Ben Shapiro

Unless, again, unless the reality here is that either way this goes, no matter what happens here, the Iranian government has already been hit so hard that they are going to fall apart anyway.

Which, by the way, is certainly possible.

They are a wounded animal that's had one leg removed, not unlike the new Ayatollah Khomeini.

They are crawling away into the woods.

They may survive.

The question is for how long, because they are still bleeding, because their infrastructure no longer exists in the same way, because all of their ballistic missile facilities have been destroyed, because their steel mills have been destroyed, because their gas fields in South Pars were hit.

because their chemical factories were hit, because everything was hit.

So that's where things currently stand.

This is why people who are saying, oh, catastrophe, end of the world.

No, not exactly.

Hey, now, is the ceasefire actually gonna last?

The reason that Iran is in serious trouble here is because either way this goes, they got a problem.

The reason Iran is hesitant to give up control over the Strait of Hormuz now is because this is now their only leverage point.

What they realized in this, they thought they had three possible leverage points here.

One, their terrorist proxies.

They could activate their terrorist proxies, and it would drive everybody off the ball.

Two, that they could directly fire at energy facilities in Saudi and UAE and Bahrain, and all of those countries would pressure the United States into stopping.

And three, the Strait of Hormuz.

Those were their three...

real capacities to harm the globe and their enemies.