SHNEAKO - SNEAKO interviews Professor Marandi： Anti Shia Propaganda

00:00:00.000 But the problem with Gaza is that when Trump was imposing his ceasefire on the people of Gaza,

00:00:06.560 who went to Egypt and took part in that monkey show? Which leaders were there? All your viewers

00:00:11.600 have to do is look it up right now and look at the photo. At the ceasefire talks? And all these

00:00:16.060 people went there basically to whitewash his genocide. Instead of standing with Gaza, 0.79

00:00:22.960 instead of supporting Hamas, instead of supporting the victims, they stood with Trump. But Hezbollah 0.72

00:00:28.960 is hitting the Zionist regime hard.

00:00:32.320 Why? Because they believe in what they do. 0.97

00:00:35.140 And why are they making these sacrifices?

00:00:37.460 Because of the Palestinian people. 0.98

00:00:39.060 But once the rest of the world begins to grow stronger,

00:00:42.460 it begins to strengthen different countries,

00:00:46.340 different parts of the world,

00:00:47.680 technologically they develop

00:00:49.300 and their state institutions become stronger,

00:00:52.780 then they push back.

00:00:54.720 They try to starve our country. 0.99

00:00:57.000 They bomb and kill our leaders. 0.99

00:00:58.900 They slaughter our schoolchildren just because we support Hamas. 0.98

00:01:02.460 Who is Hamas? Are they Shia? 0.99

00:01:04.120 For decades, the Palestinians have been taught by these very same regimes

00:01:08.360 that the Iranians are your enemies.

00:01:10.840 Some Palestinians never liked Iran because they believed the propaganda.

00:01:15.120 But did Iran discontinue their support for the Palestinian people?

00:01:19.520 No, because they're oppressed.

00:01:21.020 As-salamu alaykum.

00:01:22.540 As-salamu alaykum. How are you doing?

00:01:24.120 Good, alhamdulillah. Good to speak to you.

00:01:26.200 It's been a long time, Professor Morandi.

00:01:27.500 it has a story about that come you sent me a message a couple of weeks two three weeks ago

00:01:33.860 i for some reason i always forget to check my twitter messages so i'm i like every once or

00:01:44.180 one or one week or two week i just look and then i suddenly see i have all these messages but i'm

00:01:49.260 always checking telegram and and whatsapp yeah at the time i think i forgot i had your whatsapp

00:01:55.800 but everything's good. It's good to speak to you again. There's been not that many developments on

00:02:00.560 the Iran war since we last spoke, or maybe there's some that I'm not aware of, but I think you have

00:02:05.800 a lot of good information. It's always been great to speak to you. I think you've done well in

00:02:09.740 debates and head to heads. I'm glad to be here again, but right now the news is Trump just went

00:02:15.660 to China. He's in China right now with 30 tech billionaires. People are wondering if China's

00:02:20.140 going to apply pressure, and I saw you tweeting about it a little bit. I want to see your thoughts.

00:02:23.740 What do you think is happening with Trump's meeting in China?

00:02:29.940 Well, it's pretty clear that Trump did not get anything in particular and that the Chinese were not going to give him any concessions.

00:02:43.000 He doesn't, you know, as they say, he doesn't have any cards to play with.

00:02:48.600 He's put the United States in a very difficult position.

00:02:53.080 he's lost the war against iraq and the u.s economy is not performing well it hasn't been

00:03:00.120 performing well to be fair for decades the chinese have been doing far better i think

00:03:09.440 since 9-11 effectively you know the since 9-11 and the never-ending wars in afghanistan and iraq 0.95

00:03:18.820 and Libya and all the devastation that they've created thanks to the Epstein class, the Zionist, 0.95

00:03:26.980 the oligarchy, because of them, the United States is not where it was when I was your age at all. 0.99

00:03:37.280 And so now that it's lost the war, countries don't take the United States that seriously anymore.

00:03:44.000 I mean, imagine, for example, the Japanese saw what happened in the war.

00:03:49.440 The South Koreans saw what happened in the war. 0.84

00:03:53.360 So tomorrow, when the United States wants to mobilize these countries against the Chinese,

00:03:59.240 are the Japanese going to be, is Japan going to be that enthusiastic anymore about joining the U.S.-led coalition or the Koreans or anyone else?

00:04:09.740 no because they saw how the united states failed in in the persian gulf and in west asia so what

00:04:15.920 iran did through its extraordinary resilience and it was on its own i mean iran's relationship with

00:04:22.580 china is very good its relationship with russia is very good its relationship with all independent

00:04:28.700 countries is good brics countries they're all good but at the end of the day

00:04:33.520 it was the iranians who stood on their own feet just like when you look in lebanon today 0.99

00:04:42.480 hezbollah is surrounded it on the to the east here this controlled by the u.s the guy went

00:04:48.960 to the white house got some perfect there's not good wi-fi in iran you have to 0.65

00:04:58.560 be a little bit patient with him it's been a shutout for a while could be a masad attack

00:05:04.640 but it's been a long time it's been over a month and they haven't had real wi-fi there it's one of

00:05:09.180 the few people in iran that actually have wi-fi oh he's still talking he's working against hezbollah

00:05:13.780 the government in beirut installed by the americans two puppets the prime minister i'm in a coffee

00:05:18.980 shop uh you're you're cutting out a little bit can you hear me you're you're lagging pretty

00:05:26.200 heavily right now yes i i okay i think i'm in a coffee shop so okay he left i think massad

00:05:38.000 got him not ideal okay we'll call him right back give it a second there has been uh yeah there we

00:05:44.840 Oh, come on.

00:05:45.940 Bismillah. 0.61

00:05:48.120 Yeah, big F.

00:05:50.020 It's...

00:05:51.960 See, Rage Bait...

00:05:52.840 Okay, how's the connection?

00:06:02.480 It looks the same.

00:06:03.900 You're...

00:06:04.260 You're not...

00:06:05.980 It's very slow.

00:06:11.540 Okay, let me try a different...

00:06:13.100 Let me try...

00:06:13.600 I'm in a coffee shop.

00:06:14.620 Let me try a different connection.

00:06:16.240 Okay, no problem.

00:06:19.960 Just one minute.

00:06:22.700 You're saying so they have internet in a coffee shop?

00:06:24.600 Only specific people are allowed to have access to the internet.

00:06:26.940 It's not like anybody in the coffee shop can get the internet.

00:06:30.520 Early stream W, yeah, good to see you guys. 0.73

00:06:33.280 It's the Epstein regime.

00:06:34.780 Okay, what should I ask him? 0.80

00:06:37.440 So, my perception, and I don't think this is actually a reason to not...

00:06:42.580 Okay, well.

00:06:44.540 okay can you see me now yes is this better and so i think that is better yes

00:06:54.960 okay sorry this is a i'm in a coffee shop and it's actually downstairs so the connection is

00:07:04.480 probably worse i should have sat somewhere upstairs but they told me the connection

00:07:09.960 year is better. I misunderstood. It looks good now. It looks good now.

00:07:19.040 We're live, right? Yes, we're live right now on YouTube and kick.

00:07:22.540 Oh, sorry about that then. Oh, no, it's okay. No worries. So you were talking about Trump's

00:07:27.420 visit and you're saying that the major points is that the war has been won by Iran, even though

00:07:32.640 it still is ongoing. Trump is declaring victory, but it's still happening. And you're saying that

00:07:37.100 they're not the world isn't taking the U.S. seriously. But if the world isn't taking the

00:07:41.240 U.S. seriously, then why would Xi Jinping have this meeting with Trump, Hegseth, Rubio and 30

00:07:47.020 billionaires? Well, it's not as if the United States has been wiped off the face of the earth.

