just how tenuous the situation is for the Mullahs in Iran. No doubt, their seats are getting hot!
“We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship, because we can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, snuck out of the country by the Iranian leadership,” Bessent said. “So they are abandoning ship, and we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world.”
… “We’re quickly approaching the endgame of President Trump’s plan that he put into effect almost immediately when he came into office. We’ve been applying a maximum pressure campaign on Iran’s oil exports to cut off the sources of the regime’s funding. And what we have seen in the past month is a total financial collapse of the regime.”
The truth is, one can only ratchet down so far before there are negative effects. It seems like the Iranian Mullahs have reached the end point of coercion. I don’t know that they can ratchet down much more. So the Mullahs are preparing to flee.
I don’t know if Iran will fall today. But I think there is little question that the regime is teetering. And it also means that even if this current situation gets resolved in favor of the Mullahs, the mold is there for how they will eventually be kicked out of power.
Remember, Iran is not a Muslim majority country. The majority are Zoroastrians. There are indeed a lot of Muslims, but it is not a majority.