After the Assassinated Father Comes The Son -- Is It All About Revenge Now?

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And welcome to Monday.

Dr. Janus Stein is here.

She is every Monday.

That is always the plan to get the latest from Dr. Janus Stein

from the Monkschool of the University of Toronto.

And get her understanding of what's playing out on the big picture.

The foreign affairs scene, the international scene.

And there's certainly one topic up for discussion right now.

And that is the war in Iran.

A weekend of developments in this war,

which is now into its 10th day.

We'll get to that in a second.

And I know you're anxious to hear from Dr. Stein.

So I'll just quickly go over the question of the week,

and it's related.

We want your thoughts on this war.

Now, I know we were talking about doing a second week

on the relationship between Canada and the US.

Will it ever be back to the same as it was?

We have lots of your answers still available to us.

From last week, we didn't even, we got to about half of them.

So we have another half.

And we will get to that.

We're just going to hold off for at least this week on that.

So I will keep those letters handy.

But I'm looking for your thoughts on a different topic this week.

Because we really do need to hear from you on this war

and the impact it's having.

So I think the kind of the overall question

is what should Canada's position be on the Iran War?

But that can include other things.

How do you see the war ending?

Was the war starting of this war?

Was it a good thing or a bad thing?

Good idea or a bad idea?

So there you go.

The big question, what should Canada's position be

on the war in Iran?

Your answer on that.

But as I said, it can include those other areas as well.

However, 75 words are less.

Excuse me.

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Have your answers in by 6 p.m. Eastern time this Wednesday.

Include your name and the location you're writing from.

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So that's the plan for this week.

And I'm hoping you'll take part.

Just keep in mind all those conditions, especially 75 words or fewer.

Some of you went long last week.

I go long this week.

You're not on.

So keep in 175 words.

All right.

Let's waste no more time and get to the conversation with Dr. Janice Stein

from the monk's school at the University of Toronto.

Here's what she has to say this week.

So Janice, the sun becomes the new supreme leader.

And you know, I guess the first question is,

here's a guy who loses his father to the American attack.

He loses his mother.

He loses his wife.

All in the same attack.

And other members of the family.

He becomes the supreme leader.

Can anyone expect anything other than revenge from this guy?

No.

That's the, I mean, it's in considerable.

He was so close to the Revolutionary Guard's Peter.

They weighed in with support.

So he already was on the hardline traction among the possible

confessors.

There were two or three others who are so-called martyrs.

Now, later on to that, the fact that he lost his whole

family, that he's injured, that he's in a hiding,

that there's clearly a target on his back is very difficult.

The one, there was one voice that came out of Iran,

who knows him well.

And who says, look, there's some chance that he will be the moha

and then someone out of Iran.

That is the prince of Saudi Arabia, who was the iridesic

met by his father when his father was alive.

You know, and turned out a reform agenda,

which has changed Saudi Arabia beyond belief.

This is not, by the way, a Democrat.

This has nothing to do with democracy or any of that.

But he had a vigorous reform agenda.

What kind of Iran will most about harmony in Iraq the day after?

Already for a terrible short to water.

Already an economy where the real currency had dislated 90% already

with a very high inflation rates.

And now infrastructure, that will, the demands will be just huge.

There is something about reality, you know,

as an administrator once said,

that shapes agendas, even when you come from a hardline faction.

But that's a whisper of hope, you know,

on a seat, Peter, nothing more.

You know, one of the ironies of this appointment

is that the father used to say or had said,

this should not be hereditary.

This should not pass from one, you know,

generation to the next of the same family,

because we'd be looking at the same thing that we overthrew

in terms of getting rid of the shaw on a royalty succession.

Yeah.

But clearly those who were doing the voting decided against that.

Absolutely right.

You know, he was very clear on the economy,

that he did not want this.

And the reason he said, it was the shaw.

It would replicate all the evils of the philosophy family,

so look at the wheel of history turns here.

The key player in this this week inside Iran

was Arihame, the speaker whom,

Ali, how many designated to run the government?

Could he be killed or should he die?

He's not a formal transitional counsel.

He's the speaker.

But he's extremely powerful,

very loyal to the company family,

and entering very actively that senator,

these circumstances given the scope of the challenge.

So he went in over and over again.

88 clerks who voted, they were,

you know, there was not,

it was not unanimity at the beginning,

but as Larry Annie put the pressure on,

and look Peter, there's a bit of factors here,

which I think we would all know when you're under attack,

when you're consisting bomb by enemies,

which is of course the way the IRGC would feel inside Iran,

you rally behind the hardliners.