00:07:54.260 It's still the United States of America. But this isn't the United States of 30 years ago.

00:08:00.680 It isn't. I mean, if you go back before 9-11 and, you know, whoever, you know, was behind 9-11, I mean, after watching the Tucker Carlson documentary, I think any sane person would recognize that it wasn't just some Al-Qaeda operatives, even though Al-Qaeda was funded and assisted by the Western intelligence agencies and their regional proxies.

00:08:28.680 But, you know, if you look at his documentary, it wasn't just them.

00:08:32.300 I mean, I used to not believe this sort of thing, and I used to be very dismissive of people who spoke about 9-11 being more than just these terrorists.

00:08:43.120 But, you know, I think differently now.

00:08:45.760 But if you go back before 9-11, the United States, before all these endless wars and the many tens of trillions of dollars that they wasted, the United States was a different country.

00:08:55.320 It was a much wealthier country.

00:08:57.960 It had a, you know, strong middle class after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

00:09:04.740 It was, you know, it was at the top of the world.

00:09:07.940 It was what someone, a French intellectual, once called the hyper power.

00:09:14.120 But and it's not just Trump who's brought it down.

00:09:16.600 I mean, these endless wars and neoliberalism and all these insane policies combined have very rapidly weakened the country.

00:09:28.260 But still, it is a powerful country.

00:09:31.900 And so, obviously, when the Chinese will take the United States seriously, I mean, we take the United States seriously. 1.00

00:09:39.040 When they threaten our country with death and destruction, we take it seriously. 1.00

00:09:42.760 But it isn't what it used to be.

00:09:44.620 It doesn't have the leverage that it had before.

00:09:49.600 And for the Chinese, as a rival superpower, they're obviously moving ahead of the United States. 0.60

00:09:56.840 While the Americans are wasting billions of dollars, trillions of dollars on wars,

00:10:01.140 the Chinese are developing, I don't know if you've ever been to China,

00:10:05.560 but they're developing their infrastructure.

00:10:08.640 there if you go

00:10:10.740 you know sometimes people would say

00:10:14.260 Shanghai is a very

00:10:16.400 beautiful and well developed city

00:10:18.280 there I've been to

00:10:20.060 maybe 10 different cities in China

00:10:22.200 all of them with at least

00:10:24.560 5 to

00:10:25.960 10 at least million people

00:10:28.540 all very developed

00:10:30.600 all very advanced

00:10:32.580 far more advanced than any city

00:10:34.540 I've seen in any city I've seen

00:10:36.500 in Europe or North America

00:10:39.220 So they've been moving to develop their own, you know, their country.

00:10:43.140 That's why, you know, the United States is no longer where it is anymore, where it was.

00:10:49.680 What is the relationship right now between China and Iran and historically?

00:10:54.600 What can we understand about that connection?

00:10:56.840 Because it seems like there is some sort of alliance.

00:11:00.420 You have BRICS.

00:11:01.500 But what is the trade like and what's that geopolitical relationship between China and Iran?

00:11:08.220 Well, one of the things about Iran and China is that we've never had war, and we've had thousands of years of relations.

00:11:17.380 The Silk Road that you've heard of and many people have heard of in history books, that was a trade route that connected Iran to China thousands of years, both by land and by sea.

00:11:34.280 I was in Guangzhou last year, a year and a half ago, at an exhibition of Iranian and Chinese artifacts that showed the trade that took place between Iranian ports and Chinese ports, meaning the Guangzhou area in particular.

00:11:51.920 And it was fascinating how they were influencing each other, the artists and the creators and those who were making utensils and things like that, kitchenware or other things that people use.

00:12:09.920 views, how the two sides were selling them back and forth, and how they were being influenced

00:12:15.720 by each other in creating or in innovation and creating new goods.

00:12:22.620 So the history of Iran and China has never been hostile, and that goes a long way to

00:12:28.140 creating trust.

00:12:30.820 The United States, even though it's a new country, it doesn't have a history like Iran

00:12:37.980 or China, but our history with the United States since 1953 has been pretty dark.

00:12:44.340 They carried out a coup in Iran alongside the British, and it's been downhill in 1953.

00:12:52.740 It's been downhill ever since.

00:12:55.640 So when you don't have that dark past, it's easier to build bridges.

00:13:02.440 And Iran and China, Iran being a very independent country, probably unique, definitely unique

00:13:08.960 in the world that we live in, as being the most independent country, even though it's

00:13:12.720 not a superpower, or at least in the traditional sense of the term.

00:13:19.000 Because it's highly independent, because it has shown no hostility towards the Chinese

00:13:24.920 people this has helped create very favorable environment for trade and business and cooperation

00:13:33.640 you know the problem with the united states and much of europe is that they cannot

00:13:40.600 throw they cannot put aside their exceptionalists their eurocentric uh world view in a sense in

00:13:48.120 sense and i'm speaking about the elite elites i'm not talking about ordinary people

00:13:51.880 but in a sense they're not all that different from zionism the zionists consider themselves

00:13:59.200 to be a master race they're master people uh a people who have who are human and the rest of us

00:14:06.140 are not so much human for for those who believe in american exceptionalism or who have a eurocentric

00:14:15.280 worldview we are also lesser people and when you treat the rest of the world as lesser people

00:14:22.340 it may work for you when you have overwhelming power but once the rest of the world begins to

00:14:28.640 grow stronger and it begins to um strengthen uh you know different countries different parts of

00:14:37.060 the world uh technologically they develop and uh their state institutions become stronger then

00:14:44.320 they push back

00:14:46.720 they push back more effectively

00:14:48.620 they always would push back

00:14:50.080 the resistance would always be there

00:14:51.720 during imperialism there was always resistance

00:14:54.020 you know for example

00:14:55.240 often they would speak about the lazy native

00:14:57.900 when the colonialists

00:15:02.460 were like they take part of Africa

00:15:04.520 or part of Asia

00:15:05.640 or wherever

00:15:06.360 or the Americas 1.00

00:15:07.920 but that lazy native 0.80

00:15:12.300 was not a lazy person 0.89

00:15:13.640 that was one form of resistance when you were working for the master and you're the slave

00:15:20.760 you know he he's the guy with the whip he's the guy with the sword he's the guy with the gun

00:15:25.960 so you're not able to shoot back at him the only thing you can do is to try not to help him try to

00:15:33.240 be as uh you know try to try to be uncooperative not to be helpful so all of these were different

00:15:41.560 forms of resistance in the past. But when countries and different parts of the world

00:15:48.640 rise, then the resistance grows. And Iran, because of its religious ideology, Islam, 0.99

00:15:58.640 in Shia Islam in particular, it's the role that Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Holy

00:16:04.920 Prophet, plays in resisting oppressors on behalf of the oppressed, the role that his

00:16:10.320 sister played in Karbala that has a huge influence on Iranians, their support for the press. That's

00:16:16.940 why they are so adamant about supporting the Palestinians, the Cubans, the South Africans,

00:16:22.420 the Bosnians, and so on. And then there's this heritage of civilization, thousands of years of

00:16:29.640 heritage, which, and also the very fact that they're a victim. When you are a victim, it makes

00:16:35.640 you makes you it makes resistance for you more meaningful if you if you if someone has stolen

00:16:42.480 your home you have reason to resist uh but if you carried out some sort of aggression your uh

00:16:51.460 your your your your motivation for violence is less unless you become unless you make it

00:16:58.980 ideological and you consider yourself to be a master race or master people or

00:17:04.920 a superior ethnicity or superior of some sort, which we do see in Zionism and we do see

00:17:11.160 in Massa, you know, among the elites in the West. When, what's his name, Joseph Borrell,

00:17:17.000 who was the EU foreign policy chief until just a couple of years ago, he said that Europe,

00:17:23.640 the EU, we're the garden and out there is the rest of them that, you know, they're the jungle.

