Valuetainment - October 30, 2019


Episode 384： History Of US - Iran Conflict Explained


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

193.51505

Word Count

5,803

Sentence Count

518

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

56


Summary

In this episode, Patrick talks about the history of the conflict between the United States and Iran, the current state of the economy in Iran, and the other countries that have to do with everything that's going on with Iran continuously. Lastly, a timeline of how we got to where we are today.


Transcript

00:00:00.880 30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start.
00:00:07.000 Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, turn the stars up above.
00:00:11.120 Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.
00:00:17.340 This is Patrick B. David, your host of Attainment.
00:00:19.460 In today's episode, I'm going to talk to you about the history of U.S.-Iran conflict.
00:00:24.320 You know, and going back, not just in the last 10, 20 years,
00:00:27.340 we got to go back 60, 70, 80 years to see what is really causing all this stuff.
00:00:31.380 So by the time it's done with, whether you're from Iran or Middle Eastern or not,
00:00:36.000 you're going to sit there and say, I've never heard of some of these things before
00:00:38.560 and it's starting to make some sense to me.
00:00:40.320 So here's what we're going to cover in today's episode.
00:00:42.040 Number one is current Iran state of economy. How bad is it over there?
00:00:46.540 Is it as bad as people make it out to be?
00:00:48.680 Number two, relevant countries that have to do with everything that's going on with Iran continuously.
00:00:54.160 Lastly, then timeline, because a lot of times when we look at what's going on today,
00:00:58.620 how do we get to where we are today?
00:01:00.560 So we'll kind of roll back all the way back to 1908.
00:01:03.700 And then what presidents in U.S. did well with leaders or prime ministers of Iran?
00:01:09.720 And then my final thoughts on what I think is taking place and how some things will change
00:01:13.320 and some things may not change.
00:01:15.380 And the one thing you don't hear a lot of people talk about that keeps capping into Iran,
00:01:18.720 and there's a reason for it. We'll talk about that at the end of the episode.
00:01:20.840 So let's get right into it. Current state of economy in Iran.
00:01:23.640 Number one, unemployment rate currently for young Iranians is 27%,
00:01:28.100 and those graduating from universities, 40%.
00:01:31.880 So that's not a good thing right there when you're looking at that,
00:01:33.820 because people cannot find jobs, especially the youth.
00:01:36.820 Number two, inflation is estimated to be at 40%,
00:01:40.620 although Professor Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University,
00:01:44.560 who was a senior economist to President Reagan,
00:01:47.300 says there's no way in the world it's at 40%.
00:01:49.500 It's at least at 250%, but again, 40% to 250% is still terrible for any country.
00:01:56.500 On top of that, families who want to go feed their kids today, in the last 12 months,
00:01:59.960 meat prices are up 57%, milk and egg up 37%, vegetables up 47%.
00:02:07.680 That's basic shopping.
00:02:09.300 Outside of that, their currency, the real,
00:02:11.540 has lost 60% of its value against the U.S. dollar in the last 12 months.
00:02:16.840 Today, a dollar equals 42,000 reals.
00:02:21.360 Some are even saying they're spending over 100,000 reals per dollar.
00:02:25.520 And last but not least, in this category with oil,
00:02:28.120 they've lost $10 billion of revenues in oil in the last 12 months.
00:02:31.060 I'll give you some data for you to be thinking about it.
00:02:32.940 From May of 2018 to October of 2018.
00:02:38.220 Comparing that five-month run to November of 2018 to March of 2019,
00:02:45.580 here's how many barrels they sold in the first five months versus the second five months.
00:02:49.800 Ready?
00:02:50.300 First five months to China, they were selling 590,000 barrels a day to China.
00:02:56.720 The second five months, only 360,000.
00:02:59.240 To India, 563,000 barrels per day to only 300,000.
00:03:04.640 Japan was buying 149,000 barrels per day to 50,000.
00:03:10.680 Taiwan was doing 32,000 barrels a day to zero.
00:03:14.440 Turkey was doing 120,000 barrels a day to 73,000.
00:03:18.140 Greece was doing 85,000 barrels a day to zero.
00:03:21.000 And Italy was doing 121,000 barrels a day to zero.
00:03:24.520 This is real stuff here.
00:03:26.400 I mean, imagine you're selling a product,
00:03:28.020 and you're selling so much of it,
00:03:29.700 all of a sudden everything flips nearly 50%, 80%.
00:03:33.040 No one's ordering oils from you anymore.
00:03:35.060 Why is that?
00:03:36.080 So if Iran was a business,
00:03:37.400 they're about to go out of business if they go out to space.
00:03:39.100 I mean, you cannot go all of a sudden
00:03:40.320 with all these customers that are buying your products
00:03:42.440 and suddenly 50%, 70% it's down.
00:03:45.560 This is not a good thing for a business,
00:03:47.420 let alone a nation,
00:03:48.980 that needs to figure out a way to feed families
00:03:50.940 and support and create jobs, right?
00:03:52.400 But every time you see a story like this,
00:03:55.300 you've got to look behind closed doors
00:03:57.120 to see who's pulling strings.
00:03:58.480 Is there anybody that's influencing this?
00:04:01.080 And here's some of the countries I want you to be thinking about.
00:04:03.580 U.S., obviously, U.K., Israel, Saudi Arabia,
00:04:07.960 and then you've got Russia, Venezuela, and Lebanon.
00:04:10.740 Obviously, Lebanon,
00:04:12.080 because Lebanon and Iran share a common enemy,
00:04:14.780 which is Israel.
00:04:16.140 An enemy of an enemy is a friend.
00:04:18.680 And so Israel is an enemy to Iran,
00:04:22.060 and Israel is an enemy to Lebanon,
00:04:24.220 which means they're allies.
00:04:25.680 And I think in 2008,
00:04:27.000 the president of Lebanon went to Tehran
00:04:28.720 and struck a deal economically and military,
00:04:31.220 and they both kind of have things that they like, right?
00:04:33.560 So you've got to kind of look at some of these countries.
00:04:35.720 But let's go back in timeline
00:04:37.340 and see how this whole thing came about.
00:04:38.740 Obviously, there are certain things that are causing this,
00:04:41.840 but let's go back to 1908.
00:04:43.960 1908, Anglo-Persian Oil Company gets started, right?
00:04:47.600 People find that Iran's got some oil.
00:04:49.640 Oh my gosh, what if?
00:04:51.300 And you know, every time this happens,
00:04:52.500 money, opportunity, greed.
00:04:54.160 We've got to get a hold of this.
00:04:55.580 What if we can get some money here?
00:04:57.100 And at that time,
00:04:58.080 Iran doesn't have all the technology
00:04:59.680 to be able to get the oil,
00:05:01.300 and U.K. did.
00:05:02.520 Britain did.
00:05:03.120 So they came in.
00:05:03.960 We'll help you.
00:05:05.080 But they struck a deal with them in 1914.
00:05:07.980 They came in and they say,
00:05:09.020 we'll help you,
00:05:09.900 but we want to own 50% of all of it.