That's what happens.

I'm coming in.

Now does that make it much harder to end this war?

Infinite.

The Israelis have already said they're targeting the Sun.

They're going after the new leader.

Trump hasn't said that directly,

but he's made it clear if it's not somebody he wants,

they'll target him.

So how is that clear?

I mean, who'd want the job knowing that?

Yes.

You know, I did ask in Iranian experts yesterday,

but when I said who would take this job?

Who would take this job right now?

No, I can't imagine it.

And beyond that, how do you govern?

And the answer that came back to me was,

they're not even thinking about governing right now.

They're just thinking about survival.

It's going to be, you know,

even when the fighting ends, Peter,

does the risk of a session of assassination?

No, because the number of special forces

that are on the ground in Iran,

we don't have an accurate number,

but I would be astonished if they were not CIA,

Mossad, and other kinds of special forces

that are all over Iran right now.

People are saying his father ruled for 38 years.

They don't all feel ruled for 38 days.

The special forces, you know,

they're obviously there.

I mean, they're doing everything from targeting

to doing their own operations

to take out various Iranian assets.

Let me ask it this way.

Is Iran in a no-win position?

I mean, what's the best they can do

given the situation they're in now?

They are functioning in no-win position, right?

There was an opportunity here

if they had chosen anybody, anybody.

But, Mossad, by the way,

you know, the grandson,

the first I had told,

I mean, what's one of the candidates?

He is.

I mean, let's be careful how we use these words,

hard-lawing, moderate, because...

But, you know what I mean?

And he was aligned with a more moderate faction.

There were one or two other candidates like that.

They could have taken the opportunity

to send a signal.

There's change.

There's change with the in the regime

we don't have to overthrow the regime

because change can happen

from within as well as from whatever.

Saudi Arabia is a good example of that, frankly.

Okay, I mean, it's dramatic.

The change inside of Saudi Arabia.

They didn't take that opportunity.

And I understand how you would rally

behind, you know, the artist

right wing most trusted faction

was as close to what they've had the IRGC.

And the reasons are, here,

it's not only that they're being attacked from yesterday.

The biggest factor here

is that the Republican Guard's controlling economy.

They benefit from sanctions.

You know, they control the cement industry.

They control electronics industry.

They do...

They run construction.

Construction all over the world is the same one way or the other.

They run the trucking business.

They're nuts and bolts of the economy.

And that's what comedy did.

He brought them literally...

He separated them from the Army

after the original.

And tied them so closely

to him and to protecting him.

And in turn, what they got,

control the economy.

So they actually don't want those sanctions lifted.

Or they want very little changes in economy

because it attacks directly the basis

of their economic and political power.

And it's...

It is the guards who weighed in

to make sure that their candidate was chosen.

Yeah, it's a misopportunity.

There's no question.

People look at some of the cases, you know, of Iranians

or other countries.

And just a disappointment that distrust was made.

There are a number of avenues

to take in this discussion.

And I want to try and cover them all.

But let me start with this one.

We're 10 days in to this war.

Do we have any idea yet what?

Washington actually wants out of this?

So, you know, there was a story

that broke over the weekend

about where the rich union is inside Iran.

Now, that was a deliberate leak here.

You don't get a leak out of an intelligence agency

with that kind of information.

That doesn't just happen.

That was leaks in Washington.

And the backdrop to the story is for the first time

there was actually...

Now, again, it's a leak from an American intelligence agency.

So let's just put that frame around it.

But there was some detail in there

that I had never seen before about what...

Iran had done.

Where is this, first of all?

Where are these 600 to 960 pounds of registering?

We don't have an example.

So, for the person they identified where it is,

it is in Isfahan, in a nuclear facility there.

What changed over the last six weeks

was the Iranians had piled earth on top

so that you couldn't access the uranium.

There were satellite pictures of a back door to the facility

that they had opened,

which suggests one that they could access the uranium,

whatever, much more easily,

that all the coverage of the facility,

which was being monitored,

and there was no trucks around the front

and nothing was changing around the front.

That they knew that there was a back door

and that it would be possible for Iran to remove that uranium

and then you were used to a bomb.

And with that alone, you could produce...

You could call it a dirty bomb

or you could call it a primitive bomb.

This is not...

This is powerful as what the United States used in Hiroshima

or Nagasaki to give you a sense of this topic.

Why did they release this?

Well, it provides an excuse or a story or an explanation

of why they went to war, right?

