Goldie Ghamari - Iran before 1979： Documentary Explaned by an Iranian (Part 2)

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00:04:30.000 Well, good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining me for another one of my evening live

00:04:50.340 streams where myself and a number of Iranians watch a documentary about Iran and then we provide

00:04:57.380 our comments and feedback. So the last time we left off, it was a documentary that was actually

00:05:03.660 produced in 1974. I will provide the YouTube link and page afterwards because it is publicly

00:05:11.880 available on YouTube. And we got about halfway through. And then once we got to the Mossad

00:05:17.840 era, and of course, the so-called 1953 coup, which wasn't actually a coup, for some reason,

00:05:25.200 the video went down due to a so-called copyright notice, although that live stream is now back up.

00:05:31.940 So part one of this live stream is there. And as I recall, we were at about a 9 out of 10 for

00:05:41.140 this documentary. So we're going to pick up where we left off. I just fast forwarded, you know,

00:05:48.800 not fast forward. I, you know, went ahead just a little bit, um, to make sure that, you know,

00:05:54.940 I guess we're out of like that Mossad Dick phase era. Um, so let's see how this goes. We're going

00:06:01.280 to try to, uh, watch the remainder of the documentary. There's about 30 minutes left.

00:06:08.500 Um, and again, you know, uh, I will provide the, the full link to the video, um, uh, in the

00:06:15.180 description and also, of course, give a final rating out of 10. I believe the reason that

00:06:21.580 myself and the Iranians in the chat, we were at a nine, is because the documentary still did sort

00:06:27.200 of, even though it was in the 1970s, so it was filmed prior to the Islamic Republic taking over

00:06:33.740 Iran, they still refer to 1953 as a coup, which it wasn't. So to me, that was very bizarre.

00:06:40.020 So 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.

00:07:01.160 And then, of course, that eventually gained traction.

00:07:04.240 And that's what led to the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat.

00:07:08.360 All right, guys. So let's continue. Of course, special shout out to the mods and all the 0.97

00:07:14.620 members here. Thank you for being here and thank you for joining me.

00:07:21.360 The reform is bitterly opposed by the landlords and parts of the clergy

00:07:25.420 assisted by the extreme left. Okay. So, so the reform that we're referring to here. Okay. I'll

00:07:31.640 see if I can go back a little bit and maybe we won't hit, maybe we won't hit the copyright notice.

00:07:37.340 So 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.

00:07:54.080 So that's what they're referring to with the land reforms, right?

00:07:56.480 The Shah was basically getting rid of that feudalism and he was empowering poor people in Iran by giving them plots of land. 0.87

00:08:05.500 the crowd will shout god bless you with us okay let's go back marriage the shah will not produce 0.59

00:08:11.600 an heir to the throne okay oh all right intervenes he is okay okay no you want to go past Mossad 0.87

00:08:19.840 all right but the old system of concessions definitely is abolished for the first time

00:08:25.200 in her modern history, Iran is now sovereign in every field.

00:08:42.800 And for the first time...

00:08:44.580 So just to roughly place this for you guys in the timeline,

00:08:47.920 we're somewhere around 1953, 1954.

00:08:51.180 In her relations with Great Britain, as here on the occasion of a state visit to London,

00:08:57.180 Iran is treated as an equal sovereign power.

00:09:06.020 In this new role, state visit of the Shah and his then wife, Saria, to Russia,

00:09:11.220 the other world power which intervenes so often in Persian affairs. 0.76

00:09:16.140 Talks with the communists.

00:09:18.740 Talks with the Pope.

00:09:19.740 in her long history iran has always had an outstanding tradition of tolerance toward

00:09:24.040 other religious groups representatives of the powers with whom the country will be linked

00:09:36.620 more and more economically come to iran eisenhower was that an american flag guys did you see that

00:09:43.200 wait let's go back a little bit i think that was an american flag oh talks with the pope

00:09:49.720 In her long history, Iran has always had an outstanding tradition of tolerance toward other religious groups.

00:09:55.700 See, did you hear that, guys?

00:09:57.160 So in 1974, this narrator is basically saying that Iran has a long history of religious tolerance, right?

00:10:06.100 Because it goes back to our Zoroastrian roots, and it goes back to, of course, Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire.

00:10:14.880 And, 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.

00:10:32.120 And 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.

00:10:58.740 And 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.

00:11:19.200 And 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. 0.96

00:11:37.300 Welcome, Ina. 0.96

00:11:39.120 Okay, so this is, do you see that American flag in the left of the screen there?

00:11:46.900 Um, so like this is, this is in Tehran, right? And you can clearly see, um, the American flags

00:11:54.300 there. So again, anyone who tells you that, uh, you know, Iran and America are enemies,

00:12:00.220 it's completely false. Um, Iran has always been an ally of the United States. We Iranians continue

00:12:06.240 to be allies of the United States and Americans. It's the Islamic Republic and their, you know, 0.99

00:12:11.760 sharia law 7th century anti-imperialist ideology that is the enemy of the united states right 0.98

00:12:23.120 representatives of the powers with whom the country will be linked

00:12:26.000 more and more economically come to iran eisenhower from the united states

00:12:30.960 Chancellor Adenauer from the Federal Republic of Germany on this occasion Soraya partly of

00:12:42.780 German descent is interpreting her marriage to the Shah will not produce an heir to the throne

00:12:47.940 vital for the dynasty and they'll be divorced shortly Germany is to become Iran's second

00:12:53.760 greatest trading partner in the years to come Hamburg Harbor the policy of independence and

00:13:00.240 Self-reliance requires know-how and modern equipment.

00:13:03.780 Learning and purchasing abroad as at Stuttgart in the Mercedes plant,

00:13:07.560 which eventually will become partly Persian property

00:13:09.980 when the oil boom for the first time

00:13:11.980 makes possible Iranian investments abroad.

00:13:21.360 On December 21st, 1959,

00:13:24.480 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi is married to Farah Diba.

00:13:30.240 So Farah Diba, or the Shah Banu, she is the current empress of Iran, and she just turned 87 last month, and we love her.

00:13:49.340 In Tehran streets, bands play. Among Persian marches, the Khan Khan from Offenbach's Paris light.

00:13:56.160 A splendid wedding, but the departure for the royal honeymoon will be delayed.

00:14:01.100 Political tension at the Iraqi-Iranian frontier.

00:14:16.040 When they finally leave Tehran, the crowd will shout,

00:14:19.500 God bless you with the sun.

00:14:26.160 10 months later a son is born to the royal couple vital for the dynasty for

00:14:33.940 so um the son that they're speaking about he is the current shah in exile uh reza shah ii

00:14:41.320 if you watched my live stream from earlier today you know during my sort of like regular

00:14:46.660 um daily broadcast i actually played um an interview that he had just a few months ago

00:14:53.660 So you definitely want to make sure that you watch that as well.

00:14:59.120 Iran's monarchy for the stability of the country, an heir to the throne, Reza.

00:15:13.140 To celebrate the event, the Shah orders two holidays for the whole country.

