Viva & Barnes - A Round-Table Discussion on the War with Iran, from the Perspective of Supporters of Regime Change
Aired: 2026-03-03
Duration: 01:49:41


=== Fusion Voting in New York (14:31) ===

[00:00:00]  Gentlemen of the interwebs, there will be no intro video today because we have finite time.
[00:00:05]  We've got one guest who is now appearing on the show for a second time.
[00:00:09]  And I don't want to waste any time before getting to his update.
[00:00:12]  It's Larry Sharp, the sanest libertarian I've ever met in my entire life.
[00:00:16]  And then we're going to have a roundtable, hot table.
[00:00:20]  We're going to have an interesting discussion with, I'll preface it before we get into this, a discussion on Iran.
[00:00:25]  And these are folks who I've qualify as pro-regime change.
[00:00:30]  And based on the replies in the tweet to this show, it's quite clearly pro-regime change.
[00:00:35]  And we're going to have an interesting discussion on the state of Iran from another perspective.
[00:00:39]  And it's not a debate and it's not a Pierce Morgan shit show free-for-all so that we can snap and snip and grab clips and make them go viral on Twitter.
[00:00:47]  This is so we can actually have a meaningful discussion about an issue which you cannot have meaningful discussions about on Twitter.
[00:00:54]  A boot.
[00:00:55]  Now, so I'm going to make sure we live on across all platforms before we get this going.
[00:00:58]  We look like we're live on Hrumble.
[00:01:02]  I see that we're live on vivabarnslaw.locals.com because the memes are already following.
[00:01:07]  So come and watch us there.
[00:01:08]  There's again, no paywall today because we're on StreamYard for facility at facility for facilitating this stream and making sure that nobody gets technical difficulties using this because one individual is going to be doing the interview from their car and we're going to have a bunch of people who I'm going to meet for the first time.
[00:01:26]  So without further ado, we're going to bring in Larry Sharp, who is, Larry, I say a sane libertarian.
[00:01:33]  I've had now I'm angry because you know what I want to, I came here for the free-for-all.
[00:01:39]  I want to do Pierce Morgan.
[00:01:40]  I wanted to I wanted to do a little, okay, it's fine.
[00:01:42]  I guess I'll talk like a regular person now.
[00:01:44]  Go ahead.
[00:01:45]  Well, as regular as libertarians get, and I make the joke because libertarians do give themselves a bad reputation, depending on which Twitter handles you follow, you are.
[00:01:53]  We tend to care more about virtue signaling more than anything else.
[00:01:56]  Well, and shit posting for at least the liberal, the Libertarian Party of, is it Vermont or New Hampshire?
[00:02:02]  New Hampshire is famous for that.
[00:02:04]  Okay, it's New Hampshire then.
[00:02:05]  Larry, this is your second time on the show.
[00:02:07]  The last time we had a really amazing, interesting discussion.
[00:02:10]  Everybody should go back and watch it for policy.
[00:02:12]  You've got a video on your YouTube channel.
[00:02:14]  It's eight hours of your policy, what you would implement as, I guess, governor of New York.
[00:02:19]  You're running for the governor of New York.
[00:02:20]  And the last time we discussed it, it was pre-Christmas.
[00:02:22]  I forget what the next steps were, but there's been some developments and the world should know who you are.
[00:02:27]  Take it away.
[00:02:28]  We are.
[00:02:29]  We've got a couple of, I think, wonderful endorsements from the Republican Liberty Caucus and also from the Our House PAC.
[00:02:35]  So we had a couple endorsements, which is great.
[00:02:37]  That's what I'm happy about because we do need some more of that.
[00:02:40]  We are now in the process of petitioning now so that we can get into the Republican primary.
[00:02:45]  The Republican GOP in New York State is utterly broken.
[00:02:48]  The leadership of the GOP in my state hasn't won an election in 24 years, meaning statewide, not senator, not governor, not AG, nothing in 24 years.
[00:02:58]  And they thought, wait a minute, how can we fix it?
[00:03:00]  Huh?
[00:03:01]  We look back at our history of 2008 and we had a very charismatic young Democrat win.
[00:03:06]  His name was Barack Obama.
[00:03:07]  So GOP said, I know we'll get him.
[00:03:10]  We'll use Mitt Romney.
[00:03:12]  That was their answer.
[00:03:13]  I know you're laughing.
[00:03:14]  It's a joke.
[00:03:14]  However, my state said exactly the same thing.
[00:03:17]  We just had a very young, charismatic Democrat, guy named Mamdani, just win, a mayor of New York City.
[00:03:23]  And my GOP said, you know what we're going to do?
[00:03:25]  We're going to use Mitt Romney Jr.
[00:03:26]  They're picking an old guy named Blakeman who's in his 70s.
[00:03:31]  He's just an establishment as possibly can be.
[00:03:34]  And then they picked the cop as his lieutenant governor in an election that is not about law and order right now in New York State.
[00:03:40]  That was 2022.
[00:03:41]  2024, it's an economy election.
[00:03:43]  They've got the wrong election, wrong time, wrong guy.
[00:03:46]  It's never going to work.
[00:03:47]  It's a disaster.
[00:03:48]  Someone's got to make this work.
[00:03:50]  And how do we do that?
[00:03:50]  As I said, Trump taught us this.
[00:03:52]  The way we do it is through coalition, multiple groups of people together to fight the establishment.
[00:03:58]  That's how we got the Tulsi Gabbards and the Elon Musks and the RFK Jr.s all aboard.
[00:04:03]  I'm doing the same thing in my state.
[00:04:05]  I'm trying to run right now in the Republican primary.
[00:04:07]  And right after that, I will run with pet petitions to get the libertarian line.
[00:04:11]  So I will have the Republican line and the libertarian line because in New York State, we have what's called fusion voting, and we can be listed on multiple lines.
[00:04:20]  And Democrats vote for libertarians.
[00:04:22]  They don't like voting for Republicans at all, but they vote for libertarians.
[00:04:25]  I know that because when I ran before, we did the data.
[00:04:28]  About 30% of the people who support me in the past, they're actually registered Democrats.
[00:04:33]  About 30% are either no party affiliation or independent.
[00:04:36]  And about 40% are actually Republicans.
[00:04:40]  So I know I can create a coalition.
[00:04:41]  That's what I'm doing.
[00:04:42]  These next steps are me literally getting on the ballot to fight for the primary because the Republicans in my state said, we don't hooties the primary.
[00:04:49]  That's for chumps.
[00:04:50]  We are going to just, we're going to coordinate our guy just like the Democrats did for Camel Harris because that worked out so well.
[00:04:59]  Well, why did Elise Stefanik suspend her gubernatorial race?
[00:05:03]  If you know, yes.
[00:05:04]  She was doing well.
[00:05:06]  I didn't do this until she dropped out.
[00:05:08]  When she was running, I didn't do this.
[00:05:10]  I was waiting, right?
[00:05:11]  And she was running.
[00:05:12]  She was at least known across the state.
[00:05:14]  Again, it's a tough state.
[00:05:15]  It's only 23% of my state is Republican.
[00:05:17]  So it's a very low percentage.
[00:05:18]  But even for that, she was relatively well known.
[00:05:21]  And people within the state knew her.
[00:05:24]  Republican establishment knew her.
[00:05:25]  People knew her.
[00:05:27]  She was famous from being, you know, on the national stage.
[00:05:29]  And she got bullied out.
[00:05:31]  She got bullied out because guys like Blakeman said, no, we're going to go.
[00:05:36]  And Trump did not take a stand.
[00:05:38]  He just let it go.
[00:05:39]  And when he, and when he let it go, she said, I'm not going to sit here and fight this.
[00:05:42]  The problem happening across New York State is Republicans are quitting.
[00:05:47]  They're not running.
[00:05:48]  And here's the biggest, the biggest problem.
[00:05:50]  In my state right now, we are about two cycles away from Republicans no longer being able to run a statewide candidate anymore.
[00:05:57]  I'm not joking.
[00:05:58]  If you do your homework right now in New Mexico of every blue state, there's no Republican candidate for governor.
[00:06:04]  The governor is running unopposed.
[00:06:06]  That's how bad it is.
[00:06:08]  Why does that happen?
[00:06:09]  Because you can't raise any money.
[00:06:11]  You cannot win.
[00:06:12]  It is impossible to win.
[00:06:13]  So who's going to give you money?
[00:06:15]  It's impossible to win.
[00:06:16]  Why would you, I punish myself on it.
[00:06:18]  I go into debt when I do this.
[00:06:19]  Remember, I'm the only person running who's not being paid by the government to run.
[00:06:23]  Everyone else gets paid by the government to run.
[00:06:24]  So I'm not being paid.
[00:06:26]  I'm just getting my ass kicked.
[00:06:27]  So why would you do it when you know you're not going to win?
[00:06:30]  Why would you do it when there's no money involved at all?
[00:06:33]  Why would you give me money if I have no chance of making any impact whatsoever?
[00:06:36]  Of course not.
[00:06:37]  Let me question.
[00:06:38]  You mentioned Mamdani and everybody says we want to see New York go to hell in a handbasket because it's the only way people are going to learn.
[00:06:45]  Some of what we've seen looks like New York going to hell in a handbasket in short order.
[00:06:50]  Is the reality of New York under Mamdani in his short tenure as dire as we think it is based on what we see on the internet?
[00:06:58]  It never is as dire.
[00:06:59]  It's always an exaggeration.
[00:07:00]  But is it bad?
[00:07:01]  Yes.
[00:07:01]  But here's the lesson of Mamdani.
[00:07:03]  The lesson of Mamdani is when Democrats get upset, they don't vote Republican still.
[00:07:08]  They still don't Republican.
[00:07:10]  And for those who don't know, and then this elder, well, this time Republicans win.
[00:07:13]  No, Mamdani taught us.
[00:07:15]  Even Democrats are unhappy in my state and they went further left.
[00:07:18]  They didn't go to Republicans.
[00:07:20]  They've been taught for 20 years, Republicans are evil.
[00:07:22]  They'll never get, they're not going to vote for them.
[00:07:24]  That's not a thing.
[00:07:25]  That's not how that works.
[00:07:26]  So we have to find someone who's a coalition candidate.
[00:07:28]  And here's the part I remember.
[00:07:30]  When I was in Florida during election night, I was at parties for the election party, and it was a bunch of women who were sitting there who all voted for Trump.
[00:07:37]  These women were urbanite women, educated women.
[00:07:39]  This is a Democratic stronghold.
[00:07:40]  That's what the Democratic Party is all about.
[00:07:42]  So I asked them, I said, why'd you vote for Trump?
[00:07:44]  You should, in theory, you should be a Democrat.
[00:07:46]  And they went, oh, no, we are Democrats.
[00:07:47]  Well, why'd you vote for Trump?
[00:07:48]  Well, because I really voted for Bobby Kennedy or really voted for Tulsi Gabbard or really voted for Elon Musk.
[00:07:52]  Like they thought they voted for somebody else through Trump.
[00:07:55]  That is the coalition that we can build.
[00:07:57]  That's the way we get Democrats to actually vote for someone who's not a Mamdani.
[00:08:02]  So is it bad?
[00:08:03]  Yes.
[00:08:03]  Is it as bad as you think?
[00:08:04]  No.
[00:08:04]  But it's been doing this for a long time.
[00:08:07]  Here's the biggest issue people don't know is that when Curtis Leewer, perfectly, when Curtis Lee were ran, he got 7% of the vote, not 17, not 70, 7.
[00:08:19]  That is how strong Democrats are in my city.
[00:08:23]  7%.
[00:08:24]  And the rationale is we've discussed this and people can be free to agree or disagree.
[00:08:29]  No Republican candidate is going to win as a Republican candidate.
[00:08:32]  So if you sneak in or maneuver in, strategize in a Libertarian candidate who your policies are good.
[00:08:39]  They pissed off some of the, I won't say far right, but they pissed off some of the further right conservative angle where they say nobody wants to talk about any form of amnesty for illegals, period.
[00:08:50]  And when you float that idea, it pisses people off.
[00:08:52]  But not to marginally.
[00:08:55]  People are going to vote for me anyway if I have a Republican line because Democrats are far worse than I am.
[00:08:59]  Democrats are far worse than I am.
[00:09:01]  For the people who want to go, oh my God, you can't do anything.
[00:09:04]  You can think that if you want to, and maybe if you live in Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, maybe that will work.
[00:09:09]  That will not work in my state.
[00:09:11]  You will just be virtual signaling.
[00:09:12]  You'll be screaming at the wind.
[00:09:14]  Most of the people in my state, haven't you realized this?
[00:09:18]  New York City, through all of this, is still a sanctuary city.
[00:09:22]  We have learned nothing.
[00:09:23]  Do you understand me?
[00:09:24]  This is where I am.
[00:09:26]  For someone to tell me, well, Larry, we have to do that.
[00:09:29]  Now, why would I stay and fight?
[00:09:31]  Because here's the biggest thing.
[00:09:33]  And some of you who are listening who aren't in New York State may think I'm crazy.
[00:09:35]  And perhaps I am.
[00:09:36]  And I'll accept that.
[00:09:37]  But here's what I know.
[00:09:39]  If we beat them in New York, we can beat them anywhere.
[00:09:43]  If we hold them in New York, we can hold them anywhere.
[00:09:46]  If this model works in New York, it works everywhere.
[00:09:49]  If this model is even close, it'll work at other places.
[00:09:53]  And no one else is even trying it.
[00:09:56]  Larry, yesterday I had on Jim Carlin, who's running for senator of Iowa.
[00:10:00]  And, you know, I like to get whatever platform I have to get these ideas out there.
[00:10:05]  What do you need right now?
[00:10:07]  What's the next step in what you're doing?
[00:10:09]  And what do you want people to know to the extent you can get?
[00:10:11]  I mean, it's only voters in New York State that can vote for you.
[00:10:16]  What do you need?
[00:10:16]  What's the next step?
[00:10:17]  And what's the plan of a guy like me requires the most important thing, which is legitimacy, which is popularity.
[00:10:24]  If there's anyone out there saying, you know what?
[00:10:26]  I like this guy, Larry.
[00:10:27]  He's not exactly, but he's interesting.
[00:10:28]  He's loud, whatever.
[00:10:29]  He's fun.
[00:10:30]  You know what?
[00:10:30]  I know a guy who'd like to have money on his podcast.
[00:10:33]  I like a guy who'd like to interview him.
[00:10:35]  That is so super helpful.
[00:10:37]  Get my name to people who you know who are in this arena who would want to hear me yap about some stuff.
[00:10:44]  Even they want to yell at me.
[00:10:45]  I don't care if they can get me to people who want to end up staying want to call me.
[00:10:47]  I don't know, a Democrat or whatever.
[00:10:48]  They don't call me.
[00:10:49]  I mean, I'm not, but I don't care.
[00:10:50]  They can, whatever.
[00:10:51]  As long as I get more people to see me, that matters tremendously.
[00:10:55]  That's my number one issue.
[00:10:56]  Because right now, what I'm doing is I'm going out and getting signatures.
[00:10:59]  And the more people who've heard of me, the easier it is to sign that petition for me.
[00:11:03]  So that's the best thing you can do for me.
[00:11:05]  If you want to donate, go to larrysharp.com/slash donate.
[00:11:08]  If you want to let people know that I exist, do me a favor.
[00:11:12]  Let people know I exist.
[00:11:13]  Put my name online.
[00:11:15]  Tell people all those things.
[00:11:16]  It's important.
[00:11:17]  Well, let's let me in a few minutes, short minutes.
[00:11:20]  Let's start with your plan to save New York.
[00:11:23]  Thus far, it can be a sanctuary city.
[00:11:26]  It's an exodus state.
[00:11:28]  What is your plan of action to actually save the state of New York from the winch that is the current governor, Hokul?
[00:11:36]  Yes, the number one issue is affordability.
[00:11:38]  We have to deal with three parts.
[00:11:39]  Taxes, regulation is another critical one, too, right?
[00:11:43]  Taxes, regulation, and energy.
[00:11:44]  Those are our three issues, right?
[00:11:46]  Taxation is critical.
[00:11:47]  If we open up, as I mentioned before, a sovereign fund for New York State, both Trump and also Arfka Jr.
[00:11:53]  About a sovereign fund back in 2024.
[00:11:55]  They were right then.
[00:11:56]  I'm still right now.
[00:11:57]  I'm going to say they copied my idea.
[00:11:59]  I don't know if they did, but they copied my idea.
[00:12:01]  And so now we're going to actually do it for New York State.
[00:12:03]  Once we do that, that will pay for education, eliminating school tax, cutting property tax in half.
[00:12:08]  Off the bat, I just gave you a reason and a way to cut tax, but I'm still not done.
[00:12:11]  That also allows local schools to control local schools.
[00:12:15]  This is what I want.
[00:12:16]  No federal strings attached, no state strings attached.
[00:12:18]  Somehow, every single president we've ever had was educated without a Department of Education.
[00:12:24]  Somehow, we did it.
[00:12:24]  It's crazy, I know, but it does work.
[00:12:26]  We can educate our kids without it.
[00:12:28]  Right now, New York State spends the most possible on education and meaning over 40,000 more than anybody in the entire world.
[00:12:34]  And we come in as the 50 states, 28th.
[00:12:36]  That, by the way, not good.
[00:12:38]  But not just that.
[00:12:39]  We should actually start helping people out here when it comes to energy.
[00:12:42]  Nuclear energy is the answer.
[00:12:43]  Trump just said it.
[00:12:44]  And in fact, even Hokle said it.
[00:12:47]  Look, brother, if Hokul and Trump agree with me, I got to be right on that one.
[00:12:52]  Right?
[00:12:52]  I mean, I got to be right on that one.
[00:12:54]  Both of them agree with me.
[00:12:55]  Nuclear power is the answer.
[00:12:56]  However, you want nuclear power owned 50% literally by the people of the municipality that it's in.
[00:13:04]  I've been speaking to people who are in that world who would finance it and they are okay with it.
[00:13:08]  Like, yes, we would do it.
[00:13:09]  We would happily finance that because those nuclear power plants would mostly be used to bring in technology.
[00:13:15]  And that's the key.
[00:13:16]  But if local people own it, they're more apt to let it happen.
[00:13:20]  You will see that happen.
[00:13:21]  It will work.
[00:13:22]  That will lower energy costs by default because the government's not going to build it.
[00:13:25]  I'm libertarian.
[00:13:26]  Governments don't build anything.
[00:13:27]  The government won't build it.
[00:13:28]  The government will just lease the land out and let it work.
[00:13:31]  And as the market begins to work, what will happen?
[00:13:33]  Competition, prices come down.
[00:13:35]  I got lower energy.
[00:13:36]  I got more opportunity in my state.
[00:13:38]  And I just dealt with taxes.
[00:13:39]  Now, I could go on, as you know, for eight hours.
[00:13:41]  I want to give you a chunk.
[00:13:42]  No, for sure.
[00:13:43]  And I'll reference everybody to the eight-hour video.
[00:13:46]  Question from our locals community.
[00:13:47]  I already know the answer.
[00:13:48]  Do you take money from APAC?
[00:13:50]  No, absolutely not.
[00:13:52]  I do not.
[00:13:53]  I Googled that actually before I asked the question because I suspected I knew the answer.
[00:13:57]  Second question.
[00:13:58]  And this is the one I want to go viral when people snip and clip.
[00:14:01]  This is not going to be Pierce Morgan level chicanery.
[00:14:04]  Dexter Taylor.
[00:14:05]  I know your answer to this.
[00:14:06]  On Second Amendments, what is your position on Second Amendment rights?
[00:14:09]  And what do you do with Dexter Taylor if you get elected government?
[00:14:12]  100%.
[00:14:13]  Number one, there is no one who's running for office who is more pro-Second Amendment than I am.
[00:14:17]  That person does not exist.
[00:14:19]  The current Republican is for red flag laws and he is for gun laws.
[00:14:24]  The Democrat, obviously, Hokko is completely for gun laws like this.
[00:14:27]  No tomorrow.
[00:14:28]  Most of New York State is actually still anti-gun.

