All right, Alexander, let's answer the questions from the live stream with Robert Barnes.

And let's start things off with Nikos, who has a four-part question.

My friends in Iran told me that the people are okay with their religion, but they think

religious authority in the 21st century

is counterproductive. They want the supreme leader to have a decorative role like the king in

Britain and the president to have the power. Pezeshkian was elected for that. He was popular and he was

elected for that transition, which I believe he could have done in peace at times.

However, he is completely out of his depth.

He is blamed for the economic failure.

My greatest fear now is that the U.S. has bought officials like they did in Venezuela and then regime change.

Well, I think these are very entirely valid points.

I mean, I'm not going to discuss the internal

conversation that is taking place in Iran. I am sure that there are people in Iran, like your

friends, who think exactly that way. And I suspect the constituency of people who think in that

way is growing. I mean, but it is not for us outsiders

to try to shape the future of Iran. This is an internal conversation, and the Iranians

themselves will know left to themselves, I'm confident, can find their way. I have nothing to add to

your points about Pesishkan. I suspect that you're absolutely right. I definitely think he's way out of

his death here. As with the US trying to bribe officials, I am sure that is taking place,

exactly as you say.

All I would say at the moment is that so far it hasn't worked.

I say so far, because not a single Iranian official has defected,

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