Valuetainment - “Pahlavi Is A Zoom Call Leader＂ - Trump DOUBTS Reza Pahlavi As Iran’s Future Leader

00:00:00.000 And so this last week, when you're talking about Reza Pahlavi asking the Iranians to go on the streets,

00:00:06.020 this is an interview that he got criticized for heavily, because in this interview, Nora,

00:00:10.640 I don't know what her last name is, is it Nora O'Donnell?

00:00:12.820 Nora O'Donnell?

00:00:13.580 Nora O'Donnell from CBS.

00:00:16.680 She's an incredible journalist.

00:00:17.800 That's a very good pointed question, Rob, if you want to play this clip, go for it.

00:00:21.180 As you are urging people to protest and go to the streets, the death toll is rising in Iran.

00:00:28.540 This violent crackdown continues, just as it has in past attempted revolutions.

00:00:34.920 I mean, is it responsible to be sending citizens in Iran to their deaths? 0.98

00:00:40.960 Do you bear some responsibility?

00:00:42.840 As I said, as I said, as I said, this is a war, and war has casualties.

00:00:47.200 In fact, in order to preserve and protect and minimize the death toll,

00:00:52.740 minimize innocent victims yet again be killed by this regime, action is needed.

00:00:58.540 The regime is going to try and brutalize its citizenry as it has always done.

00:01:03.080 But we are in a fight for liberation.

00:01:05.760 I didn't ask the people to come to the streets to fight against the regime because I wanted so.

00:01:13.600 They asked me to step in to help them and to be their voice on the outside world,

00:01:19.900 to do everything that we can so we make this uprising successful this time.

00:01:25.280 And I think we have some serious leaders that understand what is necessary,

00:01:32.240 that understand the ask of the Iranian people and are responding to that.

00:01:36.460 I think President Trump is responding to the call that the Iranian people have.

00:01:41.840 The Iranian people have heard his words.

00:01:44.660 They are naming streets after him in Iran.

00:01:47.500 You can pause it right there.

00:01:48.100 There's a difference.

00:01:49.260 So when President Trump and his team watches this, what do you think they say?

00:01:55.660 Do they say, this is the guy we can get behind and help Iran be free again? 0.78

00:02:00.820 Or do you think they say, I don't know if he has it or not?

00:02:03.460 I don't know.

00:02:04.280 Do they look at this and say, this shows strong leadership?

00:02:06.980 Do they look at this and say, this guy is going to be able to go and win the people over and do that?

00:02:13.080 I don't know.

00:02:13.500 Here's what Trump did say.

00:02:15.360 The president said, Trump praises Iran exile royal as very nice,

00:02:21.840 but doesn't go as far as fully supporting regime change bid.

00:02:27.220 Okay, Rob, is this the Hugh Hewitt clip?

00:02:29.160 We've seen this one already.

00:02:30.700 So I know this one here on him saying this.

00:02:33.360 If you want to play this one more time, you can go ahead and play the clip.

00:02:35.380 It's only 30 seconds.

00:02:36.380 Would you meet with Crown Prince Pavlai, who is the heir to the constitutional monarchy?

00:02:44.580 He doesn't want to rule.

00:02:45.420 He would be a symbolic ruler like King Charles.

00:02:49.360 Well, I've watched him, and he seems like a nice person.

00:02:53.660 But I'm not sure that it would be appropriate at this point to do that as president.

00:02:57.640 I think that we should let everybody go out there and we see who emerges.

00:03:03.540 I'm not sure necessarily that it would be appropriate.

00:03:06.500 So that's Hugh Hewitt.

00:03:07.020 Now, this is an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, that this is a different interview.

00:03:11.000 In an Oval Office interview with Reuters, he said that while Rizal Pallavi seems like a nice guy,

00:03:15.520 Trump wasn't sure the Iranian population would accept the Crown Prince as the country's leader.

00:03:20.100 The conversation happened moments after Trump appeared to pump the brakes on an American military intervention,

00:03:25.340 something the president has been threatening for weeks,

00:03:27.980 as the Islamic regime has brutally cracked down on widespread protests.

00:03:31.580 He says, he seems very nice, but I don't know how he'd play within his own country,

00:03:36.080 the president said of Pallavi, and we really aren't up to that point yet.

00:03:39.900 I don't know whether or not his country would accept his leadership,

00:03:43.440 and certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.

00:03:46.740 Trump said it was possible that the government of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei,

00:03:50.620 could fall amid the demonstrations.

00:03:53.360 Though added, in truth, anti-regime can fall.

00:03:55.760 Whether or not it falls or not, it's going to be an interesting period of time.

00:04:04.820 Trump added, Pallavi was born in Tehran, the son of the U.S.-backed Shah,

00:04:07.580 Muhammad Reza Shah Pallavi, who Iranians overthrew.

00:04:10.080 The 65-year Pallavi, who lives in D.C. suburbs,

00:04:13.480 has played a very vocal role in the protests from abroad,

00:04:17.760 but on the ground there appears to be a little organized support for the country

00:04:21.580 to again be ruled by the monarchy.

