Iranian-American Professor Marandi Explains US-IRAN-ISRAEL troubles

Today is October 11th and we're having Professor mirandi with us to talk about what's going on between Iran and Israel. Welcome back Professor, thank you and let's let's get started with what's going on in Qatar.

It seems that there are some activities at the air base American Air Base in Qatar and Israel is getting ready to attack Iran.

Yesterday the former Israeli Prime Minister was talking about that the way that they're going to attack Iran.

I'm going to play a clip for you and take your response.

The world is waiting and watching to see how Israel responds to Iran's ballistic missile strike on Israel last week.

What do you think they should do?

I believe that that Israel should strike uh Iran's nuclear program

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and uh strike uh regime centers and I'll explain why the ultimate strategy that I

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believe that the world should have is to um not allow to Iran acquire a nuclear

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weapon ever and how do you do it by accelerating the toppling of the regime it will fall and ensuring that in the

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meantime they don't acquire a nuclear weapon so basically you need two efforts to accelerate the Top Lane of the regime

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and to slow down the acquisition of nuclear weapons does Israel have the capability though to do it alone yes we

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can strike and cause considerable damage uh I don't know if we can destroy the whole program but as I said we have to

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delay it while we accelerate the pace of the topling of the regime yeah it's simply saying that your

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response Professor I think it's pretty clear that

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uh after a year of genocide in Gaza and the genocidal

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attacks now in Lebanon that the Israeli regime has

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exposed itself in the eyes of global public opinion and I think in the weeks

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ahead that will be very important because for well over four decades the

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United States and its Western allies have uh to a large degree succeeded in

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demonizing Iran especi in including among much of the global public Iran

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never really had much of a voice we didn't have alternative media in the past so Western narratives were always

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very uh powerful and uh the last year I believe

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although this is this has gun earlier but the last year in particular uh the

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world has changed dramatically and uh the the contempt for

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the Israeli regime and for its backers has been on the rise everywhere and

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therefore these sort of interviews and these sort of narratives that are being

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produced and repeated by Western media don't have the sort of impact and

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influence that they did in the past in the past I think if the Israeli Prime

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Minister or the Israeli regime's previous prime minister or foreign minister would make such statements a

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lot of people would be nodding their heads in agreement

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but things have changed and what we are now seeing is that there's a huge amount

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of regional and Global support for Iran and I think people now see through this propaganda so that's I think one

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issue uh the Israeli regime the the the regime spokesman or previous officials or

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current officials when they speak it only shows that they are Lawless and

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aggressive and they're they lash out at whoever they want and the West will do nothing about it every day they're

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bombing Syria they just bombed a hospital in Syria a field hospital for

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uh wounded Lebanese they destroyed the whole hospital it got no mentioned in the

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western media they uh are They carried out another well every day they're

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carrying out atrocities in Gaza but the last two days in particular were very

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horrific and last night they bombed a uh residential complex in Beirut killing a

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large number of people they pretended that it was to assassinate someone but

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that person was never in the building had never been inside that building before but the West will always try to

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provide uh an excuse or try to justify uh their behavior whether it's Western

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media Western officials but it doesn't work like that anymore so when people see Syria

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Lebanon uh Gaza the west bank and then now uh the regime wants to bomb Iran

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after striking the isan's embassy and assassinating people in tan it only makes the Israeli regime look even more

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Lawless and dangerous and Reckless but uh the fact is that all of

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Iran's strategic assets are deep underground and it's not because of the

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Israeli regime the Israeli regime is not a strong regime it's it's weak its power

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comes from the United States and the West otherwise if they cut their support

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the regime would collapse almost immediately but still even with all that support the

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Israeli regime does not have the capabilities of the United States the Iranians built all of its key assets its

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vulnerable assets like the nuclear program um key military installations or

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key key weapons they put them deep underground to protect them from American air strikes because ever since

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the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the occupation of these two countries

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the Iranians have been preparing themselves for a potential uh war with

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the United States an invasion by the United States because the United States has invaded and destroyed country after

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country whether it's Iraq and Afghanistan or Syria and Libya or Yemen

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or elsewhere uh the Iranians know that they have to create a deterrence so they

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protected most of their key Assets in the way in which the United States cannot destroy them through conventional

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means they they the Americans could do some damage to the nuclear program installations that are on um

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that are accessible but those aren't really that important they can damage

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certain components of factories that build missiles and drones but they're not really that important all the key

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elements of these the peaceful nuclear program or Iran's weapons industry they're all deep underground

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so uh that I think is is important to keep in mind second the former Iranian

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foreign minister uh the Dr Kamal Kazi who was the minister during the Ki

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Administration he is an adviser to the leader on two occasions in the last year

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and I I should be careful I'm uh because I'm parap raising but he spoke about the

