Lots More on the Protests and Financial Crisis in Iran

Summary

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Episode: Lots More on the Protests and Financial Crisis in Iran

Date: January 16, 2026
Hosts: Joe Weisenthal, Tracy Alloway
Guest: Macieja Vojtal, CEO of Amtelon Capital

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Overview

This episode dives deeply into Iran’s ongoing civil unrest, triggered by major financial turmoil and widespread protests. Hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk with Macieja Vojtal, a rare fund manager specializing in Iranian equities, to make sense of the rapidly evolving situation. The conversation covers the causes and impact of the protests, the economic collapse, the blackout on communications, and what all this means for Iran's political and market future.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: Civil Unrest and Lack of Transparency

• Joe Weisenthal brings up the tragic scale of protests, with thousands dead by some reports, made even more difficult to track due to an almost total government-imposed internet blackout.
  • “I'm not going to say the specific estimate because it's changing all the time. And also there's not that much transparency at the moment because the government has shut down the entire Internet…” (04:05)
• Tracy Alloway comments on the skepticism and uncertainty surrounding external reports from Iran, expressing a lack of confidence in knowing who to trust.
  • “I also feel like in my professional career there are multiple rounds of this big protests… Is this the moment regime change? …I am extremely skeptical… I don't know who is well informed, what is actually signal versus what is noise.” (04:17)

2. Ground Reality: Communication, Blackouts, and Safety

• Macieja Vojtal describes the severity of the communication blackout:
  • Only outgoing landline calls are sometimes allowed, and even those are frequently cut off. Digital services—including Iran's own highly-controlled internet and even ATMs—ceased functioning, leaving only basic necessities like cash and local ride-hailing apps operational (albeit without GPS).
  • "There’s complete blackout… including even like the internal domain domestic, like an Internet network in Iran… Even ATMs stopped working for a moment."(05:03)
• Vojtal assures that their local team in Tehran relocated safely to smaller towns as protests worsened.
  • “…analysts who were in Tehran… left Tehran a few days ago when the protests were getting more intense, to smaller cities, to their hometowns… at that time, they were in a safe place.” (06:52)

3. Is This Time Different? The Nature & Scale of Protests

• Vojtal compares Iran to Poland in the 1980s, noting it often takes years of episodic, brutal protests before significant change emerges, and sometimes the transition is negotiated, not explosive.
• He points out what's different this time:
  • Iran now has a much larger and younger population with access to the internet and frustrated aspirations. This gives the movement broader, deeper roots.
  • The current protests are not just about social freedom, but primarily driven by economic hardship, which affects nearly every household:
    • “Another thing that's changed is…protests around social freedoms… right now is driven by economic difficulties. And this touches every single household in Iran.” (09:02)

4. Economic Collapse at the Heart

• The latest round of unrest was sparked by currency collapse and skyrocketing inflation, with elite bazaar merchants in Tehran taking the lead:
  • "The protest started on the Grand Bazaar in Tehran… It’s impossible to obtain to access hard currency or there’s not enough of it. And that’s obviously because of sanctions.” (10:47)
• Sanctions have crippled Iran’s ability to obtain hard currency and forced it to sell oil only to China, giving China the upper hand on price and payment terms:
  • “China is dictating all the terms, including big discounts in the price…but also the terms of the payments… what Iran needs is, is to pay for essential goods…” (11:49)
• People are struggling to afford basic foods, with essential items taking more than 10% of an average monthly salary.
• The Iranian rial is in freefall:
  • "It's around 1.5 million rial per $1… it went down around 97, 98% over the last decade and around almost 50% since before the war with Israel last year."(12:51)

Notable Quote

• Tracy Alloway: “But I have to say starting your own bank to then just fund your construction company, a kind of a brilliant idea. B this is why bank supervision and various things is important actually.” (14:36)

5. Information Black Hole & Market Functionality

• Iran has become an "information black hole;" even fundamental questions like whether the stock market is open can’t be easily answered from outside:
  • “Here's a country on earth and right now where we are in New York or where you are in London, we can't even answer the simple question is the stock market functioning right now?” (18:03)
• The blackout, while briefly effective, can't last:
  • “…it's not possible for the country to keep the blackout at this scale and intensity for too long because the whole economy stops… the administration of the country is not possible without Internet.” (18:14)

