In this live stream, I talk about Iran, the Islamic regime, and why milk comes in a bag in the US. I also talk about how weird it is that chips don t have ketchup flavored chips in the USA.
00:02:00.000Well, hello, everyone. Welcome to a very quick live stream. It's not
00:02:29.920going to be too long, only about maybe 30 to 40, 45 minutes, depending on how long we have.
00:02:39.160Welcome, everyone. So I promised you guys that I would do a little bit more sort of
00:02:45.120YouTube members appreciation videos, because many of you have subscribed to my channel
00:02:52.160as members to help, you know, support my channel and run the channel. And I appreciate that very
00:02:57.800much. But you know, one of the things that I never want to do is gatekeep information, right? So
00:03:03.860my purpose here isn't really to get members in order to gatekeep information to like exclusive
00:03:13.000stuff, right? That would defeat the whole purpose of my advocacy and what I'm trying to do. So I've
00:03:18.540come up with a compromise. And the compromise is so I'm making videos that everyone can watch. So
00:03:24.800this video is being broadcast on all of my social media platforms that i you know usually broadcast
00:03:31.920on with the caveat that only um youtube channel members can participate in the live stream uh in
00:03:41.440the live stream chat so this way um you know youtube members can have the benefit of you know
00:03:48.240being a youtube member and you know one of the perks but at the same time everyone can still
00:03:53.760watch the live stream and have access to the information that I'm providing. So having said
00:04:01.700that, let's get started, guys. This is totally unscripted. And you basically have me for the
00:04:10.060next 30 minutes. So any questions that you have about Iran, the Islamic regime, how things are
00:04:18.820going, my show, my YouTube channel. I'm at your disposal. Let me just go through some of the
00:04:27.480comments here. So you know what, I really appreciate how everyone is saying durud. I love
00:04:32.980that. Like that makes me so happy. Like everyone is just saying durud. And I appreciate that,
00:04:40.020right? Because that's durud is actually the proper way to say hello in Persian. So let me just go
00:04:47.220through some of your comments here um i know this was sort of you know last minute unscripted um
00:04:54.260oh my gosh why does milk come in a bag in canada i mean that's not really about iran but i mean i
00:05:01.600don't know i don't know um why doesn't milk come in a bag in the united states that's what i want
00:05:07.520to know uh also you guys don't have ketchup flavored chips either and that's weird that's
00:05:14.100weird like how can you how can you even like trust a country that doesn't have ketchup flavored chips
00:05:20.080you know what I mean I'm joking I'm joking I actually don't know I don't know why um
00:05:25.060but uh you know all I can say is that whenever I'm in the United States it's like a weird version
00:05:33.120of Canada it's like the upside down version of Canada so that's pretty much the the Canadian
00:05:39.260um the Canadian in me that's sort of coming out so major says milk comes in bags in the U.S.
00:05:49.260only in cafeterias we so we can actually I mean this has nothing to do with Iran but since you
00:05:54.560asked like like you you can buy um milk like this like this is what it looks like
00:06:03.380okay like I don't know why this is so weird for you Americans here let's go let me just share the
00:06:11.280screen um so here let me do it like this there you go so yeah this is what milk in bags looks like
00:06:26.000like you um you know it looks like that and usually there's like a package of like two or
00:06:33.140three in there and then there that's what like the milk bag looks like and then you buy these
00:06:39.820like specific like jugs for the milk and then you just like cut the corner right so that's what
00:06:46.740milk in a bag looks like here that's pretty much what it looks like so i don't know i don't know
00:06:54.180why you guys don't have this i find that very weird and very bizarre that you guys don't have
00:07:00.780that. Um, okay. Oh, pushup says I'm too cheap to get a membership, but saying hi. Oh, well,
00:07:08.180hi pushups. Welcome. Um, yeah, I mean, don't worry about it. If you can't get one, that's,
00:07:14.460that's totally okay. Um, like I, I never, I never push as you guys have probably noticed,
00:07:22.360you know, I never ever push like channel memberships or super chats or anything like
00:07:27.700that um because you know every like you never know what someone's financial situation is like
00:07:32.600so like i'm never one to to talk about that or do anything like that um but uh yeah like welcome
00:07:40.440and and enjoy the live stream i always appreciate your comments in in the main live stream and guys
00:07:46.780don't forget i'm going live uh again at um around 8 30 maybe just shortly after because i'm going
00:07:55.400to be watching Morad Vesey's live stream. That's why we're only going until 7.30 because I just
00:08:01.700want to, you know, I always watch Morad Vesey. Okay. So Wolfgard says, hi, Goldie. I know it's
00:08:09.340not Persian, but I'm used to saying Motichakiram. Yeah. For thank you. What's the alternative? I
00:08:18.040think you say Sipas, which I have heard in Kurdish. Yeah. So Kurdish and Persian share a lot of
00:08:24.060similar words. So, yeah, I would say that, you know, if you want to be, like, if you really,
00:08:29.280if you really want to impress Iranians, use seppos, just say seppos, and that would definitely
00:08:36.960impress, impress people. So, yeah, absolutely, go with that one. Let's see.