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possibility of Iran changing its nuclear posture and that would come about under

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the circumstances where Iran is uh threatened with nuclear weapon or

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perhaps Iran's nuclear capabilities peaceful nuclear capabilities are threatened uh seriously so the Israelis

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could even though they cannot seriously damage the nuclear program but they could cause Iran to change its nuclear

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posture and that would mean leaving the npt and perhaps uh moving in the

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direction of producing a nuclear weapon and Iran is a threshold State Iran is

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one of the 10 to 12 countries that have the most advanced uh nuclear program

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technologically speaking for Iran it would take a very short period of time Iran has always said that uh that it

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could have produced a nuclear weapon many years ago if it wanted to so today it would be very simple for Iran to do

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so so the Israeli regime basically if they do strike Iran's nuclear program they would be giving Iran an

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excuse to uh change its position and as I said if it if it

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attacks Iran's other military capabilities it won't really have an impact uh or serious impact they could

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go for Iran's uh oil and gas facil ities its

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refineries uh its electrical power plants and they could cause damage but

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um Iran has gone through eight years of war with Iraq and Iran has experienced

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Decades of sanctions they will be able to overcome but what Iran will do in

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response is uh I think far more consequential for the Israeli regime the Iranians have already said as you know

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during its uh previous missile strike that if the regime if the Israeli regime

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strikes Iran the Iranian response will be much harder and that it will uh

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destroy or Target uh Israel's key

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infrastructure and isra the Israeli regime is a small regime it has a small

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population half the population is Palestinian which is subjugated it's

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it's being uh suppressed and controlled and killed by the regime so if Iran harms

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Israel in a significant way it will have huge implications for it being able to manage

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itself and uh especially since the people in the surrounding countries are very hostile to the regime even in

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Jordan people hate Israel it's only the King of Jordan that is an ally of the

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regime and it's because the Americans have kept him in power but if uh the

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regime is weakened if people see the regime as being weak

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then that will encourage them to uh rise up and to resist uh against the regime

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so I don't think an exchange with Iran would be to the benefit of Israel I think it would be detrimental to Israel

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and then of course when Iran responds Israel will strike again and Iran will strike again even harsher because Iran

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has a very large missile underground missile AR Aral and drone Arsenal which

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uh as I said was created for a war with the United States not with a small regime like

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Israel so Israel cannot come out on top the only reason why I can uh justify

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let's say in the eyes of Netanyahu this escalation is that Netanyahu wants us

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somehow draw the Americans into the war and by creating devastation and by

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bringing about Devastation in Israel uh he would be able to convince the Americans to enter the war but I think

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that would be devastating for the United States uh it would be devastating for

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the world because the resistance in Iraq has already promised to remov the American presence from Iraq

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completely and uh to strike oil and gas Assets in the Persian Gulf that was a

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statement we saw last night in fact again and uh the Iranians too if they

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see the if the Americans get involved with in a conflict with Iran the Iranians have said they'll Destroy All American bases in the Persian Gulf

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region and those regimes that host those bases will have to uh uh pay the price

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and that will be the destruction of their infrastructure which means the destruction of their oil and gas assets

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and that would lead to a global economic catastrophe uh very different from what

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we've seen before and probably significantly worse than 1929 so that's not something that the Americans would

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want

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create I think the

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IR a balance of Terror with the United

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States by this deter everyone would lose in such a war so I

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think uh probably a lot of same people in Washington won't want to have a direct

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confrontation with Iran in the United States between them Iran and the United

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States yeah it seems that we we have some sort of issue with the connection with the internet connection but can you

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hear me right now let's see if we can so the

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problem yeah can you hear me sorry did you hear anything that I said or was I

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did I get CAU a long time the last moment that yeah it was the just the last 30

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seconds that was not that clear to understand but we we got your what

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you've been talking about and right now Professor the same

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attitude that we've been witnessing in Gaza they were talking about alifa Hospital tunnels then Hamas is there

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they attack they attack all these hospitals schools and everything they destroyed everything in Gaza and right

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now they're talking the same way way in Lebanon it seems that they they they're

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talking about Hezbollah stronghold Hezbollah everything related to

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Hezbollah and they're attacking hospitals buildings and civilians how

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how in your opinion are we going to have the same type of strategy on their part

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and and we cannot hear no and we can hear nothing from the world just condemning what Israel is doing right

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now in Lebanon which would be the same outcome as we saw in

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Gaza yes you're absolutely correct I I think that when uh Netanyahu began the

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genocide in Gaza and he spoke of the Palestinians as amalec uh a Biblical a

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Biblical illusion to the amalik tribe that was completely wiped out including

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all their animals and children uh he was not just alluding to the people of Gaza he was speaking about

