Trita Parsi

And it's also assassination proof.

Yes, yes.

I mean, 135 or so senior officials have been killed, immediately replaced, immediately replaced.

In fact, replaced by more hardline people most times.

Boy, that's a durable system.

It's a very bad scenario if we have a weak central government.

It's terrible.

It's a recipe for instability.

It's a recipe for a country turning into Lebanon in which the state is so weak that you could have non-state actors performing the duties of a state.

And by the way, we had what, 25 to 30% of the Syrian population

becoming external refugees as a result of that civil war.

Yes.

And a country of whatever, 20, 30 million people.

So, and that profoundly changed the politics of Europe.

Right, so what if that happened to a country of almost 100 million?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

And they can, you know, from the Israeli side, there will be, I mean, Netanyahu will keep on insisting that they set back Iran a decade or two.

And absolutely, they really have damaged Iran's infrastructure tremendously.

There is no doubt about that.