Juno News - July 20, 2019


FULL SPEECH： Stephen Harper speaks at the 2019 Free Iran conference


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

126.213196

Word Count

1,023

Sentence Count

66

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Learn English with Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter delivers a keynote address at the National Council of Resistance in Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2019. He speaks about the current state of relations between Iran and the West, Iran's nuclear program, and the Ayatollah's regime, as well as the need for change in Iran.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Thank you very much. Merci beaucoup.
00:00:02.280 First of all, let me just say this.
00:00:04.420 We are all overwhelmed by what you have built here.
00:00:08.540 Ashraf III, what a tremendous achievement.
00:00:11.840 Congratulations.
00:00:14.940 Madame Rejavi, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends.
00:00:20.380 I'm delighted to be back with you,
00:00:22.600 the National Council of Resistance at Free Iran 2019.
00:00:26.100 And I am delighted to be here because there are few causes in this world today
00:00:31.720 more important at this moment than what you are pursuing,
00:00:37.120 the right of the people of Iran to change their government
00:00:40.480 and their right to do it through freedom and the power of the ballot box.
00:00:48.480 Friends, in the years since we last gathered,
00:00:51.520 the Ayatollah's regime has opened, openly increased its enrichment of uranium.
00:01:00.700 It has stepped up its support for its terrorist allies and proxies
00:01:04.580 in the Middle East and around the world.
00:01:07.340 And it has taken the suppression of human rights to new levels.
00:01:11.580 So the need for change in Iran is greater than ever before.
00:01:16.460 And the need for the work of this organization on behalf of the Iranian people
00:01:21.560 is greater than ever before.
00:01:26.220 The regime is now, friends,
00:01:29.120 it is in the process of fomenting a new and significant regional crisis.
00:01:33.880 Over the past several weeks,
00:01:37.020 it has itself and through its proxies
00:01:39.460 attacked oil tankers in the Sea of Oman,
00:01:43.280 fired missiles at its neighbors,
00:01:46.360 threatened global shipping,
00:01:48.220 and shot down an American drone in international airspace.
00:01:51.940 In other words,
00:01:53.380 the regime is out to prove
00:01:55.140 what you and others have long been saying,
00:01:57.960 that it is the single most dangerous regime in the world today.
00:02:04.260 Now, friends, how should we respond to that threat?
00:02:08.260 There is only one way
00:02:10.020 to respond with a firmness
00:02:12.560 that recognizes the regime's nature,
00:02:16.160 that recognizes without apology or equivocation
00:02:19.900 its extremism,
00:02:22.220 its brutality,
00:02:23.840 and its hatred.
00:02:25.660 Sadly and dangerously,
00:02:27.460 some in the world continue to seek
00:02:29.680 to camouflage this
00:02:31.400 and instead try to appease the regime.
00:02:35.260 They claim to want to reach out
00:02:37.040 to the regime's moderates.
00:02:40.280 Friends,
00:02:41.820 are we really,
00:02:43.920 do we really lack that kind of intelligence
00:02:46.580 to believe that anyone
00:02:48.080 senior in a regime like this,
00:02:51.220 senior in a regime of extremism,
00:02:53.940 of brutality, and of hatred
00:02:55.880 could ever possibly be a moderate?
00:02:58.660 It is ridiculous.
00:03:00.060 The right policy,
00:03:01.080 the only realistic policy,
00:03:02.940 is firmness and strength.
00:03:05.420 Impose sanctions.
00:03:06.960 Boycott its oil.
00:03:08.440 Designate it and its institutions
00:03:10.360 as terrorist organizations,
00:03:12.640 and do what my government did in Canada,
00:03:15.040 close down the regime's embassies
00:03:16.960 around the world.
00:03:26.060 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:03:30.160 Friends, what really is the argument against responding in this way, against responding
00:03:47.860 with firmness and strength?
00:03:50.560 It is claimed the apologists for the Ayatollah's regime.
00:03:54.000 It is because the world, they say, has a stark choice, appeasement or war.
00:04:00.560 Now friends, you know and we know that is a false choice.
00:04:05.420 Surrender to the regime's religious fascism is not an avoidance of war.
00:04:10.780 It is an acceptance of the war that the theocracy is already pursuing through its proxies and
00:04:16.800 allies against its neighbors in the region.
00:04:20.260 It is also an acceptance of its quest for nuclear weapons and an invitation for the
00:04:25.560 regime to pursue unspeakable greater war in the future.
00:04:31.540 Weakness and appeasement will not avoid a military confrontation with this regime.
00:04:38.200 Instead they invite the regime to pursue even more aggressive confrontation in the future.
00:04:44.440 The solution then is not weakness.
00:04:47.700 It is strength.
00:04:48.700 It is not to soften sanctions.
00:04:50.780 It is to toughen them.
00:04:52.200 It is not to accept its human rights atrocities.
00:04:55.260 It is to condemn them.
00:04:56.940 It is not to pursue appeasement.
00:04:58.940 It is to push back and push back hard.
00:05:01.700 Friends, the right response is not to surrender to the regime.
00:05:06.260 It is to stand with the Iranian people and stand against this regime.
00:05:17.960 The religious fascism of the Ayatollah's regime will never, will never be good for the world,
00:05:26.080 it will never be good for the region and it will never be good for the people of Iran.
00:05:32.260 This very existence means confrontation with the world, with its neighbors and with its own citizens.
00:05:40.500 Those are the people we must stand with.
00:05:44.180 And that means standing behind the 10-point plan that Madame Rajavi and the National Council have committed to.
00:05:51.740 Democracy, pluralism, the rule of law, justice, human rights, peaceful coexistence, gender equality, private property in a market economy,
00:06:02.320 the separation of religion and state and a non-nuclear Iran.
00:06:15.320 Those things, these things are the only way the confrontation and the danger disappear.
00:06:23.320 Friends, that 10-point plan, your 10-point plan, is the future.
00:06:28.320 It is the future the world wants.
00:06:31.320 It is the future that Iranians need.
00:06:34.320 And it is the future you have long fought for.
00:06:38.320 So I say again to you, my friends,
00:06:40.320 do not give up hope, do not in any way relent in your struggle.
00:06:46.320 Underneath the extremism and perversion of the Ayatollah's regime is a great country, a great culture, a great faith, a great civilization yearning to be free.
00:06:59.320 And that is what the world, everyone in the world, wants in Iran.
00:07:04.320 Today, I am joined here as I was last year by many Canadians.
00:07:09.320 I am joined both by those who supported my government and those who oppose my government,
00:07:15.320 but who are united behind your dreams of a new and better Iran.
00:07:20.320 And these Canadians are just a small sample of the millions of people of goodwill and fortitude in Canada
00:07:27.320 and of the billions of similar people around the world who share your aspirations for a new Iran.
00:07:34.320 And Iran governed not by the hatreds of the past or the regime's nuclear apocalyptic vision of the future,
00:07:42.320 but an Iran led forward by the needs of its people and rooted in the best of its culture and history.
00:07:49.320 That new Iran is coming.
00:07:52.320 And it will be an Iran that stands freely and proudly among the nations of the world.
00:07:58.320 It will be an Iran that your efforts have inspired.
00:08:02.320 So keep up the fight.
00:08:04.320 Hazer, Hazer, Hazer.