“Consequences Are CATASTROPHIC” - Rita Panahi PRAISES Brave Iranians Protesting Sharia Law
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Summary
Rob and Rowan are joined by the late supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to discuss his final words to his own son and daughter-in-law, who was killed by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soldiers in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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With Khamenei, when the war happened, within 24 hours, they killed almost everybody, right?
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And I believe even they injured Mochitab, the son of Khamenei, who is now the new prime minister.
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And you had some real nice, sweet, this is probably the sweetest I've seen you.
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We'll conclude this editorial with this message to the late supreme leader.
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But essentially it's a message of you should feel deep shame.
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When you do the literal translation, it just seems ridiculous.
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But it means, yeah, Chokbak Besarad means dirt on your head.
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Yes, it's not exactly son of a bitch, but it's kind of, you know.
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It's destroyed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives.
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I mean, it's not just the people who were slaughtered, people tortured,
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people killed for political dissent, but the lives that have been robbed.
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You look at the pictures of my mum, be the same with your family.
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They look like they were in any European or any American city, you know.
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My mum's pictures, the last ones I've heard before the Islamic Revolution,
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They're forced to cover up, so that's a very visible sign,
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but obviously the oppression is far more broad than that.
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just freedom's gone you can get stoned to death for adultery for witchcraft for leaving the
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religion for blasphemy I mean it's just madness to see that happen to a country like Iran which
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means it can happen anywhere and that's why I think so many people who have fled those sorts
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of countries are super sensitive to signs of it in the west because if you've already escaped it
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wants you don't want to be escaping it again yeah so people will see this and they'll say okay so
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then why have they stayed in power for 47 years if it's so evil why is it still in power for 47
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years when you think about the shah after mosader when they came in the mi6 and the cia was involved
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and we've all heard about i think it was called operation ajax if i'm not mistaken and um mosader
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went and lived in a village all by himself and then the Shah came for 26 years and Iran was great
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was doing great you know people would go to Iran they would travel their vacation so he could only
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hold it together for 26 years but these guys have held it together for 47 years how well because
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they are so brutal and we just saw recently the protests that occurred and they just went out and
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gunned down people they killed thousands so as fed up as the population is it takes a lot to take to
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the streets knowing you could be shot dead you could be locked up your family targeted and people
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still showed up night after night despite the mass slaughter so you're going out there with a real
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possibility that you're going to die or you're going to have some catastrophic outcome in your
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lives so that takes a lot that takes a lot I mean um none of us living under those sorts of
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conditions could say for it for sure whether we'd be out on the streets knowing that threat
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so that's what they do we've had major uprisings over that 47 years particularly the last couple
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of decades and each time they have just stomped them out with brutal force and not just killing
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protesters as they're protesting. It's what comes after. The arrest, the quick trials, and then
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the death sentences. I mean, all of that has such a psychological impact on the population.
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Frankly, I'm surprised there are as many uprisings as there are, given how brutal the
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reaction is. Yeah. You're surprised because people are willing to put their life on the line.
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Everything you've worked for, lived for, your family,
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everything you've built, you know if you go out on the street,
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If you're arrested, the consequences are catastrophic
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It takes a lot to protest in a country like Iran.
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It's not like here where you've got these blue-haired freaks
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who think they're oppressed and living under fashions.
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of going out with their professionally made signs every week
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with some different cause, that takes zero courage.
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And what I absolutely loathe are these blue-head freaks
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who supposedly care about oppression and women's rights
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all the humanitarian positions they say they take.
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Even when these uprisings have been female-led,
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the feminists here are quiet, absolutely cowardly, gutless,
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I'm absolutely disgusted by the modern feminist movement.
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They have abandoned women living under Sharia law.
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Because you'll see them come out, and I'm curious to know
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You'll see them come out and say free Palestine, right?
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But when it comes down to the women and you see the stats of, you know, 30,000 people in Iran,
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they killed their own people, up to 100,000 people.
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But if Hamas reports that 67,000 people were killed, Palestinians killed, no, that has to be true.
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So why do you think they side with free Palestine, but they don't side with Iranian women right now that are being killed, raped and destroyed by their own government?
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Because the feminist movement a long time ago ceased to be about the rights of women.