00:15:17.600 we are abolishing the notion of plowboy and make him a free farmer

00:15:26.280 in january 1963 the shah and shah the revolutionary operating from the throne

00:15:33.720 announces his program of social reforms in the first place land reform the crown land has been

00:15:40.820 distributed already now so did you hear that so as part of his you know land reform the shah

00:15:48.620 literally gave away land that belonged to him and he gave it to the iranian people what sort of

00:15:55.520 authoritarian dictator does that guys what sort of dictator gives away his own land and his own

00:16:01.120 property for free to the iranian people to empower them right pay attention to this because it's

00:16:07.200 actually um so right now they're talking about um the white revolution so you know they're in the 0.65

00:16:14.000 early 60s right now the white revolution is what really pissed off the communists and the islamists

00:16:20.240 which then led to you know them mobilizing to to overthrow the shock right now the big estates of 0.91

00:16:27.440 the landlords are to be included in the program land for the landless

00:16:31.680 the reform is bitterly opposed by the landlords and parts of the clergy

00:16:38.440 assisted by the extreme left see so so the extreme and and that's the weird part here so

00:16:45.600 the shah was literally um giving land to people and the communists were pissed off right wouldn't

00:16:53.740 you think that the communists would supposedly support this but again it just goes to show you

00:16:57.980 communism communism socialism marxism the extreme left it's a corrupt ideology they don't actually

00:17:04.540 care about helping people or empowering people all they care about is control right and you can 0.85

00:17:09.660 already see this uh unholy alliance between the red and the black so the shah's land reforms which 0.96

00:17:16.140 were meant to empower people um and get rid of that you know feudal um landlord system where 0.92

00:17:22.540 they basically had serfs and slaves um the shah got rid of all of that and who did that piss off 0.93

00:17:28.300 it pissed off the landlords it pissed off the communists and it pissed off the islamic 0.85

00:17:34.140 clerics right the clerics also did not like the fact that the shah was empowering people

00:17:39.740 and you know once again like like make sure you pay attention to how people dressed anyone who

00:17:54.100 tells you that iran is like an islamic country um and that you know islam is a part of our culture

00:18:00.360 literally knows you know nothing about iran um yes at that time many were religious but you know

00:18:08.340 the religious ideology was not a part of our, you know, culture or identity. It's just something

00:18:15.080 that people practiced at home. Nowadays, right after 47 years of Islamic occupation, less than 1.00

00:18:21.100 30% of Iranians are actually Muslim. The vast majority are in fact atheist or agnostic. But

00:18:27.200 back then, Iran, you know, the vast majority of Iranians did practice, you know, Islam, but it was

00:18:33.300 more of like a secular form of Islam. And as you can tell, it had no impact on how people looked

00:18:41.100 or dressed or behaved. It was only when the Islamic Republic took over and imposed Sharia law 0.67

00:18:48.780 that all of a sudden they began this fake propaganda of how Iranians are, you know, 0.86

00:18:53.420 Islamic or, you know, whatever nonsense, right? And basically, basically erasing the identity

00:18:58.740 of all of the other Iranians who had practiced different faiths and religions for thousands of

00:19:05.380 years, right? Did you hear that? Did you hear that? So the Islamic clergy did not like the fact

00:19:27.800 that the Shah of Iran was giving women the right to vote in 1963. Again, ask yourselves, if the

00:19:34.760 Shah was supposedly this authoritarian dictator, which the communists and the Islamists love to

00:19:40.220 put out there, why was he giving women the right to vote in 1963? Does that sound like a dictator

00:19:46.720 to you? Of course not. It's the Islamists and the communists who are lying. All they do is lie. And

00:19:53.700 And 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?

00:20:03.280 Like, giving women the right to vote was an insult to Allah and Muhammad and Islam.

00:20:08.820 And they viewed the Shah as being anti-Islamic for giving women the right to vote. 0.86

00:20:13.460 This is why Sharia law is an evil, backwards, 7th century, misogynistic ideology. 0.96

00:20:20.380 Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. 0.98

00:20:22.120 Sharia 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. 1.00

00:20:52.120 But 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. 0.99

00:21:05.240 Like, 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? 0.64

00:21:15.620 Like 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? 0.87

00:21:27.660 Women having the right to vote is an insult to Allah. 0.63

00:21:30.740 Keep that in mind when someone says to you that like women have rights under Islam. 1.00

00:21:35.480 Not under Sharia law, they don't. 0.98

00:21:37.300 no reform islam sure if you know modernized version of islam sure i guess because at that

00:21:43.300 point they're not they're not following um the quran by the book right but if you actually go 0.98

00:21:48.420 and you want to follow like you know islam to the t there's no rights for women there and that's why 0.76

00:21:54.820 the islamic clergy were upset that the shah was going against islam by giving women the right to

00:22:00.740 vote that's why the islamic clergy were upset and this is back in 1963 right so and then based on

00:22:08.580 that that's when they started their um you know campaign to to try and you know basically portray

00:22:15.460 the shah as this authoritarian dictator why why why did they call him an authoritarian dictator

00:22:22.740 because he went against islam and he gave women the right to vote right think about that and 0.81

00:22:28.580 And 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.

00:22:40.420 And so all of this information you hear today about the Shah, 100% fabricated. 0.80

00:22:46.260 Because 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. 0.60

00:22:58.580 yet the program is carried through women not only vote but are elected as members of parliament as 0.96

00:23:05.500 well as of the senate whoa if the shah was a dictator how the heck did women even get elected

00:23:13.820 what were they being elected for do you guys see do you guys see the bs behind this modern day

00:23:19.760 narrative about iran being this authoritarian dictatorship under the shah 100 a lie 100

00:23:27.660 percent false guys let's watch this again like this is wild

00:23:45.340 that the most fanatic resistance is delivered by a number of clergymen

00:23:49.100 against the voting right for women essential part of the revolution from the throne

00:23:57.660 Yet, the program is carried through. Women not only vote, but are elected as members of Parliament as well as of the Senate.

00:24:06.260 It speaks for itself.

00:24:10.460 Symbol of the new role of women in Muslim Iran is the active participation of Farah, the Shah Banu, in representing the dynasty, the state.

00:24:19.760 She's in charge of whole sectors of national life, particularly in the fields of social activities, art, and culture.

00:24:27.660 Between 1964 and 1976, the number of children in primary schools has risen from 1.7 million

00:24:38.060 to 4.1 million. In high schools, from 326,000 to almost 2 million. Of 152,000 students in higher

00:24:47.320 education, about one-third are women. In 1975, at Tehran University, 44% of all graduates in

00:24:56.200 medicine were women did you hear that did you hear that this is this is what pissed off the

00:25:03.100 islamic clerics right the fact that the shah not not only did he give women the right to vote he 0.57

00:25:09.520 was empowering women he was um building a system that would empower women and in fact women before 0.75

00:25:20.460 1979, were not allowed to get married until they turned 18. Okay, so before 1979, when the Shah was 0.64

00:25:30.520 in power, women had to be 18 before they could get married. And in fact, women, you know, were 0.56

00:25:36.720 encouraged by the Shah to go to school, get an education, and then go get a higher education as

00:25:42.960 well. And as you can see, by 1975, 44% of graduates were women. When the Islamic Republic took over in

00:25:50.440 1979, one of the first things that the Islamic clergy did is they lowered the age of marriage

