Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Just Put the Strait of Hormuz on LIMITED MODE - Signs Point MAJOR Escalation

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:05]Hi everybody. Today's Saturday, April 18, 2026 and our dear friend or brother, Professor Mandi is here with us. Welcome back, Professor Mandi.

[00:00:15]>> Hi, Nema. How are you doing? Hope >> all is well over there.

[00:00:21]>> Over here, I think we're moving closer to war.

[00:00:24]>> Yeah, let's start with that. Professor Mandi, we've learned yesterday that suddenly we the foreign minister of Iran announced that this rate is open and commercial vessels can pass through this trade of foremost what he just he he mentioned in that tweet and then Donald Trump came out with a series of non you know a lot of allegations in those Iran is capitulating and the outcome of what he was mentioning in those tweets is the total capitulation of Iran and today we've learned that the straight is somehow closed and or or Iran is controlling the traffic through the straight of for somehow it's limited.

[00:01:10]What is the current situation?

[00:01:15]Well, you're right. We had an agreement with Americans, a comprehensive ceasefire what 10 11 days ago, what was it? And um then the Netanyahu, if you recall, he carried out th those carpet bombings on cities and slaughtering hundreds of people even in neighborhoods that are not friendly to the resistance. Uh he just, you know, mass slaughter and of course western media uh try to portray it as uh targeting uh as Hezbollah strongholds and Hezbollah targets. I actually spoke to two western journalists in Beirut. Uh they they wanted like a a sound bite from me or sentence or two. Not a well, I don't know if it's called a sound bite, but a sentence or two from me uh for their reports. Why why do you write uh stronghold, you know, or Hezbollah stronghold or uh Hezbollah targets, you know, these are all civilian targets.

[00:02:18]And both of them more or less said the same thing that we didn't do this. Our editors do them. They said doesn't make a difference. Your name is on it and you are through your silence and your acceptance of this. You're complicit in the gen in this these genocidal attacks.

[00:02:35]So, Western media in Beirut and journalists are collaborating with were collaborating with the Israeli regime.

[00:02:42]But the point is that the Netanyahu uh violated the ceasefire. He wanted to to erect the ceasefire. So it's obvious from everyone across the world has to keep this in mind that this war was started by the Israeli regime and the Trump regime and the economic calam calamity that is heading our way is because of them. And so finally 10 11 days ago whatever it was uh we had an agreement Lebanon was a part of it so that the the slaughter would stop and then Iran was to open the straight of Hormos.

[00:03:21]Lebanon Netanyahu violated the agreement. So Iran didn't open the straight of Hormos.

[00:03:28]Also when we went to Islamabad it was clear that um Vance did not have the authority to negotiate because he kept making phone calls. The Iranians authority was US report to this Chinese colony in Palestine and uh and he has said others other American leaders report to him every day. So anyway, you think that would be a scandal, but um so he didn't have the authority and ultimately uh the United States didn't uh make any real progress uh w with Iran at the negotiating table because the Israelis again didn't want this. So the continued crisis, the growing energy crisis that has uh that has continued over the last 10 11 days is again because of Netanyahu. It is again because of the Zionists. we could have uh had an easing of the economic crisis uh by opening the trade of hormones but he violated the deal and he prevented the not talks and um in Islamabon from making prog progress then Iran after the ceasefire because Iran kept putting pressure on the Americans and kept the straight of hormones closed uh in order to put pressure on the Americans to end this bloodshed in Lebanon and uh two three nights ago was supposed three nights ago. I think it was supposed to happen.

[00:05:11]Netanyahu didn't do it. The next day, Iran made additional threats including striking Israel or Israeli targets, Israeli regime targets possibly in Lebanon. I'm not quite sure, but uh that I think tilted the balance um along with the the closing of the Straight of Hormos and the regime accepted the ceasefire. Of course, it's violating it, but it accepted the ceasefire more or less.