00:05:12.420 Imagine, you are Iran.
00:05:14.620 It's your country.
00:05:16.000 It's your oil.
00:05:16.980 But Britain strikes a deal with you
00:05:19.000 to own 51% of it.
00:05:21.120 And this is the whole Anglo-Persian Oil Company
00:05:22.880 we're talking about,
00:05:23.920 which later on in 1954,
00:05:25.780 they changed the name to BP.
00:05:27.360 British Petroleum?
00:05:28.500 You've heard about them, right?
00:05:29.440 So that's 1914.
00:05:30.360 Now, let's talk about some of the leaders.
00:05:32.560 1925 to 1941,
00:05:34.920 Reza Khan,
00:05:35.980 Reza Shah Pahlavi,
00:05:37.540 who is Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's father,
00:05:40.620 becomes the Shah of Iran
00:05:42.020 from 1925 to 1941.
00:05:44.120 Then in 1941,
00:05:45.800 he appoints his son.
00:05:46.820 His son becomes the Shah
00:05:47.940 and he stays from 1941 to 1979.
00:05:51.800 This is very important
00:05:52.680 to know why this is taking place
00:05:55.160 from the father to the son.
00:05:56.280 The father had a very strong military.
00:05:59.200 He was a great general.
00:06:00.560 He was a warrior,
00:06:01.440 tough guy,
00:06:02.420 would push people around.
00:06:03.620 Everybody respected him
00:06:04.560 from his military,
00:06:05.360 you know,
00:06:05.660 record that he had.
00:06:07.260 And his son was a little bit different.
00:06:09.120 His son spoke six or seven languages.
00:06:11.480 He was more of the better,
00:06:13.580 well-spoken politician,
00:06:15.120 a little bit gentler,
00:06:16.360 a different kind of approach he had.
00:06:17.860 But he was in his father's shadow.
00:06:19.200 So he comes and takes over, right?
00:06:21.120 Then in 1951,
00:06:23.360 Mossadegh,
00:06:24.720 who in Iran,
00:06:26.000 comes out
00:06:26.660 and becomes the prime minister of Iran.
00:06:29.780 He comes out and says,
00:06:30.840 we've got to nationalize this oil situation.
00:06:33.060 Why are we giving it to Britain?
00:06:34.400 Why are we giving him so much money?
00:06:36.020 Britain gets upset
00:06:37.360 and similar to sanctions,
00:06:40.280 Britain imposes embargo
00:06:42.000 and halt exports,
00:06:44.020 which is not really good
00:06:45.080 because, again,
00:06:45.780 Iran cannot make money
00:06:46.980 because people are not buying products.
00:06:49.020 And Mossadegh,
00:06:49.860 to kind of make a comparison
00:06:50.820 of who Mossadegh was,
00:06:52.160 Mossadegh was a socialist,
00:06:53.620 similar to like a Bernie Sanders
00:06:55.180 with the communistic party in Iran,
00:06:57.900 Tudei,
00:06:59.000 really liked him
00:07:00.520 and they supported him.
00:07:01.420 So some say,
00:07:02.120 he was a communist.
00:07:03.060 He says,
00:07:03.520 I'm not a communist,
00:07:04.500 but some said he is a communist.
00:07:06.300 So there was kind of that going on
00:07:07.540 and Britain's obviously not happy about it.
00:07:09.520 So in 1953,
00:07:11.480 CIA and MI6,
00:07:13.260 which is the British intelligence,
00:07:15.480 they team up together to create a coup
00:07:17.580 and what happens?
00:07:19.080 They kick Mossadegh out
00:07:20.420 and Mossadegh ends up going
00:07:22.040 and living in a small town
00:07:23.000 away from everybody
00:07:23.820 in a place,
00:07:25.220 doesn't bother no one,
00:07:26.380 they just kind of wanted to get rid of him
00:07:27.800 and he goes out there
00:07:28.980 and he's gone, right?
00:07:30.260 So then Reza Pallavi comes back,
00:07:32.740 Mohamed Reza Pallavi,
00:07:33.820 they liked him
00:07:34.400 because he was good
00:07:35.020 with the Western nations,
00:07:36.340 goes back and starts creating commerce,
00:07:38.120 money, all that stuff,
00:07:39.340 goes back to where it was at before.
00:07:40.740 By the way,
00:07:41.480 CIA document released 60 years later
00:07:43.660 validates that the coup
00:07:45.900 did take place influenced by CIA
00:07:48.040 and the MI6.
00:07:49.640 These documents are now public,
00:07:51.020 you can actually go look at them.
00:07:52.420 So 1963,
00:07:53.580 the Shah,
00:07:55.000 he comes out and he says,
00:07:55.900 look,
00:07:56.620 he gets inspired.
00:07:58.000 He sees what's going on in America
00:07:59.340 with capitalism,
00:08:00.420 with education.
00:08:01.080 He says,
00:08:01.560 I want to do a similar thing.
00:08:03.380 He admired what the West was doing
00:08:05.440 and a lot of Iranians
00:08:06.760 didn't like his level of admiration
00:08:08.520 for U.S., right?
00:08:10.340 So he comes out
00:08:11.240 and launches this program
00:08:12.420 called the White Revolution.
00:08:14.420 And here's what some of the things
00:08:15.920 happened from 1963 to 1978
00:08:18.960 because of him launching
00:08:20.660 this White Revolution.
00:08:22.240 Number one,
00:08:22.760 Iran students,
00:08:24.560 the illiterate rate
00:08:26.020 was very, very high in Iran.
00:08:27.600 People couldn't read,
00:08:28.780 people couldn't write,
00:08:29.580 and it was something
00:08:30.040 everybody talked about.
00:08:31.420 He took it from 1.5 million students
00:08:33.700 in 1963 in all of Iran
00:08:35.400 to over 10 million students
00:08:37.140 by the time 1978 came around.
00:08:39.460 Total schools multiplied 3.24 times.
00:08:43.420 Schools all over the place
00:08:44.580 because he understood
00:08:45.340 the value of education
00:08:46.220 in order to increase
00:08:47.020 the economy of a nation.
00:08:48.760 Education-wise,
00:08:50.140 they were spending
00:08:50.660 45 billion riyals from 63 to 67,
00:08:54.140 raised it to 173 billion riyals
00:08:56.540 from 68 to 72,
00:08:58.280 and eventually 551 billion riyals
00:09:00.580 from 73 to 77.
00:09:03.340 The one thing that he did
00:09:04.380 that he didn't like
00:09:05.680 that was taking place in Iran,
00:09:07.240 he wanted to give a lot of
00:09:08.320 women's rights back to them.
00:09:09.940 So, women's right to vote,
00:09:12.160 you know, women's right
00:09:13.060 to run for office,
00:09:14.140 be a lawyer, be a judge.
00:09:15.800 Before that,
00:09:16.620 they couldn't do it.
00:09:17.840 And on top of that,
00:09:18.560 this one's going to sound strange
00:09:19.540 to a lot of people,
00:09:20.620 I advise you to go
00:09:21.700 actually research this.
