Goldie Ghamari - 1979 Islamic Revolution Explained by an Iranian： Persian Constitutional Revolution (7⧸10)

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00:04:40.080 welcome back everyone so this is the main event for tonight another documentary about the 1979

00:04:54.160 islamic revolution this documentary was recommended by one of our channel members scott uh so scott

00:05:01.240 thank you for that scott actually gave like a whole list so i appreciate that scott because

00:05:06.240 now i have a lot of material to work with for a while um so for those of you who are new um and

00:05:12.400 this is maybe your first time tuning in so what i do is because i speak a lot about um iran and the

00:05:21.400 people's fight to overthrow the islamic dictatorship and you know how um how much iranian people

00:05:27.660 despise the islamic regime a lot of people have asked me you know well what happened what led up

00:05:33.340 to the 1979 islamic uh revolution or as i like to call it the islamic coup d'etat um

00:05:42.140 and then they also asked me for you know are there any documentaries that people can watch um

00:05:48.140 you know we iranians we don't watch english language documentaries about about the islamic

00:05:53.180 revolution in 1979 because the vast majority of them are full of propaganda or disinformation or

00:05:59.980 misinformation um there are narratives and storylines in um in the english language

00:06:06.300 documentaries that you would never find in persian language documentaries because um

00:06:14.380 you know we we have our facts and yet unfortunately when it comes to the english language

00:06:19.660 the communists and the islamists have really dominated uh dominated the the narrative here

00:06:27.020 um and i just wanted to give a shout out to de mornay for becoming our most uh recent member

00:06:34.460 welcome to morning thank you make sure the morning that you check out um our members only tab

00:06:40.300 and you will actually find my post there where i'm asking members to give me suggestions for

00:06:45.900 what you guys want me to to critique so welcome welcome to goldie's game um and also just a quick

00:06:51.740 message for followers who are watching on YouTube.

00:07:21.740 okay so basically for uh our non-ironian uh viewers i just basically um invited everyone

00:07:38.060 who's watching on x to join us um on the live chat on youtube if they want to contribute

00:07:43.980 to the conversation guys we have a special guest tonight apparently apparently bibi netanyahu is

00:07:50.620 here bb goal right like guys so something uh fun fact you might not know um we iranians we love

00:07:56.700 netanyahu and we call him bb goal there's actually a song a persian song called bb goal which is

00:08:02.780 actually about um uh so so one of the terms of you know endearment we use for grandmothers is bb

00:08:11.020 but because that's also you know his name so now like we've pretty much co-opted the song and so

00:08:16.540 So Bibi Gol now refers to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

00:08:20.220 And it's basically just like a term of endearment, right?

00:08:22.720 It's just like a song for how much we appreciate him.

00:08:24.840 So thank you so much, Prime Minister, for being here and joining us, Bibi.

00:08:30.320 Always great to see the Prime Minister of Israel here.

00:08:35.300 And Scott, thank you.

00:08:37.060 Thank you so much, Scott, for gifting membership.

00:08:41.340 I actually don't know how that works, Scott.

00:08:44.000 so um because you've gifted memberships before i have no idea how that works but but i appreciate

00:08:49.200 it um and thank you so much for the support and so tonight's documentary scott is going to be

00:08:55.040 uh one of the ones that you recommended in um in that list so guys i i haven't watched this

00:09:02.400 documentary but i'm feeling a little bit hope a little bit more hopeful about this one okay

00:09:09.280 because the first documentary that we watched um we gave it a rating of three out of ten

00:09:17.440 the second documentary watched was basically a rating of zero out of ten and then the third one

00:09:23.360 that we watched last night we basically gave it a rating of um middle finger out of ten 0.58

00:09:28.720 because that documentary was actually produced by al jazeera and um al jazeera of course is a jihadi

00:09:36.560 mouthpiece for qatar the muslim brotherhood and the islamic republic so the al jazeera

00:09:41.280 one was worse than zero like it was just utter utter nonsense they left out so much critical

00:09:46.720 information and then they also took well-established facts and spun them and made it seem as if um

00:09:54.960 as if it was something completely else but the good thing at least about watching those

00:09:59.680 documentaries and critiquing them and you know along with all the iranians here is that um i

00:10:05.600 can give my thoughts on it so it's actually not a bad thing to go and watch the previous videos

00:10:11.440 um in this playlist because i do counter the narrative and i and i bring receipts right so

00:10:18.800 even though i have a lot of criticism of those documentaries it still gives me an opportunity

00:10:23.520 to explain it um and provide you know the actual facts about what happened because again there's a

00:10:30.160 lot of propaganda a lot of disinformation and that's because the communists and the islamists

00:10:35.920 unfortunately have dominated the um english narrative perspective and you know again these

00:10:40.720 are like these are narratives that you would never find in farsi language documentaries guys

00:10:45.040 so that's why we iranians just we don't watch english language but guys we are on a quest um

00:10:51.520 per your numerous requests i am on a quest along with um all the other iranians in the chat here

00:10:58.560 to find you the best possible documentary about what happened in the 1979 uh what happened that

00:11:05.760 led to the 1979 islamic revolution so tonight's documentary is is um recommended by scott or you

00:11:14.800 know requested by scott it's called the revolution that shaped modern iran now this is the interesting

00:11:21.600 part this is why i'm feeling a little bit more hopeful about this documentary so it starts off

00:11:31.040 by saying one of the earliest instances of a constitutional movement in the muslim world

00:11:37.600 emerging was gajar persia at the turn of the 20th century so guys keep keep this keep this

00:11:43.920 in mind constitutional movements that is critical okay that is that is a key point here

00:11:50.080 recognizing the inability of their leaders to prevent the misery persia experienced during

00:11:56.080 the 19th century persians began clamoring for a body of law that would guarantee their basic rights

00:12:02.560 this movement evolved into a revolution which would serve as the springboard for revolutionary

00:12:09.860 activity which grips the country throughout the 20th century that part i don't really

00:12:14.600 like i don't like that part because it's not it's not the persian constitutional revolution

00:12:21.880 that encouraged future revolutions right like the the persian constitutional revolution

00:12:28.820 basically created turned iran into a constitutional monarchy right so so right there right all of 0.86

00:12:35.160 these people um who know nothing about iran but they'll just feel like oh the shah was a dictator

00:12:41.360 the show was a dictator they have no idea what actually happened um in 1905 in 1905 there was

00:12:47.600 a persian constitutional revolution right um you can like it it's it's it's common it's common

00:12:55.280 knowledge amongst iranians anyway like amongst amongst non-iranians it's not as much right but

00:13:00.320 um this is where anyone who just says uh do i like israel yeah 100 i'm i'm i'm a zionist i love

00:13:09.120 israel um i'm israel hi um i talk about israel in my daily live streams but right now i'm just

00:13:16.480 focusing on like documentaries about the islamic uh revolution but so so guys this is really

00:13:22.640 important anyone who tries to criticize the shah of iran as being you know an authoritarian dictator

00:13:30.240 as soon as they say that that automatically should let you know that this person either knows 0.62

00:13:36.720 nothing about iran or they are um a communist or islamist spouting that that propaganda that fake

00:13:45.360 news that led to the 1979 islamic revolution okay because iran was actually a constitutional

00:13:52.240 monarchy we had politicians we had several prime ministers right so for these armchair experts to

00:14:01.360 claim that the shah was an authoritarian dictator they are basically just um spouting that islamic

00:14:08.160 jihadi propaganda nonsense because i mean the facts are there the history is there so that's

00:14:14.400 that that gives me a little bit of hope about this documentary but what i don't like is how

00:14:20.400 they frame um how they frame the rest of the revolutions because the reason that there was

00:14:28.320 civil unrest is because it was being funded by the soviets because at that time right up until 1979

00:14:36.320 iran actually shared a border with the soviet bloc and so the soviets were trying to expand

00:14:43.360 into iran and they actually funded communist parties in iran to destabilize and cause unrest

00:14:53.280 and that actually happened several times um the russians were almost able to turn iran into a

00:14:59.840 proxy of of the soviet bloc at the time and you know the most famous one is of course the the

00:15:05.520 two-day party which was um funded by the soviets so this sentence i mean it just makes it this just 0.59

00:15:13.440 kind of makes it seem like iranians are just naturally like angry people who just want

00:15:17.520 revolution constantly that's not actually what it was um it was it was the soviets who were trying to

00:15:23.120 destabilize the the country so old institutions were replaced with new ones as the power of the

00:15:30.320 shah was eclipsed by a buoyant parliament that asserted its dominance on the political scene 0.90

00:15:37.120 even though the movement was soon suppressed its impact would come to shape okay so when when they

00:15:44.000 say even though the movement was soon suppressed i have a feeling that this is going to now

00:15:49.280 unfortunately turn into one of those like most that was democratically elected nonsense right

00:15:54.720 um so let's see how this goes i want to be optimistic guys so i'm i'm going into this with

00:16:01.120 um i'm going to start at a five i'm going to start at a five and then let's see how it goes because

00:16:06.720 five is neutral but i just i don't like how um they're framing this so yeah let's um let's get

00:16:15.520 started okay here we go 0.94

00:16:26.000 the Islamic world in the modern period can justifiably be criticized for its 1.00

00:16:31.520 lack of institutional stability leaders and ideologies often change

00:16:36.640 dramatically government policies can seem as an extension of a leader's whims

00:16:43.140 Historical analysis teaches us that a key component which can prevent this

00:16:47.640 from happening is the presence of a constitution, a basic charter of laws

00:16:51.960 that defines a nation-state. One of the earliest instances of a constitutional

00:16:57.520 movement in the Muslim world emerging was Qajar Persia at the turn of the 20th

00:17:02.280 century. Recognizing the inability of their leaders to prevent the misery 1.00

00:17:07.080 Persia experienced during the 19th century, Persians began to

00:17:11.540 so i just want to explain something as well so the qajar dynasty okay they they were probably

00:17:17.060 in power for i think about 300 years or something they were basically subservient to the ottomans

00:17:21.940 okay the qajar dynasty were incredibly corrupt um they were incredibly backwards they were

00:17:28.580 the type of dynasty that just stole all of iran's money and iranians were incredibly poor so um the 0.99

00:17:36.020 the 1906 Constitutional Revolution was basically because Iranians were seeing that the Qajars were

00:17:43.620 falling under the influence of the Soviets too much. And so they kind of wanted to take that

00:17:49.160 back, right? And then eventually, I don't know how this documentary is going to frame it. I mean,

00:17:54.520 we have to wait and see. But eventually, what led to a change in ruling families, right? Because

00:18:02.380 in, I believe it was 1925, it went from Qajar to Pahlavi, right, with Rizal Shah the Great. Again,

00:18:09.020 we called Rizal Shah the Great the founder of modern-day Iran, the father of modern-day Iran, 1.00

00:18:14.820 and the reason that he came into power was because the Qajar dynasty was so corrupt

00:18:21.420 that the Iranian parliament at the time, again, the democratically elected parliament,

00:18:26.880 had lost faith in the current ruler and so they wanted a new one so it's so that's how

00:18:34.100 the Pahlavi dynasty came in in the 1925 so it was because this this Fajr dynasty was incredibly 0.88

00:18:42.000 corrupt and they didn't do anything for Iran and you know like like prior to the Pahlavi dynasty 0.97

00:18:48.100 taking over Iran was literally like an um like a third world undeveloped um backwater place

00:18:53.940 ...clamoring for a body of law that would guarantee their basic rights.

00:18:58.900 This movement evolved into a revolution which would serve as a springboard for the

00:19:03.540 revolutionary activity which gripped the country throughout the 20th century.

00:19:08.980 Old institutions were replaced with new ones as the power of the Shah was eclipsed by a buoyant

00:19:14.500 parliament that asserted its dominance on the political scene. Even though the movement was

00:19:20.340 soon suppressed its impact would come to shape iranian politics and society ever since 0.96

00:19:28.660 so already this this is kind of giving me ai vibes um not as bad as the other ai generated

00:19:38.100 documentary that we saw but i don't know like this is sort of giving me ai vibes here

00:20:01.300 the 19th century was a period of crisis for persia

00:20:05.580 The royal dynasty in charge, the Qajars, had lost two wars early on to the Russian Empire,

00:20:11.900 losing Armenia and Azerbaijan in the process.

00:20:15.480 In the east, the Afghans had cemented their rule over the city of Herat.

00:20:20.040 Whilst their adversaries, the Ottomans, were instituting reforms to streamline their administration,

00:20:25.400 the Qajars were falling behind, with their governance model relying on a highly decentralized system 0.50

00:20:31.680 that was prone to extreme corruption.

00:20:34.820 According to a survey from the British Foreign Office at the time,

00:20:38.180 there are large tracts of fertile land which remain waste owing to their proximity to the main roads,

00:20:44.820 as no village having cultivators on such spots can possibly prosper

00:20:49.540 or enjoy the least immunity from the pestering visits of government officials

00:20:54.340 and thefts and robberies committed by the tribes. 0.97

00:20:58.180 Ordinary Persians were not oblivious to their government's ineffectiveness, 0.98

00:21:02.660 especially since european imperial powers were imposing their will and domination on the country

00:21:09.380 in 1870 that's the other thing as well like people always complain the pahavi dynasty of

00:21:14.180 being like puppets of the west it's actually the complete opposite it was the qajar dynasty

00:21:18.420 but again all these like armchair experts who aren't iranian um and they have no clue about

00:21:24.340 iranian history like they probably have never even heard of the qajar dynasty and they probably

00:21:29.780 don't even know that ibron had a um like constitutional revolution in the early 1900s

00:21:36.580 right so again like all of these non-iranians have an expert have like an opinion and think

00:21:41.700 they're experts and yet none of them even know anything about the ghajar dynasty or even know

00:21:46.020 that they existed right 72 nasir al-deen shah kajar signed a contract with paul reuter a british

00:21:53.460 businessman and founder of reuters news agency that saw the iranian ruler concede control over

00:21:59.380 Persian roads, factories, extraction of resources amongst other things in exchange for 60% of net

00:22:06.500 revenue and a fixed sum. British statesman Lord Curzon called it the most complete and

00:22:12.500 extraordinary surrender of the entire industrial resources of a kingdom into foreign hands that

00:22:18.900 has probably ever been dreamed of much less accomplished in history. That's 100% true like 0.93

00:22:25.620 the qajar dynasty at the time guys these were just like very incompetent people who were basically 1.00

00:22:30.580 just smoking opium all the time and just living lavish lives and then i think eventually he was

00:22:35.380 like running out of money so that's why they signed this deal right but again this is not

00:22:39.060 the pahlavi dynasty this is the qajar dynasty so all of these non-iranian um experts quote unquote

00:22:46.740 who claim that um the shah was a puppet of the west it's literally the complete opposite

00:22:52.900 um it was the qajar dynasty but these people don't understand anything about iranian history

00:22:58.420 and so they just spout the islamist propaganda that was pushed by um the jihadis and the communists

00:23:05.220 in the 1950s 60s and 70s in order to overthrow um in order to delegitimize the shah and overthrow

00:23:11.940 him right um but the reality is that he was not none of them were western puppets it was 0.53

00:23:17.460 the Qajar dynasty that actually were the western puppets of the time." 0.71

00:23:23.860 Thankfully for Iran, public outrage reached the point that the Shah was forced to back down. 0.88

00:23:30.020 Some 20 years later however, the same long-ruling Nasser al-Din Shah was forced to renege on another 0.91

00:23:36.820 foolish and humiliating concession. This time he allowed Englishman Major G.F. Talbot complete

00:23:43.860 monopolization on the production, sale and export of tobacco. Much of Persian

00:23:49.680 society consumed tobacco, so it affected almost all of the country. In addition,

00:23:55.600 certain segments of the Bazaris, the merchant class, had their livelihoods

00:24:00.420 dependent on the cash crop. Fearing for their job security, the Bazaris 1.00

00:24:05.880 protested. They allied themselves with the Ulama, the religious clergy, to form a

00:24:11.760 powerful alliance that would serve as the bedrock of all future revolutionary episodes inside the

00:24:17.680 country mirza shirazi the most important religious authority in the country it's always the clerics

00:24:24.720 guys it's literally always the religious clerics that cause problems right like these people have 0.52

00:24:30.080 been causing problems in iran for for like over a century and they have no shame about it no shame

00:24:37.520 country issued a fatwa against the use of tobacco. Persian society was galvanized. Almost immediately

00:24:45.280 there was a near total boycott of tobacco use as Persians demonstrated their desperate determination 1.00

00:25:00.240 by foregoing one of their favorite pastimes. Within two months the Shah was forced to rebuke 1.00

00:25:06.480 the agreement. But the damage had likely been done already. Persians across all strands of society

00:25:13.360 became convinced that their rulers were incompetent and did not have their best interests at heart. 1.00

00:25:19.600 That's true. The Qajar dynasty were completely incompetent and they did not have the best 1.00

00:25:24.000 interests of the Iranian people at heart. Something had to change. In 1896, while preparing 1.00

00:25:31.200 During celebrations for the 50th anniversary of his reign, Nasr al-Din Shah was assassinated

00:25:36.660 by a bankrupt trader who had studied under Jamal al-Din Afghani.

