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and then the IRGC immediately said close.

Guys, guess what?

We killed the only person in the country who had any respect.

I know it feels like ancient history.

The Ayatollah.

He was the only guy who had basic control over everyone.

Yeah, his word was law, right?

And he actually could give an order on a phone.

This guy, I mean, you've got a foreign minister who's seen as more amenable.

Golubov and those people, they definitely seem to want some sort of a talk.

But then these newer IRGC commanders, I think we talked about it previously in one of our shows from the Financial Times.

They're much more hardline.

And they're like, no, that's not going to happen.

So internal warfare inside the system.

The system was Byzantine no matter what.

It really relied on the Ayatollah as the total arbiter.

It's not meant for this current system.

That's why the IRGC was very effective in war, because they had immediate command and control, the ability to

It makes it very difficult to have to sign some sort of a deal.

So when Vance is sitting across the table, who's he really sitting across the table from?