Goldie Ghamari - Is Radical Islam a Threat to Western Civilization？ Lessons from Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

00:00:00.000 well good evening everyone thank you for joining me um i wasn't planning on doing a live stream

00:00:05.920 but then i figured um i'm gonna watch these videos anyway so why not start a live stream

00:00:13.040 and you guys can watch these videos with me you know every once in a while i like to

00:00:19.120 go back and look at some of the um videos and speeches made by king nizal pahlavi he's the

00:00:27.920 um leader of the iranian opposition to the islamic republic and he has been warning

00:00:36.480 the west quite a bit about the threat of radical islam um not just him but many iranians myself 0.69

00:00:45.040 included we have been speaking about the threat that is getting bigger and bigger within within 0.86

00:00:54.880 western civilizations and western societies because it's that exact same um threat that

00:01:03.280 destabilized and ultimately took over iran in 1979 and turned iran into a seventh century islamic 0.98

00:01:13.680 hellhole um and he's spoken about it quite a bit in fact he had a fantastic speech last year at 0.95

00:01:22.240 the national conservatism convention this would have been i believe it was july july of 2024

00:01:31.040 and i was gonna i was gonna re-watch that speech and i figured might as well go live

00:01:35.600 and we can watch it together so that you can also see exactly what he's speaking about and what the

00:01:44.720 threat is because you know it's not by chance it's not by accident that you are seeing you know

00:01:52.800 people in your streets um burning your flags and yelling aloha akbar and calling for you know a

00:02:01.120 renewal of october 7th um there is more there than meets the eye and so um i do believe as do

00:02:12.560 many Iranians, if not the vast majority of Iranians, that radical Islam is a threat to 0.80

00:02:20.160 Western civilization and Western civilization is at risk and people need to wake up. People 0.98

00:02:27.200 need to wake up. So yeah, thanks for joining and let's get started. Let's watch this video

00:02:33.880 together ladies and gentlemen good morning

00:02:37.880 western civilization and the united states in particular is at risk i say this because

00:02:48.620 this is exactly what happened to my country 45 years ago iran you might so he's he's clearly

00:02:57.420 not holding back i mean obviously um like he's just starting off right away by by saying western

00:03:04.940 civilization is at risk so right away um the speech starts off by saying western civilization

00:03:13.180 is at risk and then now he's going to dive into what happened um to iran in the late 1970s and

00:03:23.740 And the parallel between what happened to Iran and what's currently happening in Western countries.

00:03:32.420 So let's just go back.

00:03:33.340 I'm just going to start from the beginning because he does not beat around the bush.

00:03:39.740 King Reza Pahlavi just dives right in, right?

00:03:42.660 He just goes right for it.

00:03:46.060 Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.

00:03:47.800 western civilization and the united states in particular is at risk i say this because 0.75

00:03:58.600 this is exactly what happened to my country 45 years ago iran you might say was the testing 1.00

00:04:07.000 grounds for what my late father called the unholy alliance of the red and the black 0.85

00:04:12.440 like Radical Marxism and Radical Islamism. 1.00

00:04:18.880 He makes a really good point there.

00:04:20.320 I mean, there's a reason that the Antifa crowd, right, the Antifa crowd and the communists

00:04:25.840 and whatever have joined forces with the pro-Hamas demonstrators, right, because a lot of, you 0.93

00:04:35.340 know, the root cause of Islamic terrorism and sort of the creation of these Islamic terrorist

00:04:40.160 proxy groups goes back to soviet russia and can be trained back to soviet russia i mean yasser

00:04:46.720 arafat and the tlo um were a destabilization project of soviet russia um and so that's why

00:04:57.680 you see this natural unity between the islamists and the communists which we iranians we call the 0.81

00:05:04.480 army of the red and black right so red being communism marxism black of course being islamism 0.99

00:05:11.600 radical islam so let me just go back a little bit and replay this the unholy alliance of the red and 0.84

00:05:18.160 the black radical marxism and radical islamism these two ideologies converged not to create

00:05:28.720 but to destroy indeed to destroy the very notion of iran this part here is also important guys

00:05:38.640 because when he says they converged to destroy iran he's now going to go into listing all the

00:05:47.520 various ways that they destroyed iranian identity they changed the name of our legislature they

00:05:53.680 changed our flag they brought in something called the islamic revolutionary guard corps

00:05:59.440 and it's very similar to what's happening currently in western society where you have

00:06:07.520 all these like woke progressive communist lefties who are insisting at the erasure of

00:06:16.080 of white culture and white historical figures right like they're basically demonizing the people

00:06:24.160 who built your countries and and created them to you know and turn them into what it is today

00:06:32.760 I mean a really good example is Dundas Square in in downtown Toronto like some random woke lefty

00:06:41.640 counselor changed the name of dundas square to sankofa square i don't even know what sankofa the

00:06:49.080 word sankofa has to do with canada my understanding is that it's like some sort of some term related

00:06:54.680 to africa or something which is really bizarre you know and then of course there was this there

00:06:59.320 is still this whole movement to like cancel um john a mcdonald who was the first prime minister

00:07:05.400 of canada um and so there's still like this this battle here so this uh erasure of names this

00:07:14.920 rewriting of history that you guys are now dealing with in you know western countries like canada

00:07:21.640 united states this is something we've already seen as iranians because when the islamists and

00:07:27.480 the communists took over they erased everything they changed the names of everything and they 0.94

00:07:33.720 have been trying to rewrite um iranian history and to erase the truth and you know they have 0.69

00:07:43.320 so much money and funds behind them you know we are starting to get the truth out there but it 0.73

00:07:48.440 is an uphill battle so you know my warning to you guys is that do not let the communists and 0.99

00:07:54.920 islamists rewrite your history do not let them change your flags do not let them um make you 0.97

00:08:02.360 feel ashamed for your patriotism right and that's the thing the other tactic they use is to call 0.99

00:08:09.480 people fascist like like if you um if you carry you know the flag of your country all of a sudden

00:08:16.920 you're racist or something it's it's it's insane right it's literally insane um should you not be 0.94

00:08:23.560 proud of waving the flag of your country like if you're from britain should you not be proud to 0.99

00:08:29.000 wave the flag of britain and why is that considered racist or white supremacist it's it's insane and

00:08:38.920 if you go to um you know the countries like if you go to other countries this issue does not exist

00:08:46.920 right like no one in um you know middle eastern countries is accused of being a fascist for

00:08:53.480 waving the flag of their country but for some reason white people in in you know european and

00:08:59.560 western countries if you guys want to wave the flag of your country you're accused of being a 0.92

00:09:04.040 fascist or a racist or xenophobe or whatever it's it's this insane madness right and as iranians

00:09:12.200 we've seen we've seen this pattern before we've seen the exact same thing this is how they um 0.95

00:09:19.160 come in and take over right so i'm going to go back a little bit pay attention to this part

00:09:26.520 because he's going to talk about exactly how the unholy alliance of the red and the black

00:09:31.080 the communism the marxists and the islamists erased iranian identity converged not to create 0.79

00:09:40.440 but to marxism iran you might say was the testing grounds for what my late father called the unholy 0.90

00:09:51.640 alliance of the red and the black radical marxism and radical islamism these two ideologies converged

00:10:01.160 not to create but to destroy indeed to destroy the very notion of Iran as the

00:10:11.280 Ayatollah Khomeini himself upon his return to Iran said patriots are of no

00:10:17.660 use to us we need Muslims Islam is opposed to nationalism because

00:10:25.440 Because nationalism means we want the nation, nationhood, and not Islam. 0.94

00:10:32.920 He quickly put his ideology into action. 0.88

00:10:36.560 Our national consultative assembly became the Islamic consultative assembly.

00:10:43.880 Our conventional national army was shone in favor of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

00:10:52.300 The Lion and Sun symbol, which adorned our national flag for centuries, was replaced

00:10:57.840 with Allahu Akbar. 0.54

00:11:02.340 This united front of Marxists and Islamists took hold of my homeland, but was never satisfied

00:11:09.140 with just taking over Iran, as these two ideologies do not believe in the concept, much less the

00:11:15.800 border of a nation.

00:11:17.860 So this is really important here.

00:11:19.980 So this part where he talks about how the communist and Islamist ideology does not believe in the concept of a nation state, you know, this refers to the ummah, right?

00:11:35.460 So a lot of like, you know, Islamic terrorists refer to like the ummah, which is like pan-Islamism or whatever.

00:11:41.500 And then what's interesting is that there are a lot of Muslim countries who are fighting this concept of the ummah because that basically would destabilize their own borders. 0.57

00:11:52.700 Right. But yeah, so so this is why you're seeing these jihadis come to Western countries and try to destabilize because they literally believe it is their God given duty or their Allah given duty or whatever to go to non-Islamic countries and take over. 0.53

00:12:13.180 Right. And I'll show you some videos like there are literally videos of like these crazy people who claim that or who say that they're only, you know, their their main purpose in immigrating to, let's say, Canada, United States is to take over.

00:12:31.300 And it's a scary thing because no one takes these people seriously.

00:12:34.720 So I'll go back a little bit because this is important where he says they don't believe in the concept of a nation state.

00:12:42.140 And they don't. They don't believe in a concept of a nation-state.

00:12:47.140 I took hold of my homeland, but was never satisfied with just taking over Iran,

00:12:53.140 as these two ideologies do not believe in the concept, much less the border of a nation.

00:12:59.140 Indeed, the Islamic Republic in Iran does not view itself as defending or limited to the borders of the Melat, or the Iranian nation,

00:13:09.140 but rather the Ummat or the Islamic Brotherhood.

00:13:13.140 See, so he's talking about the Ummah, the Ummah which is like beyond the borders of a nation.

00:13:20.140 So these jihadis want to create an Ummah across various countries

00:13:26.140 and that idea of pan-Islamism is a direct threat to Western civilization 0.78

00:13:34.140 and Western countries need to wake up to that

00:13:38.140 because you might not want to go to war,

00:13:41.140 but these people are already at war with you

00:13:44.140 and you need to wake up to that and you need to realize that.

00:13:51.140 This expansion has gone far beyond the Middle East.

00:13:55.140 Every day we see graphic, distressing images of the consequences

00:14:01.140 this regime's expansion has brought all the way to Europe and the west from looting universities

00:14:09.060 that were once the envy of the world to supporting terrorist cells taking hold in Europe

00:14:16.660 to attempting to annihilate Israel to expanding its criminal footprint to Latin America.

00:14:24.740 This is not an accident.

00:14:28.140 This is the Islamic Republic's political strategy.

00:14:32.740 I invite you to read yesterday's statement and grave warning from the Director of National Intelligence on this matter.

00:14:42.660 Sadly, this has all too often been ignored by many in the mainstream media

00:14:47.480 and the fellow travelers who have come to dominate the commentariat class. 0.99

00:14:53.140 Even this week, we are seeing this fifth column of the Islamic regime 0.99

00:14:58.140 rear its ugly head in the media to try to convince you 0.63

00:15:02.400 that the Islamic Republic's new president is a reformist. 0.76

00:15:07.220 He is no such thing. 0.70

00:15:09.680 He is nothing but a loyalist and lackey of this regime

00:15:13.240 and a proponent of its radical imperialist ideology. 0.68

00:15:17.360 As he publicly wrote to the Hezbollah Secretary General, reiterating the regime's commitment to its proxies and their terror just this week.

00:15:29.080 Indeed, the rise of radical Islam around the world can be traced directly back to the 0.52

00:15:37.140 success of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the establishment of this usurping anti-Iranian

00:15:43.840 regime, backed by a minority and sustained through oppression and violence. 0.71

00:15:51.840 The problem that began in Iran must be ended in Iran. 0.97

00:15:56.760 Imagine being able to build an app with your name on it 0.99

00:15:59.580 just by thinking about it.

00:16:01.140 Meet base 44.

00:16:10.180 But do not mistake this as a war between Iran and the West,

00:16:14.000 nor a call for one.

00:16:15.940 It is neither.

00:16:17.820 This is not a conflict between nation states,

00:16:20.620 but the war of a radical internationalist ideology

00:16:24.620 on all nations, from the Iranian nation to your own.

00:16:31.900 Indeed, it was the great and historic nation of Iran 0.54

00:16:35.760 that was the first victim of this unholy alliance 1.00

00:16:40.020 and of the resulting Islamic Republic. 0.99

00:16:43.360 For 45 years, Iran has been taken captive,

00:16:48.360 and my compatriots have been held hostage.

00:16:53.000 They have been held hostage, not by American sanctions or Western policies, but by radical Islamism.

00:17:01.900 But Western political... 0.99

00:17:03.900 So that's a really important point here, because there are a lot of ignorant people 0.99

00:17:10.080 who are being brainwashed by the Islamic regime's lobby group in the United States 0.84

00:17:16.340 into thinking that the sanctions hurt Iranian people. 0.64

00:17:20.580 The sanctions don't hurt the Iranian people because the sanctions are only against the Islamic Republic, you know, and basically they're against, you know, military production and nuclear production and, you know, things like that.

00:17:34.300 The reason that the Iranian people are poor, and I will get into this, I will play another speech by King Reza Pahlavi.

