Iran Isn’t Trying to Defeat America… It’s Trying to Do Something Worse | Behnam Ben Taleblu

00:00 Islamic Republic Wants Americans Fighting Americans 01:34 Why Iran Keeps Escalating Against America & Israel 05:32 The Biggest Misunderstanding About Iran 09:22 What Iran Really Sees When It Looks at America & Israel 13:35 Tucker Carlson, Isolationism & Iranian Strategy 17:24 What Victory Actually Means for Iran 20:34 Ideology vs. Strategy: What Really Drives the Regime? 24:21 Can Iran Predict Donald Trump? 28:53 Why Iran Sees Negotiations as Part of the Battlefield 31:25 Washington's Biggest Mistake on Iran 34:11 What Trump Understands About Iran That Other Presidents Didn't 37:26 Did Netanyahu Influence Trump's Decision? 43:21 America and Israel Don't Want the Same Outcome 49:45 Will the Iranian People Rise Up Again? 53:32 Final Thoughts Can Iran really defeat America or Israel? Or is the Islamic Republic fighting a completely different kind of war? In this exclusive interview, Daniel sits down with Behnam Ben Taleblu, Senior Director of the Iran Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), to uncover how the Islamic Republic of Iran actually thinks—and why understanding its strategy is essential to understanding the future of the Middle East. Rather than