In this episode, we discuss the Iranian revolution and the Islamic coup d'etat of 1979, the Shah in exile, His Royal Highness King Reza Pahlavi, and what he thinks about the current situation in Iran.
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00:01:06.400in the chat hi everyone happy friday so today we are going to be here we go today we are going to
00:01:17.520be speaking about iran and the iranian uh revolution the current iranian revolution
00:01:25.280we're also going to be touching upon the islamic i mean some people call it the revolution i prefer
00:01:32.640to call it the islamic coup d'etat right because um it really was a hostile takeover and it wasn't
00:01:40.400really a revolution in the sense that we think it is um a huge hello to everyone on youtube thank
00:01:47.840you for joining me in the chat greetings to you i see people from south africa uh from israel
00:01:54.240from united states from iran hello and welcome to you all all right so we are going to get started
00:02:01.520this is a very important interview and it has not received enough attention
00:02:10.480and i'm probably going to play this interview you know various clips of it several times because a
00:02:16.080lot of people ask you know one of the biggest questions that non-iranians have is if iranians
00:02:24.080hate the islamic republic you know if iranians don't want to be governed by islam um why did
00:02:31.280they bring this in? Why did they choose this? The truth and the reality is that the 19790.78
00:02:38.360revolution was not about Islam. In fact, the Islamists at the time who were getting involved0.73
00:02:47.480had made it very clear that they have no intention of ruling, right? They have no intention of
00:02:55.720controlling Iran. And they also said, we have no intention of turning Iran into an Islamic state.
00:03:00.680Of course, they lied, as Islamists do. It's part of taqiyya. It's, you know, how they operate. And so we're going to dive deep into what the current Shah of Iran in exile, His Royal Highness King Reza Pahlavi, thinks about all of this.1.00
00:03:21.520And he speaks very candidly. He speaks very openly. And the reason that I am going to be
00:03:30.080playing this interview today is because he will be speaking at an event later today in Toronto.
00:03:37.700It's an event called Cyrus the Great. So it's in honor of the birthday of the founder of the
00:03:45.220Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great. So we have a big celebration or there is a big celebration
00:03:50.500organized. And the Shah in exile of Iran will be speaking at that event. So let's begin
00:03:58.980with this interview from PragerU. And he's going to break it down for you. And I'm also going to
00:04:06.200pause here and there to see if anyone in the chat has any questions. Of course, like I think I
00:04:11.940mentioned, I respond to super chats and I display your comments or questions on the live stream as
00:04:18.980so let's begin and thank you for joining everyone say what do they think what are they capable of0.61
00:04:23.740why revolution let's go to the war iranians what do they say what do they think what are they
00:04:28.300capable of why revolution who do you believe was behind it the cia the russians the marxists i've
00:04:35.220heard all kinds of theories i really believe that if the revolution had not happened iran should be
00:04:40.560by now south korea of the middle east instead of becoming the north korea the new iran what does
00:04:46.260that look like? There is a positive note to it. America might say, well, we want to leave them
00:04:50.740alone. They won't leave you alone. It has to be declawed. If not now, when? How many more
00:04:55.560generations have to be sacrificed? Your Highness Crown Prince of Iran, welcome to PragerU. It is0.66
00:05:02.480a great honor to have you here. I'm very glad to be here today and talk to you and be on your
00:05:08.880program. Thank you for inviting me. Well, this is going to be a fascinating conversation and I have
00:05:13.680many questions for you, but I actually want to start by doing something that I typically don't
00:05:18.220do at the beginning of an interview, and that is to thank you. I will surely thank you at the end,
00:05:24.840but I feel like you deserve a thank you from many of my Iranian friends who I have here living in
00:05:32.320the United States who expressed to me that you have given them so much hope. Not only have you
00:05:40.040given them hope that things will get better in in iran in your country but you've also been the
00:05:46.540embodiment of what iranians are are really and for many americans living in the united i just
00:05:54.260want to pause there so she's absolutely right um king has given many of us hope um that we can0.96
00:06:01.560overthrow the terrorist islamic republic and that we will overthrow the islamic republic again it is0.96
00:06:08.120one of the most brutal totalitarian dictatorships in the world. But he's given us hope because he1.00
00:06:15.260has been fighting this fight for 46 years, right? Ever since the Islamic Republic happened, he has0.99
00:06:20.440dedicated his life to freeing Iran. And the reason he gives us so much hope is because he speaks with
00:06:29.380such um eloquence and such elegance and um his message has always been the same it's been a
00:06:38.340message of hope um and he doesn't beat around the bush he answers all of the difficult questions as
00:06:44.920well and he gives us hope because he is part of a dynasty the pahlavi dynasty that modernized
00:06:54.060Iran, right? So we Iranians have a lot of respect for the Pahlavi dynasty, starting with his great
00:07:01.100grandfather, Rizal Shah the Great, followed by his father, Shahanshah Aryamir, Muhammad Rizal Shah
00:07:08.400Pahlavi, and now to Rizal Shah II himself. And when you look at the history of the Pahlavi dynasty,
00:07:15.960they modernized Iran. They brought Iran forward. Women in Iran had the right to vote before women
00:07:24.720in Switzerland. He's going to get more into this, but I just wanted to explain why he's given us
00:07:30.440hope. The other thing he has done is he has worked very hard to make the world realize that there is
00:07:37.880a difference between Iranians, you know, people like me, versus the Islamic Republic, which are0.98
00:07:44.460basically a group of savage jihadi terrorists who murder Iranians in the name of Allah and Islam,0.97
00:07:51.220they murder Americans in the name of Allah and Islam, they murder people in the Middle East,0.99
00:07:54.500they basically murder everyone in the name of Allah and Islam, right? And they wage this1.00
00:07:58.800never-ending jihad against Israel, against the United States, and their goal is to essentially0.96
00:08:04.860create this Islamic caliphate. And people think that this is coming from Iran. No,
00:08:10.320This is coming from the Islamic Republic, and my birth country of Iran was unfortunately one of the first victims of this Islamic colonization and oppression by the Islamic Republic.
