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depend upon convincing their citizens they're invulnerable, that nothing can defeat them.

That's part of how you keep 92 million Iranians subjugated, is the feeling that it's hopeless.

We cannot overthrow these tyrants.

And understand,

The Ayatollah was a tyrant.

He regularly murdered his own citizens, tortured his own citizens, stripped them of their freedom.

I mean, the abuses were horrific, directed to his own citizens, much less the murder and terror that he projected outward.

And last year, when the 12-day war happened, you know, it's interesting.

Some folks in politics behave like everything is communications.

Everything is comms and messaging and spin.

There are very real world effects when you lose a war.

There was a war for 12 days and Iran utterly and completely got its ass kicked.

And if there's anything worse, if you're an Islamist dictator,

If you're trying to envision a world that is worse than losing a war, it's losing a war to Israel.

It was Israel that completely and totally decimated them, that took out their air defenses, took out the leadership of the IRGC.

And by the way, day after day, the Ayatollah would appoint a new leader of the IRGC, the next day that guy was dead.

He'd appoint a new one, the next day that guy was dead.

It demonstrated complete and total penetration

by the Mossad and by American intelligence of Iran, knowing where everybody was.

And obviously it culminated with President Trump launching the bombing run, taking out the underground nuclear facilities.