00:25:41.920 The new monarch Muzaffar al-Din Shah continued in his father's footsteps by mismanaging the

00:25:47.420 country's finances.

00:25:49.940 In 1901, he sold a monopoly over oil exploration in central and southern Persia to British

00:25:56.220 businessman William Darcy.

00:25:59.180 This deal would play a big role in precipitating the revolutionary politics of Muhammad Musadiq

00:26:04.680 some four decades later.

00:26:07.020 At the same time, tariffs on native merchants were increased and the shah took

00:26:11.680 Exploration in central and southern Persia to British businessman William Darcy.

00:26:24.740 This deal would play a big role in precipitating the revolutionary politics of Muhammad Musadiq

00:26:30.260 some four decades later.

00:26:32.600 At the same time, tariffs on native merchants were increased and the Shah took out massive

00:26:37.800 loans from Britain and Russia to pay for the government's expenditure.

00:26:43.060 So again, like all these people who claim the Shah was a puppet of the West, they literally

00:26:48.080 have no idea which Shah they're talking about.

00:26:50.660 The Shah that was a puppet of the West were the ones who were part of the Qajar dynasty, which came before the Pahlavis, right?

00:26:56.480 They were the ones in power prior to 1925. 0.75

00:26:59.900 Those were the Shahs that were puppets of the West, as you can see, not the current Pahlavi dynasty. 0.93

00:27:05.900 Anyone who claims that the Pahlavi dynasty were puppets of the West are either ignorant or they're just like spouting that, again, the Islamist jihadi propaganda, 0.87

00:27:14.580 because they want to try and delegitimize the Shah because that's the only way that they can 0.88

00:27:25.320 legitimize the Islamic takeover of Iran in 1979. To appease his European lenders,

00:27:33.220 Muzaffar al-Din Shah appointed Monsieur Naus, a Belgian, as the country's Director General of

00:27:39.100 customs for the typical iranian they could not understand why their ruler was helping the

00:27:45.100 europeans at the expense of iranians again so who was the western puppet here it wasn't 0.93

00:27:52.460 the pahlavi dynasty it was the ghajar dynasty right but again um people who are ignorant about

00:27:59.660 the history of iran don't know this or they are purposely spreading misinformation because they're

00:28:06.300 on the side of the islamic terrorists who took over iran in 1979 mind-bogglingly muzaffar al-deen

00:28:14.380 shah also relaxed controls over censorship allowing for the proliferation of liberal

00:28:19.740 newspapers and general political expression as persia and the wider islamic world was

00:28:28.940 experiencing a crisis in governance or perhaps as a result of it new political ideas were emerging

00:28:35.980 that promised reform and vigour.

00:28:39.240 The Dar al-Fanun and the Faculty of Law and Political Science became hubs for the production

00:28:44.380 of these ideas. 1.00

00:28:46.540 Whilst the Qajars' attempt at reform and modernisation was largely pitiful at best, 0.99

00:28:51.620 they did set up a few modern education institutions that went on to shape young intellectuals.

00:28:58.720 As such, a growing voice emerged within Persian intelligentsia that believed the constitution

00:29:04.620 should be a prerequisite for the stability and prosperity of their nation a basic charter which

00:29:11.020 defined the laws and identity of the state all the european countries had them after all and they

00:29:16.940 were doing really well this voice believed the constitution would hold the ruler to a certain

00:29:22.700 standard and prevent a weak government that struggles to function with so much of the need

00:29:28.300 did you see this guys so do you see like there was literally a constitution in place so anyone

00:29:35.280 who who claims that the shah was a dictator literally knows nothing or they are supportive

00:29:43.540 of the islamic dictatorship that is holding iranians hostage united by a disdain for the 0.90

00:29:49.880 inefficiencies and corruption of the government and with the backing of such important segments 0.94

00:29:54.760 of society, the Bazaris had numbers and money, the ulama had even more numbers and their moral

00:30:01.400 prestige afforded them great respect and thus authority, not to forget the burgeoning

00:30:06.840 intelligentsia that gave them political vernacular and direction. By the turn of the 20th century,

00:30:14.120 the conditions for revolution were in place. Incompetent governance, foreign enemies who

00:30:19.560 constantly humiliated the nation and popular forces that desperately wanted

00:30:24.800 change now all that was needed was a spark early on in 1905 the country would

00:30:36.800 face a sharp economic crisis there was a poor harvest which for an agrarian

00:30:42.540 society like Persia was devastating the suffering was compounded by events in

00:30:48.280 neighboring Russia. Despite being one of the most feared empires, Russia's domestic affairs were in

00:30:54.200 disarray. No amount of imperial grandeur could cover up the fact that many ordinary Russians 1.00

00:31:00.920 experienced the standard of living comparable to the poor weak countries it was conquering.

00:31:07.240 So when the Japanese humiliated Russia in their war of 1905, ordinary Russians saw their opportunity

00:31:14.040 to rise up in revolt against the Tsar. Not only did this spur on the Persian political ideologues,

00:31:21.000 considering the only Asian state with a constitution had defeated the only major

00:31:25.640 European state without one, the disruption caused by events in Russia severely impacted trade also.

00:31:32.920 Food prices rose drastically in all the major cities. At the same time, a cholera epidemic

00:31:39.640 broke out. The desperation of the country's citizens was perfectly captured by a local

00:31:45.320 cleric when he addressed Kajar authorities.

00:32:15.320 و بازرگانان ارمنی بفروشند و سپس آنها را به بردگی در روسیه فروختند.

00:32:22.660 هزاران بندگان شما مجبور شده اند از این ظلم فرار کنند و به روسیه مهاجرت کنند.

00:32:30.120 اگر چاره ای اندیشیده نشود، کشور از بین خواهد رفت.

00:32:36.020 سیستان و بلوچستان را انگلیسی ها تصرف خواهند کرد، روسها بخشای دیگر 0.89

00:32:43.460 Iranians had had enough.

00:33:06.440 Protests began in June 1905 at first as peaceful processions

00:33:11.480 whereby shopkeepers communicated their request to the government, which were to dismiss Monsieur

00:33:16.700 Naus and to repay the loans the government had borrowed from small business owners.

00:33:22.860 Even though Muzaffar al-Din Shah initially seemed willing to fulfill these wishes, which

00:33:27.640 led to reduced protests, it quickly became apparent that he had no intention of following

00:33:33.160 up on them.

00:33:34.980 Subsequently, public dissent resumed all throughout the year and into 1906.

00:33:40.720 In the summer of that year, the police shot dead a religious student, causing a chain

00:33:45.220 of events that saw tensions and violence escalate.

00:33:48.980 In July 1906, two merchants travelled to the British legation in Tehran to seek Bast,

00:33:55.060 a custom respected since ancient times that was equivalent to sanctuary or asylum.

00:34:01.340 The number of the Bastille grew to 14,000 within a few weeks.

00:34:06.400 The British diplomats watched with astonishment as the gardens of their embassy were transformed

00:34:11.460 into what an Iranian eyewitness called one vast open-air school of political science,

00:34:18.300 as dangerous new ideas were freely discussed whilst lectures were given on different European

00:34:23.920 constitutional systems. 0.94

00:34:26.720 With the trio of forces responsible for spearheading all three of Iran's 20th century revolutions

00:34:32.820 the Bazarees, the Ulama, and the liberal intellectuals, it felt as if this round of

00:34:38.180 protests would be different from previous. So guys, we're about 12 minutes in, and so far,

00:34:45.520 I am pretty, I'm pretty okay with what's being said so far, because one of the things I like

00:34:58.140 about this particular documentary so far is that it actually gives pretty good input and insight

00:35:05.560 into Iran in the late 19th century, early 20th century. And what happened then is actually

00:35:18.020 pretty critical to understanding what happens down the road. Not the way that I think this

00:35:24.100 documentary is going to describe it but um it definitely is uh important especially because 0.99

00:35:30.900 it lays the groundwork for the fact that all of the lies that the um uh islamic regime you know

00:35:38.360 the ayatollahs and you know also the communists all the lies they spread about the shah you know 0.72

00:35:42.740 the shah being a western puppet or whatever um it's all it was all really about the qajar dynasty

00:35:51.580 right it was the qajar dynasty that was weak the so right now when they're referring to the shah

00:35:56.300 they're referring to the shahs from the previous dynasty because we haven't even reached the

00:36:00.540 path of dynasty yet that happens in um in in 1925 but a lot of people don't know about the persian

00:36:08.940 constitutional revolution they don't know about the fact that um we were actually a constitutional

00:36:15.020 monarchy as of 1906 and we had parliamentarians and and all of that stuff so so far um i mean

00:36:22.060 we're about we're about halfway in i think it's like a 33 minute documentary we're about 12 minutes

00:36:27.820 in and i haven't had that many comments so far i haven't had that many comments so um i mean i'm

00:36:34.620 still at a five i'm still at a five but let's see let's see what happens when they get to the

00:36:38.460 pahlevi dynasty because that's where uh we're really going to find out where the intentions

00:36:44.060 lie and where the bias lies with this particular documentary obvious ones that seemed smaller in

00:36:49.580 scope and ambition on august 5th the shah appointed a senior official with liberal views as prime

00:36:56.620 minister and signed a proclamation convening a constituent national assembly a few months later

00:37:03.820 elections were held for the majlis yeah i mean you're 100 right like like i'll just like the

00:37:09.420 The Al Jazeera one we watched last night, I had to pause like every two seconds to call

00:37:14.540 out another lie because it was like every word that came out of that documentary was

00:37:20.100 100% a lie.

00:37:22.000 As the assembly was known, on December 30th 1906, the Shah signed the constitution, which

00:37:28.700 was modelled on the Belgian constitution.

00:37:31.980 The protesters had won, but the real struggle to implement change would now begin.

00:37:38.540 Almost immediately, there was an explosion of intellectual and political activity.

00:37:44.300 Dozens of radical newspapers and political organizations appeared.

00:37:49.420 Within the Majlis, three main political factions emerged.

00:37:53.220 The Royalists.

00:37:54.960 So guys Majlis, okay Majlis is basically the Persian word for parliament.

00:38:00.740 So if you hear Majlis, it just means parliament.

00:38:03.960 And these are all like Iranian politicians, right?

00:38:06.480 So again, anyone who claims that the Shah was a dictator literally has no understanding

00:38:11.600 of Iranian politics or history because we have had democratically elected parliamentarians

00:38:19.940 in the majlis since 1906.

00:38:22.980 Who were few and grossly unpopular, the moderates, who formed the vast majority and received

00:38:28.960 valuable support from the Bazaari community, as well as key ulama like Ayatollahs Tabatabai

00:38:36.000 and Behbahani and the liberals who represented the small but assertive intelligentsia.

00:38:42.840 Only a few days after the constitution was ratified, the Shah died and was succeeded by

00:38:48.380 his son Muhammad Ali.

00:38:50.960 Unfortunately for most of the Majlis, the new Shah wanted to restore the absolutism of his

00:38:56.440 grandfather Nasr al-Din Shah.

00:38:59.740 The two forces clashed on what the exact nature of the new government should look like, with

00:39:04.360 With the majlis seeking to dilute royal authority as much as possible whilst Muhammad Ali Shah

00:39:09.820 wanted to reinstate autocratic rule.

00:39:13.320 Dismayed by the resistance of the new monarch, protests erupted once again throughout Iran. 0.64

00:39:19.540 The protesters were in no mood to go back to Qajar despotism and show that they were

00:39:24.420 willing to defend the constitution through violent means, mobilizing small forces of

00:39:29.380 armed volunteers.

00:39:31.600 In August 1907, the pro-monarchist prime minister was assassinated outside the parliament building

00:39:37.480 by a moneylender from Tabriz who promptly committed suicide after.

00:39:43.020 The assassin's funeral was said to have been attended by 100,000 mourners to demonstrate

00:39:48.480 support for the revolution.

00:39:51.020 The Shah, intimidated by the zeal and strength of numbers, quickly conceded to the majlis

00:39:56.480 by vowing to respect the constitution.

00:40:00.200 In the same month, with the country busy with its political transformation, Britain and

00:40:05.160 Russia took advantage by holding a convention whereby they split Persia into zones of influence.

00:40:12.440 The constitutionalists were infuriated that their country's destiny was being decided 0.97

00:40:17.320 for them by foreigners. 0.99

00:40:19.920 An even bigger issue was arising within parliament, as the liberals sought to push forward with

00:40:25.560 far-reaching reforms that would invariably offend the conservative nature of Iranian society.

00:40:32.520 Publications associated with the liberal cause such as the journal Suray Israfil put forward

00:40:38.600 the case for secularism by suggesting that the ulama should stay out of politics.

00:40:44.120 But to suggest something so unrealistic not only undermine the constitution which despite

00:40:49.960 being Belgian inspired was rooted in Sharia law, but more importantly it would show a

00:40:55.320 great degree of ignorance about the socio-political makeup of the land it is tough to overstate the

00:41:01.480 degree of authority the ulama hold over iranians guys ilana he's referring to the the clerics

00:41:08.040 right like the islamic clerics right they they maintain so basically um the reason that the

00:41:14.520 islamists and the communists hate the shah uh the the the late shah of iran um god rest his soul

00:41:21.880 um we love him by the way this is a pro this is a pro shah channel by the way this is a pro

00:41:26.200 pahlavi channel just want to put it out there we are 100 pro pahlavi here like the vast majority 1.00

00:41:31.480 of iranians um so just want to put it out there but um the reason that the um islamists always

00:41:38.040 try to smear the shah and put out all this like you know fake propaganda about him is because

00:41:44.200 Because prior to the Panhevi dynasty taking over in 1925, it was the Islamic clergy that

00:41:52.300 were in charge.

