“TORTURED Into Confessing” - Iranian Wrestler EXECUTED In BRUTAL Regime Crackdown
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In this episode, we discuss the recent execution of Iranian champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, who was killed in the street for protesting against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran. The execution has sparked international outrage.
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If you live in a free country, you almost don't believe these stories.
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You're going to say there's no way this is true, and this is what's happening.
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executes champion wrestler as Iran intensifies brutal crackdown during war.
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There's a video of them, Rob, if you want to see them in court, right there.
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Fighting war against God by drawing a cold weapon, such as a knife or sword, during illegal gatherings and riots,
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and causing violence that leads to murder and martyrdom is a serious matter.
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Unfortunately, in the city of Qom, during the early hours of the night on the 18th, such a tragic event occurred.
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So this is what the court is saying. These are the three boys. You can stop it right there.
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Yes. So while this is happening, in Iran, let me read this story to you, and I want to come to you guys.
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i'm gonna come to you guys islamic republic of iran judiciary on thursday ignore the u.s
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state department warning along with pleas from elite iranian american wrestlers to not execute
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19 year old champion wrestler saleh mohammadi for protesting against the khamenei regime
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reports say mohammadi was killed in a public hanging seen as a barbaric move by the iranian
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regime to snuff out the ongoing movement seeking to topple it neemah fader human rights activist
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and iranian combat athlete who's an expert on elite iranian wrestling told fox news digital
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his execution was a blatant political murder part of the islamic republic pattern of targeting
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athletes who crush dissent and terrorize society as seen with navid afghari and others executed
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He said the IOC, International Olympic Committee,
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should have intervened forcefully with public ultimatums
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threatening immediate suspension of Iran's NOC,
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if the killing proceeded rather than relying on ineffective
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to protect athletes from politically motivated harm.
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The human rights group said that he was tortured into confessing to a crime that he didn't do.
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Because there's people that will say, no, they killed a couple people.
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Repeat what you just said right now, please, again.
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The human rights group said that Mohammadi was tortured into confessing to the capital charge
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of waging war against god okay absolute but guys there's a zero zero belief that i believe that
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that is like the fact that he just was in the street a professional high profile athlete and
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he's in the street stabbing people really really think about that for a second it was a political
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uh murder what they did with him okay now i want you guys fyi has there been an update of the
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female soccer team think about right now where those girls are not the ones that defected and
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state here think about the iranian women if they're doing this to him these women embarrass
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the islamic regime they're probably in a dungeon right now getting tortured and probably worse tom
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do you do you agree i absolutely agree and i think what also happened here we have to understand how
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how these kind of regimes work people say he's such a high profile guy you know how could they
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do it to such a high profile guy you know well that's it that's the point if we're willing to
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execute this guy imagine what we do to you and the crime is a by waging war against god and then they
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also uh were saying he had a knife he actually stabbed one of the uh the police officers those
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weren't police officers they were government soldiers shooting into crowds thank you and so
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when you look at the whole thing here i look back and do you remember where this started to
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excuse me uh four weeks ago what did trump say don't you execute people you want to call
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dissidents don't step over that red line yep and here we are and they do it and you know what drives
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me crazy tom people sit here and like in comfort and they act or i think it's just they're uneducated
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they don't do the research the iranian regime they're like oh they're just misunderstood we
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need more diplomacy no okay they hang citizens for protesting in the street and not just a regular
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citizen guy this is like pat this is like their number one wrestler this is like an olympic
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freaking high like and if they could kill that guy imagine the regular people that don't mean
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anything so i just fyi the people out there if they treat their people like this how do you think
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they treat the rest of the world how do you think that they look at people like us when they say
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death to america when they and then they're shocked when this pressure is going to start coming back
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to them now at the same time i'm not stupid everybody has agendas from lindsey graham and
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everybody they want their stuff about this war i understand that but don't please don't let it
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distract you from the main point for 47 years these people have been under this freaking regime
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that has been doing this guys now it's coming to light now you're seeing what they're doing
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people didn't nobody gave a damn everybody's too busy with their freaking starbucks and their
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lattes walking around now all eyes are on them and besides the israel and all that put all that
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stuff aside war is war is ugly i get it people have their agendas look at what the people look
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at what this freaking guy did you see the other guy sitting with him with the cross on his neck
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imagine the balls on that guy getting a tattoo in the islamic freaking control place of iran
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with that okay and this is what i want to say last thing it's really really simple if you want
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to be left alone as a nation stop killing your own citizens stop backing terrorists stop screaming
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death to america and everybody will leave your ass alone but you chose to be this this type of
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attitude now everybody's watching you and you want to know who it is i'll give you one last shot on
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this let's all watch which members of our government which elected senators and congressmen
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condemn this who condemns i have a talib i challenge you to condemn this jeffries i
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challenge you to condemn this they're not gonna do that where's megan reponi or any of the athletes
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that are so worried about people and athletes and miss just where are you we're not what i haven't
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heard one athlete yeah one person say something these guys are all dead yesterday these guys were
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all hanged in the freaking street and the guy on the left is a wrestler not a peep where are you at
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where's your online rant do you know what could happen you know what could happen what major event
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is coming up the world cup in what country united states do you know if the president wanted to he
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can say listen don't worry about not having your iranian soccer team compete they can't you're out
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He can make that announcement and say, you want to do this?
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The players are going to be like, what did we do wrong, right?
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But this could be a direct shot to Iran if they do something like this.
