Sohrab Ahmari

But, you know, talking about if necessary, we'll have boots on the ground.

I mean, this is it's like taking a an unpleasant.

time capsule back to 2003.

Even the same language.

I mean, I heard someone on Fox News, one of these Republican lawmakers, highly intelligent Republican lawmakers said, you know, it'll be up to the Iraqi people, excuse me, the Iranian people to determine their destiny.

It's like, oh, my God.

So

Yes, I think this – it surprised even me, and I was – obviously, to be clear, I was a war skeptic.

I was a skeptic of going to war with Iran before it happened, but even for me, the degree to which they've actually held it together –

is surprising.

It reminds us that Iran is not Iraq.

It's much bigger.

It is not an artificial state whose borders were basically drawn by European imperialists 100 years ago just by kind of randomly going, okay, here's Iraq, here's Lebanon.

That's not the case with Iran.

It's a resilient, systemic, civilizational state.

And so even though the supreme leader was killed early on in the attack, they have in place

Various people who are prepared for each role.

There's someone else waiting to take command.

They have been firing on all cylinders, really have set the Gulf on fire.

Gone a long ways was really closing the Straits of Hormuz.