Goldie Ghamari - WATCH PARTY： 1970s Interviews with the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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00:09:30.000 well good afternoon everyone um i'm back as you can see um i was going to like i just finished

00:09:39.200 dinner and then i was gonna watch these interviews anyway so i figured i might as well stream them so

00:09:45.600 we can all watch them together right so um there you go i'm back and i'm gonna um play a number of

00:09:56.880 interviews um with of course the the late shah of iran muhammad is a palavi today is his birthday

00:10:06.400 so a huge happy birthday to this amazing amazing individual um if you caught my earlier live stream

00:10:14.160 i basically went over um sort of what iran looked like in the 1970s and also how he was modernizing

00:10:25.040 iran um combating illiteracy poverty hunger all those sorts of things and the islamists really 0.72

00:10:34.000 did him dirty the islamists and communists really really did him dirty with all the lies that 0.63

00:10:43.920 they propagated about him and this is like the part of iranian history that i i don't like 0.52

00:10:54.240 talking about but of course we all do because it's like every time i think about it or talk about it

00:11:00.880 it's like reliving a nightmare right it's like getting up to 1979 and you know you know what's

00:11:07.040 going to happen like the whole country is just gonna um go to hell basically and it's like you

00:11:15.040 can see all the signs you can see all the signs and you can you can see the insanity of some of

00:11:21.440 the accusations made against him and um you know it's like it's like you're screaming you're like

00:11:29.520 no stop don't don't do it don't do it fight back um you know i would have to say

00:11:36.960 my only criticism of um the late shah of iran my only only have one criticism 0.82

00:11:44.480 is that I don't think he was hard enough against the Islamists and communists.

00:11:54.920 I think that, especially when it comes to the Islamists, the Shah of Iran, he showed too much mercy. 0.93

00:12:07.980 If he had taken a stronger stance with them, Iran would not be in the situation that it is today. 0.83

00:12:13.740 because the exact the same the people right now that are occupying iran are the ones who were in 0.92

00:12:22.840 prison before 1979 like the people who have turned iran into an islamic dictatorship governed by

00:12:31.180 sharia law are the ones that the shah was keeping in jail and he was protecting the iranian nation 0.81

00:12:39.200 from those islamic terrorists he knew them for what they were so you know my only criticism 0.96

00:12:45.760 is that he showed mercy um it's a lesson that we iranians have learned the hard way we paid 0.97

00:12:52.640 for it with blood we continue to pay for it with blood and i have a feeling that um 0.98

00:13:00.160 iranians as a whole are not going to show mercy anymore the um the islamists have shown their true 0.96

00:13:06.800 colors um and um yeah iranians are done with them iranians are are done with with the ayatollahs 0.77

00:13:16.880 they're done with the islamic republic but i'm gonna play these interviews because i want to

00:13:21.120 you know refresh myself and also um i also want to show you guys the madness and the insanity

00:13:33.520 of what he was dealing with right like some of the questions that these reporters were asking

00:13:39.760 um absolutely absolutely insane like

00:13:45.440 they did so dirty to shah and and thankfully um we iranians have been at least within our own

00:13:55.040 you know within our own media and everything you know we love him um he's highly loved highly 0.99

00:14:00.720 respected a great great leader um and you know what we really fight with is the non-iranians 0.99

00:14:12.800 right well first of all the islamists and communists right the islamists communists 0.80

00:14:16.320 and far left um they're always going to be anti-imperialists so they're the ones who 0.74

00:14:20.960 spout this propaganda that you know the shah was the dictator and all this like

00:14:24.560 like, nonsense, which as I explained in my earlier live feed, was complete and utter nonsense and

00:14:30.760 lies. I mean, the guy was literally building 4000 schools a year to educate people and improve the

00:14:38.260 literacy rate. I don't know which dictator in the world. Like, can you name one dictator to me

00:14:44.760 that has built 4000 schools a year to promote literacy in the country? Can you point to a

00:14:52.860 single dictator um who gave women the right to vote in 1963 without a women's suffragette movement 0.51

00:14:59.400 women didn't even need to do a suffragette movement in iran right the shah of iran and of 0.84

00:15:05.320 course the empress of iran at the time implemented the white revolution to modernize iran part of 0.68

00:15:10.320 that was giving women the right to vote i don't know which dictator does that right so when you

00:15:14.740 look at the facts the facts don't line up with the narrative that the islamists and the communists

00:15:21.480 are pushing out there. So I'm going to play some of the interviews. Oh, I see I have a message

00:15:28.120 here. Let me just play this. So just a reminder to everyone on YouTube, I do always do a shout

00:15:34.100 out to Stark Messages, and I'll display them as well. So Major says, 1979 was Yuri Besbinov's

00:15:41.440 explanation in real life. And yes, the Shah was too nice, but I think his cancer caused him to

00:15:46.660 faith too much the the cancer was definitely um an issue there and my understanding i have to go 0.95

00:15:53.460 back and and look at this again my understanding is that um the islamists and communists really

00:15:59.540 took advantage of of the shah's cancer at the time he had leukemia and when he left iran to go get

00:16:07.380 treatment that's when when air france brought homing and i think that's that's what happened

00:16:13.940 so he never like the shah never abdicated right like he never abdicated the throne um my

00:16:19.940 understanding is he left iran to go get leukemia treatment and then while he was gone air france

00:16:25.140 and you know jimmy carter and they all brought um they all they brought in uh khomeini you know the 0.90

00:16:31.700 evil demonic ayatollah who turned iran into a seventh century islamic hellhole and started 0.81

00:16:36.500 murdering us so thank you to you know france and jimmy carter for enabling the communists and 0.67

00:16:42.180 islamists but having said that i want to start off with um with a quick interview 0.54

00:16:49.460 um so this is actually richard nixon and this is a clip from the richard nixon foundation and i

00:16:57.060 don't know if you guys know but richard nixon and the shah of iran had a very very close relationship

00:17:03.860 um they were very good friends and um yeah if i recall i think richard nixon actually did attend

00:17:13.940 the shah's funeral um when he passed away so there were two world leaders who attended

00:17:20.260 um the shah's funeral when he passed away from leukemia one was the president of egypt at the

00:17:25.140 time sadat and the other one was uh richard nixon i believe um so let's just hear you know let's

00:17:33.460 listen to what richard nixon says and i think this is going to be very eye-opening for americans

00:17:38.740 because i you know a lot of americans don't realize that iran and the united states were

00:17:42.740 in fact incredibly close allies um and that was in large part due to the very solid relationship

00:17:49.940 that nixon and the shah had um you know richard nixon and even jimmy carter after richard nixon

00:17:57.940 would go on state visits to Iran where the Shah of Iran would proudly fly the flag of America

00:18:04.820 and you know the Shah would go to America and you know there they would fly the the lion and

00:18:08.980 sun flag this flag here. So let's see what Richard Nixon has to say about the Shah.

00:18:21.060 The Shah is generally accepted as having been a very repressive and oppressive ruler. His

00:18:27.060 Savak tortured and killed. He lived in considerable splendor and opulence while there was terrible 0.93

00:18:34.360 poverty in his country. In your book, Leaders, you write that he was not ruthless enough

00:18:40.560 in quashing those who threatened his nation's stability. Do you think he should have been

00:18:44.780 more ruthless?

00:18:45.780 Yes, I do. Particularly in view of the fact that his opponents were not those who were

00:18:53.940 basically more liberal, but because basically they were reactionary. They were the true

00:18:59.320 reactionaries. Let's look at the Shah for just a moment and look at him very fairly. 0.78

00:19:03.500 He actually was a progressive, a progressive in a number of ways. He instituted a land

00:19:09.800 reform program. He instituted a literacy program. He sent thousands of students from Iran to

00:19:16.640 the United States, and particularly to the United States, to study and in other countries

00:19:20.020 as well he liberated women the irony was that those he liberated the women and the students

00:19:28.020 he sent abroad they came back and joined the revolutionary forces and the iron i'll speak to

00:19:34.020 that in a moment but but pay attention to that because everything that richard nixon is saying

00:19:38.580 we need to unpack here and i will unpack for you i just want to listen to the whole thing

00:19:42.900 once, and then we'll go back bit by bit.

00:19:44.640 The journey was that the Shah, being progressive, was attacked as being reactionary and conservative

00:19:51.920 on these particular issues, whereas his opponents were the reactionaries.

00:19:57.860 Putting it very bluntly and very simply, the Shah was trying to move Iran into the 20th 0.51

00:20:04.400 century.

00:20:05.540 His opponents, Khamenei et al, wanted to move Iran back into the Dark Ages, and that's what

00:20:11.420 they've done.

00:20:12.720 Now there was some repression, true.

00:20:15.320 Now there is total repression.

00:20:18.340 There may not have been enough land reform, now there is none whatever. 0.84

00:20:22.260 What I am simply suggesting is this, that when we look at the Shah, we have to look

00:20:26.300 at him in terms of what he confronted.

00:20:29.600 And he confronted revolutionary forces there that were not working, in my view, for what

00:20:36.300 was best for Iran and certainly not best for ourselves.

00:20:39.480 most important from the United States standpoint, instead of having a friend in Iran, we now

00:20:45.660 have one that is not only not a friend, but one that considers us to be the great Satan.

00:20:52.920 Wow. Wow. I mean, okay, let's go back because it's a short clip, but there is so much to unpack

00:21:01.860 there, guys. And for those of you who might not be familiar with what he is referring to

00:21:07.140 or speaking about. I got you. I'll go down. You know, I'll break it down for you bit by bit. And

00:21:13.400 guys, if you're enjoying the live stream, make sure you like and subscribe and share it so other

00:21:18.300 people can come here and find out the truth. And it's not coming from me. This isn't coming from

00:21:24.420 me. This is coming from a former United States president. This is an American citizen, former

00:21:30.240 president of the united states who is speaking about what happened in iran and richard nixon is

00:21:38.000 one of the few people who gets it right to his credit i mean there's so much propaganda out

00:21:44.560 there there's so much misinformation richard nixon has always had a clear head and again

00:21:50.720 this interview is like from you know the early 80s right this is from the early 80s so he was

00:21:56.800 calling it out he was calling out um the threat of islamic terrorism

00:22:03.680 like when it first happened so let's go back listen to this and i'll unpack it for you as 0.91

00:22:07.840 having been a very repressive and oppressive ruler his savak tortured and killed he lived 0.52

00:22:14.480 in considerable so the whole thing about savak torturing and killing another huge lie um i'm

00:22:22.160 still waiting to find out who these tens of thousands of people were that the shah supposedly

00:22:30.800 murdered there's no record of them there's no document of them in fact afterwards it found out

00:22:35.760 that those numbers were all falsified the amnesty reports about uh savak were all debunked because

00:22:42.400 it was all lies very similar by the way very similar to how um hamas sends fake numbers about

00:22:50.400 you know Palestinian deaths uh to everyone else and then later they quietly change it right and

00:22:56.160 no one ever hears about the no one ever hears about it but um yeah i'm still waiting if someone

00:23:02.720 can give me the name of like one person one innocent person who was killed and tortured by

00:23:09.760 stavok i'm still waiting so i mean let me know in the chat especially to um to you know all the

00:23:14.960 haters who say that the shah was a dictator and he tortured people give me proof you should be able

00:23:21.600 to have the name of at least one person right so find find me one person okay who was an innocent

00:23:28.640 person that the shah tortured or murdered or whatever you can't find it because it doesn't 0.70

00:23:33.040 exist right it does not exist so these this is all the lies and propaganda right and and they had

00:23:41.840 pushed this narrative so much that even this reporter just casually puts it out there just

00:23:48.800 casually says savuk tortured and killed people who are these people i'm iranian i don't know

00:23:55.920 who these people are if anyone can find these people let me know and the people in the chat

00:24:02.560 who are unhappy with what i'm saying i mean if you're just like putting in swear words i'll ban

00:24:07.760 you but maybe instead of swear words i mean challenge me come with some logic or fact but 0.99

00:24:12.720 you guys can't you guys can't because um you're all islamic terrorists and you have very low iq 0.99

00:24:19.120 and you know the same way that everyone talks about this fake gaza genocide which never happened 0.99

00:24:24.320 um you know they're talking about savak torturing and starving iranians and i don't know of a single

00:24:31.200 you know i don't know who these iranians are but they just you know they casually throw out that 0.76

00:24:35.440 lie in there splendor and opulence while there was a terrible poverty in his country in so here's 0.63

00:24:46.460 the other thing so they say you know oh the shah you know lived in splendor and opulence while

00:24:51.840 there was terrible poverty guys the paladin dynasty inherited that poverty in fact during

00:24:58.580 the Shah's reign, he was eliminating poverty. Remember, in the previous video, I showed you,

00:25:05.380 he literally made, he literally made something called the Peace Army, which was, you know,

00:25:12.140 thousands of Iranian men and women who were tasked with going to different parts of the country

00:25:19.880 to build schools, to educate people, and you know, both children and adults, and to combat poverty.

00:25:28.580 So he literally had thousands of people fighting, you know, he called them the peace army, thousands of people, thousands of Iranians around the country who were working on this.

00:25:40.580 And like I said, the guy was building for at least 4000 schools a year.

00:25:46.260 OK, but again, the lines that this reporter so casually uses without any evidence.

00:25:54.480 This is what really upsets me when I look at past interviews with respect to the 1979 Islamic

00:26:00.840 Revolution. They throw out these buzzwords, but there's no evidence to it. There's no proof. They

00:26:06.660 can't actually back up their statements, right? It's very similar to the free Palestine, right? 0.97

00:26:12.540 Like it's just buzzwords. It's just, you know, Israel is a terrorist state, right? Like all this 0.91

00:26:17.020 like nonsense they say, but there's nothing to back it up. And it's the same tactic that Islamists 1.00

00:26:23.560 used they used it for iran they use it for israel they use it for america like it's the same um 0.61

00:26:29.960 jihadi tactic just these low iq buzzwords so go back and just listen to how casually this so-called

00:26:39.000 reporter talks about the shah you know torturing and murdering iranians but he has literally no 0.69

00:26:45.720 proof and to this day there still is no proof because that was all made up right the same way 0.79

00:26:52.040 that the islamists lied about cinema rex remember guys cinema rex um actually let me bring it up

00:27:00.120 because i mean cinema rex is like very common knowledge for um iranians but it's not it's not

00:27:07.320 you know not common knowledge for the rest of you guys but um what happened at cinema rex is the 0.55

00:27:13.320 perfect example of how taqiyah works and how islamists lie okay so i'm about to show you 0.99

00:27:23.320 a very another very good example of um how islamists murdered iranian people um to justify

00:27:35.240 overthrowing the shah by by claiming that he did it even though he didn't so let me pull this up

00:27:42.040 here um it's on wikipedia so i don't know how accurate it's going to be but let's see okay

00:27:58.520 all right i gotta remove the richard nixon one first where are you nixon okay

00:28:04.040 okay so the cinema wrecks fire okay it happened um in august of 1978 and this fire is pretty much

00:28:16.200 what sparked the anger that you saw on the streets after right so um when you see all those angry

00:28:25.560 people in the streets you know chanting for revolution or whatever it's because of this

00:28:30.200 incident because the islamists and communists told the iranian people that this was the shah

00:28:38.120 the shah did this however after the fact you know after the islamic revolution had taken place and

00:28:46.280 um the islamists had taken control and iran had turned into an islamic dictatorship governed by 0.59

00:28:52.280 sharia law then the iranians found out oh shoot that wasn't the shah those were the islamists 0.67

00:28:59.000 the same people who are in control right now were the ones who caused this fire so

00:29:06.040 here the event started when four individuals who were militants motivated by islamic extremism

00:29:12.760 okay so let me go back a little bit so this fire happened on august um 19 1978 when the cinema wrecks

00:29:22.520 in Abadan, Iran, Abadan's city, was set ablaze, killing between 377 and 470 people. The event

00:29:32.860 started when four individuals who were militants motivated by Islamic extremism doused the building

00:29:40.520 with airplane fuel before setting it a light. The attack was responsible in part for triggering the

00:29:47.740 Iranian Revolution of 1979, which saw the overthrow of the ruling dynasty under the Iranian monarch

00:29:55.240 and a related outbreak of mass violence. The governing dynasty initially blamed Islamic

00:30:01.940 Marxists for the fire, and later reported that Islamic militants started the fire,

00:30:07.020 while anti-Pavlavi protesters falsely blamed Stavuk, the Iranian secret police, for a study.

00:30:14.600 do you see that guys do you see this okay all of those lies and nonsense about

00:30:21.800 Stavok it's false guys even people in the chat who say the Shah was a

00:30:27.140 dictator Stavok murdered people right it was false it was later proved to be 0.98

00:30:32.580 false it was not Stavok that did that it was the Islamists right it was the 0.83

00:30:39.100 islamists and yet look look how um easily right and here you go even though the islamic extremists 0.60

00:30:47.980 were responsible for the attack the islamic opposition benefited greatly from the disaster 0.56

00:30:54.060 in terms of propaganda because of the general atmosphere of mistrust and wrath um i might have

00:31:03.180 to change my network all right i'm back so the islamic opposition benefited greatly from the

00:31:23.900 disaster in terms of propaganda because of the general atmosphere of mistrust and wrath many

00:31:31.740 Iranians accepted the disinformation which fueled growing anti-Shah fervor. Guys, what does it sound

00:31:39.740 like? That literally sounds like Hamas murdering innocent people and then blaming Israel in order

00:31:46.220 to justify murdering more Jewish people. This is the M.O. of the Islamists, guys. This is the M.O.