But at this time, it's amazing that if they had this,

they didn't...

The President didn't talk about it.

The Secretary of War didn't talk about it

and they didn't release this information.

Where are we?

It's inconceivable now,

Peter, that this war will end.

If it ends,

and that uranium is still there,

and that back door is still there,

there is a race.

They will...

It's not what happened

and all that has happened,

they're not race, they're nuclear weapons.

All right, let's pick apart some of them.

Some of that.

Yeah.

First of all, are we talking about the same location

that they supposedly obliterated last year?

This is exactly the same location.

They obliterated what was inside,

but the location is still there.

And right after the fighting stop,

that was 12 days last time,

Spucks came with piles of earth

and created huge sand ramparts,

blocked the entrance to the facility.

Okay, but so what is that mean?

So the Bunker Buster Bombs destroy the centrifuges

and anything else,

the metalization process,

which is very important too,

that was inside.

You do it through shocks.

Those Bunker Buster Bombs did that.

But the walls are still standing.

So you cover in the entrance,

but think of a building high entrance,

full of sand, so nobody can access the material.

That's okay if you want to get out of it,

but it's easy to monitor

if anybody's moving that earth from the outside

and nobody touched it from the outside.

Up till now, around the back.

But let me just first make the point.

Are we now dismissing the fact

that they was obliterated?

I mean, if something was left there,

that they're now willing to go back for,

it kind of dismisses the obliteration remark, right?

It will.

I mean, can you obliterate uranium,

stockpiles of uranium?

No, but nobody actually claimed

that they did that to be fair.

They obliterated the centrifuges.

They obliterated the metalization process.

They obliterated everything you needed.

But even then,

they acknowledged that uranium was still there.

Nobody had that.

The American acknowledged that.

Yeah.

They didn't know where it was.

They actually said,

at the end of the 12 days,

that they did not know where it was that it was conceivable

that the Iranians had removed it

before the sites were attacked,

and it was stored somewhere else.

They didn't know where it was.

And Raphael Grossy,

the head of the international atomic energy agency,

was, you know, an authoritative source,

not motivated to cover up on either side of this,

that he did not know where it was.

Nobody, he had no inspectors to verify where it was.

He suspected that it was close to the site.

That's all he said.

Okay.

Now, we get this report over the weekend

that they do know where it is

and that they noticed that the Iranians

have created it back to art to get it into the facility.

Okay.

And they're leaving,

they're trying to leave the impression through this leak.

As you say, it's a leak.

Leaked.

They're trying to leave this impression

that actually this is the reason why.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

And there's one.

It's clear that this is the information

that's being transmitted to the president.

In the K.R.

Manic way that he talks.

And it's really hard.

But he gave an interview when he was on Air Force 1,

flying back from the ceremony for the six soldiers

who had returned.

And he was asked an interesting question.

He was asked, well, are there

commandos or special forces that are going in?

He said,

it's not yet.

It's too risky.

Yeah.

To have to put any commando forces on the ground

to go after any

anything to do within a clear site.

We need to do,

we need to engage in more attacks from the air before we do that.

So he's been told.

Well, he's been told any,

any concedes that the endgame can't be from the air.

If you can't destroy the uranium from the air,

you can't pick it up from the air.

No.

You're going to have to go in on the ground.

You're going to have to go in on the ground.

And in this leak,

which is really riveting to the detail,

it actually says it's stored in canisters.

Well, if it's stored in canisters,

it is truckable.

You could put it on a truck

and take it out.

The question becomes,

who gets to this first?

The revolutionary guards

read the same article.

I can tell you,

they read the same article

even I read this weekend.

You can't,

there's no,

you have to put special forces in at some point

to get that uranium world.

You now know where it is.

And you know that it's accessible

to the Iranians now.

This is where we are in the story.

Yeah.

I got to say,

you know,

I still have a hard time believing

so much of this stuff

because the story keeps changing.

Yeah.

You know, an in fairness,

Trump did say last year

that Iran cannot make a nuclear weapon

for a long, long time.

I can't remember whether they put a date on it or not,

but it was years.

It wasn't months,

which what we're saying now is they could make it,

they could make at least a dirty bomb

with what they've got.

They could make a dirty bomb.

There's no question.

They could make a dirty bomb

with what they've got.

That's how they make it.

And a very, very powerful dirty bomb.

Right.

Yes.

If you believe this leak.

If you believe leak,

exactly.

Yeah.

And that's the problem here

because, you know,

this leak will last until the next leak.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There'll be something else.

