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US Should Listen to Iranian People Who Want to Be in Charge, Not Authoritative Regime in Charge 86%
5/10/2026, 3:17:40 AM
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The United States still waiting to hear back from Iran regarding the recent peace proposal.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing Iranian leadership as fractured and dysfunctional.
Joining me now to discuss is Rico Danielson, national security expert and US Army combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rico, great to have you back with us.
So, why haven't we received a response quite yet?
And is it due to exactly what the Secretary of State said, their fractured leadership?
And how are you interpreting um you know this this uh chaos?
>> Yeah.
The reason we haven't got a response back from the Iranian leadership is because there's really no Iranian leadership.
U basically the the Iranian Republican Guard wants to be in charge.
The people want to be in charge.
So there's this disconnection here.
And the best things we can do is actually kind of listen to the people who actually want to be in charge, not necessarily the authoritative regime that is in charge.
So that's disconnection.
Marco Rubio is right.
Uh there's going to be a lot of dis disconnection here.
Not a lot of progress forward and it's going to it's going to cause this this ceasefire this prolonged ceasefire to continue to escalate and also to be prolonged.
>> Now I want to get your thoughts on China.
Rico, you know, putting things into perspective.
Iran and China aren't just allies.
They're two of the most vicious, really powerful dictatorships um on the planet uh that support each other in more ways than just China purchasing their oil.
China has used Iran for decades as a proxy uh to carry out distractions and supplied them with military equipment, you name it.
So, how do you think Iran right now is factoring and perhaps leveraging President Trump's upcoming visit to China?
So, China knows for a fact that United States has to make a deal here, right?
They're buying the bad debt of the United States.
They have the economic influence.
So, what they're trying to do is hold out and hope that the United States um is pressured by China, right?
Uh Iran has a big very big game and also a political stake in this.
They're going to try to leverage as much as their not only their proxy but also leverage the relationship they have to cause economic uh foul play if you will and then also economic pressure on the United States.
So without a doubt the Iranian and also Chinese relationship is going to cause a lot more pressure and as the United States president goes there it's going to show how much more pressure is going to be applied.
>> Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighing in on the situation today.
Watch.
Um, obviously we've seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established or trying to establish some agency that's going to control traffic in the straits.
That would be very problemat that would actually be unacceptable.
We I mean we're the normalizing of their controlling of international waterway is both illegal and and it's just something that's unacceptable.
>> Rico, considering how reduced Iran's navy and infrastructure is, uh, would they actually be capable of achieving this?
Now, with regard to establishing an agency around or authorit authoritarian agency in the straight of Hermouth, the Iranian government really can't because they don't really have a good military or naval right now, right?
However, they do have different proxies they can use such as Yemen and also Oman as well from the different organizations, the rebel organizations.
So while it wouldn't be a formal agency there, it would actually be more of a heartache uh cause from different rebel organizations and also as different proxies.
What this will do is that will cause more than likely a an issue of trading and then also delay further trade also commodities in the world causing a global and economic impact. major announcement today, Rico, uh pivoting a bit.
Uh the president um on Truth Social saying that he essentially brokered a a peace or a ceasefire, not a peace deal, a ceasefire 3 days between Ukraine and Russia.
Um this isn't the first ceasefire between the two, but it is it is some progress.
Talk to us about how you're interpreting this and can we expect this to lead to a more permanent solution?
So this is an intermittent um ceasefire with Ukraine and Russia.
What I see happening here is their buying time.
Russia is is pretty much getting its money's worth and Ukraine is expanding a lot of its assets but different in and approaching this in a non-traditional warfare aspect specifically drone warfare.
So Ukraine is making good progress.
However, from a nutritional perspective, it's losing its progress.
Uh Russia sees an opportunity there to actually say, "Hey, look, we should probably stop. maybe make a territorial deal.
So, while Russia's there with the U peace talks, I wouldn't be surprised that Ukraine pushes back and this actually becomes a a bigger conflict or a prolonged conflict.
It will unfortunately.
>> Rico Danielson, really appreciate your insights.
Thank you.
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