00:04:24.960 So that's what...

00:04:26.920 Just for me, watching him speak, and with all due respect,

00:04:32.080 and again, he's not the guy.

00:04:34.500 These people, where my mom and dad and my grandparents are from,

00:04:38.280 where your whole family's from, they don't need a Zoom call leader, okay? 0.60

00:04:43.340 They need somebody that's going to be there with them on the ground, okay?

00:04:48.020 Reza Pallavi lives in Washington, D.C.

00:04:50.020 He's been there for 47 years, and this isn't a knock on him.

00:04:53.040 He has a life.

00:04:54.280 He has kids.

00:04:55.300 They're in school.

00:04:56.180 They have jobs.

00:04:56.980 Whatever they're doing, this is a whole different situation.

00:05:00.160 And by the way, just really fast on the Israel thing,

00:05:02.640 we all know the arguments, the debates we've gotten into about me and Israel

00:05:06.560 and criticizing all this stuff, put that to the side.

00:05:09.060 This is an organic revolution.

00:05:11.040 Enough of the Israel put people in the... 1.00

00:05:13.660 Just shut up with that noise, okay? 1.00

00:05:15.900 Their leader is tweeting stuff that's saying that we will kill the president, 1.00

00:05:19.500 him getting shot in the head, we won't miss, okay? 1.00

00:05:22.440 They're murdering protesters. 0.94

00:05:23.820 You know what I saw, Pat?

00:05:24.540 I'm not going to show it.

00:05:25.280 I didn't want to send it to Rob.

00:05:26.800 The IRGC are going into hospitals looking for people that were protesting that are injured,

00:05:32.140 and they're shooting them in the head.

00:05:33.700 I saw that.

00:05:34.920 And I saw the bodies in the body bags with the catheters because they were in that room, okay?

00:05:39.880 And I'm tired.

00:05:40.800 And Ann makes a very, very fair point.

00:05:44.880 Why do we care?

00:05:45.820 We have enough problems going on.

00:05:47.140 We have enough stuff over there.

00:05:48.440 The only reason I say we have to care, Ann, is because if we let them put somebody else

00:05:54.000 in that's worse than this guy or another guy that's Islamist or whatever, it's a problem 0.84

00:05:58.840 that's going to get worse and get worse and get worse.

00:06:01.260 And I'm not trying to say we have to be the police of the world, but these people are begging

00:06:04.740 for help.

00:06:05.420 And if you don't mind, Pat, this got me emotional.

00:06:07.520 I'll probably not even be able to go through it.

00:06:09.140 I want to play a phone call that was recorded of, I think, an American-Iranian girl from here.

00:06:14.360 Her mother finally calls her and gets a hold of her.

00:06:17.460 She can't even speak freely because of the regime is surveilling them.

00:06:22.540 Just tell me this doesn't hurt you.

00:06:24.660 Go ahead, Rob.

00:06:26.980 Mama.

00:06:28.080 Watch this. 0.77

00:06:30.980 They're shooting people with machine guns.

00:06:33.680 Don't cry.

00:06:34.460 We're okay.

00:06:35.540 I called you 15 times.

00:06:37.740 We're okay.

00:06:39.860 Can you hear me?

00:06:42.400 Don't cry.

00:06:43.120 Don't cry.

00:06:44.360 They killed 12,000 people.

00:06:47.400 They massacred all of...

00:06:50.460 Yeah.

00:06:52.420 We ran away.

00:06:54.660 Can't talk on the phone.

00:06:55.700 The phones are controlled.

00:06:58.540 Let me say something.

00:07:00.920 Tell me something.

00:07:03.580 It's a very bad situation.

00:07:05.860 And she's crying.

00:07:06.860 Stop.

00:07:07.120 She's bullying.

00:07:07.820 This goes on.

00:07:08.920 They've killed so many.

00:07:09.900 She's in her 70s.

00:07:10.780 She goes, she's weak. 1.00

00:07:11.500 She can't do anything.

00:07:12.160 So for people to sit there and try to blame everybody else, the people have done it organically.

00:07:17.840 God bless them.

00:07:18.620 I hope for them.

00:07:19.780 This is where we have to help.

00:07:21.860 We have to help.

00:07:22.700 And with all due respect, Reza, nice guy.

00:07:25.620 You were the first one that called him a nice, sweet guy.

00:07:28.120 Trump always talks off the...

00:07:30.260 He doesn't BS.

00:07:31.360 He doesn't sugarcoat.

00:07:32.160 The moment he was asked, he goes, yeah, no, he's not the guy.

00:07:35.040 He knows he's not the guy, Pat.

00:07:36.520 He knows.

00:07:37.200 You know, your discussion of Mossadegh and Shah, the Shah remind me of why I think we should not be getting involved.

00:07:44.240 And yes, it would be great if the people overthrew and, you know, fixed it themselves.

00:07:47.820 I don't think they will.

00:07:48.680 I think most of the world is not fit for democracy. 1.00

00:07:52.680 Mossadegh was a ridiculous clown. 1.00

00:07:54.660 He had to be taken out. 0.99

00:07:55.740 Everybody was taken out by the CIA, and the CIA and the United States supported the Shah. 0.93

00:08:00.300 Everything was great then.

