Valuetainment - October 03, 2022


Reaction to Iranian Protests Over Murder of Mahsa Amini - Will This Lead To a Revolution？


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17 minutes

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197.35558

Word Count

3,438

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273

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, an innocent woman in Iran named Mahsa Amini was murdered last week, September 16,
00:00:05.460 2022, in Iran that's led to civil unrest with a major uprising by the people who are sick
00:00:11.160 of the oppressive theocracy taking place there, and many millions around the world are asking
00:00:16.520 the question, will this revolution happen again where Iran will once again have a democracy?
00:00:22.840 Of course, they had a monarchy before, but will they have a democracy in Iran so people
00:00:27.460 can live freely?
00:00:28.260 So, I got a timeline of stuff I want to talk about.
00:00:30.880 Many have been asking me questions about, Pat, when are you going to talk about this?
00:00:33.360 Just so everybody knows, full disclaimer, we're shooting this today.
00:00:36.220 Today is September 24th, which is my son's birthday.
00:00:39.400 Everyone's waiting for me at the house, but this is a very important message because I
00:00:42.820 was born in Iran.
00:00:43.580 I lived there for 10 years.
00:00:45.040 We escaped six weeks after Khomeini died.
00:00:46.880 It was a very emotional moment.
00:00:48.060 I'll never forget the last day I left Iran, and we went to Germany, lived there, and I
00:00:51.980 finally made it to the States.
00:00:53.000 So, let's just get right into it.
00:00:54.140 So, Mahsa Amini, who on 9-13, she is seen out there wearing her hijab, but not fully.
00:01:00.560 She's wearing it loosely.
00:01:01.780 Well, the morality police sees it, arrests her.
00:01:04.620 There's videos of throwing her in a bus.
00:01:06.700 Her head hits the top of the bus.
00:01:08.260 She falls in there.
00:01:09.700 And then three days later, she dies.
00:01:11.560 The government says she died from a heart attack, who, 22 years old, dies from a heart
00:01:15.200 attack.
00:01:15.980 But many are investigating, and some are saying that while she was in the bus, she was beaten,
00:01:20.500 she was hit, and, you know, concussion, many different stories that she has.
00:01:25.160 And then three days later, she dies.
00:01:26.680 So, this created a major, major momentum to the protesting that was taking place.
00:01:32.820 But the question becomes, why all of a sudden, the anti-hijab, you know, protesting?
00:01:38.340 I mean, did something change?
00:01:39.980 Was there a different ruling recently?
00:01:41.880 So, the answer is yes.
00:01:42.700 Let me get right into what happened with this ruling.
00:01:45.720 So, the hijab originally came March 7th, 79, two months after Khomeini took over Iran.
00:01:52.920 So, the revolution takes place.
00:01:54.500 I'm a 78 baby, October 18th.
00:01:57.160 Revolution's going on in 78.
00:01:59.160 The Shah's in exile in January of 79.
00:02:02.840 Khomeini comes in from France.
00:02:04.480 There's a whole ceremony, all this stuff that happens.
00:02:07.080 March 7th, he says, moving forward, every woman needs to wear a hijab.
00:02:10.200 By the way, it was like this.
00:02:12.080 They're not loosely back in the days.
00:02:14.040 Because he considered any woman that was showing her hair in public or workplace naked.
00:02:19.760 That's what he said.
00:02:20.940 Now, keep in mind, that's March 7th, 1979.
00:02:22.700 What does that have to do with today?
00:02:23.920 Because over the years, they got a little bit looser.
00:02:25.700 And, you know, you kind of wore it, but it's not like fully covered like it used to be.
00:02:29.780 Well, 2021, President Raisi gets elected.
00:02:34.320 Now, what you need to know about President Raisi, he gets elected on August 3rd, 2021.
00:02:39.260 A little over 12 months ago, 13 months ago.
00:02:41.700 On August 15th, 2022, which is only five weeks ago.
00:02:46.740 You're going to realize how this momentum is getting created.
00:02:49.400 He enforces new restrictions.
00:02:51.120 I want to read it to you.
00:02:51.960 Introduction of surveillance cameras to monitor and find unveiled women or refer them for counseling.
00:02:59.580 Think about it.
00:03:00.120 If you're a lady watching this right now, if you're showing a little bit of your hair, you
00:03:03.100 got to go for counseling on why you should wear this hijab.
00:03:06.360 And mandatory prison sentence for any Iranian who questioned or posted content against the
00:03:12.960 hijab rules online.
