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A Persian-Australian contract lawyer that fled the brutality of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a toddler has this week realised that everything she grew up hearing about the Ayatollah and his bloody regime might be wrong.
That's according to Bevan Keeganson (31) from Fleet Logistics.
Bevan's searing geopolitical analysis - sourced mostly from podcasts and 15-second TikTok reels - has provided the former refugee, Laleh, with plenty the think about.
Laleh (34) says this isn't the first time she's had to pause and question her own world view.
Not even a week after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, targeting its leadership and plunging the Middle East into another widespread conflict, Laleh has overheard and witnessed a range of interesting perspectives about the war taking place in her family's homeland.
But none have been more insightful than Bevan's - who has confidently explained to her entire workplace that the only reason America is currently dropping bombs on Iran is because of the Epstein Files.
"I thought it might be because they bank-rolled terrorism right around the world, including in Australia" said Laleh.
"Or that they've turned off the internet and killed tens of thousands of their own people, including my relatives, over the last couple months"
"I mean, an optimist would say America is toppling the regime because of the horrific regression in the human rights of what was one of the most educated female populations in the world 40 years ago"
But as Laleh has learnt today, the War In Iran has a lot more to do with the fact that a lot of powerful 1990s businessmen are at risk of being exposed for being involved in a child abuse ring in Miami and the Caribbean.
"I never thought of that" she says.
"I suppose all those things can be true, but I feel like my parents would've flagged this as a potential reason that Trump might want assassinate the dictator that my family fled from without a dollar to their name, before tearing up their passports and flushing them on the emergency flight out of Egypt"
However, one thing that both Laleh and Bevan can agree on is that Iran's oil reserves have also played a big role in all of this.