00:41:53.680 And then when the Panhevi dynasty came in, they began a very ambitious project to modernize

00:41:58.700 Iran, starting with Reza Shah the Great, of course, the founder of the modern-day Iran.

00:42:05.920 And then his son, Shahan Shah Aryomer, the previous Shah of Iran, he implemented something 0.83

00:42:12.140 called the White Revolution.

00:42:13.320 So did you hear about how like in the early 1900s, the liberals were trying to secularize Iran, and then the Islamic clerics didn't like that? Back then they were too powerful, so they stopped it. However, when the late Shah was in power, in 1963, he actually did modernize Iran. And in 1963, he gave Iranian women the right to vote.

00:42:39.720 In fact, women in Iran had the right to vote before women in countries like Switzerland and Portugal and Sweden, and that pissed off the Islamic clerics.

00:42:48.080 So one of the main reasons the Islamic clerics began to smear the Shah and put out all these lies about him in order to delegitimize him was because they basically wanted to turn Iran into a 7th century Islamic hellhole.

00:43:08.480 they did not like the fact that the shah um was giving women the right to vote like that offended

00:43:14.480 them right and the islamic clergy didn't like the fact that the shah was turning iran into a secular

00:43:21.520 modern country so the reason that they called him a dictator is because the shah told these people

00:43:28.320 that you don't get a say in politics anymore because you're clergy right and so because 0.61

00:43:34.160 the shah was preventing islamism and communism from taking over the country 0.93

00:43:39.200 the same people who are now you know ruling the country and are war criminals they're the ones 0.79

00:43:44.400 who are calling him a dictator meanwhile they are the actual dictators i just wanted to to point

00:43:49.840 that out give you a little bit of context here all right let's go back a little bit um because

00:43:54.240 now you know like when they say that ilama um ilama means like the the um like the islamic

00:44:01.040 not only undermine the constitution which despite being belgian inspired was rooted in sharia law

00:44:07.760 but more importantly it would show a great degree of ignorance about the sociopolitical makeup of

00:44:17.120 tough to overstate the degree of authority the ulama hold or iranian society on a grassroots

00:44:23.280 level as such the radical propositions of the liberals began to undermine the unity of the

00:44:28.800 majlis as the moderates their huge ulama backing started to make matters worse for the majlis

00:44:41.760 the economic woes of the country had not improved or increased food prices continued the deputies

00:44:49.120 of the majlis had announced a budget that in an attempt to balance the books actually affected

00:44:53.840 thousands of people employed by the royal court in Tehran. This provided the

00:44:58.640 Royalists an opportunity to break its political isolation. Up until late 1907

00:45:04.360 supporters of the Shah had virtually no voice. Such was the scale of the

00:45:08.900 constitutional victory. The Royalists achieved their first major victory when

00:45:13.820 they recruited Shaykh Fazlullah Nuri to their cause. Nuri had originally joined

00:45:19.460 his fellow Ulama Behbahani and Tabatabai in supporting the protests of 1906, but had

00:45:25.480 become worried about the secularizing drive of the constitutionalists, who he eventually

00:45:30.620 referred to as heathens.

00:45:33.420 Many Iranian supporters of democracy have since thought of Nuri as a lackey or puppet

00:45:38.140 for the Qajars, but his concerns regarding some of the reforms intended by the constitutionalists

00:45:44.720 had very real grounding amongst the ulama, who feared that these reforms were masking

00:45:49.400 a westernization of Iran's culture. 0.75

00:45:52.580 And it is for this reason that the Islamist regime in charge of Iran today ended up revering

00:45:57.760 Shaykh Nouri.

00:45:59.700 For the first time, pro-Shah protests began to be held.

00:46:04.040 By June 1908, the Shah, having recruited more of the public and even a few tribal contingents, 0.91

00:46:10.200 was ready to strike back against a majlis. 1.00

00:46:13.640 The Kajars had a trump card, the Cossack Brigade. 1.00

00:46:17.560 Modelled after the Cossack Regiment of the Russian Imperial Army, it was the most effective 0.96

00:46:21.860 military unit in Persia.

00:46:24.540 It was from this brigade that Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, would emerge.

00:46:30.760 With the help of this elite military unit, Muhammad Shah Kajar initiated a coup d'etat

00:46:35.800 whereby the Cossack 0.81

00:46:36.800 wait did did he just mispronounce wait did he just mispronounce the name okay

00:46:45.480 wait let me go back here I thought I'd misheard this

00:46:53.200 Iran today ended up revering Shaykh Nuri for the first time pro grounding

00:47:00.840 amongst the ulama who feared these reforms were masking a westernization

00:47:05.520 organization of the

00:47:11.520 Iran

00:47:13.520 covering Moody

00:47:15.520 The first time pro-Shar protests against

00:47:25.520 the Cossack 0.90

00:47:27.520 contingents was ready to strike back against the Majlis 1.00

00:47:29.520 The Kajars had a trump card, the Cossack Brigade 1.00

00:47:35.520 unit in persia it was from this brigade that reza shah the founder of the past so we guys

00:47:44.140 we love reza shah the great reza shah the great he is the founder of modern day iran we love him

00:47:51.660 um he is amazing he's literally the reason why iran um he's literally the reason why iran is

00:47:59.520 country today because he began that um ambitious project to uh build and industrialize iran and he

00:48:09.040 turned iran like he like he basically inherited um like a backwaters poor um third world country

00:48:17.440 from the gajar dynasty and he turned it into a thriving um modern industrialized country so

00:48:23.760 So we absolutely love Rizvah Shah the Great.

00:48:27.780 The Khilavi dynasty would emerge. 0.97

00:48:31.160 With the help of this elite military unit, 1.00

00:48:33.640 Mohammad Shah Kajar initiated a coup d'etat 0.95

00:48:36.160 whereby the Cossack brigade bombed the Majlis

00:48:38.800 and subsequently suppressed its members and supporters in the capital.

00:48:43.200 Okay, so that is the first red flag for me, okay?

00:48:47.540 It's not like Rizvah Shah the Great just randomly bombed the Majlis

00:48:53.340 and attacked so okay so that is 100% um propaganda so all right guys like my red flags are going off

00:49:01.860 so I was I was at like um a five I'm at like a three right now so let me let me tell you exactly

00:49:09.020 what happened okay so what happened in that time um oh gosh what year was it again um

00:49:17.080 like it was basically the communists took over the communists took over and then okay let me go

00:49:25.320 back and let me just find the year again I think it was like 1921 but so basically it was the it

00:49:30.660 was like this communist brigade that took over okay let me find this guys I'll be right back

00:49:35.620 let me just find this um

00:49:37.420 here we go

00:49:55.900 okay i found it let me pull it up

00:50:00.700 this is the thing like you never know you never know what um false propaganda you're going to get

00:50:11.300 in these sorts of um documentaries so okay let me pull this up for you guys so

00:50:20.880 this documentary just claimed that Rizal Shah just randomly bombed Majlis right which is the

00:50:30.120 farthest thing from the truth let me explain to you exactly what happened so what this documentary

00:50:35.600 has failed to mention so far is that the soviet like the the soviets at the time were actually

00:50:44.280 trying to gain control of iran um they didn't like the fact that you know iran was allied with

00:50:51.800 the uk at the time so there's it's it's the 1921 persian coup d'etat guys okay the 1921 persian

00:50:59.100 coup d'etat um so it refers to several major events in gajar persia in 1921 which eventually

00:51:08.460 led to the deposition of the gajar dynasty and the establishment of the pahlavi dynasty as the

00:51:15.420 ruling house of iran in 1925. okay so this part's gonna it's important so the events began with the

00:51:24.060 coup again i don't like this like why is wikipedia so terrible at this like this was not a coup

00:51:31.580 what basically happened is that the soviets had taken over the parliament right it was like this

00:51:40.060 it was this communist marxist group that was funded by the soviets at the time and then the

00:51:46.940 the Kostak Brigade came, and they freed people who were being held hostage there, right?

00:51:54.740 Here we go. So, okay, this is what it is. It's right here. So, I don't know, like, this is so

00:51:59.840 weird. So, they call it a coup, right? So, they claim that they started with a coup, but then when

00:52:04.820 you go further down, this is why you can't trust Wikipedia either, right? So, because it's so

00:52:10.320 contradictory. So here's what it is. In the late 1920, the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic

00:52:17.340 was preparing to march on Tehran with a guerrilla force of 1,500 Jangeris, Kurds, Armenians,

00:52:24.440 and Azerbaijanis, reinforced by the Bolsheviks Red Army. Okay, so literally,

00:52:32.260 these these marxists okay that were reinforced and funded by the bolsheviks were trying to 0.99

00:52:41.520 take over the country right because tehran right tehran is the capital of iran so the persian 0.80

00:52:48.560 soviet socialist republic right they wanted to turn um iran into um like a marxist communist

00:52:55.380 proxy of the Soviets. So this fact, along with various other disorders muting

00:53:01.320 and acute political crisis in the capital. By 1921, the ruling Ajar dynasty of Persia had

00:53:12.320 become corrupt and efficient. The oil-rich nation was somewhat reliant on the nations of Britain 0.99

00:53:19.260 and Russia for military and economic support. Civil wars earlier in the decade had threatened

00:53:25.260 the government, and the only regular military force at the time was the Kostak Brigade.

00:53:31.660 So the Qajar Shah in 1921 was Ahmad, who had been crowned at the age of 11.

00:53:36.780 He was considered to be a weak, incompetent ruler, especially after British, Russian,

00:53:42.060 and Ottoman occupations of Persia during World War I. All right, here we go.

00:53:47.340 So, on 14 January 1921, the British general, Edmund Ironside, chose to promote Rizal Khan, who, you know, Rizasha the Great, who had been leading the Tavris battalion to lead the entire Kostak Brigade.

00:54:03.460 About a month later, under British direction, Rizal Khan's 3,000 to 4,000 strong detachment of the Kostak Brigade reached Tehran.

00:54:12.560 The reason that Rizakhan took the Cossack Brigade in Farsi Yitzverid al-Azakh, the reason he took them to Tehran is because the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic had taken over.

00:54:29.980 Okay, so for this documentary to just claim that Rizal Khan just went to Majlis and attacked it without providing the context doesn't make any sense.

00:54:45.620 Like you're literally missing half the story here.

00:54:48.480 You're missing the most critical aspect of the story.

00:54:51.020 What that documentary didn't mention is that the Marxists, funded by the Soviets, had taken over the capital and they were keeping people hostage.

00:55:03.880 And so Riza Shah the Great went to the capital, Tehran, and he freed the capital.

00:55:11.080 Because even the Shah, okay, the Qajar Shah at the time was being held hostage by the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic, okay?

00:55:23.980 But that documentary made it seem like Reza Khan just randomly showed up and attacked, which is the farthest thing from the truth.

00:55:33.260 so the fact that this documentary so what minute are we out here let me see um how far along where

00:55:41.340 we're in give me a moment here so okay so up into so the first the first 17 minutes of this

00:55:49.580 documentary you know i'm okay with like no issue but as soon as it gets to to the path levy dynasty

00:55:58.460 um the fact that they literally choose to exclude the most important parts about what happened

00:56:08.260 in 1921 like they literally failed to mention that at the time that Rizal Shah the Great

00:56:14.900 went to Tehran with the Kostak Brigade he went there because um Tehran was being held hostage

00:56:22.940 by the Soviets, right? So communism was trying to take over Iran, and Rizal Shah the Great

00:56:30.500 actually freed Iran and saved Iran. And by the way, those communists were also holding the Shah

00:56:38.060 of Iran at the time hostage, right? So Rizal Khan at the time, not only did he free Tehran,

00:56:48.420 but he freed the shah which had which had been held hostage by the communists he freed the shah

00:56:54.640 at the time and put him back on the throne okay so that's like just i don't know let me go back

00:57:03.300 a little bit but i'm i'm not liking this like up until 17 minutes it was fine but now it's like

00:57:09.420 right away they started with their anti-pahlavi propaganda for the first time pro-sha protests

00:57:18.700 began to be held by june 1908 the shah having recruited more of the public and even a few 0.96

00:57:25.500 tribal contingents was ready to strike back against the majlis the kajars had a trump card

00:57:31.900 the cossack brigade modeled after the cossack regiment of the russian imperial army it was

00:57:37.820 the most effective military unit in persia it was from this brigade that reza shah the founder of the

00:57:44.220 pahlavi dynasty would emerge with the help of this elite military unit muhammad shah kejar

00:57:50.860 initiated a coup d'etat whereby the cossack brigade bombed the majlis and subsequently

00:57:55.980 suppressed its members and supporters in the capital so again so so they completely failed

00:58:03.020 to mention that this was done because the communists had taken the country hostage right like

00:58:08.300 you had um russian funded communists who were holding the capital hostage but this documentary

00:58:16.060 fails to mention that so all like already um i was at a five right now i'm at like a three

00:58:24.140 yeah i'm i'm at a three out of ten right now the national assembly was then dissolved and

00:58:29.260 martial law was declared in Tehran with the Russian leader of the Cossacks

00:58:33.340 appointed as its military governor. Leading constitutionalists who failed to

00:58:38.560 escape were executed or imprisoned. A period known as the minor tyranny

00:58:44.140 inaugurated the return of absolutism. But the capture of Tehran by royalist

00:58:49.940 forces was not decisive. Armed volunteers emerged in defense of the revolution in

00:58:55.540 most major cities most importantly in tabriz which became the main center of resistance

00:59:02.580 under the command of satar khan and his lieutenant bakir khan the constitutionalists resisted a

00:59:08.660 force sent by the shah to bring the city to submission for 11 months tabriz was besieged

00:59:15.380 with food and this is so weird like they still have not mentioned the fact that these people

00:59:21.780 were um the communists and the marxists and they were being funded by soviet russia like

00:59:31.100 you cannot have an accurate documentary um about what happened in iran um in the you know early

00:59:44.100 1900s unless you talk about the fact that russia was trying to um infiltrate and and in fact it

00:59:53.620 was russia who was funding and creating all of these marxist soviet communist parties in iran

00:59:59.960 because again um iran and and you know the soviets shared a border so there was a lot of soviet

01:00:06.980 communist infiltration into iran the fact that this documentary hasn't even like brought that

01:00:13.200 up or hasn't even hasn't even mentioned the fact that there was significant russian influence which

01:00:20.080 is a well-known fact you know amongst iranians and in you know persian language documentaries

01:00:25.440 um this is this is wild to me like this is um you're not getting you're not getting the full

01:00:33.200 picture here because they're literally i don't know if it's um deliberately or whether if it's

01:00:39.040 um by pure ignorance but they are missing half the story and half the story is the

01:00:46.080 soviet russian communist influence provisions not allowed to reach its inhabitants thus leading to

01:00:52.560 famine-like conditions several efforts to break the siege were defeated including one led by

01:00:59.280 howard baskerville a young american teacher at the american memorial school which resulted

01:01:04.800 in his death finally in april 1909 citizens of tabriz found some relief when britain russia and

01:01:12.400 france agreed that a russian force should be sent to occupy the city but the heroic resistance of

01:01:18.800 tabriz inspired others throughout the country to similarly take up arms and oppose the shah

01:01:25.360 in esfahan the bakhtiari clan had ousted the shah's governor and taken control of the city

01:01:31.280 i don't understand so a few minutes ago they were talking about what was happening in the 1920s but

01:01:38.880 now all of a sudden they've gone back to 1909 so this is this is a little bit confusing here for me

01:01:44.560 and now they've suddenly brought up russia but they bring up the fact that they're appeasing

01:01:50.080 russia but they never actually talked about the russian um the russian destabilization

01:01:56.880 this is this is getting a little bit confusing for me it doesn't seem like it's in chronological

01:02:00.640 order here for themselves soon they began their march towards tehran whilst in the north the

01:02:06.960 forces under having expelled from tabriz also much towards the capital okay so the this is very very

01:02:16.320 weird i don't know like this is maybe like ai swap or something i'm not sure but um the coup

01:02:24.560 that they talked about the the coup in quotations because it wasn't actually a coup the coup

01:02:30.640 with uh rizwan and the cossack brigade happened um in 1920 and it was basically

01:02:38.840 um they were reclaiming tehran from soviet control they they mentioned that earlier but

01:02:46.960 now all of a sudden they've gone back to like 1909 um which is incredibly confusing it it's not

01:02:54.060 making like i'm able to call call out the discrepancies but if someone's you know

01:03:00.260 for those who are not familiar with this um it's very difficult to follow along and it's incredibly

01:03:06.700 confusing um thank you jane i appreciate i appreciate that so much thank you for the

01:03:12.720 super sticker i hope you're enjoying the the live stream the royalist position inside tehran had

01:03:19.960 deteriorated greatly with the civil war worsening the pre-existing economic crisis

01:03:25.340 So on July 13, 1909, when constitutionalist forces appeared before the city gates, they

01:03:33.060 were able to assert their dominance over it within five days.