=== Gun Control Rumble (03:35) ===

[00:14:31]  It's still true.
[00:14:32]  The blue dots across my state, my red state, are very powerful when it comes to gun lobby.
[00:14:37]  And they just want to make more illegal guns illegal.
[00:14:41]  I'm going to stop that.
[00:14:42]  Here's how I stop it.
[00:14:43]  I do it by saying, look, because of the Bruin case and the Supreme Court and our Second Amendment, any, and I mean any firearm possession charge is by default pardoned, period.
[00:14:55]  Now, if you rob somebody, still a crime.
[00:14:57]  You're brandished, still a crime.
[00:14:59]  But if you have a firearm that that is by default, automatically pardoned.
[00:15:05]  Once that happens, all those possession charges go away.
[00:15:08]  I've just made my state open carry.
[00:15:10]  I've just made open carry.
[00:15:11]  I've just made it that by default because no possession charge.
[00:15:14]  Doesn't matter.
[00:15:15]  Done.
[00:15:16]  Now, what happens with that?
[00:15:17]  The DAs will go nuts.
[00:15:18]  The judges will go crazy.
[00:15:20]  You will watch the police wants go nuts.
[00:15:22]  Great.
[00:15:22]  I'm okay with it.
[00:15:23]  Okay.
[00:15:23]  Go nuts.
[00:15:24]  Great.
[00:15:24]  Now you got to come back to me now.
[00:15:25]  And we have to reopen all gun laws.
[00:15:27]  We're going to reopen them all going back to 2012 before the horrible SAFE act that happened in New York State in 2013.
[00:15:34]  We got to look back for 2012, go back to that.
[00:15:37]  And instead, I will actually keep that pardon in place until we renegotiate all our gun laws in New York State.
[00:15:45]  If we don't do that, we keep the pardon in place in perpetuity.
[00:15:47]  As far as Dexter Taylor is, I know him.
[00:15:49]  He's my friend.
[00:15:50]  I've had him on my show.
[00:15:51]  He's from Brooklyn.
[00:15:52]  He's a great guy.
[00:15:53]  He gets pardoned immediately.
[00:15:54]  And the judge who put him away, she said on record, she said, don't bring this Second Amendment into my courtroom.
[00:16:01]  She will be removed.
[00:16:02]  I will ensure that is removed.
[00:16:04]  And if possible, I'm going to take her pension.
[00:16:06]  I'm not joking.
[00:16:07]  If it is legally possible, I'm going to remove her and take her pension.
[00:16:12]  Larry, I like it.
[00:16:15]  People can get you at larrysharp.com and it's sharp with an E.
[00:16:18]  I brought the website up.
[00:16:19]  Send me whatever links you want me to put in the pinned comment and I'm going to pin them after the show gets processed.
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=== Bring Warren McCommon (04:11) ===

[00:18:07]  Hopefully, I rank up there with your favorite creators.
[00:18:09]  Now, three minutes late, we did good.
[00:18:12]  I'm going to bring in our guests.
[00:18:13]  I'm going to preface this, or what is the word I'm looking for?
[00:18:15]  Give it a preamble.
[00:18:16]  I've never met these gentlemen until five minutes before the show.
[00:18:20]  We got introduced via, I don't know how anymore.
[00:18:23]  It was a Twitter DM where they said, Viva, you should have a different perspective on to have an open discussion about Iran at large and the particular recent events, that being the not war that is obviously a war, and then the reasons for this war and whether or not it's justified, whether or not it's a change intact, and whether or not it's actually going to make the world a safer place.
[00:18:45]  These gentlemen are going to introduce themselves so that I don't mangle it.
[00:18:48]  One of them's in his car, which is very reminiscent of how I used to do things back in the day and still do it.
[00:18:53]  I'm going to add Alex, number one, Martin, number two.
[00:18:57]  Gentlemen, are we good?
[00:18:59]  And are we on here?
[00:19:02]  Refresh your thing, Martin.
[00:19:03]  I don't think I can hear you.
[00:19:04]  And Alex.
[00:19:05]  Yes, sir.
[00:19:06]  You can hear me.
[00:19:07]  It is.
[00:19:07]  Yes, sir.
[00:19:08]  Loud and clear.
[00:19:09]  Sir, how goes the battle?
[00:19:12]  So far, so good.
[00:19:14]  We're just quite happy at what happened.
[00:19:17]  Let me start actually my conversation with this.
[00:19:20]  My deepest, deepest condolences to so far, I believe, like eight army soldiers from the United States and many, many Israeli innocent lives that have been actually killed by the attack of Islamic Republic.
[00:19:38]  And also, most definitely, my people of Iran that basically lost hundreds of thousands of people during the uprising.
[00:19:48]  So I would like to start it that way and just remember every single person who's been involved so far and lost their lives.
[00:19:58]  And we're just deeply, deeply sorry for what is happening right now.
[00:20:05]  I'm definitely not deeply sorry for Islamic Republic regime.
[00:20:08]  We're quite happy.
[00:20:10]  The head of the snake has been removed, obviously, and that made us quite happy.
[00:20:15]  Hold on, even before we get there, Martin, before we, you can hear us now?
[00:20:20]  Yeah, yeah, I can hear you.
[00:20:22]  All right.
[00:20:22]  And I'm going to bring in Warren McCommon.
[00:20:23]  Now, Martin, I might ask you to mute your camera, mute your phone when you're not talking.
[00:20:28]  Oh, it sounds better actually right now.
[00:20:29]  Okay.
[00:20:30]  Yeah, I think his AC was on.
[00:20:31]  It was in the AC.
[00:20:32]  And I'll bring in, I'll bring in Warren McCommon.
[00:20:34]  So before we even get started, gentlemen, we'll start from Martin and then go to Alex, then go to Warren if he can hear us.
[00:20:40]  Introduce yourselves and tell everybody who you are because someone in the chat in a reply on Twitter, someone said, How do we know this is real information?
[00:20:46]  And I said, Look, bottom line, I don't know you guys.
[00:20:49]  You could be paid government propagandists, uh, you know, spreading your own message or whatever.
[00:20:54]  I don't know.
[00:20:55]  So I say, Look, we have a discussion.
[00:20:56]  Everybody can take the information as they want, because even if you're paid propagandists, you might be telling the truth and come to your own conclusions in as much as possible.
[00:21:05]  But so that people can know who you are.
[00:21:06]  Martin, Alex, Warren, when you're in, give everybody the 30,000-foot overview so they can assess your credentials.
[00:21:12]  Yes, I mean, your reliability.
[00:21:14]  Okay, Warren Verdice.
[00:21:15]  And so they can assess who you are, and then we're going to get into the broader discussion.
[00:21:19]  So I'm in the tech industry.
[00:21:23]  I'm living in San Francisco.
[00:21:25]  I have my own company.
[00:21:27]  So everything comes from my own pocket.
[00:21:30]  So I'm not related to anybody.
[00:21:33]  And I'm a completely independent activist in Twitter.
[00:21:38]  And yeah, and I'm supporting King Reza Palavi right now.
[00:21:43]  And I am, you know, on the right side of the history.
[00:21:50]  And, you know, I'm basically trying to be a voice of people inside Iran.
[00:21:56]  That's me.
[00:21:57]  Yeah.
[00:21:59]  Alex.
[00:22:01]  Well, I'm definitely not getting paid.
[00:22:04]  I've been like tagged left and right that we're getting paid by Mossad and all those stuff.
[00:22:09]  I wish, man.
[00:22:10]  Like, I really wish somebody paid us to say this and stuff.
[00:22:13]  But out of the joke, we're not getting, I mean, I'm personally not getting paid from anybody.

