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Thing, but why don't you tell us what you think is going on before we jump into what's going on today with the Kurds?

Yeah, I mean, I kind of generally think that, and it's not too conspiratorial,

that the Israelis are pushing for a regime collapse in Iran,

and I think they're working at variance from the United States of America.

And I think they have perhaps manipulated the situation in such a way as to kind of increase the

paranoia of the regime, leading to crackdowns, leading to issues with legitimacy.

And, you know, for example, this entire sort of thought of having the Shah return, you know,

I don't think it's a realistic prospect, but in Iran,

you know, there was no hope of change. And so there was a need to kind of create an illusion that

there was some kind of political opposition alternative to the country. And so we see, you know,

from the summer onwards, all this kind of propaganda

regarding the Shah, which was very much the Israelis guys rather than the American guys.

And with the currency manipulation at the beginning of the year, the tweets from Pompeo talking

about Mossad agents already in there, you know, that was, I think, designed to provoke

a kind of crackdown.

It's good if there's a civil war, good.

If not, the regime's legitimacy is further undermined.

And now we've got to kind of a second stage where open war has been taken place.

And I think the Americans all the way through this have been, you know, hoping for some

kind of regime change, but something on the lines of what happened in Venezuela, where they take out the kind of top guy and then have a pliable second in command takeover.

But, you know, if you remember what Trump has said, he said, we had some alternatives, but they've all been killed.

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