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…That was pretty good. After the show, when we’re not recording much. Can I respond to a couple of things here? Just really quickly. I’ll try to do it quickly. First of all, the notion that Iran is in full compliance with the NPT is just not the case. The International Atomic Energy Agency has made it clear in report after report after report that Iran is in violation of its obligations under the protocols of the IAEA. Under the request that the IAEA have made and under the NPT. So they are a serial violator of the NPT, unlike all these other countries we’ve been talking about that are our allies. Second is this quote, “Iran is not attacking Israel.” That’s quite an amazing quote, which kind of ignores, I think 50, 60 years of Iranian attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings, and missiles, and drones, and October 7th. And it’s indisputable that Iran has been attacking Israel and they’ve been doing it for many years through their terror proxies that they fund and finance and weaponize. And since October 7th, they directly struck Israel with hundreds of ballistic missiles in April and October of last year. So this notion that before 12 days ago, Iranians were just playing nice with the Israelis and the Israelis just came out out of the blue- I didn’t say that.…

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