00:07:59.080And it was basically the rally was really to be a voice for all of the Iranian mothers who have lost children or Iranian mothers who have been murdered by the Islamic regime.
00:08:21.300So, um, that's, that's what we were doing. That's what we were doing. And, uh, so, so I attended
00:08:29.080the demonstration in Richmond Hill today. Um, and it was amazing. I mean, it was always, always,
00:08:37.700you know, well-organized, uh, well-attended, um, a lot of people there. Um, you know, there was,
00:08:45.620You know, I took a photo. So this is me. This is me at this is me at the rally today. As you can see, there's the flag of America, the flag of Israel, the lion and sun flag all over images of kingdoms of Pahlavi.
00:09:05.120So, uh, that's, that's basically what I did today. Um, and then of course, afterwards, um, took my mom out to celebrate Mother's Day, but this is the interesting thing.
00:09:20.440So, so, you know, here's the reason why, um, I don't announce in advance where I am or where I'm going to be or what, uh, what, what, uh, what event I'll be attending.
00:09:50.440Look at this video. Let me just let me bring this up on Instagram because this is now starting to make the rounds.
00:09:55.580Now, will you see this on mainstream media? Probably not.
00:10:00.880However, at the same rally that I was attending today in Richmond Hill, which is just north of Toronto, an IRGC terrorist and Iranian terrorist who is supporting the Islamic regime showed up in their car.
00:10:25.520And apparently they, like this, this man began ramming into other cars.
00:10:33.760So this guy used his car to ram into other vehicles.
00:12:44.400you know what's wild like that that's the richmond hill public library like this is where the event
00:12:55.020was being held right um and then as you can see like he's surrounded okay we're gonna watch this
00:13:01.460video a few times but let's just watch it first and then i'll go back because there's a few
00:13:05.640interesting things here that I want to point out. So, uh, everyone is surrounding him and
00:13:15.980they're yelling, be shut up, which means, uh, dishonorable, right? Uh, that's, that's what we
00:13:21.920call, um, Islamic regime supporters be shut up. So, so someone is saying, did he run over someone
00:13:27.940or just ram into cars. So I'm still waiting for official updates. But from what I have heard so
00:13:36.980far, this terrorist rammed into a few cars. And he also apparently ran over a person. I don't know.
00:13:48.020I don't know that that's what is that's what I'm hearing. But let's finish watching the video. And
00:13:52.680then, and then, um, we'll, we'll rewatch it. And I'll point out a few interesting things.
00:14:07.200Okay. So now the video is repeating here. So here you can see this, this terrorist,
00:14:13.500he's like laying on the ground and he's convulsing. Like he's pretending as if he's
00:14:19.060having some medical illness, right? So watch this. And then people are yelling. And then
00:14:35.780people are starting to go up and then other people are like, no, no, no, don't go. Don't
00:14:39.460go. So now, now, okay. Now you can see there's a woman in a red coat and guys, I love, I love
00:14:56.140Iranian women. Like Iranian women, there's a reason that we call them Shirzan. Shirzan means1.00
00:15:01.580lion women. So this woman in the red coat, she literally gives no Fs. She sees this Bisharaf0.99
00:15:13.400holding the Islamic regime flag, waving it, and she just literally tries to run up to him0.68
00:15:19.140because she wants to take the flag. And then you see a whole bunch of guys go and grab her
00:15:24.840because they want to keep her safe, right? They don't want her to get into trouble.
