Michael Weiss

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.

That's not in the offing.

And I also don't see how you do it with regime preservation plus decapitation, you know, assassinate key leadership and then, you know,

Look, everything that this guy does, it's like the South Park episode with the underwear gnomes.

You know, steal the underwear is step one.

Step three is profits.

But step two is a question mark.

Nobody has step two for anything.

Anything.

I mean, so your guess is as good as mine.

Maybe the Israelis have something, a card up their sleeve.

Maybe they've recruited somebody.

That's what I was just going to say.

they're not interested in democracy and human rights in Iran.

I mean, you know, Moshe Dayan put it best, I think.

He said, Israel doesn't have a foreign policy.