00:25:57.320 to 13. Think about that. One of the priorities for the Islamic regime was to encourage child

00:26:04.640 marriage. That is how savage and, you know, barbaric these Islamic clerics are that are 1.00

00:26:12.600 currently governing the country, right? Like one of their priorities was encouraging child brides, 1.00

00:26:18.840 like the sick perverts that they are, right? 1.00

00:26:21.580 Why? 1.00

00:26:21.960 Because according to their Islamic ideology, 1.00

00:26:24.100 the purpose of a woman is to basically serve men, right? 0.93

00:26:28.740 They didn't like the fact that women were being educated. 1.00

00:26:30.940 They didn't like the fact that women were in politics. 0.88

00:26:33.500 They didn't like the fact 1.00

00:26:34.520 that women were given the right to vote. 1.00

00:26:37.320 Their perverted priority 1.00

00:26:39.420 was lowering the age of marriage 0.97

00:26:42.520 so that it aligned with their Islamic Sharia law. 0.99

00:26:46.340 That's how disgusting these people are, guys. 1.00

00:26:48.840 47% in pharmacology as well as in social sciences and 55% in education. 0.98

00:26:56.760 Did you hear that? Did you hear that?

00:26:59.720 So the number of women graduating from post-secondary education with post-secondary education degrees was more than men.

00:27:07.140 55% of women in 1975. That's how modern the Shah of Iran was. 0.69

00:27:18.840 in 1980 iran is to host the next grand conference of the world's universities we never did we were 0.99

00:27:32.940 supposed to but we never did because the islamic republic took over in 1979 and turned our country 0.99

00:27:40.160 into a seventh century islamic hellhole governed by sharia law but this is how advanced we were 1.00

00:27:45.520 The Shah was already planning for the future, and it's a shame. 0.96

00:28:05.920 The basis for such achievements, the Literacy Corps, founded to fight illiteracy, 0.79

00:28:11.360 it's performing the most peaceful task armed forces could fulfill.

00:28:15.520 Thousands of soldiers, after four months of initial training, are sent out to the most remote villages.

00:28:21.300 When the Shah People's Revolution begins, illiteracy in Iran is about 85%.

00:28:27.160 Did you hear that? 0.91

00:28:29.520 The Shah literally employed Iranians to go and fight illiteracy, right? 0.81

00:28:39.720 He called them the Literacy Corps.

00:28:41.460 people who are literally paid by the state to go out and fight illiteracy does that sound like the

00:28:50.000 actions of an authoritarian dictator generally speaking authoritarian dictators want people to

00:28:57.780 be uneducated want them to be impoverished want them to just you know go about their daily lives

00:29:03.300 he was a man who was forward thinking he was modern he wanted to modernize iran he was on

00:29:09.640 the path of turning Iran into a first world country. Iran could have been the next Singapore

00:29:15.280 or the next South Korea or the next Japan of the Middle East. Instead, thanks to the Islamic regime 1.00

00:29:21.940 and the communists, Iran has become the North Korea of the Middle East. Think about that, guys. 0.89

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00:30:04.640 No, no.

00:30:06.640 You are going to do it?

00:30:07.640 Yes.

00:30:08.640 Look at all these, like all these kids, you know, are literally like these are all kids in rural villages, right?

00:30:30.920 Where their parents can't read, their parents' parents can't read.

00:30:33.760 And by the way, remember, these are most likely those rural villages where these poor people were the serfs of the feudal landlords, right?

00:30:43.840 So not only did the Shah of Iran free these people, empower them, give them their own land, their own property,

00:30:51.280 so that they could, you know, work for themselves and build a better lives for themselves.

00:30:56.140 he also provided he was building 4 000 schools a year and you know providing everyone with

00:31:03.820 publicly funded education in order to combat illiteracy so these kids who are learning how

00:31:09.840 to read i guarantee you their parents don't know how to read their grandparents don't know how to

00:31:13.780 read but the shah of iran recognized how important education and literacy is to the success of a

00:31:20.300 country and so one of his priorities was combating illiteracy and that's why you see these you know

00:31:26.300 these rural children in the poor impoverished areas of Iran learning how to read in government

00:31:33.620 funded schools i'm not gonna lie those videos remind like they remind me of like me when i was

00:32:03.540 a kid and i was like learning farsi as well or learning persian um you know we would do

00:32:08.180 the same thing we would have these books and you know we would read so kind of gives me memories

00:32:12.820 of that to bring progress to a country like this is a giant task nature has built barriers everywhere

00:32:28.500 the land is virtually torn by its bizarre geological formations by ranks of jagged

00:32:33.940 mountains springing abruptly from the plains by the spectacular folding of the rocks for its major

00:32:39.860 part the country high and dry seems to be barren and almost devoid of life

00:32:47.940 from the southern regions burnt by the scorching sun the trans-iranian railway provides one of the

00:32:53.060 few connections to the caspian littoral in the north where rainfall reaches 60 inches per year

00:33:02.020 yet as everywhere in iran most of the country's 60 000 villages are isolated from the outside

00:33:07.780 world the greater part of them strewn over iran's high plateau and mountains thousands of years the

00:33:14.180 peasants have been living like this to introduce the 20th century here requires ingenious and

00:33:19.940 specifically iranian methods

00:33:37.620 the province of gilan bordering the caspian sea is one of the richest agricultural areas

00:33:45.940 but even here many of the villages are almost inaccessible the inhabitants celebrate the

00:33:54.140 appearance of a helicopter with an impromptu dance

00:34:15.940 guys i also want you to pay attention to the outfits so the people in rural areas you know

00:34:41.140 they wear traditional outfits, but as you can tell, you know, it's all colorful, different styles,

00:34:47.240 different variations. You don't see, you know, women wearing like the, you know, the black

00:34:53.260 blankets that make them look like walking trash cans, right? That only happened after the Islamic 1.00

00:34:59.020 Republic took over and basically forced Iranian women to cover themselves from head to toe 1.00

00:35:05.160 in black shrouds. As you can tell, prior to Sharia law being implemented, Iranian women were 0.99

00:35:11.080 free to dress however they wanted to dress and you know some dressed incredibly modern um some

00:35:16.360 dressed you know more traditional and women the important thing is women were free to choose 0.97

00:35:21.480 how they wanted to dress that choice was taken away from them when the islamic republic took 0.94

00:35:27.400 over in 1979 and brought their seventh century sharia law ideology with them

00:35:41.080 The 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.

00:36:11.080 development their contribution to the country's animal husbandry is essential but how for instance

00:36:17.500 can the government introduce modern methods of sheep breeding or compulsory primary education

00:36:22.300 in a tribe steadily on the move what future under these circumstances do the children have

00:36:28.180 A'lay, a'lay, a'lay, a'lay, a'lay, balim, a'lay, thallantakdhanthalayim, qaqangamikgeyo layim, ho, balim, ho.

