Right, but you are not the U.S. government. When I think about it, the statement could be expanded. If we are strictly dealing with geopolitical power, we can r

Right, but you are not the U.S. government. When I think about it, the statement could be expanded. If we are strictly dealing with geopolitical power, we can replace "Iranians" with "non-Americans" and it will still be correct: a world in which all non-Americans are dead will be a world of great geopolitical power for the Americans.