Darren Farber
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
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You need an alternative power structure there to defect to.
You can defect from, which is you leave, but to defect to, to get regime change, even if 85 or 90 percent want the regime to change, you need an alternative force structure to do it.
And so the IRGC controls half of the economy, and they have
All the guns, they have all of these elements of power, they're very hard to replace.
Can you co-opt them successfully between all the assets that they own in Western Europe?
They own an enormous quantum of assets in Western Europe.
What kind of assets?
Homes in London, villas, billions of dollars that they've exfiltrated from the country.
And Abbas Malani has documented this in voluminous detail.
He's a wonderful scholar on the
Topic, but really think of the average Iranian, the limit of the ATM is seven dollars.
That's how much you can pull out.
You had the second largest bank fail about two months before this recent contingency.
Melani calls it a mafia style regime.
And it's true.
The quantum of corruption is absolutely enormous.
Dictators are enormously strong and enormously weak at the same time.
This is actually like a good frame for our entire conversation, which is
Say we have to be able to hold two competing ideas in the same vessel, and both can be true.
A dictatorship can be enormously weak because they're illegitimate.
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