WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.880 We've seen crowds chanting Death to America and death to Israel, as well as waving signs with threats against Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. 2 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:13.240 Do you endorse those chants and signs or do you condemn them? 3 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:15.280 Uh, death to America and Iran. 4 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:19.480 And I may have said this on your show before, is shouldn't it be taken literally? 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:21.920 It's like saying yanqui go home. 6 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.120 Doesn't mean that anyone who carries a U.S. passport should leave the country. 7 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:34.720 When they say death to America, they mean death to the U.S. empire, and they mean death to this oppressive regime which slaughters our children. 8 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:49.480 So I think it's understandable if what the United States had done to Iran was carried out by Iran against the United States, slaughtering the leaders and slaughtering people and school children, I think the United States would have done more than chant death to Iran. 9 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:52.080 They would have probably used a nuclear weapon. 10 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:57.720 So, uh, I think words shouldn't hurt the American government so much. 11 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:05.180 When you see all the dead children in Gaza and in Lebanon and the massacres and the genocide and dead children in Iran. 12 00:01:05.459 --> 00:01:22.100 I think it becomes understandable when people say death to America, just like, um, I mean, in your case, you invited this woman on your show who said, when they're finished with me, she said, with me, uh, the biggest part of my body will be my little finger. 13 00:01:22.380 --> 00:01:25.900 And you invited her on multiple times afterwards. 14 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:27.740 So I guess you don't have a problem with that. 15 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:30.460 I have a problem with anyone making threats against anyone. 16 00:01:30.620 --> 00:01:35.060 Well, if I, if I if it was my show, I wouldn't have invited such a person again. 17 00:01:35.100 --> 00:01:36.380 Well, people say that. 18 00:01:36.420 --> 00:01:37.540 People say that. 19 00:01:37.580 --> 00:01:40.180 People say that a lot about me inviting you on. 20 00:01:40.220 --> 00:01:43.700 I never said, I'm going to cut out, cut your body into bits. 21 00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:49.500 No, but you've given a rather tortuous justification of chance of death to America and death to Israel, which most people aren't buying. 22 00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:50.260 Well, yeah. 23 00:01:50.260 --> 00:02:12.440 Well, if you know, if chemical weapons were used against your country with the endorsement of the United States, if, uh, a couple of hundred thousand if an airliner was shot down by, uh, you were in a country whose airline, an airline, was shot down by the United States, if you were living in a country which was under maximum pressure, sanctions which prevent food and medicine from getting into the country. 24 00:02:12.440 --> 00:02:17.840 If you were in a country where the United States has waged three wars against it, they encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade. 25 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.320 Last year, they attacked and this year attacked. 26 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:26.920 I think you would understand how people in Iran would feel about the United States government. 27 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:38.200 And you've carefully glossed over, of course, the fact that this Iranian regime has sponsored terrorism all over the Middle East, including funding and arming the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas. 28 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:43.640 Does that not enter your thought process when you analyze this situation? 29 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:51.320 The only terrorist regime in our region is the Israeli regime, the one that you refuse three times already. 30 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:57.560 When I asked you, do you accept the legitimacy of an ethno supremacist regime and you refuse to answer? 31 00:02:57.600 --> 00:02:59.200 That is the only terrorist regime. 32 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.000 They they've carried out genocide in Gaza. 33 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.040 They carried out genocidal attacks in Lebanon just yesterday. 34 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:08.720 They murdered a, a a school, a principal of a school. 35 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:11.090 Her husband and their maid. 36 00:03:11.090 --> 00:03:15.090 And every day in Gaza, they're killing multiple people every single day. 37 00:03:15.330 --> 00:03:17.410 Children, men or women. 38 00:03:17.530 --> 00:03:27.050 Well, your regime, your regime spent the first part of of the year, uh, murdering thousands of protesters on the streets of your country. 39 00:03:27.090 --> 00:03:29.930 No, I, I think you know the truth by now. 40 00:03:30.050 --> 00:03:43.250 We've already seen we've already seen admissions by the Israeli regime, channel 14 of Israel, saying that they brought in the weapons that were used to kill hundreds of Iranian police officers. 41 00:03:43.410 --> 00:03:51.050 We know that the U.S. Secretary of Treasury said, I manipulated the Iranian currency to bring people to the streets. 42 00:03:51.050 --> 00:03:55.250 And then, uh, channel 14 said they gave the weapons to kill people. 43 00:03:55.250 --> 00:03:59.530 We saw Trump admit that he sent weapons for Iran. 44 00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:05.130 We saw Pompeo admit that Mossad is on the ground in Tehran during the riots. 45 00:04:05.130 --> 00:04:14.310 And we also saw how, uh, the Israeli Mossad in their Persian language media said that we are on the ground. 46 00:04:14.350 --> 00:04:16.269 We are with you in Iran too. 47 00:04:16.310 --> 00:04:17.430 It must be carried out. 48 00:04:17.950 --> 00:04:19.430 You know what, Professor Marandi? 49 00:04:19.630 --> 00:04:20.350 It must be. 50 00:04:20.390 --> 00:04:22.029 It must be so frustrating. 51 00:04:22.590 --> 00:04:25.070 It must be so frustrating, if I may say so. 52 00:04:25.150 --> 00:04:43.470 It must be so frustrating for you to see your perfect, uh, regime be so unfairly maligned by everybody that they would think that, actually, if only we knew just how blameless and perfect and idyllic life is in Iran under your regime. 53 00:04:43.510 --> 00:04:46.830 But maybe, as you say, maybe I'll have to come there and see it for myself. 54 00:04:47.190 --> 00:04:49.670 I think, oh, that that would be an interesting idea. 55 00:04:49.670 --> 00:04:58.670 But I think that you know quite well that, uh, the victim is Iran, the victim is Palestine, the victim is Lebanon. 56 00:04:58.910 --> 00:05:01.110 The victims are the people of this region. 57 00:05:01.230 --> 00:05:04.750 And the best way I definitely would categorize, I would definitely categorize. 58 00:05:05.710 --> 00:05:10.030 There are definitely people in Iran, Iranians who are victims of your regime. 59 00:05:10.070 --> 00:05:12.070 We saw them on the streets, didn't we? 60 00:05:12.110 --> 00:05:15.390 You saw them on the streets today and yesterday and the day before we saw them.