00:31:54.460 This is what they do. They murder people and then they blame others and then they use the tragedy

00:32:01.000 to gain power right it's it's been the same mo from the beginning

00:32:11.720 so let's go back and listen so do you now understand why i find it so frustrating 1.00

00:32:18.040 so incredibly frustrating when you have these like ignorant you have these ignorant idiotic 1.00

00:32:25.480 reporters like this guy here right who just very casually says that the shah was a dictator 1.00

00:32:33.880 and he you know savuk murdered people right the whole thing about savuk murdering people was the

00:32:39.400 lie about the movie theater where the islamists did it but then they blamed the shah they blamed

00:32:44.680 savuk and then later it was found out it was the islamist in the first place so but but this is

00:32:51.720 is the propaganda that he was dealing with this is the propaganda that that iranians were dealing

00:32:57.240 with at the time very repressive and and and just remember guys like this life lesson for you never 0.98

00:33:03.680 trust an islamist everything that comes out of their mouth is a lie they do not care about you 0.97

00:33:08.800 they do not care about your lives they are literally willing to murder people in order to 0.99

00:33:14.920 advance the cause of jihad. They literally murdered innocent Iranians in order to justify 0.96

00:33:21.400 overthrowing the Shah and taking over and turning Iran into an Islamic caliphate, right? So when 0.84

00:33:29.460 people ask, well, you know, the Shah, what happened? Cinema Rex. Cinema Rex is exactly what

00:33:36.120 it is. Oppressive ruler, his Savak tortured and killed. But it wasn't Savak, it was the Islamists. 1.00

00:33:47.040 We already established that. In considerable splendor and opulence while there was terrible 1.00

00:33:51.640 poverty in his country. In your book, Leaders, you write that he was not ruthless enough

00:33:57.360 in quashing those who threatened his nation's stability. Do you think he should have been more

00:34:02.340 ruthless yes i do uh particularly in view of the fact that his opponents so i i love i love the 0.92

00:34:11.760 fact that this reporter um just you know starts out with all these lies and he says the shah was

00:34:18.340 a dictator stabbing murdered people blah blah blah you know do you think he was ruthless and

00:34:24.680 then nixon because nixon is calling out the propaganda right so he says i don't think he

00:34:31.780 ruthless enough he he says he just you know slide up the shah was not ruthless enough but then he

00:34:39.140 clarifies who he's referring to and you know i actually share the same opinion many iranians

00:34:46.100 share the same opinion the shah was not ruthless enough when it came to dealing with the marxists 0.58

00:34:51.460 the communists and the islamists he unfortunately showed the mercy and that's what i think was his 0.97

00:34:58.500 downfall in the end because he was not ruthless enough when it came to dealing with islamic 0.98

00:35:04.420 terrorism and that threat to the stability of of the society he should have been more ruthless 0.86

00:35:11.700 yes i do uh particularly in view of the fact that his opponents uh were not those who were basically

00:35:19.860 more liberal wait i don't understand why people are calling me racist i'm speaking about the

00:35:24.420 the iranian revolution i'm literally iranian you people are insane like oh my gosh like the the 0.99

00:35:31.060 brain i don't know like are you guys brain dead or brain rotted or something whatever honestly if 0.98

00:35:37.180 i got a dollar for every single time someone called me racist for speaking about the iranian 0.97

00:35:40.800 revolution i would be rich because basically they were reactionary they were the true reactionaries

00:35:47.340 see so he's he's saying nixon is saying the shah was not ruthless enough in dealing with the

00:35:54.620 reactionaries who are the reactionaries they're the communists the marxists and the islamists 0.95

00:35:58.580 right those those savages right the unholy alliance of the red and black communism and 0.96

00:36:04.220 islamism and the shah was not ruthless enough in dealing with that and guys the reason that i'm 1.00

00:36:11.580 glad you're here especially for you non-Iranians is as an Iranian I'm warning you many of us 0.98

00:36:21.100 Iranians are now seeing the same signs the same patterns of Islamism and communism in your 0.80

00:36:27.520 countries the Islamic revolution didn't happen overnight it wasn't like one day people just

00:36:32.360 woke up and decided to overthrow the Shah this was something that was in the making for 15 years 0.76

00:36:38.260 like this was in the making since the white revolution of 1963 so this was a slow boil it 0.97

00:36:46.040 was a slow boil until it got to a point where the islamists uh created created a false flag event 0.91

00:36:53.580 that then pushed people over the edge to destabilize society and now i'm warning you guys 0.97

00:37:01.940 we're seeing many of the commonalities right the same sort of behavior right like look at all of 0.59

00:37:08.020 the far-left Antifa, communist, socialist people who are joining the Islamists to, you

00:37:13.300 know, free Palestine, right? It's the same dangerous alliance, and they have one goal, 0.71

00:37:19.940 that is to destabilize and take over. Let's look at the Shah for just a moment and look 0.97

00:37:26.240 at him very fairly. He actually was a progressive, a progressive in a number of ways. He instituted

00:37:33.540 the land reform program so the the land reform program he's referring to is basically getting 0.95

00:37:39.860 rid of serfdom so um you know the previous dynasty uh the qajar dynasty that ruled up until the early

00:37:47.140 1920s they were very corrupt um they didn't do anything for iran it was you know very very um

00:37:52.820 underdeveloped poor country the you know the qajar dynasty themselves were very rich but did nothing

00:37:59.060 think for the people and also there was still serfdom so you know serfdom is pretty much like

00:38:03.900 legal slavery so there were still like um rich landowners who had serfs so when richard nixon

00:38:10.280 is talking about land reform he's literally talking about the fact that the panavi dynasty

00:38:15.140 went in eradicated the surf system freed the villagers and then he basically gave them land

00:38:23.480 so that they could be productive members of society and you know some people in the elite

00:38:29.340 did not like that did not like the fact that the shah was getting rid of their servants and

00:38:33.540 basically getting rid of their slaves and free labor um so they were against him right so

00:38:40.340 anyone who's against the shah guys there's a reason for it it's not out of the blue it's not

00:38:46.420 because the shah was a dictator or anything like that he was the shah was literally eradicating

00:38:51.060 poverty and serfdom right so when Nixon is talking about land reform that's what he's referring to

00:38:57.480 in Iran he instituted a literacy program he sent thousands so literacy program remember and he's

00:39:06.220 going to say send thousands of people to educate so that's the peace army right so if you looked

00:39:11.540 at my previous live stream um in one section of the military parade you see the Shah's peace army

00:39:17.520 men and women who were employed to go to various parts of the country to educate people

00:39:23.440 students from iran here we go thousands of students from iran to the united states and

00:39:29.680 particularly the united states to study and in other countries as well uh he liberated women

00:39:35.840 the irony was that those he liberated the women and the students he sent abroad so liberating

00:39:42.160 women yeah like basically equal rights and of course giving women the right to vote

00:39:46.000 the irony is so so he's going to talk about the irony of sending university students off to the

00:39:50.160 united states to be educated um and and you know the the government of iran paid for them to go

00:39:57.760 study and become educated the irony he's going to talk about is that those were the people who came

00:40:02.640 back and joined the islamic revolutionary guard corps or whoever why because those young iranians

00:40:09.840 when they went to western universities those western universities were full of academics who

00:40:16.160 were um pushing the communism islamism marxism agenda so all these young iranians you know go

00:40:24.480 to another country go to a foreign country go to the united states um and you know they're there

00:40:30.560 to get a western education turns out the academics are pretty much all communists and socialists and 0.93

00:40:37.760 they're um rotting the minds of young people and then those young Iranians all of a sudden right 1.00

00:40:45.440 they're anti-imperialist and you know they want socialism and communism right that's exactly 1.00

00:40:52.720 what's happening right now in the United States with your own college students right all of these

00:40:58.240 young college students who are suddenly like Antifa or communist or whatever where do you

00:41:03.840 think they're getting it from it's that it's that academic rot in the universities and he's going to

00:41:10.960 talk about that these university students so iranian university students went to the united

00:41:15.440 states to get a western education they were indoctrinated by communists and socialists so

00:41:20.000 they came back right because now all of a sudden they're anti-imperialism and they viewed the shah

00:41:25.440 they viewed the shah of iran as an imperialist why because he was allies of the united states

00:41:30.560 like the irony is insane but but that's how the communist um ideology works right and again this

00:41:39.260 was and back in the 70s it was even more prominent and dangerous because the soviet was still there

00:41:45.320 right so he still had the soviet bloc and there was a lot of funding from russia as well um so 0.99

00:41:51.140 you have these iran university students who basically become useful idiots for soviets 0.99

00:41:56.300 And then they go back and they join up with the Islamists. Right. So when I talk about the unity of the red and black, right, red being the communists, black being the Islamists, that's exactly what happened. 1.00

00:42:07.660 these young educated university students were all of a sudden team Islamist, right? It's the exact 0.95

00:42:16.720 same reason why the young university students today say that Hamas are freedom fighters and

00:42:25.760 not the Islamic terrorists that they are. It's the exact same thing. Back in 1979, the Iranian

00:42:33.160 university students were corrupted to think that the Islamists were freedom fighters. They were 0.95

00:42:37.420 fighting for freedom, right? The exact same narrative, the exact same playbook. Let's go

00:42:44.720 back a little bit. And the students he sent abroad, they came back and joined the revolutionary

00:42:50.560 forces. And the irony was that the Shah, being progressive, was attacked as being reactionary

00:42:58.540 and conservative on these particular issues, whereas his opponents were the reactionaries.

00:43:04.120 right so the people who were attacking the shah and accusing him of being oppressive

00:43:11.620 they were the ones who were actually oppressive right the islamists were the ones who were 0.92

00:43:16.540 oppressive remember every single word that comes out of an islamist's mouth is a lie 0.88

00:43:22.320 every accusation against the shah was an admission of guilt for them and again cinema rex the biggest 0.70

00:43:31.020 example cinema rex islamists murdered iranians and they blamed the shah they said the shah did 0.94

00:43:37.260 this so we need to overthrow the shah you can never trust an islamist they will literally murder 0.95

00:43:43.260 you in the goal of jihad or whatever right because death is a way of life like death is part of who 1.00

00:43:52.460 they are death martyrdom all that nonsense and they are willing to sacrifice you and you guys 0.92

00:43:57.900 are letting these um letting these people into your countries it's a very scary thing putting 0.99

00:44:06.700 it very bluntly and very simply the shah was trying to move iran into the 20th century 0.99

00:44:14.140 his opponents come any at all wanted to move iran back into the dark ages and that's what they've 0.75

00:44:20.540 done and that's exactly what happened so the shah was modernizing iran with the white revolution 0.62

00:44:26.300 and Khomeini and the Islamists they wanted to go back to Sharia law and that's exactly what

00:44:33.400 happened as soon as the Islamists took over in 1979 they murdered everyone else who had been 0.60

00:44:39.100 supporting them so they basically murdered all of the communists and you know the all the like

00:44:43.840 progressive university students by the way um who thought that they were fighting imperialism they

00:44:49.520 were all murdered they were all murdered I mean some of them escaped went to you know claimed

00:44:54.080 refugee status and went somewhere else but the vast majority of them were murdered right it's 0.93

00:44:59.680 it's no different than gays for gaza or queers for palestine what do you think is going to happen to 0.65

00:45:03.840 a gay person if they go to gaza and we've seen it play out before it happened in iran 0.81

00:45:14.720 into the dark ages and that's what they've done now there was some repression true now there is 0.95

00:45:20.480 total repression uh there may not have been enough land reform now there is none whatever

00:45:27.200 see so so people were complaining that there was not enough land reform so they were complaining

00:45:32.880 that the shah was not eliminating the surf system fast enough right but now no land reform before

00:45:39.920 people were complaining that you know there was oppression even though there was no oppression

00:45:43.600 um you know as long as you weren't a communist or an islamist you were not oppressed

00:45:47.520 as long as you were not a terrorist you lived a free life um whereas now and nixon says it

00:45:55.220 perfectly after the islamic republic took over it's 100 oppression right the country went from 0.77

00:46:02.760 a modern secular society to a brutal seventh century islamic dictatorship governed by sharia law 0.98

00:46:10.420 It's like overnight the country went 1400 years back to the 7th century. 0.95

00:46:19.900 What I am simply suggesting is this, that when we look at the Shah, we have to look 0.80

00:46:23.940 at him in terms of what he confronted.

00:46:27.240 And he confronted revolutionary forces there that were not working, in my view, for what

00:46:33.940 was best for Iran and certainly not best for Iran.

00:46:37.400 The revolutionary forces were not working for what was best for Iran because they were

00:46:41.400 funded by the Soviets. 0.96

00:46:44.100 The Islamic, like all those people, were actually funded and trained by the Soviets, and also 0.91

00:46:49.280 by Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians. 1.00

00:46:51.020 So there's another reason why we Iranians don't like Palestinians, because they just 0.98

00:46:55.340 cause terrorism everywhere they go. 1.00

00:46:57.500 For ourselves, and most important from the United States standpoint, instead of having

00:47:02.620 a friend in iran we now have one that is not only not a friend but one that is considers us to be

00:47:09.420 the great satan i want to play that again for you americans because a lot of americans do not know

00:47:16.300 this because this is not taught in the history books prior to the islamic revolution prior to

00:47:23.580 islamic ideology occupying iran in 1979 iran and the united states were allies that is coming from

00:47:31.020 a former American president. Let's listen to that again. So ask yourselves, ask yourselves,

00:47:40.040 why did Iran go from an ally of America to calling America the great Satan? The answer is 0.51

00:47:50.140 Islamists. The answer is that Islamic jihadi caliphate, right? Like there is a clash. There 1.00

00:47:57.460 is a clash there a fundamental clash and these jihadis hate you and you guys are like importing

00:48:03.960 them on mass into your countries thinking that they're going to somehow assimilate or integrate

00:48:10.280 like it's it's wild guys it's it's absolutely wild the suicidal empathy because the only thing

00:48:16.780 about iran that changed before 1979 and after 1979 was islamic jihadi sharia law whatever right like

00:48:26.540 the Islamic Republic came into power. So Iran was never an enemy of the United States. Iran still

00:48:32.560 isn't an enemy. We as Iranians, we love the United States. We have no issue with the United States,

00:48:37.640 right? That's the flag of Iran. That's the flag that's an ally of the United States. 0.74

00:48:43.300 Iran is currently occupied by the Islamic Republic. They have a different flag. It says

00:48:48.660 Allah Akbar on it. I mean, I'm Iranian. I speak Persian. I don't speak Arabic. Arabic is not an

00:48:54.580 official language in iran and yet the islamic colonizers the islamic oppressors changed our

00:49:01.620 flag and replaced it with arabic writing right like if that's not um islamic colonization i don't

00:49:10.180 know what is where where our flag you know i don't it's not my flag but you know like the the

00:49:16.120 official unfortunately the official flag of the country right now is in arabic writing and yet

00:49:23.540 we are not Arab. We speak Persian. Certainly not best for ourselves. And most important from the

00:49:32.580 United States standpoint, instead of having a friend in Iran, we now have one that is not only 0.66

00:49:39.220 not a friend, but one that considers us to be the great Satan. There you go. So there's a really

00:49:48.300 important interview with Richard Nixon. I hope that gives you guys a little bit of context,

00:49:53.220 because I'm going to play some other interviews now. Super frustrating. But yeah, I hope this gives

00:50:02.320 you guys a bit of an understanding of the kind of nonsense and false narratives that were being 0.59

00:50:11.260 pushed by the Islamists and the reporters. The reporters were just eating it up without requiring 0.96

00:50:20.440 any proof or any evidence right it's very similar to what Hamas is doing where they claim like I 0.69

00:50:26.740 don't know 20 million baby journalists were killed or whatever and everyone like repeats it and they

00:50:33.460 don't require any proof or anything like it's insane okay I actually so I before I get to the

00:50:43.140 the interviews from the 70s because the ones from the 70s are more tense um you know mid to late 0.57

00:50:48.780 70s that's when there was a lot of tension in iran and again right the islamic revolution didn't

00:50:53.500 happen overnight it was you know a process it was like a good decade or so um i found an interview

00:50:59.260 from the 60s so i'm gonna play this i haven't seen this one um i have a feeling it might be a little

00:51:06.640 bit more light-hearted but let's see you see i have always been mystical and i think that

00:51:18.080 i will be around until my time is up and this has been decided by

00:51:25.040 the god almighty in which i i believe and many other people in the world believe

00:51:36.640 so this looks like an interview with the shah from happier times right so this would have been

00:51:45.340 i think this was like 1960s so this is i think when the shah was probably just implementing

00:51:50.640 the white revolution which was starting to modernize iran right like giving women the

00:51:55.800 right to vote and all those things and um so this is probably like before the tension from

00:52:02.540 the Islamists was really known by, but I'm assuming, but let's see.

00:52:20.000 Tehran, May 1960.

00:52:26.080 The Imperial Guard prepares for the return of the Shah of Persia to his country after

00:52:30.800 a journey around Europe. 0.98

00:52:32.540 These men form a key force, controlling the capital. 0.90

00:52:35.560 They remained loyal to the Shah during the Mossadegh crisis seven years ago.

00:52:39.700 Iran today is quiet, but in the Middle East, the Guard has always to be ready for trouble.

00:52:52.420 So this was the Guard of Javidon, which is basically like the imperial elite forces, right?

00:52:59.280 Like these were the top, top tier.

00:53:02.540 the dominant personality in iran is the man who bears the proud title king of kings lord

00:53:16.340 of the peacock throne shadow of allah muhammad reza shah pahlevi did you guys catch that shadow

00:53:24.380 of allah guys the shah was a muslim he was he was muslim right like the issue the issue has

00:53:32.240 always been islamic terrorism so when people are like oh well you know iran was was a you know

00:53:37.040 islamic country no iran was never an islamic country people in iran practiced islam they

00:53:43.760 were muslim but the society was not governed by islamic sharia law that didn't happen until 1979

00:53:52.080 when the islamic extremists came and took over the country prior to that like there were muslims

00:53:58.000 there were Jews, like, you know, Christians, Baha'is, Orashis, everyone lived in peace,

00:54:02.360 everyone lived in harmony, because the country was secular. But that was not good enough for 0.97

00:54:07.580 the Islamists. The Islamists, you know, they want jihad, they want a global caliphate. So 0.95

00:54:13.920 that's, that was the tension there. You know, even the Shah as a Muslim was not good enough 1.00

00:54:19.620 for the Islamists, because he was not Muslim enough, right? For them, the idea of being 1.00

00:54:25.880 muslim as being like a jihadi who wants to take over the world so these islamists are very very 1.00

00:54:31.280 dangerous right they're incredibly incredibly dangerous his visit to london a year ago was 1.00

00:54:37.540 marked by royal magnificence that's him there see he was so well dressed the guard was more

00:54:47.380 and today today is his birthday so happy birthday again shah and shah are you on the amazing

00:54:52.100 symbolic than in tehran the visit also helped to restore relations which as the shah said

00:54:56.900 had been clouded by misunderstanding at the city of london he emphasized that british know-how was

00:55:02.180 playing a notable part in persian development this young woman comes into the picture as the new queen

00:55:11.060 faradiba again the trappings of magnificence this time entirely feminine a shopping spree

00:55:18.260 at Christian Dior's to choose one of the loveliest and most valuable truces any bride could wish for.

00:55:25.700 I love this. I love this. The Queen of Iran, like the Queen of Iran, she's still alive. She's the

00:55:31.420 emperor. She just turned 87. Such a classy, elegant woman. And she spent a lot of her time

00:55:37.920 working on the white revolution, right? Combating poverty, illiteracy, all of that stuff. Like she 0.98

00:55:44.220 who's all about empowering women,

00:55:46.160 she does not get enough credit.

00:55:48.920 She's such a hardworking woman, 1.00

00:55:50.440 and I will do an episode on her at some point for sure. 0.99

00:55:57.220 Blender, the necessity for an heir to maintain a monarchy

00:56:00.140 which has lasted for 2,500 years.

00:56:03.220 The spectacular wedding was held in the Golastan Palace.

00:56:06.320 The wedding dress, white satin, trimmed with me.