00:36:58.180 for the school problem a solution was found since students from the regular universities could not

00:37:03.620 stand the hardships of nomadic life tribesmen were trained at special faculties they are wandering 0.85

00:37:09.460 with the tribes teaching 70 000 children a year in iran's mobile schools do you see that so you

00:37:17.300 know the shah even found a way to educate um nomadic tribes in iran without impacting their

00:37:26.740 way of life, right? So again, how is he an authoritarian dictator? He was literally

00:37:31.300 respecting people's way of life. But he was still finding ways to implement his policy of mandatory

00:37:40.800 public education. So instead of like, forcing children to go to school, he sent educators to

00:37:48.100 go and live with them and educate the children on the move. Like how ingenious is that guys?

00:37:53.920 you never hear about this stuff in documentaries today because everyone wants to paint the Shah

00:38:00.800 as this authoritarian dictator. Again, does any of this point to an authoritarian dictatorship

00:38:07.200 to you guys? Are you starting to see the pattern of how the Islamists and the communists have been 0.81

00:38:12.860 continuously lying to you and everything that you think you know about Iran, the history of Iran

00:38:18.380 in the shah is pretty much a lie i'm loving this documentary like i'm i'm pretty much at like a 9.5

00:38:25.260 um out of 10 for this i would even say a 9.9 at this point the schools of the white tents

00:38:38.380 a health core team medical school graduates serve an 18-month term in often remote rural

00:38:44.140 districts after an initial military medical training of six months thanks to their help

00:38:49.500 infant mortality in rural areas has been reduced by half within 10 years top priority is given to

00:38:56.300 family planning iran has one of the highest population growth rates in the world over three

00:39:02.540 percent a year the extension and development corps is the third branch of the army's revolutionary

00:39:12.140 core is part of the social reform program its task rebuilding and modernizing the countryside

00:39:18.860 teaching the farmers new methods in 10 years a total of 28 000 men and women have performed

00:39:24.700 this task while 120 000 belong to the literacy core and 13 000 to the health core among other

00:39:32.220 activities the development corps has set up model farms on 250 000 hectares

00:39:45.420 but what has become of the revolution's prime target the land reform after the first 12 years

00:39:51.740 how many iranians are living on the land and how are they living in the ministry of agriculture

00:39:58.060 Secretary of State Gravamian answers.

00:40:02.560 I should say that the total number of the peasants in the farms have been 75% of the total population in the country

00:40:11.860 and it has been reduced to 50% during this period and the target is to be reduced to 25% in future.

00:40:22.660 The holding of land by these people ranges between 0.5 to 2.5 hectares, which is not enough for someone to live for a family.

00:40:42.420 And that is why in the farm cooperatives, this has been increased to something about 7 to 10 hectares per family.

00:40:55.380 Did you hear that?

00:40:56.320 So again, like the Shah of Iran is recognizing that people need land.

00:40:59.860 So they're increasing the amount of land they're giving to people in order to bring them up out of poverty.

00:41:06.020 And this was upsetting the Islamic clergy.

00:41:09.320 and the average earning of the farmers have been less than or around 100 dollars per capita per

00:41:21.140 year and now we have increased these to something about one thousand dollars did you hear that so

00:41:31.140 they even increased the earnings of farmers okay so this is how much they were helping farmers come

00:41:37.120 out of poverty. Their initial, you know, capita per earning was 100 US dollars. They increased

00:41:44.440 that to 1000 US dollars. So from 100 to 1000. The Shah was literally bringing the entire country

00:41:54.000 out of poverty, modernizing the country. The Islamic clergy didn't like that. The communists 0.52

00:42:00.740 didn't like that. They didn't like the fact that the Shah was modernizing the country through 0.85

00:42:07.460 capitalism, through secularism, right? That anti-imperialist narrative, unfortunately,

00:42:16.000 won over in 1979. But just listen to this, guys. Like, this is the kind of stuff you will never

00:42:20.960 hear about in those documentaries that are produced by Islamic regime terrorists, 0.79

00:42:27.240 uh you know by the communists and by their supporters right of course this figure cannot

00:42:35.340 be compared with two thousand two hundred dollar per capita in the town and or average

00:42:41.640 2.5 hectares which is not enough for someone to

00:42:52.920 live for a family and that is why in the farm cooperatives this has been

00:43:01.040 increased to something about seven to ten hectares per family and the average

00:43:13.680 earning of the farmers have been less than or around hundred dollars per capita

00:43:20.940 year and now we have increased these to something about $1,000. Of course this

00:43:30.960 figure cannot be compared with $2,200 per capita in the town and or average for

00:43:39.960 the country and we have to increase this and this is one of our problems in the

00:43:47.040 country. The main problem is shortage of water. To be exact, it's shortage of water at the right

00:43:58.540 times and in the right places. Mountain snow provides the main source of water in Iran. In

00:44:04.660 spring, the mountains are barren of vegetation and the water runs off them too fast. Floods result

00:44:10.180 in over-irrigation, which means more erosion and salinization of the soil. Within a few weeks,

00:44:15.560 the land is dried out again Iran covers about 1.6 million square kilometers

00:44:31.000 however about one-third of this huge area is mountainous another third is

00:44:39.640 desert and steps and the remaining third is forest and sparse pasture land

00:44:49.480 yeah a lot of people think that iran is just like a desert it's actually

00:44:53.240 not um there's a lot of forest uh there only eight point two percent is cultivated

00:45:02.840 as one of the main remedies huge dams have been built in order to prevent

00:45:06.680 floods and store water for irrigation 15 big dams will eventually make possible cultivation

00:45:16.040 of an area totaling 1 million hectares formerly desert but land reform and irrigation alone are

00:45:22.280 not sufficient the small holdings are too small to provide a living the answer is larger units of

00:45:28.600 production the arya mere farm corporation in persipolis in the province of forest the center

00:45:37.720 of ancient persia is a model corporation the director an agricultural engineer explains the

00:45:43.720 system the arya mere farm corporation was the first of its kind to be founded in the province

00:45:51.960 of forests in 1968. This corporation has 80 member families, each of them holding 25 equal

00:45:58.980 shares. The 1,700 hectares being cultivated by the farm corporation formerly belonged

00:46:06.860 to one landlord. Under the land reform laws, they were handed over to the peasants. Although

00:46:15.560 the problems of the advanced countries still seem rather remote, planners at the top level

00:46:20.000 already are aware of them what will the farmers the laborers do with rising incomes how will they

00:46:25.280 spend their money as the director reports at aria mayor the farmers incomes are already oh someone's

00:46:32.000 asking about the name of the documentary guys i mentioned it before but um here let me pull it up

00:46:36.160 for you guys so the documentary is publicly um available on youtube okay um i'll bring it up for

00:46:46.160 you here i will i will post the this i will post the link to the documentary as well after i'm done

00:46:53.200 the live stream but the documentary is called um iran under the pahlavi dynasty the heirs of cyrus

00:47:00.800 the great full documentary 1974. so this is the documentary um it's publicly available on youtube

00:47:10.240 So 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.

00:47:26.160 So I would highly encourage everyone to to watch this documentary.

00:47:31.020 This is just the the second half of this live stream.

00:47:34.560 We live streamed this documentary, the first half of it last week.

00:47:38.540 So now we're just finishing it up.