=== CIA And The Shah's Fall (15:15) ===

[00:22:18]  I actually lost so much money and so much family during this uprising and previous one.
[00:22:24]  I lost my family in PS752.
[00:22:28]  I lost my cousin, Arash Purzarabi, and Pune, his wife.
[00:22:34]  That was the new events that were like actually in the PS752.
[00:22:39]  You can Google and research it.
[00:22:41]  You can see their beautiful pictures.
[00:22:43]  So he was my cousin.
[00:22:45]  So he was everything to me.
[00:22:46]  So we lost a lot.
[00:22:47]  Also, I lost two other cousins during this uprising and one farm cousin.
[00:22:53]  So you can definitely like Google that.
[00:22:55]  Yeah, that was.
[00:22:56]  Yeah, no, most of us remember it just to refresh everybody's memory.
[00:22:59]  It was that was a fight that was early in COVID.
[00:23:04]  Was it right before COVID?
[00:23:08]  Right after President Trump actually righteously actually killed Qasem Soleimani.
[00:23:16]  And that was, we believe that was a retaliation that Islamic Republic wanted to do, that Islamic Republic terrorists wanted to do to actually quiet everything down and like basically put the whole camera and light on themselves again.
[00:23:33]  Warren, tell everybody who you're going to remain with an avatar of this.
[00:23:36]  Also, discuss this beforehand, but tell everybody who you are.
[00:23:40]  Yeah, I'm Warren, actually.
[00:23:44]  I'm a Gen Z commentator.
[00:23:46]  I'm a Gen Z geopolitical commentator.
[00:23:48]  And as an Iranian myself who lives in Denmark, I support Crown Princess of Pahlavi as the leader of this revolution and as the leader of the transitional era.
[00:24:00]  And I'm also, you know, voting.
[00:24:02]  For the constitutional monarchy in the future, if there's a like, when there's a referendum, free referendum for people to participate.
[00:24:11]  Now i've gotta ask you.
[00:24:12]  So all three of you are of Iranian descent or you're all Iranian but living in exile or living uh, in diaspora?
[00:24:19]  Um okay, I mean first question.
[00:24:22]  Just, I think something of the history of Iran is is relevant in terms of how i'm gonna get everybody's name screwed up, but how the first monarch was was put into power by, call it, the CIA, CIA and and British intelligence in 1953, and how that led to the revolution of 1979.
[00:24:38]  So who wants to give a brief rundown on the history of Iran and how it got to where it is today?
[00:24:44]  So should I go first or you Alan, go first?
[00:24:46]  You, you may go first Warren okay, so the first monarch actually in 19, like it was in 1925, it was december 1925 when the first monarch uh, you know, first Pahlavi monarch got elected.
[00:25:03]  Uh, it like into being a monarch because that, by that time uh the the, the Majlis, the parliament of that time, they like first uh, Reza Shah Pahlavi uh, you know, actually issued that okay, a republic might work.
[00:25:19]  But the Majlis said no and they elected uh, Rezah Khan Tahlavi to Reza Shah Pahlavi as um, you know, the king of Iran.
[00:25:31]  So uh, Reza Shah Pahlavi was the first and only elected king in the Iranian history.
[00:25:37]  And after, you know, in during the World War Ii even they said they are not taking any sides.
[00:25:44]  And the British and you know like the uh allies said okay, and because you had like some uh, you know, economic relations with Germany not, you know that that's not your place, or something like that.
[00:25:57]  And then um, the thing is That after that, his son came into power, Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, known as Shahan Shah al-Yamir.
[00:26:09]  And the thing is about him that when we say about the coup and something happened in 1953, it wasn't actually a coup because, according to Article 46 of the Iranian Constitution, Shah had the legal right to appoint or dismiss any minister, including a prime minister.
[00:26:27]  And months before August 19, 1953, Shah Alexander Mossadar actually dissolved the parliament.
[00:26:34]  And even people close to him, like Dr. Karim Sanjoi, which was one of the most significant people who helped Khomeini through the 1979 revolution, he told Mossadar that if you dissolve the parliament, Shah can dismiss you from power without any parliamental approval.
[00:26:58]  And he said the Shah doesn't dare to.
[00:27:02]  And the thing is about the whole TPIX operation that it was for annihilation of Tudah Party because Tuda Party, the Soviet-affiliated party inside Iran, which was the Iranian Communist Party, they backed Mossadar so much.
[00:27:17]  And on August 16th, the CIA and MI6 want to plan the Operation Ajax, and they massively failed.
[00:27:26]  And Mossadegh actually did a coup against the Shah.
[00:27:31]  But that day, Mossad was like a very soft and incompetent leader, which he didn't give Tudeh a chance to rule the country.
[00:27:41]  And Tude actually, you know, didn't back him anymore.
[00:27:45]  And after three days, according to Article 50 of the Constitutional Monarchy, by that time, the army was in the hands of the Shah.
[00:27:55]  No one else could actually manage the army or having any authorities over the army.
[00:28:00]  So what happened was actually Shah and his army, you know, they went to the streets, also a popular uprising.
[00:28:11]  And then, you know, a popular uprising happened and Mossadar got overthrown.
[00:28:17]  Even according to the declassified documents, they said that they didn't have any plans for two months after August 16th.
[00:28:25]  And they were shocked that, you know, that uprisings by the people were just not any planned.
[00:28:34]  And it was just an uprising very shockingly happened during that day.
[00:28:39]  And after that, Mohammed Shah had a very successful career, but unfortunately, Islamists and Marxists did a revolution, or I can't even say a coup in 1979.
[00:28:50]  Sorry for speaking too much.
[00:28:51]  No, But I should say that.
[00:28:53]  Yeah, these weeds might be lost on, say, the level of depth that we can get into.
[00:28:58]  But I don't know.
[00:28:59]  You'll tell me if it's oversimplifying or mischaracterizing that there was the coup d'état in 1953, where you had the CIA and British intelligence trying to implement or install a leader who would be amenable to giving Americans or the government of America rights in Iran's oil.
[00:29:14]  And that may or I say may or may not have, but that seemingly was what led to the 79 revolution, where people were pissed off with that and said, we don't want this leader that was installed and beholden to the states.
[00:29:25]  And is that an inaccurate characterization of the revolution of 1979?
[00:29:31]  Yes, unfortunately.
[00:29:32]  You know, in the 1953, as I said, it was just a spantanist uprising by the people.
[00:29:39]  And it wasn't any person getting installed because Shah was the executive power of that time.
[00:29:46]  And he was just like on a trip.
[00:29:49]  And Mossadiq unconstitutionally took over because Mossad wasn't the ruler of the executive branch.
[00:29:57]  And Shah was the executive branch.
[00:29:59]  And Shah could do anything, but he needed the parliamentary approval.
[00:30:04]  But when Mossadiq dissolved the parliament unconstitutionally, so everything, every single thing in the country could be done by the Shah.
[00:30:13]  And Mossadiq, you know, illegally took over on August 16th.
[00:30:19]  And on August 19th, the people expansionistly came to the streets and took the country back.
[00:30:24]  So there was no Shah installed.
[00:30:26]  And that was a big lie, which Marxist historian, which called to the party, a very nationalist party, which we know they were just communists loyal to the Soviet Union.
[00:30:37]  His name was Iran Abrahami.
[00:30:39]  And then after the revolution, he went to the United States and indoctrinated the entire Middle East policy researches on the whole coup narrative because he was the first guy who brought the coup narrative and CIA MI6 collaboration to do to do a coup.
[00:30:59]  Yeah, I just want to add like something real quick to like Mossadegh part for like everybody's like, you know, clarification.
[00:31:06]  So Mossadegh, when he came to work, he was just like got approval by Shah himself.
[00:31:13]  So it was like choose by like basically many people like in the parliament and also basically who previously, the people of Iran, basically chose them.
[00:31:23]  So when you come and you get a confirmation, like, you know, you get a stamp like by Shah of Iran that you're able to work at this department.
[00:31:32]  So he was basically installed like by Shah himself.
[00:31:36]  So then actually you start like doing the coup.
[00:31:40]  So just want to.
[00:31:41]  But I'm not citing, I just brought up Mohamed Mossadegh's Wikipedia description.
[00:31:47]  Everyone knows Wikipedia is garbage.
[00:31:49]  That's not the source of the CIA installing someone who'd be amenable to American interests.
[00:31:54]  That is the, I call it the lore.
[00:31:56]  That's the accepted history.
[00:31:58]  And then people are just going to assess whether or not the pushback or the counter narrative is.
[00:32:03]  I would like to actually add something real quick to that.
[00:32:06]  So you're absolutely correct because, like, in such a basically geopolitical, like, I would say crazy town like where like Iran is, like in the Middle East, like other countries, there is a lot of lots of like controversial stuff like happening, right?
[00:32:23]  So it depends like where you hear it, like, you know, who you hear it from, and like what side they're taking.
[00:32:28]  So, but if you, I would always like suggest like to everybody, like, you know, listen to the right side, listen to the left side, and then like pick your poison and like, you know, choose your own decisions by like researching because just like one, you cannot just like read one book and just make up your decision.
[00:32:43]  And like, oh, I'm going to, after the second book, you're going to change your decision.
[00:32:47]  That's how, that's how history works.
[00:32:48]  Like, even like in the United States of America, like, it's the same thing and same story.
[00:32:52]  Well, no, I think with this particular.
[00:32:54]  Oh, go for it, Martin.
[00:32:55]  Sorry.
[00:32:56]  Yeah, I want to add that, as you said, Wikipedia is garbage.
[00:33:00]  It's more garbage about Iran because it is completely manipulating by the government.
[00:33:07]  Government hired many people to manipulation on the Wikipedia.
[00:33:12]  Yeah.
[00:33:13]  Well, I think the reason why people don't have any qualms of immediately accepting that narrative is that we know that the CIA systematically has deposed and installed leaders in various countries to ensure that they have a pro-American stance.
[00:33:25]  But so even set that pre-1979 revolution, you know, pre-1979 revolution history aside, 1979 revolution comes around, and you'll have to explain to the world why it's not the revolution that the people of Iran wanted before we even get into whether or not it's a plausible justification for the recent strikes now to remove the IRGC.
[00:33:46]  Alex, you want to do it?
[00:33:49]  I let actually Martin run it.
[00:33:50]  So Martin run it first and then we go back because me and Warren spoke a lot.
[00:33:55]  So I just like to hear his voice.
[00:33:57]  Okay.
[00:33:57]  Martin, go for it.
[00:33:59]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:34:00]  What was your question?
[00:34:01]  Well, the question was: the revolution of 1979, depending on which history you read, was a popular uprising by the people, set aside whatever motivated it.
[00:34:12]  There were a number of economic factors.
[00:34:13]  I think the revolution in 1979 was completely the minority people came to the street and the majority of people was silent at the time, I think.
[00:34:24]  And after they took over by the Islamic regime, the Islamic regime started to kill people at the beginning.
[00:34:33]  They did massive killing at the first day they came in.
[00:34:37]  Why they did that?
[00:34:38]  If they came from the people.
[00:34:41]  The revolution, you call it revolution, we call it basically in Farsi, we say something like, it's a chaos.
[00:34:56]  They didn't, the shah didn't kill that much people.
[00:34:59]  He just left because he loved the country and he said, I can't put my throne on blood.
[00:35:04]  And he left the country.
[00:35:06]  And maybe three to five percent of percentage of the people took over the streets.
[00:35:12]  And after that, they started to killing massive amount of people from the opposition that started to happen at the beginning of the Islamic regime.
[00:35:24]  So from that point, you can say, so that was not the people, that was the minority.
[00:35:32]  And right now, you can see in the street, the majority are against the government.
[00:35:38]  The majority chanting, you know, our leader is King Reza Paul Abi II.
[00:35:44]  You can see millions of people in the diaspora came out and challenged him.
[00:35:48]  Well, but see, that's the main point.
[00:35:52]  I know quite a few Iranians, all of whom are in the diaspora, most of whom are up in Montreal, used to work with the people.
[00:35:57]  Can I add, like, you know, before like we go to the next stage, I just would like to add like a couple items to what actually Martin said.
[00:36:05]  So first thing first, like, so we have to see, like, from the perspective, who were actually the people basically wanted to overthrow the Shah of Iran, basically Aria Omer.
[00:36:19]  So if you go back and like, since you're doing the research and I like, you know, basically appreciate you for doing this show, I want you to research all the people who have been actually arrested by Sawak.
[00:36:34]  Sawak was the basically police or like similar to FBI like today in like United States, arrested many people.
[00:36:43]  At that time, the United States government, I think Jimmy Carter mentioned that Shah of Iran is actually killing a lot of people in the jail and stuff.
[00:36:53]  But that was like pure, pure, basically bullshit and made up actually.
[00:36:57]  Then later on, actually, CIA actually stamped it.
[00:37:00]  There was no such thing.
[00:37:01]  So you can do that.
[00:37:02]  Definitely, I do encourage everybody to actually do research about that.
[00:37:05]  So why that happened?
[00:37:07]  And if like if Shah was actually killing the people basically in prison, and by the mass they were like mentioning it left and right, it would have been no basically government as Islamic Republic today.
[00:37:22]  I would say Islamic Republic of terrorists because every single person who's been arrested by SAVAC, they've been like actually eliminated, thankfully, by IDF and United States of America Army.