00:03:14.260 The restrictions led to an increase in arrests, but also sparked a surge in women posting photos
00:03:20.080 and videos of themselves without headscarves on social media, something that has only intensified
00:03:25.400 in the days following Ms. Amini's death.
00:03:28.940 So you kind of see now what's going on with the momentum.
00:03:30.900 Now, who is Raisi?
00:03:32.820 Let's kind of see who this Raisi guy is.
00:03:34.300 Just so you know, just a few days ago, he spoke at United Nations about trusting U.S.
00:03:39.580 in a negotiation with nuclear, you know, the whole nuclear negotiation they're having.
00:03:43.820 He just talked at United Nations.
00:03:45.600 While this is taking place, his background, for some that don't know, he won last year
00:03:52.300 in the lowest election turnout ever since the revolution in 79.
00:03:56.140 Let me say this one more time.
00:03:57.460 43 years, lowest election turnout since 79.
00:04:01.300 Many, many, many Iranians don't believe it was a fair election that they took place.
00:04:08.100 Now, this guy, a couple of things you need to know about him.
00:04:10.140 His lineage is through Khamenei.
00:04:11.320 A lot of people are thinking he's going to replace Khamenei.
00:04:13.600 And in 1988, he participated in the mass execution of political prisoners.
00:04:18.020 This is proven.
00:04:19.120 This is something everyone knows about in Iran.
00:04:21.060 Everybody just kind of looks away because it's kind of normal in this context.
00:04:25.540 So that's Raisi.
00:04:27.380 So the momentum with women is because of what he said on August 15th.
00:04:31.240 So ladies are like, women are like, what are you talking about?
00:04:33.320 We're not going to be doing this.
00:04:34.660 So the courage of women pushing back and saying no.
00:04:37.500 So what do they do?
00:04:38.220 They start cutting their hair.
00:04:39.220 Many of them protesting.
00:04:40.200 They're taking it off.
00:04:41.180 They're burning it.
00:04:41.800 If you go watch some of these videos, they're burning their headscarves and they're just
00:04:44.740 throwing it in there.
00:04:45.440 And this protesting is going and going and going.
00:04:48.260 And then Bumasa Amini is wearing it loosely.
00:04:50.860 She goes in there and she becomes a martyr.
00:04:53.680 Now, why is this tragic event extremely important for us to consider?
00:04:59.720 A few things we got to keep in mind.
00:05:01.200 History of Iran.
00:05:02.660 So I'm a revolution baby.
00:05:04.880 In Iran, when Jimmy Carter came December 31st of 1977 and did a toast with the Shah and
00:05:10.780 he said Iran's a great ally.
00:05:12.620 At that time, there was no issues in the Middle East.
00:05:16.720 Middle East was peaceful.
00:05:17.980 Obviously not perfect, but it was peaceful because there was strength in Iran, good relationship
00:05:24.260 with Israel, and nobody could go around bullying and taking advantage of people.
00:05:27.960 It was fairly peaceful.
00:05:29.580 So now, Iran is out there.
00:05:32.540 Khomeini sending his tapes to Iran and saying, it's not fair that this man is so rich.
00:05:35.960 It's not fair that this man is so rich.
00:05:37.440 Why should Iran have, why should the Shah be so rich?
00:05:39.600 Why should the Shah be so rich?
00:05:40.680 All of this stuff that they're talking about for the monarchy.
00:05:43.640 Khomeini, and then all of a sudden, an event takes place in Abaddon, South Iran.
00:05:49.720 It's where the oil refineries are.
00:05:51.540 It's a peninsula.
00:05:52.160 It's actually a beautiful place.
00:05:53.660 A movie theater called Cinema Rex Fire.
00:05:55.900 You can go look this up for yourself.
00:05:57.640 Cinema, like cinema, C-I-N-E-M-A, Rex, R-E-X, Fire.
00:06:01.520 Cinema Rex Fire takes place.
00:06:04.200 400 people are at a movie theater watching a movie.
00:06:07.420 Everyone's trying to find out who did this.
00:06:08.940 They lock the doors up where no one can leave, and they burn the place up.
00:06:14.420 400 people inside burn.
00:06:16.600 Right across the street from Cinema Rex Fire is a police station where there's cops right
00:06:20.400 across.
00:06:21.020 Nobody comes and nothing.
00:06:22.780 Well, 400 people die.
00:06:24.480 This event also happens in August, by the way, of 1978, five months before the revolution takes
00:06:30.420 place.
00:06:30.880 Six months before, five months before the revolution takes place.
00:06:33.600 Boom.
00:06:33.880 Boom.
00:06:34.520 Everybody blames Sabak, which is Shah's secret police that he had, and then next thing you
00:06:40.220 know, boom.
