Benham Ben-Taliblu

And the question is, which of these things is the Trump administration willing to give?

It's almost certain, because of what the president tweeted on Truth Social, that the one thing the U.S.

is giving is taking away the blockade.

And that takes the boot off of this major economic artery that was suffocating the regime, and that was the American ability

that try to normalize trade in the Strait of Hormuz while preventing ships from docking in Iran's Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman ports.

Always a pleasure.

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Always good to be back with you guys.

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Well, largely the reaction is felicitation and jubilation.

You know, Iran just went through its biggest nationwide anti-regime uprising in the month of January with 30,000 to 40,000 killed just in a matter of days.

That was coterminous with one of the nation's largest Internet blackouts.

And among one of the many chance that we've heard was death to Khamenei.

And the Iranian population is quite literally no longer filtering itself when it comes to its views, values and intentions here.

They rightly hold the supreme leader supremely accountable for the state that their country has been in.

Well, it was quite a bit of musical chairs at the top.

Khamenei occupied the position of supreme leader, or more aptly put, guardianship of the jurisprudent.

And that religious title is a manufactured title that Iranian officials said only senior clergy, only ayatollahs, basically the equivalent of a religious PhD could have.

But religiously, Khamenei has a religious version of an eme.