00:17:31.800 That means we are the jungle, we are the barbarians, we are the animals, we are the, you know, the uncivilized. And he and his, you know, people like him, they're the civilized people sitting in their gardens and in their coffee shops and being sophisticated and humane.

00:17:51.840 but ironically they're the ones who support genocide in gaza and now the genocidal attacks 0.78

00:17:57.760 in lebanon and wars of aggression against iran and so on and so forth so was china supplying intel

00:18:07.880 or military equipment or anything to iran because i saw some reports that russia was giving intel to

00:18:14.100 iran and china did say some things alluding to the fact that this war between the u.s and iran

00:18:19.660 is unnecessary. What can we say about that diplomatic relationship right now? What side

00:18:25.120 is China on? Are they on any side at all? Do they care or are they just completely neutral?

00:18:32.180 No, they're definitely much closer to Iran. When the Iranian foreign minister went to China,

00:18:38.920 they were, you know, if you look at Chinese social media, he was welcomed. And ordinary people

00:18:45.960 saw Iran as heroic. They saw Iran as, you know, it was like David versus Goliath. And everyone 0.81

00:18:54.360 was stunned that Iran was able to do this. Even friends of Iran across the world, who I knew

00:19:01.780 and know, they thought Iran was going to collapse. I never did, and many people here didn't. We were

00:19:11.160 confident about our path, about that we were in the right, and that we were doing the right thing,

00:19:17.800 and that the sacrifices that we make for the Palestinian people, the support that we give them,

00:19:22.580 it's all, it's all, this is all just, and that the United States, the Trump regime, the U.S.

00:19:30.900 regime, and its allies, that they are, they are the forces of evil. So we were confident about

00:19:37.820 what would happen. We knew it would be painful. We knew some people would be martyred. But,

00:19:44.000 you know, we were expecting victory. But I think that the Chinese were very pleasantly

00:19:51.920 surprised that Iran was able to withstand this horrific assault. And the Chinese told 1.00

00:19:59.020 the Iranian Foreign Minister, like everyone else did, that Iran's global status has been

00:20:04.400 significantly enhanced as a result.

00:20:08.100 So even though a lot of damage has been done to the country,

00:20:10.520 they've bombed factories, pharmaceutical factories,

00:20:14.320 the steel industry, schools, hospitals, universities.

00:20:20.840 They've bombed many universities.

00:20:23.960 You'd be stunned.

00:20:24.800 They bombed multiple universities in Tehran, different faculties.

00:20:28.720 Just imagine someone bombing Harvard or Penn State or the key universities in the United States.

00:20:40.240 I'm not saying they're the best universities.

00:20:41.880 I'm not a big fan of some of these places that belong to the elites and they're for the rich

00:20:49.960 and they have all these extraordinary tuition fees.

00:20:55.420 But you get what I'm saying.

00:20:57.280 But the Western media was completely indifferent about it. 1.00

00:21:00.140 Just like in Lebanon today, they're slaughtering. 0.99

00:21:03.100 Israelis are bombing paramedics in Lebanon every day. 0.99

00:21:07.700 They're seeking out the paramedics.

00:21:10.400 But you won't see this in Western media because Western media is so completely compromised.

00:21:16.660 But the Chinese, they were very pleasantly surprised. 0.54

00:21:20.440 They do cooperate with Iran. 0.96

00:21:22.940 The same is true with Russia.

00:21:24.300 But at the end of the day, the Iranians won the war because of their own resistance, because of their own resilience, because of their own steadfastness.

00:21:36.220 And the same is true today in Lebanon.

00:21:38.980 Hezbollah is effectively surrounded.

00:21:41.060 You see that to the east, you have these proxies that have been brought to power by the Americans. 0.59

00:21:46.460 The guy, Jolani, goes to the White House, gets his perfume from Trump and goes home happy. 0.69

00:21:51.460 You have the puppets that the U.S. has installed in Damascus, the prime minister and the president, but Hezbollah is, you know, hitting the Zionist regime hard. 0.66

00:22:03.080 Why? Because they believe in what they do. 0.81

00:22:05.900 And why are they making these sacrifices?

00:22:08.720 Why are they—because of the Palestinian people.

00:22:11.960 Why are they being targeted and antagonized across the world?

00:22:15.660 Because they support the Palestinian people.

00:22:17.800 And one reason why we see so much hostility, not just in the West, towards the Islamic Republic and the axis of resistance, but also in our region, from Arabic media and regional media, is that these countries, they themselves are complicit, they're either with the Israeli regime or they're too cowardly to stand up to it. 0.92

00:22:40.020 So they try to demonize Iran, whether it's racism or sectarianism or religious hatred, whatever.

00:22:48.780 They'll use that. Why? Because they don't have an argument to make about their own complicity.

00:22:54.680 So they try to say that, no, no, those who are resisting the Israeli regime, they're not sincere or, you know, or they're they're corrupt or they're morally bankrupt or they're they're not real Muslims or whatever.

00:23:07.860 You know, they do that in these, you know, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, sadly even people around Erdogan and others, because of their deep and ugly complicity with the regime, the Emirates worse than anyone else, they have to antagonize the resistance.

00:23:26.020 But it doesn't work anymore, because people see through things now.

00:23:30.380 People see what's going on in Gaza.

00:23:32.360 They see who's doing trade with Israel.

00:23:34.900 They see who's getting killed because of their support for the Palestinian people.

00:23:39.660 They see who's being sanctioned.

00:23:42.100 So the world is changing, and world public opinion is changing. 0.54

00:23:46.560 You know, across the Arab world, people have been rooting for Iran, 0.55

00:23:50.320 except for the Wahhabis and the Salafis who were funded by these regimes. 0.96

00:23:54.700 And who cares what they think 0.76

00:23:56.440 But ordinary people on the streets are rooting for Iran

00:23:58.940 Against the Israeli regime 0.97

00:24:01.300 And these proxies 1.00

00:24:03.000 In the Persian Gulf 0.99

00:24:04.580 Because they know that they don't represent them

00:24:06.620 I mean Kuwait, Emirates, Qatar

00:24:08.880 Saudi Arabia and Bahrain 1.00

00:24:10.460 They don't represent 1.00

00:24:11.880 Ordinary men and women 1.00

00:24:14.120 In Cairo

00:24:16.180 In Jordan

00:24:18.260 Morocco 0.90

00:24:19.760 Even in their own country 1.00

00:24:23.240 I promise you 0.82

00:24:24.660 If they're allowed to speak out in the Emirates, they'd like to get rid of this guy, this Mohammed bin Zayed, for what he's done for the Israeli regime. 0.79

00:24:34.800 Right. I was going to get into that question, because since we last spoke, I did see some responses from what people are calling Wahhabis. 0.95

00:24:42.760 And I do want to ask you right after about why you think this war is won.

00:24:47.600 Maybe it's because the Strait of Hormuz has stayed closed.

