Konstantin Kisin

You were literally with President Trump the day before the strikes happened.

Can you explain to us what the reasoning and the rationale are for this war?

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Senator, welcome to Trigonometry.

Before we start the interview proper, it's always good to ask particularly politicians about their journey, how they came to be where they are, and also how your journey influenced and shaped your views.

Sure.

So, Senator, moving forward now to talk about the conflict in Iran, you were literally with President Trump the day before the strikes happened.

Can you explain to us what the reasoning and the rationale are for this war?

Senator, so you've got Cuban heritage, I've got Venezuelan heritage, and Constantine has Russian heritage.

We know how autocratic regimes work.

We know that it's not just the people at the top, but they have the tentacles, which they use to control people, in particular the IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, numbering roughly around 200,000 highly trained soldiers, many of whom are fanatical.

They are Islamists.

How are you going to deal with them?

Because they are the ones keeping essentially the Iranian people.

Let's be honest, they're the ones keeping them under control.

And the other challenge that you're facing is the Strait of Hormuz at the moment, because when you look at the natural resources going through there, the petroleum, the liquid natural gas,

The fact that it's been shut and it's been closed, and let's be honest, that is Iran's main trump card.

That is a very real issue, not just for America, but for the globe in general.

I identify as Venezuelan myself.