00:04:30.000Well, good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining me for another one of my evening live
00:04:50.340streams where myself and a number of Iranians watch a documentary about Iran and then we provide
00:04:57.380our comments and feedback. So the last time we left off, it was a documentary that was actually
00:05:03.660produced in 1974. I will provide the YouTube link and page afterwards because it is publicly
00:05:11.880available on YouTube. And we got about halfway through. And then once we got to the Mossad
00:05:17.840era, and of course, the so-called 1953 coup, which wasn't actually a coup, for some reason,
00:05:25.200the video went down due to a so-called copyright notice, although that live stream is now back up.
00:05:31.940So part one of this live stream is there. And as I recall, we were at about a 9 out of 10 for
00:05:41.140this documentary. So we're going to pick up where we left off. I just fast forwarded, you know,
00:05:48.800not fast forward. I, you know, went ahead just a little bit, um, to make sure that, you know,
00:05:54.940I guess we're out of like that Mossad Dick phase era. Um, so let's see how this goes. We're going
00:06:01.280to try to, uh, watch the remainder of the documentary. There's about 30 minutes left.
00:06:08.500Um, and again, you know, uh, I will provide the, the full link to the video, um, uh, in the
00:06:15.180description and also, of course, give a final rating out of 10. I believe the reason that
00:06:21.580myself and the Iranians in the chat, we were at a nine, is because the documentary still did sort
00:06:27.200of, even though it was in the 1970s, so it was filmed prior to the Islamic Republic taking over
00:06:33.740Iran, they still refer to 1953 as a coup, which it wasn't. So to me, that was very bizarre.
00:06:40.020So it almost seems like even in the early to mid 70s, these non-Iranian, you know, journalists and documentary filmmakers or whatever, they were already starting to buy into the Islamist and communist narrative about 1953.
00:07:01.160And then, of course, that eventually gained traction.
00:07:04.240And that's what led to the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat.
00:07:08.360All right, guys. So let's continue. Of course, special shout out to the mods and all the
00:07:14.620members here. Thank you for being here and thank you for joining me.
00:07:21.360The reform is bitterly opposed by the landlords and parts of the clergy
00:07:25.420assisted by the extreme left. Okay. So, so the reform that we're referring to here. Okay. I'll
00:07:31.640see if I can go back a little bit and maybe we won't hit, maybe we won't hit the copyright notice.
00:07:37.340So the reform that they're referring to here is the land reforms of the Shah at the time, who was basically getting rid of the feudal system and basically eliminating serfdom.
00:07:54.080So that's what they're referring to with the land reforms, right?
00:07:56.480The Shah was basically getting rid of that feudalism and he was empowering poor people in Iran by giving them plots of land.
00:08:05.500the crowd will shout god bless you with us okay let's go back marriage the shah will not produce
00:08:11.600an heir to the throne okay oh all right intervenes he is okay okay no you want to go past Mossad
00:08:19.840all right but the old system of concessions definitely is abolished for the first time
00:08:25.200in her modern history, Iran is now sovereign in every field.
00:09:57.160So in 1974, this narrator is basically saying that Iran has a long history of religious tolerance, right?
00:10:06.100Because it goes back to our Zoroastrian roots, and it goes back to, of course, Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire.
00:10:14.880And, you know, within the Cyrus cylinder, he basically said, you know, he basically created the concept of freedom of religion. So this notion of religious tolerance actually started with the Persian civilization.
00:10:32.120And it was only when the Islamic Republic took over in 1979 that they then started persecuting all of the religious minorities. And that's why, you know, Iran is incredibly, well, was incredibly religiously diverse. And, you know, it's the Iranians themselves still are, but many of those religious minorities had to escape. Right.
00:10:58.740And so that's why, you know, as Iranians, we have Iranian Muslims, Iranian Christians, Iranian Jews, Iranians or Astrians, Iranian Baha'i, you know, everything. And again, prior to 1979, all Iranians, regardless of their religious affiliation, were treated equally.