01:03:37.720 A makeshift constituent assembly was formed, promptly declaring that Muhammad Ali Shah

01:03:42.460 was to be deposed and replaced with his 12-year-old son Ahmad.

01:03:47.460 Leading royalists were tried and imprisoned, or as in the case of Shaykh Fazlullah Nuri,

01:03:53.060 executed.

01:03:54.460 the revolution had been rescued. 0.81

01:03:59.960 The majoless resumed its duties with renewed vigor

01:04:03.140 when it reopened in November 1909. 0.98

01:04:06.700 It soon negotiated the withdrawal of almost all...

01:04:10.480 Okay.

01:04:13.360 So...

01:04:18.780 Let me just pull something up here.

01:04:21.260 I just wanna show you guys how confusing this is right

01:04:24.460 okay so um where is this wait there's uh let me just find this okay um

01:04:47.900 okay so this is why this is why i want to show you why this documentary like is

01:04:54.060 incredibly confusing right now and they're all over the place and um they're they're not portraying

01:05:01.740 not only are they not portraying the facts accurately they're not even portraying it

01:05:06.220 in chronological order so they they spoke about reza khan like about you know maybe five minutes

01:05:13.900 ago and they you know they said that you know the british promoted him to lead the cossack brigade

01:05:20.460 and then he led the you know the coup in tehran so when he was appointed as the leader of the

01:05:27.740 kostak brigade that was in february 1921 okay so wait here we go so this is rizal the great

01:05:36.060 by the way we love rizal the great the father uh the founder of modern day iran we love him

01:05:41.580 there's um so he was um he became the leader of the cossack brigade in february 21 and that's

01:05:53.500 when he marched towards the ca the capital of tehran and he seized it right again he seized it

01:06:00.620 from the communists who were funded by the soviets and had taken control of the capital

01:06:05.820 okay so that happened in 1921 and yet this documentary talked about that like five minutes

01:06:15.020 ago but now all of a sudden and and they never mentioned the fact that tehran was um being held

01:06:21.820 hostage by the soviets right and and the um the persian soviet communist marxist terrorist party

01:06:29.180 whatever right they don't mention that they just claim that he just randomly went and did that in

01:06:34.540 1921 but now all of a sudden they're back in 1909 if i'm not mistaken so let's go back guys pay

01:06:42.860 attention because this is like this documentary is not in chronological order so i'm thinking that

01:06:49.820 whoever made this documentary basically just relied on ai or something um the first 17 minutes

01:06:58.380 of it were okay but after that 17 minute mark um it's pretty much complete and utter nonsense at

01:07:06.120 this point because um they just don't know what they're talking about so again like like what

01:07:12.580 they're talking about was with Riza Khan did not happen until 1921 but this documentary puts it

01:07:19.040 much earlier and now they're back talking about 1909 like it's just it's very very strange

01:07:26.160 like this is this is very low-quality troops in all right so let's go back

01:07:31.020 and let's see what they can control of the city for themselves

01:07:36.600 since of Tabriz found some relief like I can't even tell what year this is right

01:07:42.180 now when Britain Russia and France agreed that a Russian force should be

01:07:45.920 sent to occupy the city but the heroic resistance of Tabriz inspired others

01:07:51.660 throughout the country to similarly take up arms and oppose the Shah.

01:07:56.540 In Esfahan, the Bakhtiari clan had ousted the Shah's governor

01:08:00.460 and taken control of the city for themselves. 0.97

01:08:03.580 Soon, they began their march towards Tehran. 0.89

01:08:06.380 Whilst in the north... 0.71

01:08:08.300 Okay, when did that happen guys? When did the Bakhtiaris do that? 1.00

01:08:12.060 I keep on... I should know this because I'm a Lord Bakhtiari but 1.00

01:08:15.980 i always forget um um like what year was that let me find it um

01:08:31.660 yeah so again like so so this is happening so these are events of the 1920s

01:08:37.740 but now he's gonna go back and he's gonna mention um like 1909 again right the forces

01:08:44.220 under satar khan having been expelled from tabriz also marched towards the capital

01:08:50.140 the royalist position inside tehran had deteriorated chadwick is saying they went back to

01:08:56.780 they went back after to explain why he led the coup okay i mean maybe that was it but okay so

01:09:03.740 why don't we go back because we're only about like we're only about two minutes in after that so okay

01:09:09.580 so chadwick why don't we go back um so let's let's see how they present this because i don't know

01:09:16.140 maybe maybe i missed this but um like up until the 17 minute mark everything seemed to make sense

01:09:23.180 and now like it got confusing so i don't know maybe it's just me but let's see so i went back

01:09:28.540 to the 1704 mark for the kajars but his concerns regarding some of the reforms intended by the

01:09:35.260 constitutionalists had very real grounding amongst the ulama who feared that these reforms were

01:09:41.100 masking a westernization of iran's culture and it's for this reason that the islamist regime

01:09:47.180 in charge of iran today ended up revering sheikh nuri for the first time pro-shah protests began

01:09:54.540 to be held by june 1908 the shah having recruited more of the public and even a few tribal contingents

01:10:02.300 was ready to strike back against the majlis the kajars had a trump card the cossack brigade

01:10:09.580 modeled after the cossack regiment of the russia see this is why it gets confusing for me because

01:10:15.980 he says by 1909 the gajar shah was ready to strike back and it was the cossack brigade which

01:10:22.540 was ruled by rizzo so i don't know maybe maybe i got this part wrong but let's an imperial army

01:10:27.260 it was the most effective military unit in persia it was from this brigade that reza shah the founder

01:10:33.740 of the pahlavi dynasty would emerge yeah and you can like so so guys you can also see i mean this

01:10:41.180 part's accurate so he so reza reza shah the great did not become um the shah until 1925 so that's

01:10:48.780 important guys okay with the help of this elite military unit muhammad shah kajar initiated a

01:10:54.620 coup d'état whereby the cossack brigade bombed the majlis and subsequently suppressed its members

01:11:00.220 and supporters in the capital the national assembly was then dissolved and martial law

01:11:05.660 was declared in tehran so they're making it seem as if so so they talk about reza shah the great

01:11:14.620 and then they go back and they talk about um uh the the previous shah using the cossack brigade to

01:11:22.300 bomb tehran um that part's a little bit confusing the russian leader of the cossacks appointed as

01:11:31.420 its military governor leading constitutionalists who failed to escape were executed or imprisoned

01:11:39.260 a period known as the minor tyranny inaugurated the return of absolutism

01:11:45.100 but the capture of tehran by royalist forces was not decisive

01:11:48.780 armed volunteers emerged in defense of the revolution in most major cities

01:11:53.940 most importantly in Tabriz which became the main center of resistance under the

01:12:00.320 command of Satar Khan and his lieutenant by Kir Khan the constitutionalists

01:12:05.340 resisted a force sent by the Shah to bring the city to submission for 11

01:12:10.500 months Tabriz was besieged with food and provisions not allowed to reach its

01:12:15.340 inhabitants thus leading to famine-like conditions several efforts to break the siege were defeated

01:12:22.700 including one led by howard baskerville a young american teacher at the american memorial school

01:12:28.700 which resulted in okay so i think what's confusing about that part what was confusing for me is that

01:12:35.500 um they talk about the cossack brigade and then they jump forward to to riza hun but then they

01:12:42.860 jump backwards but they don't ground it in like a date so what they're talking about right now you

01:12:48.940 know 11 months here five months there we have no idea about the dates and so this could be confusing

01:12:56.300 for people who are not familiar with the history um of iran at that time in the 1910s and 1920s

01:13:03.900 death finally in april 1909 citizens of tabriz found some relief when britain russia and france

01:13:14.460 agreed that a russian force should be sent to occupy the city but the heroic resistance of

01:13:20.380 tabriz inspired others throughout the country to similarly take up arms and oppose the shah

01:13:26.940 in esfahan the bakhtiari clan had ousted the shah's governor and taken control of the city

01:13:32.380 for themselves.

01:13:33.980 Soon they began their march towards Tehran, whilst in the north the forces under Satar

01:13:39.220 Khan, having been expelled from Tabriz, also marched towards the capital.

01:13:44.560 The royalist position inside Tehran had deteriorated greatly, with the civil war worsening the

01:13:50.120 pre-existing economic crisis.

01:13:53.380 So on July 13th 1909, when constitutionalist forces appeared before the city gates, they

01:13:59.780 were able to assert their dominance over it within five days. A makeshift constituent

01:14:05.700 assembly was formed promptly declaring that Muhammad Ali Shah was to be deposed and replaced

01:14:10.980 with his 12-year-old son Ahmad. Leading royalists were tried and imprisoned or as in the case of

01:14:17.700 Shaykh Fazlullah Nuri executed. The revolution had been rescued.

01:14:22.980 The Majlis resumed its duties with renewed vigour when it reopened in November 1909.

01:14:32.280 It soon negotiated the withdrawal of almost all the Russian troops inside the country's

01:14:38.160 northern provinces, obtained a loan to rebuild the administrative structure, set up a police

01:14:44.160 force known as the Gendarmerie and recruited an American financial expert by the name of

01:14:49.560 morgan schuster to reorganize the tax administration but as is often the case with middle eastern

01:14:56.360 states that initially enter into parliamentary democracy the majlis descended into internal

01:15:02.280 conflict the line separating the moderates and the liberals became more pronounced as both sides

01:15:09.080 dug their heels in and became less willing to compromise the issue surrounding religiosity

01:15:15.160 and secularism featured prominently with the revolution having already turned violent both

01:15:21.480 sides were now more willing to use violence to advance their cause turning tehran into a bloody

01:15:27.160 battleground by the beginning of 1911. seeing chaos reduced the central government to ineptitude

01:15:34.920 i should have fixed like my heading up top here guys because um the way that i read the description

01:15:40.680 about this particular documentary like the way they describe it is that it almost seems as if

01:15:46.760 like um they start with the persian constitutional revolution and then they end up at the 1979

01:15:55.080 islamic revolution but this documentary is all about um the persian constitutional revolution

01:16:02.600 of 1905 to 1911. so um this this title up here is a little bit misleading i apologize but i i

01:16:10.360 did think that this was going to lead up to um the 1979 islamic revolution however um i'm actually

01:16:19.160 like for what it is i'm actually enjoying this quite a bit because um so far it's been pretty

01:16:27.720 much factual except for like the part where they talk about rizakhan that was just a little bit

01:16:33.400 confusing to like just bring him in and then go back because it almost made it seem as if

01:16:38.760 Reza Khan was responsible for bombing the Majlis when he he literally wasn't like he wasn't involved

01:16:45.160 at that time um that is my major criticism of this documentary so far um so you know we have

01:16:53.720 a few more minutes left but as of right now i'm i'm like i'm like kind of at an eight i'm at an

01:16:59.800 eight but but let's see let's see how this um finishes the provinces erupted in tribal warfare

01:17:07.560 as various tribes and ethnicities tried to assert their own authority on their territories.

01:17:14.120 In an attempt to prevent open warfare, the government announced that all private

01:17:18.280 citizens had to hand in their weapons. The heroes of Tabriz, Satar Khan and Bakir Khan,

01:17:24.600 along with 300 of their men, refused, leading to a short battle in Atabak Park,

01:17:30.440 in which the government prevailed. There were even attempts by the former Shah,

01:17:35.000 Muhammad Ali to return to power but these were defeated. From the outside European powers watched

01:17:42.280 with great alarm, especially the British whose oil concession had struck gold when oil was

01:17:48.040 discovered in 1908. On the back of their agreement in 1907 the Russians and the British began moving

01:17:55.080 their troops into the main northern and southern cities respectively. In November 1911 the Russians

01:18:02.440 issued an ultimatum to Parliament. Dismiss Schuster, never hire foreign 1.00

01:18:07.000 advisers without British and Russian consent and pay an indemnity for the

01:18:11.400 Russian forces in Iranian cities. For the first time in over a year the moderates 0.88

01:18:17.500 and liberals unanimously agreed on something to reject the conditions. But

01:18:22.960 the Prime Minister Samsam al-Saltani and a few other key figures saw this as

01:18:28.480 futile. What resistance could they offer to a well-trained and ferocious force of

01:18:33.820 over 10,000 Russian soldiers? So the majlis was dissolved and just like that

01:18:40.220 the Persian constitutional revolution was over, weakened by internal fissures and

01:18:46.240 finished off by external pressures. The revolution might have been over but for

01:18:52.060 the desire and drive of a more representative and efficient form of

01:18:56.080 governance in iran this was only the beginning i don't understand what he means by saying that and

01:19:03.760 with that the person the persian constitutional revolution was over it was over because they

01:19:09.680 achieved what they wanted which was a constitution by the way that constitution existed up until 1979

01:19:18.560 and in fact um many of us argue that the constitution is still in place so the

01:19:25.040 constitution of 1906 according to um some iranian legal scholars uh is still in place and it was

01:19:33.120 never actually uh overthrown overturned by the 1979 islamic revolution now you know there's there's a

01:19:39.040 lot of debate on that but regardless um the way that he says that um and with that the revolution

01:19:47.440 was over it was over because they were successful right there was no majlis prior to um 1906 right

01:19:55.680 there was no uh iranian parliament before 1906 and what the persian constitutional revolution did is

01:20:05.360 it established um and uh a parliament in iran which is called the majlis um and that parliament

01:20:14.000 existed uh it still exists today right so even during the the the shah's time uh you know um

01:20:22.800 that match list was there so the way that they say like it was just over it's a little weird i

01:20:30.960 don't like how they frame it because it just it doesn't make sense to me it seems like they have

01:20:36.000 a little bit of an agenda i don't know if they want to make this more dramatic than it is and

01:20:41.600 that's the other thing it's like i find like non-iranians just like when they when they talk

01:20:45.200 about the history of iran everything is like drama so dramatic so mysterious right um the constitution

01:20:53.840 the the revolution uh at that time was over because they achieved what they wanted

01:21:00.080 over the course of the 20th century there would be two more major revolutions that sought to achieve

01:21:05.920 the aim set out by the constitutionalists at the beginning of the century

01:21:10.720 both of those future events would trace the genealogy of their movements to the constitutional

01:21:15.920 revolution thanks for tuning in as usual i want to give a big shout out to my okay so um

01:21:29.200 this was not about the 1979 islamic revolution i thought it was because that's sort of how they

01:21:34.160 they described it um in their uh like the summary and you know guys with all of these i do like a

01:21:43.240 blind watch so it's not like i watch these from before and prepare myself i literally just you

01:21:49.500 know watch it with you guys live so you get like my you know my initial reaction um so this was

01:21:58.760 again let me let me pull up um the channel which i got this from um i i will include

01:22:09.080 the link to this documentary in the video description of of this live stream when the

01:22:15.640 live stream is done um so this was a documentary that was recommended by one of our channel members

01:22:25.240 scott scott thank you so much for um this suggestion you know what i actually enjoyed 1.00

01:22:32.440 watching this guys after like three nights of watching utter nonsense and islamist and jihadi 0.72

01:22:39.320 propaganda um this was this was quite refreshing this was like a refreshing change and um it also

01:22:48.600 also provided, you know, insight into, you know, a part of Iranian history and politics that a lot of people don't know about, right?

