Mohammad Marandi : Trump warns 24-hour countdown as the US and Israel detonate "time bombs" in Iran.

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]So probably the biggest news is that we are entering a a stage which could which could be even more dangerous. I believe that if the United States launches another assault it will lose. I believe that we are already heading towards a great recession and if this is prolonged it will lead to a great depression. But if there is another wave of military attacks on Iran uh like during the 39-day war >> since I think it was April 1st, what kind of uh the the needs of the agricultural industry uh that have to be included alongside that. Um I think that um we are in a very dangerous situation quantities including u aluminum and and other products. Uh these are going >> me because I see one part me because I see one part of the American banking indust.

[00:01:04]>> I mean I was speaking I mean I was speaking with a uh an important uh Indian journalist this morning.

[00:01:14]and he was telling me that uh the shortage of fertilizer, the shortage of fuel and other products as well as the fact that millions of Indians are going that work in the in the Persian Gulf are now effectively probably going to be unemployed.

[00:01:33]Um he said that this will lead to starvation in the subcontinent and uh that is something that is something that you know I think should shock us all and the Indian subcontinent is not the most vulnerable place in the world. If there's going to be potentially starvation in the Indian subcontinent, then imagine that uh probably on all continents, there's going to be more or less the same. Um and then alongside that, of course, as uh our lifestyles collapse, uh we're going to be seeing millions of people, maybe tens of millions of people on the move and they will be moving to places uh that were better off um but now those places are collapsing economically as well. uh you know there there's so many things that we can imagine uh happening but uh still it's just so mindboggling that it's really diff impossible for me to truly comprehend. Societies will become unsafe because poverty will rise and security for families for for ordinary people will decline. tensions between countries will increase. Uh there's and and I'm not talking about the the the tensions that we're seeing today. New tensions will build up because um because life will become a greater struggle for in the communities and it's going to be very bad and uh the the choice is between bad and worse and much worse now. And uh it would seem to me based on what I've been hearing from Iranian officials who are monitoring US and uh Israeli troop movements in across West Asia that uh the Americans are choosing the Americans and the Israeli regime are choosing perhaps the worst option maybe ways to look at this either or four ways let's say either the United States walks away and things will be bad or the United States continues with this siege warfare and uh things will get worse and as the longer it lasts it'll get increasingly get worse carries out an attack.

[00:04:16]>> My apologies um Mr. Randy the >> yeah let's just say or it carries out an assault and an assault will fast for catastrophe.

[00:04:28]>> Try to give our viewers the type of destruction that has happened in your country of a visual and how long and how much that would take to rebuild Iran.

[00:04:42]Well, actually, I think that in the long run, if this continues, countries like Iran will be less affected on the whole because Iran has been under siege and sanctions for decades and it is used to dealing with difficulty and hardship and a lot of Iranian products and needs are made at home because of the sanctions.

[00:05:06]But other countries which have never experienced sanctions, they are part of different supply chains. Uh they're not self-sufficient. Only a handful of countries I I I assume can uh can be uh put in that category. So I think the vulnerability of countries across the world are much greater than we think.

[00:05:26]But in the case of Iran, um the United States and the Israeli regime, they've bombed prochemical plants. Uh they've bombed pharmaceutical plants. They've bombed many many apartment blocks, destroying them completely, slaughtering thousands of They bombed schools. They bombed many universities, many many faculty buildings have been destroyed across the country. They want to destroy the future of our youth. And uh as you know on day one they slaughtered 168 little elementary school children uh almost all girls predominantly girls and they never acknowledged it. They never apologized for it. And in my opinion in the opinion of almost all Iranians it was intentional because day one of any major operation is a day in which all the targets are very carefully vetted.

[00:06:22]it's uh subsequent weeks in war you may mistakes are more likely but on day one targets are very very carefully chosen because you want maximum effect on day um a lot of damage has been done and in this siege the damage is growing of course Iran is not I mean we've seen American senators and leaders gloating over and claiming ing that the Iranians are starving and they have no food and taking great pleasure in saying this, showing their uh barbarism. But uh that's not true. Iran obviously has uh many borders. It has it borders 15 different countries. It has the Caspian Sea. It has um um Central Asian countries. Has neighbors. It has Pakistan, Afghanistan, the caucuses, uh Iraq and Turkey as neighbors. So, uh the siege is only going to be partial, but still it is it is going to make uh it's going to increase inflation and make life more difficult, much significantly more difficult. But >> the Iranians victim um are going to be more resilient and they know that this is a fight for their survival. And of course the Iranian, you know, it's it is a civilizational state and its religious ideology, Islam, Shia Islam in particular, which is very defiant against uh despots and oppressors and supportive of the oppress. All of these combined give the Iranians a high degree of resilience and resistance. Whereas for the United States, war of choice. So I believe that the Iranians will outlast Americans whether they take this back to the hot war or they continue with siege warfare.

[00:08:18]But it is going to be increasingly destructive for Iranians. But I think the destruction across the globe is going to be much more uh much greater than we think.