00:24:50.500 although there is uh reports of one tanker going through and that wasn't hit by a mine and so maybe

00:24:56.680 that's what the meeting about in china is right now that they're trying to move towards a tech

00:25:00.440 based economy rather than an economy based off of the petrodollar and oil but since we last spoke

00:25:06.060 there were two what people are saying is wahabi or just before you move on the strait of hormones

00:25:12.640 has never been closed by the iranians it's always been open the ships that have had restrictions are

00:25:19.060 But those who were linked to these countries that participated in the war against Iran.

00:25:23.460 Otherwise, Russian ships, Chinese ships, Iraqi ships, those who didn't have anything against

00:25:31.360 Iran, they had no problem. 0.78

00:25:33.680 Oman, the country Oman, one of the six neighbors on the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iraqi

00:25:39.300 side, they have excellent relations with Iran.

00:25:41.840 They didn't participate in the war, so Oman is benefiting, is reaping the benefits.

00:25:46.860 If these five countries that participated in the war had refrained from doing so, we

00:25:52.760 wouldn't have had the war, because the Americans would not have been able to logistically be

00:25:59.740 able to carry out, logistically speaking, carry out the war.

00:26:03.920 So there is a...

00:26:07.920 But in any...

00:26:11.240 Iran never closed the Strait of Formos. 0.96

00:26:13.380 close it to those countries that were participating in the slaughter against the Iranian people. 1.00

00:26:19.320 Right. So maybe there's a case to be made that the victory can be applied to the fact that the 0.91

00:26:25.260 U.S. economy is affected greatly. The oil is going up. And that's what we seem to care about

00:26:30.440 more than anything is the economy. But what do you think the goal is for the next 20 years in

00:26:35.580 Iran? And I'm asking this question because since we last spoke, I had people like Faris al-Hamadi

00:26:41.000 and Shamsi what people are saying uh some people are calling him Wahhabi some people are calling

00:26:45.980 him Salafi and they're very critical and although you're saying it's just the GCC countries and

00:26:50.440 ordinary people are in support of Iran I have had a lot of conversations and even in the chat

00:26:55.780 a lot of people are saying that Iran does not care about the Muslim world and that they just

00:27:01.100 care about their own dominance and that they they're talking a lot about the atrocities in Syria

00:27:06.980 and what's happened across the Middle East, and that the end goal is not for Muslim unity,

00:27:12.980 it's for Iran dominance. So what can we expect from the next 20 years? Because although some

00:27:20.500 people are just saying it's Wahhabi backlash, a lot of people in the out-of-world, especially

00:27:24.840 Syrians, are very upset with what they're saying Iran has done. What can we see in terms of

00:27:30.880 Middle Eastern dominance and Iran as an empire going forward?

00:27:36.980 say very openly that during the war between the fall of Syria, before the fall of Syria, 0.73

00:27:46.180 I'd been on many campuses, I spoke to many students, and they definitely did not want

00:27:52.280 al-Qaeda to come to power. And that was clear as day. But Iran did not support the Syrian

00:27:59.640 government because they were fans of the Ba'athist party, as I told you before. They were against

00:28:05.300 it because this was a dirty war, and those who supported the CIA project in Syria, they

00:28:11.240 wittingly or otherwise, they helped the Israeli regime. There's no doubt about it. They cannot 0.73

00:28:18.840 hide it. They can show it whatever hostility they want to Iran, but they helped the Israeli 1.00

00:28:23.640 regime. But the Iranians did not support Syria because they had some love affair with Assad.

00:28:29.480 His wife was Sunni, by the way. Who cares? For Iran, he could have been a Jew, he could have 0.84

00:28:34.740 been a Christian, it could have been a Sunni, it could have been an Alavi, it doesn't matter. 0.76

00:28:40.220 For Iran, the important thing was that the regime, that the Israeli regime wanted Syria 0.84

00:28:48.560 to fall because it benefited it. 0.87

00:28:51.680 It benefited the Israeli, it benefited Netanyahu. 0.86

00:28:54.740 It was clear. 0.88

00:28:55.740 I mean, Obama did not carry out Operation Timber Sycamore because he loved the Syrian

00:29:03.020 people.

00:29:04.020 And those who thought that they could take part in this and do good, and that good would

00:29:12.200 come out of it, they were deeply mistaken. 1.00

00:29:17.460 And by the way, when I say the Wahhabis and the Salafis, I don't mean it's just them. 0.77

00:29:21.780 A lot of people are influenced by the propaganda.

00:29:24.620 But remember, if Iran was sectarian, who saved, I said this I think last time, who saved Bosnia? 0.79

00:29:35.380 Except for Iran, who was there for the Bosnian people? 0.76

00:29:38.060 Did Iran benefit from saving Bosnia? 0.66

00:29:42.540 Or for example, even in South Africa, which is not a Muslim country, Iran was funding

00:29:47.460 the resistance against the apartheid regime.

00:29:50.900 has been supporting venezuela and cuba now of course because of the war we can't do anything

00:29:56.740 really as far as i know can't do much for cuba but we've been helping we've been supporting and

00:30:02.260 helping cuba and venezuela despite all our difficulties but you know those saudi did

00:30:07.940 saudi not also supply weapons and and help out basi in that war in the early 90s no no it was

00:30:16.500 Iran. It was Iran who didn't. It's obvious. I mean, one of my friends, his brother was martyred

00:30:24.180 in Bosnia. His name was Nawab. Nawab in Arabic, but Nawab. He was martyred there. So, you know,

00:30:32.260 the Iranians made sacrifices. And then when the Iranian advisors and Iranian weapons and 0.71

00:30:38.980 the training was scoring successes, the Americans forced to peace. Now, again, I don't want the 0.77

00:30:47.620 Bosnians and the Serbs and the Kuats to be at each other's throats. And I think that, you know, 1.00

00:30:53.540 there has to be a solution. But at that time, they were being exterminated.

00:30:59.700 Or in the case of Palestine, who's supporting the Palestinians? We're being 0.90

00:31:03.860 bombed because of our support for the palestinians there's no other reason for this so okay if we're 1.00

00:31:10.640 not sincere why why why are we the ones being bombed if you recall i mean you're young but

00:31:16.080 until a while back they were saying actually iran and the israelis are allies behind the scenes

00:31:22.120 like they're they're cooperating they're killing us they're they try to starve our country they 0.94

00:31:29.260 bomb and kill our leaders they slaughter our school children just because we support hamas 1.00

00:31:35.800 who is hamas are they shia are they alawit are they druz you know for decades the palestinians 0.99

00:31:44.180 have been taught by these very same regimes that the iranians are your enemies some palestinians

00:31:50.740 never liked iran because they they they believe the propaganda but did iran uh discontinue their

00:31:58.020 support for the palestinian people no because they're they're oppressed i always mention that

00:32:02.220 when that's when people push back and they say oh you should not support iran iran's done this

00:32:09.380 iran's done that i always bring up the fact that yaya sinwar publicly mentioned the support

00:32:13.480 that iran was giving and he said that the rest of the al-war were there were nowhere to be seen

00:32:18.460 and he credits iran so we can't take away that credibility uh one thing i haven't asked you

00:32:23.760 before and i've been he actually goes far beyond that i mean his praise for iran the praise of uh

00:32:30.820 of the abu obeyed for iran and the praise of the jihad the jihad leaders of the praise that they

00:32:39.000 have uh you know people should go and listen to their speeches how they would thank iran how they

00:32:45.000 would praise iran despite the the sectarian counter narratives that were funded by uh oil

00:32:52.560 and gas well despite all that despite the fact that they would pay a price i'm sure for uh their

00:33:01.200 praise of the islamic republic and of hezbollah they praise hezbollah uh and not once or twice

00:33:08.340 repeatedly throughout the two and a half years of genocide the um abu obadi who was marched a few

00:33:15.580 months ago people should go and look and see what he says or the spokesman for islamic jihad right

00:33:20.760 So, you know, these people know what Iran has done, the sacrifices that Iran has made, the Islamic Republic has made for Palestine, and we're proud of it, because the people of Palestine are victims, they're human beings, they're our sisters and brothers, and it didn't matter to us if they, you know, believe the propaganda or they didn't.

