Dave Smith
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Yes, it is true that when the Shah, when our puppet was in there for 25 years, you would see women in miniskirts in Tehran.
And for people who go there and have done some guerrilla journalism, you know, even under the Ayatollah rule, there's still like underground nightclubs and there's girls who do go out.
That's where like the liberal people are.
And it's a city of I think it's like nine and a half million people live in Tehran, something in that ballpark.
They got like a million people in the street.
They got like a ninth of the total population.
I'm just eyeballing the numbers.
But if you look at those shots, it's certainly in the many hundreds of thousands of people that are out chanting death to America and long live their martyr Ayatollah.
It gets it wrong all the time.
No, it's really important you bring that up.
That was one of the things I was going to make sure to ask you about.
But I mean, the thing to me, I mean, look, like once it was clear, which wasn't clear initially, but once it became clear, it got hit with a tomahawk.
That's like there's three parties here, Iran, Israel and the United States of America.
And we're the ones with Tomahawks.