00:06:41.480 People said, this is unfair.
00:06:43.920 First thousands showed up for protesting, then tens, then hundreds, then nine million revolted
00:06:50.720 against the Shah, then Shah was in exile.
00:06:53.280 He leaves.
00:06:54.160 You ready for this?
00:06:54.920 Years later, years later, after this takes place, an Islamist extremist confessed and
00:07:03.580 was persecuted for the arson.
00:07:06.100 It was never the Shah.
00:07:08.060 But the point is, that alone created enough momentum for the regime to fall.
00:07:14.260 So now somebody, if you're Iranian, you're watching, you're not Iranian, you're watching
00:07:16.740 and saying, Pat, who cares about this?
00:07:18.220 That fall caused seven wars.
00:07:23.660 I don't know how many people died.
00:07:25.140 We can say half a million to two million people who died.
00:07:27.920 Okay?
00:07:28.200 We can put the number a lot higher than that as well.
00:07:31.200 Forty-three million refugees who left because of that one story that they were able to spin.
00:07:37.340 So what's this got to do with Masiamini?
00:07:40.160 There is no spinning here.
00:07:41.700 This is a true story with what happened.
00:07:43.780 Today, versus 1978, there's something called social media, where in 1978, you can manipulate
00:07:51.080 and confuse anybody and gaslight the hell out of them and say, this is what happened
00:07:55.100 and you kind of have to believe it.
00:07:57.200 You can, for yourself, go do research and type in Masa Amini, thrown in a bus, watch the video,
00:08:02.740 boom, her head hits the top, and then see what she looks like in a hospital, in coma
00:08:07.040 for three days, and she dies.
00:08:08.620 There's a reason why Iran turned off the internet, where people don't have access at night, because
00:08:13.580 that's when people are protesting, because they don't want the world to see what's going
00:08:16.800 on in Iran.
00:08:17.800 The people of Iran are sick of it.
00:08:19.740 Here's what's interesting about this thing, where they are really taking notice.
00:08:24.040 Women, it's women who are standing up and saying, we're done.
00:08:27.840 By the way, one police officer died.
00:08:29.980 Three pastors have already died.
00:08:32.180 They're standing up to these cops and these people, Hezbollahs, that are coming on, trying
00:08:36.020 to bully them.
00:08:37.260 And the women, women are not scared.
00:08:39.380 Now, youth is rising up.
00:08:41.360 Artists, entrepreneurs, businessmen are saying their part.
00:08:45.080 People are supporting the protesting that's taking place.
00:08:48.000 You're seeing, I think, 7,000 people yesterday were at the federal building in LA or Irvine,
00:08:52.720 in Berlin, all over the world.
00:08:54.800 Iranians are protesting to show support for what is taking place today there.
00:08:59.860 But will this be the tipping point for the revolution to take place?
00:09:03.480 Because the reality of it is, while this is going on, there's a few things that they
00:09:07.140 don't have.
00:09:07.620 They don't have the internet.
00:09:08.380 So yesterday, a lot of people the last few days have been asking Elon Musk, Starlink,
00:09:13.900 can you turn it on?
00:09:14.540 Can you turn it on?
00:09:15.180 Can you turn it on?
00:09:16.040 Boom.
00:09:16.740 He says yesterday when Twitter was asking him, he says Starlink has been activated.
00:09:22.980 For Iran, he did the same thing with Ukraine, which is a very good thing.
00:09:26.100 Now, we're verifying to see if the people in Iran have it or not.
00:09:29.360 Some are saying they have it.
00:09:30.300 Some are saying they don't have it.
00:09:31.180 But the good news is, Musk has given him the internet.
00:09:33.580 FYI, I think the guy deserves a Nobel Prize.
00:09:35.500 If Nobel Prize doesn't see this as a humanitarian type of a creation where he's given access
00:09:41.640 to people around the world, internet access, where their government's taking advantage of
00:09:45.760 them, I mean, that's got to be at the highest level of humanitarian to help those people
00:09:49.360 out.
00:09:49.540 But let me go back to this part.
00:09:51.260 What do they need?
00:09:52.180 What do Iranians need today?
00:09:53.480 And who can potentially help them?
00:09:55.140 And who probably will not help them?
00:09:57.260 They need internet.
00:09:58.160 Well, Starlink is hopefully going to help them out.
00:10:00.620 They need arms.
00:10:01.580 Who's going to help them out with arms?
00:10:03.200 And they need a leader.
00:10:04.660 There's a lot of people that are talking different things.
00:10:06.820 Apparently, last month, the Queen Farah of Iran, Shah's wife, said, I am ready to come
00:10:12.180 back to Iran.
