Ryan Grim

No, I think it's very real.

Because I think that it has been there under the surface for decades.

But it was kept down by Common A, who was saying, no, we're going to take a more moderate, pragmatic, diplomatic approach.

We're not going ham on these people.

And then they all got killed.

Certainly there were some who

wanted to at least message how it was opening up differently.

Aragshi put out a post that was very kind of olive branchy to the Americans, saying it's open under our conditions and under our logistics.

Right.

Right.

And so it was giving Trump an opening to be magnanimous and move towards a final agreement.

Now, the way that Aragshi phrased it, it was clear that it still meant the Iranians would charge a toll and that they would be kind of running it.

But it's open.

Anybody who wants to go through can go through.

You just have to kind of negotiate with us as you're going through.

I think the IRGC would have...

did not like the olive branch kind of nature of it.

They wanted a much harder line.

No, no, no.

Our battlefield victories are going to be manifested by our control of the Strait of Hormuz.