Janice Gross-Stein

He's doubled down and telling me, no, no, no, I'm not under pressure.

I can wait this out.

You just made a strong argument why Tehran would wait this out, unless I had one other factor that is becoming increasingly clear now, that the real hardliners are in power now.

in Tehran.

You know, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ghalib Afu, is more pragmatic, functionally sidelined, possessive, and the president doesn't matter.

And the Supreme Leader, injured, not very much power, and the hardest of hardliners, Vahidi, who is a

Commander of the Revolutionary Guards really making most of the decisions and easy to get a consensus there.

So this is the worst recipe.

What's going to puncture that budget?

Well, it could become apparent to Donald Trump that the political fallout will be so bad that

for his party in the midterms that he swerves.

And you and I know that's not the first time we've seen that with him.

The Iranians are under real pressure, too.

They are not able to export oil.

Yes, they're not landlocked.

And you can open landlines to get to other ports.

Trains.

Yeah.

And that's not insignificant.

But boy, that economy isn't tattered.