What do you think your argument says about present events on the ground?

Thank you, Daniel.

It's wonderful to be here with you and with, uh, with Ali.

Um, I think my argument may not necessarily contradict Ali's.

It might be actually, uh, two may complement each other in the sense that precisely because the US has no credibility as far as Iran is concerned, because, as Ali said, the US keeps, uh, changing the goalpost, that's how Iran perceives the situation.

The Iranian side seems to believe that, uh, no deal can survive.

And I think it's partly because there is a perception gap between the two sides when it comes to their capabilities and to their, uh, basically resolve.

Mohammad, when you look at the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, do you see this as a potential example, per what Ali was saying, of Iran and its partners going too far and alienating their neighbors? Or do you see it as a successful example perhaps of them showing their neighbors that Iran's security is their security, and that they therefore need to be more accommodating of Iran's interests?

What do those images mean for you? The banners, the sloganeering? Is it a surprise? Is it something different? And does it have an implication or is it an indicator of changes within the regime?

The funeral was organized more than four months after Khamenei's death, as you mentioned, Masador.

So he was killed on the very first day of the war on February 28th.

And because of the wartime conditions, the Islamic Republic decided to wait until the war was over or there was a ceasefire so they could hold the funeral.

What we saw... was basically a highly choreographed state-sponsored processions that started in Tehran, and then they moved the body to the holy city of Qom, and then from Qom, they took the coffin to Iraq, to the holy city of Najaf, and then holy city of Karbala, and then from there to the holy city of Mashhad in Tehran, And before eventually he was buried.

So the whole thing took about six, seven days.

So in a way, it was not surprising that the regime was planning, you know, such a massive funeral for him because they wanted to show that they were not as unpopular as the Western media projects.

Why and who is the they in the regime who did this? Can we speak now of a single coherent reason decision-taking body entity collective, or are there