00:00You know, either you're in favor of bombing the oil or you're not.
00:04You can't have, you could be morally split.
00:06We're in favor of some.
00:07You could be morally conflicted, but in the end you have to pick a side on that one
00:11because you can't just bomb half of the civilian infrastructure or the oil infrastructure.
00:15No, because it weakens the regime.
00:17It makes no sense.
00:18You either take it all out as a strategy or you leave it in.
00:21And we haven't even actually really talked about why this is all happening.
00:25You know, why?
00:26Why? What was the clear and present danger of Iran right now?
00:30What was the threat of Iran?
00:32It was absolutely nowhere near weapons-grade nuclear threshold, enrichment of uranium threshold.
00:37It wasn't even really, it didn't even really have a civilian program again since the June bombing last year,
00:44the so-called 12-day war.
00:45You know, the President of the United States, who we're now supposed to believe is galloping into Iraq now
00:52with all manner of good motives behind him and truth on his side,
00:55and we're supposed to believe everything he says and let him have a hand in the next leader.
00:59He was saying in June last year that they bombed the capabilities back into the Stone Age,
01:06and therefore we didn't have to worry about nuclear around for another hundred years,
01:09and that the regime was lying when it said that it still had some capabilities intact.
01:13So why the hell are we even doing this now?
01:16Why are we setting fire to one of the most important, in fact, sorry,
01:21the most important energy region in the entire world with very palpable, discernible, tangible effects
01:29on global market commodity prices already with very serious longer-term macroeconomic consequences
01:36in the form of inflation, which isn't just some abstract...
01:40All right, all right.
01:40I'm going to get a quick response from Azu, and then I'm going to move us on
01:43because we're going to start running out of time.
01:45Azu, why are we even here?
01:47It makes household consumer bills spike, and that is not something that's going to be popular.
01:52This war's already...
01:53Okay, all right.
01:54Thanks, Kiran.
01:54We'll get a quick response from Azu.
01:57Yeah, we did see when they pulled out of the JCPOA that Iran started enriching uranium.
02:02Let's just be real about the issues that happened.
02:04Kiran, just let Azu finish so that we can move on.
02:07The fact is, thank you, yeah, the fact is that hitting some of the oil targets,
02:11now, hitting water reserves, things like that, definitely Iranians are not for.
02:16But, again, the revenue of the regime, the IRGC, it is the oil.
02:23That is where they feed into their proxies.
02:26So for us, I would say not hitting all, and I think Senator Graham,
02:30I think that he was cautious the way that he worded it.
02:32And I re-read it a few times, and I saw the comments underneath his post on X.
02:38Iranians said thank you because they know, you know, this is just a sensitive moment.
02:42But maximum pressure, we've tried maximum pressure.
02:45It is now to weaken the regime at this point.
02:48And that's why I think that having it, being able to be as an Iranian to say 50-50, yes,
02:53knocking out half of it to tighten their grip on the finances,
02:58that is what we want for regime change.
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