Rory Stewart

Yeah, yeah, it's the same.

It's the same.

Yeah, very good.

Why I Became a Shia Muslim.

Well, the final thing for listeners who really want, Roy Mutahadeh has written the great book.

Also, a bit shout out to Vali Nasser.

He's just written a great piece today in the New York Times looking at nationalism in Iran and why he thinks the regime has actually grown stronger, not weaker, thanks to the attacks.

And a shout out again to my friend, Gerard Russell, who's very kind.

He's been very patient with me as always.

He's in a better place than he was.

Just to remind people, he was in real trouble three years ago.

He's been politically dead so many times.

Really, the assumption was before October 7th that he was finished, right?

And his opinion polling was terrible.

I think public opinion is sort of nearly 80% of Israeli opinion is behind this Iran thing.

I mean, it's a sign in a sense that Israel is now operating in a completely different media space from the rest of the world.

I've never seen such a dramatic difference between what Israelis assume, which is they just take it for granted that what they're doing in Iran is completely justified, makes perfect sense,

while actually the vast majority of the American population is horrified.

Just quickly on this.

I mean, we don't know because this is something Rob Malley said that we would not be at all surprised that if before this podcast went out, Trump announced a massive new phase or if he suddenly announced the war was over.