00:11:19.200And it was only when Islam took over in 1979 and imposed Sharia law that the religious minorities, you know, including the Jews and the Baha'is, were heavily persecuted.
00:14:26.16010 months later a son is born to the royal couple vital for the dynasty for
00:14:33.940so um the son that they're speaking about he is the current shah in exile uh reza shah ii
00:14:41.320if you watched my live stream from earlier today you know during my sort of like regular
00:14:46.660um daily broadcast i actually played um an interview that he had just a few months ago
00:14:53.660So you definitely want to make sure that you watch that as well.
00:14:59.120Iran's monarchy for the stability of the country, an heir to the throne, Reza.
00:15:13.140To celebrate the event, the Shah orders two holidays for the whole country.
00:15:17.600we are abolishing the notion of plowboy and make him a free farmer
00:15:26.280in january 1963 the shah and shah the revolutionary operating from the throne
00:15:33.720announces his program of social reforms in the first place land reform the crown land has been
00:15:40.820distributed already now so did you hear that so as part of his you know land reform the shah
00:15:48.620literally gave away land that belonged to him and he gave it to the iranian people what sort of
00:15:55.520authoritarian dictator does that guys what sort of dictator gives away his own land and his own
00:16:01.120property for free to the iranian people to empower them right pay attention to this because it's
00:16:07.200actually um so right now they're talking about um the white revolution so you know they're in the
00:16:14.000early 60s right now the white revolution is what really pissed off the communists and the islamists
00:16:20.240which then led to you know them mobilizing to to overthrow the shock right now the big estates of
00:16:27.440the landlords are to be included in the program land for the landless
00:16:31.680the reform is bitterly opposed by the landlords and parts of the clergy
00:16:38.440assisted by the extreme left see so so the extreme and and that's the weird part here so
00:16:45.600the shah was literally um giving land to people and the communists were pissed off right wouldn't
00:16:53.740you think that the communists would supposedly support this but again it just goes to show you
00:16:57.980communism communism socialism marxism the extreme left it's a corrupt ideology they don't actually
00:17:04.540care about helping people or empowering people all they care about is control right and you can
00:17:09.660already see this uh unholy alliance between the red and the black so the shah's land reforms which
00:17:16.140were meant to empower people um and get rid of that you know feudal um landlord system where
00:17:22.540they basically had serfs and slaves um the shah got rid of all of that and who did that piss off
00:17:28.300it pissed off the landlords it pissed off the communists and it pissed off the islamic
00:17:34.140clerics right the clerics also did not like the fact that the shah was empowering people
00:17:39.740and you know once again like like make sure you pay attention to how people dressed anyone who
00:17:54.100tells you that iran is like an islamic country um and that you know islam is a part of our culture
00:18:00.360literally knows you know nothing about iran um yes at that time many were religious but you know
00:18:08.340the religious ideology was not a part of our, you know, culture or identity. It's just something
00:18:15.080that people practiced at home. Nowadays, right after 47 years of Islamic occupation, less than
00:18:21.10030% of Iranians are actually Muslim. The vast majority are in fact atheist or agnostic. But
00:18:27.200back then, Iran, you know, the vast majority of Iranians did practice, you know, Islam, but it was
00:18:33.300more of like a secular form of Islam. And as you can tell, it had no impact on how people looked
00:18:41.100or dressed or behaved. It was only when the Islamic Republic took over and imposed Sharia law
00:18:48.780that all of a sudden they began this fake propaganda of how Iranians are, you know,
00:18:53.420Islamic or, you know, whatever nonsense, right? And basically, basically erasing the identity
00:18:58.740of all of the other Iranians who had practiced different faiths and religions for thousands of
00:19:05.380years, right? Did you hear that? Did you hear that? So the Islamic clergy did not like the fact
00:19:27.800that the Shah of Iran was giving women the right to vote in 1963. Again, ask yourselves, if the
00:19:34.760Shah was supposedly this authoritarian dictator, which the communists and the Islamists love to
00:19:40.220put out there, why was he giving women the right to vote in 1963? Does that sound like a dictator
00:19:46.720to you? Of course not. It's the Islamists and the communists who are lying. All they do is lie. And
00:19:53.700And the reason that they did not like the fact that the Shah was giving women the right to vote is because, according to the Islamic clergy, it goes against their Sharia law, right?
