Valuetainment - August 28, 2025


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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and former finance minister, Patrick McCartan, to talk about Iran and the Islamic Revolution that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Patrick and I talk about the history of the Islamic revolution in Iran and its impact on the Middle East, and the current state of the country.

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00:00:00.000 When I lived in Iran for 11 years, I was born in 78.
00:00:03.020 The Shah was leading Iran, you know, Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi.
00:00:06.800 And when you look at the stats from 1941 when he took office to 1979,
00:00:12.860 that 38 years that he was in, not a lot of wars.
00:00:16.260 It was fairly peaceful.
00:00:17.860 You have some numbers on the low end of 17,000 people that died due to war in Iran during that 38 years.
00:00:24.020 High numbers, 50,000.
00:00:26.080 In the Middle East, not as chaotic.
00:00:28.180 Of course, there was issues, but not as much as they have now.
00:00:31.320 Then from 1979, Khomeini comes in, IRGC, which had the former founder of IRGC here.
00:00:36.080 We had a conversation with him.
00:00:37.700 Khomeini comes in in 79.
00:00:38.980 From 79 until today, if you look at the numbers, low end, 600,000 people died in Iran, 2 million people.
00:00:46.400 In the Middle East, 4.5 to 5.5 million people have died.
00:00:49.660 Of course, some of the words are different places, but still, when you go back to Iran, you have Houthis.
00:00:54.120 You have all these other things that they control.
00:00:55.740 How much do you think of what the Middle East was like pre-the Islamic Revolutionary Guard took over?
00:01:04.960 How everybody was able to find a way to get along versus what happened after 79?
00:01:08.480 I know you're a big history person.
00:01:10.300 What is the difference between those two eras?
00:01:12.020 Well, the big difference is the Islamist revolution that basically took this very gifted people. 0.81
00:01:19.960 The Iranian people are enormously gifted.
00:01:23.200 First of all, they have a tremendous historic culture.
00:01:26.100 And you won't be surprised, but maybe your listeners would be surprised, that in antiquity, in the time of the great Persian king Cyrus, there was a honeymoon between the Jews and the Persian people.
00:01:38.760 And that relationship actually continued in modest ways, but in significant ways under the Shah.
00:01:46.980 When the Shah went down and these theological thugs took over Iran, they basically said, our goal, that's in their constitution, is to export the Islamic revolution worldwide. 0.98
00:02:00.420 And that's what they proceeded to do.
00:02:02.580 So all the mineral resources, all the economic resources were now tuned to war.
00:02:10.360 In the time that I said, when I was finance minister and till today, Iran at that time and Israel had roughly the same GDP per capita.
00:02:20.140 Ours went up from $17,000 to $60,000 per capita.
00:02:25.320 And there stayed flat.
00:02:27.540 Why?
00:02:28.200 Because they took all that money, you know, all that money to arm Hezbollah, arm Hamas, arm the Houthis, and purvey terror around the globe, not only in the Middle East, against the Arabs, against Israel, against everyone else, against Americans.
00:02:43.020 So, you know, what has happened is that Iran collapsed economically.
00:02:47.180 They have now infrastructure that is completely destroyed.
00:02:51.620 Their water system is depleted.
00:02:54.020 Their dams are empty.
00:02:56.040 Their rivers are drying up because they don't take care of their people.
00:02:59.340 They just, this is a horrible sect.
00:03:01.700 So I gave, in this room where I was sitting a few days ago, I gave a podcast to the Iranian people, which I do from time to time.
00:03:09.340 And I had a glass of water and, you know, a pitcher of water.
00:03:14.440 And I said, you know, we helped Iran and we're ready to help Iran with its water problems.
00:03:20.460 And when you free yourselves of this tyranny, we'll do it again.
00:03:24.240 Now, Patrick, how many, how many views do you think I got for this, this podcast?
00:03:31.620 How many?
00:03:34.500 It's a video, actually.
00:03:36.280 How many?
00:03:37.380 How many?
00:03:38.120 70 million.
00:03:39.780 From Iran?
00:03:40.460 Iran has about 50 million, we think.
00:03:45.140 So it's huge.
00:03:46.460 Yeah.
00:03:46.680 I mean, that's half the population.
00:03:49.100 And you can tell that it hit a nerve because all the Iranian leadership proceeded to respond to it and to attack it and so on, which tells you it really got to them.
00:03:58.340 And that's, in fact, what is happening.
00:03:59.960 This regime is not only tormenting and executing and killing the people of Iran. 0.81
00:04:06.560 They subjugate them, but they seek to subjugate the entire world in their mad fantasies, the Muslim world and then everyone else. 1.00
00:04:13.280 And, of course, we're not Muslims, so we have to be eliminated because we stand in their way of conquering the entire Middle East. 1.00
00:04:19.600 So Israel is fighting here not only our war, but the war of our Arab neighbors, the war of the Western countries.
00:04:25.800 They're developing now ballistic missiles that can reach deep into the heart of Europe.
00:04:30.020 Their plan is to develop the next thing is an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile that will reach 8,000 kilometers.
00:04:37.240 You add another 3,000 and they can reach New York.
00:04:40.400 Where are you broadcasting from, by the way?
00:04:42.060 Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
00:04:43.720 Yeah, they can reach Florida, Fort Lauderdale, New York, Washington, Boston, and after that, any other city in the United States.
00:04:51.260 And they intend to put nuclear warheads on these ballistic missiles.
00:04:55.600 So this is not, this is a fact.
00:04:58.220 And the main fact that I want to say is that we're fighting in many ways the war of the West, the war of Western civilization against these barbarians. 0.96
00:05:07.060 And our victory will be your victory.
00:05:09.760 And one more thing.
00:05:11.240 You talked about the Iranian Revolution.
00:05:13.020 You remember how it started?
00:05:14.460 You remember what the first thing that they did when they took over Tehran?
00:05:17.840 You talking about the toast with Carter or are you talking about after when they took over?
00:05:21.700 Well, they took over and then they took the American embassy and held some 50 hospitals.
00:05:26.020 My aunt was in the embassy.
00:05:27.140 Absolutely, yes.
00:05:28.220 So this regime began by taking hostages.
00:05:31.680 And what do their proxies do today?
00:05:34.020 They take our hostages for extortion.
00:05:37.080 They take our hostages.
00:05:38.500 I liberated 205 out of 255.
00:05:43.380 We still have at least 20 alive and about 30 dead.
00:05:47.380 And we intend to get all of them.
00:05:49.200 And that's what we're fighting for now.
00:05:50.700 But it just tells you what the nature of this regime and its proxies is.
00:05:55.300 It's anti-West, anti-America, anti-Western civilization.
00:06:00.360 It's not good to be a Christian. 1.00
00:06:01.840 It's very bad to be a Jew in Iran.
00:06:04.000 And it's very bad to be either one of those in any part of Iran's proxy.
00:06:08.200 Right.
00:06:08.560 I wish we had a couple hours to talk about Iran because I have a lot of interest in that topic with you.
00:06:13.160 So if you like this clip and you want to watch the entire interview, click here to watch it.
00:06:16.700 And if you may have any questions for me you want to ask me directly, download the app, ask me the question there.
00:06:21.940 I will respond back to 100% of people that asked me the question.
00:06:24.920 Take care, everybody.
00:06:25.440 Bye-bye, bye-bye.