00:08:25.120So we're going to dive deeper into that, but I just wanted to lay it out there for you, you know, the reason that he's giving us Iranians hope.
00:08:31.880In the United States, especially of my generation and younger, our experience with Iran has been terrorism and killing and death and terrible human rights abuses and, you know, the treatment of women and what we've heard has happened to young women like Masha Amini.
00:08:51.360And so when we hear about that regime in Iran and we associate all of that evil, it's been a blessing to us to know people like you and like the Iranians who do live here in the United States, who, in my opinion, are some of the most reasonable people I know.
00:09:11.340They're incredibly kind. They're incredibly warm. Best food ever. Almost all of them are
00:09:17.540successful entrepreneur, totally rational people. And I just have such a huge love for the Iranian
00:09:26.220people that reconciling the huge difference between the Iranians that I know and people like
00:09:32.420you versus the Iranians that I hear about in the Middle East, it's I have a great sense of gratitude
00:09:42.260to people like you who've really held up what Iranians are about. And so I just want to start0.99
00:09:49.700by just saying thank you. Thank you for everything you've already done. Well, I'm just doing my job
00:09:55.700and it's my duty to serve the best interests of my compatriots by at least being their voice to
00:10:04.200For people who know very little about Iran, the more you study Persia and the region, the
00:10:12.200region, the more actually fascinating it becomes, because that region has given birth to so many
00:10:18.300different societies, I guess, in some ways.
00:10:22.600Can you describe to us what has happened over, let's say, the last 100 years or so, since
00:10:29.460your grandfather became the ruler and then your father and what happened with you and why did you
00:10:36.100end up in exile? Actually, when you look at the legacy, the way people now look upon what my
00:10:45.140grandfather and my father did as the architect of modern Iran, in fact, they call my family the
00:10:51.040the Iran building family, demonstrates that the view was how to we can bring Iran from the, you
00:10:57.460know uh sort of underdeveloped country where most people were uneducated yeah so he's basically he's
00:11:05.120basically saying very politically correctly that his grandfather and then his father uh brought
00:11:10.400iran forward out of the dark ages because the previous dynasty the qajar dynasty they were
00:11:15.420terrible um they were basically under the control of the ottomans um and you know various other0.77
00:11:20.720foreign powers and they did nothing for iran they were incredibly corrupt um and under the under the0.72
00:11:27.140Qajar dynasty, Iran had turned into a very, um, poor nation. People were starving. There was a
00:11:33.060lot of poverty, you know, very little education, a lot of tribalism. And it was the Pahlavi dynasty0.99
00:11:38.040with, uh, with, um, his grandfather, Rizzo Shah the Great. Um, let me see, I'll find a photo of
00:11:43.880Rizzo Shah. Um, um, I'll find a photo of him here. Let me just download this. And then, um,
00:11:54.080that way i can refer to it when i need to just go to documents shows
00:12:03.140all right so let me pull up this picture of him so you can see exactly who i am referring to
00:12:14.580so this is it is a show the great okay um so this is the grandfather of the current shah of iran
00:12:23.780So prior to him becoming the Shah, I believe it was 19. Don't quote me on this. It was either 21 or 23, 1921 or 1923. He became the Shah of Iran through through a vote, by the way. Right. So it's not like a lot of people, you know, this is where the whole Islamist communist lies come in. Right. They claim that he basically like took over. No, he didn't. It was through a constitutional process.
00:12:50.020So the democratically elected parliament at the time called Majlis, yes, if you didn't know, Iran has been a constitutional monarchy since 1906. So the democratically elected parliament at the time actually voted to get rid of the Qajar king at the time and voted to have him become the new Shah of Iran.
00:13:11.140So the Pahlavi dynasty were legitimately there.
00:13:14.920And to me, they're still the legitimate rulers of Iran.
00:13:19.760So this is the grandfather of the current Shah of Iran.
00:13:24.380So let's get to a country that in the 70s was thriving, had a strong economy.
00:13:31.340Iranians were educating themselves, coming back to Iran to bring in whatever was necessary
00:13:37.060in terms of development and infrastructure.
00:13:38.840So I think it's really, in the last 100 years, because my grandfather stepped into the scene
00:13:43.640towards the second quarter of the 20th century, 1926 more or less, and he served first as
00:13:50.520the commander of the army, he was prime minister, and then he was prompted into the scene as
00:13:56.520a result of the previous dynasty, sort of like shying away from carrying their responsibilities,
00:14:03.080and he was called upon to step in and sort of literally take over power.
00:14:07.960And in fact, my grandfather wanted to first establish a republic in Iran based on the model
00:14:14.360of Ataturk that he admired a lot next door in Turkey.
00:14:18.200And interestingly enough, the clerics at the time and many of the people in the Iranian
00:14:24.200sort of elite were saying, it won't work here, you should crown yourself as the next king
00:14:31.000and form the new dynasty, which is what he did.