00:17:43.700 This is more modern, like I will play that for you guys. 0.90

00:17:46.420 But the reason that Iranian people are poor is because the Islamic Republic is a brutal totalitarian dictatorship that steals the money that should go to the Iranian people and instead it invests it in terrorism. 0.90

00:18:03.260 right so they send money to hamas terrorists in you know gaza they send money to hezbollah like 0.81

00:18:09.180 they fully fund hezbollah um they send money to to the houthis so all of these like terrorist proxy

00:18:16.300 groups get the money that should go to iranians but instead it's going there and then of course 0.90

00:18:22.860 they also pocket the rest right and there's a reason why the ayatollahs um and their children

00:18:28.780 are worth um millions if not billions of dollars right and they're all living like lives of luxury

00:18:36.140 um in the west and oh yeah of course bashar al-assad you make a good point they also sent

00:18:41.580 money to syria before um before uh the syrian revolution so syria used to be a proxy of the 0.66

00:18:48.540 islamic republic so all of these terrorists would get funding from the islamic republic 0.73

00:18:54.380 but the iranian people would be poor and then what the islamic republic would do is they would have 0.88

00:18:59.900 lobbyists in the united states you know journalists pundits whatever people they pay

00:19:04.540 to spout their you know jihadi propaganda and then they would say well the iranian people are poor

00:19:11.660 uh because of the sanctions right well no the sanctions are irrelevant because whether or not

00:19:17.180 the sanctions are in place iranian people are still going to be in an abject poverty because 1.00

00:19:23.180 that's what the islamic republic has been doing to iranians for the last 47 years so i'll go back 1.00

00:19:29.900 a little bit here because that sanctions thing is so important and the these sanctions have never 0.70

00:19:34.940 been against the iranian people but it's just like a low iq talking point that the islamic regime

00:19:41.820 uses and then you know anyone who hates um united states will just parrot it because oh you know if 0.71

00:19:47.980 if you know anything that says uh united states bad people will just say and then that's where

00:19:52.620 you get a lot of the antifa communists progressives you know people who are anti-imperialists um will

00:19:59.820 just spout that propaganda without actually looking into it and they're actually harming

00:20:05.500 the iranian people when they say that economic sanctions are bad because they don't understand

00:20:10.780 what the sanctions are and what they are actually against um and gandalf you make a very very good

00:20:17.980 point here let me just share this briefly so gandalf says when jcpoa happened those dollars

00:20:23.340 were not used for iranian people that money was flown by soleil money to the proxies 100 100 and

00:20:29.340 that's why we're against the jcpoa as well because that was another attempt for the islamic republic 0.86

00:20:35.020 to legitimize and normalize so let's just go back and continue here to your own indeed it was the 0.95

00:20:44.460 great and historic nation of Iran that was the first victim of this unholy alliance and 0.82

00:20:51.240 of the resulting Islamic Republic. 0.96

00:20:54.660 For 45 years, Iran has been taken captive and my compatriots have been held hostage.

00:21:04.160 They have been held hostage not by American sanctions or Western policies, but by radical 0.54

00:21:10.500 Islamism. 0.88

00:21:13.780 But Western political elites have indeed been accomplices, not only in my compatriots being 0.97

00:21:19.520 held hostage, but accomplices in the crimes against your own citizens and nations. 0.93

00:21:26.860 The chief accomplice of the Ayatollahs in their violent march to their global caliphate 0.90

00:21:31.680 has been American political naivete about the true nature of this regime and European 0.90

00:21:38.880 guilt and fears of Islamophobia.

00:21:41.900 that's that's so important right so he's talking about politicians being afraid of being labeled as

00:21:50.580 islamophobic if they speak out against the islamic republic right and that term islamophobia it's a

00:21:58.020 made-up term literally does not exist um but the islamists have been using it to attack those who

00:22:05.320 speak out against radical terrorism those who speak out against the islamic republic and those

00:22:11.120 like me who try to raise awareness about the threat of radical islam in western civilization 0.98

00:22:17.920 and you know you have to ask yourselves why is it that the islamists have created islamophobia 0.91

00:22:24.560 and then they you know the word islamophobia and then they attack anyone who speaks out

00:22:29.920 but how come there's no such thing as christian phobia or hindu phobia or you know jewish phobia 0.83

00:22:37.600 or atheist phobia or anything like that right um the islamists have they created the word

00:22:45.040 islamophobia before it was even a thing because they knew the kind of ideology they want to bring 0.50

00:22:51.760 they also knew um that those of us who are in western countries and are free to speak out will 0.90

00:22:58.080 try to speak out and so they did it to try and preempt us but i'm telling you like there's no

00:23:04.400 irrational fear um of islam like many victims of islamic terrorism have very good reason for 0.56

00:23:12.320 speaking out against it um but these islamists use the word islamophobia to try and stop any 0.51

00:23:19.920 criticism right and so what you're really looking at here is um is civilizational jihad they're

00:23:27.520 using the the freedoms given to you um in western societies they are they're using those

00:23:34.400 same freedoms to promote their jihad and to silence criticism right and they portray themselves

00:23:42.480 as the innocent victims and the oppressed and blah blah blah but the reality is that in the 0.87

00:23:49.520 middle east they are the majority and they are the oppressors right so they like they are the 0.54

00:23:56.480 oppressors there but then they come to western societies and then they pretend like they're the 0.98

00:24:02.320 victims and you know all this nonsense and you know we just want to live our lives in peace

00:24:08.080 and they're not allowing that like they're literally not allowing that they're trying to

00:24:11.520 impose their ideology and their beliefs and their perspectives on everyone and you know there's a

00:24:18.960 reason many of us immigrated to judeo-christian countries we want to live in a society based

00:24:24.960 off of judeo-christian values like if we wanted to live in like a muslim society we could have

00:24:30.000 easily moved to like a muslim country but there's a reason that we came to judeo-christian countries

00:24:37.360 and people need to realize that and they need to start like they need to start standing up for

00:24:44.160 their own rights and like you guys need to realize um multiculturalism and diversity

00:24:51.840 has become a trojan horse for islamism and communism why is it that you know countries

00:24:58.680 for example like canada or the united states or the uk why do those countries have to engage 0.99

00:25:06.140 in multiculturalism and diversity but middle eastern countries don't right like if you went

00:25:13.460 to i don't know saudi arabia for example and you want to talk about multiculturalism and diversity 0.53

00:25:19.440 people would laugh at you and beat you up right um it's just it's not within the culture there

00:25:24.800 like people are very proud of their own culture and their own country as they should be right

00:25:31.520 like it is everyone's right to be patriotic it is everyone's right to want to preserve their own

00:25:37.280 culture and their own history and their own identity but why is multiculturalism and diversity

00:25:44.080 a one-way street right like there there you go um all right let's continue a little bit i'll just

00:25:51.760 go back a little bit here sure of this regime and european guilt and fears of islamophobia 0.88

00:26:00.720 you do not have to fight the war against this poisonous and murderous ideology on your own 0.99

00:26:06.560 but you must be aware that it is waging war against you

00:26:10.800 I do have good news

00:26:14.920 Because there is an army rising up

00:26:18.200 Against this poisonous ideology

00:26:20.020 This unholy alliance 1.00

00:26:22.480 That army is the Iranian people 1.00

00:26:25.500 The united Iranian people

00:26:28.380 That's us

00:26:29.820 So that's people like me

00:26:32.080 People like Gandalf and John in the chat

00:26:36.620 All the other millions of Iranians

00:26:39.940 who are fighting against the islamic republic um we are the army we are the army and you're

00:26:45.460 starting to see more and more of us you're starting to hear more and more of us and the

00:26:50.900 reason that you're starting to see more and more of us is that you know people are starting to lose 0.54

00:26:55.460 their fear um because you know when when you are escaping a totalitarian islamic dictatorship um

00:27:03.300 um even speaking out um can be problematic even if you're not in the country if you're outside 0.81

00:27:11.700 of the country and you speak out um that could put your family inside the country at risk right

00:27:16.740 like they have been known to jail family members of people who speak out and that's why you're 0.99

00:27:22.260 going to see a lot of Iranians um especially on social media who are not using their real names

00:27:27.780 and are not using their, you know, real image

00:27:30.880 because it's a legitimate security concern, right?

00:27:34.340 It's a legitimate security concern. 1.00

00:27:37.200 And the Islamic Republic is known for hiring people 0.94

00:27:40.320 to try and murder Iranians who speak out against radical Islam. 0.98

00:27:45.900 And they don't necessarily hire like other Iranians, 0.96

00:27:49.300 although sometimes they do, 1.00

00:27:50.720 but they have been known to hire gangs, right?

00:27:53.240 So they'll hire like the Hells Angels

00:27:54.820 or like, you know, other criminal gangs.

00:27:57.780 who are then told to go and, like, kidnap someone or murder someone or whatever the case might be.

00:28:02.900 And there have been, unfortunately, several incidents of Iranian dissidents who have spoken out against the Islamic Republic

00:28:11.280 who have been either murdered or who have been kidnapped and sent back to Iran and then murdered. 0.94

00:28:20.300 So that's why you're going to see a lot of Iranians who don't necessarily speak out. 0.95

00:28:26.060 But when he's referring to the army, like, you know, we're here, use us, because we are speaking out against the dangers of radical Islam. And there's a reason why the Islamists attack us. 0.88

00:28:39.400 There's a reason why they always try to silence our voices because they don't want you to know the truth about what's actually happening when it comes to radical Islam and how it is a threat to Western civilization. 0.96

00:28:56.580 So let's continue. 0.97

00:28:57.220 I do have good news because there is an army rising up against this poisonous ideology, this unholy alliance. 1.00

00:29:07.840 That army is the Iranian people, the united Iranian people. 0.97

00:29:15.580 Today, I come to you with a message from that rising army, that nation under captivity, those citizens taken hostage.

00:29:26.320 The Islamic Republic may have taken hold of Iran, but it has never taken hold of Iran's love of country.

00:29:34.720 Today, Iran, inspired by our ancient history and our great civilization,

00:29:41.340 is in the throes of a national revival, a national reawakening, a national renaissance.

00:29:49.980 Iranians are proud, strong people with a proud, storied history, 0.99

00:29:55.680 and are not willing to lose it to this unholy alliance. 1.00

00:29:59.040 as my competitors on the streets

00:30:02.660 or at the tomb of Cyrus the Great

00:30:04.960 chant, we will fight

00:30:07.020 we will die 0.90

00:30:08.320 we will reclaim Iran 1.00

00:30:10.400 but there are those who stand against them

00:30:20.720 there are global

00:30:22.640 interests who would rather see

00:30:24.600 the Islamic regime in Iran stay in power

00:30:26.820 they are making

00:30:28.460 too much money taking too much advantage or perhaps it's simply too convenient i know this

00:30:38.140 because i've had powerful men wealthy men well-connected men tell me to stop the fight

00:30:45.660 to give up the effort because they have grander global plans at work some want to keep the regime

00:30:54.060 in place forever. Some want to light the country on fire so that out of its inevitable explosion

00:31:00.960 they can create statelets over whom they can play the role of benefactor, master, or God.

00:31:09.360 But I will not stand for this and I will not give up for my compatriots deserve better.

00:31:24.060 But do not be mistaken, this national reawakening is an Iranian project,

00:31:30.000 not something to be cooked up in Washington, London, Berlin, or Paris.

00:31:36.920 So why am I here with you today?

00:31:40.380 I am here with a message from my compatriots, a message from the Iranian nation.

00:31:46.900 My friends, the people of Iran would like to see you in the United States as a partner.

00:31:54.060 their message is that they seek not so this part is important okay so when he says you know

00:32:00.580 Iranians are looking for a partnership he makes it very clear like we're not asking for money we

00:32:07.200 don't need funds we don't need boots on the ground what we basically need is political support we 0.80

00:32:13.020 need America to stop enabling the Islamic Republic to stop legitimizing them to stop releasing their 0.98

00:32:22.880 frozen assets to them because every single time frozen assets are released the islamic republic 0.95

00:32:29.360 doesn't use it to help people um they use it to fund more terrorism right i mean that's exactly 0.89

00:32:35.440 what happened um prior to october 7 when when joe biden uh released i think six billion dollars of

00:32:43.200 frozen assets to the islamic republic and then the next thing you know october 7 happened right so

00:32:52.880 That's the one thing I want you guys to pay attention to here. No one's ever asked for money. No one's ever asked for boots on the ground. And that's how you know that our movement is legitimate. Because unlike the fake Palestinian cause where they're constantly grifting for funds, they're constantly asking for money for their fake families or whatever, you don't see that with Iranians.

00:33:15.520 There's not a single, like, you know, very few Iranians are out there asking for money. 0.95

00:33:21.420 And even the leader of the Iranian opposition, King Reza Pahlavi, he makes it very clear.

00:33:26.840 We don't need money.

00:33:28.180 We don't need funds.

00:33:29.220 What we need is political support. 0.52

00:33:31.120 What we need is for you guys to take the side of the Iranian people, not the side of the Islamic Republic.

00:33:39.940 Right?

00:33:40.580 So just pay attention to this part.

00:33:42.480 entangling alliance but an alliance let me go back as a partner there met the

00:33:51.320 people of Iran would like to see you in the United States as a partner their

00:33:56.720 message is that they seek not an entangling alliance but an alliance of

00:34:01.860 shared values and mutual interests one which will serve Iran's true national

00:34:08.520 interests and your own indeed iran is one of the few foreign policy questions where the united

00:34:17.240 states can squarely align its interest with its values while its dictator has attempted to

00:34:24.840 brainwash iran's youth with daily calls of death to america my competitors take to the street and

00:34:31.880 say death to the Islamic Republic. And our enemy is right here. You lie when you say 0.97

00:34:39.040 it's America.

00:34:47.640 When the regime puts American flags on the ground, my compatriots refuse to step on it

00:34:54.440 and walk around or jump over it and this is not a new phenomenon iranians are the only

00:35:03.800 the only people in the middle east who poured onto the streets on september 11 2001

00:35:11.720 to mourn alongside you and to stand with you

00:35:15.960 he makes a really good point there um you know the islamic republic wants americans um to think

00:35:28.600 that iranians don't like americans when it's literally the farthest thing from the truth

00:35:35.160 prior to 1979 and i made a tech talk video about this that is on my instagram as well

00:35:40.360 prior to 1979 iran and the united states were very very close allies it was only after the islamic

00:35:49.080 republic took over in 1979 that they started yelling death to america and began their jihad

00:35:57.080 against the west right so again that enmity with america ties in to that radical islamic ideology

00:36:07.560 And a lot of people will say, well, you know, maybe America shouldn't bomb. Okay, but when the hell did America ever bomb Iran? When did America ever attack Iran? Right? It literally never happened. So the Islamic Republic, like there's no excuse for the Islamic Republic, unless it's ideological. And that's exactly what it is, right?

00:36:29.880 but these are the inconvenient facts that the progressives and the communists and the

00:36:37.480 anti-imperialists don't want you to know about right again iran was a very close ally of america

00:36:45.240 prior to 1979 it's the islamic republic that has an issue with the united states

00:36:54.040 it's the islamic republic that created a jihad against the west in 1979 when they took power 0.59

00:37:01.640 it's the islamic republic that took american hostages in iran in 1979 and no one ever asked

00:37:11.400 the question how was the islamic republic able to take american hostages in 1979 well the answer is

00:37:20.520 Because prior to 1979, America and Iran were allies and America was a safe place. 0.88

00:37:28.920 Sorry, Iran was a safe place for Americans. 0.78

00:37:32.060 That's why there were a lot of Americans in Iran in the 70s. 0.84

00:37:38.020 Right. But it was when the Islamic Republic took power that the Islamists took Americans hostage. 0.72

00:37:46.000 And that hostage taking is a pattern of jihad. It's a pattern of Islamic terrorism. All the various Islamic terrorist groups have been constantly taking hostages and using them as a ransom. 0.87

00:38:02.700 I mean, look at what Hamas did. Hamas took all those innocent Israeli hostages, kept some of them for two years. That is a feature of Islamic terrorism, not a bug. It is literally a feature of how these Islamic terrorists operate is taking hostages. All right, let's go back a little bit and we'll continue here.