00:56:08.680 a western style bridal procession but the ceremony according to persian custom

00:56:16.920 oh this was their wedding i love that

00:56:21.880 no monarch in the world personally retained such close control over everything happening

00:56:32.320 in his country guys do you see this so i mean look at this these are these are iranian women 0.62

00:56:37.900 in the 1960s okay this is what Iranian women looked like in the 1960s this pissed off the

00:56:47.360 Islamists right they did not like this when Richard Nixon is talking about um you know the 1.00

00:56:54.580 the reactionaries the reactionaries were the Islamists they were not happy that women were 0.99

00:57:00.280 dressed like this they were not happy that the Shah was modernizing Iran they wanted to go back 0.93

00:57:05.680 to like a seventh century islamic hellhole and unfortunately that's what they got but just 0.56

00:57:11.760 look at look at this and then the next time someone says that like iran is always like an 0.94

00:57:17.880 islamic country whatever like it's utter nonsense it's pure um propaganda it's pure jihadi propaganda 0.63

00:57:24.820 it's literally takia um and there are so many videos and images to prove it as well 1.00

00:57:32.440 but it's not roses roses all the way you look at these women

00:57:38.740 many development projects which the shawl has launched must be visited personally

00:57:45.200 here he's opening a new bridge

00:57:46.980 I love that look at that that was one of the big things the shawl was really really focused

00:57:56.680 on um industrial development and modernizing and building so i mean bridges roads universities

00:58:03.380 hospitals like stadiums anything you can think of he built and he built like lots of them like he

00:58:09.300 was modernizing iran all across the country and all at the same time and like look at these women

00:58:16.860 look at these women this is this is what iranian women looked like in the 1960s right well this

00:58:24.500 video was filmed in 1960. So this is how Iranian women dressed in 1960. I mean, if I said that

00:58:33.500 this was, you know, this was happening in the United States, people, like, I mean, I would

00:58:40.500 believe it. This doesn't look any different than women in the United States or in Europe or 0.97

00:58:45.480 anywhere else, right? This is what Iran was. This is 1960, guys. 1960. And look at what's 0.99

00:58:54.480 happened today. The Islamic Republic downgraded Iran, overnight took our

00:59:01.740 country back 1,400 years, turned it into a seventh century Islamic hellhole 1.00

00:59:07.420 governed by Sharia law. Again, this is what Iranian women looked like. This is 1.00

00:59:14.940 what we want to continue looking like. 1.00

00:59:18.480 The Queen must learn how to use the scissors too. 0.97

00:59:20.840 television is booming in persia the shah drops in for a visit 0.98

00:59:27.000 don't get up gentlemen

00:59:30.860 he's a modern-minded king and wants to know exactly what's going on i love this

00:59:39.860 a persian sugar factory a brand new one industry has increased at a fantastic pace

00:59:49.860 it's part of the plan to combat both do you see that woman do you see her 0.52

00:59:55.460 look how beautiful she is do you see any hijab on her no of course not poverty and communism

01:00:03.400 as for the land the shah is giving away title deeds to many of his own estates 0.79

01:00:09.760 one way of encouraging the did you did you catch that he is literally giving his own the shah of

01:00:17.200 Iran you know the the one that the Islamists accused of being a corrupt dictator and whatever 0.55

01:00:23.640 he's literally giving away pieces of his own land to people let's let's let's catch this again

01:00:29.880 because this is this isn't coming from me this is this is a 1960s um documentary slash interview

01:00:37.280 this is from 1960. As for the land the Shah is giving away title deeds to many of his own estates

01:00:44.820 one way of encouraging the breakup of the old feudal system that's right that so the breakup

01:00:50.960 of the old feudal system those are the land reforms that richard nixon was talking about

01:00:57.060 the land reforms where he was getting rid of the feudal system getting rid of the serfdom

01:01:02.300 and instead encouraging people to be landowners he was he was enabling iranians to um be self

01:01:11.220 sufficient he literally gave away his own land for the betterment of the country

01:01:19.620 and yet the islamists are the ones who call him a dictator 0.82

01:01:25.060 guys every accusation against the shah is an admission of guilt from the islamists

01:01:31.220 themselves that's why they continue attacking him because they created this false narrative

01:01:38.740 about him that was picked up by the media in order to justify overthrowing him and it was

01:01:45.400 all part of their taqiyah for the greater global islamic caliphate so long ago the queen was a

01:01:54.520 student in paris she takes her royal duties seriously but seems to get some fun out of it 0.94

01:01:59.060 as well look at all these look at all these iranian women like like the queen of iran

01:02:03.580 was focused on educating and empowering Iranian women. Look at all these like nursing graduates,

01:02:09.340 your new nursing students. This is what they were doing. Oh, and this pissed off the Islamists,

01:02:16.380 right? The Islamists did not like this because to them, women are second class citizens. 1.00

01:02:21.680 Women should not be working. Women should only be at home, you know, 1.00

01:02:25.760 raising babies or whatever and keeping their faces covered. Islamists do not like strong 1.00

01:02:31.780 women so this pissed them off they did not like seeing iranian women be educated

01:02:37.860 i don't know i don't know how people can call the shah a dictator or corrupt when

01:02:41.940 he was literally giving away his own land and they were working hard they were investing

01:02:48.260 in the country to educate people including empowering women

01:03:01.780 With borders along the Soviet Union and Iraq and alliances with Western powers, Iran has

01:03:13.440 a delicate balance to maintain.

01:03:27.940 The army is American-trained, but the Shah has said we're giving no military bases to

01:03:31.940 any country. We are a sovereign state and have a great future.

01:03:37.360 Tehran Airport, three weeks ago. A young air hostess tells us who'll be there.

01:03:43.400 The royal family, Prime Minister, Minister of Court, Ambassadors, they've come here to

01:03:49.800 welcome him back to Iran. In Farsi, whenever we want to greet the Shah, we talk in the

01:03:57.800 we speak in a simple language and we say your highness welcome to iran look at that not only

01:04:09.080 were iranians educated they also spoke english right i mean this this guys i'm telling you

01:04:17.800 the fact that this young iranian woman in 1960 um was educated had a job was employed 0.54

01:04:25.960 and had her hair uncovered that pissed off the islamists they did not like that 0.57

01:04:31.160 right they did not like seeing women educated and empowered

01:04:37.240 and i'm loving the fact that the shah was so focused on education that he made sure that

01:04:43.160 iranians also learn english the king of kings has been to six european countries

01:04:49.800 he escaped assassination in 1949 four years later he was forced into exile during the mosaddik

01:04:55.400 crisis now although he's in personal control guys the the comments in the chat the women are

01:05:03.640 of course the women are educated there now the only reason the women continue to be educated

01:05:09.480 is because of the systems that the shah implemented all the universities he built 0.53

01:05:14.820 all the schools he built he made sure that the literacy rate went up when the islamic republic

01:05:20.700 took over they tried to discourage iranian women from going to university in fact many of them

01:05:25.300 were barred from going to university but yeah Iranian women are 100% educated not because of

01:05:34.820 the Islamic Republic they're educated despite the Islamic Republic there's a difference guys okay

01:05:40.620 they're educated despite the Islamic Republic because the Islamic Republic tried everything

01:05:46.340 in their power to discourage Iranian women from being educated even to this day they're still 0.96

01:05:52.880 encouraging young iranian girls to drop out of school and marry early and have babies instead

01:06:00.640 thankfully thankfully in iranian culture we treat men and women equally we also

01:06:08.960 value education and so um this you know these islamic practices that the islamic republic 0.98

01:06:15.360 tries to impose on iranians it doesn't work because it's not part of our culture 0.66

01:06:19.280 but do you so for you to say iranian women are educated today yes they're educated despite

01:06:25.480 sharia law look at what's happening in afghanistan look at what's you know happening

01:06:30.560 in pakistan and all these other places the women there unfortunately are victims of sharia law

01:06:39.680 and in their cultures for whatever reason the men aren't standing up to support the women and so 0.96

01:06:45.520 they're all staying at home do you do you not think that the islamic republic would want the

01:06:50.000 same in iran they tried they definitely tried to discourage iranian women from being educated 0.84

01:06:55.040 but iranian women were having none of that iranian women have been fighting the islamic republic

01:07:01.020 since they took power in 1979 right away the iranian women were protesting against the

01:07:09.580 mandatory hijab that was introduced in 1979 okay there are pictures of that you can look it up

01:07:18.660 you know look it up everything I say I come with receipts look up Iranian women protest hijab 1979

01:07:25.440 you'll see hundreds of thousands of Iranian women out in 1979 protesting against mandatory hijab

01:07:33.560 Because before the Islamic Republic came to power, they said, oh, no, no, no, we're not going to impose Sharia law on anyone.

01:07:42.720 We're not going to impose Islam on anyone.

01:07:44.560 Everyone's going to be free to live their lives however they want. 0.90

01:07:47.700 Iranians trusted the Islamists, and as soon as the Islamists got into power, they murdered everyone who spoke out against them. 0.86

01:07:54.140 When Iranian women went out to protest, they were beaten, tortured, raped, and executed. 0.81

01:07:59.540 that happened in 1979 and it's been happening ever since so guys you think mazda amini is new

01:08:06.620 no what happened to mazda amini in 2022 is unfortunately just one of hundreds of thousands 0.67

01:08:13.120 of iranian women who have been murdered being tortured raped murdered by the islamic republic

01:08:20.280 for one reason or another it started as soon as they took over you guys just didn't know about it 0.78

01:08:27.020 because there was no social media for Iranians to be able to share what was happening with the rest 0.96

01:08:33.320 of the world so you know don't come in the chat and say Iranian women are still educated yeah

01:08:39.020 they're educated despite the Islamic Republic not because of it the Islamic Republic has not 0.99

01:08:44.140 contributed a single positive thing to Iran or to the world the Islamic Republic is a parasite 0.98

01:08:51.260 the only reason that we're not like afghanistan is because iranian women i think maybe i guess 0.81

01:08:59.260 stronger fighters also you know iran iran was more established as a secular country and you know all

01:09:07.020 of those reforms that the shah had done at the time they stuck they stuck he returns to a time

01:09:15.340 of general elections and party rivalries oh oh my gosh did you did you guys hear that so to everyone

01:09:22.000 to everyone who says um that the shah was a dictator how can a dictatorship have elections 0.67

01:09:29.980 can someone answer me that because one of the false narratives that people like the islamists

01:09:36.180 and communists love to to push is that the shah was a dictator blah blah blah if he was a dictator

01:09:43.160 how the hell were there elections happening in Iran?

01:09:47.260 No one ever asked that question.

01:09:49.720 No one ever actually goes and looks up the fact

01:09:52.540 that Iran was a constitutional monarchy.

01:09:56.800 No one ever bothers to look up the 1906 Constitutional Revolution.

01:10:02.800 Welcome to Iran.

01:10:04.880 The King of Kings has been to six European countries.

01:10:08.200 He escaped assassination in 1949.

01:10:10.380 four years later he was forced into exile during the Mossadegh crisis now

01:10:15.820 although he's in personal control he returns to a time of general elections

01:10:20.340 and party rivalries

01:10:40.380 members of the senate in a polite and formal line the diplomatic corps

01:10:55.660 can we just take a moment to appreciate how well-dressed everyone is like just classy 1.00

01:11:06.960 elegant well-dressed a huge huge difference from like the way Islamists

01:11:12.840 and jihadis dress right like it's just night and day night and day the summer

01:11:20.760 palace Tehran a few days later an important date for roving report the

01:11:27.580 visitor is expected but no protocol here no striped trousers and top hats just an

01:11:32.820 informal chat in the garden where the king and queen normally have lunch

01:11:44.200 the only music the cool fountains on the lawn a contrast of fierce sunlight and

01:11:49.560 deep shade Queen Farah Diba replied in French in much better French than mine

01:11:53.760 first I asked her majesty about the child she's expecting and whether she

01:12:01.180 is in good health you know what's what's wild the the shah and empress of iran were so educated they

01:12:18.540 spoke multiple languages the current islamic republic you know the people who are there 1.00

01:12:23.180 responsible for everything they're so uneducated they're so inbred um not only can they not speak 1.00

01:12:28.860 english they could barely speak farsi like it's just the the level of education is night and day 1.00

01:12:36.060 you guys night and day the queen told me something about her work with women's

01:12:45.500 social and welfare organizations in persia

01:12:47.740 i'm very interested in social questions and above all in the education and emancipation of iranian

01:13:01.660 women do you hear that guys so so the queen the empress of iran uh she's still alive by the way

01:13:11.360 she's 87 um her big focus was education and emancipation of women does that sound like a 1.00

01:13:19.840 corrupt dictatorship to you one that wants to educate and advance women's rights 0.52

01:13:24.320 do you see the lies that the islamists have been putting out there for years 0.97

01:13:30.720 years and years and years what kind of dictator builds 4 000 schools a year to educate people 0.97

01:13:37.960 Well, not just men, women.

01:13:47.060 I think my country should consider this problem very closely 0.80

01:13:49.980 because it's really thanks to these women

01:13:52.320 that society has men who are well-educated, capable, and patriotic.

01:13:56.300 I hope that the development of training schools for girls, training schools for nurses and

01:14:11.380 welfare associations could help materially this fulfillment of the women of Iran.

01:14:26.300 I'm personally very interested in these problems, and whenever the need arises, I'll do my best to help.

01:14:44.300 Madam, you have been very gentle. Thank you very much.

01:14:52.300 Your Imperial Majesty, may I first say how honoured I am for you to receive me here today.

01:14:57.700 If it is permitted, might I be allowed to discover something about Your Majesty yourself?

01:15:03.040 For instance, I hear that you are writing your autobiography.

01:15:06.100 Is this true?

01:15:07.100 Yes, this is true.

01:15:08.900 I hope the book.

01:15:13.040 Someone asked if she was French.

01:15:14.840 No, she was Iranian.

01:15:16.040 She was 100% Iranian.

01:15:17.900 still i mean she's alive still um but i mean she learned french uh you know the the shah of iran

01:15:24.860 spoke several languages so to the empress french was one of them could be published in in the form

01:15:31.500 do you feel impelled to take any special precautions towards your personal safety

01:15:39.180 they want me to but i don't know how

01:15:41.180 No. You see, I have always been...

01:15:50.180 Oh. Yeah, Omid, you're absolutely right. His son, the current Shah of Iran in exile,

01:15:59.380 he also speaks French fluently, and he actually did a press conference in the summer where

01:16:05.140 he fielded questions from reporters in English, French, and Farsi all at the same time. Highly

01:16:10.060 educated family and i think that i will be around until my time is up and this has been decided by

01:16:19.980 the god almighty in which i i believe and many other people in the world believe

01:16:26.780 but i suppose

01:16:27.740 guards and other services are taking protections because that's their duty but personally i don't

01:16:42.140 know how to take how to take protection i know too sir that you're a great lover of sport of

01:16:47.500 all sorts do you still find time to take part in many of these things i still yes i still

01:16:53.660 still can find some time, especially in summer time. I hope to start soon the tennis season.

01:17:08.380 And I'm going to the Caspian Sea in a week time, where we are going to enjoy swimming

01:17:16.820 and water skiing. It's very pleasant.

01:17:21.180 aviation so still coming to your program yes yes it does I'm flying as much as I

01:17:26.880 can although someone in the chat asked me if I speak Farsi the answer is yes I

01:17:31.920 do speak Farsi oh it's not as much as I would like to but whenever I fly I'm

01:17:41.700 doing the flying in 1958 at a press conference in Tehran you said I need 10

01:17:47.880 years to turn my country into a model state can you tell us something about

01:17:51.640 the progress in the last two years I think we can say that we are satisfied

01:18:01.260 with the progress of this program during that time we passed through our

01:18:12.360 parliament a law did you guys hear that he's talking about the parliament right in farce

01:18:19.560 we call it the majlis so again i don't know what sort of dictator has a parliament but there you

01:18:24.760 go for agrarian reform now we have a limitation on land ownership and we have also passed

01:18:35.880 very up-to-date and modern labor laws. We are even giving government land to the workers

01:18:47.820 for them to build houses and many other facilities. And we admit that many technical fields we are

01:19:03.420 behind. And because we have no complex, we can accept the know-how and the help of other

01:19:18.280 advanced countries, and we also encourage their investment here.

01:19:25.640 We then turned to Iran's foreign relations, and the Shah answered a question about CENTO,

01:19:30.060 Central Treaty Organization and Mr. Selwyn Lloyd's recent statement that the

01:19:33.940 detente, the easing of tensions between states, must be indivisible.

01:19:38.100 Well I think that Mr. Selwyn Lloyd is quite right in saying so because as

01:19:48.780 peace is indivisible so is the detente. We cannot switch your pressure from one

01:19:55.900 place to another and having peace and calm and security in the world if there

01:20:03.520 must be peace it must be everywhere in a few weeks there are to be general

01:20:08.260 elections in Iran sir could you give us some information about them yes as I

01:20:14.460 stated two days ago these will be absolutely free elections and I even

01:20:25.340 and said that the elections will be as free as you have them in your country or in America

01:20:31.460 or in France or other democratic countries.

01:20:36.340 But we have two political parties, and obviously a political party has machinery, which is

01:20:48.100 powerful and it is usually more powerful than single contenders but we are going to accept

01:21:00.100 gladly the result of the people's choice your majesty you've been most kind to answer these

01:21:07.460 questions frankly for the british audience thank you very much i've been glad to be once again

01:21:14.100 in contact with the British audience, the British people, who are our friend and ally.

01:21:30.920 Wow, so there's an interview with the Shah of Iran at the time from 1960.

01:21:37.460 Those were happier times. 0.94

01:21:39.020 Those were happier times.

01:21:40.140 um the next interview is going to be from the mid-1970s so this is already um you know when

01:21:50.000 the tension with the islamists has begun because guys again the islamic revolution did not happen

01:21:55.940 overnight it was a slow process that took about um 15 years starting with the white revolution

01:22:04.560 Again, the white revolution was a top down approach from the Shah and Empress of Iran at the time. 0.81

01:22:11.440 You know, you just saw them here. So where are they? Let me get like a shot here. 0.73

01:22:20.200 There we go. There you go. So. The Shah and Empress.

01:22:28.160 All right. I can't find it anyway.

