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He argues that being hunted by Mossad and the American military would make the Ayatollah feel more alive, not less, because persecution plus divine energy converts danger into proof of mission.
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Ayatollah
The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The Ayatollah's imagined mission is to lure the United States into Iran and kill the great Satan, thereby freeing his people and saving the world.
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Jiang defines Iran's president as more like the country's CEO while the Ayatollah is the real sovereign authority, representing God and the Quran and holding ultimate veto power.
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Jiang defines the regular military as responsible for protecting the nation, while the IRGC protects the revolution and the Ayatollah and exports the revolution abroad.
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"...will allow him to fulfill his mission. Let's look at the Ayatollah. Right now, the world's most sophisticated intelligence agency, Mossad, is hunting him...."
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"feels as though the moment he's been waiting for all his life, the moment he's dreamt of all his life, the opportunity to kill..."
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"must unite the Muslim world and have them fight on the side of good against the great evil, the great Satan, which is the..."
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"...become supreme leader. The supreme leader of Iran when the current Ayatollah Khamenei died, okay? So Raisi is 63 and Khamenei is 85. So..."
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"...two main functions. The first main function is to protect the Ayatollah and ensure the revolution succeeds in Iran. But the other function is..."
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"...Israelis had assured the Americans would happen if you decapitated the Ayatollah and the leadership. You know, of all these things, if that's how..."
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"...none of the rest of that has happened. We've seen the Ayatollah taken out, but replaced by his son. We don't know the condition..."
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"...the iranian regime whatsoever and i shed no tears when the ayatollah was killed you know this just be clear they've waged a campaign..."
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"...that if you decapitated the leadership of Iran and killed the Ayatollah, that it would lead to regime change. That the IRGC would basically..."
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"...as almost a dead man's switch, where if you kill the Ayatollah, the Ayatollah will tell his people to fight to the end. So..."
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"...extremist and much more theoretical, theocratic than it is now. The Ayatollah Khamenei was considered a pretty moderate individual. His son is not considered..."
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"...Whereas in Iran, it's complete opposite, where the death of the Ayatollah, and also on the first day, remember, an American Tomahawk missile struck..."
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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