01:23:01.820 So for anyone who actually knows about the fact that there was a Persian constitutional revolution in 1905, anyone who knows that automatically understands that the Shah was not a dictator, right?

01:23:24.400 Because we were a constitutional monarchy well before the Pahlavi dynasty came into power.

01:23:31.820 Um, the thing about this documentary is, is it does not focus enough on the Russian communist

01:23:40.820 influence. But other than that, like it was, it was pretty good. I mean, compared to the three

01:23:46.680 other, um, the three other documentaries that we have seen, this is not bad. This is not bad. Like

01:23:56.840 i would i don't like at the end how he says that like you know this this this then informed two

01:24:05.380 other revolutions right um when he says two other revel revolutions obviously one of them is the

01:24:12.900 1979 islamic revolution but the other revolution revolution that um he's referring to is 1953 with

01:24:22.540 that was not a revolution guys so that is communist propaganda um there was no revolution

01:24:30.680 in 1953 what happened in 1953 is exactly what happened um in 1921 in 1921 the communists

01:24:40.920 tried to take over iran and they were prevented and then in 1953 the communists once again tried

01:24:48.720 to take over Iran and they were prevented. So it was not a revolution. So I don't, I don't like

01:24:55.680 that because that's not the proper way of describing what happened. So, I mean, having

01:25:02.780 said that, I don't know. I don't know, guys, what, what would you, what would you rate this

01:25:08.020 documentary? I mean, I'm thinking a seven out of 10, a seven out of 10, uh, because it does provide

01:25:16.020 a lot of good input and insight and i think um

01:25:25.700 it's probably it's probably like going to be one of the better primers for um

01:25:34.660 understanding iranian political history leading up to um the the 1979 islamic um revolution so um

01:25:46.020 seven okay guys give me a so for the iranians here just on your show what i've been bidding like

01:25:52.740 out of 10 um for the iranians i'm thinking like i'm thinking a seven are we are we are we agreeing

01:26:01.200 on a seven um for anyone who says that i'm not iranian i mean

01:26:06.160 so

01:26:14.480 six i'm seeing a lot of sixes 7.5 oh my gosh wait bb gave me another sticker thank you bb

01:26:26.960 thank you bb we by the way this is also this this is not only um a pro path heavy channel

01:26:34.400 this is also um a pro israel channel so we love israel um i'm israel hi and just want to give a

01:26:41.920 shout out to all of our Jewish followers and members here as well. Okay. I'm seeing a lot

01:26:47.760 of sevens. Okay. I'm seeing like six, seven, 7.5. Okay. So I think I'm going to give this a seven. 0.87

01:26:54.700 I think that's sort of what we're going to, you know, agree upon here. And, uh, you know, I will,

01:27:00.440 I will also qualify it, right? Like I'll explain why it's a seven. Um, but yes, I would, I would

01:27:06.660 definitely recommend this documentary with the qualifiers that i provided um this is one of the

01:27:15.700 better ones again like this is because it's before um before the events of 1979 and i think it's

01:27:24.660 interesting for a lot of people to see this so yeah this is this is definitely um a seven out of

01:27:29.140 10 which is a huge jump compared to the other documentaries where we have rated um

01:27:37.220 three out of ten zero out of ten and then you know um a thumbs a finger middle finger out of ten

01:27:45.300 so okay guys well thank you so much for joining i did have a goal but unfortunately we didn't

01:27:50.900 we did not reach the goal but maybe next time i'll stick around and do a little bit of q a for

01:27:56.420 everyone um but i will see you all tomorrow at um 12 noon for another episode of the goldie show

01:28:06.260 which is my usual daily live stream so see you all tomorrow at 12 noon um and until then

01:28:20.260 you want me to keep going okay i mean is there is there something in particular

01:28:25.220 that you would like me to to talk about i mean i'm more i mean i could i could probably stick

01:28:31.060 around for another hour um okay all right okay let me see if i can find something else and just

01:28:40.580 just play it here um what do you guys want me to do you guys want me to just play something else

01:28:48.420 or do you want me to just answer questions because i could just maybe like do amas like if there's

01:28:53.940 any questions you have um about iran or or the shah like i'm more than happy to do that for um

01:29:04.260 a little bit

01:29:09.060 wait what am i seeing here okay

01:29:11.860 all right okay i could talk about anything all right okay all right fine okay i've i've never

01:29:24.320 done this before but um okay i will try to answer your questions in the chat guys so um okay

01:29:34.740 okay what's my religion so i um my religion is private um i'm not muslim if that means anything

01:29:46.160 i mean ultimately i don't think i don't think religion um matters i think um

01:29:51.880 oh my god omid you want to go through khomeini's terrible book i don't know if i'm prepared for

01:29:57.140 that I need to find a link okay I I could I could find a link and we could go through some of like

01:30:04.940 the terrible things Khomeini says but I don't know oh my gosh that's like

01:30:10.800 I mean guys we have to like how do I put this we have to ease in the non-Iranians right like we 1.00

01:30:20.140 have to ease them into um the horrific reality of the islamic republic like if i was just going 1.00

01:30:27.680 to break down all the things that khomeini says right now um like half the people here would just 0.99

01:30:34.980 be traumatized for the rest of their life so we have to ease them into like the the disgusting 0.98

01:30:41.680 thing ideology of the islamic republic um so yeah okay so let me let me um let me scroll up 1.00

01:30:50.360 a little bit because i i want to now make sure okay so now i'm going to be like focusing on

01:30:54.380 your comments here okay so just give me a moment uh i'm going to try to get through them all so

01:31:01.040 um uh payanda iran job each 100 percent uh btk thank you for the super sticker i appreciate that

01:31:14.480 um was my family muslim so i mean um a significant portion of my family um in iran are still muslim

01:31:24.420 and this is what a lot of people don't realize like there are many iranians and so again i like

01:31:29.540 not my family because um I've actually stopped like I cut contact with my family in Iran

01:31:35.960 like over 10 years ago I don't speak with any of them I don't follow them they don't follow me

01:31:40.940 um I don't even speak with my grandmother uh because I'm so outspoken about the Islamic 1.00

01:31:46.640 Republic I don't want to put their lives in danger so I just cut contact with all of them 1.00

01:31:51.040 but yes there are um a significant portion of my family in Iran are Muslim and that's one of the 1.00

01:31:57.520 things a lot of people they like they don't get the nuances right like like we are speaking about 0.67

01:32:02.640 um islamic terrorism that's different from muslims um the islamic republic murders iranians

01:32:09.100 regardless of of religion so um but you know that's why when it comes to but again we iranians 0.97

01:32:16.880 we're very religiously diverse so we have um muslim iranians we have christian iranians

01:32:22.720 we have jewish iranians we have baha'i iranians uh zoroastrian iranians um agnostic atheists

01:32:30.340 but one of the things that like it it doesn't really like matter to us is um like when we

01:32:36.840 meet another iranian we never ask like what's your religion because it doesn't matter right

01:32:41.340 and that's because freedom of religion um has always been here let me let me put up the people

01:32:47.000 let me put up your questions so you guys know where i am at the chat um so i'm answering sam

01:32:52.200 right now um so freedom of religion has been an integral integral part of iranian culture

01:32:59.560 and history going back to cyrus the great um who's the father of you know the founder of the persian

01:33:06.680 empire and in fact yesterday was cyrus the great day which is a huge significant um event so i mean 0.80

01:33:16.360 yeah half my family is is muslim but again like that's irrelevant because our fight is against

01:33:22.040 islamic extremism um by our i mean mine and you know i speak out against islamic extremism

01:33:27.960 like many people do i personally am not muslim i don't believe in that faith i don't ascribe to

01:33:33.560 the faith um i follow um something else i'm learning about something else but ultimately

01:33:40.120 i think religion should be something private and i believe that religion should never have

01:33:46.360 an impact um on government or society so there we go okay so um unusual ai super chat count is only

01:33:56.440 blue on green oh thank you um okay i'm scrolling down breakdown what is going on today so uh today

01:34:06.440 i actually had a live stream earlier uh if you guys haven't watched it um i suggest you go and

01:34:16.600 take a look so um let me just pull it up here give me one moment guys i'm so sorry um so i actually

01:34:25.880 had a live stream about the um the nigerian genocide okay so here we go um so it was earlier

01:34:38.520 today and here you go nigerian nigerian genocide and i brought on um someone named zari yusuf and

01:34:49.240 zari uh he's he's a nigerian christian he's been trying to raise awareness about what's going on

01:34:55.240 and nigeria for a very long time so i spoke about that um i spoke a little bit about sudan as well

01:35:01.800 guys uh some of you are asking me um about about sudan and um it's it's very complicated like

01:35:13.000 i'm still looking into it and i i don't like to talk about topics when i'm not 100 familiar or

01:35:20.920 comfortable with them because i want to make sure that i'm giving proper information so um you know

01:35:25.560 what's happening in sudan is is horrible um i've been doing research on it and you know i do have

01:35:34.920 my regular daily live stream tomorrow at um 12 noon eastern i haven't set a topic yet um if i'm

01:35:44.920 able to brush up enough on sudan i'll talk about it if not then i will i will leave sudan for um

01:35:52.040 for next week because i want to make sure i'm getting it right but um regardless of what's

01:35:56.280 going on like i've been trying to raise awareness and what's really frustrating is that um all the

01:36:02.360 videos that i've been putting out on sudan on like my tick tock um and like my tick tock guys i have

01:36:08.280 like over 200 i have over 300 000 followers on tick tock guys um but videos i put out on sudan

01:36:15.480 on tick tock instagram uh even twitter or x as it's called um not getting a lot of traction

01:36:23.000 it almost seems like they're trying to downplay what's going on but i mean ultimately like

01:36:27.560 innocent people are being massacred um and the videos coming out are absolutely horrific there

01:36:32.760 so um yeah so john mentioned sudan i'm 100 aware of it um chris what's my religion uh again like

01:36:42.960 i don't know why people keep on asking me about my religion like it's it's the weirdest thing

01:36:48.800 you know it's also interesting because i was a i was a politician um for seven years like i was

01:36:53.760 in politics for 10 years i was a politician elected official for seven years and um like

01:37:00.440 people always ask the most personal questions right and it's always like what's your religion

01:37:05.700 so I mean guys if you want to know sure like um um I am I I am learning about Zoroastrianism

01:37:14.680 I identify as a Zoroastrian right so the the core principles of Zoroastrianism are good thoughts

01:37:23.840 good words and good deeds and zoroastrianism is basically the um the the religion of the persian

01:37:31.280 empire right so um everything good that came out of the persian empire is because of zoroastrianism

01:37:38.240 and those principles and in fact um it was under the zoroastrian ruled persian empire that people

01:37:46.000 had freedom of religion so i mean i'm not like a fully like 100 observant zoroastrian but

01:37:53.840 But if I had to identify with a religion, 100%, I would say Zoroastrianism, right?

01:37:58.600 And I try to follow the key pillars.

01:38:02.320 So I hope that answers your questions about, you know, what religion I am.

01:38:08.200 So, okay.

01:38:13.040 So let's see here.

01:38:14.960 Major, talk briefly about what, wait, oh my gosh, what's going on?

01:38:19.640 is mozambique like is mozambique also um dealing with like islamic terrorism um

01:38:33.000 let's see here oh my gosh okay yeah so isis isis in mozambique is also causing issues there i mean

01:38:41.480 again like this is the this is the challenge with uh well not challenge this is the problem with

01:38:46.920 islamic terrorism they're in a lot of places and right now um it seems like africa is is the new 0.80

01:38:55.640 frontier so let me make a note of that major um i'll add mozambique as well and maybe i'll do it

01:39:03.720 it at the same time that I speak about Sudan. Mozambique, Sudan. Okay, so there we go.

01:39:25.380 What happened to the Shah and his family? So the late Shah of Iran, Shahan Shah Aryomer, who we love,

01:39:32.080 um he passed away from leukemia um in 1980 and then his son the crown prince at the time

01:39:41.740 swore the constitute like he swore the succession oath right um that's what a lot of people don't

01:39:48.800 know so let me just um pull this up for you so you guys can see so um after the um shah and

01:39:57.580 arya mer passed away in 1980 who showed his son who's the current shah in exile he swore the

01:40:04.060 constitutional oath in cairo in 1980 and ever since then he has been um fighting to um free iran and

01:40:13.740 bring about a secular form of democracy in iran and in fact um on my um in like my main show like

01:40:23.180 my main daily show you and i'm still coming up for a name for it i just call it the goldie show

01:40:27.660 right now because i don't know what else to really call it but um on on my main daily live stream

01:40:34.220 i talk about it quite a bit so if you see here like yesterday i actually had part two of an

01:40:41.500 interview um that he had with prager you um about regime change in iran and actually so one thing

01:40:49.260 i'm doing is next the reason i did this so this was an interview from uh last year and next week

01:40:57.020 i'm actually going to be doing um an update on what's currently happening with respect to um the

01:41:03.340 iranian revolution because we have a number of updates uh there's actually a huge announcement

01:41:08.460 he just made a few days ago so i'm going to be talking about that next week so uh yeah you

01:41:13.980 definitely want to make sure to to watch this this is part two um there's also part one in the same

01:41:19.100 game playlist and then that way when I talk about these things um in my um in my um you know upcoming

01:41:30.020 live stream next week you'll be able to uh you know kind of know what's going on because I'm

01:41:36.200 basically laying the foundation right now for updates about the um Iranian Revolution uh yeah

01:41:44.660 off your right um btk do i prefer to be called goldie honestly like so so my um my name is

01:41:52.660 um which you know uh people who um uh read farsi like they can see it in my name title but uh like

01:42:00.500 i have no preference so like people started calling me goldie as a nickname when i was 13.

