The ultimate goal is to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.

And if we look at the chessboard, they lost a huge number of pieces.

They lost their pawns.

They lost their knight.

They lost their bishop.

We're talking about Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, a lot of these pieces have been knocked

off the board.

What they have right now, they have their queen.

The queen is the nuclear program.

That's their most powerful piece,

and they haven't played it yet. Now, no player is going to want to give up their queen,

unless the king is being threatened. We're talking about the regime itself. Ayatollah Khomeini,

if he understands that the regime will be toppled, this is the moment that Iran could decide to sacrifice the queen.

This is the choice that Israel wants to put to the regime in Iran.

Now, the question is, are the Israelis and the Trump administration on the same page?

No. page. It's 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16th in New York City. It's 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16th in Israel, as many Israelis are vacationing in and outside of Israel during

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