00:02:51.000For all people around the world who stand today in unity with the Iranian people.
00:02:59.000This is not just because it's good for us and you do it out of compassion and care for our rights to liberty and justice and equality and human rights.
00:03:10.840But understand that it is in your best interest too to have, unlike this regime that has been propagating terror and radicalism, we the people of Iran are peacemakers and not warmongers.
00:03:24.840We like to be friends, especially with the free world.
00:03:35.840We'd like to be able to have the best neighbourly relationship with the people of our area and
00:03:41.840region, with the Arab countries, with Israel and all our other neighbours.
00:03:46.840We are fighting for justice, we're fighting for human rights, we are fighting for liberty,
00:03:55.840we're fighting to put an end to all sorts of discrimination.
00:04:00.840Because as an Iranian, I stand here to tell you that I've dedicated 47 years of my life
00:04:07.840because I think that my country deserves far better than what we have right now.
00:04:16.840You now understand that their best remedy is to support the people of Iran, because ultimately a free Iran will be your best partner, not just to bring stability and peace, but it will be in your best economic interest and opportunities.
00:04:35.820Together we can prosper again, and the world will be so different once the Iranian people are free.
00:04:42.460i am here to guarantee a transition to secular democratic future i am committed to be that leader
00:04:54.140of transition for you so we can one day have the final opportunity to decide the fate of
00:05:01.180our country through a democratic transparent process through the ballot box and free elections
00:05:07.500And let's make sure that this time, especially the free nations of this world and their governments,
00:16:43.560am i glitching too or am i glitching too or is it just um is it just the video
00:16:51.720because if i'm glitching too i might have to leave and come back
00:16:57.940or is it just when i'm playing the youtube video
00:17:04.960okay because the video the video is not buffering for me okay it's just the video
00:17:12.620okay um all right i i lowered the quality of the video then to to 720
00:17:18.900um all right i i lowered it to 720p so we'll uh we'll try again
00:17:25.980we'll try again and hopefully it'll work this time
00:17:30.760My name is Stefan Thompson. I'm the founder of Visagrad 24. And today I'm here with Crown Prince Reza Paklavi, the unofficial or official to some people, leader of the Iranian opposition in exile. Reza, what a pleasure to be here with you.
00:17:46.660It's good to be here with you. Thanks for having me.
00:17:48.580Thank you so much for your time. We're meeting in very specific circumstances.
00:17:52.820There has been an insane crackdown. The massacre is exceptionally brutal.
00:17:58.180Tell us about what is happening to Iran and what it feels like from your perspective.
00:18:02.420No words can describe the degree of violence that has occurred.
00:18:10.100The minimum numbers that we have had was over 36,000 people just in the Tehran area.
00:24:56.500Meanwhile, we are where we are today as a result of a regime
00:24:59.340that has always been thrown a lifeline for decades
00:25:02.260and to this day haven't shown any resemblance of
00:25:07.160itself into something other than what it is.
00:25:11.840And it cannot, because as I say, what they are doing, it's in their DNA.0.91
00:25:16.040They are not compatible with a democratic free world that respects human rights, that values individual liberties, that protects the right of minorities, religious, ethnic.
00:25:26.120This is a regime that has basically been there only to export an ideology.
00:25:32.600Remember, remember, remember, just really quickly.
00:25:36.980When Israel behind it says that this is a regime that export their ideology, that's in the Constitution. I've spoken about that before, but I'll pull it up. I'll pull it up when I do the rewatch.0.70
00:25:50.720so um so casey is saying it played fine after you let it buffer a few minutes
00:25:58.180so here's the thing like it's it's not buffering on my end so i'm like i'm watching the youtube
00:26:04.660video and it's not buffering at all like it's it's perfectly fine it's perfectly clear
00:26:10.240but there's i guess there's some sort of it's it's an it's an internet issue on my end it's
00:26:15.480is the internet where i am um i guess the upload the upload strength isn't isn't as good so i can
00:26:24.820watch it perfectly fine it's not streaming or buffering for me um but i guess when i'm playing
00:26:30.860it for you guys it's upload from from the last stream so that's that's why this is happening i'm
00:26:37.740so sorry guys but uh but but we'll we'll go over it again i promise first of the free world so when
00:26:45.340When we look at the free will, what do we expect them to do?1.00
00:26:47.860Number one, they can certainly help us by making sure that Iranians who are defenceless1.00
00:26:53.760and unarmed vis-à-vis such level of brutality come to our help to equalize the playing field0.99
00:27:00.200for us by taking out and neutralizing the element of repression that the regime is utilizing.
