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June 23, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
01:47:34
America’s Mayor Live (696): President Trump Brokers Ceasefire Between Iran and Israel—Will it Last?
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And we're going to take this in the order in which it was breaking news.
The most recent, unless something happened in the last half hour that we don't know about, Ted, is that Israel and Iran very surprisingly have reached a ceasefire.
Hard to know what the background of that is.
Israel was pounding them very, very hard today.
They were attacking Israel today also, but to no avail, meaning they didn't get through.
Their attack on us was pathetic.
It was, I mean, it could almost be considered a joke.
I don't understand unless they have total, I guess they do, total control of the news, how they sell this to their people, that they struck back.
They shot off six missiles against the greatest military power on earth at one of its best defended air bases.
Even if they didn't warn us, they weren't going to get through.
I mean, in order.
Is that it?
Is that the skies over Doha?
You should realize, I mean, you should really realize how close this all is.
And I have to tell you, just a week ago today, I was in the Emirates.
So I was about 100 miles from where that's going on.
Might have been able to see it even across the desert.
And then I was about equally in the other direction, 100 miles from the Strait of Hamuz, where they are rumored to be closing it down, although I seriously doubt that.
But they don't make rational decisions.
Their military strategy is irrational.
Their military strategy is to hit Israeli civilians.
Now, I understand that that's a terrorist tactic.
And the idea of the terrorist tactic is it's going to frighten you so much, you're going to give up.
Well, the last people in the world are going to give up because you practice terrorism of the Israelis.
They've just been subjected to it since the day they started as a country.
I mean, they went through the two intifadas where thousands of people were killed.
They didn't give up.
They're not even coming close to those kinds of numbers.
And you see how well disciplined they are.
Even when a missile gets through, it's rare that you have a casualty.
So you're not, the reason I say it's a mistake is you would think they would want to use the missiles they have to reduce the offensive capability of the Israelis, but they didn't.
And they apparently have no defense.
Whether they never had a defense or Israel took it out, I don't know, but it's the height of absurdity that we could fly these gigantic planes right across their country with a whole fleet.
We had a whole Air Force up there.
They're hard to miss unless they were all sleeping.
I mean, their holy day is Friday, not Saturday.
Friday night, they prayed in Tehran for the death of America and the death of Israel and the death of the MEK, as they always do.
So if you want to take a look at this, which I am going to suggest that we do, there we are.
Shall we put the map up, Ted?
Okay?
So, now let's get this all straight.
The attack on Iran was in there, right there.
That's the three places, Natans, Ford, Ishafan.
Most of the bunker busters were at Ford, and they took out either half a Rolligan Mountain and presumably went half a mile more into the earth so that they make it useless.
They used only two on Natanz, but Natanz had been substantially destroyed by the Israelis, and there must have been some loose ends.
And then, with regard to the third base, Ishavan, which is the one about right there, we hit that with submarines, with tomahawk missiles from submarines.
Now, they could have been anywhere.
They could have been in the Gulf.
They could have been in the Persian Gulf.
They could have been in the Gulf of Oman.
There's the Persian Gulf.
There's the Gulf of Oman.
Or they could have been in the Red Sea.
Now, we have a fleet, fifth, I think, right here.
Right there.
That's a lot of ships.
And they're there, I would say, one, they're there because of the Houdies, although the Houdies largely block, I'll show you what they block.
They block this area here.
And that's the passageway to the Suez Canal.
And that has had a major impact on prices in Europe and on prices in South America.
Not so much in the United States.
Believe it or not, we don't use that very much.
And we don't use the Hormuz Strait, the Straits of Hormuz over there.
We don't use that very much.
38% of China's energy comes from there.
So they've been getting a lot of money from China.
And this could be devastating for the Chinese economy.
It can be harmful to our economy.
The price of gasoline will go up, but we'll have plenty of gas and oil and natural gas.
And they're even talking about stepping up our own production or holding back some that we export.
I mean, we now are an energy-independent country.
We don't act that way because we found out that we can make a lot of money with it by selling it.
So, but if we had to, we're in much better shape as far as oil and gas than we used to be because we found out we have so much of it.
But they could do very, very big damage to the world.
Now, is this their one and only?
Is this their one and only response to this?
And then they're going to go back in their corner.
And I don't know.
And the strategy of a ceasefire, I don't know what that's about either.
Ceasefire with Israel.
I'm sure the president wanted that because it gets him closer to some kind of peace agreement with them.
But I'm not a big fan of a peace agreement with them.
I think we should just wipe out the regime and get rid of it because as long as the regime is there, they've got not going to be any peace in the Middle East.
They're dedicated as loyal Muslims to destroy the infidels and take over the world for Muhammad.
So we're going to see if they try to block up the Strait of Hormuz.
I would tend to say no, except, remember, they're crazy.
They hit the most difficult target to hit in the Middle East of ours.
That's probably our most fortified target.
They've had no success hitting Israel.
How the hell do they think they're going to hit the United States?
And finally, even if they had a chance, they told us about it as an advance so that we didn't get mad and do something serious to them.
So I don't know why we just don't put them out of their misery and get rid of the regime of terror so that people can start making agreements that make sense and in their favor, Both countries favor.
I mean, China would be the single biggest loser.
38% of your energy being bogged in a country that has extremely serious, extremely serious economic problems is no joke.
Putin and particularly Medvedev, I think the president said something about Medvedev today, right?
What did he say?
Who are you?
I wouldn't put a pass on.
Medvedev has been acting really tough lately, and he's hardly tough.
Yeah, real tough guy, yeah.
Yeah.
He was Putin's Putin's value, remember?
Sea warmer, right?
He was Putin's sea warmer for four years.
Yeah, I mean, he got tossed out by Putin.
Putin wanted his old job back.
Said, I'm not going to be prime minister.
He said, scram, pal.
Yeah, and he took the position of president and moved all the power to the president.
Then when he went back, I don't know what the hell he is now.
He's just a dictator.
He's got all the power.
He's like the supreme leader.
The government of Tehran is, the government of Iran is a joke.
It's run by the supreme leader who talks to Muhammad.
And Muhammad being a murderer of innocent men, women, and children, if they didn't convert, is very pleased with all this.
Except, I don't know.
I think he might have been smart enough to try to hit the military facilities so that he slowed Israel down, but who knows?
So Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as the head of Putin's Security Council, he claimed on Saturday after it was over that it only did minimal damage.
I mean, you can tell whether it took out all the nukes or not, it did a lot of damage.
If you look at the picture, you'll see six craters into the earth.
And it destroyed their two facilities that are their critical facilities.
And they were surprised by it, and they put up no defense to it.
Now, Medvedev has said that if they are deprived of nuclear weapons, Russia will give it to them.
Russia is going to give them nuclear weapons.
I don't believe it.
And that's another issue that we have to be very, very strong on.
China is also implicated because China is being pressured by all the governments that trade with that area of the world because the price of oil is going to go up so high.
And, you know, when the price of oil goes up, they all go crazy.
Now, let's hope that there's a feeling.
I think in the Arab countries, there's a feeling of relief that the pressure has been taken off at least for a couple more years.
Maybe for good, but at least a couple more years, because they'd be a real military threat.
There's a picture of Medvedev for anybody.
You might remember him.
He was president for four years.
Medvedev is famous for Obama calling him over and said, tell Vladimir after I win the election, I can give him a lot more.
A more flexibility or something?
Yeah, I can be much more flexible with Vladimir.
Sorry, I got to answer to the voters right now.
I can't.
I can't.
I got to wait.
Yeah, I can't double cross him until after I get elected.
Yeah, wait till I win money.
Then I'm a dead duck or a lame duck.
Right, right.
A lame duck, I got you guys.
That's when I can really implement my communist leanings.
So the Wall Street Journal was very, very appreciative.
Trump meets the moment on Iran, and they say he made the right decision.
And there's a long time coming for an American president to do this.
But it seems that he's got, according to them, he's got the right values and sees the importance of Iran in this whole situation.
Now, you know, in the lead up to this, the head of his national Council of Intelligence Advisors told him, Tulsi Gabbard, that they are not, how does she phrase it?