6. Investment Perspective: What Happens in Market Meltdowns

• Vojtal describes past shutdowns: following shocks, the market often appears stable initially due to manipulation and low liquidity, but upon reopening, retail investors rush to sell, causing deep plunges before any recovery:
  • “After it reopened, the prices didn't change much. But then… started selling, selling at any price just to get money out. And there was a massive selling pressure that lasted from July until September.” (18:59–21:01)
• Current valuations, measured in net earnings, are extremely low, reflecting persistent crisis pricing:
  • “It went below three times net earnings median for the market… So you could probably find stocks at two times earnings.” (21:20)

7. The Political-Economic Breakdown: Who Wants What?

• The society is split:
  • ~10-30%: Deeply religious, strongly supports the Islamic Republic.
  • Larger urban/younger segment: Seeks freedom and opportunities, frustrated with lack of change.
  • Tehran is notably more liberal; other cities are more conservative.
  • “…a third of the society just being religious and supporting the Islamic republic… And the rest are people who want a modern, open state…” (22:19–24:15)

8. What Next? Uncertainty and Possible Paths

• The future is unpredictable, but financial constraints make it harder for the regime to quell unrest as in the past:
  • “…the government just can't spend their way out of the problem. The financial situation is really tough, but some changes are likely. I'm not saying that within the next few days or weeks, maybe it will take months, but I think it's just moving this direction.” (24:48)
• Negotiated solutions are possible, as seen recently in Venezuela.
  • “There was no regime change there. There was… negotiated solution with Maduro taken out and the rest of the government and establishment just staying in place. But they have to cooperate.” (25:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Macieja Vojtal:

  • “Protests were so intense and so widespread… and now is driven by economic difficulties. And this touches every single household in Iran.” (09:02)
  • “It was a huge example of corruption…he set up a bank, offered the highest interest rates on the market… then he was using those deposits to make loans to his own companies.” (13:42)
  • “The market went down like in dollar terms from lets say index of… 36% in dollar terms in just two and a half months. The selling pressure then was exhausted. All the...sales were absorbed. Valuations went down to...very close levels to the all time lows.” (20:45–21:20)
  • “So everything in Iran is priced for war, right. So that's, that's the sentiment hasn't really recovered after the last war and now we had protests.” (21:33)

• Joe Weisenthal:

  • “What a world we live in where civil unrest is becoming a major investment theme.” (26:15)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:09–03:39 Casual banter and Iranian food, segue into the show
• 03:52–05:03 Summary of protests, transparency issues
• 05:03–06:25 Blackout details, difficulties in basic functioning
• 06:25–06:52 Introduction of guest, Macieja Vojtal
• 06:52–07:18 Safety update from local team
• 07:18–10:21 Is this protest different? Population, social vs. economic protest
• 10:21–13:42 Economic causes, currency collapse, bazaar protests, sanctions
• 13:42–14:36 Banking scandal, corruption details
• 17:51–18:14 Information black hole, basic mysteries about market function
• 18:14–19:56 Impact of blackout on economy, how long it can last
• 18:59–21:38 Market shutdowns, selling pressure, crash and rebound pattern
• 22:19–24:13 Political economy, social classes, religious vs. modernist split
• 24:15–26:15 US–Iran tension “pause,” regime stability, scenarios for the future

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Tone and Style

The conversation is open, analytical, sometimes witty, and grounded in deep skepticism about official narratives. The hosts freely admit knowledge gaps and rely on Vojtal for rare on-the-ground insight, lending the episode an honest, searching tone. As always, Odd Lots maintains its informal and inquisitive style, balanced with expert financial and geopolitical analysis.

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Summary

If you’ve missed the episode, this discussion offers an essential look into Iran’s tumultuous intersection of economic crisis and civil protest—revealing just how drastic and unpredictable the situation has become for ordinary Iranians, and the rare investors exposed to its market. The crisis is as much about inflation and currency collapse as it is about politics, and while regime change is far from certain, the hosts and guest agree this protest wave is fundamentally different—more widespread, more economically driven, and more dangerous for the government to suppress. The episode closes with sobering reminders of both how hard it is to get accurate information from Iran right now—and how unrest in an "information black hole" is becoming a key global risk factor.