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not just the people of Palestine but I think he it was very clear that he was speaking about everyone uh in this

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region we are all amalik in the eyes of uh the Zionism and this ethnos

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supremacist regime uh sees everyone around it as

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inferior and of course everyone outside of their

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ideology and this is nothing nothing really new if you it may sound very

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outrageous although it is outrageous but it may sound something like something unique but that is how the British

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Empire the French Empire and Western Empires behaved for centuries they

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considered themselves to be superior they they were EUR uh

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eurocentric or American exceptionalism itself is the same is the same thing uh

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therefore native populations were always seen as uncivilized backward unable to go govern

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themselves uh dangerous uh and and of course childlike

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immature in general and so this is an extension in in many ways of of what

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we've been seeing for centuries and in fact what the Israeli regime is doing by

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carrying out this genocide both in Gaza and these genocidal attacks in uh Syria

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and Lebanon is uh is I think uh re

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Reviving history in the eyes of people across the global South across the global South when the people watch the

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genocide taking place they see their own history they see their own history being

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played out in front of their eyes because they see how they've read about how in their country or their land or on

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their in their part of the world the Western Empire brutalized the population massacred the population subjugated the

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population Enslaved the population and now they're seeing it happen uh in front of them literally as

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at is as it is taking place and that not only has not only has that destroy the

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Israeli regime's image across the world and de legitimized it in the eyes of

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almost everyone uh it uh it is also destroyed the image of the West it has

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destroyed the uh the the the the West

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soft power capabilities The Mask has been removed people see the West for

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what it is it doesn't care about human rights it doesn't care about uh women's

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rights it doesn't care about uh freedom of speech we see how people waving a

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child waving a Palestinian flag is arrested in Germany how uh a person who

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speaks is arrested in in the UK another one who who's standing in the streets uh

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protesting is arrested in France people are brutalized and beaten across Western

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countries people are seeing this now across the global South so South so the West the entire West is paying pay a

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price for what their uh their their Zionist allies are doing in Palestine

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and I have no doubt that the Western political establishment will continue to support the Israeli regime and so will

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their media whether it's uh State media like the BBC or whether it's uh media

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Legacy Media that's owned by billionaires CNN Fox News it doesn't matter or the guardian or the Washington

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Post doesn't matter if they're liberal or right conservative they're they're

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all going to back the Israeli regime until the last palestinia until the last

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Lebanese child is killed this narrative will continue they will continue to try

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to justify the atrocities they'll continue to try to blame the victim

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because this is what they've been doing for centuries this is how EMP that's this is how Empire has always Justified

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itself this is how the French Justified the occupation of Algeria and during The

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Liberation movement in in Algeria some say up to two million people were slaughtered by the French uh but

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ultimately they gained their independence if you look at Iran in 1953

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when the Americans carried out the coup and they overthrew uh Dr Muhammad madik

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if you look at uh the New York Times and other mainstream media in the United States they were all hostile to Muhammad

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Massad they called him a zealot an extremist a a a h a Madman a you know

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and they Justified the coup and now now

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that he's gone and he's been dead for many decades they praise him because

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he's no longer a threat but now they press they they use the same language

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against the Islamic Republic of Iran that they're zealots that they're dangerous that they're Madmen that

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they're crazy that they're impressive why because they're standing up against the Western

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Empire but as I was saying earlier on the world has changed uh people are now

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seeing the world through social media even though it's controlled by the west

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and we are all being censored I've been removed from Instagram I've been removed from Facebook uh all I have left is a is

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a Twitter account which is probably shadowbanned in some way or form but uh

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people are seeing things very differently now they they see and the West is on the decline its capabilities

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are declining so in the past it it this had more effect now it has much less

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effect so while the West will continue to support Israel and they will continue

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to provide the weapons to slaughter and to kill and the Western media will try to justify what's going on and say that

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these are Hezbollah strongholds as you pointed out or these these are Hamas strongholds you know ordinary cities

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like the city you are in the city I am in where people live when it comes to Israel's adversaries they'll call them

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strongholds to legitimize strikes against civilian targets or hezb sites

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or alleged heah sites and that sort of language but I don't think it's going to

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work this time the the region is is in uproar

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those the the Americans speak about their Arab allies

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their Arab allies are in serious trouble because people are getting increasingly

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outraged by what's going on in in Palestine and what the Israelis have

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actually done is that they've strengthened Unity among uh the Shia and

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the sunnis for decades the the west and Israel have been trying to divide the

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region through race through sectarianism they used wahhabis in particular

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alongside Saudi Arabia to create massive divisions during the Syrian dirty war

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they were Prof they were particularly Prof um um effective in using

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sectarianism these oil Rich dictatorships were doing it the West was doing it they were you know they were

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supporting Isis in al-Qaeda and J Islam and some many people in the region were

