Valuetainment - “Forced To Wear Hijab At 4” - Rita Ranahi REVEALS Life Under Iran’s BRUTAL Regime

00:00:00.000 getting ready for a game means being ready for anything like packing a spare stick i like to

00:00:09.580 be prepared that's why i remember 988 canada's suicide crisis helpline it's good to know just

00:00:15.760 in case anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a trained responder

00:00:20.540 anytime 988 suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in canada

00:00:25.520 is she born in arkansas or iran but you're born in arkansas pine bluff arkansas yeah who would

00:00:33.420 have thought it's a long way from tehran isn't it yeah my dad was in arkansas studying there's a lot

00:00:38.940 of iranians did pre-islamic revolution and went back after he finished the degree as expected and

00:00:45.900 then a couple of years later the islamic revolution happened and the whole country as you know

00:00:52.900 went backwards into the dark ages so yeah that's um how we eventually ended up in australia we

00:01:00.060 escaped iran it took some time and um were granted asylum in australia so that's yeah that's the

00:01:07.180 story yeah it's interesting because we had a lot of relatives that they would either go to

00:01:11.280 europe to get their green card to come to the states or they'd go to australia

00:01:15.060 there's a lot of asyrians also in australia yes yes absolutely a lot of my family ended up in

00:01:21.120 Europe ended up in Sweden so they've really set up there they've got well to their third

00:01:27.080 generation now um much smaller number of panahis in Iran in in Australia I should say still a lot

00:01:34.380 in Iran so there's always so much worry about what's happening there because we've all got

00:01:40.840 still family there who are trapped there and um I can't go back I haven't been back since I left

00:01:46.220 the country when i was eight or nine um and it would be madness to go back you would be locked

00:01:51.500 up and killed in record time so do you have memories i do i still remember um i regionally

00:01:59.700 lived in um a coastal town on the caspian sea so that was ideally because i'm a beach

00:02:05.640 like to this day you live by bandar palavi or um shomal shomal yeah shomal bandar palavi rash

00:02:12.420 that's where my mother's family is from.

00:02:15.140 Oh, really?

00:02:15.760 Yeah, it's a beautiful place.

00:02:17.420 Stunning.

00:02:18.840 So that's my earliest memories, and then we moved to Tehran,

00:02:22.460 and I've obviously had memories there.

00:02:23.800 We started school there.

00:02:25.820 That was the first time I was forced into the hijab 0.91

00:02:28.380 because, of course, you have to wear a hijab to go to school. 0.64

00:02:32.040 Even if you're a four-, five-year-old girl, you have to be covered. 0.98

00:02:36.600 And that's where we were taught to chant Death to America

00:02:40.960 at assembly every morning so yeah those memories i have but um happier memories in australia was

00:02:49.180 1984 we moved to australia 84 you moved to australia so i was born in iran and i'm in u.s

00:02:57.140 now you were born in arkansas but you lived in iran for eight nine years yeah and then you moved

00:03:02.240 to australia what do you see what do you see from iran that maybe the rest of the world doesn't see

00:03:09.420 When people say, why should we mind, why should we deal with Iran? 1.00

00:03:13.140 Who cares about them?

00:03:14.060 Australia is 7,000 miles away.

00:03:16.240 U.S. is 7,000 miles away from Iran.

00:03:18.540 We shouldn't worry about Iran. 0.92

00:03:20.180 Why is this issue so important?

00:03:22.400 Look, we should worry about Iran on a number of fronts. 0.92

00:03:25.740 I can understand the America first absolutist to say this isn't, this war, this conflict isn't in our interest.

00:03:33.600 It's not an immediate danger.

00:03:34.960 i get it and i completely sympathize because we have say we america because i still see myself

00:03:42.700 also as american i'm still a u.s citizen um we do have been involved in these forever wars that

00:03:51.000 have cost so much so much human life so much money that could be better spent here so i

00:03:58.740 completely get that but Iran is different to Iraq and Syria and Libya and some of the other

00:04:06.660 regimes that have tried to be the US has been involved in overturning. One, Iranians sponsor 0.94

00:04:15.140 terrorism as we know so it touches everybody that had plots to kill our president so I would

00:04:21.000 have thought that would be a fairly good reason to take note of what they're doing but also the

00:04:27.040 Iranian people had this thrust upon them.

00:04:31.000 I think the overwhelming majority of Iranians want to be done 1.00

00:04:35.420 with this regime.

00:04:37.820 Iranians are very different. 1.00

00:04:41.160 It's very different to the rest of the Arab world, 1.00

00:04:43.500 and it's something I think Americans have trouble understanding

00:04:46.320 because they just look at the Middle East as one big region,

00:04:50.160 and it's not.