Some other intelligence

just say just some other country

who's going to have to confirm this.

Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let me go to the.

But it does tell you something important

that people have been saying.

Well, you know, Trump,

he's just going to wake up one morning

and declare victory.

Right.

He can't do that.

After this leak.

It's much harder to do it.

He can't say, well,

I've taken it out there.

You know, I've taken it out there.

All the infrastructure for the guards

in the besiege.

And I've done this.

I've done that.

We've defeated them.

The war's over.

That's not an option.

When his own intelligence agency

has told everybody

where the image Uranium is

and that there's lactore together.

Here's the other area

that fascinates me over the weekend.

And even today,

just in the last few hours,

Russia has put out the word

that congratulating the new Supreme Leader

saying, you know,

you're defending your country

and Russia stands by you in that defense.

This after a weekend,

where there were leaks of some kind,

suggesting that the Russians were

giving targeting information

to the Iranians about where American facilities

were and troops were

that they could target.

Yeah.

Well, you know,

explain to me what Russia's up to.

What does Russia want out of this?

Other than,

they're obviously very happy

with the $120 oil

or whatever it is today.

Perfect for them.

Perfect.

Perfect for them.

But beyond that,

look,

we talked last week

and we said Russia was a big winner here.

So one of the principal,

which they really need

because they're economy.

And the Chinese are losers here,

which I think Vladimir Putin

is fine with you.

You know,

I don't think it's

so fine for Vladimir Putin

to be the number two in that relationship

over and over and over.

So that's the second winner.

Thirdly,

look at the drawdown of stocks

that's going on here

as this goes on.

Everything is being pulled out of the Pacific.

And Ukraine will be,

there's no question

there's going to be any equipment

that will hit Ukraine

as a result of all equipment

that's moved from everywhere else.

You know,

I mean,

it's missile interceptors,

everything.

That's a big win

for Vladimir Putin.

And who's talking about Ukraine?

Who's talking about Ukraine right now?

And let's add one more factor

to the story,

which is

about a year

into the Ukraine more,

not at the beginning,

because Biden was very cautious

and didn't want to provoke the Russians

and was concerned about Russian nuclear escalation.

A year into it,

as they became more confident

that he wouldn't,

he might be bluffing.

The Americans said about base,

and where I'm saying Germany,

I sent over a squad

of intelligence officers

at satellite experts

and provided

the best targeting information

based on satellites

that could overfly 24-cellen.

Borussia.

And we know that.

And did that

for 18 months at least

until President Trump took over

and longer.

The most valuable thing the Americans

provided to Ukraine is,

they would send messages

to Ukrainian officers

in the field

to tell them where

a Russian soldier.

I frankly, when I saw that story,

there was a leak in Washington Post

that had got story broke.

So, you know,

that's the good thing about democracy

so much that you want to say

being leaked.

Journalists are just,

Israel leaks, like I said,

for these countries,

we get so much more information.

But there's strategic leaks, though, right?

There's strategic leaks.

The administration,

us,

you know the expert borders,

that it talks to,

and it releases the information

when it wants to go back.

There are strategic leaks.

I want to get to

to Canada in a moment.

But first let me ask you this.

We're 10 days in.

Yeah.

Where are we?

Look,

it's extended to the Gulf.

It's Saudi Arabia.

It's losing its patience.

Where could we be a few days from now?

The Gulf states could start to retaliate.

Who would that be?

What do you mean, emergency?

We're always first out.

Here's the highest risk takers in the whole Gulf.

Followed by the Saudis,

because what do they have here?

Saudi Arabia.

There's an expression you can use about the Saudis.

They bought rather than bought.

They bought.

They have the most advanced equipment.

They have patriot missiles.

They have the highest altitude receptors

that the ad system,

which forks against long-range ballistic missiles,

so do the Emirates.

Zelensky is helping.

The Gulf states with targeting drones.

If it continues at this pace,

I would not be surprised to see the Saudis and the Emirates

get much more heavily involved than they are.

This is for them.

If you think about what Saudi Arabia's change has been,

it's to make them an attractive side for investment,

a safe place to invest,

and to build an AI driven economy.

Everything that's happened,

puts that at risk, everything.

If they do get involved,

the Saudis, the Emirates,

whomever in the Gulf,

if they get involved,

does that change everything?

It would certainly make it harder

to start off the funny,

because there's a cycle of retaliation

that gets going once it starts.

It's very difficult.

It's very difficult,

and there's a coat of honor

that requires that you respond

when somebody in your family is killed.