00:15:29.700yeah, zan means woman and shir means lion. So, you know, we call our people shirzan, shirmar,
00:15:37.340because we call ourselves the lion people. And that's like something that Iranians have
00:15:44.060associated with for thousands and thousands of years. So kind of, you know, kind of similar to
00:15:48.740how, you know, Americans associate with like, you know, the bald eagle. So for us Iranians,
00:15:54.640it's the lion um so here you can see her like literally trying to run up to him um and you know
00:16:01.040she's like a short woman she's about my height pretty short but she's super brave but of course0.95
00:16:06.380the the iranian men they go and they grab her because they don't want her to be arrested or
00:16:10.700anything like that because she's about to go like like she's about to go like just f him up0.77
00:16:16.360and of course they don't want her to get arrested so watch this
00:16:19.500so then you see the the guy the guy in the beige the guy so um the the woman in the red coat she
00:16:33.300tried to go get uh his durka flag um and you know they grabbed her and they pulled her back
00:16:39.500but then the guy in the beige he went and he grabbed it and then he takes it from him0.69
00:16:45.060like guys at this point the police literally had to protect the terrorist from the Iranian people
00:17:05.200because because the Iranian people wanted to like go after the terrorists right so like when I say
00:17:11.300that we Iranians, like, I don't know how to describe this while being politically correct.0.80
00:17:22.360Yeah, just wait for the day. Just wait for the day that Iranians have the opportunity
00:17:28.300to get back at the terrorists that have murdered our children. Just wait for the day.1.00
00:17:34.600Guys, what you're seeing here, this is like a very, very small preview of the anger and wrath and rage that Iranians have towards our Islamic regime terrorist occupiers.0.86
00:17:55.380What you're seeing here is like a drop in the ocean.0.87
00:26:46.960you know one day one day i will learn how to moonwalk but not this day oh no oh no this guy
00:27:00.000okay i don't know if i can do instagram anymore i love this guy oh my gosh this is like my favorite
00:27:06.800guys this is my favorite like like truck seller
00:27:16.960honestly, like I don't, I don't know if I will ever need a truck, but if I was ever going to
00:27:22.420buy a truck, I would buy a truck from this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is the, the, the trucks.
00:27:37.260I don't even follow him, but he, he shows up on my algorithm. You know what? This, this is the
00:27:44.120reason. This is the reason he shows up on my algorithm. So yeah. Okay. There you go. Now you
00:27:53.440guys have a preview of my Instagram algorithm. Yeah. That's my Instagram algorithm. Um, I don't
00:28:00.580think like we got to stop with the Instagram algorithm because we need to go back to Iran0.91
00:28:06.320revolution live. And I think I've exposed my, myself way too much here. Um, so I'm pretty sure0.71
00:28:14.000if Armin was live streaming earlier today, he probably already shared this. So this post from
00:28:20.340President Donald J. Trump, Iran has been playing games with the United States and the rest of the0.82
00:28:25.060world for 47 years. Delay, delay, delay, which is 100% true. And then finally hit, wait, what's going on here?0.99
00:28:44.000sorry. Sorry, I just had to respond to an email I received. Anyway, so Iran has been playing games
00:29:02.880with the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years. Delay, delay, delay. And then finally0.94
00:29:08.020hit pay dirt when Barack Hussein Obama became president. He was not only good to them, he was
00:29:14.260great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel and all other allies, and giving Iran a0.91
00:29:21.020major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of billions of dollars and $1.7 billion in green0.76
00:29:29.380cash, Florida to Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every bank in D.C., Virginia,
00:29:36.520and Maryland was emptied out. It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian thugs1.00
00:29:42.960had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this and never will again.1.00
00:29:49.600It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn't believe
00:29:54.800their luck. They finally found the greatest sucker of them all in the form of a weak and1.00
00:30:00.400stupid American president. He was a disaster as our leader, but not as bad as sleepy Joe Biden.1.00
00:30:09.040For 47 years, the Iranians have been tapping us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people0.92
00:30:15.900with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent unarmed0.99
00:30:23.320protesters and laughing at our now great again country. They will be laughing no longer.
00:30:33.520Guys, the fact that President Trump is saying they will be laughing no longer,
00:30:41.200something's happening. Something is happening and something is in the works.
00:30:47.580Now, what's really interesting about this post from President Trump is that prior to this, he actually played and shared a whole bunch of videos from Mark Levin.
00:31:08.980I haven't watched them yet, but I wanted to watch them with you tonight because remember what I've said about politicians posting articles or politicians posting, you know, links to things.
00:31:28.060Politicians do not post links to articles or videos or something unless they support the messaging.
00:31:37.640So earlier today, this is while I was out, President Trump posted three videos from Mark Levin.
00:31:47.520And we are going to watch them all because I have not watched these videos yet.
00:31:53.740But I have a feeling that this is very important and this is very, very significant.
