Jessica Tarlov

And I'm Jessica Tarlow.

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What do you think Russia and China are telling Iran right now?

Because we know what our allies, our NATO allies and also what our Gulf allies are saying about it.

But Russia and China have been close allies, obviously, of Iran and beneficiaries of this conflict themselves.

Putin suffered a big defeat in Hungary with the election a couple of days ago.

But

You know, he got some sanctions relief, which I'm hoping that Secretary Besant is going to hold to this and put those sanctions back on.

But this two-week period has felt like a gift to the Iranians that they can essentially rearm and, you know, conference up with China and Russia for the plan going forward.

So what's your feeling about what Russia and China want Iran to do?

Yeah, I'm glad that you brought up the JCPOA because I've been thinking a lot about the sunset clauses, which if we had stayed in it versus Trump taking us out in 2018, we would be coming up near the end of the deal and there would be this opportunity to hopefully renegotiate.

And I'm curious as to...

What our diplomatic team, besides Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, looks like if we do manage to get Iran back to the table, even in the next year or two before President Trump is out of office, and hopefully we have a Democratic president coming in.

It took 18 months to negotiate the JCPOA.

And we're talking about, you know, this idea that deals can be done with these people who are quite emboldened at this moment in like, you know, you have 10 to 14 days to sort this out.

And you have to pay more as a result of it because they're all getting their energy through the straits.

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I just want to touch on a key element in this war that hasn't been mentioned yet, and that's the role of Israel in this.