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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’m speaking on the 71st day of the Iran war, but of course, it hasn’t been 71 days. The last real date of bombing, intense bombing—not a tit-for-tat here and there, but the actual day of kinetic activity—was April 8, the actual last day.
Background
So, we’ve had about 31 days of negotiation. The actual war was only 40 days long so far. So, all the anti-war opposition was about something that happened over a month ago.
Key facts
- Home - Iran News - What Are the Current US and Iranian Strategies in the War?
- Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.
- Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
- I’m speaking on the 71st day of the Iran war, but of course, it hasn’t been 71 days.
What this means
So, what’s going on in these negotiations? They’ve been in Pakistan, they’ve been through social media connections, there have been special envoys and neutral … What is going on? And there are two different strategies over this 31-day period.
We know what the Iranian strategy is. It feels that although it’s been debanked and it has no foreign currency outlets, and it can’t sell oil, and it’s economically squeezed with a blockade, and it’s losing 500 million a day in input, that hurts the citizens more than it does the regime, and they can keep going and keep going because they feel the United States is going to buckle. And they hold out one thing we don’t talk about, and that is they do have missiles and drones that are in subterranean caverns they can bring out and use, not against Israel.
Originally reported by The Daily Signal. This story has been edited and re-presented by BRIC Team.
