Iran before 1979: Democracy or Dictatorship? - PART 1
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Summary
In this episode of the show, we re talking about the Shah of Iran, Shah Reza Pahlavi, and the revolution that he started in Iran in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In this episode, we discuss the revolution, the revolution itself, and why Iranians today support His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Iran and the coup d'etat.
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well hello everyone welcome to tonight's edition of the goalie show
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where we are going to talk about all things Iran before 1979 so make sure that you like subscribe
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share the feed wherever you're watching from and we are about to get started now I actually have
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played this documentary before but I played it as you know part of one of the Iran revolution
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live streams kind of like watch parties but I figured this is such an important documentary
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and it's a three-part series back from 1978-1979 so I decided it would be a good place to restart
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because there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation that has been that has been put
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out there by the Marxists, by the Islamists, by, you know, the communists and the jihadis.
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So yeah, you know, I think it's a really good place to start because the information that we're
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about to watch and the information we're about to receive is from a documentary that is not
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really well known. And so I think that this is going to answer a lot of questions about
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the Shah of Iran, the previous Shah of Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty. And it's also going to address
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a lot of the fake news out there about, you know, where the communists and the Islamists and the
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jihadis are like the shell was a dictator and blah blah blah blah right like um all that bs
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propaganda that um especially for americans you guys hear about president trump right like it's
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it's the same group of people it's the same marxists islamists and you know the leftists
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who accuse president trump of you know being an authoritarian dictator which is utter nonsense by
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the way, as you guys know, complete and utter nonsense. But it's that same ideology. It's that
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same group of bad actors and the influencers behind them, which we'll get into later.
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It's the same exact thing. So for many of you who are dealing with this growing phenomenon of
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Trump derangement syndrome. We Iranians, we've actually been dealing with Pahlavi derangement
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syndrome for over 50 years, if not longer. So let's dive in and let's just, you know,
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get right into it because it's very telling. It's very telling here. So I have the documentary
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ready to go and let's go ahead and and this is this is part one of a three-part documentary
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so let's go ahead let's get started and uh yeah i'm looking forward to watching watching
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this documentary with you because this is going to answer a lot of your questions about what
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Iran really was like before the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat. And it's also going to address the
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question as to why Iranians today support His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Iran,
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Reza Pahlavi, right? There's a reason. There is a historical reason for that. And everything
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that you think you know about Iran is probably wrong. So let's, let's dive in. Let's get started.
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I still remember it. There was an old man there coming every day to supply our school with milk.
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and probably he had heard of me and one day he asked me where are you coming from Persia
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I said Persia oh he said oh I know it's in America when I was in America in 1964
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almost nobody knew where Iran was and they would ask me questions like you know how did you get
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here and i would say i came with plane of course and they look as if they don't believe it they
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they couldn't believe you know we had planes so after a while i started saying you know i came
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with flying flying carpet i came on a flying carpet and they look as if they really believe
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isn't that crazy like people actually believe this guy like like people non-iranians back in the 60s
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and 70s were more prone to believing that iranians came to the united states on magic flying carpets
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Iran or Persia as it was known for most of its history is that so I've spoken about this before
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but in a previous documentary watch party but what you're seeing here the crossroads are what
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you're seeing here in this scene this is not a typical school in Iran this is what was called
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a rural roaming school. So one of the things that the Shah of Iran, the previous Shah of Iran
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wanted to do is he wanted to combat illiteracy. He wanted to raise the literacy rate.
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However, he also recognized that there were a lot of various nomadic tribes whose entire
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lifestyle was, you know, nomadic. So instead of forcing the children of Iranian nomads to
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go to a town or a city, and instead of forcing them to separate from their parents in order to
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get an education. Instead, what the Shah did is he sent teachers to each of these nomadic tribes.
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And so this teacher, right, he's from, you know, probably university trained in Tehran.
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so he was actually assigned to this tribe and the Shah created something called mobile schools
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so instead of forcing children to go to school away from their parents the Shah took the schools
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to the children so that the children did not have to leave their parents the children
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could continue you know living that nomadic lifestyle that traditional nomadic lifestyle
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and at the same time they would get an education so um this here this is not how iranian schools
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are this is this is a nomadic rural tribal school so i just wanted to give you a little bit of
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context there right yeah oh my gosh you're absolutely right omid yeah well this is the
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thing. Like the Islamists and the communists are like, the Shah was a dictator. Why would he care
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about education for nomadic children? You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right.
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And this is why these documentaries are so important, because this is a kind of knowledge
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and information that we Iranians have. But a lot of Iranians don't know about this. And so I hope
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that by watching this documentary. This will give you a better understanding of why Iranians today
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support His Royal Highness King Nizal Pahlavi, and we only trust King Nizal Pahlavi to transition us
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from a brutal Islamic dictatorship to a functioning secular democratic society.
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And that's because the Pahlavi family, the Pahlavi dynasty, has a well-documented history of modernizing Iran, of caring about the people, of giving back to the people.
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And this right here is a perfect example of that.
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in the so-called free world the image of iran is of a land where oppression rules
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it's often stated or implied that iran is a police state if it was this series of film
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reports could not have been made iran is a paradox it's an anti-communist state with a
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leader who's putting into practice the policies which so the reason that Iran was an anti-communist
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state is because um at that time Iran actually shared a border with the USSR and the USSR was
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trying to bring Iran under the Iron Curtain. So in order to fight against communism, the Shah of
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Iran banned communism. Now, the reason that he banned communism was because the way that the
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Soviets were trying to bring Iran under the Iron Curtain is that they were training and indoctrinating
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Iranians, and the vast majority of terrorists back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s were actually
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communists or Marxists, and they were funded and trained by the Soviets at the time.
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More than two and a half thousand years ago, this city of Persepolis, now in splendid ruin, was the center.
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There is a lot of inside jokes, you know, especially from the Americans.
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the Americans are, you know, the Americans sometimes misbehave, but don't let them freak
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you out. Welcome, welcome. This is a very welcoming, positive group of people from all
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around the world. And as long as you're not, you know, a terrorist supporter, you're in good
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company. So welcome. And I hope, yeah, Americans, I know. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Listen, I have not
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forgotten about when I was live streaming about uh you know the the White House correspondent
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shooter and then all you Americans you were like making Durka jokes and Durka comments yeah
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oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Major I'm calling you out I'm calling you out for sure Major you're you're
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one of the the worst offenders there so there you go but welcome welcome Kuda I hope you enjoy uh
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your time with us here. And thank you for the super chat. Get settled in, grab a snack, grab
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like a soda or a coffee or a tea or a drink or something. Guys, oh, by the way, my drink,
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my bubbly flavored drink tonight is lime. So there you go. I'm drinking a lime flavored
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seltzer water tonight. There you go. All right, let's continue. I'll go back a little bit.