00:08:01.880 As long as we're installing puppets around the world, things are going to go great.

00:08:07.380 You don't want to let them vote.

00:08:08.800 And especially you don't want to let them vote now.

00:08:11.340 I mean, I don't think I really want to lose the Iranians or Persians, as we call them, in Beverly Hills. 0.99

00:08:17.040 They're great.

00:08:17.820 They're totally right-wing.

00:08:18.860 The most civilized, educated Iranians have left. 1.00

00:08:23.600 And it's the same thing with Venezuela.

00:08:25.220 It's the same thing with Cuba.

00:08:27.500 If we're going to be installing puppet governments and holding them up and we have to protect them,

00:08:32.760 let's start with our hemisphere and see how it goes.

00:08:36.300 And then maybe we can get back.

00:08:37.960 And also, let's also remember that this is all Jimmy Carter's fault.

00:08:42.660 Are you joking or are you being serious?

00:08:44.360 It is all Jimmy Carter's fault.

00:08:45.860 I agree.

00:08:46.240 I fully agree with you there.

00:08:47.640 Totally.

00:08:48.300 And what was his name?

00:08:50.500 Richard Falk at Princeton, who promised to everyone,

00:08:53.560 Don't worry.

00:08:54.640 The people will vote for Khomeini.

00:08:57.440 It will be wonderful.

00:08:58.500 The people's revolution.

00:08:59.900 Yeah, there's your Princeton professor for you.

00:09:02.660 Yeah, I've seen that as well.

00:09:04.280 Look, we've seen it in our government.

00:09:05.880 When a nice guy that should be an ambassador or should be in a think tank becomes president,

00:09:10.900 Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, you have problems.

00:09:13.640 Because you need leaders in times of crisis.

00:09:16.680 And this guy happens to be the son of the prior leader.

00:09:20.820 That doesn't make him, that gives him proximity.

00:09:24.060 That doesn't give him the presence, the power, the personality and everything he needs to lead.

00:09:29.140 And I think he appears to be a very nice man.

00:09:31.860 He appears to be, you know, ambassadorial.

00:09:35.500 He's got certain presence.

00:09:36.780 But is he ready to go into this beehive and to do what's necessary to lead it through it?

00:09:42.900 I don't think so.

00:09:44.320 And we can make assessments like that because we saw it happen in our government.

00:09:49.520 I was of age when Jimmy Carter, you know, basically on these human rights campaigns,

00:09:55.900 in the name of human rights, ignored warning signs of destability in governments,

00:10:01.680 in the name of human rights.

00:10:03.080 And this mess started.

00:10:04.340 We've seen it.

00:10:05.800 And this is not what the world needs.

00:10:07.460 The world needs strength and clarity and leadership that probably needs to be protected by the U.S. government

00:10:13.760 to get the job done and what they need to do.

00:10:16.700 Adam.

00:10:17.360 Sir, I don't care one way or another about Reza Pahlavi.

00:10:21.840 I'm not on his team or not on his team.

00:10:24.340 But I am on the side of the Iranian people, no doubt.

00:10:27.660 So when he says, this is a war, we have to do it.

00:10:30.360 This is not a war, homeboy.

00:10:31.780 This is one side with guns and the other side with cell phones at best.

00:10:37.820 Massacre, it's called.

00:10:38.600 So that's not a war.

00:10:39.700 That's number one.

00:10:40.780 Number two, as much as I love our friend Ann Coulter, I do care about the other side of the world.

00:10:45.340 And I'll tell you why.

00:10:46.280 I think this is as America first as it gets, supporting the people of Iran because of China. 0.92

00:10:53.060 I understand the Monroe Doctrine and the Don Roe Doctrine.

00:10:55.200 I don't care about China either. 0.57

00:10:56.240 But if Venezuela falls, which is looking very likely, obviously, and if Iran falls, that

00:11:03.940 helps America in monumental ways and destroys China. 0.92

00:11:08.200 Because where do they get their oil?

00:11:10.240 Venezuela and Iran.

00:11:12.220 So these are moves that on the surface, I get it.

00:11:16.060 Listen, no more foreign wars.

00:11:18.420 We want to be some sort of isolationist, maybe be a little more pragmatic.

00:11:21.580 But if these moves help bring down China, that would only help America. 0.87

00:11:26.280 Last point is this.

00:11:27.460 There's this whole thing of, you know, remember when Dave Smith, the famous, famous comedian,

00:11:32.120 hilarious, just, you know, worldwide comedian said, Iran is not a threat.

00:11:38.120 Iran is not a threat.

00:11:39.400 Do you remember that tweet, Rob?

00:11:40.460 Do you have that?

00:11:41.640 Well, here's some evidence as to why I sent it to you in a text of why Iran is actually a threat. 0.98

00:11:47.560 And we do need to pay attention to the country that has coined the phrase, death to America.