00:20:03.280Like, giving women the right to vote was an insult to Allah and Muhammad and Islam.
00:20:08.820And they viewed the Shah as being anti-Islamic for giving women the right to vote.
00:20:13.460This is why Sharia law is an evil, backwards, 7th century, misogynistic ideology.
00:20:22.120Sharia law is evil. Sharia law is barbaric. It has no place in civilized 20th century society, 21st century society. Let's go back because I want you guys to hear this part again. Pay attention to what he's about to say.
00:20:52.120But the most fanatic resistance is delivered by a number of clergymen against the voting right for women, essential part of the revolution from the throne.
00:21:05.240Like, why do these Islamic clergymen even care? Like, what is it to them? Do you see how, like, savage and barbaric their ideology is, right?
00:21:15.620Like the Shah, the Shah of Iran gave women the right to vote and the Islamic clergy are upset because apparently that's an insult to Allah and Muhammad, right?
00:21:27.660Women having the right to vote is an insult to Allah.
00:21:30.740Keep that in mind when someone says to you that like women have rights under Islam.
00:21:37.300no reform islam sure if you know modernized version of islam sure i guess because at that
00:21:43.300point they're not they're not following um the quran by the book right but if you actually go
00:21:48.420and you want to follow like you know islam to the t there's no rights for women there and that's why
00:21:54.820the islamic clergy were upset that the shah was going against islam by giving women the right to
00:22:00.740vote that's why the islamic clergy were upset and this is back in 1963 right so and then based on
00:22:08.580that that's when they started their um you know campaign to to try and you know basically portray
00:22:15.460the shah as this authoritarian dictator why why why did they call him an authoritarian dictator
00:22:22.740because he went against islam and he gave women the right to vote right think about that and
00:22:28.580And unfortunately, their lies and their takia was fueled by the communists and the Soviets, funded by, you know, by the communists, which was funded by the Soviet bloc at the time.
00:22:40.420And so all of this information you hear today about the Shah, 100% fabricated.
00:22:46.260Because when you look at the facts and when you watch old documentaries like this one from 1974, you hear the truth about what actually happened.
00:22:58.580yet the program is carried through women not only vote but are elected as members of parliament as
00:23:05.500well as of the senate whoa if the shah was a dictator how the heck did women even get elected
00:23:13.820what were they being elected for do you guys see do you guys see the bs behind this modern day
00:23:19.760narrative about iran being this authoritarian dictatorship under the shah 100 a lie 100
00:23:27.660percent false guys let's watch this again like this is wild
00:23:45.340that the most fanatic resistance is delivered by a number of clergymen
00:23:49.100against the voting right for women essential part of the revolution from the throne
00:23:57.660Yet, the program is carried through. Women not only vote, but are elected as members of Parliament as well as of the Senate.
00:24:10.460Symbol of the new role of women in Muslim Iran is the active participation of Farah, the Shah Banu, in representing the dynasty, the state.
00:24:19.760She's in charge of whole sectors of national life, particularly in the fields of social activities, art, and culture.
00:24:27.660Between 1964 and 1976, the number of children in primary schools has risen from 1.7 million
00:24:38.060to 4.1 million. In high schools, from 326,000 to almost 2 million. Of 152,000 students in higher
00:24:47.320education, about one-third are women. In 1975, at Tehran University, 44% of all graduates in
00:24:56.200medicine were women did you hear that did you hear that this is this is what pissed off the
00:25:03.100islamic clerics right the fact that the shah not not only did he give women the right to vote he
00:25:09.520was empowering women he was um building a system that would empower women and in fact women before
00:25:20.4601979, were not allowed to get married until they turned 18. Okay, so before 1979, when the Shah was
00:25:30.520in power, women had to be 18 before they could get married. And in fact, women, you know, were
00:25:36.720encouraged by the Shah to go to school, get an education, and then go get a higher education as
00:25:42.960well. And as you can see, by 1975, 44% of graduates were women. When the Islamic Republic took over in
00:25:50.4401979, one of the first things that the Islamic clergy did is they lowered the age of marriage
00:25:57.320to 13. Think about that. One of the priorities for the Islamic regime was to encourage child
00:26:04.640marriage. That is how savage and, you know, barbaric these Islamic clerics are that are
00:26:12.600currently governing the country, right? Like one of their priorities was encouraging child brides,
00:26:18.840like the sick perverts that they are, right?