00:08:45.720all right let me go to some of your other comments here so
00:08:54.060you guys are all having a conversation with yourself in the live stream and no one's
00:09:01.800asking me questions that's okay oh okay fine look look we we got a question so mark dennis
00:09:07.780fritz says is there a need for non-iranians to help with rebuilding iran after iranians have
00:09:14.860regain their freedom. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Guys, remember, so Iran is one of the last
00:09:23.020untapped economies in the entire world. The potential for the economy in Iran is somewhere
00:09:33.400around a trillion dollars, okay? So there's an economy worth one trillion dollars that is
00:09:38.740untapped. And yes, absolutely, when Iran is free, you know, and I wouldn't say right after the
00:09:45.740Islamic regime is overthrown, because, you know, there will be a little bit of period of instability.
00:09:51.100You know, us Iranians, we're also going to have to make sure that we take care of, you know,
00:09:55.980all of the Durkhas and, you know, kick out all of the terrorists and, you know, they can go back to
00:10:01.880whatever, you know, third world jihadi hellhole they came from. So, you know, I would say give
00:10:08.900it about like maybe a year or so. But yes, absolutely. When Iran is free, and we're looking
00:10:15.420to rebuild, absolutely. There's going to be a lot of opportunities for not just Iranians, but for,
00:10:22.200you know, non Iranians to to get involved and participate in that. And I think it's going to
00:10:27.860be amazing. It's going to be it's going to be fantastic. And I think any sort of outside help
00:10:33.940would definitely be appreciated. And then question two, will it be possible to immigrate to Iran and
00:10:40.760become naturalized? So I don't know about that, because that would depend on what sort of
00:10:48.140government policies, the new government implements? So I can't answer that question.
00:10:59.480I do know that prior to 1979, there were a lot of non-Iranians who lived in Iran long term.
00:11:11.320They weren't citizens, but they were kind of like permanent residents, right? So kind of like
00:11:18.040you know, like in the United States, you have like a green, green, green card, green card
00:11:22.160permit or something like that. So, I mean, given what I know, actually, let me, let me look this
00:11:28.820up. This is a good question. I think, I think, um, okay. So this is interesting. Look at this.
00:11:54.800Let me let me let me pull this up for you guys. Let me pull this up. This is a very interesting question. So according to AI, because I, you know, I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but according because I've never like bothered to look into this.
00:12:15.740So, prior to 1979, non-Iranians could become citizens. The framework for Iranian nationality codified in the Civil Code, mainly Articles 976 through 991, and largely remaining in force post-revolution, although, again, the Islamic regime doesn't really respect the Civil Code, provided two primary pathways, naturalization and marriage.
00:12:43.260So naturalization. Non-Iranians could apply for Iranian citizenship by meeting the following conditions. The applicant had to be at least 18 years old. They had to reside in Iran for five years, either consecutively or intermittently. They must not have escaped military service in their home country, could not have any criminal convictions for felonies or major misdemeanors in any country.
00:13:07.400dual citizenship okay so this is interesting so iran generally so prior to 1979 iran prohibited
00:13:16.060dual nationality so naturalized citizens were often expected to renounce their previous
00:13:21.880citizenship and then marriage citizenship acquisition based on marriage was highly
00:13:27.800gendered under the pahlavi era laws foreign women a non-iranian woman who married an iranian man
00:16:12.720Okay. Skyscraper. Any advice about finding an Iranian girlfriend? No, this is not a dating site. So I can't give you any advice on that. But if you have any questions about geopolitics or terrorism or what's currently happening in the Middle East with respect to the Islamic regime, I can answer those questions.
00:16:36.640But in terms of dating advice, this is the wrong YouTube channel.
00:17:00.440okay so i mean most of the information on this stuff um is in is in persian like you don't really
00:17:08.840um hear about this too much in english and you can't really read about it too much in english
00:17:14.920um the i mean this kind of stuff is pretty much common knowledge and commonly accepted amongst
00:17:22.520Persian language, you know, narratives and analysts and, you know, whoever else. So, you know, our
00:17:31.520conversations and discussions in Persian amongst, you know, Iranians amongst Iranians, we know all
00:17:36.440this stuff. In terms of English, though, I don't know. Let me make a note of your super chat.