This is deeply part of the culture.

You just escalate that up to the country.

I don't know how long the Saudis will stay out of this.

One of the stories, you know, one of them,

again, when people talk about how this ends,

and right now,

the Iranian regime has not collapsed.

It's consolidated.

It's pulled in its wagons,

circled around the hard line elements.

It's not on the verge of collapse.

And by the way, it's fascinating story

that how many planned out strategy,

if they call it a Mosaic strategy,

even I would call it a decentralized strategy,

where you can fire missiles

from any of the 28 provinces,

and the Revolutionary Guard decentralized its command.

So there's no imminent sign of the Iranian regime collapsing.

So what's the other way this ends?

Well, Donald Trump gets up one morning

and says, it's over.

Takes who to stop.

It takes one to start and two to start.

Did the Israelis and the Americans underestimate

what they were getting into here?

Yes. Yes.

I mean, you know, they moved up that strike.

They took out 40 leaders.

They assassinated the Supreme Leader.

And they hoped that the regime would unfold

because of the demonstrations that had happened six weeks

earlier in Saudi Arabia.

Yes. They underestimated it.

Yes. Because the only alternative here

in doing this every two or three years.

And that cannot happen.

That cannot happen.

The United States can't do it because of that.

They can't permanently deplete all the other.

Their assets all over the world to do a repeat of this every three years.

Israel can't do it.

And you leave a wounded, vengeful Iranian leadership in place.

That will say I'm going to get to that back to our first.

Okay.

And we're going to take a break.

You know, I looked at some numbers this morning.

We know what's happened to oil.

And we know what's happening as a result of that price going up on oil.

Yeah.

How it's going to affect so many other things.

Yeah.

The Americans had said have already spent $100 billion on this war.

$100 billion.

Of course, it always seems to me ever since he got in power,

including in his first term.

He didn't care about how much he ran the tab up on.

No.

But we are in a pre-mitterm election season, Peter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But at least they're not talking about Epstein anymore.

That's what $100 billion gets you.

I'll see how long that lasts.

Okay.

We're going to take a break.

Come right back and talk about Canada and Carney on Iran.

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And welcome back here listening to the bridge for this Monday.

That means Dr. Janice Stein from the Monk School

of the University of Toronto.

And she is here.

We're talking about, not surprisingly,

the war against Iran.

And just how that seems to be going.

You're listening on Series XM, Channel 167 Canada Talks,

or on your favorite podcast platform.

Glad to have you with us.

Okay, let's talk for a moment about Canada's position on this

and Mark Carney's statements on this.

You know, last week on Good Talk on Friday,

we talked about what seemed to be, you know,

politely described as a bit of a stumble on the part of Mark Carney

on day one of this, because of the things he said,

in terms of support for the attack on Iran.

And I use that term loosely,

because it's, you can define support a number of different ways.

But he certainly came out sounding like he was on side.

He's pulled back somewhat from that in the days since.

Was that a blunder or just a misstep?

You know, let's have to see him here for a second, Peter.

Right.

I see him, you know, very, very well.

He's traveling.

Yeah.

Right.

He's traveling with journalists.

He's, it's hard to talk to the senior officials back and all.

You don't have your whole stuff with you.

And, yeah.

Prime ministers are traveling.

And there's a big issue that explodes.

They scramble.

They're self-scramble.

There's a couple of virtually calls that go back and forth.

And you're out of the gate.

Because the journalists are right there.

They are right there.

And you don't have time.

So I think that's partly what happened.

I think, as I, I think I said this last week.

Look, I, I also think this Prime Minister was for a five-month

and a January.

It's safe with him.

And I think that's where he started.

And if you look at the same thing, it should last week.

That's really where he started.

He started with the fact that this was a version that killed his own people.

And that's the threw on the scratch.

Now what happened during the week?

And it's interesting because I think it tells you something about

the liberal party too in this country.

There was criticism.

And the criticism came from farmers.

Right.

You know, all right.

Oh, no.

This, you know, this is Christian people.

And that's where they people.

And they are still God bless them.

Actives.

And they came up.

Hard.

And tablet.

And then the caucus.

Well, because who was managing a caucus?

When the Prime Minister was on the road again.

And that's where the criticism really came at him.

And that's when you saw the pullback.

And when, you know, even the same, like, well, we don't know what military means.

What does that mean?

Military.

What, you know, what's Canada going to do?

Well, the military means.

We'll come to the support of a Gulf state if we're asked to do it.

What can we provide?