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guys i've actually been to persepolis it's oh there we go leor okay sorry let me let me go to
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the chats here so victory what flavor bubbly accompanies this awesome documentary so i just
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said it it's lime uh well for the first half it's lime lime flavored bubbly we'll see as the show
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progresses. And you know, when I'm done, my lime flavored bubbly, uh, what flavor I go to next,
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but I have many flavors. So, but I'm starting off with lime tonight. Lior Goldie, your interview
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with I 24 was awesome. Well done. And thanks for everything you do. Oh, thank you. Do you guys,
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do you guys actually want me to share? Like, do you want me to play my interview for you guys
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before I continue? Is that something you'd be interested in? It's only like five minutes long.
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I mean, I uploaded it earlier today, but if you want, I'm happy to share that interview with you
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guys. Would you like that? Yeah? Have you seen it or not? Okay. All right. I'll share it.
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all right here you go guys this is my interview from i20 with i24 from a few days ago
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evening goldie we're very glad to have you here in our show
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how are you how are you doing hello good good evening everyone thank you so much for having me
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here uh it's uh it's it's by the way i also want to mention because of the time difference
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um like i had to do this interview at like 6 a.m in the morning so i was a little bit i was a little
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bit sleepy but it's fine but uh yeah that's just you know that's the life not that i'm complaining
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but there you go so this this interview i did at like 6 a.m my time good evening goldie we're very
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glad to have you here in our show how are you how are you doing hello good good evening everyone
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thank you so much for having me here uh it's uh it's it's great to be here uh i'm doing okay
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given the circumstances how about yourself uh we're watching we try to analyze what's going on
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between a war and a negotiation but the main question is do we really know what's happening
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inside iran we just saw this lady speaking in the tick tock that she's she's telling to the world
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that the regime are killing those demonstrators and the people in the in the websites and then
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the social media telling they're telling her you're pro israel you are a pro pro united states
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what's going on inside iran so it's absolutely true the islamic regime is murdering uh yeah
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iranians every day they're executing them every day uh this comes after of course back in january
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8 and 9. In two days alone, the regime killed over 40,000 innocent unarmed Iranians. You know,
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there's a reason that the internet right now has been shut down for almost 70 days. So the Islamic
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regime has shut off the internet, cutting off 90 million Iranians from the rest of the world
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because they don't want the world to know the truth. And what they have done instead is they're
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using the same people who have been spreading lies about israel in the last two and a half years
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almost three years now since october 7 that same group of people is now attacking us iranians
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they're saying you know we're mossad agents we're cia uh you know we're israeli or jewish or whatever
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the case might be uh because they're trying to delegitimize us but the truth is that uh you know
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we Iranians, of course we support Israel, we support the IDF, because the IDF is helping to
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free us from this brutal Islamic regime. Do you have an answer why the big promise of the street,
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the Iranian street, didn't happen? Trump said at the beginning of the war, help is in the way,
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and we saw all the Muslims. Suddenly, during the war, we don't see nothing in the streets. Why?
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because they oppress them or there is no no no power in the street or maybe disappointed
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no they're definitely not disappointed so Iranians are right now waiting to get back onto the streets
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they're waiting for the call of his royal highness the crown prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi
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the reason it didn't happen during the war is because even president Trump himself
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was saying to Iranians, stay home. It's dangerous to be outside right now. So stay home. When the
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operation is done, you will get the signal. What we also know is that President Trump tried to
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arm the Iranian people back in January, February. However, in the last few days, President Trump
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confirmed that those arms, those weapons did not reach the Iranian people. Instead, the Kurdish
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separatist groups in iraq stole those weapons but now it seems as if there might be a second attempt
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so um the reason that iranians haven't risen up yet it's not because they've lost hope it's because
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they're waiting for the right time and i think that time is coming sooner rather than later
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i hope so uh benny here in the studio want to ask you a question hello goldie this is ben
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Sabti we know each other from the social media. I'm very glad to see you here and thank you for
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being with us here. I want to ask you about the role of Iranians in diaspora and even in Israel.
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How do you see our role no matter here or in Europe or in America? How can we be united as
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you see around maybe the prince around other normal and liberal figures in the opposition
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in diaspora and help the iranians inside iran to to have the confidence to come out again and
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to have some leadership maybe and to help them to be free you know i think um one thing about
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the iranian diaspora right now is that no matter where we are around the world whether we're in
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israel or canada or you know wherever else um we have never been more united you know one of the
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things that's that's really amazing about you know iranians in general is that no matter you know
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what religion we are what part of the world we're in you know we're all united by this iranian
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identity and right now more than ever the fact that all of us no matter where we are around the
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world we are being a voice for people inside of occupied iran that's really important and i think
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as well it's really important that we continue to support uh the crown prince reza pahlavi to
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amplify his message because that's what the iranian people inside want and they have paid for that
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with blood and you know the other thing that i think is is very important is to continue
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um at our demonstrations um to to raise the flag of israel to to raise the flag of the united states
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as well to show that we are you know supportive of and grateful to israel and the united states
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uh for helping to liberate the iranian people by attacking the islamic regime
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well we hope we hope we're gonna see those days uh goldie gomahari thank you very much for your
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things you're doing for your work and hope for a better better future for the iranian people
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and for your courage and for your courage roots it thank you very kind of you to say thank you
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so much for having me on it was great to be here thank you thank you very much good luck good evening
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kuda says usa troll to see more oh man i don't know if i can troll to see more i feel bad
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Tusi's working really hard. Um, if I troll him too much, then, then, you know, he won't pay
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attention to me when I send him like important stuff. But, uh, Oh, thank you. You guys like
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that. You guys enjoyed that. Thank you. Oh, I appreciate that. Very kind of you guys to say,
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um, WWM productions asks, asked, did you guys see the, the Levin segment last night?
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I mean, if you want, I could play that before we go to the documentary.
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Would you like me to play the Mark Levin segment was also really good?
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I mean, it might not be a bad thing to watch what Mark Levin said,
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because that will also help to put into context
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versus how Iranians lived before 1979, right?
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I want my passport to say imperial state of Iran with the lion and son.
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It was, it was such a cool name, such a cool name.
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the vast majority of whom want to live in freedom.
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I want to talk to you about Judeo-Christian values and beliefs.
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Some of you may have gone to church today or temple,
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or you just have these moral and ethical beliefs.