00:17:45.520I'll see if I can find some English language. I mean, I'll see if I can find some English
00:17:53.600language sources, but that might be kind of hard to find. Let me just make a note here. So, June.
00:18:14.880Okay, I'll see if I can, I'll have to do some digging into that and see if I can find some
00:18:23.340research or, you know, some, some documents or some articles, even if there's something,
00:18:28.480you know, online that's in, in Persian, you know, and then we could like Google translate it or
00:18:32.240something. But thank you for that. I'll, I'll definitely look, look into that for you.
00:18:36.840um okay so let's go to the next one so just chillin says so when the shah take over will
00:18:50.180the code laws be replaced completely or with a constitution of sorts so um my understanding
00:18:57.600i i'd have to look it up so actually we can look this up together because i have the iran
00:19:05.300Prosperity Project. If I'm not mistaken, just off the top of my head, my understanding is that
00:19:12.520when the Islamic regime falls, the current sort of constitution that, you know, currently governs
00:19:22.380the country will remain in place insofar as it does not impact or affect human rights. So basically
00:19:34.020anything that relates to Islam or inequality between men and women or between different
00:19:40.520religions or ethnic minorities or whatever, like all that's going to be canceled. But the rest of
00:19:46.040the sort of constitution or, you know, the laws, you know, the laws that basically deal with sort
00:19:51.520of the day-to-day functioning of the country, those are going to remain in place temporarily
00:19:56.940just because you can't have like a complete free-for-all, right? Like you can't have a
00:20:01.700complete power vacuum. So what's going to happen is that the, like the, the laws that are basically
00:20:09.980helping to sort of keep the country going, they're going to remain in place only in so far as
00:20:18.100the time when the transitional government, you know, works on the referendum, right? Because
00:20:27.620The first thing is that the Iranian people are going to have a referendum to determine whether they want to have a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
00:20:38.200And then once that is determined, then, you know, there's going to be sort of elections to establish the first majlis for Iran after the fall of the Islamic regime.
00:20:54.380And then that majlis is basically going to work on, you know, writing whatever laws or whatever it is based on the framework that has already been pre-approved by the Iranian people.
00:21:09.940So I'm thinking some codes and laws will probably be completely overhauled. Some might probably stay. But that's something that will be discussed sort of within the transitional government. And of course, after the referendum is held to determine what sort of democracy Iranians want.
00:21:33.940But the one thing that we're all committed on, you know, regardless of whether people want a republic or a constitutional monarchy, is that we're all committed to these four guiding principles.
00:21:45.200The first one, of course, is maintaining the territorial integrity of the country.
00:21:49.760Number two is respect for all human rights.
00:21:52.560And, you know, that's sort of based on the international treaties.
00:21:58.480You know, there's one for, you know, civic rights and then there's one for like economic, social justice rights. Right. So, you know, basically like the globally accepted human rights. Right. Freedom of freedom and equality for everyone. That's the second point.
00:22:15.540The third point is, of course, complete and total separation of religion and state, right?
00:22:23.640So everyone is committed to a totally secular democratic society.
00:22:30.460And then the fourth principle, of course, is respect for democracy and the ballot box.
00:22:35.580So those are the four guiding principles.
00:22:48.040oh yeah they would make it easy for diaspora family of diaspora to immigrate easily
00:22:55.500oh yeah absolutely i mean my passport passport uh hasn't been updated in like 20 years right
00:23:02.660that's basically the last time that i visited um oh just chilling do current women tourist
00:23:08.920to Iran have to wear a hijab or are they exempt? No, they have to wear a hijab. So every single
00:23:14.580woman over the age of nine, you know, that's basically girls, regardless of religion or
00:23:22.280nationality, they have to wear hijab. It's mandatory. That's because the country is under
00:23:28.900Sharia law and Sharia law doesn't care about your religion. Sharia law cares about Sharia law and
00:23:35.520Islam. Um, so yeah, everyone has to, um, all women have to wear hijab. Now, of course you've seen,
00:23:43.280you know, kind of more recently, the Islamic regime puts out these propaganda videos
00:23:47.600of, um, you know, uh, Iranian women who are going around, walking around without hijab.
00:23:54.320That's all propaganda. They do this constantly. They do this constantly whenever, um, things are
00:24:00.320getting rough and, you know, like they feel like they're losing or they're feeling very scared.