Those states in the Gulf when the missiles are flying both ways.

So then it became well.

If we need to rescue change.

Well, yes, but that's not military means frankly.

And I know what the Prime Minister said.

But I have to say Peter.

I think the possibility that Canada will contribute when you use military means is so close in

it.

Yeah, track.

It never was.

It always was.

And nothing much changed my mind.

Well, even if we wanted to.

We're limited to what we've got.

That's right.

That's right.

We don't have answers.

Right.

We don't have answers.

No, you know, you're going to let me ask for a minute here.

Sure.

Why didn't we have a hotline for Canadians during that week?

They, you know, they said we have a lot of Canadians in the region.

Want to know active hotline?

Right.

Even if you have a message machine that says by hearing your message and you can register.

Canadians know we're having troubles.

This is in the age they are.

We have thousands of Canadians spread through that region.

We'll have to register.

We don't have an embassy in Iran.

Well, stand up.

A force online that can take registration.

In real time.

Who wants our government to know where they are in a proposal?

We need to, we need to join the 21st century.

Well, so are the Americans to the, you know, they were not prepared on that front either.

They're still scrambling, trying to get, you know, get people out and even have the ability for people to call them,

you know, they have hotlines and they have that kind of stuff.

stuff, but there are still 10 days later. It just, you know, it looks when you look at

the situation, the underestimated how Iran was going to fight back. They underestimated

what was going to happen in the rest of the Gulf. Yes. They missed that entirely. Nobody

thought that it was wrong. And that was how many strategy to decentralize and attack the

Gulf to raise the cost in your markets. Nobody predicted that. Nobody. But to come to your

point, they knew they were going to start this war. We didn't know. They knew and they

still didn't have a major offense for their sins. Right? The big difference I'll tell you

now, honestly, you can register with the US embassy. That worked. The embassies know where

are embassies both by the way in Mexico in the weeks before and here, it took hours to register

with the Canadian. Yes. But, you know, like it's somebody in Canada must realize what the heck

was going on. I mean, you can't send those kind of forces to one concentrated area in the world

and go, oh, well, no, they're just, they're on a cruise here. You and I knew what is going on,

right? So how do you not prepare? How do you not put in place? They did the art systems,

like your old listens, get through in real time. And how do I know this? Because, of course,

I heard from Canadians, right? Well, we're sending you here. I love you. I've been trying

for 45 minutes. I can't get through the door of the sea. I can't register. How do I register?

How do I do this? We have to get better. We have to get better. This is a problem. We have to get

an installment on how did you first? We've got to get better. He suddenly got a coming at him

from all everywhere. You know, he's not a stupid guy. He must have realized what was what was

going to be happening for him on this portfolio, even without a war. It's still crazy. Okay, last

question. Where are we going to be a week from now on this? I don't see. I think we're in a slug

and out here, honestly. Who would have thought a born guy would have lasted two years? Who? Who

and their right mind would have thought a born guy would have lasted two years? I don't think they're

there because the cost of the globally economy are too high. That Chinese want this over now.

I think very closely Washington is going to want this over. They don't want this over.

I think they have to do something about that uranium now. The leak is as much a problem for them

as an explanation because now that it's out there, they have to do something.

And I think the regime in Iran is consolidated for now. It's going to double down.

And if you were there in Donald Trump after the record of now twice, starting a war in the middle

of negotiations. That's going to be hard to stop you. All right. Let's leave it at that for now.

There's no doubt we'll be talking about it a week. You take care. We'll talk in seven days.

See you then. Dr. Janice Stein talking to the bridge. As she always does on Mondays and we're

we're grateful for it. You heard the question of the week. We've delayed. We're going to hold on to

your letters on the Canada U.S. thing. This week, we want to talk about this Iran war.

The question is specific about Canada. What's your sense of what Canada has done so far?

What Canada said so far? What Canada can do on this situation? So your thoughts are welcome.

And you have until 6 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday to get them in to the Man's Bridge podcast

at gmail.com. Include your name and the location you are writing from and keep it under 75 words.

75 words or fewer. That is the rule. The golden rule. And the fewer, the better.

And make your argument in 20 words. More power to you.

All right. That's going to do it for today. Tomorrow it's Raj Russo. I imagine there'll be

something about this on that too. As well as a lot of other stuff because there always is.

Al-Their Raj, Raj Russo, the reporter's notebook. For this Tuesday, tomorrow,

right here on the bridge. I'm Peter Mansbridge. Thanks so much for listening. Talk to you again

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