[00:08:33]I'm going to bring up an image here and uh I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see it. Uh it's going to be this image um coming up on the screen here.

[00:08:43]It shows Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and it shows the impact. It shows the impact. I'm just looking on the side of my screen here, but it shows the impact.

[00:08:54]The average American, the average Westerner is absolutely clueless on how much of an impact it is. And when you see countries like Kuwait that exports have been halted, you see uh Iraq, uh the the southern terminal exports have been stranded. We get to Saudi Arabia, the primary eastern hubs are blocked and we're hearing that yeah, they had other ways to export oil, but that's been also blocked. uh because Iran has managed to uh hit that systemically and we go over to the UAE, but everyone continues to think it's business as usual and it's not going to affect them. But we are at a shortage of anywhere from we're hearing 10 to 15 to 20 million barrels of oil a day. You know, there's only so much reserves coming in. And I don't know if we've seen this type of uh shock to the system before.

[00:09:57]>> Yes. And you're you're absolutely correct. And it's not just oil, it's LNG, it's uh all chemicals that have been produced in this region. And as as I said earlier, fertilizers uh helium uh the shortages are going to affect all supply chains of all of all sorts and uh many production lines simply halt at they will at least slow down and inflation is going to skyrocket. This is just the beginning and this is a a man-made disaster. This is not uh anything that uh is beyond the control of human beings. This is a decision taken by Trump, Netanyahu and of course Zionist lobby and the Israeli regime that has impos been imposed upon us and the entire international community.

[00:10:57]uh my uh you know one of the things that I fail to comprehend is that uh the United States even now refuses to take an offramp done so when the Iranians and the agreed to a ceasefire and when Netanyahu tried to break broke that ceasefire by carpet bombing Lebanon, Trump instead of insisting on abiding by the ceasefire, he sided with Netanyahu uh because was a part of the brought the the ceasefire agreement and then when the Netanyahu after 10 days of slaughtering women and children in Lebanon he agreed to the ceasefire briefly of course he then continued the slaughter later uh the Iranians allowed uh in accordance with the ceasefire agreement ships to from the five countries Saudi Arabia Emirates Kuwait and Bahrain the five countries that assisted the United States against Iran to leave the straight through the straight of Homos. But then Trump insisted on preserving a a siege on Iranian ports and that again because it was a violation of the another violation of the deal, the ceasefire deal. The Iranians said then those ships cannot leave. We have to keep in mind Iran has shut down the straight of Hormone. It has only shut it down for ships that are affiliated to countries that are hostile to Iran that have been participants in the war. Otherwise, Russian ships, Chinese ships, Iraqi ships, ships from Oman and other countries, India and Pakistan, they've been they've been passing through. Of course, ships that are linked to countries that are not hostile, but they come from one of these fights, that's a problem. Uh but in any case, uh the strait has ever been shut down. But now Trump has actually more or less um intensified uh the uh the the pace of shortages across the world by violating the ceasefire that uh could have given him an offer.

[00:13:06]>> Yeah, absolutely. Um everybody, first of all, I just want to address we've had some a lot of technical issues this morning. Just trust our our team is working very hard. Uh just so everybody knows the logistics here, we've got uh three people in three different countries. Um you know, we're going over Chinese, uh Iranian, and USA servers. Uh trying to, you know, bring it in. So huge effort from our our team on the back end just trying to sort this out.

[00:13:31]Uh we know some of the audio is a little bit low. Uh sometimes the video is lagging. I just know it's very difficult to kind of bring this stream, you know, to you guys. We're trying our best. So hopefully everybody can hear me now. And professor, I I thank you for bringing up Netanyahu and the Israeli regime and you know what they've done. It what's interesting is when Donald Trump was conducting a lot of interviews this week in Beijing, uh you know, he brought the entire Fox News crew with him. Uh of course the Fox News is obviously the mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

[00:14:04]Uh you know, they're they're trying to project this power. Uh, you know, it's it's very it's very funny to to observe this because, for example, um, you know, the the interesting thing is when Donald Trump arrived in Beijing, you know, they rolled out the red carpet for him. They had hundreds of Chinese kids on the sidelines waving USA and Chinese flags.

[00:14:23]And, you know, for for the Fox News, you know, their perspective is, "Wow, look at America. We're so great again. We are, you know, now respected on the international stage." I actually look at it the opposite. that I look at Jinping knowing that, you know, Donald Trump is the world's biggest narcissist and he knows exactly what Trump wants to see.

[00:14:40]You know, he basically flatters him, you know, and basically gives him, you know, all this praise and Donald Trump, you know, immediately is smiling and thinking, "Wow, I'm so great. I'm so awesome. You know, Xi Jinping's a great guy." So, he basically neutralizes Trump very easily just by using some very good psychology there. Um but then of course Trump the one thing I think the biggest problem for Trump is that he can't keep his mouth shut. So immediately he he he just admits on Fox News, you know, we started this war for Israel, you know, and we are doing this to kind of strengthen Israel. Um you know, what about the what about the gas? You know, what about Americans can't afford life right now? Um you know, the the price of of gas is going through the roof. U you know, people who can't afford um you know, the daily living. And you know, Donald Trump, his only response is, well, look at the stock market. It's at an all-time high. Of course, we see, you know, for example, just look at Nvidia.

