Sohrab Ahmari

They are raining fire on Israel.

And by the way, the images from Israel of the civilians...

The images from Israel really just break my heart as well, because, you know, it's just, you know, I grew up during the Iran-Iraq war.

The latter years of Iran-Iraq war, I only have vague memories of this.

But that kind of city to city missile warfare is really, really awful because you can't predict where it comes from, you know, and what the consequences are, even just the sound effects.

Yeah, I think the real terror threats right now are to U.S.

facilities in the region because Khamenei, like him or not, was not just the head of state of Iran.

He was also the spiritual leader of many millions of Shiites, many of whom outside the country respect and revered him more than those inside the country, to be honest.

But at any rate, there are Shiites in Bahrain, there are Shiites in Saudi Arabia, there are Shiites in Pakistan.

There are Shiites in Lebanon, of course.

And so that's where I think the immediate terror threat to U.S.

facilities, U.S.

citizens, U.S.

interests are.

Again, I think it's one of several consequences that weren't thought through.

Certainly when I saw images of attacks on the U.S.

embassy in Baghdad, U.S.

facilities in Erbil and

And Basra, these are places in Iraq.

That's one of the areas where I just thought, like, did they think this through that there's, you know, Bahrain, for example, U.S.