Saagar

You can have flyover rights again.

We're all good.

But that seemed to be a very significant development in my view, Jeremy.

On the other hand, if you think about, okay, well, what's the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon?

The idea is to serve as a deterrent.

You used the example of North Korea, which I think is quite apt, and you could use the counter examples of, say, Libya, or even you could think of Ukraine in this circumstance after the dissolving of the Soviet Union.

But

In any case, I mean, they have established that they have another deterrent weapon, which is their control over the Strait of Hormuz.

And actually, Kyle and I were talking to Ryan about this yesterday.

Ryan made the point, you know, in some ways it's actually more effective because you can actually use it.

There isn't the same taboo around it.

Whereas with nuclear weapons, at least, thank God for now, there continues to be a taboo around the actual use.

So is that a view within Iran that in effect, maybe we don't need the nuclear weapons as much because we have this other very significant, consequential and clearly effective deterrent at our disposal?

No, but that's reflection.

He was upset too, yeah.

The last thing I wanted to dig in a little more with you, Jeremy, you mentioned this previously, but we just had this reporting about this CIA analysis delivered to policymakers that says Iran can survive the U.S.

naval blockade for at least three to four months.

before facing more severe economic hardship, finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse, predominantly, as you were talking about, the Israeli think tank, the Zionist think tank that has been pushing these sorts of analyses.

U.S.

intel also indicates Iran retains about 75%