[00:15:30]I think it's responsible for 40% or 50% of the United States stock market value now. It's it's just absurd how one how one company is is inflating things. But yet, you know, you go out for a sandwich and a bottle of water, it's going to cost you $25 here in the United States.

[00:15:44]I mean, it's just absurd the inflation and how how things are really going. Um, Professor, I got an interesting uh take because I I did have a chance to talk to Professor Robert Pap uh who has made a lot of headlines recently. uh his his um his whole thesis is a thing called the escalation trap. Uh for those of you that are not familiar with Professor Pap's uh insights, I think it's fascinating because what he's saying right now is that Donald Trump has really opened the door to Iran becoming the fourth superpower and fourth kind of, you know, major power in the world.

[00:16:18]You know, we look at the United States, we certainly look at China, we look at Russia, and you know, we look at these as kind of the three main countries that are able to exhort a lot of power, whether it be economic, political, um, you know, uh, you know, or, um, you know, basically economically, politically, um, or militarily, you know, can use their force. But he said now, you know, you know, before, again, we have to remember, uh, the straight of Hormuz was open, you know, for it was completely open on February 27th. uh you know commerce was going oil ships were were sailing through no problem at all uh but now Iran has a lot of leverage you know they have a tremendous amount of leverage they've shown to the world that they can influence the the world economy my question to you professor is what is the kind of the you know I want to get the insight into the Iranian people and what what's going on on the ground there because that's where I think your greatest insights come from because you're you're there in in tan you're there on the ground in Iran um has that kind of been shown going, you know, are a lot of Iranian people seeing this new power that they have, you know, that they've been able to really influence the world economy over the last three months that, you know, Iran has been able to withstand, you know, not one but two nuclear powers.

[00:17:28]Obviously, the United States and Israel have teamed up. Um, and but again, you know, we know that Donald Trump launched this war on on behalf of Netanyahu. It was Netanyahu that traveled to Washington DC on February 11th basically telling Trump this is going to be a quick thing. You know, we're thinking maybe seven days, 10 days. I mean, you can knock out Iran very quickly. And kind of Trump took the bait. He thought he thought, all right, you know, Venezuela was pretty successful. We basically wrapped that up in about 72 hours. I think Iran maybe a little bit longer, maybe a week, maybe give it two weeks, but we'll basically neutralize them. We'll be able to overthrow the government. we'll be able to control everything. Um, but now, you know, 90 days later or whatever, however many days it is now, I mean, we're nowhere close to that. As you said, Donald Trump refuses to take this off ramp. Uh, he's just going further and further down this rabbit hole uh that's just going to lead to chaos as we've pointed out. But I'd like to know what is the perspective going on in the Iranian society? What are people talking about on the streets of Iran? How are they talking about this situation? um are they, you know, optimistic that they've been able to last this long and that they have this new leverage? I'd like you to share that perspective.

[00:18:42]Yes, I I think it's quite clear that uh when you speak to Iranians, of course, it is all anecdotal on my part, but also polls do indicate that there is a strong sense of empowerment among ordinary Iranians and that they were able to defeat the the superpower. Uh, of course, the regime was defeated in the 12-day war pretty easily by the Iranians. And after, even though they carried out a blitz Greek attack and had the full logistical support of the United States, after eight, seven, eight days, it was the Israeli regime that was seeking a ceasefire.

[00:19:24]But in this war, you had a broad coalition. It was not just the United States and the Israeli regime. It was these countries in the Persian Gulf. It was Jordan. It was even countries like the Republic of Azarbaijan and Turkey that were assisting directly and indirectly. And of course the collective west, the Europeans through their indirect support, maximum pressure, sanctions. All of these combined failed and that gave the Iranians a strong sense of empowerment.

[00:19:54]Of course, there are concerns about the economy, about inflation, uh, which is hitting ordinary Iranians, factory workers who've lost their jobs or factories that have been destroyed.