00:10:12.940 And people were so excited.
00:10:14.580 Her son talks very eloquently, very smart guy, very educated guy, Reza Pahlavi.
00:10:19.240 And he said a few words as well.
00:10:21.160 Ali Karimi, who's a soccer player, legendary soccer player in Iran, has said many, many
00:10:26.940 different things, supportive of what's going on there.
00:10:30.000 He posted something about Berlin, I believe, on Instagram yesterday or maybe today on what's
00:10:34.060 going on there.
00:10:34.900 He's in Iran.
00:10:35.920 He's a very important voice that a lot of people are getting behind.
00:10:38.920 I think he's got 11.3 million followers on Instagram, 11.5 million followers on Instagram.
00:10:43.280 Dariush, a very famous singer, has said his own words as well.
00:10:45.900 A lot of people are coming out, but regardless of it, Iran needs help.
00:10:51.160 So what can happen for these folks to get momentum?
00:10:54.600 Because they don't have guns.
00:10:56.120 It's not like Second Amendment, USA type of a situation where they have guns.
00:10:59.800 So where are they going to get their arms from?
00:11:02.080 Where are they going to get that kind of arms where they can fight back against the government?
00:11:07.780 Let's think about some people here.
00:11:09.420 Number one, Turkey.
00:11:10.780 Will Turkey help Iran?
00:11:12.160 I don't know if they will.
00:11:13.220 Why?
00:11:13.460 Because Khamenei, Raisi, was recently apparently seen shaking hands with Pashinyan to help Armenia.
00:11:21.740 And if Iran helps Armenia, Turkey has got Azerbaijan's back.
00:11:26.960 Turkey is going to be like, wait, Iran, you're helping Armenia.
00:11:29.360 Armenia, Azerbaijan, we're not going to help you.
00:11:31.120 So Turkey is probably not going to help.
00:11:32.300 They may, but they're not going to help.
00:11:34.280 Afghanistan would probably sell.
00:11:36.380 You know, that's being ran by extremists.
00:11:38.360 So what they're looking for is money.
00:11:40.000 But these people don't have money.
00:11:41.100 U.S. is probably not going to help because the last time this happened, when people like
00:11:46.060 from the conservative, not even the conservative side, people who want democracy in Iran to
00:11:50.840 be free, for whatever reason, the current type of a regime in U.S. hasn't helped people.
00:11:56.580 Because Joe Biden will be compared to a Jimmy Carter.
00:11:59.480 Jimmy Carter had a chance to help Iran to prevent this from happening.
00:12:02.520 He did not.
00:12:03.120 Joe Biden has a chance to help Iran as well.
00:12:06.340 We don't know if he is or not.
00:12:07.380 But there's one nation that can help him out.
00:12:09.800 And it's the most hated country in the face of Iranian government.
00:12:17.040 Maybe the most hated or the second most hated.
00:12:19.500 And that is Israel.
00:12:21.040 Israel is one that could help.
00:12:22.760 Because back in the days, Israel knew how peaceful Middle East was when Iran was peaceful
00:12:27.560 with the Shah because they had a good relationship to get a decent relationship together.
00:12:31.140 So they can help.
00:12:32.560 Now, what's going to happen between now and then?
00:12:34.560 Nobody knows.
00:12:35.480 You have to think what Raisi is thinking about right now.
00:12:38.820 The only thing in their minds is, you know, you hear day six of protesting, day seven of
00:12:43.720 protesting, day eight of protesting.
00:12:45.760 All they're hoping is for this to die down and literally go away.
00:12:50.520 That is what they're hoping for.
00:12:52.000 But the longer this thing goes and the more momentum this protesting catches and the more
00:12:57.440 power they get and others realize that the people are willing to go to the highest levels
00:13:02.320 today, I think support may show up somewhere.
00:13:05.440 But my hopes and prayers are that one of those nations comes out, figures out a way to help
00:13:12.180 these guys out.
00:13:13.060 Because a civil unrest in Iran, it doesn't help anybody.
00:13:17.820 It hurts everybody around the world, not just the Middle East.
00:13:21.360 It also hurts U.S.
00:13:22.800 So, again, these are my thoughts on what's going on.
00:13:26.120 We are currently working with some people behind closed doors who also bring more voice
00:13:30.680 to this matter.
00:13:31.480 Stay tuned on the content while we're talking about these issues.
00:13:35.740 We're also going to be talking about this on PBD Podcast.
00:13:38.220 But I got a final message to people in Iran, as well as Iranians around the world or anybody
00:13:43.040 around the world that's watching this.
