Behnam Ben Taleblu

The right tends to be more hawkish on Iran.

The problem is they're both American adversaries.

They don't give a damn if there's a D or an R or any other letter or acronym besides any of our names here.

So, when we kind of disconnect the dots, we do both of these adversaries a major service.

You know, Russia has, in my view, due to this alone, let alone some other shahadat, including another report that said that they're giving the Iranians their updated version of the Shahid 136, which is the Iran 2 to use in this conflict.

All of this stuff, again, just based on reports, no independent way for me to verify at the moment.

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.