00:21:13.940And in fact, I'd like to take the opportunity, since you talk about Iran and Iranians, we0.78
00:21:18.440feel sometimes very frustrated where whenever something happens, media or political leaders,
00:21:26.900say Iran did this, Iran did that. I will urge you to help us correct that by saying this is not
00:21:33.700Iran and Iranians. This is the regime in Iran. So it's the Islamic regime, not the Iranian people.0.89
00:21:38.460That's one way to distinguish. This is so true. This is why I always, I always, always make a1.00
00:21:43.620difference between the Islamic Republic and Iran, right? Because we're Iranians, we are occupied1.00
00:21:50.360by the Islamic Republic. And it's the Islamic Republic that is responsible for all of the1.00
00:21:56.860terrorism you're seeing um in the middle east you know it's responsible for all of the violence0.95
00:22:02.140you're seeing against israel and of course it's responsible for all of the terrorism and anti0.98
00:22:06.940semitism you're seeing in western countries right that's all being funded by the islamic republic0.95
00:22:12.620because they are pushing their islamic caliphate um and they're indoctrinating people in the west0.91
00:22:19.660with this anti-semitic ideology so you know this is why we always urge people and you know again
00:22:26.460you heard it from uh his royal highness king we urge people in media to make that distinction
00:22:33.340between iran and the islamic republic because the problem isn't iran the problem is the islamic
00:22:41.660republic the problem is that jihadi islamo-fascist ideology that not only took over iran in 1979
00:22:51.100but is now you know making its way around the world and unless and until you can actually
00:22:57.980identify the source of the problem you won't be able to treat it and i think there is uh there
00:23:04.700is a deliberate intent to conflate iran with the islamic republic because they don't want people
00:23:11.580to know that the problem is not iran the problem is the islamic republic right the problem is their
00:23:18.380jihadi islamic ideology let me go back here because that's such a critical point and i want
00:23:25.740i want him to say that again resources being depleted it's just the nature of the regime
00:23:31.020and in fact i like to take the opportunity since you talk about iran and iranians
00:23:35.340we feel sometimes very frustrated where whenever something happens uh media or political leaders
00:23:44.300say Iran did this, Iran did that, I will urge you to help us correct that by saying,
00:23:50.380this is not Iran and Iranians, this is the regime in Iran. So it's Islamic regime,0.73
00:23:54.460not Iranian people. That's one way to distinguish the aspiration of Iranians from the doing of the1.00
00:24:01.420regime. That perception by itself is important. At the beginning, especially when the hostages0.92
00:24:08.540were taken in the American embassy in Tehran, and of course Khomeini had just hit the scene,
00:24:12.700I remember during that time leading to the revolution, I was still in Reese Air Force
00:24:17.820Base in Lubbock, Texas, and I can already see that sense of hostility against Iranians who
00:24:25.740had no fault whatsoever just to be Iranian. My own wife, who was studying in school in the Bay
00:24:31.500Area, was beaten up by some of her classmates just because she was an Iranian. But I think
00:24:36.700we have come a long way. I think many Iranians, especially those living in the United States,
00:24:41.500and for americans who have interacted example yourself with iranians by now should know the
00:24:47.500difference between what actual iranians believe or think as opposed to what the regime is projecting
00:24:53.260as being uh you know something that is totally alien to us in terms he makes a really good point
00:24:59.340i mean most people most people don't even know that they're like interacting with an iranian
00:25:04.460unless like we tell them because, you know, we're just culturally, our culture and our values are
00:25:12.540very similar to Western culture and values. And so Iranian immigrants, we assimilate quite well,
00:25:19.580right? I mean, you also have to think about this. 10% of the Iranian population live outside of
00:25:27.420Iran. That's actually a significant amount, right? Like, so there's about 9 million Iranians who live
00:25:32.960around the world um many have escaped the islamic republic as refugees and yet you never hear about
00:25:40.160you know the iranian refugee problem you never hear about mass migration of iranians um it's
00:25:47.100because to this day there still hasn't been like that sort of mass migration the same way that you
00:25:52.420see from like other places you also never see a lot of problems um with iranian immigrants right
00:25:58.780because the vast majority of us and i'm not saying all there's you know always bad apples everywhere
00:26:02.600But the vast majority of Iranian immigrants, when they go to a country, they go there to assimilate, they go there to contribute, they go there to be part of society. And many Iranians are, you know, highly productive members of society, whether they're lawyers or engineers, or, you know, in my case, I was a politician for seven years.
00:26:22.760um you know there's people who own own companies right like i think the ceo or one of the creators
00:26:28.840of uber was iranian so all these things right um and people don't really know this and people
00:26:34.620don't really think about it and that's because as iranians we integrate into the societies that
00:26:39.820we are in because we appreciate that western society we value the western way of living
00:26:47.940because that's what Iran was going towards before the Islamic Republic came and turned our country0.95
00:26:54.880into a 7th century Islamic hellhole governed by Sharia law.
00:26:59.820The values, in terms of beliefs, in terms of principles.1.00
00:27:17.000I think many Iranians, especially those living in the United States, and for Americans who have interacted, example yourself, with Iranians, by now should know the difference between what actual Iranians believe or think as opposed to what the regime is projecting as being, you know, something that is totally alien to us in terms of values, in terms of beliefs, in terms of principles.0.79
00:27:40.380And that's where all the problem started and continues to exist.
00:27:43.420You describe Iran as this prosperous economic society, right? And the revolution happens. If people were happy in Iran, presumably they were doing well financially and things were growing. Why revolution? Who do you believe was behind it?
00:28:03.260was it really from within? Or was it Carter? Was it the UK? Was it the fight over oil?
00:28:11.240Or was it the Russians, the Marxists? I mean, I've heard all kinds of theories on who took
00:28:17.600Iran down and why. And I'm curious, what do you believe is the truth?
00:30:33.120When he's talking about the anti-Western, anti-imperialist rhetoric,
00:30:37.720That's exactly what the rhetoric is at, like, the pro-Hamas jihadi Palestine rallies or whatever, right, where they talk about dismantling the settler colonial state and all of that as well.
00:30:55.340So, yeah. Oh, gosh. Unusual AI. You always have the funniest comments. Thank you for the Zio propaganda.