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maybe you've been taught them maybe they're intuitive you know right from wrong and good
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from evil so I want to talk to you about the tens of millions of people in Iran
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who for 47 years have been treated like animals yeah who've been imprisoned tortured raped murdered
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by the tens of thousands who've been told what kind of music they can and cannot listen to that's
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I want to talk about young women, the daughters, the sisters, the mothers in Iran who are forced
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to cover their heads and have no rights, let alone equal rights, and are subjected to the
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worst kind of abuses. I want to talk to you about the young people, the young people generally in
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Iran, who want to enjoy their youth, experience new things, happy things, who want to learn new
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things, who are the primary target of Iran's secret police, who are being rounded up, who are
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being summarily executed, mostly in secret. I want to talk to you about those in our country
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who fancy themselves liberals, human rights activists, civil libertarians who don't give
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a damn about any of this, who don't speak out, who will not speak out, because the Democrat Party
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or the political entity they belong to, the Marxists and the Islamists, they hate America
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and israel so much they'd rather tens of thousands more iranians guys so just just to let you know
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the marxists and islamists that mark levin is talking about here those were the same marxists
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and islamists that ruined iran back in 1979 those are the same marxists and islamists that's the
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same ideology that accused our beloved Shah of being a dictator and Iran being an authoritarian
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state before 1979. And it's like the gaslighting is unreal because as Iranians, we know what Iran
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was like before 1979. And we see what Iran is today. It's not even comparable. Like Iran before
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1979 was a liberal paradise. And the same people that are now defending the Islamic regime are the
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ones who were against the Shah and were the ones who wanted to turn Iran into a 7th century Islamic
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hellhole and it's those same people today that are attacking america and are attacking uh the
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american way of life and are attacking you um and are attacking president trump so guys like this
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is all connected this is all connected iran was the testing grounds for what for what you're seeing
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today and we iranians we're paying the price in blood
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die horrible deaths let me go back so much they belong to the marxists and the islamists
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they hate america and israel so much they'd rather tens of thousands more iranians die
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horrible deaths than see our country defeat this homicidal regime
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they're not in the streets they're not marching where all the religious leaders there's some
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where are they i don't hear them do you hear them i want to talk about the silence of the so-called
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women's groups who are so tied into the fanatical and radical left that they haven't said a word
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about the mass abuse and rapes of the women and girls by the iranian regime nothing no marches
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no press conferences they're not on tv where are they nowhere i want to talk about
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the so-called religious left in our country that despite wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians
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They're carrying the water with a so-called anti-war movement.
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I want to talk about those who say the Iranian regime's nuclear threat was not imminent,
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that this is a war of choice, that this is an illegal war, and so forth.
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They care not at all, not one with, that they are not only giving aid and comfort to this horrific enemy,
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but they are encouraging this enemy to slaughter to execute to rape to torture
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and to do what homicidal regimes do because they know the enemy that these people are in the bag
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there is nothing i repeat nothing honorable or righteous about any of these groups any of these
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individuals and about Americans who are either silent or worse, pretending this genocide is not
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taking place or knowing it's taking place and turning the other cheek. Shame on those who think
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this way. Shame on those who are not speaking out. Shame on those who are not acting, particularly
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those who are in a position to do so. I want to talk about the isolationists.
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the neo-fascists who accuse our president and our country and our military of imperialism
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and colonialism in this war who accuse israel and the prime minister there netanyahu of dragging us
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into a war who accused jews of controlling the president jews controlling our foreign policy
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and all the rest of the jew hatred they spew and remember guys i had to i had to i had to
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deal with that nonsense on pierce morgan remember like every single time that i've been on pierce
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morgan he's always brought these like idiotic people like chunky yogurt and you know anna
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garbage whatever and the only thing that they say to me is oh you're an israeli agent and this is all
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Israel's plan, and they deny the massacre, the slaughter, the genocide of Iranians
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to my face. Like, they have the audacity to tell me, an Iranian woman, okay, they have the audacity
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to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about, that I'm lying, that I'm an Israeli agent,
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Like, I cannot even believe that disgusting human beings like that exist,
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where these non-Iranian grifters have the audacity to swear at me and call me disgusting
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just because I'm raising awareness about my people's fight for freedom
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I mean, as a former politician, I've experienced a lot of things, but that experience, like those experiences on Piers Morgan, that was something else. Like I have never, like I just, this is why I avoid like the podcasters, right?
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And I mean, yes, I mean, I guess now I've sort of become like a YouTube streamer or, you know, whatever. But me streaming on YouTube, it's more just a way to raise awareness about my advocacy. Right.
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I do this because I'm trying to raise awareness about Iran.
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But in the last few months, especially since I've been exposed to these grifters on Piers Morgan,
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I've realized that there's like this whole ecosystem out there of these grifting podcasters.
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And their entire grift is just being contrarian.
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And never, ever, like never in my life did I ever imagine that there would be people out there
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who are defending the Islamic regime and defending the crimes against humanity
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of this brutal Islamic dictatorship simply because they are so blinded by their hatred
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of the United States and Israel. And yet that's exactly what we are experiencing today. And
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I've also noticed that these people, none of them are educated, right? These people
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have no education, they have no life experience, like they've never held any sort of position of
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authority or power or anything like that. These are people who have just built a huge following
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based off of the controversial things that they say. So it's like this never ending cycle that
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feeds into itself. Right. And so the, the more controversial they become, the more, um, I guess,
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I guess the more viral their videos go, the more people talk about it and that's how they make
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money through the views and the clicks and the whatever. So it's, it's like this, it's like the
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system, the ecosystem feeds into itself. And then these people believe that because, you know,
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oh, someone has 5 million followers or 10 million followers or I don't know, however many million
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followers, they view their follow count as legitimacy, right? Like they feel like that
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is what legitimizes what they're saying and makes it true. And that's really scary, guys.
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Like we are living in, we're living in a society where people value the number of likes that a video gets over the content of the video.
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and people will, like, you know, for example, like if a video has 10 million likes and another
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video has, I don't know, 1 million likes, people will be like, okay, well, if this video has 10
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million likes, okay, so that must be true because more people are liking it, so it must be legitimate,
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it, right? So they're equating legitimacy with popularity. And the Islamic regime has been
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capitalizing on this social media grift for a very long time. The Islamic regime actually has
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something called the Ministry of Cyber Warfare. The Islamic regime literally spends upwards of
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a billion dollars a year on its cyber warfare army. And this army is meant to go out there
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and manipulate the narrative, right? So this army goes out and they prop up posts that are
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supportive of the Islamic regime narrative and that are anti-America and anti-Israel.
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and we've even shown some of these posts um on iran revolution live when we have been exposing
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islamic regime state tv so yeah keep that in mind so what mark levin saying is very true because
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there is a huge grift out there and and these people are making money off of the torture
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suffering rape and execution of the innocent iranian people while the persian people and
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and it's just it's it's horrifying let me go back and abuse our policy and all the rest of the jew
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hatred they spew let me go back that while the persian and our military of imperialism and
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colonialism in this war who accuse israel and the prime minister there netanyahu of dragging us into
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a war who accused jews of controlling the president jews controlling our foreign policy
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and all the rest of the jew hatred they spew while the persian people are being slaughtered
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and abused you all disgust me the most i want to talk about the fact that despite all the news
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coverage all the attention to the deals that the persian people are told to the extent anything is
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said about them that the conditions for overthrowing the iranian regime a fully armed military security
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force that numbers 150 000 or more and is further supported by islamist terrorist militias from
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iraq and elsewhere that now was the time to rise up
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to rise up with what exactly did they not already rise up in
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january only to be slaughtered by the tens of thousands
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executions occurring left and right the knocks on the doors
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like the ss in berlin dragging people out of their homes and out of their businesses
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they can rise up if we want to encourage them to rise up and i don't think we have to encourage
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them very much they've already demonstrated these are courageous people who want liberty
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these are western type people yeah we are if we help arm them they can rise up
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they can rise up if we help arm them we've done this before to help people seek freedom
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people who don't number as many as the persian people number
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people who have didn't demonstrate as these people have demonstrated that they truly want
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their liberty and they want their lives back i just read that turkey erdogan
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opposed us arming the kurds since when does erdogan a national socialist islamist who's in
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nato for goodness sakes dictate to the west or anybody else what we will or will not do he's
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part of the muslim brother he's a problem in and of himself yeah he's his homicidal regime
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But there's no question that we have the capacity
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to do this which would have benefits across the board remove the regime and free the people
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and any threat to any future nuclear development and ballistic missile development isn't that a
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good thing for the persian people for the american people the people in the middle east and all over
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the world there could be a thousand reasons not to help these people not to act and i've no doubt
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they've been laid down and have been laid out but there's one reason that
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trumps them all it's more important than them all
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humanity the will of humanity the great late chief rabbi of the United Kingdom
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the issue is whether we have the will and our fellow human beings have the will
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to help come to the rescue of other human beings when in fact
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we are in a position to do so because never before has this iranian nazi regime been on its
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back as it is today and to be very clear that is thanks to our president president donald trump
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That is thanks to our Secretary of War, to our Secretary of State, to our generals, and our military.
