EZRA LEVANT | ‘This is not the war of the Iranian people’: Iranian dissident breaks down Israel-Iran conflict
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Summary
Ezra fills in for me on the show with an interview I did with an Iranian-Canadian freedom activist, Salman Sima, and a video made by Lincoln Jay and Efron Monsanto, two of my buddies who went with me to Dublin this week.
Transcript
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Well, hi everybody, Ezra Levant. It's June 24th and I am still at sea.
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I've recorded an extended monologue with my thoughts on a bunch of things in the world,
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ranging from the Middle East and Donald Trump to the by-elections in Alberta yesterday.
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Trouble is, the file is so large and the internet on the ship is so weak that it's taking so long to send it,
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I'm worried it won't make it in time for tonight's show.
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So if that's the case, I'm making this sort of backup plan.
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Not my monologue, that'll have to wait till tomorrow.
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But an interview my friend Sheila Gunry did with Salman Sima, he's an Iranian freedom activist in Toronto,
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and a great video by Lincoln Jay and Efron Monsanto,
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two of my buddies who've gone with me before to Dublin,
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I was at sea this week, so obviously I couldn't go to Dublin for their huge anti-immigration mark,
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Here, take a look at Salman Sima being interviewed by Sheila,
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I'll have my by-election thoughts for you tomorrow.
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Are you questioning if Israel was committed to it?
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they came out and they dropped a load of bombs,
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You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours,
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you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
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But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning
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because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot,
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that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
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Some Republican voices say this doesn't constitute
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a break of the ceasefire negotiated by President Trump.
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But that's the politicians and what they have to say.
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And I know that he's been watching this very closely
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and he's going to give us a much different perspective
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about what's happening right now between Iran and Israel.
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Before we get started, tell us about your experience
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They are the world's leading sponsor of terrorism.
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They are a death cult and you had to live with that
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Where do you come from and how did you end up here?
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First of all, this is not the war of Iranian people.
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This is the war between Islamic Republic in Iran
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and the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel.
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many of the other journalists, they did this mistake.
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we raised a voice about human rights in our university,
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We were just a bunch of students, they arrested me,
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When 2008, we were organizing some huge student uprising.
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lots of human rights groups issued a statement.
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And finally, I could manage to escape the country.
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And unfortunately, when I compare the current situation
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they think that they can go for reasonable negotiation
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Even they don't follow their own best interests,