Jeremy Scahill

to do that.

I mean, the IRGC is running the show.

Of course.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

And who is in control of it?

Will Iran still be able to control the flow of oil?

The Press By whom?

The Press Will the United States be in control of this?

I mean, he just in all his comments and in his decision making, he really has this like childlike understanding of the world.

You know, they leaked to Politico.

I guess even Barack Ravid wasn't buying this bullshit that the Ghalibaf, the guy who, you know, we put up his his tweet earlier and that Trump was sort of alluding like, oh, we've got a top guy that we're talking to.

And of course, they're completely denying it anyway.

Somebody leaked to Politico like, oh, he's a hot option right now.

It's like.

This is not Venezuela, number one.

Number two, you're just completely full of shit.

Number three, you think you're just gonna like swap out some characters in the entire country of Iran with some like 93 million people.

It's gonna be yours.

I mean, it's so...

insane and this has been apparently the thinking from the beginning of trump of like oh if we just murder the ayatollah then it'll all be ours and we can play them like puppets and do whatever we want the military knew that was not going to be the case but he didn't want to listen to them because he had his own idea about like well it worked in venezuela and bb tells me it'll work here so we're just gonna gonna go for it i mean it truly is such a like