Valuetainment - “Punish Them As Traitors” - Iranian Soccer Team THREATENED By State TV Over Defection

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00:00:30.000 There was a BBC reporter that's sitting down with, I believe he's the ambassador, if I'm not mistaken, is it?

00:00:37.460 Iran's ambassador to UK, Saeed Ali Mousavi, about protesters being killed by the Iranian government.

00:00:43.400 Look at the way he answers.

00:00:45.260 This we know, that Iran, unlike any other country, is willing to cure their own people. 0.98

00:00:53.240 And not by one or two or three, by the thousands.

00:00:58.520 Now, whether the number is 5,000 or 100,000,

00:01:01.140 they're doing that to themselves.

00:01:02.920 Watch this interview with BBC, Rob.

00:01:04.460 Go ahead and play this clip. Go for it.

00:01:05.640 Your country is under attack,

00:01:07.440 but your people have also been under attack.

00:01:10.200 Since we last spoke,

00:01:12.160 your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets

00:01:15.340 who had the courage to stand up to protest against the suffering

00:01:18.220 that they have been experiencing at the hands of the regime.

00:01:22.600 Thousands of people were killed.

00:01:24.420 How on earth do you justify that, Ambassador?

00:01:26.340 The Iranian side has their own problems due to the economic sanctions against us.

00:01:31.420 And the Iranian people, unfortunately, has their own problems, you know, in this matter.

00:01:36.500 But I do believe, I do believe, yes, now our people are in a very painful and sensitive period of time.

00:01:49.820 but they are supporting the government against the foreign invaders, foreign aggressors.

00:01:56.860 You see, if you go to the inside of Iran, you can see one solidarity, one unity among the people.

00:02:03.420 Ambassador, we would love to be able to report independently from inside Iran to see what is really going on.

00:02:09.420 Why not?

00:02:10.000 But we have seen much of what has gone on.

00:02:12.780 Just this morning, I looked at many of the images and watched some of the videos

00:02:16.160 from what happened to protesters in your country in January.

00:02:21.240 I looked at images and videos verified independently

00:02:24.960 by our colleagues at BBC Verify

00:02:27.040 that show body bags littered over the courtyard of a mortuary,

00:02:31.840 the Karizak Forensic Medical Centre in Iran.

00:02:33.880 This we know about Iran. They killed our own people. 1.00

00:02:35.620 I saw images of young, old teenagers,

00:02:40.040 people killed by your government,

00:02:43.220 Beaten faces, bloodied bodies, gunshot wounds.

00:02:46.360 How on earth do you justify that and sit there today saying,

00:02:50.260 our people have some complaints?

00:02:52.400 Your government killed thousands of their own people,

00:02:55.080 and the world saw that.

00:02:57.160 Listen to his answer.

00:02:58.180 I, again, I recommend you to be very vigilant and delicate.

00:03:03.400 And our colleagues have verified those images independently, Mr. Ambassador.

00:03:08.600 Let me finish.

00:03:10.020 And so I do not want to say that we do not have any problem.

00:03:14.260 No.

00:03:15.440 The problem there are, the problems there are in our country. 0.87

00:03:18.100 You're killing your own people. 0.96

00:03:19.260 What do you mean we do not have any problem? 0.99

00:03:20.540 You control that.

00:03:21.440 How to address this kind of problems according to the Iranian laws and regulations.

00:03:24.420 No, no, no, no, no.

00:03:25.500 You killed your own people. 0.98

00:03:27.800 You can pause it right there. 0.98

00:03:28.980 So guess what?

00:03:30.220 This we know.

00:03:32.660 Trust what people are saying.

00:03:34.940 Everybody else that's got opinions, they got opinions.

00:03:37.380 We're all in a different camp.

00:03:40.780 What we do know is they're willing to kill their own people.

00:03:45.600 There's a group of Iranian soccer players in Australia who they had a, they're singing a national anthem.

00:03:54.740 They refuse to sing along.

00:03:57.440 Okay.

00:03:58.100 Rob, can you go to that one right there?

00:03:59.640 But actually go to the other one first.