00:37:25.500We have to do what we can to eliminate those who are the most obstinate, the most committed1.00
00:37:30.960to the Islamic revolution, and try to get to a point where we can have a regime that1.00
00:37:36.020can comply with the United States and our demands.0.95
00:37:38.320When we come back, my question to you is this, why don't we just keep the pressure
00:37:44.080on economically if they're grumbling do as you say our military is sitting there
00:37:50.880it's a beautiful military ready to do what it needs to do put this additional pressure on them
00:37:57.920in that way maybe they will collapse and that's the surest way to make
00:38:02.160sure in 15 or 20 years from now they won't be back we'll be right back
00:38:06.160welcome back america we're here with rebecca
00:38:13.620oh guys okay so i have a super chat on um my youtube live stream from uh roman viking so let
00:38:23.300me just go to this really quickly uh so roman viking asks how would you distinguish against
00:38:29.200iranian immigrants like you and the durka supporter how would you organize immigration
00:38:35.020policy. I mean, it's really difficult to do that. You would have to look at the background of the
00:38:42.780Durka, right? The vast majority of Iranians who have escaped the Islamic regime did so0.81
00:38:56.780since 1979. So I would say the vast majority of Iranians who are against the Islamic regime0.69
00:39:06.260immigrated and left from 1979 up until about maybe 10, 15 years ago. Now, it's not to say
00:39:14.920that there haven't been Iranians who've escaped since then. I mean, the majority still do.1.00
00:39:22.260However, I would say that given sort of the mass migration policies and also sort of the financial and economic immigration policies that have come forward, it has made it easier for Durkhas that are affiliated with the Islamic regime to immigrate.0.71
00:39:48.240now they are still in the minority okay they're still in the minority so you know the the vast0.95
00:39:54.200majority of Iranians who immigrate to other countries um do so because they're against
00:40:00.480the Islamic regime however there are exceptions right um and the best way to find out if someone
00:40:12.020is a Durka or not, if someone is a terrorist or not, is to follow the money. Follow the money0.87
00:40:20.120and see where the money comes from. That's the best and easiest way to find out who is a Durka1.00
00:40:29.520and who isn't, and who is a terrorist and who isn't. So that, you know, it's, and I mean,1.00
00:40:36.720obviously like nothing is foolproof, right? Nothing is foolproof. But the vast majority
00:40:45.040of Islamic regime agents who have come to Canada have done so through the economic and financial
00:40:55.380streams. Wait, sorry. Let me just get rid of like this idiot on Twitch. Like, ew, go away.
00:41:10.300Like this is not, this is not the place for you. Anyways. Anyway. So, um, that's what I would say.
00:41:15.060Like the vast majority immigrate, um, through financial means because they have the stolen0.97
00:41:23.040blood money. Oh, someone's like, I thought you wouldn't be here today. Well, you know, I was1.00
00:41:29.820out all day. I attended the rally. I attended the Free Iran rally in Toronto. I'm actually
00:41:40.720attending another rally in a different city next Saturday. So just want to give you a heads up on
00:41:49.480that because I will not, I probably won't be around next Saturday because I'll be attending
00:41:54.280a different rally in a different city. But you know, I did attend the rally and then of course
00:42:02.240it was Mother's Day, but I just wanted to come on just for a little bit. I mean, it's not going to
00:42:07.420be a very late live stream. It's going to be pretty, pretty brief. But yeah, I wanted to come
00:42:13.620because uh there is a lot of info uh that's that's happening a lot of things going on and i also
00:42:21.240wanted to to watch um the videos that president trump posted on truth social and i figured
00:42:27.440why not watch these videos with with all of you and we can watch them together and i can get your
00:42:34.980thoughts and comments on this as well all right let's continue with mark levin's analysis here
00:42:39.620uh president trump has posted a number of videos so let we're going to watch all of them back
00:42:45.020welcome back america we're here with rebecca heinrichs rebecca so
00:42:54.460why have a deal at all why not keep the pressure on the pressure on pressure on
00:43:00.320they want a deal of course they want a deal that's the nature of the beast there they'll
00:43:04.980they'll take a deal. Maybe they'll sign something that's really in our favor, but probably won't
00:43:10.780honor it in the out years and so forth. If they're crumbling, why don't we give them the extra push?
00:43:16.620Yeah, I think we do need to give them the extra push. And whenever I say that we might have some
00:43:20.100sort of diplomatic, you know, political outcome to this, it's really not a deal that I'm looking
00:43:25.300for. It's not something that I'm not going to believe anything that the Iranians signed.0.95
00:43:28.660It just means that they've completely submitted to American demands. And Trump has, President
00:43:33.300Trump has not moved off of his red lines. He has kept his red lines in place, to his credit.
