00:00I mean, he's 56 years old, so about 30 years younger than his father.
00:04I mean, does that represent any sort of an opportunity, do you think,
00:08in the sense that might he perhaps be a little bit more pragmatic,
00:12a little bit more open-minded, or are we just going to get more of the same?
00:17The hope that he's pragmatic is, well, I don't share that.
00:23I mean, this is a guy who has a long history of having sponsored
00:27some of the most hardline people in Iran,
00:31having studied and worked with clerics who are kind of loopy, frankly,
00:37and criticized by other clerics for their extreme views,
00:42messianic views, and so on.
00:43And so to say that he's suddenly become a pragmatist,
00:47well, I hope that's true, but there's just no evidence of it whatsoever,
00:52and a lot of evidence is the contrary.
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