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That is thanks to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his ministers, and his military.
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The only president with the courage, the wisdom, the fortitude to confront this Nazi-like regime, this mass-murdering, nuclear-obsessed Islamist enemy, the world's enemy, is Donald Trump.
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and unlike other such circumstances around the world where genocide is taking place
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and as a practical matter we can't get involved in all of them
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in iran we have the opportunity to do something about it
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we're at the door we can hear the people begging us
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oh my gosh they hear our bombs they hear our missiles or they did
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despite the regime turning out the lights and turning off all means of communication
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iran is the biggest concentration camp in human history right now it is it is we know damn well
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what's going on near the end of world war ii when concentration camps are being liberated
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one camp in particular, General Dwight Eisenhower, he insisted that his fellow four-star generals
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accompany him and walk through the concentration camp, was shocked and disgusted.
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And he wrote General Marshall, he wrote the president, he wrote the prime minister of
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Britain, Winston Churchill, and he said, never before have I ever seen such evil.
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This is a man that led our armed forces in World War II.
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that George Patton refused to go into one of the buildings
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Men who had seen everything, but they'd never seen that.
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Modern technology, and for other reasons, we know what's going on in that country.
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I already believe it was a mistake when the slaughter that took place on October 7, 2023
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at the Nova Festival grounds videotaped not by the press but by the subhuman
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animals who committed those monstrous acts of inhumanity they videotaped it
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I think it was a mistake that those videotapes weren't widely released as
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horrible as they are as as the parents didn't want them released and it's
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certainly understandable. But I think this horrific spread of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred and Israel
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hatred that is taking place in virtually every capital in the West and beyond, including in our
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country, through podcasters, through organized groups, I think this would have gone a long way
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to blunt their lies and to stop what's taking place. Let's not make that mistake again.
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More proof that radicals rule the Democratic Party?
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Yeah, guys. I need a few minutes. I'll be back. I'll be back. That was a very powerful speech by Mark Levin.
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Do you know Europe? Do you know what's been done? Do you know Europe? 42,000 souls are gone, killed in two days, by a regime drenched in blood.
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Do you know you're up, or have you just given up?
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Do you know you're up, do you feel anything at all?
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Or did something break inside you, while I ran and answered the call?
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Do you know you're up, or have you just given up?
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okay um thanks guys all right i'm back so let's go back to the documentary so
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now that we watched um that really really informative um
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video by mark levin that he put out last night i hope it gives you a little bit of context
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because now we're going to go back to happier days in Iran.
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And let's see what the country was actually like
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before the Marxists and Islamists turned it into a concentration camp.
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By the way, this is Persepolis. And oh my gosh, guys, you have no idea.
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Like for us Iranians, Persepolis is like our holy ground, our sacred ground, right? Persepolis
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is basically where the Persian empire was founded. And I've, I've had the honor to walk
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through the ruins of Persepolis. And it is such a life altering experience for us, right? Like
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it's just Persepolis. I don't know. There's something about Persepolis. It just, it calls,
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like it's just it it calls our blood it's it's like connected to our blood our soul I don't know
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how to describe it but um like every single Iranian's life goal is to go to Persepolis at
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least once if not multiple times because it's just like it's our holy ground it's our holy ground and
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um you know before 1979 we were able to share persepolis with the rest of the world obviously
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now we can't but i hope that you guys can also um one day have an opportunity to visit persepolis
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in a free iran because it's just so beautiful it's so beautiful
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Persia was the first world power more than two and a half thousand years ago this city of
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persepolis now in splendid ruin was the center of an empire which stretched from greece to india
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oh wait wait someone's asking um are there ai videos showing ancient percent i mean probably
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probably let me see i can i've i've seen a few on instagram let me see if i can um find something
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on YouTube. Give me a moment here. It's just so beautiful. Okay.
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Okay. Okay. So this is kind of cute. I've seen this one.
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so okay so this is like an ai video from the perspective of like an ancient iranian princess
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and you know she's doing like a selfie selfie tour of persepolis so yeah like this is you know
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look at the entrance to this i mean it doesn't look like
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i don't think we had elephants though i don't know i this this ai isn't really great like
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that's not a good ai example um okay this is like the music is gonna be copyright striked
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but i mean this is sort of like what ancient persia looked like and how um like iranians
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would dress right so yeah like this this would be how iranians dressed yeah did we have elephants
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oh you know what i was thinking of the rhinoceros because i remember like watching 300
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and then they had like rhinoceros and i was like that's really weird um
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you know what? Let me just do this. I'm sure I can find something here.
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Ooh, look at this. Okay. Okay. So here we go. This, this looks pretty legit. Let's see.
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wow that's amazing they even got they even got the um the coloring correct
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okay you know what guys what i'll do is i will here i'm not gonna i'm we're not gonna watch
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this right now because we're we're watching the other documentary but what i'll do is i will save
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i'll save the this these videos and we'll do a separate um documentary watch party in the
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in the future about what ancient Persia looked like. How about that? Maybe, maybe we can do that
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one. We'll do this one tomorrow night. Okay. We'll do ancient Persia tomorrow night because I really
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do want to get back to, um, sort of Iran right before the Islamic revolution, but yeah, stay
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tuned. So make sure that you like, and subscribe and share this channel because tomorrow we will
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watch the documentary about what ancient Persia looks like and I'm pretty excited to see that as
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Dr. Cobra, you remembered. Yes. Yes. Actually. So, um, my ancestry, uh, actually traces back
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to even pre-Persia. Uh, my ancestry goes back to Elam. You're absolutely right. I'm, I'm
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Elam, Elamite? I don't know how it's pronounced. But yeah, yeah. I was actually born in the city
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of Ahvaz, which was built like 2000 years ago. And Ahvaz is about, I would say maybe like 60
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kilometers, like one, one hour, one hour's drive from the ancient capital of Elam. Yeah. So like,
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you know, like for, for Christians, you know, whenever you read about Elam in the Bible and
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like the people of Elam, that's me, that's my people, that's my people. There you go.