She said the Ayatollah has not ordered them to go nuclear yet, and they are some, she made it appear to be like a lengthy period.
But that's only half of what she said, and it is a little unfair to her not to quote these parts that were right in the statement, but they don't, they don't, you know, they just stop.
Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest level, she said.
And it's unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons.
She's saying if you're at 60%, you're giving yourself away.
You don't need 60% anywhere near it to take care of the other needs that you have for oil and gas.
So this is going to begin.
This is going to begin hurting.
So you want to do that.
if you're going to fight an economical, well, you better fight it.
They were on a course, according to our experts, to have 60 intercontinental ballistic missiles by 10 years from now, which would be more than North Korea has.
Now they've got to figure out how they can make sure they operate and keep them under control.
Well, my city, New York City.
I don't know what to say about it, Ted.
Big day tomorrow.
I try to avoid talking about it too much because I don't want you to, you know, I don't want to burden everybody with just my city, but.
No, no, no, no.
This is America.
The reality is they have a candidate for mayor that is out of like one of these second-rate comic books.
He's adult.
He's a stupid little idiot.
And he is supporting a terrorist group, the Hamas.
He's not just anti-Israel, he's pro-Hamas.
Hamas is registered as a terrorist organization.
If you're working for them or you're making money for them, then you're acting against the interest of the United States.
And there is a gentleman running for mayor, Zoran Mamdani, who's sort of a combination of AOC and who else?
No, he's not trans.
Who?
Mandami reminds me of AOC.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, she's supporting him rather than Cuomo because he's in favor of people getting free, the government should supply the groceries to everyone.
Get that.
And Mom Donnie is running against Cuomo and a bunch of others in the Democratic primary for a mayor.
And it's a timed show.
So you can't get everything in that you want sometimes.
So this is really a more complete show, but we try to do both and give you a little bit different perspective in the two, because I think that's worth it.
Mom Dani is, this is very hard to describe.
First time it was described to me, I didn't understand this.
Mom Dani is running in what's called rank choice voting.
Now, rank choice voting exists because in our primaries, we have so many candidates, particularly on the Democrat side, that nobody gets the required 40% to get the nomination on the first ballot.
And therefore, 10 days later, there's a runoff election that is put up until they change it.
And the person who wins that becomes the candidate of the party.
The great advantage against the Republicans, because the Republicans have a dedicated elevator that gets them right to the area when they have to work on elections.
So the Democrats decided they wanted to do the same thing.
So they've moved to another place to do their electioneering.
But their candidate or the number two candidate right now is Zolran Mamdami.
Zoman is a supporter of Hamas.
He's a supporter of the terrorist group Hamas.
He hates Israel.
He collects, I mean, he works very, very closely with the groups, for example, that were protesting at Columbia and the other places in New York in order to create very difficult situations for us and the police.
He believes in defunding the police.
I thought that was over.
He is to the left of De Basio.
So he will continue to ruin the city and not miss a beat.
So the mayor's election is tomorrow.
The Republican candidate will be Curtis Sleever, as it was four years ago.
I don't think he has much of a contest.
And the Democratic, Cuomo is beating him 35-32 in a straight out one-on-one vote.
Then you go all the way down, and it's really one candidate that makes the difference.
If you go all the way down and you get to Brad Lander, and you eliminate them all and you divide them up with the fractions and the river, Cuomo wins by about 10, 12,000.
However, when you get to the last one, Brad Lander, all his people as a second choice of voting for Mamdami because they're crooked.
And they figure they're going to get real big benefits out of that.
But in any event, this has ended up breaking up their religious, what would you call it, conspiracy.
You know, this is the group that when the young lady had a little hair showing, they wanted to stone her.
And you can hear, I mean, you can hear the cheering in the background.
Right now, you would say, well, gee, the poll that I saw, you would say, shows 35% for Cuomo and 32% for Momdami.
However, they then go ahead and they look for the way rank choice voting works is they take away the lowest voter first.
Now, those votes get distributed between the remaining candidates.
And eventually, after you do that and you eliminate all but one candidate, in addition to the two that have a chance to be mayor, you can adopt that as your account.
And therefore, you'll be able to vote based on that.
You'll be able to do all kinds of things.
So the estimate now is that they don't say what percentage of the votes already in.
But right now, Mandami is leading with the voters that have already voted.
Early voting favors the left-wing Kuk, I guess.
Cuomo, on the other hand, has a lead on him.
So the reality is, in the ranked choice simulation, Mamdami gains 18 points compared to only 12 that Cuomo gains, which means that he's picked for the number two, number three, number four position more often than Cuomo is.
And therefore, that's why they say if it goes to, if nobody gets the required 40%, then you got to get to it through hook or crook with the other ones.
And it'll go right down to the wire.
And we'll be in court.
We are under a heat dome.
You know what a heat dome is?
How is that going to impact tomorrow's voting?
The experts say it's going to hurt Cuomo because the progressive vote votes anyway.
And Cuomo, believe it or not, is likely going to do better among the elderly voters because he has a record of killing them.
So I don't know if that's going to work.
But they say it's going to be a problem.
Yeah, we're excited about having a new TA, other than the yo-yo that's there.
Donnie, among other things, has called for a Palestinian intifada in America.
Now, I guess I don't know if he's special or not.
There are times he looks it.
He sure doesn't look capable of running a government except the way his father did, which is kill people when they disagree with you, take away all their property, and if you have to leave, steal it.
And you're going to be back in a revolution within 30 to 60 days.
Right.
So we're waiting.
We're awaiting our guests.
We have a real special guest tonight, of course, someone a lot of us here on the show know very well.
So we're awaiting that here.
Well, you should also know that, remember we talked about this, Syria, Syria in the north, northwestern, yeah, northwestern, almost straight up, really.
There was an assault on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus.
And 22 are dead and 63 are wounded.
And apparently the attack was the first of its kind in Syria in years.
the security of the places of worship is a red line So we'll have to see.
We'll have to see what comes of that.
So, what do you think of the heat dome, Ted?
Think it's going to affect the voting?
Well, I'm going off of what you're saying.
You might know a thing or two about mayoral campaigns in the Big Apple.
I think weather, generally, extreme weather does really, I would think, hamper Democrat vote.
I know this is the primary, but it usually impacts Democrats more than Republicans, right?
At least that's the idea.
The early voting?
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no.
Sorry.
Election Day voting.
When the weather's bad on election day, that no, that hurts us.
Republicans often vote election day, correct?
Yeah, I don't think it's a question who turns out and who doesn't.
Well, this is a primary, so it's, of course, a big motive on election day.
First of all, a lot of people don't even know.
So the idea that Mom Donnie's supporters are fired up for him.
So they're going out to vote for him, right?
Where Cuomo is going to rely on a lot of people that are just, okay, it's Election Day.
I got to go vote.
The casual voter, oh, Cuomo, I know the name.
He's a New Yorker, click.
Right?
I think that's kind of what's going on.
That's kind of what they're thinking, right?
Some of these prognosticators.
But Mom Donnie has taken the lead in the latest poll.
But that, of course, is in the ranked choice voting.
So it's a different system, as the mayor has explained on this show numerous times.
So it'll be interesting to see who endorses who.
But that's, you mean, once you vote, you're voting all at once.
Or how does that work?
Once they cut somebody off.
What do you mean?
So ranked choice voting.
So they do the votes and somebody's cut off, right?
Right.
And then they recount.
They recount with everybody's second choice or how does that work?
You only vote once, right?
Like if I'm a voter tomorrow, I'm going to the poll and I'm voting once.
I don't know how they do it.
You could do it in a computer.
Yeah.
You could enter one, two, three, four, five and put the right numerical rating for that in the computer.
Right.
Send picks.
Right.
So it'll be interesting.
So, of course, Curtis, somebody we both know is expected to be the Republican nominee.
I'm not sure if there's going to be a strong independent.
No, right?
It's going to be.
Yeah, the strong independent will be Cuomo and Adams.
Right.
If Cuomo loses, he's still running.
