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ABC's contributor, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, Mick Mulroy, is here for more.
Hi, Mick.
How concerning are these new attacks?
So, Diane, it's clear the US isn't going to be attacked and then just defend itself.
It's also going to reach out and make them pay for it, quite frankly.
There's going to be consequences to Iran just lobbing missiles and drones at US naval vessels.
But, I do think the president wants to see this ceasefire hold in its entirety because he wants to see this war stop and and start detailed negotiations on a new nuclear agreement.
That is in the best interest of the United States and I think in the best interest of Iran.
But, we have to get them to the point where they believe that as well.
Now, Iran's accusing the US of violating the ceasefire.
Do you expect them to launch more attacks?
So, Iran's accusing the United States of violating the ceasefire because we responded to them attacking our ships.
So, there's a lot of obviously chatter going on right now, but ultimately, if both sides agree that the ceasefire is still in place, that means the major combat operations that we saw at the first phase of this war are is not ongoing.
And that's what they mean by ceasefire.
It doesn't mean there's not going to be any exchange, obviously there has been.
But, it's clear that both sides do do not want this to go back into that type of major combat operations US carried out 17,000 strikes on Iran, decimated a lot of their military capacity, and I don't think they want to see that continue.
And the United States ultimately doesn't need it to continue because we've meet met a lot of our goals, not all of them, but a lot of them.
So, now it's really focused on the Strait of Hormuz and opening that back up and the nuclear program.
The United States, of course, wants to see Iran abandon that entirely.
Iran views it as some kind of leverage.
That's where we are right now.
The best the best for both sides is to get behind the doors with diplomats and talk about all of the details that need to go into a long-term permanent ceasefire and new nuclear agreement.
President Trump says you'll know the ceasefire is broken if you see one big glow coming out of Iran.
What would it take to get to that point?
So the president's made a lot of comments about going after comments about going after infrastructure, their power centers, the bridges, you know, obviously they're needed for transportation around the country.
If those are tied to the military, they could be valid military targets, but a lot of this is really to to scare the Iranians that if this doesn't end in a negotiated settlement, it's going to escalate substantially.
And the US certainly can escalate this substantially.
We've pushed a lot of military power to the region.
Of course, that doesn't mean that we are the only ones making this decision.
The Iranians can retaliate and they've already shown they can and are willing to attack retaliate uh not only against US assets in the region, but our allies and partners and that could drive energy prices up even further.
That's the leverage that Iran thinks it has and likely does have.
What do you make of the president's escalating threats on Iran?
So this is how President Trump negotiates
uh a lot of hyperbole, a lot of very, you know, language we don't normally see with diplomats.
Iran obviously responds in a very similar way.
But ultimately, it's going to come down to when the countries both believe that it's in their interest to have a permanent agreement, permanent as it gets, uh and get this war behind them and start talking about how we can get into a new nuclear agreement.
It's important to point out the last nuclear agreement took 2 years to negotiate.
We obviously don't have that amount of time, but it is a very detailed process and it needs to start soonest so that we can get to the point where we have a new one.
McMulroy, thank you.
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