[00:05:37]So Iran the yesterday said that it will open the trade in accordance with agreement with the United States last you know 10 11 days ago but then right after Iran opened the straight Trump said the siege on Iranian ports will remain in place. He imposed the siege because Iran uh due to the violation of the cease found in Lebanon they they kept the straight closed and then he imposed the siege. So because of Lebanon the United States put a siege on Iran and Vance apparently said why is Iran so obsessed about Lebanon. I didn't see it myself that someone else told me as if you know killing the Lebanese is not important but Iran said no we're we we'll be steadfast. So the Americans imposed a siege on Iran and then when Iran opened the state the straight uh Trump said we're going to keep the siege on Iranian ports. Immediately the Iranians went and said if that's the case then the straight of hormones remains closed. So Trump and Netanyahu started this global crisis. It is get getting worse by the m literally by the minute. Nemo and uh Reports say that within one to two weeks experts are saying between one and two weeks the situation is going to get very bad and within 3 to four weeks the global economy is going to uh head towards total towards collapse. So this is where we are right now thanks to these uh these these these uh monsters.

[00:07:19]So the Iranians are if the Americans right now decide to lift the siege on Iranian ports and that means preventing food from getting in, preventing medicine from getting in. That's basically what it means. If they if you if they lift the siege then the trade of war hormones will be open. So, it's really up to the Americans whether there's going to be extra fuel, extra helium, extra oil, extra uh fertilizer uh on the global market because right now there are huge numbers of ships in the Persian Gulf waiting for the great green line uh green light to move.

[00:08:02]>> Yeah, Professor Manny, here is moments ago what Donald Trump said. He says that we have very good conversations going on with Iran and it's working out very well. But from what we've learned from the latest announcement which was moment ago from the supreme national security council they said the basic is that the the first point is that on the 10th day of the war the United States started sending messages to Iranian. What is the process of negotiation or the talks or the messages that Donald Trump is somehow feeling that is going well?

[00:08:47]Well, I think you know the answer to this that nothing that Trump says you can take too seriously.

[00:08:54]Although or or seriously at all.

[00:08:56]Although I have a feeling and I may be wrong and I said this later yesterday in a couple of places and I also tweeted it that um maybe Trump is claiming that Iran has made all these concessions. It won't fund Hamas. it won't fund Hezbollah. It will, I don't know, give up its nuclear program. All those tweets that you were talking about earlier uh yesterday, all the the nonsense that he said. Um maybe he is saying all this so that later on he can say Iran made all these promises, but it did not carry out its uh it did not fulfill those promises, so I have to attack Iran.

[00:09:38]that I think is because usually I I I ignore Trump. I don't read his stuff. I don't listen to his speeches. I've given up on that a long time ago because I I learned nothing of it. Everything he says can be negated within an hour, within a after after the subsequent paragraph, within a day. He he'll he flip-flops, he changes. Uh you know, he lies a lot. So, I usually ignore him.

[00:10:08]But yesterday, this sudden, you know, these um social media posts of his one after another, I thought to myself that perhaps he's um making these fake claims in order to be able to justify another attack later on to say that well, Iran agreed to all these things, but they didn't do it, so they were lying, and now I have to bomb them. That's I think a plausible interpretation. I'm not saying that's the right interpretation.

[00:10:41]It could just be then a continuation of all the nonsense that he says like you were just now saying. He's saying things are going well. I don't know. I I can't really comment on on Tom on Trump. But what I can say is that Nema the whole founded war was bas I've lost your voice. Are Yeah.

[00:11:23]Is it okay now?

[00:11:25]>> You're back. Yeah. You said the whole world.

[00:11:29]What was that? And >> I said what? Sorry. Where where was I cut off?

[00:11:36]>> Yeah. The whole war from the whole war.

[00:11:40]>> Yes. I think the whole the whole the whole war, not just this the Ramadan war or the 40-day war, but also the 12- day war, both were based upon miscalculations.

[00:11:52]The Americans thought maybe through the lies provided to Trump by Israeli intelligence or by their own foolishness, the Americans thought that Iran would collapse. If you I'm sure you recall at the beginning of the 12-day war or near the beginning, Trump said unconditional surrender. And then at the beginning of this war too, it was all about unconditional surrender. And then after and then after a couple of days when they saw that the despite the martyrdom of and uh some of the senior commanders the forces were functioning very well and the people were on the streets and there was no rush on banks or uh super markets or uh gas stations or anything like that. So for a few days they kept saying Iran is running out of missiles.

