Michael Weiss

Hey, they played November Rain at the opening of the Board of Peace.

What could possibly go wrong, Tim?

A Guns N' Roses ballad about loss and heartache, where in the music video, the bride dies at her own fucking wedding.

That's their Board of Peace anthem.

I mean, this is just, everything's coming up roses here.

Come on.

Don't be such a Debbie Downer.

Well, but no, I don't think that's what they're trying to do.

I think the only thing that's on offer is find assets inside the regime that they can work with, that they find amenable.

So it's the Venezuela playbook all over again.

Who is the Delcy Rodriguez in Iran?

And I don't have an answer for you because every Iran expert I talk to says, again, the IRGC

These are the ultras.

These are the hardliners.

If you eliminate the clerics, these are the guys who stand to inherit the throne.

They don't want to play nicely with the United States.

The proxies and all of the things that are now being litigated, that was their power projection project.

for a quarter century.

So I don't have an answer for you because I don't see how you do this.

I don't see how you do it in the utopian sense of, you know, topple the regime and then a democratic transition.