Ben Mycelis

I don't want to necessarily compare it to like federalism in the United States.

But you have all of these kind of regional leaders within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and also within their kind of secret police domestic forces that are both empowered to kind of strike.

And now we're seeing, I think, a further entrenchment of power in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard side of things.

So things are getting worse.

You know, Arab mediators.

are saying they have a lot of skepticism that they're anywhere close to a deal because Iran feels emboldened.

Iran sees the deranged statements that Donald Trump is making.

They view it as weakness because they know it doesn't bear any resemblance to reality.

Let's state the facts.

Yes, the United States and Israel have seriously bombed and degraded traditional forces within Iran.

Iran's Navy.

You want to say that's obliterated?

It's traditional Navy?

Sure.

Iran's Navy obliterated.

You want to say that Iran's tanks and some of its missile facilities that were above ground obliterated?

Sure.

I think that that's accurate.

But let's be clear what Iran has.

An entire underground network, almost like underground malls,