Right.
And Adams, I think, is going to be the Liberal Party choice.
Right.
So, or his own party.
I think he put together his own party.
Right.
So if they'll be on the ballot, they're probably the true main road vote gets.
It'll be Cuomo and Mom Dani.
And so the idea being, as people are knocked off, is Mom Dani the one that folks are voting for second?
The idea being, if people, people know Cuomo, he's a known quantity.
So if they're not voting for him on this first round.
Right.
And they are running a campaign saying, don't vote for, if you don't vote for Cuomo, don't put him on the ballot.
Don't give him a second place.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like, make sure he's not on the ball.
He's got a campaign specifically based on that.
Right.
It's kind of weird.
You know, don't, don't vote for him for number two.
Right.
Oh, you're saying he's saying not to vote for him for number two.
Mamdani.
Ramdami is because the.
I don't like ranked choice voting.
I don't like it either.
I think it's.
I think that I really think it's unconstitutional.
Yeah.
This isn't ranked.
I think that we get one vote and it shouldn't be fractionalized.
It's crazy the more I think about it.
I got to look into how this became a thing.
Someone started this and it must benefit somebody.
There's somebody that I got to think this through.
Who does rank choice voting really benefit?
I don't know that it's the.
Probably benefits the machine candidates because they all accumulate on the ballot.
That's exactly right.
Of course, right?
Yes.
And they can also orchestrate it for two or three.
That would make sense.
I'm trying to think that.
Yeah, the machine, the parties, the parties preferred candidate, which is generally the case when you see election laws.
I think that's correct.
I think that's the way they do it.
So we're going to have on with us an expert on Iran, Ali Reza Jef Siddharthi.
And he's been on several shows today, as you might imagine.
And with it, he's had to react to breaking news.
You know, he started off the day with there was the historic American attack on the nuclear power facilities.
And then we've had some other breaking news of very big importance.
So why don't we bring.
In the meantime, what is your prediction here, if you're willing to go there, on how long this ceasefire will last and will it last between Iran and Israel?
We're already seeing this being labeled as the 12-day war.
President Trump was quick to label it as such because this was something some of the naysayers were saying was going to drag out into an endless war.
This thing may be done.
What are your thoughts, Mayor?
Well, my thoughts are that there's no real prospect this will be an endless war.
I don't think there's a part of it that's going to be carried out by troops.
There's going to be an aerial warfare, and those tend to resolve themselves pretty quickly.
If you're getting pounded from the air, you can't keep going.
So I think this will have an effective remedy for just going on endlessly, which it could do.
How far was Iran, in effect, to having their own ceasefire?
I mean, they're going to run out of missiles, right?
So how much longer could they have kept this up?
The idea that, I mean, Iran has to fire 100 to 150 missiles just to get a couple to stick.
So, my question to you, Mayor, is: this ceasefire, who is really benefiting in the short term from a military strategy?
Who's losing benefits from a ceasefire?
It's like I'm in the 13th round and he knocked me down.
I don't know where I am.
Then we take two days off.
Right.
Yeah, who wants to take the two days off in that case?
I mean, Israel, Israel has them on the ropes.
You want to get it over with.
And by the way, when the ceasefire doesn't go into effect for another six hours, that's always interesting, right?
Because you're really trying to cram a lot into those six hours, right?
You're trying to make up for the next 48s.
And we do know, we're hearing that Israel at this hour is continuing to hit targets inside Iran.
In other words, they're going to get everything in before midnight.
I mean, they've been doing such a good job of taking everything out in Iran.
I don't know why they stopped.
And in a way, we're giving the Iranian regime, we're going along with their strategy in a way, right, of having this out, where they launch a few missiles towards the direction of Qatar.
I don't even know how we can...
And why even shoot off the missiles, right?
They might as well just lie to their people and say they attacked the base, save the money.
So, Mayor, so you think this will depend on what in terms of how long the ceasefire lasts or the success of the ceasefire will call it?
Well, Israel must feel pretty confident that they've done the damage they want to do.
Okay.
Otherwise, they wouldn't agree to the ceasefire.
Sure.
There's always more you can do to make sure that they can't come back in 20 years instead of 10 or whatever the original objective was.
But at this point.
And the president must be confident in our intelligence that the nuclear program was set back.
Yeah.
Right?
Because what and maybe this is still a chance where the people of Iran really see what a paper tiger this regime truly is.
And so in the coming months, maybe we'll see some grassroots efforts from the people to go up against this regime.
And the hope being we all see something that you and that we've known, but a lot of other folks are now seeing this this country is incapable of starting World War III if it wanted to.
But there are some pretty crazy voters in New York and Chicago.
They've made some pretty terrible choices.
So we're going to have to think about it.
The president threw out the idea of regime change in Tehran, and the son of the former Shah immediately put his hand up and said, me, me, pick me, pick me.
I'm a crooked little rich kid.
Pick me, pick me.
Isn't that the party?
The son of the Shah.
Didn't I see him at a nightclub in Miami last week?
He's a judge setter who basically is thrown in with the Revolutionary Guard.
You should have seen him on Fox last week, Mayor.
The guy's on there cautioning us.
He was definitely not, he was telling us to be a little bit resistant.
Hold off, hold off.
Maybe we shouldn't promote him.
But he doesn't have any experience.
He was a kid when his father ran away with all the money.
People forget what a big crook he was.
And he was the head of the SAVAC, Secret Service.
Yes, and that's no laughing matter.
That organization tortured, killed, did so many terrible things to people that were loyal to the United States and likely Americans.
Well, it's terrible.
It's terrible.
They're going to have him there.
I think he's a Democrat and he had to get off because he couldn't beat her in the primary.
Who's that?
He couldn't be, I shouldn't say her.
Adrian is involved in it.
The likely winners of the Democratic primary, if he weren't in it, would be Cuomo.
Oh, the New York Mayor's race.
Cuomo.
Cuomo's still the favorite, right?
I think he is.
He's just a favorite in the one late poll doesn't change who's the favorite, right?
34, 33. Right.
Just a straight-out poll.
Right.
And then if you do four more people on the last group, when they take out Brad Lander, assuming he's the last one.
Right.
He says the numbers are going to be like 90%.
Really?
That'll be interesting.
So that's tomorrow.
So we'll be obviously following that closely.
And again, ladies and gentlemen, we're awaiting our friend, someone, those of you that have been longtime viewers of the show, you know Ali Reza, Jeff Arzeda, very well.
He's actually wrapping up some other interviews.
He's in high demand tonight, Mayor.
I believe he's on Newsmax.
He was talking to Fox.
I'll tell you a bit about him.
Ali Reza is the spokesperson for the MBK, Mujidine al-Kawk.
And he has been involved in trying to overthrow this regime since the time he was a little boy.
And a couple of years ago, they had a plot to kill him, and they caught the people who were going to do it.
Right.
Right.
I mean, he is credited.
On the subject of Iran, the United States, and the whole world position, there's nobody who would know more about it than him.
Right.
And he's credit.
And the U.S. intelligence services credit him with unveiling key information about the Iranian nuclear program in the early 2000s.
They were instrumental in helping us.
You didn't see us last week or the week before telling us about the valley and the desert.
Just hours before, hours, days before, and then hours before the strike started, which I had no idea about.
They had just held a press conference in Washington, D.C. that we had assisted them with, explaining how they had new information about secret Iranian, covert Iranian nuclear weapons facilities in the Semnon desert, a location where previously we had no information was public on that site.
And the next day, Israel started hitting them.
So they clearly are in the know.
So if there's one group, you know, a lot of people like to talk the talk.
If there's one group in Iran that's walked the walk, including the 79 revolution and in the time, the time since then, it's MEK.
If there's one group that's demonstrated the ability to, for example, come in temporarily to kill.
You know what, Mayor?
That's bingo.
I was trying to go through a whole, the mayor just summed it up.
All you have to do is look at who the current regime spends their time going after to know who the real threat is and who they feel the who they know the real threat is because of what they've done in the past.
Right, right, right, right.
So we're just minutes away from having Ali Reza here on the show.
