A Maybe The Sixth

The IRGC is its own mini government with its own ecosystem, its own economics, its own shipping lines. They control all the shipping. So how do you, or John or Maz, or hi, welcome, Shirin and Maz here, but how do any of you guys see, and Hazem, feel free to answer this too, but how do you see this really impacting things, especially something so significant as this? Because one of the strategies that the IRGC or the regime could deploy is disrupting exactly this, causing an issue exactly like this to disrupt everybody instead of the kinetic, typical military type of activities that we're framing things around.

Well, understand that the Mossad, this is per the now recently deceased Adminijad. I apologize to Persian speakers if I screwed that one up. He made the point that the head of the Iranian counterintelligence and all his people turned out to be Israelis.

Ahmadinejad is alive. Oh, he is? I had heard that he had been on the kill list. They hit his home, but they ended up missing him, basically, or he survived it.

And I may be totally wrong and wet on this, but I still am not convinced. I see it's going in that direction, but I don't see some of those miscalculations resolved or reconciled. Like some of those, I can check off the box and say, okay, well, now I can see that figured out.

I hear you on the, how are they going to pay their people? But we also know that they have money everywhere that they can use to pay their people. So I wonder to the extent of that, I wonder sometimes if we're misreading some of this. But I really do appreciate everything you said.

I actually learned a lot from what you were explaining. I want to make a quick comment here and said about not being able to pay their fighters. That's a, maybe the sixth problem.