Franco Ordonez

But it doesn't address the fundamental grievances on living standards, and that will keep eroding any support the regime might have left.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah al-Khamenei, is 86.

He's been in power 37 years.

He's been good at holding power, but he's failed to meet the day-to-day needs of Iranians.

Right now they seem to be an ally, and I think it'll continue to be an ally, and we don't want to have Russia there, we don't want to have China there.

Trump says that the U.S.

is going to get very strongly involved.

He says companies are going to be investing millions and billions of dollars.

Of course, Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world.

And U.S.

involvement would be a huge deal for the industry.

I mean, though it would take a long time to reestablish the oil infrastructure in the country.

Yeah, I mean, I think what we've heard so far, especially from Kerry, I mean, this really just follows such a major buildup in U.S.

military power in the region.

As we've been reporting, the U.S.

has been building up, including an aircraft carrier operation.

other warships, thousands of troops.

This buildup was first focused on alleged drug boats but more recently the U.S.

actually seized an oil tanker and then there was a land strike on a port in Venezuela.

So the U.S.