00:09:23.040 He increased woman's age,
00:09:26.000 legal age of getting married
00:09:27.560 to 15 because it used to be 13.
00:09:30.320 And by the way,
00:09:30.860 I think today it's back down to 13.
00:09:33.100 And even some men can go petition
00:09:34.860 to even marry younger than 13.
00:09:37.420 He raised it to 15.
00:09:38.660 So, you're looking at
00:09:40.020 some of this stuff
00:09:40.560 and people are saying,
00:09:41.200 that really took place?
00:09:42.360 Yes, go do your own research.
00:09:43.820 You'll see it for yourself.
00:09:44.920 Obviously, Iran's personal income,
00:09:46.760 the citizens went up tremendously.
00:09:48.320 And oil revenue went
00:09:50.120 from 555 million in a year
00:09:53.340 to 20 billion in 1976.
00:09:57.220 So, you can see Iran's
00:09:58.840 becoming stronger
00:09:59.760 and stronger and stronger
00:10:00.980 with this white revolution
00:10:02.940 that he announced, right?
00:10:04.700 So, even though at this point
00:10:06.040 Shah's getting a lot of attention
00:10:07.120 because the economy's doing good,
00:10:08.220 people aren't making money,
00:10:09.460 there is still a community of people
00:10:11.460 that don't like what he's doing.
00:10:13.540 Extreme conservatives,
00:10:14.900 where why are women
00:10:15.980 getting so much power?
00:10:17.060 You know, why are they
00:10:18.060 taking down their scarf?
00:10:19.260 You know, the Rusadi.
00:10:20.340 Why are they taking it down?
00:10:21.340 I don't want that.
00:10:22.100 This is not what Iran's about.
00:10:23.600 We're becoming too American.
00:10:25.180 Our kids are losing control.
00:10:26.880 They're too free.
00:10:27.880 I don't want to see any discuss.
00:10:29.040 So, the spiritual leaders
00:10:30.200 were not too happy
00:10:30.900 about the Shah, right?
00:10:31.680 And the Shah had a,
00:10:32.840 his own method of secret service
00:10:34.440 called the Savak.
00:10:35.840 And the Savak sometimes
00:10:37.200 was pushing around
00:10:38.060 the Tudei party
00:10:39.440 and he had 3,000
00:10:40.540 political prisoners
00:10:41.480 that he was hanging on to.
00:10:43.160 And at this point,
00:10:44.100 the Shah is doing interviews
00:10:46.120 on TV
00:10:46.820 and he's coming across
00:10:48.360 a little bit too confident, okay?
00:10:50.160 And he's saying stuff
00:10:51.020 about blue-eyed people
00:10:52.540 and the brown-eyed people
00:10:53.900 are teaching the blue-eyed people stuff.
00:10:55.900 And you know,
00:10:56.360 all this stuff is taking place
00:10:57.640 because the blue-eyed people
00:10:58.800 are taking too many sleeping pills
00:11:00.740 and you know,
00:11:01.800 they're not really as focused
00:11:02.840 as we are.
00:11:03.660 And one day,
00:11:04.480 we're going to be
00:11:04.880 one of the most powerful nations
00:11:06.620 in the world,
00:11:07.340 top five,
00:11:07.920 passing possibly UK.
00:11:09.060 He's saying this in interviews
00:11:10.720 and you can tell
00:11:11.760 when you're looking at him,
00:11:12.960 he's a little bit proud
00:11:14.560 about what's going on
00:11:15.720 and maybe to the point
00:11:17.080 where it's rubbing certain people
00:11:18.480 the wrong way, right?
00:11:19.720 Is what he's doing.
00:11:20.740 So whenever you do that,
00:11:21.940 sometimes there's going
00:11:23.200 to be some people
00:11:23.880 that are secretly
00:11:25.180 creating a certain rising, right?
00:11:27.260 They're getting a little bit
00:11:27.940 upset with you
00:11:28.500 and they're not happy
00:11:29.040 about the kind of power you have.
00:11:30.620 So in 1978,
00:11:32.180 here's what happens.
00:11:33.700 While this is going on,
00:11:35.560 Jimmy Carter,
00:11:36.640 December 31st of 1977,
00:11:38.180 he comes
00:11:39.460 and they do a toast, okay?
00:11:41.520 Hey, Iran's
00:11:42.760 an incredible empire
00:11:43.860 and Jimmy Carter
00:11:44.560 says some nice words
00:11:45.560 about the Shah
00:11:46.660 with the toast.
00:11:47.940 Jimmy Carter leaves.
00:11:49.400 The moment he leaves,
00:11:51.040 slowly,
00:11:52.000 things start happening
00:11:52.720 in Iran.
00:11:53.640 And it gets started
00:11:54.700 with a Ayatollah Khomeini
00:11:57.780 who was in exile
00:11:59.320 for 14 years from Iran
00:12:01.120 and he first went to Iraq
00:12:03.380 and now he's living in France,
00:12:05.200 in Paris,
00:12:06.040 and he starts making tapes
00:12:08.160 and they record these tapes
00:12:10.200 and they bring it
00:12:11.060 underground to Iran
00:12:12.120 and they distribute it
00:12:13.360 to 10 people,
00:12:14.320 then 100 people,
00:12:15.420 then 1,000 people,
00:12:16.380 then 10.
00:12:16.940 Hey, go,
00:12:17.700 keep copying it,
00:12:19.260 keep copying it,
00:12:20.000 give it to people,
00:12:20.840 keep copying it,
00:12:21.480 give it to people
00:12:22.080 and it goes to 100,000.
00:12:23.660 Then all of a sudden,
00:12:24.540 millions.
00:12:25.260 Then suddenly,
00:12:26.460 an event takes place,
00:12:27.440 I believe August 20th, 1978,
00:12:30.620 in a city called Abadan.
00:12:32.100 Abadan was where the refineries
00:12:33.380 were at,
00:12:33.680 it's like a peninsula type
00:12:35.060 of a place,
00:12:36.020 really nice place
00:12:36.980 and they had a movie theater
00:12:37.940 called Sinama Rex.
00:12:39.140 The reason why I know
00:12:39.720 it's around August 20th,
00:12:41.040 around that time
00:12:41.640 is because I'm October 20th, 1978,
00:12:43.980 so I'm post Sinama Rex fire,
00:12:45.780 that's when I'm born.
00:12:46.980 So this theater
00:12:47.720 has 400 people there,
00:12:49.340 wives, mothers, kids, fathers,
00:12:51.860 they're watching movies
00:12:52.560 in Iran like movies
00:12:53.380 was a big deal
00:12:54.120 and everybody's at the movies.
00:12:55.760 It was always selling out,
00:12:57.420 they're at the movies.
00:12:58.800 So somebody comes
00:13:00.880 and closes the door,
00:13:01.840 locks it,
00:13:02.920 puts the place on fire,
00:13:04.480 400 innocent people
00:13:06.000 died that night.
00:13:06.840 Across the street
00:13:07.400 is a police station,
00:13:08.180 by the way.
00:13:09.120 So Khomeini and his people
00:13:11.660 blamed Savak
00:13:13.000 for doing it,
00:13:14.400 which is Shah's secret service.