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fooled by by their narratives and they supported the dirty war in Syria I think

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what they've done now in Lebanon in in in Gaza and against Syria has shown most

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people across the region and beyond that uh these divisions are meaningless and

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that the West is has been manipulating them I've just returned from Turkey I

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was at a major conference on uh the iversary of October the 7th and the mood

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has changed completely uh between uh the different groups and the different

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people are now much more united than before people who before were criticizing heah and Iran are now

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praising Iran in Hezbollah Hamas and Islamic Jihad have become increasingly

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popular hisbah has become extremely popular so while they are murdering people while they're slaughtering people

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but what uh it on the other hand what they're doing inadvertently is that they're uniting everyone against them so

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they're not so for the first few months they've been creating this anger and

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outrage and now they're also causing because Hezbollah and uh and ansar in

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Yemen and Iran and the Iraqis and Syria have been the only one supporting the

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Palestinians they are bringing the Sunni population in the region and the Shia

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population and others all together into one front so uh the Israelis may call

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that a victory the West may say the Israeli regime is winning but in my opinion uh they have destroyed over four

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Decades of hard work to create hatred and animosity and mistrust across people

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uh among people uh across the region and you talk about turkey and we

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know that erdogan was talking about that Israel is a Zionist terrorist

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organization recently do you think this type of rhetoric on his part do you

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think that is the public opinion that is putting pressure on him to talk this way

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or he's changing his mind at the end of the day I think public opinion is putting a

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lot of pressure on him one thing that I noticed in Turkey is that uh people are not happy with him and his policies on

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Palestine and uh the same people who in the past some my own friends were

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criticizing Iran and Hezbollah over Syria now they recognize what the truth

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was in Syria and the destructive role that uh president ardogan played in

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Syria and now they see that you know he was willing to back then support these

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groups Isis and alq and he still does support alq INB but he hasn't done

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anything for the Palestinians or for Gaza or for Lebanon and uh he still

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allows oil to flow cheap oil to flow from Baku to um to the Israeli regime

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and he allows Turkish trade to go to Israel

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indirectly and business business to continue so um people are are upset even

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those who have always supported him uh at least those who I know they are not happy and they say

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that that is the same true across the board and the same is true elsewhere and and among others but this is that's just

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you know one example imagine how it is in Jordan how imagine how it is in Egypt

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how imagine how it is in Saudi Arabia and and in these small countries in the

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in the Persian Gulf and and elsewhere this rage is building and so what these

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governments and these regimes are doing is that they are de alongside the delegitimization of Israel they're

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delegitimizing their own position by remaining neutral

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or effectively supporting the Israeli regime I don't think this is sustainable especially because it's become clear

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that the Israelis cannot win they will not be able to open the Red Sea the Americans have tried for a year

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and they failed against Yemen Hezbollah we've seen since the

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battles began On the Border that they've uh cause huge damage to the Israelis and

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the Israelis have failed to make any meaningful progress in Lebanon uh and uh

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we were predicting this earlier on when when they assassinated s Hassan nasah uh I I said to many people on

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different shows that I think heah will become stronger because s Hassan will become more popular Hezbollah will

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become more popular and we s we see that today and Hezbollah as a force it has

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been untouched true they've murdered people assassinated people in Beirut but

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Beirut has always as I said before been the weakest link for Hezbollah that's where all the Western intelligence

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agencies embassies NOS journalists uh and others have always

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been active even even before hisbah was created but across the country have

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thousands of kilometers of underground facilities and tunnels and those are

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untouched and now we're seeing how they are uh inflicting great pain to the

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Israelis and and S simultaneously the Israelis have failed to quell uh the

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resistance in the west bank and to take Gaza so this the longer this lasts the

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more difficult it is going to be for Netanyahu and that is why netan yahu

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wants to escalate with Iran and bring Iran in but by doing that uh we don't

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know a if the Americans are willing to do the crazy thing and enter the war and

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be and devastate the global economy and B it is only going to U destabilize the

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region further if Iran if the United States attacks Iran and uh Iran strikes

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the infrastructure of those countries those regimes that host us bases those regimes will fall and so

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will all the regimes in the region it will you know not only will tens of millions of people be on the move but

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also those regimes will change then what will you know how will

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that affect Israelis who have surrounded them with pro-american uh dictatorships

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if those regimes are Swept Away what what happens to uh the security of

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Israel Israel's borders so the longer this goes on the worse it becomes for

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Israel this is indeed as the Chinese say Death By A Thousand Cuts so they can keep massacring and pretend and every

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now and then kill a heah officer or Hamas um Commander but it's not going to

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change anything yeah if you look at this photo

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here it's a Israeli finance minister with a map at a podium you look at this

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map if you may wonder what does it mean it means Palestine Jordan it goes to

