Interview: Iran Ceasefire w/White House Correspondent Jon Decker

Interview: Iran Ceasefire w/White House Correspondent Jon Decker 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sure enough.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And you know, as I mentioned in my takeaways today,
I didn't know exactly the getting there, but I did
have a pretty good idea that we would not be
nuking Iran for.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Example last night.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
So did figure out that somewhere along the way that
the President was probably pretty close to getting where he
wanted to be before he said that he was going
to potentially destroy him the whole civilization of people. Things
came together in quite a spectacular way late in the
day yesterday. Somebody covering every step of it. Our White
House correspondent John Decker, Good morning, John.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, that's right. According to the deal reached between the
United States Ireon let's not forget Israel had to agree
to this year, Well, there is going to be a
reopening of this trade of foremoux and a cessation in
the fighting for two weeks, a two weeks ceasefire. Hoping
that you can reach a permanent ceasefire, permanent end to
the conflict, and also a permanent opening of the straight

(01:10):
up formos going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You take a look at the roadmap here, there's a
lot of symmetry with what we saw last year with
Hamas and Israel. Hamas, of course, a terror proxy of Iran,
and you had the proposed twenty point plan originally, and
then that was worked on for some time while hostilities continued.
Eventually you had a ceasefire and then they were able

(01:33):
to you know, kind of operate off of that, and
things have worked out to the extent that we could
ever hope them to between Hamas and Israel. Today seems
like that's the approach here.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, look, I look at what was agreed upon, and
I don't see what was gained by the US perspective
that couldn't have been achieved, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yesterday or the day before, the week before.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It seems to me that they could have agreed to
the same deal, which seems to from the perspective of
the nine point peace proposal put forward by the Iranians
seems to favor the Uranians. You know, they talk about
Iran controlling the strata formos going forward, Iran collecting tolls
associated with ships going through the Strait of Foremos. I

(02:19):
don't know if that's going to be the permanent solution
to the situation. But you know that certainly would benefit Iran.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
And of course, let's.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Not forget the reason why the President initiated this conflict
in the first place, and that was to prevent Iran
from developing a nuclear weapon. And what's become of that
uranium while it's still in Iran's hands. So again, from
my perspective, I don't see how the US.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Can claim that this is an agreement.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
That favors the US side other than seeing the reopening
of the Strait of Formose, which was open before this
conflict began.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Sure, obviously the military capability of a greatly diminished. Obviously,
the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard no more fifty
top officials wiped out, including the Ayatola and one of
the big things here, and this is the unquantifiable at
this point, because we don't know, we don't know who

(03:16):
the Mullahs are that the Trump administration has been negotiating with.
One of the things that was pretty interesting, And John,
I would answer your the way you laid it out
about the time horizon this way, So if you go
back a couple of weeks ago, you had the Trump
administration seemingly trying to figure it out if the people
that were negotiating on behalf of Iran actually had the

(03:39):
wherewithal to be able to implement that policy, Like, if
we actually negotiate a deal with you, can you get
this through or is the Iran Revolutionary Guard going to
go do their own thing? And so you had the
first piece figuring them out. Then you had the ten
day thing where they're letting two ships through the street
every day, and as long as those strip ships are
getting through unattacked, they're like, eh, you know, the people

(04:00):
are dealing with are the right people. And so I
think that was all part of the process to eventually
get us to where we are today. That kind of
explains the timeline in this thing. And then ultimately, if
we are dealing with actors that are no longer hey,
there's a mom that's going to come out of a well,
we needed to have you know, the world covered in blood,

(04:21):
that type of thing, I'd say that is an incredible
historic when if in fact those are the people who
are dealing with now, which is what previously had led
that country.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, the President describes regime change as simply a change.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
In the leadership of Iran.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Based upon the fact that the Ayatola was killed on
day one of this conflict, and that is true. But
it's his son that's in control right now of he's
the new supreme leader.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Havn't seen him? Have heard it's going to.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Say, do we know that there's no indication they actually
is in control or even with the living.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
For that matter.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, that's what I just said.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You have I seen him, haven't heard him.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
But in any case, is it, you know, a different
leadership We don't know. I mean, it's one that has
agreed to this ceasefire, you know, and with good reason.
They've been you know, just decimated in terms of their uh,
you know, capabilities over the course of the past five weeks.
But you know, I think that the proof will be

(05:23):
in the putting. We'll see what happens going forward. We'll
see who controls the straits of her moves, We'll see
who if anybody collects tolls, if there are tolls that
are collected, and we'll see if Iran is degraded in
terms of its nuclear capabilities. I think it's too soon
to you know, no answers to all of those questions
just literally, you know, twelve hours after this deal was

(05:46):
first announced.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
No doubt appreciate the update, John, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Thanks a lot, Brian, have a great day, Go bye.