00:27:05.660That includes the IRGC or any other instance.
00:27:07.820So you're advocating for an armed intervention?
00:27:12.660That is a humanitarian intervention, because it can be tolerated by the world.
00:27:18.560And it's not the first time it happens.
00:27:19.960I mean, sometimes wars ended on the result of intervention of that nature.
00:28:56.940Well, again, the regime trying to establish its modern-day Shiite caliphate and export0.97
00:29:02.460to the world, is using a lot of its proxies to conduct that.0.93
00:29:06.140So whether it is their support for Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis, for instance, and
00:29:10.480all the way to European soil and even the Western Hemisphere, having terrorist organization
00:29:15.320or having sleeper cells that are funded by structures that are directly linked to Khamenei,
00:29:22.340the supreme leader, targeting, for instance, British citizens on British soil.
00:29:27.200Could you give us some examples, Reza, of the operations that Iran has carried out in
00:29:31.640Western nations, stabilized Western nations?
00:29:33.420Well, in fact, I presented in detail the whole mapping of the structures and institutions
00:29:38.040that are disguised as so-called foundations or centers that are directly under the authority
00:29:44.520of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who operates on European soil, in this case in Britain,
00:29:49.740and how they're targeting British journalists, dissidents, and what have you.
00:29:57.240And they have that. That's not even before we start talking about the money laundering operations that they also have.
00:30:02.820And a lot of it, again, ties to the IRGC and why the prescription of the IRGC keeps popping up as one measure.
00:30:10.940But these are the kind of ways that the regime so far has has conducted to to undermine regional stability.
00:30:18.740And, you know, by its proxy war, achieve two things.
00:30:21.880A, create that instability that they thrive on, but also to deflect the tension from themselves.
00:30:27.100Every time there was an issue, they would deflect attention either to Syria or to Lebanon or to Gaza or to Israel or to any other thing to deflect attention from themselves.
00:30:37.540That has been a tactic that the regime has used for decades.
00:30:41.440There has been some claims and allegedly there is evidence that would link the IRGC and some of the gangs that operate in Europe, even on the basis of sort of armed robberies, drug dealing.
00:30:52.640Is this something that you're aware of, President?
00:30:54.020They have extended that all the way to Latin America.
00:30:56.720I mean, part of the connection that the regime in Tehran had with Caracas
00:31:01.000and, of course, also with Cuba has been one of those axes
00:31:04.380that a lot of people in Venezuela could tell you about,
00:31:10.120the footprint of the IRGC all the way in the Western Hemisphere.
00:31:16.100Some of the attacks that were carried out against, let's say, the synagogue in Argentina,
00:31:19.920that was another operation that was launched by the regime, again, targeting the Jewish community.
00:31:28.080There are so many examples over the four decades that you can demonstrate the pattern of behavior.
00:31:34.800And this is not just an incident. This is actually part of the entire strategy to
00:31:40.480intimidate the region and keep all of us hostage in the process.0.93
00:31:44.960The United States of America in several states has moved to ban and designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a prescribed terrorist organization.0.83
00:31:53.680The European Union has been stalling on declaring both the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
00:32:02.600But why do you think that Europeans are stalling on this?
00:32:06.200especially given that a large selection of majority Muslim countries, including the UAE, Jordan, Saudi, Egypt,
00:32:13.720have designated and prescribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
00:32:29.200Can I find another answer to the question?
00:32:32.080I don't know, perhaps they're being, I don't know, bribed, corrupted, or perhaps they're incredibly naive, I'm not sure.