And so we're very much looking forward to that.
And again, this is the group.
If the Ayatollah were somehow to be incapacitated and we needed some sort of provisional, temporary group of Iranians, right, that could maybe facilitate a peaceful transition to a democratic process, democratic elections, MEK is prepared to step in and do that and to facilitate free and fair elections.
And they have the know-how to have.
They have the thing that Iran has is that they do have some correction groups that are trying to straighten out.
They have the most executions in the world.
And that prison that people are in, supposed to be one of the worst in the world.
So I guess they're trying to use this, the mistake, what they would regard as a mistake, to overthrow the whole thing.
And how wrong?
And look, we're still, maybe it'll take a few days to really grab, you know, and months and years.
But how wrong has Tucker and those guys been on this?
They were warning that this was going to start World War III.
Oh, my goodness, you're putting the American people in danger.
What's happening here, what we've seen to this point, Mayor, potentially one of the most successful operations conducted by an American president in the U.S. military in decades.
If this stops here, I mean, we're putting aside the ambitions of removing the homicidal terrorist regime.
But in terms of President Trump, how he's conducted himself, how this has played out, I mean, this president has really demonstrated himself to be a leader, once again, in the foreign policy space, a space where he didn't have, you know, growing up as a business.
And this was a difficult decision.
This was as complex as a presidential decision gets.
Right.
As well as where your country is rated or looked at.
But he's demonstrating, I mean, the leadership here.
And again, this is putting aside the fact that a lot of us want to see regime change.
But where we're at now, I can't imagine these people on our side of the aisle, the right side that have been very hesitant to do anything here.
What are they saying tonight?
What are they thinking, right?
Anybody sending notes in?
Let's check the comments.
So comment right now.
We're checking the comment section as we speak.
Let's see what are people saying here.
Question, do we have to resolve the rest of the world's problems before we resolve our own?
Mayor, what do you say to that?
We're never going to resolve our own problems and we're never going to resolve all the world's problems.
Yeah, we can help out to resolve problems when we can't resolve them for ourselves.
That happens often than just human existence.
Right.
You're better helping with somebody else's problem.
But does the United States have a role to play on the global stage?
Some people say, oh, we don't need to be the world police.
What do you say to that?
I don't know that you can leave the global stage because it's not going to leave you.
It determines a lot of your security, your safety, and your money.
So here we are.
This, you know, you're going through an era where people travel a lot.
They don't want to give away the credentials that allow them to travel.
That's right.
So ask your questions.
We're checking the comment section and we are going to answer your questions.
Also, comment below.
Let us know where you're tuning in from.
We haven't done that in a while.
City and state, city and state, and we will give you a shout out.
We'll do that here in just a few minutes.
Oh, well, hey, self-serving.
We got a commenter here.
Ted is right.
I just got to read that.
I got a comment saying Ted is right.
We'll go with that.
What are you right about, Ted?
The rest of it I'm trying to read.
That's why I stopped speaking.
Ted's right.
It's a cope out.
Dave Wilson, why don't you finish the thought there?
I think he's saying cop out.
Okay, so let's see.
Ask your questions.
Here we go.
Another question.
Mayor, would you support allowing Israel to do whatever they felt necessary to end the threat?
That's a pretty open question.
I guess what do you mean anything, right?
Basically, would you trust Mossad in Israeli intelligence inherently and unconditionally?
To do what?
If Israel comes to you and says, we got to triple the number of bombings tonight because we feel that they have the material.
This is where we feel it is.
I don't know.
You don't know.
So, no.
So your answer is no.
Israel is still to be treated as other allies where we have to follow up and confirm certain things.
I think Israel ends up sort of in the very special circle with England.
England.
I'm trying to think of countries that have come to our aid.
And we don't need AIDS very much, but very few do.
But they have, I mean, often.
And the Israelis, I mean, the Israelis made this all possible for us by clearing out the underbrush very, very effectively.
So I don't see all of the consternation and all the anger about giving him a break.
Right.
So we're getting a lot of great questions here, especially revolving on what we saw today with the strikes.
Mayor, we have a commenter asking if it's possible that Iran actually already has enough physical material necessary for a bomb.
Meaning, is there a chance that they're only days away from having the ability to enrich enough uranium or plutonium for a functional nuclear weapon?
I don't know if they have it functionally used for it.
Everybody probably does.
No, but is it a possibility that Iran is actually just days away from a nuclear weapon?
I would say, yeah, it's possible.
More likely a couple weeks.
Just because it's very complicated stuff.
And originally they're going to get it wrong.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they've been testing, right?
We know they've tested.
Just think of how long it took Korea to get it right.
But they know how to assemble the parts, right?
We know they've tested that.
We know that they have some of the fissile material, right?
They have some of that.
We know that.
Meaning, practically speaking, it's just a matter of, right?
I'm not a nuclear scientist, but it's just a rule, right?
If they have this in place, they have that in place.
Once they decide to start the process of, is it the enrichment process with the centrifuges, that's just a few days, right?
So the question is, do they have this somewhere else?
And does Israel have the intelligence capabilities to tell us if they have it or not?
Is it possible to actually hide a sophisticated operation like this from the Mossad, from the CIA?
I don't know what the Constitution says.
They have a Constitution, and I don't even know if they'll follow it.
Yeah, practically speaking, though, is it possible to hide a process like this, right?
It takes a lot of heavy machinery.
It takes expensive process, the water.
So practically speaking, is it possible to hide something like this from Mossad, CIA?
I think it's impossible to hide almost any.
I didn't even hear Mossad.
They're all over the place.
They seem to be able to pinpoint when you're in the bathroom.
That's right.
Oh, my goodness.
Think of that.
The Pagers, the Pager attack.
The Pagers, right?
Yeah.
The Walkie-Talkies.
Yeah.
That was the beginning of the end for them, right?
That's right, Mayor.
That was the beginning of a very, very difficult period for them.
That's right.
And it goes back to what we were saying.
All these folks that were concerned about the World War III scenario with Iran, every proxy of this regime has been either decimated or totally.
They have unlikely allies left, China and Russia.
It's unlikely that either one of them is going to get involved in a shooting war to help that.
For the Ayatollah and the Mullahs in Iran.
Well, I say that China would love to see Russia get involved and waste even more of their troops.
Right.
So we're just minutes away from a very special guest, someone who's been a part of this fight since 1979.
You wouldn't think so.
Such a young-looking man, but he's been in the fight.
So maybe we'll take a quick break.
Okay, so we can set it up right.
Good.
And when we come back, hopefully, no, we're away.
He's a very busy man tonight.
He's on Newsmax.
He's on all these outlets.
I'm just going to ask him a couple of questions.
I mean, he does come from Iran and he keeps up with it very, very carefully.
That's right.
So we'll be right back.
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Welcome back to America's Mayor Live.
And we have with us Ali Reza Jeff Sodarti.
Ali Reza is, as you know, a friend of mine and someone I've worked with now for over 10 years on trying to, well, trying to bring about regime change in Iran.
I mean, it's strange when I hear people debating whether to be for regime change or not.
To me, it just seems so obvious.
If you have a dictator like that, you have to get rid of him.
You can't, you can't.
And also, it isn't as if he's a dictator and there are plenty in the world, right?
That's just on his own, but he's attacked Americans.
So let's begin with, explain to us, since you understand Iran a lot better than any of us, exactly why the Ayatollah, or whoever is making the decisions now, right?
That's Ayatollah, the Supreme Leader.
How does he sell to the people that they sort of got even for the massive attack on them on Saturday with this absolutely useless attack that just wasted six million dollars worth of bombs?
He didn't kill anybody.
He didn't hurt anybody.
He can't seem to hit his target.
And now he's going to tell the people?
Does he lie to them and say, oh, we just destroyed the American base?
Well, Mayor, you know, the Supreme Leader Khamenei has had this same, very same problem for years because he has a hard time explaining to the Iranian public, not even that, because the Iranian public reject him, but also their own revolutionary guards, their own, you know, inner circle core, justifying everything they have been doing in Iran and outside of Iran.
