Tommy Vitor

Yeah, the Supreme Leader is 86.

Yeah.

Also, look, to your point, the Supreme Leader is 86, so regime change is coming.

It's coming.

It's coming.

Actuarially.

Yeah.

And so I think that does also seem to have made some of the other kind of politicians and competing power centers more willing to criticize him and criticize the regime.

Pizeshkin's offer to meet with protesters sounds like a concession, but imagine doing that in practice.

Imagine putting yourself forward, being like, yes, I would like to tell you my name and have a conversation with you and go to a locked room with you.

You could end up in prison.

It seems like a bad idea.

It is hard to overstate, I think, the degree to which the value of the rial has dropped in the last year.

I think it dropped 75%.

It's like 1.4 million rial to the dollar.

So the economy...

Um, in Iran is in, in crisis and that is in large part because of, um, us sanctions.

But let's talk about this us response, Ben, because I didn't think that there's kind of a threshold question, which is, is Trump serious?

Would Trump really intervene if there was a crackdown on protesters?

And if so, what would he do?