Michael Malice

This is meddling in our country.

Curfew, lockdown, mandatory searches, everyone's a spy.

So that narrative is a very convenient one for people who are authoritarian.

I...

know a lot of people who are Persian, as I'm sure you do as well.

Very hardworking, very bright, great people.

And all you could do is hope for a peaceful liberalization.

People don't realize how liberal Iran used to be.

Andy Warhol,

Andy Warhol used to be friends with the Shah.

And if you read his diaries, he talks about how he knew things weren't going well for the Shah because they had less caviar at the table.

But like this is, he was really kind of, there's I think a poor understanding in America, and I'm not sure why, of what these liberal Muslim countries are like.

I gave a talk in Bodrum in Turkey, which is like a resort town in Turkey.

And I had thought previous to that, or I had suspected, if push comes to shove and they have to choose people in Turkey between the West and like Al-Qaeda, not Al-Qaeda, but like, you know, hardcore Islam, they're going to choose hardcore Islam.

You go there and you're like, oh, this is like Los Angeles.

Like these people are so liberal.

So, and they're the first to be killed.

They're the first targets.

So that people like that in Iran are who...

my thoughts are.