Arash Azizi

And there really is a huge gap.

So I don't think Rubio is wrong there in some way.

There is a really huge gap between people and the regime.

I think most people really despise so much about the regime.

And the reasons for this are actually not that hard to fathom.

So the Islamic Republic since 1979, tried first of all to bring about an Islamist Puritan society in which everybody is good Muslims and observes all rules of Islam.

And let me tell you this, there's no way this would ever work anywhere.

It has never worked ever in history.

If you try to force anything down people's throats for so long, you will have a reaction against it.

Even if it's your most fervent belief, whatever it is that you love, right?

You know, like if you love rock music, if someone forces you to wear a rock music t-shirt every day and listen to it every night, you're not going to like it, right?

So that's basically what has happened in Iran, that people hate this kind of imposition.

So that's one big gap.

The other big gap is that basically the Islam Republic has told people, have your standards of living followed.

Be in international isolation.

Be poorer in favor of Iran fighting some global fight against Israel and America.

No country in the world will take that deal.

Nobody will take that deal, right?

All these most fervent anti-Israel, anti-America folks here who love praising Iran, they wouldn't want to pay a personal price out of that.

you know, what personal price will they give?