Aaron Parnas

I mean, I hope not, too.

But I mean, unless you have like a CIA team like we saw in Caracas, that's the only way you'll see American boots on the ground.

an airstrike campaign, a mass bombing campaign, okay, like you take down a bunch of people, you say you kill the Ayatollah, you kill all those people around him.

There are more people in the ranks that will rise up in the IRGC who have a iron grip on that country.

Right.

You're not just going to have installing new Reza or whatever his name is, the Shah.

You're not just going to reinstall that overnight.

That's not how it works.

It has to be a people driven movement.

And you had an opportunity, actually, when you had those mass protests, the people driven movement.

And Trump, in a lot of ways, balked.

He did.

And I don't agree with striking Iran right now in any event.

But I think if he were to strike Iran, it should have happened a month ago.

It should have happened during the height of the protests.

Right.

And maybe with strikes and with that mass people-driven movement, you could have seen some type of on-the-ground change.

But now people are afraid to go on the streets because he's saying 32,000 people were killed.

That number is probably even higher.

And so it's a bit of a quagmire.