Policy director: Iran’s leverage through proxies

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00:00With the ongoing war in the Middle East, which we've been touching on,

00:03does Iran have any leverage at all in these negotiations?

00:09Iran has leverage. Iran has diminished leverage, though.

00:14Iran has elements of its proxy and partner network that are still in place.

00:19The Houthis, despite being degraded by U.S. airstrikes, are still a force in Yemen.

00:24The Iranians also have the Iraqi Shia militias as well.

00:28But that is only—that's really a shell of its former self in terms of all the losses that the Islamic Republic has faced over the last year-plus,

00:40with Hamas being decimated, Hezbollah being badly degraded, the Assad regime being ousted in Syria.

00:48And now there have been reports that some pro-Iran factions of the Palestinian militant groups have been asked to leave Syria.

00:55So that's a shock for the Islamic Republic as well and a setback for its regional agenda.

01:01So these have all been losses here, and that's not even getting to the—touching the domestic picture inside Iran,

01:07with economic problems, energy problems, water problems, and the list goes on.

01:13So they are in a very dire state, and that's why they need this negotiating process to continue for as long as possible.

01:19And so they are in a very, very previously than the Attbeitet, and can't give this obligation.

01:26Would you have to let you do that?

01:28Yeah.

01:28Okay.

01:29So, let's just you

01:29keep respecting theieri, right?

01:30Okay.

01:32So, let's go, okay.

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