later. That didn't happen. So in your view, it wasn't necessarily clear to the Iranians what would come out the other side of that nuclear deal. It wasn't necessarily that they entered into the deal as a way to buy time, but eventually go nuclear and maintain the revolution. There was a genuine sense of we're still figuring things out. Yes, because no actor can be certain about the future. Everybody has their forecast, but it's only so you got to keep updating it in the light of new realities. That's why maintaining constant situational awareness in, you know, intelligence analysis is so important. So they needed to figure it out. They thought that that would be a solution. The estimates were that they were going to get like $150 billion because of the nuclear deal. Let's say it was even half of that. That's a lot of money that could help them improve economic conditions on the home front and continue to push hard in the Arab world. And mind you, there's sort of a historical thing (58/99)
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