00:00The scale of the people who said enough of this, what was really for them economic depredation, right, the fact that they don't have water and basic food is expensive and you have inflation running in triple digits, this was bigger and different.
00:16That of course required from the Iranian regime a bigger and different response and they did.
00:22I'll be honest, I was a bit surprised at how capable they were.
00:25I know how good they are at repression. I've watched them do this time again, so have you.
00:31I've seen numbers that range from as low as 30,000 and as high as 60,000 to 80,000.
00:38A massacre at this scale around this room.
00:41I don't think any of us have seen in our lifetime over the course of what was no more than 72 hours killing, call it 30,000 or 40,000 of their own people.
00:51Going into hospitals and killing injured people.
00:56When the world doesn't remark this in the same way that it has remarked other tragedies, I worry.
01:03Because this is a moment where we could take down, I talked about the five bad guy countries.
01:08We could change one of them.
01:10This is a moment, just like when the Soviet Union fell, this would be a moment where the regime is very weak.
01:16Its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, the knuckleheads in Yemen, the Iraqi militias that the Iranians support, all at their weakest moment.
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