So far in this war, Iranian officials love coming onto American media networks and talking about how this war is unjustified and illegal.

I’m guessing they’re about to stop doing that because just recently a spokesperson for Iranian foreign ministry was confronted about the massacre that the Iranian government carried out back in January and he had no answer for it.

Take a listen.

When leading human rights groups like Amnesty International accuse your government of quote massacring protesters, when they say they have reviewed, and I’m quoting here, verified videos and eyewitness accounts of quote security forces positioned on the streets and on the rooftops of buildings, including houses, mosques, and police stations repeatedly firing quote rifles and shotguns loaded with metal pellets at protesters, frequently targeting their heads and torsos.

When amnesty no friend of the US or Israeli governments when amnesty says that Dr.

Why should we believe your government and not amnesty? >> Why should believe amnesty and and non not >> but they’ve documented the evidence.

You saying you don’t even have the numbers.

They’ve provided evidence, verified videos and eyewitness accounts.

>> Yeah.

Yeah.

You you can simply you can simply see many of those so-called evidence and videos being provided to them by Israel and and and United States sources.

Look, >> it’s not they haven’t been provided by Israel.

Israel in fact criticizes Amnesty the same way you do.

I’ve interviewed Israeli officials and they accuse Amnesty of fake evidence.

You sound, I’m sorry to say, like an Israeli official denying what happened in Gaza.

These are these are eyewitness accounts, doctor’s accounts.

>> You compare Iran’s peaceful traits to Gaza? Come on.

>> No, I’m comparing your response, denying a human rights group.

I’m not quoting the US or Israeli governments.

I agree with you.

The US and Israeli governments are not reliable when it comes to Iran.

I’m quoting an independent human rights group.

I’m I’m not sure they are independent otherwise they they would have they would have come and tell the stories of many innocent Iranians that have been killed during the past uh 27 days.

They didn’t.

Okay.

So what I’m saying that uh in all honesty I said the government the president office published the names of those who were killed during this protest and we were transparent to say that they were killed by whom? We said that 2,400 of them were regarded as martyrs because they were killed either by the gunmen.

They were either uh the police officers or the innocent bystanders.

Many of and and you can say that yes 600 of them were either the infiltrators or those gunmen.

>> But what about what about the eyewitness accounts of people being brought into hospitals, heads and faces shot full of pellets by Iranian security forces? Human Rights Watch have doc documented that.

Amnesty International have documented that.

Multiple media outlets.

You’re saying all these eyewitnesses are lying.

It’s all fake.

I >> I’m not saying all of them are lies.

I have to see them.

And I’m sure that our authorities are taking care of every report that has been produced implicating our security forces.

In fact, we actually know from independent human rights groups that security forces were going into hospitals telling doctors to not treat patients who come in wounded and rather report them to the security officials.

This is also
something that was confirmed by one of the doctors who was given this order in Thran.

Now, for me, it’s not the shocking part that the Iranian official just could not produce an answer that was satisfactory for the situation because what is he going to say? He’s never going to admit that the regime would rather kill 10,000 Iranians than lose power.

But what’s shocking is that Iranian officials have been doing this ever since negotiation started back in February when US started negotiating with Iran over a new nuclear deal and not a single news network who are you know major TV news networks actually asked questions that were about the massacre.

Nonetheless, at least we are getting those questions now.

We actually have another clip about the Iranian dictatorship.

How the Islamic regime has now turned into a monarchy, not even a dictatorship, where the rule is being passed around in the family.

And this is something the Islamic regime’s founder, Ayatollah Homony, opposed deeply.

He wrote extensively about how Islamic Republic cannot become a dictatorship because that’s the exact thing the revolution, the Islamic Revolution was overthrowing.

Well, again, not really a straight answer.

Take a listen.

I do apologize for video cutting out.

That’s not going to be a mistake on our part.

That’s how the original interview was.

And I’m guessing that’s because Thrron is still shutting down the internet.

So, anyone who’s trying to get around these restrictions, like Iranian officials, are still facing some challenges because of the Iranian shutdown.

