Tommy Vitor
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4,356 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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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?
Um, Trump didn't use the words red line like Obama did with Syria, but clearly he drew a red line by saying if the regime kills protesters, the U S will quote come to their rescue.
However, it does seem clear like the regime is already killed protesters.
So Trump has not done anything yet.
So the red line has been crossed, but maybe, I don't know, maybe we interpret it as like some widespread use of force by the Iranian military or something.
But
Again, the question is, one, Ben, like, do you believe him?
Two, do you think the Iranian protesters believe him?
Because the U.S.
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