Arash Azizi

to giving this signature.

And look, I'm a cautious guy, by which I mean, there's a lot of people who say a lot of things.

That's why I say, you know, you should ask them, how do you know?

Like there are all these articles about Moshe Tava is more hardline than his father or whatever.

How do you know?

Like, what's the evidence?

This is someone who's never spoken publicly.

What we know is complaints of different people who've been victim of the security services who believe they were in

contact with Moshtaba.

That's basically the entirety of what we know Moshtaba before he became leader is that, right?

Is that they arrest people and they're like, the security forces took me and I know Moshtaba greenlit it.

But what I do know, based on speaking also to folks inside Iran, which I do, I mean folks in the security apparatus and regime, is that he clearly is giving some leeway to Qalibaf and others in the National Security Council to do their thing.

So that's my assessment at the moment, that we don't know a lot about him, but he's not hands-on.

Even if he wanted to, I don't think he could force a decision on these guys who are actually running things from his little hospital bed.

It would take a long time for him to become a supreme leader that actually is running things, if he ever gets to do so.

And I think he might never actually be able to.

It's possible to talk to people inside and around.

I mean, there is a total internet shutdown, but there are phones.

People get around.

Internet shutdown somehow.