[00:20:08]Uh, there has been significant damage done as well. But I think on the whole, the Iranians feel uh confident about their future with apprehensions as well. Um, I think though perhaps I it's hard to say for me, but I think a lot of Iranians perhaps feel that um the second wave of the second assault by the Americans will be uh more severe that there it will be possibly accompanied by a land offensive but also support for terrorist groups in Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq and on and and Takiri Salafi groups on the border of Pakistan in the no man's land inside Pakistan where it's not well governed by the Pakistani government and terror groups in in in Iran that they've been training preparing but ultimately the Iranians are confident that they will uh they will overcome. I I I see a very um the younger generation has changed a lot over the past two and a half three months. My own students that I'm in contact with have changed a lot. Their world view has changed. Their self-confidence has changed. they uh they they've seen they they've before I think they never really imagined Iran to have these many of them at least have the the capability that it has shown today but I believe that we still have uh tough weeks and and months ahead not just Iran the entire world. One thing that I think um has led us here is not just hubris and arrogance but also um the narrative that has been dominant for 47 years uh you know this orientalist world view of a backward Iran that is and that's the same is true about China and you know the city uh that you're in I I visited once and even even visiting there was so eye opening Even though I visited China many times and many different cities but when I went there I was so shock I was so shocked to see how across China the country had advanced so much. It was not just Shanghai. We hear about Shanghai or Guanjo or Beijing and then there are cities that people have never heard of but when you go there you you're just in total shock as to how uh clean those cities are, how advanced they are, how beautiful they are. Uh and the same is true about Iran. Uh so because we get our information about the world largely from the west still. Uh so we I learn about China. Even though I've traveled to China often, I still throughout my life I've been hearing news from China from Western sources and news about Iran also comes from Western sources. Iran is a backward country. It is medieval. It's run by mad mullas, whatever that means.

[00:23:20]Uh it's corrupt. It's falling apart.

[00:23:23]It's uh unpopular. The people hate it.

[00:23:26]And then if that's the case, then of course it makes sense to just give it a little and then it's like a house of cards. That's it makes sense. So they create this narrative using these Iranian expats who are on the payroll and these Iran experts who are linked to corporations and the Zionist lobby who will repeat what needs to be said. But then when they implement that policy, they hit a brick wall because the narrative is completely detached from reality. The same is true with China. The same is true with Russia. The same is true anywhere where the gap between reality and narrative is enormous and the other side is powerful. And I think that uh Iran is probably now uh I I don't know if one can say the fourth most powerful or not but it is a it is a superpower of sorts and it has shown itself to be so.

[00:24:26]Um, Professor Miranda, I just want to let you I don't know if you know much about me, but I I do live in one of those unknown cities in China uh about five or six years ago called Chongqing, and I've made it my Yes. Yes. A beautiful city.

[00:24:43]>> Thank you. I I came here in in uh 2020 to promote the city and I just want to once again commend you for the voice that you give Iran. Um, if it wasn't for channels like Danny Hipong, uh, Dialogue Works, the Duran, Cyrus Jansen, my my good friend here, uh, the Katie Harper Show, I mean, your voice is so important and what he has done to at least people in my community, people around my my my friendship circle, the first nation we want to go to when everything calms down is Iran because we've been lied. to about Iran. We've been told a story that it's this nation big bad Iran by all these major news outlets and across the you know the collective west and it really from a westerner western educated guy I have to tell you I am so disappointed um with my country so embarrassed uh about uh our countries that don't understand the catastrophe that we have unleashed. Canada is not a country that can go unchecked. We have done some very horrible things. Uh I was one of the, you know, when I when I was older, uh one of the first countries I went to was the former Yugoslavian uh nation and visited Belgrade, saw the destruction with my own eyes there. uh a year and a half ago I went to the front line of the uh Donbass conflict and again what we heard in the western media was something completely different going on in that uh area. So again, I'm going to pass it back over to Cyrus because you guys have an outstanding dialogue going. But I just wanted to say from all of us, this entire uh content creator community, YouTuber community, I don't know what we call ourselves, but geopolitical analysts or whatever, but again, your voice is so important to our community and our friends and people need to hear it. And again, we commend you so much for uh sharing your time with us.

[00:27:06]>> You're very kind and thank you again for for your kind words. Um I am uh very honored to be on your show and to to have been on the show of all of these friends and all of these people and their viewers and those and this broad network people who are part of these communities. They're all heroic in the sense that they're all resisting injustice and trying to bring about greater sanity and uh I hope that after the war more people do come to Iran and all of you and your viewers would be welcome in Iran. There's actually a couple of good books that I have been speaking about on some of these shows that at least for the time being would be good for some of your viewers to read. One is called Going to Tean by Flint and Hillary Man Leverett. There were two White House officials who wrote this book. I think it's a very good book. Another by Alec who is now on many of these shows, a former British senior official. He wrote a book on on resistance, the axis of resistance, but it's called resistance uh the essence of the Islamic Revolution. And for some people who are interested in the nuclear program because that has been the excuse or at least one of the excuses for Trump to to to begin this slaughter and this global crisis. Uh a very brief book actually uh called I think a dangerous delusion by Peter Oorn uh who's also an excellent writer and commentator in the UK. But um but you know just being in your city for me was an eye openener like just walking at night uh alongside the river and just looking around I by itself destroys so many of those stereotypes that we're brought and uh I think that uh the more we learn about one another uh the the more these narratives shatter and the and the better it is for the world. What we are experiencing today is an empire that is using false narratives to justify aggression and oppression and many people believing those narratives used whether they watch Fox or CNN the rest of them are not much better.

