Michael Weiss

Qasem Soleimani, the general that we whacked in 2020 in Iraq, who was the head of the Quds Force, their expeditionary unit, who himself was kind of the architect of these proxies across the region.

There's a lot of muttering and speculation that this guy was going to either one day wage a coup or simply take over as a military commander.

So now I think we have facilitated that process in

killing the previous lot.

And the question is, are they going to be, as I say, you know, they're going to be more pragmatic and amenable to some kind of accord with us, maybe some joint racket, you know, Alex Witkoff can get into that with the Iranian foreign minister and, you know, crypto farms in Krasnodar, you know, minting stable coins to charge tolls.

I don't know.

I mean, you know, it's possible, but I don't see it quite going that swimmingly.

Well, they want sanctions relief, right?

And any sanctions relief, given what it took to cobble into place this sanctions regime over time.

I mean, there were some that came with the JCPOA, rather famously or notoriously, depending on your perspective.

But they stand to make billions, right?

And they certainly are interested in making billions right now.

So, yeah.

But again, you know, there's going to be enormous pressure on Trump not to take, you know, some sham or, you know, Fugazi deal that's going to make him look like, you know, a chump or worse than Obama.

Right.

You're going to get the FDD crowd there.

You're going to get AIPAC.

You're going to get Bibi himself coming to D.C.

saying you mustn't.

You're going to get the Arabs, Gulf states, also putting pressure on him not to do this.