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Let's bring in retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.
He served more than 30 years in the Navy as a nuclear trained surface warfare officer.
He is a senior fellow now at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Um, Admiral, great to have you on the program.
Thanks for joining us and helping us um through this breaking news really um as this develops throughout the day.
A lot has happened today.
Um, you know, we've heard the Vice President said before about this regime there are a lot of competing minds that they are negotiating with.
Some people want to make a deal with the US, some people um a bit more hardline.
A regional source though texted me this today.
I think Iran is trying to get more stuff.
What do you think is going on?
You think that we're dealing with people who are not on the same page or is Iran trying to get more stuff last minute?
>> So, I think the fact that they were leaking, you know, a kind of a false narrative through their
um Iranian propaganda to, you know, their their new news outlets in Iran tells me they were trying to like stake out a position a far position that they
could then request a few, you know, sweeteners as relief.
And I you know, obviously they're going to try, you know, they're negotiating.
They're expert negotiators as anybody from the uh Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden administrations will tell you.
Uh, so they're trying to get a slightly better deal but President Trump's right.
He needs to have the discipline and the patience that he's shown over the last weeks to not make a deal that's in the worst interest of the United States or international maritime law or the future uh security existential security of Israel, the United States
from nuclear weapons. And And I'm hoping that's why we're holding the line here
and we don't agree to anything that doesn't solve all the issues we need to resolve.
>> So, according to a White House official who told me this morning uh this is where they stand in terms of what they believe that Iran has agreed to.
And some of the things include that all nuclear material will be destroyed and removed.
That's a big one.
And the nuclear program will be dismantled.
This is a performance-based deal, according to the White House, right?
That's That's according to what what how they see it.
It's performance-based. But once these accounts are unfrozen, and Iran starts
to get some of this money back into its coffers, how do we hold them accountable?
Do we keep our ships there in the strait?
>> Well, first, I mean, the good news is we've removed their air defense capabilities.
And as it comes back, we can, you know, we can identify quickly, so that we will would not have trouble imposing cost on them with Israeli Air Force and US Air Force assets.
So, do I think we'll have to keep some things in theater?
Yes.
But uh we always maintain three or four fighter squadrons and a handful of ships in theater during steady-state conditions.
The Israeli Air Force is obviously right over the horizon there.
So, my thought process is is over time, we could have a reduction in the US military footprint.
But there's probably going to have to maintain some level of a of deterrent force.
It says, "If you do something outside of the the rule set of this memorandum of understanding or in eventual agreement, then we will hold you accountable."
And the good news is the 40 days of strikes really did a lot of damage to their ability their future ability to produce things.
Their defense industrial base was heavily damaged, and their current air defense systems were heavily damaged and are not functional.
>> Admiral, as far as we know, there is no deadline on this memorandum.
Let's say it is signed.
Let's say they sign it in Europe.
Um and and the vice president is able to be there and and sign this along with um his Iranian counterparts.
Um should there be a deadline uh to hold them accountable to get them to the next part, which would be the longer-term deal?
>> Well, I think there should be a number of timelines in it that they have to meet.
And the timelines are associated with how fast you can get normal shipping restored in the northern transit scheme.
You know, the United States is already controlling the southern transit lane through the Strait of Hormuz.
And as you you've reported, a significant nearly higher number of ships have been coming through each week over week over week.
Not yet at the previous rate, but they should get the northern line through and
then in addition, movement on how, you know, we forces and whoever enters in order to to demobilize what's left of the nuclear system, inspect for the remains of the highly enriched uranium, and ensure the proper termination of their nuclear program.
>> Let me just get this in with you before
I let you go, Admiral.
The US announced that it's beginning a scale down of available aircraft to NATO
in Europe and it comes at the heels of this big announcement from the UK.
The UK defense minister stepping down complaining that the country is not putting up enough cash for its defense.
What does that say to you?
Do Do you think people over there are waking up that they have to put up
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