Trita Parsi

To insure them.

So it's a completely different scenario.

That capacity does not go away.

That's what I'm saying.

So it will still be there.

So this is a very, very important development.

But without sanctions relief,

I don't see the Iranians being able to fully live up to their potential.

And on top of that, I have to say,

their political system is a huge inhibitor of their own potential.

It is not a free system.

It is not a dictatorship like Saddam or Qaddafi's or Assad's systems in Syria and Libya and Iraq.

It is a weird system.

It has democratic elements, but most importantly, the power is dispersed throughout a system.

It's not a family.

This is not, you kill, this is what I think Trump was sold.

You kill Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, the whole system implode.

Not at all.

This is not Saddam in which you take him out and his kids out and the dynasty is over.

This is a system that was designed specifically to be able to survive a counter-revolution because it was itself a revolutionary system.