00:38:23.000 They have continued to see both their compatriots and yours killed in aimless conflicts the 0.98

00:38:36.320 Islamic Republic has brought about in the Middle East. 0.97

00:38:40.820 And they are offering you a solution to free yourselves of these conflicts, rebalance the

00:38:47.320 region and solve the issues of the Middle East with a Middle Eastern solution. 0.92

00:38:55.680 Because while the Islamic Republic seeks to spread its radical caliphate across the region, 0.85

00:39:02.420 my competitors denounce this imperialism and respond with shots of neither Gaza nor Lebanon. 0.92

00:39:10.400 My life is only for Iran.

00:39:18.560 They are tired of having their once radiant country

00:39:22.000 run like a radical cause.

00:39:25.000 They want a government that cares for its own

00:39:28.700 and does not spend blood or treasure meddling in foreign

00:39:32.560 wars, as it has in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen.

00:39:39.340 They want to return Iran to being a nation state, as we have been for more than two millennia.

00:39:47.420 How can all of this happen?

00:39:50.560 My friends, we are not seeking your intervention.

00:39:54.840 We are not seeking your charity.

00:39:58.680 I am not here to...

00:40:00.140 See, that's important.

00:40:01.320 We say we don't need you to get involved.

00:40:04.240 We don't need your money.

00:40:06.360 We're basically saying, and he'll get to this, 0.92

00:40:08.300 let's say like we're just asking you to stop legitimizing the islamic republic and to give 0.94

00:40:13.980 the iranian people a chance to overthrow them and go back to what iran was prior to 1979 here we go 0.96

00:40:23.820 your charity yeah how can all of this happen my friends we are not seeking your intervention

00:40:34.380 We are not seeking your charity. 0.97

00:40:39.220 I am not here to ask for your permission to get rid of the Islamic Republic. 0.93

00:40:44.680 Nor am I here to ask you to do it for us. 1.00

00:40:48.800 The true Iran... 0.99

00:40:50.380 That's important as well because a lot of time you'll have the Islamists and the communists and the propagandists, right? 0.83

00:40:58.920 they'll they'll claim that the movement to overthrow the islamic republic um oh like

00:41:06.520 america can't get involved in regime change or whatever no one's asking for america to get 0.88

00:41:11.560 involved we actually don't want america to get involved in regime change we don't want israel

00:41:16.760 to get involved in regime change regime change in iran is something that should happen by iranians

00:41:23.240 for iranians but what we are asking for is solidarity and support we're asking for friendship

00:41:28.040 we're we're asking for you guys to you know or your governments to to back the iranian people

00:41:34.600 um and to stop enabling the islamic republic stop legitimizing them right like that's basically 0.58

00:41:41.240 what we're asking for but ultimately um the regime change will come from iranians now what's 0.61

00:41:48.600 important to note is that no successful revolution has has ever happened without outside intervention

00:41:56.520 right even the um american revolution couldn't have happened without the help of france but you

00:42:04.920 know and and help is great we you know we could obviously use the help um because it's just a

00:42:12.200 reality of how these things work but health and ally ship doesn't mean that that someone else is

00:42:18.520 controlling it and that's where the islamists and the communists will try to twist the narrative 0.89

00:42:24.920 and say oh well if if so-and-so country is supportive of regime change they must be behind

00:42:30.840 it no so-and-so country is supportive of regime change because they recognize that um when the

00:42:37.400 the Islamic Republic is overthrown, that's going to contribute to peace in the Middle East, that's

00:42:42.880 going to contribute to less terrorism in the world, right? And that's what the Iranian people 0.98

00:42:50.460 are trying to tell you and trying to show you is that if you want less of a threat of Islamic

00:42:57.300 terrorism, maybe you should side with the Iranian people who are trying to reclaim their country

00:43:03.240 from the Islamic terrorists that took Iran hostage back in 1979.

00:43:10.380 The ancient Iran and the soon-to-be-free Islamic Republic.

00:43:16.740 Nora, I'm here to ask you to do it for us. 0.93

00:43:20.860 The true Iran, the ancient Iran, and the soon-to-be-free Iran

00:43:25.880 doesn't seek your patronage.

00:43:28.580 It seeks your partnership.

00:43:30.600 It doesn't seek your funding, it seeks your friendship, because our interests are aligned in the most unique of ways. 0.93

00:43:41.960 So, as opposed to the growing threat of this unholy alliance of the red and the black, what, my friends, might a partnership with the Iranian nation look like? 0.50

00:43:52.640 What would it look like when the sovereignty over our ancient nation is returned to its true sovereign, the Iranian people?

00:43:59.460 Iran will once again be the anchor of peace and stability in the Middle East 0.93

00:44:05.120 so you can finally bring your boys and girls home from faraway lands

00:44:09.880 but with dignity

00:44:11.480 Iran will once again be the center of prosperity in the region

00:44:21.600 and a safe haven for foreign investment, not foreign aid

00:44:26.380 Iran will once again be an ally of the United States

00:44:31.840 and a close partner of both Israel and the Arab states

00:44:36.460 and see the Abraham Accords hopefully grow to the Cyrus Accords.

00:44:47.500 So for those of you who are not familiar with the Cyrus Accords,

00:44:51.220 the Cyrus Accords is basically the peace agreement between Iran and Israel.

00:44:56.380 the upcoming peace agreement, right? So one of the most important things about the Iranian

00:45:01.500 revolution is that we have said that one of the first things we're going to do is normalize

00:45:06.440 relations with Israel. And the reason that we call it the Cyrus Accords, and, you know,

00:45:10.600 Israeli officials call it Cyrus Accords as well, is because Cyrus the Great has historical

00:45:16.860 significance to both Iranians and Jews. Cyrus the Great is the founder of the Persian Empire.

00:45:23.440 Cyrus the Great also freed the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, took them back to the

00:45:29.280 Promised Land, which is Israel, and helped them rebuild the Second Temple of Jerusalem. And that

00:45:34.800 was funded with, you know, money from the Persian Empire. So that's why Cyrus the Great. And my 0.63

00:45:42.000 understanding as well is that Jews view Cyrus the Great as one of their messiahs as well.

00:45:49.600 So there is a very strong connection to Cyrus the Great from both Iranians and Jews.

00:45:57.600 And so that's why we talk about the Cyrus Accords, which is that peace treaty between Israel and Iran that's going to happen once the Islamic Republic is overthrown and eradicated.

00:46:12.380 Iran will once again be the engine of progress, the defender of freedom and righteousness, not the spreader of terror and evil.

00:46:23.680 You notice I say once again, because this is nothing new.

00:46:29.200 This is the type of relations our two nations had before, particularly under the leadership of my father and President Nixon.

00:46:38.000 Then, Iran sought peace and productive relations based on mutual interest with all nations.

00:46:45.980 We were friends with America and its European allies.

00:46:50.140 But we also maintained a balanced foreign policy by having stable, cordial relations with the USSR and China.

00:46:59.700 We worked with both India and Pakistan.

00:47:02.960 We had relations with both Israel and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

00:47:08.960 Iran kept the peace in the Middle East and we can help to do so again.

00:47:14.960 But what is missing?

00:47:17.960 So that's a key phrase. Did you catch that where he said peace in the Middle East?

00:47:23.960 that's the same catchphrase that president trump is talking about and of course what um what uh

00:47:32.520 prime minister netanyahu has spoken about as well so this catchphrase of peace in the middle east

00:47:38.360 um is something that king has been saying for a very long time again he's a leader he is the

00:47:44.920 leader of the iranian opposition to the islamic republic of course the the shah of iran as well

00:47:51.800 in exile and he has you know constantly said and many of us have been saying that you cannot have 0.99

00:47:58.600 peace in the middle east until the islamic republic is overthrown and that's just the reality

00:48:05.720 um and you know there was peace in the middle east prior to 1979 um under his father the you

00:48:14.920 know the late shah of iran shah and shah are you there so let me go back um i'll repeat that part

00:48:20.200 because that catchphrase of peace in the Middle East is critical.

00:48:25.620 Israel and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

00:48:30.680 Iran kept the peace in the Middle East, and we can help to do so again.

00:48:36.660 But what is missing?

00:48:39.000 What has prevented this until now has largely been an American policy on Iran

00:48:44.640 guided by intellectual naivete based on the false premise

00:48:49.860 that you can change the behavior of those who believe

00:48:54.260 in such a radical ideology.

00:48:58.240 But this is not a country.

00:49:00.360 It's true.

00:49:01.380 I mean, there are, unfortunately, a number of naive people

00:49:05.980 in Western countries and, of course, who are in politics

00:49:10.440 who think that they can negotiate with terrorists and they can de-radicalize terrorists and one of

00:49:20.400 the biggest mistakes I find of western people is that they think that everyone around the world

00:49:26.580 thinks like them and you know wants peace and and you know is accepting of all cultures and you know

00:49:34.800 all whatever right um and it's just it's not the the reality is that there are people in the world

00:49:42.160 who are not necessarily good people um their cultures don't align with yours

00:49:49.040 and they are not there to um live peacefully with various you know cultures right like they're there

00:49:58.560 they are there to um overtake they're there to take over they are there because they literally

00:50:06.320 want to turn your culture and society into theirs because they believe it is their god-given right

00:50:12.560 to do so and the west needs to wake up to that because you guys might not and i've said this 0.99

00:50:18.480 before but i'll say it again you guys might not want to go to war with islamic terrorists 0.99

00:50:25.200 but they have already started the war and they have brought it to your doorsteps and you guys 0.99

00:50:31.440 need to wake up before it's too late because if you don't wake up to the threat you could be the 0.59

00:50:37.580 next iran which turned into the islamic republic you could also be the next lebanon right like no

00:50:43.900 one ever talks about the fact that 50 years ago lebanon was christian 50 years ago lebanon was

00:50:50.620 a christian majority country it took less than 50 years for lebanon to be turned from a beautiful

00:50:57.500 christian country in the middle east to what it is today right not enough people speak about lebanon

00:51:06.940 and what happened there and you know i'll probably do um a live stream on it during my um you know

00:51:13.820 my daily my daily show my regular hours again i'm just doing this because i wanted to re-watch

00:51:20.460 um i want to re-watch a few of the shah's speeches and i just figured might as well do a live stream

00:51:27.660 and we can watch it together and you know that way you guys can see it as well and see the warning 0.59

00:51:33.900 because you know i like to watch these to kind of remind myself of of the threat and of course

00:51:41.020 you know how to how to combat it so here we go let me go back a little bit intellectual naivete

00:51:47.900 based on the false premise that you can change the behavior

00:51:52.920 of those who believe in such a radical ideology.

00:51:58.600 But this is not a conflict between nation-states,

00:52:02.380 but against a radical, destructive ideology

00:52:05.240 that cannot be negotiated with.

00:52:09.060 This ideology cannot be reasoned with.

00:52:13.740 It cannot be changed.

00:52:16.000 there is no better deal to be made it must be defeated which is exactly what my compatriots

00:52:24.520 have been fighting for so he's making it very clear he's literally telling you you cannot

00:52:30.860 negotiate with terrorists you can't change their mentality you can't change their ideology you

00:52:36.880 can't change who these people are the only thing that you can do is to defeat them and overthrow 0.97

00:52:42.300 them right so like when we say you can't negotiate with islamic terrorists we speak from experience 0.97

00:52:48.460 because we have been dealing with islamic terrorists for 1400 years in the middle east 0.88

00:52:54.140 right we've been dealing with islamic terrorists for 1400 years um

00:53:01.340 and i think a lot of people also need to maybe go back and i don't know look at the crusades and

00:53:08.780 maybe try to understand why the crusades happened in the first place right um you guys need to go

00:53:15.260 back and look at what happened to spain um and how spain was conquered and how they very nearly

00:53:22.780 conquered you know france and other places as well right we are warning you you cannot negotiate 1.00

00:53:33.420 with islamic terrorists you can't change them you can't make them see reason because they are guided 1.00

00:53:41.500 by this um ideology that they have this divine duty to take over the world and make everyone 1.00

00:53:51.500 muslim and if you don't want to be muslim then you get murdered and they literally believe that 0.98

00:53:57.980 murdering um non-muslims you know murdering kafas is the fastest way to get into heaven and get 0.99

00:54:05.260 their 72 virgins like this is the ideology that you people are are dealing with and you have to 1.00

00:54:12.380 come to terms with that that you're not dealing with rational people it's not like you can sit

00:54:16.060 down and have a civilized conversation right because also you have to be incredibly low iq

00:54:22.620 to even believe that murdering people of a different faith is going to get you into heaven

00:54:28.540 right like you have to be incredibly low iq in the first place to get into that sort of cultish

00:54:34.160 ideology but but that's what it is and so you know king rizopahlevi here he's literally saying

00:54:39.600 you cannot you can't negotiate with them you can't deal with them the only thing you can do

00:54:44.560 is to defeat them right like this is this is the language of the middle east and 1.00

00:54:52.120 those of you who are not from 0.99

00:54:55.080 the Middle East

00:54:56.860 need to understand this.

00:54:58.360 Listen to those of us who are from the Middle East

00:55:00.720 who understand how these things work 0.52

00:55:03.020 who have dealt with Islamic terrorism

00:55:05.100 and were fighting Islamic terrorism.

00:55:07.580 We see the signs.

00:55:08.640 We know what we're talking about.

00:55:11.360 This ideology

00:55:12.080 Here, let me go back a little bit.

00:55:13.860 This is so critical.

00:55:16.220 Sorry.

00:55:16.920 I want to go back a little bit

00:55:18.100 because this is really, really critical

00:55:19.560 and I want you guys to listen to it again.

00:55:22.120 But what is missing?

00:55:24.900 What has prevented this until now has largely been an American policy on Iran guided by intellectual naivete based on the false premise that you can change the behavior of those who believe in such a radical ideology.