00:13:17.020 The Shah's people are like,
00:13:17.920 we didn't do this.
00:13:19.200 And they're blaming it
00:13:20.100 on Khomeini's people
00:13:21.040 to create a blame.
00:13:22.460 Now no one until today
00:13:23.700 can 100% say
00:13:25.220 whether it's Savak
00:13:26.420 or whether it's Khomeini's people.
00:13:28.260 But all we know
00:13:28.860 is this took place.
00:13:29.980 And the group
00:13:30.540 that was able to get
00:13:31.500 the most mileage out of this
00:13:32.780 wasn't Shah,
00:13:33.640 it was Khomeini.
00:13:34.740 And all of a sudden
00:13:35.640 there was an uprising.
00:13:37.300 He's killing innocent people,
00:13:38.900 he's now worth a billion dollars,
00:13:40.260 he's so powerful.
00:13:41.440 And Shah's like,
00:13:42.020 what do I do about this?
00:13:42.840 He calls the U.S.
00:13:43.480 Oh, don't worry about it.
00:13:44.660 Kids say,
00:13:44.980 hey, don't worry about it,
00:13:45.740 it's okay,
00:13:46.140 nothing's a big deal,
00:13:47.180 I need help,
00:13:47.820 it's nothing.
00:13:48.280 And then all of a sudden
00:13:48.880 it was too late.
00:13:49.860 Way too late.
00:13:50.940 By that time,
00:13:52.420 Jimmy Carter calls him
00:13:53.440 and says,
00:13:54.100 I think you need to leave
00:13:54.860 your country.
00:13:55.780 And what does Shah do?
00:13:56.760 January 16th,
00:13:58.000 Shah and his family
00:13:58.660 leave Iran.
00:13:59.580 And they leave,
00:14:00.400 completely leave Iran.
00:14:01.860 And a couple weeks after that,
00:14:03.380 on February 1st,
00:14:06.400 Khomeini shows back up to Iran,
00:14:08.220 first time in 14 years.
00:14:09.680 And when he shows up,
00:14:10.620 he lands at the airport,
00:14:12.400 they had to move
00:14:13.300 because people couldn't
00:14:14.360 even let this guy get out.
00:14:15.820 And by the way,
00:14:16.280 my family,
00:14:17.380 I had a group of people
00:14:18.400 in my family
00:14:18.940 that were so glad
00:14:19.840 the Shah was done
00:14:20.620 because no man
00:14:21.900 should be worth
00:14:22.440 a billion dollars.
00:14:23.500 And the Shah was rich
00:14:24.260 at that time.
00:14:25.040 No man should be worth
00:14:26.080 a billion dollars.
00:14:26.880 He lives in 10 different castles.
00:14:28.640 Why should somebody
00:14:29.340 be as rich as this man?
00:14:30.560 And look at the celebration
00:14:31.620 he put for the 2,500 years
00:14:33.200 of Pahlavi
00:14:34.100 and spent all this money
00:14:35.300 for Iran
00:14:35.960 and prestige and fame.
00:14:37.540 It was like a party
00:14:38.360 and it was the country's money.
00:14:40.000 Why should he do
00:14:40.560 something like that?
00:14:41.120 It was an uproar.
00:14:41.720 People were not happy about it.
00:14:43.100 Anyways, Khomeini shows up.
00:14:44.680 When Khomeini shows up,
00:14:46.000 immediately he gets rid
00:14:47.040 of a lot of the internal military.
00:14:48.680 A lot of people get killed.
00:14:49.860 A lot of people get killed.
00:14:51.080 They were trying to run away.
00:14:51.860 A lot of Shah's general
00:14:53.420 get killed.
00:14:54.000 You can see a list of them
00:14:54.880 that get killed.
00:14:56.060 Anyways, fast forward.
00:14:57.840 November 79,
00:14:59.160 you got 52 hostages
00:15:00.520 that get taken
00:15:01.440 under Khomeini
00:15:02.240 from U.S.
00:15:03.280 U.S. hostages
00:15:04.200 are kept.
00:15:05.080 1979, November.
00:15:06.680 Then in 1980,
00:15:07.920 Shah dies
00:15:08.560 in Egypt
00:15:09.160 of cancer.
00:15:09.980 1980 to 1988,
00:15:11.640 war starts
00:15:12.180 between Iran and Iraq.
00:15:13.580 I lived,
00:15:14.140 when this war happened,
00:15:15.320 in Tehran, Iran.
00:15:16.640 That's why
00:15:17.020 I never forget
00:15:18.620 us getting bombed
00:15:19.380 167 times in a day.
00:15:21.180 I never forget
00:15:21.840 the whistling sound.
00:15:23.000 Our glass windows,
00:15:24.000 all of them
00:15:24.400 were taped up
00:15:25.000 with X's.
00:15:26.220 Okay?
00:15:26.440 Imagine two X's
00:15:27.820 like this.
00:15:28.580 They were all taped up
00:15:29.160 because when blasts
00:15:30.080 would drop,
00:15:31.020 our glass broke many times.
00:15:32.400 When a blast would drop,
00:15:33.940 you didn't want the glass
00:15:35.020 to shatter everywhere.
00:15:36.180 You want it to drop
00:15:36.880 right there
00:15:37.260 so your kids,
00:15:38.160 you don't get all this
00:15:38.840 cuts and all this stuff.
00:15:40.140 Every window,
00:15:40.760 imagine all your windows
00:15:41.540 have tapes like that.
00:15:42.280 That's what our windows
00:15:42.820 look like.
00:15:43.600 My dad would come
00:15:44.160 with black tape
00:15:44.780 and it would tape
00:15:45.700 everything up, right?
00:15:46.700 No one's trying
00:15:47.300 to be pretty.
00:15:47.920 At this point,
00:15:48.360 there's war going on
00:15:49.140 and you would hear
00:15:49.620 all these,
00:15:50.260 Tabajo, Tabajo,
00:15:51.340 Al-Ahmat-e-Khermiz,
00:15:52.660 you know,
00:15:52.960 the fact that a plane
00:15:53.760 has crossed our borders.
00:15:55.220 So that goes for eight years.
00:15:56.600 1.5 million lives.
00:15:58.300 By the way,
00:15:58.620 you know who supported Iraq?
00:16:00.120 U.S. did.
00:16:01.460 U.S. supported Iraq
00:16:03.360 going against Iran.
00:16:04.640 Why?
00:16:05.420 U.S. was funding
00:16:06.740 and helping out
00:16:07.620 Saddam Hussein.
00:16:08.700 They weren't helping
00:16:09.300 Khomeini out at this time.
00:16:10.960 And in 1981,
00:16:12.060 January 20th,
00:16:13.460 Reagan gets elected.
00:16:14.320 The day he gets elected,
00:16:15.800 they release the 52 hostages
00:16:17.180 and they come to U.S.
00:16:18.240 Khomeini said,
00:16:18.700 hey, you know what?
00:16:19.160 I think this guy's
00:16:19.700 going to go to war with us.