Iran is the second largest, has the second largest oil and gas reserves in the world.
It's a very rich country, yet 80% of the Iranian population live below the poverty line.
Where does the money go?
It goes to the proxies in the region.
You know, it was Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and a whole host of things.
Assad in Syria, the Shia militias in Iraq.
A huge amount of money was spent on the cost of the nuclear weapons program of the regime.
$2 trillion.
Just think about it.
That's $2,000 billion.
That's a lot of money for a country.
I spent on the cost of the nuclear weapons program of the regime.
And the whole purpose, they say, is for energy purposes.
And even if America didn't take out all of it, we had to have taken out a lot of it.
Well, I think all of that is pretty much up in the smoke.
So this is, and the regime has been in trouble explaining to the Iranian population why the regime was involved in Syria, with Hezbollah and all of the countries in the region.
That's why during the uprisings in Iran since 2018, we have had several rounds of major uprisings.
People were saying, you know, leave Syria alone.
Think about us.
You know, neither Gaza nor Lebanon.
I give my life for Iran.
You know, so, and I think tonight, this is like one additional thing that he's going to just make up and say something about it.
But the reality, it doesn't change the reality on the ground.
The reality on the ground is that this regime is in big trouble.
They have never faced this situation in the past 46 years.
Most importantly, it started with the uprisings in Iran when people entirely gave up on the mullahs.
They gave up on the ballot box.
They started looking at the street as a way of change in Iran, chanting death to dictator, death to the oppressor, being the Shah or the Supreme Leader.
And then, you know, came the troubles the regime was facing in the region.
You know, the October 2023 attack just showed the whole world how the regime had invested on that, but the whole thing backfired on them.
They have lost much of their clout in the region.
They're in trouble in Iran.
Their nuclear weapons program, which was really a guarantee for their survival, that's gone.
Much of their missile program is gone.
But most importantly, it's again another reminder for the people of Iran that the real solution, the real fight is actually between the people of Iran and the Iranian regime.
When the ceasefire was announced just a few hours ago by President Trump, our leader, Mrs. Maliam Rajavi, she actually welcomed this ceasefire and the peace agreement.
And she emphasized that now this actually removed two options, two obstacles.
One was appeasement over the years, just trying to help the regime, or the war itself.
Now the path is now paved for the third option, which is the people of Iran bringing down the Ayatollahs in Iran.
I think this is the fight that is the ultimate fight for the people of Iran to bring down the regime.
This is, you know, they have been involved in fighting for democracy for over 100 years.
But most importantly, this is a fight for establishing a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic Iran that separates religion and state and supports gender equality.
And just think about it, Mayor, what a difference it will make when you have that kind of an Iran that will become a center for peace, tranquility, security, cooperation, human rights, all of that.
But how when I watched it in 2018 and 2019, it was different than it was back in 2009.
Yes.
In 2009, it looked like it was going to really build up steam.
And it looked to me a little like what happened in Poland with solidarity.
And this would be the beginning.
But then Obama turned his back on them.
Yes.
Deliberately.
In 2018, Trump patted them on the back.
He said something about how if he were there, he would want to be free or the government is oppressive.
That's what they needed.
They needed a tap on the back.
And those for 18 months or so, those demonstrations reminded me of a demonstration of a country that's ready to flip.
You know, you can have demonstrations and you can have demonstrations.
And I always think they're ready to flip when it starts to get about economics.
Because most countries, this is a shame to say this, but the majority of people aren't going to die for political reasons.
But they are going to die if they're starving or their family is starving.
The people who die for political reasons are a small minority of heroes.
I wonder back during the American Revolution, if we would have had, not everybody was a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln.
And a lot of those people did it because the English tax system was oppressive.
And it wasn't just the tax system.
They were quartering their troops in people's houses and taking away their rights and not letting them have jobs.
And so it was affecting their families, their whole way of life.
Well, those demonstrations you had back in 2000, correct me if I'm wrong, it was 2018 and 2019.
It was both 2018 and 2019.
I was impressed because when we've been together and like every year there's a tremendous meeting in Paris, occasionally you move it, but you get 100,000 people.
I mean, people think it's a people in the United States, you've got to understand the Iranian republic, whatever, I call it the reign of terror.
I hate to call it the Iranian government because it makes it sound like the people support it.
Like even the president, I think, sometimes I can see him today.
He used Iran, Iran, Iran.
And then he said, he said the regime.
Regime, yes.
He's trying very, very hard to not hurt the Iranian people.
Even the way he conducted the attacks, it was a very surgical attack.
I don't think they killed any civilians.
When you consider the size of that attack, just by accident, you're going to kill some civilians.
I think he thought out that attack.
It shouldn't get the people angry.
They took out nuclear facilities.
Most of them probably don't even want the nuclear facilities.
But it was bus drivers.
I remember bus drivers were striking or protesting.
Teachers were protesting.
Farmers.
The farmers came in from the countryside.
Workers.
And it was the whole damn country.
You guys kept pointing out on a map how it was spreading all over the country, all 31 provinces of Iran.
And I think, Mayor, you know, the point you're highlighting is extremely important to realize the very foundation of these protests now, and that's why it's so deep-rooted, is economic dissatisfaction of the population.
They see all of these revolutionary guards, not just as their oppressors, but also they see them as those who are plundering their money.
They're stealing their money.
And, you know, before, in the years before, it was mostly the intellectuals, university students and others who were getting involved in the protests.
But since 2018, when the protests started over the price of chicken and egg, it was the poor, the deprived, the smaller towns and cities that got involved.
When you have the bulk of the population turning against the regime, that's a sign of a huge trouble.
That either the regime has to turn around 180 degrees and take a whole new direction to put down the revolt, or they will have to resort to sheer repression, killing people, which they did the second one.
And things have just gotten worse.
And what adds to all of that is that you have both an explosive society who wants change, and it's not limited to one sector of the society.
It's all over the country also.
Second, you have an organized force, those who are involved in the fight over the years.
They know what they're fighting for.
They know how to fight it.
They're willing to pay the price.
They have a clear platform for leading the fight to victory, you know, a 10-point platform for the future of Iran.
And they have a plan that after the fall of the Ayatollahs, how you're going to transition to, you know, a representative government.
So you've been working on this since the revolution, pretty much, right?
Yes, exactly.
And it's been your life's work.
You've been threatened with death.
Yet you and your whole movement is so optimistic.
It's amazing.
I mean, it's not just one or two people.
Sometimes you'll see one or two leaders that are very, like President Trump is very optimistic.
But it's right down to the all the people at Ashraf three.
I know how impressed Dr. Maria was with all the women there and how effective they are and how sure they are.
Now, it's got to be that almost every one of them is personally affected by a death to a husband, to a father, to a child, to a sister, a brother.
I mean, I don't think I've met anyone there that doesn't have somebody that was killed by.
And that's why I find that the Iranians have done, the Iranian regime has done an unbelievable job of public relations, of turning almost as good as China.
You'd think they were Marxists and communists and or they read Orwell's book about how you change the meaning of words.
I mean, look at this scam he's pulling off.
He attacks the base in Qatar.
He uses only, what, four planes or six planes?
Yes, six.
Six planes.
He calls Trump in advance to tell him they're coming.
What the hell kind of attack is that?
And now he's going to tell the people, see, we fought back.
I mean, it's like saying, I'm going to fight back for the championship and throw in the fight.
But they get away with it.
I understand it a little bit with China and Russia, because there is a philosophical, sick, I think, communist movement.
And these people are brainwashed with that in colleges.
Marxism is very, very subtle, but very powerful part of a lot of our education.
And we don't realize it.
So we are getting brainwashed if we're not careful.
But Iran doesn't brainwash us.
But your organization, I mean, there are people you can't even talk to about it.
And I know it backwards and forwards.
And from the very beginning, you know, I don't do anything without researching like crazy.
And when I first I first got involved with you when you were protesting Ahmedinejad, coming to the United Nations.
Exactly.
And you know, it was a Jewish group that invited me there.
It was a Jewish group because they joined your protest.
