Goldie Ghamari - August 02, 2026


The Islamic Regime Is COLLAPSING From Within - My i24 News Interview


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00:00:00.160 We're joined now by Goldie Gamal, Iranian human rights activist.
00:00:04.280 Goldie, thanks so much for being with us on I-24 News today.
00:00:07.920 Thank you for having me.
00:00:08.880 Iran's leadership does appear divided between those that are seeking a deal,
00:00:12.780 reportedly Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi,
00:00:14.880 while hardliners in the IRGC, they're demanding continued confrontation.
00:00:19.380 So how can a deal be reached if the leadership is still so fractured?
00:00:25.280 Well, you know, I just want to make something very clear.
00:00:27.400 There's really no difference between the moderates and the hardliners.
00:00:31.100 You know, a Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi.
00:00:33.500 They're all terrorists.
00:00:34.860 The difference here is that Arochi, he's more of a pragmatist, I guess you could say.
00:00:40.080 So he sees the writing on the wall.
00:00:41.940 He understands that if it continues, the situation continues, the Islamic regime will be pretty much destroyed.
00:00:50.620 And so he's trying to, you know, figure out a way to survive.
00:00:54.500 Meanwhile, those elements that are more crazier, the hardliners, they just want to continue this jihad against Israel and the United States.
00:01:05.460 Now, keep in mind, for the last 47 years, the Islamic regime has been constantly saying that they're never going to negotiate with the great Satan or the little Satan, that they are the enemy and they're always going to wage war.
00:01:19.040 So this division is also coming from the fact that many of the supporters of the Islamic regime, that's about 5% of the Iranian population, they truly believe that they actually have the military capability to destroy the United States and Israel, which is absolutely insane.
00:01:35.980 So that's sort of where the internal fighting is coming from.
00:01:39.540 But ultimately, no deal is going to be made because that would be pretty much against what the Islamic regime stands for,
00:01:46.120 which is this whole concept of death to America and death to Israel.
00:01:49.960 Well, how much pressure is the regime facing internally after these five months of war?
00:01:56.260 They're facing a lot of pressure.
00:01:57.660 I mean, so the day that Khamenei was exterminated by Israel in the United States on February 28,
00:02:03.960 That was pretty much the beginning of the end for the Islamic regime
00:02:08.500 because, you know, it is a totalitarian dictatorship,
00:02:11.580 and oftentimes these systems, they're only as strong as the leader.
00:02:16.000 Now that the leader is gone, now we're seeing these internal factions fighting even more.
00:02:21.700 They're calling one another out in the open.
00:02:23.920 You have one division, you know, one faction calling the other faction traitors.
00:02:28.540 I've shared footage on my YouTube channel of Islamic regime supporters
00:02:32.400 chasing down Arochi during Khamenei's funeral, chanting for his head.
00:02:37.860 So there's a lot of infighting right now.
00:02:40.220 It's kind of like the Titanic, where it's sinking,
00:02:44.000 but because the system is so big,
00:02:46.540 unless you know where to look for the signs, it's difficult to see.
00:02:50.260 But the Islamic regime is definitely collapsing internally.
00:02:54.040 What if there is a deal that's reached,
00:02:57.000 an agreement that focuses on Hormuz and the nuclear program,
00:03:00.360 like the U.S. president has said?
00:03:02.400 What happens then to human rights, political prisoners, the regime's crackdown on dissent?
00:03:07.820 Are those issues simply left out of any deal that is likely to come?
00:03:12.980 Well, I mean, the terms of the deal don't include any aspect of human rights.
00:03:17.520 And so that is definitely a concern for the Iranian people and, of course, all of us,
00:03:22.860 because even now, even now, the Islamic regime is continuing to execute innocent young Iranians every day.
00:03:31.380 Just yesterday, they hanged another 20-year-old Iranian man.
00:03:34.820 His name was Arvin.
00:03:36.160 He was one of the January 8 and 9 protesters.
00:03:38.880 They executed him on the crime of Muharribe, which is waging war against Allah.
00:03:44.080 So all of these executions and, you know, all the human rights violations are continuing.
00:03:48.800 In fact, they're getting even worse because as the Islamic regime feels more threatened
00:03:54.480 and feels more weak, they're going to attack the Iranian people even more
00:03:59.600 because they're not afraid of the United States or Israel.
00:04:02.760 They're afraid of the Iranian people
00:04:04.520 because they know that they're illegitimate.
00:04:06.680 They know the Iranian people want to overthrow them.
00:04:09.500 And that's why, you know, His Royal Highness,
00:04:11.960 Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran,
00:04:14.120 he has said, you know, don't make a deal with the Islamic regime.
00:04:17.500 Stand with the Iranian people and allow us to reclaim our country.
00:04:21.760 Goldie Gamari, some great perspective
00:04:23.620 on what's actually happening inside Iran right now.
00:04:26.500 Thanks so much for being with us on I-24 News.
00:04:28.280 Thank you so much for having me.