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And my sister as well. My sister was there with me. Yeah. Oh my gosh.
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in shushinak yeah yeah that's that's where we actually learned about the ancient
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um uh elamite gods including in shushinak so yeah there you go rose will tell you
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all about in shushinak she is um a pro with that so just ask her your questions in the live stream
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according to history it's likely the persians would have expanded still further
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and become the first supreme power in southeastern europe if the greeks of the mainland had not stopped
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them sorry so sarah's asking how do you know uh your people go back so far well i mean it
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Just because the Lor-Bakhtiari tribes, the Lor-Bakhtiari tribes trace their origins back to Elam.
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it took the persians 65 years to build persepolis with the help of the most skilled craftsmen and
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materials from every corner of their vast empire the conquering greeks led by alexander destroyed
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the city oh by the way guys uh before before we continue since rose is here um i just want
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to give a shout out to rose and there's a reason for that um let me pull up her channel so
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guys, I recommend that everyone subscribe to Rose's channel. And there's a reason for that.
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That's because Rose is going to start creating content soon about space. And remember how I
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told you guys that I'm thinking of doing like Alien Revolution Live. So guess who is going to
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be running and managing Alien Revolution Live? Yeah, it's going to be Rose because she is the
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aerospace experts. So if you guys want to have all the, you know, info and details about space,
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if you want to, you know, ask someone about space or, you know, all that crazy space,
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aerospace science stuff, you want to subscribe to Rose Gamma Ray, right? And she's going to be
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starting her channel pretty soon so yeah she's a little bit shy but you know she'll get there
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she'll get there so you're not gonna like you do not want to miss out on her content when she
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starts because she is such an intelligent person she knows everything and anything about like space
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and, I don't know, like aerospace stuff and, you know, like black holes and galaxies or whatever.
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But she's also able to explain it in like a very down to earth way that even someone like me can
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understand. So yeah, everyone subscribe to her channel because she's going to be starting Alien
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Revolution Live soon. And who knows, maybe, maybe I'll be a guest, guest, you know, host, co-host
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on her show. And Rose is always correct about... Yeah, there you go. See? Rose is always correct
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about space. Yeah. Yeah. She knows her stuff. So, like, she's big into all, like, the space
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stuff. So, yeah. Subscribe to her channel, because that's going to be starting soon.
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there you go rose knows there you go rose knows so just like think about it this way imagine like
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how much i know about geopolitics um my sister is a smart one in the family so she knows like
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even more about like space it'll um it'll be like carl sagan but like yeah it'll be just like it'll
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be like Carl Sagan like that's like basically like that and she'll be very good at pronouncing
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sorry explaining all the stuff so there you go okay back to the program so that was a little
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commercial break plugging my sister's upcoming YouTube space channel
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it took the persians 65 years to build persepolis with the help of the most skilled craftsmen and
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materials from every corner of their vast empire the conquering greeks led by alexander destroyed
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the city in a few days okay um let me go to a few super chats so uh so kuda says the reason donald
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j trump wants that dust so we can see where it came from china onoma we can test it to find the
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origin is that how that works i mean i i thought he just wanted the dust to make sure that the
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Islamic regime can't use it to create nuclear weapons. But is that a thing? Like, can you
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trace the origins? Because I thought the Islamic regime, they were creating like all the nuclear
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stuff in their underground facilities within occupied Iran. I mean, that's an interesting
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theory. Wow. Okay, Plan B gave a super sticker. Thank you. And then Kuda says, what time is your
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normal live streams. So I have two live streams. Um, I do Iran revolution live at 1 PM Eastern
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every day. So, you know, tune in at 1 PM Eastern every day for the latest updates on Iran and the
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Iranian revolution and, you know, politics. And then I do my own sort of documentary watch live
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stream type thing where, uh, it's a little bit more chill and a little bit more conversational.
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And, you know, we still talk about Iran. We still talk about middle East. We still talk about
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geopolitics, but, uh, you know, within the context of watching, um, documentaries. So tonight's
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documentary is called Iran in search of democracy. It is from 1977. And this is part one of three.
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if you go to my youtube channel though you'll you'll see where it's all listed out so um
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yeah but like my other live stream starts at 1 p.m eastern
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he burned it deliberately because he saw in this the essence of the empire he saw in persepolis
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the might and culture and everything that persians had seen in their own empire
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uh in one crucible and he wanted to tell oh okay so this is guys this is the i this is interesting
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so i didn't know this okay wow okay so apparently the dust has a signature
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and there are isotopic markers that show regional origin oh wow
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i believe you can yeah that's the thing you can trace the origins oh oh wow okay you guys i did
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not know that. Whoa. Wow. Okay. Guys. Okay. So this makes me think that, okay. So, so
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if this is actually a thing, like, okay. So I didn't know this part because I'm not like
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a sciencey person, right? Like that's my sister. But if you can actually trace like the origin of
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of the nuclear dust to wherever it came from, this makes me think right from like a geopolitical
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kind of perspective analysis that now the likelihood of President Trump
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putting boots on the ground, not to fight the Islamic regime, but putting boots on the ground
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to retrieve that dust, to me, that likelihood just went up exponentially because President Trump
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probably has a very good idea of where this nuclear dust comes from.
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And he just wants that nuclear dust so that he could confirm his suspicions, right?
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the the um you know we are a little bit like i'm a little bit more strict um for the morning uh
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morning live stream just because that you know the focus is purely on iran and like the iranian
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revolution and updates there but the evening live stream is a little bit more chill it's just you
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know we we can talk about pretty much anything as long as it's sort of within the you know range of
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of topics that you know i know about um you know like don't ask me about pop culture because i just
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i don't know anything about pop culture i don't really care um but this isn't necessarily off
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topic so i mean that's really interesting wow huh okay them that because it is persepolis and your
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empire then persepolis is finished and your empire is also finished and in fact this is what happened
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once persepolis was burned then the persian empire collapsed
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persepolis was destroyed in 330 bc from that time till recently and apart from
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brief periods of cultural and artistic achievement the persians were finished
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from the late 17th century onwards iran's peasants were amongst the poorest
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and most backward in the world yeah thanks
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yeah and that's thanks to the qajar dynasty the qajar dynasty is a dynasty before
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the pahlavi dynasty and the qajar dynasty they were ruled by the islamic clerics so
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yeah, the peasants were poor and backwards because Islam, yay, right? It was only when the
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Pahlavi dynasty came in that, you know, Iran became modernized and all the peasants were,
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you know, basically brought out of poverty and serfdom. So yeah, prior to 1925, Iran was literally
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a backwards backwards underdeveloped third world hellhole governed by mullahs right
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and that's why the mullahs hates the pahlavi dynasty
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the peasants had no human or legal rights of any kind they were exploited without mercy from within
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by the landlords and iran's ruling elite and from without by foreign powers mostly russia and britain
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in the province of baluchistan on modern iran's border with pakistan
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a tribesman madad notani recalls the life of 25 years ago oh so remember guys this
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guy he's not a durka this guy is not durka he's a tribesman his turban is different his turban is
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different than the durka turban guys remember um uh this is what the durka turban looks like
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new top. There we go. Okay. So guys, this is, this is a, this is a Durka. This is a Durka
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turban, right? It's got like, you know, it's, it's like perfectly round. It looks like a,
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you know, like a jihadi Durka donut thing, right? Um, however, this, this guy, where is he?
