Iran

“You have the Gulf states that are very effective in many ways and are using You know, their oil and their money very effectively, but they still can't defend themselves from Iran. They still, without outside help, they cannot stand.”

“Israel, I think, may have hoped that it could kind of Bear the weight of being a counter hegemon to Iran. Israel is too small and too alien to the rest of the Middle East to really play that role effectively, I think.”

“And I don't, you know, I think history doesn't give us a choice. We stop Iran ourselves, or Iran asserts and maintains hegemony over the oil resources in the Middle East.”

“And by the way, if the US fails with Iran, you're going to see a proliferation of countries acquiring nukes because we trusted the US.”

“Neither Iran or Ukraine have a Navy, and they both control waterways near their fronts.”

“Iran invested 40 years and forty billion plus in the, what Israel described as the octopus, the proxies.”

“Hamas is degraded to defeat. I thought that was a very good article in the foreign affairs on this point. Hezbollah is cornered. Damascus and Syria has been lost, and the Iraqi president seems to be making a pretty good headway, not all the way there, on deali…”

“They actually banned boys from leaving Iran as soon as they turned 13. So you could not leave the country.”

“Not maneuverable, but they're not going at hypersonic speeds also.”

“And, ah, following the recent developments in, in the region, in the Gulf, ah, with Iran, etc. I really believe that we need a new architecture in the region. Security architecture, trade architecture, the way that we work together.”

“It's going to take years to a decade to 15 years plus to build enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”

“The president decided to hold Iran accountable. And now, I'm the only Democrat that actually agrees with that.”

“About a third of the world's tradable urea gets exported through that waterway, and so we always look at the top 10 exporters in the world. That's who you really want to watch. Three of the world's biggest urea and anhydrous exporters sit behind the strait. Th…”

“Six anonymous accounts earned 1.2 million dollars on a prediction market betting for the attack on Iran, and some of those wallets were funded hours before, which suggests that they might have had insider information, and if they had insider information, did t…”

“All of that kind of tells me that we will find an off ramp.”

“Iran has hit enough sites in Bahrain and Dubai that belong to Amazon that there are a couple of availability zones in those regions that are hard down, according to some internal communication that I was able to see, and that they're going to be unavailable fo…”

“India right now is going through a very difficult period. It's got a double whammy now of being in the crosshairs of AI because of IT services and the huge part of their economy that that sector represents. It's got the risk that it's facing from the Iran war,…”

“Why did Obama let him out? That was a really, really stupid idea. We probably should have kept our thumb on the scale and had them close to teetering on economic insolvency. That's the only thing that has kept them in check.”

“Just like tariffs a year ago, NVIDIA had a 30% drawdown when their business was actually flying, the actual final of their business. I think the same thing is happening here with the Iran war. Things will eventually subside”

“February 28th, more than three weeks ago, the U.S. And Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. Operation Epic Fury. That's the actual US term for it. And they killed Iran's supreme leader and dozens of their senior military officials.”

“The US has struck more than 7000 targets in Iran since it started.”

“Iran's missile launches are down 90% from day one.”

“We delayed it a couple of times. I was worried about the war with Iran.”

“If we were not in this war with Iran at this point, I think, you know, that would have been a major focus.”

“They've been effectively neutered, and that's a wonderful thing. And that's also effectively broken the proxies. And that's also made the world undeniably more secure.”

“Now, I do believe we will be successful with or without their help”

“This is not a nation building thing. This is a destroying a terrible regime.”

“Polymarket. 27% chance that U.S. Forces Enter Iran by the end of March and 57% by the end of the year.”

“Their army, navy, air force all been destroyed.”

“If he doesn't find an off-ramp quickly, they're going to lose both houses in the midterms. That's, I think, the thing Trump needs to really consider, and I think he will consider it. I think he's going to find an off-ramp.”

“20% of their entire domestic consumption is oil from Venezuela and Iran.”

“You know, straight of Hormuz, which Iran has control over, is 20% of the world's oil production is flowing through that every day.”

“The drone thing is just a total game changer, because you can have a small vehicle, you can launch one of these, you know, shot heads out of the back of a truck, they can go really far, and that's a lot harder to deal with than a fixed installation.”

“The arguments that were made that that Trump has actually repeated that Iran was about to attack us, I see no evidence for that. That Iran was about to get a nuclear weapon, I see no evidence for that. That Iran was building an ICBM that was going to attack th…”

“So my Inclination, again, if we were just doing prediction markets, is that he's going to find a way to declare this over before then, because he needs a little time to get his mind set on that.”

“If I were betting it, it'll end up that the guys with the guns will in some version be the next iteration.”

“I've stepped in to lead this transition with the help of many of my compatriots from various sectors.”

“Iran should have been, had it not been for the revolution, today's South Korea of the region.”

“We figure about one trillion in the first 10 years to the US market, but also billions of dollars that will be invested into Iran and everything that we need to have done in order to rebuild our country.”

“Unlike what happened after the fall of Saddam Hussein and the Ba'athification, the scenario of change in Iran is totally different.”

“The first opportunity that is created for me to safely return to Iran, I will obviously be there.”

“I'm here to be a bridge towards that outcome. That's the function of a transitional leader. Not to run for office or not to have an aim for personal position of power or authority.”

“I don't think that President Trump or any other leader in this world would presume that it is up to them to determine who should be the next leader in Iran.”

“The only country in the entire world and the entire region that actually stood in candlelight vigils in sympathy to the victims of the nine-eleven terrorist attacks were no other than the Iranian people themselves holding candlelight vigils in Iran.”

“Ninety-three million people who have been suffering will be living free in a democracy, and the impact that could have on the world, and obviously that region would be by far the largest democracy in, in the Middle East.”

“And the only leader that is legitimate To lead us to a transition process to become a democracy is the Crown Prince Rezipalavi.”

“When there is a free Iran, there will be a four-month process to get to a referendum and then a six-month process to assemble Iranians to write a constitution and then a fourteen-month process to actually finalize the constitution, And then have a vote on the …”

“We, if there's any kind of separatist movement, we will lose the goodwill and the support of millions and millions of Iranians.”

“Less than 24 hours after the supply chain designation, The U.S. Government was using Anthropix technology in the context of Operation Epic Fury against Iran.”

“In terms of boots on the ground, there's no scenario where we have some protracted boots on the ground, Afghanistan, Iraq too, like scenario.”

“90% of the oil that comes out of Iran goes to China.”

“About a fifth of it comes exclusively from Iran and Venezuela, and now all of that is off the table. So if you take that, and then you see what Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Josh Greenbaum have been doing, which is trying to get a deal done in Russia, an…”

“So, and they, these things, these war games have been on the on the shelf for a long time. Every, every scenario has been planned for years ahead of time. Midnight hammer and Iran was planned years ahead of time in terms of how would you do it if you were goin…”

“What you're seeing today in this Operation Epic Fury, we're four days in, Iran has been 90% depleted of all of their munitions, it looks like.”

“It's been 30% on average since 2019 due to sanctions.”

“I think it's inevitable that there's a break in the country because of the effect of sanctions.”

“The average income is about 200 bucks a month in Iran.”

“Defense industrial base sort of wasn't ready to provide what's necessary for the threat environment. And if you think about threat environment, what we've done in Iran, what we've done in Venezuela what we've done with the Houthis, like all just in one year, r…”

“That there may be more conflict brewing in the Middle East than anyone anticipates for this year that will not necessarily involve Israel and or Iran. It will actually be amongst the other Gulf states as they vie for influence and power, and that the contraria…”

“The prospect of a regime change war in Iran, and I just thought, man, there is no way that helps us in any way”