00:47:40.060 but that is the name um of the documentary again i will post the link um in the youtube description

00:47:47.260 below after i am done this live stream all right let us continue

00:47:57.020 as high as they were before the corporation was established

00:48:03.500 in addition to the i mean i didn't even know that that the shah had started a co-op at the site of

00:48:09.820 of Persepolis. So guys, like, the Shah was even trying to revive Persepolis. And the Islamic

00:48:17.800 Republic didn't like that, right? The Islamic Republic didn't like that. Why? Because Persepolis

00:48:24.340 is a pre-Islamic thing. And the Shah was very much about promoting Iran and Iranian identity 0.96

00:48:31.580 and Cyrus the Great. That pissed off the Islamic clergy, because for them, everything is about 1.00

00:48:36.560 Islam and Muhammad and Allah and, you know, Arabs and all that like jihadi nonsense, right? They 1.00

00:48:41.960 don't like the fact that Iran has existed for thousands of years prior to Islam. In fact,

00:48:48.800 you know, one of the things they tried to do when they took over Iran in 1979, some of them actually

00:48:54.560 tried to destroy Persepolis. And it was only because Iranians went and stopped them that they

00:49:01.540 weren't able to bulldoze Persepolis, because otherwise, they just wanted to, to destroy 0.97

00:49:07.140 Persepolis. Like, that's how evil these Islamic clerics are. But you can see that, you know, 1.00

00:49:12.960 when these Islamic fanatics took over in Afghanistan and in Iraq, they went and they

00:49:19.780 systematically destroyed all of the, you know, pre-Islamic statues and, you know, whatever that 0.55

00:49:27.720 they had right because they were all viewed as like you know haram or whatever nonsense right 0.72

00:49:33.020 their better earnings members of the corporation are cared for in many ways

00:49:37.520 name halvan age 35 father's name sipansa

00:49:46.300 medical care through the health core girl is free

00:49:51.640 and there are other welfare well they even had free even free medical care right what sort of

00:49:59.100 authoritarian provides free medical care their institutions not known in the old villages

00:50:04.560 enticing peasants to join a cooperative a corporation for instance the kindergarten

00:50:09.600 in iran where family ties are stronger than in western countries kindergartens are in their

00:50:17.400 initial stage yet but with the rapid growth of the number of women working outside the house

00:50:22.380 more kindergartens will be needed free kindergarten and school meals are part of a welfare and social

00:50:28.100 security system which is meant to eventually embrace all iranians laborers and employees as

00:50:33.660 well as self-employed persons it's interesting to note that the social insurance premium is 30

00:50:38.880 percent of the earnings of which 20 percent is paid by the employer three by the government

00:50:44.520 and seven by the employee.

00:50:46.980 For medical treatment, the employee pays a franchise of 20%.

00:50:50.780 For hospital bills, 10%.

00:50:53.460 He has free choice of his doctor or hospital. 1.00

00:50:56.160 again like this woman like she she would fit into any like western european country right so again 1.00

00:51:19.020 And pay attention to how Iranians dressed before 1979. 1.00

00:51:24.120 Anyone who tells you that, like, we're, you know, Islamic or, you know, Islamic culture or values,

00:51:30.180 they either know nothing about Iran, they're not Iranian, or they're just lying to your face, right? 0.88

00:51:36.280 Like, this is what Iranians used to look like prior to 1979, before Sharia law was imposed on us. 0.62

00:51:42.500 the daily prayer we thank our god who gave us peace we pray for iran a cradle of peace

00:51:53.840 and for our kind king of kings that he should live forever we pray that father remains healthy

00:52:00.080 if he is healthy mother will be at peace we shall learn to read and write and serve iran

00:52:06.160 thanks to our god

00:52:07.840 This is so cute.

00:52:31.840 Iran's farmers have increased output considerably but food consumption has

00:52:42.820 been rising at the rate of 10 percent a year with growing incomes and with a

00:52:46.900 steadily growing population so in spite of tremendous efforts the country

00:52:51.280 self-sufficient in food in the early 1960s had to pay 1.4 billion dollars in

00:52:57.160 1975 for food imports. As in most developing countries, population growth

00:53:03.140 surpasses production increase. 0.66

00:53:09.660 2,500 years ago, the Persians under Cyrus the Great built the world's first

00:53:15.320 imperial power. It stretched from the Bosporus to the Indus, from Jerusalem to

00:53:22.980 the Aral Sea in the following half century Cyrus's successors extended the

00:53:30.120 Empire still farther to Libya and Macedonia and to the mouth of the Indus

00:53:39.960 one of the ironies of history the original kingdom of Cyrus covered

00:53:45.180 roughly the same areas the countries of today's Cento defense treaty members

00:53:49.320 Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. The Iran of today still is so big in total area that

00:53:58.920 there would be room for nearly all the nine countries of the European 0.98

00:54:01.980 community. West Germany, Denmark, France, Ireland, Britain, the Benelux and Italy.

00:54:19.320 i just want to point out something about the shah's coronation so the shah actually ascended

00:54:28.380 the throne in 1941 he did not have his coronation until 1967 so he literally waited 26 years

00:54:37.340 from the day he ascended the throne until the day he had his official coronation and the reason he

00:54:44.360 waited 26 years is because when he ascended the throne in 1941, he made a promise to the people

00:54:50.580 of Iran. He said that I will not, I will not crown myself, officially crown myself and have my

00:54:56.360 coronation ceremony until I have first served my country, until I have given back to my country,

00:55:03.380 until I have made sure that my country is well off and developing. There is no other monarch in

00:55:09.220 history who has done that. I mean, for example, look at King Charles, right? King Charles, when

00:55:16.140 he ascended the throne, he had his coronation ceremony one year after, right? But the Shah of 1.00

00:55:22.140 Iran, he waited 26 years because he put his country first, he put his people first, and he

00:55:30.060 wanted to make sure that his country is thriving before he did that. And no one ever talks about

00:55:35.780 that october 28 1967 26 years after mohammed reza shah had ascended to the throne i just said that

00:55:50.400 guys i i should make my own documentary about iran 26 years after right let's go back pay attention

00:55:57.480 to this, right? He waited 26 years because he wanted to make sure his country was developing.

00:56:05.920 He wanted to make sure Iran was on the path to modernization before he officially coronated

00:56:12.640 himself

00:56:21.840 october 28 1967 26 years after mohammed reza shah had ascended to the throne

00:56:28.880 the official coronation takes place why so late the shah had said repeatedly

00:56:34.320 that he didn't find any glory in being king over millions of poverty stricken

00:56:38.080 and disease-ridden people so he didn't want the coronation before

00:56:41.760 his social revolution and had its first clear successes i told you i told you guys

00:56:53.680 a unique event for the first time in over a thousand years an empress is crowned in persia 0.92

00:56:59.440 they shava new farah she will be regent in case the shop so that also pissed off the islamic

00:57:06.720 clerics right the clerics did not like the fact that the shah had officially crowned an empress

00:57:13.040 of iran who could stand in his place right because again you know having a woman as a leader was an 0.65

00:57:19.280 affront to islam and allah and muhammad so so pay attention to this guys okay pay attention 0.99

00:57:25.360 right what sort of authoritarian dictator would empower women the islamic clergy didn't like the 1.00

00:57:31.760 fact that the that we had an official empress of iran right because that goes against their islamic 1.00

00:57:37.680 Sharia law 7th century ideology.