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Saudi Arabia to Syria do you think when these Arab

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states look at this map does it concern them because at the end of the day it's

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so dangerous the concept of Greater Israel and they have to think for a to

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find a permanent solution for the conflict in Gaza but it doesn't seem that they're getting to that level of

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seriousness when it comes to Israel and its

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Behavior well I think these Arab regimes what they've done their Elite is that

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they're taking as much money as they can and uh

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probably uh when the time comes they'll be the first to leave the country and

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they'll reside in the United States so I don't think they are um they are going

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to do anything about this they will continue to the current regimes will continue to close their eyes to reality

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for as long as they can keep keep their eyes closed however what this shows to the people of

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the region is that the Israeli regime is a colony that wants to continue to expand and they are expanding as we

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speak they are taking more land in in alz or Jerusalem they are taking more

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land in the West Bank uh this has nothing to do with Gaza but there the land grab continues and it has increased

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in in Pace over the last few years so they have Ambitions over Lebanon and

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they only by by exposing themselves like this they only legitimize hezbollah's actions even more because Hezbollah not

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only does it is it showing its moral response that it's that it's uh morally

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bound to protecting the Palestinian people but it's also showing that the

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people in the across the world that heah is

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also defending itself because has to be strong in order to protect lebanes

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territory we know that the United States will never allow and the West will never allow Lebanon to be strong Lebanon has

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no Air Force Lebanon has no anti-aircraft uh defense capability why

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because it's not allowed this the United States simply will not allow it to happen neither will

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Europe why because they want to make sure that the Israeli regime can bomb and attack and invade Lebanon where

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whenever it wants the same is true with Jordan the same is true with Syria the whole dirty war in Syria against Syria

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was to to overthrow the government so that Israel will no longer feel that it's threatened by any a

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powerful neighbor or an alliance of uh neighbors that are a part of the axis of

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resistance so again I think that this shows the stupidity of um the Israeli

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regime that this this this these these uh

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these Maps these statements uh show that the Israel is contrary to what the

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Americans have always been saying in the European contr contrary to what the Europeans have always been saying that the

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Israelis know the region well Israelis don't know the region well because if they did if if they were smart they

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wouldn't be continuing this genocidal War they wouldn't allow their ministers

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to be making the these statements and to printing to to print these Maps they

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this this war would have if they were smart if the Israeli regime was smart if

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it was genocidal and smart uh they would have bombed Gaza for a month after

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October the 7th and they would have gone on with the lies about beheadings and rapes and all that and the Western media

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of course would have gone with that and then they would have ended the war and said okay we punish Hamas and uh it's

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over those lies about rapes and beheadings would have remained intact uh they could have scored a let's

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say political victory in the eyes of with the help of Western media and Western propaganda but

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they went on and on and on with this genocide and now everything is coming

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out people are learning more and more about Zionism about Israel about the history about the Ambitions of this

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colony and so again I think uh the Israelis are themselves helping to bring

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Netanyahu I think is the is the greatest enemy of the Israeli regime because I think he is the one despite all the

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genocide he is the one who is going to ultimately cause the regime to collapse

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it may not collapse in six months or a year but I think we are in the dying period of Zionism in our part of the

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world can the president of Iran pesan together with erdogan bring some sort of

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Coalition be among the Islamic the Arab states and Iran together with turkey is

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that possible in your opinion with the new government in Iran with erdogan the way that he's talking about the conflict

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in Gaza we know the behavior of Arab states how they're talking the talk

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they're not doing anything I am uh very pessimistic about

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uh erdogan I don't think that he or any of the Arab regimes in the region have

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any intention of doing anything against Israel they've already had the opportunity many

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times uh just recently arogan said if Israel attacks Lebanon we will have to

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go to their support but they haven't he hasn't done anything I I I don't take take anything that he says seriously

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but the uh the populations across the region as I said earlier they're their

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mood has changed and in the case of turkey it's it's more complic at because

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it is a uh somewhat democratic system and erogan has a democratic legitimacy

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moral legitimacy is another issue but uh de he has a a democratic

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legitimacy but uh in the other countries in the region they don't have that uh

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popular legitimacy let's call it uh they they don't you know whether they're

38:23

Democratic or not is is I mean I don't believe there any democracy exists in the world today this is just an an empty

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word I don't believe the United States or Europeans were Democratic but that's another discussion but uh the the Arab countries

38:38

in the region I don't think they have popular legitimacy and therefore uh the

38:43

biggest question for me is that will they remain stable because uh the longer the world

38:50

war lasts the more destabilizing it will be for the region as a whole and I I

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gave this example before I think uh going back to Tunisia uh when uh be when

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the before the Arab Spring everything seemed quiet across the world across the Arab world but then one young man burned