00:43:38.100But I do think we keep the economic pressure in place. We keep the blockade in place. Their
00:43:42.720economy is crumbling. They cannot sustain this kind of pressure. But I do think that we need
00:43:48.640to go on the offensive again, because we have seen the IRGC using cruise missiles, using other
00:43:56.340kinds of weapon systems that we didn't see that they had when we stopped Epic Fury. So we know
00:44:00.720where they are. We know where they are along the coastline. I do think that there's more munitions
00:44:04.800facilities that we now know exist. So I think we do have to have another military operation,
00:44:11.080go through there, take out more IRGC and besiege. And then the last point, Mark, I would say,0.98
00:44:16.020arm the Iranian people. We don't even have to do the heavy lifting at this point. The Iranian people
00:44:21.640support the United States. They oppose the Iran regime. They're the victims of oppression,
00:44:26.200and they can handle the rest if they have the weapons to do it.
00:44:30.520There seems to be some opposition to this.
01:02:29.800Guys, so just FYI, if you're not following Barboad on YouTube, you need to go follow him
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01:03:20.020so that you guys can all, excuse me. There you go. And then let me just add it to the other chats
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01:03:48.180We love Barboj. Go give him a follow. Amazing and talented artist. Okay, so now let's go to...
01:03:58.420Guys, so President Trump actually posted a video on his Truth Social
01:04:05.240showing footage of Iranians in occupied Iran.
01:04:10.820um and i haven't seen this but let's let's watch it together let's let's watch this together we
01:04:20.280don't let me go back to the beginning like guys this is um wow you don't have to create opposition
01:04:30.840there is opposition we need to seize the opportunity and we need to see the opportunity
01:04:37.840Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So President Trump is acknowledging we don't need to create opposition. There is opposition. Yeah. Yes, there is opposition. That opposition is led by His Royal Highness King Rizal Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran. Oh, my gosh. Oh, they're acknowledging, guys, they're acknowledging that we have opposition.
01:05:01.080And guys, remember, I'll tell you why this is big.
01:05:08.360I'll tell you why this is big because just a few days ago, just a few days ago, Mark
01:12:12.040Mark. Okay, so where was it? It was a few days ago. Okay, I can't find
01:12:23.860it was a few days ago. Mark. Okay. Oh my gosh. Did I not? Where is it?
01:12:42.040Okay, so I can't find it now, but Mark Levin actually, um, quote tweeted, King Rizal Pahlavi.
01:12:59.400Okay, I need to go, I need to go find this. I need to go find this. Um, I will share it tomorrow.
01:13:06.100But Mark Levin actually, quote, tweeted King Reza Pahlavi a few days ago.
01:13:14.520And, guys, that's a big deal because you have to keep this in mind.
01:13:19.520Now that, you know, when Mark Levin, in this video, he is speaking about the fact that there's already an opposition, you have to connect the dots, right?
01:13:33.380So Mark Levin, quote tweeted, who is the leader of Iran's official opposition.
01:16:10.800why would we take this off the table if the kurds stole weapons and the kurds have been great allies
01:16:20.020of ours everywhere around the middle east they are patriotic they are pro-american
01:16:25.540there are other ways to do this the question is whether our cia is up to the task i hope it is
01:16:33.120i don't know anything about the bureau oh that part's kind of awkward oh someone someone needs
01:16:40.880to give mark someone needs to give mark a lesson on the kurds because iranian kurds are patriotic
01:16:49.040um the vast majority of kurds are patriotic but the separatist kurds are not and uh
01:16:58.080Yeah, the separatist Kurds in, you know, there are separatist Kurds in Iraq, there are separatist Kurds in Turkey, there are separatist Kurds in Syria that are funded by the Russians because they come from that Marxist communist ideology, and they're the ones causing issues for everyone else.0.85
01:17:23.220So, yeah, someone needs to give Mark a little bit of a lesson on the Kurds because, you know, the Kurds are not all the same.0.50
01:17:33.100You cannot call them the Kurds because that also makes things really awkward for like the Syrian Kurds who don't want to separate from Syria.
01:17:45.200Right. Like they're patriotic and loyal to Syria.