00:16:21.000 Let's just release.
00:16:21.840 So he wasn't afraid.
00:16:23.180 The way he behaved,
00:16:24.420 Khomeini was not afraid
00:16:25.480 of Carter,
00:16:26.160 but he was afraid of Reagan.
00:16:27.820 He said,
00:16:28.100 I think Reagan's
00:16:28.660 going to do something to us.
00:16:29.920 I don't think Carter's
00:16:30.640 going to do anything
00:16:31.140 because he's too nice
00:16:31.720 of a guy.
00:16:32.620 Nobody was afraid
00:16:33.340 of Carter in Iran,
00:16:34.220 but they were afraid
00:16:35.000 of Reagan.
00:16:35.500 That's the movement
00:16:36.080 when you look at that.
00:16:37.320 88,
00:16:38.340 Iran's Airbus plane
00:16:40.060 gets shot down
00:16:41.500 by U.S.
00:16:43.220 ship.
00:16:44.080 And they said
00:16:44.600 it was an accident,
00:16:46.020 but it cost
00:16:46.600 290 people's lives,
00:16:48.860 innocent,
00:16:49.920 66 were children.
00:16:52.200 That,
00:16:52.840 I mean,
00:16:53.220 if it happens
00:16:53.880 to your country,
00:16:54.660 you're going to say
00:16:55.120 it's an accident.
00:16:56.140 You're not going to believe it.
00:16:57.020 So,
00:16:57.640 Iran is,
00:16:58.620 U.S. is saying
00:16:59.340 it was an accident,
00:17:00.120 we're sorry.
00:17:01.080 Iran's saying,
00:17:01.560 what do you mean
00:17:01.820 you're sorry?
00:17:03.360 290 people,
00:17:04.180 you're sorry.
00:17:05.200 66 kids,
00:17:06.300 what sorry?
00:17:07.320 These are not military,
00:17:08.620 this is not a war,
00:17:09.520 you didn't bomb a place,
00:17:10.840 you shot down
00:17:11.580 one of our planes.
00:17:12.600 So,
00:17:12.820 that's a conflict.
00:17:13.400 Again,
00:17:13.540 still today,
00:17:14.000 no one really knows
00:17:14.660 100%
00:17:15.280 whether it was an accident
00:17:16.640 or intentional.
00:17:17.700 Then in 1995,
00:17:18.840 Clinton puts all these
00:17:20.040 sanctions on them.
00:17:21.220 1995.
00:17:22.740 2003,
00:17:23.540 Iran suspends
00:17:24.840 their uranium
00:17:25.860 enrichment project
00:17:27.380 that they had.
00:17:28.340 Okay,
00:17:28.640 no problem.
00:17:29.420 We're willing to agree
00:17:30.420 to this
00:17:30.840 because they wanted
00:17:31.680 to go back and forth,
00:17:32.860 negotiate,
00:17:33.380 they want to export oil again.
00:17:34.620 Hey,
00:17:34.760 we got to sell this stuff
00:17:35.640 because our country
00:17:36.580 has got to stay put.
00:17:37.820 And in 2006 to 2010,
00:17:40.060 U.S. succeeds
00:17:40.700 with four rounds
00:17:41.620 of sanctions
00:17:42.400 against Iran.
00:17:44.180 Stop enriching uranium,
00:17:45.600 stop exporting weapons,
00:17:48.420 you know,
00:17:48.780 banking restrictions
00:17:50.080 and trade
00:17:50.880 and travel restrictions.
00:17:52.700 This is to Iran.
00:17:53.580 Four of them.
00:17:54.320 So,
00:17:54.500 things are tough.
00:17:55.020 So,
00:17:55.200 Iran's used to all this stuff
00:17:56.660 over the last two decades
00:17:57.640 because it constantly
00:17:58.580 happens to them.
00:17:59.940 2012,
00:18:00.520 Iran's currency
00:18:01.300 loses 80% to the dollar.
00:18:03.500 It's the record lowest
00:18:04.300 they ever experienced.
00:18:05.460 That was just seven years ago,
00:18:06.400 by the way.
00:18:07.000 And then outside of that,
00:18:07.900 Obama strikes the deal
00:18:08.860 with John Kerry
00:18:10.320 and Joe Biden
00:18:11.740 where they give around
00:18:12.580 $150 billion.
00:18:14.000 Some say it's $50 billion
00:18:14.960 and some say it was only
00:18:16.400 $1.8 billion in cash.
00:18:18.000 But regardless,
00:18:18.680 they strike a deal
00:18:19.440 with hopes
00:18:20.200 of them no longer creating
00:18:21.980 the uranium nuclear bombs.
00:18:23.980 And in 2018,
00:18:25.560 Trump comes and he says,
00:18:26.440 nope,
00:18:27.200 I am not going to do that deal.
00:18:29.060 He withdraws from the deal
00:18:30.180 with Iran
00:18:30.640 and then a couple months later
00:18:32.040 after that,
00:18:32.780 boom,
00:18:33.060 new sanctions.
00:18:33.900 And Iran's sitting there saying,
00:18:35.000 wait a minute,
00:18:35.400 what's going on over here?
00:18:36.480 And then Iran's experiencing this.
00:18:38.140 Okay?
00:18:38.300 So this is a bit of backstory
00:18:41.440 of what's going on.
00:18:42.300 Now,
00:18:43.000 let's talk presidency.
00:18:44.760 Does it match
00:18:45.900 what happens
00:18:46.580 with certain presidents?
00:18:47.620 So,
00:18:48.180 when Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
00:18:49.740 was president
00:18:50.300 from 41 to 79,
00:18:51.960 this is during FDR,
00:18:53.100 Truman,
00:18:53.440 Eisenhower,
00:18:53.920 Kennedy,
00:18:54.280 LBJ,
00:18:54.720 Nixon,
00:18:55.760 Ford,
00:18:56.100 and Carter.
00:18:56.600 Keep this in mind.
00:18:57.620 He got along
00:18:58.460 with Eisenhower.
00:18:59.860 He got along
00:19:00.860 with Nixon.
00:19:02.080 He got along
00:19:02.800 with Ford.
00:19:03.580 He didn't get along
00:19:04.280 with Carter
00:19:04.880 and JFK
00:19:05.920 wasn't a fan of him
00:19:06.760 and LBJ
00:19:07.440 wasn't a fan of him.
00:19:08.560 So he was kind of like
00:19:09.480 going back and forth
00:19:10.200 trying to figure out,
00:19:11.240 so Eisenhower liked him,
00:19:12.800 Nixon liked him,
00:19:14.000 you know,
00:19:14.240 certain Republican presidents
00:19:15.400 liked him,
00:19:15.840 but Democratic presidents
00:19:16.760 didn't like him.
00:19:17.820 So,
00:19:18.060 you know,
00:19:18.580 it was a battle.
00:19:19.640 When one president would come,
00:19:20.860 he could strike a deal.
00:19:22.080 When the other president would come,
00:19:23.280 he couldn't do any kind of a deal.
00:19:24.400 So it's important to know that.
