Arash Azizi

And you know why they're a minority?

Because their positions are ridiculously unrealistic, basically.

You know, it's like, oh, fight America, fight Israel.

I mean, they're not doing the fighting, actually, right?

So they do give speeches and they mobilize people on the streets.

That's the kind of thing they do.

But they're not the one actually doing the fighting.

So they have unrealistic fighting proposals.

It used to be the Iranian political inside the Iranian regime

They were reformists, they are, they exist, but they're incredibly marginalized.

Reformists who are Democrats, but they're democratizers.

They believe in democracy.

They want Iran to democratize, and that's why they've lost, right?

Then there are centrists who don't want democracy.

I call them centrists.

Moderates is a term they use themselves, actually.

But they are west-facing.

They want deals with the West and all that.

So these IRGC guys that we're talking about are neither of these.

They're neither reformists nor centrists.