01:17:48.100I mean, whatever, it is what it is, but they're also being infiltrated by the separatist
01:19:02.120The only certain way to ensure that the Iranian regime can never0.92
01:19:06.040and will never spread its revolution here in the Middle East,0.97
01:19:10.640in europe or anywhere else and all that evil and horror that goes with it involves its elimination
01:19:19.520no matter what president trump does he will be attacked by the democrats the media
01:19:25.120the isolationists for his heroic actions against the iranian regime so i would ignore the democrats
01:19:33.360and the media and the isolationists they want failure they will define success for them as
01:19:40.800our failure as a nation because they are driven by deranged a deranged mentality about politics
01:19:47.720and exploitation for power they are fundamentally power hungry we've come so far we've made such
01:19:55.820incredible progress victory is in sight in my view there's a gentleman by the name of efran
01:20:02.840Fard. He's an expert in counterterrorism on Iran and Middle East, based in Washington, and he
01:20:08.440writes the following in the Jerusalem Post. Moments in which internal crisis and external
01:20:14.840pressure converge at this level, he's talking about Iran, are rare, and history suggests they
01:20:20.600don't remain open indefinitely. Previous opportunities for fundamental change were
01:20:26.440constrained by hesitation, particularly at the level of international coordination,
01:20:31.300and those constraints carry consequences the current moment presents a similar test
01:20:37.480but with higher stakes and less margin for delay if the regime survives he writes the ideology that
01:20:45.580defines the system will remain intact along with its patterns of behavior as a threat that cannot
01:20:51.900be managed indefinitely systems defined by this level of ideological rigidity and expansionism
01:20:59.280do not evolve into moderation they persist until they are forced to change or cease to exist
01:21:06.940the removal of this structure would not only address an immediate security challenge but
01:21:13.000would also open the possibility for a different relationship between iran and the region
01:21:18.300one that aligns with the emerging framework established by the abraham accords now to be
01:21:25.360clear. I don't have access to all the information the president has or the military intelligence
01:21:31.560experts, but I know what I know. And I know the president of the United States, President Trump,
01:21:37.620always has the best interests of the American people at front of mind. And that will be his
01:21:44.320guiding motivation. And frankly, I could not be prouder of our president, his team, and our
01:21:51.740military i could not be prouder of all of them my unsolicited advice just as a commentator
01:22:00.600somebody who studies history stay the course stay the course but thank you to all those who brought
01:22:08.700us to this point where frankly nobody thought we would ever be thanks to our president our
01:22:14.640military and the people around him. Stay the course. One final video. This is the third
01:22:24.600video that President Trump shared on his Truth Social. And then for those of you who are willing
01:22:32.500to stick around, I'm going to have a bonus video for you after this. So stick around because I
01:22:39.620will actually have a bonus video for you about iran that was produced by americans and it's
01:22:50.460going to be an old video but it's going to be a bonus video so stay tuned hello america i'm mark
01:22:57.160levin and this is life liberty and levin saturday welcome to the program you know president trump
01:23:04.340has done something no president dared to do in the last half century.
01:23:10.040He, with our ally Israel, and their great prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,0.57
01:23:14.620has destroyed the Iranian regime's military, the immediate nuclear threat,
01:23:21.560and most of the missile systems which were used to terrorize surrounding nations.0.68
01:23:26.940If I told you that would have been accomplished in a few days,
01:23:31.260or even a few weeks, you wouldn't have believed me.
01:23:34.340And yet, for some reason, we act like this hasn't been a spectacular military success.
01:23:39.900That said, the knowledge on how to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs, along with assistance
01:23:47.340from countries like China, Russia, and North Korea, and the internal militia and security
01:23:54.700forces of Iran, seem to ensure that sometime in the future, Iran will be able to reconstruct0.87
01:24:02.020these weapons systems, rebuild its military, and internally increase its mass murder of even the0.88
01:24:09.200most peaceful voices of dissent. So what do you do after you defeat an enemy's military and take
01:24:17.120out the top tier of their leadership? What do you do? Because that's where we are. Well, let's first
01:24:22.940look at what we said we will not do. No ground troops. Why? Because there's virtually no
01:24:31.560political will in our country to send ground troops into Iran. And I would argue there's
01:24:37.660no need to send in our ground troops for reasons I'll explain in a moment. President Trump has not
01:24:44.920only led a historic military victory against Iran, but he has asserted control over the Strait of
01:24:51.120Tormuz, thereby controlling Iran's ability to sell its oil and choke the Iranian economy in hopes of
01:24:59.420forcing the regime to make a deal or collapse. Those are two very distinct objectives, to make
01:25:07.180a deal or collapse. So the question is, which is preferable? So let's dig into this further.
