Nargis Bajoli

The United States is taking an L. Yeah, well, I think part of the problem is we didn't really ever know what this war was about.

There were a few days when this war was about, let's bring freedom to the Iranian people.

Then there were a few days when this war was about, you know, the death blows to the Islamic Republic.

And then they were also, you know, like, this is going to prevent Iran from making a nuclear weapon.

I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon.

Even though in June we supposedly obliterated their nuclear weapons program.

It was never really clear what this was really about.

We had huge decapitation strikes that happened across Iran on the first days of this war that took out essentially the founding generation of the revolution.

is dead.

We thought we were somewhere where the Islamic Republic was on its last legs, and all we had to do was push it a little bit more.

And so what we have now in, what are we, in June of 2026, three and a half months after this war started, we have a completely new and younger generation in charge in Iran.

that is bolder, that is not as afraid of the United States.

And then on the other hand, you also have, obviously, the Treaty of Hormuz, which was not under necessarily this kind of Iranian control before, now is.

And you have Iran, again, putting its will and basically saying Israel needs to pull back from Lebanon.

These were conditions that Iran could have never made in February of 2026.

And now what we have coming out of this war is a stronger and more entrenched political establishment that leans heavily towards the IRGC and the Iranian sort of military that is bolder and that now has sort of shown itself as being a key pillar of West Asia.

That's going to create a fundamentally different Middle East going forward.

There's a lot more to it.

So first of all, I think one of the problems we've always had with Iran here is we think about it as a dictatorship.

as a country led by like one man at the top.