[00:12:48]we've destroyed all their missile bases, their drone bases and then they saw that no this is this propaganda is not working and after you know Iran continued to fire missiles and drones and they gradually increased. So the Americans changed their position from unconditional surrender to providing this 15-point plan that Iran rejected and then Iran gave its own 10-point plan which Trump accepted. He accepted the the 10-point plan to be the framework of the uh negotiations.

[00:13:22]That's why Iran accepted the ceasefire and that was a huge victory. But of course now Trump is as the statement put out today by the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Trump is uh is trying not to uh frame uh is trying to to impose other conditions uh that are that have nothing to do with the 10-point plan. So, but in any case, what I mean is that what I'm trying to say is that at the beginning of the war, the Americans said unconditional surrender.

[00:13:52]But after 10 days, it became clear to them that we're not going to lose this war. And even though they carried out uh more atrocities and they started targeting uh critical infrastructure, they failed. And so ultimately uh they had to they had to stop. And um now we are where we are, but I think that we're heading for a war again. Now, I'm not sure. And some of my American friends say that Trump just wants out perhaps, but um I think that the chances of war are very high. And uh if if there is war, it shouldn't take too long for it to start because uh the Persian Gulf is going to get very warm. Uh you know, you you live in the south of Iran. Your family is from the south. You know what I'm talking about better than I. Um during the Iran Iraq war, I was in Kuzan, the south uh during summer and it's it was very very difficult, very difficult. and during the day almost impossible.

[00:15:08]So, um I think it's going to get warm. You know, I think the Americans if they want to launch an attack, they have to do it sooner rather than later. But the problem is that if the Americans launch an attack, they're going to target Iran's critical infrastructure again like they did before. This time round if Iran starts targeting let's say electricity in these regimes in the Persian Gulf target out of because part of and they are guilty in the heat of in the summer that will force everyone to leave. Millions of people will leave the Pratad and the Emirates and uh and Kuwait and so on.

[00:15:56]Millions literally overnight. They will not be able to stay uh because the heat will be in intolerable especially for these wealthy people who've been uh living off of uh you know oil and gas for for decades. They won't be able to continue living there. So you'll see millions of people leaving literally overnight and these these regimes will collapse. So I think that a to restart the war would be a catastrophic mistake for the for Trump or the US empire. I think it would probably bring an end to these regimes in the Persian Gulf and it would definitely create it would it would bring about that global economic collapse that we've been talking about because we're heading in that direction.

[00:16:41]And the last 10 10 11 days since the ceasefire, it's only be getting worse.

[00:16:47]Every day it's getting worse. And we're becoming reaching closer and closer.

[00:16:52]We're getting closer and closer to the tipping point. As I said, one to two weeks, 3 to four weeks. Uh this is how they they are interpreting how the future of the global economy will move.

[00:17:07]So we'll have to see. Again, there are different differing views, but I'm I think that my not my understanding, I know that the Iranian armed forces have been preparing themselves 24 hours a day and uh that uh just like after the 12- day war, they began uh preparing themselves for a bigger war and this time they are preparing themselves for the next route.

[00:17:34]from the announcement of this national sup National Security Council in one of the points that is mentioned in the talks. It says new proposals have been raised by the Americans which the Islamic Republic of Iran is considering and has not yet responded to. Professor Mendi what was the first you know to in order to talk with American part you have to understand are they really prepared to talk or they do want to somehow continue with these sort of non because you don't see any sort of understand deep understanding of the root causes of what's going on. They want to put something you know superficially. They they want to solve the problem that is on the surface not going below the surface not the deep those deep causes of the conflict is that do you see any sort of understanding in the American part to on to being willing to go in that direction?

[00:18:47]Well, I'm I'm not pretty to what is going on right now. I don't know what the new American proposals are. Uh the Pakistani delegation that left I think last night, they were here for uh 2 three days in order to see what can be done. Um and uh so right now uh I'm I'm not in a position to give a definitive response to your question.

[00:19:19]But what I can say is that that is the nature of empire. The empire you know like like Zionist they consider themselves Zionist or worse. But the empire considers itself to be exceptional and so it has exceptional rights. it has exceptional privileges and therefore for anyone to demand justice that's for them that's all outrageous. The 10point Iranian plan which people should take a look at there's nothing extraordinary in it.

[00:19:50]It's a it's a very normal >> 10point plan but the Americans don't want to take it seriously because for them run as an equal doesn't make sense.

