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You are listening to an art media podcast. If the regime is likely to fall, if you believe in

whatever phase two is and phase three is of this operation,

if the Israelis have a great plan that we just don't know about, and you think the population is

going to take over, and Reza Palavi, the crown prince, the son of the Shah, is somehow, has this

secret coalition in the waiting and a network that's activating inside the government, cities are just going to start falling like you saw when al-Shara marched on Damascus. It's just going to magically happen and there's a plan for it. You don't want to blow up Iran's oil exports. It doesn't make sense. That's the main revenue stream for the country. If you're going to keep the lights on, if you're going to prevent chaos, if you're going to keep a transition orderly together, you're going to want that oil.

However, if the regime is not going to fall, if this is going to be the regime that we are going to have for the future,

do you want the regime with one and a half to two million barrels per day in illicit exports to China, making the

money to rebuild quicker, faster, and repress the people more. I would say no. And so in that

scenario, I would say your closing act needs to be taking down their oil export capability.

Take the revenue offline for the foreseeable future, then you should ensure that you give the people that extra boost after military operations

are over by taking away the money from the regime. If we don't do that, it will be a very, very

important strategic blunder.

It's 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11th here in New York City. It is 1.30 a.m. on Thursday, March 12th in Tehran. And it is 12 a.m. on Thursday, March 12th in Israel. Here is Archmedia contributor Deborah Pardes with the news.

Three more ships were hit by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Iran is effectively

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