00:11:53.320 Do you have that tweet, Rob, that I sent it to you? 0.68

00:11:56.440 So they tried to kill Trump.

00:11:58.180 They tried to kill Secretary Pompeo. 0.93

00:12:00.200 They tried to kill John Bolton.

00:12:03.740 Not the worst thing.

00:12:04.820 Not condoning that.

00:12:05.120 By the way, everybody's texting that Twitter is down.

00:12:07.400 Just so you know, that's why he can't follow that.

00:12:09.180 Yeah, right now Twitter is down.

00:12:10.420 There's evidence.

00:12:12.340 And what did they just say about Trump?

00:12:14.080 Next time we won't miss?

00:12:16.140 They'll miss.

00:12:16.600 Did he not say that?

00:12:17.340 But the point is, they're threatening our president.

00:12:20.220 And excuse me, we're one earlobe away from Kamala Harris or Weekend at Biden's being president.

00:12:27.120 So these geopolitical conversations do have ramifications.

00:12:31.020 And when someone who presents himself as the smartest person in the room said something like this,

00:12:36.860 you tend to, maybe this guy's got some credibility.

00:12:39.160 And then what happens is our old friend Dave Smith runs into someone infinitely smarter than him named Coleman Hughes.

00:12:45.160 And all of a sudden, Dave's back to being a struggling comedian, not so much a pundit.

00:12:50.940 Yeah.

00:12:51.380 So, by the way, if you want to go back to, is it showing Twitter's down, Rob?

00:12:55.420 Yes.

00:12:55.760 Reports are showing that Twitter's down.

00:12:56.980 Can you show that again, the report you had up?

00:12:58.660 Yes.

00:12:58.920 Hang on one second.

00:12:59.340 Which one is that?

00:13:00.060 It's a down detector.

00:13:01.440 And it just spiked that, right?

00:13:03.280 There it is.

00:13:03.660 Yeah.

00:13:03.900 So it is down.

00:13:04.480 Whoa.

00:13:04.720 Okay, reports are coming in.

00:13:05.840 But it's saying it's not fully down.

00:13:07.500 The services appear to be up and running.

00:13:09.320 But as of right now, it's still down.

00:13:11.180 Anyways, go back to the Calci part.

00:13:13.180 Go back to the Calci part, Rob.

00:13:14.620 You just had it.

00:13:15.980 Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader.

00:13:17.620 A week ago, 75%.

00:13:20.580 Today, down to pretty much, you know, 25, you know, depending on by when, September 1st,

00:13:28.480 July 1st, April 1st, 2026, down.

00:13:32.820 Then if you go to Mohammad Reza Pallavi, because, you know, this had to be up.

00:13:37.560 Will the United States recognize Reza Pallavi as the leader of Iran?

00:13:40.680 A week ago, 90%.

00:13:42.980 90% yes?

00:13:44.600 Yes.

00:13:45.000 Yes.

00:13:45.320 Today, 28%.

00:13:47.900 Stop it.

00:13:49.080 Yes?

00:13:49.460 Sir, may I understand this?

00:13:50.780 Yeah.

00:13:51.080 A week ago was 90% chance?

00:13:52.880 I'm showing you what Calci says.

00:13:54.460 97.6% chance was January 8th.

00:13:59.100 Today is the 15th?

00:14:01.060 16th.

00:14:01.940 So one week ago.

00:14:03.000 One week ago, he went from 98% to 28%.

00:14:07.020 So he's the Pierre Polyev of Iran, Canada.

00:14:10.100 He is the Pierre Polyev of Iran. 0.95

00:14:11.940 And by the way, the last three days, Adam, he spent time with our leaders in Washington.

00:14:17.900 Can I ask you a very hundred?

00:14:19.380 Did you hear what Tom just said?

00:14:19.780 Yeah, 100%.

00:14:20.600 What did Tom just say?

00:14:21.600 He said that they spent time with our leaders in Washington.

00:14:23.580 And what does that mean, though?

00:14:24.700 The meaning is the more and more that people have been around him, they recognize he ain't

00:14:28.180 that dude.

00:14:28.540 That's what Tom is trying to say.

00:14:29.600 I get Tom Kornacki.

00:14:31.320 Go ahead, Adam.

00:14:31.760 Why do you think that is, Pat?

00:14:33.540 Sincerely.

00:14:34.480 The more you spend time around him.

00:14:36.060 Let me ask you a question.

00:14:36.740 Let me ask you a question.

00:14:37.460 It fell before that.

00:14:38.560 Yeah.

00:14:39.440 Let me ask you a question, though.

00:14:41.060 Here's a question.

00:14:42.800 Let's just say, do you think for Iran to go through their revolution, a country that 1.00

00:14:50.480 any day anybody complains about the Second Amendment, if Iran had Second Amendment, 0.83

00:14:56.040 none of this stuff is happening right now, by the way.

00:14:58.220 Like, if Iran had Second Amendment, if the Iranian people could defend themselves, you 1.00

00:15:02.460 think the cops going out there with a shotgun shooting people free?

00:15:05.360 No.

00:15:06.240 Like, you realize in America, if someone like that, you know who would be the first one

00:15:09.200 coming out?