[00:29:27]They're they're the same are perhaps less more subtle and more soph sophisticated but they are still uh tools of the Epstein class the empire uh but we are reaching a a point where many young people are waking up and uh I am I I even though there's no doubt that there are dark days ahead but I I think that things will ultimately some change for the better. Well, thank you. And I'll hand it over to Cyrus. Just my last comment was um at the start of the show, I think you made a comment about us uh covering maybe the financial and derivatives market. We do that to really expose uh some of the market manipulation that has been gone on and orchestrated by individuals of we'll call it the Epstein class where this goes unchecked. They know that the only authorities that can pretty much clamp down on them only have civil powers to do that whether it's security and exchange commission uh so on and so forth. So we continue to see not only do the Americans get lied to but they also get ripped off by an administration that is stealing billions from these people.

[00:30:41]So there's there's uh victims everywhere here. But I'm going to hand it to Cyrus.

[00:30:46]Anyway, thanks again for uh uh giving me um the explanation about our great city here, Chongqing. I'll pass it back to you, Syrus.

[00:30:55]>> Yeah.

[00:30:56]>> No, uh Professor and Alex, I just say um you know, I want to just add a little bit of commentary there. You know, one of the things that, you know, how we started these YouTube channels was a few years ago. Um you know, during the COVID time when we were very frustrated about how China was being presented and I mean I know for myself, I actually started this YouTube channel by accident. You know, I I I have lived many years in China. You know, was very frustrated with the narrative that was coming out of Western media and, you know, just simply to started to make some YouTube videos sharing my perspective as an American citizen that has lived in China for many years, you know, you know, have worked there for many years, speak the language, um, you know, have really assimilated to the Chinese society, and just realize that there's a lot of things that are not presented very fairly or accurately, um, in China. Uh, you know, for example, I mean, again, I I like to talk about this Fox News crew that was in Beijing. Uh, there was a, you know, an interesting news clip where, um, you know, the Fox reporter was literally trying to record a video in the middle of the bike lane and just trying to kind of say, "Oh, look at all the chaos around here. Uh, you know, you can't even walk across the street, uh, you know, properly because, you know, the, you know, the the traffic management is so bad here." And that's like, well, you're walking in the middle of the bike lane, you know, like this is the lane for motorbikes. You know, the sidewalk is to the left. You could easily walk on the sidewalk to record your video. But, you know, and so a lot of, you know, saying, "Look, what are you doing, you know, get out of the way and stop complaining about that." But that's that's such a great example of of the narrative of how they're trying to spin things. And immediately was exposed. you know, obviously these Chinese uh nisonens were um you know, immediately taking their cell phones out, recording that. And I think, you know, I love the fact that you've been there. I've loved the fact that you've been to Chongqing.

[00:32:42]Um you know, and Alex, you know, he he basically went there, you know, five, six years ago and has really put that city on the map, you know, with his uh you know, media team and really being able to showcase this. And again, I I'm very I'm very optimistic about the future because if you're on Instagram and Tik Tok, uh there is a whole new younger generation that are traveling to China that are seeing it with their own eyes. And there's even for example CNBC is now highlighting Americans that have relocated and you know they you know just this past week uh they they re they showcased a American that is living in Shenzhen. he's earning around $3,500 a month and just saying, "Look, you know, this is I live a fantastic quality of life. Um, I'm making, you know, a very modest salary for US standards, but with that salary, I'm able to live very high quality of life, much better than I could in the United States. I have better health care. Uh, we have safer cities, uh, you know, no crime, cleaner streets, better quality of food, much cheaper quality of life. And again, I mean, this is this is a trend that has really been happening over the last 18 to 24 months with China, you know, now opening up to 85 countries visa-free to China. Uh, and I I would imagine that that will happen in Iran as well where more people are going to travel there in the future. Um, I I've shared this before with many people. Well, I think it's always worth, you know, resharing the story because um, you know, we always have new people on the stream, but I I went to get a haircut a few months ago and and it was actually an Iranian woman that cut my hair here in America and I just asked her perspective. You know, you know, tell me more about your country and I the biggest thing that I got from that is she said, you know, Cyrus, the people what I want people to understand is that we're a civilization of many thousand years. You know, we're the Persian Empire. you know, we're very proud of our culture, our history, and you know, even if even in the darkest days, um or economic strain, you know, there is a sense of community. Uh there is there is this this willingness for us to keep fighting because, you know, this is not something new, right? Iran has been under US sanctions for 47 years. So, and she also said a different interesting perspective because she said, you know, I'm here in America, you know, I'm working as a hairdresser, you know, cutting hair, you know, earning a modest salary here, but I kind of look at American people stuck in this rat race trying to look for happiness. And she said, I I actually find a lot more happiness in Iran, just people enjoying the simple things in life, whether that be a family gathering, you know, celebrating a religious holiday, you know, gathering for a meal together. Um, you know, this is something that you cannot take away from Iranian people.

[00:35:14]And you know, we have that ability to fight and to keep going forward. And and she said, you know, honestly, I would actually I would actually say there's more happiness and more joy in Iran amongst the common people than you would find here in the United States where people are struggling so hard to get by.