Transcript

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[Joe Weisenthal]

Do you like Persian.

[Tracy Alloway]

Food? Yeah. Oh yeah.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Definitely.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Yeah. I make I'm very proud of this, if I say so myself, a mean gourmet sapsy. I actually don't know if I'm pronouncing it wrong, but supposedly it's the Iranian national dish and it's a sort of like beef stew with spinach and a bunch of different herbs in it so it's really green and then with kidney beans it's delicious. And the thing I like about it is you can make it and then store it, freeze it and it actually gets better over next week or.

[Tracy Alloway]

So. I this is my idea for A restaurant which is just like make food and then put it in the fridge for overnight and then serve it cold. Because I think, like, every dish, I would be there. Every dish is better. Like after a night in the fridge, somehow, like, all the flavors come out. I was like, why don't we just make this the default eating? I did a dead.

[Joe Weisenthal]

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[Tracy Alloway]

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[Joe Weisenthal]

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[Tracy Alloway]

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[Joe Weisenthal]

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[Tracy Alloway]

World? No. I think that, like, in a couple years, the AI will do a really good job of making the Odd Lots podcast. One day that person will have the mandate of.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Heave. How do I get more popular and.

[Tracy Alloway]

Successful? We do have the perfect.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Guest. You're listening to Lots more where we catch up with friends about what's going on right.

[Tracy Alloway]

Now. Because even when the Odd Lots is over, there's always lots more and.

[Joe Weisenthal]

We really do have the perfect guest. So I'm a big fan of Iranian food. I always wanted to go to Iran and actually try.

[Tracy Alloway]

It.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Yes. And it makes me sad that I haven't been able to to do it. And with, you know, recent events, terrible events in Iran, we've had anti Islamic Republic protests that have reportedly left thousands of people dead. I'm not going to say the specific estimate because it's changing all the time. And also there's not that much transparency at the moment because the government has shut down the entire Internet, but it's just.

[Tracy Alloway]

Sad. Look, I know very little about Iran. I also feel like in my professional career there are multiple rounds of this big protests, et cetera. Is this the moment regime change? And to your point, which you say, like, there is very little that I trust when I see it reported, I am extremely skeptical. Oh, tonight was the biggest set of protests we've had in years. There's never been a protest. Look at which city this is. I'm sure there are well informed people talking about this. I don't have the heuristics to know. Generally, I don't know who is well informed, what is actually signal versus what is noise. But obviously, yet another sort of extraordinary development unfolding here in.

[Joe Weisenthal]

2026. Mateo, what have you been.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Hearing? So I agree that it's difficult really to tell what are the actual facts. For sure, there's been a lot of deaths and it's horrible. And it's tragic, and it's definitely in thousands of deaths. But at the same time, you know, there's complete blackout. What works right now is the actually outgoing landline calls, but with limited time. So for example, my. One of my analysts who is actually in London at the moment, he's able to speak to his parents when they call him, and then the call gets interrupted quite quickly, but at least he can hear from them. We weren't actually sure for quite some time whether the stock market was working or not because of the blackout, because it was not possible to even to read any news from the official news agencies in Iran. So everything was down, including, from what I've read, including even like the internal domain domestic, like an Internet network in Iran that is. That is very controlled. This was also down. Even ATM stopped working for a moment. I think just like a one day brief moment. Cash transfers were working, bank transfers. Apparently the local, you know, Uber equivalent called Snap was working all the time. However, GPS was not working properly, so it was difficult to locate the driver and so on. So exactly what you said, it's. It's difficult to understand exactly what is going.

[Joe Weisenthal]

On. So this is, of course, Macieja Vojtal. He is the CEO of Amtelon Capital, which is a fund that specializes in Iranian equities. And there aren't that many of those.

[Tracy Alloway]

Around. I don't even know if there's a second.