00:04:01.520 So they refuse to sing along.

00:04:03.800 And they're in the bus above.

00:04:06.120 Okay, play the clip, Rob, if you could.

00:04:09.260 They're not singing along.

00:04:11.920 They're in the bus above, leaving Australia.

00:04:19.180 People are begging for Australia to not allow them to return back to Iran. 1.00

00:04:25.280 Now, watch how this one-man Iranian guy reacts to this, 1.00

00:04:29.640 suggesting how the Iranian government should react to these brave women

00:04:33.680 who don't stand for their government

00:04:35.940 killing their own innocent people.

00:04:39.180 Rob, go back to the other clip if you could. 0.59

00:04:41.240 Right there, watch this one.

00:04:42.380 And while you're doing it, Pat,

00:04:43.060 they're doing sign language saying,

00:04:45.400 help us on the bus, don't let us go back,

00:04:48.240 because they know what's going to happen to them.

00:04:49.760 Watch what this man says and try to read the captions.

00:04:53.280 Go for it.

00:04:55.320 You punish traitors harder during war.

00:04:59.980 Whoever takes one wrong step against the country during war

00:05:03.340 You have to respond to them harder.

00:05:07.020 Like the story of our women's national team not singing the anthem.

00:05:12.680 You have to respond harshly.

00:05:15.780 This is not a symbolic act or mere protest.

00:05:19.120 Not singing the anthem is the highest order of treason.

00:05:23.400 Both people and officials must treat them as traitors.

00:05:28.360 This is not a symbolic act. 0.97

00:05:33.340 Ride traitors on their foreheads and punish them severely. 0.97

00:05:37.140 This is Iran. 0.97

00:05:38.380 Who speaks like this in America? Pause it right there.

00:05:40.460 And let me ask you a question.

00:05:42.000 What do you think they are going to do to those women? 0.99

00:05:44.940 Because they're going to go back eventually.

00:05:46.900 What do you think they're going to do to them?

00:05:48.040 First of all, huge credit to them for having the freaking brave to do that,

00:05:53.600 knowing what's going to happen.

00:05:55.360 And, by the way, you know, this reminds me of Uday and Kusey,

00:05:57.900 which Saddam Hussein's son, he owned the national Iraq team.

00:06:02.160 And, Pat, he'd have a dungeon in the stadium. 0.98

00:06:04.960 He'd put players upside down and beat the crap under their feet 1.00

00:06:07.840 if they lost games or they did something stupid. 1.00

00:06:10.360 That's Saddam Hussein's kids, which were Uday and Kusey, 1.00

00:06:13.280 which were absolutely nuts.

00:06:14.520 I believe it was Uday. 0.99

00:06:15.280 Would beat the hell out of them, would torture them. 0.97

00:06:17.520 What are they going to do? 0.99

00:06:18.360 They have to go back.

00:06:19.520 They have to go back. 0.98

00:06:20.940 So this is the freaking Iran that we're dealing with. 1.00

00:06:25.120 And I get it. 0.99

00:06:26.400 It's horrible.

00:06:27.800 It's horrible.

00:06:29.300 This is a new definition of soccer hooligans.

00:06:32.160 I remember growing up, I think it was Colombia.

00:06:35.940 They scored their own goal, and they killed the guy that scored that boat.

00:06:39.640 But this is different in Iran.

00:06:41.020 Look, we just had the Olympics in America.

00:06:42.780 We saw what the U.S. men's hockey team stood for.

00:06:46.720 We loved it.

00:06:47.480 It was incredible.

00:06:48.600 They're down here celebrating at 11, and then they go to the White House.

00:06:51.540 We loved it.

00:06:52.220 On the flip side, we had whatever the skier, whatever his name was,

00:06:55.860 basically saying, you know, I'm representing America,

00:06:58.460 but I don't believe in America.

00:06:59.780 What happened to him?

00:07:01.160 He was shamed.

00:07:02.160 Okay, you know, do better, stand for the flag.

00:07:06.100 Okay, there's the shaming.

00:07:08.180 Then there's like, well, let's hold them accountable.