00:55:44.240 But this is not a conflict between nation states, but against a radical destructive ideology.

00:55:51.720 right so this is very important he's saying this isn't a fight between um nation states so it's not

00:55:56.760 a fight between united states and iran right because iran again as i've mentioned is occupied

00:56:03.160 by the islamic republic so this isn't a fight between two countries this is a fight between

00:56:08.920 east versus west this is a fight between western civilization and islamic terrorists who want to

00:56:15.880 wage war against you and destroy your civilization this is what he's basically saying here so this

00:56:23.240 isn't like country country right Iranians are not your enemies Iranians were fighting the same enemy 0.83

00:56:28.920 as you were fighting Islamic radicalism and we're fighting to overthrow the Islamic terrorists that

00:56:35.480 took our country hostage in 1979 if in such a radical ideology but this is not a conflict

00:56:44.040 between nation states but against a radical destructive ideology that cannot be negotiated

00:56:51.400 with this ideology cannot be reasoned with it cannot be changed there is no better deal to be

00:57:02.440 made it must be defeated which is exactly what my competitors have been fighting for

00:57:09.160 Perhaps some of this makes you wary. I know. It should.

00:57:16.160 Some conversations like this in decades past have led your political leadership down the wrong road.

00:57:24.160 In Afghanistan, when 70% of the country's post-Taliban tribal parliament wanted to restore the constitutional monarchy of Zahir Shah,

00:57:36.160 Because his people saw him, even in his old age, as a symbol and source of national unity,

00:57:44.160 the American administration denied this national claim and this sovereign right.

00:57:50.160 By forcing an inauthentic Western construct on a society with its own traditions, norms, and means of governance,

00:57:59.160 the result was corruption, chaos, and collapse of the state.

00:58:05.160 one of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're

00:58:10.280 right it was a devastating mistake the consequence of which we continue to see today this did not

00:58:25.960 uh quick note to the moderators um you're welcome to just block anyone who's like spouting nonsense

00:58:31.880 right so i mean i'll try to block people but i mean guys just feel free to block whoever you

00:58:36.680 guys want like if someone's like spouting nonsense in the chat just like ban them i don't you know

00:58:42.040 you don't even need to like you don't even have to warn them if you don't want to because

00:58:45.640 like these people are so low iq you can't reason with them right like these are the 1.00

00:58:49.800 islamists that are just incredibly low iq and they're just stupid so you guys have free reign 1.00

00:58:55.560 to block whoever you want chief security for america nor was it successful in defending your 1.00

00:59:01.640 values. Today, terrorist attacks are once again launched from Kandahar, and women are once again

00:59:09.800 enslaved in Kabul. Because although America's aims may have been well-intentioned, the failure

00:59:17.240 to lessen to Afghans led it down a road to hell. So this is really important. He's speaking about 1.00

00:59:25.000 what happened um in afghanistan where uh the united states thought that a republic would

00:59:35.320 be better for the afghan people than the return of their shah zahir shah and of course we all

00:59:42.440 saw what happened the the republic turned into the taliban taking over and now afghanistan 0.97

00:59:48.040 is arguably is is even worse than than occupied Iran when it comes to being a seventh century 0.95

00:59:57.200 Islamic hellhole right like at least Iranian women were able to fight back a little bit and 0.63

01:00:01.980 of course Iranian men as well fighting on behalf of women and women's rights and part of that is 0.81

01:00:07.120 because of the culture and history that we Iranians have which predates Islam by thousands of years

01:00:13.360 um but for some reason you know in afghanistan it it devolved so much and you know so that's

01:00:22.100 that's the warning he's giving he's what he's basically saying is um when america decides

01:00:29.920 what sort of system of government a country should have might not be the best thing and

01:00:35.160 then he gives afghanistan as a warning here so what he's saying like his point here is essentially

01:00:40.040 let the Iranian people decide what they want, because the Iranian people know what's best for

01:00:45.780 them. And the vast majority of Iranian people want to go back to what we had prior to 1979,

01:00:52.540 when Iran was a constitutional monarchy, right? So prior to 1979, Iran was a constitutional monarchy,

01:00:59.420 just like Canada or the UK or elsewhere. And that's what most people want to go back to,

01:01:04.400 they want to go back to that, they want to go back to, you know, having the Shah,

01:01:07.560 because that monarchy institution is a very important part of Iranian identity.

01:01:18.000 You know, even our greatest literary work is called Shahnameh, which means the Book of Kings.

01:01:24.580 The word Shah and different variations of it is preeminent in Iranian words and also in Iranian names.

01:01:32.720 so um this whole concept of kings um is is an integral part of iranian culture and history and

01:01:40.800 of course cyrus the great literally the greatest king the greatest emperor in the history of human

01:01:47.600 civilization right so um all of that all of that is there and that's why um we iranians want to go

01:01:56.400 back to that system of monarchy that we had prior to 1979 it's only the islamists and the communists 0.91

01:02:05.200 and the leftists who who don't really want that right and of course they're all um they're all 0.94

01:02:12.160 anti-imperialists anyway and it's those islamists and communists and progressives who ruined iran 0.82

01:02:18.800 in 1979 turned our country into a seventh century islamic hellhole and you know now we're trying to 1.00

01:02:26.240 to get it back we're trying to reclaim our country from the islamic radicals that that 1.00

01:02:32.160 basically is is occupying us right now so i'll go back a little bit because that example about 1.00

01:02:36.880 afghanistan is critical with it cannot be changed there is no better deal to be made 0.73

01:02:47.600 it must be defeated so he's talking about radical islam when he's saying you know it can't be 0.99

01:02:53.520 change that must be defeated he's saying radical islam must be defeated because you cannot negotiate 0.67

01:02:59.680 with terrorists which is exactly what my competitors have been fighting for

01:03:06.240 perhaps some of this make you wary i know it should some conversations like this in decades

01:03:14.960 past have led your political leadership down the wrong road in afghanistan when 70 percent of the

01:03:23.840 country's post-taliban tribal parliament wanted to restore the constitutional monarchy of zahir shah

01:03:32.160 because his people saw him even in his old age as a symbol and source of national unity

01:03:38.560 the American administration denied this national claim and this sovereign right.

01:03:45.440 By forcing an inauthentic Western construct on a society with its own traditions, norms, and means of governance,

01:03:54.220 the result was corruption, chaos, and collapse of the state.

01:03:59.300 It was a devastating mistake, the consequence of which we continue to see today.

01:04:11.780 This did not achieve security for America, nor was it successful in defending your values.

01:04:19.280 Today, terrorist attacks are once again launched from Kandahar, and women are once again enslaved in Kabul. 0.85

01:04:27.020 Because although America's aims may have been well-intentioned, the failure to lessen to Afghans led it down a road to hell, paved with those very same good intentions.

01:04:40.380 Only a few years later, in Iraq, Washington's political elite's arrogance and ignorance subjugated Iraqi national interests and sovereignty to small-minded sectarian interests that not only failed to unite the country, but further divided it.

01:05:02.820 Citizens of Iraq were forced to see themselves not as Iraqis first and foremost,

01:05:09.200 but as members of their religious sect, their ethnic group, or their clan,

01:05:14.720 before seeking themselves as co-equal citizens of their nations.

01:05:20.460 And let us not forget that all of this was brought about with military force.

01:05:27.000 Let me make myself clear.

01:05:29.180 That mistake should not be repeated in Iran, and I will not stand for those radical few who might advocate it, Iranians or Americans.

01:05:44.180 But there is another path to this partnership between these two great nations, Iran and America.

01:05:52.180 A path that rejects appeasement of the radical Islamists who have taken Iran hostage

01:05:58.300 and are taking their war to you right here on American soil.

01:06:03.980 A path that rejects war and the imposition of inorganic Western construct on a proud and ancient nation. 0.98

01:06:13.120 This new path, this third way, requires maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic

01:06:20.820 and maximum support for the Iranian people.

01:06:26.100 Iranians are not seeking a handout.

01:06:29.180 They do not want you to change their regime for them.

01:06:33.160 They are fighting on the streets and cities of Iran for their right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

01:06:40.760 So that's really important. Like, again, he's repeating, he's saying, Iranians are not asking for money. They're not asking for boots on the ground. They're already doing what they need to do. Just support them, right? Like, politically. Stand with the Iranian people and don't legitimize or enable the Islamic Republic.

01:06:59.820 Right here on American soil, a path that rejects war and the imposition of inorganic Western construct on a proud and ancient nation. 0.72

01:07:14.060 This new path, this third way, requires maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic and maximum support for the Iranian people.

01:07:25.480 Iranians are not seeking a handout.

01:07:29.480 They do not want you to change their regime for them.

01:07:33.480 They are fighting on the streets and cities of Iran

01:07:36.480 for their right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness,

01:07:41.480 and to reclaim their most treasured inheritance, their nation.

01:07:46.480 what they want is for you to stop emboldening their captors and killers by sending them

01:07:57.800 billions of dollars and as opposed to bring about peace through strength bringing about chaos

01:08:04.460 through weakness and appeasement i wish someone told me this earlier but the most successful

01:08:10.140 people in the world actually work the least

01:08:12.780 my friends you have a fight on your hands but your fight is not with the nation of iran

01:08:26.240 your fight is with the radical ideology of the islamic republic and its defenders right here

01:08:33.420 in washington so this is critical what he's saying is that americans the fight with americans

01:08:41.560 isn't with um isn't with Iranians right it's with the Islamic Republic and the lobby groups of the

01:08:50.260 Islamic Republic in Washington right and Nayak is the big one National Iranian American Council

01:08:56.920 um so I'm going to repeat that because again like we Iranians we're on the same side as Americans

01:09:02.140 we're on the same side as Israelis we're on the same side as Western people um we are fighting to 0.94

01:09:08.360 reclaim our country from radical Islam. And that's one of the reasons why Iranians integrate very 1.00

01:09:14.780 well in Western societies is because our cultures are essentially the same, our values are pretty

01:09:20.180 much the same. And you never really notice the Iranians in your respective countries, 0.50

01:09:26.540 because we just come, we keep our heads down, we integrate, we immigrate, and you know, we

01:09:31.660 assimilate. And yeah, the only reason you're hearing about us now is because we're speaking out

01:09:38.560 against radical Islam. Because for us, it's like the alarm bells are going off. We've seen the 0.94

01:09:44.400 signs before. We've seen how radical Islam destroyed Iran in the late 1970s, leading to 0.68

01:09:50.260 the Islamic Revolution. We don't want that to happen in the United States. We don't want that 0.52

01:09:54.480 to happen in Canada. We don't want that to happen in Europe. So let me go back a little bit because

01:09:58.560 This is so important. He says, again, your fight is not with Iran. It's not with Iranians.

01:10:05.320 Like, see that flag? That's the flag of Iran, the lion and sun flag of Iran. 0.99

01:10:09.660 Your fight is with the Islamic Republic, which is occupying Iran. 0.98

01:10:15.880 Your fight is with that Islamic ideology that wages war and jihad against the West. 0.98

01:10:23.500 That's who your fight is really with. 1.00

01:10:25.760 through weakness and appeasement my friends you have a fight on your hands 0.84

01:10:36.520 but your fight is not with the nation of Iran your fight is with the radical

01:10:42.160 ideology of the Islamic Republic and its defenders right here in Washington but

01:10:53.160 But you are not alone in that fight, because it is the same fight Iranians are fighting

01:10:58.260 every day on the streets of my country.

01:11:02.400 In the fight between the Islamic Republic and Iran, my competitors have chosen to step

01:11:08.180 forward to accept the call of history and fight to reclaim their nation.

01:11:14.820 So have I, and I hope you will join us.

01:11:18.480 Or as Burke said, when bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall one

01:11:27.060 by one.

01:11:35.800 Being with you just a few days after you celebrated America's Independence Day is quite fortuitous

01:11:43.000 Because some 250 years ago, as he authored the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson did so, inspired by the values of the Iranian king Cyrus.

01:11:55.980 Did you catch that?

01:11:57.560 So that's a little fun fact.

01:12:01.160 Thomas Jefferson was inspired by Cyrus the Great, who was the founder of the Persian Empire.

01:12:09.840 So again, this whole sort of like concept of Western civilization and, you know, these values and things like that, they're inspired by the Persian culture, which is a culture that existed thousands of years before Islam was invented.

01:12:29.540 And so, again, people don't realize this, but Iranians and Americans, our values are more aligned than people think, right? 0.94

01:12:43.940 It's the Islamic Republic and radical Islam that's the enemy here.

01:12:50.440 it thomas jefferson was inspired by an iranian king that lived 3 000 years ago

01:13:02.520 like isn't that interesting isn't that a neat little fact and tidbit i mean these are the

01:13:10.280 things like these are the um historical facts that the islamists and the communists want you

01:13:17.000 to forget, right? They want you to think that we Iranians are 0.79

01:13:20.960 the enemy. We're not your enemy. We Iranians, we love

01:13:24.480 Americans. The real enemies are those Islamic radicals and 1.00

01:13:28.600 those terrorists who yell death to America, right? Those are 1.00

01:13:32.140 your enemies. Your enemies are the same ones that are

01:13:35.600 currently in your countries burning the American flag and

01:13:40.020 yelling Allah Akbar. And they're not Iranian. They're not 0.97

01:13:43.420 Iranian. They're like, I don't know. 0.99

01:13:47.000 Palestinian or Hezbollah or I don't know whatever right um some of them are Iranian some and no we 1.00

01:13:53.160 call them out uh we call them out um but the vast majority are people that are paid by the 0.99

01:14:02.080 Islamic Republic to uh cause terrorism not just in the Middle East but in your countries 0.91

01:14:08.240 right and when they burn your flags and they yell Allahu Akbar that should be a wake-up call for 0.98

01:14:15.680 you guys because that's what jihad looks like that's what they did in iran to iranians that's

01:14:22.280 what they did to our flag they burned our iranian flag and they yelled aloha akbar

01:14:27.060 and now they're doing it to your flag and when you try to call them out on it they say oh freedom

01:14:33.100 of expression freedom of expression right like they're literally using your freedoms against you

01:14:37.440 in your own countries let's go back a little bit here some 250 years ago

01:14:43.920 as he authored the Declaration of Independence.

01:14:48.580 Thomas Jefferson did so,

01:14:50.700 inspired by the values of the Iranian king, Cyrus.

