Goldie Ghamari - October 30, 2025


Life in Iran after 1979： Times News Commentary (7⧸10)


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This is a pre-live stream about the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the recent anti-regime protests in the country. I give a brief overview of what was happening in Iran in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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00:00:00.000 Let's go
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00:02:00.000 good evening everyone thank you for joining me so this is not the um the main live stream the
00:02:29.520 main live stream actually starts at uh 8 pm tonight in about an hour and we're going to be
00:02:35.520 watching a um another documentary about the 1979 islamic revolution in iran and rating it and then
00:02:43.600 you know giving it um critiquing it and then giving it a rating out of 10. um but this is
00:02:49.360 sort of consider this the pre-show because uh this was a request by one of our channel members
00:02:54.960 um her name is jewish samantha and she sent the link to me and she asked me for my thoughts on it
00:03:01.280 and i i tried to do it uh previous nights after the other documentaries but i didn't never got
00:03:06.960 around to it and it is short it's only about um six minutes long so i figured we would do
00:03:13.280 sort of a little a little pre-show um and and we'll watch this one and myself and the iranians
00:03:20.400 um in the chat on youtube we'll we'll critique it and give our thoughts on that so
00:03:26.080 So for the non-Iranians, I just let everyone know who's watching on X and if they would 0.63
00:03:52.700 like to join the youtube conversation they're welcome to come to youtube um major so ten dollars
00:04:01.500 it says the article won't mention ali shariati um i don't know i guess i i guess we'll have to find
00:04:10.060 out we'll have to find out and see um so let me let me uh explain to you guys a little bit and
00:04:15.180 provide a little bit of context before we dig in here and actually watch the the commentary so
00:04:21.580 So it starts out by saying, since the revolution turned Iran into an Islamic republic, few
00:04:27.600 voices other than the party line have been accepted in the public realm and exposed externally.
00:04:34.020 As the recent anti-regime protests in the country show, so they're talking about 2020,
00:04:40.060 okay, so the 2020 anti-regime protests are before the 2022 ones, which became famously
00:04:47.780 known as the Women's Life Freedom Movement.
00:04:50.200 And I will dig into this a little bit. So as the recent anti-regime protests in the country show, a large group of Iranians has increasingly become disenchanted with the country's international isolation, structures of Islamic governance and what it sees as the blatant exploitation of religion for political ends.
00:05:11.660 how do Iranians living in the UK conceive of themselves and relate to their religion
00:05:17.040 society culture heritage and the recent political crisis so I want to give you a bit of a primer 1.00
00:05:23.620 on what was happening in Iran in 2019 and 2020 so um we actually refer to that time as bloody
00:05:34.240 november and the reason that we call it bloody november is um when riots were escalated sorry
00:05:43.680 not riots when demons like anti-regime demonstrations were escalating what the 0.67
00:05:49.360 islamic republic did is they shut down the internet they shut down communications
00:05:55.840 and then they massacred thousands of people the official number of young people that were
00:06:05.840 massacred is 1500 but all evidence shows that the number was likely much higher than 1500 1500 is
00:06:19.460 just the minimum, basically. And what happened in 2019, November 2019, is typical of how the
00:06:30.980 Islamic Republic operates. In the late 80s, they also engaged in a series of mass executions, 0.94
00:06:39.620 and the numbers range from anywhere from 5,000 to 30,000 or more people. So I just want to give
00:06:47.400 you a bit of context about what was happening um in 2020 because a lot of people think that
00:06:54.280 Iranians have only now been trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic the reality is that ever
00:07:02.780 since the Islamic Republic got into power in 1979 as of right then Iranians have been trying to
00:07:10.740 overthrow the regime and reclaim the country one way or another um the only reason that most people
00:07:18.260 don't know about it or haven't heard about it is because of exactly what happened in in um 2019
00:07:27.160 which is the regime shut down the internet i mean first of all prior to internet and social media
00:07:33.180 no one inside of iran even knew what was happening right like non-iranians had no clue what was
00:07:38.360 happening so that's the first thing um so for the first you know 20 30 years the islamic republic 0.93
00:07:44.280 was was very good at hiding the crimes against humanity that it was engaging in against the 0.95