00:31:02.740And I mean, I am a Zionist. I do believe in the right of the state of Israel to exist. I'm Yisrael0.63
00:31:10.420Chai. So Zionist, guys, Zionist is not a bad word. I don't know why. I mean, these like jihadis,1.00
00:31:17.760they throw the word Zionist around as if it's some insult. Guys, Zionist basically just means
00:31:22.960that you believe in the right for the state of Israel to exist. And of course, as Iranians,0.99
00:31:32.020we do because our civilizations go back thousands of years and, you know, well before Islam was
00:31:38.340was invented. So yeah, you're welcome for the Zionist propaganda, I guess. Okay, so let's go0.93
00:31:45.900back and and listen to this. But this is so this is what I this is what I wanted to say. So this,
00:31:50.480this, this rhetoric and this narrative that you are hearing, right in these pro Hamas,
00:31:59.020pro-ballastine rallies or whatever they call them, where they talk about dismantling the
00:32:04.280settler colonial state. They talk about anti-imperialism, you know, and even though
00:32:08.980they're in the United States, they burn the American flag. Even though they're in Canada,
00:32:12.960they burn the Canadian flag. This anti-imperialism rhetoric is perfectly aligned with the Islamist0.98
00:32:20.500rhetoric, right? So they both have the same goal. They both want to undermine and destabilize0.97
00:32:27.860Western society. They both want to take over for various reasons. And so this anti-imperialist
00:32:34.280rhetoric that he is speaking about, right, that was happening in 1979, is happening again today
00:32:41.100in Western countries. Chris, what do you believe is the truth? Well, there were two major groups
00:32:48.900that were opposed to the way Iran was, the direction it had taken. Everything that I
00:32:55.560explained regarding women's right and things that were happening, the clergy didn't look
00:38:15.600fact iran was perhaps one of the most secular countries in the region before yeah again so0.98
00:38:27.360here these are these are women politicians in iran prior to 1979 right like do they do they look
00:38:39.680you know islamic to you right i mean yeah iran was a muslim majority country at the time the
00:38:47.120vast majority of people were practicing muslims but they were not islamic right like iran iran
00:38:54.880was a um a secular country it was a secular modernizing country iran didn't fit iran didn't
00:39:02.960become an islamic country until 1979 when the islamic republic took our country hostage but
00:39:09.880prior to that i mean again look women politicians they look like they could be politicians in canada0.81
00:39:16.460right i mean um this this is like this is the outfit this is like this is what i would wear
00:39:21.460when i would go to the ontario legislature to to speak right so iran was incredibly secular0.66
00:39:28.060this is what the islamists don't want you to know about right they want you they want people in the0.60
00:39:34.080west they want non-iranians to think that we're all just a bunch of like savage jihadis who yell0.75
00:39:40.520aloha akbar and death to america all day every day right and that's that's completely not the
00:39:46.360case it's the farthest thing um from from the truth i have another start comment guys so i'm
00:39:53.680going to share this and I'm going to read it for you guys. So Pidram says, Iranians trust only in0.83
00:40:01.560Pahlavism, 100%. The alliance of red and black is dead. Leftists, feminists, communists, and1.00
00:40:09.500globalists have all played their games for 46 years, but none of them have been successful.
00:40:15.040i completely agree with you um uh pedram i think the the last time that the islamists and you know
00:40:24.940the the progressives and all those people um were really able to fool iranians i think was really
00:40:31.100with the sort of the green movement you know joan bishop sabs or whatever back in like 2012 um and
00:40:36.800that's where the whole reformist narrative came but i think ever since then um it's been less and
00:40:42.580less effective and now it's come to the point where all of those like progressive lefty communists
00:40:50.780whatever um they basically have zero importance and zero influence in iran amongst iranians right
00:40:58.980um they have pretty much become professional grifters and all they do is they just want to
00:41:05.140uh keep keep this going like if anything i actually think that these you know lefties
00:41:12.100and communists and human rights activists um want iran to remain occupied because for them it's a
00:41:18.580professional grift that's how they make their money you know and if when iran is free they're
00:41:25.220going to lose all of their funding um so they're i think they're definitely part and parcel of that
00:41:31.060um and you're right iranians are done with it the only person we trust the only person that we want
00:41:37.460to revolution back in iran is is king and this is why um all of these various factors are feeling
00:41:47.140incredibly threatened and it's also why they're attacking him because he has done something that
00:41:54.020no other iranian opposition leader has been able to do he has united iranians across iran he has
00:42:03.380united iranians outside of iran he has united iranians of different backgrounds different
00:42:09.060faiths different religions different cultural you know whatever minorities everything right
00:42:15.620um he's even united those iranians who uh you know because there are some iranians who want
00:42:22.980a constitutional monarchy there's some who want a republic i'm personally a big fan of
00:42:28.260of constitutional monarchy. That's what I want to go back to because I believe in that particular
00:42:35.500democratic system. And again, that's what Iran was prior to 1979. But he has even managed to
00:42:42.120unite the Republicans and the constitutional monarchists because right now our fight is0.97
00:42:47.900against the Islamic Republic. And that is why you're seeing a lot of people, especially in the0.70
00:42:53.160chat, they're incredibly triggered, right? Because they know that the end is near. They know that
00:42:58.840the Islamic Republic will be overthrown. They know that the only person who is able to do it1.00
00:43:04.040is King Reza Pahlavi. And that is why they are constantly attacking him, right? Because if he
00:43:09.760was irrelevant, let me put it this way. If he was irrelevant, people wouldn't be attacking him.
00:43:15.140If he was irrelevant, people wouldn't care, right? But everyone is here and they're trying to attack.
00:43:21.020And so for those of you who are watching live right now and you're checking the live chat, this is the reason why. And the reason I'm allowing them to continue their spam comments is to give you a better sense and understanding of how these people have tried to silence Iranians and gaslight us for the last 47 years, but it's just not working anymore.0.98
00:43:44.440the movement is too big our support is growing exponentially every day and we're just going to0.95
00:43:50.840keep on going the end of the islamic republic is is near and this is the man who's going to free it0.99
00:43:58.600who's going to free iran from the islamic republic but we had to experience directly1.00
00:44:04.120the consequences back a little bit here represented in that but what can we do for ourselves0.96
00:44:10.440and how can we have the same system in our country because a lot of people say well you
00:44:15.560know iran was a muslim country how do we deal with these religious elements is this really
00:44:20.600what they are not and in fact iran was perhaps one of the most secular countries in the region1.00
00:44:28.840before the revolution but we had to experience directly the consequences of a religious
00:44:35.480dictatorship it's a little bit like the inquisition in europe that led to enlightenment and now you're0.77
00:44:41.480talking about an islamic inquisition in iran and what could happen post that in terms of returning
00:44:46.760to our roots and our a country where different religions lived together side by side for
00:44:52.120centuries christians or astrians jews baha'is muslims and we never had issues until this regime
00:44:58.760emerged and that's very important lesson that iranists had to learn the hard way but puts us0.51
00:45:04.920in the best possible position to navigate this challenge and land on solid grounds in the future
00:45:13.080once this regime is finally brought down. So do you think that the people who voted
00:45:18.760for the revolution, were they duped? Is that what happened? Were they basically tricked?