01:14:54.760 Iranians have never forgotten this connection. 0.99

01:14:58.280 And today, as they fight not to create

01:15:01.180 but to liberate their nation,

01:15:04.380 they are inspired by your struggle for freedom

01:15:06.560 and love of country.

01:15:08.720 Our two great nations share this special bond.

01:15:13.920 Great civilizations, true nations, never remained subjugated.

01:15:21.660 And we Iranians will reclaim our country.

01:15:25.840 As this eventuality becomes a reality, be with us in this fight.

01:15:32.140 Not as our patrons, but as our partners.

01:15:35.940 Not as our founders, but as our friends.

01:15:39.700 For our battle is won.

01:15:42.160 Thank you.

01:15:43.920 what a fantastic speech i always enjoy watching that um there's another one that i want to

01:15:53.360 uh watch as well so we can watch this together um it is it is um king as a palavi speech

01:16:03.040 uh this was done a few months after um at the israeli american conference i mean go

01:16:09.200 For those of you who are not familiar with the Middle East, it must be surprising for you to hear that the king of Iran, Reza Pahlavi II, who is the leader of the Iranian opposition, spoke at the Israeli-American Council conference.

01:16:34.020 right but again um that's because iran and israel have always been very close allies

01:16:41.860 um and iran and israel were close allies prior to 1979 it was only when the islamic republic took 0.78

01:16:49.620 over our country of iran and turned it into a seventh century islamic hellhole um that they 0.96

01:16:57.540 started, you know, chanting death to Israel. So this is why he spoke at the Israeli American 1.00

01:17:07.060 Council as well. And so, you know, we're basically shattering the stereotypes that the Islamic

01:17:15.620 Republic tried to push out, right? Because the Islamic Republic wants Westerners to think that

01:17:21.780 we hate America and we hate Israel. Nothing is farther from the truth. We Iranians, we love 1.00

01:17:27.920 America. We love Israel. We've always been natural allies. In fact, you know, like I said, Iran was

01:17:34.040 the biggest ally of Israel and the United States in the Middle East prior to 1979. It was only when

01:17:41.760 radical Islam took our country hostage that they started yelling, you know, death to America and 0.99

01:17:50.540 and all that nonsense and for the longest time they fooled they managed to fool americans 0.93

01:17:57.980 into thinking that we iranians are your enemy we're not like we have no issues with with america 0.78

01:18:05.100 we love america um the enemy is radical islam the enemy is radical islam but because they've taken 0.61

01:18:13.580 our country hostage um people think it's iran but it's not so there you go like there's a huge

01:18:22.460 you know i hope that enlightens you a little bit about the difference between iran and the

01:18:28.140 islamic republic and you know one of my biggest pet peeves is when people are talking about

01:18:33.580 islamic terrorism and instead of saying the islamic republic they say iran because even when

01:18:39.240 the islamists took our country hostage they even changed the name of our country right so prior to

01:18:45.700 1979 uh the name of the country was iran when the islamic republic took over when radical islam took 0.59

01:18:53.320 over our country they even changed our name the official name of the country now unfortunately

01:18:58.180 is the islamic republic of iran people shorten it and when they shorten it that's where the

01:19:04.060 confusion comes in because then they keep on saying iran iran iran and then they think okay

01:19:08.920 all iranians hate the west no we iranians we love the west we love america we love israel

01:19:15.240 it's the islamic republic that is occupying us right that that radical islam that hates the west 0.59

01:19:22.360 that right there that is the flag of iran that's the real flag of iran right that's 0.93

01:19:28.200 the flag that the islamic republic changed and you know they changed it into their like

01:19:32.520 you know aloha akbar flag or you know whatever it is today and in fact that's the other thing

01:19:37.240 and I keep on repeating this we're Iranian we're not Arab we speak Farsi we don't speak Arabic

01:19:43.920 but yet because we're colonized by the Islamic Republic they changed our flag so it's no longer

01:19:51.380 the lion and son they changed our flag and the current flag says Allah Akbar on it right like

01:19:57.660 why the hell does an Iranian flag have Arabic on it when we're not Arab and we don't speak Arabic 0.89

01:20:04.000 that's because our country is colonized currently um by radical islam right so is radical islam a 0.99

01:20:13.840 threat to western civilization 100 here we go so let's let's watch this speech so this speech was 1.00

01:20:21.000 from september of last year and someone i have the great honor of calling a friend

01:20:27.560 But first, I want to tell you a story because this plenary today is focused on anti-Semitism.

01:20:36.160 And since October 7th, it's easy to think that anti-Semitism, at least ferocious, vicious,

01:20:41.560 ugly anti-Semitism, is kind of new.

01:20:44.040 So I want to tell you a story.

01:20:47.080 The year is 1951.

01:20:50.540 The place is Iraq.

01:20:53.640 There was a knock at a door, and a little girl answered that door.

01:20:58.700 She was asked if her father was home.

01:21:00.880 It was early in the morning.

01:21:02.880 She remembers that her father still had shaving cream on his face. 0.54

01:21:08.200 Those soldiers came to arrest and take away that Jewish leader, parade him through the

01:21:13.800 streets in leg irons, charge him with Zionism, and throw him in prison.

01:21:21.640 That young girl is my mother, who is here by the way.

01:21:34.560 And that prisoner of Zion is my grandfather.

01:21:39.660 Why do I tell you this story? 0.73

01:21:42.480 Because after visiting my grandfather in prison, something that no little girl should have

01:21:47.340 to do, he finally said, don't wait for me, flee, run, escape this place.

01:21:52.600 And so my family fled.

01:21:54.640 My grandmother, my mother, little girl, and my uncle who was a toddler.

01:21:59.680 They fled across the border to Iran.

01:22:03.160 Yes, to Iran. 0.99

01:22:05.000 Because that Iran, unlike the vile, despicable medieval theocracy we see today, that Iran 0.93

01:22:13.720 was a country that was pro-Israel and philo-Semitic. 0.94

01:22:17.480 And the Shah of Iran, the Shah of Iran gave asylum 0.61

01:22:21.960 to any Jew who could make it to the border and escape. 0.80

01:22:26.040 That same Shah, by the way,

01:22:28.760 had rescued Ashkenazi Jews from the Holocaust, 0.51

01:22:32.460 giving European Jews asylum in Iran. 0.89

01:22:34.840 That was the Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty.

01:22:43.720 you might have noticed there are demonstrators outside in fact now they're in the room

01:22:49.880 waving flags these are iranian muslim demonstrators for israel

01:22:56.560 so there you go that's that's the flag of the real flag of iran you see there you know this

01:23:09.880 flag behind me. It's the one that you see below as well. So that's the flag of the good guys.

01:23:27.760 And that's the flag behind me.

01:23:31.640 Dear friends, it is my enormous privilege to present to you, His Royal Highness,

01:23:38.200 the crown prince of Iran Reza please come up here and by the way I think in

01:23:49.480 this room I think in this room we probably prefer another title for you

01:23:54.480 so I'll call him his majesty Reza Shah the second so do you guys see this this 1.00

01:24:01.260 is this is the worst nightmare of the Islamic Republic this is the worst 1.00

01:24:05.960 nightmare of the islamic terrorists right iranians and israelis together united and allied right 0.99

01:24:14.760 because um you know the shared history of iranians and israelis goes back thousands of years well 0.63

01:24:22.280 before islam was invented and and the the radical islamists don't like that right because they were

01:24:29.000 never able to um eradicate and colonize the jews they were never able to eradicate and colonize

01:24:37.000 the iranians you know we are um you know predominantly two of the oldest um indigenous

01:24:44.280 groups in the middle east um there are other indigenous groups as well but you know they're

01:24:48.520 not as prominent they're not as prevalent um but iranians and jews of course are are the most

01:24:54.840 prominent and the most well-known. And so, you know, if you are new to the channel and you're

01:25:01.840 watching this and you're wondering why are Iranians and Israelis together, that's because

01:25:08.140 both Iranians and Israelis, we have been fighting the same enemy, which is radical Islam, right? 1.00

01:25:14.860 And so this is the worst nightmare of the Islamic Republic. They don't want the world to know the 1.00

01:25:23.000 truth about radical islam they want you guys to think that um we hate each other and it's literally 1.00

01:25:29.160 nothing farther from the truth right it's radical islam that's the enemy of western civilization 1.00

01:25:36.360 it's radical islam that is the cause of terrorism in the middle east and around the world 1.00

01:25:53.000 So the Iranians in the background are yelling, King Reza Pahlavi. 1.00

01:26:06.380 Your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.

01:26:14.060 I would like to begin by thanking Dr. Adelson, Mr. Carr, and their team for convening such an important conference at such an important time.

01:26:28.360 Today we are on the precipice of history, not only for our nations and our people, but for civilization.

01:26:37.080 We find ourselves on this precipice in the middle of a fortnight that is crudely illustrative

01:26:46.160 of exactly what is at stake.

01:26:49.520 Just days removed from the second anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Amini and the slaughter

01:26:55.480 of hundreds of Iranian protesters, and days from the first anniversary of October 7th

01:27:02.600 and the mass murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians.

01:27:07.080 These crimes, these violations of basic dignity, these insults to humanity happened hundreds of miles away from one another.

01:27:21.080 The victims were from different nations, shared different faiths, and spoke different languages.

01:27:29.080 Different men pulled the triggers, wielded the clubs, and plunged the knives. 0.70

01:27:37.080 But the culprit in each was the Islamic Republic and the man at his bloody helm, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 0.77

01:27:47.080 These two terrible anniversaries in between which we find ourselves, however, are not 0.89

01:27:57.640 stand-alone events.

01:28:01.580 In the 1980s, the Islamic Republic and its proxies murdered Lebanese Jewish leader Isaac

01:28:09.000 Sasson, bombed the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, and mass-executed Iranian

01:28:17.060 military officers, statesmen, and Jewish leaders like Habib El-Ghanian.

01:28:25.400 In the 1990s, the Islamic Republic and its proxies bombed the Amiya Jewish Center in

01:28:32.520 Buenos Aires, killing dozens of civilians, bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia,

01:28:40.500 murdered former Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar,

01:28:44.420 and killed dozens of dissident writers

01:28:47.340 in a series of chain murders across Iran and abroad.

01:28:53.140 In the first decade of the millennia, 1.00

01:28:55.960 the Islamic Republic and its proxies 0.96

01:28:58.600 rained missiles down on Israel,

01:29:01.420 launched a global campaign of Holocaust denial,

01:29:05.320 murdered American soldiers,

01:29:07.740 and rained bullets on Iranian freedom fighters like Neda Agha Sultan in the Green Movement.

01:29:16.700 In the 2010s, the Islamic Republic and its proxies attempted to bomb Israeli embassies

01:29:24.500 in Georgia, India, and Thailand, announced their intentions to assassinate President

01:29:31.200 Donald Trump and slaughtered more than 1,500 peaceful protesters fighting for Iran's liberation.

01:29:40.980 To this day, the Islamic Republic and its proxies fire missiles at Israeli civilians

01:29:47.520 and American soldiers and fire buckshots into the eyes of Iranian protesters. 0.99

01:29:55.100 They bomb Israeli playgrounds, poison the minds of American students, and poison Iranian 0.98

01:30:03.420 schoolhouses. 0.97

01:30:05.680 They target your synagogues, and they raid our house churches.

01:30:10.980 Yet, in the face of this, we have witnessed the remarkable solidarity between Iranian,

01:30:18.940 American and Israeli people.

01:30:31.420 At the post-October 7th rallies in cities around the world, waving in the wind and shining

01:30:38.320 in the sun, we saw the stars and stripes.

01:30:42.700 the Star of David, and the Lion and Sun, the ancient and eternal Iranian flag, flying proudly

01:30:50.100 side by side.

01:30:59.260 The Iranian people stand with Israeli and Americans because before the Islamic Republic came for

01:31:06.660 you, it came for us.

01:31:10.260 is a shared experience we know your struggle my friends you in israel are under siege

01:31:20.140 war is being waged on you from the south from the north from the east and from a propaganda war

01:31:28.340 in the west so again this is from last year right so of course there's a peace agreement now but uh

01:31:37.420 But this speech is from last year.

01:31:38.820 So that's when Israel was fighting like a seven front war. 0.97

01:31:42.860 All of this is being coordinated, supported and directed by the Islamic Republic. 0.89

01:31:50.300 So again, the Islamic Republic is that jihadi radical Islamic terrorist group 0.77

01:31:56.700 that's occupying Iran, my country, and using Iranian money to fund 0.87

01:32:02.780 Islamic terrorism and anti-Semitism in the Middle East and around the world, right? So

01:32:09.340 you follow the money and it all traces back to the Islamic Republic. And that's one of the reasons 0.99

01:32:15.960 why the Islamic Republic is not a part of President Trump's peace agreement, right? I mean,

01:32:23.040 all these other countries have joined, but the Islamic Republic has not because one of the core 0.76

01:32:28.160 foundational pillars of the islamic republic is a never-ending jihad with israel and america so

01:32:36.080 you're never going to see the terrorists agree to peace it's just it's literally not going to happen 0.57

01:32:44.160 reacting to each of these threats independently as if they were independent threats will leave

01:32:50.960 you in a state of perpetual vulnerability this is really important okay this is so what he's saying

01:32:57.920 is that if you if you react to each of these different proxy groups separately and you just

01:33:04.120 assume that each one is acting independently and on its own you're never going to have peace you're

01:33:11.820 never going to resolve the issue because the issue isn't these various groups the issue is 0.69

01:33:17.060 the head of the octopus right the islamic republic that is funding all of these different groups and 0.86

01:33:23.320 if you get rid of one another one's going to pop up and you get rid of that one another one's 0.99

01:33:27.900 to pop up and another one another one because you know you're not going after the cause right you're

01:33:34.140 just going after the symptoms of the disease but if you want to get rid of the disease you have to 0.96

01:33:38.940 go for the cause which is the islamic republic so i'm going to go back a little bit here because 0.94

01:33:43.100 that's so important and we need to you know you need to hear that again because that's that's

01:33:48.300 critical siege the iranian people stand with israeli and americans because before the islamic

01:34:01.900 the islamic republic came for you it came for us ours is a shared experience we know your struggle

01:34:11.580 My friends, you in Israel are under siege.