01:22:30.500 so they implemented the white revolution which was a top-down approach to modernizing Iran 0.63

01:22:35.240 um that's when the tensions with the Islamists started so that's when the Islamists started

01:22:39.860 their grumbling and then initially they were ignored and you know as President Nixon said

01:22:44.940 the Shah was not ruthless enough with them right because the Shah was a progressive he was progressive

01:22:52.720 he believed in freedom of you know speech and all that stuff um initially anyway right and then it 0.96

01:22:58.900 got to a point where the communists and islamists were destabilizing iranian society and then 0.93

01:23:04.360 eventually um by the time um things got super heated up it was too late to do anything about 0.98

01:23:12.200 it so for those of you watching this pay attention to what the communists and the islamists are doing

01:23:17.760 in your own countries because what you're seeing today is similar to what was happening in iran

01:23:24.060 in the 1960s leading up to the 70s and then leading up to the islamic revolution it did

01:23:30.520 not happen overnight guys it was a slow build-up so that was 1960 let's now go to um this is an

01:23:39.660 interview i think this is like the early 70s i think it's like 1974 maybe um and just look look

01:23:48.380 the difference look at the difference with the reporter with attention um and look at anyways

01:23:54.300 let's just let's just watch this well obviously for us there is absolutely

01:24:05.260 no room for establishing an empire through military conquest

01:24:11.180 This is out of the question. This is ridiculous. So to regain the greatness of Iran could only be done in the other human aspect of our past to revive it. 0.93

01:24:31.180 okay come on so i'm this is this is the thing like you have the islamists coming to the chat

01:24:39.740 and they say iran was historically islamic there was nothing islamic about iran i've shown the

01:24:45.380 videos in this chat um i've shown the videos in this live feed we literally just played videos

01:24:51.300 of what iran looks like prior to uh islamic uh sharia law coming in and turning the country

01:24:58.000 to seventh century islamic hell holes so um take the taqiyah elsewhere because it's it doesn't fly

01:25:04.480 it doesn't work right we literally have facts and evidence in this chat so i mean to say that you

01:25:11.200 know iran was a muslim country no there were muslims in iran the shah himself he was a muslim

01:25:18.080 but he was secular because there was a there was a separation of mosque and state and that's why

01:25:25.040 iran was modernizing because religion was a private thing so anyone who says though

01:25:30.720 iran iran was a muslim country you have no idea what you're talking about and to take the best

01:25:36.560 out of the thought of our forefathers and being a prosperous country a happy society based on

01:25:46.560 social justice that is our today's creation and marrying today with the past presenting something

01:25:57.440 for well for ourselves and if it is uh appealing for others to look at there are some of your

01:26:12.000 majesty's critics who say there is a rigorous censorship in iran what would your majesty's

01:26:16.720 opinion be to this again what kind of censorship so pay attention so this is this is one of the lies 0.82

01:26:24.560 that the islamists were propagating right they were saying their censorship in iran 0.66

01:26:29.200 but they never they never explained what they meant or who they were talking about 0.82

01:26:34.960 but they would just complain complain complain and then you know the reporters would say like

01:26:41.360 Like, did you just see like their censorship in Iran and the Shah's like, what are you talking about?

01:26:45.080 Like, what kind of censorship? Listen to what the reporter says.

01:26:48.340 I want you to pay attention. The questions that the reporter asks throughout this entire interview, he never has a shred of evidence.

01:26:55.360 He never has anything to back up his claims. It's all basically just like all these questions are based off of like word of mouth and rumor.

01:27:04.220 right there's no evidence of anything of any sort that the journalist can point to to back up

01:27:12.240 anything he's saying including this thing about censorship if there was the daily criticism

01:27:18.020 against our shortages our weaknesses and this and that it's even encouraged

01:27:22.840 if the criticism is directed against the foundation of the state and to weakening of

01:27:34.060 the state and serving the interests of a foreign country obviously we are not going to allow that

01:27:41.980 why should we boom did you catch that did you catch that he's basically saying if foreign

01:27:51.520 actors want to come in and criticize for the purpose of destabilizing the country of course 1.00

01:27:56.320 we're going to censor it why wouldn't we why wouldn't me meanwhile you have the useful idiots 1.00

01:28:02.400 in the west who are literally burning the flags of your countries doing it in the you know doing 0.99

01:28:07.600 it under the guise of like freedom of expression destabilizing your countries those criticisms 0.50

01:28:14.320 those criticisms are dangerous those criticisms in the 1970s led to the islamic revolution those 0.85

01:28:21.200 criticisms led to the destabilization of the country and then the islamists took over and 0.94

01:28:27.920 turned iran into a seventh century islamic hell hole and he makes it very clear if it's a foreign 0.79

01:28:33.360 you know if the criticism serves a foreign interest of course we're going to shut it down 0.97

01:28:38.000 why wouldn't we like it's very logical and rational of course let's go back and listen to that again

01:28:44.640 because i even agree with this oh and by the way um a country in europe i can't remember

01:28:50.400 a country recently in europe banned communism do you know that which one was it um let me look it

01:28:58.640 up here it was just recent too czech republic the czech republic just recently you know in its

01:29:11.280 legislation passed a motion to ban the promotion of communist ideology so the czech republic a

01:29:20.720 democratic state with a democratically elected government is now banning communism because

01:29:28.720 they recognize the inherent danger of allowing certain rhetoric to exist in society communism 0.73

01:29:37.600 being one of them islamism being the other right that that's what the shah is referring to so the 0.94

01:29:43.920 shah already had the foresight back in the 1970s to try and shut down that communist and islamist

01:29:52.800 narrative and only now 50 years later other countries are waking up to that and realizing 0.83

01:30:00.080 the danger that this ideology poses in destabilizing western society

01:30:06.240 the criticism against our shortages our weaknesses and this and that it's even encouraged

01:30:15.440 if the criticism is directed against the foundation of the state

01:30:22.000 and to weakening of the state and serving the interests of a foreign country

01:30:27.440 obviously we are not going to allow that why should we

01:30:31.920 i agree i agree what advantage have they got from that

01:30:36.320 but freedom so true he's basically saying so those who have tolerated

01:30:43.440 communist and islamist ideology what advantage have they gotten from that

01:30:47.800 what advantage do you guys let me ask you a question what advantage do you have in your 0.51

01:30:52.520 countries right now allowing the pro-hamas people to yell you know globalize the intifada what

01:30:59.120 advantage do you have in your countries for allowing people to block intersections and yell 0.98

01:31:02.760 has there been any advantage or net positive benefit to allowing these islamists and communists 0.98

01:31:11.240 in your countries destabilize your society of course not of opinion in any country and being 0.94

01:31:17.640 able to criticize the existing organizations is a fundamental principle of democracy and if you

01:31:24.360 run least let's go back to this because now the reporter's trying to like so the reporter is

01:31:28.840 basically saying opinion so look the shah says one thing and the reporter says something completely

01:31:34.280 different the shah basically says if you want to criticize you know the day-to-day functions of the

01:31:39.800 government or whatever go for it have at it i encourage that he literally says i encourage

01:31:44.120 criticism but he says if your criticisms are coming from a place of malice a place of ill

01:31:52.200 intention if your criticism is coming with the purpose of destabilizing society in order to take

01:31:58.680 over of course i'm going to stop that because that is not fair criticism that is an invasion 0.99

01:32:06.680 and now this idiotic reporter says well criticizing is part of democracy country 0.99

01:32:11.800 and being able to criticize those who have done it what advantage have they got from that 1.00

01:32:21.320 but freedom of opinion in any country and being able to criticize the existing organizations

01:32:27.720 is a fundamental principle of democracy and if iran lays claim to democracy

01:32:33.000 then these principles should be honored yes within the limit of the law

01:32:37.320 it depends what kind of laws you have within the limit of existing laws obviously

01:32:45.300 one of our laws is that communism is not allowed

01:32:49.400 communism was banned 0.79

01:32:55.560 czech republic just banned communism the shah was literally like 50 years 60 years ahead of his time 0.91

01:33:05.520 He was 60 years ahead of his time. He banned communism. And all those people who were accusing the Shah of being a dictator and, you know, censorship is because they were not allowed to spread communist ideology.

01:33:21.380 Is the Czech government today a dictatorship for banning communism?

01:33:26.000 can anyone ask can anyone answer is the czech government right now

01:33:34.600 a dictatorship because they have banned the promotion of communist ideology

01:33:39.400 and if the answer is no

01:33:42.920 then what about the shah

01:33:47.100 he banned communism because it was he recognized the threat and danger of

01:33:55.640 communism and in fact it ended up you know communism is what ended up supporting the 0.95

01:34:01.720 islamists to overthrow the shah and turn iran into a seventh century islamic hellhole

01:34:06.980 and i'm glad people in the chat are saying no of course so czech republic was not a dictator

01:34:12.900 but yet somehow there's there's a you know different standard for the shah the shah was

01:34:18.540 a dictator for banning communism no the man was a genius he was super intelligent and he was ahead

01:34:24.980 of his time he banned communism because he recognized the inherent threat of the soviets

01:34:31.940 at the prime again remember this is the um mid you know early to mid 1970s soviet the soviets

01:34:38.500 were still very much in power man so one of our laws is that communism is not allowed

01:34:47.700 i support that it's banned so you can't do it but could a journalist in iran

01:34:54.980 dare to criticize His Majesty?

01:34:58.980 He could, but I don't think that he would.

01:35:02.980 The danger for this nation is, should something happen to this person, that nation might crumble.

01:35:10.980 Do you see such a danger for you? Well, I was trying to

01:35:14.980 touch this subject, that the structure, the

01:35:18.980 smooth running engine is the structure of the country.

01:35:22.980 We have a political party. We have the people participating in the affairs of the country, be it their daily routine affairs or even political one, starting down from the village level up to the two houses of parliament, with village councils, city councils, provincial councils, and so on and so on.

01:35:51.520 again does that sound like a dictatorship to you where the shah is literally

01:35:56.520 enabling people to get involved and become civically engaged 0.93

01:36:03.720 like the lies the islamists put out and still put out are wild right and they have nothing to back 1.00

01:36:14.080 it up nothing to back it up it's just like you know a few buzzwords here and there but when you 0.97

01:36:19.440 actually dive in and look at what he's saying, it's the exact opposite.

01:36:28.080 With a party which is really now englobing the whole of our population,

01:36:34.640 but there's only one party which is allowed in Iran.

01:36:36.960 Yes, but in that party all shades of opinions are represented.

01:36:42.000 Absolutely. That is why, for instance, in the past elections, instead of the party presenting

01:36:51.820 one candidate for each constituency, presented three, four, five candidates for one constituency.

01:37:00.300 And the people could choose among the five. And that's why we had the most representative

01:37:06.240 elections we ever had in our history.

01:37:11.700 Your majesty had some misunderstanding with the religious leaders in the course of your reforms.

01:37:17.580 Does your majesty think that the Islamic religion is a hindrance to your reform plans, or has it

01:37:23.360 been in the past? I don't think so. Not Islam. The priests, some of them, yes. But you can say

01:37:30.000 that of all. Okay, so this is important. Again, remember, the Shah is a Muslim himself, right?

01:37:36.000 But he's a secular Muslim, like normal, normal Muslim, right? He's not like the jihadi Allah 0.67

01:37:40.560 Akbar, you know, like, blow people up Muslim. Those are the ones that took over our country in 1.00

01:37:44.500 1979. So he makes a very important point. He says, you know, it's not that it's not the religion

01:37:49.760 that's the problem, because he's Muslim himself. It's some of the clerics, right? So he's, he's 0.99

01:37:55.640 being very, very politically correct right now. Why? Because there's a lot of tension within Iran,

01:38:02.840 and these Islamic clerics are out to get him. So he's, he's literally trying to calm the waters

01:38:10.040 here so um when richard nixon said in the first interview we watched together when richard nixon

01:38:17.240 said the shah was not ruthless enough you know this i kind of wish he was a little bit stronger

01:38:24.600 i wish he was a little bit stronger but the the reality is that um no one really knew the kinds of 0.89

01:38:31.320 evil demonic creatures the ayatollahs were um people thought that they were just rational

01:38:37.320 normal human beings that could be reasoned with, not like, you know, evil demons from the pits of 0.99

01:38:43.980 hell come to murder and torture Iranians. Let's go back a little bit. I want to listen to his answer 0.98

01:38:48.900 again. So for your reforms, does your majesty think that the Islamic religion is a hindrance

01:38:56.480 to your reform plans? Or has it been in the past? I don't think so. Not Islam, the priests,

01:39:02.240 some of them yes but you can say that of all religions all reformers in the world had to deal

01:39:10.560 with the church the clergy starting from way back in europe before the renaissance and then you

01:39:23.360 always had that clash between reform and church uh but here we have not anything organized as

01:39:32.000 the church there are some isolated priests with whom i had to take some strong measures

01:39:46.640 the measures that he took were not strong enough the measures he took were not strong enough this

01:39:54.720 is what president nixon is talking about when he says the shah was not ruthless enough 0.61

01:39:58.720 if the shah had nipped those islamic terrorists um in the bud before they gained power before 0.94

01:40:09.640 they were able to constantly just like promote their lies 0.99

01:40:12.960 maybe the revolution would have never happened maybe maybe the islamic terrorists would never 0.98

01:40:18.960 have gained so much strength um to take control of iran and turn our country into an islamic 0.99

01:40:25.060 hellhole governed by Sharia law. It's really difficult watching this because we all know what 1.00

01:40:33.560 the outcome is. And this right here, this was, guys, this was six years before. This was five

01:40:41.060 or six years before the Islamic Revolution. So again, the Islamic Revolution didn't happen

01:40:45.080 overnight. It was something that took almost 15 years of slow tension buildup, right? So this is 0.86

01:40:52.240 about sort of the halfway point. This is the halfway point where, you know, reporters are kind

01:40:58.420 of hearing things. They don't really know what's going on. You know, they're asking him about like

01:41:03.480 oppression or whatever. And he's answering very clearly and concisely. Like there is not a single

01:41:08.620 thing that he has said so far to make me think that he is corrupt or dictator or anything in

01:41:15.160 any way, shape or form. Right. And the guy, the reporter even asks him, he's talking about the

01:41:21.420 shah's reforms those reforms were the white revolution right the reforms to modernize iran

01:41:26.460 to bring iran forward um those are the reforms he's talking about and he says

01:41:31.380 do these reforms to modernize iran clash with islam and he says well you know not really there

01:41:38.440 there are some you know that i've had to deal with but i think he should have dealt with them 0.88

01:41:42.760 harder but again you know hindsight is 2020 so guys for what it's worth at the very least learn

01:41:48.940 from the mistake that we iranians made because we are still paying for it with blood we are paying 1.00

01:41:55.340 for it with our lives they like these islamists murder us every day in the name of allah and jihad 0.97

01:42:00.940 and whatever let's go back a little bit uh but here we have not anything organized as the church 1.00

01:42:08.940 there are some isolated priests with whom i had

01:42:17.020 to take some strong measures would you would your majesty say that there is still opposition

01:42:24.940 to you be it religious opposition be it communistic opposition communistic very much every 0.99

01:42:30.620 day more see so literally literally the unholy alliance of the red and black the islamist 0.93

01:42:37.500 opposition and the communist opposition that's exactly what you see in western countries today 0.95

01:42:45.180 right like all those like pro-hamas you know free ballast sign whatever people 0.85

01:42:49.980 it's the communists and the islamists that are coming together 0.81

01:42:54.220 that's exactly what was happening in iran in the 1970s 0.93

01:43:01.100 and a very very funny thing developing now is what

01:43:04.380 But the Marxist organization, which has a label of Islamic Marxists, this is something quite new.

01:43:18.280 Yes, definitely. I think the more we have success, the more desperate they become and they try to do what they can against us.

01:43:27.580 The future of Iran is to give the world what spiritually we can give, either what we develop today, the social justice that we are developing today, going very, very, very far without infringing upon the liberties of the individual and without killing the incentive. 0.85

01:43:53.580 But at the same time, going very far in the repartition of wealth in a just and good way.

01:44:06.760 So, we might present...

01:44:11.740 So when he's speaking about the partition of wealth, that's the land reform.

01:44:14.960 Remember the land reforms that he was speaking about earlier?

01:44:17.600 also when we saw in that 1960s documentary the shah in the night in the 60s was literally giving

01:44:23.760 away pieces of his own land to people in order to help them become self-sufficient so the land reform

01:44:30.720 he's speaking about was getting rid of that feudal system where you had these lords you know and then 0.56

01:44:36.560 they owned all of these serfs who worked for land for free so uh the shah basically freed all of

01:44:41.840 the serfs gave them their own land the feudal lords didn't like that and so they accused them

01:44:46.960 him of being a dictator why you know he was a dictator because he freed the slaves he freed

01:44:53.720 the serfs right the shah was guys the shah was loved the shah is still loved by his people like

01:45:00.860 today's his birthday god bless his soul um my timeline like my feed on x is just one post after

01:45:08.660 another of of the shah like every single iranian is tweeting about his birthday multiple pictures

01:45:14.040 multiple posts um we love him we love him so so much and unfortunately the world did him dirty 0.88

01:45:22.520 like they smeared him they're still trying to smear him but guys the truth is is is there and

01:45:29.800 the truth is undeniable um and we are getting the facts out there the facts out there and you know

01:45:36.360 this like this interview is one of them some kind of a new solution between capitalism and

01:45:43.640 communism it's not because we have done it that i say that but just wait a few years and you will

01:45:50.200 have to take another look into that this is on the social side and the new materialistic philosophy

01:46:00.040 but we can also present to you the old philosophy of our forefathers which was

01:46:05.000 power we think beautiful and from which we can learn so in building a strong society

01:46:14.840 on those basis first of all we are trying to serve our own country first then our region

01:46:23.600 then eventually be a good partner for the rest of the

01:46:28.880 there you go i mean the interview speaks for itself right it speaks for itself and it it

01:46:41.180 basically um just rips apart all of the accusations that were made against them and are still being

01:46:49.280 made against him um all right so this is another one the shell of iran was unusually and refreshingly

01:46:56.860 open you know several interviews when i used a phrase he didn't like he clearly enjoyed the

01:47:03.260 chance to throw it back at me as you know i have been across the gulf the gulf that you call persian

01:47:09.260 and they call arabian okay so so this is a good one this is a good one um one of my favorite 0.81

01:47:18.220 interviews like the shah he is just like a no nonsense kind of person and he will call out um

01:47:26.860 all sorts of idiocy but he does it in a very very polite and professional manner like just 0.61

01:47:33.400 just watch it clearly enjoyed the chance to throw it back at me as you know i have been across the 0.99

01:47:39.300 gulf the gulf that you call persian and they call arabian why do you call it gulf you have

01:47:45.040 been to school or haven't you yes what what was the name that you have read during your school

01:47:50.940 the Persian Gulf. All right. But they do call it Arabian Gulf. Well, they can do many things.

01:47:59.960 None of the Shah's comments raise hackles like his blast at the American Jewish lobby.

01:48:04.960 Its influence, he claimed, went all the way to the top. Surely, your majesty, you're not telling

01:48:09.260 me that the Jewish lobby in the United States pulls the strings of the presidency.

01:48:14.960 Not entirely, but I think even a little too much, even for Israel interests. 0.90

01:48:20.940 Do you think the Jewish lobby in the United States is too powerful for the interests of Israel? 0.98

01:48:26.000 I think so. 1.00

01:48:27.320 Sometimes they are disserving the interests of Israel because they're pushing around too many people.

01:48:33.660 Why would the president of the United States... 0.68

01:48:35.340 So the reason I'm playing this, okay, the reason I'm playing this is because a lot of the Islamists take this clip out of context, right?

01:48:44.840 They take a part of it and they say, oh, look, he was complaining about the Jewish lobby.