A lot of the Jewish group, because he was considered to be very particularly anti-Jewish.
Exactly.
He was like a fright.
He was a little like Raishi.
He was a frightening figure, right?
Exactly.
And then someone said, would you like to come to a meeting or come and talk?
And then somebody suggested that I check you out with John McCain.
So I did.
I went and visited John.
And I trusted him on things like this completely.
And then I did my own reading.
And the first thing they keep charging you with, we're talking now about the MEK, Mujaddin al-Kaw, right?
Right.
So what, what, that would be too long to do the whole history of it, but it was a group that was involved with other groups, a group of about, what, five or six groups that overthrew the Shah.
And they had a common cause about the Shah, although they had a lot of different political views.
And some of them had religious views.
But the religious views were supposed to be in the background.
And the Ayatollah had been Ayatollah hadn't, was he in France or Switzerland?
In France.
Actually, Khomeini, I'm glad that you mentioned that because Khomeini, after he was exiled in 1963 to Iraq, in Dajaf, where the theological schools of the Shias are, he was entirely silent for all these years until four months before the fall of the Shah,
when the protests had already started in Iran as a result of the big price that intellectuals and different sectors of the side had played.
And he saw the opportunity, he smelled that something is going to happen.
So he went to near Paris, Neufau de Chateau, near Paris, and within four months just portrayed himself as the leader of a movement which he pretty much had nothing to do with it.
And then using the network of the mosques that had remained intact under the Shah, the Shah went after the intellectuals, but didn't touch the clerics because he was afraid of them.
Well, you know, he was being praised by the mosques.
I mean, I read several biographies of the Shah before I met with you guys.
Also, I was kind of on the other side of it.
I represented one of his ministers who came to America to help him keep, I imagine now the wealth that he stole.
But so I knew the history of it.
And I was always, I thought it was very, even back then, I did not subscribe to the, we'd have been better off if we kept the shah, because that was the period where the CIA, well, maybe they were even during Trump, were completely out of control.
I mean, they were killing people left and right.
And I don't know if it was for the benefit of the United States or so they could make money.
And I knew that.
So when they, I mean, he, his whole career is CIA and Britain, right?
When Mossadegh took over in the 50s, he ran away.
He was content to run away and stay very rich.
They had to talk him into coming back.
And he was not, he was a very, very meek character who had to force himself to be a vicious killer.
Actually, the Pahlavi dynasty, you know, the father, Rezab, you know, he was, you know, he rose in the ranks of the army.
He was totally dependent on the Russians.
The Russians actually, well, you know, he was tough.
He killed a lot of people.
And then the Russians put him in place.
And then the second time, his son, Muhammad Zabah Lavi, was put in power by the Britain.
And then when he escaped, as you said, in 1953, it was the United States that put him back in power.
And it was a big debate whether they could trust him.
There was a big debate.
It was during the Eisenhower administration.
And there was a big debate as to whether or not you shouldn't get somebody else because he was unreliable.
He might run away again.
The CIA was worried he'd run away again.
They'd go through all this and he'd run away again.
And he did.
And you know what?
That was one of the most destructive historic mistakes of, I think, the Western nations, that we had a nationalistic government of Dr. Mossad.
He was independent, but that's what you want.
And he was very nationalist.
So very clear lines he had with the Islamic extremists, the fundamentalists, the mullahs.
But we see him as pro-Russian?
Well, that's how he was portrayed.
He was portrayed, oh, he's a communist, he's this and that.
And that justified overthrowing a nationalist government, which actually eventually paved the way for the rise of the clerics.
If you want to know how the mullahs came to power, you've got to go back to the roots, see how the outside world played their role.
But most importantly, inside Iran, it was the Shah, the dictatorship of the Shah that paved the way for Khomeini to rise into power, to steal a very genuine revolution in 1979, which was very popular.
And the goal was not to install the Islamic fundamentalist regime, but the mullahs, because the intellectuals were murdered by the Shah, there was a vacuum of leadership.
And Khomeini was able to steal it and move things in a totally wrong direction.
But I think now the Iranian people have the experience of the Shah.
They have the experience of the mullahs.
That's why during the protests in the streets, they've been chanting death to the oppressor, be the Shah or the Supreme Leader, making it very clear that the future in Iran belongs to democracy, to political pluralism, to separation of church and state, and rejecting any form of dictatorships in the past.
And those are the principles in the 10-point platform of Mrs. Rajavi that has gotten tremendous support in U.S. Congress.
A House majority has supported that, but also a significant number of senators in bipartisan way.
You mentioned Senator McCain.
This movement has had very significant support in the U.S. Congress, but also in Europe.
And Republican and Democrat.
I mean, one of your most active supporters is Senator Toricelli.
Yes, for years.
And right now, I mean, you know, you're broadcasting your events from, you know, New Hampshire.
Senator Gene Shaheen from New Hampshire has been very supportive in the Senate side.
And also, you know, there's a whole host of Because, you know, this is an issue that, you know, you don't have to be Republican or Democrat.
This is all dealing with human rights, with national security, with counterterrorism, with a non-nuclear Iran.
And it affects everybody.
So they worry about, they raise, the two main things they raise about MEK that people get all freaked out about because they don't bother reading is what is a communist organization.
It's a communist terrorist organization.
They put that together.
And then it's a cult.
So the communist terrorist organization refers to what happened back when they were trying to overthrow the shop?
Well, I know you now for 11, 12, 13 years.
I know the 10 points like the 10 Commandments.
And I've listened to Madame Rajavi a thousand times and Farzine and you and all the people that represent the group.
There's nothing communist about you at all.
You don't have a rigid government economic program like communists have.
What emerges from your 10 points is basically a free economy.
One of the points actually a free market economy.
It's just the opposite.
Exactly the opposite.
But you know, the whole thing, the term Islamic Marxist was coined by the Shah because the Shah had arrested the leadership of this movement.
He wanted to kill them.
He found no justification for that.
The people knew them that these are the people who religious who are Muslims, but they are democratic Muslims.
So he wanted to label them.
So at that time, communism was big.
And so he coined this term, which is by, in my view, is very contradictory.
How can you be Muslim and at the same time either don't believe in God and Marxist?
So that was meant to justify the killing of the people then.
And then the Mullahs, when they came to power, they realized all the founders of this movement were intellectuals.
These were the top brass of the universities, the top engineers.
And they made sense.
When they were holding rallies, talking to people, they could rapidly, you know, recruit and getting the younger generation away from the mullahs.
And that's why he started using the term that they are not Muslims, they are hypocrites.
When I first met with you and they said that, and I looked into it and I talked to Sean and I read about you, I actually came to the conclusion I really care.
I didn't care.
I mean, a lot of groups 30, 40 years ago were communists, but terrorists.
Begin, the prime minister of Israel, who turned them from a communist country to a free market.
He's the one who brought Netanyahu and Ehud Omer into government.
Menachem Begin.
He was a terrorist.
He blew up the King David Hotel.
And then he became a great prime minister.
I mean, the necessities of politics when you're dealing with dictators and murderers can put you in all different places.
It's where you are now that's important.
Definitely.
But of course.
And where were you now?
You were on the right side and they were all on the wrong side.
They were all supporting this group of people that took American hostages, killed American Marines, used their Quds force to kill Americans in Iraq, created havoc in the Middle East, wants to destroy the state of Israel, which is one of America's biggest allies, wants to destroy America, wants to destroy you.
And so, you know...
Mayor, one thing that...
And one thing I want to add, Mayor, is that, you know, these mullahs who nowadays, everyone is talking about the nuclear weapons program of the Iran regime, okay?
And they hid the whole program all these years.
And even now, they still claim that they have no nuclear weapons program, that everything that you saw found under the mountains is about do they blame you?
They blame the country.
And they, of course, they blame us.
People don't know this generally.
Although I saw Brian Kilmead mention this morning.
Yes.
You're the group that originally uncovered, and this is completely undisputed, that discovered the original nuclear program.
Was it Natans?
Was that your first one?
