What Options Remain for Iran’s Leader?

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00:00And doctor, with its military doctrine in complete disarray and with Iran's airspace exposed,

00:07what options does the supreme leader have?

00:09Well, the supreme leader, I mean, what has transpired in the last week is a testimony

00:17to the incompetence and the thoughtlessness of the supreme leader to have subjected the

00:25Iranian nation to an attack of this nature without the capability of being able to provide

00:31any kind of meaningful defense to either the territory or integrity of the Iranian nation,

00:38as well as the safety of its people.

00:40They have nothing.

00:42They essentially are incapable.

00:44But again, going back to my previous answer, if Israel was to try and mount some kind of

00:51a land operation, it is possible for them to be able to provide some kind of resistance

00:57against that.

00:58That would not be an easy thing.

00:59But right now, shooting targets from the air in a country that has no air defense, in a country

01:09that has no meaningful air force that can remotely match the kind of quality aircraft that is

01:17in the possession of the Israeli air force, minus a navy that can incur or do any kind of serious

01:25damage to Israel from, you know, from, you know, on the shores of, away from Iran, all of these

01:33things means that the supreme leader is just relying upon rhetoric and a rhetoric that he can't match.

01:42The previous guest suggested that they could try and prolong the war, which is their gut feeling

01:49and wanting to do that.

01:51But unlike the Iran-Iraq war, which they were able to extend for a period of eight years,

01:57they are just simply do not have the resources to continue.

02:00And you have to bear in mind that the Iranian public is not the same as what it was back in 1980

02:06when the war against Saddam Hussein started.

02:09The supreme leader takes a measure of comfort in the fact that airstrikes cannot necessarily

02:15lead to regime change.

02:17And here he cites the example of Saddam Hussein, who was under aerial attack for a number of

02:23years.

02:24And it was not unless until such time that Iraq was invaded that his regime fell.

02:30And he doesn't see any chance of America or anyone else wanting to invade Iran.

02:35But once the dust settles, he has to respond to the needs of the people.

02:41He is in a much weaker position.

02:43Iran's economy, which was already in tatters, is going to be far worse off.

02:48Already the banking system in Iran has collapsed.

02:51People don't have access to many, many things, petrol, this, that, the other.

02:56Once the dust settles, he is going to be facing an enormous amount of pressure.

03:02And no matter how much he's going to rely on his forces of repression, but those people

03:08are Iranians at the end of the day.

03:10And it's questionable how long they will continue, you know, siding with him as we move into the

03:16future.

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