00:19:25.920 And then after that,
00:19:27.060 you know,
00:19:27.340 Khomeini shows up
00:19:28.100 79 to 89
00:19:29.100 with Khomeini
00:19:30.200 being the president of Iran.
00:19:32.960 And then after that,
00:19:34.360 then you have
00:19:34.820 Rafsanjani
00:19:35.400 from 89 to 97.
00:19:36.700 Then you have Khatami
00:19:37.400 from 97 to 05.
00:19:40.020 Then Ahmed Nadejad
00:19:41.180 is from 2005 to 2013.
00:19:43.240 And then Iran's current president
00:19:44.320 is Hassan Rouhani
00:19:45.340 who's been president
00:19:46.260 since 2013 to present.
00:19:47.700 By the way,
00:19:48.520 the supreme leader
00:19:49.380 went from being Khomeini
00:19:50.760 to then being Khamenei.
00:19:52.600 Here's the one thing
00:19:53.100 you've got to know
00:19:53.480 about Khamenei.
00:19:54.460 While Shah
00:19:55.400 was ruling Iran
00:19:57.560 from 41 to 79,
00:19:59.360 a lot of people
00:20:00.100 complained about the fact
00:20:01.080 that the Shah
00:20:01.480 was worth $1 billion.
00:20:02.580 According to Reuters,
00:20:03.980 Reuters,
00:20:05.240 Khomeini,
00:20:06.460 the current supreme leader
00:20:07.660 for nearly 30 years,
00:20:09.340 I want to say
00:20:09.760 since 89,
00:20:11.300 Khomeini,
00:20:12.540 according to Reuters,
00:20:14.100 is worth
00:20:14.540 a minimum
00:20:15.180 of $95 billion.
00:20:18.880 And no one knows
00:20:20.360 how he's worth
00:20:21.000 $95 billion.
00:20:21.800 A lot of people
00:20:22.260 are saying
00:20:22.520 he took the money
00:20:23.100 from the Iranian people,
00:20:24.840 from the government,
00:20:25.920 and no one
00:20:26.280 could figure it out
00:20:26.880 because Khomeini
00:20:28.180 was all about God
00:20:30.360 and Khomeini
00:20:31.120 was a little bit
00:20:32.120 about business.
00:20:32.920 Khomeini
00:20:33.160 was more business.
00:20:34.240 Khomeini
00:20:34.480 was more about,
00:20:35.660 hey,
00:20:35.840 I love Iran.
00:20:36.580 I want to be able
00:20:37.040 to do something.
00:20:37.640 Khomeini was a little bit
00:20:38.500 more the business guy.
00:20:39.240 But those are some
00:20:39.820 of the numbers
00:20:40.200 you need to keep in mind
00:20:40.920 about what's going on
00:20:41.540 with Iran.
00:20:42.000 Iran's got a lot of money.
00:20:43.260 Khomeini's family
00:20:43.940 and himself
00:20:44.660 got very wealthy.
00:20:45.300 Again,
00:20:45.480 you can go verify this stuff
00:20:46.540 and look it up for yourself.
00:20:47.760 So you've got to keep
00:20:48.420 this in mind.
00:20:48.760 A lot of people ask,
00:20:49.380 is this ever going
00:20:49.960 to stop, Pat?
00:20:50.560 And my answer is,
00:20:51.260 I don't think it's
00:20:51.880 going to ever stop.
00:20:52.680 Why?
00:20:53.360 Here's why.
00:20:54.460 The more conflicts
00:20:55.740 in the Middle East,
00:20:56.900 the more control.
00:20:58.120 Who?
00:20:58.920 U.S., U.K.,
00:20:59.820 the bigger empires.
00:21:01.180 The more conflict
00:21:02.020 in the Middle East,
00:21:03.040 the more control.
00:21:04.200 The less conflict,
00:21:05.660 the more powerful
00:21:06.280 they're becoming.
00:21:07.460 Iran from 63 to 78,
00:21:10.280 they were growing steadily.
00:21:11.580 They became a superpower
00:21:12.420 in the Middle East.
00:21:13.840 Everything was at peace.
00:21:15.600 They're creating
00:21:16.100 their own oil.
00:21:17.180 They're creating
00:21:17.760 their own commerce.
00:21:18.500 They're creating
00:21:18.900 their own military.
00:21:19.540 Hey, hey, hey.
00:21:20.240 Why is Iran getting
00:21:21.340 a little too powerful?
00:21:22.320 We can't let that happen.
00:21:23.420 Hey, coup.
00:21:24.460 Give another coup.
00:21:25.260 Here's a formula for a coup.
00:21:26.460 Do another one.
00:21:27.200 Do another one.
00:21:27.740 Do another one.
00:21:28.280 And typically,
00:21:29.000 coups are caused
00:21:29.880 by the following formula.
00:21:31.540 Not all the time,
00:21:32.720 but many times.
00:21:33.540 This is how it takes place.
00:21:34.620 When a Republican president
00:21:36.000 is a president in the U.S.,
00:21:39.240 and somebody who's running Iran
00:21:41.540 is pro-Israel,
00:21:42.420 pro-business,
00:21:43.700 pro-America,
00:21:44.460 it's peace.
00:21:45.120 No issues.
00:21:46.000 Okay?
00:21:46.760 Eisenhower, Shaw.
00:21:48.120 Nixon, Shaw.
00:21:48.960 Ford, Shaw.
00:21:49.680 No issues.
00:21:50.320 We're good to go.
00:21:51.340 When a Democratic president
00:21:52.800 is president of the United States,
00:21:55.540 and in Iran,
00:21:57.280 they somewhat have
00:21:58.420 a little bit of conflict
00:21:59.320 with Israel.
00:22:00.380 They're not fully pro-business.
00:22:02.560 They're not fully pro-U.S.
00:22:04.140 There's no conflict.
00:22:05.300 But when a Democratic president
00:22:07.020 is in the U.S.
00:22:09.080 as a Democrat,
00:22:09.740 and Iran is being led
00:22:11.160 by somebody who is pro-Israel,
00:22:12.620 pro-U.S.,
00:22:13.580 pro-Western,
00:22:14.360 pro-capitalism,
00:22:15.380 then there could be
00:22:15.940 possible war.
00:22:17.160 And when there's a Republican president
00:22:18.500 and it's the complete opposite,
00:22:20.140 it's also possible war.
00:22:21.140 Now, this war is not a war.
00:22:22.260 Let's go, you know,
00:22:23.860 jets, fly and bomb.
00:22:25.680 No.
00:22:25.960 War could be a,
00:22:26.920 you know,
00:22:27.180 right now,
00:22:27.580 Iran's calling this
00:22:28.340 an economic terrorism.
00:22:29.760 Okay?
00:22:30.240 Hey, they're hurting us economically,
00:22:31.660 is what they're saying.
00:22:32.660 This is economic terrorism.
00:22:34.060 It doesn't necessarily have to.
00:22:35.160 Because sanctions,
00:22:36.000 I can't make money.
00:22:37.040 If I can make money
00:22:37.920 and China, India,
00:22:38.620 all these countries
00:22:39.120 are no longer buying from me,
00:22:40.280 what am I going to do now?