01:34:17.580 War is being waged on you from the south, from the north, from the east, and from a propaganda war in the west. 0.99

01:34:26.580 All of this is being coordinated, supported, and directed by the Islamic Republic. 0.95

01:34:33.580 Reacting to each of these threats independently as if they were independent threats will leave you in a state of perpetual vulnerability. 0.95

01:34:45.580 Merely fighting Hamas or Hezbollah will not deliver security for Israel or America. 0.77

01:34:53.580 You will be simply reacting and your people will never have peace. 0.55

01:34:59.580 The time of reacting to these reactionaries must come to an end. 0.96

01:35:06.340 Iranians, too.

01:35:12.140 Iranians, too, tried to deal with this regime.

01:35:16.080 They tried to reform it.

01:35:17.660 It was under these reformists that the most brutal massacres of my compatriots took place.

01:35:25.180 So trust us when we say no deal can be made with such a regime and no accommodation with its proxies. 0.99

01:35:34.180 Trust us when we say that a regime that imports Hezbollah terrorists to murder its own citizens 0.99

01:35:52.840 will never ever give up its jihad against you. 0.92

01:35:57.600 Rising anti-Semitism is taking enough lives on its own.

01:36:03.240 But the 20th century showed us that when that hateful ideology is backed by a regime that

01:36:10.120 seeks to enforce it through violence, it is considerably more dangerous.

01:36:17.760 So it is time to say enough is enough.

01:36:23.960 It is time to draw a red line.

01:36:27.420 Sadly, that red line had to be drawn with the blood of innocent civilians. 0.76

01:36:33.240 our Nika and your Shani, our Pouya and your Hirsch.

01:36:40.460 The only path to honor their sacrifices,

01:36:44.060 to prevent more innocent victims, and to bring peace

01:36:48.240 for Israel, America, the Arab world, 0.99

01:36:52.200 and my compatriots in Iran, is to send the Islamic Republic 0.92

01:36:56.740 to the ash heap of history once and for all. 0.88

01:37:03.240 But, how?

01:37:28.740 My friends, in the past year, Iranians and Israelis have stood in solidarity.

01:37:35.800 But solidarity is no longer sufficient.

01:37:39.340 Now it is time to do more than stand side by side.

01:37:43.600 It is time to act hand in hand.

01:37:47.740 As we stand on this precipice together, the question I put before you today is simple.

01:37:55.980 Are you ready to do more that stand together?

01:38:01.440 Are you ready to act together?

01:38:08.560 The people of Iran have made their stance clear.

01:38:11.600 They are fighting against this regime every day, and they are doing it with no support

01:38:19.420 from the outside world.

01:38:22.060 They have sent me here with a message.

01:38:24.300 They are not only fighting to free themselves, but to free the Middle East and the world

01:38:31.300 from the scourge of this evil regime. 0.95

01:38:41.300 As they fight this fight against the Islamic Republic for all of us,

01:38:46.300 do not leave them to fight alone.

01:38:54.300 The people of Iran are your partners, not pawns.

01:39:00.300 Pawns are expandable. My people are not.

01:39:11.300 What we need in this partnership is beyond photo ops, rallies, and social media posts.

01:39:18.300 What we need is a collaborative, coordinated campaign. 1.00

01:39:23.300 We need to reinstate maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic. 0.59

01:39:28.040 We need to offer maximum support to the people of Iran.

01:39:31.900 And we need to facilitate maximum defections from the regime so that we can peacefully transition from this criminal dictatorship to the secular democracy the Iranian people are fighting for.

01:39:53.300 This requires leadership in the United States, in Israel, and an Iranian partner.

01:40:04.180 Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to offer that partnership and extend a hand as a partner

01:40:10.260 in peace.

01:40:15.260 It is through this partnership, through this coordinated action, that we can achieve freedom

01:40:38.980 for the people of Iran, security for Israel, the United States, the Arab world, and a true

01:40:47.000 opportunity for a bright future for the Palestinians.

01:40:52.420 If we fail to act and the Islamic Republic remains in power, none of that would be possible.

01:41:04.440 But if you work together, we can secure prosperity and dignity for our people, and stability 0.99

01:41:14.240 and security for our world, and expand from the Abraham Accords to the Cyrus Accords.

01:41:30.760 As we stand on the precipice of history, we do so united in our values and our vision,

01:41:39.540 but now it is time to act.

01:41:43.520 And when the lion and the sun rise again, the world will see a new dawn of peace.

01:41:49.820 Thank you so much.

01:41:52.480 What a beautiful line.

01:41:53.480 So when he says, when the lion and the sun rises again, so he's referring to the flag

01:41:58.140 behind me, right?

01:41:59.240 the lion and sun flag of iran the real flag of iran so it's very symbolic he's basically saying that

01:42:06.360 when iran is freed from islamic occupation um and when we are able to rise um you know the

01:42:14.600 lion and sun flag over our country again you know we'll see a new dawn of peace in the middle east

01:42:21.080 what what a beautiful line what beautiful symbol symbolism i want to listen to that again but now

01:42:26.200 it is time to act

01:42:27.800 and when the lion

01:42:30.520 and the sun rise again

01:42:31.880 the world will see a new dawn

01:42:34.320 of peace

01:42:35.360 thank you so much

01:42:36.900 look there he is

01:42:46.480 there he is and there's the lion and sunflower

01:42:48.460 how beautiful is that

01:42:52.000 look at that

01:42:55.100 beautiful imagery. Okay, one of my favorite speeches. There's one more that I want to that

01:43:02.700 I wanted to watch tonight. It was his most recent interview. It was it was from 12 days ago,

01:43:10.060 two weeks ago. And it was at the Council of Foreign Relations. So this is obviously

01:43:16.280 much more recent and uh definitely definitely want to replay this again and watch it so since

01:43:25.660 you guys are all here um you can watch it with me because this one is interesting it's less of a

01:43:33.280 speech it's more of a conversation he also takes some questions from the crowd and what's interesting

01:43:40.880 here is that um some of those jihadis and progressives and leftists who work with the

01:43:48.940 islamic republic are in the crowd and they start attacking him and it's really it's wild like you

01:43:56.480 can tell you can literally tell from their body language who the jihadis and the islamists are

01:44:03.720 so um let's start watching and then when we get to the question period question portion of it

01:44:10.200 But you guys tell me if you can spot the people who are supporting the Islamic Republic or supporting the communists and Marxists, right? Because again, if you were here at the beginning of the stream, we spoke about the unholy alliance of the red and the black, right? 0.57

01:44:27.960 you have marxism on one one side and islamism on the other and it's that unholy alliance that 1.00

01:44:35.240 ruined iran in 1979 and turned iran into a seventh century islamic hellhole governed by 0.99

01:44:41.800 sharia law and that's the exact same unity um that you're seeing today in the streets with all like 0.79

01:44:48.040 the pro-palestine you know whatever people who are basically um supporting terrorism in the middle east

01:44:54.200 Well, good afternoon, everyone.

01:44:58.620 It's a pleasure to see you all here on a lovely Friday in Washington, finally.

01:45:06.700 It gives me great pleasure to welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Reza Pahlavi.

01:45:14.200 This meeting is on the record, so the usual council rules actually don't apply.

01:45:20.960 Reza Pafavi and I will engage in a conversation between the two of us for about half an hour,

01:45:25.940 and then we'll open it up to Q&A.

01:45:27.900 I just want to say that when I was a sixth grader writing an essay about the Iranian

01:45:34.240 hostage crisis, I never imagined I would be sitting here with a fellow resident of Potomac,

01:45:40.000 Maryland, talking about Iranian politics.

01:45:44.960 Well, welcome to the council once again.

01:45:49.960 Let's start out.

01:45:54.460 In the late 1970s, Iranians rose up and overthrew the regime that your father led.

01:46:03.340 Why would they now choose to restore the monarchy?

01:46:08.980 And what is your vision for Iran?

01:46:12.400 MR.

01:46:13.400 Hello, everyone.

01:46:15.400 I'm very happy to be here in this prestigious gathering.

01:46:19.460 I know they counseled on foreign relations

01:46:23.080 and their work over the years.

01:46:24.840 I think I've had two or three occasions prior

01:46:28.880 to participate in some meetings in the early 80s

01:46:32.340 and then later on.

01:46:33.180 So I'm glad to be one more time amidst this group.

01:46:39.580 No, I don't think this is about restoration

01:46:42.300 or about a particular outcome.

01:46:44.000 It's about democracy and self-determination.

01:46:46.540 And I think whatever Iranians thought back then,

01:46:50.080 if you listen to what the GNZ of Iran says today

01:46:54.300 about that generation, is what the hell were you thinking? 0.90

01:46:58.640 And you put us in this mess. 0.91

01:47:00.920 So how are we going to liberate ourselves now

01:47:03.460 from what has been the net result? 1.00

01:47:06.360 So I think today the viewpoint and the vision of Iranians,

01:47:09.640 who, by the way, have become more than ever

01:47:16.420 aspiring to something that is in fact a very unifying theme, which is a sense of national

01:47:23.300 identity against a regime that from the very beginning tried to crush every aspect of Iranian

01:47:30.180 culture, history, from celebrating no rules all the way to other things.

01:47:38.820 In other words, an Iranian renaissance against the most anti-Iranian regime we've ever seen,

01:47:44.980 Not to mention the fact that it's been extremely repressive and I don't think there's anybody 0.84

01:47:49.640 in this room which would deny the fact that perhaps this is the most sinister regime we

01:47:54.620 have encountered in modern history that encompasses the worst of all the evil regimes we have

01:48:01.060 witnessed. 0.68

01:48:02.060 Totalitarian in one way like the Soviet Union was, fascist in a way like the Third Reich

01:48:09.580 and the Hitler regime was, racist in the sense that the apartheid regime in South Africa was, 0.68

01:48:16.380 and yet it's still sitting there imprisoning the Iranian people on the one hand and threatening 0.51

01:48:22.300 the stability of the world, including being a threat to this country's interests and national 0.78

01:48:28.380 security. So long story, what is the perspective in Iran now and why am I here and what is my role? 0.98

01:48:34.380 My role is not to run for office. I'm not. My role, however, is to maximize the chance for my

01:48:40.780 fellow competitors to be able to liberate themselves and decide ultimately via the ballot

01:48:47.260 box and ultimately by a referendum what it is that I ultimately would like to have

01:48:52.860 as a secular democratic government to replace this religious dictatorship.

01:48:58.060 This is all our campaign and this has been our struggle all these years.

01:49:01.660 And we hope to be able to know that in this campaign, we're not alone, and we would have the support and the solidarity of democracies that are of the same viewpoints and values that we cherish, unlike a regime that stands totally against them.

01:49:16.720 And that's what the fight is all about. Values of liberty, equality, human rights versus a regime that has stamped on it from the very beginning. And that's the cause that we are all fighting today.

01:49:28.460 Let me follow up on that for a second, because I think you made a little bit of news in that statement.

01:49:35.140 If the Iranian regime were to fall, however it does, you would not necessarily put yourself forward to lead the new regime.

01:49:47.320 As a democracy, you would be among candidates, or you wouldn't be a candidate at all.

01:49:51.380 Again, it's not being a candidate for the job of ruling.

01:49:54.300 is I've offered the role of leading this campaign of transition.

01:49:59.460 Why? Because this is the ask of the majority of my fellow compatriots

01:50:03.160 who have a trust in me to be able to play that role for them.

01:50:07.960 So my job is to unify as much as possible the democratic opposition.

01:50:13.860 My job is to bring as much support as possible to the people themselves.

01:50:18.600 My job is also to mobilize as much as possible the diaspora.

01:50:21.800 And this is based on a five-point plan that I have initiated at least in the last couple of years, which includes maximum pressure on the regime, which is something that the world is doing.

01:50:35.300 A snapback is being re-implemented. That's one aspect of what external pressure could be.

01:50:41.260 Maximum support to the people, meaning that parallel to a campaign of maximum pressure, there has to be an element of maximum support.

01:50:49.340 But assuming we want to go beyond appeasement, and this time seriously consider that an end 0.77

01:50:55.380 of this regime is ultimately the solution, but it's done at the hand of the Iranian people,

01:50:59.620 not by means of foreign intervention or anything like that.

01:51:02.660 So you need to be able to actually have an element of more direct support to the people,

01:51:07.840 be able to also, as a consequence, encourage maximum defections from regime elements to

01:51:15.540 to the people, to minimize the cost of change to the Iranian people, and have a better chance

01:51:23.960 of a smoother transition post-regime collapse than any other scenarios.

01:51:29.360 And ultimately, and parallel to all of this, a plan of Iran prosperity and reconstruction,

01:51:35.020 which is an IPP project that I've also launched about two years ago.

01:51:38.160 So the combination of all of these is part and components of what we have done over the

01:51:42.500 last at least two years.

01:51:44.960 And I guess the question that everybody might have is, okay, we've seen several uprisings

01:51:50.120 in Iran, at least in the last five years, the last one being the Mahsa Amini murder

01:51:56.220 that triggered the Women's Life Freedom Movement.

01:51:59.200 And why is it that until now we haven't really seen the ultimate uprising of people? 0.97

01:52:03.780 And the simple answer is, well, this is an extremely repressive regime.

01:52:07.880 And instead of restricting the regime in its abilities, it has in fact been emboldened

01:52:14.560 by means of the wrong policies or approach, especially in the Western world, again appeasement,

01:52:20.640 again the release of funds that they should not have had access to, that did not serve

01:52:25.320 in the sense of helping the starving nation in Iran, but fortifying the proxies, arming

01:52:30.240 them, equipping them.

01:52:31.840 I would say that October 7th was not a coincidence.

01:52:35.420 But all of this ties into what we can do to equal the playing field for the Iranian people.

01:52:40.880 So this time they have an actual chance, should they commit to an ultimate campaign of uprising,

01:52:46.260 not to be crushed yet again by a very repressive regime.

01:52:49.520 And this is why we need to be able to work with the free world, those countries that

01:52:53.020 understand the dynamics of change by a civil disobedience and domestic uprising as opposed

01:52:59.380 to by means of war or foreign intervention or occupation, because that's not the direction

01:53:03.820 we want to go at all.

01:53:05.680 And that's why I say the change of regime in Iran is a very different scenario than

01:53:10.040 what we've experienced in recent years, since 9-11, what happened in Afghanistan or Iraq

01:53:14.580 or everything else.

01:53:16.240 How do you, you've invoked the Iranian people and the Iranian diaspora, I want to get to

01:53:20.400 that in a minute, but you've invoked the Iranian people any number of times.

