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I'm John Batson with the author, Brandon Weicker, his book, The Shadow War,

Iran's Quest for Supremacy, published in 2022,

anticipating some many significant events of these last hours.

However, looking to the future, because I think the understanding is you don't get into a fight unless you know how you're going to get out of it.

In this case, there are two possibilities, extremes, but there they are.

One, the regime survives, then what?

And two, the regime doesn't, then what?

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