00:24:07.980They'll put out these propaganda videos and those propaganda videos are not meant for Iranians
00:24:13.260because we Iranians, we already know that it's all propaganda and lies. But they put out these
00:24:18.020videos to fool non-Iranians into thinking that Iran is a normal Western country and, you know,
00:24:24.460everyone is free. So they put these out and this is all part of their taqiyya, right?
00:24:30.320So you're literally watching taqiyya in action because hijab, mandatory hijab for all women, is one of the core foundational pillars of the Islamic regime, okay?
00:24:42.180But their, you know, ideology and their religion or whatever, it basically says that they are allowed to lie if lying is for the purposes of furthering their jihad and, you know, furthering their goals of Islamic takeover.
00:25:03.180So that's why in times of high stress or high conflict, they're willing and they're eager to put out these propaganda videos of women not wearing hijab because for them, under their religious ideology, it's allowed to lie if it's for the purposes of furthering their jihad.
00:25:26.720So in their minds, they're like, OK, well, if we want to further our jihad, we have to survive.
00:25:33.580How do we survive? OK, we pretend like we're a normal country.
00:25:38.740But as soon as the world's eyes turn away, then they go back to murdering women for showing a strand of hair, just like they did to Masa Amini in 2022.
00:27:28.180I believe President Trump is going to go the distance.
00:27:30.940I mean, the deal that President Trump wants the Islamic regime to make is not a deal that they can accept.
00:27:39.940There is no way, there is no way in, I honestly, I just, I cannot see the Islamic regime accepting to have U.S. troops go into occupying Iran and remove the nuclear dust.
00:28:00.940If the Islamic regime was going to voluntarily and willingly allow Americans to go in and remove the nuclear dust from the underground nuclear facilities that the Islamic regime had been building in secret and then the United States boom-boomed, that would pretty much effectively be surrender.
00:28:23.760And the Islamic regime for the last 47 years has been talking about America, the great Satan, Israel, the little Satan.
00:29:46.780The Islamic regime is in a hurry. The Islamic regime is in a rush to try and end this situation because it is being slowly crushed. And pretty soon something's going to happen that will make the Islamic regime collapse.
00:30:04.560um so yeah that's what president trump is pretty much waiting for
00:30:09.220okay um let me go through a few more of your comments and then uh questions and then i'm
00:30:17.740just going to uh i i will have to end the live stream shortly because morad vesey is going
00:30:25.240live um and i want to to watch morad vesey wolfgard says i have a question about your
00:30:33.360people in region are lore and bakhtiari interchangeable or one refers to people versus
00:30:38.280a region uh they're pretty much interchangeable so lore is basically you know a group of people
00:30:42.540it's like a tribe and then the bakhtiaris are like you know one of the tribes but it's it's
00:30:46.780all pretty much interchangeable um bakhtiari is like a like one of the tribe one of the lord
00:30:52.560tribes let's say it's one of the biggest one of the biggest lord tribes um yeah
00:30:58.180okay um all right let me just go through making sure i don't miss anything else really quick
00:31:10.440tom for life says happy friday goldie just want to say i totally respect you appreciate
00:31:17.620your professionalism keep it up and don't quit oh thank you i appreciate that tom very kind of you
00:31:24.120very nice view. All right. Okay, guys. So, uh, Morad Vesey is just about to go live. So I'm
00:31:32.320going to go watch Morad Vesey's live stream. Wait, let me, let me see. Has he gone live?
00:31:37.500Let's see. Guys, like I, I can't, like I watch Morad Vesey religiously. Okay. Um, and if you
00:31:47.540don't know who that is go check out oh yes he so Morad Vesey guys Morad Vesey just went live so
00:31:54.260I'm gonna go tune in to Morad Vesey because I want to get his latest update and analysis as you can
00:32:01.900see he started so um and if you don't know who that is go and check out the video that I just
00:32:09.760uploaded about an hour ago um because he like his um his analysis is top notch so i'm gonna go watch
00:32:18.820that um the video is like that i uploaded is on my youtube channel um if you go to videos you'll
00:32:25.980find it i translated one of his live streams from a few uh from a few days ago and uh yeah i'll see
00:32:32.700you guys in in about an hour pretty much whenever as soon as morad vc is done his live stream i'm
00:32:38.540going to start mine and we're going to have a chill documentary watch party. All right, guys,
00:32:44.020thank you everyone for joining me. This is just an impromptu, short YouTube members exclusive Q&A.
00:32:52.380I look forward to doing more of these. I will plan these in ahead, you know, schedule them.
00:32:58.820I actually wanted to do this live stream. I want to start it earlier, but I actually had an
00:33:03.880interview with an English media outlet, but I will share that later. So guys, thanks everyone
00:33:11.900for joining and I'll see you all in about an hour. Peace out.