"Lemire pointed out that the president's assessment that Iran had been decimated contrasted with a confidential intelligence community assessment, detailed by The Washington Post, which found the regime would survive the U.S. blockade. After Lemire offered a quick run-through of the administration's stated goals for the Iran conflict, Scarborough stopped him to pull out a pen so he could run down the checklist."
"One of them was destroying the Iranian Navy, Lemire said. Get your pen. OK, navy, OK? Check! We did that! Scarborough replied. So we've won the war, right? OK. Give me the other four, because I'm sure that we got it. I'm sure that we got the other four. Two, what else we got?"
"Yeah. So one of them was supposed to be destroying their ballistic missile arsenal, which we just learned they have not done. They've weakened it, but they have not destroyed it. Oh, Scarborough said, downcast as he marked the list. Third time up would be the nuke program, which they haven't touched, has not been addressed. You know that still exists. The future of that remains uncertain, Lemire went on."
"We had some talk of regime change. That hasn't happened. The supreme leader Lemire began. How's that work? the host quipped. Lemire continued: You know, the first Supreme Leader is dead, but his son is in charge. An even hardliner group now running things in Tehran, the IRGC."
The remarks centered on whether Iran war objectives were met. A confidential intelligence assessment found the regime would survive a U.S. blockade, contrasting with a claim that Iran had been decimated. A checklist of administration goals was reviewed, with one item marked as completed for destroying the Iranian Navy. Other objectives were described as incomplete, including weakening but not destroying the ballistic missile arsenal and leaving the nuclear program untouched. Regime change was also described as not occurring, with leadership shifting to the supreme leader’s son and hardliners and the IRGC running Tehran. A baseball analogy was used to emphasize the perceived failure and worsening outcome.
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