00:07:53.720 iranian people because they're a totalitarian dictatorship they have control over um everything 0.94
00:08:00.300 right and any sort of news coming out of the islamic republic if it's coming from like official 0.98
00:08:05.800 media outlets that's basically islamic regime propaganda we iranians we don't trust that
00:08:10.600 um so that was that and then it's only because of internet and social media that that we are now
00:08:17.560 able to share with the world what is happening in occupied iran and what has been going on
00:08:23.480 for the last 47 years so what happened in 2019 here let me let me just read through this usually
00:08:30.760 i'm pretty skeptical about wikipedia articles but i i did read this one before i started um this
00:08:37.960 mini live stream and it is it is pretty accurate so we're just gonna i'm just gonna read this for
00:08:43.800 you guys so it's the 2019-2020 iranian protests so the 2019-2020 iranian protests sometimes known
00:08:52.440 as bloody november or you know um november is known as obon in farsi were a series of nationwide
00:09:02.120 civil protests in iran that took place in 2019 and 2020 initially caused by a 50 to 200 percent
00:09:10.440 increase in fuel prices they occurred as part of the wider iranian democracy movement
00:09:16.520 leading to calls for the overthrow of the government in iran and supreme leader ali khamenei
00:09:22.440 so you know guys even as far back as you know well this is only six years ago but we also have
00:09:29.100 evidence of as far back as 2012 right almost a decade ago people have been calling for
00:09:33.780 the overthrow of the um islamic republic so the protests commenced as peaceful gatherings on the
00:09:44.340 evening of 15th november but spread to 21 cities within hours as videos of pro of the protests
00:09:52.200 circulated online eventually becoming the most violent and severe anti-government unrest since
00:09:59.320 the iranian revolution in 1979 again i don't like iran so so what was happening in 2019 was getting
00:10:07.880 very close to the level of activity in 1979 when the um islamists and the communists took over the
00:10:16.760 country right so and then here you can see you know these are these are images so um
00:10:25.560 right these are all the anti-islamic republic demonstrators who were who were demonstrating
00:10:32.200 against um the islamic republic so here's where here's here's where it gets to the part where a
00:10:37.480 lot of people don't know about so to block the sharing of information regarding the protests
00:10:43.880 and the deaths of hundreds of protesters on social media it's not actually hundreds guys
00:10:49.800 it's thousands it's the deaths of thousands of protesters the government shut down the internet
00:10:55.880 nationwide resulting in a near total internet blackout of around six days so guys basically for
00:11:02.120 a week the internet was completely shut down those of us outside the country had no idea what was
00:11:09.960 happening inside um there there was no way for Iranians inside of occupied Iran to communicate
00:11:18.440 with the outside world because the Islamic Republic had shut down the internet completely
00:11:24.920 and then in an effort to crush the protests the the the Islamic Republic shot protesters dead from
00:11:32.920 rooftops from helicopters and at close range with machine gun fire in an effort to mask the scale
00:11:41.320 and cause a casualty count of the protests it hauled away large numbers of bodies of the dead
00:11:49.360 protesters and threatened families of slain protesters to not speak to the media or hold
00:11:56.440 funerals um that's how the islamic republic operates guys so so this what you're seeing
00:12:02.800 here this is what they have been doing for 47 years um they did it in the um 1980s
00:12:11.800 and they've been continuing to do it there are still um thousands of families who
00:12:19.780 who don't know what happened to um their children because they were doing this guys they were doing
00:12:27.520 this to mostly um university students right people people in their um late teens early 20s
00:12:34.800 so this is the only part that i disagree with guys as many as 1500 iranian protesters were killed
00:12:42.400 guys it was way more than that like some numbers show that it could have been as high as 5000 if
00:12:48.720 not even higher than that um we just don't know because the islamic republic has been you know
00:12:55.920 hiding all the bodies the government crackdown and protests resulted in the destruction of 731
00:13:02.480 government banks including iran's central bank nine islamic religious centers protesters tearing
00:13:08.720 down anti-american billboards guys it's important right the protesters so so the islamic republic 0.86
00:13:15.280 spends money to put up um billboards that are anti-american right you know death to america 0.90
00:13:23.760 all that nonsense as part of the as part of the um demonstrations against the islamic republic
