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The Future of Iran: Restore the Crown or Start Over?? | PBD #725

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🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David sits down with Amir Fakhravar and Allahyar Kangarlu to discuss the future of Iran after the IRGC, the possible regimes that could replace it, and what a collapse or transition would mean for the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.

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ABOUT US:

Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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0:00.0

Did you ever think you would make it?

0:04.0

I feel I'm supposed to take sweetly

0:06.0

I know this life meant for me

0:09.0

Adam, what's your point?

0:11.0

The future looks bright.

0:13.0

My handshake is better than anything I ever size, right here.

0:17.0

You are one of one?

0:19.0

My son's right there.

0:20.0

I don't think I've ever said this before.

0:27.0

So we decided to do this podcast right now with everything that's going on in Iran.

0:31.4

The president just finished what's going on in Davos.

0:33.7

And the next thing, you know, we're hearing about the ship that is on its way to right next to Iran.

0:39.5

Concerns have it that he may attack today tomorrow.

0:42.1

The next day, nobody knows.

0:44.1

You're hearing reports from what Amir just told me this morning.

0:46.9

The fact that the Internet may be back up yesterday in Iran, a lot of videos are being released.

0:51.6

People are seeing them.

0:52.4

The numbers we're seeing is at a low 5,100, a human rights organization yesterday reported 43,000 people dead. And people in the streets are saying it's closer to 70,000. I decided to bring two different topics here, two different people with different ideologies when it comes down to the resolution,

1:12.9

the solution on what could happen here. Because right now the debate is, okay, so let's just say

1:17.8

the president does what he does. Who should replace? There's a lot of people who are saying

1:23.0

it's got to be Reza Palavi, he could be the transitional leader to go back and do that. And one

1:27.4

of my, our guests today, one of them, Dr. Kangarlu, he's not just anybody in this space. He's a nuclear physicist. He's a professor. He's at Columbia University. His background is very, very extensive when he'll break it down. And he believes that's the right move. On the other side, Amid Fagravar, which he and I have spoken many, many times over the years.

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