00:33:44.440 It's our responsibility to help them, and we will continue to do so, and we pay a heavy price for that.

00:33:50.920 Ayatollah Khamenei was martyred for the Palestinian cause.

00:33:55.720 Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah was martyred for the Palestinian cause, but these people, how many of them, where have they been on the battlefield over the years?

00:34:04.500 What have they been doing, and where do they get their funding in many cases?

00:34:08.660 which is why i think these conversations are important because unity especially muslim unity

00:34:13.140 right now is super important it i some people i like to say i'm muslim i don't say i'm sunni but

00:34:18.100 i do follow that school of thought and you're shia like the most of but it's more than islam

00:34:22.900 it's more than islam it's about resistance this is this is about this is about humanity

00:34:28.900 we are responsible to support the cuban people there are 10 million people in cuban

00:34:34.740 we don't care if they're muslim we don't care if they're communists we don't care if they're

00:34:41.700 you know if they're i don't know hindu or buddhist if if if if the if the people in gaza 0.93

00:34:48.660 were jewish and the the the the zionists were the the were muslim and they were doing that 0.97

00:34:57.140 this is what the what they're doing now to the people of gaza we would resist them just like 0.98

00:35:01.860 we resist them now right but i because genocide and oppression and slaughter and massacre at the 0.60

00:35:10.340 hands of empire resistance and and beyond empire but it is a it is our responsibility as muslims

00:35:17.460 as human beings so this and this is what i think brings people across the globe together i uh my

00:35:25.460 communist friends and and it's not just on the left but my communist friends uh are are very

00:35:32.500 fascinated with the resistance nowadays why because they see it in a different light because

00:35:38.260 they see that this is not just about like your club or your sect or your religion this is about

00:35:44.580 our responsibility to the oppressed in the quran it says a lot it says that the inheritors of the

00:35:50.180 of the in in the holy quran it says the inheritors of the earth are the oppressed actually i had a

00:35:55.780 discussion earlier with some people uh we we were discussing this the inheritors of the earth are

00:36:02.260 the oppressed so if if god if god has made the oppressed the inheritors of the earth according

00:36:08.420 to the war on our responsibility is to the oppressed this is my response when people

00:36:13.700 criticize and they say why are you supporting around it's not that i don't support the state

00:36:18.180 I'm not there with blind allegiance to a government.

00:36:21.300 A law says in the Koran to stand with the oppressed.

00:36:23.260 And very clearly, U.S. and Israel are oppressing Iran. 0.73

00:36:26.780 They struck first.

00:36:27.680 They attacked a school.

00:36:28.960 It's obvious what's going on.

00:36:30.660 And I've heard pushback, especially from the Lebanese community in Australia.

00:36:34.720 I was just banned there.

00:36:35.800 They said my character is unfit.

00:36:37.480 They claimed I'm anti-Semitic because I criticized Israel.

00:36:39.820 And they banned it.

00:36:40.920 But before, I was speaking to the Lebanese there.

00:36:42.880 And they were saying, OK, well, if Iran is standing with the oppressed,

00:36:45.960 then how come they didn't strike Israel? And how come they didn't fight back against the genocide

00:36:51.180 until they were hit? And their example, and they're saying this is proof that Iran does not 0.80

00:36:56.400 actually care about resistance, that Iran just cares about themselves. And if they did care 0.63

00:37:00.980 about the oppressed, then they would have struck Israel after committing the genocide 0.66

00:37:04.960 started on October 7th. You know, we have a saying in Persian, it says,

00:37:11.040 It means the bowl that is hotter than—ash is like sort of—it's not soup, but it's like a soup. 0.81

00:37:21.120 The bowl that is hotter than the soup, or holier, he's more Christian, more Catholic than the Pope, right?

00:37:29.740 So Yahya Sinwar is praising Iran, Abu Obedeh is praising Iran, but the guy in Australia is saying,

00:37:39.100 no, no, they're no good. Well, if you're so good, leave Australia, go to Gaza and go fight.

00:37:46.660 But, you know, don't pretend that you're the good guy when the Iranians are the ones being 0.95

00:37:52.020 sanctioned. Who do you think, where do you think the money for those tunnels came from? Where do 0.95

00:37:56.220 you think all the billions of dollars came from for, you know, to sustain the resistance? It's

00:38:01.900 just, you know, I remember some people in Qatar were telling me, no, no, no, they found old metal

00:38:07.920 in Gaza, and they would turn them into weapons. Yeah, of course.

00:38:12.100 That would come from Qatar, wouldn't it? But that narrative.

00:38:16.340 So, you know, Yahya Sinwar, the great

00:38:19.560 martyr of Hamas, or Abu Obedi,

00:38:23.220 the symbol of the voice of the resistance,

00:38:28.200 they're the ones talking nonsense, and these guys sitting

00:38:31.540 in, you know, who moved to another 0.57

00:38:35.380 continent and far far away from the violence so why don't they go back to lebanon and fight with

00:38:42.680 the with hezbollah in southern lebanon if they're if they're so keen on fighting the israeli regime 0.57

00:38:48.700 it's nonsense the islamic republic of iran stood with the with the resistance from beginning to 0.84

00:38:55.120 end that's why iran is being bombed if iran wasn't with them iran wouldn't be bombed hezbollah 0.94

00:39:00.860 wouldn't be bombed you can make the same argument about hezbollah why isn't iran bombing israel

00:39:07.060 right now alongside as it's hitting hezbollah so iran is anti-shia that's nonsense iran is

00:39:14.240 helping hezbollah iran is helping the resistance from lebanon iran is helping the resistance across

00:39:19.600 the board but iran is one country it's fighting against a coalition of 60 or 70 which country in

00:39:26.940 this region stands by Iran? Name one, except for Yemen. Which country? Hezbollah is not

00:39:33.240 a country. The resistance in Iraq is not a country. And even Ansarullah in Yemen, they

00:39:39.640 control most of the country, but part of the country is controlled by proxies that are

00:39:44.620 aligned with the West. So who is with Iran? If you could name one country, I'd say, okay,

00:39:51.260 I agree. So Iran on its own is struggling against this huge coalition, and then people are supporting this coalition when they carry out a dirty war in Syria. 0.88

00:40:04.800 They say, no, no, the Iranians are evil. The CIA is good. 0.99

00:40:10.760 In Gaza, when Iran is helping them out, they're saying, no, look, Iran is not doing enough. 0.56

00:40:18.900 In Lebanon, Iran is—so it's only Iran.

00:40:24.900 Iran has limited resources.

00:40:29.020 Its own people are struggling because of the war and the sanctions.

00:40:34.680 I mean, the maximum pressure sanctions are starvation sanctions.

00:40:39.040 They're intended to cripple a country.