00:58:07.660 official coronation takes place why so late the shah had said repeatedly that he didn't find any

00:58:13.820 glory in being king over millions of poverty-stricken and disease-ridden people so he didn't

00:58:18.860 want the coronation before his social revolution and had its first clear successes you'll never

00:58:24.220 hear a unique event for the first time in over a thousand years an empress is crowned in persia 0.88

00:58:37.980 they shove a new father she will be regent in case the shah and shah should die before crown 0.79

00:58:43.260 prince reza comes of age and that pissed off the islamic clergy they did not like the fact 0.84

00:58:50.140 that a woman was gaining power because that goes against their 7th century barbaric ideology of 0.64

00:58:56.700 like allah and islamic sharia law and whatever this again symbolizes one of the most important

00:59:01.820 and radical changes in the social structure of iran equal rights for women equal rights for women 0.65

00:59:10.540 that pissed off the islamic clergy they did not like the fact that the shah had institutionalized

00:59:17.980 equal rights for women

00:59:31.980 some people are commenting about the music in the background the music is not islamic the music is

00:59:50.840 not muslim it's purely iranian uh there's there's nothing islamic or muslim um about what they're

00:59:57.820 singing they're not even singing in arabic they're singing in persian which is the language

01:00:01.220 that we speak also known as Farsi in our own language in an age when so many monarchies perish

01:00:26.900 iran still adheres to her constitutionalist traditions with the oldest constitution in all

01:00:32.580 asia she still remains did you hear that did you hear that how could we be an authoritarian

01:00:38.580 dictatorship if we had a constitution guys remember remember anyone who says that iran

01:00:44.660 was a dictatorship under the shah either does not know our history or is lying because you have to

01:00:50.660 go back and look at iran from 1905 to 1911 when the persian constitutional revolution happened and

01:00:58.500 again one of the previous documentaries um that we live streamed on my channel which is included

01:01:03.940 in this playlist is about the persian constitutional revolution of 1905 to 1911 so again we were a

01:01:12.660 constitutional monarchy the islamists and communists are lying about what iran was prior

01:01:20.340 to 1979 because that's how they justify overthrowing the shah and turning iran into 0.96

01:01:26.980 the seventh century islamic hellhole that it is today means a monarchy 0.76

01:01:50.260 this ancient lands armed forces today are continually equipped with the latest weapons 0.54

01:01:55.580 Iran's military strength has aroused suspicion even in the West.

01:01:59.840 It should be remembered, however, that Iran again and again in her history

01:02:03.440 has been unable to resist so many foreign invasions because of her military weakness. 0.74

01:02:08.600 The Shah, here with Egypt's Sadat, has learned his lesson. 0.77

01:02:24.900 Re-enforcement of Iran's military power is meant to assure peace in the Gulf region, vital for the Western world. 0.87

01:02:41.900 Through 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.

01:03:00.460 If only a single tanker would be sunk in the Strait of Hormuz, this lifeline could be cut.

01:03:11.900 oil the basis of iran's wealth the oil boom offering new opportunities new challenges

01:03:31.580 for the country's development and new dangers the oil story the story of a miracle

01:03:42.700 but iran's oil reserves are limited estimates vary between 20 and 30 years

01:03:48.380 so it's understandable that the country's ruler is in a hurry to carry through his development

01:03:52.860 programs did iran this laboratory of the developing world jump too fast from the

01:03:59.020 middle ages into the 20th century inevitably there are drawbacks when too many things have

01:04:04.380 to be done too quickly but the reasoning behind this haste is clear the shah and shah expressed

01:04:10.380 it when he told laborers that in 30 years time their industrial exports must compete with those

01:04:15.580 of other advanced countries otherwise it would be impossible to maintain the present standard of

01:04:21.180 of living.

01:04:46.780 With the newly gained electric energy, industrialization has accelerated rapidly.

01:04:51.780 The first nuclear reactors are being built by the Germans, with a view toward a future without oil.

01:04:58.780 Steel mills built by the Russians, partly in exchange for delivery of natural gas to the Soviet Union.

01:05:04.780 Iran possesses some of the largest natural gas fields in the world, besides commercial quantities of coal and many minerals.

01:05:16.780 Iranian assembly and manufacturing plants already produce the greater part of all motor vehicles now needed in the country.

01:05:30.340 With so many ambitious projects, there is a continuous shortage of manpower.

01:05:35.040 To close the gap, women are encouraged to take jobs, and with high wages and the industrial boom, they respond in ever-increasing numbers.

01:05:43.440 with so much money pouring into the country rising prices cannot be avoided 0.91

01:05:48.000 but wages in industry go up at a higher rate 0.87

01:05:54.880 like we were literally on our way to becoming like the japan of the middle east before the islamic 0.94

01:06:01.280 regime and the communists took over and turned the country into a seventh century islamic hellhole 0.91

01:06:07.040 right i mean like like watching this stuff um it's nice but it also makes me like a little 0.86

01:06:19.200 bit depressed and it makes me go like what the hell were people thinking in 1979 right like

01:06:24.240 what the hell were you thinking guys 0.94

01:06:32.560 this is also something i want to show you guys right so so look at like these women 0.99

01:06:36.960 Some 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. 0.88

01:06:51.760 He 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. 0.68

01:07:14.280 And it's something that actually exists to this day.

01:07:18.160 Like, let me show you guys something. 0.99

01:07:20.660 Like, this is how backwards and demonic and evil these Islamic regime clerics are. 1.00

01:07:28.460 Like, when I tell you that the fact that the Shah gave women the right to vote, the Shah gave women equal rights, 0.99

01:07:35.220 the Shah said that women don't have to cover themselves with Islamic hijab if they don't want to,

01:07:40.020 that that upset the clergy.

01:07:41.580 I'm not joking, guys. I'm not joking. This is the news that literally came out today. So let me put

01:07:51.260 this in context for you, okay? There's currently a water shortage inside of occupied Iran, right?

01:07:59.840 There's a water shortage. And you literally have Islamic regime clerics today, okay, today in 0.90

01:08:08.480 November of 2025, who are blaming hijab enforcement failure for record-breaking water crisis. So

01:08:20.380 these are the savage 7th century Islamic clerics who took the country hostage in 1979. 1.00

01:08:30.280 Iran is currently undergoing a water crisis due to their mismanagement. And what do they do? 1.00

01:08:37.300 they blame the water crisis on women not covering their hair properly do you see the nonsense that

01:08:44.980 we have to deal with like do you see the radical jihadi seventh century islamic sharia law that

01:08:54.300 we iranians have to deal with where the people who are in control are blaming water shortages

01:09:01.040 on women showing their hair.

01:09:05.000 I wish I was joking, but I'm not. 0.88

01:09:07.020 This is literally what is happening in Iran right now,

01:09:10.720 but you will not hear this in the media.

01:09:12.920 You will not hear this in the news.

01:09:20.620 Again, the Islamic regime clerics, right?

01:09:23.560 Like, these are the men of God.

01:09:25.020 These are the men who worship Allah and Muhammad and Islam.

