[Brilliant]

"The Islamic Republic will lose in the end, just as the USSR did.

I don't know about that. Who runs out of oil first?

[WOSG]

Our civilization can continue without oil.
No civilization can advance without freedom.

Freedom beats oil any day.

Here's the trick: Iran has 3 million barrels of production ... find 3 million barrels/day production somewhere else, and then go in to the straits of Hormuz and say "No nukes or no oil".