00:30:08.640Look at all these, like all these kids, you know, are literally like these are all kids in rural villages, right?
00:30:30.920Where their parents can't read, their parents' parents can't read.
00:30:33.760And by the way, remember, these are most likely those rural villages where these poor people were the serfs of the feudal landlords, right?
00:30:43.840So not only did the Shah of Iran free these people, empower them, give them their own land, their own property,
00:30:51.280so that they could, you know, work for themselves and build a better lives for themselves.
00:30:56.140he also provided he was building 4 000 schools a year and you know providing everyone with
00:31:03.820publicly funded education in order to combat illiteracy so these kids who are learning how
00:31:09.840to read i guarantee you their parents don't know how to read their grandparents don't know how to
00:31:13.780read but the shah of iran recognized how important education and literacy is to the success of a
00:31:20.300country and so one of his priorities was combating illiteracy and that's why you see these you know
00:31:26.300these rural children in the poor impoverished areas of Iran learning how to read in government
00:31:33.620funded schools i'm not gonna lie those videos remind like they remind me of like me when i was
00:32:03.540a kid and i was like learning farsi as well or learning persian um you know we would do
00:32:08.180the same thing we would have these books and you know we would read so kind of gives me memories
00:32:12.820of that to bring progress to a country like this is a giant task nature has built barriers everywhere
00:32:28.500the land is virtually torn by its bizarre geological formations by ranks of jagged
00:32:33.940mountains springing abruptly from the plains by the spectacular folding of the rocks for its major
00:32:39.860part the country high and dry seems to be barren and almost devoid of life
00:32:47.940from the southern regions burnt by the scorching sun the trans-iranian railway provides one of the
00:32:53.060few connections to the caspian littoral in the north where rainfall reaches 60 inches per year
00:33:02.020yet as everywhere in iran most of the country's 60 000 villages are isolated from the outside
00:33:07.780world the greater part of them strewn over iran's high plateau and mountains thousands of years the
00:33:14.180peasants have been living like this to introduce the 20th century here requires ingenious and
00:33:37.620the province of gilan bordering the caspian sea is one of the richest agricultural areas
00:33:45.940but even here many of the villages are almost inaccessible the inhabitants celebrate the
00:33:54.140appearance of a helicopter with an impromptu dance
00:34:15.940guys i also want you to pay attention to the outfits so the people in rural areas you know
00:34:41.140they wear traditional outfits, but as you can tell, you know, it's all colorful, different styles,
00:34:47.240different variations. You don't see, you know, women wearing like the, you know, the black
00:34:53.260blankets that make them look like walking trash cans, right? That only happened after the Islamic
00:34:59.020Republic took over and basically forced Iranian women to cover themselves from head to toe
00:35:05.160in black shrouds. As you can tell, prior to Sharia law being implemented, Iranian women were
00:35:11.080free to dress however they wanted to dress and you know some dressed incredibly modern um some
00:35:16.360dressed you know more traditional and women the important thing is women were free to choose
00:35:21.480how they wanted to dress that choice was taken away from them when the islamic republic took
00:35:27.400over in 1979 and brought their seventh century sharia law ideology with them
00:35:41.080The nomadic tribes, the Kurds, Lurs, Bakhtiyari, Kashkoy, Baluches, Turkumont, one-tenth of the population, wandering from south to north, from north to south, present the utmost difficulty to systematically.