00:22:41.540 And this is why I put Venezuela,
00:22:43.200 because Iran and Venezuela
00:22:44.440 are facing similar problems.
00:22:46.660 Sanctions, sanctions.
00:22:47.800 This is why Iran and Venezuela,
00:22:49.120 they get along.
00:22:50.040 Because they understand each other.
00:22:52.140 And they say,
00:22:52.580 we understand your pain.
00:22:54.020 U.S. is kind of bullying you.
00:22:55.300 You're also an oil country.
00:22:56.340 Used to be one of the riches.
00:22:57.540 Look at the sanctions.
00:22:58.840 And Iran's,
00:22:59.340 yeah, us too.
00:23:00.340 Yeah, so there's a little bit
00:23:01.600 of that going on there
00:23:02.300 that they get along with.
00:23:03.080 And Saudi Arabia doesn't want
00:23:04.240 to see Iran be up there.
00:23:05.700 Why?
00:23:05.880 Because they want to compete
00:23:06.660 in the oil
00:23:07.060 and they want to have a monopoly there.
00:23:08.620 They want to compete
00:23:09.120 in that marketplace, right?
00:23:10.020 And obviously,
00:23:10.460 last but not least,
00:23:11.440 Israel is not a fan of Iran.
00:23:14.380 Because, you know,
00:23:15.060 the whole thing, again,
00:23:15.860 an enemy of an enemy
00:23:16.600 is a friend.
00:23:17.080 So, all of those things
00:23:18.440 taking place.
00:23:19.120 So, last but not least,
00:23:19.800 this bullying thing
00:23:20.460 that's taking place
00:23:21.120 with superpowers.
00:23:22.200 Very simple formula
00:23:23.260 to bully a country like Iran.
00:23:25.180 Very simple formula.
00:23:26.320 Number one,
00:23:27.280 is create sanctions
00:23:28.800 with strong requests.
00:23:31.860 Strong sanctions.
00:23:33.480 Very strong sanctions.
00:23:35.020 You tie them up.
00:23:36.400 Now, I was in,
00:23:38.060 where was I at?
00:23:38.820 I was at Cannes, France.
00:23:41.320 I was staying at Monaco
00:23:42.560 and I went to Cannes
00:23:43.420 and I'm in the beach
00:23:44.680 and I'm talking to,
00:23:45.800 I can't say the name,
00:23:47.380 but I can just tell you
00:23:48.620 a very high profile
00:23:49.880 political leader
00:23:50.900 in the Middle East
00:23:52.400 that is running 21 countries.
00:23:55.080 Financially.
00:23:56.160 That's all I can tell you
00:23:57.100 who this person is.
00:23:58.120 And we're having
00:23:58.580 an hour and a half
00:23:59.000 conversation together.
00:23:59.860 And he tells me,
00:24:02.020 he says,
00:24:02.200 look,
00:24:02.880 I have a lot of allies in Iran.
00:24:04.260 I got a lot of friends in Iran.
00:24:05.820 He says,
00:24:06.420 but I'm from
00:24:07.320 one of the countries
00:24:08.540 in the Middle East.
00:24:09.400 He says,
00:24:09.740 Pat,
00:24:10.060 I can't do nothing
00:24:11.360 with them.
00:24:12.700 We had to cut
00:24:13.360 every business,
00:24:14.140 ties,
00:24:14.540 everything.
00:24:15.720 Lending,
00:24:16.320 everything because of
00:24:17.300 what U.S. said.
00:24:18.120 Because if we're on
00:24:18.860 the bad side of U.S.,
00:24:20.260 then a lot of the
00:24:21.080 relationships we have
00:24:22.180 have to go through U.S.
00:24:23.560 because everybody
00:24:24.140 wants to be good
00:24:24.640 with the U.S.
00:24:25.560 So the moment
00:24:26.220 they had the sanctions,
00:24:27.480 Iran felt it immediately.
00:24:29.100 Immediately.
00:24:29.720 Number two,
00:24:30.580 formula to bully,
00:24:31.900 is befriend
00:24:32.980 and support
00:24:34.040 their number one enemy.
00:24:35.600 So what happens?
00:24:36.980 Carter leaves,
00:24:38.260 Khomeini's in Iran,
00:24:39.540 U.S. supports who?
00:24:40.720 U.S. supports Iraq,
00:24:42.500 Saddam Hussein.
00:24:43.140 Why?
00:24:43.920 Because,
00:24:44.640 remember,
00:24:45.420 the president,
00:24:46.640 the ruler of Iran,
00:24:47.600 Khomeini,
00:24:47.900 at that time,
00:24:48.380 was anti-U.S.,
00:24:49.760 anti-Israel,
00:24:51.140 and the president of U.S.
00:24:52.140 at that time was Reagan,
00:24:53.620 pro-U.S.
00:24:54.540 Hey,
00:24:54.860 this is happening?
00:24:55.780 No problem.
00:24:56.420 We're going to befriend
00:24:57.040 your who?
00:24:57.840 We're going to befriend
00:24:58.500 your enemy,
00:24:59.000 which is Saddam Hussein.
00:25:00.060 And one and a half million
00:25:00.800 people get killed.
00:25:01.800 So that's the part
00:25:02.680 about befriending the enemy.
00:25:03.960 Number three,
00:25:04.780 infiltrate the nation
00:25:05.780 with opposition.
00:25:07.100 Internally.
00:25:07.940 Send people internally
00:25:08.920 to create opposition
00:25:10.160 internally.
00:25:10.760 And last but not least,
00:25:11.440 a very simple formula
00:25:13.520 that's used for a very,
00:25:14.780 very long time.
00:25:15.780 Create an internal division.
00:25:17.600 When you create
00:25:18.140 an internal division,
00:25:19.320 it's very simple.
00:25:20.240 They did it with the Shah.
00:25:21.340 Pinned the people
00:25:21.840 against the Shah.
00:25:22.480 For what?
00:25:23.160 Everybody's creating jobs.
00:25:24.400 People are making money.
00:25:25.080 Why?
00:25:25.780 If you ever go study
00:25:27.220 different revolutions,
00:25:28.380 the one thing
00:25:29.000 that you'll notice
00:25:29.560 about the Iranian revolution
00:25:30.620 against all the other revolutions,
00:25:32.280 French revolution,
00:25:33.080 all the other revolutions,
00:25:34.040 there's four things
00:25:34.620 all the revolutions
00:25:35.200 have in common.
00:25:36.220 None of those four
00:25:37.000 were happening in Iran.
00:25:38.580 None of them with the Shah.
00:25:39.540 Why did it take place?
00:25:41.220 The word spreading
00:25:42.780 this campaign message
00:25:44.140 has so much influence.
00:25:46.020 And again,
00:25:46.420 it started with Carter,
00:25:47.840 UK, US, CIA, MI6,
00:25:50.460 US, UK again.
00:25:51.500 Let's divide Iran.
00:25:52.620 And this is the formula
00:25:53.640 that what history tells us.