00:40:41.040 i think these people should be asking themselves why is iran so capable despite decades of 0.96

00:40:49.320 antagonism right and why is it that the and why is it that these wahhabis and salafis and you know 0.91

00:40:57.340 they have nothing better to do than attack iran and nowadays why don't they go and look and see 0.99

00:41:03.900 the history of the dirty war in syria and say do they really think that was it and you know 0.66

00:41:09.020 sometimes they counter argument i don't know if i said this last time but for example they say well

00:41:15.440 the iranians cooperated with the iran with uh the united states in iraq no it didn't the actually

00:41:22.060 the only country that opposed the war in our region was iran even though we hated saddam hussein

00:41:28.200 i was wounded in the war four times i was wounded four times i was against the war i was in the

00:41:35.160 anti-war demonstrations in the UK. I was a PhD student back then. I participated in them.

00:41:41.100 Said Hassan Nasrullah spoke against the invasion. Who supported the invasion? Look at which

00:41:48.820 countries hosted the United States from north to south. They were all with Americans. Yet Iran is

00:41:56.340 the one who, and they said, yes, when the United States invaded, then the Iranians sent in their

00:42:01.260 people. Why? Because the Iranians wanted to infiltrate to ultimately undermine the United

00:42:05.600 States, because the United States was an imperial power. The Taliban, which would kill Iranians, 0.97

00:42:16.280 they'd murdered Iranians. Our differences with the Taliban were huge. When 9-11 happened,

00:42:24.600 we all thought, of course, that it was just al-Qaeda, and I don't believe it was just al-Qaeda

00:42:29.560 anymore back then i did but when the americans went to to take out al-qaeda the iranians didn't

00:42:37.400 have any problem with that because it was a crime now of course knowing what we know about well what

00:42:44.760 i think we know about 9 11. i think iran if iran had known that probably there was musad and western

00:42:52.120 intelligence agencies involved if you watch the tucker carlson documentary there are other good

00:42:57.160 documentaries but tucker carlson is very mainstream yeah you know you you can't deny the uh

00:43:04.200 the evidence that he puts in his it's clear that there's some other influence and maybe i have a

00:43:09.800 different sort of because i'm not very tribalist especially because i'm a revert no i just want to

00:43:15.400 i just let me just finish this point but the taliban which back then allowed al-qaeda to to

00:43:21.880 stay what they did was wrong but after the u.s occupation of afghanistan who helped the taliban

00:43:29.640 not that we are fans of the taliban because they don't let girls go to school that we're totally 0.76

00:43:33.960 against them that's not my some of my best students are women some of my colleagues are women 0.83

00:43:41.560 my my the head of my department in a few a few weeks is going to be a woman my boss will be a 0.95

00:43:47.960 woman in my in my own department so but we're against those policies of the taliban completely

00:43:54.680 but i agree uh the taliban after the u.s occupation iran had they began to evolve become less uh

00:44:03.320 there it's a different taliban from what existed back then the you know those people who would

00:44:07.800 slaughter people and murder people and so the iranians began to support them against the u.s 0.90

00:44:12.600 occupation. Who gave the Taliban the capabilities to fight the Americans? It was Iran. No one else

00:44:20.080 would do it. It wasn't the Saudis or Turkey or Pakistan. It was Iran. And when General Soleimani

00:44:25.980 was martyred in Baghdad, a huge Taliban delegation came to Iran to his home to express their

00:44:34.140 condolences. So, you know, the narrative that these people build about Iran is very easy.

00:44:40.220 It's very easy to antagonize.

00:44:42.920 But at the end of the day, when you look at the report card, who are they advocating? 0.78

00:44:49.100 Who do they have to say, okay, this is Iran, bad people, but these are the good guys. 0.56

00:44:55.560 Who are they? Where are they? Is it Hamas? 0.98

00:44:58.460 Well, if it's Hamas, then why is it that what they're saying is completely different from what Abu Obedil was saying?

00:45:04.900 Why is it completely different from what Yahya Sinwar was saying?

00:45:10.220 These are two, the two, you know, highest ranking martyrs of Hamas, of our, you know, this generation. 0.82

00:45:20.900 So, again, my separation from this issue is because I'm a revert, I don't have allegiance to these nations.

00:45:26.300 But what would your what's your response to when they say one, I saw some people were saying that you were part of the ceasefire talks.

00:45:34.700 i'm not sure if that's true but the criticism is that okay well if iran supports palestine so much

00:45:40.040 then how come in the ceasefire a 10-point agreement palestine was not listed well again

00:45:47.180 that's because they don't read anything uh in the 10-point and the 10-point the iranian plan that

00:45:53.200 trump openly accepted it says a ceasefire across the region but especially lebanon why because

00:46:02.060 there's heavy fighting in lebanon but it didn't say in lebanon it said across the region but

00:46:09.260 the problem with uh gaza so first of all it includes gaza in the cc so these people don't

00:46:17.580 even read uh what the iranians put out but the problem with gaza sneko is that

00:46:26.380 when trump was imposing his ceasefire on the people of gaza youtube from a kick

00:46:33.500 who went to egypt and took part in that monkey show

00:46:38.460 which leaders were there all your viewers have to do is look it up right now and look at the photo 0.50

00:46:45.740 at the ceasefire talks yeah the trump had this ridiculous ceremony where he went to egypt

00:46:52.380 And then you had the leaders of Jordan and the Persian Gulf and Erdogan and, you know, the British Prime Minister and all these people went there basically to whitewash his genocide.

00:47:08.520 They were there to, instead of standing with the Gaza, instead of supporting Hamas, instead of supporting the victims, they stood with Trump.

00:47:19.300 And so they helped Trump impose his ceasefire.

00:47:26.960 So this is not a ceasefire that was ideal to Hamas.

00:47:31.740 But which of these countries took Hamas' side?

00:47:35.360 None.

00:47:36.980 So they expect Iran to be what?

00:47:41.940 Is Iran's strength a combined force of China, Russia, and India?

00:47:48.980 Iran is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

00:47:50.700 Look at it on the map. 0.98

00:47:53.340 It's supporting the victims on its own.

00:47:57.680 And then all these people do is online,

00:48:00.880 they try to make excuses to demonize Iran.

00:48:03.800 It's obvious in many cases why.

00:48:05.940 And for others, it's because they don't follow the news closely, 0.91

00:48:09.560 and they're naive, and they believe the nonsense.

00:48:13.340 But there are good books out there.

00:48:15.140 I mean, one good book, which I spoke to you about last time, I think, was Going to Tehran by Flint and Hillary Leverett.

00:48:22.020 Another good book is by Alistair Crook called Resistance.

00:48:29.400 Another good book, I mean, if people want to follow up on Syria and a lot of other issues, Max Blumenthal's book, I think it's The Management of Savagery.

00:48:42.120 I mean, Alistair Krook can tell you more about Syria than most because Alistair Krook was involved in a lot of these, I mean, he was in government and he knows a lot about the government workings in the West and what happened in Afghanistan.

00:48:56.480 And then the first person to tell me that the war in Syria was a dirty war was Alistair Krook.

00:49:04.320 I was in Beirut in like late 2011.

00:49:08.680 I was there on sabbatical.