00:45:24.520Was it that the Marxists and the Islamists came together and created this new version of0.92
00:45:31.080politicized Islam that controlled the media and lied to people and people didn't realize really0.90
00:45:37.720what they're stepping into because it's almost like an oxymoron to combine Marxism with religious
00:45:43.560Islam because Marxism is really not about religion. And so the marriage of those two0.91
00:45:49.000seemed quite bizarre except for the purpose of political control and corruption. And so
00:45:55.880were the iranians basically tricked uh was it planned that this would happen or is it just a
00:46:03.560terrible accident and and just in a very very unfortunate situation so this is really really
00:46:12.920important he's going to dive in a little bit into the reason for the islamic revolution so so pay
00:46:22.200attention to this part because this is going to answer a lot of your questions about what exactly
00:46:28.040happened in 1979 because there is a lot of disinformation out there right now well you can
00:46:36.060imagine that in these four decades ever since i was plunged into the scene of iranian politics
00:46:42.960and opposition politics and what have you i had discussions with many iranians including many who
00:46:48.900were the most aggressive opponents of my father's regime, belonging to the same
00:46:54.740category of people you just described.
00:46:57.780And in our conversation, they often said that, you know, we now realize what we
00:47:03.980didn't know then, and most of them admit that we made a mistake.
00:47:12.020But the truth is that it was such a frenzy, it was such a euphoria that you
00:47:17.980could not have a rational discussion we had university professors swearing that they saw
00:47:25.580with their own eyes khomeini's face in the moon that's yeah so the level of insanity and like
00:47:38.140i don't know it was it almost became cult-like right like he's not joking there were there were
00:47:44.580people who basically said that Khomeini, right? Like the, the evil, um, Ayatollah who, who
00:47:51.860replaced the Shah, they said that he is destined to, um, take over and be the leader because they
00:47:59.200saw his face in the moon. Right. And there was actually like, um, there was like articles about0.85
00:48:07.580this right here let me let me show this to you so here's like um here's a screenshot
00:48:17.340wait i got to gotta put it up on the screen here um okay i gotta remove this
00:48:26.940okay so you see this like this says uh ruhola khomeini on the moon so there was literally an
00:48:33.820article from january 14 right it's a farsi article and it says madame tehran dishab dideh
00:48:45.140okay so basically it says last night the people in tehran you know saw his his face in the moon
00:48:55.660Right. Like this is this is the cult like insanity of the Islamists where they literally, you know, you had people in mass because they for whatever reason, there was like this weird religious fervor saying that like they saw the Ayatollah's face in the moon.0.60
00:49:14.120And now, you know, we're all like laughing at these idiots. But I mean, this is the danger of falling into that Islamic jihadi cult mentality. Right. And this right here is a perfect example of that. Right. So so when he says people were claiming that they saw the face of the Ayatollah in the moon, he's not joking.1.00
00:49:38.180there was literally like religious fervor about this right people were just no it's not a meme0.99
00:49:45.420it's real i know like but but but this is how the islamists operate like they're so low iq0.91
00:49:51.800and there's so much nonsense that we as iranians have dealt with because of the islamic republic0.81
00:49:58.600that if we literally didn't have documents like this to prove it you wouldn't believe us you would0.82
00:50:05.040not believe the type of nonsense. I mean, these are people who actually come out and say that
00:50:12.400Israel was successful in its attacks against the Islamic Republic because Israel uses genies.0.52
00:50:21.040Did you guys know that? Have you seen that? I'll find the video for you because I found the video.0.92
00:50:28.760I translated it myself. And I put it on my ex account a while ago. But I'm not joking.
00:50:37.920There's literally this like crazy Ayatollah here, guys, like I'm not even joking. Like this is the0.87
00:50:43.840I mean, it's it's in Farsi, but like, you literally have Ayatollahs who say that Jewish
00:50:53.300people have access to genies and the cosmic science since the time of David and Solomon,
00:50:59.640and therefore that's how they were successful. Like this is the level of intellect when we're
00:51:04.480dealing with the Islamic regime. These are the people who call themselves like the messengers0.99
00:51:09.340of Allah or whatever. Like they literally go on national TV and they claim that Israel uses
00:51:16.700genies right and then back in 1979 they made up so many lies right you know the ayatollah's face
00:51:23.420in the moon everything that comes out of their mouth is a lie even all the nonsense about you
00:51:27.980know the shah being a dictator it's all a lie it's all a lie and it's so frustrating when i see people
00:51:34.780who just parrot this you know these lies about the shah being a dictator or whatever0.59
00:51:40.700meanwhile those same like the same people who say the shah was a dictator believe that israel0.96
00:51:47.220uses genies do you do you understand how ridiculous these people are like just watch this video
00:51:53.480so when he says ajene ajene means gins right so he's basically saying they have access to gins0.88
00:52:10.700right david and solomon david solomon so he's saying the the jewish people have access to
00:52:16.660genies and cosmic science since the time of david and then he says historically the jews have always
00:52:29.740used genies their documents and traditions prove that right like this this is literally what islamic0.66
00:52:36.960terrorists think they they legitimately go on like islamic regime state tv and they claim
00:52:44.400that israel and jewish people use genies and then you actually and then it blows my mind that there
00:52:49.920are people in the west who think that these um inbred islamic savages are any sort of you know0.97
00:52:58.720intellectual or legitimate people whatsoever right and they say they they use genies for0.89
00:53:11.120warfare and intelligence operations throughout history so apparently there's like a massad branch
00:53:17.840um made up of genies or something right again this is the this the barbarity of these people
00:53:25.440right like this is how barbaric they are so yeah of course like they made up so many lies and the0.99
00:53:31.760this this is all like the non-harmless stuff like these islamists murdered iranians back in the 70s0.94
00:53:39.920late 70s they murdered iranians and then they blamed the shah right so all of the oh the shah0.77
00:53:46.400murdered so many people it was actually all the islamists themselves who were murdering iranians0.80
00:53:52.480in order to build a case to claim the shah was a dictator and overthrow him right it's the same0.93
00:53:58.000tactic it's these people um are willing to sacrifice anyone for the cause of their jihad0.91
00:54:05.200right it's it's the mo of islamic terrorists it's what we see in gaza it's what we see in iran it's0.94
00:54:13.840what we saw in iran in 1979 it's what we see in other places as well so let's go back so when
00:54:19.920talking about you know so when he says that people were claiming they saw the ayatollah's1.00
00:54:26.160face in the moon it's not an exaggeration it's the truth because these islamists are so insane1.00
00:54:33.040right that they will say and do anything in order to legitimize their power and they'll they lie1.00
00:54:39.200through their teeth constantly like all they do is lie lie lie so let's go back a little bit so
00:54:45.440can hear that part again. Most of them admit that we made a mistake. But the truth is that
00:54:52.640it was such a frenzy. It was such a euphoria that you could not have a rational discussion.
