I wargamed Iran for the Pentagon - here is how it could end

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  I want to play you some tape.

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  The person you're about to hear is our guest on the show today.

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  But this is him speaking on another show about six years ago about a hypothetical war between the United States and Iran.

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  And this is what he predicted Iran would do.

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  They'll just sort of release everything they got.

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  They'll start trying to try to drop mines in the Straits.

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  They will drive oil prices to 150.

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  They'll try to get Hezbollah, and I think probably successfully get Hezbollah to start launching missiles at Israel.

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  They will launch missiles at bases all over the Gulf.

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  They'll try to sink American ships.

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  They'll try to attack Americans.

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  His name is Elon Goldenberg, and he used to work as an Iran expert in the Pentagon and the White House.

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  And when we heard him speaking here in this clip,

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  apparently predicting many of the events of the current war all the way back in 2019,

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  we thought, we should speak with that guy.

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  Because right now, the big question in this war is,

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  with thousands more American troops now in the region, where could this conflict go next?

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  From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman.

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  And today on The Global Story, will Donald Trump put boots on the ground?

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  A top expert whose wall-gamed Iran tells us what could happen next.

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