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  There's no question that the Shah of leaving Iran is a tragedy, a personal tragedy for him.

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  A tragedy for the people of Iran who now are suffering repression much greater than they had before,

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  who have four million at least unemployed and runaway inflation under a government that is not really a government,

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  it's really a mob.

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  All these things have happened.

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  But also it was, in addition to being a personal tragedy for the Shah,

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  a tragedy for the people of Iran,

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  It was certainly a tragedy for what we call the West

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  because what was leadership and stability in that part of the world is now replaced by instability.

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  It's Tuesday, January 13th, 2026, and welcome back to Goodfellows,

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  a Hoover Institution broadcast examining history, economics, and geopolitics.

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  I'm Bill Whalen.

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  I'm a Distinguished Policy Fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

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  I'll be moderating a conversation today,

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  featuring three of my colleagues we'd like to call the Goodfellows.

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  I'm referring, of course, to the historians Sir Neil Ferguson,

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  Economist John Cochran, and former Presidential National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H.R.

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  McMaster.

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  Neil John and H.R.

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  are all Hoover senior fellows.

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