Mike Baker

And it's interesting because if you look at traditionally the the republic's support base, right, because people always talk about they talk about the young people, academics, others, the educated class, whatever you want to say, you know, that have in the past come out and protest for one reason or another.

But the rural population, right, sort of the poor, the agricultural based population, they tended to support the Islamic Republic, it seems.

And yet this water shortage, as you pointed out, hits them extremely hard.

And so I guess my question is probably impossible to answer, but.

at what point, when you're talking about water, right, it's, as you point out, it's a basic necessity, right?

It's one thing to do without luxury goods, but when the government or the regime in this case can't provide water, at what point do the people say that is enough?

Because that's kind of the holy grail that everyone's been waiting for for all these years.

And between that, the regime's willingness to slaughter thousands of their own, the economic hardships that they delivered on the people,

I think out in the West, there's a lot of folks just saying, well, at what point did they say we've had enough?

And then I want to pick up on that.

But first, Alireza, as you know, you're a friend of the show and you understand we've got to take a break.

So don't go anywhere, though.

We'll be back with more from Alireza Jafazadeh right here on the PDB Situation Report.

So please stick around.

Hey, Mike Baker here.

Let me ask you a question.

How many times during the week do you drop $10 or $20 or $30 on essentially meaningless items?

Impulse buys are just stuff that you honestly don't need.

Well, those impulse purchases add up.

And by the end of the week or month, you're wondering, frankly, where your money's gone.