00:49:10.280 and al-assir told me that what's going on in syria is a dirty war and i said like how how do you know

00:49:17.060 or something like something like that he said all the people who i knew who worked in uh in

00:49:23.680 in pakistan and afghanistan in the 1980s during the you know the when they were supporting uh

00:49:30.000 these groups against the soviet union all those europeans and americans they're now in istanbul

00:49:34.940 so i'm sure you've heard right uh so i don't want to interrupt your point

00:49:41.620 yeah no no i was just saying that like these people i mean like people like max who's max

00:49:47.280 blumenthal who's done work on on this sort of thing i mean max was one of the people max

00:49:51.980 blumenthal and aaron mate they were they were among the people initially that they supported

00:49:56.500 the the the opposition against the syrian government they supported it for a couple of

00:50:02.060 years. And then they began to realize that, no, no, this is not what it seems to be. And

00:50:08.260 that's what we were saying all along. I mean, one of the countries that Iran has very poor

00:50:12.720 relations with is the Republic of Azerbaijan. It's a Shia country, but the leadership is

00:50:18.920 pro-Israeli. It sells cheap oil through Turkey to Israel.

00:50:27.040 Speaking of Shia, and I'm sure you've heard, there are many Shia in Lebanon. And you said you spent time in Beirut. But a lot of the Lebanese people that I've been speaking to recently, one, they had a lot of criticisms about Hezbollah. And they also had a lot of criticisms of the Shia. And I am of the belief that we need unity right now. We shouldn't focus on differences. And I just spoke to Dr. Zakhar Nayak, and he said the same thing. And he follows what he says. He follows the Salafi school of thought.

00:50:55.360 But the criticisms I hear, and I haven't asked you a theological question, they say that Shia, they do taqiyah, and that they lie to push their own agenda.

00:51:06.600 And I want to hear what you, or I'm sure you've been asked this, what is your response to this?

00:51:11.800 And before, you two come to the kickstream so we can speak about this.

00:51:15.960 Taqiyya is in the Qur'an.

00:51:18.000 Taqiyya is in the Qur'an.

00:51:20.220 And the story of Ammar ibn Yasir is Taqiyya, when he was being tortured.

00:51:27.180 And they forced him to say things that he didn't want to say.

00:51:32.920 But for self-preservation, he did.

00:51:35.420 And then he went and saw the Prophet, and he was very upset.

00:51:39.540 But the Prophet gave him his 100% confidence, and he was a great martyr of Islam.

00:51:44.780 one of the closest companions of the prophet so you know when if if you happy is very simple 0.76

00:51:52.100 it's like if someone holds a gun to your head and says say sneeko is a murderer otherwise i'll kill 0.99

00:52:01.980 your you and i'll kill your two kids and the guy says okay or he says say something against the 1.00

00:52:08.360 prophet or whatever and the guy says it under duress that's tucking in now you may be under 1.00

00:52:17.860 circumstances well you'll sit where you're you will say no i'm not going to say that

00:52:22.240 but uh sneeko i don't want to i mean

00:52:27.460 the world who are the people who are the most

00:52:35.500 outspoken when it comes to palestine who are the ones who are putting their lives on the line 1.00

00:52:42.340 who are the ones whose families are being slaughtered because of palestine who are the 0.68

00:52:49.080 ones who are showing courage and dying for the palestinians is it these people who are sitting

00:52:54.440 in australia or new zealand or wherever and you know doing nothing i think in many cases in some

00:53:03.420 cases it's ignorance they they hear the propaganda they watch these tv outlets that are funded by

00:53:09.500 these despots who are with americans but in some cases it's to justify their own inaction

00:53:16.820 they don't do anything they don't do anything they're they're not supporting anyone they're

00:53:23.640 not helping anyone so when they see others who are supporting them and doing the right thing

00:53:28.460 in order to feel better they say no no no they're not they're not authentic they're all fake

00:53:33.480 that makes them be that makes them able to live with themselves more easily so in lebanon right

00:53:39.680 now every day they're bombing families they're slaughtering families why is this happening it's 0.53

00:53:45.380 because from the very beginning hezbollah was trying to draw away troops from gaza during the

00:53:51.980 genocide who asked hezbollah to help yahya sinwar yeah i've obeyed it so how should i respond when

00:54:00.740 they say so yeah how should i respond when when people say this they say iran that they don't

00:54:07.620 care they uh believe in taqiyah which means that they lie to push their agenda and when you see

00:54:12.360 things like the the taqiyah is not lying to to push agenda they obviously don't know anything

00:54:18.120 about the quran and they don't know anything about islamic history and uh they should go and

00:54:23.940 read a book or two they should read about ammar ibn yasser they should read what taqiyya means

00:54:29.920 in the quran and then they would understand that taqiyya is not an anti-islamic concept 0.96

00:54:34.420 they distort taqiyya to mean something else they are the ones who are being dishonest 0.97

00:54:41.260 right and i brought that up when the former ayatollah said that we love jesus we love 0.76

00:54:46.060 marry him and we don't curse the sahaba i said okay well you're saying that the shia are this

00:54:50.240 different but the former ayatollah he said all these positive things instead of cursing like

00:54:55.120 the the accusations is this all falsehood they said that uh khameini was just saying this

00:55:00.000 because he was you know he's committing taqiyah he wanted to hide his real agenda by creating

00:55:05.940 false unity you know that that is the ayatollah khameini has always said that sab doing sab

00:55:13.480 insulting is haram now they can say what they want about him to us i mean sneeko we are on a path

00:55:23.260 and our path is a path of resistance and it is to support the oppressed and if they don't want

00:55:31.260 to join us we don't care if they want to fight against us we don't care we have a responsibility

00:55:38.380 those better than us

00:55:41.260 throughout history

00:55:42.920 the prophets

00:55:43.640 the greats of human history

00:55:46.580 they had people slander them all the time

00:55:49.340 no one was slandered

00:55:51.100 more than the prophets themselves

00:55:52.800 and at the height of them all

00:55:54.760 the holy prophet of Islam 1.00

00:55:57.040 so we don't

00:55:58.940 we're not going to

00:56:00.580 be weakened or intimidated

00:56:04.920 or distracted 0.97

00:56:06.860 by insults and abuse and lies and the hypocrisy of these people who stand idle and do nothing. 0.97

00:56:16.360 They can do nothing all they want. They can antagonize Iran forever. They can antagonize 0.94

00:56:22.800 the resistance day and night. At the end of the day, I'm in my grave and he's in his grave.

00:56:30.160 and then whatever god wants whatever is his judgment we're fine with that inshallah but

00:56:38.080 i'm rest assured rest assured that at the end of the day the only people who are sincere

00:56:46.440 the only people who are sincere are those who are actively and i don't mean being killed

00:56:53.820 whether it's you know active it could be someone who's on you know i don't i don't advocate anyone

00:57:00.360 breaking laws in the united states i don't advocate anyone breaking laws uh in in the uk or

00:57:06.780 you know for those who are actively supporting the people of palestine

00:57:10.380 and for me if they're jewish if they're christian if they're sunni if they're shia if they're

00:57:20.600 They're a Hindu. They are more valuable than those who pretend to support the Palestinian people.

00:57:30.280 But all they do is slander those who are actually supporting the Palestinian people.

00:57:36.280 I'll ask you one more. What can we expect?

00:57:38.480 So if Iran was the dominant power in the Middle East instead of Israel right now, they're expanding to greater Israel, the public about this. 0.76

00:57:44.680 It used to be an anti-Semitic conspiracy, and now they're saying that they want to grow their empire and continue and maybe even go from the Euphrates to the Nile. 0.87

00:57:52.080 But what could we expect if Iran were to win? 0.93

00:57:53.960 You're saying that they have won. 0.99

00:57:55.520 If Iran was the dominant power, would we see social cohesion? 0.95

00:58:02.380 For Iran, the only enemy is empire. 0.95

00:58:07.360 And Zionism is a key component of empire. 0.78

00:58:14.680 the sacrifices that Iran is making is for the people of Palestine more than anything else. 0.81

00:58:23.360 If Hezbollah in Iran and Ansarullah in Iraq are resistant to Iraq,

00:58:27.660 if we gave up the Palestinian cause and just did lip service like everyone else,

00:58:33.820 do you think we would be under threat of war today?

