Mark Dubowitz

And in January, 2029, Trump's not gonna be in office.

And it's a pretty good guess who's ever president at that time.

unless it's perhaps Marco Rubio, but on the Republican side and on the Democratic side, you're not gonna find a president willing to confront Iran militarily.

So at that point, I'm home free.

And I would have, if I were Khamenei, I would have done a deal with Trump, a two and a half year deal,

I would have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.

And Trump said, make Iran great again.

And I would have pocketed all that money.

I would have reconstituted slowly.

And then once Trump was gone, I'd be off to the races and I would rebuild all those capabilities that I described earlier.

And then I would be guessing, but it's a pretty good calculation that there's no way a President Newsom or AOC or Vance is going to support an Israeli strike

on Iran's nuclear and missile program.

And at that point, I'm in a position, I now control Hormuz.

I don't have to launch one drone, one rocket, or one missile.

I just have the mere threat of using all those deadly capabilities.

And I have now deterred the United States.

I now own the Gulf.

I have a stranglehold over the world's energy.

I become a superpower.

That is the Iranian trajectory.