00:55:00.960We had university professors swearing that they saw with their own eyes Khomeini's face in the
00:55:08.000moon. We're not talking about an uneducated person be subject to some propaganda or brainwashing.
00:55:15.200this is a university professor saying that so when the intelligentsia or intellectuals fall
00:55:20.800into those trappings they didn't even know what Khomeini really stood for nobody had really read
00:55:28.000his pamphlet which if you read today was i mean this is just some badness behind it so he's
00:55:36.400He's referring to Khomeini's green book, right? And the green book is... Let me find something about that. Because there's one thing he said about an earthquake, and it will blow your mind.
00:56:04.220But like this, this, you know, religious Islamic leader actually wrote about earthquakes.
00:56:12.060So let me pull it up because I know like all the, you know, trolls in the chat are going to be like, yeah, she's lying.0.77
01:05:29.840And, you know, I referred to this earlier, but you're absolutely right.
01:05:32.660So one of the triggers of the major protests leading to, you know, the revolution was a fire in Cinema Rex.
01:05:39.760Cinema Rex was a movie theater in the city of Abaddon.
01:05:43.620And the movie theater basically went on fire.0.78
01:05:46.760And the Islamists, what they did is while people were inside watching a movie, they barricaded all of the doors, preventing anyone from exiting.0.92
01:05:55.820and then they lit the cinema on fire0.92
01:06:25.640when the Islamists had already taken over, and it was too late to go back, people realized,0.73
01:06:31.100oh, wow, the Islamists lied to us. It was not, it was not the Shah that did this. It was the0.68
01:06:38.000Islamists themselves. Again, right, this, this ties in directly with the MO of how Islamic terrorists0.99
01:06:45.680operate. Right. And, you know, it was it's so all that stuff about the Shah being a dictator,0.96
01:06:50.760It was absolutely false. The Shah loved his people. All of this death and violence and murder you see was at the cause of the Islamists. It was their fault. They were the ones who were doing it. And it's the same pattern of behavior that you're seeing today in Gaza. And, you know, of course, the attacks against Israel as well as it was in 1979. The Islamists all operate with the same jihadi mentality.
01:07:18.480Thank you. Thank you for that, Cyrus. Very important. And, you know, maybe at some point in the future, I will talk about Cinema Rex and expand more on that, because I think that's something that people definitely need to know about in order to understand the lies, right? The lies that are being propagated by the Islamists.1.00
01:07:40.480Do you think that any of the Iranians have any resentment towards the West? Are they blaming the CIA or the UK? Is there any of that type of resentment there?
01:07:55.740Look, let me give you a tacit example of the expectation that exists in Iran in terms
01:08:05.040of how can the free world come to our help.
01:08:11.120During the Green Movement, there were a lot of slogans, it was during the Obama administration.
01:08:18.580And you could see signs that people were holding in the English language to any camera covering
01:08:25.420But clearly, they were not practicing their linguistic skills, they were trying to send
01:18:04.740It's certainly, if not more than the military,
01:18:09.560or even if there are some military components,
01:18:11.380a lot of it is controlled by the IRGC,
01:18:13.360but it has become a point that they really have a lot of clot.
01:18:17.980And if you look at every time the regime has been intervening regionally,
01:18:22.300whether in Syria or even Lebanon and other places,
01:18:25.240there's some kind of an IRGC entity involved in that aspect.
01:18:29.820Yeah, guys, let me let me give you a little bit of a backgrounder on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. So for those of you who are not familiar with this, let me just share my screen here. Okay, I got to remove this one first.
