Benoit Faucon
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287 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 10 Aug
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So that's kind of the best thing that Iran could get out of these negotiations.
The U.S.
is subject to push and pull pressure.
So you have countries like Qatar, whose liquefied natural gas exports have been interrupted by the conflict.
So it's catastrophic for them.
But there are other countries like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates who feel that you can't really have an end to the war if Iran is not weakened militarily.
They don't want Iran to be able to attack its neighbors.
So they want Iran disabled and they want the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
Otherwise, they feel like it's going to really be a negotiation that effectively re-empower Iran and enable it to attack again.
The regime is kind of hankering down and closing ranks.
The fact they chose the closest replica to the father, which is the son, is significant in the idea that they basically...
don't want to change anything.
So all the possible options that always existed in the regime, either obviously a more conciliatory stance to the West, especially in the nuclear program, political opening, economic opening, that's unlikely to happen.
He's a very conservative clerical figure.
His connections are more with the clerical nationalist group, which is very much in support of supporting insurgencies in the Middle East.
very conservative religious views in the country.
So what he says is a hard line stands going forward, no concession.
The appointment of Moshtaba Khamenei does signal the regime closing rank, but it does increase the risk for the regime of losing power.
The lack of opening, the lack of oxygen in a country where the majority oppose the regime, even though they don't have access to weapons or political power, makes it potentially more dangerous going forward because the regime's base is narrowed.
And even though they control the military...
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