01:48:50.940 what the shah is saying is that sometimes the jewish lobby in america works against

01:48:56.300 the interests of israel they're two completely separate things right and it's a very nuanced 0.87

01:49:02.780 argument and yet people take this completely out of context so see this is how the islamists lie

01:49:10.060 they take a sound bite they take a sound bite they play it out of context and then they say

01:49:15.660 say oh the Shah hated Israel. No the Shah is not actually criticizing Israel. Iran and Israel were

01:49:22.640 very very strong allies. Iran in fact was the second country to recognize Israel officially

01:49:29.680 as a state. The Shah never criticized Israel. He's criticizing an American lobby group and he's

01:49:37.680 saying that in his opinion because he was asked about it he's saying in my opinion I think that

01:49:43.580 this American lobby group sometimes works against the interests of Israel. And yet people are the

01:49:50.860 Islamists are taking this out of context to say Israel pulls the strings because they conveniently

01:49:57.680 edit out the part. They conveniently edit out the part where he says they're not working to

01:50:03.940 the advantage of Israel. Like they're they're they're conflating the Islamists and communists 0.75

01:50:10.580 are um inflating or conflating the two issues right he's speaking about an american lobby group

01:50:18.260 and the islamists claim that he's criticizing israel when it's two completely separate things

01:50:23.540 right let's go back and listen to this again guys pay attention because he actually says

01:50:28.980 they're not working for it like he's saying that this isn't helping israel

01:50:32.820 holds the strings of the presidency not entirely but i think even a little too much

01:50:40.180 even for israel interests you think the jewish lobby in the united states is too powerful for

01:50:46.260 the interests of israel see so usually they'll clip out the part where it says for the interests

01:50:53.940 of israel because the reporter pauses right so they take out that part and then it's just like

01:50:59.540 yes yes right so they they take out that nuance and so people think the shah was speaking out

01:51:05.060 against israel absolutely not iran and israel were close allies like that guys he was probably

01:51:11.540 saying this because he was concerned i guess about the negative impact that it was having on israel

01:51:17.700 at the time right so i mean i i don't know because i wasn't there but there was some something

01:51:23.300 happening there right like this is not a criticism of israel it's not a criticism of israel's

01:51:29.380 right to exist and he's certainly not saying that israel controls america he never said that

01:51:36.740 it's like two completely separate entities and yet the islamists will 0.91

01:51:41.620 you know you you can see in the chat they're screeching right because they haven't they've 0.97

01:51:45.060 never seen the full version of this interview i think so sometimes they are disserving the

01:51:52.260 interest of israel because they're pushing around too many people why would the president of the

01:51:58.100 united states pay attention to that they are strong strong in what sense they are controlling many 0.83

01:52:04.260 things controlling what newspapers

01:52:15.220 medias your majesty banks

01:52:18.180 finances and i'm going to stop there see so again he's speaking about an american lobby group okay

01:52:31.180 he's speaking about an american lobby group and yet the islamists and the communists and the

01:52:36.760 anti-semites take this clip edit it out of context and they make it sound like he's talking about

01:52:42.420 israel and then they use this clip to say the shalom iran said israel controls the newspapers

01:52:47.480 in america it's literally the farthest thing from the truth but again this is how these people 0.81

01:52:53.760 operate islamists lie it's takiyah you can never trust a word that comes out of their mouths guys 0.92

01:53:00.680 you cannot wait just a second you really do believe that the jewish community in the united 0.99

01:53:08.220 states is that powerful they make the media reflect their view of foreign policy yes they

01:53:15.280 do not report we do not report honestly don't mix things please i don't say the media i'll say in

01:53:24.220 the media they have people not the entire media some newspapers will only reflect their views yes

01:53:31.740 and i mean that's a fair comment to make if you look at what's happening right now in american

01:53:38.360 media, right? There are influencers, there are reporters who are literally mouthpieces for the

01:53:45.660 Islamic Republic, right? They are literally paid propagandists for the Islamic Republic.

01:53:52.420 Currently, right now, the Islamic Republic lobby group called NIAC is incredibly powerful when it

01:53:58.980 comes to the Democrats, right? And everyone's entitled to an opinion, and that's his opinion 0.95

01:54:06.160 of, you know, the lobby group in the United States at that time.

01:54:09.560 But again, this has nothing to do with Israel itself.

01:54:13.440 He even says that this was detrimental in his opinion to Israel.

01:54:18.100 Again, everyone is entitled to their opinions. 0.85

01:54:21.640 And yet the Islamists take this clip, okay, they take this clip and they edit it around 0.78

01:54:28.800 and they make it sound like Israel's controlling American media. 0.57

01:54:32.440 And even he, he even says, no, that's not what I said.

01:54:36.160 right? He said, don't conflate the issue. He's saying, I'm saying there are certain people in

01:54:41.980 the media who are a mouthpiece. And that's true of any country. Qatar has so many mouthpieces

01:54:50.420 in the media right now. Like Nadi Hassan, Nadi Hassan is the biggest mouthpiece for Qatar right

01:54:55.060 now. We also don't know the conversation before this clip, right? We don't actually know what

01:55:03.900 the topic was that led to this particular line of questioning so i find it very disingenuous that

01:55:12.400 it's just this particular clip because this didn't come out of the blue they were obviously talking

01:55:17.160 about something right they were talking about something which then led to this particular

01:55:24.220 topic but again the shah makes it very clear he's not talking about israel okay and then when he's

01:55:32.420 referring to the Jewish lobby, he's saying that there are some people in the media, not all. And

01:55:36.640 yet the Islamists, the Islamists are coming out and saying, oh, look, the Shah said Israel controls

01:55:41.260 them. Do you see how they lie? Do you see how they take little snippets here and there to make up with

01:55:47.360 a false story, a false narrative? That's how the Islamists operate. They take legitimate, valid 0.99

01:55:54.160 criticism. They conflate the issue and then they say Israel bad. And he never once said that. Let's

01:56:01.580 go back i want to listen to this part again because like this is one of those um this is

01:56:13.480 one of those interview clips that the jihadis constantly use to justify attacking jewish

01:56:20.540 people and attacking israel and it's like the farthest thing from the truth of what he actually

01:56:27.140 said which is a very nuanced argument and guys you should hear what he says about palestinians 0.82

01:56:33.260 with palestinians he goes all out like he literally calls palestinians terrorists right

01:56:38.680 he literally calls palestinians terrorists which they are 100 they are um and he has no criticism

01:56:45.240 for israel you know he's not even speaking about israel he's speaking about the jewish lobby and

01:56:50.060 he's entitled to his opinion the jewish lobby in the united states pulls the strings of the

01:56:55.360 presidency here we go okay oh sorry I just I just noticed this um thank you

01:57:06.120 thank you Raiders so much I appreciate the support don't forget to like and

01:57:12.080 subscribe and yeah I'm really enjoying this I was I was just gonna watch these

01:57:17.740 interviews on my own but I'm glad that you guys are here so we can watch it

01:57:21.640 together and i can bounce you know my thoughts uh you know off of you guys and get your input as

01:57:26.860 well and um yeah normally i would just be watching these interviews on my own but uh i'm glad to to

01:57:32.720 share them with you we can watch them together his hackles like his blast at the american jewish

01:57:37.100 lobby his influence he claimed went all the way to the top sure so again american jewish lobby

01:57:44.540 nothing to do with israel literally no connection to israel whatsoever your majesty you're not

01:57:50.940 telling me that the jewish lobby in the united states pulls the strings of the presidency

01:57:54.700 not entirely but i think even a little too much even for israel interests

01:58:02.540 you think the jewish lobby in the united states is too powerful for the interests of israel

01:58:07.500 i think so sometimes they are disserving the interests of israel because they're

01:58:12.620 they're pushing around too many people why would the president of the united states pay attention

01:58:18.260 to that lobby. They are strong.

01:58:20.440 Strong in what sense?

01:58:22.000 They are controlling many things.

01:58:25.680 Controlling

01:58:26.260 what?

01:58:30.060 Newspapers.

01:58:34.060 Medias.

01:58:35.740 Your Majesty.

01:58:36.560 Banks.

01:58:39.140 Finances.

01:58:41.520 And

01:58:42.160 I'm going to stop there.

01:58:44.060 Well, now, wait just a second. You really

01:58:46.020 do believe that the

01:58:48.120 Jewish community in the United States is that powerful. They make the media reflect their view

01:58:53.160 of foreign policy. Yes. They do not report. We do not report honestly.

01:59:00.920 Don't mix things, please. I don't say the media. I'll say in the media, they have people.

01:59:08.400 Not the entire media. Some newspapers will only reflect their views, yes.

01:59:12.760 the New York Times for instance

01:59:16.700 is owned by the Salzberger family

01:59:19.080 who are Jewish

01:59:20.820 are you suggesting that the New York Times is biased

01:59:24.880 in its treatment of the question of Zionism

01:59:27.540 Israel's existence

01:59:28.700 the United States relationship with the Arab world

01:59:31.500 I will have to put all the articles

01:59:37.140 of the New York Times written

01:59:39.640 on this subject

01:59:42.080 and wrote a conclusion.

01:59:44.660 You can put this to the computer

01:59:46.560 and it will answer you.

01:59:48.800 What you're saying is that, yes, you do believe.

01:59:51.440 Well, let's wait for the answer of the computer.

01:59:54.620 Washington Post.

01:59:56.020 The same.

01:59:57.160 The networks.

01:59:58.440 Yes.

01:59:59.740 I must say you are speaking with your characteristic candor.

02:00:05.040 Yes, if you like.

02:00:07.760 I try to be candid.

02:00:09.380 I have always been.

02:00:12.080 You're saying you do what?

02:00:14.100 So that was the one thing about him.

02:00:15.760 He always spoke his mind.

02:00:19.040 And again, you should hear what he said about Palestinians.

02:00:22.220 Like, it does not hold back there whatsoever. 1.00

02:00:25.540 Basically calls them all like a terrorist society, which they are.

02:00:30.280 I mean, let's be fair, they are.

02:00:33.200 But it's interesting.

02:00:34.420 So for him, you know, he's criticizing people.

02:00:37.120 He's basically criticizing Americans.

02:00:38.660 And yet the Islamists take that out of context and they claim that the Shah of Iran hated Israel because he said that Israel controls the American media.

02:00:51.120 Do you see how these lies are created when he literally did not say that at all?

02:00:56.480 It had nothing to do with Israel. It had nothing to do with, you know, nothing to do with Israel, by the way.

02:01:03.840 Right. And he makes that very clear. He's saying that these people sometimes are working, you know,

02:01:08.600 his opinion to the detriment of israel so very nuanced political argument but unfortunately 0.97

02:01:15.320 there are a lot of low iq islamists who basically just look for sound bites so they can use they 0.66

02:01:22.360 look for sound bites that they can you know use to promote their jihad and these people are not

02:01:29.160 sophisticated enough to understand the nuanced argument that the shah of iran who's a very very

02:01:35.240 highly educated highly knowledgeable individual is making and they just you know they have like a

02:01:44.520 kindergarten level education of political nuances um and you know major you make a very good point

02:01:55.080 pay attention to wallace's questions this is how to entrap someone in their words especially when

02:02:01.240 english is not their first language 100 i mean the shah had no problem speaking english or french

02:02:06.360 he spoke several languages but you're 100 right um wallace kept on trying to conflate

02:02:14.280 to conflate the issue and the shah himself was like that's not what i meant and he said don't

02:02:20.920 confuse what i'm saying and then he had to clarify several times because you're right the media was

02:02:26.280 trying to entrap the Shah into saying what they wanted him to say, right?

02:02:36.060 Every country does. If torture is necessary, you torture.

02:02:41.040 Okay, so again, this is the frustrating line of questioning coming from these reporters,

02:02:48.680 right? So they are getting these like wild reports from the Islamists and the communists,

02:02:54.220 You know, this is where the narrative of the Shah was a dictator and, you know, he murdered hundreds of thousands of Iranians.

02:03:01.380 Guys, I'm still waiting for someone in the chat to give me the name of one innocent Iranian that was tortured or killed by the Shah.

02:03:11.120 If you guys can give me one name, I'll be happy.

02:03:14.980 But everyone always says the Shah was a dictator and he tortured people.

02:03:18.180 where are the photos where are the names where are the documentation to back this up i'm telling 1.00

02:03:25.860 you guys it does not exist these are the way like this is how islamists lie right they lie 0.90

02:03:33.000 about everything you're saying you do what every country does sure if torture is necessary you 1.00

02:03:40.340 torture not the torture in the old sense of torturing people twisting their arms and doing

02:03:45.460 this and that. But there are intelligent ways of questioning now. Well, they talk about

02:03:52.400 psychological and physical torture. Physical, I don't believe. Not anymore. Maybe in the

02:03:59.020 old days, maybe. I talked just today to a man whom I believe who told about torture.

02:04:09.720 so so his source he spoke to a man who he believes right because his sources trust me bro

02:04:17.320 no possible no possibility that the guy he spoke to was lying

02:04:24.160 no possibility that the the guy was an islamist or a communist and had an agenda

02:04:30.440 right all he says is i spoke to a man and i believe him because source trust me bro

02:04:35.740 This is the constant smear campaign that the Islamists and communists used against the Shah for decades, well not for decades, for years, for years, right?

02:04:48.800 And it's absolutely ridiculous that Wallace just believes the guy, you know, he spoke with someone, he believes them, must be true. 1.00

02:04:57.680 And just look at the Shah's face, the Shah's looking at Wallace like, are you an idiot? 0.99

02:05:01.500 whom I believe who told about torture he was tortured yes and you believe that he was tortured 1.00

02:05:12.500 yes how many years ago within I want to be very careful not yesterday ah well maybe I don't know

02:05:24.460 the word has gone out to stop it to stop what torture but a long time ago yes

02:05:32.460 but the victims of saba knew better they would tie their hands and feet

02:05:38.140 and there would be some sort of a hood that would be placed um on their head

02:05:45.180 so this is where all the lies came right this is where all the lies started those pictures you saw

02:05:51.340 we don't know who those people are i have no idea their names their faces nothing we have no idea

02:05:56.960 what happened to them it's literally just random people who are injured and they took photos and

02:06:01.860 then they sent it and then now this guy's gonna like come up with like this ridiculous story

02:06:05.660 um guys i forget what he's gonna say but i have to warn you they also claimed that the shah of

02:06:13.340 Iran and Savuk would torture political dissidents by putting them in the cages of bears, and 0.65

02:06:21.440 the bears would rape them. 0.96

02:06:23.620 That was one of the stories that the Islamists put out, that they were raped by bears. 0.91

02:06:28.480 The bears were trained by Savuk, and then they were raped. 0.99

02:06:34.160 That's the level of idiocy that the Shah of Iran was dealing with, and that's also the 0.99

02:06:40.320 level of barbarity and savagery. 1.00

02:06:43.340 You have to be really sick in the head to even come up with this insane narrative and 0.99

02:06:50.580 claim that you were raped by bears, but that's who these people are. 0.98

02:06:56.000 Such that whenever they would scream, it would echo in their head.

02:07:01.260 And then they would whip you at the bottom of the sole of your feet with these electrical cords.

02:07:06.640 I had said on some previous occasions that we needed ten years here to try to make this

02:07:15.120 country a kind of a model state, a country where absolute justice will prevail, not

02:07:23.820 only in the courts, but social justice, too. 0.81

02:07:29.240 Iran was a dubious democracy, with the Shah as king, the grantor of all... 0.96

02:07:33.760 Did you hear that? 0.96

02:07:35.300 okay so the proof the proof that they had was a random guy we don't even know who the hell that

02:07:41.060 guy is just saying oh i was this is what they did they tortured me and they whipped my feet with

02:07:46.280 cables and anyone who says that stavok was brutal show me proof show me evidence give me the name

02:07:54.760 of one person one innocent person who was tortured or murdered by stavok you can't find it

02:08:02.040 You can't find it. They basically have these fake confessions. How is this guy, guys, look at this. This guy with the fake testimony, how is this any different than all those Palestinians in Gaza who claim that they've been injured or whatever, and then as soon as the cameras are turned off, they get their money and they go about their lives, right?

02:08:25.880 it's the same jihadi propaganda it's the same mo islamists and communists this is what they have 0.88

02:08:35.960 been trained to do it's part of the soviet propaganda disinformation networking campaign 0.94

02:08:41.000 you know you sit there with a sad look on your face i was tortured right but no proof whatsoever 0.97

02:08:48.960 no proof whatsoever it's the same thing that the the the palestinians are doing 0.99

02:08:55.520 and people still fall for it they still fall for it unfortunately with no shred of evidence nothing

02:09:02.480 it's just it's so frustrating because this person here with the fake testimony

02:09:08.640 he's the real savage he's the one who ends up taking over iran turning it into a seventh 0.87

02:09:15.840 century islamic hellhole and then he's the one that murders iranians that would be placed 0.98

02:09:25.040 on their head such that whenever they would scream it would echo 0.95

02:09:31.600 so did you say so basically he said they would put a hood over your head so when it screamed it 1.00

02:09:36.560 it would echo it's the most ridiculous stupid oh this is what I want to show 1.00

02:09:48.340 you do you see this do you see the woman next to him do you see how she's dressed 1.00

02:09:52.600 those are like those are Islamists those are Islamists right so these are the

02:09:57.380 people who had an agenda these were the people that wanted to overthrow the shah

02:10:03.260 and turn Iran into a 7th century Islamic hellhole governed by Sharia law. 0.99

02:10:07.980 This is how the Islamists dress. 1.00

02:10:10.560 And after the Islamic Republic took over Iran in 1979, 1.00

02:10:14.480 this is how they forced women to dress, 1.00

02:10:16.560 just like that demonic woman there who looks like a garbage bag, right? 0.99

02:10:24.860 And yet, you know, these Islamists are playing victim, and they were believed. 0.99

02:10:29.900 And the Islamists today are playing victim, 0.83

02:10:31.980 and they're still being believed every single word coming out of this man's 0.88

02:10:37.420 mouth is a lie on their head such that whenever they would scream it would echo

02:10:43.040 in their head and then they would whip you at the bottom of the sole of your feet with 0.90

02:10:49.540 the electrical cords I had said on some previous occasion yeah George said okay

02:10:54.800 George yeah I usually just um put up start comments but I'll show I'll share

02:11:00.160 this one because this is so true a hood doesn't produce an echo you're absolutely right so what

02:11:07.360 the hell was that guy saying and why did the reporter believe him right because you heard

02:11:14.220 wallace say a man i spoke with a man today and i believe him so wallace actually believed this

02:11:20.980 guy's testimony that he had a hood over his head and that produced an echo sound like the level of

02:11:27.380 nonsense and you can see the look on the shah's face right he's just sitting there like 0.98

02:11:31.060 are you serious right now is this is this the level of idiocy that i have to deal with right now 0.99

02:11:37.620 but you know now you guys are getting a glimpse of the islamic propaganda that was used to justify 0.99

02:11:45.060 overthrowing the shah right this is the this is the you know the narrative that the islamists

02:11:52.180 use these are the lies that the islamists said about the shah so when they say the shah was a 0.63

02:11:56.340 dictator and he tortured people he put hood so what like one example is he put a hood over their

02:12:03.540 heads so that the sounds would echo when they were screaming and as we know hoods don't produce an 1.00

02:12:08.500 echo do you see the level of idiocy we're dealing with with these low iq islamists and what's even 1.00

02:12:14.820 more frustrating is that these western journalists took them at face value 0.99

02:12:20.100 the media played you know the the western media played just as much of a role

02:12:27.980 in the islamic revolution as anything else because western media enabled the jihadis

02:12:34.400 western media legitimized the false claims that the jihadis and the communists were making

02:12:41.260 when the guy said that you know they put a hood over my head so that the sound would echo

02:12:46.620 So the reporter should have been like, all right, I'm done.