[00:35:32]And you know, you only know what you know, right? you know, people are stuck, you know, living in a city like Los Angeles, you know, where povertyy's around, cost of living's through the roof. You're you're working a minimum wage job, and you're just living paycheck to paycheck. You're you're trying to make it to next Friday when that paycheck comes in so that you can maybe pay your bills, hopefully break even, and you know, you're surviving.

[00:35:54]You know, you're trying to survive.

[00:35:55]You're not saving money. You're not going on a holiday. You're literally trying to pay your bills. So, I just think that's a important perspective to understand. And so again, I think this is um this is why YouTube channels and independent media has risen so much.

[00:36:09]There's a reason why you are in such high demand and why you know many geopolitical channels probably 30 or 40 at this point have asked you to come on their show possibly more and why I know you're doing you know you spend your days every day doing amazing interviews like this to give us the insights. Um, I do want to bring it bring it back to uh the nuclear program because this is something that I think the Trump administration is going to want to go after, right, is is the enriched uranium. This is obviously a talking point that we that we hear in the United States. Um I I think an interesting thing that you can that we can talk about is the fact that um remember a couple months ago now we we talked about this um you know this fighter pilot that was stranded in Iran and in the United States has made this amazing incredible mission. It actually happened around Easter Sunday. So you know Pete Hegth the Secretary of War as he's now calls himself instead of Secretary of Defense.

[00:37:02]I think Secretary of War is a much more accurate secretary of war crimes certainly.

[00:37:07]>> Yeah. basically. But he basically said, "Guys, it's an Easter miracle. You know, we've been able to launch the most amazing mission, but interesting enough, we have not heard the the name of this this uh this officer. We have not seen him in any type of media. There's not been a, you know, a single article written about him as far as this mission." And it just kind of strikes me as as being very odd because I was talking to some Americans here a couple weeks ago and they said, you know, Cyrus, we're we're just doing so amazing in Iran. Look at that guy that we rescued. And I said, "Isn't it interesting that we haven't seen a photo of him?" I mean, we actually don't even know his name. I just think that wouldn't we have like a parade for him?

[00:37:45]Wouldn't he be interviewed by the New York Times? Wouldn't he be on the front, you know, wouldn't he sit down with CNN for an exclusive interview? And they're like, well, maybe it's just kind of um, you know, it's probably top secret. You know, that's probably why. And I'm thinking, is it though? I I'm like, I I I'm under the impression that that didn't actually even happen. and and uh I mean, prove me wrong, but I I think the uh I think what the United States tried to do was launch a secret operation, you know, maybe trying to get that, you know, enriched uranium because that would potentially be a win that Donald Trump could say, "Hey, we went into Iran, we got the uranium, now the war is over because, you know, Iran has been stopped." And I mean even now you know he talked about uh saying you know he's like hey I met with Xi Jinping and I told him um you know you know we're doing you a favor because we don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And then and then even Fox News they couldn't they couldn't spin that. They're like so what did Xi Jinping say? And he said he didn't respond to me. I I think he was probably just grateful though. You know he was probably just grateful because we're helping China out a lot. I mean, it's just it's just hilarious to see Trump kind of, you know, make these mistakes and kind of pencil himself in the corner uh just by opening his mouth.

[00:38:52]But kind of give us some perspective on on the nuclear program or, you know, or lack thereof of a nuclear program. What is going on with the enriched uranium?

[00:39:00]Is that something that Iran will continue to possess in the future? Um, I just like to get your perspective.

[00:39:05]Again, you're the expert and on the ground in in uh in Iran.

[00:39:11]Well, I I would advise your audience to read that book uh dangerous delusion by Peter Oorn or there's another one by Gareth Porter called Manufactured Crisis. The history history of the Iranian nuclear program shows very clearly that this is indeed a manufactured crisis and that the United States has used the Iranian nuclear program as an excuse to demonize the country because that's what the Israeli regime wants. It's been an excuse used in order to target Iran so that we could get where we are today.

[00:39:45]Just as the armed insurrection that we saw a few months ago that they pretended was Iranian police forces massacring I don't know 50,000 100,000 200,000 people in like 2 days. I don't know if that's even physically possible but or 40,000 or whatever number it is nowadays.

[00:40:04]All that nonsense was basically to prepare the grounds for war. Uh there was an armed insurrection funded by the American the CIA and the Mousad. They brought in the weapons. They admit that.

[00:40:17]But Western media doesn't want you to know that. They don't want people to know that. Channel 14, which is linked to Netanyahu, said weapons were brought in. That killed hundreds of police officers by their own admission. And uh Trump has more recently admitted that they sent weapons for for these people.

[00:40:35]So these weren't peaceful protesters.

