Rory Stewart

Yeah.

So we were both chatting to him, and he was saying that he was feeling more confident.

They've had these massive rallies around Europe.

And he's been out on social media today saying that the time to return to the streets may be approaching.

Military are there to defend the people, not the regime.

Pleading with Trump to avoid civilian death and pleading with people to stay safe But be ready is essentially saying that the regime is crumbling may or may not be true But interestingly the diplomat who was just you know I think quite pleased to suddenly be meeting the Shah's son as we were just having a chat about this than the other He sent me a message this morning.

I'd love to know your reaction to this He said

And so it begins.

You recall my concern that starting a war is easy, controlling it, ending it much harder, if at all possible.

The Iranian regime is evil, yet I'm taken aback about the hubris and ease of the decision to attack.

And so,

I kind of feel there's a lot in that, that, you know, when this happens, Trump, he stands up there with his USA baseball cap and he kind of, you know, just talks as though he literally owns the world and he's carrying it on his own shoulders.

And he doesn't really know what's going to happen.

Bizarrely, when the news broke this morning this was happening, I'd been in bed wallowing in self-pity with man flu.

And as you do in bed, Rory, I was reading the latest edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine.

And I was actually reading a piece by this guy about Iran.

He was called Benham Ben Taleblu.

And he's the senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which I think opposed –

the JCPOA, so he's probably, you know, very, very anti-Iranian.

But he set out, it was a really interesting, thoughtful piece, and it was setting out how America, with the support of the Iranian people, could bring down the regime, okay.