[Joe Weisenthal]

One. Yeah, so we enjoy talking to him, and he has really good insights into what is actually happening on the ground in Iran. The first question I should ask directly is, is your team okay? Are they safe and well, the people that you actually have in the.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Country? Thank you for asking about that, Tracey. We have a local team in Tehran, part of which is actually in London at the moment. Now, analysts who are in Tehran, who were in Tehran, they left Tehran a few days ago when the protests were getting more intense, to smaller cities, to their hometowns. So the last time we've heard from them was a couple of days ago. At that time, they were in a safe place. So I believe they're all.

[Tracy Alloway]

Fine. I mean, just your intuition, let's actually set aside the question of, like, is this a moment where the regime would get toppled or something like that, et cetera. Does this feel either quantitatively or qualitatively different from various episodes over the last two decades in which suddenly the Internet is looking at fairly blurry videos of Iranian protesters and asking, like, does this feel different.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Somehow? Yes, it definitely does. Okay, so first of all, obviously looking at you know, the history, it teaches you not to get excited or too, I don't know, hopeful, any meaningful changes. However, it does feel different. And maybe, maybe two things could be interesting here. First of all, as you said, Joe, at the beginning, it's not the first protest. It's another protest over the years. And if you look at comparable situations, for example, Poland, Poland is always close to my heart. I'm Polish originally, and Poland, when we were trying to get rid of the Soviet Union, it took nine years. And every year there was a massive protest. This protest died and then with very brutal reaction from the government. Then the next year there was another protest. In the meantime, there was martial law with military on the streets and so on. But finally many things came together and there was a tipping point at which everything collapsed. Although it didn't collapse, actually. It was a negotiated transition to a different regime. So, you know, the establishment got a. Got an off ramp to move on. And it was a peaceful, negotiated transition. Similar in South Africa, based on what I know. I mean, it was, you know, happening in the 80s, and then in the 90s there were actual changes in Iran. The situation is different because for many reasons, demographics have changed. So now you have, I believe, around 93 million people, out of which 50 million is between, you know, 15 and 49 years old, but like the active part of the population. And there are many more young people who are educated, who have, you know, access to Internet, have their own aspirations, and they don't believe they can achieve those aspirations in the current environment. And they also look at their parents and they think that they just wasted the whole generation, you know, waiting and doing nothing. So this makes them more angry and also like more decisive and confrontational. That's why I think it's, you know, the protests were so intense and so widespread. Another reason, another thing that's changed is like, you remember a few years ago, 20, 22, there were, in 23, there were protests around social freedoms after an Iranian girl, Mahsa Amini, died. And this was driven by, basically by social freedoms and mainly involved young people right now is driven by economic difficulties. And this touches every single household in.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Iran. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about precisely this because I don't want to say the cause of the recent unrest, but certainly one of the sparks seems to have been a further collapse in the currency, even higher inflation. And wasn't there something about a bank as well, a bank that was going bust, supposedly with ties to the regime? How much did financial stress play into the current round of civil.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Unrest? Well, 100%. This was the main cause. Look, the protest started on the Grand Bazaar in Tehran. So these bazaaries, I mean, people who operate bazaars, many of them run like multimillion dollar revenue companies there. Actually, it's like this massive shopping mall with tens of thousands of smaller or bigger traders there. And they need stability to just, you know, do business. Right. So protesting revolution like this is the last thing they would think about. But they are in a situation, you know, where many of them are importers. To import, you need to be able to obtain a hard currency to just pay your supplier from Vietnam, China, whoever. It's. It's impossible to obtain to access hard currency or there's not enough of it. And that's obviously because of sanctions. Because of sanctions, exports of Iran just went down. Iran is exporting oil only to China. So China is dictating all the terms, including big discounts in the price that they are paying, but also the terms of the payments. You know, the China is paying. A big part of their payments are in yuan and they, and they arrive in bank accounts in some Chinese banks. So Iran, you know, the only thing Iran can do with it is to buy some Chinese goods. And what Iran needs is, is to pay for essential goods like some food products or some medical products that they need to import at any cost. And once they allocate all their hard currency reserves to those essential products, there is not much left for other businesses. So this is one thing that is difficult to run a business. When you cannot obtain currency, you have inflation running wild. But on the other hand, your consumers are losing their purchasing power at an extraordinary pace. So no one is buying basically. Right. You have to spend on eggs, milk and bread, probably more than 10% of your average monthly salary. So it looks pretty difficult on the economic.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Side. Can I ask very quickly, do you have a sense of what the current exchange rate actually is? Because this is one of the few currencies in the world that we cannot look up on a Bloomberg.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Terminal. Yeah, it's around 1.5 million rial per $1, which means it went down around 97, 98% over the last decade and around almost 50% since before the war with Israel last year. So over the last seven months. So it's really falling fast. Oh, and one more thing. You asked about the bank. Yes. Actually there was a bank collapsing in Iran just a few months ago. I mean, they formally recognized that it should be nationalized. And it's extraordinary because the size of the collapse, it was so big that it Actually affected the budget of the country, the country budget for this year. So they had to reduce subsidies and just change the expenditures of the budget to make room for the amount that they had to. I think it was like $5 billion that they had to put into this bank so that it doesn't collapse. It was basically. And it's another, it's another example that makes people angry obviously because it was a huge example of corruption. So there was a local, well connected entrepreneur who was running a few construction companies and it wasn't the case that he called a few banks and asked for some preferential loans. Now he set up a bank offered the highest interest rates on the market. So many people just put their deposits into this bank and then he was using those deposits to make loans to his own companies. I think it was like majority of the loans were to his own companies. He built the biggest shopping mall in the, in the region, which was, you know, a crazy idea from the beginning and many things like this. Right. So another example of communism and.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Corruption. This is the shopping mall that's like as big as the Pentagon or.