01:42:05.860 um some people feel more comfortable calling me goldie some people call me gusta

01:42:10.820 um no preference whichever one is um easier for for you guys like they're they're both by names

01:42:17.220 right um a lot of people have like an iranian name and an english name so yeah i mean no preference

01:42:22.820 whatever whatever is more comfortable for you gusta or goldie um okay robert i've heard that

01:42:31.700 there have been a record number of sorry like okay so this comments from 9 30 we're at 9 42 so guys

01:42:37.300 i'm getting through your comments i promise so robert record number of christian conversions

01:42:41.780 in iran 100 that is correct um unfortunately we don't have the full numbers because um the crime

01:42:51.060 you know the the punishment for apostasy which is leaving islam um in the islamic republic is death

01:42:58.500 right so anyone um who converts cannot publicly say that they've converted uh in fact i believe

01:43:05.220 it was last week that um five christians were hanged for converting from islam to christianity

01:43:12.420 um in occupied iran so yeah the regime does not like this um they crack down and they um murder

01:43:20.820 apostates by public hangings um it is horrific it is it is very very horrific but uh christianity is

01:43:28.580 one of the fastest growing religions in occupied iran um zoroastrianism is the second fastest growing

01:43:35.220 um religion in occupied iran um yep uh khomeini is 100 terrible wait wait why would i get banned

01:43:48.260 what i might get banned for what i totally missed this okay oh about oh about showing the the home

01:43:55.140 okay right okay yeah you know what you're asking if i was going to like talk about what the founder

01:44:01.060 of the islamic republic wrote in his book i probably would get banned because it is like it 0.51

01:44:06.500 is demonic and it is um horrific so there we go john you want me to do sudan okay so i i don't do

01:44:15.780 like i don't do um like the political stuff in the evenings i do it during my my daily live stream

01:44:23.620 which happens at 12 noon eastern um i will try i will try to do sudan tomorrow um i just want to

01:44:31.720 make sure that i have the proper information because because there's a lot of disinformation

01:44:35.760 out there right now and you have like qatar who's saying that um this was done by the uae

01:44:42.500 but then you have others who are saying this is actually funded by um by russia and whenever

01:44:48.760 qatar comes out and says whenever qatar comes and blames another country that sets off alarm bells 0.66

01:44:54.920 for me because qatar is like a terrorist state um and qatar is trying to destabilize the world 0.96

01:45:01.080 so that's why i'm like okay if qatar and the people who sort support qatar 0.90

01:45:07.320 are blaming the uae and they're also blaming israel by the way this is a really weird thing

01:45:12.840 so qatar and al jazeera is blaming the united arab emirates and israel for what's happening

01:45:18.040 in sudan meanwhile it seems like it's more the islamists and then you also have um a number of

01:45:24.680 influential influential uae um arab muslims who are blaming what's happening on qatar so it's

01:45:39.160 it's a big political mess um ultimately at the end of the day my concern is about the innocent 0.95

01:45:46.760 people in sudan who are being murdered by islamists right um they're being murdered for the cause of 0.82

01:45:52.360 like jihad or allah and i just want to raise awareness about that because people need to 0.62

01:45:57.400 know what's happening regardless of who's behind it give me a moment sorry

01:46:05.480 so um maybe i will talk about sudan tomorrow at 12 noon eastern but um we'll have to see um

01:46:16.760 So, this is one of those questions that, like, only two types of people ask this sort of question.

01:46:23.940 So, this person is either just, you know, genuinely ignorant and does not understand the difference between Iranians versus the Islamic Republic that's occupying Iranians, or this person supports the Islamic Republic, right?

01:46:38.080 So, this person could very well be a terrorist supporter, I don't know. 0.88

01:46:41.980 So the reason that Iranians support Israel is because Israel attacked the Islamic Republic. 0.64

01:46:49.180 The Islamic Republic has been murdering us Iranians for 47 years. 0.77

01:46:52.640 So, of course, when Israel attacks and murders the people who murder us, we see that as help. 0.96

01:47:02.400 We see that as a good thing. Right. Because Israel did not murder our compatriots. 1.00

01:47:07.640 israel murdered our oppressors right israel murdered the people who murder iranians in 0.58

01:47:13.320 the name of allah in islam so god bless israel thank you israel um israel did an amazing thing 0.99

01:47:20.280 and i love israel for the fact that they exterminated all of those islamic jihadi 0.98

01:47:25.320 terrorists like the cockroaches that they are and you are clearly not iranian because 0.99

01:47:31.400 uh you do not understand the difference between the islamic republic which is occupying my country 0.99

01:47:37.080 versus us iranians who are occupied by the islamic republic we this is a pro-israel channel

01:47:43.720 pro-zionist um we love israel i'm israel hi okay um

01:47:52.440 so let's see 0.99

01:47:55.960 yeah you're right they can't bear the homini books we we have to like ease them in slowly um 1.00

01:48:06.360 yeah yeah Khomeini's book is so bad if he was in Canada you know what if he was in Canada like 1.00

01:48:13.640 maybe 15 20 years ago the RCMP would arrest him and put him away for life but given the fact that

01:48:20.500 these days you know Mark Carney the Prime Minister of Canada said that Muslim values are Canadian

01:48:25.880 values pretty sure if like Khomeini was alive and came to Canada today like Mark Carney would like

01:48:31.760 give him the order of Canada because you know Muslim values are Canadian values so

01:48:35.940 yeah i mean with the way canada's going right now i wouldn't be surprised um jane thank you

01:48:45.380 thank you for the super sticker i appreciate that thank you for the support um okay

01:48:51.480 let's see here what other comments do i have um someone mentioned that they remember a lot

01:49:04.140 iranians left their homeland to live in america after what happened what happened so what happened

01:49:08.620 was the 1979 islamic revolution right so 1979 um the islamists came and turned iran into a seventh 0.88

01:49:16.860 century islamic hellhole so guys if you want to learn more about that you want to go here okay so

01:49:24.060 see this playlist here so this is my main page you guys are here anyway so make sure you subscribe 0.79

01:49:28.780 so you want to go to this playlist here where um i talk about like iranians rate documentaries about

01:49:36.540 iran right and the one you want to check out is this one here from um monday night right so it's

01:49:44.700 1979 islamic revolution explain and i gave it a score of three out of ten do you see that

01:49:49.980 so this is this is a four hour live stream that i did on monday night and that will um give you

01:50:00.300 an in-depth input and insight into the 1979 islamic revolution what led up to it what

01:50:09.820 happened okay so like if you guys have questions go and watch that go and watch that um you know

01:50:16.620 take your time with it but the documentary itself for that one is about it's about 55 minutes long

01:50:25.100 but but get this so the documentary is 55 minutes long this live stream is four hours that's because

01:50:32.540 i'm giving you guys about three hours worth of critique commentary and feedback so go and watch

01:50:42.140 that go and watch that um because that will basically be a very good primer and then after

01:50:48.620 that if you're still interested then you know watch the other two as well but i mean just just

01:50:55.100 if you have any questions about the 1979 islamic revolution just watch this like i like i'm

01:51:00.140 literally going through it right and you can see me like showing a whole bunch of stuff um so there

01:51:05.980 you go um have i been interviewed by patrick bett david yet no but i'm actually so i'm in talks with

01:51:14.300 his people apparently um patrick bett david wants me to go on his podcast um i'm thinking about it

01:51:22.380 i haven't decided yet but we'll see um we're we're in talks right now we're in talks right now um on

01:51:31.980 that so gandalf you guys don't know how terrible it is for us inside and outside you are 100 you're

01:51:40.860 100 right okay um guys oh my gosh i'm i'm at the 9 32 comments and um it's 9 52 but i will get

01:51:50.860 through these so john that's sad goldie but i'm glad you are doing what you're doing thank you i

01:51:55.420 appreciate that um iceland 100 right guys the vast majority of iranians are not muslim that's

01:52:03.980 that's one thing that people don't seem to understand um and like this is like um

01:52:16.620 this is one of the funniest news stories ever um and this was actually uh this is a news story from

01:52:29.580 an islamic um where was it it's 50 000 mosques right where is that okay here we go so guys

01:52:38.700 whenever someone tells you that uh iran is a muslim country they have no idea what they're

01:52:44.140 talking so either they have no idea what they're talking about or they're lying and i'll explain

01:52:49.020 to you guys why so this is an article from 2023 okay so you see the date here 2023 senior cleric

01:52:57.820 claims religion in iran week 50 000 mosques closed okay keep that in mind so this isn't coming from

01:53:06.060 me this isn't coming from iranians this is coming from the islamic republic this is coming from one

01:53:12.700 of their own like jihadi islamic clerics right so he says muhammad abul qasim dulabi oh my gosh

01:53:21.100 why did he's like trying oh no i mean it's why you're like ajak was that muhammad abul

01:53:26.380 qasim like what the hell are you talking about anyways all right so muhammad abul qasim dulabi

01:53:31.580 iranian president ibrahim raisi's special representative and cleric affairs okay

01:53:36.380 So it's like this, this imam here, a senior Iranian cleric says that 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques are closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians attending.

01:53:52.520 OK, so, guys, when we say that Iran is not a Muslim country, we're not exaggerating.

01:54:02.200 Like. 67 percent of Iran's mosques closed down two years ago because of non-attendance, right?

01:54:12.200 Guys, take this as a warning, especially in all, you know, all these Western countries where like they're like mosques are popping up like weeds because all of these like jihadis are coming to your country.

01:54:22.520 country and taking over 50 000 mosques in iran shut down because we like we're not muslim we're

01:54:30.360 not um and so this right here this is literally proof okay this is proof that iran is not a 0.92

01:54:40.840 muslim country iran is occupied by an islamic dictatorship but we're not muslim and we don't

01:54:48.280 want to be muslim and we don't we don't want anything to do with islam and listen this isn't

01:54:53.480 a criticism of anyone who's muslim like you to practice your life whatever whatever you want

01:54:57.400 to do right but the reason i'm showing this is because anyone who says iran is a muslim country

01:55:04.360 and you know muslim whatever have no idea what they're talking about because the islamic republic

01:55:09.960 themselves have admitted that 67 of mosques in iran have been shut down because people are not

01:55:17.000 attending right this is the kind of information you don't get in mainstream media because they 0.89

01:55:22.840 don't want you to know the truth they don't want you guys to know that iran is occupied by an

01:55:27.400 islamic dictatorship but yeah there you go so uh i soon thank you for that like yeah i would say

01:55:34.360 like if i was going to put a percentage on the number of people in iran who are practicing

01:55:38.840 muslims right now based on like um polls and statistics it's probably somewhere between 20 to

01:55:47.000 25 percent so 20 to 25 percent of iranians are probably practicing muslims um the vast majority

01:55:54.600 of iranians are actually agnostic or atheist right and part of that part of that is because

01:56:02.200 of the islamic republic so prior to 1979 it's true the vast majority of iranians were muslim

01:56:08.840 that they were like normal muslims right like iran was a secular country and iranian muslims

01:56:15.000 just lived like any other country in the west right it was only when the islamic republic came 0.88

01:56:20.200 and brought sharia law and imposed that like 7th century um jihadi ideology on iranians that 0.94

01:56:26.920 iranians were like ooh like we we don't want this and the islamic republic pushed it so much 0.60

01:56:33.960 that it actually made Iranians hate Islam that's why the vast majority are now agnostic 0.90

01:56:41.240 and that's why 50 000 of Iran's 75 000 mosques are closed right again this isn't coming from me

01:56:50.920 this is this is the fact this is the truth this is the stuff you don't see in the media so this

01:56:55.880 is why like anyone who says that Iran is like a Muslim country and you know what the people who

01:57:01.640 usually get like very butthurt or like frustrated by these sorts of facts like they're not even 0.99

01:57:08.660 Iranian anyway they're usually like those like weird jihadi Pakistanis or Bangladeshis or like 0.92

01:57:14.260 you know the Palestinians or whatever right it's like the Islamists get upset right and they 0.75

01:57:18.640 usually have names like I don't know they have like Arab names or Pakistani names like I don't 0.89

01:57:24.180 know Habib or whatever right um so we can always tell like they're not Iranian but that they defend

01:57:29.860 the islamic republic more than iranians which is very bizarre right um but yeah there you go so

01:57:36.660 i assume that's a very very good very good comment um very good point like

01:57:41.540 the vast majority of us are not muslim okay um all right

01:57:49.460 so oh thank you for your voice oh you're very welcome appreciate that um

01:57:55.620 um okay yeah most Iranians are atheist or agnostic especially if hundred percent hundred percent 0.71

01:58:05.640 that's that's uh definitely true um 0.97

01:58:09.180 Omid you make a very good point you can worship a cat we do not care as long as you respect our 0.61

01:58:17.660 rights we will respect you um John Iran is a great country don't look at the nowadays of Iran

01:58:25.680 persia was great 100 okay um

01:58:34.080 okay so let me scroll down here again

01:58:44.080 okay

01:58:47.520 um so i'm just trying to get through your comments to the questions

01:58:50.880 okay so okay fair warning for non-iranians do not visit iran like do not visit iran 0.95

01:59:00.420 um it is incredibly dangerous right now one of the things that the islamic republic does so okay

01:59:05.540 so iranians are very nice to travelers 100 that's true so we iranians we're very very hospitable 0.99

01:59:13.120 um we love foreigners we love inviting them into our country we love hosting them 0.88

01:59:20.660 However, the Islamic Republic is a very dangerous entity, and one of the things that the Islamic Republic does is they will constantly, and on a very regular basis, take travelers and tourists hostage, accuse them of being spies, and then hold them hostage for ransom for millions of dollars from foreign governments. 0.98

01:59:45.920 that's one of the ways that they get around um the sanctions right this is how this is one of 0.79

01:59:50.240 the ways they get money is through hostage taking so um i do not advise or recommend

01:59:55.840 anyone to go to iran right now um and any sort of travel influencer because there are unfortunately 0.91

02:00:02.800 a few like what the islamic republic does is they will um pay like travel influencers to go to iran 0.91

02:00:10.480 and make like a vlog or whatever and then they go and then they make it seem like everything is

02:00:14.640 perfect and beautiful and fine right um and they do that because they want to encourage other people 0.70

02:00:22.000 to go so that the islamic republic can take those people hostage so um think of like north korea 0.55

02:00:30.000 right think of like the movie the interview where like seth rogan and the other guy go to like north

02:00:34.960 korea and the north koreans make it seem as if everything is perfect but then they find out that

02:00:40.080 it's all a lie that's pretty much iran so any travel vloggers who go um that are paid by the 0.62

02:00:46.320 islamic regime to go there um like they don't have the freedom to go wherever they want to go and

02:00:53.360 film whatever they want to film they only go to certain places that are like very rich very 0.97

02:00:58.400 luxurious um they don't have the freedom like they can't talk with um regular normal people

02:01:05.040 on the street either so do not be fooled by that um do not visit iran right now once iran is free 0.89

02:01:12.880 like once we've overthrown the islamic dictatorship um and and reclaimed our country 100 like iran 0.51