=== Islamic Republic of Terrorists (13:01) ===

[00:37:34]  So that's what we're like actually basically thankful for.
[00:37:39]  And the thing is, I want to actually go the troll back to when President Trump's, before he's been like any political whatsoever, he has a lot of actually mentioning of Khomeini, Khomeini dictator, that he said like he's like, he's like pure shit.
[00:37:55]  So Khomeini, I'm sorry, I do apologize for my friend.
[00:37:58]  Don't worry about that.
[00:37:59]  Yeah, so the Khomeini was basically previous leader before Khomeini, another dictator.
[00:38:06]  They were exactly like the same.
[00:38:08]  I would like to add something.
[00:38:10]  Today, we're like talking about terrorism.
[00:38:13]  You have to see the fundamental of terrorism.
[00:38:15]  Where is it coming from?
[00:38:16]  Muslim Brotherhood.
[00:38:18]  If you go back to Khomeini's idea and Khomeini's idea, they were like literally ward by void coming from basically Muslim brotherhood.
[00:38:28]  And they were actually following that idea.
[00:38:31]  And they tried to, whenever like, you know, they succeeded that 1979 coup, I would say, some say revolution.
[00:38:38]  I don't call it.
[00:38:38]  It was a coup completely because I would say like 20, 30% of government help from BBC, you know, media help basically Khomeini.
[00:38:50]  France actually helped the, helped the crap out of, like, you know, helped the crap out of crap ton of the Khomeini and like to basically taking asylum there.
[00:39:01]  Because if you go back and read it again in the history, Mossad, like from Israel, approached Shah and Shah was a religious person deep down in the heart and asked him, hey, would you like us like to basically get rid of Khomeini?
[00:39:15]  He said no.
[00:39:17]  Here's the interesting part.
[00:39:18]  Even Saddam Hussein that later on actually having a war with Islamic Republic and wants to take over like side of Iran, actually basically reaching out to Shah, hey, would you like us to get rid of this?
[00:39:32]  Did he, this guy is a problematic?
[00:39:35]  This guy is like trying to take over as many as countries possible.
[00:39:38]  This is back in when Khomeini was just trying to do that.
[00:39:42]  And when you put all the pieces beside each other, Khomeini, that low-level thog, he could not ever, ever been succeeded, you know, to overthrow like Shah if there was no basically government help and backing up by United States.
[00:40:00]  And after that, 1979, and we saw like what happened in the embassy of the United States, which shamed us every single Persian around the world till today.
[00:40:11]  Till today.
[00:40:12]  And yeah, I just don't want to go further.
[00:40:14]  Sorry.
[00:40:15]  No, no, that's fine.
[00:40:16]  That's fine.
[00:40:16]  So okay, it's interesting because you may also say like two important little things that maybe Alex missed.
[00:40:23]  If it's okay.
[00:40:24]  Okay, so first of all, it's about Salah.
[00:40:27]  Like one of the reports from Amnesty 1976 and that or Carter excuse that to say, okay, Salah tortures people, this and that.
[00:40:35]  But that report didn't, you know, didn't even bring a single physical evidence of people being tortured.
[00:40:43]  They just asked some MEK prisoners.
[00:40:46]  If you don't know what MEK is, you can search it.
[00:40:49]  Mujahideen Khat, which they were the biggest armed forces for the 97 revolution, and they helped Khomeini to get into power and they were training in Gaza and Lebanon.
[00:41:01]  So they were armed and they learned how to give them also that also I have to mention that Khomeini get rid of most of them in September 1999.
[00:41:12]  No, I'm sorry, in 1989, if I'm not mistaken.
[00:41:15]  And like, if you're in 1989, right?
[00:41:17]  Yeah, September 89.
[00:41:18]  Yeah.
[00:41:19]  Sorry, 88, sorry, like they say, 88 massacre or something like that.
[00:41:22]  But you know, the MEK actually, then after the revolution, like they wanted power, okay?
[00:41:29]  For two years, they waited.
[00:41:31]  But Khomeini didn't even give them power because MEK was more extreme.
[00:41:35]  They're like Islamo-Marxists, like a North Korea, like Islamized version of North Korea.
[00:41:40]  So, and now, MEK, more interestingly, they are lobbying the Republicans in the United States and labeling themselves as a democratic opposition under the flag of NCRI.
[00:41:53]  So, people like Rudy Giuliani, if you check his account, he's all talking about MEK and Maryam Rajavi, which it was a cult that killed thousands of Iranians inside Iran by exploding themselves.
[00:42:08]  Also, in Cam Ashraf, with their own cult members, they actually child trafficked, they killed people for just having sex, because men and women, you know, should be separated every time.
[00:42:24]  And marriage is banned, having children was banned.
[00:42:27]  And, you know, one quick note, one quick note.
[00:42:33]  MEK also helped Saddam Hussein regime terrorists to actually attack Iran and they killed lots of young men and women of Iran.
[00:42:45]  And like basically, they were like basically left-hand of, I would say, Saddam Hussein.
[00:42:52]  So like when also has a suppression forces to kill addition and Iraqi Kurdish people in the 90s.
[00:43:00]  And then what happened was they worked for Saddam for 18 years and they had a big oil share of Saddam Hussein.
[00:43:07]  So that's why they are so rich today.
[00:43:09]  And they can buy U.S. politicians very easily and go to every single conservative media outlet that is available.
[00:43:17]  I want to just check.
[00:43:19]  Yeah, and I do apologize, Viva.
[00:43:21]  I should have provided you all the links.
[00:43:25]  By the way, I don't mind.
[00:43:27]  I'll pull them up as we're going live just so that people can reasonably flat fact check in real time.
[00:43:31]  But I can hear the aggregate voice of the chat saying, this is all fine and well.
[00:43:35]  The Middle East has always been something of a blood-soaked hellhole.
[00:43:39]  And this is whether or not I'm with the Shah or the IRGC, not our problem.
[00:43:46]  But I do want to get into one thing here.
[00:43:48]  Iran, even before the Islamic Revolution, it was 90 plus percent Shia Muslim.
[00:43:54]  And so some people might say you call it a coup d'état, others call it a revolution.
[00:43:58]  It's still 90, 95% Shia Muslim.
[00:44:01]  And then the question is going to be: where do their loyalties lie?
[00:44:05]  And are they going to be happy that someone just said they're not going to be able to do that?
[00:44:07]  Here's the thing.
[00:44:08]  I see the data.
[00:44:09]  Say something, Alex.
[00:44:10]  No, they are not 99% Shia right now.
[00:44:14]  That's wrong.
[00:44:14]  You know, if you go to the new statistic, they came out from inside the government, more than 70% are not Muslim anymore.
[00:44:24]  Hold on, hold on, the Geman data, Viva, which many say it's like very scientific.
[00:44:30]  From five and a half years ago, the Geman data said it was barely 40% Muslim, 32% Shia, 5% Sunni, and 2% Sufi.
[00:44:41]  So which shown that barely 40% were Muslim back in 2020, which was before woman life freedom, before generation also growing, and before these uprisings, which the regime massacred a lot of people.
[00:44:56]  So 40% back in 2020 was a black.
[00:44:59]  But hold on.
[00:45:01]  Some of us have basically a Muslim name, but you are not Muslim.
[00:45:05]  That's the funny part, though.
[00:45:06]  So Gaman data refers to the findings produced by the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, a Netherlands-based independent research foundation founded in 2019 by Puyan Tamim Arab and Amar Malakay, aims to measure public opinion.
[00:45:22]  Okay, so some people are going to say, well, if I'm going to have to judge by authorities, okay, so Gaman says it's 40% Shia Muslim, whereas I don't know what other stats they use to determine.
[00:45:32]  Oh, no, it's, I doubt it, like, that's actually how it's right.
[00:45:36]  So I can write it actually in chat for you, like in Farsi.
[00:45:40]  That way you can search it.
[00:45:41]  But like, for some reason, when you search it, it doesn't actually show the data about Iran.
[00:45:48]  So then as a disputed matter of fact, we have one fundamental point, which is what is the actual population of the Shia Muslim faction of Iran.
[00:45:57]  We don't know, obviously.
[00:45:58]  Obviously, we don't know.
[00:46:00]  But they are the minority right now.
[00:46:03]  That's what Martin, and you'll all, you know better than I do, but I mean, that Shia Muslims are the minority and not the massive majority in Iran.
[00:46:12]  Correct.
[00:46:13]  Yeah, because you have to remember, like, you have to remember this: that like when we born, right, like in Muslim countries, they give you righteously, you become Muslim.
[00:46:22]  Well, guess what?
[00:46:23]  I'm not, I'm non-religious.
[00:46:25]  Okay.
[00:46:26]  But you're also, you're also if you say I'm not Muslim, they kill you.
[00:46:31]  That's the part.
[00:46:32]  That's the part.
[00:46:33]  But that's why, that's why, let me tell you this.
[00:46:38]  This is funny because that's why, like, actually, Pete Hexet actually have a have a tattoo.
[00:46:43]  Actually, he has a like infidel tattoo, like in Arabic, or you can actually call it like in Farsi.
[00:46:48]  It says like kafar.
[00:46:49]  Kafar means infidel.
[00:46:51]  So if you have infidel, like in your body, you're literally a dead person walking.
[00:46:55]  Just wanted to like put it out there.
[00:46:57]  You can search it yourself.
[00:46:58]  No, no, no.
[00:46:59]  First of all, that I wouldn't, I wouldn't doubt that.
[00:47:01]  But what you're saying is the numbers are not real, even if they're real on paper because people are compelled into asserting that they're Muslim in Iran, failing which we were certain is like right now, even like Islamic Republic from their own like basically bullcrap data, they said like they shut down over 3,600 mosques for the past three years, three and a half years, because there was like no population actually was like visiting the mosque and going there.
[00:47:27]  So here's the interesting fact.
[00:47:29]  So I think here's what is scary like to rest of the Middle East.
[00:47:33]  Okay.
[00:47:34]  And that's why at very first, like most of the Muslim countries, okay, like Qatar, did not like accepted this or did don't want to like actually agree with this.
[00:47:44]  Why and why?
[00:47:46]  The reason behind it is if Islamic Republic changed and the like people of Iran, the people who known for many, years, like at least 2,500 years that we know of, they've been like people of free, people who help others, other countries.
[00:48:04]  They loved other countries and their celebration was like completely different and against actually basically the ideology of like basically Islamists, I would say.
[00:48:15]  So they could possibly become the first or the only country that is going to be like most have like most non-religious people in the world.
[00:48:27]  Because here's the thing.
[00:48:28]  So if you're drinking like based based on based on Islam, like if you're drinking alcohol, you're straight out of that league.
[00:48:34]  Like you're by and done.
[00:48:36]  Okay.
[00:48:37]  And like, I can't even show it to you.
[00:48:39]  I wish like basically I could have like show you like show you the pictures and like preparation, but I have actually post under the President Trump's real Donald Trump post that I actually have a video that shows actually Iranian people that dancing YMCA and tanking like President Trump and actually calling President Trump to bomb the shit out of these MOAs and like freedom.
[00:49:03]  Here's the kicker.
[00:49:04]  Yep, sorry.
[00:49:05]  Here's the kickers.
[00:49:05]  No, no, I'm sorry.
[00:49:07]  Also, Viva, I have hold on.
[00:49:09]  Hold on, wait, wait, wait.
[00:49:10]  You got the kicker.
[00:49:12]  So the kicker is if the people in Iran celebrating left and right without even having a 1%, this is based on the data as of right now, over 72 hours.
[00:49:25]  They don't even have a touch of like actually internet.
[00:49:28]  But they're also with any, like basically With all the pressure and forces on them, they're using like basically Starlinks that they purchased in and tanking like basically President Trump.
[00:49:41]  Also, on top of it, thanking Elon Musk for all the good stuff they brought.
[00:49:46]  And with that, even 1%, we see like every single day, you can search it yourself.
[00:49:52]  We see like every day, left and right, the videos coming from people of Iran tanking President Trump, tanking Bibi Netanyahu.
[00:49:59]  Whether people around the world like it or hate it, this is people of Iran.
[00:50:03]  Here's one thing they want the most: they want friendship, friendship with everybody, including everybody, including everybody like from Israel, including everybody from the United States of America.
[00:50:15]  And like when I say everybody, I mean it everybody, because we're tired of basically having it, having a basically government to represent us as a Muslim, very like, you know, sophisticated Muslim country who is very basically harsh to other people.