00:07:11.180 Maybe there's some legal ramifications of quote-unquote being a traitor,

00:07:14.260 whatever that means.

00:07:15.380 In this side of the world, with these ideological nutjobs, 0.99

00:07:20.940 they will kill you if you don't agree with them. 0.95

00:07:23.880 The person that said harsh punishment, you know who he was?

00:07:27.400 He's not a podcaster.

00:07:29.020 He's not a regular guy.

00:07:30.600 Pull up who it was, because I know people are going to say,

00:07:32.440 well, who is that guy?

00:07:33.220 Who cares what a guy like that would say?

00:07:35.380 The guy, according to Grok, that said what he said,

00:07:40.380 is Mohammad Reza Shahbazi, a presenter on Iran's state TV.

00:07:46.400 It's their state TV, which means he's representing who?

00:07:49.380 The state.

00:07:50.440 Of course.

00:07:50.880 He's the commentator threatening harsher punishment for the women's team

00:07:54.280 as wartime traitors after they didn't sing the anthem.

00:07:58.240 That's what they stand for.

00:07:59.360 Can you imagine, like, Abbie or Scott Jennings or Hannity or Anderson Cooper?

00:08:06.000 You know what?

00:08:06.740 If Colin Kaepernick didn't stand up, we should give harsher punishment.

00:08:11.140 Are you out of your mind?

00:08:14.140 Like, to us, if somebody said fire him, oh, my God, this man is trying to.

00:08:20.460 No, no, they're saying harsher punishment.

00:08:22.980 What do you think harsher punishment?

00:08:24.220 That's the guy right there, by the way.

00:08:26.020 Mohammed Reza, Shabazi is an Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting,

00:08:30.600 representing who?

00:08:31.400 Whatever the Iranian government wants.

00:08:33.040 His payment comes from the state.

00:08:35.060 He's not going to say anything.

00:08:36.120 Horrible sweater.

00:08:36.620 Rob, will you go down?

00:08:37.720 Is there a breaking story?

00:08:38.700 Can I tell you what the biggest thing is?

00:08:41.000 I understand the soccer situation, Pat.

00:08:43.220 There's something bigger.

00:08:44.240 And it's this article here from the Wall Street Journal where it says

00:08:46.620 their neighbors, the Gulf states, had a strategy of playing nice with Iran

00:08:51.060 and it failed.

00:08:52.120 Do you want to get into that?

00:08:53.060 Yes.

00:08:53.260 So the Gulf Arab states and the U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE spent the past few years betting that it was safer to be friendly on friendly terms and hostile around than rather than confront it.

00:09:06.100 That bet didn't work.

00:09:07.900 And then it obviously goes on to basically spell out what's happened.

00:09:11.360 Here's my opinion.

00:09:12.720 I think the Gulf states, they recognize what's happening in their region.

00:09:17.500 You know, I've talked about this before, GDP versus GDT, gross domestic product versus gross domestic terrorism.

00:09:24.220 All these states are trying to say, listen, the Middle East may be the future.

00:09:28.860 I saw what you said in your regime collapsing.

00:09:32.900 Maybe there's one day we go back to Iran. 0.74

00:09:35.240 Maybe it's the Paris, the Middle East again. 0.96

00:09:37.400 I think we're a long way from that happening.

00:09:39.140 But the Paris and the Middle East right now is Dubai, is the UAE.

00:09:44.480 You think that they want this tension here?

00:09:46.260 so it's almost like they said no like let's let them be crazy we don't want to deal with it but 0.93

00:09:50.740 you know what happens with crazy people they act crazy and iran starts attacking everybody around 0.79

00:09:57.480 them the uae kuwait they start throwing missiles everywhere they start attacking saudi saudi wants

00:10:03.380 to have regional hegemony right all these countries have oil all these countries want tourism all

00:10:08.960 these countries with pragmatic arab leaders want to have the two things that every other country

00:10:14.780 wants what's that peace and prosperity iran doesn't want peace and prosperity so i think it's

00:10:21.880 like this they've awoken a giant in the middle east everybody recognizes that iran is the smelly

00:10:27.800 kid on the playground and nobody wants to play with these people even their own neighbors and

00:10:32.720 now they're all saying time to take this regime out by the way vinnie just sent something vinnie

00:10:37.520 if you want to send what you just yeah so so right now five iran women's soccer players defect

00:10:42.440 with help of police following Asia Cup in Australia.