00:04:52.040 Iranians are Persians. 0.99

00:04:53.480 They're not Arabs. 0.97

00:04:54.280 they have a history that predates um islam by some some distance and and those traditions and

00:05:03.660 those belief systems have withstood so much including the islamic revolution so i think

00:05:10.060 given the chance a free iran would be a wonderful ally for the west and i think it serves as an

00:05:19.260 example of what can happen when you allow forces that are anti-West to take hold. I think we're

00:05:29.220 seeing signs of it in Europe. We're seeing signs of it right here. And we've got this

00:05:33.080 ugly, unholy alliance between the Islamists and the leftists, whether you want to call them 0.98

00:05:38.960 communists, socialists, or just the left in general, that share nothing in common with Islamists 0.95

00:05:44.920 other than their hate of Republicans, conservatives,

00:05:49.660 Western civilisation.

00:05:51.220 But in Iran, they got together and they overthrew the government

00:05:56.440 and took hold in 1979 and they've been in power for 47 years

00:06:00.360 and I think there's just a lot of lessons to be learnt out of Iran

00:06:04.020 which are particularly noteworthy today in the West.

00:06:09.560 And the left should realise that though they helped the Islamists 1.00

00:06:14.580 gained power in Iran. What happened? As soon as the Islamists took power, they rounded up all the 0.96

00:06:20.900 leftists and killed them. It's not a happy ending in this union. One side's going to prevail and 0.90

00:06:28.020 it's not going to be the leftists. So it really makes me crazy to see even now when you've got

00:06:35.760 people out there protesting, saying free Iran. Free Iran from what? The regime has been absolutely

00:06:43.880 brutal in oppressing the people there. Why weren't you marching a month ago or two weeks ago when

00:06:51.060 they were gunning down people in the streets, gunning down people in hospitals, recovering

00:06:56.700 from injuries they had in the protests. So I've got very little patience for the left in this

00:07:04.100 country and in Australia who are consistently on the wrong side of history and they do it from 1.00

00:07:12.580 a position of complete ignorance of what's to come so yeah that was a very long answer to your

00:07:18.500 question but i think there's lessons to be learned out of iran really important lessons that if you

00:07:24.900 know history maybe you won't be doomed to repeat it yeah it's it's interesting to see not only the

00:07:30.700 leftists i mean there's even some people uh on the woke right that are saying you know what are they

00:07:36.540 doing wrong what's the big deal what's taking place there it's a very interesting uh thing

00:07:41.060 taking place on which groups are agreeing with each other in iran especially in u.s and i'm sure

00:07:46.300 it's happened in australia as well uh we're leftists losing it do you think you'll ever

00:07:49.960 run out of content with your show this is the thing i mean i i mock the left because they're 0.92

00:07:56.140 very mock worthy but there is no shortage of content the left are determined to be crazy

00:08:03.160 that determined to be crazier than the next person and whether it's mainstream left like

00:08:10.320 you know, the ladies of The View or your host on MSNBC,

00:08:14.100 MSN whatever they call themselves,

00:08:16.580 or the people who are just posting their rants on TikTok or Instagram,

00:08:24.480 I could do that show ten times the length

00:08:27.400 and I'd still have material left over.

00:08:29.260 I don't think you're ever running out of content.

00:08:30.960 You will never.

00:08:31.780 And you know what?

00:08:32.420 There's so many people who don't touch it

00:08:35.100 because the comics are so almost all of them,

00:08:39.200 not all of them, but a great majority are so left and so gutless.

00:08:43.360 They don't want to touch that material.

00:08:46.400 And it's like how much more crazy does your site have to be for you

00:08:49.960 to use some of that material in such rich content?

00:08:53.400 So, yeah, no, that's – and I think mockery is an important tool.

00:09:01.000 I really do.

00:09:01.700 I think the right needs to use mockery a lot more.

00:09:04.420 It's a very powerful way to put across a point.

00:09:09.760 And when the left give you so much to work with, why wouldn't you do it?

00:09:13.740 By the way, there's a lot of guys that are doing it now, and it's working out.

00:09:18.780 The good ones.

00:09:19.460 Yeah, the good ones.

00:09:20.220 There's a lot of – we have a guy, Vincent Toshana, who makes clips,

00:09:23.720 making fun of Newsome, and they always go viral.

00:09:26.260 He is so good at mocking Newsome.

00:09:27.960 He does a great job at it.

00:09:28.980 But for some of you that are watching it, that are fans, she's officially on Menexa.

00:09:31.980 So if you want to connect her and ask her questions, you can.

00:09:34.500 I think her QR code is going to be somewhere below here.

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Valuetainment - March 11, 2026

“Forced To Wear Hijab At 4” - Rita Ranahi REVEALS Life Under Iran’s BRUTAL Regime

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