00:25:55.160 So, look, in closing,
00:25:56.240 I want to share
00:25:56.600 my final thoughts,
00:25:57.360 hopefully to the people in Iran.
00:25:58.500 We got a lot of
00:25:58.920 valutators in Iran
00:25:59.600 and even other folks
00:26:00.880 around the world
00:26:01.360 that are here.
00:26:02.120 This is what I would tell you.
00:26:03.180 Today, I had a former FBI agent
00:26:05.060 who retired two years ago.
00:26:06.100 30 years, FBI agent undercover.
00:26:08.060 He worked with Russian mafia,
00:26:10.300 three La Cosa Nostra families.
00:26:12.180 He worked with Sinaloa cartel.
00:26:14.060 He worked undercover
00:26:14.760 on a lot of different projects,
00:26:15.980 right?
00:26:16.180 Very decorated.
00:26:17.020 Sylvester Stallone's doing
00:26:17.840 a movie on his book
00:26:18.480 that just came out.
00:26:19.740 He and I are sitting here
00:26:20.560 in our office.
00:26:21.100 We're talking.
00:26:21.580 And it gets a little heated
00:26:22.540 at one point.
00:26:23.260 I said, listen,
00:26:24.240 you know,
00:26:24.440 what's this whole story
00:26:25.180 with Apple?
00:26:26.380 You know,
00:26:27.000 government telling Apple
00:26:28.080 you should give us
00:26:28.780 all the access
00:26:29.260 to the information
00:26:29.880 because if a terrorist
00:26:31.160 uses the phone,
00:26:31.700 we need to know
00:26:32.100 this kind of stuff.
00:26:33.180 You know,
00:26:33.440 and FBI is going
00:26:34.700 to the DMV
00:26:35.300 to get all these pictures,
00:26:36.280 ID to track citizens.
00:26:37.240 What's this all about?
00:26:38.040 This never got approved.
00:26:39.080 And he says, look,
00:26:40.060 I'm not telling you
00:26:40.860 they're doing the right thing
00:26:41.620 or the wrong thing,
00:26:42.240 but here's what I can tell you.
00:26:43.620 He says,
00:26:44.040 technology is outpacing
00:26:45.900 and out advancing our laws.
00:26:48.460 The laws that we have today
00:26:50.020 were written 60 years ago.
00:26:52.160 The laws are not adjusted
00:26:53.680 to today's times and speed.
00:26:55.540 We have to understand
00:26:56.540 that speed is so fast
00:26:57.820 that the laws
00:26:58.820 have to be adjusted
00:26:59.780 because the crisis
00:27:00.960 is no longer a nuclear war.
00:27:02.600 It's a cybersecurity war
00:27:04.320 and we have to be prepared
00:27:05.440 for that.
00:27:05.740 And I'm not saying
00:27:06.200 it's right or wrong.
00:27:06.800 And I sat there
00:27:07.640 and I said,
00:27:07.920 you know what?
00:27:08.060 That's a pretty interesting
00:27:08.700 thing to say
00:27:09.240 to the Iranian people.
00:27:10.420 Watch this.
00:27:11.620 A lot of Iranians' principles
00:27:13.380 worked pre-social media,
00:27:16.760 pre-internet.
00:27:17.800 A lot of it worked.
00:27:19.140 Iran has to figure out
00:27:20.440 who they want to be.
00:27:21.320 Look,
00:27:21.900 a lot of women in Iran
00:27:23.040 look at women in the U.S.
00:27:24.040 and they're like,
00:27:24.440 wait a minute.
00:27:25.440 Was there really a billionaire,
00:27:27.040 youngest billionaire,
00:27:27.800 20 years old,
00:27:28.360 21 years old,
00:27:28.980 she's worth a billion dollars
00:27:29.900 running a company?
00:27:31.020 Is that really happening?
00:27:32.340 Are women really running
00:27:33.640 multiple businesses?
00:27:34.680 And everywhere you look at,
00:27:36.360 they're being,
00:27:36.980 how come we don't have that
00:27:38.000 in Iran?
00:27:38.540 They're thinking that.
00:27:39.800 An opportunity to become
00:27:40.800 an entrepreneur.
00:27:41.620 Are you kidding me?
00:27:42.820 Barack Obama's a president,
00:27:44.420 now a former apprentice.
00:27:46.460 He's a president.
00:27:47.240 I want those kinds of
00:27:48.120 opportunities as well in Iran.
00:27:49.240 So either those talents
00:27:50.740 are going to be inspired
00:27:51.480 to leave and come to America,
00:27:52.560 just like my family
00:27:53.340 and many Iranians
00:27:54.120 came over here,
00:27:54.940 or Iran's got to kind of
00:27:56.160 adjust and say,
00:27:56.680 look,
00:27:57.200 what do we want to do?
00:27:58.200 What direction do we want to go?
00:27:59.520 What principles are working
00:28:00.620 and adapt?
00:28:01.200 Because the same old principles
00:28:02.960 in today's times
00:28:03.760 and today's speed,
00:28:04.800 today's technology,
00:28:05.640 today's social media
00:28:06.400 are going to constantly
00:28:07.540 get pushed back
00:28:08.580 and then eventually
00:28:09.140 you're going to have to face
00:28:09.760 with some kind of bullies
00:28:10.620 here very soon.
00:28:11.640 So it's like a guy
00:28:13.500 who is 5'6",
00:28:14.960 128 pounds,
00:28:16.640 fighting a guy
00:28:17.280 that's 6'5",
00:28:18.340 280 pounds,
00:28:19.860 black belt,
00:28:20.620 six degree,
00:28:21.780 jiu-jitsu trained,
00:28:22.660 UFC.
00:28:23.520 It's not a fight.
00:28:24.560 And sometimes like Rouhani,
00:28:25.820 the president recently
00:28:26.860 in front of a congregation
00:28:27.760 gets up and he says,
00:28:29.160 when we say death upon America,
00:28:30.880 we're not saying death
00:28:31.900 upon the American people,
00:28:33.340 we're saying death upon Trump
00:28:35.280 and John Bolton
00:28:36.560 and the leaders of America.
00:28:38.140 That's really what we're saying.
00:28:39.620 And people are like,
00:28:40.140 oh, okay.
00:28:41.120 What do you mean,
00:28:41.740 oh, okay?
00:28:42.720 It's still death upon
00:28:43.840 the president of the United States
00:28:45.360 that you're talking about
00:28:46.200 in a speech publicly recorded
00:28:48.000 being shown all over
00:28:48.700 the news nationwide.
00:28:49.700 So Iran has to also
00:28:50.880 pick their fights
00:28:51.800 and know some of these allies
00:28:53.360 have the right relationship
00:28:54.420 that you need
00:28:54.900 for these other countries
00:28:55.660 to do business with you.
00:28:56.560 So I hope Iran
00:28:58.080 is going to kind of
00:28:59.600 make the right maneuvers
00:29:00.760 long term,
00:29:01.400 not just right now
00:29:02.180 based on,
00:29:02.700 hey, nobody can push us around.
00:29:04.180 Again,
00:29:04.840 I'm giving you my thoughts.
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