[Tracy Alloway]

Something. Yeah, twice as big. I read that Wall Street Journal article, twice as big as the Pentagon. This luxury shopping mall in Iran suffering from massive hyperinflation and all sorts. But I have to say starting your own bank to then just fund your construction company, a kind of a brilliant idea. B this is why bank supervision and various things is important actually.

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[Tracy Alloway]

& Co. It's surreal to me. The surreality of here is a country that right now is a de facto information black hole. You mentioned we don't know if the stock market is trading. Here's a country on earth and right now where we are in New York or where you are in London, we can't even answer the simple question is the stock market functioning.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Right now? Yeah, exactly. So all the stories that I hear is that the way people were able to communicate is because someone had access to a Starlink operating in Iran or someone's friend was working at a hospital and hospital had some access to either the wide Internet or some of these local networks. So that's why also it's not possible for the country to keep the blackout at this scale and intensity for too long because the whole economy stops, right? Actually the administration of the countries is not possible without Internet. So it was sharp, intense, but it has to be short term because otherwise the country will.

[Joe Weisenthal]

Just stop. What happens to your portfolio in this.

[Macieja Vojtal]

Particular scenario? Your investments so the stock market seems to have been stable over the last week. I don't see the exact numbers yet in terms of for example, liquidity and I, and I suspect that, you know, there was not much going on because I'm not sure if even local investors had a chance to, were able to put orders online. Right. Maybe, maybe it was old school, you know, calling your broker or going to your broker. So it was stable. So nothing actually it went up by 4% and the currency was stable too. The currency is easier to manipulate by the central bank using some reserves, especially when there is low liquidity. So I think what will be more interesting is the next few weeks. So for example, what happened last year after the war when there was a war between Iran and Israel? In June, the stock market was shut down for around two weeks. After it reopened, the prices didn't change much. But then local investors, mainly retail investors, this retail driven market started selling because they didn't have access to their funds. So they started selling, selling at any price just to get money out. And there was a massive selling pressure that lasted from July until September. And when the buyers saw a selling pressure like this. So every day you can see the queue of unfilled orders building up that will go to the next day and the next day and the next day people just stopped buying as well, obviously. So the market went down like irrespective of which stocks, what quality, what valuation or whatever. Just a massive sell off which lasted two, three months and then it rebounded. So it went down like in dollar terms from let's say index of, I don't know, 360 to 230. Yes, if I'm looking at this correctly. So let's say 36% in dollar terms in just two and a half months. The selling pressure then was exhausted. All the sending, all the sales were absorbed. Valuations went down to the, one of the, I think very close levels to the all time lows in the history of the Iranian stock market, which is around 20 years old, so it's always cheap. But this time it went below three times net earnings median for the market. So you could probably find stocks at two times earnings. Then it rebounded, but it's still around three and a half times earnings. So valuations are very much still driven by war. So everything is priced for war. Right. So that's, that's the sentiment hasn't really recovered after the last war and now we had protests. So everything in Iran is priced for.

