Goldie Ghamari - January 06, 2026


IRAN 101： RADIO INTERVIEW WITH GLENN BECK


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Glenn and Goldie Gamari discuss the situation in Iran and why it s so critical for the Iranian people to vote for the exiled Crown Prince in exile, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They also discuss the economic situation in the country and how it s affecting the economy.

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00:00:00.000 Goldie Gamari is with us now.
00:00:02.260 Goldie, how are you?
00:00:04.460 I'm great, Glenn.
00:00:05.540 Thank you so much for having me on.
00:00:07.260 Good morning to you and to all your listeners.
00:00:09.040 Thank you.
00:00:09.440 Very excited to be here.
00:00:10.380 Oh, I'm excited to have you.
00:00:11.600 I watched your video as things were happening in Iran over the weekend, and I'm watching
00:00:17.820 Iran, I mean, not probably as much as you are, with real hope and anticipation of possible
00:00:25.740 good things to come.
00:00:27.060 Can you tell us what's going on in Iran right now, and if it's different than what we've seen in the past?
00:00:35.540 So what's happening in Iran right now is that people are rising up to overthrow the shackles of Islamic oppression that has held them hostage for the last 47 years.
00:00:50.420 And a lot of people in Western media or a lot of the apologists for the Islamic Republic, you know, the pro-Islamists,
00:00:59.520 they are claiming that, you know, this is just about the economy and people are just upset.
00:01:05.360 Well, if this was about the economy, why are Iranians now, like this is the 10th day and things have escalated. 0.88
00:01:12.500 They're continuing to escalate. It's the 10th day. 0.99
00:01:15.300 Iranians are going out of the streets en masse. 0.96
00:01:18.260 They are chanting, death to the dictator,
00:01:21.220 they're chanting, which means long live the king.
00:01:26.680 And then they're saying, this is the final battle.
00:01:29.960 Pahlavi will return.
00:01:31.940 Pahlavi, of course, is his royal highness.
00:01:35.120 Yeah, they're saying,
00:01:36.140 which means it's the final battle.
00:01:41.140 Pahlavi will return.
00:01:42.160 Why?
00:01:42.340 Because there's only one person that Iranians trust to transition the country from a brutal totalitarian dictatorship into a functioning, secular, democratic country.
00:01:54.680 And that's His Royal Highness, the crown prince of Iran, who's in exile.
00:01:59.700 So do you believe I've heard people say, well, he's not really a player because he's only been speaking out, but he hasn't really been active in anything significant in Iran.
00:02:12.340 is that true does he have widespread support yeah so so what they're saying about him is 100
00:02:20.240 percent false he has been active in in iran and and working to free iran um his entire life like
00:02:29.660 since iran was taken over so he has dedicated the last 47 years to freeing iran and what we are
00:02:37.560 seeing today, literally over 70 cities, over 70 cities have risen up. That was just from
00:02:43.600 yesterday's data. I still have to catch up with today, but pretty much every single corner of
00:02:48.800 the country is out there and they're chanting, this is the final battle. Pahlavi will return.
00:02:54.460 The reason that there are some people who are attacking him right now at the most critical
00:03:00.180 time is because they know that the only person who can free Iran is is the the crown prince in 0.96
00:03:07.920 exile and so that's where he's being attacked but Iranians and occupied Iran they don't care 0.69
00:03:12.420 they are literally out there right now they are risking their lives it is it is it's all out civil 0.85
00:03:18.060 war Glenn the Islamic Republic they have imported their proxy terrorist groups from from Iraq from
00:03:24.680 like Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, right? 0.90
00:03:29.380 They've imported all of their terrorist proxy groups 0.66
00:03:31.780 and those people are heavily armed
00:03:34.540 and they're out there attacking Iranians right now.
00:03:37.320 And yet for Iranians, it's basically now or never.
00:03:41.120 They are putting their lives on the line.
00:03:43.780 And, you know, one thing that gave Iranians a lot of hope
00:03:46.600 is President Trump's statement 0.74
00:03:49.760 where he said if the Islamic Republic
00:03:52.820 continues to shoot at innocent Iranians, then President Trump is going to do something about
00:03:58.820 it. You know, the United States is locked and loaded. That actually gave Iranians so much hope.
00:04:04.860 I guarantee you right now, President Trump is more popular in Iran than he is in the United States. 0.95
00:04:11.560 Well, he'd have a hard time walking down the street in Venezuela today as well, being mobbed
00:04:18.320 with fans um exactly this has happened twice before but it happened with biden and and then
00:04:25.500 it happened with obama and neither of them voiced their support and i was saying at the time that's
00:04:30.820 the thing that ronald reagan did you know when the berlin wall came down when you had the collapse
00:04:36.620 of uh the soviet union he was he was vocally supporting the people um and i and i thought that
00:04:45.320 was you know the missing the missing piece but the other part that at least obama did was send
00:04:51.660 money to the regime um yeah you know you say this isn't about economics and and i think part of
00:04:59.360 partially true um but economics may have played the role to get the people out the businesses out
00:05:07.060 into the street and saying something you know i did a calculation today on the real and it is
00:05:13.200 It's 1.47 million rials to $1, which makes bread right now in Iran is between 100 and 500,000 rials.
