Arabia whether we have peace in Israel. It's just not central. It's not central to what's going on in Syria. We're just not that... every time I hear about Trump's peace plan I don't I just don't get the centrality with which the American press paints it.
Well so that's a good question. It seems to me that when we talk about a Middle East peace plan we're no longer talking about the Palestinian-Israel question. That's just a part of it. The bigger question what do you do with Syria, what do we do with Iran. And it seems to me that... and maybe you can inform me better on this but if Iran became serious about peace wouldn't the Palestinian-Hezbollah situation also be easier to solve? Is Iran the biggest problem to all of that?
Iranian funding of Hezbollah is a huge problem because they're the ones with missiles pointed at my house. So yes but the idea to me it's just unthinkable that the Iranians will turn around and suddenly go do an about-face no matter how persuasive Trump is because they've got the Quran in their back pocket and the Quran is telling them something different to what Trump says. And same with the Saudis but coming at it from a different direction because they've had this basically this battle ever since the death of Muhammad as to who's the right Muslims. That battle, Israel's just a recen
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t arrival in this. That's going to go on a lot longer than Trump. And Israel didn't solve that well but let me ask you this. Of course there's the religious overlay to all of this but these are real human beings who have to make practical decisions. And even the leaders in Iran they do see that Israel is just going to be there right? Do you think that there's anybody in Iran, and I won't ask you…
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