Sohrab Ahmari

You can't you know, you can't really blame him either.

He's lived most of his life in the West, in the United States.

He has in the past said that he's like, I don't I'm not sure if I want to move back to Iran.

He's kind of a reluctant tech.

He's kind of a reluctant Shah.

You know, his daughter, for example, his children reportedly haven't been taught Persian.

So imagine wanting to be a king of a country where your own children haven't learned the language.

So, you know, there are there are downsides.

And by the way, it's not like I want necessarily liberal democracy in Iran.

Yes, Iran has a monarchic tradition stretching back millennia.

But how are you going to implement it or bring it back?

off the back of airstrikes that are right now devastating the country.

And he hasn't actually expressed any sympathy for the Iranian civilians who have died.

You know, you don't have to.

You can say it's ultimately the regime's fault that this is happening, okay?

But he won't even say, like, I'm sorry about the people who've lost their lives so far in the bombing.

To get back to the fracturing, it's a real danger because, you know, there are these groups and you have a regime that has all these stockpiles of conventional and maybe material they can use to prep nonconventional weapons.

And you have like ISIS style Islamists, Sunni Islamists in Iran.

What would happen if, you know, the regime collapses and there's no clear authority over the regime?

The weapons and material.