00:13:34.240 the iranian university students were tearing down anti-american billboards right because
00:13:39.520 that was their way of trying to show the world that um this anti-american ideology is not
00:13:48.880 something that they agree with and they were trying to show the world that you know we have
00:13:54.400 no enmity with with america it's the islamic republic right so it was very very purposeful
00:14:00.800 for them to take down anti-american billboards they were also taking down posters and statues
00:14:08.080 of the supreme dictator ali khamenei and um the president at the time oh and the former supreme
00:14:15.200 dictator khomeini right so they were literally tearing down statues of the islamic republic's
00:14:20.720 supreme dictators right um 50 government military bases were also attacked the i hate that they call
00:14:29.200 it the iranian regime guys it's the islamic it's the islamic regime the islamic regime also employed
00:14:34.400 a week-long nationwide internet shutdown becoming the longest total internet shutdown in a country
00:14:41.520 it was also the first blackout that effectively isolated a whole nation so
00:14:49.600 that's basically um what happens in occupied iran whenever iranians try to rise up so for those of
00:14:56.800 of you um who you know always had that question well if iranians hate the islamic republic why
00:15:04.660 don't they rise up they have they have been trying constantly and yet every single time they try 0.71
00:15:11.560 they're mass murdered right and we iranians we know about bloody november but but non-iranians 0.97
00:15:21.820 don't know about it because again the islamic republic tries desperately to hide this stuff 0.59
00:15:27.100 and this wasn't really in the news it wasn't it wasn't in the media no one was covering this um 0.89
00:15:32.940 and all of us outside of the country we were freaking out because it was a total blackout
00:15:38.700 and unless you've experienced it unless you've lived it it's it's incredibly hard to imagine um
00:15:45.180 um living in a country where where the government will um shut down internet access in order to 0.61
00:15:57.900 murder you right it's basically like gen it's a genocide like the islamic republic has been 0.70
00:16:04.020 genociding Iranians for the last 47 years and no one ever talks about that so that's basically 0.73
00:16:11.280 sort of a summary of the 2019-2020 Iranian protests, which is what this commentary
00:16:22.720 by Times News is referencing. So now we're actually going to watch the video itself.
00:16:31.540 we just put it up on stage okay and again this video was made at the request of um one of our
00:16:42.120 channel members jewish samantha so uh you know one of the perks of being a member is you know
00:16:48.900 you get priority access to um what we critique and talk about during the live streams so again
00:16:55.820 this is just this is just sort of the pre-show um our main documentary uh will be live streaming
00:17:03.020 at 8 p.m on a separate live stream so make sure you tune it after this as well so let's go through
00:17:08.460 this and i will let you guys know um how accurate or not this is nostalgia is creeping through the
00:17:21.500 the society for the times before the revolution,
00:17:24.280 which is considering what the regime has done
00:17:27.480 in the last 40 years is completely normal.
00:17:33.240 People forget that before the revolution,
00:17:36.000 there was still corruption, still political prisoners.
00:17:39.040 There were still tortures in prisons.
00:17:43.440 The change was needed.
00:17:44.900 Definitely there was a change that was needed,
00:17:47.160 but in hindsight now, looking back, this wasn't.
00:17:51.500 Obviously for us, it was like an earthquake.
00:17:58.500 I know her actually, so I know Nazanin.
00:18:01.500 I met her when I traveled to Israel last year.
00:18:05.500 Wonderful woman, very, very smart, highly educated.
00:18:08.500 You know, I remember the last meal I had in Tehran,
00:18:12.500 which was Bogolipolo, my favorite.
00:18:15.500 Arrests started.
00:18:18.500 so guys these are what you're seeing this is footage from iran prior to the islamic republic
00:18:24.820 right that's why women can walk around freely without without their hair covered or anything
00:18:29.460 like that schools were closed we became refugees in the sense that we had nothing
00:18:36.180 everything we had was in iran
00:18:38.820 it was like something something so grand happening you know that everybody wanted
00:18:49.380 either to be a part of it or witness it you know personally I was a witness to that
00:18:55.420 and I have apologized to the people of Iran to history for being a witness to what that and
00:19:03.340 So that's a sentiment of a lot of Iranian people who were around in 1979, because again, one of the false narratives that the Islamists and the communists put out is that the Islamic takeover was done by the majority of Iranians.