Yes, the August of 2002 was the revelation of the nuclear site in Natanz, which is a Iranian enrichment program that actually triggered the IAA inspections of Iranian nuclear sites.
Then within a year, we had a whole host of other revelations and giving a complete picture of the whole program.
Even Ford back then.
Ford in December 2005, we first exposed it.
But it was very different.
Well, it was the same place, but it wasn't as important as it was.
The world had the opportunity to shut down all of these sites before they get to where they are.
But unfortunately, Mayor, this policy of appeasement that was pursued both by Europe and the United States, different administrations here, has been very destructive, not just against us, against the Americans, against Europeans, allowing the regime.
The reason the regime has had this level of advancement in its nuclear program is because of the appeasement policy.
They gave them the legitimacy and the money to expand it.
My point is that if the regime is lying this much about the most obvious things now, you can imagine how much they lie about us, how much money they're spending on their biggest organized opposition in Iran, how much money and resources they're spending on the coalition of the National Council of Existence of Iran, which is the MEK is part of it, led by Mrs. Rajib, which is the longest-lasting political coalition in the history of Iran.
You know, 24-7, they're thinking about that all the time.
They're hiring people, giving money.
I remember about a year and a half ago when the riots really were going on about the girl who they killed.
Yes, Masa Amini.
Yeah, with a little bit of hair.
The Ayatollah said, I think it was the Ayatollah or Raisi, I don't remember, one or the other, said that the only group that they really worry about having the capacity to take over is MEK.
And I used to, and meanwhile, your opponents here say you're meaningless.
You don't have any power.
Well, where do we look to for where you have power?
The people have to be overthrown.
They are dead set against you.
They kill you on sight.
They put up unbelievable propaganda about you.
They certainly are obsessed with you.
And they're right.
Actually, just in summer of 1988, 30,000 political prisoners, a vast majority of them belonging to this movement, MEK, were murdered based on a FATWA, a religious decree by the Supreme Leader Khomeini at that time, because they felt threatened.
They felt that this movement is gaining momentum among the younger generation.
Their message is finding its way.
So they wanted to crush it and hoping that by killing whoever they could get their hands on, and these were all political prisoners, they can crush it.
And guess what?
You know, the whole thing has actually backfired on them.
Now, those who are in the streets of Tehran and other cities, these are like the people who are somehow associated, the core of them, associated with those people that were murdered by the regime in 1988.
You know, their sons and daughters, grandchildren, friends, and all of that.
And you mentioned that anyone who is in the movement within the society, they are somehow affected by the heavy price that has been paid over the years.
You know, we have a very thick book that looks like a very large website dictionary that we gave that to actually Senator McCain when he visited Mrs. Rajavi.
there are names and pictures on that.
That single volume has 20,000, the red cover has 20,000 names and pictures of individuals who have been murdered.
And so the price has already been paid.
The regime is so worried because no matter how much discontent exists, if you are not able to turn that into an organized force that topples the regime, you will stay in power.
And the only force that is able to do it on the ground is actually the MEK in Iran and the National Council of Assistance of Iran as a parliament in exile around the world.
That's where the center and the focus of the propaganda by the Iranian regime is against this movement, which by itself, I think, is a very clear testimony that there is an alternative when it comes to Iran.
And interestingly, Mayor, this alternative has not asked for boots on the ground, has not asked for money, is just saying, you know, we don't need anything.
Just don't give cash to the mullahs in Tehran.
Don't block our way to, you know, ending the rule of the clerics.
Instead, all you need to do is just recognize the right of the people of Iran to overthrow the regime, the right of those young people in Iran known as resistance units who belong to this MEK, their right to confront the revolutionary guards.
That's all we want.
The rest is our responsibility.
And that's why, you know, when this peace was announced by, you know, President Trump as a ceasefire, we welcomed it.
We said, okay, now this is our time.
This is our responsibility.
We have always looked upon the people of Iran and the organized sense as the party who is going to bring down the mullahs at the end of the day.
And I hope people understand what's really happening on the ground, see the impact of that, but also look at the future.
What a difference it will make when you have a free democratic non-nuclear republic, Iran, how it will change the face of the whole region.
100%.
Well, let's just make one other point because we've run out of time, and that is that, and we'll talk about this some more, people have to be very, very careful with these claims being made by what is he, Reza Pahlavi Jr. or what's his name?
The crown prince of what?
Well, you know, Mayor Benjamin.
I knew more legitimate and honest crown princes in Brooklyn.
Actually, in France, you know, the last time they had the monarchy there was Louis XVI.
You know, every village, as you go there, there's somebody who says he claims that they're in France.
Half of Europe is made up of...
The successor to the Tsar.
Yeah.
So they can get any claims they want.
You better watch out.
The last Tsar got his head chopped off.
So people, you know, again, this is part of what they take advantage of, our lack of knowledge of history.
And our laziness to go and consult it when we don't know it.
So now, if you went back and read about the Shah, you'd get beyond this simplistic notion, well, he's better than the Ayatollah.
You know, a lot of people in the mafia were better than John Gotti.
He was a maniacal killer, but they still were killers.
I remember the Shah.
I mean, I'm old enough to remember him in great detail.
The Shah was a dictator, without any doubt.
He was a brutal dictator.
He ran not just a monarchy.
It wasn't like a, like England, it wasn't a constitutional monarchy.
It was a one-man rule.
He ran it through his secret police, the Savak, right?
Absolutely.
And he used the prison that we just bombed, or Israel just bombed, very, very effective.
Yeah, and he had all sorts of people there.
And part of our problem was he was our dictator, meaning America, who we helped put him there with the English.
And he had a, and he was a massive, and his wife were massive thieves.
And his whole administration were massive thieves.
It was kind of like the people in the Ukraine, the oligarchs in the Ukraine, very similar.
It was a completely corrupt country run by a completely corrupt man.
And he promised a lot.
He promised a lot to the people.
At times, he promised big reforms and big changes, but he never delivered on it.
And he was afraid of the clerics and caved into them.
And then he ran away because he was scared.
The son has never done anything with his life.
I mean, he's not ready to run a candy store, much less.
Does he ever work?
Never.
I mean, this guy, this guy is a...
This guy is like a Jet set rich kid who's he's never joined you in any of the military action or right?
Well, you know, the finish you get himself dirty.
When the revolution took place, he was like 19 years old.
That's fighting age.
The first thing he did in a few months after that, after the revolution, when the whole thing was swept out of power, he went to Paris and declared himself the Shah.
And he says, I'm the king.
And ever since, he's trying to have it both ways.
He never renounced that to the country.
He wants others to do the fighting and pave the way for him.
But because he has nobody on the ground, he's relying on the revolutionary guards.
He constantly talks about the revolutionary guards as being the force who are going to protect the people, who are going to be the source for change, but also in the future.
Right today, he had a press conference again talking about the revolutionary guards, minister of intelligence, you know, people, the security that I guarantee that, you know, when the revolution takes place, you know, you better build a relationship with me.
This is the way to contact me.
Instead of thinking about like, the whole world is talking about the trouble of the Iran regime, how to end the rule of the clerics.
He's trying to reach out to the revolutionary guards.
So you want to go from a theocracy to a monarchy.
Right.
And of course, that's not going to happen.
So the end result is helping the regime.
At the time that the world is focusing how to stand on the side of the people for them to bring down the ayatollahs, he's talking about reaching out to the revolutionary guards.
He's just making it, you know, he's trying to lure the people out of the main highway that leads to the change into maintaining the regime.
We have to be very careful because we are prone to making mistakes like this.
And it's one of the reasons why the isolationists were so opposed to our getting involved.
Their worry is not so much our getting involved, it's our very inexpert nation building.
Sometimes we go from bad to worse or from worse to almost as bad.
And this time we've got to make sure we don't do that.
That's an important point, Mary, because, you know, in Iraq, for instance, in 2003, you know, the U.S. went there and the invasion there.
And, you know, that everyone has seen the outcome of that.
And so the moment you talk about change in Iran, the first thing that comes to mind is like another Iraq.
And that's why it's so important that, you know, we're not talking about nation building.