02:01:20.400 will be open again to the world but right now i highly like discourage it do not go it is dangerous 0.82

02:01:27.200 you could be taken as a hostage because the threat is not the iranian people the iranian 0.99

02:01:31.760 people are great again very hospitable we love we love foreigners the threat is the islamic

02:01:38.640 dictatorship that is holding us hostage that's who you have to be worried about um okay okay let's see 1.00

02:01:47.360 um so next we have

02:01:57.360 okay what time zone am i in so i am my time zone is eastern that's why like if you look at my youtube

02:02:05.600 uh youtube channel um where i talk about where is that when i talk about like in my um

02:02:13.040 um when I talk about like going live so I go live weekdays at 12 noon Eastern so yeah my time zone

02:02:21.740 is Eastern um 0.95

02:02:28.220 100 so so the hijab laws in Iran um every single woman in Iran has to cover her hair regardless 0.87

02:02:37.160 her religion so yeah 100 there's a crackdown on anyone who any woman who doesn't wear the hijab

02:02:45.480 regardless of whether or not um she's muslim

02:02:52.040 100 liam okay um

02:02:58.120 okay i have to i have to scroll through your comments a little bit faster guys i i apologize

02:03:03.880 um i'll get through them okay um where's the next questions

02:03:14.440 oh fat on fire big thanks to the admins for all your hard work support really appreciate it oh

02:03:18.360 you know what a hundred percent the um fat on fire the the admins are um amazing and the mods

02:03:26.200 are are amazing and you know thank you for um a reminder fat on fat i just made you a mod as well

02:03:35.000 so there you go join you know welcome welcome to to the mod club and i always say the mods you know

02:03:40.940 i trust you guys you know you guys are what make the the live stream um so much more um enjoyable

02:03:47.900 and informative for people who are watching and commenting because i obviously cannot comment uh

02:03:54.960 know respond to every single person and there is a lot of interest um about iran about iranian

02:04:00.560 history iranian politics so i really do appreciate all of you guys here um and thank you thank you

02:04:07.440 for the support and i hope you guys are um enjoying this so okay let's see what we got here um what's

02:04:18.320 next who's embedded in africa yeah 100 i don't know what this is a response to but that's so

02:04:25.760 true like russia and china 100 are embedded in africa in fact um russia and china are also

02:04:32.480 embedded um in in occupied iran right like um the the islamists in 1979 they were actually funded

02:04:41.120 and trained by by kgb um and during the 1979 islamic uh coup d'etat uh 40 000 kgb agents

02:04:50.400 actually came to um iran and you know joined the people on the streets right so 1979 was based off

02:04:57.520 of fake news and it was orchestrated by the soviets and that's why um after the islamic revolution

02:05:04.560 happened um you know the islamic republic became an ally of um russia and china right like it's

02:05:13.440 it's all connected and now russia and china are definitely trying to do um the same thing um in

02:05:19.280 in africa right now and you know a lot of people don't realize but a lot of iran's economy is

02:05:23.760 controlled by china because china has come in and bought out so much so china has a vested interest

02:05:29.040 and keeping the islamic republic um in power as well unfortunately so 0.70

02:05:36.160 have i seen the ancient vertical windmills in iran uh i i think so yeah let me see

02:05:47.680 i may have wait which city is this in

02:05:53.600 no i don't know i don't think i've seen this one no so i i haven't seen um i haven't seen

02:06:04.160 the windmills wait where am i at here

02:06:07.380 i haven't seen the windmills what i've seen instead is um the ancient like irrigation system

02:06:16.640 of the city of Shush, right?

02:06:18.980 So I'm from Ahwaz.

02:06:20.840 I'm like a Lord Bakhtiari.

02:06:22.320 So my family lineage traces thousands of years back there.

02:06:28.460 The city that I was born in, Ahwaz in Iran,

02:06:31.880 existed like 600 years before Islam was invented, right?

02:06:37.500 So that's where I'm from.

02:06:39.580 And there's a city close to me called Shushtar.

02:06:42.780 I think in English it's called Susa.

02:06:47.280 and uh that was one of the former sort of like capitals or main cities of the persian empire

02:06:52.560 and there's a whole like irrigation system there um that was built like 2 000 years ago

02:06:58.800 and i definitely saw that and that's also another um world unesco heritage center which is fantastic

02:07:05.680 um

02:07:06.000 okay so so you sent me a link okay okay so i will check the membership page fat on fat after

02:07:17.600 um and and see what it is that um you want to talk about 100 so we will do that for sure okay um

02:07:28.400 someone says free ballastine i mean sure free narnia like guys we never talk about narnia right

02:07:35.520 like like people come here and they're like free ballast sign i don't know what ballast sign is

02:07:40.400 um but can we talk about freeing narnia as well from like the white witch um i would appreciate

02:07:46.160 that um okay you want me to do a two c tv collaboration you know what i really like 0.52

02:07:57.920 i really like to see but he's like sometimes he's a disturber

02:08:01.280 i actually met him i met him when i was um i went to munich this past summer and i i met him there

02:08:13.520 fantastic guy by the way i really like him a lot and i also know um or money nyack and i think like

02:08:19.040 or money nyack works for 2ctv now so i mean if you want me to do like a 2ctv collab i mean i'll

02:08:25.840 look at i don't know like like do you want me to do like what um like do you want me to do

02:08:31.120 an interview collab or something like i don't know but let me know um yeah okay

02:08:45.200 so

02:08:48.800 yes i 100 do i 100 celebrate the persian new year with the half scene sofra yeah i think like all

02:08:56.000 all iranians do like that's um noruz is like a celebration that's like thousands of years old

02:09:02.720 right like it goes back three thousand four thousand five thousand years um it's basically

02:09:06.880 the spring at konox 100 i celebrate that um it's it's a great celebration um

02:09:16.000 okay i'm trying to go through your comments so

02:09:19.920 free ballast sign uh free narnia free narnia guys i don't understand why people come here

02:09:30.800 and say free ballast sign like this is a hundred percent pro zionist israel channel like i i love

02:09:36.640 israel um actually guys so fun fact fun fact um i'm actually planning um another trip to israel

02:09:48.640 yay so it's gonna be my second one i'm very excited and uh so stay posted this is like super

02:09:54.720 super super early news um there's you know still working out all the details but i'm definitely

02:10:02.720 going to be going back to israel and um yeah 100 pro zionist pro zionist um i actually think that

02:10:10.240 the two-state solution was israel and jordan so um you know jordan is arab palestine and israel

02:10:18.000 is jewish palestine so i don't even understand why there's anything called the west bank or gaza

02:10:23.680 like it to me it's just all israel it always has been um like jordan was literally created for the

02:10:29.600 arab arab palestinians right but no one ever talks about that so yeah like 100 pro pro israel channel

02:10:37.600 here um yeah okay let's see what was next um

02:10:52.800 okay this is funny my english name is ahmad obod and my iranian's name is mick elroy okay i i know

02:11:01.200 a lot of mcelroy's um in iran so that is definitely a very very common iranian name

02:11:07.360 so yeah that's that was funny okay um what's next here

02:11:17.040 the khomeini book yes we're so okay that's that was like 20 minutes ago do i live in iran no i do

02:11:23.360 not guys i don't live in iran um the reason that i'm able to speak freely is because i'm actually

02:11:28.480 outside of occupied iran um unfortunately the reality is that if you are inside of iran

02:11:35.360 you cannot speak freely um no one inside of occupied iran uses their real name or their

02:11:41.920 real image um on social media because speaking out against the islamic republic is a crime

02:11:47.680 punishable by death so um the vast majority of iranians do not um speak out but one of the

02:11:54.400 reasons that um many of them support me is because um i speak on their behalf especially in english

02:12:02.880 and there's actually not that many um well-spoken iranians who are able to

02:12:10.560 um bridge that gap and close that narrative between what happens in farsi discourse versus

02:12:17.600 um the information people get in english and so i think one of the reasons that um

02:12:22.960 i'm honored to have the support of a lot of iranians is because um i'm able to accurately

02:12:29.200 convey what many iranians think um and you know i'm in constant communications with a lot of

02:12:36.000 people in farsi i you know i get messages from um you know iranians all the time in farsi and english

02:12:42.080 and i like to keep an eye on iranian politics and of course explain that um in english because um

02:12:51.440 you know there's already a lot of like you know influencers um who speak in in uh persian

02:12:59.120 and their audience is persian based my audience is more um non-iranian based like like my audience is

02:13:06.160 like my i'm more geared towards um english speakers who are interested in learning about

02:13:11.280 iran because the whole goal for me is to sort of bridge the gap right like my goal here

02:13:16.320 is to be that link between iranians and occupied iran and the outside world

02:13:22.400 so that people can understand what's actually happening in iran and understand that we iranians 0.85

02:13:27.280 were not your enemies uh we're being held hostage by the islamic dictatorship and the real enemy of

02:13:35.760 um of the iranian people is also the real enemy of non-iranian people right like we're both

02:13:41.840 fighting that same enemy which is the islamic republic so that's that's why i'm here but no i 0.91

02:13:48.320 don't i don't live in iran um if i did i would not have the freedom to speak out like this there have 0.78

02:13:54.560 been um numerous iranians who have spoken out um and and they have been executed just for the crime

02:14:02.880 of speaking out um yeah but thank you for for that i appreciate that okay um

02:14:14.560 am i jewish no i'm not jewish why does everyone think i'm jewish guys just because i support

02:14:18.240 israel doesn't mean i'm jewish like anyone who looks at the history of iranians can understand

02:14:24.560 why we support israel um the shared history of iranians and jews goes back 3 000 years

02:14:30.240 to the time of cyrus the great um just look it up look it up i mean it's

02:14:36.640 it's it's a very sort of like primitive thinking to just assume that um only jewish people support

02:14:43.920 israel no there are many people who um support the right of israel to exist because israel has

02:14:50.400 existed for far longer like thousands of years before islam was invented israel existed so

02:14:56.880 though. Anyone who, you know, knows history, in fact, knows that. In fact, what's interesting

02:15:04.080 is that those people who have origins in ancient civilizations all recognize the right of Israel 0.53

02:15:12.720 to exist, right? Like, Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, right? Various other ancient civilizations,

02:15:24.720 You know, all of us, all of the civilizations that basically predated Islam, they all recognize the right of Israel to exist because in our ancient history, Israel existed.

02:15:38.300 It was only when Islam was invented that they started this narrative of like they own Palestine or, you know, whatever. 0.82

02:15:44.940 Right. But like none of that existed prior to Islam being invented. 0.85

02:15:48.540 so um in all of our in all of our collective ancient histories right um there's always a 0.64

02:15:56.360 mention of israel but there's never a mention of palestine right because palestine is fake

02:16:01.220 palestine is not a real thing palestine is a roman word right like it goes back to the philistines

02:16:07.960 so there there's nothing real or authentic about palestine like even their flag the flag that they

02:16:16.280 used today was invented by a british guy so yeah of course i you know believe in the right of israel

02:16:24.760 to exist because it's literally part of my history as an iranian and you know greeks would say greeks

02:16:32.120 would say the same thing hindus would say the same thing many others would say the same thing

02:16:36.920 right like all those ancient civilizations so yeah okay um i'm an islamophobe that that word 0.51

02:16:48.600 doesn't mean any make uh any sense like that that word is a fake word um but okay umair umair you

02:16:56.440 sound like you're from i don't know where you're from i don't even know like what country like umair

02:17:00.440 is from but sure whatever but like like again this is the thing like like these are the low

02:17:04.680 iq savages right like umair is probably the kind of person who's cheering on um the savages in 0.59

02:17:12.600 sudan who are murdering infidels and yelling aloha akbar right so you know this is the problem

02:17:17.880 with social media sometimes is that people like umair um are able to come online and then put up

02:17:23.000 like low iq comments like that um anyways thank you for your contribution umair so

02:17:29.160 i'm not pronouncing attack correctly how do you pronounce qatar it's it's literally pronounced

02:17:40.120 qatar oh my gosh if you think it's pronounced cutter then like oh that's awkward anyone who

02:17:45.800 pronounces anyone who pronounces qatar cutter is just doesn't know anything about the middle

02:17:50.840 least like at least say qatar but the proper pronunciation is data um

02:17:58.440 yeah sudan situation is terrible guys i have like so many comments i have to go through

02:18:03.640 do i have insta yeah i i do have an insta guys um it's just gigamari so um here let me find my

02:18:12.920 let me pull up my instagram account um my instagram account i post a lot of like short

02:18:20.680 form content so here you go um so you just go it's just you know gikamari and you'll find my

02:18:32.680 insta there um i also have tick tock and i also have um x and it's it's the same handle so you

02:18:40.360 just search for jikamari which is basically the first letter of my first name and then my entire

02:18:46.920 last name um you just search for that and and you'll find me on insta on tick tock and on um x so

02:18:58.680 there you go okay okay um let's try to go through here

02:19:05.720 seven thousand dollars you're just jealous just it's always like the it's always the 0.98

02:19:12.820 Mohammeds who like do this right always the Mohammeds so weird um all right God free Iran 0.98

02:19:22.960 from the Islamic Republic thank you if that's what we're working towards um and yeah there 1.00

02:19:27.620 you go fat on fire also um agrees with me that um we support israel so does amir jovi cha i'm

02:19:36.600 israel high 100 job each uh i'm israel high 100 um you want me to talk about afos guy i was born

02:19:47.080 in afos what do you want me to say about afos afos is my birth city um i don't know what you

02:19:51.900 want me to say about it like i'm i'm i'm ahwazi i'm ahwazi let me know what you want me to say

02:19:57.700 about ahwaz i mean i'll say it but um ahwaz is is another city in iran ahwaz is um a very old city

02:20:06.140 it was built like 2 000 years ago um it was built you know during the the persian empire

02:20:14.040 and uh yeah like like the city guys the city that i was born in existed like 600 years before islam

02:20:21.760 was invented right like ahwas existed 600 years before islam was invented so there you go like

02:20:27.520 that's just the you get a sense like like everything about iran and iranian history

02:20:31.960 is like thousands of years older than islam anyway um

02:20:36.800 okay so iran is less than 30 percent not 99 percent 100 percent so guys like uh the islamic 0.67

02:20:48.800 republic lies right they lie about everything the reason that they claim it's 99 is basically just

02:20:54.920 to um they want the world to think that iran is like a muslim country right but again remember 0.86

02:21:02.020 this article right like this is how takiyah works this is how the islamists lie so they

02:21:07.660 will claim iran is a 99 muslim country and yet and yet their own clerics are admitting

02:21:15.420 that 67 percent of mosques in iran were shut down due to the declining numbers of iranians

02:21:25.560 attending right so if iran was 99 muslim they would literally need all of these mosques for

02:21:32.900 people to go and pray right but almost 70 percent of mosques in iran have been shut down 1.00

02:21:39.580 by their own numbers guys i guarantee you the number is probably higher because the islamic

02:21:44.680 republic always tries to downplay this so if they're claiming that 50 000 mosques were shut

02:21:50.280 down it's probably closer to like 60 or maybe even 70 000 right like i'm telling you guys iran

02:21:56.280 is not a muslim country less than 30 i would probably say less than 25 of iranians are muslim

02:22:02.600 but i mean this is this is their own narrative not mine like this is what the islamic republic

