And it has made gains. It has really deeply penetrated the Arab world and has created a contiguous sphere of influence from, you know, the Iraqi-Iranian border, the Zagros Mountains, all the way to the eastern Mediterranean. And in recent years, with the Houthis in Yemen, they now have a significant outpost on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, where the Arabian and the Red Sea meet. This cannot continue, and they cannot ignore the domestic political economy at the same time. 70% of all Iranians are young people. They were born well after the revolution. Nobody remembers the revolution. So that revolutionary fervor is gone. So how do you maintain this regime? And you need to balance both foreign policy and domestic political economic prerogatives. They had maxed out, which is why they thought, hey, let's do a nuclear deal, make some compromises, get fresh cash into the system, and then we should be good for, you know, whatever, another decade maybe. And then we'll figure it out (57/99)
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