00:19:27.500 it actually wasn't. The vast majority of Iranians, I would say probably like 80 to 85 percent of
00:19:33.240 Iranians were just the silent majority, you know, like they were just witnesses. Right. And the 1.00
00:19:38.900 reason that they never got involved is because they never took the Islamists seriously. They
00:19:45.460 never took the communists seriously. They were just sort of on the sidelines going, OK, these
00:19:49.940 people are crazy. You know, the Shah is going to take care of this. We don't have to worry about
00:19:53.440 the shah's going to protect us um and then by the time things got too heated and and the shah left 0.88
00:20:00.880 to avoid um blood and confrontation it was too late so again let's just just pay attention to
00:20:08.000 this part where she she says she was a witness that was like basically 80 to 85 percent of
00:20:13.840 iranians during that time and the vast majority regret it now um as they should of course
00:20:20.160 personally I was a witness to that and I have apologized to the people of Iran to history for
00:20:28.860 being a witness to what that and didn't oppose it because none of us knew what happens after
00:20:37.800 and I think quite a number of us thought that something grand and wonderful will happen after
00:20:50.160 I had brothers who were in the revolution and then I had the others who were not.
00:20:57.040 We had members of the family who were indifferent and members of the family who were against
00:21:05.040 the revolution.
00:21:06.040 We couldn't agree on things anymore and that was within every household, within every family.
00:21:15.760 I remember tanks on the streets of my hometown,
00:21:19.660 kind of the energy and the excitement that was
00:21:24.300 within the people when it was happening.
00:21:25.760 I could feel it as a 10-year-old.
00:21:30.240 Thousands of people went on the street and we joined them.
00:21:35.120 We actually didn't know why we were joining those people.
00:21:38.200 Those people didn't know why they were on the streets.
00:21:40.600 Nobody thought that actually
00:21:43.480 the Shah's regime would be gone and... 0.83
00:21:46.880 Right, so do you see that? 0.57
00:21:48.120 Like, people didn't even know why they were going out.
00:21:50.720 They just saw demonstrators going out,
00:21:52.400 so it was like a snowball effect,
00:21:53.920 and then a whole bunch of people just joined,
00:21:56.600 not even knowing what they're on the streets for.
00:22:00.680 Another regime would come into power.
00:22:06.080 The majority of the population is under the age of 35,
00:22:10.440 and the revolution was now 40 years ago.
00:22:12.920 So you've got a majority of people who have, I don't want to say suffered under this revolution,
00:22:18.060 but felt the consequences of it when they had no say in the matter.
00:22:23.400 There's an element of despair amongst the people.
00:22:28.000 The price of bread and meat goes up day by day because of the sanctions imposed.
00:22:32.780 It becomes more...
00:22:33.740 Okay, so that's actually false.
00:22:35.960 The price of bread and meat are not going up because of sanctions. 1.00
00:22:39.980 the price of bread and meat are going up and are continuing to go up because the islamic 1.00
00:22:45.840 republic does not understand how to run the economy and they've they've run the economy 0.99
00:22:51.060 into the ground um so so that is 100 false the economic sanctions are basically against like
00:23:00.760 military weapons things like that it's not against bread so that that's that that's false um
00:23:09.260 that guy probably just doesn't know what he's talking about because that unfortunately um
00:23:14.540 there are iranians who just assume that the sanctions uh mean poverty and that's not the 0.98
00:23:20.140 case at all the people of iran um live below the poverty line because the islamic republic 0.97
00:23:26.700 steals all the finances and pockets it for themselves and then they fund terrorism around 0.93
00:23:31.420 the world it's nothing to do with the sanctions more difficult for people to feed their families
00:23:38.380 Iran is the only country at the moment where its government and its system is not putting 0.96
00:23:46.300 Iran first, the Iranian nation first, it's putting Islam first and that is the tragedy 0.97
00:23:52.860 of Iran, that it is being consumed within a cause that is fiery and is illogical. 0.98
00:24:01.920 Not everybody thinks the same and we shouldn't expect everybody to think the same.
00:24:06.900 What we should expect is for people to enjoy the same rights.
