Nouriel Roubini

You continue the bombing campaign.

You destroy the military assets.

You take over even the nuclear kind of weapon grade uranium.

You try to destroy the leadership.

You try to have regime collapse.

And you try to keep open as much as you can Strait of Hormuz while defending the oil energy facility of the Gulf.

If all these things happen and you win, then actually you got rid of the regime, and for a short term, maybe two, three months, you have oil prices above 120, but then you're gonna go to a stable world.

And by the way, Iran controlling the state of Hormuz is a threat to the Gulf, it's a threat to Israel, it's a threat to Europe, it's a threat to Asia, it's a threat to the United States.

So as the Emiratis have been saying clearly, this is not acceptable, and this is the same view that people all over the Gulf have.

It's not an acceptable solution.

Given what has happened, you have to try to finish the job, and finishing the job means having de facto regime collapse, either formally regime collapse or informally a situation which this regime is not anymore a threat to the region and to the world.

Well, de facto collapse, in my view, means that you take over Karg Island, you try to reopen the state of Hormuz, you try to make sure that they cannot destroy more energy facilities in the Gulf.

You keep on bombing the hell out of them for weeks.

They've already been eroded a lot, and every day is thousands of new targets within Israel and the United States.

You may even be able to kill some of the remaining leadership.

And de facto, effectively a regime collapse.

It's not a regime collapse, a regime that doesn't have nuclear weapon, doesn't have weapon, cannot threaten the state of Hormuz.

And whether it's former regime collapse or not, at that point doesn't matter.

But that means finishing the job.

You know, I'm a Persian Jew, so I was in Iran last when I was three years old.