02:22:09.080 itself is saying but you never see this in the mainstream media you never see um these sorts of

02:22:15.720 stories okay uh is it possible that we will one day see iran as a friend of 100 so prior to 1979

02:22:31.080 iran was actually a huge ally of the west okay so iran was a big ally of the united states

02:22:38.280 canada israel all these countries it was only when the islamic republic took over in 1979

02:22:45.640 and they brought their islamic values with them and then you know their sharia law that's when 0.81

02:22:51.320 they started chanting death to america and death to israel right so um this animosity 0.54

02:22:59.000 began when the islamists took control and what's really terrifying about what's happening in canada

02:23:05.000 right now is that like mark carney literally said a few months ago that muslim values are canadian 0.86

02:23:11.480 values and to me that was horrifying like for me as someone who um escaped a brutal islamic

02:23:18.760 dictatorship because i wanted to get away from sharia law and those sorts of values 0.69

02:23:24.360 um you know come to canada which is a judeo-christian country um you know to hear that like 35 years

02:23:32.440 later is absolutely horrifying um so canada has a big problem with unfortunately accepting

02:23:40.040 um jihadi propaganda and narratives um so i think before canada is able to become a friend of

02:23:49.480 you know iran or whatever we need to clean house in our own country guys because we have a lot of 0.94

02:23:55.080 like islamists and jihadis here and you know i think it's i personally think it's horrifying

02:24:02.280 that mark carney said muslim values are canadian values like i'm sorry um i don't think it's 0.86

02:24:07.320 appropriate for a woman to be stoned to death for adultery i don't even think adultery should be a

02:24:13.640 crime i don't think it's appropriate for a nine-year-old girl to get married is it wrong for

02:24:20.680 for me to say that right so um yeah again like like the problem is not iran i'm iranian that's

02:24:29.660 the flag of iran behind me that's the flag of pre-islamic iran iran only became an enemy of

02:24:36.840 the west when the islamic republic occupied our country and then they started chanting death to

02:24:41.940 america so yeah a lot of people think that iranians are your enemies no um we love the west 0.78

02:24:49.820 we've always loved the west um it's the islamic republic that's your enemy it's that islamic

02:24:55.660 jihadi ideology unfortunately for some reason mark carney is deciding to appease the islamists

02:25:02.540 and he's going around saying muslim values are canadian values and if we call it out especially

02:25:07.820 those of us who who have escaped islamic terrorism if we call it out we're accused of islamophobia

02:25:14.940 which is complete and utter nonsense right um but i can tell you jay that as soon as 0.56

02:25:21.180 um the islamic republic is overthrown uh in iran and iran becomes you know a free secular 0.52

02:25:27.980 normal country again 100 percent um iran will go back to being a friend of the west and in fact

02:25:34.540 iranians um in iran are waiting for that and one thing i would recommend you to watch jay

02:25:41.100 I did a I did a live stream on this so see here I have this live stream on my channel called USA

02:25:50.420 versus Iran so I did that live stream two days ago because um like my usual regular podcast I do at

02:25:58.720 12 noon eastern um so make sure you go and watch that because that will give you a very good um

02:26:07.780 understanding of what Iranians actually think about the west and what the Islamic Republic

02:26:18.380 thinks about the west and you know there's a difference there and you know in that

02:26:21.980 in that live stream it's you know it's two hours long I provide videos I provide contacts I provide

02:26:28.640 you know various you know I share images and videos and all of that so make sure that you

02:26:33.940 um you watch that at some point because that will um this like this this live stream here will

02:26:41.060 definitely answer your question about whether or not um iran will be a friend of the west

02:26:48.100 when the islamic republic is overthrown but that is an excellent question jay um

02:26:56.420 okay

02:27:03.940 yeah that is true patrick has talked about that scott 100 percent um i think he was eight years

02:27:11.060 old when he um left iran and if i'm not mistaken i think his like he's he's a syrian christian

02:27:18.580 right like so he's an asyrian christian um iranian i think he lived in iran until he was eight years

02:27:23.940 old um yeah so we want to we love we love king cyrus um yesterday was actually cyrus the great day

02:27:35.780 and um many of us were celebrating in fact iranians in occupied iran tried to go

02:27:42.100 visit the tomb of cyrus the great um and uh the islamic regime prevented iranians from going to

02:27:51.620 the tomb of cyrus the great i do talk about cyrus the great um in this episode here so uh at the

02:27:59.940 beginning of this episode pahlavi iran is ready for regime change i actually show the video um

02:28:07.060 of iranians who are trying to go to the tomb of cyrus the great to celebrate his birthday

02:28:11.860 and the islamic republic stops them so if you want to learn more about cyrus the great

02:28:16.020 you definitely want to check out this live stream there okay oh this is a good one

02:28:35.540 always like to give a shout out to all the iranians who are in the live stream as well

02:28:39.700 um you know you guys are fantastic and i love i love um seeing your comments as well so

02:28:48.260 i mean argo's argo's okay um argo definitely provides good context my only criticism of argo

02:28:57.140 is that um it downplays the role of the canadians you know again as like as a canadian um proud

02:29:04.740 canadian as well like i'm proud iranian proud canadian i can be both um i don't like the fact

02:29:10.100 that in the movie argo they downplay the importance of the canadians but um other than that it

02:29:17.940 definitely is a good movie i would definitely recommend um people watching argo if they want

02:29:24.260 to learn more about um the uh the islamic republic and how much they hate americans because you also

02:29:32.340 have to ask yourselves how come there were so many americans in iran for the islamic republic to take

02:29:40.100 hostage right the only reason they were able to take so many americans hostage is because prior

02:29:45.140 to the islamic republic taking over the country um iran was a close ally of of america and so

02:29:51.700 there were a lot of americans there because of that friendship that we had and it was only

02:29:57.460 when the islamic republic came and they brought their anti-american ideology with them

02:30:02.420 that they turned iran you know into an enemy of of the west even though we've never been 0.88

02:30:07.300 um an enemy of the west so do i ever watch shaws of sunset you know what i watched i watched a few

02:30:15.220 episodes of it rod but i don't i never really got into it i don't know like should i should i go

02:30:20.900 back and watch shadows of sunset it's not really my thing like are are they like real estate people

02:30:28.020 or something like i think they said like they're like a bunch of rich iranians in beverly hills

02:30:31.940 would sell real estate is that what it is okay all right um okay okay this is this is an important

02:30:45.700 comment so iranians are hopeful and united standing together in the streets to fight

02:30:50.660 for their rights and achieve success 100 100 um major like and subscribe costs you nothing

02:30:59.700 thank you i appreciate that thank you for the support um yeah there we go okay so i'm just

02:31:11.620 gonna go through these and i'm gonna i'm gonna end this this documentary soon so okay someone is

02:31:19.220 using like terrible language so someone is saying speak farsi and then they call me a zio um they

02:31:25.940 don't even have like a farsi um they don't first of all they don't have a persian name and if this

02:31:31.940 person was um iranian they would know that it's actually called persian and then in farsi we say

02:31:37.140 farsi so um you don't deserve for me to speak farsi while you're still in in the chat so i'm

02:31:44.340 just gonna ban you um because i don't tolerate rude comments cyrus accords 100 100 okay

02:31:56.740 oh bb netanyahu oh okay wow okay so bb netanyahu also speaks farsi and he's putting the uh

02:32:05.860 separatists in their place so there you go like i'm not going to say something but

02:32:13.540 you guys go ahead and say whatever you want to the tajdi it's a tajdi talab i support i support

02:32:18.660 you guys we this is this is an anti tajdi talab space so tajdi talab

02:32:25.060 okay um all right love israel yes iranians we love israel okay so okay this is the thing okay

02:32:42.900 so north of sync according to official sources iran is a 99 muslim country guys you have to

02:32:49.140 you have to remember this. Iran is occupied by an Islamic dictatorship, okay? Everything they say

02:32:57.880 is a lie. You cannot rely on anything they say or do, okay? So again, if Iran was a 99% Muslim

02:33:09.680 country, why the hell would 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques be shut down due to in attendance? 0.96

02:33:22.020 Guys, like, you have to use critical thinking skills. There are no official sources, right,

02:33:29.060 official, reliable sources in occupied Iran. Iran is occupied by an Islamic dictatorship

02:33:35.520 that will lie cheat steal and deceive right guys takia right you know what takia is right 0.97

02:33:43.400 so they will claim right they will claim like they will force their uh media state broadcasters 0.85

02:33:52.720 whatever to claim that iran is a 99 muslim country to fool the west into thinking that

02:33:59.260 iran is a muslim country and that the islamic republic is there because people want them

02:34:03.960 Meanwhile, at the same time, they're literally admitting that 70% of their mosques have shut down. So you have to use critical thinking skills. You cannot, you cannot rely on the Islamic Republic as an official news source. Okay, that's like relying on Hamas. Right? Like they lie. So who are you going to believe? Right? Like, are you going to believe North Korea when they say something?

02:34:32.220 know because north korea is is a dictatorship guys come on you have to you have to use your 1.00

02:34:37.180 thinking skills so you use your brains a little bit because even this even even the islamic 0.67

02:34:43.180 republic itself is contradicting their own official sources that iran is 99 muslim because 0.74

02:34:48.860 again if iran was 99 muslim why the hell um are 75 of their ma 70 of their mosques shutting down 0.95

02:34:57.100 like use your brains please just use your brains think a little bit i'm literally giving you the 0.98

02:35:02.700 proof right here that iran is not a muslim country um i don't know what minority like 0.55

02:35:13.500 what's a minority muslim country mean if you want to use that logic that every country

02:35:17.980 could technically be a minority muslim country um that that doesn't that doesn't make any sense

02:35:24.780 um okay

02:35:29.120 yeah i mean even the mullahs admit that iran is not a muslim country okay

02:35:36.480 um

02:35:39.480 okay i'm just going to scroll through here because i want to shut down the live stream soon

02:35:49.140 getting a little tired and it is getting late. Um, yeah, that's true. That's definitely true. Um,

02:36:00.920 okay

02:36:07.600 um okay oh i always i always i always like it always makes me laugh when someone's like you

02:36:20.380 seem racist towards muslims and islam guys islam is not a race so like if you want to accuse me

02:36:27.380 something at least like figure out what you're accusing me of because islam is not a race

02:36:32.420 muslims are not a race so just like i don't know if you if you're upset go to another channel i 0.93

02:36:38.020 don't know what to say um it's just like they just they just throw anything at the wall and just 0.98

02:36:44.260 expect it to stick right um okay in morocco oh yeah oh my gosh okay

02:36:57.380 I don't know about this.

02:37:00.480 So Morocco is fighting the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.93

02:37:03.620 I know that for sure. 1.00

02:37:04.720 Like, so Morocco is an example.

02:37:07.320 Okay, so guys, if you want to understand what Iran was like prior to the 1979 Islamic takeover,

02:37:15.460 Iran was very similar to Morocco.

02:37:18.440 Morocco was definitely more Muslim. 0.96

02:37:20.460 However, Morocco is still very open, right?

02:37:24.260 Like I visited Morocco this summer and I had a fantastic time.

02:37:28.220 Like I loved it. Right.

02:37:29.920 Because it's 99% Muslim. 0.93

02:37:32.900 And yet people are still free to dress how they want to dress. 0.83

02:37:38.920 You know, you can you can go to stores and buy alcohol or whatever.

02:37:42.660 And, you know, women in Morocco are allowed to ride bicycles and motorcycles.

02:37:48.220 Um, women in Iran are not allowed to ride bicycles or motorcycles because it's considered

02:37:55.160 haram. 0.94

02:37:55.980 Okay.

02:37:56.360 So again, so for, for all the Muslims who are here, when I'm talking about Islamic extremism, 0.96

02:38:02.360 I'm referring to, uh, the Islamic Republic and that ideology it occupied Iran, because 0.98

02:38:09.460 many of you guys don't understand how ridiculous or how crazy the Islamic Republic really is. 0.94

02:38:15.620 again, Morocco is a 99% Muslim country, beautiful country, beautiful culture. Muslim women are 0.99

02:38:23.460 allowed to ride motorcycles and bicycles. Iranian women are not allowed to ride motorcycles or 1.00

02:38:30.040 bicycles because according to the Islamic Republic's version of Sharia law, that's haram 0.99

02:38:35.780 for women. So just to give you a little bit of context and perspective, when I'm talking about

02:38:42.000 iran and what's happening in iran with the islamic republic i'm literally referring to the islamic

02:38:46.780 republic and that's one of the things i always want to make a distinction like i'm never going

02:38:50.220 to talk about religion um i respect all religions i respect all faiths my goal is to raise awareness

02:38:58.100 about islamo-fascist jihadi terrorism okay like that that's my goal here that is my my intention

02:39:06.340 And there are actually a lot of Iranian Muslims who are fighting to overthrow the Islamic Republic as well.

02:39:13.980 Because, again, Iran used to be a majority Muslim country prior to 1979. 0.87

02:39:19.700 But when that Islamic dictatorship came in and turned Iran into the hellhole it is today, that turned off many people from the concept of religion in its entirety. 0.98

02:39:31.480 So I just want to make that distinction very clear. 0.99

02:39:36.340 okay

02:39:38.340 Gil

02:39:41.820 what's my opinion of PBD

02:39:43.780 is he a net positive

02:39:45.480 I mean

02:39:48.960 I'm neutral

02:39:51.800 I'm neutral

02:39:53.020 I don't know him that well

02:39:55.760 I do have

02:39:58.580 some personal

02:40:00.820 criticisms of things he has

02:40:02.840 said recently about Iran

02:40:04.940 and Iranian politics

02:40:06.180 But I don't think he's a bad person. I don't think anything like that. I don't disrespect him. I don't hate him. I just think we have we have a disagreement on opinions when it comes to Iran currently.

02:40:28.120 let's put it that way um and i think you know and that's okay like like people are allowed to um

02:40:36.040 disagree with each other's opinions when it comes to politics it doesn't mean you hate them it

02:40:42.120 doesn't think it doesn't mean you think they're a bad person so um yeah i just you know i think

02:40:48.440 i think there's certain things i disagree but um i don't know him personally so um i don't have like

02:40:58.120 an opinion on him personally um i just i just don't know him that well um okay

02:41:08.200 i just want to scroll down here make sure i get okay so i definitely want to get to all your um

02:41:14.520 comments here jane sentence okay thank you so much all right guys so um i think i'm going to

02:41:21.160 stop it here i've tried to get through as many of your questions and comments as i can

02:41:27.160 um i apologize if i didn't get to all of them but it is getting a little bit late and i do have to

02:41:31.880 go to sleep but i want to thank you all for joining um so again this documentary uh i will

02:41:39.320 give it a 7 out of 10. that's what we agreed upon all the iranians here and um yeah i will

02:41:45.960 see you all tomorrow at 12 noon for another regular episode of of the goldie show

02:41:56.440 you go um my youtube channel all right thank you everyone for joining i hope you appreciated this

02:42:04.440 ama if you if you appreciate the m ama i will try to do more of them but for now

02:42:26.440 Thank you.

02:42:56.440 Thank you.

02:43:26.440 Thank you.

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02:44:26.440 We'll be right back.

Goldie Ghamari - October 31, 2025

1979 Islamic Revolution Explained by an Iranian： Persian Constitutional Revolution (7⧸10)

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