Michael Weiss
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2,887 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Michael Weiss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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.
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