[00:20:02]Uh, you know, when we were when we went to Pakistan, um, while we were there, the Washington Post put out a um, a um, opinion piece, and the Washington Post is very close to the CIA that they should kill the negotiators.

[00:20:21]And uh, so when we were coming back, we thought that there was a good chance that they would shoot down our plane, the Americans or the Israelis. This is the sort of regime, you know, this is the sort of mentality that we're dealing with where the media competes with the regime in promoting crimes against humanity and war crimes.

[00:20:41]So to get justice from the United States is uh is you have to be firm and steadfast.

[00:20:47]We've seen how the Americans have been bullying countries across the world over tariffs and the only country that really stood up to the United States was China because of its power and uh and strength. Um so I'm not very optimistic, but Nema, again going back to the war, I think the Americans obviously have been preparing themselves for another round of war. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I think there's a good possibility. The Americans and the Israelis have been preparing themselves. The Iranians are preparing themselves. So it could be that the this period they've been buying time but this I think is a miscalculation again for for maybe four reasons. One is that Iran is also preparing itself. It's not as if the Iranian armed forces and the government are on vacation. So they are swiftly preparing themselves for the next phase.

[00:21:48]The the second issue is that the this uh ceasefire period because of their own actions because of refraining from carrying out the ceasefire in Lebanon and now imposing a blockade on Iranian ports they have caused the straight of hormones to remain more or less closed.

[00:22:12]So the global economic crisis is intensifying.

[00:22:18]It's it's now it's even worse this the pay because now even Iranian ships are not going through. There's there's I've heard different stories about how many Iranian ships are getting through or not. I I'm it's not clear to me what's ex what exactly is happening if uh some ships are getting through or not. I've heard different uh stories. Uh I don't know what's true. I'll try to figure that out later on. But in any case, it is getting worse than before. That the pace the the move the movement towards the catastrophe the global economic catastrophe is speeding is is speeding up.

[00:22:57]So this buying time is is pushing the world and the United States of course towards towards a major crisis.

[00:23:05]And then uh the the other issue is the the third issue is that as I said earlier, we're heading towards the warmer season. It's going to get very hot in the south in a month and then it will just become intolerable. So even if the Americans and I think the Iranians will probably uh allow them to take some territory and then deal with them in the counter strikes. So they'll let them uh let's say occupy some areas or maybe islands and then they'll start hitting them with missiles and drones and harassing them day and night and getting taking casualties as the weather gets warm and hot and intolerable which will be terrible for their morale. So I think that these three reasons and then a fourth is that the world is getting sick and tired of the United States and the Israeli regime.

[00:24:03]uh starting another war is going to uh cause greater anger especially as we are getting very close to the economic uh crisis uh exploding. So I don't think they're I don't think what the United States is doing is smart at all. I think it is an act of desperation.

[00:24:27]Uh so but again some people believe that the United States is not going to do this. But in the Supreme National Security Council statement that you alluded to that just came out right before the show, it also says that Iran is going to take fees from the ships.

[00:24:43]So and that they will remain in control of the straight of hormones. This I think is a key turning point. This was the catastrophic mistake of the United States in this war and the Zionist regime because Iran had no ambition to take the straight of Horus. We know that and it was do business as usual even during sanctions. But now under these circumstances, the Iranians have decided to take the straight and they're not going to give it back. And this changes the balance of power in this region permanently and in the world. So regardless of what the Americans do, they're this, you know, the Iranians are not going to give up the trade of homes ever. And the these dictatorships in the Persian Gulf, these family dictatorships are going to have to deal with a new reality.

[00:25:32]And so I think that it's fair to say that the forces of empire across the region will be weakened and the axis of resistance across the board as a result will be strengthened. And even if there is another war, I think it will that will not change anything. it will probably make it worse for the United States because when when they are defeated and and I'm sure when they if if and when they start the war that they will say the Western media even those who are opposed to Trump will talk about their victories and how they've taken the islands and how heroic the US soldiers are. But that propaganda will last a few days just like the 12-day war and just like the Ramadan war or the 40-day war. After a few days, it becomes clear that this is not going to go well.

[00:26:23]This is not going to end well for the United States. And many in Iran, and we discussed this from the beginning of the war together. Many in Iran want this war to continue. Not because they like war.