00:05:26.520 That means if it's at the high side, that means America, you could walk in and buy a loaf of bread for $0.34.
00:05:34.420 That's incredible.
00:05:36.280 And inflation has gone through the roof for them.
00:05:39.020 It's up to, I think, 52% or 56% just this last year.
00:05:43.200 How much of a role did that play, and did Donald Trump cutting off money help with that economic pressure?
00:05:54.360 Absolutely. So like I said, the economic crisis, the collapse of the real, the increasing inflation, that has played a role in sparking the movement, right?
00:06:09.800 So the economy has played a role in sparking the demonstrations.
00:06:15.040 But people out there right now, they're not protesting because of the collapse of the real.
00:06:21.160 But the collapse of the real is just one other symptom of, you know, living under.
00:06:28.040 It's a straw that broke the camel's back.
00:06:29.000 Exactly.
00:06:29.740 Because, you know, it's about human rights. 0.91
00:06:34.040 It's about torture. 0.78
00:06:34.900 It's about, you know, the fact that people have been brutally oppressed by, you know, Islamic dictatorship. 0.95
00:06:43.000 It's the fact that people don't want Sharia a lot.
00:06:45.120 They don't want, like, Iranians are sick and tired of their name and their country being associated with terrorism because we're not terrorists.
00:06:57.080 And prior to 1979, Iran was one of the biggest allies of the United States.
00:07:02.600 um in fact i think the person people are amazing amazing thank you yes amazing um thank you so
00:07:10.480 much for that what what tell me you know it's been a long time since that has happened and a lot i
00:07:18.360 mean you've had generations now raised under this it when the when the shah left and you had the
00:07:26.860 Ayatollah Khomeini come in, most people don't know that was the Islamists and the Marxist
00:07:32.960 socialists that were supporting that. And as soon as the Ayatollah got in, I think 20,000
00:07:40.980 Marxists kind of were disappeared or thrown into jail or killed. And it wasn't exactly a smooth 0.64
00:07:51.100 transition is still had a lot going on if this happens and they fall and the new prince comes
00:07:57.760 back how how how bad would a purge be i mean is that would that be part of this do you think that
00:08:06.420 there'd be a lot of people that have to go to jail and how would this happen so um his royal highness
00:08:13.880 um the crown prince has said that um he wants to establish something similar to the nuremberg
00:08:20.200 trial. So no violence, like no purge, nothing like that. He wants there to, you know, basically
00:08:27.560 a court of law. And anyone who has, you know, anyone who is guilty of oppression or is part
00:08:34.440 of the Islamic dictatorship will have to face that court of law. And then, you know, based on
00:08:40.580 what the verdict is, you know, they either go to jail or not. But he has never advocated for
00:08:46.940 violence. He has never advocated for anything like that. And even now, even now in his messages
00:08:52.760 to the Iranian people, when he's encouraging, because also like one of the reasons these
00:08:58.620 demonstrations are growing is because the crown prince, he is urging Iranians to go out in the
00:09:05.100 streets and demonstrate, but he's never called for violence. These demonstrations from the side
00:09:11.840 of the Iranians have been peaceful. But when the Islamic dictatorship opens fire on Iranians,
00:09:18.020 of course, they're going to, they're going to fire back, you know, they're going to defend
00:09:21.660 themselves, even though Iranians are not armed. Although we've now heard reports that in certain
00:09:26.480 parts of the country, someone has started to arm Iranians. And so in many places, they're fighting
00:09:34.980 back. But there's not going to be any sort of, you know, violent purge. I mean, we're not,
00:09:40.760 we're not islamists prior to 1979 we were modern western secularizing society and anything and
00:09:47.780 everything that happens will will go right you know it'll be uh based on the you know fundamental 0.52
00:09:53.460 uh you know laws and courts of justice how does i mean the irgc is pretty intense you know hezbollah
00:10:01.140 is there others were really bad intent are there how does that happen peacefully because i know
00:10:06.880 that you know they're already talking about an escape plan for the regime so you know the mullahs
00:10:11.460 and everybody can get out um but you know you will have the irgc left are they just going to
00:10:17.080 lay down their guns do you think i i don't know i mean i think i think the ones who are iranian
00:10:23.300 might very well do so but i think the ones who are not iranian are like the hezbollah and like
00:10:29.040 the palestinians and iraqis and like i don't know afghanis whoever else are there uh because they're
00:10:34.500 not Iranian, they have nothing left to lose. They're actually some of the most vicious, 1.00
00:10:38.740 vicious Islamic terrorists. So I unfortunately don't see them laying down their guns. So what 1.00
00:10:45.800 we really need is for the military to step up and for the military to defect and take the side of
00:10:52.360 the people. I mean, or possibly for President Trump to do something or Israel to do something
00:10:58.280 because no revolution has ever been successful without outside interference. And in fact,
00:11:03.960 The only reason the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat was successful is because of Jimmy Carter and the Democratic administration that supported the Ayatollah. 0.88
00:11:14.060 So, what a surprise. Let me take a quick one-minute break and then come back. 0.92
00:11:21.080 And I want to just ask you, what are the signs that you're looking for that it looks inevitable, that it's getting bigger and stronger?