00:24:11.100 And that's what we don't have now. 1.00
00:24:16.900 Islamic Iran is the only Iran I know. 1.00
00:24:21.400 If religion take over control of everything, you know, every law in country and your personal 0.99
00:24:27.880 life, it's not going to work because people can just use your belief to suppress you.
00:24:35.720 we want to change but we don't know still what is that change
00:24:43.800 what is going so this documentary is from from 2020 again so this is not from right now 0.99
00:24:53.420 um so my only criticism is that it is a little bit dated because Iranians right now especially
00:25:01.260 since um 2022 right with with the with the brutal murder of massa amini since 2022 Iranians both 0.88
00:25:09.440 inside the country and outside the country have made it clear that that they're they want regime 0.64
00:25:14.360 change right like it's just that's it like there's nothing else um the only thing that we want is 0.99
00:25:20.820 regime change uh you know we want the Islamic regime to be overthrown um we want a free you
00:25:26.900 know, secular democracy. So that's the only, you know, take that with a grain of salt. So this is 0.61
00:25:33.440 not like a recent interview. This is, this is from about six years ago. So in that sense, it's not
00:25:39.440 helpful. But in the sense of talking about, you know, what life is like in occupied Iran, I mean,
00:25:46.740 it's it's okay to happen to Iran how international countries are intervening in Iran how maybe their 0.69
00:25:56.820 support of one of these opposition groups might affect what is happening to Iran and is it right
00:26:04.740 or wrong one of the things that I fear is that we make the mistakes that we made 40 years ago
00:26:17.700 the political system i mean that
00:26:22.100 i mean sure if you're afraid of that fine but like there is literally nothing that could come
00:26:28.420 afterwards that is worse than than what we have already been living through for the last 47 years
00:26:33.300 now um again that fear is definitely a founded fear because a lot of iranians have trauma from 0.83
00:26:41.460 the islamic republic right it's a brutal dictatorship um that fear has actually been
00:26:47.940 alleviated now because the current um opposition leader his royal highness king he's the shah in
00:26:54.580 exile um he has been working on a day after plan and he has been working on establishing a
00:27:01.540 transitional government so as of right now we actually don't have that fear because there is a
00:27:08.260 planted place um again this is a documentary from six years ago six years ago we didn't have this
00:27:15.540 plan but now we do and uh that's actually something that i'm going to be talking about
00:27:21.620 in my live stream next week so make sure that you're uh subscribed to my channel and you know
00:27:28.580 next i i do my um like daily live stream shows like the main ones i do at 12 noon eastern so
00:27:35.940 next week i will definitely be talking about um the transitional government the the plan for the
00:27:42.420 day after and we actually do have it all laid out of how we're going to go transition from
00:27:48.820 a totalitarian dictatorship true to um a functioning secular democracy and whether
00:27:55.620 or not that's going to be a constitutional monarchy or republic that's going to be
00:27:59.460 decided at the ballot box um i'm personally a huge fan of constitutional monarchy that's
00:28:04.420 what i'm going to be voting for but again that's you know uh conversation for for another time
00:28:10.420 but i did just want to to add that context here because what she's saying that fear of not knowing
00:28:17.060 what's going to happen after the islamic uh republic is overthrown that was a legitimate concern
00:28:24.980 for many iranians um six years ago in in 2020 but now you know now that we're getting close
00:28:33.940 to to 2026 that's no longer a concern at all because we do have a plan in place so
00:28:41.300 that part is dated you know so i i don't want anyone to um watch this you know now and think
00:28:49.220 that this is still a concern because it's just not in iran is likely to have some reform in the
00:28:55.060 coming years they have a very very young population this population now has lived for the entirety of
00:29:01.620 their lives under the rule of the revolution my greatest fear regarding any change that we could
00:29:09.460 see in iran is seeing it handled in a careless manner as we have seen in other nations across
00:29:16.260 the middle east so again like that that is a legitimate fear to have five years ago six years
00:29:23.540 ago but again that's not that's not a concern today because we have a plan in place we have an
00:29:31.140 an official opposition leader in place um and in fact the the transitional booklet is available
00:29:38.700 online so you know what i'll do maybe because i have a little bit of time before um the main
00:29:44.260 live stream starts at 8 p.m so maybe after this documentary i will go over the uh transitional
00:29:51.140 booklet just a little bit maybe give you guys a sneak preview of what i'm going to talk about
00:29:56.120 next week. The sides that are in the best position to instigate this change
00:30:04.940 don't have the best interests of the country at heart. Going to Iran this 0.72
00:30:09.560 summer, there was so much beauty, so much love from the people, and it would be
00:30:15.600 heartbreaking to see all of that destroyed.