01:09:29.200 And according to their 7th century, 0.99

01:09:31.040 Islamic Sharia law, the reason that there is a water shortage in Iran is because women 0.98

01:09:36.400 are not covering their hair properly. Think about that. Think about that. These are the people who 1.00

01:09:42.500 claim that the Shah was a dictator. Do you see the level of nonsense that we Iranians have to deal

01:09:49.900 with? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. 0.97

01:09:55.340 The Shah People's Revolution lays much emphasis on reforms in the industrial and social field. 0.94

01:10:04.460 The Shah and Shah addressing workers.

01:10:15.380 It is for the second time.

01:10:19.340 Chilo, I know you're saying this sarcastically, but I just have to share this. 1.00

01:10:24.200 So 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.

01:10:42.860 The Islamic clerics are literally claiming that the reason there's a water shortage is because

01:10:47.980 Iranian women aren't wearing proper hijab. You're right. Maybe they should include that 1.00

01:10:53.120 in environmental sciences, right? Enforcement of Islamic hijab is critical to ensuring proper 1.00

01:11:00.460 agriculture. I don't know. It's ridiculous what we have to deal with. And the other thing as well 1.00

01:11:06.740 is that if we didn't have documentary evidence of the absolute insane things that the Islamic 0.80

01:11:15.040 regime says, the insane things that these Islamic clerics say, if we didn't have documentary

01:11:22.900 evidence of this, no one would believe us. That's the thing. No one would believe us because 0.95

01:11:26.840 they would just assume that we're making it up. Meanwhile, we've literally dealt with these

01:11:32.040 7th century savages for the last 47 years and they've been murdering us in the name of Allah 0.99

01:11:37.300 and Islam and yet all and yet somehow we're the ones who are Islamophobic for calling out their 1.00

01:11:43.940 jihadi nonsense right like make it make sense it's wild labor day one of the points of the 0.89

01:11:51.280 revolution is a profit sharing system for workers in the introduction of ownership participation 0.70

01:11:56.840 Eventually, 49% of the shares of private enterprises will be offered to employees, workers, and the general public.

01:12:08.720 Crown Prince Reza handing out certificates and decorating vocational trainees.

01:12:13.720 What will their future be?

01:12:15.000 Will the change of attitudes of traditional behavior prevailing for a thousand years be quick and radical enough to transform their country overnight? 0.84

01:12:22.880 the solutions offered by the shah people's revolution seem to be better suited to iran's

01:12:28.160 needs than any other existing model be it in east or west might iran's way even become an example

01:12:35.120 for other nations what has been achieved up to now is astounding but the challenge is a giant one

01:12:52.880 So guys, this is the 2,500 celebration of the birth of Iran. I actually did an entire

01:13:10.140 live stream on this. So make sure you, you know, you can find it in the same playlist here,

01:13:14.740 But 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.

01:13:38.200 And because this was pre-Islamic, the Islamic clergy tried to paint this as like, you know, an anti-Islam thing.

01:13:48.660 So I have a whole documentary, like I have a whole live stream where I go through this.

01:13:55.020 So make sure you go and you watch that because I explain this in detail.

01:13:58.600 And 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?

01:14:15.520 So this was critical, a critical part of the Shah's plan in terms of modernizing Iran and putting Iran on the map.

01:14:24.460 And, you know, every single country has a budget that they spend on heritage, tourism and culture.

01:14:32.000 Right. Guys, I was a politician for seven years in Canada.

01:14:36.020 And, you know, we always have a budget for these sorts of things.

01:14:39.580 but the islamic uh clerics didn't like the fact that the shah was honoring the iranian heritage

01:14:49.600 of the country because of course for them everything is about islam and muhammad and

01:14:54.000 allah right but this was fantastic so you're about to get a glimpse of of pre-islamic iran

01:15:00.700 and the three people down below that you see um in the red outfits so they're wearing outfits from

01:15:07.780 the time of cyrus the great

01:15:12.020 i love this i love this

01:15:20.180 never get tired of watching watching this documentary

01:15:37.540 In 1971, Iran celebrates her 2,500th birthday as a nation, as a state, and as a monarchy.

01:15:45.340 The oldest monarchy in the world with the youngest dynasty.

01:15:49.380 But looking back to the empire of Cyrus, of Dariush, of Xerxes, a cultural tradition older than that of the Greeks.

01:15:56.740 Dariush and Artaxerxes freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity.

01:16:01.180 The Archimena dynasty created the first commonwealth of nations.

01:16:04.500 It was a blending of the civilizations of the ancient world, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria,

01:16:10.960 Asia Minor, the Greek cities, and even India into one original whole.

01:16:16.500 I love how you describe this part.

01:16:34.500 Hegel once wrote,

01:16:43.840 The principle of development begins with the history of Persia.

01:16:47.980 This constitutes strictly the beginning of world history,

01:16:51.000 the first world empire, and, still more noteworthy,

01:16:54.840 a form of government which for the first time in history on so large a scale

01:16:58.720 was animated by a genuine spirit of justice and tolerance for all,

01:17:03.020 regardless of race color and creed did you hear that guys so 2 500 years ago before islam

01:17:09.840 was even invented we had freedom of religion freedom of association in iran in persia in

01:17:17.720 the persian empire and it was only when you know the islamic conquest of 650 happened 0.69

01:17:23.520 that all of that was gone right

01:17:26.560 but no one ever talks about that no one ever talks about the muslim conquest of persia no

01:17:33.220 one no one ever talks about how um arabic colonization is probably like one of the 1.00

01:17:38.580 worst things to ever happen in the history of human civilization

01:17:56.560 so that's the tomb of cyrus the great the founder of the persian empire

01:18:11.840 and that's persepolis ancient city of iran

01:18:16.600 the hearts of the persians are still in the ruins of persepolis the ancient capital built

01:18:25.460 in 520 bc by darius 230 years later burned by alexander of macedonia

01:18:43.060 darius the great the king of kings

01:18:49.540 the ancient inscriptions in which the kings tell the story of their empire

01:18:53.700 in the treasury nearby thousands of tablets were found giving detailed accounts of wages

01:18:58.740 and working conditions revealing the first social system in history and the attention

01:19:03.940 already paid to human rights by the way guys uh if in case in case you didn't know and you can

01:19:10.820 look this up um women in ancient persia 2 500 years ago um they got uh maternity leave yeah

01:19:23.700 If you were a woman in ancient Persia and you got pregnant, and if you were working, you actually got paid.

01:19:31.300 You got paid for maternity leave.

01:19:33.980 And in fact, the state actually paid above your wage, right?

01:19:41.340 So 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.

01:19:54.700 So 2,500 years ago, the Persian Empire gave women maternity leave.

01:20:01.400 And then Islam came in 650 AD and turned women into second class citizens and pretty much the property of men. 1.00

01:20:08.820 Just food for thought, right? 1.00

01:20:10.380 Just look it up. You don't have to believe me. Look it up. Google whether or not maternity leave

01:20:16.760 existed 2,500 years ago in the Persian Empire. No other ancient civilization had paid maternity

01:20:25.200 leave for women, but the Persians did. The kings presenting their gifts to the king of kings.