39:10

himself alive because of a uh a a local

39:18

Injustice that was done to him it brought down the Tunisian regime and then it brought down the most important

39:24

country uh in the Arab world the the regime uh in the most important country in theab world and that's Egypt so uh today

39:32

the situation is much more dangerous the West is much more vulnerable it's much weaker than it was uh a decade and a

39:40

half ago because of Ukraine because of uh the you know the the wars that they

39:47

uh carried on in Afghanistan and and elsewhere after those years so the

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United States today is much weaker and it doesn't have the sort of power to control

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as it did before and the outrage and anger across the Arab world is much greater I cannot make predictions but I

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think that Israel is is in a very dangerous situation and as it as things

40:12

stand the Israelis obviously are not going to win a war if they strike Iran Iran will strike back if they strike

40:18

Iran again Iran will strike back harder every time the Israeli strike Iran will strike them back harder Iran is much

40:24

larger Israel is much smaller and if the Americans enter as I said it would

40:29

create a global economic uh catastrophe if they don't enter Then the Netanyahu

40:34

is in a dead end again and I think as Israel gets hit every time it's only

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going to show it as being weaker and that is only going to encourage resistance against Israel whether it's

40:48

among the axis of resistance or whether it's among people in countries in the

40:53

region that are Allied to the West they they will encourage them to move against Israel and that I think will mean uh

41:01

that the regimes will be increasingly in trouble as you mentioned in Gaza they

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couldn't defeat Hamas right now in with Hezbollah they're talking about they want to send their people to the

41:13

northern part of Israel that's why they're going on the ground in Lebanon

41:19

to make a some sort of buffer zone just pushing Hezbollah to the lon River but

41:25

we know the capabilities of Hezbollah and they're capable of attacking each and every point in Israel and does it

41:32

make sense in your opinion the way that they're thinking in their

41:39

mind no the Israelis already invaded Lebanon before

41:45

and in 1982 they invaded the country and cap and reached Beirut in 4 five days which

41:53

I think this itself is is very revealing that now after more than two

41:59

weeks of heavy fighting they have been unable to uh get anywhere in southern

42:05

Lebanon whereas in 1982 they took the southern half of the country in in five

42:11

days in four days or five days and back then though Hezbollah

42:17

didn't exist and it was as a result of that occupation that Hezbollah was created and Hezbollah as a small

42:23

fighting force gradually grew and expelled Israeli regime from Lebanon and

42:29

that was an Israeli regime that was much stronger than it is today and the west

42:35

back then was much stronger than it is today so uh already we're seeing the

42:43

Israelis fail on the border if this continues for weeks and months it's

42:48

going only going to weaken the regime whereas they still have to confront the Palestinians in

42:55

Gaza and the West Bank it's going to further delegitimize them and the west

43:01

across the world and all of this is happening happening simultaneously as Russia is advancing in

43:06

Ukraine so the West is constantly throwing every thing they

43:12

have yeah you're back okay I hope I'm back permanently

43:18

this time yeah yeah hope so and let's go with the w with that with the answer

43:25

that that you've been given us in order to their end game in Lebanon as they

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were talking because we were talking about they want to make a buffer zone in the southern part of Lebanon while we

43:39

know the capabilities of Hezbollah and you were to answer that question which

43:45

you you can give us the answer right yes I I what I just wanted to add

43:53

was that Hezbollah today is much stronger than it was between 1982 and

43:58

the year 2000 when they finally forced the Israeli regime to withdraw and hezbollah's capabilities across Southern

44:05

Lebanon are enormous and extensive and they're all underground and and the Israeli regime

44:11

has no idea where where they are uh once they Advance the deeper they go into

44:16

Lebanon the more vulnerable they become right now they're stuck at the border if they gradually move in 10 kilometers

44:24

then let's say or 15 kilometers they will be hit from all sides and heah is not Hamas heah is not Islamic Jihad so

44:31

the Israel regime cannot sustain this and I think as I was saying earlier I

44:36

don't I think Netanyahu knows this I don't believe that Netanyahu thinks he

44:42

can win I don't think Netanyahu believes that he can take a buffer zone in

44:47

Lebanon and keep it all his objective is to keep the war going to stay in power

44:54

and in order to keep the war going he has to expand the war gradually when it

44:59

doesn't make any real progress so ultimately uh he will have to go after

45:06

Iran and I think that even there he knows that he cannot win being a much

45:13

smaller regime his only hope is to bring in the Americans this is all about bringing in the Americans and I think

45:19

that's why I'm I personally think that the Americans will have to remove Netanyahu either through some sort of

45:27

political coup or through one of those Trump assassinations or something like

45:32

that he is going to have to uh maybe fall asleep at night and not wake up in the morning uh otherwise uh this is