00:30:19.040 okay so i mean that's like that's like that kid's personal opinion um
00:30:29.600 which is fine um i would probably because again so this was a um let me pull it back up again
00:30:40.460 this was a times documentary from 2020 right so let me just pull it up here
00:30:48.860 okay so this was a documentary that we just watched from from times news i will include
00:30:58.460 the link to this documentary um in the video description after i'm done this live stream
00:31:05.500 so it's from may 2020 so it is it is outdated in the sense of you know what's the plan we're
00:31:11.900 worried about what's going to happen the day after that part you know there are several
00:31:17.420 significant updates since then but in terms of you know i guess life um life in occupied iran
00:31:24.620 i mean that part's accurate again this is more of sort of a a fluff not really a fluff right
00:31:31.100 like nothing relating to um the islamic republic is fluff but it's more of like a like an emotional
00:31:37.340 type of type of thing and you know i'm not one to criticize um any iranian for for what they think
00:31:42.940 can feel but in terms of you know what life is like inside the country 100 the only thing i would
00:31:47.900 say is inaccurate is when that guy said that um the sanctions uh contribute to poverty that's just
00:31:54.620 not the case at all it's not the sanctions that contribute to poverty um it's it's the islamic
00:32:00.300 republic themselves stealing money but okay so to give you a little bit of a sneak sneak preview 0.91
00:32:08.700 into um what i'm going to talk about next week there is um a transitional plan in place so you
00:32:17.740 know once the islamic republic is overthrown a transitional government is going to come in
00:32:25.020 and there's actually a book that was written um
00:32:31.420 i have to download the book here here we go so there's a book that was down uh that was written
00:32:40.540 so this is just the first draft of the book guys okay so it's called the emergency phase booklet
00:32:47.100 and within this book okay within this book they actually talk about the plan for the first 100 to
00:32:55.900 180 days okay so it's it's fully available online um you guys are more than welcome to
00:33:06.140 go and check it out on your own time if you're interested i'll include the link to this in the
00:33:11.900 video description um of this live stream as well after after i'm done the live stream but you know
00:33:18.780 for anyone who says well what's going to happen after the islamic republic is overthrown you know
00:33:24.860 it's going to turn into another libya or you know i don't know afghanistan or iraq or whatever
00:33:30.380 it's complete and utter nonsense these people just uh either haven't been paying attention
00:33:36.380 or they just don't care right the truth is there is a plan um and you know it's been it's been
00:33:43.180 written by some of the you know foremost experts on you know in various topics various areas
00:33:48.940 But not only that, this booklet has been out for a while, and the Shah of Iran in exile actually had set up an opportunity for Iranians to review this emergency booklet and provide their feedback.
00:34:05.280 So many of us did, right? Even myself, I reviewed it, and I gave my feedback using my 10 years of experience in politics, seven of those as an elected official, right?
00:34:18.460 So I drew upon my time as a politician in Canada to provide my input and feedback on this booklet as well.
00:34:27.420 So, you know, it has been a very, very democratic process.
00:34:32.140 And yeah, so there you go.
00:34:36.220 I would, I guess for a rating out of 10, I don't know, for the Iranians who are in the chat, 1.00
00:34:44.800 I mean, if I was going to rate this out of 10, I mean, I'd probably give it like a seven, a seven out of 10, maybe. 0.91
00:34:54.460 Because, again, it is it is an old commentary piece.
00:34:57.540 So, I mean, at the time it would have been at the time it was definitely relevant.
00:35:04.060 So, you know, seven out of 10 for for what it was at the time.