00:58:39.480 Do you think that we would be strangled?

00:58:42.120 Do you see any of these people who antagonize Iran during the last 40 years ever try to break the siege on Iran to help the Iranian people as they were being strangled by the empire?

00:58:59.480 I don't think so.

00:59:01.080 I don't think you would see any of them in Cuba either.

00:59:04.560 But the Iranians have been in Cuba. 1.00

00:59:06.060 so you know i think in their upside down world of morality they can live in you know they can 0.94

00:59:14.500 live in that with their fantasy it doesn't matter to us because we are responsible for our own

00:59:20.120 actions and they're responsible for their own actions and at the end of the day if they think

00:59:26.120 they believe in god and i'm not sure they do because a lot of people pretend you know one

00:59:33.880 when you slander others and when you lie about others when you undermine others uh with lies and

00:59:41.080 falsehood you can't really be a believer in god because if you really believed in god you'd be

00:59:45.880 terrified that i'm destroying others and their reputations i'm slandering them and you know

00:59:52.360 i i know that i'm answerable to him but it's not a real belief it's a fake belief maybe they five

00:59:57.960 pray five times a day or they go to church every day or and you know or whatever but that's not

01:00:04.280 it's like you it's like those who christian zionists who support genocide but they speak

01:00:09.480 of christ and god they don't believe in christ they don't believe in god they believe in their

01:00:13.640 cult otherwise you know where would christ support genocide where would moses support for genocide

01:00:20.680 very true where would god support genocide so you know i these things are not really an issue for

01:00:29.100 me and all of these things are easily answered if they really were interested in knowing the truth

01:00:34.280 they didn't you know they wouldn't even have to ask these questions because the answers to those

01:00:38.280 questions can easily be found online we're not living in the 1970s anymore where i remember i

01:00:45.840 went to hajj uh i went to pilgrimage and then like some many of these sunni sisters and brothers

01:00:52.260 would say what your boron is different from us so what's it like and no it isn't no no no your

01:00:59.640 boy i didn't bother me because back then there was no internet the guy was from like i don't know

01:01:05.660 somewhere in asia or africa or europe or whatever and he never he just heard this but nowadays no

01:01:13.080 can have there's no excuse if someone starts you know slandering others about whatever they're

01:01:19.640 it's you know for me and this here again you may disagree with but uh some people say

01:01:25.640 uh well i don't want to go into it but some people like say you know

01:01:30.640 all jews are responsible for what israel no no they're not they're jews who are standing up

01:01:38.760 against zionism right i consider them to be a part of the resistance just like just like myself

01:01:44.680 some of them are very good friends of mine christians jews i i think there was this young

01:01:50.880 hindu woman at mit who gave a like speech for fast speech a couple of years ago and she got

01:01:57.940 punished for it and supported the palestinian people these are these are people who carry out

01:02:03.380 heroic acts and the god that we know the god that i know if people do it for the right reasons

01:02:11.340 they have they have status in his in his eyes but in any case uh you know if if people if someone

01:02:20.480 is really serious about what the iranians believe or why they did what they did in syria or why they

01:02:26.740 did what they did in, I don't know, in Yemen or wherever, the answers are there to find.

01:02:34.340 But if they want to go with the Al Jazeera narrative and the Al Arabiya narrative and

01:02:39.620 the TRT narrative and the, I don't know, the CNN narrative, fine, they can go with that

01:02:46.860 narrative.

01:02:47.740 But that narrative is not going to free Palestine.

01:02:50.380 And that's my response.

01:02:51.820 People say, oh, why do you, Iran did this, Iran did that. 0.64

01:02:55.000 My answer is, what's the greatest threat right now? 0.86

01:02:57.020 It's very clearly Zionism. 0.69

01:02:58.820 So even if what you're saying about Iran is true, Allah says to stand with the oppressed. 0.78

01:03:03.200 We can see what's going on. 0.77

01:03:04.920 And clearly, if this is the main issue, then this is what we should be focusing on.

01:03:08.840 We need unity right now, and we need to stop all the atrocities that we see.

01:03:13.360 And that's why I appreciate you focusing on this.

01:03:16.500 But in addition to all that, what they say about Iran is false.

01:03:21.460 Thank you so much.

01:03:22.480 I appreciate you coming on again.

01:03:23.900 I am going to speak to Professor Jang in three days.

01:03:27.860 He did really want the chance to speak to you.

01:03:30.280 I'm sure if I reach out to him, he would love to have a conversation.

01:03:33.660 Are you free in three days?

01:03:35.060 Do you have an hour to spare?

01:03:38.520 Today is Thursday.

01:03:39.660 Friday is Sunday.

01:03:40.540 If you remind me in like three, four hours, I'll check and give me the time.

01:03:47.920 And if it doesn't, if I don't have anything planned, then sure.

01:03:53.900 Do you mind if I can ask you one more? I am keeping you a little over time. I spoke to a Shia and I had the pushback that she is. They say, yeah, Ali. And his response was really good. I have to admit, he said that we're not calling upon Ali. It's not shirk because we're asking Ali to make dua for us. And I said, well, Ali passed away. He was a martyred. And then he brought up the verse in the Quran where it says, don't think that the martyrs are dead for, in fact, they are still alive.

01:04:19.780 and so that was a great response and i i was i was stunned locked there how do you respond to

01:04:25.300 the idea exactly yeah and and and of course when the martyrs are alive that means the prophet is

01:04:32.220 alive and he's alive with the with the you know in a different place we everything whenever we

01:04:38.060 speak whenever we uh we call upon them we call upon them to to pray for us it's like it's like

01:04:45.200 say i say sneeko uh my i don't know my kid is you know god forbid has an illness pray for her

01:04:52.720 you say well go pray to god yourself why do you ask me to pray it's not shirk if you have so you

01:04:59.440 know this is again one of those things where people want to believe something so they will

01:05:06.560 insist that they'll say no your intention is not this your intention is that so whatever you can

01:05:12.640 think what you want there's nothing i could do about it you know there's certain things

01:05:17.120 that you speak to someone logically reasonably and they insist on just saying no what you're

01:05:23.520 saying is nonsense up to a point you say you know you just at the end you just say salam and walk

01:05:30.560 away just like this salaam alaikum and i'll message you uh briefly well that in a positive way well

01:05:38.240 it's always a positive way it's always positive to say peace be upon you well in that case it means

01:05:42.320 salam just like leave these people at peace and just move on but here uh obviously uh i see you

01:05:48.720 as a very uh principled young man who cares about people and uh uh i hope and pray that everyone

01:05:57.600 jew christian muslim all people across the world that they work their best to help free the

01:06:03.920 palestinians and to break the siege on the cuban people and so i thank you for saying that and i

01:06:11.680 I look forward to speaking to you again, too.

01:06:12.940 It's always a pleasure.

01:06:13.620 Professor Morandi.

01:06:14.420 As-salamu alaykum.

01:06:16.500 Alaykum as-salamu alaykum.

01:06:18.180 Bye.

01:06:22.320 All right.

01:06:23.000 I thought that was great.

01:06:23.760 There's lots more to cover right now.

01:06:25.720 I thought that was a really good conversation.

SHNEAKO - May 15, 2026

SNEAKO interviews Professor Marandi： Anti Shia Propaganda

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