They created Hezbollah. They trained and armed Hezbollah. So these guys are actually pretty serious and pretty hard line. And they're willing to fight and they want to fight. And so By killing the Ayatollah, we've given them more power because now internally, they can go and they can say, hey, all you guys who thought that we could negotiate with the Americans, you're chumps. We have to fight them. So I think the longer this goes on, the more negotiators, the more moderates that are killed off, like we just killed, you know, Ali Laranjani, who was a negotiator who was eager to get us a deal again. (51:48–52:00)
CLAIM
Asserts that killing the Ayatollah has empowered the IRGC by undermining negotiation efforts.
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