[00:26:35]No one likes war. But they're saying that we have to engage in con combat with the Americans with the Trump troops in order so that in order that the United States in future never again thinks about attacking Iran.

[00:26:53]>> Yeah. Actually, we had the vice president of Iran talking about this that if we cannot achieve it with the negotiations, we're going to definitely achieve it on the battlefield. This is what really happening. And professor Mandi, we know that. And just one thing, Nema, just one thing, Nema, the vice president of Iran, he was the vice president uh he he was he he was um um he was under presmer.

[00:27:29]>> Yeah.

[00:27:31]So you're talking about uh the political a broad political spectrum in Iran all saying that enough is enough.

[00:27:44]We're going to remain steadfast. So for Trump or anyone in the west to hope that he can divide the president or that there's some sort of division between and you you see that online too unfortunately that there's like this division between the foreign ministry or the president and and the armed forces.

[00:28:02]That's not that's nonsense.

[00:28:04]Everyone knows that uh everyone everyone knows that the only way forward right now is for Iran to uh be steadfast and everyone knows that Trump is is dishonest and that the United States does not abide by commitments. So the first vice president when he says that he sounds exactly like a military commander and I think this is something that uh people should take note of.

[00:28:33]You mentioned this trade of formoose which is one of the whoever follows Persian media the Iranian media domestic media understand what is the tone and as we've mentioned we professor Mandi just mentioned and they say that it's going to remain under the control of Iranian government but when it comes to the nuclear program of Iran we had Donald Trump yesterday arguing that Iran is going to give up the enriched uranium They're going to send it us sending that to us. And what was that?

[00:29:10]Who knows? Uh I what Trump was saying yesterday, Dr. Alib said that he Trump said seven things.

[00:29:19]All of them were false. And so again, the only way that I c the only way that I can interpret what he said yesterday to make sense is that he's making all these outrageous claims, these ridiculous claims, so that later on he can say the Iranians promised all these things, but they didn't carry, they didn't fulfill their promises, which would be a lie. I mean, the Iranians obviously have not promised anything. But if he wants to go to war, then he would say, "They told me they do these things. they didn't do them so I have to bomb them.

[00:29:54]If you inter if I can read I can have I that interpretation does make sense but then again Trump has sent so much nonsense over the years and over the past few months and especially with regards to Iran that this is just one interpretation. The second interpretation would be that's the normal abnormal Donald Trump.

[00:30:18]What is the communications professor Morandi? We had the phone call between Iranian foreign minister and his counterpart in counterpart in Saudi Arabia and is there any sort of other connections or talks between Iran and GCC countries warning them because as you've mentioned the war is coming somehow many people are expecting that in Iran at least in main basically Persian media is talking about the war is coming and everybody is getting prepared in Iran but what is the level of communic communication between Iran and GCC countries which they would be part of the war if the war reopens again.

[00:30:59]Well, obviously Oman is has taken one approach and after Iran retaliated and hit them very hard uh their gas uh installations, they shifted and became more uh let's say they they take they took a more reasonable stance >> or cautious.

[00:31:25]>> Yes. and and also more reasonable, not out of any not out of like not because they're sincere, but because they saw that, you know, Iran is powerful and the United States cannot defeat Iran.

[00:31:39]Actually, Nema, I've been speaking to I don't want to go into detail, but I've been speaking to diplomats to scholars from different countries and they all all of those who I've spoken to say that their governments and their political all shocked. Uh I'm I'm not I'm using the word shock myself, but basically that's what it they they all imply as to how effective and how how powerful the Iranian nation is and and how the Iranian people remain steadfast and how the armed forces function and how Iran's allies were all wellcoordinated with each other. They were all stunned.

