Andrew Peach

I mean, even though there's no opinion polls done, the fact that we saw on January 8th and January 9th millions of people come to streets, one can confidently say a vast majority of Iranians want change, and they don't want incremental change.

They want fundamental change.

Do we have any sense of how the current Iranian authorities are going to respond to these protests?

Well, if passes prologue, we can say that if it gets out of their control, especially if it spills out onto the streets of major cities, they will once again use violence the way they did on January 8th and 9th.

Will they be putting machine guns on the streets corners that they did on those two days?

Bloody nights depends, but it also really different in the sense that the world is watching.

U.S.

forces are on the shores of Persian Gulf and the chances of a military conflict is much higher.

So there may be a second thinking among the authorities to not maybe resort to that kind of violence right away.

But if it does get out of hand, they will not hesitate to kill.

And what do you make of the offer of some kind of proposal from Iran over the nuclear deal, over talks with the US that were promised in the next couple of days?

The devil is going to be in the details.

We'll have to see if they'll meet sort of the minimum, bare minimum that the Trump administration is asking.

And now there's conflicting reports of what is it that they're asking as far as the nuclear file is concerned.

But they have asked for zero enrichment of uranium.

But there has been some reports that they are OK with some nominal, very symbolic, controlled version of enrichment uranium.

Will that bridge the gap?

That's a big question.

But the.

Answers to that question this time will not be taking weeks to arrive.