Dan Brouillette

A number of different reactions.

I mean, obviously my background being energy, I'm looking closely at what this means for the energy markets.

We're going to take a long look at this over the course of the next few days to see what happens.

But my immediate, perhaps larger reaction is for the people of Iran.

It's a very exciting day.

This regime has been devastating to this country over the last 40 plus years.

And this presents a unique opportunity, as you pointed out in your opening.

And as the president has said very clearly,

to return this country to a democracy and to a freedom-loving place as it has been for most of its history.

Well, it's going to be difficult to determine that in the next few days.

The regime itself has its own succession plan, if you will, but it will be up to the people of Iran to determine whether or not that succession succeeds.

I would suspect that given the amount of protests, given the amount of

of events that we've seen on the ground, especially with the younger folks who are leading many of these protests in the streets, I would suspect that that is not going to be acceptable to most of the people of Iran.

Given what we've seen over the last few months, given what we've seen in the streets, I think there is a real hunger for change.

And I think we're going to see some new leadership emerge from the people of Iran, not the regime of Iran.

Yeah.

I can't speak directly for the president, but he has been very clear about his desire for peace.

So I think he will give the people of Iran an opportunity to resolve this peacefully.

So it wouldn't shock me and it wouldn't surprise me that you see some, you know,

slowing down of the military activities over the course of the next few hours or days.