Behnam Ben Taleblu
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515 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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should be connecting the dots in our mind why we have to win in one theater to be able to even win in another.
So, suffice to say, I am very worried about it.
I can't independently confirm it, but
The logic, unfortunately, especially from their view, does make sense.
I mean, the Russians do see America supporting Ukraine.
This is another return at bait and bleed, potentially even for someone like Putin, who still carries the scars and the ills of America's successes against the Soviet Union.
Here I'm thinking particularly Afghanistan in the 1980s.
I'm sure he sees this as a low-cost, high-return investment way, one, to empower an increasing Iranian adversary that is willing to take on the West
And buy time for other members of the axis of aggressors.
And two, to be able to debate and bleed America on the cheap.
I am, I want to use the words here even very carefully, cautiously optimistic about that.
I would say, yes, I still believe that the matter of the next round of protests just structurally in the Islamic Republic is more a matter of when than if, which is, you know, that when question is really a matter of time.
You know, the number one emotion I've heard on the phone, I have to say, because of the internet issue, both in the month of March and in the month of January, at times when the internet was cut in that country,
The number one emotion is anger more than fear.
Yes, they are afraid of being killed, but anger as in they harbor a hostility against their own government and they have drawn such a sharp line against their own government.
And many Iranians have lost so much due to Iranian government policy.
Many still believe that they have nothing left to lose.
And that might be changing the dynamics and the risk tolerance and even the way protests will look and will function in Iran in the future.
And it's important for the West to know that because there's a lot of variables that could militate against that.
Obviously, no one will go into the street in the middle of a war.
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