Arash Azizi

That's one reason.

The number two reason is that there are, even though I said, you know, the regime does have some cohesion, but there are different sort of

factions with their own military and economic interests, and they really need to come together and make some bold sort of decisions, and that's not always easy to make.

I am still somewhat very cautiously optimistic that this will happen.

I think at the end of the tunnel,

We will have American-Iranian normalization.

We will have Iran's return to the global economy.

We will have Iran's regional integration.

I think that's still the most likely outcome.

It's a win for both sides.

Is it?

Yeah, exactly.

So it's not a win in terms of the war reaching its goals.

Got it.

But it is what Trump said back in 2017 when he first took office.

He wanted to negotiate with the regime and get a deal like this.

I think the war was a huge mistake, frankly, by any, and I think it would be hard in the future for it to be seen differently.

And, you know, we knew all of this thing, you know, it's like, you know, it's not like nobody had thought of going to war with Iran before, right?

And everything that resulted from the war is exactly what everyone, I mean, if you talk to Obama era officials or Biden era officials, I mean, they knew exactly these things that happens is exactly what they thought would happen.

Right.