00:32:38.560Well, actually, I think it's at the end of the day some degree of naivete, not understanding the scope of what it really means.
00:32:44.700Because, you know, a lot of people that have not been direct witness of the level of atrocity or radicalism and extremism and hatred and bigotry that exists, that is embedded in that ideology, would not comprehend it.0.70
00:33:02.080Unless they spend just a day, just a day of living in Iran to understand what is really going on, how this ideology is poisonous, it's toxic, it's beyond radiation if you had a nuclear meltdown.0.77
00:37:29.980You know what? I might be early, but I'm rarely wrong. I'm rarely wrong. I was accused of Islamophobia. You know what? It's actually, it's literally like insane. It's insane for an Iranian woman who was speaking about the Islamic regime to be accused of Islamophobia.
00:37:50.800But that's the reality that we live in, where like, you know, someone like me, I may not have lived my entire life in Iran, but I've experienced it.
00:37:58.600I've been there. I know what it's like. I also speak with people, you know, inside occupied Iran on a daily basis.
00:38:05.300Right. So we all know what's going on. We all know what's going on.
00:38:09.940I was accused of Islamophobia for raising awareness.
00:42:20.780all right okay sorry guys yeah so guys remember stefan stefan is um this is stefan stefan is the
00:42:41.080the gentleman who is interviewing the shah in this in this interview right now i just i told
00:42:45.680sifan that i'm live streaming um his his interview with the shah and he just he wanted the link to
00:42:50.720it beliefs or political but the reality is that yes the muslim brotherhood or the islamic regime
00:42:58.480are from fomenting extremism radicalism hatred bigotry and discrimination that's the essence of0.91
00:43:05.840their ideology what we want as iranians is a country where we can guarantee every single
00:43:11.840citizens of Iran, irrespective of their ethnicity, their religious beliefs, or political affiliation,
00:43:19.120justice and equality under the law, putting an end to any form of discrimination that this regime
00:43:26.160has been the root cause of. And it's not just us being affected, it's affecting many others
00:43:31.760around the world. That is not the direction to go. And it is for us, when we look at the West,
00:43:38.320What do we look at the West for? We're not looking to Beijing. We're not looking to the West. Why?
00:43:43.680Because these are the established democracies where we assume these liberties and these values
00:43:48.720are in fact cherished and protected. But why is it that when it comes to countries like ours,
00:43:54.080all of a sudden, it's no longer a question of human rights. It's a question of, well,
00:43:57.920maybe they think differently. Maybe we should try to understand them. This is what they were saying
00:44:02.560at the beginning. Let's try to understand them. They may be different. We have to be able to
00:44:06.240believe in that i'm sorry but bigotry is bigotry radicalism is radicalism you cannot discriminate
00:44:13.360discrimination it's the karl popper paradox the the tolerance of the intolerant one of the things
00:44:20.240that really marked me over the last few months was seeing a poster of the supreme leader
00:44:28.400Held by a leftist in a keffiyeh at a demonstration in London, and the poster that she had said, be on the right side of history.
00:44:39.400What stage have we reached if we've got these radicals who side with the Islamic regime over and above the protesters that are being massacred?
00:44:48.980How do you feel about what some people are describing as the Islamization of the West?
00:44:55.700There has been wave after wave of mass migration.
00:44:59.220Many of those have come from majority Muslim countries.
00:45:01.840Do you think that that warning that you issued to that lord in the 1980s,
00:45:05.840is that coming true in terms of demographic replacement as well?
00:45:09.140Is this something that concerns you, of sort of losing them as ideological allies?
00:45:13.020Is this something that you're concerned with?
00:45:14.740Well, you know, I would hate to see a scenario whereby we will settle for things have to get worse
00:49:55.740Sorry, he meant to say we become the North Korea. He's used that statement before. He just mixed it up here. So what the Shah meant to say is that we could have been the South Korea. Instead, we became the North Korea. That's what he actually means there.