[00:40:37]They killed hundreds of police officers in all 3,117 people died. Most of them ordinary people who were caught in the crossfire between these uh terrorists and police forces in different cities. And this along with the nuclear program, this atrocity that they are responsible for, this armed correction that they are responsible for, these terrorists that they are responsible for, this was carried out and the the excuses about the Iranian nuclear program or the lies about the Iranian nuclear nuclear program are the two key uh propaganda tools that are now used by uh the bombing of schools and universities.

[00:41:21]ities and hospitals and ambulances. So whenever Trump speaks, he's either speaking about the nuclear program or he's saying that the Iranians killed tens of thousands of their own people in a in a couple of days or whatever. The nuclear program u by American admission is is uh is peaceful. uh the uh the head of US counterterrorism uh Joe Kent who resigned recently at the beginning of the war said that the Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon and that this is all about the Zionist lobby and the Israeli regime the war. Uh Tulsi Gabbard said under oath that Iran was not pursuing. The International Atomic Energy Agency also said that there has never been evidence that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapon at any point.

[00:42:12]But again, when you want to destroy a country, you need an excuse. the United States when it wanted to invade attack Iraq, they used, if you recall, they said that uh I mean your younger audience wouldn't know this possibly, but they were saying that that uh they in Kuwait they threw babies out of incubators and took the incubators in hospitals. And then the the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, no one knew at that at the time, but she made the name uh in the United States and uh the the media went with it to to demonize Iraq.

[00:42:53]Of course, Saddam Hussein illegally invaded Kuwait. But the point is that they used this lie, this false story to mobilize American public opinion because half of America was opposed to the war.

[00:43:07]But ironically, ironically, ironically, in Gaza, the Israeli regime forces, they actually did unplug incubators in a hospital and leave the infants to die. But that was not that was completely ignored in the Western media. It was probably one of the most disturbing atrocities of this whole episode to just let those children gradually die uh and get away with it and Western media ignore it totally. So uh the nuclear program is a tool but you know we've seen that before like just in Libya and Viagra remember the claims about Viagra or in Venezuela it's drugs.

[00:43:59]There's always a reason. There's always a reason to justify death and destruction and oppression and empire, but I think it's uh in in the case of Iran, they've hit a bit brick wall and this is going to be a turning point. I think um uh Robert Kagan uh this godfather of uh the uh neocon movement and uh someone who just hates Iran immensely. He he was right. This is the greatest defeat of the United States militarily and it is going to be a turning point and hopefully it will be it will lead to in the distant future less imperialism and it will allow countries across the world to breathe more easily and I think that's to the benefit of the people as well. The decline of the US empire is a good thing for ordinary Americans. Not for those people who you've been speaking about who make been making their billions by manipulating the markets, but it's going to be much better for the ordinary people in the United States and across the world. And hopefully one day we'll get there.

[00:45:13]>> Yes, professor. I I'm I'm really glad that you brought up Robert Kagan because um he just wrote an incredible article in the Atlantic and for you for those of you our viewers out there, I'd like you to check out this article. You can just simply put in uh checkmate in Iran. Uh it is a um you know article from the Atlantic. Uh it says Washington can't reverse or control the consequences of losing this war. I think the professor said this very well. I mean this is kind of the godfather of you know I mean he is a neocon at heart. Uh he is uh you know been very adamant about the United States and our military movements and you know even you know for him to come out and write an article stating that Trump is checkmated in Iran is quite remarkable. It just shows a reverse you know of of kind of US thinking. And again I mean I I think right now for the United States um it's it's becoming very interesting here. professor and Alex. I mean, what we're seeing here on the ground is we're seeing that the, you know, as we call it, the Epstein class or, you know, this MAGA environment, uh, you know, they're they're just losing a tremendous amount of steam. Um, you know, you you just basically have your dieards left, uh, the people that are so brainwashed that they are just going to keep following Donald Trump. But, you know, essentially the Trump and the MAGA movement is the Titanic sailing on a ship, you know, in the middle of the ocean and it just struck a massive iceberg. And so we know how this story ends. You know, this ship will be on the bottom of the ocean at the end at the end. You know, um it's it's it's certainly going that way. So, you know, you can choose to be on the boat and, you know, pretend that your ship is sailing towards New York City and that everything's great or you can, you know, realize this and and get off. And that's I think a lot of a lot of the Republicans uh that have been supportive of Donald Trump have made that pivot.

[00:47:03]And that's a very encouraging thing, I think, for the United States because we've seen a tremendous amount of videos, people saying, "Look, I voted for Trump not once, not twice, but three times. And I realize what an absolute bunch of nonsense this is and that I was tricked. You know, I've been fooled for far too long." And um, you know, a lot of people give them flak saying, you know, look, you know, you voted for Trump three times. This is what you get.

[00:47:27]But I commend those people for at least recognizing they've made a mistake. I mean, you know, it's a little late.

[00:47:32]obviously voted for Trump three times, but you know, I guess better late than never. You know, now they're they're you know, pivoting. I think it's going to lead to a complete uh you know, collapse of the MAGA movement. I think that the midterm elections, which are coming in November, you know, will result in an overwhelming victory for the Democrats.