=== Why We Left School Bags (11:45) ===

[00:50:35]  If you don't do this, like we're going to kill you, we're going to behead you, that kind of bullshit.
[00:50:39]  We're like, you know, death to America, death to Israel.
[00:50:42]  Hell no, man.
[00:50:43]  Hell no.
[00:50:44]  We're far, millions and millions of miles far from that.
[00:50:48]  And what we want to actually put it out there today for your basically viewers, it's only one thing.
[00:50:55]  We are here for peace.
[00:50:56]  We don't want war.
[00:50:57]  We just want to rebuild our country.
[00:50:59]  And we want to make Iran proud again, right beside make Iran great again.
[00:51:04]  That's all I wanted to say.
[00:51:05]  Sorry.
[00:51:07]  Warren, you go ahead before I say what I was going to say.
[00:51:10]  Yeah.
[00:51:10]  So also I wanted to say that unfortunately in the West that you see that some false media narratives that they bring that, oh, Israel like, you know, hit like some civilians like this and like that.
[00:51:21]  For example, the 12-day war, the Hangout, which is one of the most credible human rights organizations by internationally, they said that more than 700 casualties were militants and like 200 and something were civilians, which is a new record in all modern warfare.
[00:51:41]  Also, the school that they said, you know, that all Israel shoot the school and kill 150 schoolgirls, which was totally false because the IRGC was like, it has a, you know, a measle actually measle base like around that and they shoot uh, you know, you know it was like a mistake by the IRGC that they shoot the measles into the school and like even Radio Gilan you know because, because most,
[00:52:11]  because most Iranians actually use Telegram and one of the regime regime's Telegram channels, Radio Gilan, said that the IRGC mistakenly shoot the school and the officials are trying to, you know, prosecute the person who ordered that to.
[00:52:32]  Is that, like you can check the Iranian RUN Spectator twitter page and they had a screenshot of that uh regime channel.
[00:52:39]  Yeah, let me, let me pause it there.
[00:52:41]  Yeah, go for it, go for it.
[00:52:43]  Yeah, I I want to say you know basically, uh regime uh, using propaganda and using old pictures from you know another incident to show the people who killed uh from that uh, basically um school and they are using schools as a shield.
[00:53:01]  They use it for uh, their militias uh, the militia's forces, they use it for their um arsenal and they use it for their people who are in government and they are not safe in their offices right now, and yeah.
[00:53:16]  So one thing to add is, like to what Martin says, actually, if you, if you go to Reuters right now and like see the picture, that picture is actually very old, it doesn't belong to that story whatsoever.
[00:53:27]  And like, here's the thing, do uh basically uh politician, politicians do make a mistake?
[00:53:34]  Yes, they do.
[00:53:35]  Are they claiming when they do, yeah, that picture, that is not, that is not a, that is not a right picture.
[00:53:42]  That is actually goes back when uh, like going back, I believe, like 2019 uh, back in uh, back in the day.
[00:53:50]  I think it's a 2019 Covet time, if i'm not mistaken.
[00:53:52]  You know you blackout right now.
[00:53:54]  You know yeah, i'm gonna do, i'm gonna do.
[00:53:56]  Nothing comes out.
[00:53:57]  You know it's a black, but hold on, yeah.
[00:54:00]  Let me just get clear on one thing.
[00:54:01]  So I didn't jump on the, the bandwagon of uh.
[00:54:04]  You know, when people wanted to criticize the, the war, they said, look, the Us, or Israel, struck a school and whatever uh.
[00:54:11]  Then others said no, it was an errant uh um, Iranian missile.
[00:54:15]  Then others said well, the school was right near a legitimate target.
[00:54:18]  And so one thing is, as a matter of fact, a school was struck and and a hundred and some odd plus kids were in fact killed, unfortunately.
[00:54:27]  Yes okay, that's a fact.
[00:54:29]  So it's only gonna be a question of whether or not it was an errant Iranian missile, whether or not it was U.s.
[00:54:34]  And they struck a legitimate target and the school was right next to the legitimate target.
[00:54:38]  So that's well.
[00:54:39]  I mean the the thing is, uh VIVA, you can go uh to like uh right, actually read about like Marco Rubio and also Pete Hexit actually you brought a title up Pete Hexett himself and Marco Rubio they're going to do the like huge investigation on that, But, like, from the videos that we got from actually Iran, that you can search it and find It.
[00:54:57]  The missiles try to go straight up and like basically, for some reason, misguided or GPS jamming actually caused the issue, or maybe it could be like a missile itself, like causing the issue.
[00:55:09]  It's going to wobble a couple of times around the area, which is around the highway.
[00:55:15]  If you pay attention, in cars passing by, and in front, like goes up and like turn and turn again and goes down.
[00:55:23]  So it doesn't, it doesn't look right, to be honest with you.
[00:55:27]  Like, as far as the like, if you want to talk like evidence like base or facts for fact, that video itself, if it's coming out from that time and that momentum, that actually that video itself is from IRGC, like from basically time that they tried to basically shoot a missile like towards Israel, but like misfire or whatever happened, this happened before.
[00:55:53]  So if you go back like to 12 days war, right?
[00:55:57]  When they shoot a missile, it actually kills one of the Palestinians work a poor guy.
[00:56:02]  He was just like going back, smoking cigarette, like one of the particles of like basically a missile drop on top of his head and he's he lost his life.
[00:56:10]  Even Palestinians basically losing their lives.
[00:56:13]  And after that, like I don't, I don't even know, like call it funny because it's not funny.
[00:56:18]  It's far from funny.
[00:56:20]  But they attacked themselves, Muslims and Muslim countries around the Persian Gulf.
[00:56:27]  That's easy to research.
[00:56:29]  Like we already know how many people got killed as well.
[00:56:32]  So no, well, first of all, the idea of using pictures of atrocities from prior incidents and then running them as a new propaganda, that's as old as time.
[00:56:39]  For this particular image, I can't find anything that predates even with Google reverse image, but it doesn't matter.
[00:56:45]  We agree that the school was hit, a bunch of kids died, and then the only question is whose missiles was it?
[00:56:50]  And was it an errant missile or was it a legitimate strike because it was close to a target?
[00:56:54]  But and I'm mind-reading the chat.
[00:56:57]  Everyone's going to say this is what happens in war.
[00:56:59]  And the big question for the three of you.
[00:57:01]  Why the hell?
[00:57:03]  The problem is there is no approval thing that shows kids killed in the you know because there was a blackout.
[00:57:11]  There was no press over there to approve that.
[00:57:15]  That's just so here's another thing.
[00:57:18]  Yeah, here's another thing because like what we know from like the uprising in like January 18 and 19, when we're talking about like hundreds of thousands of people dead, because we get reports from people from the time that like, you know, the like even tiny bit of like, you know, internet actually coming out, we receive a lot of like basically reports that it's saying like so many people did not receive the body of their beloved family.
[00:57:42]  Okay.
[00:57:43]  And like here's the here's the kicker.
[00:57:45]  So, from the video that comes out from Karizak, from Vaida Online, that you can search it like on Twitter and you can find it.
[00:57:52]  All the body bags that you see like on the floor that like from our beloved, brave Iranian people, they're only male.
[00:58:01]  There is no one female that you can find.
[00:58:04]  Here's the kicker.
[00:58:05]  Here's the interesting part.
[00:58:06]  There was a propaganda coming out from the regime itself, or like partners from the regime that leaked it out that they said, basically, they're keeping the bodies in some safe places until the time the war happens that Israelis or like United States like attacking, like, you know, basically Islamic Republic of terrorists.
[00:58:29]  We don't call it Iranian government.
[00:58:30]  We call them Islamic Republic terrorists.
[00:58:32]  And during that time, they're going to bring those bags out.
[00:58:36]  And when those bags coming out, there's going to be like a bunch of basically girls and like ladies who lost their lives.
[00:58:43]  Because obviously, as we know today, they're the most sensitive, basically viable data that if you put it like in front of everybody, like even the TV shows and whatnot, everyone's going to grab their attention.
[00:58:57]  Nonetheless, nonetheless, hold on, hold on, hold on one second.
[00:59:02]  Nonetheless, they killed hundreds of thousands of people.
[00:59:06]  Whether they're bringing it today or like tomorrow or day after, there is no doubt that they kill people.
[00:59:12]  Okay.
[00:59:13]  So this is like prior to what is happening over there.
[00:59:17]  And let me add something.
[00:59:19]  If you call somewhere a school and you fill it with lots of arsenals and lots of militias and force, it's not a school anymore.
[00:59:29]  So because it's the name of the door, the name on top of the door is a school.
[00:59:33]  You can do anything inside it.
[00:59:35]  No, it's not school anymore.
[00:59:38]  Okay, but let me ask you this.
[00:59:40]  One funny thing that people can research about this.
[00:59:43]  Okay.
[00:59:43]  Today from the Mer news, if I'm not mistaken, or Farce News, which is the Islamic Republic terrorist propaganda machine, they put a picture up from a team of the, what is it called?
[00:59:56]  I just want to say, ministry of the ministry that the head is like Iraqi.
[01:00:03]  I keep forgetting the name of it.
[01:00:06]  They have different names.
[01:00:07]  Foreign ministry.
[01:00:08]  The foreign ministry.
[01:00:10]  They actually put up a video.
[01:00:11]  I want you to actually listen to that and see it.
[01:00:14]  Okay.
[01:00:15]  The foreign ministry, they took their video and talking to the basically reporters, and there's a picture of it and there's a video of it, that they're in school.
[01:00:24]  Tell me what the hell they're doing, right?
[01:00:26]  You know, funny enough, what the hell they're doing like in school.
[01:00:29]  Here's a prior kicker.
[01:00:31]  So the trio, we call them like three big idiots that actually had a conversation prior to that, which is Islamic Republic terrorist.
[01:00:39]  What is it called?
[01:00:39]  Pezishkian, basically, basically the president for Islamic Republic terrorists and also the head of the intelligence community and the aka new leader, soon to be, of the Islamic Republic, came out with the picture three days ago.
[01:00:57]  Where do you think they sit at?
[01:00:58]  They're sit at in a hospital.
[01:01:00]  Why they're, like you know, sitting in a hospital and basically uh, in in school.
[01:01:06]  Did this story?
[01:01:08]  This story is so familiar to us, why we can go back to october 7 in Israel okay, when they start actually attacking, sending rockets, like from school and like they were hiding in school and like hospitals.
[01:01:20]  Here's the kick here.
[01:01:21]  Who brought Hamas, provided help to Hamas, Hezwo Law and also the the this, the Syrian military from Assad, who killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians, hundreds of thousands of Syrians with the order of Islamic Republic terrorist leader Ali Khamenei, and also Qasim Soleimani and whatnot in Iraq, was the same thing who killed a lot of actually soldiers, United States soldiers over there.
[01:01:47]  So they're all.
[01:01:47]  They're all actually having the same plan and same same story.
[01:01:52]  Rapidly, because the teacher was Islamic Republic, obviously.
[01:01:55]  Sorry for taking so long no, that's fine.
[01:01:57]  And let me ask you this, because we're going to get to the nuts and bolts of this, um, every Iranian in in exile or in diaspora is obviously going to approve of this because they're in diaspora or they've fled Iran because of the government.
[01:02:09]  Um, you say, you know, 40 of the population is actually Shia Muslim.
[01:02:13]  Let's even assume that that's true.
[01:02:15]  Um, that's going to be 35 million people, give or take.
[01:02:19]  It's going to be about that.

=== Comparing Iranian Deaths (06:19) ===

[01:02:21]  Uh, that are not going to be particularly happy with this.
[01:02:23]  Um we you, you talk about people in the street.
[01:02:26]  Actually, I disagree, I disagree with no, here's the thing.
[01:02:29]  So we have a lot of actually explain, go for it, go go for it.
[01:02:32]  You know uh, some of them are Muslim, but they don't support the government.
[01:02:36]  That doesn't mean you are, you are Muslim.
[01:02:38]  You are uh supporting uh terrorists, the Muslims no, but hold on, hold on a second.
[01:02:42]  But the arguments it's you might not support the government.
[01:02:48]  You, you're probably not going to support America, a foreign country, coming in and blowing your government right now, because you know, you know it's not about being a religious person or not, it's about being like, not liking the, you know, the state, because even those Muslims, they care about prosperity, they care about well-being, they care about their financial lives.
[01:03:08]  You know, they just have Islam as a religion to their heart.
[01:03:12]  But let me ask you because this is, it's interesting, it's obviously on a different degree Canada hate hated, or you know, a large portion of the Canadian government.
[01:03:19]  Canadian people hated the government until Trump, you know, insulted Canada and then they rallied behind their flag and elected a liberal government.
[01:03:27]  So yeah, because Absolutely true.
[01:03:32]  Well, I mean, I'm not sure about that.
[01:03:34]  They do it in different ways and the different numbers and via lockdowns and COVID.
[01:03:39]  But there's one fact.
[01:03:41]  Yeah.
[01:03:41]  One fact.
[01:03:42]  Like the Tehran's main graveyard, their own data that they actually deleted that right after.
[01:03:48]  It was like, you know, 38,000 deaths in just three weeks.
[01:03:52]  Okay.
[01:03:53]  The normal death for that graveyard per week is 3,500 to 3,800.
[01:04:00]  Even we just calculate the most, it's going to be like 1,100 and a half.
[01:04:07]  And where do like those 26,000 and a half go?
[01:04:11]  Okay.
[01:04:12]  That's why we say that the numbers can be real because in only those three weeks, only 26,000 deaths, civilian deaths, comes from Tehran.
[01:04:23]  What about other cities?
[01:04:25]  Hold on.
[01:04:25]  Hold on, Vauren.
[01:04:26]  So, as you mentioned, the Shias or Sony is not going to basically agree with monarchy or King Rezopalavi.
[01:04:34]  Here's the kicker.
[01:04:35]  And people can't research about it.
[01:04:37]  They have to go to the series of videos.
[01:04:40]  Okay.
[01:04:41]  When the protesters actually came out in January, January 8th and 9th, if I'm not mistaken, correct me, guys, if I'm wrong.
[01:04:50]  So January 8th and 9th, millions of people around Iran, which we guesesimated roughly.
[01:04:56]  We don't have it like data.
[01:04:57]  Here's how we found out about the data.
[01:05:00]  We calculate their streets from one end to another end.
[01:05:04]  We found the width of it from the Google Map.
[01:05:06]  And we filled it with people, find out what is the average size of a human being.
[01:05:10]  We put it there.
[01:05:12]  Based on our data, about 40, 45 million people came out to streets in the entire Iran.
[01:05:18]  So Iran is a big country.
[01:05:20]  And basically, to put it in perspective, Texas is one-third of Iran.
[01:05:24]  So you need three states of Texas to fill almost almost Iran.
[01:05:28]  You can fact-check that also.
[01:05:30]  Almost.
[01:05:31]  So here's the catch.
[01:05:33]  So if that many people came out during that time and compare it like to 2010, which again, millions of people came out, like in Tehran, and see like how many deaths and actually basically chilled and captured of basically Iranian happens and put it right beside each other.
[01:05:50]  It doesn't make sense.
[01:05:51]  Even the data that government provided.
[01:05:53]  So the thing is that we're talking about it today, and I think it's very, very important.
[01:06:00]  Is those basically Shias or like Sonis, they actually came to the street with their own hijab and chanted actually King Reza Palavi.
[01:06:12]  So this is the interesting part of it.
[01:06:14]  And also part of the basically supporter of like King Reza Palavi, there is a lady, I forgot her name.
[01:06:20]  Vauren, help me out.
[01:06:21]  What was her name?
[01:06:22]  Faiza Lavi.
[01:06:23]  Faizal Avi.
[01:06:24]  Go ahead, like, go ahead, put her up.
[01:06:26]  Go ahead, put her up.
[01:06:27]  She's like completely like in her job and she's 100% like basically a supporter of King Reza Palavi because what we're looking for, we're looking for entirety of basically people.
[01:06:38]  We're not just looking at people and like badge them.
[01:06:41]  Oh, you're Muslim, you're gone.
[01:06:43]  You're like, you're like, you know, that's the most important thing, Viva.
[01:06:47]  The whole thing is about four key elements that Crown Prince has.
[01:06:51]  The first one is to preserve, protect, and defend the territorial integrity of Iran.
[01:06:56]  The second one is, you know, the separation of mosque and state secularism.
[01:07:02]  The third one is having laws based on human rights.
[01:07:05]  And the fourth one is people should choose their future governmental system by a free through a free referendum.
[01:07:13]  So there is no part that Muslims are being like excluded or separated or there are laws against them.
[01:07:20]  Nothing.
[01:07:21]  So these are the four very basic principles that most Iranians supported.
[01:07:28]  But some people who don't support Tahlavis because they also hate Tahlavi.
[01:07:32]  Yeah, they hate the Pahlavi.
[01:07:33]  But here's the funny part.
[01:07:35]  So you're telling me, Viva, our predecessors, which are grandfathers, grandmothers, they could come as Muslim, okay?
[01:07:44]  And they may actually love Islam or they may not.
[01:07:47]  Okay.
[01:07:48]  That's their choice.
[01:07:49]  Nobody's forcing anybody.
[01:07:50]  So if we're like, if we're looking at from the angle that you're mentioning it, that they're not happy, okay?
[01:07:56]  And we're like hypothetically, one in a trillion years, we want to get rid of those people.
[01:08:03]  We have to get rid of our family first.
[01:08:05]  And that's not possible, obviously.
[01:08:07]  So the reason we were like basically backing King Reza Pahlavi is because he is counting on everybody and he is bringing everybody to the table to the conversation.
[01:08:20]  We have conversations with people who are from left, people to the right, but they know righteously King Reza Pahlavi is going to be the middle man or like the middle, actually the main person to bringing the government, like basically the leader.

