Arash Azizi

has cost them a lot.

So there is indeed a very huge gap for reasons that I said.

And yes, Iranians are very diverse.

There is a very hardcore regime supporter that exists, 10, 15%, that really support the regime and they're the ones who come out.

But the vast majority of Iranians are sick of these conditions, but they want what they call themselves a normal life, right?

I mean, that's a very good question, and it can have different visions, but I would say, if you look at long sorts of Iranian history, right, what is Iran's story?

Iran's story is that it's one of the only countries in the world to never have been colonized, but it's very strategically isolated, by which I mean, Iran is a country in a region full of either Arabs, Turks, or Sunni Muslims, and Iran is neither of this, right?

It's a Shia-majority country, and it has a mixed population,

It has its own sort of civilization.

So I think Iranian foreign policy would safeguard Iran's independence and basically be non-aligned.

It would not take sides

in between Ethiopia and Eritrea, between Israel and Palestine, between China and United States.

And historically, that's what all Iranian governments have done.

You know, the Shah, unlike the popular imagination is that he was a US lackey, if you read the actual foreign policy experts on Iran, they call it de facto non-alignment.

So yes, he was on the side of the US in the Cold War, but he was remarkably independent and had relationship with Soviet Union, had relationship with China, had relationship with tons of countries in Africa.

So Iran needs to be guardedly sort of independent and non-aligned.

And look what Islamic Republic has done.

Iran supported Russia against Ukraine.

You know, Iran regarded Israel's destruction as its goal.

Iran adopted this crazy anti-Americanism and death to America.