I'm John Batch with my colleague and friend. That is Makotar, my co-host, and we're discussing Iran, what we know.

Fog of War is complete. The Internet's down, the phones are down. Starlink was reported down.

Hundreds dead. We don't have any way of summarizing. So I move this story discussing with Brennan Weikert, the author of Shadow War, to what the regime looks like now and in the theory of a change, to the region of Eurasia.

Iran is responsible for an enormous amount of oil flowing through the shadow fleet to China.

Iran is driving the octopus war on Israel. Iran is a major

player in the immediate neighborhood of creating war and terrorism. At the same time, it has said

to have links to Moscow, said to have links to Beijing, is participating in some fashion

in creating weapon systems,

drones mentioned repeatedly, but also missiles for the Ukrainian war. So, Brandon, my concern here is

what does this present turmoil with no final change in status, but the present turmoil certainly

means the Islamic regime is hobbled in some fashion.

What does that mean for our adversaries in Eurasia?

Your thought.

I think it is a, however temporary, it is a setback.

It is going to disrupt those Shah had drone production capabilities.

Now, it's important to note, though, a lot of the, so like the drones

that Russia relies on from Iran have been licensed to Moscow. So in many cases, there might be a

slight disruption, but the Russians have already begun domestic production over a year ago

of the Shah had drones within Russia in the Far East.

So it might disrupt it a bit, but I don't know if it's going to shut it down.

The Iranians, I think it's important to note also.

I think the Russians and Chinese, as much as we tested our new weapons systems in Venezuela with those sonic weapons, for instance, I think the Russians and Chinese are testing their anti-Starlink capabilities through Iran. That is the real reason why Starlink is down, because China and Russia both have been working. I'm going to give Thadis a chance to ask a question. Yeah. That is, go ahead. Well, that is, you're right on what I was going to ask, Brandon. What can we expect the Chinese and the Russians to do to help prop up this regime? It is their ally. Yeah, no, I think that they're, I don't think they're going to go to war for them anymore than they went to war for Venezuela. Right. But they are using this as an opportunity to test new weapons technologies against American systems, notably Starlink.

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