01:18:47.700okay so this is from wikipedia wikipedia usually not trustworthy but don't worry like i'm gonna
01:18:58.600go through this with you guys and if there's anything here that's a bit wonky i'll let you
01:19:02.340guys know but but so this is this is a brief primer on the islamic revolutionary guard corps
01:19:07.680so what the shah was saying is very important the islamic revolutionary guard corps is basically
01:19:13.000this like paramilitary force that was created after 1979 by the islamic republic and it was made
01:19:21.480uh basically to defend the islamic republic from the military right because the military always
01:19:27.640existed um so they created the islamic revolutionary guard corps to protect the
01:19:33.320ayatollahs and the islamic republic from the military and then what they did subsequently
01:19:38.840is within the military, they also executed all of the top generals and commanders, and then they
01:19:44.960replaced them eventually with their own people. But there's still not as much trust for the
01:19:51.480military, which we call the artish in Persian. There's not as much trust for the artish as there
01:19:57.760is for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, right? So the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
01:20:03.340right now is extremely well-funded, the Artish, not as much. And people who are within the IRGC
01:20:11.300generally tend to be much more loyal to the Islamic Republic than those who are within
01:20:17.220the regular army. However, we are right now at a critical time within the Iranian revolution
01:20:25.660process because we know that there are at least um at minimum 50 000 people if not more
01:20:32.820who have defected from both the irgc and the artis who have defected from the islamic republic
01:20:41.080and have uh basically um um announced their loyalty to the current shah of iran right the
01:20:50.740one, the gentleman who's speaking, there's a Pahlavi. So, so, so there is a lot of moving parts
01:20:56.900behind the scenes. And I will definitely speak about that in another live stream. And I'll go
01:21:02.740into the military defections and sort of the relationship there. But for now, just a little
01:21:07.740bit of a primer on the IRGC. So, you know, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, I don't know
01:21:14.720why they say Iranian Revolutionary Guard, because again, there's like that, that's like, that's
01:21:19.160misinformation right there. So that's deliberate misinformation from people who are trying to
01:21:25.820conflate the two. No one calls it the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Even in Farsi, in Persian,
01:21:31.980we don't call it the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. And in Farsi, actually, it's called
01:21:36.260Sepahipastaran, right? So this logo here, this is the logo of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
01:21:44.440You can see they got their Allah there or whatever. It's Arabic. And then this symbol here, I mean, if this looks familiar to you, that's because it is. That's very similar to what Hezbollah uses, right?
01:21:59.700And Hezbollah, Hezbollah is a proxy of the Islamic Republic. So Hezbollah is a proxy of these people. It is fully funded by the Islamic Republic, even though Hezbollah is comprised of like, you know, Lebanese Arab people.
01:22:16.860And then here, so on the logo of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it says, let me just make it bigger for you. It says,
01:22:26.860So again, nowhere in the logo of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps do we see the word Iran.
01:22:45.140There is, in fact, nothing here, nothing here that would indicate that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iranian, except for the fact that the language is Farsi.
01:22:59.560OK, the language is Persian and only Iranians speak Persian.
01:23:04.840But there's literally nothing Iranian about this.0.93
01:23:09.340I mean, even like the Allah, right? Like it's all just very like Islamic jihadi nonsense. So that's the logo of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, right? So it's a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian armed forces.1.00
01:23:30.280So the Iranian armed forces, that's the Artish, right? That's the military. So it was officially established by Khomeini, you know, the evil cleric, you know, there he is with his ugly, ugly jihadi face and cloak and turban as a military branch in May 1979 in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution.
01:23:51.240so this is this is the important part and i'll just you know read this out for you guys and0.66
01:23:56.280i'll explain it and then we'll go back to the interview where is the army so this is what the
01:24:00.400king was talking about whereas the iranian army you know protects the country's sovereignty in
01:24:06.720a traditional capacity so the army of the country plays the same role as as any army around the
01:24:13.820world, right? But the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' constitutional mandate is to ensure the
01:24:21.860integrity of the Islamic Republic. What does that mean? That means that every single time
01:24:26.600Iranian people try to rise up to overthrow the Islamic Republic, the IRGC, the Islamic
01:24:33.060Revolutionary Guard Corps, comes in, murders Iranians. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
01:24:38.120comes in, brings in their proxy groups from around the Middle East, you know, brings in
01:24:42.420people from, you know, they bring in Hezbollah, they bring in Palestinians and like Hamas,0.98
01:24:47.960they bring in the Houthis, they bring in like Hashteshabi, like they'll bring in all of their0.84
01:24:52.920proxy forces, many of them who are not even Iranian to murder Iranians who are rising up.
01:24:58.940So, you know, I know a lot of, you know, one of the biggest questions that a lot of non-Iranians
01:25:03.700have is if Iranians, you know, hate the regime so much, if Iranians despise the Islamic regime so
01:25:09.860much. Why haven't you overthrown them? Well, the answer is there is literally an army that was0.88
01:25:17.440established in 1979 for the specific purpose of murdering Iranians whenever they try to rise up
01:25:26.180to overthrow the Islamic Republic, right? So that's the definition of living in a totalitarian0.84
01:25:32.500dictatorship. So because there is this Islamic army, right, this Islamic army was created in1.00
01:25:41.3201979 to protect the Islamic regime and to murder Iranians. So there's the answer to why0.99
01:25:48.800Iranians are having difficulty overthrowing the Islamic Republic. It's because there's literally0.94
01:25:55.480a military force mandated, right, created for the sole purpose of murdering people when they speak
01:26:02.440out okay let's go back to the interview now so that gives you a little bit of a primer
01:26:10.520on what the islamic revolutionary guard corps is why it was created and why iranians are having
01:26:18.320difficulty to overthrow overthrow the islamic regime so you may be funding hamas or hezbollah
01:26:24.820but there is an element of the rgc involving all these characteristics which brings me to the point
01:26:30.400of why it is that i think if they oh i just wanted to we have a start comment um the major
01:26:37.520find immortal a military history of iran and its armed forces by stephen r word best work on the
01:26:46.480subject in english oh wow okay thank you i will definitely look into that um and i will i will
01:26:52.000find that book and i will give it a read thank you so much for the suggestion i appreciate that major
01:26:56.480there's no shift in policy in terms of how do we deal with this regime how do we weaken this regime
01:27:03.040whether it's its proxies or whether it's the regime itself one of the issues on the table
01:27:08.720which i think should be part of that policy is the irgc should be sanctioned and placed on a list of
01:27:15.260terrorist organization some governments are looking at that finding the legal way to do that but0.64
01:27:20.060if you do not show the iranian people that we know the evil work that this regime is doing0.55
01:27:26.120against you in repression at home and what it's doing is proxy war, you cannot expect either0.94
01:27:31.220Iranians at home or our immediate neighbors like the Israelis or the Saudis to think there's an
01:27:36.620actual means of responding to the regime. And in the meantime, what do we do in dealing with0.96
01:27:41.740this situation? So it's not just limited to Iran. And why is it that it impacts America at the end
01:27:48.780of the day? Because I know many times I've heard Americans say, well, you know, it's all the way
01:27:52.740over there what should we be dragged into it anymore we had a so this is this is where he is
01:27:58.840going to respond to all of the isolationists right so all the people who say oh we don't care what's
01:28:05.600happening in the middle east has nothing to do with us you know we're here in america um it's
01:28:10.760none of our business he's going to counter that right now and he's going to give you the information
01:28:15.500that you're not getting in mainstream media right like he's going to give you the information0.98
01:28:20.780that the Candace Owens and the Tucker Carlson's
01:28:24.920and all these people who defend the Islamic Republic,
01:36:33.780And in that sense, you don't have to engage your troops.