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this guy, this is, this is different, right? So, uh, turbans are not necessarily a Durka thing,
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right? Um, my, my father's father actually wore a similar style of turban and it's just, you know,
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it's something that you wear in, um, in like hot weather and this actually helps to cool your head
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and it helps to keep you cool. So he is not a Durka. He is a rural villager from, uh, the 1970s.
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And he's about to share his life experience where, um, you know, prior to the Shah, uh, the late
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Shah, um, modernizing his city and town, um, you know, he lived in poverty and then, you know,
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once the Shah came, things improved. So no, he's not a Durkha. He's not a Durkha. However,
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this one is. That's a Durkha. This is a Durkha. You can even see the picture of like
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Khamenei, whatever, Khamenei in the background. That's the Durkha.
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this guy is just a villager he's cool he's he's actually anti-derka he's anti-derka and he's
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actually pro-iran and this guy is pro-sha yeah he's just like a rural villager he's he's like
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a rural rural villager 25 years ago if a vehicle passed through this area the people in the vehicle
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would have been done for to begin with then a hundred or so local people would have been killed
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as well and remember he's he's the original ice because right now he's about to talk
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he's about to share his story of how um if like foreign invaders from pakistan or afghanistan
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want to come to iran he's like there's 200 he's like 200 people would risk their lives to save
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one rock uh from these foreign invaders right so think of like ice these guys are like the original
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ice because these guys are the ones who are keeping like the pakistanis and the afghanis
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and the durkas out of iran like they were the original durka hunters
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why because in those days the roads were unsafe there were no schools there were no
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gendarmery posts there were none of these wells or other developments
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There is a place near here, 18 miles away, called the cemetery.
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There are still the graves there of almost 70 Englishmen who were killed as they passed.
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Our people are buried there too, in fours and sixes.
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The cause of the killing in the cemetery I told you about
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told you about was our own territory, our land, and water.
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If a foreigner tried to take away a single stone from our territory, we were ready to
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lose 200 lives to defend it. That was why the killing at the cemetery happened.
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if there was water we would last without bread for 30 days we would eat raw meat camel meat mutton
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beef even with no salt or fire we would roast it in the sun if we put a piece of meat that's okay
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that is like badass though like uh wow they whoa he's like we would eat camel meat even if we had
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to roast it in the sun with no fire like that is um yeah that's pretty badass i don't think i could
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do that i don't think i could do that geez hardcore hardcore uh you know i i have a lot
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of respect for them a lot of respect for them but yeah on the rock this morning it will be cooked by
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now we could fight no no they wouldn't eat no no they wouldn't eat raw meat it's almost like they
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were they would eat like almost like dehydrate like basically he's saying that the weather
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was so hot the weather would get so hot that they would just put raw meat out on like like just like
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a stone or something and then like they would put it out in the morning and then by noon it would
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be baked which is true because the place that i was yeah kind of like jerky it would like turn
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into jerky almost exactly um and that's actually not far-fetched like i was born in avos avos is
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also pretty hot right like um i recall as a child like sometimes you know in the summer the weather
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would get so hot it would reach like 50 degrees celsius wait what's celsius to fahrenheit
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um 122 so there there would be days when i was in you know in iran in my hometown birth town
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where the temperature would reach 122 degrees fahrenheit if not more
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yeah so that's that's 50 degrees celsius 122 fahrenheit yeah like you could you could literally
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cook an egg like we actually i actually remember doing that experiment one time with like one of
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my cousins like we put we broke an egg uh we put it in a frying pan and then we just left it outside
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in the sun um in the morning and then like by the end of the day it was pretty much cooked although
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we left it outside and then the ants found it so we couldn't actually eat the egg because you know
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all the ants found the egg and like you know they were like eating the egg or whatever taking it
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back to their um their ant hole or whatever and then you know my grandmother yelled at us but
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that's okay so there you go we were kids it was all good um but yeah it gets it gets really hot
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like it gets so hot you can literally just like put meat out in the sun and that way like it would
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cook out an enemy for 30 days on that did many of his friends used to die because they were
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they were hungry or the children did they die yes yes in those days there were no doctors
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or hygiene care for children no doctor came this way the people just died
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and i know i've mentioned this before but yes we iranians we come in all shapes and sizes and
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colors. And yes, there are even Iranians with blonde hair. And you know, light colored eyes,
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blue eyes, green eyes, like all different colors. My sister Rose, she's actually adopted because
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she doesn't look like me. My sister Rose actually has like green eyes and light brown hair. So I
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don't know where she got those genes from but uh she's adopted so because yeah she doesn't look
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like me so just saying um but yeah like iranians come in different different colors
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10 years ago we could hardly live at all the baluches and the gendarmes were the worst of
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if we saw a soldier we used to run away and hide i mean to be fair to be fair i i would
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i would tease my sister when she was younger and i would be like hey rose you have brown
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hair and light colored eyes you're adopted and she would cry so yeah but you know all that to say uh
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no she's she's obviously not adopted she is my biological genetic sister um but yeah like
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iranians like we come in all different colors as well so um it just you know we're very diverse
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in our appearance wait mike is matthew is saying i'm on youtube feature what's youtube feature
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What's YouTube feature? That's kind of cool. What is that?
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Oh, yeah. Peak big sister behavior. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I would.
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I teased her all the time. It's terrible. Terrible.
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I know I was terrible. All right. Let's go back to it. Oh, it means I'm a featured channel
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as I'm over 200,000. Oh, cool. Thank you. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you
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all the support our life before about 10 years ago we could hardly live at all the baluches and
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the gendarmes were the worst of all if we saw a soldier we used to run away and hide
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for the last 10 years or so so far as i can remember
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I would get grounded for doing that, but I would say that it was honestly, it was worth
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it. It was worth it. Yep. Yep. Yep. Rose, if you piss me off, I will still sell you.
