I'm John Batchler. I welcome Rich Goldberg, a senior advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

writing in the New York Post, Blockade Plus, three moves to end Tehran's terror.

Rich, a very good day to you. It begins with the blockade now underway by the U.S. Navy.

Are you satisfied with the results so far? Good day to you.

Good day, John. I am absolutely satisfied, and I think we have more to come here, obviously. There's been a lot of public

focus on when will they run out of storage for their oil, when will they have to shut in production.

I think that's an interesting metric long term. It's not the one I focus on day to day.

I think about how much money they're hemorrhaging because of the loss of all oil export revenue and not just oil, but also petrochemicals and steel and all the other things they rely on for money.

Their neighbors are under heavy pressure from the broader economic campaign from the Treasury Department to clamp down on every dollar that could cross the border.

And so they're in a cash crunch right now, running out of runway.

And I think you're seeing the regime fracture within with the technocrats who are saying, I think banks are about to collapse.

We're going to run out of gasoline.

How do we keep this government running

versus the IRGC folks and the committee that's actually running the campaign right now,

Ahmed Vahidi and others, who are saying, no, we can't back down. We have to keep killing the

Americans. And so their fighting is increasing. Meanwhile, pressure on the street will also increase

as people start seeing banks collapse people not

getting paid and you have to wonder at what point do do the regime have to worry about another

popular uprising reading your piece in the post i came to the economic part the economic fury

and yeah i must confess rich i thought? This isn't already in place? Is there a way to explain

why it is we've been permitting what you'd have to say leaking from the economic pressure

we put on these last years? It's disappointing. I mean, I think there's a difference between

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