Perfect synergy with the Shah coordination and external #idf messaging. This may be exactly the moment for whatever’s left of the regime to see the power of the Iranian people en masse. Dial-a-drone air cover, meticulous planning and street-level intel… no foreign boots on the

Pulled these two books out of my library this morning because the Iran headlines capture the exact intellectual showdown they represent. One blames internal failure. Lewis in What Went Wrong? points to the region’s own civilizational choices and its long clash with modernity.

Well said, Karim Sadjadpour This is regime change in real time. These #IDF raids on #IRGC leadership and Basiji outlets/safe houses are targeted and brutal. Now it seems #RezaPahlavi and the underground networks are beginning to function with remarkable discipline. That’s because

Exactly why the UN’s sudden “tough talk” rings hollow. This is the “diplomacy” that lined #IRGC pockets for a decade: 1. EU leaders rolling out the red carpet for Larijani in Tehran parliament (EU & Iran flags waving) 2. Obama flying $1.7B cash pallets straight to the regime

Thinking about some earlier conversations today. If #AI actually delivers pure 100% abundance, we all become spoiled rich kids. Everything handed to us with zero struggle. No earning. No challenge. No sense of accomplishment. That’s not utopia. That’s failure. A world without

Yergin is still the dean, but is a security premium increase in oil prices really permanent? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Dan Yergin, as always, cuts through the noise with surgical precision. In today’s Bloomberg piece on the Strait of Hormuz chaos upending Trump’s oil-dominance

🚨 Just a reminder: US and Israeli aircraft were already in the air, headed to targets in Iran, while President Donald J. Trump showed off the Venezuelan tankers in Corpus Christi, TX on Feb 27. This was no coincidence. This was an #EnergyDominance strategy on full public display.

Scary headlines today about further attacks on oil infrastructure, but remember the media has a habit of exaggerating the long-term damage. When Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq and Khurais were hit in 2019, taking out 5.7 million bpd, initial reports said complex repairs could take

Update: 48-hour ultimatum just reset to a five-day window. Trump clearly signaling regime change. Dr. Ashabi Dr. Mehrdad Ashabi is onto something: the country of Iran is not the regime, and President Donald J. Trump certainly made the distinction. Markets may be underpricing the probability of real

Two weeks ago I asserted Oct 7 Hamas attack (green lit by Iran) was designed to torpedo Saudi Abraham Accords plus a pending celebratory MBS trip to London. WSJ: Saudi opens King Fahd base for U.S. Iran strikes. UAE mirroring. This puts Gulf allies on Israel side with the exact

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⚠️ America’s military doesn’t have a tech deficit. It has a resiliency deficit — what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls superfragility. From the $13B Ford carrier sidelined 14 months by a laundry fire… to Ukraine’s garage-built FPV drones and Magura naval drones that keep fighting when fancy

Tom Lawrence at the Daily Mail calls the US weapons officer rescue in Iran Trump’s biggest gamble that almost failed. Wrong read. It proved US and Israel can project real force deep inside Iran: ground assets, close air support and suppression, extraction under pressure. When

This #RezaPahlavi announcement today is exactly what disciplined coordination looks like. x.com/pahlavireza/st… The Shah is calling directly on the Artesh to step up and defend the Iranian nation against the Islamists who have hijacked it. Time to defend Persian culture from