02:12:49.200 Like, this is insane. 0.68

02:12:49.960 You're lying.

02:12:50.940 But the reporter was like, no, that's terrible.

02:12:53.000 I believe you. 0.84

02:12:56.520 So the media definitely played a role in enabling the Islamic jihadi rhetoric that led to the Islamic revolution in 1979.

02:13:05.760 And the media today is playing an active role in promoting the jihadi rhetoric that Hamas is putting out as well.

02:13:15.280 It's the same thing that's happening.

02:13:17.900 We needed 10 years here to try to make this country a kind of a model state,

02:13:27.720 a country where absolute justice will prevail, not only in the courts, but social justice too.

02:13:37.640 Iran was a dubious democracy, with the Shah as king, the grantor of all rights with all the power,

02:13:43.700 with special privileges for they call iran a dubious democracy iran is a constitutional 0.70

02:13:51.140 monarchy that's like saying canada is a dubious democracy because canada is also a constitutional

02:13:58.020 monarchy the uk is a constitutional monarchy there are numerous countries in europe that are also

02:14:04.580 constitutional monarchies and yet somehow somehow the constitutional monarchy of iran

02:14:11.140 is dubious do you see like this the the intent behind the words they're using like it's like

02:14:17.620 they're setting the stage for something by creating doubt iran became a constitutional

02:14:24.340 monarchy in 1906 for his friends they say you can't get a contract here and everybody's here

02:14:31.940 You know that. Vendors, contractors, without a little of a...true?

02:14:38.940 I think it's the most unjust thing that is said. It's just jealousy.

02:14:46.940 For instance, the military purchases, it's government to government.

02:14:50.940 If there is a corruption, it's from your government or the government of every other country from which we buy.

02:14:58.940 So this is the unfairest and most unjust thing that I have heard.

02:15:04.940 Is it possible, Your Majesty, that because you are so busy and because you have so many

02:15:11.540 things occupying you that it could be going on behind your back, sir?

02:15:15.540 No.

02:15:16.540 It's impossible because I have at least five inspectorate organizations.

02:15:24.180 One sooner or later they will be caught.

02:15:28.180 Let me say this. First of all, I think this is a cheap accusation. Second, it is less

02:15:39.420 than anything that you have in your so-called permissive society.

02:15:43.940 You mean you think there is more corruption in the United States than in...

02:15:48.560 Well, especially in your country, yes.

02:15:52.000 What you're saying, Your Majesty, is that father knows best. What if you get a leader

02:15:57.280 here who does not have your wisdom, your compassion, then the relationship between that leader

02:16:06.340 and his people will not be the one existing between me and my people. He will become another

02:16:13.920 leader, as we have many in our country, who was kicked out by, well, my father kicked

02:16:20.880 the former king here

02:16:23.020 because he had no contact

02:16:25.220 with his people. And of course

02:16:27.060 there are some dissidents, very small

02:16:29.140 in number here, who would like to kick

02:16:31.100 you out. Twelve of them are

02:16:33.140 in jail

02:16:35.060 and a couple of them, or three of them, are going 0.86

02:16:37.160 to be put to death. And six

02:16:39.140 more will be shot

02:16:41.420 but because

02:16:43.180 they are betraying their country, not because

02:16:45.060 they are against me.

02:16:47.400 Did you hear that, guys?

02:16:49.280 So, um...

02:16:50.880 The people that were executed were not because they were against the Shah, it's because they were found to be, they were guilty of treason. Like they were working for foreign interests. Most of them were basically communists. So the communists were working for the Soviets. So they were basically traitors to Iran.

02:17:08.960 um traders get shot traders get shot right if you're if you're guilty of treason you get shot

02:17:15.400 i think treason is still a capital punishment in the states anyway and you know he doesn't hide

02:17:20.060 the fact either like he he's not beating around the bush you know the reporter thinks the reporter

02:17:25.060 thinks that he just asked the shah of iran a gotcha question right oh you're executing people

02:17:31.900 gotcha and the shah's like oh actually you missed all these other ones that were executed for treason 0.60

02:17:38.280 So he's not hiding the fact. He's making it very, very plain and very clear who he is and what he stands for. And the reporter keeps on trying to get him with these gotcha questions. And the Shah just, you know, puts him in his place over and over and over again.

02:18:00.680 I love his answer here. I want to go back and listen to this again.

02:18:08.280 um sorry just see major um if you really want to learn about this search for sci warrior

02:18:15.120 for history of styops i will thank you i appreciate that if you don't mind um maybe

02:18:20.700 if you could um put a comment in the member in the member message board there leave a comment

02:18:28.960 for me there so that i can see it and i'll definitely look into that um and then i just

02:18:33.620 wanted to say thank you to to jane thank you for the super sticker i appreciate you being here i

02:18:38.400 hope you're enjoying this and learning something i'm certainly relearning a lot and i'm just glad

02:18:44.560 you guys are interested and in learning about this with me um because normally i would just

02:18:49.720 be watching these videos on my own and just you know yelling at my computer but at least now i

02:18:54.100 can you know speak to someone and you guys can respond all right the former king here because

02:18:59.660 he had no contact with his people and of course there are some dissidents very small in number

02:19:05.220 here who would like to kick you out 12 of them are in uh are in jail okay so so this is important

02:19:12.800 right because the reporter conflates the two the reporter says there are dissidents who want to

02:19:19.320 kick you out and because they want to kick you out they are in jail and they're being executed

02:19:25.240 And then the Shah corrects him and he says, they're in jail and they're being executed because they were tried for treason and found guilty of treason.

02:19:33.260 It has nothing to do with me. Right. So see how the reporter is trying to put this accusation on the Shah when it's the complete and total opposite.

02:19:45.340 Listen to how the reporter just like conflates the two. It's so frustrating.

02:19:49.140 Well, my father kicked, like to kick you out.

02:19:53.840 Of course, there are some, the former king here, because he had no contact with his people.

02:20:00.980 And, of course, there are some dissidents, very small in number here, who would like to kick you out.

02:20:06.680 Twelve of them are in jail, and a couple of them, or three of them, are going to be put to death.

02:20:13.300 And six more will be shot, but because they are betraying their country. 1.00

02:20:19.140 not because they're against me and they're betraying their country by being marxists 0.98

02:20:25.300 and owing their allegiance to not their country

02:20:28.880 he's basically referring to the soviet union right like so the soviets uh had a lot of

02:20:37.420 iranian you know marxist like the soviets were basically funding the communists and marxists

02:20:42.900 to come into iran and destabilize right so that's what he's referring to so he doesn't say russia

02:20:47.820 but he's referring to the Soviet Union at the time and as you can tell he's not hiding the fact right

02:20:53.840 like he's not hiding the fact that they are executing people who are found guilty of treason

02:21:02.080 right if if he was such a dictator and you know he had to hide the fact or whatever like

02:21:08.540 he's not like he's very open about it he's very honest about it and he's making it very clear

02:21:15.420 These people were traitors. They were found guilty of treason.

02:21:20.900 They were being paid by Russia to come into Iran and destabilize.

02:21:26.580 Of course, there are some dissidents, very small in number here, who would like to kick you out.

02:21:31.980 Twelve of them are in jail and a couple of them or three of them are going to be put to death.

02:21:37.880 And six more will be shot, but because they are betraying their country, not because they're against me.

02:21:46.720 And they're betraying their country by?

02:21:49.060 Being Marxists and owing their allegiance to not their country.

02:21:56.920 You're a firm man, sir.

02:22:00.780 It's still needed.

02:22:02.060 I can forgive those who tried to kill me and even abduct my wife and my child, but not those who betray the country.

02:22:15.040 Wow. He is not joking about the fact that he says he can forgive people who tried to assassinate him.

02:22:25.060 I will share that story another time because I don't have all the details, but there was an assassination attempt against the Shah.

02:22:31.040 um it was it was a failed assassination attempt of course and then instead of like executing the man

02:22:38.480 um the shah actually forgave the man and then the shah basically gave him like the means to

02:22:44.800 to rebuild his life and become a productive member of society what sort of dictator does that what

02:22:51.760 sort of dictator pardons the person who tried to assassinate him and then gives them a second chance 0.69

02:22:58.400 at life that's the kind of person the shah was and richard nixon was was absolutely right he was not

02:23:07.280 ruthless enough against the communists or islamists because guys the middle east

02:23:13.760 the middle east is not like europe it's not like north america the middle east is ruthless and 0.99

02:23:18.640 you have to be strong with the islamists otherwise they will take over so the shah 0.99

02:23:24.640 was an incredibly strong man incredibly strong man 1.00

02:23:31.760 that's about it there aren't many other soldiers in the british army apart from right army

02:23:37.120 i mean there are no other i mean the citizens are in germany full stop but you must have something

02:23:41.520 in england the volume here is not really good when you're

02:23:48.800 yeah i know the volume's not good i'm gonna have to find a different version of this

02:23:54.320 um i'll save this for another stream then i've just returned from iran and an encounter with

02:24:00.800 possibly the most powerful so now we're sort of getting towards the late 1970s you know with with

02:24:08.960 high tensions and more tension here um so i think this is 78 i'm not sure but we're getting close to

02:24:18.800 You know doomsday here single individual in the world today. I have only two arms

02:24:26.420 But the strength comes because what I represent to my people

02:24:30.860 If they like it or not you can't keep on the way you were doing because

02:24:37.580 The old way was a little exaggerated

02:24:41.040 Do you think our inflation in the Western world is our own fault?

02:24:44.080 not mine anyway because it started well before we increased the price of oil you built

02:24:53.840 your progress and your affluence at our expense so you can't say that we increased the price of

02:25:01.600 all of a sudden because for so here he's talking about the price increase in oil right which he

02:25:07.520 basically did because iran was basically giving it away and that pissed off the americans

02:25:14.080 20 and some odd years maybe 24 years we have just been terribly exploited in a

02:25:23.400 very mean way but weren't you a kind of partner to that exploitation when you

02:25:27.580 signed the oil agreement of 1954 for instance well we had no choice what

02:25:33.260 else we were starving and we had to start doing something to build the

02:25:42.420 country we had no choice they dictated to us they decreased the posted price of

02:25:48.960 oil when all the price of commodities in the world were on the increase and they

02:25:56.220 were telling us well take it or leave it and we had to take it now things have

02:26:02.160 been put right so what basically happened between the 1950s and the 1970s is that

02:26:12.360 industrialization right so we saw that in the earlier clip i played um with this with the

02:26:18.200 interview with the shah um in 1960 right that was sort of um iran had just started to become

02:26:25.400 um you know industrialized and then of course in my live stream earlier today

02:26:30.840 uh i played you know there was some images there talking about um like industrialization in 70s so

02:26:36.680 So what happened between the 50s and the 70s is Iran, because of the investments that the

02:26:42.940 Shah put into the country, Iran went from sort of a country that couldn't take care

02:26:49.520 of itself and was basically forced into an undesirable deal for the price of oil, okay, 0.85

02:26:56.900 that was in the 1950s because they had no choice, to, you know, he basically invested

02:27:02.700 the next 20 years into turning Iran into a powerhouse. And then it got to the point where

02:27:11.020 in the 1970s, Iran could now dictate the price of oil because Iran had become self-sufficient.

02:27:18.220 Iran did no longer, no longer required foreign aid or foreign funds or whatever the case

02:27:24.620 might be. The Shah literally spent 20 years making Iran self-sufficient. And if the Islamic

02:27:31.120 republic had not taken over and turned our country through seventh century islamic hellhole 1.00

02:27:36.640 iran would have been the the south korea or the singapore or the japan 1.00

02:27:42.400 of the middle east that's that's the trajectory that we were headed towards

02:27:50.560 and so for the reporter like again like the reporter is just everyone was attacking him

02:27:55.840 everyone was slandering him right like she says well aren't you complicit in in the in the bad

02:28:01.760 deal because you signed it well he he said i had no choice we needed the money we were dictated by

02:28:07.360 foreign powers and told what to do and i had to do it because i was not in a position of strength

02:28:12.800 and he says now 20 years later the situation has changed i am in a position of strength

02:28:18.880 and so i'm dictating the price of oil that's basically what he's saying but just just notice

02:28:24.240 like the amount of slander okay the amount of slander um that he gets from all sides it's it's

02:28:32.080 wild it's insane it's like there was an agenda there was an agenda to slander him and eventually

02:28:38.320 overthrow him all the price of commodities in the world were on the increase and they

02:28:45.280 were telling us well take it or leave it and we had to take it now things have been put right

02:28:54.240 I just want to respond to some of the chats here. Big Elvis, you look just like Joanna Angel. Thank you. I don't know who that is, but thank you, Major. Had to send the link to your Insta. Okay. Thank you. I'll take a look at that for sure. I appreciate that, Major. 0.95

02:29:14.540 And the price of oil is still so low that you have not yet started to mine your coal mines and liquefy the coal and gasify the coal, or even go in a big way in the development of your nuclear energy and find any other sources of energy.

02:29:38.680 But how much does it actually cost for your country to produce oil? In Canada, it costs us a great deal because we have to get it out of the Arctic, we have so many natural barriers to it, but you're just pumping it out of the sand as you've always pumped it out.

02:29:51.120 i don't think that this is a very fair question because you are paying more your

02:29:57.360 workers so you have the right to ask more for your oil and furthermore then you are blessed

02:30:06.660 with other things for instance you can grow wheat so cheap because you don't need any irrigation

02:30:11.680 you get all the water from the skies you don't have to spend any money on the irrigation of that

02:30:17.320 when we have to do it and that's why you and the Americans are feeding the world with your wheat

02:30:29.140 and all of a sudden your wheat that was sold for $60 a few years ago you sold it to for $245

02:30:35.840 last year or the year before so your question I don't think is fair what you're trying to say

02:30:43.180 is is that we are asking more for our commodities the same way that you are

02:30:46.900 yes exactly and why I don't know why the you think that you are superior do you

02:30:55.480 think that we generally suffer from that the feeling that we are I think that you

02:30:58.720 are so far me but probably you will change why will we change because your

02:31:04.960 eyes are opened and fundamentally you are not unjust people you have just been

02:31:11.840 living in an unjust world for so long but you will accommodate with the new

02:31:18.500 realities of the world we won't be pushed around we don't wish a war but if

02:31:26.840 it is imposed on us we will not shrink for the next 20 25 years it's absolutely

02:31:36.620 vital for us because the Straits of Hormuz which is the entrance to the

02:31:41.240 Persian Gulf is our jugular vein we we we live by that and furthermore our

02:31:46.880 forces which are there are not just for the Persian Gulf they're just stationed

02:31:53.540 there they could serve in any direction nobody could invade us without being

02:31:59.300 forced to crush us because we are not going to surrender what excuse will you

02:32:06.440 have to come to these oil producing countries it will be barbaric without any precedent in the

02:32:16.280 world the worst imperialistic movement that the world had ever known how could you do that

02:32:23.480 and it's strange that it's absolutely normal for other countries to have even more arms than we

02:32:31.240 have and you start to talk about our force when you find it so obvious and normal for other

02:32:42.680 countries i can't quite make this out is it perhaps at the web i have a feeling that you

02:32:52.640 know this interview is probably what scared jimmy carter uh because like the shah is not saying

02:32:59.100 anything bad. He's being very strong. He's being very confident. He's saying, we want to be

02:33:04.460 peaceful with everyone. Iran was peaceful with everyone. Iran didn't start any wars when the

02:33:08.560 Shah was there, right? Iran, like not a single war, right? Because the policy of the Middle East

02:33:15.120 is peace through strength, something that President Trump is just figuring out right now.

02:33:20.340 But of course, the Shah of Iran knew at the time. I have a feeling that, you know, this was this

02:33:26.040 interview probably freaked out jimmy carter and that's why jimmy carter decided to support this 0.67

02:33:31.580 like inbred um islamic cleric demon right because they thought that they could control

02:33:39.020 the islamists they thought like jimmy carter literally thought that the shah was too powerful 0.54

02:33:44.240 um and he wanted to replace the shah with someone that jimmy carter could control turns out 0.85

02:33:51.580 turns out that those the people that jimmy carter thought he could control are the savage jihadis

02:34:00.140 who took american hostages and started yelling death to america great job jimmy carter great

02:34:05.820 job that's not even counting for the fact that all those jihadis have been murdering iranians

02:34:10.120 right like jimmy carter one of the people implicate i mean there's a whole lot of factors

02:34:14.540 here right it's not like one thing or another um that led to the islamic revolution there's

02:34:21.460 a whole bunch of factors that all play in here but jimmy carter's role was a critical one 0.91

02:34:28.340 jimmy carter was basically a useful idiot for the soviets at the time because the people that 0.99

02:34:35.700 jimmy carter backed they were trained and funded by the soviets jimmy carter was a useful idiot 0.99

02:34:43.480 for the soviets at the time and all that happened because jimmy carter was afraid that the shah was 0.96

02:34:52.000 becoming too powerful the shah had to be powerful he was fighting off islamists he was dealing with

02:34:57.560 the threat of islamic terrorism in iran and look what happened when the shah left look what happened 0.98

02:35:04.460 when the islamists came in they turned iran into a seventh century islamic hellhole 0.96

02:35:08.840 and they have been murdering us Iranians every day on average three Iranians and in this last 1.00

02:35:16.020 year alone every day at least three Iranians are murdered by the Islamic Republic for no reason

02:35:21.120 whatsoever western countries are just not used to thinking of Iran as a major world power in any 0.53

02:35:27.200 terms whatsoever whether it's dealing about oil see this is important so she's like western

02:35:32.920 countries aren't used to you because the shah was so good at modernizing and developing iran

02:35:39.960 right it only took him 20 years to take iran from like an unknown mystical land to like a thriving 0.99

02:35:47.960 industrial powerhouse and that was i guess that scared the western countries

02:35:55.480 when you find it so obvious and normal for other countries i can't quite

02:36:07.800 make this out is it perhaps that the western countries are just not used to thinking of iran

02:36:12.920 as a major world power in any terms whatsoever whether it's dealing about oil or whether it's

02:36:19.320 talking about an army you're right but they will have to cope with this development soon

02:36:28.840 you're noted as a very strong um authority figure in iran and yet you're extremely popular with the

02:36:36.120 people somebody said to me that if did you catch that so strong strong authoritative figure but

02:36:44.920 extremely popular with the people why because the iranian people loved the shah they loved his

02:36:50.760 strength they loved the fact that he was taking care of them the people who called him an

02:36:55.000 authoritative figure were the islamists and the communists who were trying to destabilize the

02:37:01.080 country the shah was the the reporter said it not me the reporter admitted that the shah was

02:37:08.120 loved by the iranian people listen to that guys catch that that's important development

02:37:14.520 soon you're noted as a very strong um authority figure in iran and yet you're extremely popular

02:37:23.080 with the people somebody said to me that if there were a referendum held tomorrow 90 of the people

02:37:27.880 would vote yes for the shah and all his policies why then do you need to be so authoritarian if

02:37:32.920 you have this kind of popular support and warmth towards well first of all it's more than 90

02:37:37.320 percent secondly what do you call author authority i love that response to make

02:37:46.200 such fantastic i love this part i love this part because again these these journalists they just

02:37:52.200 throw out these words right she's like well you're you're you're loved by your people so why are you

02:37:57.800 such an authoritarian and he's like well what do you mean when you say authoritarian what do you

02:38:02.280 mean by that right like he's calling out the reporters on the on their bs and nonsense you're

02:38:08.800 noted as a very strong um authority figure in iran and yet you're extremely popular with the

02:38:15.860 people somebody said to me that if there were a referendum held tomorrow 90 of the people would

02:38:20.520 vote yes for the shah and all his policies why then do you need to be so authoritarian if you

02:38:25.500 have this kind of popular support and warmth towards well first of all it's more than 90

02:38:29.780 Secondly, what do you call authority to enforce the law, to make such fantastic, drastic changes without bloodshed?