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Well, I've said this before and I'll say it again.
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Iran is the best country in the world at killing their own people.
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you know uh nobody is shocked by this this is what they do uh he was charged with what
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uh war against god this is why the fastest growing religion in iran in the islamic republic
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of iran is not islam it's either christianity zoroastrianism or just completely uh agnostic
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atheists it's driving all its own citizens away from allah so it's a uh it's counterproductive
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at the very least so they have something and correct me if i'm wrong pat something called
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the morality police in iran oh you you're showing your hair 10 lashes for you showing your hair
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right god forbid you speak out against the government you're going to be hanged publicly
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so the last point that i'll say is this we in america have no clue what it's like on that side
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of the world we have no clue think about just in the last five years the protest that people have
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been a part of whether it's on the left or the right whether it's blm whether it's the me too
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movement whether it's defund the police whether it's the free palestine movement whether it's
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We have no clue how crazy it is on that side of the world.
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And this is just an unfortunate another example.
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I can already imagine what the chat or I don't I do not look at the chat.
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But the fact that people, automatically your brain goes, Israel, you're like, shut the hell up for two seconds of your freaking life and think about what is actually happening to the people.
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Take Israel out of your brain for two minutes and at least admit two things could exist at the same time.
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There was an African-American UFC fighter that said,
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I couldn't fight all day because I saw the wrestler.
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He says, I don't know why, but I was messed up in the middle of the fight.
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A friend, a person that's a wrestler like me got killed for what he does just because he had a different opinion.
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Now I'd just like to hear your evaluation of your performance.
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Tonight was my bad night, you know, where I was just like, what's the matter with you?
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Like, catch him after that hand, you know?
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I was just really in my head a lot, you know?
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Like, you guys showed that terrible freaking thing with Navid, and it just fucked me up, you know?
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Like, somebody lost their life today, you know?
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I don't know if that means much to y'all, but that means a lot to me, you know?
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he changed people's lives and he just lost his life fucking sad i i saw we saw you uh emotional
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on the broadcast i was gonna ask you how much do you think that affected you in there just saying
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that right before i'm not gonna lie it fucked me up man like pause it right yeah i just can't pause
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it right there can i ask you something yeah so rob i don't know if you can try to find what dana
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white said but here you have two different wrestlers you have an american wrestler doing
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a press conference and you have an iranian wrestler who's seen his life taken for because
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he was protesting you have obviously family you're born in iran walk us through the mindset
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of being a national hero but then being killed for not towing the line for your country's honor
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so to speak well you have to realize like one of the things like when we when we came from iran
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and we landed in Germany and we came to the States.
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poor guy, they're probably going to kill him.
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Because the mindset for us is, you can't do that.
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In America, it's a business model to trash the president.
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By the way, nowadays, you know, people have a hard time doing it in some of the countries,
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and, you know, now it's getting opened up with Venezuela.
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You're going to get pushback and disagreement, okay?
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So in Iran, the messaging goes, the guy we played a week and a half ago,
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He says, bring all of those people back, make an example of them so everybody knows you can never, ever speak out against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
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But in America, that's not that's not something that's this guy right here.
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If your son or daughter doesn't listen, it's not our fault.
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Anyone in Iran today who utters a tune that harmonizes with the enemy,
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under their feet is Tel Aviv, and in their head is Netanyahu.
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No one has ever spoken to you this, frankly.
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We don't want your child to be killed because your child is ignorant.
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It's like the husband, the guy that hits his wife and says,
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you made me do this, or the father that hits his son and says,
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So it's a very different world that is taking place.
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That's someone's son, that's someone's brother, that's someone's nephew,
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No matter all the protesting you do today, those guys are not coming back.
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That's what that regime thinks when it comes down to any of their existing
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I just wanted to ask you one follow-up, because this comes down to mindset.
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Walk me where you think the mindset of people of Iran are at this point.
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The people of Iran and the people of the IRGC, where are they mentally, emotionally, on the power versus force chart?
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So you look at this, and you go to row three, where it says level.
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the iran like the the government of iran it's all the way at the bottom is shame humiliation
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elimination look at the process god view despising life view miserable level shame
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shame on you for speaking against your then emotion humiliation we're going to humiliate
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these guys process let's eliminate them yeah okay you go to the second one is guilt life view evil
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god view vindictive emotion blame process destruction iran the government is all in the
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bottom red is where they are that's where they are every one of the look at the people
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condemning hopeless apathy despair abduction disdainful tragic grief regret despondency
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this this is a this is a very different type of a place to be living and i live there again like
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i told you 11 years you think the people are wearing the fear or grief the people that are
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going in the streets are in the courage level oh yeah maybe they have courage to go in the streets
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and say hey i think something's going to change they're in the willingness i'm willing to put my
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life on the line because i want us to be free just like i'm optimistic that it's worth doing
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okay i'm optimistic they're in that phase right there and some is even the people yeah some is
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also on the pride level they got pride for their country this is iran we want them to be free
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anyways listen may god rest the souls of those three young men that were just executed okay
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and uh i can't even say may god have mercy on their enemies i don't know if he's going to i
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don't know if i can even say that i don't know if he's gonna have mercy on his under on what they
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did to them i don't know i mean we're seeing right now what is happening with these guys left and
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right we're seeing it so anyways war is nasty war is ugly um but you you hate it when you see
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a country that's willing to execute their own people to make an example to the world gang a
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