00:15:10.280 Mongols, Hell's Angels, biker gangs. 0.98

00:15:12.780 They're going to come and say, what are you doing?

00:15:13.760 Do you remember that one time?

00:15:15.480 I think the George Floyd, if I'm not mistaken, riots was going on, and they decided to go

00:15:22.100 to Huntington Beach, if I'm not mistaken, in LA.

00:15:24.620 That is correct.

00:15:25.200 The biker gangs rolled up and said, come on. 1.00

00:15:27.380 Come through us.

00:15:28.000 And they're like, change of plans.

00:15:29.600 We're leaving this place.

00:15:30.480 We're going to go to different places.

00:15:32.940 Second Amendment in America.

00:15:35.600 Phenomenal.

00:15:36.000 Phenomenal.

00:15:36.640 Every single day, you should be thankful, the fact that we have that in America.

00:15:40.240 Was this it, Rob, when they were trying to do it?

00:15:41.840 Oh, this is right.

00:15:42.560 Yeah, protests, and all of a sudden, like, no, you're not going to come through here.

00:15:45.560 Forget about the cops.

00:15:46.640 The biker folks showed up, and they're like, yeah, we'll skip today's deal of doing anything 1.00

00:15:50.580 with these guys.

00:15:51.140 So, but let me go back to this.

00:15:53.740 To have a revolution happen in a country like Iran against a regime like IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary 0.61

00:16:02.320 Guard, in a society where it's like the supreme leader, the phrase they use, their supreme leader,

00:16:09.700 their supreme.

00:16:10.080 And American journalists say their supreme leader, their supreme leader, what's his name

00:16:14.880 is Khamenei.

00:16:16.300 It's not that your supreme leader is somebody else.

00:16:18.460 That's their supreme leader, right?

00:16:20.500 Khamenei.

00:16:21.700 What do you think you're going to need to do if you're in America as an outsider?

00:16:25.580 Actually, say you are part of Trump's advisors, and somebody brings a guy in who's sitting right

00:16:33.720 in front of us right now, interviewing to be the leader of Iran, to go through the transition.

00:16:38.000 What five questions do you have for him if you want to support him?

00:16:41.500 Are you moving to Iran?

00:16:43.740 Are you willing to move to Iran?

00:16:45.080 So let's just say that's one.

00:16:46.260 And he says, of course, but he's been here for 48 years.

00:16:48.460 Are you willing to put your life on the line and die for this cause?

00:16:50.660 Is that really the real question?

00:16:52.120 I don't think that's the real question.

00:16:53.460 What percentage of people support you?

00:16:54.720 Say that again?

00:16:55.380 What percentage of people support you?

00:16:57.300 What percentage?

00:16:57.800 He says to you.

00:16:58.660 In the population, not of Beverly Hills.

00:17:01.440 He says to you 80% in Iran.

00:17:04.540 I don't believe it.

00:17:05.360 We run the numbers.

00:17:05.920 Okay, so you don't believe it.

00:17:06.960 What's your next question?

00:17:08.480 Do you think Iran wants a monarchy or a democracy?

00:17:11.700 Let's let the people decide because that's the answer he's given to everybody.

00:17:14.860 That's not our business.

00:17:15.940 That's the people's business.

00:17:17.540 That's what he's saying.

00:17:19.500 If I was them, I'd want leverage.

00:17:21.100 I'd be like, hey, listen, you're going to listen to what we say.

00:17:22.680 What other questions do you have?

00:17:24.020 What is the most important question that you have?

00:17:27.060 What makes you a great leader?

00:17:28.640 Okay, so let me say before he walked in, we're sitting together here,

00:17:33.940 and here's what we're saying.

00:17:35.580 We made a decision, hey, guys, if we like this guy,

00:17:39.380 at what level do we want to intervene?

00:17:41.860 Okay?

00:17:42.520 Your J.D. Vance, you say, listen, no more than what we did with Venezuela.

00:17:46.700 I don't want troops on the ground staying there, Iraq, 20 years, 3 trillion dollars.

00:17:51.400 Marco Rubio says, well, it depends on what we're going to get in return.

00:17:54.240 Okay?

00:17:54.460 Because let's just say Marco Rubio is a little bit more of a neocon,

00:17:57.040 and he's open to the idea, and he's having a conversation.

00:17:59.280 But let's just say the five of us, that's an odd number, which is good,

00:18:02.520 three, two, three people are going to say, okay.

00:18:04.940 We say, look, if it's a little bit of intervention, I'm open to it.

00:18:08.440 But full on, I want to interview this guy to see if we can get the job done

00:18:14.020 with a little bit of intervention, or do we need to do everything for him?

00:18:19.540 So if that's the mindset that we're going in with,

00:18:22.340 what's the most important question to ask?

00:18:24.500 Whose support does he need?

00:18:28.200 Whose support does he need?

00:18:29.300 Not just the people, who else's support do you need?

00:18:31.160 The military.

00:18:31.660 The military.

00:18:33.340 The military.

00:18:34.740 Right.