=== Why King Reza Pahlavi Matters (15:05) ===

[01:08:40]  The leader, yeah, the leader is changing.
[01:08:43]  Well, we'll get to the nuts and bolts now because everyone's going to say, look, you guys are Iranians living in diaspora.
[01:08:49]  You're not going back to Iran, even if the government has changed.
[01:08:51]  What right do you have to use or oh, actually, I'm sure I'm sure you research my probably background.
[01:08:59]  Okay.
[01:08:59]  So I make enough money that I can live super comfortably.
[01:09:04]  I'm in cybersecurity, basically Rome, and I make good money.
[01:09:09]  Obviously, like you've seen my, I don't know if you've seen it.
[01:09:11]  Like I sent you my LinkedIn.
[01:09:13]  You can research it yourself.
[01:09:15]  So I don't need like to make money, but I would be the first person who's going there to defend my country also from the people who wants to like the from the separatists or like the like basically these like terrorist Islamists.
[01:09:32]  And actually we were part of the group who suggested to President Trump, we sent a letter to President Trump, us and like many, many other groups that we said, we don't want your troops to be hurt whatsoever.
[01:09:45]  Let us go there, teach us.
[01:09:47]  We have our own weapons.
[01:09:49]  You don't have to give us weapons or even like a backup.
[01:09:53]  We can go there and fight our own.
[01:09:56]  And here's like most of the viva, most of the people told us, hey, you know, you were the cause of like, you know, Americans death, da-da-da-da-da.
[01:10:04]  You know, obviously I like how it is, right?
[01:10:06]  So we were the first before any of this happening because for like bringing like these many troops, B-52s, B-2s, B-21s, and B-1B Lancers, that is, those are my beloved, always love those military weapons.
[01:10:21]  But here's the thing.
[01:10:22]  We know it's going to cost United States everything, right?
[01:10:26]  Also, at the same time, we offered those options, but nobody actually listened to us.
[01:10:31]  It got to the point, these are facts.
[01:10:33]  You can go to IDF's website that they opened us a way to sign up with our expertise to how we can go there and fight our own, to free our own country without anybody's help.
[01:10:48]  We never actually ask anybody, but like everybody suggested, basically, you know, back off, you know, let us do our thing.
[01:10:56]  Okay.
[01:10:57]  And after it's done, you can go back and basically help people out.
[01:11:00]  And this, this is a fact.
[01:11:02]  Like you can ask like everybody else too.
[01:11:03]  Well, and I don't mean to be cynical.
[01:11:05]  Everyone's going to say, okay, this is all fine and well using the American military for your own personal, political, family issues in Iran.
[01:11:12]  And if you're playing chess, it's the right thing.
[01:11:15]  That's what I'm saying.
[01:11:16]  That's what I'm saying.
[01:11:16]  We did not want it actually like U.S. military to get involved because we knew it.
[01:11:20]  Like if there is going to be a bloodshed, it's going to be a bloodshed of my brothers and sisters.
[01:11:25]  I've been living in the United States of America.
[01:11:27]  I call it my second home.
[01:11:28]  And I love every single Americans who lives here besides me.
[01:11:32]  And here's the thing.
[01:11:33]  It is very dear to me to lose a family member in Iran and also lose a friend or like brothers or sister, like whether they're in Israel or like America.
[01:11:43]  There is no differences, my friend.
[01:11:45]  Who brought basically fought to our like basically fight to our door?
[01:11:48]  We're going to fight them and give him hell to the end of our life.
[01:11:52]  And this is what we're going to do.
[01:11:53]  But here's the kicker.
[01:11:54]  The kicker is we ask U.S. military to give us a path, just the path to go there and fight our own basic.
[01:12:04]  Alex, and again, not to be cynical, there hasn't been any success story of a country in the Middle East or you know East Asia that manages to do the miraculous healing after regime change.
[01:12:15]  It didn't happen in Iraq, it didn't happen in Afghanistan.
[01:12:18]  Here's the thing: yeah, because they didn't have a leader, they didn't have a leader, you know.
[01:12:23]  Yeah, it's that, but that's the argument with communism.
[01:12:25]  It's like next time it'll work, we'll do it properly.
[01:12:27]  But what the reality is.
[01:12:29]  So the culture is also different, you know, because the Persian culture, like the Iranian culture, whatever you call it, is way different than the Arab cultures.
[01:12:40]  Because those other Middle Eastern countries or East Asia countries, those countries actually didn't have, you know, the culture deepness into the people, because people are connected throughout this very rich culture, whether they are Muslim or they're not Muslim.
[01:12:57]  But what connects us together is this culture and this territorial integrity.
[01:13:02]  We are a culture that we want to preserve it.
[01:13:05]  So it's not like another Middle Eastern country that you counted.
[01:13:09]  Even you say, even you see the diaspora population of these countries and compared to Iran.
[01:13:14]  Like you see Iranians outside of Iran when they go to diaspora, they send their best.
[01:13:20]  They don't like send their worst, but you see that most refugees outside of Iraq, Colombia, Pakistan.
[01:13:26]  Yeah, let me add something.
[01:13:27]  You know, if you go to the history of Iran, Iran had lots of fluctuations of power and bad part of the story and good part of the story.
[01:13:37]  And they again stood up and built the country.
[01:13:40]  It is different from the countries, most of them in the Middle East.
[01:13:44]  They started after World War I. Before World War I, most of them not exist.
[01:13:50]  We have different culture.
[01:13:52]  We have a history of 3,000, more than 3,000 years of being a country.
[01:14:00]  Would love to add one more thing too.
[01:14:02]  Have you ever seen protesters in the United States of America, in Europe, or anywhere else around the world that actually give flowers to the police officers?
[01:14:12]  Name one.
[01:14:13]  None.
[01:14:14]  I'll help you out.
[01:14:15]  Have you seen any other cultures to clean the freaking streets of basically Canada in basically, if I'm not mistaken, Queen's Street, that they were like doing protesters?
[01:14:26]  They were like overseas.
[01:14:27]  Also, UK people.
[01:14:28]  Yeah, also UK as well.
[01:14:30]  They cleaned up like whatever they were doing right after.
[01:14:33]  So this is a culture, my friend.
[01:14:35]  The culture is something strong that Islamic Republic terrorists tried to actually for many, for last 50 years, try to do their best to get rid of.
[01:14:45]  Like, for example, our Nourus that is coming from 2,500 years ago from Cyrus and Darius the King.
[01:14:51]  They were like king of the kings.
[01:14:53]  And there is a reason behind it that they were like kings of the kings.
[01:14:56]  And also, there is a reason we have the Cyrus Human Rights Cylinder that is still today in UN they've been using it.
[01:15:04]  And these are the facts that we cannot detach from Iranian people because we're born and raised with this stuff.
[01:15:11]  But Alex, I mean, and not to not to argue, I'm not sure I agree with you.
[01:15:15]  That's fine.
[01:15:16]  You can argue.
[01:15:16]  No, but like, have we ever seen people sell?
[01:15:18]  Yeah, when they took out Maduro, Venezuelans in the diaspora were celebrating.
[01:15:23]  When they invaded Iraq, much of the problem.
[01:15:26]  But how many times you named one time that you've seen they receiving flowers?
[01:15:32]  Have you seen the video in attendance?
[01:15:34]  Many, many Iranian people went to the Israeli embassy, dropped the flowers right in front of the doors.
[01:15:40]  They tanked them and they were like, we are sorry for losing so many people and sacrificing so many people to attack.
[01:15:47]  I have no doubt.
[01:15:48]  I don't, you know, we'll see those videos.
[01:15:49]  There's a lot of people in the world.
[01:15:51]  Yeah, no, no.
[01:15:52]  But there's one thing.
[01:15:53]  Sorry, one thing I want to add.
[01:15:55]  You know, like Syria's liberation, Iraq, all of them, those people, they just like they just celebrated what happened.
[01:16:02]  They didn't actually pay attention to this allyship and like the way that they celebrated, the way that they viewed like Syria's liberation is very different than Iranians view like the Iranian liberation.
[01:16:15]  Because you see, like the most of the immigrants who are going to Iran to other countries, the overwhelming majority of them are just successful people because they try their best, especially America.
[01:16:28]  They try their best.
[01:16:29]  They sacrificed their entire life to just go to America and they become like the best PhDs, best businessmen.
[01:16:36]  They mean everything.
[01:16:38]  Great example.
[01:16:39]  Great example.
[01:16:40]  In Syria, the Libertation Day, right?
[01:16:42]  They brought United States of America flag, which I was very proud of.
[01:16:47]  Because again, the second home of mine, my second country, is going to be U.S. forever.
[01:16:51]  And nothing's going to change.
[01:16:53]  Here's the fact, you know, from the bottom of my heart, whether like, you know, the viewers like it or not.
[01:16:59]  Here's the second opinion.
[01:17:01]  So when you go there, have you seen anyone do the YMCA dance and thank you President Trump?
[01:17:08]  Well, you're not going to win anybody over with these arguments because we saw plenty of videos and propaganda from Iraq, from previous wars.
[01:17:15]  Look at the locals.
[01:17:15]  They're going to support us.
[01:17:16]  They're going to welcome us.
[01:17:17]  9-11.
[01:17:18]  9-11.
[01:17:18]  September.
[01:17:20]  Okay.
[01:17:21]  Okay.
[01:17:22]  What you saw?
[01:17:22]  Tell me what you saw.
[01:17:23]  And I saw a lot of things.
[01:17:26]  We saw dancing Israelis.
[01:17:27]  We saw people celebrating the streets of Palestine.
[01:17:29]  And then we saw people mourning across the Middle East as well.
[01:17:32]  I mean, I remember.
[01:17:32]  And people in Iran lighting candles and actually very full hijab.
[01:17:37]  Okay.
[01:17:37]  In full hijab.
[01:17:38]  They were saying this to what?
[01:17:42]  Like they said, like they said, this, like, yeah, they said this terrorist or something like this.
[01:17:48]  And they light candles and they said, we are sorry for the lives that have lost.
[01:17:53]  And not to be not to be minimizing.
[01:17:54]  And I do appreciate that there are distinct cultural and historical differences.
[01:17:59]  It was inside Iran.
[01:18:00]  It was inside Iran.
[01:18:01]  Inside the Islamic Republic.
[01:18:03]  I appreciate that there are distinct historical differences culture-wise between Persians and here's the fact.
[01:18:11]  Do you believe they risked their lives when they actually light a candle to their like sworn enemy of the Islamic Republic?
[01:18:19]  Islamic Republic chanced death to America.
[01:18:21]  They were celebrating it.
[01:18:23]  October 7th, they celebrated.
[01:18:25]  Us, people of Iran, did not celebrate it.
[01:18:28]  We went like used our like social media, whether it was like in Iran.
[01:18:32]  You can go read the comments.
[01:18:34]  Again, also another thing that they bring rallies to Iran and to celebrate the regime.
[01:18:40]  4 million from Afghanistan at least come from Afghanistan to Iran since like 2021.
[01:18:46]  And 6 million, okay?
[01:18:49]  But the thing is, so sorry, but the thing is that they bring foreigners from Afghanistan, from their proxies in Iraq and Pakistan, to just go to the rallies.
[01:18:59]  Even they use them as suppression forces in the recent protests.
[01:19:02]  So they created their new base based on foreigners, not Iranians, because they know that they cannot win this, but they can actually have more foreigners from Afghanistan, from Pakistan, from Iraq to cover that.
[01:19:17]  Oh, there's so much people rallying in the streets like they did after the 12-day war.
[01:19:23]  Most of them are far.
[01:19:24]  But some people might retort that maybe the government is not all that repressive and evil, although I mean, by the comparison, it is.
[01:19:30]  But because no one's going to say, from your perspective, in exile, people would want a different government.
[01:19:37]  Maybe we're going to go over the locals in a second, but your most compelling argument for why this is a national security interest or why America should even get involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East where all hell seems to break loose every single time because you got a country with 90 million people, Muslims, Shias versus Sunnis versus Azerbaijan, every other ethnic group on earth that ends up.
[01:19:57]  Number one answer.
[01:19:58]  Number one answer.
[01:20:00]  They actually attacked Cyprus for no reason.
[01:20:03]  The first European country.
[01:20:05]  If they had a missile that could have reached actually the United States, they would have done it.
[01:20:10]  You can attack RAF in Cyprus and at Kiwis, if I'm not mistaken.
[01:20:16]  They attack the embassies.
[01:20:18]  Every single embassies of the United States, they've been attacked.
[01:20:21]  They actually attacked it about a couple of hours ago, like Dubai consulate, if I'm not mistaken.
[01:20:27]  Also, they attacked the airport of the Kuwait.
[01:20:30]  Yeah, Kuwait, also Bahrain, and also like that's in response to the war.
[01:20:37]  I mean, that's the.
[01:20:38]  No, that is not a fact.
[01:20:41]  Basically, Saudi Arabia never declared a war with the Islamic Republic.
[01:20:46]  But how much?
[01:20:46]  Show me a country that has a a lot of American.
[01:20:49]  What you're saying is, you will not convince people by saying their response to the strikes justifies the strikes.
[01:20:56]  It was sort of the mistake that um, who was it that gave the interview?
[01:20:59]  Uh, rep rep Luna said, well, Iran just killed three American servicemen.
[01:21:03]  Like you say, you can't, you can't and i'm not, i'm not justifying it Iran.
[01:21:06]  Iran has supported terrorism internationally, as has many other countries.
[01:21:10]  We're not talking about invading destroying, but absolutely.
[01:21:14]  But you're not, you're not going to get, you're not going to convince people by telling them that the response to the attack justified the attack.
[01:21:19]  The question is, you now have to say, service yep you you you, you live in United States Of America right, correct?
[01:21:26]  If some, if any countries attack your president, what are you going to do of of the United States Of America?
[01:21:32]  Yeah yeah I I, I would, I would certainly never side with the country that just attacked the president.
[01:21:37]  Well, person I have, you would.
[01:21:39]  What?
[01:21:39]  I'm sorry you got caught off.
[01:21:40]  I would never.
[01:21:41]  Even if I, even if it was Joe Biden, you would not get many Americans supporting a foreign country attacking the president.
[01:21:47]  I happen to like Donald Trump and when he was almost assassinated in Butler, I found myself, you know, I said now I could see how people sign up for militias because if they had succeeded there, you know they, they would have found a Canadian on on a on a On A Trump militia type thing.
[01:22:03]  But if, as i'm, i'm Canadian by birth, I believe i'm American by spirit and you know, if and ever become an American citizen, it'll be the first country and only country, and no dual citizenship.
[01:22:15]  But i'm not sure what point you're making.
[01:22:16]  Yeah somebody, if someone attacked the president of the United States Of America, even if it were Joe Biden, I would not support the foreign intervention of an assassination of the president.
[01:22:26]  Here's the thing.
[01:22:27]  So I think it says like, uh, vivo Barn's Law and i'm, and i'm sure I I, I believe i'm assuming like you're a lawyer, but in a law, I think, like in the United System law actually, if any countries are like trying to attend, like basically to killing the presidents of United States, they're going to declare war.
[01:22:43]  So, no matter what you mean, if Iran was trying to kill Donald Trump, they've done that yes, they've done that for Irgc no, but but hold on.
[01:22:52]  So i've had actually had this argument online today, which is correct.
[01:22:54]  In 2024 there was the guy who claims he was paid by the IRGC to try to kill Trump.
[01:22:58]  Um, if now that that would and I said this online if that were the pretext, then that I think a lot of people would have supported Trump if he campaigned on in 2024 destroying the regime that tried to kill him.
[01:23:10]  But when you go two years and you're negotiating with that regime, some might say that in law that's called an actus novis.
[01:23:15]  You say we're negotiating with a regime that tried to kill Trump.
[01:23:19]  Um, if that was the pretext or the justification for the war, it might.
[01:23:22]  If that were the you know off the bat, you might have had less confusion, less messaging.
[01:23:26]  I, I absolutely a foreign nation legit conspiring to kill you.
[01:23:30]  You, you wipe them out when you know of it um.
[01:23:32]  But so the question is, so there's not just Another thing President Trump said today, today he said, if we didn't start this war, it is going to be a nuclear war.