45:39

going to just get worse for the Israeli regime carrying out genocide is not

45:45

Victory uh killing a few leaders is not Victory you can kill 10 Iranian generals

45:52

you can can murder a president a speaker of parliament you can murder the leader

45:58

it's not going to change anything because uh contrary to How the West

46:04

views the world or our part of the world the axis of resistance is not dependent on individuals it is a sophist these are

46:12

sophisticated countries and sophisticated organizations full of Highly Educated

46:19

people highly motivated people and they will continue to function and we saw

46:24

that in Lebanon they they said they they decapitated heah they murdered a few

46:30

commanders and the leader then what right now if then it

46:36

should be uh they should have an easy victory over asbah in the sou

46:43

that's not happening again I would

46:49

always call on your viewers to compare 1982 to look at it I I I never advise

46:56

people to use Wikipedia But to compare 1982 in WK in through let's say

47:03

Wikipedia or some other Short History uh read some of the short history of the 1982 Invasion and compare it to the last

47:09

couple of weeks since the in since the entrance of uh since the Israelis trying

47:16

to enter Lebanon and and see the enormous difference that exists between the two despite the fact that said

47:23

Hassan nasah was martyred despite the fact that a number of commanders and

47:29

officials were were M assassinated and and murdered by the Israeli regime the

47:35

difference between 198 1982 and now is extraordinary and therefore again U I

47:42

think it's all this is all uh Falls within that framework of death by

47:49

Thousand Cuts the Israeli regime is tiring itself out it's delegitimizing

47:54

itself further on in global public opinion and including in Western public opinion it is no one is ever going to

48:02

invest in this regime again no one is ever going to bring in large amounts of

48:08

capital uh to Israel many people will start leaving uh Israel many of the

48:14

elites many of the smart when educated people will leave and people across the

48:19

region will be emboldened because this is they're seeing how vulnerable the

48:24

regime is contrary to the image that created for itself in the past that it was somehow inv invincible and uh that

48:33

it could overpower any uh force uh standing against it the the the 200 or

48:40

so missiles that the Iranians fired that Israel sha also shattered its image they

48:46

all got through this Iron Dome and all the elaborate defense mechanisms not

48:52

just is but the the American system because the American uh system is more much more advanced and much more

48:58

elaborate than the Israeli system it got through all of them and yeah sorry Nema

49:04

I think in future we'll have to use a a different application for sure for sure

49:09

yeah I totally understand that and Professor Mandi do you think right now

49:17

we had the foreign minister of Iran talking with the Crown Prince of Saudi

49:22

Arabia recently and what do we know about the talks that they have been doing during

49:29

this meeting well Iran and Saudi Arabia and

49:37

sorry because I couldn't hear you well Iran and Saudi Arabia uh have been uh

49:43

removing many of the obstacles in their relationship but I also think that what I was saying earlier is relevant here as

49:49

well the weaker the Israeli regime looks the more vulnerable it

49:55

looks the un L uh the countries of the region put their faith in the

50:01

west uh when the Americans in the west despite all their efforts are unable to

50:06

prop up the Israeli regime and the regime is increasingly despised and it

50:11

is unable to achieve victories in the region then I think countries like Saudi

50:17

Arabia and others become more worried about their position in the region and

50:24

they become more worried about their over Reliance on the west so the longer

50:30

the war lasts even though many of these regimes are bound to the West they become more concerned and they try and

50:37

they and they try to start finding ways to protect themselves so uh long again

50:46

the longer the war lasts I think uh the weaker the West looks the weaker Israel

50:51

looks and uh that makes normalization with

50:57

the Israeli regime look less appealing it makes those countries that normalize with the Israeli regime look more

51:03

foolish and it makes the need to improve ties with Iran or Russia or China or non

51:12

other nonwestern countries more appealing yeah and right now we know

51:18

that President pesan going to talk with pun for the first time and how do you

51:26

see see the current policies of the new government in Iran because when he came

51:31

into Power many people were doubtful about what he's goingon to do is he

51:37

gonna go toward breaks is he is he going to change the policies in Iran in terms

51:44

of the foreign policy of Iran what can we say right now about his posture his

51:49

way of

51:55

thinking um I understood correctly if president

52:00

if you're asking whether president pesan will shift for Iranian foreign policy or

52:06

if he has an incentive to do soly yeah I think the actions of the United

52:14

States and Israel and Europe have actually done uh destroyed that uh attempt if there ever

52:21

was one because president pesan as soon as as during his

52:29

inauguration one of his guests was assassinated by the Israeli regime while

52:34

he was in an Iranian guest house and not only did Western countries not condemn

52:40

the assassination they supported it at the UN Security Council not only did they not condemn the Israeli regime they