01:53:23.220 How do you, as a leader of this movement and put yourself forward to lead a transition,

01:53:28.000 if not the country, how do you gauge the strength of the opposition to Iran, especially after

01:53:35.020 the so-called 12-day war?

01:53:36.560 It's hard for me to call it 12-day war, it just seems weird.

01:53:39.740 But after that, there's been this wave of repression in Iran.

01:53:46.240 So how do you know, sitting here, how strong the opposition is, and how do you know that they can be successful?

01:53:54.280 I guess what I'm asking is, if you think it's strong, how do you think this is going to actually happen?

01:54:00.120 Well, information certainly gets to us.

01:54:04.580 I mean, there are ways of circumventing the regime's attempt to curtail the ability of people to communicate.

01:54:09.740 social media has a big role to play in this, but also other challenges that are more safe for

01:54:14.780 certain elements that will be in a position of giving us critical intel on what's happening

01:54:20.380 on the grounds inside Iran, both on the domestic side, I mean the civilian side, as well as the

01:54:25.660 military and parametri forces. As a matter of fact, when I announced in a press conference in Paris,

01:54:32.780 I don't exactly know how many months ago it was, but it was within this calendar year,

01:54:37.180 That's where I announced a campaign where we will announce the QR code that people from

01:54:42.780 inside who wish to cooperate or to defect from the regime can connect with us and share with

01:54:49.820 us their information. And in the first few weeks, we had over 60,000 people who applied. I don't

01:54:55.740 know what the number is now. It's probably greater than that. Information, of course,

01:55:00.220 that needs to be vetted and analyzed to make sure that these are actually legitimate people,

01:55:04.220 that we are not being infiltrated or penetrated by double agents, but that's very telling because

01:55:09.900 these are people who would be in the military, in the paramilitary, in the civilian bureaucracy,

01:55:15.420 and the reason it's important is because the whole point of my strategy in this campaign

01:55:22.700 of putting an end to this regime cannot not have a factor of maximum inclusion of elements that can

01:55:32.060 survive regime change, and my default position has been anyone whose hand is not soiled with

01:55:39.860 the blood of the Iranian people should have a possibility of seeing a place for themselves 0.92

01:55:45.440 post-regime collapse.

01:55:46.820 We don't want debatification.

01:55:48.520 We don't want that mess.

01:55:50.300 And of course, the Iranian people have the right to seek justice, and they will have 1.00

01:55:54.520 their day in court, and those responsible will have to account for their crime. 0.71

01:55:58.460 majority of these people who are not part of this top echelon of the regime that benefits

01:56:02.860 from this arrangement. 0.62

01:56:03.860 It's a mafia that's just sucking the blood out of Iran and its resources. 0.99

01:56:07.880 Once they're out, those are the people who stand to face the music. 1.00

01:56:11.700 Would they rather stand with a sinking ship or do they think that this is the moment now

01:56:15.480 to join with the resistance and the movement of liberation?

01:56:19.020 And we are providing them an option so they are not in no man's land.

01:56:23.000 That also depends on how the world responds to this phenomenon because you cannot on the

01:56:26.820 one hand ask people to defect and for people to rise if the world is still trying to negotiate

01:56:32.740 yet another deal with this regime or push back or postpone this opportunity. And this window is

01:56:38.740 open right in front of us right now, but it won't last forever. So we have to start calculating

01:56:43.540 whether there needs to be a policy reset from a four decades long collective policy of the Western

01:56:50.020 world, America and its European lives included, that has been mostly containment and appeasement,

01:56:55.300 or we need to move to the next level now, because I think this regime has given far more chances

01:57:00.740 to come clean, and they haven't. And how long do we want to kick the can down the road and say,

01:57:05.140 not under my watch? This is really what we're facing right now.

01:57:07.860 I'm kind of digging the way history is rhyming here. We've gone from cassette tapes in the 70s

01:57:12.740 to QR codes in the first quarter of the 21st century. I was going to ask you about the Iranian

01:57:18.660 diaspora, but you mentioned something a couple of times about Western appeasement. So it's fair to 1.00

01:57:24.020 to say that you are opposed to a new nuclear agreement should one materialize or should

01:57:30.640 there be negotiations for a new nuclear agreement?

01:57:33.820 Well, first, I don't see one coming.

01:57:36.240 And I think we are past that point because the regime right now is so brittle and so

01:57:40.860 vulnerable that as a last resort, I don't think they will cave in.

01:57:45.920 In fact, they might double down.

01:57:48.120 And they have done that in the past.

01:57:49.980 What leads us to believe that this time they say, mea culpa, now we're going to be good,

01:57:53.460 They had ample opportunities to do that.

01:57:56.200 They were offered far better deals than the last offer they had received. 0.54

01:58:01.680 We can rewind tape all the way back to the days of Khatami. 0.52

01:58:05.940 And they still didn't take it.

01:58:07.500 But the question should be, why didn't they take it?

01:58:10.760 It's because the DNA and nature of this regime is such that they cannot coexist in the same

01:58:18.260 sphere of rationality of the world as we know it.

01:58:21.360 The entire existence depends on exporting this ideology.

01:58:26.820 That was the entire purpose from day one. 0.72

01:58:30.240 Khomeini, who then was champion as the person who would liberate Iran by those who led that

01:58:39.320 campaign against the previous regime, could not have imagined what the consequences would

01:58:47.840 be.

01:58:48.840 If he only had listened to a simple answer that he gave in an interview to journalists

01:58:53.500 as he was flying back in that 747 Air France Boeing to Tehran, and he was asked after 15

01:58:59.840 years in exile, what is your feeling returning to Iran?

01:59:02.840 You know what he answered?

01:59:05.840 Nothing. 0.98

01:59:07.120 That set the tone of what Khomeini or this Islamic revolution was all about. 0.86

01:59:13.400 It was not even about Islam.

01:59:16.480 Because if you ask Iranian clerics today who are not part of the regime, never in our history 0.73

01:59:22.780 has that particular faith been so damaged and people turning out from the faith.

01:59:28.380 Right now in Iran, the largest, fastest growing religion is Christianity.

01:59:32.720 We have over 1,500 underground churches in Iran.

01:59:37.360 You all remember?

01:59:38.980 So that's a really important point here.

01:59:42.860 people don't realize is that less than 30 percent of iranians are actually muslim um you know the

01:59:50.140 islamic republic will put out you know stats saying that like 99.9 percent of iranians are muslim

01:59:57.660 nothing further from the truth nothing further from the truth the islamic republic is obviously 0.99

02:00:03.900 a brutal totalitarian islamic dictatorship that lies about everything so they also lie about 0.99

02:00:10.300 the religious reality of Iranians. Less than 30% of Iranians are Muslim. In fact, 0.99

02:00:18.500 the Islamic Republic itself put out a news article a few years ago, where they had to admit that

02:00:28.260 out of like the 75,000 mosques in Iran, they had to shut down 50,000 of them because people just

02:00:37.620 weren't attending right so imagine that the islamic republic had to shut down 50 000 mosques

02:00:45.700 and permanently close them due to uh attendance failure right so less than 30 percent of iranians

02:00:53.540 are actually practicing muslims um i would say that probably the biggest majority of them are 0.99

02:01:00.340 atheist or agnostic just because we're just so sick of religion we just want nothing to do with 0.99

02:01:05.700 it um but for those who are still religious christianity is the fastest growing religion 0.85

02:01:12.100 in iran right now imagine that so whenever people are like oh islam is the fastest growing no it's

02:01:17.300 not it's in iran it's christianity fastest growing religion and the second fastest growing religion

02:01:23.460 is um zoroastrianism so there you go the two big um big and fastest growing religions and if you

02:01:30.980 guys don't believe me because i know some people are going to be like oh she's lying you know

02:01:35.300 know, whatever. Um, let me just pull up the article. Um, I mean, of course, anyone can

02:01:46.320 Google it, right? So here you go, like, literally. So this is from 2023, okay? Senior cleric

02:01:56.120 claims religion in Iran weak, 50,000 mosques closed, right? So that's coming from the Islamic 1.00

02:02:04.060 Republic itself here. So a senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques are

02:02:15.780 closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians attending. So literally two-thirds of Iranian

02:02:22.880 mosques had to shut down because Iranians just weren't going, right? There you go. So you guys 1.00

02:02:30.180 can look it up right just just look up 50 000 mosques closed in iran and you'll see it so

02:02:35.560 anyone who wants to tell you that like we iranians were like majority muslim or whatever it's nonsense

02:02:41.700 it's it's basically like the biggest lie ever um we're very religiously diverse we're all

02:02:48.140 different religions but again right now like it's not it's not a muslim majority country

02:02:53.840 by any means whatsoever.

02:02:57.040 All right, let's go back and continue watching.

02:03:04.140 Remember, I'm going to go back a little bit.

02:03:06.900 ...who are not part of the regime.

02:03:09.580 Never in our history has that particular faith been so damaged

02:03:13.580 and people turning out from the faith.

02:03:16.480 Right now in Iran, the largest, fastest growing religion is Christianity.

02:03:21.040 We have over 1,500 underground churches in Iran.

02:03:25.760 You all remember, talking about your article, that back then the first exodus of Iranians

02:03:31.480 that were forced to exile were people who were immediately persecuted by the regime

02:03:36.040 because they were Jewish or they were Baha'is and what have you. 1.00

02:03:40.360 And yet they came to this country, many of them run this country, but they're dreaming

02:03:44.280 of an opportunity to be able to help Iran again.

02:03:47.720 And how good that would be for Iranians and how good it would be for this country.

02:03:51.740 What stands between that future is this regime that continues to take hostages, that continues 0.89

02:03:58.180 to fund whenever they can elements to bring more instability in the region.

02:04:03.100 Bottom line, they are the ultimate problem. 1.00

02:04:05.400 The Iranian people know that. 1.00

02:04:07.560 Many people in the world are beginning to recognize that.

02:04:10.240 The question is, is there the political will to do something about it?

02:04:13.840 And that's the part that I'm afraid to say I have seen so far missing.

02:04:18.040 I'm not saying it's going to remain like this all the time.

02:04:20.780 But there needs to be a clearer process of making decisions.

02:04:25.980 And I always remember two eras in history that marked and defined the world as we know

02:04:32.220 it.

02:04:33.220 One was during the Second World War when you had Roosevelt and you had Churchill. 0.83

02:04:37.920 And that combination ultimately put an end to the Third Reich. 0.65

02:04:44.460 The second time Iran was Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. 0.59

02:04:47.940 They were able to bring an end to the Soviet Union and of course Gorbachev had a role to 0.68

02:04:51.540 play in that. 0.67

02:04:52.540 Agreed. 0.70

02:04:53.540 Today the question is, we are faced with a situation where this very same Iranian regime 0.97

02:04:58.340 that the British government tried to appease is stealing drone technology by sending students 0.88

02:05:03.920 in British universities to transfer it back to Iran to serve the Russians in the campaign

02:05:08.320 against the Ukraine, just on that front. 0.99

02:05:11.420 What would be the prospect of a world where the whole region might be yet again dominated

02:05:16.820 by another kind of superpower that does it in a different way?

02:05:20.400 And I'm talking about China, obviously, or for that matter what happens right now in

02:05:25.140 the symbiosis between the Iranian regime and Moscow when it comes to the Ukraine conflict.

02:05:30.920 All of that being a situation where no Western leader has yet to identify the problem and

02:05:36.540 the head of the state.

02:05:37.540 So we are trying to appease the biggest culprit that is the reason for all of this instability.

02:05:43.800 And I don't understand at the end of the day what's the rationale behind that formulation

02:05:48.460 of foreign policy.

02:05:49.680 I asked David Cameron when I was in London two months ago, why is it that you're not

02:05:55.260 subscribing the IRGC as a terrorist organization?

02:05:59.640 And his answer was, well, our basic thinking.

02:06:04.520 So for those who don't know, the IRGC is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

02:06:11.160 That's the sort of paramilitary branch of the Islamic Republic that maintains the Islamic Republic and keeps it in power.

02:06:19.600 So it is a very dangerous organization. 0.85

02:06:23.740 It's a terrorist organization. 0.75

02:06:25.460 It basically wages war and jihad against Western civilizations and exports its terrorist jihad ideology outside of Iran.

02:06:36.440 And that's why a lot of us Iranians, we have worked very hard in various countries that we're in.

02:06:41.840 So, for example, I'm in Canada.

02:06:43.720 I worked very closely with the Iranian Canadian community to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity.

02:06:51.780 and it took us seven years but thankfully finally last year the irgc um was put on the canadian

02:07:00.660 terror list so that was like that was a big deal um and my understanding is that the irgc

02:07:06.420 uh is of course also a terrorist entity in canada sorry in the united states and i think it was only

02:07:12.100 maybe a month or two ago that it was um put on australia's terror list as well so that's big

02:07:19.220 right like countries need to recognize that the islamic revolutionary guard corps

02:07:23.620 um is a islamic terrorist entity um it is radical islam and it is working to actively export 0.58

02:07:33.700 its jihadi ideology um around the world and especially into western countries and the 0.51

02:07:39.540 foreign office i'll i'll go back a little bit but when he says irgc he's really he's referring to

02:07:45.540 to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?

02:07:48.460 What would be the prospect of a world 1.00

02:07:50.680 where the whole region might be yet again dominated

02:07:54.040 by another kind of superpower that does it

02:07:56.600 in a different way?

02:07:57.460 And I'm talking about China, obviously.

02:07:59.800 Or for that matter, what happens right now

02:08:02.040 in the symbiosis between the Iranian regime and Moscow

02:08:06.000 when it comes to the Ukraine conflict.

02:08:07.980 All of that being a situation where no Western leader

02:08:10.840 has yet to identify the problem and the head of the state.

02:08:15.180 So we are trying to appease the biggest culprit that is the reason for all of this instability.

02:08:20.920 And I don't understand at the end of the day what's the rationale behind that formulation

02:08:25.580 of foreign policy.

02:08:26.780 I asked David Cameron when I was in London two months ago, why is it that you're not

02:08:32.380 subscribing the IRGC as a terrorist organization?

02:08:36.760 And his answer was, well, our basic thinking and the foreign office is we don't want to

02:08:42.440 use our channel of diplomacy, which is our embassy in Tehran. Really? Didn't you use Switzerland as

02:08:48.760 an interim or the Qataris for another reason? Do you really are telling me that you're afraid of

02:08:53.320 subscribing to the IRGC just because you don't want to lose a diplomatic channel with the Tehran

02:08:57.400 regime? Come on. But that's one of the problems, among others. Anyway, I don't want to go...

