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Ep. 2454 - Trump WIN: SCOTUS Says Send Them Home
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JD Vance's Iran Gambit: Obama Part 2?
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Sohrab Ahmari's write-up of the Lake Lucerne Peace Summit praises a new security channel between CENTCOM and the IRGC as perhaps the biggest breakthrough of the summit, comparing it to the US-Soviet hotline. Shapiro is not buying it: Iran is still executing dissidents, funding Hezbollah, and attacking ships in the strait. The Gulf states — including the UAE, the most hawkish pro-Israel country in the GCC — are now having direct conversations with Tehran not because they want to, but because the US has left them no choice. Qatar's Prime Minister, in a clip Shapiro plays with barely contained outrage, suggests the key to Middle East stability is an Israeli-Palestinian state — the same idea, Shapiro says, that 'every moron in the State Department' has promoted for 70 years. Advisors to Vance include Sohrab Ahmari (whose ideological journey Shapiro traces from neoconservative to Catholic integralist to apparent pro-Iranian 'restrainer') and Trita Parsi, whom Shapiro calls essentially an Iranian lobbyist.
JD Vance struck an agreement at the Lake Lucerne Peace Summit to create a military coordination channel between US CENTCOM and Iran's IRGC. Shapiro says this is Obama-era foreign policy repackaged — abandoning Gulf allies, destroying the Abraham Accords, and rewarding an Iran that just attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Marco Rubio publicly stated there can be no regional peace while Iran funds non-state terror groups. When asked about the gap between his position and Vance's, Rubio insisted the administration is 'completely aligned behind the president.' Shapiro says showing an unstable foreign policy face makes any final deal almost impossible.
