Welcome to today’s podcast. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Now President Trump faces a stark choice: should he dispatch American B-2 bombers armed with 30,000-pound bunker busters against Fordo, Iran’s mountain-hidden uranium enrichment site? Since 1979, Iran’s theocracy has repressed its own people and poured resources into a nuclear program that Karim Sadjadpour calls a strategic “albatross.” It sustains just one percent of Iran’s energy demand at a cost approaching half a trillion dollars. After October 7th, Israel struck Iranian military and nuclear scientists, and Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, “We are doing what we need to do.” Now he’s looking to Trump’s pilots. Yet Trump, who admits, “Nobody knows what I’m going to do,” has sidelined much of his National Security Council and is torn between isolationist and interventionist camps. With a two-week deadline looming, he must resist the siren call of “shock and awe” and pursue negotiation to avert another costly Middle East disaster.
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