02:09:04.040 I started out the question about nuclear negotiations. Would a post-Islamic republic 1.00

02:09:08.760 pursue nuclear technology recognizing that much of the infrastructure is not workable at the moment

02:09:15.640 but there is there are still iranian nuclear scientists uh there is know-how there are i'm

02:09:20.840 sure there are sites that the united states in israel did not find um would it pursue you know

02:09:27.960 from the very beginning it just didn't make any sense for me to consider iran as a country that

02:09:34.040 would be in a situation to actually have nuclear reactors for a number of reasons.

02:09:40.360 But didn't your father start the program?

02:09:41.880 Well, I will explain. But let me, okay, we'll go back. Yes. In the 60s,

02:09:46.440 when we were starting to look at other sources to provide electricity and not use fuel only as a

02:09:53.640 source for generation of electricity, you know, thinking more of the byproducts in petrochemicals

02:09:59.080 and what have you, at the time we started looking at different options.

02:10:03.320 There were gas turbines who were not efficient enough at the time and rather expensive, solar

02:10:08.200 energy which was really in its infancy, nothing to do with what it could be today, and of

02:10:12.680 course nuclear. 0.95

02:10:14.200 And we came to nuclear because ultimately it was more cost effective, which is why Iran

02:10:18.200 signed the NPT.

02:10:19.840 We had shares in Framatone, which was I think the entity that would have provided the nuclear

02:10:25.580 us for the two first reactors that were supposed to come online in Boucher in 1982 and of course

02:10:30.780 in the middle of all this revolution happened. That was the calculation back then. But when

02:10:36.780 I look at Iran on a seismic plate, very little water and access to water in low population area,

02:10:42.940 it just doesn't lend itself to it. And I think today there are so many technologies

02:10:47.420 in renewable energy, solar being one of them, that Iran is a perfect candidate for that we can

02:10:53.420 certainly bypass that nuclear aspect in 2025 as opposed to 1971 or 72. Anyway, that's my

02:11:04.940 personal viewpoint. I leave it to the experts to assess that. I'm just sorry to share that billions

02:11:10.780 and billions of dollars have been wasted on this program that has yet to generate

02:11:16.780 in any practical way electricity. But something that is even worse is that

02:11:21.740 But as far as the nuclear ambition program of this regime, it has cost our country over

02:11:28.780 a trillion dollars worth of loss or damage.

02:11:35.200 So the whole narrative is shifting towards, let's be sane in mind, let's be concerned

02:11:40.740 about environmental issues.

02:11:43.320 And I've been spending a lot of time with Iranian entrepreneurs and American entrepreneurs,

02:11:49.200 of them in the fields of how can we best tackle this thing and Iran's energy needs and requirement.

02:11:56.260 And more often than not, the nuclear issue doesn't even pop up, number one.

02:11:59.660 Number two, I think that as far as the possibilities of having more impact in terms of Iran's economy,

02:12:08.020 I think these other industries will provide much more immediate jobs for the country than

02:12:13.640 any nuclear program would.

02:12:15.400 But again, this is my personal opinion.

02:12:18.080 So the future of Iran has to be on par with making sure that we are using the safest technologies, 0.99

02:12:26.780 the ones that are most beneficial, and steer away from anything that could be subject to

02:12:31.820 question.

02:12:33.760 And we will operate in full transparency as we did before, unlike a regime that has

02:12:38.260 never been transparent on the subject.

02:12:40.800 And if you ask Grossi and the IAEA what's their take on the Iranian ambitions, they

02:12:45.680 still won't be able to give you a clear answer.

02:12:48.060 more when you ask me about the nuclear negotiations. That's one of the issues. Can you actually trust

02:12:52.860 them and what they tell you or what they commit to? Let's go back to domestic politics in Iran.

02:13:00.700 Your critics, my apologies, your critics, not me, they contend that one, the Iranian opposition

02:13:08.620 is terribly divided and that the diaspora community is terribly divided and that you've

02:13:15.580 been unable to unite the diaspora community so they question whether you'd be able to unite

02:13:22.060 iranians around a transition after the collapse of the islamic republic how do you answer that

02:13:27.340 question what is what what is the state of your movement and and and how do you plan to unite

02:13:32.300 iranians who have very very different views about a post-islamic republic around well for anybody

02:13:37.900 who is interested in the facts rather than the narratives i will point them to the facts and the

02:13:43.660 best fact that i can point them to when it comes to your question is last month when i was in

02:13:47.900 germany we had the munich conference which was a conference that was the vastest and more diverse

02:13:54.860 ever within the iranian opposition in 46 years i was there by the way so i was at the um munich

02:14:02.300 conference uh and it was it was fantastic it was i think over like 500 people there plus like so

02:14:09.500 many more people wanted to come but they kept it like to 500 for security purposes um but it was

02:14:16.700 such an incredible incredible conference it was like 12 hours um one of those like lifetime

02:14:25.340 memories that i will cherish forever and it was it was such a unifying moment for us because it

02:14:33.180 It was like Iranians from all over the world, plus, you know, Iranians inside of occupied Iran were watching and, you know, sending messages and sending videos.

02:14:45.100 You know, it was just such a unifying moment for all of us.

02:14:49.820 And that Munich conference really showed how united the Iranian nation is in the face of radical Islam and how united we are in terms of wanting to overthrow the Islamic Republic and getting our country of Iran back from radical Islam.

02:15:11.240 years, including people from different walks of life, ideologies, former Marxists and leftists

02:15:17.400 were there, Republicans were there, representative of Iranian ethnic groups were there,

02:15:22.400 representative of the latest wave of Iranian victims to the regime's repression during the

02:15:28.560 mass revolution, kids that were shot in the eye, their grieving mothers, they were all there.

02:15:34.000 And it's on record for everybody to see. And the video is out there, you can go and study that.

02:15:39.000 yesterday a new website was launched which is the iran rising website it was launched about

02:15:48.700 9 a.m yesterday as of 10 30 this morning i asked one of my assistants what was the response we had

02:15:56.340 over one and a half million views already in 20 so the iranian revolution actually has a website

02:16:05.620 and make sure that you're following me because the English version of the website was recently

02:16:11.780 released and what I am going to do in one of my future live streams is I'm going to walk you

02:16:18.380 through that the English version of the website because it provides a lot of very interesting

02:16:27.420 information and also tidbits on what you can expect in the future when it comes to the Iranian

02:16:36.780 revolution and overthrowing the Islamic Republic and defeating that radical Islamic ideology.

02:16:44.300 So make sure you're following me because I will speak about that in the next few days.

02:16:48.700 Four hours and people from inside Iran are putting their names out there to join this

02:16:53.820 campaign and participate. If that's not an indication of unity and solidarity, I don't 0.57

02:16:59.500 know what else I can put on the table as a proof to you people. So if you go and check that out,

02:17:05.900 these are the facts, these are the measurables, and it's on that basis that I would say Iranians

02:17:11.820 are becoming far more united. The opposition is getting more and more organized and working

02:17:16.860 together on a common agenda, and the response from inside has been of course the strongest ever.

02:17:23.180 And the interesting thing is that I announced this platform on the day of a national celebration

02:17:29.660 of one of our cultural days, which is Mehregan.

02:17:34.000 Mehregan, which is the celebration of light.

02:17:36.840 And we...

02:17:37.380 Mehregan, easiest way to describe it, it's basically like Iranian Thanksgiving.

02:17:42.280 We celebrate it for the fall equinox.

02:17:45.320 We celebrate the harvest.

02:17:46.720 We celebrate, you know, the bounty that comes in.

02:17:49.320 And it is like a festival of light there.

02:17:51.080 But it's pretty much like Iranian Thanksgiving.

02:17:53.920 I've never had this particular celebration as vivid as others, like Nouruz, for instance, or Yalda, which are other national celebrated cultural holidays.

02:18:08.260 And for the first time in 46 years, Mehregan was at the widest possible scale celebrated in Iran.

02:18:17.080 And that was also part of my call.

02:18:18.760 Let's do it on this day. 0.80

02:18:19.840 I think that shows the connect that shows the way people conglomerate and

02:18:25.240 how they respond to me and my appeal to them and these are all the measurables

02:18:29.880 now of course some people hate my guts and don't like my face I can't do

02:18:33.560 anything about that but I think that if you were to take an opinion poll in Iran

02:18:38.020 and in fact there's a lot of data about that surely a lot of people know that

02:18:41.980 I'm among anybody else the most popular and the most trusted element which is

02:18:46.580 why they like to respond to me, to be able to lead this movement for them.

02:18:51.800 Part of your narrative is that the Islamic Republic will come to an end. Now, forever is a 0.78

02:18:58.600 long time, but it has demonstrated resilience that I think people did not expect. It's been

02:19:06.060 under sanction for a very, very long time. This past summer, it took 12 days of pounding by the

02:19:13.620 Israelis and then the United States. And the targets that the Israeli state were not just 0.79

02:19:18.940 nuclear infrastructure or ballistic missile production, but as we discussed, instruments

02:19:23.660 of the regime's repression, yet the regime remains, seems to be stable and durable. Why

02:19:32.260 should we expect anything other? Well, first of all, you have a society that lives 60% of them

02:19:40.660 under the poverty line. Let's not forget that in 1979, the real was exchanged at 76 reals

02:19:48.340 to the dollar. As of yesterday, it's 101,180 reals to the dollar for the same nation with

02:20:01.200 the same amount of oil and gas in its reserves. And this is before snapback kicks in. I don't

02:20:07.820 see in what way that could be tenable for a starving nation on the one hand, and for

02:20:12.720 the regime not to have access to this kind of revenue, and how the hell they're going

02:20:16.900 to survive and maintain their war machine going on.

02:20:19.180 It's just a matter of time.

02:20:20.960 In that sense, it is vulnerable.

02:20:23.620 I'm as curious as you are to see the effects of snapback and what would that bring into

02:20:27.940 the issue.

02:20:30.300 And I think it's also the further isolation of Iran because if you look at what may happen 0.92

02:20:36.060 as a result of whether or not Hamas will accept the deal or not, then I think that this will

02:20:41.880 be a time to see to what extent internationally the regime is also more than ever isolated

02:20:47.780 and curtailed.

02:20:48.780 These are the actual dynamics in front of us.

02:20:51.320 One is domestic, one is on the international scene.

02:20:54.060 And I think we can, on that basis, say that if whatever until now has helped the regime

02:20:59.540 somehow manage to survive, but at the end it will fall.

02:21:03.940 It's not a question of if, it's a question of when.

02:21:07.060 And the real issue is, and I remember the end of the Cold War, not many nations, particularly

02:21:13.700 in the West, were prepared for the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

02:21:18.160 The mindset was the Berlin Wall might be around in our lifetime.

02:21:21.940 That's what I thought, by the way, and yet it fell.

02:21:24.640 But were we prepared for the aftermath?

02:21:26.740 This is one of those cases that I urge a lot of you to say, regardless of the status quo,

02:21:32.120 have to factor in that there could be a change. And if that change were to occur, are we prepared

02:21:37.960 for it? Not to fall in the same problems in the post-Soviet Union collapse. That was not necessarily

02:21:45.320 anticipated. This time we can anticipate. And in fact, this is the answer to a lot of people who

02:21:50.680 keep saying, we don't know what's going to be happening after the regime collapse. Is it going

02:21:54.680 to be more chaos? Is it going to be more instability? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I think that we

02:21:59.160 We have enough data and actual measurable resources both at home and abroad to prove

02:22:06.380 to you that Iran is not a country where you will face a vacuum or civilian strife.

02:22:13.280 Iran is not Afghanistan.

02:22:14.880 Iran is not Iraq.

02:22:16.320 It has its own dynamics, its own polity, its own civil society, although heavily repressed

02:22:26.160 but certainly alive and well.

02:22:27.920 And I think it is that element that can provide you that what you're investing this time on

02:22:36.300 is not a change of behavior by a regime that you cannot trust at the end of the day, but

02:22:41.360 liberate a nation that sees eye to eye on the same visions and principles that can be

02:22:47.720 an actual partner over there.

02:22:50.260 America by itself cannot and will not be able to maintain global stability without having

02:22:56.300 some partner in that in that case yes the abraham accord was a good start clearly was sabotaged by

02:23:02.620 this regime for obvious reasons and i've been saying this and i said this when i was in tel

02:23:08.060 aviv two years ago in a press conference that if we elevate the abraham of course to the cyrus of

02:23:13.420 course meaning that a different iran that is committed to regional peace and cordial relationship

02:23:20.300 with our neighbors will be the element that will seal the deal and allow for that process to take

02:23:26.140 place. So we don't have to worry about the relationship between Tehran and Jerusalem and

02:23:32.300 Riyadh and all the other countries in the region. On the contrary, we create an environment that

02:23:38.060 is conducive to maintaining even more stability and encourage economic development, everything

02:23:43.500 that our country needs. And it cannot happen so long as this regime is there. And the regime knows

02:23:49.260 that. It's just trying to buy time. Its ultimate tactic has always been to buy time, hoping that

02:23:55.340 there won't be a Trump in the White House or there won't be somebody that will be more

02:24:02.780 aggressive as opposed to appeasing. That's what they've been doing as a tactic. And I

02:24:07.020 think the Iranian people see through it and I hope people outside the world begin to see through it

02:24:10.860 as well. Thank you. Well, we have exhausted my questions that I plan to ask. So it's now.

02:24:19.500 Okay. I think I'm going to stop here because I've been doing this for a while. It's getting

02:24:24.140 a little bit late i do have a long day ahead of me tomorrow um a good place to pause because i'm

02:24:30.860 going to um continue this tomorrow and you guys are welcome to of course join me and watch um

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02:25:02.940 and you know we're going to talk about whether or not radical islam is a threat to western 0.99

02:25:09.100 civilization and as you can see from the videos that i've shown you it 100 is a threat to western 0.92

02:25:18.180 civilization radical islam ruined iran and now that same ideology is being exported to your 0.95

02:25:26.340 countries and they're coming in under the under the guise of multiculturalism and diversity or 0.55

02:25:33.300 whatever other nonsense and when you try to call it out they accuse you of islamophobia

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Goldie Ghamari - October 16, 2025

Is Radical Islam a Threat to Western Civilization？ Lessons from Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

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