Valuetainment - Episode 384： History Of US - Iran Conflict Explained

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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? 1.00

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, 0.66

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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, 0.74

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 1.00

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. 0.79

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. 0.99

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 0.61

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 0.96

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.72

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, 1.00

00:09:12.160 you know, women's right 1.00

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, 0.99

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 0.99

00:09:58.840 becoming stronger

00:09:59.760 and stronger and stronger

00:10:00.980 with this white revolution 0.93

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 1.00

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. 0.98

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. 0.99

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, 0.73

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 1.00

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 0.82

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, 0.89

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. 0.90

00:13:59.580 And they leave,

00:14:00.400 completely leave Iran. 0.51

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, 0.98

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 0.96

00:14:20.620 because no man 0.97

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, 0.99

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 0.99

00:14:53.420 get killed. 0.94

00:14:54.000 You can see a list of them 0.96

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 0.65

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, 0.95

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.79

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 0.98

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 0.58

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 0.93

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 0.53

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 1.00

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 0.64

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, 0.72

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, 1.00

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, 0.95

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 0.83

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. 0.89

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, 0.98

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 0.99

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. 0.96

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. 0.96

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. 0.97

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 1.00

00:27:20.440 who they want to be.

00:27:21.320 Look,

00:27:21.900 a lot of women in Iran 0.93

00:27:23.040 look at women in the U.S. 1.00

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 1.00

00:27:29.900 running a company?

00:27:31.020 Is that really happening?

00:27:32.340 Are women really running 1.00

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 0.99

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, 0.98

00:28:33.340 we're saying death upon Trump

00:28:35.280 and John Bolton 0.89

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 0.97

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 1.00

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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Valuetainment - October 30, 2019

Episode 384： History Of US - Iran Conflict Explained

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