00:50:11.680take model out of Iran, Korean delegations will visit Iran. From other countries, they will visit
00:50:16.480Iran. Our GDP was five times that of North Korea at the time. Today, we've become South Korea. We
00:50:21.120can't even compete with the first 150 economies of the world. Although we have gas and oil,
00:50:27.200Iran and its potential. That's not what Iran deserves to have. As an Iranian, I'm passionate1.00
00:50:33.920about ... I'm not talking about blind nationalism. We are in a real world. We like to be able to
00:57:00.860you know there's there's no need for me to even translate what what they're saying
00:57:11.180because they're just they're they're they're talking nonsense look what is this
00:57:17.020oh my gosh yeah my internet connection isn't the greatest but
00:57:45.900wow what in the allah akbar jihad is happening in occupied iran
00:58:15.900have not so yeah so this is what we're dealing with this is what we're dealing with um
00:58:27.100a third world a third world ideology that belongs in the trash so the economy is so bad0.98
00:58:37.820that the islamic regime is now trying to convince iranians to drink donkey milk0.99
00:58:45.020believe me no no iranian is going to do that like that's not a thing that's not a thing0.98
00:58:50.980right it's it's it's in their ideology they're the ones that drink camel urine or whatever right0.79
00:58:57.300like that's not an iranian thing that's like a a durka thing to to drink camel urine i think
00:59:03.440like muhammad told them to drink camel urine or something so i guess for them it's it's normal to0.78
00:59:11.040yeah this is exactly it the islamic regime is like everything is fine we have donkey milk0.99
00:59:18.780so i mean this is the insanity it's it's literally it's utter health it's utter health1.00
00:59:27.940they murder people on one hand and then they bring a donkey on tv and they're like oh
00:59:33.380the economy's fine. Just drink donkey milk, right? It's absolutely gross. But what I can tell you0.98
00:59:41.000is that the future of Iran is bright. And I'm going to have to end the live stream here
00:59:44.980because my internet connection is not the greatest. Hopefully, I'll have a better internet
00:59:51.520connection tomorrow. We'll see. But I just want to end off with this one final video. It's a video
00:59:58.940of young schoolgirls in occupied Iran. Young schoolgirls. And the future of Iran is bright.
01:00:08.260So let's watch this. So there's no audio, but they're tearing out photos of the Muslim pedophile1.00
01:00:22.320founders of the islamic regime and they're stepping on them they're stepping on them so0.97
01:00:28.940there you go there you go there are the the you know young school girls remember these are children0.63
01:00:36.600who were born inside of occupied ibran these are children these are young girls um who have
01:00:43.740known nothing except um you know living in um in an occupied islamic dictatorship0.73
01:00:51.440And even these young girls who have never tasted freedom, don't know what freedom feels like, they're tearing out images of the Muslim pedophile founder of the Islamic regime, Khomeini Khabar al-Margish, and they're stepping on it.0.89
01:01:10.920So the future of Iran is very, very bright.
01:01:15.820okay guys i wanted to thank all of you for tuning in to uh day 246 of iran revolution live as you
01:01:23.980can tell i'm still on the road i do apologize internet connection isn't the greatest also my
01:01:29.240hair is like a total mess because it's very humid where i am for some reason it's very humid and my
01:01:33.220hair is just like it's wild um but you know thank you all for your comments thank you for tuning in
01:01:39.760um i'm going to be on the road for a little bit longer but hopefully we'll get back to
01:01:44.660my regular schedule very soon. Did want to do a longer live stream, but the internet's just not
01:01:50.700working. So I do apologize. But stay tuned for tomorrow. Make sure that you have your notifications
01:01:56.040turned on. And I cannot wait to do a rewatch party with the Shaw's interview. And we are going
01:02:04.040to go over that line by line and dissect it because it is so very, very good. As always.
01:02:10.820ah okay so rosa saying i love you goalie i miss you she's just playing with you she's actually1.00
01:02:18.000in the back right now about to like sneak through she's about to sneak through the hotel room like
01:02:22.200like she did um the other time we were out love you too rose um okay guys as always i'm israel
01:02:30.640hi god bless america oh and don't forget to vote red don't forget to vote red vote republican
01:02:36.520I'll see a whole of you guys tomorrow.