Reza Pahlavi:

Regime change has gotten a bad name in the West. Why was it?

Because it was so poorly implemented and executed in Afghanistan and particularly in Iraq, where the Republican Guards were sent home—half of them ended up becoming ISIS fighters.

I didn't want that to be repeated in the case of Iran.

Source: Reuters

Reza Pahlavi:

You have to understand the sentiments out there.

People in Iran are on the edge of revenge almost.

Source: Reuters

Trump:

Lindsey Graham loved golf, but he wasn't born to be a golfer.

He was born to be a politician, not a golfer.

Trump on Iran:

Lindsey Graham was a hawk on Iran, but over the last few weeks, he started to think that a deal would be better than destroying the rest of Iran.

Trump:

Lindsey Graham was very militant about Ukraine.

Lindsey liked war, to be honest with you.

He has never seen a war that he didn't like. He was very much into that.

Trump on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain:

I don't need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved.

With the space force, we have the greatest cameras in the world focused. We know exactly what's going on.

I heard Bibi announced it. I said, “why didn't you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?”

I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe Mountain.

It's not a big problem. We’ll have to take out Pickaxe if we don't make a deal. We can deal with it very easily.

Trump on Iran:

If I go back and finish up the job, as some people would like, with the bridges — very easily I could take out most of their bridges in less than an hour.

But you know, it takes them 10 years to build a bridge. Bridges take the longest, and power plants are second.

I can knock out the power plants within one day. All of their power plants would be gone.

I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges, would have to live. And it's a very, very delicate balance.

They know I'm going to do that if they don't make a deal.

The bridges are going to be gone — literally. In less than… I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges, will all be gone.

And the power plants in one day.

If I can avoid doing that, I would like to avoid that.

Trump on Iran:

They agreed to not having a nuclear weapon. Essentially, we have to make it formal, but they have agreed.

Trump on Iran:

Obama thought he could bribe his way into friendship with Iran.

Then they went out and tried to develop nuclear missiles.

Trump:

If I weren't President of the United States, Israel today would not exist!

Trump:

Iran doesn't control the strait. We control the strait.

They can drop a couple of mines in there and screw things up.

But we control the strait.

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Trump on Iran:

If I hadn't killed General Soleimani, maybe he would have gotten the nuclear.

They would have thought in a different manner.

Trump on Iran:

We opened the blockade, and then they broke the deal, and we put it back.

They break the deal. We cannot have them breaking deals anymore.

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Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

I don't believe it is possible to separate Türkiye from Syria or create a buffer between them.

The weapons used by al-Sharaa's forces are Turkish weapons. Turkish generals are already inside the Syrian army.

Türkiye's military bases are already being established. Turkish warships are already in Tartus.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

There is no longer an Iranian Shiite empire acting as the hegemon in the Middle East.

The vacuum left by Iran is being inherited, at an increasing pace, by Türkiye.

"Al-Sham" does not refer only to Syria; it also includes Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.

We could see dramatic Turkish moves in Lebanon, and I would not rule that out.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

Ambassador Tom Barrack is making life very difficult for us because of his understanding of Erdogan.