Jeremy Bowen
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It's got the gas.
And since 1979, they've had this Islamic regime.
which has an ideology which has put it in conflict with some of its Arab neighbours, with the Israelis, with the Europeans, and particularly with the Americans, who say it's a terrorist state with nuclear ambitions.
But the regime and its supporters, they say that their enemies want to destroy the Islamic Republic, and it seems that there are still millions of people who vote in elections for the hardliners who believe that.
So they include that amongst their enemies, those protesters who went on the street and were chanting those slogans and who were shot in many cases.
Now, look, if you look at regimes that collapse, just sort of die, it doesn't look like one of those regimes, because sometimes regimes fight for years, like Syria's Assad.
And then when they go, they go in days.
He went in days.
Mubarak in Egypt went in days.
In the end, the Soviet Union just kind of was like air coming out of a balloon at the end.
They just flopped.
Iran and the Islamic regime are not at that point.
The leadership has always been factionalized, but on things like the survival of the regime, they are not.
As long as they have people who are prepared to go into the streets and shoot dead their fellow Iranians on behalf of the regime...
They are not a dying regime and they will continue to fight, however weakened they've been by circumstances in the last couple of years.
It's going to have painted wall plaster.
It's going to have all sorts of fancy decorations around it.
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I think at the moment we're seeing not just a hemispheric, but a global version of that. And he's moving so quickly that it's causing consternation, I think, not just among adversaries, but among allies as well. And that's because they can't predict which way he's going. Is it just good judgment? Is it arrogance? Is it hubris, overconfidence before a disaster? We've talked about a new world order before, but do you feel like this is a new, new world order?
What we're seeing now is really the starkest exposition, if you like, of the way that Donald Trump and his people regard power and the way that power is used and the way that America can use it. And I think there are some constants in the way that they behave, even though it's super unpredictable. He believes strongly that America can use power with impunity.