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This week, we published the second part of a three-part series

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The Iranians think that they're winning the war.

This is not a PR campaign or stunt.

They really believe that they're winning this

in the sense that their goal that is to use Homoos in order to extort the global economy and the rest of the region, this game, as far as they are concerned, is playing out well.

Now, the problem there is that if they're convinced they're winning, first crisis, they're just going to leave the room

because they think that they're winning. They don't know what Iran, what the Islamic Republic has lost.

I think it's likely that they don't understand the scope of what's happened because the

Iranian internet has been basically shut down completely. That interferes with their own ability

to understand what's going on.

So their perception of how they're doing is very heavily colored by their ideology.

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