00:13:44.800 To the people around the world, how you can help is to create more awareness on this.
00:13:48.040 Share this content.
00:13:48.700 Go watch some of the videos on Mass Amity to find out exactly what's going on.
00:13:51.480 There's some really tragic videos I don't want to show you because it's tough to watch.
00:13:55.160 But if you've got the courage to watch it, go do it and raise awareness for it.
00:13:58.460 Number two, to the people of Iran, if you're watching this, man, let me tell you what my
00:14:02.720 biggest concern is.
00:14:03.640 And I said this the other day.
00:14:07.140 Parents who have kids, they're not going to share this video with their kids to watch.
00:14:12.260 Why?
00:14:12.500 Because parents know the risk of their kids wanting to actually cause a revolution to happen.
00:14:20.960 Okay?
00:14:21.480 And these protests and reading to fall of an empire.
00:14:24.340 The risk a parent faces is losing your child.
00:14:28.020 There's nothing more painful than that.
00:14:29.840 So I totally understand why for the last 43 years, even though there have been many different
00:14:34.100 protests, 2019, we can go back and talk about different ones that has happened.
00:14:37.720 Water, grain.
00:14:38.580 I mean, I can talk about all of those things.
00:14:39.940 But the focus is today.
00:14:41.700 I don't blame the parents for their fears of what can happen to their kids.
00:14:45.180 Kids.
00:14:46.060 And when I say kids, I don't mean kids like your kids.
00:14:48.520 You could be 25, 35, 45 years old.
00:14:51.480 You have to know what you're getting yourself into.
00:14:53.780 Um, and unfortunately, if it's not going to be you, it's going to be, fortunately, it's
00:15:00.840 going to be somebody.
00:15:02.080 It could be a generation from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from
00:15:05.940 now.
00:15:06.420 There's eventually going to come a generation that's going to say, we are done.
00:15:12.720 But to say you're done, and if you're going to go, you have to fully go.
00:15:17.580 Um, it's easier said than done for me on this side, sitting in the camera where I'm not in
00:15:22.260 Iran.
00:15:22.580 So some of you may say, who are you to say something like that?
00:15:24.760 Look, I totally understand your position to say that.
00:15:27.020 I'm just telling you, I live there.
00:15:28.880 And I'm in US right now because our people fell for a gimmick and the people revolted without
00:15:36.100 any access to media.
00:15:37.620 Today, you're able to get access to media to share your story where people around the world
00:15:41.660 are sitting there saying, this is not fair, where eventually their congressmen, you know,
00:15:45.880 whoever they push to say, we have to help something.
00:15:48.640 We have to help people of Iran.
00:15:49.920 Just like Nancy Pelosi went to Armenia to show support to Armenia while the Azerbaijan issue
00:15:55.900 was taking place and they killed a couple hundred Armenians.
00:15:57.980 She showed up during a time like this.
00:16:00.360 This is where it would be very interesting to see one of the superpowers showing support
00:16:04.940 to the people of Iran.
00:16:07.200 So I support you, man.
00:16:09.660 I got a lot of respect for you.
00:16:10.820 I salute you.
00:16:12.360 I think the world who is wanting to see Iran become a democracy and become free again wants
00:16:18.180 to see this become a reality.
00:16:19.600 And the truth of the matter is there's going to be some leaders that are going to rise up
00:16:23.440 at this time that we don't even know your names, but we're going to know your names.
00:16:26.940 There's going to be some people that are going to stand up and say, this is just not going
00:16:29.340 to happen anymore.
00:16:30.500 And for you to choose to do this, I salute your courage.
00:16:34.920 I can't wait to come and visit Iran one day when it's free again.
00:16:37.860 But it happened with a lot of people uniting together and keeping this message going and
00:16:43.940 a few leaders to choose to rise up and inspire others to say, hey, let's fight for our freedom
00:16:48.220 because this is enough.
00:16:49.900 And history tells us this has happened before and it can happen again.
00:16:52.980 But it'll only happen with a lot of courage.
00:16:56.200 So my prayers are with you.
00:16:57.600 My support is with you.
00:16:59.060 And I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of advancement this will make.
00:17:03.380 So that's my thoughts in regards to Iran.
00:17:06.060 Now, for some of you guys that are not very familiar with the history of U.S. and Iran conflict
00:17:10.620 and you want to know a little bit more, I made a video a few years ago that I went into details on this.
00:17:16.780 If you've never seen it, click here to watch it.
00:17:20.020 Everybody else, if you want to create awareness, share this video with others.
00:17:24.260 Take care, everybody.
00:17:24.980 Bye-bye.