=== Tariff War Justification (15:29) ===

[01:23:45]  Because after they heated the base of the nuclear around six months ago, they started again.
[01:23:54]  They started again to basically making bomb.
[01:23:59]  That was the main issue that President Trump mentioned today.
[01:24:02]  Also, one fun fact.
[01:24:04]  So Lavison, okay, that's the location that used to be like close to where I used to live.
[01:24:11]  I used to live in Santa Addabad, okay?
[01:24:13]  And back in when, like before they start doing the enrichment, okay, that was one of the hidden sites.
[01:24:19]  You can research it.
[01:24:20]  Okay.
[01:24:21]  We used to like get it like shake underground, like literally a vibration, like an earthquake every now and then.
[01:24:28]  And like if you look at the patterns of how many earthquakes has happened since then, till today, it will blow your mind.
[01:24:35]  So the fact is, Islamic Republic terrorists is the only country who is funding the terrorists and at the same time enriching over 60%.
[01:24:45]  They have like over 400 kilograms of over 60% of uranium, okay?
[01:24:51]  Which there is no country who wanted to actually have a peaceful, peaceful, basically, what is it called, nuclear energy in their backbone, basically enriched like 60% uranium after, obviously after North Korea.
[01:25:08]  So the point is, I don't think like basically the world is ready for another North Korea.
[01:25:16]  And I think they were going towards that, even though they were like failing culturally.
[01:25:20]  But obviously.
[01:25:21]  I want to highlight this one.
[01:25:22]  Viva, you're forgetting that Iran has attacked American troops many times.
[01:25:25]  I'm not forgetting it.
[01:25:26]  That's been true for a very long period of time.
[01:25:28]  That does not now become the excuse for these strikes, which is a change of the other, you know, that's been going on for a long time.
[01:25:35]  So you can't now then invoke that's the change of circumstance to justify this from a political perspective, change of political tactics.
[01:25:42]  So that's been true for a long time, as has a number of other things, which is why you don't get to say the issue when it comes to Trump and why there's disagreement or at least some divide among the right is he campaigned off what he said.
[01:25:55]  He also said, you know, Iran can never have a nuke.
[01:25:56]  Then he struck and obliterated the facilities.
[01:25:59]  To say now that there's a you can talk as much, you know, Viva, you can talk as much because when talking fail, hold on, when talkings fail, you have to go to the next step.
[01:26:09]  If you don't show force, my friend, okay, if like United States, if with any president, okay, let's remove President Trump, like basically from the scenario, okay, all together.
[01:26:19]  Let's put whomever, like even imaginary like president right there, okay?
[01:26:24]  If he didn't show force like to Islamic Republic terrorists who's sponsoring the terrorism and like didn't basically follow the facts that they were trying to kill them, they were trying to do a lot of other stuff.
[01:26:38]  And like basically, it would have signaled China a weak United States, which did happen during the Biden time, also during Obama's time.
[01:26:46]  And on top of it, Russia did not actually accept it, like even the negotiation with the United States of America.
[01:26:54]  Because Putin, like everybody thinks, oh, they're friends and doing friendly stuff.
[01:27:00]  President Zelensky said a really correct fact.
[01:27:04]  He said, if you don't stop this Tyran regime who killed more than 40,000 people in their street, you will give a permission to any dictator who can kill enough people and still being in power.
[01:27:21]  And it's going to be spread all over the world between other dictators to kill their people.
[01:27:26]  And, you know, and after that, they get more, you know, Martin.
[01:27:30]  Not to be glib, but you're not going to get much support from the audience citing Zelensky, who hasn't held elections in forever because of a war.
[01:27:38]  I mean, obviously.
[01:27:40]  No, no, he said he said one fact from Zanelski.
[01:27:42]  No, no, no, no, but the only fact.
[01:27:46]  It's a bad man to use in terms of trying to prove it.
[01:27:49]  Absolutely.
[01:27:49]  That was the right fact.
[01:27:51]  I don't care about who said that.
[01:27:53]  He said the right fact.
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[01:28:20]  It's confirming now.
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[01:28:24]  Okay, so the compelling argument as to why it's in the Americas and national security interests.
[01:28:29]  I mean, we know the arguments.
[01:28:31]  And not to bring this one up again, but some people would retort, yes, they've attacked American troops.
[01:28:37]  And the meme that goes around the internet is: look at all these bases that popped up around Iran.
[01:28:42]  And not to say that you have foreign bases, they're legitimate targets at all.
[01:28:45]  There's no but to that.
[01:28:46]  You strike, you should expect to strike back.
[01:28:49]  Then the question is going to be: is it now that are we back to, and this is the major question.
[01:28:55]  I can definitely answer that question.
[01:28:56]  That question is partially regarding Islamic Republic terrorists.
[01:29:01]  But the main focus for the United States of America was actually having a really good, actually hands-on, like towards the basically Persian Gulf countries and even Iran and also China, on the other hand, which is parallel to Afghanistan and basically Iran.
[01:29:17]  So the United States actually didn't have enough bases and couldn't have actually bases in Iran, obviously, for obvious reasons.
[01:29:24]  But they actually created a base in Afghanistan called Baghram.
[01:29:29]  So I'm sure like in the near future, the main basically military complex is going to come to Iran and it's going to be like literally parallel with Afghanistan, like to be able to hold the pressure from Russia to those countries and back and also the pressure that comes like from China and try to control China.
[01:29:50]  Let me do this.
[01:29:50]  I'm going to bring these up.
[01:29:52]  I'm not going to read all of them because I don't want to get myself into trouble.
[01:29:56]  You can see this Oh fuck or oh fuck, as we'll say it has a super has a super chat.
[01:30:00]  I don't know what it means.
[01:30:01]  I'm not reading it because I'm not saying something that's going to be potentially offensive.
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[01:30:16]  Forced name change says isolationists are wrong.
[01:30:20]  Given the power gap between citizens and the government, intervention is necessary for initial victory.
[01:30:24]  What happens after determines success or failure?
[01:30:26]  Examples, USA and Greece.
[01:30:28]  Well, I'm not sure what that part of me says, you know, one of the strategies might just be to raise hell in Iran and not get further involved and then let them fight it out.
[01:30:37]  And at least you'll have distracted the IRGC and their nuclear aspirations with domestic strife, which is good, I guess, internet or good from a national perspective, but not necessarily for the Iranian perspective.
[01:30:48]  Who knows how it turns out.
[01:30:50]  If it were not for the French, Yankees would be singing God save the king and saluting the British flag.
[01:30:56]  Success was found when the freed was left to their own devices, not managed by foreign power.
[01:31:01]  One more questionable take.
[01:31:02]  People who get hit first usually lose the fight.
[01:31:06]  My very first super chat said, should have said anti-interventionists and says, I think Viva will likely counter my second argument with the example of Japan.
[01:31:12]  They hit first and it didn't go so well for them.
[01:31:15]  And if we can do this, I know we got some questions over in locals that we'll read right here and see if there's a here we go.
[01:31:23]  I was told via different sources since I went down the rabbit hole that numerous coups were attempted in Iran in the last 47 years.
[01:31:30]  They were stopped when the people of Iran realized Mossad was involved in actively manipulating it with black bodies.
[01:31:36]  Is this true or now?
[01:31:38]  Absolutely wrong.
[01:31:39]  Absolutely wrong.
[01:31:41]  I wish there was one.
[01:31:42]  I wish there was one.
[01:31:44]  The problem is, here's the point.
[01:31:48]  So most of the times, if anything happens around the world, everybody's pointing Mossad.
[01:31:53]  Oh, Israel has done it.
[01:31:55]  Or like, you know, Israeli actually forced like President Trump to do that.
[01:31:59]  We all know that is not correct.
[01:32:01]  And like, I wish, I wish there was, there was, like, I wish there was such a thing because it would have, it would enough take actually 50 years to get here, brother.
[01:32:10]  So that's a fact.
[01:32:11]  I have, I have, I'm not sure that everyone's going to agree with you that it's absolutely not the case.
[01:32:15]  That's completely fine.
[01:32:16]  But I think, and it may be the lore.
[01:32:18]  I do know, at least from my understanding, is Mossad has claimed having had operatives or influences.
[01:32:24]  Oh, yeah.
[01:32:25]  But UC Cohen back in the day, the head of Mossad, actually, they mentioned that they have over 20 to 25,000 basically people infiltrated, basically, basically Islamic Republic terrorists.
[01:32:39]  But here's the thing.
[01:32:40]  If you were the country, Viva, you would not do it.
[01:32:44]  You know why?
[01:32:44]  If I like 24-7 plan to kidnap your people, kill your people, or attack your country in any manner or shape, you would not do it yourself.
[01:32:54]  No, I would, but then, but then the argument is, no, it's not happening, but it would be good if it is type thing, or it's not happening, but it's good that it is.
[01:33:03]  I might need to let the dog go to the office.
[01:33:06]  Okay, let me bring this back.
[01:33:07]  No, but I appreciate it.
[01:33:09]  And, you know, there's zero doubt whether or not they're involved in manipulation.
[01:33:15]  They have intelligence on the ground.
[01:33:16]  And it would be, you assume everybody would want to do that.
[01:33:20]  Okay.
[01:33:20]  Mr. Michael, do you guys realize that no matter what, Chevron and British Petroleum are going to be running Iran?
[01:33:26]  How are they going to prevent the inevitable corporatism?
[01:33:28]  Hold on.
[01:33:29]  Oh, 100%.
[01:33:31]  Actually, Chevron and British Petroleum, the BP.
[01:33:35]  Why not?
[01:33:37]  Okay, I don't think he was hearing us.
[01:33:39]  Can you hear us fine?
[01:33:40]  Yeah, I can hear you now.
[01:33:42]  So we answered it.
[01:33:43]  Why not?
[01:33:44]  So first and foremost, we had actually totals.
[01:33:47]  Total.
[01:33:48]  Yeah, it's a win-win for us.
[01:33:49]  Yeah.
[01:33:50]  So total, the company actually who was like in charge of drilling, which my uncle basically was in head of actually and in charge of that back and when basically mentioned it to me that Islamic Republic didn't have even enough money to pay the total basically French, what is it called, French drilling company.
[01:34:10]  And they give out like basically free oil to that company.
[01:34:14]  So why not actually to have a fair trade and like actually have a corporatism, if like he calls it, but like I would call it capitalism.
[01:34:23]  And I would say most of Iranians wants to be the best ally of the US and Israel in future.
[01:34:28]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:34:29]  We want to do lots of trades.
[01:34:31]  We want to make money with each other.
[01:34:33]  We want to have a good country like other Arab countries who's making money with the United States, you know, petroleum.
[01:34:40]  Why not?
[01:34:42]  This is not going to do wonders for the argument that Israel might have an influence, that people think Israel does have an influence if they stand to benefit.
[01:34:48]  But set that up.
[01:34:49]  Many people have a lot of basically opinion.
[01:34:52]  I wish, again, Viva, because it's been 50 years, okay?
[01:34:56]  I wish there was such a thing.
[01:34:58]  It wouldn't have like, you know, take me 36 miserable years, cry, tears, many lives actually been lost, you know, just because of, you know, a fumble game, you know, that we're just like, since we have a like keyboard and mice, we can like chat about it.
[01:35:14]  Or we think we're correct, write about it.
[01:35:16]  Every single thing that we like write about today may not agree to those people who are hearing this.
[01:35:22]  We live that, we live that era.
[01:35:25]  We're living that era.
[01:35:26]  You have no idea.
[01:35:28]  So, our life, I would tell you, like for the almost past 70 days, we're just like on live almost 24-7, at least bare minimum 12 to 19 hours a day.
[01:35:39]  You're doing this show.
[01:35:41]  I don't know for how long per day, but just put it in perspective.
[01:35:44]  We open a space for 12 to 19 hours, speaking to every single people possible, whether in Farsi, whether in English, and some other are like basically patriots actually speak like other language to bringing everybody to the table.
[01:35:58]  But if and only if people decide to hear us, you know, and basically do their research.
[01:36:04]  So, no, people will definitely understand from your own, I say, interests that you would support this intervention.
[01:36:10]  The question is going to be convincing Americans who elected Trump on what they thought would be no more of this involvement in countries that don't seem to understand.
[01:36:18]  I have one important thing to say, Viva.
[01:36:20]  Yeah, please.
[01:36:20]  You know, because I also wanted to leave.
[01:36:21]  Sorry.
[01:36:23]  I wanted to say that, you know, about the future of Iran, when we say about, for example, the tariff war.
[01:36:32]  You know, Iran is a large country.
[01:36:34]  Okay.
[01:36:34]  It's like a huge, like it's a large country that Americans actually can move their companies from China and manufacture in Iran.
[01:36:46]  So the United States can easily win the tariff war if they apologize.
[01:36:51]  My apologies.
[01:36:52]  If they move their companies from China to Iran, and because the labor price is not going to be, you know, higher than China, it's going to be lower and the companies will benefit, will get more benefits because Iran has been isolated for 47 years.
[01:37:08]  And manufacturing in a country that is going to be like rebuilt after 47 years is going to like investing in a newborn country because Iran has been isolating itself from the entire world for 47 years.
[01:37:23]  And it's like investing in something new and with like with a very basic amount of prices and not having that trouble to actually promote your products and make that brand that an international brand with the lowest prices.
[01:37:41]  So that's how the United States is going to win the tariff war.
[01:37:44]  And another thing I wanted to add is Iran is not just oil.
[01:37:49]  There are many, you know, fresh brains in Iran.
[01:37:53]  There are many human resources.
[01:37:55]  There are educated people in Iran.
[01:37:56]  And at the same time, we have lots of other resources like lithium.
[01:37:59]  10% of the lithium in the world is in Iran.
[01:38:02]  Tongue.
[01:38:03]  Tongue standard.
[01:38:04]  Which is the interest of the United States.
[01:38:07]  You might not also garner much support because this sounds more like Iran first over, you know, America's arguments: we don't need more H-1B visas, you don't need more imported brains because when you manufacture inside Iran, sorry, sorry, and also you know, no blood for oil.
[01:38:28]  Presumably, you're gonna have the same people saying no blood for corporate, like, okay, we're not sending servicemen and women to their death so that we can have business opportunities in Yemen type thing.
[01:38:37]  But yeah, I know, but what I said is, Viva, I didn't say like the H-1B visas or anything like that.
[01:38:42]  I said, no, no, when you are talking about, for example, the Martin said brains means when you manufacture from, for example, China to Iran, you have a lot of educated and a lot of actually brains inside Iran who are more trustworthy than the Chinese communists to actually work for your company and way cheaper than the Americans do.
[01:39:06]  And they can, you know, inside Iran mean of the companies that manufacture in other countries.
[01:39:11]  So they can easily win the tariff war and defeat China.