[00:32:26]important countries and um so that is something that to take to take note of but um with regards to Saudi Arabia I don't know you know I don't know what the what was behind the what goes on behind the scenes and what was said between the two sides but um the the country that is right now pushing for war is the Emirates which makes sense because they are the closest to uh the Israeli regime and uh so they they're pushing for further war which is foolish because uh this time around they'll be they'll Iran will probably finish them off first but um but I'm not quite sure where Saudi Arabia stands right now. If we look at western media, initially they were saying that the Saudis and not just initially for quite a while they were saying that the Saudis support uh the assault on Iran and of course the Saudis gave a lot of uh a lot of help for the in the war effort and they funded it. I think we discussed this before the Emiratis, the Saudis and Katar all fund the war effort the US armed forces all three. Batar less so they apparently for technical reasons I'm not sure about Bahin I haven't heard anything about um Kuwait but in any case the Saudis have been but then more recently we've been hearing again and this is just this is I'm not saying this is a diff this is absolutely true but the Saudis now don't want uh this to continue I I don't know. But I think uh it it would be it would seem reasonable because they have lost a lot. Every day that goes by uh these Arab regimes are are hurting. True that the Saudis are exporting maybe 4 million barrels a day on average from the Red Sea. But uh a lot of damage has been caused. The price of oil has gone up. But a lot of their prochemical plants are on this side. their exports are lower. A lot of their plants have been damaged.

[00:34:50]Uh so most of their prochemical plants and most of their industry that's linked to to the oil industry are near the Persian Gulf. Some are on the alongside the Red Sea, but most are here. So on so the whole the Saudis have u they're hurting. There's no doubt. and uh their ordinary trade most of it goes uh from the Persian Gulf and then there's other countries. So uh every day that goes by things become more difficult for them.

[00:35:23]It would make sense for them to want to um to end this. But I for I just think that the chances for war are quite high.

[00:35:33]The Israelis want it. Netanyahu wants it. The Zionists in in Washington want it. Just like Joe Kent said at the beginning uh when he resigned that this war is not about the United States. Iran is no threat. This war is not about nuclear weapons. Iran is not producing them. This is about Zionism and the Zionist lobby and the Israeli regime.

[00:35:54]And I think right now if the war starts again, that is going to be the the reason why we'll have war.

[00:36:01]>> Do you expect a new round of negotiations anytime soon?

[00:36:09]I mean I mean let me I'll be very open about this as I as I always am. Um on I was just informed a couple of days before maybe two or 3 days, I'm not sure before the previous round. Uh I was asked if I'd go and I said I prefer not to uh because I think I you know I'll be hours on the going to the going to Pakistan and it'll take hours to come back and during those that time I can I can do work online because I've basically given up my my poor my students are probably you know they're they they probably are going to hate me because I've become a horrible professor but uh I'm just focusing on war and all that. I'm just I'm horrible. I I I apologize to all of them. I've become terrible. But I said that I prefer to be here because time would I'd be wasting a lot of time on the flight because the flights don't they don't have internet connection. And uh but I said if you want me to go I'll go. And so literally like they called me I don't know what time it was maybe at 2:00 in the afternoon said be at the airport in 1 hour. and you know that Imam Kummeni airport is outside of Tehran.

[00:37:29]>> So I said I can't be there in an hour and they said well try to get there as fast as possible. So I just I got ready and went and I got there in two hours.

[00:37:38]So I am not privy you know I'm not like among with the negotiators or anything.

[00:37:43]I I spoke to people at the airport on the plane when we got there. I don't know details. I don't know if if they're going again. No one has contacted me. So I I would assume that there's nothing is happening right now but then again maybe if at some point this time around they won't ask me to go but uh I my understanding is is that so far no decision has been made and that the supreme national security council statement also basically is saying that that a decision has not been made. So um I it's unclear if there will be a second round.

[00:38:18]The the other important point in the announcement of this the statement of Supreme National Security Council was the case of war being ended on all fronts which we know what Iran did with the case of Lebanon. They tried to put a lot of pressure on the United States then forcing Neta and his administration to do something about the ceasefire.

[00:38:42]And what was what was when you look at the statement of the prime minister of Lebanon, he's not mentioning Iran. He's thanking Saudi Arabia. I don't know other countries about what has happened. But the ceasefire is was because of the pressure, Iranian pressure on the United States. Wasn't that the case?

[00:39:06]>> Of course. Of course he knows that.

[00:39:08]Everyone knows that. Only an insane person would think otherwise. By the way, when Iran says all fronts, it's not just Lebanon. It means Gaza. It means the whole uh the whole uh of West Asia.