00:18:34.980 So I'm going to ask and say, okay, how many people from the military

00:18:38.700 are flipping and supporting you?

00:18:40.280 Show me.

00:18:41.420 How many of them?

00:18:42.580 So you know what I would do?

00:18:44.060 If you're running, like if you really, really, really want to do something,

00:18:48.320 why don't we see how many Iranian military have turned and become

00:18:50.660 supportive of you?

00:18:51.680 And by the way, you know how it starts?

00:18:53.140 By pockets.

00:18:54.720 You get Tabriz.

00:18:56.480 You get, you know, Abaddon.

00:18:57.880 You get smaller to pocket.

00:18:59.120 You don't go straight to Tehran.

00:19:00.320 You start from the outside and you come fully inside because there are a lot

00:19:04.300 of people that are on the verge, but they don't want to be the first.

00:19:06.520 You ever seen that one TED Talks where the guy shows and says,

00:19:09.500 here's the guy that just goes out and he starts dancing like this,

00:19:13.440 and it's the most embarrassing dance.

00:19:15.140 Have you seen this video?

00:19:16.160 You ever seen this video or no?

00:19:17.380 Where the guy's just dancing like a horrible dancing and everyone's looking at him.

00:19:21.040 But he goes for five seconds and they're thinking he's going to stop.

00:19:24.380 He goes for 20 seconds and they're thinking he's going to stop.

00:19:27.720 30 seconds later, another guy goes in and he starts.

00:19:31.200 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:19:31.980 He's just kind of going like this.

00:19:33.000 He says 20 seconds after the second guy, a couple hundred people are dancing with him.

00:19:40.740 And he says the most important person is the first true believer in you that is willing

00:19:45.820 to step up.

00:19:46.840 Who has stood up from the military unit and said we're all with Reza Pellevi?

00:19:50.820 Who?

00:19:51.500 That's the question I'm going to be asking, Tom.

00:19:53.680 I'm going to ask the question, has the military from Iran flipped to support this man?

00:19:59.000 What else would you ask him?

00:20:00.120 Because I think that's really how this works.

00:20:03.220 You know, yesterday, two days ago, we're interviewing a guy that wants to be the general manager by

00:20:07.060 David Consulting.

00:20:08.200 And we have some finalists, but he's the final guy.

00:20:11.120 He interviews with Tom, Paul.

00:20:12.740 He interviews with Casey, a couple other people he interviews.

00:20:15.480 But then he comes with me and RJ and then we go to dinner with them to introduce them

00:20:18.580 to the BDC guys.

00:20:19.640 BDC guys are interviewing with them.

00:20:20.920 What do you think we're asking afterwards?

00:20:22.900 What questions are you asking?

00:20:24.020 How do you guys feel?

00:20:24.720 Do you believe who he says he is?

00:20:26.200 Is he qualified for the job?

00:20:27.600 Do you think he's going to be long term?

00:20:29.500 There's a bunch of stuff I would be asking.

00:20:30.960 So to me, if this all of a sudden happened to the Iranian people who are saying Trump is

00:20:37.820 Jimmy Carter 2.0, maybe instead of saying is Trump Jimmy Carter 2.0, Jimmy Carter's case

00:20:45.740 was there was already a stable guy in Iran named Mohammad Reza Shah Pellevi that had figured

00:20:50.800 everything out.

00:20:51.860 This was a guy that was not afraid of calling people out.

00:20:54.360 He stood his ground.

00:20:55.020 He gave his opinion.

00:20:57.080 In this scenario, this is not the same case as Jimmy Carter 2.0 because Iran doesn't have 1.00

00:21:04.080 a leader.

00:21:05.860 During Carter, there was a definite leader called Mohammad Reza Shah Pellevi.

00:21:10.560 Right now, there's not a definite leader.

00:21:12.940 If there was, they would have easily said yes.

00:21:15.240 So I said this a week ago.

00:21:18.060 The God forbid you call out anything with Reza Shah Pellevi's community. 1.00

00:21:21.300 I have no idea, by the way, for a guy who's a massive fan of Reza Shah Pellevi, okay, the

00:21:27.780 family, for a guy that collects everything I can get my hand, if you want to give me a

00:21:32.260 nice gift, give me an old coin gold of Reza Shah Pellevi.

00:21:36.800 Get me old magazines of Reza Shah Pellevi.

00:21:40.040 I have all those collections in my safe in different places that I hold on to.

00:21:44.500 But God forbid you say something and criticize them even just a little bit.

00:21:49.260 They shiver.

00:21:49.920 However, how dare you?

00:21:51.980 Reza Pellevi, to them, is not a candidate.

00:21:54.500 To them, it's their Jesus.

00:21:56.460 It's their Jesus. 0.65

00:21:57.540 It's their prophet Muhammad. 0.99

00:21:59.160 God forbid you criticize and say anything about him.

00:22:02.660 Now, by the way, the one thing on the opposite side.

00:22:05.280 So to me, I said this last week about Mohammad Reza Shah Pellevi.

00:22:08.240 I said, if you don't pull it off, you're done.