Now, it would be nice if that question came up too, but unfortunately it didn’t.

I’ll show you a different clip where it does come up, but for now, take a listen to this clip.

You had massive protests in Iran back in January demanding a change of government and for many an end to the Islamic Republic’s theocratic model of government in particular.

Why does your government refuse to listen to the demands of the people? Why replace one unelected supreme leader who ruled for 40 years, nearly 40 years, with another unelected supreme leader who the Iranian people didn’t choose, had no say over.

How is your country not a dictatorship? >> This is not this is not true again.

He is not an unelected leader.

He was elected by the experts and assembly of experts are being elected by polls by the people and these assembly of experts.

Now this is where I guess a lie is a lot better than the last time because the regime is set up in a way where it looks like it’s democratic.

Iranian people do select or elect the assembly of expert which is a group of 88 clerics that run for election just like any other politician here in the United States.

But here’s the interesting part.

The supreme leader has complete say over who can run for election and who cannot.

So even though people can vote for assembly of expert in reality it’s not really democratic because supreme leader just outlaws or bans anyone who’s against him from running.

He only lets people run who are trustworthy.

And that way the Islamic regime is being ruled by the same group, the same powerholding group that have been running it since 1979.

And this small group has been ruling for so long that they truly believe now that they represent the Iranian people even though vast majority of the Iranians don’t want them ruling the country.

We saw that in the January protest, but the leaders who are actually ruling just refused to believe it.

In fact, just two weeks ago, we had the Iranian foreign minister asked this exact question on a TV interview.

Okay? He was asked like, “Hey, you guys have internet.

You get on these interviews and spread your propaganda all over the world.

” But the Iranian people actually don’t have the internet.

They don’t have access to internet.

It’s been more than a month since the internet has been shut down.

What is all that about? Just listen to his answer.

>> I just do want to point out, you’re speaking to us via Zoom.

The Iranian people don’t have open internet access, but you do.

>> Why? >> Well, I’m the because I’m the voice of Iranians and I have to defend uh their right.

So, this is why uh I have access to to internet to to just uh uh you know have have our voice being heard by the international community.

uh but internet is closed because of the security reasons because we are under under attack.

We are under aggression and we have to do everything to protect our people.

Now as you guys can guess Gulf states don’t agree with Iranian way of looking at things.

At the beginning of this war a lot of Gulf states were completely against it.

They even banned the United States from using the bases that were in their country and denied access to Gulf airspace too.

But despite that, Iran continued hitting against these countries who were not involved in this war.

And on top of that, Iran wasn’t just going after US bases in these countries.

They started going after civilian infrastructure like malls, ports, airports, and hotels.

And if you want another example of Iran not really sticking by its logic, Iran is also attacking Oman, a country that doesn’t have any US bases, but Iran is still going after its ports and its oil tankers.

The reason for this is simple.

Iranian goal is not to inflict pain on countries that are supporting the United States.

The goal is to inflict pain on everyone.

Make sure the world suffers.

That way there’s more pressure on the United States to stop this war.

That’s exactly why they’re attacking tankers in the straight of Hermoose.

No tanker is actually helping United States carry out these attacks.

But they still want to attack it because they want to make sure the economic pain around the world grows.

But unfortunately for Iranian officials, that plan is backfiring because these Gulf states are not buckling down under pressure.

Rather, they are realizing the type of threat Iran presents to the region and type of threat Iran is for regional security.

And that’s why instead of putting pressure on the United States to end the war, they’re putting pressure on the US to not end the war.

Countries like Saudi, UAE, and Kuwait are putting pressure on the United States, lobbying the government to make sure that there’s no ceasefire until the Iranian capabilities are taken care of.

Now, I’m sure you guys understand what it means when they say taken care of.

They want to make sure that Iran’s full range of threats, including nuclear capabilities, missiles, drones, and even terrorist proxies, are no longer a problem for regional countries after this war.

They believe that a ceasefire that doesn’t address all these issues doesn’t mean there’s going to be peace in the region.

It just means there’s a delay until the next crisis.