01:36:36.640You don't have to spend your own money, but you can find ways of actually helping those campaigns within Iran to finally have a chance to be successful.
01:36:47.240That's so important. So again, like he's making the point very clear.
01:36:50.740He's saying we don't need American money.
01:36:54.020We don't need to engage American troops.
01:36:56.400But there are diplomatic ways of supporting the efforts of those who are trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic.0.89
01:37:04.260Right. So guys have to keep in mind when you when you hear all of these alarmists who come out and then they start screaming about, oh, World War Three, we don't want America to go to another war.
01:37:18.380You know, we don't want to waste American money. These people are coming from a very bad and nefarious place.
01:37:24.660These are the same people who are constantly defending the Islamic Republic and trying to maintain its legitimacy.
01:37:35.440So one of the tactics that they use, right, it's this disinformation campaign where they try to convince Americans that the only way the regime can be overthrown in Iran is for America to go in and change it.
01:37:49.140And that is literally the farthest thing from the truth that anyone is saying.
01:37:53.200We have never said that. We will never say that. We don't want that, right? But these people are funded to spread that propaganda, to spread that narrative. Why? Because this is how they keep the Islamic regime in power. They keep the Islamic regime in power by making Americans think that the only thing that can change the Islamic regime is World War III, right?
01:38:18.500And then Americans all of a sudden, they're like, oh, no, no, we don't want to support, we don't want to support, we don't want World War III, not understanding or not realizing that they are falling for the disinformation campaign that's being promoted by the Islamic regime and through the allies of the Islamic regime, including many pundits in the United States, right?0.81
01:38:40.680many pundits in the United States. And then there are unfortunately a lot of people who might not0.55
01:38:46.940necessarily be as familiar with how the Islamic Republic operates. And because they always take1.00
01:38:53.260a non-interventionalist stance and because they don't know anything about Iran, they assume that
01:39:01.100Iran is like Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya or whatever, they'll just automatically lump in
01:39:07.880Iran with those other countries, not understanding that Iran is a completely
01:39:13.780different scenario, completely different society. And prior to the Islamic takeover of Iran in 1979,
01:39:23.860Iran was a fully functioning democratic constitutional monarchy, right? So that
01:39:32.500Islamist narrative, unfortunately, has propagated the media quite a bit. And even a lot of people
01:39:38.820who don't know much about Iran will push that narrative or promote that narrative
01:39:47.040just because they don't know any better. So again, like what he is saying is we don't need
01:39:51.980American money. We don't need troops on the ground. There's no need to start World War III.
01:39:57.060The only ask from Iranian people is stop legitimizing the Islamic regime. Stop making deals with them. Stop giving them money. Right. Because the more money you give them, the more they're able to fund terrorism, the more they are able to remain in power by strengthening the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.1.00
01:40:18.400Again, what's the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? The IRGC is that paramilitary branch that they created in order to maintain power and in order to remain in power. So when you send the money, the money does not go to the Iranian people. The money goes to terrorism. It goes to the IRGC. It goes to Hezbollah. It goes to Hamas. It goes to the Houthis, right?
01:40:44.300so that's where um the the misinformation really comes in and then it drowns out the um the people
01:40:52.680um okay i oh i have a question um let me pull this up so omai says do you know what countries
01:41:00.720or people are funding the islamic regime i just got on it's very interesting and i'm learning a
01:41:06.340lot well welcome thank you for for joining great always great to see new people come and join us
01:41:12.200So, oh, my, I appreciate you and I'm glad that you're liking this.
01:41:16.480So the two major funders of the Islamic Republic are Russia and China, of course.
01:41:36.500And my understanding is that the Islamic Republic has been sort of circumventing some of the economic sanctions put on by the United States with the help of China, although now that President Trump has come back into power, that seems to be going down a bit.
01:41:53.660But the two major, major trading partners of the Islamic Republic are Russia and China.
01:42:02.700it also facilitates the transition post-regime because i know that some of the concern is are
01:42:12.680we going to have a scenario of chaos is it going to be a vacuum that is not filled are we going
01:42:18.420to have some that's the other thing so this goes to the whole narrative of people are like oh we
01:42:22.940don't want another libya or or iraq or afghanistan you know like um if the regime has changed it's
01:42:29.660going to be chaos. It's going to be civil war. Again, that's another narrative that's pushed
01:42:34.140by the Islamic Republic in order to prevent the world from supporting Iranians who want to0.99
01:42:42.580overthrow it. I mean, we were a fully functioning constitutional monarchy prior to 1979. And that
01:42:50.960is what many of us want to go back to. And in fact, he's going to mention this a little bit,
01:42:55.980But we do have a plan for the day after the Islamic Republic is overthrown.
01:43:02.800And I will be speaking about the day after plan in a future episode.
01:43:07.640So make sure that you're following me because I go live Monday to Fridays at 12 noon Eastern.
01:43:14.300So definitely want to be around for that because I'm going to break down the day after plan for you.
01:43:20.360So he does mention it very, very briefly here, but there have been some major updates since this interview.
01:43:28.880Let me go back just a little bit, and then we'll continue on.
01:43:34.540People are bringing it down, but that requires some support.
01:43:37.520Many of these campaigns in other countries did not succeed without tacit support from the free world.
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