00:36:11.080development their contribution to the country's animal husbandry is essential but how for instance
00:36:17.500can the government introduce modern methods of sheep breeding or compulsory primary education
00:36:22.300in a tribe steadily on the move what future under these circumstances do the children have
00:40:56.320So again, like the Shah of Iran is recognizing that people need land.
00:40:59.860So they're increasing the amount of land they're giving to people in order to bring them up out of poverty.
00:41:06.020And this was upsetting the Islamic clergy.
00:41:09.320and the average earning of the farmers have been less than or around 100 dollars per capita per
00:41:21.140year and now we have increased these to something about one thousand dollars did you hear that so
00:41:31.140they even increased the earnings of farmers okay so this is how much they were helping farmers come
00:41:37.120out of poverty. Their initial, you know, capita per earning was 100 US dollars. They increased
00:41:44.440that to 1000 US dollars. So from 100 to 1000. The Shah was literally bringing the entire country
00:41:54.000out of poverty, modernizing the country. The Islamic clergy didn't like that. The communists
00:42:00.740didn't like that. They didn't like the fact that the Shah was modernizing the country through
00:42:07.460capitalism, through secularism, right? That anti-imperialist narrative, unfortunately,
00:42:16.000won over in 1979. But just listen to this, guys. Like, this is the kind of stuff you will never
00:42:20.960hear about in those documentaries that are produced by Islamic regime terrorists,
00:42:27.240uh you know by the communists and by their supporters right of course this figure cannot
00:42:35.340be compared with two thousand two hundred dollar per capita in the town and or average
00:42:41.6402.5 hectares which is not enough for someone to
00:42:52.920live for a family and that is why in the farm cooperatives this has been
00:43:01.040increased to something about seven to ten hectares per family and the average
00:43:13.680earning of the farmers have been less than or around hundred dollars per capita
00:43:20.940year and now we have increased these to something about $1,000. Of course this
00:43:30.960figure cannot be compared with $2,200 per capita in the town and or average for
00:43:39.960the country and we have to increase this and this is one of our problems in the
00:43:47.040country. The main problem is shortage of water. To be exact, it's shortage of water at the right
00:43:58.540times and in the right places. Mountain snow provides the main source of water in Iran. In
00:44:04.660spring, the mountains are barren of vegetation and the water runs off them too fast. Floods result
00:44:10.180in over-irrigation, which means more erosion and salinization of the soil. Within a few weeks,
00:44:15.560the land is dried out again Iran covers about 1.6 million square kilometers
00:44:31.000however about one-third of this huge area is mountainous another third is
00:44:39.640desert and steps and the remaining third is forest and sparse pasture land
00:44:49.480yeah a lot of people think that iran is just like a desert it's actually
00:44:53.240not um there's a lot of forest uh there only eight point two percent is cultivated
00:45:02.840as one of the main remedies huge dams have been built in order to prevent
00:45:06.680floods and store water for irrigation 15 big dams will eventually make possible cultivation
00:45:16.040of an area totaling 1 million hectares formerly desert but land reform and irrigation alone are
00:45:22.280not sufficient the small holdings are too small to provide a living the answer is larger units of
00:45:28.600production the arya mere farm corporation in persipolis in the province of forest the center
00:45:37.720of ancient persia is a model corporation the director an agricultural engineer explains the
00:45:43.720system the arya mere farm corporation was the first of its kind to be founded in the province
00:45:51.960of forests in 1968. This corporation has 80 member families, each of them holding 25 equal
00:45:58.980shares. The 1,700 hectares being cultivated by the farm corporation formerly belonged
00:46:06.860to one landlord. Under the land reform laws, they were handed over to the peasants. Although
00:46:15.560the problems of the advanced countries still seem rather remote, planners at the top level
00:46:20.000already are aware of them what will the farmers the laborers do with rising incomes how will they
00:46:25.280spend their money as the director reports at aria mayor the farmers incomes are already oh someone's
00:46:32.000asking about the name of the documentary guys i mentioned it before but um here let me pull it up
00:46:36.160for you guys so the documentary is publicly um available on youtube okay um i'll bring it up for
00:46:46.160you here i will i will post the this i will post the link to the documentary as well after i'm done
00:46:53.200the live stream but the documentary is called um iran under the pahlavi dynasty the heirs of cyrus
00:47:00.800the great full documentary 1974. so this is the documentary um it's publicly available on youtube
00:47:10.240So as of right now, I'm giving this documentary like a 9.5 out of 10 because it does give an amazing, amazing, you know, information about Iran prior to 1979.