00:11:29.160 What should we as Westerners be looking for to happen?
00:11:32.560 Goldie, are the are the mullahs actually afraid of Trump bombing them?
00:11:41.200 Absolutely, I think they are. And I think they should be because President Trump is someone who is a man of his word.
00:11:49.940 And, you know, one of the reasons that we are seeing I mean, like, we're still seeing a lot of violence by the by the Islamic dictatorship. 0.78
00:11:58.840 But we're not seeing the same level of coordination that we have in past demonstrations.
00:12:07.680 And I think part of that is because they are afraid to communicate with their phones.
00:12:15.560 Because during the 12-day war between Israel and the Islamic Republic, one of the ways that Israel was targeting the IRGC commanders was through their phones.
00:12:25.380 And so that one time where they basically, you know, exterminated 30 of those terrorists all at once, it's because they were all on their phones and Israel was able to find them. 0.51
00:12:36.340 So, you know, just a quick shout out to Israel for that. Thank you. 0.61
00:12:39.340 But, yes, they are terrified because I think they know that if they start using their phones a lot, they're going to be targeted.
00:12:46.800 And so you're seeing a lot less coordination.
00:12:49.060 Now, the forces are still brutal. They're still savage.
00:12:51.780 But even now, we're in the 10th day. It's the largest uprising that I have seen since the Islamic regime took over 47 years ago. 0.92
00:13:03.080 It's pretty much all out civil war. And yet the crowds are getting bigger. The masses are getting bigger.
00:13:09.000 The forces, the Islamic regime forces are not as coordinated. They're smaller in number.
00:13:15.220 They're still vicious, but they're smaller in number.
00:13:17.880 And one other thing is that it's day 10, and the Internet still has not been shut off.
00:13:23.700 That is huge. 0.95
00:13:24.480 That is huge, because usually what happens is by the third or fourth day, the Islamic dictatorship, 0.94
00:13:30.300 they shut down the Internet to prevent Iranians from communicating with each other, from communicating with the outside world. 0.98
00:13:37.220 And, you know, during that Internet blackout, they go ahead and they slaughter thousands and thousands of people. 1.00
00:13:42.840 They've done it before.
00:13:43.840 But this time around, the Internet is still up.
00:13:47.580 Why?
00:13:47.980 It's almost, I think there's, you know, I think that there's someone or someone's working behind the scenes to make sure that Internet stays up.
00:13:57.480 I mean, that could be Mossad providing, you know, Internet.
00:14:01.480 It could be Iran providing. 0.99
00:14:02.500 Because I know for a fact that in the last year, there have been many Iranians who have been working to smuggle Starlink into the country. 1.00
00:14:11.820 So that could be a part of it. 1.00
00:14:13.440 But I think there is someone on the outside who's working to make sure Internet is not cut off in the country.
00:14:19.100 I only have about 90 seconds.
00:14:20.600 What are the things that we should look for that say this is going, it's getting better, it's going to happen?
00:14:27.600 That's a tough one.
00:14:28.840 I mean, it's just keep an eye on the Internet, keep an eye on the crowds, keep an eye on the masses.
00:14:34.700 Keep an eye on, you know, whether or not the uprisings are continuing or not.
00:14:43.780 Yeah.
00:14:44.220 But I think the fact that President Trump has already said, and he's commented twice now, that he's supporting the Iranian people, this is huge. 0.61
00:14:52.460 But we need to make sure that all eyes are on Iran and that there's pressure on the Ayatollahs.
00:14:58.180 And, you know, just pray for the Iranian people so they can have their freedom.
00:15:02.200 And God bless America.
00:15:03.340 Thank you to all of you for listening and learning and paying attention and understanding the difference between Iran and Islam.
00:15:11.680 Yeah. Goldie, thank you so much. And we are praying for you and we're watching with real anticipation and hope this time around. 0.89
00:15:20.720 And let's stay in touch. I'd love to stay in touch and get further details from you. Thank you.
00:15:25.700 Thank you so much. Happy to come on anytime.
00:15:27.340 You got it. Goldie Gamari, she's former Ontario member of provincial parliament, the first Iranian-born parliament member in Canada, and somebody who has been standing against the Islamic regimes forever.
00:15:42.980 And that was not easy. It's still not easy to do.
00:15:46.520 But when nobody had any courage, just a few people, and she was one of them, were standing up and speaking out.
00:15:57.340 Thank you.