[Tracy Alloway]

War, basically. You know, in the news obviously we hear or I think we get a better grasp and again, I plead a lot of ignorance, it's not something I have a lot of familiarity with. But what the protesters Want you hear about young people and wanting more freedoms. Can you give a sort of, I don't know, political economy breakdown of, like, you know, you don't hear about the people who obviously don't want regime change. Generally speaking, they. We don't know much about them or who they are, who are the sort of different factions socioeconomically, that and how they allocate to either side. Sort of, I guess, a class understanding of.

[Macieja Vojtal]

The tensions. So there's a big group of young people, and young people want freedom and opportunities and like, fair rules in the economy, basically. There are older people, adults in larger cities, which are more liberal. Definitely Tehran. Tehran is a big city. It's like 12 million people altogether. And life in Tehran looks different to most other cities in Iran with, you know, women no longer wearing hijabs. It's much more open, it's much more liberal. But also there is a big group of people who are very, very religious and they support the government that is also there is a religious government. So the concept of Islamic republic is very close to their heart, and they support it, and it's part of their religion and part of their traditions. So in terms of how they observe religious holidays, going to mosque, dressing in a certain way and so on. And now how does this split? I would say that probably between 10 and 30% is the religious part. Ten, like very religious and just listening to the, to the prayer and, you know, whatever political advice comes from the mosque and so on. 30% of, let's say, a third of the society just being religious and supporting the Islamic republic in the. As a, as a religious state. Just a small note that it's an Islamic republic, but very tolerant of other religions. I mean, all the churches work normally there, from Jewish to Christian to Zoroastrian. You know, everyone is doing his own thing in terms of religion in Iran, and it's okay. So. And the rest are people who want a modern, open state with the young, including the young people who want it fast, basically, and want to be able to follow their dreams.

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[Macieja Vojtal]

Aspirations. So. So, so that would be.

[Joe Weisenthal]

The breakdown. So I should just say we're recording this on January 15th. The headlines are coming pretty fast nowadays, so who knows what will happen by the time we publish this episode in just 24 hours or so. But the latest headline is that tensions seem to have eased a little bit with the US because the Iranian government said they're not going to kill any more people or told Trump they're not going to execute more people. How should we interpret that? Is this all over or do you expect some unrest.

[Macieja Vojtal]

To continue? Well, it's hard to predict. It's very unpredictable. I mean, unrest is difficult to predict. The dynamics around the unrest, then the government of Iran is difficult to predict, but the government of the US is difficult to predict because right now, yesterday you had news that President Trump was saying that, yes, he got information that killing stopped. So this is what he was, you know, what he wanted to achieve. So it looks better. The day before, everyone thought that, you know, they are getting ready to strike Iran. So I think those things can change in 24 hours. So it's just impossible to predict. The only thing I would say is that because it does feel different this time, the scale of the protests and the reasons of the protests and also the government just can't spend their way out of the problem. The financial situation is really tough, but some changes are likely. I'm not saying that within the next few days or weeks, maybe it will take months, but I think it's just moving this direction. So there are some changes that are likely and many scenarios are possible. Look at Venezuela. There was no regime change there. There was again negotiated solution with Maduro taken out and the rest of the government and establishment just staying in place. But they have to cooperate. So there's probably more than one scenario possible for.

[Joe Weisenthal]

The future. What a world we live in where civil unrest is becoming a major investment theme. Thank you Maca, for coming on Lots More. Really appreciate another update.

[Macieja Vojtal]

From you. Thank you for.

[Tracy Alloway]

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[Joe Weisenthal]

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