[00:39:25]But the reason why Lebanon was mentioned was because of the uh the onslaught that was taking place against the Lebanese people, the mass slaughter. Well, well over 2,000 people were slaughtered. well over 2,000 people were slaughtered in that period of time. So, and during this uh genocidal onslaught um but yes, of course, the Lebanese prime I mean the Lebanese prime minister has Lebanese blood on his hand because this ceasefire was about to be enforced and then he conspired with Netanyahu and the president of Lebanon as well. They conspired with the Israeli regime and Trump to say, "No, we don't. we're not a part of this ceasefire. So they could have had a ceasefire without any political price without having to pay any polit without giving concessions to anyone because the Iranians were doing it for them. They could have just sat back and waited and then received this and then uh had the ceasefire and then they could have done whatever it is they want to do. But they had to help Netanyahu and Trump wreck the ceasefire and say, "No, no, we're part of a different track." So they they wanted the Israelis to bomb Lebanon. They wanted the Israelis to bomb people in the south and and elsewhere uh so as to weaken the resistance and the supporters of the resistance. So they wanted women and children to be slaughtered. And history will remember this. This is a very very dark moment in Lebanese history and when time goes by the children of uh people from across Lebanon when the the emotions are you know are disappear go away and people look at back objectively except for those who are uh agents of the west and who are on the payroll which are quite a few in Lebanon but uh except for them everyone will remember this dark dark moment in in Japanese history and the prime minister and the president will be remembered for that. But yes, the only reason why Netanyahu stopped was because he was forced to stop and the reason why he was forced to stop.

[00:41:40]True. I I think that the Iranian threat to strike the Israelis uh tipped the balance, but the real reason in my opinion was the fact that the straight of horos continued to be blocked. And this is, I think, the Iranian strategy to push the United States so hard economically that they reach a point where instead of being Israeli firsters, the White House and the political elites start thinking like ordinary.

[00:42:16]We have to have our interests first. And whenever they're forced to impose their interest first, that is the beginning of the solution in our region. So I think that Trump forced Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire. Netanyahu resisted. Iran added an extra threat. But in real but the the real the the major reason was the resistance of course and the steadfastness of the supporters of the resistance in Lebanon. They're the the number one reason for the the the regime forcing being forced to accept the ceasefire. That is the number one reason. They're heroism. They're they're shining stars of humanity. And we have to remember they they've made all these sacrifices because they were drawing off the Zionist army from the genocide in Gaza.

[00:43:05]They were making they they're sacrificing their own people to spare the people to help save another people.

[00:43:12]But that first and foremost after that it was the pressure, the economic pressure that's as we speak continues to build. And here is where I think that Zionism is it's in trouble because not only is Zionism now despised across the world as a you know as a master people see it for what it is as a like master race a chosen people that that slaughters day and night that snipes kids. Even now they snipe little girls just, you know, in in Gaza. They bomb families in, you know, in Lebanon. They just during the last few seconds before the ceasefire, they bombed an apartment block slaughtering everyone inside. They bombed medics. They killed all t lot numbers of medics. I mean, the stories coming out of Lebanon just show what monsters these Zionists are. But the world has turned against them. the American people are turning against them. But now the American elites have to start thinking, do we want to destroy our economy to wreck the global economy to go into an economic depression because of these uh the the Zionists?

[00:44:23]This is where I think, and I may be wrong, but this is what I think caused Trump to force Netanyahu or the United States, maybe not Trump personally, but the political elites in the United States forced Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire because the Americans the American elites in Washington are finally saying we are making this is getting dangerous for us now.

[00:44:44]the the the short the short fuel shortages, the fertilizer shortages, the helium shortages. These are now going to put a lot of pressure on our economy at a time when and our so-called allies, proxies or you know uh I can think of worse words but uh I won't use them but uh you know our econ the US economy is already in pretty bad shape and then things are getting worse. So I think that one can say that the United States was finally for a second there looking at the situation from an American first perspective. Not because that's in the nature of the political elite but because things are getting very dangerous. I really think that they people do not appreciate how bad the situation is about to become.

[00:45:37]The econom the global economic situation is on the verge of catastrophe and as I said in one to two weeks it's going to get significantly worse in 3 to four weeks they say it's going to get really bad. So I think at least some people recognize this even though ordinary Americans are not being told this and they're getting worried.

