Sohrab Ahmari

I simply don't know.

I think I just would not count on this being I want I want Sean to be right.

I want this to be basically an indication of we're going to like do a bit more.

And so it'll look like we've really hurt the Iranians now.

And then that gives him domestic justification to to leave.

I hope that that's correct.

But, oh, you know, the pattern has been one of.

has been on a kind of escalatory ladder and so what i worry is two kinds of ground deployments that either or or both i think would be terrible one is to try to take this karg island or some a portion of iran's southern shore the problem with that is that that that area the iranians have so fortified and i watch iranian state tv and you can say yeah it's all their propaganda and stuff but at some point there's some nexus between propaganda and reality and i think the iranians

really, really want that to happen because it'll get them a chance to get up close and get far more U.S.

deaths than they've been able to achieve, even if it means they also rack up lots of deaths.

But to them, it's like it's martyrdom, right?

They like glory in it.

So they don't mind that.

But if they can rack up like more kills.

And it provides a static target, too.

If you're landing on an island, it's pretty easy for them to like drone it, you know, and other forms of targeting that they can do.

That's one.

The other, which is, I think, even crazier, is this idea of landing special forces to try to retrieve several hundred pounds of enriched uranium.

which are in tunnels.

And obviously the Iranians aren't like cartoon villains to keep all their enriched uranium in one underground site.