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I don't think they have mined it yet, though, which would be really stopping things up.
So, Ben, I don't know.
I just continue to be surprised by Iran kind of unloading the clip on every single country in the region.
I guess the idea was just to create chaos.
But what do you make of their strategy?
Yeah, we don't even know who would make the decision to stop if it were up to a run right now.
And I think Abbas Arachi said as much on like some TV show he was on that like, well, look, you know, we no longer have centralized command and control because we knew that if you killed, you know, top leaders that we wanted these guys to be able to act independently.
So we really don't know what's happening.
Yeah, it is.
I don't know what intelligence collection the CIA did.
I had the same reaction to you, which was like the Supreme Leader, knowing the threat he faced was above ground in his own office and adjacent to him was a meeting of all the top like Iranian political and military leaders.
It's hard to overstate how stupid that was.
I mean, it's obvious in hindsight, but I can't believe they didn't realize it in the moment.
I mean, it does.
Maybe that does, I think, explain why the strikes happen in the daytime, why they happen on the weekend.
I also was talking to someone over the weekend who said Trump doesn't like to start wars during the weekday because he doesn't want to rattle the markets.
I bet that is true.
But you're right on the race.
I mean, it is, I think...