Jason Calacanis

regime change could be happening.

There have been massive anti-regime protests over the last month.

As everybody listening probably knows, Iran has been ruled by an Islamic dictator since the 1979 revolution.

Ali Khamenei is in power since 1989.

And if you want to understand why this is happening, there's probably two data points that you should know.

In the

short term, last, you know, six, seven years, inflation has been bonkers.

If you think, you know, 789% inflation during COVID was acute, and you know, 2.6.

Now people complaining about, take a look at this chart, boys.

It's been 30% on average since 2019.

Due to sanctions, obviously, those things can work.

There's been food shortages, people in the streets, long term, here's a chart, and this is from 2020.

So you can add six years to the chart you're seeing here.

But there's a lot of young people in Iran.

And the populace is made up of a lot of 20-somethings and 30-somethings.

And they have Starlink and they have access and VPNs.

And so they want to be part of the future.

They want to modernize.

SACS, this was a point of contention last year.

We were talking about interventions going on