02:38:43.960 If you call this authority, I don't think that my people mind that. They want it.

02:38:50.260 It's been said that there are some 20,000 political prisoners in Iran.

02:38:55.300 That's not true. We have about 3,000 and not more.

02:38:59.780 I love that. See, even the numbers are inflated. Even the numbers are inflated. The reporter's like, there's 20,000 political prisoners in the Shah. He's like, no, we have 3,000. There's 3,000. That's it.

02:39:12.640 that's so important guys because um the communists and islamists they will constantly say that that 0.96

02:39:20.560 the shah and savak you know they murdered hundreds of thousands of iranians right they conflate the 0.75

02:39:26.340 numbers just like hamas conflates numbers just like all the jihadis conflate numbers again 0.71

02:39:32.920 everything the islamists say is a lie and the shah without hesitation he says no that's wrong 0.62

02:39:40.600 it's 3 000 and he's not hiding the fact and you know what he's not um he's not like apologizing 0.57

02:39:49.360 for it either like he's stating a fact he's like we have 3 000 political prisoners and then

02:39:53.960 he's going to go and explain what he means which is the best part but i i love how direct he is

02:39:59.580 with his answers right like he he's not afraid of anything he's not hiding anything he's very

02:40:05.120 factual i don't think that my people mind that they want it it's been said that there are some

02:40:13.840 20 000 political prisoners in iran that's not true we have about 3 000 and not more

02:40:22.320 some people have even said that there are between 25 000 and 100 000 political prisoners

02:40:27.680 you deny this do i deny it first of all it's our business and not any of their business

02:40:36.780 but the truth of reality is that we have not more than 3 000

02:40:40.500 and how do you define political prisoner these marxists does torture happen in a

02:40:47.940 so again the political prisoners guys they're always the communists they're always the marxists

02:40:54.360 right every single time a reporter is asking him about the political prisoners it's this it's always

02:41:00.920 the marxists right and remember guys he banned communism communism was banned in iran because it 0.93

02:41:08.360 was viewed as a threat that destabilized that was destabilizing the country because these marxists

02:41:14.840 were funded and trained by the soviets right like these marxists then came up with this concept of 0.93

02:41:21.240 Islamic Marxism, right? That's what he's referring to. And don't forget, which country just recently 0.97

02:41:31.680 banned communism? It was Czech Republic. Czech Republic recently banned communism because

02:41:38.160 they recognize the inherent danger of it. And now if someone is promoting communism in Czech

02:41:45.140 republic they go to jail is that person a political prisoner or are they someone who broke the law

02:41:51.860 right so even these 3 000 political prisoners are not actually political prisoners they're 0.94

02:41:59.120 traitors who are breaking the law they want to destabilize the country they're serving a foreign

02:42:03.480 interest how is that a political prisoner ran well this is a question that was

02:42:11.780 put to me more than once

02:42:15.600 and which I don't like at all

02:42:17.820 because it's 0.82

02:42:20.760 so ridiculous that 0.98

02:42:23.840 I don't have to answer that 0.98

02:42:25.500 but for the sake of

02:42:28.520 this interview I will say that

02:42:32.720 we don't have to torture people

02:42:34.240 this is the way that

02:42:37.520 unsophisticated

02:42:40.180 see like you you can tell that he's so over this right like every single reporter who see him

02:42:46.640 asks him about torture torture torture without providing any shred of evidence or proof that

02:42:54.440 there's any sort of torture happening um spoiler there was no torture um and he's just getting

02:42:59.720 sick of it he's like why are you guys why you keep on bringing this up when you have no evidence no

02:43:05.900 proof nothing right and he answers very clearly but you you like do you see the pattern here

02:43:12.140 with every single reporter who was asking him about the you know the alleged torture

02:43:19.260 without a shred of proof if anyone has any evidence of this torture please let me know

02:43:25.020 because i have studied uh extensively the history of my own country and i don't see it so you know

02:43:33.020 to to those people in the chat who are claiming that there was torture

02:43:39.100 where's the proof show me the proof

02:43:44.060 yep 100 percent um so the wilson center has recovered kgb files on their support

02:43:50.460 to the two-day party yes i mean listen major i have not even breached the subject of you know

02:43:58.060 Mossadegh. Mossadegh was a KGB plant. We as Iranians, we all know this. And one of the

02:44:04.940 biggest and most effective pieces of Russian disinformation and propaganda was this whole 0.61

02:44:11.660 narrative of, you know, the Shah was installed through a CIA coup, Mossadegh was democratically,

02:44:17.900 like all that nonsense, right? Biggest Russian disinformation campaign. Mossadegh was tied to 0.50

02:44:24.300 the two-day party the two-day party was tied to the kgb again like all these marxists and communists 0.96

02:44:30.060 were part of the russian uh campaign to destabilize iran so that they could so that the marxists

02:44:37.500 could take over and turn iran into a proxy of the soviets that was the plan that was the plan

02:44:45.420 and eventually russia became successful because they fooled jimmy carter into thinking that

02:44:51.500 the ayatollah was not a communist guess who is allies with russia right now the islamic republic

02:45:00.220 the islamic republic is the ally of russia it's not by coincidence guys it goes back to um all of this

02:45:11.580 did the organization we're doing things we are as sophisticated as you are now 0.75

02:45:17.500 sophisticated in methods of interrogation yes so the torture fingernail pulling people being

02:45:29.020 toasted in wire mesh which we were reading about in the english papers english papers there is one

02:45:35.660 paper and i find this disgusting and i don't really appreciate at all a serious organization

02:45:44.940 like you repeating trash that you can see in one paper in one country why do you have even to

02:45:52.780 repeat that it has because it's been very widely reported and the sunday times in canada anyway 0.96

02:45:59.100 is not considered to be a trashy paper that article was trash if you read it from the top

02:46:05.260 to the bottom so you categorically deny that yes and i don't have to deny it because it's none of

02:46:12.620 of your business but i do i have to see if i can find that article i mean it should be in the

02:46:21.300 archive somewhere right so what was it like the i'll go back and i'll listen to the paper but um

02:46:26.400 i would be very interested in finding that article because there was a lot of like the

02:46:31.640 shah said a lot of trash articles that were being put out by the islamists and the communists to

02:46:38.220 attack him, to, you know, tarnish his reputation. And the way that these jihadis work and the way 0.96

02:46:46.740 that Russian disinformation and propaganda work is that the more you repeat a lie, the easier

02:46:52.540 it becomes for people to believe it. And Western media was complicit in enabling the Islamic 0.96

02:47:00.460 Republic to overthrow the Shah and turn Iran into a 7th century Islamic hellhole.

02:47:06.320 Well, Western media was complicit in that because they were publishing all of these unfounded lies with no journalistic integrity whatsoever. 0.97

02:47:18.000 But, oh, because it's published, it must be true. 1.00

02:47:22.080 The Islamists even published articles in Playboy magazine. 1.00

02:47:25.340 Did you know that?

02:47:26.560 The Islamists, you know, these like devout Islamic clerics also did interviews with Playboy magazine about the Shah.

02:47:34.580 like that's how widespread the jihadi and communist propaganda was when it came to spreading

02:47:43.440 the disinformation and and you can see it right here like it's we're literally watching it unfold

02:47:48.900 before our very eyes and this this interviewer i think lacks zero credibility and to me she is 0.82

02:47:57.040 complicit in enabling the islamic revolution just like every single other uh reporter out there that 0.88

02:48:03.600 just you know they saw a story oh let's write about this story even though there's like no

02:48:07.860 truth to it whatsoever i want to go back and listen to his answer so her question

02:48:12.660 and answer because again it goes back to the whole thing of torture right

02:48:16.800 torture happened in iran let's go back here drastic changes without bloodshed

02:48:25.420 if you call this authority i don't think that my people mind that they want it

02:48:31.340 It's been said that there are some 20,000 political prisoners in Iran.

02:48:37.340 We went back a little too far.

02:48:39.340 We have about 3,000 and not more.

02:48:42.340 Some people have even said that there are between 25,000 and 100,000 political prisoners.

02:48:49.340 You deny this?

02:48:51.340 Do I deny it? First of all, it's our business and not any of their business.

02:48:57.340 But the truth, the reality is that we have not more than 3,000.

02:49:03.020 And how do you define political prisoner?

02:49:05.540 These Marxists.

02:49:07.100 Does torture happen in Iran?

02:49:10.820 Well, this is...

02:49:12.460 Do you see?

02:49:13.140 Like, every single reporter asks, does torture happen in Iran?

02:49:17.600 Do you have any proof? 0.97

02:49:19.660 Like, how can you even call yourself a journalist when you ask these ridiculous questions

02:49:26.040 without any sort of documentation or proof 0.72

02:49:29.140 to back up what you're saying. 0.99

02:49:32.320 They all fell for the jihadi propaganda. 0.95

02:49:35.540 My question that was... 1.00

02:49:37.320 It was, you know what?

02:49:39.380 Neku, you're absolutely right.

02:49:40.340 It was a total and complete witch hunt. 0.98

02:49:43.020 That's exactly...

02:49:43.780 These people were out for blood.

02:49:45.900 They had an agenda to get this man out of power

02:49:49.000 and everyone was working together.

02:49:52.960 Like, could you imagine?

02:49:55.340 Could you imagine today there have been like hundreds of interviews of journalists with Hamas terrorists, right? 0.94

02:50:05.200 People who are literally Islamic terrorists who are murdering, torturing people every day.

02:50:11.980 And yet not a single journalist has asked any one of those Hamas leaders, does torture happen in Gaza? 0.85

02:50:19.020 If you can find me one journalist today that has asked a leader of Hamas, do you torture people in Gaza? Let me know.

02:50:35.260 But that's what they were doing to the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s.

02:50:41.240 They were treating him like he was some sort of corrupt dictator, criminal, whatever.

02:50:45.920 literally the farthest thing from the truth Hamas you're right Hamas just did public executions

02:50:54.280 and no one spoke about that no one cares about that but yet all these reporters in the 1970s

02:51:02.020 are going on about this like this made-up torture story

02:51:05.960 put to me more than once and which I don't like at all because it's so ridiculous that I don't

02:51:20.180 have to answer that but for the sake of this interview I will say that we don't have to

02:51:29.060 torture people this is the way that unsophisticated organization we're doing things we are as

02:51:39.700 sophisticated as you are now sophisticated and so he makes a very good point he's basically saying so

02:51:48.920 he's basically calling out her racism he's saying we're a civilized nation we're a civilized society

02:51:56.340 just like you why why would you think we would act like savages we are just as

02:52:03.660 civilized as you so why would we even do that right like he's basically calling

02:52:08.400 out her racism and orientalism methods of interrogation yes so the torture

02:52:16.020 fingernail pulling people being toasted in wire mesh which we were reading about 1.00

02:52:20.760 in the English papers.

02:52:23.740 Did you hear that, guys?

02:52:27.180 Just look at his face. 0.95

02:52:29.640 Look at the Shah of Iran's face

02:52:31.300 when she says that she read in a paper

02:52:34.240 that people were being toasted

02:52:37.320 in wire meshes.

02:52:41.840 He's probably going in his head 0.58

02:52:43.320 like WTF right now.

02:52:45.720 No proof, by the way.

02:52:47.060 No proof, no evidence, nothing.

02:52:49.280 it's just something someone wrote in a paper the source trust me bro do you see do you see the

02:52:58.920 propaganda and the lies here guys nothing that she's asking has any proof like like she has

02:53:05.180 nothing to back up her statement or claims like you would think that if people were being burned

02:53:13.160 in wire meshes, right, that there would be photos of their scars, right? I have not seen a single

02:53:21.500 photo of a so-called prisoner being toasted. Where are the scars? Because burns leave scars.

02:53:31.900 So show me these human pieces of toast, I guess. I don't know, right? Where are these people?

02:53:41.420 you would think there would be some sort of photo or documentary evidence

02:53:45.740 where are the photos of these toaster beds where are the giant toaster beds

02:53:51.280 that the islamists and marxists claim the shah used to toast people like just look at his face 0.78

02:53:58.000 like it's such a ridiculous claim right like his face is just like what are you even saying right

02:54:03.840 now like i can only imagine what he's saying in farsity because when i hear this even i want to 0.80

02:54:09.260 like square but like just again listen to what she says she's talking about human toasters now

02:54:14.840 so the torture fingernail pulling people being toasted in wire mesh which we were reading about

02:54:24.440 in the english papers english papers there is one paper and i find this disgusting and i don't 0.82

02:54:33.380 really appreciate at all a serious organization like you repeating trash that you can see in one

02:54:41.680 yeah this was the fifth estate guys this was the fifth estate and the fifth estate considered this 0.62

02:54:49.440 journalism the fifth estate asked the shah of iran if he um tortures people by turning them

02:54:59.680 into giant pieces of toast because they she read about that in a paper somewhere

02:55:08.400 that was the journalistic integrity when it came to uh the propaganda about the islamic republic

02:55:15.600 i'm sorry a propaganda that the islamic republic was promoting right where are these cinnamon toast

02:55:22.720 crunch people where are these iranians who were supposedly turned into pieces of toast

02:55:29.680 it's insane like this i get frustrated because it's like you're watching this horror movie in

02:55:37.420 slow motion and we know where this is going to lead and you're just like you want it to stop

02:55:42.300 but you can't and then i'm watching this now and i'm like how the hell like who 0.83

02:55:47.740 how did this reporter even get away with asking such a ridiculous question paper in one country 0.93

02:55:57.440 Why do you have even to repeat that?

02:55:59.960 It has, because it's been very widely reported,

02:56:02.200 and the Sunday Times in Canada anyway is not considered to be a trashy paper. 0.85

02:56:07.500 That article was trash if you read it from the top to the bottom.

02:56:12.060 So you categorically deny that? 0.97

02:56:14.460 Yes, and I don't have to deny it because it's none of your business, but I do.

02:56:20.760 You've often said that you have never sentenced to death anyone who has attempted to kill you.

02:56:26.440 Constance, you make a very good point. Oil definitely had a part to play in that. So he spoke about that at the beginning, actually. And so I don't know if you were here for the beginning of this particular interview, but she did ask him about, you know, him not renewing the 1954 contract and raising the price of oil. And he did speak about that. So yeah, 100%, like so many different factors. Oil definitely played a part in that for sure.

02:56:52.540 How many attempts have there been?

02:56:56.440 One, but he was killed by the security people.

02:57:08.220 Then the second, five, six people were involved.

02:57:12.260 They were all pardoned by myself.

02:57:17.380 Did you hear that?

02:57:20.240 So the five or six people who tried to assassinate him, he pardoned them. 0.86

02:57:26.440 Does that sound like an evil, corrupt dictator to you? He literally pardons the people who tried to murder him.

02:57:35.320 Listen to this again. Listen to this again.

02:57:38.200 This is the guy that the Islamists and communists are telling you is a corrupt dictator. 0.58

02:57:44.120 Yes, and I don't have to deny it because it's none of your business, but I do.

02:57:50.140 You've often said that you have never sentenced to death anyone who has attempted to kill you.

02:57:55.300 How many attempts have there been?

02:58:03.160 One, but he was killed by the security people.

02:58:10.000 Then the second, five, six people were involved.

02:58:14.660 They were all pardoned by myself.

02:58:18.980 and indirectly we know that there have been some attempt which did not materialize

02:58:29.960 and they have been also pardoned and this has been my policy and probably will always be my

02:58:38.780 policy I forgive when it's anything concerns me personally and I can't do it when it concerns

02:58:48.020 the country and the state are you ever afraid when you make public appearances

02:58:54.560 never first of all I'm not afraid of anything

02:59:01.220 secondly I know very well that I will be around as long as it has been written

02:59:07.540 Wow um so that was getting close I'm gonna I'm gonna end it soon so I'm gonna

02:59:14.260 play um this is the last interview did so right sorry so um this is a clip from the last interview

02:59:28.320 that the shah of iran ever had um he passed away shortly after this um from leukemia this is shortly

02:59:35.920 after um the islamic revolution um happened and the shah is now um in exile and um

02:59:46.000 yeah i mean i'll play it and then i'll i'll leave it there

02:59:50.660 uh i want to find i'll find the full interview and i'll play it another time but uh i i hope that

02:59:57.780 for those of you who've been with me from the beginning of the live stream

03:00:02.000 you've now seen who the shah is or who the shah was and the kind of person he was um and you know

03:00:09.660 i took you through through a bunch of interviews and i'm gonna play richard nixon's interview again

03:00:15.420 um because now that you've seen all of these other interviews with the shah it really puts

03:00:21.760 it really adds important context to what richard nixon was saying about the shah

03:00:27.580 When I committed, I think, the mistake of changing the arms of our government and precipitate

03:00:35.580 the liberalization program, I wanted to create, as I said, a coalition to form a national

03:00:50.580 government, representing all shades, especially the opposition people. I tried very hard on

03:01:06.580 my work, very hard on that, but it did not come true.

03:01:13.700 Do you think that Mr. Sharif Amami, initially at the beginning, did the right things or

03:01:20.780 not?

03:01:21.780 Well, you can say yes and you can say no, because it was surrendering on all fronts

03:01:30.260 to everyone, opening the jails and giving freedom to all, and at the same time asking

03:01:41.100 for martial law.

03:01:43.380 So it was a mockery.

03:01:45.320 We had officially the martial law, but it was not put into practice.

03:01:52.440 At what point, you said yesterday, from September onwards, but was it really from when Sharif

03:02:00.060 Amami was appointed, at what point did you decide to step back?

03:02:05.240 I mean, Sharif Amami's actions were his actions or your actions?

03:02:09.380 You know, with this government, they started to be on their own, completely.

03:02:17.860 He would come and see me, obviously. He would telephone to me. I would telephone to him.

03:02:22.900 But the question of what the system that used to work before was absolutely changed.

03:02:31.300 They would adopt and decide about things that they would never even report to me.

03:02:37.380 Was there a time when you privately said to yourself I may have to leave before anyone suggested it to you, I may not win this battle?

03:02:54.380 It was not so much to question that I was thinking that it was time to go.

03:03:06.380 I was rather thinking that, you know, like an end of something.

