Richard Goldberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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That's why you have the Strait of Hormuz still at a standstill, even if we have decimated so much of their military power and the primary, let's call them existential potential threats to the United States on both the nuclear and missile sides.
And so
From that perspective, the operation has been a huge success.
Obviously, we have economic disruption.
They still have some sort of enriched uranium material trapped underground from last year's war that we want back, so they can't use that in the future to do some sort of dirty bomb or crash breakout program.
They still have that facility I mentioned, Pickaxe Mountain, that we want dismantled.
And so the president has transitioned here to this blockade, this economic fury instead of epic fury, which he's hoping leads to epic fracture.
And if reports are correct, that may be what is happening, where we have a so-called supreme leader, the son of the former one, Moshtaba Khomeini.
who no one has seen, no one has heard from, various reports of him being maimed, dismembered, disfigured, can't talk because his lips are burned, how exactly he communicates, who he communicates with, if at all, completely unclear.
A couple of shadowy IRGC old-timers calling the shots behind the scenes, fights between them and the technocrats about the economy falling apart and the amount of time that they might have
left to cut some kind of a deal with President Trump before big parts of the economy start falling apart.
Their banks, their ability to have gasoline, now that imports have been cut off of gasoline.
Obviously, their export revenue on oil is gone at this point.
This is a regime that's hemorrhaging between $400 and $500 million a day.
They obviously have the internet shut down as well this entire time.
It's still shut down.
That has an estimated cost of $40, $50 million a day on the economy.
But more importantly, signals to me that they remain deathly afraid of the people and of them getting access to communications.
And more importantly, the people having access to flow information to us rather than the regime itself.
being in control of the information flow for their own cognitive warfare purposes.
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