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I will still drag you to the local flea market and I'll sell you to the vendors. I can still
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do that as a result of the will of God and the grace of his majesty we have
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lived in much more comfort even if we have nothing else we have security did
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they have enough to eat 10 and 15 years ago and what did they eat food in those
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days we ate dates. They were brought from Jiroft every three or four days. Okay guys, this part's
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really important. So she is now speaking about how her people and her tribe lived in poverty
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and then once the Shah came and, you know, brought people with him to, you know, build schools and
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build roads and to modernize and to basically improve the quality of life, you know, things
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improved. But listen to, listen to what she's saying about like what they literally, before
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they used to eat dates and herbs, right? Like they just, they would eat dates and herbs and
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that was pretty much it. Days we had flour made of millet or barley. We ate them with animal
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grasses okay that's not animal grasses it's sabzi this is like okay no one no one in iran eats
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like what is animal grass that doesn't even make any sense it's sabzi we eat herbs
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i think i explained this last time but um let me just bring it up again really quickly so like
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like, sabzi is like a big thing. We all eat it and it doesn't, it, it doesn't really have to do
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with like being poor or not. It's just like, so sabzi is just like with our food. Okay. So as
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like a side, side meal, side dish to our, our main meal, we eat fresh herbs and it's a combination
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of whatever herbs are available. So usually it's like green onion, um, radishes, mint, basil,
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uh, parsley, you know, whatever. So not necessarily, I mean, I get, we don't call it
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bitter herbs. It's just herbs, but like, this is a staple. So whenever, whatever we're eating,
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we always have like herbs with it on the side. So that interpretation in the documentary is wrong
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because she says Sabzi and Sabzi refers to the herbs. No, it's, it's, no, it's not the,
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uh, so someone's saying, um, so it isn't the grass. No, it's not the grass that animals
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drag their bums on. No, because you could actually hear the woman say Sabzi. Um, and
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this is Sabzi, this here, this is Sabzi. Um, it's just, you know, the, the people who were
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making this documentary probably had no idea what sabzi is so they just called they just were like
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okay maybe it's just animal grass which is not accurate at all but you'll hear her say the word
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sabzi listen she laughed every three or four days we had flour made of millet or barley
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we ate them with animal grasses she's like well having sabzi on before team so sabzi
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means with the herbs because they would have like herb gardens so they would plant the herbs and eat
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the herbs did some of their people used to die because they didn't have enough food in those
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bad old days yes girls and boys of two or three were fed on those grasses
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One saw water coming out of their mouths, and they died.
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were so thoroughly humiliated by wave after wave of invading forces.
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Each occupying power left its mark, a scar.
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was their pride in what had been achieved in times past.
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the man who was to begin the process of renewal was born here in 1878
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the village of elashed in the mountains which sloped down to iran's border with russia
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at the time of you know i just want to say one of the reasons that the pahlavi
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dynasty have been so good for Iran is because they are one of us, right? They are from the people,
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right? The Pahlavi dynasty come from humble roots and they became the Pahlavi dynasty,
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not through force, but through the constitution of Iran. It was through a democratically,
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it was through the vote of the democratically elected parliament of Iran in 1975, sorry,
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in 1925. So the Pahavi dynasty came to power in 1925, through the vote of the democratically
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elected parliament at the time called Majlis. And that's why they are so good for Iran, because
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um they come from humble beginnings and humble roots and and they're based they're one of us
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meanwhile the qajar dynasty the qajar dynasty weren't even iranian they were turkish
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and they you know just had like noble roots or you know whatever um noble royal whatever
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and they had no connection to the people they had no understanding of what it's like to be
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you know a normal person or a commoner or a peasant or whatever so they were so out of touch
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but this is why um the path heavy dynasty is so so respected because um
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they understand what it's like and anyways let's just continue but yeah you'll see
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at the time of his birth here the russians and the british low rivals were well on their way
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to establishing complete control of iran's economy and politics
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the man from this village who was to challenge the big powers was illiterate
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reza khan refused to tolerate fools and liars when in later years high officials sought to
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influence him by flattery he would explode with anger don't be a bloody fool he would say i'm the
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son of a peasant the spark right so so like the flattery the flattery from the other
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nobles or whatever wouldn't get to him because he would be like i'm not going to fall for this bs
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like i'm the son of a peasant um and he was not ashamed of that in fact he used that to his
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advantage which set ablaze the smoldering fire of iranian nationalism was britain's decision
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So the coup happened by someone else, and it was the Marxists and communists who actually staged the coup in 1919 and took over Tehran.
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And Rizakhan, at the time as he was known, he was the leader of the Cossack Brigade.
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Rizakhan led the counter coup that freed Iran from the communist and Marxist occupation.
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And he actually reinstalled the Qajar Shah at the time.
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So Reza Khan did the counter coup in 1921, and it was only in 1925 that he became the Shah.
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In 1926, Reza Khan was proclaimed Shah and became the first king of the Pallavi dynasty.
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But it was an event which nearly didn't happen.
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Reza Khan wanted Iran to become a republic with himself as president.
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he was eventually persuaded that iran's traditions demanded a restoration of the monarchy
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yeah did you guys know that reza shah reza shah didn't even want to be shah reza shah
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wanted a republic he was like no no no let's become a republic you know i will i will you
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know, I'll become like, I'll run for president or something. And then everyone else was like,
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no, we've always had a monarchy. So we're going to vote you in as the Shah of Iran.
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Like, isn't that, isn't that crazy? You never hear that part of history. All you hear is,
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oh, Rizal Khan staged the coup and forced himself to become the Shah. But no one ever
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mentions the fact that he actually initially wanted a republic for the country. Yeah, that's
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the grandfather of the Kurds, Shah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So he initially wanted Iran to become
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a republic, but then he was convinced by everyone that, no, monarchy is part of Iran's heritage,
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which I agree with, by the way, like, you know, constitutional monarchy, like, you know, I'm
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Canadian. I live in a constitutional monarchy. I was a Canadian politician within the constitutional
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monarchy democratic system. So, you know, that's the type of democratic system that I prefer.
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And he eventually realized, okay, yeah, like the whole concept of monarchy is entrenched
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within Iranian identity, Iranian culture, Iranian folklore, Iranian, you know, mythology and legend,
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even our language, right? There's a lot of words that come from the word Shah. So he was like,
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okay, sure, guys, I wanted a republic. I want to be president. But if that's what you guys don't
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want, okay, fine, cool, I'll roll with it. And then the democratically elected parliament called
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majlis voted him in as the new shah of iran yeah that's that's how it that's how it went down
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reza khan wanted iran to become a republic with himself as president
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he was eventually persuaded that iran's traditions demanded a restoration of the monarchy
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reza shah's strong brand of nationalism was not merely the product of his mistrust of foreigners
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his driving force was his faith in the capacity of his people to make iran a great nation again
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make iran a great nation again guys reza khan sorry reza shah the first
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he was the original miga like this documentary from 1977 is talking about making iran great
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again so the concept of miga yeah miga there you go guys miga miga first started in 1925
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1925 is when miga came look at this monday the restoration of the monarchy
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Reza Shah's strong brand of nationalism was not merely the product of his mistrust of
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His driving force was his faith in the capacity of his people to make Iran a great nation
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His first showdown with the bullying big powers came in 1931.
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Even then, the subject of confrontation was oil.
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For hundreds of years, some Iranian peasants had been using the stuff to make fuel cakes
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In 1901, the Kajar King awarded to an Australian prospector the exclusive exploration and exploitation
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rights throughout Iran for a period of 60 years.
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This key to Iran's future was virtually given away.
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By the time of the foreigners' first discovery of oil in commercial quantities in 1908, the
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Anglo-Persian Oil Company had been formed in London to take over the original concession.
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When the company refused to improve the terms of the concession, Reza Shah canceled the
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The dispute went to the League of Nations and Reza Shah won.
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But his victory led to increasing bitterness between Britain and Iran, which eventually cost Reza Shah his throne.