00:22:10.960 I said this a week ago. 1.00

00:22:12.480 And the community lost their shit. 1.00

00:22:14.060 And they came, who the hell do you think you are? 1.00

00:22:15.860 All this other stuff.

00:22:17.020 Week later, here's where you are.

00:22:18.800 So guess what?

00:22:20.120 Does it mean it's done, done?

00:22:21.920 It's very close to being done.

00:22:23.840 Very close to being done.

00:22:25.320 Why?

00:22:26.020 Because somebody couldn't close the deal.

00:22:28.000 Because somebody couldn't close the deal.

00:22:29.660 Guess what?

00:22:30.360 Diplomacy.

00:22:30.860 You know what?

00:22:31.260 Well, no.

00:22:32.060 It's Elon Musk's fault.

00:22:33.800 It's Trump's fault.

00:22:35.320 It's your fault.

00:22:36.640 No.

00:22:37.260 It's called be a flipping diplomat.

00:22:39.420 It's called go build those relationships.

00:22:42.100 It's called sit back down and realize how terrible you are.

00:22:45.280 I'll build them relationships with individuals.

00:22:47.640 And then go.

00:22:48.640 I have to talk to those people.

00:22:50.100 You know who Trump called two days ago?

00:22:52.880 About the 10% credit card interest rate.

00:22:55.560 She was shell-shocked.

00:22:57.680 Elizabeth Warren.

00:22:58.880 Yeah, that's right.

00:22:59.740 Elizabeth Warren's being honest.

00:23:01.240 Pick up the phone.

00:23:01.960 Elizabeth Warren's being interviewed.

00:23:03.280 And they're saying, did Trump really call you?

00:23:06.440 Yeah.

00:23:06.620 Yes.

00:23:07.620 How did you feel about it?

00:23:08.860 I'm not going to lie.

00:23:09.720 I was very surprised that he called me and asked me, what do you think about the 10%?

00:23:14.620 What is that called?

00:23:16.360 That's called diplomacy.

00:23:18.000 So, you know, I hope you guys hold him accountable because he does play a very important role.

00:23:24.340 And to Reza Pallavi's credit, he did an interview yesterday, which, by the way, it's the best one he's done.

00:23:32.360 It's the best one he's done.

00:23:33.860 I'm trying to see who it was with.

00:23:35.380 I watched it.

00:23:36.620 He did a phenomenal job with this interview.

00:23:39.040 I liked his resolve.

00:23:40.540 I liked how he handled himself in this interview.

00:23:42.580 I wish I could find it.

00:23:43.440 There's so many of them he's doing right now.

00:23:45.120 But it was probably the best one that he did.

00:23:47.440 And I'm not going to stop challenging him.

00:23:49.400 I'd like to host a podcast with bringing different people from the Iranian side to talk to a bunch of different guys that have different opinions.

00:23:56.280 And we'll be doing that here soon.

00:23:57.420 But look, to the Iranian people, it breaks my heart because my only first cousin in the world, my only first cousin, and I only have one first cousin. 1.00

00:24:05.840 My dad had two brothers and a sister.

00:24:08.720 Between the three, they had zero kids.

00:24:10.940 And they all lived past their 60s.

00:24:12.260 It's not like they didn't have a chance.

00:24:13.760 So two brothers and a sister, zero kids.

00:24:17.120 So I got no cousins from my dad's side.

00:24:19.160 My mom's side, she only had one sibling.

00:24:22.460 Him and I were very close back in the days, Robert.

00:24:25.380 And he has one son.

00:24:27.040 I only have one first cousin.

00:24:28.320 You know where my one first cousin lives? 0.99

00:24:29.980 In Iran.

00:24:30.700 That's where he's at.

00:24:31.400 My only first cousin lives in Iran.

00:24:33.140 So we have family there.

00:24:34.800 We have friends there.

00:24:35.500 We have a lot of people there.

00:24:36.860 And I really wanted to see this being able to be pulled off.

00:24:39.780 But unfortunately, the more and more this dies down, and it gets quieter and quieter, and the momentum goes away, people, families have to go take their kids back and go to school and go back to their jobs.

00:24:54.280 And they realize they had the greatest two-week run.

00:24:57.100 They got so close.

00:24:59.160 Does that mean Trump's not going to do an attack like he did with Ghassam Soleimani?

00:25:02.480 No. 0.69

00:25:03.220 Does that mean people can't get killed?

00:25:04.700 Remember how Israel works.

00:25:06.420 Here's how Israel works.

00:25:07.500 Of course, Israel is also, and Trump is also very much of a, let's make a story up.

00:25:14.280 Netanyahu told them that you shouldn't attack and all this other stuff.

00:25:17.920 Oh, my God.

00:25:19.200 Netanyahu controls Trump. 0.92

00:25:20.860 Three days later, boom, seven leaders in Iran get killed.

00:25:23.700 Yeah.

00:25:24.220 To just also appreciate the president's unpredictability of what he's capable of doing.