03:03:19.740 Without thinking of going, you were thinking maybe this is the end of an era.

03:03:23.920 Of something. Of me, of an era, of something.

03:03:29.960 So the question is that, so all those forces which were liberated,

03:03:36.380 And we should have established this beautiful democracy.

03:03:41.240 Where are they today?

03:03:44.740 And I said, as I said, either outside the country or in hiding,

03:03:51.260 one and a half million people, Iranians, have left the country.

03:03:57.200 Not only the rich people,

03:04:01.940 but the best brains of the country,

03:04:04.640 the best minds of the country they have all left everybody who can leave the

03:04:13.220 country is leaving the country so where are those people so he's referring to

03:04:20.540 the mass exodus of you know people after the Islamic Republic took over Iran

03:04:26.400 there was a mass exodus of people escaping because you know they didn't 0.90

03:04:30.500 to live in an islamic dictatorship so there was a massive brain drain um there still continues to be 0.93

03:04:36.260 a massive brain drain um because anyone uh in iran who who does have the ability to leave 0.88

03:04:43.780 will leave no one wants to willingly live um in an islamic dictatorship right like it is it is a 0.93

03:04:49.540 horrible horrible place to live right now like the islamic republic has turned iran into a living hell 0.99

03:04:55.780 in the bar association and in other places who were promising democracy in these things 1.00

03:05:04.260 where are they today you ask me why they are concentrating so much against me my person

03:05:15.620 and accusing me of mass murdering or even money manipulation which is very far from my nature

03:05:25.780 They're adopting this Nazi-like propaganda is something quite curious.

03:05:35.720 It comes in the picture that the man there now, you see, he doesn't want to hear about

03:05:44.400 the history of our country one day before he came back to Tehran a year ago and took

03:05:51.540 over.

03:05:52.540 He says the history of the country does not exist. There has not been a single good king in the history of Iran.

03:06:00.540 So he thinks that the history of Iran starts with him on whatever it was, February of 1979.

03:06:11.540 That's why they are concentrating so much on me because I was the king.

03:06:20.300 The history of Iran must disappear, with I as a king, with the other kings, with everything

03:06:28.000 that existed before February 1979.

03:06:33.920 A patriot must think of the future.

03:06:40.340 I'm thinking of the year 2000, if we kept our youth and our population out of the orbit

03:06:53.720 of the new technology, how could we be competitive with the rest of the world in the year 2000?

03:07:02.400 Unless we are ready to fall in the category of the fifth or sixth great nations.

03:07:10.480 Now they say that boys of 15 and girls of 13 could marry.

03:07:18.000 Population explosion is three.

03:07:20.560 Did you hear that? 0.98

03:07:22.600 So the Shah was modernizing, right?

03:07:25.180 The Shah was encouraging Iranians, boys and girls, to get an education, to go to school, go to university, make something of their lives. 0.75

03:07:36.460 And then when the Islamic Republic came and took over, they did the exact opposite. 0.66

03:07:42.040 They brought in Sharia law. 0.98

03:07:43.180 They brought in their jihadi 7th century values. 1.00

03:07:47.220 And they were encouraging girls as young as 13 to get married. 0.99

03:07:52.080 right like they were basically trying to undo all of the modernization that the shah had implemented 0.95

03:07:59.780 now thank god it didn't really catch on right but but the islamic republic right like they they

03:08:06.500 they wanted to turn iran into another afghanistan and the only reason they have been unable to do so

03:08:12.240 is because of this man and how much he invested in educating iranians moving society forward

03:08:19.160 bringing society forward so that as far back as the islamic republic did push us um they were never 0.97

03:08:26.360 able to um they were never able to break us right but look like that was the priority for the islamic 0.98

03:08:35.400 republic encouraging 13 year old girls to get married and have babies and not go to school 1.00

03:08:40.280 that that's the mo of islamists that's how they operate everywhere it's disgusting 0.86

03:08:47.400 point two already soon it will become i don't know in the category of five to six percent 1.00

03:08:55.740 how are they going to feed these mouse

03:09:01.740 especially if 0.97

03:09:07.580 very again excellent question right he's saying how how is the islamic republic going to feed

03:09:14.640 everyone with the way things are going and right now right now today like i said at the beginning 0.97

03:09:20.220 the islamic republic's so incompetent inbred jihadi stavages completely uneducated right 0.93

03:09:26.100 the only thing they read is the quran which is completely useless when it comes to running a 1.00

03:09:30.040 country um 70 of Iranians today live below the poverty line people in Iran are starving all 0.85

03:09:39.500 because of the mismanagement of the Islamic Republic the Shah saw this this is 1980 he 0.92

03:09:44.920 he saw all of this and he was predicting this 47 years ago

03:09:50.040 and even though this was at the height this was at the height of the hatred people had for him

03:09:58.320 because of the you know islamic republic and the fervor he was still thinking about his people

03:10:04.640 right he like he could have easily said oh you know f the people you know they did this to me 0.92

03:10:10.320 they betrayed me i want nothing to do with them no even though he was an exile he is still

03:10:19.360 showing concern and love for the iranian people because these were these were still his people

03:10:26.480 This is how much love he had for Iran and the country.

03:10:29.160 This is why the Islamists hate him and try to smear him and attack him.

03:10:34.640 What now is making the wheels turn somewhat, that his oil money will be finished. 0.95

03:10:42.620 It's only through technology and mastering the science.

03:10:48.400 and the future

03:10:51.040 of the world

03:10:53.780 is based

03:10:54.680 on technology and science

03:10:56.880 and this is only in the western world

03:11:02.080 that you could find

03:11:03.420 so the man is not thinking of the country

03:11:08.020 or its future

03:11:09.760 only about his hatred

03:11:12.120 against me

03:11:15.100 right so so he's saying like these he's the man that he's referring to is Khomeini right like the

03:11:22.440 evil demonic Islamic ayatollah or whatever that basically founded the Islamic Republic 0.88

03:11:27.400 and then once he took over turned our country in the seventh century Islamic hellhole 0.99

03:11:32.300 right he's not thinking about Iran he's not thinking about the future he's not doing any 0.90

03:11:37.580 of the things that he claimed he would do instead it's all about Sharia law and you know impregnating 0.94

03:11:41.980 13 year old girls and stoning women to death and uh you know islam it's all about islam 0.96

03:11:46.720 overnight he turned iran into a seventh century sharia law hellhole 0.99

03:11:51.300 and the shah is like how is this going to work how is he going to feed people 0.70

03:11:56.780 and why did they do that because the ayatollah was so consumed by his hatred for the shah

03:12:04.400 Not just hatred, guys, fear. The Islamic Republic has a very strong fear, not just of the Shah, but also of his son, the current Shah in exile, Reza Pahlavi, who has dedicated his life, by the way, to advocating for a free and secular Iran, right?

03:12:27.340 he is the regime fears him just as much as his father because just like his father he is loved

03:12:36.040 he is supported and people want him back and the islamic republic knows that the current shah in 0.91

03:12:43.980 exile is the only person who can overthrow them and that's why you see all the communists and 0.90

03:12:48.960 islamists and jihadis attacking not just the late shah but the current shah because he poses a very 0.92

03:12:55.140 serious threat and the islamic republic is very close to the end now you know in my other live

03:13:00.260 streams i've spoken a lot about this and i'll continue to to do that but um this is more just 1.00

03:13:05.540 you know showing you who the shah was on the occasion of his birthday and showing you guys

03:13:12.020 interview by interview all of the lies and propaganda and smear campaign that was against

03:13:18.100 them everything that you think you know about the shah is a lie you have been lied to 0.84

03:13:25.380 and you have been lied to by the islamists and the communists 1.00

03:13:30.340 because they want to justify turning iran into an islamic hellhole and the only way they can 0.87

03:13:36.340 justify that is by villainizing this man but i'll tell you something iranians we know the truth 0.57

03:13:40.580 about him and i'm hoping that at least now with these english version of the english version

03:13:46.260 interviews you as well can get a little bit of glimpse at input and insight into the kind of

03:13:52.500 person that he was and again this this is the last interview that he ever did before then

03:13:59.140 passing away from from cancer because he had he was um in like stage four of leukemia here

03:14:06.500 i'm thinking of the country of our people of our future and he's just one to destroy what i am

03:14:13.300 that's the difference. And when I tell you Ms. O'Frost that I still cannot understand,

03:14:25.300 I will repeat that again, I still cannot understand what has happened.

03:14:32.300 If you had your time as Shahanshah over again, those 37 years, what would you have done differently?

03:14:42.300 Well, now probably I will say a few things, because something went wrong, obviously.

03:15:02.300 And in addition of either saying the truth or making yourself excuses and all kinds of

03:15:17.300 things to defend yourself against the failures, but probably in addition to all the intrigues

03:15:29.300 from within a doubt, something has come wrong, and this is what I think about.

03:15:43.300 I have recently published a book in which I elaborate on some of these subjects, but

03:15:52.300 will tell you now that either we started a little too late the liberalization program

03:16:05.500 or we started a little too early and too fast

03:16:12.460 either we should have started in 1973 instead of 75 or 6

03:16:17.900 or at a time of crisis when we were seeing that things were moving in the direction of

03:16:30.900 complete chaos and anarchy. Then to take our time first to re-establish law, order, and

03:16:47.900 execution of rule, implementation of rule, and then start to liberalize again. It's

03:16:58.900 it's one of those two things but i was following my inner instincts

03:17:07.860 how do you think uh future generations of iranians will view your 37 years

03:17:18.340 the truth and the reality of history could not get be kept always

03:17:23.460 i'm going to tell you something guys so there's three generations of iranians um

03:17:33.860 who never had the honor of knowing him or living under his reign right

03:17:38.340 myself because i'm millennial gen z so gen z and then gen a this man

03:17:46.500 is more popular today amongst you know the future generation of Iranians you know myself and those

03:17:55.100 coming after me he is more popular today than he ever was prior to 1979 I can tell you that

03:18:03.380 right now and this is why we're trying to raise awareness because the the communists and the

03:18:11.940 Islamists and you know the Democrats and Jimmy Carter and the media and France and everyone did 0.59

03:18:18.300 him dirty everyone did him dirty the day that you know he left Iran it was a dark dark day people in 0.96

03:18:25.880 Iran were in crime they were in shock and you know we'll we'll get into that another time but I just

03:18:33.320 want you guys to know that you know speaking on behalf of the future generations because this

03:18:38.420 interview was in 1980 the future generations weren't born yet i can tell you that we love

03:18:46.020 we love him and what happened in 1979 was a travesty an absolute travesty like it's just

03:18:55.300 it's it's heartbreaking how do you think uh future generations of iranians will view your 37 years

03:19:08.420 The truth and the reality of history could not be kept always in the shadows, that is

03:19:18.740 impossible. Truth will come out, in any case, sooner or later.

03:19:29.820 And at that point, in 50 years' time, how will future Iranians judge you? 0.99

03:19:36.020 50 years, I hope it will be sooner than that. 0.94

03:20:06.020 and at that point in 50 years time how will future Iranians judge you 50 years 0.99

03:20:17.600 I hope it will be sooner than that well whenever I was saying what how will your people after a 0.83

03:20:27.020 period judge you well if they read history they will see what it was before my father

03:20:33.320 when it but it was when I took over and what it was when I left do you feel that

03:20:43.140 I can tell you that it took much less but again we love him he is I would say after Cyrus the

03:20:58.940 great. He is one of the most important figures in Iranian history. One of the most loved, by the

03:21:05.800 way, like, absolutely loved by all Iranians, right? It's just, it's a shame what happened.

03:21:18.020 But, you know, even, even in exile, right? Even in exile, he's not bitter. He's not angry.

03:21:25.280 he's not blaming the iranian people

03:21:30.140 he's still showing his love and support for you because this man loved iran with all of his being

03:21:41.040 all of his heart he put his country first even before his own power and authority and life and

03:21:50.560 safety and everything and even in exile he is still he is still thinking about

03:21:56.320 Iran and the future of Iran

03:22:02.320 to your people let you down or that you let your people down

03:22:12.960 first of all when we say the people we cannot talk about all the people that's

03:22:19.180 absolutely not true.

03:22:23.180 I can say that

03:22:25.180 the silent majority

03:22:27.180 remained silent.

03:22:31.180 And if I

03:22:33.180 let my people down

03:22:35.180 it was for the

03:22:37.180 purposes or purpose

03:22:39.180 that I tried to explain

03:22:41.180 that a king cannot be a dictator

03:22:43.180 and that a throne

03:22:45.180 could not be based on blood.

03:22:49.180 do you hear that guys do you hear that he is literally saying i i'm not going to murder

03:23:00.220 iranians for the sake of my throne and yet the islamists and communists call him a dictator

03:23:08.120 and claim that he murdered thousands of people and yet it does not fit with the truth it does

03:23:14.260 not fit with the reality. And he also spoke about the silent majority. Again, the silent majority

03:23:22.600 of Iranians who never in a million years ever thought that the communists and Islamists would

03:23:30.160 get strong enough to depose their beloved Shah. And yet that's exactly what happened. And by the 0.92

03:23:36.940 time Iranians started speaking out, it was already too late. So for those of you in your

03:23:44.720 own countries who are starting to see these Marxists and Islamists become more powerful 0.85

03:23:50.420 and unite, do not make the mistake that Iranians made. Do not be the silent majority. You guys

03:23:56.960 have to speak out. You have to speak up. Because one day, God forbid, you'll wake up and your

03:24:03.500 country has been taken over by Islamists or communists then you're living in 1.00

03:24:08.240 hell that's what happened to Iranians 47 years ago and we have been in this 0.98

03:24:13.880 horrific nightmare ever since explanation for what it is was did your 0.70

03:24:26.540 Your people let you down, do you think?

03:24:30.260 Well, the majority of me is silent. 0.99

03:24:39.540 Is the worst thing about being here thinking of your hem-man? 0.96

03:24:47.540 Well, here or anywhere outside my country is the same. 0.94

03:24:52.540 The question is that you cannot stop thinking about your own country.

03:24:59.540 What do you miss most about it?

03:25:03.540 What I miss, or what makes me really cry, is that we could have been this year,

03:25:11.540 surely by the end of 82, something quite viable.

03:25:18.540 And what are we now?

03:25:25.540 What does it say?

03:25:27.540 Religion?

03:25:28.540 Democracy?

03:25:32.540 Human rights?

03:25:35.540 The rule of the people?

03:25:48.540 hi guys i'm sorry i have to stop there um

03:25:58.700 so so depressing um

03:26:05.660 and he's right what what happened what happened

03:26:12.060 iran became a nightmare everything that he had been working towards slowly destroyed bit by bit 0.93

03:26:21.160 communism and islamism took over they started murdering iranians 1.00

03:26:28.040 and it wasn't enough for them to take over iran guys it wasn't enough for them to take over my 0.93

03:26:34.340 country um that's when they started their islamic expansionism into lebanon into gaza into iraq yemen

03:26:47.300 nigeria the islamic republic the islamic republic is using the money right the money that comes from 0.74

03:26:57.380 what the shah built the shah took iranian money and he invested it in iran the islamists came 0.83

03:27:06.660 and ever since they came they they erased our iranian identity right everything is about islam 0.97

03:27:12.820 and allah our our flag they took our flag away from us they replaced it with allah akbar again

03:27:18.740 we're iranian we speak persian we don't speak arabic but the islamic colonizers

03:27:24.740 brought their Allahu Akbar jihad flag with them and then instead of investing in Iranians 0.78

03:27:31.780 because they're they're occupiers or colonizers they're taking the money they're taking all 0.56

03:27:36.500 the investments that the Shah put in Iran and they're using it not only to line their own 0.90

03:27:40.980 pockets but to fund terrorism in the Middle East and around the world the only thing the Islamic 0.90

03:27:46.980 Republic is good at you guys is murdering Iranians that's the only thing they're good at doing 0.99

03:27:54.740 The only thing they excel in is murdering Iranians who speak out. 1.00

03:28:02.620 I'll have to leave it here, guys, but. 1.00

03:28:06.760 Thank you for joining.

03:28:09.180 I'll go back to, you know, my usual noon live streams tomorrow.

03:28:14.840 You know, today was the birthday of this great and amazing man.

03:28:21.220 Shahan Shah Aryamir, Ruhat Shad.

03:28:24.740 yeah um i hope you guys got to see the side of him that you don't see in the media

03:28:36.420 right you don't see this in the media and let's go back to what richard nixon said and then we'll

03:28:43.260 we'll end the space the uh shah is generally so so this clip this interview was shortly after

03:28:52.220 the Shah passed away from cancer. So this is just like a few months after that last interview with

03:28:59.760 the Shah. The Shah is generally accepted as having been a very repressive and oppressive ruler. His

03:29:07.340 savak tortured and killed. He lived in considerable splendor and opulence while there was 1.00

03:29:13.980 terrible poverty in his country. In your book, Leaders, you write that he was not ruthless enough

03:29:20.460 in quashing those who threatened his nation's stability.

03:29:24.440 Do you think he should have been more ruthless?

03:29:26.780 Yes, I do, particularly in view of the fact that his opponents

03:29:31.460 were not those who were basically more liberal

03:29:35.440 because basically they were reactionary.

03:29:38.700 They were the true reactionaries.

03:29:40.200 Let's look at the Shah for just a moment and look at him very fairly.

03:29:43.780 He actually was a progressive, a progressive in a number of ways.

03:29:48.340 he instituted a land reform program he instituted a literacy program he sent

03:29:53.980 thousands of students from Iran to the United States and particularly the

03:29:58.540 United States to study and in other countries as well he liberated women the

03:30:04.220 irony was that those he liberated the women and the students he sent abroad

03:30:09.140 they came back and joined the revolutionary forces and the irony was

03:30:13.480 that the shah being progressive was attacked as being reactionary and conservative on these

03:30:20.760 particular issues whereas his opponents were the reactionaries putting it very bluntly and very

03:30:27.960 simply the shah was trying to move iran into the 20th century his opponents committee at all

03:30:36.760 wanted to move iran back into the dark ages and that's what they've done now there was some

03:30:42.040 repression, true. Now there is total repression. There may not have been enough land reform.

03:30:48.580 Now there is none whatever. What I am simply suggesting is this, that when we look at the

03:30:53.720 Shah, we have to look at him in terms of what he confronted. And he confronted revolutionary 0.54

03:31:00.120 forces there that were not working, in my view, for what was best for Iran and certainly

03:31:06.220 not best for ourselves. And most important, from the United States standpoint, instead

03:31:11.400 of having a friend in iran we now have one that is not only not a friend but one that is

03:31:17.800 considers us to be the great satan

03:31:22.600 there you go

03:31:30.600 happy birthday to one of the most amazing or one of the most amazing emperors we've ever had

03:31:38.680 um we have not forgotten your legacy we are honoring your legacy we will continue

03:31:44.120 to honor your legacy and we will reclaim iran and we'll return it back to

03:31:51.800 to the glory and to the vision that you you had for the country

Goldie Ghamari - October 27, 2025

WATCH PARTY： 1970s Interviews with the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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