52:47

supported the Israeli regime so those people who were hoping for some sort of

52:52

RMA with the west and we all want normalization with the West but those who were perhaps a bit more optimistic

53:00

for some sort of rosma they were slapped in the face by the Europeans and the Americans and then of course the

53:07

genocide itself the ongoing genocide the expansion of the genocide the claim that

53:12

the West was trying to bring about a ceasefire which turned out to be a lie

53:17

the president said that uh we waited for a ceasefire and that's why we held off

53:23

our strike against Israel but there was no ceasefire it was it was never a

53:29

serious there were never any real serious negotiation so when the West is

53:35

lies about a ceasefire how can Iran trust the West at the negotiating table

53:41

when the West supports the assassination of official Iranian guests how can Iran

53:48

uh move towards RMA so uh I think it uh

53:53

it actually uh not only uh diminishes any hope for rosma but I

54:00

think it also greater it justifies the Iranian government position to take a

54:06

hard stance against the West because the Iranian government has shown the public that we tried but these people are not

54:13

reasonable these people uh they will support bombing our embassies they'll

54:18

support bombing uh killing our uh guests they will they lied about a ceasefire so

54:27

when President pesan speaks about raposo and the West slaps him in the face then

54:34

that only strengthens his hand his hand when he tells people I tried but it was

54:39

useless and therefore we have to be steadfast against the west and it only

54:45

strengthens uh his position when he strengthens ties with Russia and China because people say well we tried he

54:52

tried with the west and the West did the same thing that they did to the previous president Dr a and that was nothing so today he

55:01

will have talks with President Putin in or or he's having talks with President

55:06

Putin in Turkmenistan and I think that the the behavior of the West will only

55:11

uh help push forward the relationship between Russia and Iran further and I

55:17

think in the upcoming talks in in Kazan uh between the bricks heads of state

55:24

that will also what we're seeing in Palestine and the behavior that the Europeans in the west and the United

55:30

States have shown towards Iran will also help president pesan to uh or encourage

55:36

president pesan and justify president pesan when he enhan his relations with

55:42

uh bricks member States including China and Russia among others just to wrap up this

55:50

session do you think that for Iran does it matter who's going to win in 2024

55:56

presidential election we know that how they're trying to manipulate everything they're trying to say that Iran is

56:02

behind the assassination of Donald the attempt these attempts that they want to assassinate Donald Trump but at the end

56:08

of the day when you look at the way that Iran is is thinking of the domestic and

56:14

foreign policy of the United stat does it matter who's going to be in power in the United

56:20

States no no not at all uh after what Biden

56:26

and uh Harris effectively have done and said over Gaza and Lebanon and Syria and

56:35

Yemen uh I think it's become clear to everyone that uh Trump is no different

56:42

talk Trump May bark louder but when uh after Trump murdered General Suman who

56:49

led the fight against Isis and Al-Qaeda uh after he he threatened Iran

56:54

if Iran struck back and Iran destroyed the US al-assad Airbase uh in Iraq and

57:02

uh Iran destroyed us facilities there and Trump did not respond and I think

57:07

that showed that Trump uh knew that uh the Iranians were dead serious I don't think that there would be any major

57:14

difference between uh Trump and Harris uh both support the genocide Trump would

57:21

probably be worse for the United States because he would uh in in certain respects because uh many countries uh

57:31

across the world many governments don't like him including the Europeans uh and

57:36

he is a very divisive figure inside the United States uh so there could be more

57:42

internal difficulties for the United States and difficulties with allies I don't think Trump will be able to bring

57:49

about an end to the uh to the war in Ukraine either because um the Russians

57:55

have uh made too many too many sacrifices for them to give the Trump any serious

58:02

concessions and if Trump gives Russia what it demands then he will be seen as

58:08

humiliated and weak so uh I don't see any real difference in between the

58:16

between the two and probably Trump will be worse for the United States than

58:23

Harris although both of them are uh are are pretty awful

58:30

anyway thank you so much for being with us today and great pleasure as always talking

58:37

with you

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Prof. Marandi says each time Israel strikes Iran, Iran will strike back harder and more intensely and each time Israel strikes back at Iran, Iran will strike back hader and harder each time, until if and when the U.S. intervenes, which would create an instant global economic disaster due to the US-Israeli destruction of Iranian oil facilities.

Prof. Marandi further indicates that if the U.S. strikes Iran, Iran will destroy nearby U.S. bases in Iraq with massive missile strikes and target nearby U.S. puppet regimes ruling millions of unruly Arabs, who are ready to revolt against their country’s western-led puppet dictators.

Prof. Marandi further indicates that a U.S. attack on Iran could trigger a new Arab uprising to topple U.S. puppet dictators in Jordan and other places, once Iran destroys U.S. puppet regimes and their military stranglehold on the people..