01:20:40.380 throughout the vast empire a whole network of roads and communications was established

01:20:57.280 fortresses and post stations for commerce and the imperial administration were built

01:21:02.260 throughout the centuries on the ruins of old towns new ones were erected and again on the

01:21:08.240 remnants of these layer on layer in this country so often invaded

01:21:13.160 by the way guys a lot of people will try to tell you that this is like 0.87

01:21:38.240 Islamic architecture. This is actually Iranian architecture, the geometric shapes that you find.

01:21:45.140 There's absolutely nothing Islamic about this, and you find this, you know, these designs and

01:21:50.500 patterns and structures that existed before Islam was invented. But, you know, just like everything 0.99

01:21:57.680 else, the Arab colonizers tried to claim this as Islamic architecture, but it's not. You don't find

01:22:04.320 this type of architecture anywhere else in the world, except for places that were built and

01:22:10.220 populated by the Persian Empire. So just keep that in mind as well. There's nothing Islamic

01:22:14.960 about this. It's 100% Persian. 0.99

01:22:34.320 During these thousands of years, the Iranians were often conquered, yet never colonized.

01:23:00.820 So they remained a proud people, conscious of their history.

01:23:04.760 Guys, that is so true.

01:23:06.520 So we have been conquered, but never colonized.

01:23:10.100 That's the difference.

01:23:11.040 This is why our language goes back thousands of years.

01:23:16.440 It's why our traditions go back thousands of years.

01:23:19.460 It's why our identity goes back thousands of years. 0.99

01:23:22.840 Because we were conquered, you know, even the Muslim Arabs, 0.99

01:23:26.720 they conquered us in 650 AD but they were not able to colonize us they weren't able to erase 0.99

01:23:34.400 our Iranian identity or heritage or culture or even our language right they were never able to

01:23:40.720 to get rid of that of their heritage i want to i want to replay that because that is so important 0.56

01:23:49.520 and it's it's a critical line it's it's critical what he says there

01:23:52.800 Let me go back just a few more seconds here.

01:24:22.640 During these thousands of years, the Iranians were often conquered, yet never colonized,

01:24:27.980 so they remained a proud people, conscious of their history, and of their heritage.

01:24:32.520 We're very proud.

01:24:33.520 We're very proud of being a lot of people.

01:24:38.520 Iran today, women even playing soccer, symbol of a radical revolution against deep-rooted taboos,

01:24:58.100 habits, prejudices. So Iran under the Shah, women played soccer. Iran today under the Islamic

01:25:07.920 Republic, women are not allowed in sports stadiums. Did you know that? Iranian women cannot even

01:25:16.220 attend sporting matches because according to the Islamic Republic, it is haram for Iranian women to

01:25:25.460 go to a sports stadium. Yeah, that's how backwards and demonic and evil the Islamic regime is and 1.00

01:25:34.840 their evil 7th century Islamic ideology, where women are banned from attending sporting events 1.00

01:25:41.180 because it is against Islam and Allah, according to them. Just wanted to throw that out there as well. 0.96

01:26:04.840 Thank you.

01:26:34.840 Iran today, a unique endeavor, a bloodless revolution without class struggle.

01:26:57.100 Its objectives, free farmers, workers as co-owners of their factories, an all-embracing system

01:27:03.600 of social security whether there will be in the end a newly structured society will depend on

01:27:10.160 these iranians on the young guys i'm like we're getting to the end of the documentary

01:27:22.160 and i'm just getting goosebumps because um you know these are images that you're seeing in 1974

01:27:28.560 and then literally like five years later sharia law takes over and takes the country back 1400 0.66

01:27:35.980 years overnight and turns the country into a seventh century islamic hellhole governed by

01:27:41.480 sharia law and uh yeah like it's just it's wild it's wild to me um and you know i have spoken 0.98

01:27:53.360 about the Islamic revolution, or the Islamic coup d'etat, as I like to call it, I have

01:27:59.780 spoken extensively about that. We have watched numerous, numerous documentaries about that,

01:28:06.280 and I've gone through it in detail, as well as, you know, the Iranians and mods in the chat here

01:28:11.620 as well. So if you want to learn more about what led to the Islamic coup d'etat of 1979,

01:28:19.580 definitely go and watch those other documentaries and live streams in my playlist. This documentary

01:28:26.700 is one that was filmed in in 1974. And we are getting to the final few minutes here. But again,

01:28:33.300 like just this is this is giving me chills because it's like, it's like you're watching a movie and

01:28:39.220 you know something horrific is going to happen and you want to like, you want to stop it like 1.00

01:28:43.700 you want to scream and be like, guys, don't be idiots. Like just you have no idea how good you 1.00

01:28:49.020 have it um but yeah it's um this is hard like as an Iranian it's it's it's hard to to watch this to

01:28:57.500 you know know that this is what we had and this is where we were going

01:29:02.540 and then Islam and the communists won and we've been in a nightmare ever since we have been 0.95

01:29:14.180 in a nightmare and almost three million Iranians have been murdered. You know, one of the mods 1.00

01:29:21.380 mentioned in the comments just today, they found the bodies of, I think, 70 or 70 more innocent

01:29:29.140 young Iranians, you know, protesters who were demonstrating against the Islamic Republic who

01:29:33.660 had been missing for several years. Their bodies were just found dumped in a river that had been

01:29:40.140 dried up 74. Yeah. Right. I mean, it's tough. It's tough. Yeah. Anyways, let's, let's, let's

01:29:50.940 finished watching here, but yeah.

01:30:20.940 I am, I am struggling right now to, um, to not say what I want to say in Farsi.

01:30:39.580 But there's something that I want to say.

01:30:41.520 anyways that's all i'm going to say because i could say more but um yeah um

01:31:03.680 i would give i would give this documentary a 9.9 out of 10 i would like to hear from the

01:31:10.700 Iranians. I mean, at this point, like I would, I would, the only reason I'm not giving it a 10 1.00

01:31:16.900 out of 10 is because when it comes to 1953, um, you know, they still call it a coup d'etat,

01:31:23.940 which is weird because it wasn't a coup d'etat. Um, and I've gone over that in previous documentaries.

01:31:29.720 Um, but I mean, this is probably, you know, and we've seen a lot of terrible documentaries.

01:31:37.820 documentaries um i i would probably give this like i don't know a nine or a ten what do you

01:31:45.360 got so so for the iranians who are watching does this get a nine or a ten i mean i i think i think

01:31:50.980 this gets a 10 out of 10 um like i would strongly recommend everyone to to watch this documentary

01:32:01.920 i'm gonna put the link um in the youtube description of course um so people can go

01:32:06.900 and watch the original but yeah i really enjoyed this yeah gandalf i i agree like i think okay so

01:32:14.420 so john john is saying a 10 out of 10 um gandalf is saying 10 um yeah yeah i mean given the fact

01:32:25.940 that like we have seen a lot of terrible ones um yeah i think i think this is a 10 out of 10 because

01:32:33.220 I think this accurately describes what Iran was like prior to 1979. I think this documentary

01:32:43.160 should be mandatory watching for anyone who wants to comment on Iran or Iranian politics, right?

01:32:52.680 Yeah. All right. Well, guys, thank you everyone for joining. I think we're going to give this

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Goldie Ghamari - November 11, 2025

Iran before 1979： Documentary Explaned by an Iranian (Part 2)

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