=== Nobody Installing Toran (04:26) ===

[01:39:15]  And that's going to be having a very good long-term effect to keep the United States as the first and the only global power in the world.
[01:39:25]  Oh, wait, hold on.
[01:39:26]  Let me read this one.
[01:39:27]  We already answered.
[01:39:27]  Ruth Dang says, if President and Bibi install the previous Shahs, will any of these gentlemen return?
[01:39:32]  We got that one.
[01:39:32]  Oh my God.
[01:39:34]  This is their fine.
[01:39:36]  Here's the thing.
[01:39:37]  Here's the thing.
[01:39:38]  To that person who wrote that, okay.
[01:39:40]  Before you start, just one thing.
[01:39:42]  I need to turn off my camera.
[01:39:43]  It's okay.
[01:39:44]  Yeah, go for it.
[01:39:45]  By the way, by the way, Viva, thank you for the stream.
[01:39:48]  I leave from now.
[01:39:49]  And also, also, last thing, Viva.
[01:39:51]  I have a friend whose name is Ida Toran, and she's well experted in Shia Islam.
[01:39:57]  I hope you one day interview her regarding Shia Islam because that has been her expertise and she's like even finishing a book regarding it.
[01:40:07]  What's her interest?
[01:40:08]  Ida Toran.
[01:40:12]  I'm gonna ask a stupid question.
[01:40:13]  Is she Jewish?
[01:40:14]  No, she's not Jewish.
[01:40:16]  She has been, you know, she has been raising up in a very extreme Muslim family.
[01:40:20]  And I'll add her to the chat that we have been talking.
[01:40:25]  And so you can just, yeah.
[01:40:26]  Oh, no, no, for sure.
[01:40:27]  First of all, thank you for doing this.
[01:40:28]  And like I said, like, you know, I think a lot of people in abstract might not disagree with wiping out the Iranian government.
[01:40:36]  The only question is.
[01:40:37]  Can I answer the previous question real quick?
[01:40:39]  Oh, yeah, Bibi.
[01:40:40]  Okay, nobody's installing anybody.
[01:40:44]  If millions of people willingly came out to the street and chanting King Raza Paladi, who are they like to install or remove the basically Shah of Iran?
[01:40:54]  So here's the kicker.
[01:40:56]  I do respect President Trump very much for the decision that he made, also Bibi Netanyahu, which actually provided tremendous help.
[01:41:04]  Viva, if there was no Bib Netanyahu in Israel today, and if there was no Cyrus the King, Cyrus the Great, back in the day helping Israelis to basically profound themselves and be able to carry their lives, you know, peacefully back in when today we didn't have that cultural ties that Bibi Netanyahu actually promised us something.
[01:41:30]  If we have been, just imagine this, if these people okay, were hiding, like to the, to their bunkers, and me and my fellow compatriots actually had all the guns around the world without, with zero expertise, and we would have actually go back to our country, take our country back.
[01:41:47]  You know how long would it take to kick those basically people out many, many years.
[01:41:54]  So we do appreciate it.
[01:41:55]  So nobody's installing.
[01:41:57]  They're doing themselves a huge favor to to removing Islamic Republic terrorists, one to take off the island and basically nukes out of the basically table and like basically their their, their hands out of the, the Middle East and all over the Europe, also United States and also on top of it, the very last thing is be able to bring in peace and great production for the country, for their own people, to not having the worst actually uh,
[01:42:26]  valued money around the world.
[01:42:28]  If you search it, you'll find out.
[01:42:30]  It's not a, it's not a hard thing to do and that's the reason yeah, that's the reason people backed up uh backed uh, basically the, the person that you see in the picture behind me, which is the king Rezabalavi and his father, basically on my shirt.
[01:42:44]  So i'm gonna read this one here.
[01:42:46]  It says, thank you.
[01:42:46]  Opponents of this military action are horribly ignorant and naive.
[01:42:49]  They don't know facts from history.
[01:42:50]  This is coming from spam ranger, from the perspective of an engineer, of nuclear and nuclear worker.
[01:42:54]  We can't allow the nuclear development and missile stockpiling to continue.
[01:42:57]  We can't repeat the mistakes of the 1930s.
[01:43:00]  It's time to fix this now, while Russia is tied up in Ukraine.
[01:43:03]  Success or failure is about competent implementation and I agree absolutely.
[01:43:09]  I will say this again until someone listens.
[01:43:11]  Iran has either chosen to not have a nuclear weapon or they already have one.
[01:43:15]  They the working on it's just dumb.
[01:43:17]  They are not that hard to make with enough time.
[01:43:20]  The ABB centrifuge strike was 15 years ago.
[01:43:22]  It may be the case.
[01:43:23]  They have one now, based on a semantic religious threshold.
[01:43:27]  Congrats Israel.
[01:43:28]  Let Let me tell you this, Viva.
[01:43:31]  Let's actually change the perspective tiny bit.
[01:43:33]  Okay.
[01:43:34]  I just want to like, I'm sure you've seen my expertise.
[01:43:36]  I don't want you to mention it over here because I'm not able to use that.

=== Way of Attack Controversy (04:18) ===

[01:43:41]  So the fact is that currently right now, based on my expertise, just imagine if I wanted to basically, my country currently don't have Swift.
[01:43:52]  Why?
[01:43:52]  Because back in 2018, the JCPOA just got ripped off.
[01:43:56]  Okay.
[01:43:57]  Boom.
[01:43:58]  Okay.
[01:43:58]  And that reason behind it that it got ripped off was actually a great thing that President Trump did it.
[01:44:05]  But do you know how much pressure does it make to me if I want to send money, you know, to back home to my friends, you know, buying even a gift?
[01:44:13]  You know, or they want to do the same thing for me.
[01:44:16]  We cannot even have a like simple transaction going on.
[01:44:19]  And that's like, there is like millions of mini, many, many reasons that people don't understand it today that why we're doing this, because it is like we're just like keep considering like big factors all around it, but there is like very tiny ones that actually affected our lives for the last 50 years, you know.
[01:44:39]  And I, here's the thing.
[01:44:40]  They, so I've been told I do not have to travel to Turkey.
[01:44:44]  I do not have to travel to Dubai.
[01:44:47]  I do not have to travel to Armenia.
[01:44:49]  And I'm not have to travel to basically Iraq.
[01:44:53]  And most obvious one, I'm not able to travel to Iran because they arrested my dad and took him to the jail because of the activities that I was doing.
[01:45:01]  And they wanted to prosecute him and like give him the life sentence.
[01:45:05]  So I've done it.
[01:45:06]  You know, they prosecuting my dad and they tried to kill him.
[01:45:10]  They were trying to do that before like he comes to US.
[01:45:13]  And he was a, he was a basically green card holder in the United States, like legally.
[01:45:18]  So they've done so many outstanding like bullshit to us, you know, that we don't stand, like we didn't have like even chance to respond to it.
[01:45:29]  And obviously, most of the perspective that comes like for the people that who are in chat and they have like, you know, bunch of good questions, you know, hey, about this and that, but they keep seeing the big pictures, you know, and like there's like tiny pieces that we did not even like cover.
[01:45:45]  But go from there.
[01:45:46]  Well, no, there's this, this you can't go through 3,000 years of history and 100 years of politics in a podcast.
[01:45:53]  Absolutely.
[01:45:53]  I do want to, first of all, we'll talk a little bit offline because we're going to end this now.
[01:45:57]  I got to get ready for bowling league.
[01:46:01]  It's been fantastic.
[01:46:02]  The interesting thing is the bottom line, in abstract, I don't think most people would object to taking out a terrorist regime.
[01:46:11]  The issue that you guys have to, well, not you, say, the issue right now is that this feels a lot like not what people voted for.
[01:46:18]  And it seems that there's a lot of moving goalposts to make it fit into what people voted for by saying, yeah, you voted for Trump who said no nukes.
[01:46:25]  See, see, here's the thing.
[01:46:27]  Voted for the same thing.
[01:46:29]  I voted for the same thing, but did they give us like, is there any like basically chances left to not doing it?
[01:46:36]  No, there's not.
[01:46:37]  Like I mean, obviously like president Trump don't want to be like involved in any war whatsoever.
[01:46:43]  That's why the way they attack like basically uh, what's it called?
[01:46:46]  Uh Venezuela, was like that you know a couple of yeah, but yeah, the biggest issue is, this is not Venezuela no 100, not 100 not, but obviously like, when they went like to Venezuela, the whole key aspect of it was just basically removing Maduro right, kick him out and people be able to live it, even like you know, tiny bit.
[01:47:07]  But but the thing is, obviously this is not like Islamic Republic and completely different and they're doing like some other crappy stuff like all around the world.
[01:47:16]  But the way they attacked, the way they attack like Maduro, was different and small compared to what it is like actually in Islamic Republic.
[01:47:27]  Is they want, they don't want like all out war, that's like.
[01:47:31]  I think that is the most obvious like aspect of it.
[01:47:34]  If, like president Trump wanted like an all-out war, it could have bring like basically three naval basically uh, basically three, three carry three carriers, like basically strike carriers instead of like two you know what i'm saying like it could have bring like the half the fleet.
[01:47:49]  Why they brought like only two.
[01:47:51]  And these are the stuff like that we have to like pay attention to.
[01:47:54]  Helena Handcart says, thank you for leading with a curious mind.
[01:47:57]  It's one of the reasons I started following your vlogs years ago.

=== Stick Around For This (01:42) ===

[01:47:59]  No I well I this I I, I.
[01:48:02]  I won't say the issue in this is one of uh, political statements and not, you know, the strikes itself.
[01:48:10]  But we'll see where this goes.
[01:48:11]  I, i'm not, i'm not optimistic as to where this goes, but we'll see.
[01:48:13]  Spam Ranger says, from 1940 to 41 there was a popular support for America First Committee which advocated isolation, disarmament and staying out of World War Ii.
[01:48:21]  This movement in ended after the attack by Japan.
[01:48:24]  There is a psychological tendency for some Americans to hold that isolationist view.
[01:48:28]  But intervention, but invention of nuclear weapons, missiles and long-range bombers is obsoleted.
[01:48:34]  Let's not have another Pearl Harbor.
[01:48:35]  Well, there's a, there's a, there's a controversy behind Pearl Harbor.
[01:48:38]  There's also the argument that America you know the not, the Nazis were not going to conquer America.
[01:48:43]  And what you know?
[01:48:44]  What did America get for the sacrifice of World War Ii other than a different form of conquering of Europe now, and a Europe that closely resembles fascism Fascism more than democracy.
[01:48:53]  Gentlemen, what the heck did I just do?
[01:48:55]  Sorry.
[01:48:56]  This has been fantastic.
[01:48:58]  You'll send me all of your links if and where you want people to find you, and I'll pin it in the pinned comment.
[01:49:03]  This was very good.
[01:49:04]  It was good.
[01:49:05]  Martin, are you still around?
[01:49:07]  I think he is.
[01:49:08]  Anybody?
[01:49:09]  Well, Martin, thank you, Martin, for being here.
[01:49:11]  Alex, thank you.
[01:49:12]  Yeah, I guess.
[01:49:13]  And Steve, who at McCommon, thank you.
[01:49:15]  We'll talk for a couple minutes offline, but this has been amazing.
[01:49:18]  Thank you guys for doing this.
[01:49:19]  Thank you very much, Javicha.
[01:49:21]  I appreciate your listeners and viewers.
[01:49:22]  Thank you.
[01:49:23]  Amazing.
[01:49:24]  Hope you see you all in Iran, okay?
[01:49:26]  Hope you see all.
[01:49:28]  I'm not traveling.
[01:49:29]  I'm sticking.
[01:49:30]  I'm sticking to Florida.
[01:49:31]  Florida is amazing.
[01:49:33]  You never know.
[01:49:34]  You never know.
[01:49:34]  I have maybe a lot of great stuff for you to offer you.
[01:49:37]  Yeah.
[01:49:37]  All right, let's stick around.
[01:49:38]  We'll say a proper goodbyes.
[01:49:39]  Everyone out there, God bless you, see you tomorrow.