00:10:46.460 So five players, sources with direct knowledge of the event

00:10:49.240 speaking anonymously due to ongoing danger faced by the squad

00:10:52.340 say that the operation occurred after Iran's final match

00:10:55.020 of the Asian Women's Cup.

00:10:56.020 So these girls are like, hey, listen, we know what's coming. 1.00

00:10:59.660 We don't want to go back home.

00:11:00.860 Can you guys please protect us?

00:11:02.040 And that's what you have right there.

00:11:03.880 But mind you, there's still about, what, 15 to 20 still traveling,

00:11:08.320 substitutions and all that stuff that are still going back at them

00:11:11.100 and they're going to have to face the fire.

00:11:12.440 By the way, this is common every time there's a World Cup or an Olympics.

00:11:17.240 Right now in Miami, there's the World International Baseball Classic.

00:11:21.880 When you live in these despotic regimes, whether it's Cuba, whether it's Iran,

00:11:26.800 whether it's North Korea, wherever you end up, and you recognize,

00:11:30.440 oh, my God, I'm in the liberal Western world.

00:11:34.220 I'm in the United States now.

00:11:35.600 I'm in Australia.

00:11:36.720 I don't have to wear a hijab every second of the day.

00:11:39.420 I can speak my mind.

00:11:40.700 they all basically are like yeah i'm i'm not going back so this is not unique but i totally

00:11:46.620 understand why the women are enacting this yeah listen respect to them god willing nothing happens 0.69

00:11:51.360 to them and uh they get the protection they deserve because they're against here's the facts

00:11:57.700 what we do know is the iranian regime hates their own people that they're willing to kill them 0.99

00:12:03.580 if god forbid you go on the street saying we don't like the way you treat us we'll kill you 1.00

00:12:08.340 That's the state. 1.00

00:12:09.660 That's their state.

00:12:10.740 Hannity Anderson Cooper saying we need to, you know,

00:12:13.680 bring harsh punishment to the people that are going against us.

00:12:18.020 So why is anybody, Iran State TV.

00:12:20.560 Before we move on, I just want to get your last opinion on this.

00:12:23.680 You said 81% of the Iranian people hate the regime.

00:12:27.980 Do you think that number has changed in the last week?

00:12:31.000 Meaning less or higher?

00:12:32.460 Meaning whether it may be.

00:12:33.680 I think the hardliners, whether it's 10%, they're going to double down.

00:12:38.660 They're doing this. 0.96

00:12:39.420 Basically kill any dissenters.

00:12:41.540 Do you think that 80 is now 90 now that they're smelling freedom?

00:12:44.660 Do you think that they're seeing their country maybe burning

00:12:47.320 and maybe the 80 is now closer to 70?

00:12:50.180 Or that 80 is entrenched forever and it can only go higher?

00:12:53.480 I don't know.

00:12:54.140 I think, listen, I think the whole concept of freedom, long-term wins.

00:12:59.980 During COVID, think about the people that we're talking about.

00:13:02.660 Shut down, shut down, shut down.

00:13:04.480 Take the vaccine, take the vaccine, take the vaccine.

00:13:06.880 You know, yeah, kids shouldn't go to school.

00:13:08.820 And they were supporting it.

00:13:10.040 What happened?

00:13:10.780 They went like this, and then all of a sudden they went like this.

00:13:13.700 They're like, wait a minute, what are you talking about?

00:13:15.480 I'll never forget, what was her name?

00:13:17.540 Sharon Osbourne.

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00:13:30.880 But so many people are willing to go here.

00:13:33.360 And then what typically brings everybody back?

00:13:36.220 Freedom and common sense brings everybody eventually to here.

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Valuetainment - March 11, 2026

“Punish Them As Traitors” - Iranian Soccer Team THREATENED By State TV Over Defection

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