[00:47:49]I would not be surprised if Donald Trump faces an impeachment, you know, as soon as the the Democrats gain control of both the House and the Senate. Uh but again, we're just seeing Donald Trump uh you know, as a narcissist, I mean, he kind of does what he does is just to double down. To double down like you, like you had mentioned earlier in the stream, there was there has been offramps provided. There have been opportunities for Trump to somehow pivot from this disaster. But the longer it goes on, the more chaos that will be unleashed. And like you said, I think we are looking at a potential point where there might be an increased escalation because you know if if you're losing maybe then you launch the military offensive saying, okay, we we somehow need to get this victory. Uh but again, I I would imagine that Iran is uh actually looking optimistic to that. I mean, if there is a ground invasion that will only result in um you know, probably for the United States force, it's certainly not going to provide a victory. I I think the interesting thing I also want to talk about um you mentioned how the mood for the the youth in Iran has changed and this is something that I find so strange you know over the last hundred years the United States has launched so many air campaigns not one has been successful in actually deterring people and actually changing and it's kind of funny when you think about it you know we're going to bomb your country we're going to sanction you we're going to cause all this chaos and somehow the local people are going to rise up and be like hey thanks for bombing me. I support America. You know, I really respect what you're doing. Where in actuality, like you said, professor, it actually galvanizes the people and it makes them change. And like you said, I remember on one of our one-on-one interviews a couple weeks ago, he had said that, you know, at the beginning, you know, you know, a lot of the younger younger Iranians, you know, they were influenced by Western media. You know, they certainly, you know, believed a lot of the things from Western media, but now that has been proven to be false. And so now they're changing their tune, you know, and and things are are changing.

[00:49:48]You know, this fourth power is emerging.

[00:49:51]Iran continues to control the street of Hormuz. Interesting enough, you know, close allies like China are able to continue to go through. You know, oil tankers are leaving, you know, with Chinese oil. Um, you know, the United States blockade has not been successful in that regard. Um it's we're just setting ourselves up for a very interesting few months as again we continue to see this war, you know, continue to escalate and and be drawn out much longer than anyone in the Trump administration believed.

[00:50:19]>> Cyrus, I got one comment I want to just kind of bring up here. You know, we talk about the US political system, the Democrats, okay, they're going to get the lead in the midterms. To me, lately, the United States government is starting to feel like a uni party. I can't tell the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans at all. It's like they're converging together.

[00:50:46]I don't know about you, but in four years ago, the Democratic Party was completely different than what it is now. The Republican party has completely shifted the other way. So, I'm quite confused on what is real US politics or are they making it up as they go along?

[00:51:03]I mean, Professor Mirandi, am I talking nonsense here or >> No, I I I agree completely. I think that this whole concept of the abstin class really goes above and beyond political parties in the United States.

[00:51:20]This is a ruling class that uh is not affiliated to either party. But what is I think happening is that uh a greater a great awakening especially among the youth is emerging emerging and not just in the United States but across the west and and across the world but in the United States in particular I think it's going to be a huge challenge >> for for the ruling class because the demands of uh ordinary people are a complete shift in policy and a focus on the needs of Americans and an end to the uh endless wars. And that great brings greater conflict between the bulk of American society and the oligarchs, the ruling elites, the Epstein class, which uh we're going to see the infighting within the parties themselves. We you see that on on the right you have the Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens and the others. And then uh on in the Democratic party you you see open rebellion as well. This is not something that's going to be resolved easily. But uh I think becoming clear is that the Israeli regime and Zionism are going to suffer immensely because for two and a half over two and a half years people have been watching genocide and now they're seeing that their world is being damaged. their their lifestyles are being wrecked because of this very same regime. Not just in the United States but across the world. People are seeing that Trump, Netanyahu and Israeli regime and Zionism are being bringing about misery everywhere.

[00:52:58]Uh where whereas uh people across the world say this is not our fight.

[00:53:08]Cyrus, I'm going to hand it over to you.

[00:53:10]Um, we just wanted to also say thank you to the audience that is waiting over, I believe, on Nema's channel. Um, we're going to wrap this up. Let the doctor his next interview.

[00:53:24]>> Uh, is that dialogues work? Is that where you're heading next?

[00:53:28]>> Yeah, dialogues work. And Nemo has been waiting for about 15 minutes. Right.

[00:53:33]>> Anyway, I didn't we didn't know. Uh, conflict of schedules. No problem.

[00:53:37]again, you're a man that is in uh great demand, but Nema, to your audience, uh I suggest everybody that's watching the stream to head over to Nema after they're done and dialogue works. If somebody could put the link in the uh the the chat, that would be helpful.

[00:53:50]Thanks again, guys. We're all a big community and I'm going to leave it to Cyrus and Dr. again, thank you so much for spending time with me and Cyrus here today for having me on the um program.

[00:54:02]Thanks.

[00:54:04]>> Thank you both.

[00:54:06]Bye-bye.

[00:54:07]>> Thank you.