00:47:26.160So I would highly encourage everyone to to watch this documentary.
00:47:31.020This is just the the second half of this live stream.
00:47:34.560We live streamed this documentary, the first half of it last week.
00:59:31.980some people are commenting about the music in the background the music is not islamic the music is
00:59:50.840not muslim it's purely iranian uh there's there's nothing islamic or muslim um about what they're
00:59:57.820singing they're not even singing in arabic they're singing in persian which is the language
01:00:01.220that we speak also known as Farsi in our own language in an age when so many monarchies perish
01:00:26.900iran still adheres to her constitutionalist traditions with the oldest constitution in all
01:00:32.580asia she still remains did you hear that did you hear that how could we be an authoritarian
01:00:38.580dictatorship if we had a constitution guys remember remember anyone who says that iran
01:00:44.660was a dictatorship under the shah either does not know our history or is lying because you have to
01:00:50.660go back and look at iran from 1905 to 1911 when the persian constitutional revolution happened and
01:00:58.500again one of the previous documentaries um that we live streamed on my channel which is included
01:01:03.940in this playlist is about the persian constitutional revolution of 1905 to 1911 so again we were a
01:01:12.660constitutional monarchy the islamists and communists are lying about what iran was prior
01:01:20.340to 1979 because that's how they justify overthrowing the shah and turning iran into
01:01:26.980the seventh century islamic hellhole that it is today means a monarchy
01:01:50.260this ancient lands armed forces today are continually equipped with the latest weapons
01:01:55.580Iran's military strength has aroused suspicion even in the West.
01:01:59.840It should be remembered, however, that Iran again and again in her history
01:02:03.440has been unable to resist so many foreign invasions because of her military weakness.
01:02:08.600The Shah, here with Egypt's Sadat, has learned his lesson.
01:02:24.900Re-enforcement of Iran's military power is meant to assure peace in the Gulf region, vital for the Western world.
01:02:41.900Through the lifeline of the Persian Gulf, more than half of the oil imports of Western Europe, 80% of most African states, 90% of Japan, 60% of Australia is being transported.
01:03:00.460If only a single tanker would be sunk in the Strait of Hormuz, this lifeline could be cut.
01:03:11.900oil the basis of iran's wealth the oil boom offering new opportunities new challenges
01:03:31.580for the country's development and new dangers the oil story the story of a miracle
01:03:42.700but iran's oil reserves are limited estimates vary between 20 and 30 years
01:03:48.380so it's understandable that the country's ruler is in a hurry to carry through his development
01:03:52.860programs did iran this laboratory of the developing world jump too fast from the
01:03:59.020middle ages into the 20th century inevitably there are drawbacks when too many things have
01:04:04.380to be done too quickly but the reasoning behind this haste is clear the shah and shah expressed
01:04:10.380it when he told laborers that in 30 years time their industrial exports must compete with those
01:04:15.580of other advanced countries otherwise it would be impossible to maintain the present standard of
01:06:32.560this is also something i want to show you guys right so so look at like these women
01:06:36.960Some of them are wearing hijab and some are not. So again, you know, that's another lie, right? Like the Islamists like to say that the Shah banned the hijab. Another flat out lie, right? He didn't ban the hijab.
01:06:51.760He actually gave women the right to choose whether or not to wear the hijab. And that was an affront to the Islamic regime clerics, right? Like the Islamic clerics didn't like the fact that Iranian women did not have to wear the hijab.