01:25:15.540If the goal is to take down the regime, two of three most important conditions have already been achieved.
01:25:23.660The destruction of virtually its entire military capacity and economic control over their economy.
01:25:33.380These are two historic successes on their own.
01:25:37.040If the goal is to get a deal, the issue is not only what kind of deal, but can the deal stick?
01:25:44.700That is, how do we know if the enemy will adhere to the terms of a deal,
01:25:50.180especially after President Trump leaves office?
01:25:53.220Well, let's look at the Iranian regime's record.
01:25:55.920Rather than recounting the scores of examples, evidence, if you will,
01:26:00.220that the regime has violated every deal it has ever signed with any international organization,
01:26:07.440any country or any group of countries,
01:26:09.900there simply is no evidence that the regime has ever honored any deal even the obama nuclear
01:26:18.740disastrous deal which ensured that iran would have a nuclear weapon within 10 to 12 years of
01:26:24.700its signing was violated by the iranian regime even though it would hand them nuclear weapons
01:26:30.740effectively why would the iranian regime violate a deal that ensures it would have nuclear weapons
01:26:37.520in a decade or so because it felt no obligation to adhere to any deal and it wanted to develop
01:26:45.160nuclear weapons to break out as fast as it could. So to be clear, even a deal in which the Iranian0.93
01:26:52.960regime would in fact be able to secure nuclear weapons was violated by the Iranian regime
01:26:59.220repeatedly and in scores of ways. Monitoring, unannounced inspections and the like were all
01:27:06.680eventually defied by the Iranian regime. So it's important to understand the ideological mindset
01:27:14.280of who and what we're dealing with. They're not of a Western mindset. The regime has learned from
01:27:22.900past experience with our country and with the current opposition in our country from the
01:27:28.840Democrats, the media, and the radical isolationists that all they need to do is wait us out.
01:27:36.680We have an election in November, and they see that election as possible, if not likely, to change our government, at least one part of it.
01:27:47.900That is, with the election of Democrats in the House, for example, they know that that party stands for appeasement, radical pacifism, and isolationism.
01:28:00.660They have heard what their media have to say.
01:28:03.460And they also know that the Democrat Party will try to undermine President Trump, including his foreign policy, and especially in Iran, where the Democrats actually funded the regime and its war making power under the Biden administration.
01:28:20.260Even more, they watch these debates over the War Powers Act, articles of impeachment against the Secretary of War, and declarations of impeachment against the president should the Democrats win the House, based in large part on what the Democrats falsely claim as constitutional and legal violations.
01:28:42.140and they claim that this is a war of choice, that it is a blunder, and that it is an illegal war.0.84
01:28:51.920So the Iranians say, let's just hang in there.
01:28:56.360If the Democrats take the House, that's an American regime change.0.95
01:29:01.900And if the Democrats take the presidency, wow, we're free to roll.0.58
01:29:06.440three years hence if a democrat is elected president the iranian regime figures it's no
01:29:13.160longer bound by the terms of any agreement no matter how great the terms because it simply
01:29:19.160will not be enforced and we won't have the stomach to enforce it militarily will we
01:29:24.300will we you have a courageous president who's taking actions who's ignoring the polls and doing0.82
01:29:30.340what's right for the security of this nation in the world unfortunately that's rare the iranian
01:29:37.840regime also knows there's a marxist islamist alliance and presence in our country and in
01:29:44.580fact the iranian regime is a marxist islamist ideological regime they and their allies helped0.81
01:29:53.220fund it in our country and around the world and it's very loud and it's very violent and it has0.89
01:29:59.660the democrat party by the throat and it along with the neo-fascist isolationists the neo-fascist
01:30:07.160isolationists will claim that israel is behind any effort to enforce an agreement with iran0.58
01:30:13.120and israel is dragging us into another war we hear it now right we cannot ignore the dark storm
01:30:21.000clouds of anti-semitism that are now hanging over our country and have a strong foothold in the
01:30:28.160Democratic Party, the media, the academia, and this radical isolationism. Then there is the
01:30:37.420ideology of the Iranian regime, which, remember, is a worldwide Islamist revolution. That's its
01:30:43.260belief. Again, it is a Marxist-Islamist worldwide revolutionary movement. As the Blair Institute
01:30:52.560has said, just like communism, a state was never the objective of the revolution. The organs of
01:31:00.060the Iranian state serve the revolution, not the other way around. And the end goal of the
01:31:05.860revolution was never a state. It was the expansion of the revolution. The revolution.