00:35:08.200 but the concerns they have like it's just there's been a lot of updates when it comes to iran
00:35:14.560 and and the islamic um in the overthrow of the islamic revolution so there you go guys um i hope
00:35:22.820 that you enjoyed this little brief um mini live stream where i showed this uh commentary it was
00:35:31.440 at the request of one of my channel members jewish samantha um and yeah that's what that's
00:35:37.320 of the perks of of being a member um we have our members only message board and uh it's actually
00:35:43.400 surprisingly pretty active it's surprisingly pretty active and uh i've asked you know the
00:35:49.560 people who have joined my youtube channel as a member um for their suggestions on what they want
00:35:55.640 me and other iranians to review um this one was only six minutes long that's why this is a much
00:36:01.400 shorter live stream but i am coming back um at 8 pm so in about 25 minutes or so i'm coming back
00:36:11.640 that's going to be our actual um our our main show let's say right this was sort of just like the
00:36:19.160 the um the pre-show and at 8 pm we're gonna watch another documentary about the 1979
00:36:28.120 islamic revolution so so far we have watched three documentaries and the reason that i'm
00:36:34.120 doing this is because many of you have asked me for information about the islamic revolution you
00:36:39.240 know what happened what led up um all that stuff and you've also asked me for um documentaries
00:36:49.080 that i could recommend and you know we iranians we don't watch english language documentaries
00:36:56.040 about the islamic revolution because most of it is fake news propaganda um you know it's basically 0.64
00:37:02.680 just the narrative that's constantly being pushed by um the communists and the islamists right all
00:37:08.120 that fake news propaganda that you would never see like the stuff that you see and and hear about
00:37:15.400 in english language documentaries about um iran and the shah god bless his soul by the way we love
00:37:21.400 the shah the stuff you hear about iran and the shah and and the islamic revolution you would
00:37:26.520 never hear that narrative in in uh persian because for us we know what happened and that false
00:37:37.960 propaganda does not work anymore like we have our own um documentaries our own historians our own 0.97
00:37:44.360 articles on all of that but unfortunately the islamists and communists have dominated
00:37:49.480 the English language narrative and so the language the narrative and the story in English is
00:37:55.440 completely different from from the um accepted historical facts in Farsi so initially I decided
00:38:05.960 okay you know what I'm just gonna like you know watch a documentary and and you know if it's good
00:38:12.080 I'll recommend it and then I was like you know why don't I just live stream it I'll live stream it
00:38:17.460 And I'll see if people are interested in following along.
00:38:21.160 And so I started that on Monday with the first documentary, live streamed it.
00:38:26.540 A lot of people came and joined, including a lot of Iranians as well.
00:38:30.280 And they're here in the chat right now.
00:38:33.500 And they're speaking and giving their thought and input as well.
00:38:39.380 And it was surprising.
00:38:42.660 Like, it was very frustrating to see all the false narratives there.
00:38:46.980 but it was also really nice to talk about it and criticize it so we did that on monday there was a
00:38:52.500 lot of interest a lot of support um and you know a 55 minute documentary took us about four hours
00:39:01.460 to get through okay so think about that it was a 55 minute documentary four hours to get through
00:39:07.620 because for three of those hours out of the four i was talking and explaining and providing context
00:39:14.820 and you know fixing the narrative and all of that um so that first documentary we gave it a rating
00:39:20.180 of three out of ten then we saw another documentary tuesday night that one we gave a rating of zero
00:39:27.060 out of ten and then the documentary last night was even worse than the other two and that
00:39:34.020 documentary we gave it a rating of middle finger out of ten because that was the documentary that
00:39:38.820 was produced by al jazeera and al jazeera is an islamist uh outlet that basically promotes um
00:39:48.180 jihad and islamic terrorism and it's basically a mouthpiece for the islamic republic so i knew that
00:39:53.700 the al jazeera one was going to be terrible i didn't think it would be that bad um but that
00:39:58.500 one like we gave it a rating of middle finger out of 10. so we have another one for tonight
00:40:03.300 starting in about 20 minutes um i actually am a little bit more hopeful about this one i'm not
00:40:10.180 going to say why in in this live shows i don't want to give it away i haven't watched it yet
00:40:14.500 but just looking at the description um you know in in the in the video the description gives me
00:40:20.740 a little bit of hope that maybe this one might be a little bit better than the other ones so
00:40:26.100 um anyways thank you all for joining me to uh joining me for this little pre-show and i will
00:40:32.500 see you all in about 20 minutes for the main event and until then see you guys soon
00:41:02.500 Thank you.
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