00:25:30.300 But number one rule, when that man came in to interview with Whitcoff, interview with Lindsey Graham, and he's leaving,

00:25:37.080 what set of questions you're asking, are these guys walking out, calling Trump, saying, I think he's the guy, let's roll, he's going to get it done, you need to meet with him.

00:25:43.880 That didn't happen.

00:25:44.680 Why not?

00:25:45.780 Because if you would have met with him, what would you have told me, Tom, if you were impressed with a candidate?

00:25:52.320 Say you work for President Trump.

00:25:53.980 Say you met with Reza Pallavi.

00:25:55.380 Say you were blown away.

00:25:56.540 Say your name is Whitcoff.

00:25:57.520 What advice would you give me if I'm Trump?

00:26:00.300 I think we can support this guy because he can pull the coalition together and he's got the support of the military.

00:26:05.540 He'll need some of our intervention, some of our support, but I think his arms are long enough to pull the coalition together.

00:26:13.020 If you believed in him, how quickly would you say I should meet with him?

00:26:16.800 Mr. President, I think we should meet with him immediately.

00:26:19.100 Now that he's met with all of us and we've got our stuff in order, I think we need to make the plan.

00:26:24.060 Does that sound logical?

00:26:25.280 Yes.

00:26:25.740 And it didn't happen.

00:26:26.720 So why didn't it happen?

00:26:28.060 By the way, I'll change the names and listen to this.

00:26:31.060 You know who General Ver is?

00:26:32.500 V-E-R. 1.00

00:26:33.240 Very famous man in history.

00:26:34.940 General Ver was the evil general henchman for Ferdinand Marcos.

00:26:38.180 And General Ver pledged that he would support Marcos.

00:26:41.440 So that's when the CIA said, okay, Marcos is our guy.

00:26:44.220 Because for 20 years, General Ver supported Marcos in the Philippines.

00:26:49.840 And that's what kept the peace in the Philippines.

00:26:51.860 And the only reason that we selected Ferdinand Marcos, the CIA, was because he had the support of General Ver.

00:26:58.080 So this has happened before in history where the U.S. makes sure that that leader can carry the coalition.

00:27:07.300 And that's exactly what we have here.

00:27:09.060 And he can't.

00:27:09.620 Final thoughts.

00:27:09.960 I just want to thank you for your breakdown because it helped me come to this conclusion.

00:27:14.220 But Reza Pallavi is the opposite of Donald Trump.

00:27:19.140 Let me explain.

00:27:20.460 You talk about being battle-tested.

00:27:22.680 We have one woman on this panel today who predicted in 2015 Donald Trump would be the President of the United States.

00:27:28.780 But she did that when it was inconvenient and he was 1% chance.

00:27:32.700 But what did Trump do?

00:27:33.940 Get up on that stage and debate how many people?

00:27:37.380 Everybody.

00:27:37.780 20 different people?

00:27:38.980 Boom, Jeb Bush.

00:27:40.120 Boom, Marco Rubio.

00:27:41.520 Boom, boom, Scott Walker.

00:27:42.760 Bing, bing, bing.

00:27:43.280 And he won it.

00:27:44.960 Because in America, you know, we've been so focused on DEI, we still don't forget this is still a meritocracy.

00:27:51.340 And Trump showed up and said, I'm that dude.

00:27:53.880 And he took out Hillary Clinton.

00:27:56.260 The final point is here, just because your father was great doesn't mean that you're going to be great.

00:28:02.680 Is Michael Jordan's son in the NBA?

00:28:04.380 No.

00:28:04.560 Is Magic Johnson's son in the NBA?

00:28:06.780 No, he's wearing a dress somewhere.

00:28:08.520 Okay?

00:28:09.180 Did Bill Clinton's wife become President? 1.00

00:28:11.700 No.

00:28:12.360 Is Barack Obama's wife becoming President?

00:28:16.520 No.

00:28:17.340 So there's a meritocracy is what America's founded on.

00:28:21.140 This monarchy.

00:28:22.500 Iran, if that's what you're looking for.

00:28:23.920 But in America, that's not what we believe in.

00:28:26.360 Yeah.

00:28:27.320 If you have any thoughts, I'll give it to you.

00:28:28.820 If not, we'll go to the next story.

00:28:29.760 Let's go to the next story.

00:28:30.820 She's dying to talk more about Iran.

00:28:33.300 Sounds good.

00:28:34.040 Fair enough.

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00:28:36.740 And when Vinny does this, it's a very, very special moment.

00:28:39.720 So Vinny, tell us what you've been working on.

00:28:41.480 Thank you, Pat.

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00:28:51.720 So in Isaiah 6, verse 8, Isaiah has a vision of God in his throne.

00:28:57.020 And he's asking.

00:28:57.860 He wants somebody to step up to go to Israel to, you know, call people to God.

00:29:01.140 They're resisting.

00:29:01.760 They're rejecting him.

00:29:02.760 And God says, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

00:29:06.960 And Isaiah, knowing the cost, just answers quick.

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Valuetainment - January 17, 2026

“Pahlavi Is A Zoom Call Leader＂ - Trump DOUBTS Reza Pahlavi As Iran’s Future Leader

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