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The creation of a communications network of roads and railways opened the way to development, progress and change.
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Nationalism was wielded into a single territorial force.
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The foundation stones for nation-building were laid.
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When the Second World War began, Reza Shah declared his country neutral.
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At dawn on the 25th of August 1941, the Allies invaded.
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The Russians from the north, British and Indian forces from the west and the south.
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When the invasion plan was being discussed, Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India, wrote to Churchill.
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It is essential that we should join hands with Russia through Iran.
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If the present government of Iran is not willing to facilitate this, it must be made to give way to one that will.
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Hitler's forces had inflicted defeat on the Russians along a thousand-mile front.
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so iran became what allied command called the bridge to victory
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because it was the safest route for supplies to russia
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why the allies resorted to invasion is still much debated
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razor shah's refusal to be dictated to by the big powers was a major factor but the records of both
01:47:38.120
sides suggest that invasion wouldn't have been necessary if the allies had been honest with
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razor shah and had taken him into their confidence the british in particular were not prepared to do
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that they were too prejudiced against the man who before the war started had signaled his intention
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to play a leading role in ushering in the twilight of the British Empire.
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Three weeks after the invasion, broken and humiliated, Reza Shah abdicated.
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Crown Prince Mohammed Reza, the present Shah, took over.
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over. The old man was exiled. He died in South Africa in 1944. The loss felt by most Iranians
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at the moment of abdication was even more profound when Reza Shah's body was eventually
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returned to Iran for a state funeral. One said, I felt as if the ground on which I stood
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had been taken from under me. The feeling of security given by knowing that Reza Shah
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was in his palace, looking after his nation, suddenly disappeared.
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Reza Shah's defeat and humiliation was the moment when many Iranians lost faith in the
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belief inspired into them by their king that they could once more be the masters of their
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After the long journey home from South Africa, Reza Shah's body was laid to rest in Tehran.
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What is your interpretation of the events which ended with your father's abdication?
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Do you think perhaps with hindsight that he might have been a bit stubborn and refused to compromise and to some extent brought the trouble on himself?
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or do you think the Allies were determined to force him to go?
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And I remember we sending messages to the Western countries,
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that's what you want, we know that you are cooking up something.
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a reply never came they wanted to get rid of somebody who was independent and who have
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eventually asked some price for the allies to take advantage of our lines of communication
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our ports our way roads do you know that during the war 11 million tons of goods
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were transported through this country from the western world to the soviet union
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so they didn't want him to be around was it what was it you think that they objected to that he was
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beginning to make iran independent beginning to strike out for independence sure
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it was one of he was not one of those people who would have accepted
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a small messenger coming and transmitting messages that he had to obey or carry out not that i did
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i also resisted in my way after i assumed but in fact when your possibilities when you took over
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i think the allies for a few days even refused to recognize your session yes they did so they
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And they thought, well, it will be the same story.
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Then in order not to have the same burdens, they did their best, almost during the whole
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of the occupation of this country, to diminish the powers and the role of the sovereign in
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Your basic problem, I think, when you took over, and you were not quite 21 in those circumstances,
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was that there was almost nobody around you who you could trust.
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Even Iranian politicians were playing each other off against and with the foreign powers.
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And this is why I say almost a miracle saved us at the end of the war,
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like a miracle saved us at the end of the First World War.
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which will be the expression of the real people,
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not just the expression of a few rotten politicians.
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the age of 21 he was engaged in a long and bitter struggle with corrupt and self-seeking politicians
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from the country's ruling elite but the young shah's first priority was to develop a new
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foreign policy he was determined to be more flexible and pragmatic than his father
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a strength which his enemies misinterpreted as a weakness okay so uh we're getting up to two
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hours here. I'm going to end the live stream here. Don't worry. We are going to continue tomorrow.
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And guys, I'm also working on some videos that I'm going to be uploading as well. So make sure
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that you are subscribed to my YouTube channel. Because I did actually film a number of videos
01:54:15.280
today. I still haven't finished editing them because, you know, everyone thinks I have like
01:54:21.100
this huge team. No, it's literally just me, my laptop and my camera. So I filmed a bunch of
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videos today about Iran, kind of like Iran 101 videos, and I will be sharing them and uploading
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them tomorrow once I'm done editing them. So stay tuned for that. But yeah, in the meantime,
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Thank you all for tuning in for tonight's documentary watch party.
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And we're going to finish watching part one of this documentary.
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We're going to take our time because there's a lot of info.
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And I'm more than happy to answer your questions and give you all the context as well.
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So thanks for tuning in. Uh, please don't forget to like and subscribe, you know, to help me grow
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I'm going to put the link in the chat again. Um, make sure that you subscribe to her channel as
01:55:30.300
well because she's going to be starting soon and it's going to be all about, you know, space and
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I don't know, like alien stuff and, you know, conspiracy theories. I don't know, whatever,
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like random space stuff. I don't know. She's the aerospace engineer. You know, you know, guys,
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she actually told me a crazy fact yesterday. She told me this insane fact yesterday. And then I
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literally just, I freaked out when she told me this fact. I was like, how is this a thing?
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Let me ask you, wait, what's the proper word here?
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Okay, so no, no, no, this is not a Rick roll. This is not a Rick roll. This is a real thing.
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Okay, so she asked me yesterday, how thick is the fuselage of an airplane? So guys,
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don't look it up. Don't look it up. So the fuselage is like the main body or central structure
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of an airplane. So she asked me yesterday, like, how thick is the...
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So how thick do you think it is? Don't look it up, just guess. So the fuselage is the central
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structure of the airplane, right? Like that, you know, giant big tube that holds everything in.
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How thick do you think it is? Okay. So we have 10 centimeters, 10 feet,
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two millimeters less than one inch it's like one eighth of an inch six
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four to 16 inches yeah no you know how thick it is
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the the the central so this thing guys this thing this thing okay
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the the the tube thingy okay the tube thingy that's called the fuselage
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Okay. The tube thingy. Again, my sister is the aerospace engineer, not me. So I don't know the fancy words. How thick is the tube thingy that holds everything together?
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This giant tube thingy. How thick do you think it is?
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Four millimeters. Okay. Do you understand four millimeters?
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that's how thick that's how thick the giant tube thingy is
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no it's not 10 centimeters it's four millimeters
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how much in freedom units 0.15748 inches so 0.16 inches that's how thick the the fuselage is
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because she's an aerospace engineer and I was like
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is 0.15748 inches. Yeah, there you go. So random, random space fact for you. So yeah,
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that's why, that's why everyone should subscribe to my sister's channel because once she starts
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her show and her videos, like, yeah, it's going to be very interesting stuff. So there you go.
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All right, guys. Thank you, everyone, for tuning in. We're going to finish watching our documentary tomorrow night. So we'll see you all tomorrow. And of course, I will see you before that earlier at 1 p.m. Eastern for tomorrow's edition of Iran Revolution Live.
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As always, stay safe, stay happy, and this has been tonight's edition of The Colby Show.
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From cells to the shadows, their voices still grow