01:07:14.280And it's something that actually exists to this day.
01:10:19.340Chilo, I know you're saying this sarcastically, but I just have to share this.
01:10:24.200So hijabs are the way to good agriculture. How could they leave that out of environmental science? Right. I mean, again, like this is this is the nonsense that we Iranians have to deal with. Right. Like when we say that the Islamic Republic is a seventh century jihadi ideology, we're not exaggerating, guys. We're not exaggerating.
01:10:42.860The Islamic clerics are literally claiming that the reason there's a water shortage is because
01:10:47.980Iranian women aren't wearing proper hijab. You're right. Maybe they should include that
01:10:53.120in environmental sciences, right? Enforcement of Islamic hijab is critical to ensuring proper
01:11:00.460agriculture. I don't know. It's ridiculous what we have to deal with. And the other thing as well
01:11:06.740is that if we didn't have documentary evidence of the absolute insane things that the Islamic
01:11:15.040regime says, the insane things that these Islamic clerics say, if we didn't have documentary
01:11:22.900evidence of this, no one would believe us. That's the thing. No one would believe us because
01:11:26.840they would just assume that we're making it up. Meanwhile, we've literally dealt with these
01:11:32.0407th century savages for the last 47 years and they've been murdering us in the name of Allah
01:11:37.300and Islam and yet all and yet somehow we're the ones who are Islamophobic for calling out their
01:11:43.940jihadi nonsense right like make it make sense it's wild labor day one of the points of the
01:11:51.280revolution is a profit sharing system for workers in the introduction of ownership participation
01:11:56.840Eventually, 49% of the shares of private enterprises will be offered to employees, workers, and the general public.
01:12:08.720Crown Prince Reza handing out certificates and decorating vocational trainees.
01:12:15.000Will the change of attitudes of traditional behavior prevailing for a thousand years be quick and radical enough to transform their country overnight?
01:12:22.880the solutions offered by the shah people's revolution seem to be better suited to iran's
01:12:28.160needs than any other existing model be it in east or west might iran's way even become an example
01:12:35.120for other nations what has been achieved up to now is astounding but the challenge is a giant one
01:12:52.880So guys, this is the 2,500 celebration of the birth of Iran. I actually did an entire
01:13:10.140live stream on this. So make sure you, you know, you can find it in the same playlist here,
01:13:14.740But this was a phenomenal event. Iran was celebrating 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. And again, this celebration also pissed off the Islamic regime because our Iranian identity and civilization has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.
01:13:38.200And because this was pre-Islamic, the Islamic clergy tried to paint this as like, you know, an anti-Islam thing.
01:13:48.660So I have a whole documentary, like I have a whole live stream where I go through this.
01:13:55.020So make sure you go and you watch that because I explain this in detail.
01:13:58.600And I also explained how this was probably one of the best investments that the Shah of Iran could do to put Iran on the map and to boost hospitality and tourism and culture, right?
01:14:15.520So this was critical, a critical part of the Shah's plan in terms of modernizing Iran and putting Iran on the map.
01:14:24.460And, you know, every single country has a budget that they spend on heritage, tourism and culture.
01:14:32.000Right. Guys, I was a politician for seven years in Canada.
01:14:36.020And, you know, we always have a budget for these sorts of things.
01:14:39.580but the islamic uh clerics didn't like the fact that the shah was honoring the iranian heritage
01:14:49.600of the country because of course for them everything is about islam and muhammad and
01:14:54.000allah right but this was fantastic so you're about to get a glimpse of of pre-islamic iran
01:15:00.700and the three people down below that you see um in the red outfits so they're wearing outfits from
01:19:33.980And in fact, the state actually paid above your wage, right?
01:19:41.340So whatever you were earning, your maternity leave pay was actually higher because the state actually recognized the importance of, you know, women giving birth and contributing to society.
01:19:54.700So 2,500 years ago, the Persian Empire gave women maternity leave.
01:20:01.400And then Islam came in 650 AD and turned women into second class citizens and pretty much the property of men.