We're not talking about, you know, exporting a revolution or democracy or something to another country.
We're not talking about, you know, doing the fighting for another nation or appropriating money.
None of that is needed.
To the country, we're saying Iran is a country with a history, with a culture, and people of Iran, they don't want theocracy, they don't want monarchy, they want freedom.
That's all you need to do.
Just recognize that.
Unfortunately, over the past four decades, Western nations recognized the mullahs as a representative of the Iranian people.
They just gave them money and resources trying to find a way of appeasing them.
Hopefully that era is over now.
And now we can now focus on the values and the capabilities of the Iranian people, the potential for change.
And I think the potential for change has never been so great as it is now.
But it's not going to happen by itself.
There's going to be a lot of effort, a lot of sweat and effort done by the people of Iran and the organized resistance, but it's very doable.
Just in the past one year, these resistance units have had 3,000 operations, large and small, targeting the revolutionary guards around the country.
So that's where we're counting on the people, those who are fighting the MOLAs, and that will help.
Thank you, Mayor.
Appreciate that.
There's a great education the American people need.
So they're not, sometimes they're led into this blindly.
And we want to do the best we can to make sure that you're not blind and you know what's on the ground.
The reason this is so important is unless we get rid of the Ayatollah, we're not getting rid of them as a possible nuclear power because they're maniacal about the idea of being a nuclear power.
And you know something?
They're right.
From their point of view, they're right.
They saw what happened to Saddam Hussein because he wasn't a nuclear power.
We were able to stick him in the ground and kill him.
If they really were a nuclear power, there'd have been a lot of reluctance in invading them.
There'd be a lot of reluctance for Israel to do what it's doing to them.
A lot of reluctance for America to do what they're doing.
So they realized sometime back the only way they can assert themselves as the Islamic Republic, and they do have insane pretensions of being a world leader.
I mean, their idea at one point was to divide the world up with China.
They don't realize if that happens, China will kill them.
I'll put my money on China rather than these guys.
But in any event, I think we've covered everything tonight, Ted.
What do you say, boss?
I do too, Mayor.
What an interesting, interesting night with everything happening.
What a great guest.
Those who have been watching the show for a long time know, right, that they know Ali Raiser and his people.
That's right.
But a lot of news, Mayor.
You know, we talked about the New York City mayor's race, the heat dome hitting the city.
And I mean, so that'll be interesting.
We'll be covering that tomorrow.
The heat dome is going to hit Michigan, too.
I did see that.
Yeah, it's going to be like the Northeast, from the sort of the mid-Midwest, the early Midwest.
I think before you get to Illinois, and then it comes down like an arc to North Carolina.
It's going to hit North Carolina and up to here in New Hampshire.
So this is about as warm in New Hampshire as I can remember it.
So people got to be careful.
When we have these heat waves, we lose thousands of people.
So any predictions in the mayor's race tomorrow?
You want to make a prediction or we'll do some more reading and maybe we'll save that for tomorrow?
Well, I don't know.
I mean, it might be over with by the time we get to tomorrow.
Polls close at seven?
I'm going to, I haven't followed the race, so I can't make a professional prediction.
So I'm going to go with what I think is necessary.
And in a million years, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm going to say Cuomo because Cuomo is better than this crazy Hamas loving anti-Semite and communist, true communist.
Wants to have free food for everybody.
Well, last time they did that, everybody was starving in Russia, right?
Isn't that what helped to overthrow it?
They couldn't get food in the grocery stores.
And I noticed he's try to go buy a nice meal in Cuba and see what happens to you.
Or Venezuela now.
And I notice he's 33, Mayor.
I'm 33. 33 years ago would have been, well, during 34, so 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
You wonder how many he might, he doesn't remember those Soviet grocery stores in the late 80s, early 90s.
You know, you have to read Putin carefully.
Putin is a Russian nationalist more than a communist.
And what he wants to recreate is not the Soviet Union.
I don't think there's much of an expectation he's going to put together Czechoslovakia again, Yugoslavia or Poland, but he wants back what Peter the Great had.
I think he wants to be a czar.
So that's why he's so, he's so, that's why he's so rigid on Ukraine.
I mean, because when you get out of Poland, those were never part of Russia.
That all came about because, well, because number one, Roosevelt was almost as demented as Biden at the end of his term.
And he was surrounded by Alzheimer's and a bunch of communists.
And we gave in to Joe Stalin.
There was absolutely no reason in the world for them to have Poland.
Maybe we couldn't have stopped them from taking Ukraine and even maybe even Lithuania and Latvia.
But Patton was ready to go in and we held him back.
So we actually gave them Eastern Europe.
So if you want to understand Putin, realize that he has like an animosity toward communism because communism wipes out nationality.
Cultural revolution in China is all about forgetting their culture.
Culture has to be communism.
That's why religion goes as well as civilization.
One civilization, communism.
Well, we'll see.
So we'll be back tomorrow night.
Who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Today we ended up with an attack on an airbase and a ceasefire we never expected.
At the beginning of the day, Mayor.
If it's like ceasefires with Hamas, it'll last a day.
It'll last one day.
I think Israel is still bombing them right now as we speak.
Well, that was the thing, right?
We were just talking about that, Mayor.
Ceasefires in six hours.
They're just moving up everything they were planning for the next two weeks.
Get it all in there as much as we can get it in.
And Mayor, I will say this morning we were talking, us and our friends, you, me, and our friends, and he mentioned, he said to me, you never know.
You don't know what's going to happen today.
And within hours, right, it all started hitting.
And we assume this is it for their retaliation, but who knows?
There are a lot of forces at play here, including their having to hang on to power.
And one of the ways to hang on to power is to create a foreign war.
Might not be true in this case because he doesn't have that kind of support, but that's a good point, Mayor.
That's a point that cannot go.
We can't ignore that.
Let me say what I put in my posting on Truth and on Twitter or X, sorry.
We're very fortunate to have a great president.
In the last, certainly since Reagan and George Bush, the first one, and I can't speak for George Bush, the second one, on this.
But we haven't had a president like this since Reagan, really.
And it's amazing how much he's gotten done that other presidents couldn't do or wouldn't do.
And weren't willing to take on the heat for it.
You think of all the pressure on him not to do this.
And both from the left and even from the right.
And he made this decision, not based on his political base or his political, he made this decision based on the safety of the United States of America.
You've got a regime out there that's been in existence for 45, 46 years.
And in every one of those 45 or 46 years, it reminds itself that it wants to destroy us.
And you're going to let them have nuclear weapons?
How often do they have to say death to America when we take them seriously?
How many more Americans do they have to kill before we take them seriously?
I don't know what the game Obama and Biden were playing.
Obama giving them hundreds of millions in cash and Biden giving them billions in money that was seized from the Shah for the Iranian people, not for the terrorists.
At least half that money went to terrorist groups, some of which killed America.
Obama gave them money used to kill us.
And he gave it to a terrorist group.
I asked people, it's legally no different than giving money to bin Laden.
Imagine if an American president had given $100 million to bin Laden in cash.
I don't know.
The Ayatollah may be worse than Bin Laden, in terms of the number of people that he's killed, he did a very shocking attack on us.
And personally, it's hard to be worse than bin Laden, but the Ayatollah gives him a good run for his money.
So there's a lot to be considered here and a lot at stake.
And the president handled this brilliantly.
Even the way the whole mission was brought about, so that it eliminated the cost of human life.
And our troops came back safe.
Our pilots came back safe.
I can't emphasize enough how complex this mission was.
Every little thing had to go right.
One of those planes would go down.
37 hours in a flying gigantic mansion, which is what it is.
It's like a mansion in the air.
Well, we'll be back tomorrow at 7 o'clock on Windows TV and 8 o'clock on TrustyX, X, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, Instagram.
We're on Instagram now consistently.
And Newsmax, too.
Okay.
Well, thank you very much, and I pray people who are in harm's way, including our military.
We got 40,000 of them spread out within very short distance of Iran.
And they're protecting our freedom in a way that we see what happens to them.
So God bless them.
God bless America.
We'll see you tomorrow night.
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