Why We’re Interviewing President of Iran Mosoud Pezeshkian
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We just finished up an interview with the President of Iran, the 70-year-old heart surgeon Masoud Pazeshkian, who leads the country we were just at war with about a week and a half ago. We know we'll be criticized for doing this interview, but the point is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the God-given right to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them. And that would include hearing from the people they're fighting.
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We just finished up an interview with Masoud Pazeshkian, who is the president of Iran,
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the 70-year-old heart surgeon who leads the country we were just at war with about a week and a half ago.
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We know we'll be criticized for doing this interview.
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Well, we did it because we were just at war with Iran 10 days ago and maybe again.
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And so our view, which has remained consistent over time,
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is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the God-given right
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to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them.
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If their country is doing something with their money in their name,
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they have a right, an absolute right, to know as much about it as they can.
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And that would include hearing from the people they're fighting.
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Now, can you believe everything you hear from the president of Iran?
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The point is you should be able to decide for yourself whether you believe it or not.
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And keep in mind that anyone who seeks to deny you that right is not your ally, but your enemy.
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By the way, we have also put in, for the third time in the last several months,
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an interview request with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
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The interview is limited by a couple of factors.
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One, it was done by remote through a translator.
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And there are all kinds of questions that I didn't ask the president of Iran,
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particularly questions to which I knew I could not get an honest answer,
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such as, was your nuclear program totally disabled by the bombing campaign
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There's no chance he's going to answer that question.
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The answer, in fact, from an American perspective,
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even from the CIA's perspective, is unknowable.
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So we dispensed with those, and I asked him very simple questions,
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Again, the purpose of this was not to get to the absolute truth.
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The purpose of the interview was to add to the corpus of knowledge
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from which Americans can derive their own opinion.
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And we hope that this interview does a small part
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This interview will be up as soon as we have done editing it,