Sohrab Ahmari

Like, why?

And especially because, you know, voters, including myself, would have a just cause to say, hey, we thought we were voting for, quote, the peace ticket.

We thought we were voting for the kind of new, more restrained Republican Party, not the one.

That puts us on a time travel machine back to 2003, including with 2003 style rhetoric about freedom, freedom in the Middle East.

Oh, give me a break.

Didn't we try all this?

I mean, I should say the Iranian women have stopped in core urban areas.

They've stopped wearing the hijab ever since the 2022 uprising.

And that's a credit to their courage by basically defying the regime for so long that in certain places, the regime feels like it can't enforce the hijab norms.

In other places, they're so devout that they still wear the hijab no matter what.

But to your larger question.

I think what we're looking at, certainly where the trends are heading, and I think where a lot of Israeli strategists would prefer, is a kind of Syrianization of Iran, where you have maybe a government that can only control the capital and certain outskirts of the capital.

Then you maybe have ethnic strife to the northwest and to the south, where the

into the West where the Kurds, the Azeris and the Arabs and Baluchis are, then you have, you know, potentially remnants of the regime, right?

Not all of them are going to give up.

Some of them are going to form the like the Shiite liberation front, whatever they're going to call it, the party of God.

And they're going to try to menace the new newly established government that can only govern like around Tehran, the capital.

So something like a combination of Iraq and Afghanistan, right, where all

old Afghan government that we held up for, tried to uphold for about 20 years, could only control Kabul and its environs.

So something similar, but it's all of that