01:31:11.740Guys, that's what we have been saying this entire time. Guys, that's what I have been saying
01:31:17.000this entire time. I have been saying forever that the 1979 Islamic coup d'etat, it was never about
01:31:26.460Iran. It was about using Iran as an ATM to export their jihad to the rest of the world. And that's0.97
01:31:36.400exactly what's been happening. And you know what, when I spoke about that, people accused me of,
01:56:10.600And then the next day, there would be a story to the effect that in the event that the Shah left Iran or was overthrown, the United States would be prepared to accept any government that the people chose.
01:56:27.340Well, he said all of this had the effect of encouraging his enemies and, of course, discouraging his own supporters.
01:56:37.400As a matter of fact, what happened to the Shah, I think, could only be interpreted in that part of the world and other parts of the world as well, is that it is dangerous to be a friend of the United States, and it may pay to be an enemy.0.76
01:56:54.460I think what we have to understand is that the Shah was the best friend of the United States in that area, in the whole Persian Gulf area, and it was Israel's only friend.
01:57:05.960The Shah, we must remember, in the 1973 war,
01:57:09.940furnished oil for our Mediterranean fleet0.59
01:57:12.320when the other countries in the area had cut it off.0.73
01:57:15.460And the Shah tied down the Iraqi forces
01:57:18.880by supporting the Kurds against the Iraqis0.52
01:57:21.200so that they never got involved in the 73 war.
01:57:24.060And I know that the Shah, when he spoke in Mexico
01:57:33.780that among his critics in the American media, there were some of Jewish background, not all,
01:57:40.720but some who were among his most violent critics because they were liberals and they thought he
01:57:46.480was too reactionary in the rest. And he just couldn't understand that because he was the
01:57:52.020only friend that Israel had in that whole area. Why did you go to his funeral?
01:58:00.980First, because I knew him better than any world leader I have met over the past 37 years of public life in and out of it.
01:58:14.980I met him first back in 1953 when I was a young vice president.
01:58:19.100He was a very young Shah in his early 30s.
01:58:22.300And I met him over 10 or 12 times after that.
01:58:26.020I found him to be a very sensitive man, a very intelligent man, one who understood the world, as well as any leader that I had met, who could talk about India or Pakistan or China or Latin America with, frankly, as much perception and sophistication as any American leader could possibly talk about it.
01:58:49.260And I think the major reason I went, though, I must say, was because I was concerned that our own government, again, I suppose, because of the hostage situation, was not going to be represented at the funeral by a high-level person.
01:59:09.340Were you concerned that your going might embarrass President Carter?
01:59:13.240As a matter of fact, it occurred to me that President Carter probably deep down wished he could have gone, but he couldn't.
01:59:22.980He didn't feel that he could because of the hostage situation.
01:59:26.040No, I went because the Shah was my friend.
01:59:29.120He was a friend of the United States, and I thought that some high-level individual from the United States ought to be there.
01:59:34.640You see, the important thing that we've got to get across to the people in countries that are wavering between standing with us or going in the other direction or remaining neutral is that the United States is not a fair-weather friend.
01:59:54.220That we will stand by our friends and allies when they are down as well as when they are up.
02:00:01.740Now, that may not make good diplomacy, but I think in the short run, but in the long term, I think it's absolutely essential if we're going to build the kind of support and respect and confidence in the United States that we need to have.
02:00:22.000Mr. Nixon, America has been criticized for abandoning friends like the Shah, whom you strongly supported and you've criticized our abandoning him.
02:00:30.260But isn't the danger just as great in sticking with regimes that have lost the support of
02:00:35.560their people, like the Shah, like Somoza, like Ian Smith?
02:00:39.900Again and again, it's said that we back despots and dictators.
02:00:43.260I couldn't disagree with you more.0.60
02:00:45.840What you have to understand is that the choice was never between the Shah and somebody better,0.64
02:00:50.200between the Shah and somebody infinitely worse.
02:00:52.100We don't know that in the beginning.0.86
02:00:53.500Well, the point is, if we didn't know it at the beginning, we'd better know it now.
02:00:57.200We have friends all over the world, like the Shah, and we have friends, for example, in