Karim Sadjadpour

stand up against imperialism.

And how that's manifested is to oppose the conduct of governments that are allied with the United States.

And those governments who are

opponents of the United States—whether that's the Islamic Republic of Iran or Bashar Assad's Syria in modern times—there's very little criticism when they kill tens of thousands of their own people.

In a previous generation, it was dictators like Stalin and the Soviet Union or Mao who killed millions of their people, and yet

I think the anti-imperialists were obviously opposed to American power and the conduct of American allies.

And that's just something that I've kind of resigned myself to, that that's the reality of college campuses in a lot of places.

And I guess if someone who represents that point of view were

on the call with us now, they would say, well, the issue is that we don't have any ability to influence how Iran or, I said, Syria or Putin's Russia conducts themselves because, you know, they're U.S.

adversaries, but we do have influence over how our allies conduct themselves.

That would be their counter-argument.

But I've just kind of...

To be honest, Scott, for me, that's just a lot of noise.

It doesn't really, at the moment, have any impact on what the United States is going to choose to do.

And

I don't think it profoundly impacts popular opinion inside Iran.

The college campuses inside Iran are overwhelmingly hoping for some kind of U.S.

intervention.

And yes, there's a great deal of resentment towards those on the left who have shown sympathy for the Islamic Republic.

But I don't think that noise is really that meaningful or impactful.