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Even when you look at local issues, the feminist movement does not stand with women who are trying to protect female-only spaces, female-only sports.
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It is a leftist movement that is anti-Western civilisation.
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And so they're comfortable being with Palestine,
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but they can't stand with the women living under Sharia law in Iran
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because they are on the same side as the mullahs, as crazy as that sounds.
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There is this unholy alliance between the left and Islamists
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and the feminist movement is a part of that leftist movement.
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and the broad leftist movement share very little in common.
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Their values are so different apart from the fact
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Now, whether you look at that as the centre-right, the right wing,
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Republicans, Western civilisations, those who want to protect Western values. And I think we
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are in a civilisational war and that's where the sides have come down. And it happens continuously.
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It's not isolated with Iran. The feminist movement will never side with women who are
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genuinely oppressed, even in their own countries. I never hear members of the feminist movement
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talking about the sharp rise in things like female genital mutilation
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in the West because it's a problem in the West that sometimes send
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their girls back to certain countries, typically in Africa,
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And we now have even in Melbourne clinics that are devoted
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to dealing with the problems of FGM because you have all sorts
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So, you know, we've got that craziness happening in the West, that absolute depravity in my mind.
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And the feminists are reluctant to talk about it because they're more worried about Islamophobia.
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They're worried if they talk about that, it will see people being critical of Islam and being Islamophobic.
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So then who is imposing that level of power and fear for people to line up that quickly and be afraid of criticizing Islamophobia?
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Well, that sort of fear of being seen as Islamophobic has been so normalized.
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And so we just had one in the last few days, a Islamist attack in New York.
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And straight away, the talk was about, oh, well, we can't have Islamophobia.
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and what about the other side who, I think Cathy Hochul came out
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And it's like, really, there's a literal Islamist attack
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and your concern is about the rise in Islamophobia?
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It's, yeah, and this is something that the great Hitch warned about,
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that they will take away your right to criticise.
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that will take away your right to be critical of even the extremes of Islamism.
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We're talking about the extremes that are dangerous,
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that they are not compatible with Western values.
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You cannot coexist with Islamism and Western values, free speech, equal rights.
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You can't have that if you're also going to be tolerant of Islamism.
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Why are people flirting with that idea that it could possibly happen?
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Why are they saying, poor these guys, you know, what's wrong with you?
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You know, take some of these political refugees.
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I don't think they think it can happen to them.
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I don't think they think it will touch their lives.
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That's why you see these gays for Palestine or LGBT.
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I mean, they don't understand what the end result of that is.
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they don't understand that those people loathe them with a passion um and what was that thing
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molenbeek in belgium is a very good example of that you know it's it became so tolerant that
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all the gays had to move out the women didn't feel safe walking in the streets because
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that mindset came in that, yeah, you have to be covered up. If you're overtly gay,
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you're probably going to be targeted in the street. So Molenbeek, I think, is known as the
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terror capital of Europe. And it's a good lesson on what not to do and how you don't appease the
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worst of the worst you you actually stand with your values and that's something I've always been
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big on and something that people always get triggered about but all cultures are not equal
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and I think we should be free to say that without fear of people having little meltdowns
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all cultures aren't equal and anyone who pretends otherwise is either dumb or lying
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How did it become the Jihadist capital of Europe?
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I think because it was a culture of appeasement.
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They just went out of their way to appease a certain population
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you welcome people but you expect from them assimilation if you come into the west
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that you assimilate western values if you don't want to assimilate with the western values then
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there are a number of muslim countries you can move to there's a lot of countries you can move
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to that share your values but um you can bring your elements of your culture that are compatible
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You can bring all the wonderful foods and music and dance.
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But when we're talking about values, if you don't believe that women are equal to men,
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If you don't think people have the right to free speech and say things that may offend
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Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything, like packing a spare stick.
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Yeah, I agree. The question becomes, is it too late?
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The question is, will the leaders have a backbone to fight this out?
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because propaganda is going to be able to confuse people so much
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to the point of it's not fair, leave them alone, Islamophobia.
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Why are you getting – you said it's free election.
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So this is – some people are going to learn the hard way.
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I think her QR code is going to be somewhere below here.
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