[00:46:04]I see many concerns in Iranian people and in Lebanese people because they say somehow that the United States and Israel is they're trying to do what they couldn't achieve on the battlefield because Israel was trying to as they have in their mind that they're trying to disarm Hezbollah. That's the main agenda on their part to defeat Hezbollah. But they couldn't do it on the battlefield and they were getting hit by Hezbollah forces on >> Hezbollah did very well during the past few weeks.

[00:46:37]>> Yeah.

[00:46:38]>> Extraordinarily well and this again shows that all those analyses that were saying that Hezbollah is defeated, Hezbollah is no longer all of that was nonsense. Hezbollah though it surrounded al-Qaeda and ISIS US proxies are now in charge in Syria.

[00:46:58]And then there's the Israeli regime. And then you have US puppets in in Beirut.

[00:47:04]But despite that, what they've done to the Israeli regime during the past few weeks is quite stunning.

[00:47:11]And that's why many people are thinking that they want to make a civil war in Lebanon in order to let Hezbollah and the government and they're fighting each other and Israel grabbing the southern part of Lebanon. This is the problem because they have defined today they have defined a yellow line in the southern part of Lebanon. The same yellow line that they have defined in Gaza. These are not good signs if the government in Lebanon is caring about the sovereignty of Lebanon.

[00:47:42]>> Yes, you're you're correct. But there are a couple of things that are have changed and that is that we're heading towards a global economic crisis and Israel is going to be blamed for it.

[00:47:55]And who controls the straight of hormones? Iran.

[00:47:59]The balance of power has shifted. The Israeli regime has been forced to accept a ceasefire. Now it has to and now it's saying that we're have this yellow line and they will start blowing up buildings and people's homes because they're spiteful creatures just like what they do in Gonza. These are monsters. We don't expect anything different. They will snipe kids. They they like killing kids. And Western journalists and western leads have no problem with that.

[00:48:23]Remember the Epstein class, look at what they've done to all those little girls.

[00:48:29]So, you know, the Epstein class, the people who work for the Epstein class, do you expect them to be outraged at what they do to kids in Lebanon and to in Gaza? Of course not. These journalists are just agents of of of of empire, the agents of the oligarchy, this utterly corrupt oligarchy.

[00:48:46]So, but the balance of power shifted and we are patient. Remember, the occupation of Lebanon took 18 years. The Israelis occupied Lebanon in 1982. They took it took Beirut and Hezbollah was born out of occupation. And in the year 2000, 18 years later, they kicked them out of Lebanon.

[00:49:10]Israel will not be in Lebanon for 18 years. The world is changing very rapidly and the axis of resistance is growing and the axis of resistance is becoming popular across the world. It is stunning. It is stunning how popular uh the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Axis of resistance have become. It's stunning this sudden shift in world public opinion. They're seeing through the propaganda. They see who supports the Palestinian people and who and who complicit.

[00:49:46]So I am not concerned. It saddens me.

[00:49:50]Every death bothers me. Over the last 20 and a half years, I've been very active on so have you. So, so many other people. We've seen so much footage.

[00:49:59]It's, you know, sometimes there were times at night where I couldn't sleep when it was really bad. I mean, like everyone else, you know, you wake up in the middle of the night and you have to go and check your my might check my cell phone and then you see footage and outrageous acts committed by these creatures. But the tide is turning and I don't see a scenario where the United States wins. I've never seen seriously Nemo I've never seen such a self-confident people as the Iranian people.

[00:50:37]And when there's talk of war right now, they say, "Yeah, okay."

[00:50:43]again this uh they are you know I I I keep reminding people that of what General Sulimmani said he said we're the we're the nation of martum and we're the nation of Imam Hussein and truly you can see this in the Iranian people and that is basically what has brought about this turning point in the region so it's not going to be over tomorrow these creatures will continue to slaughter women and children. But uh I see this as the era of the demise of Zionism. It will take a while, but it will happen.

[00:51:26]Do you think that it it's going to take too much time for have a constructive communication between Iran and GCC countries to have a something substantial in the region?

[00:51:43]They're going to have to accept the new reality that first of all, they figured out that the United States doesn't care about them. The United States only cares about Israel. Doesn't care about them at all.

[00:51:55]It milks them. Iran doesn't want to milk them. Iran is just saying, "Don't help others bomb our country." Not any great expectation. I mean, it's not something extraordinary. These regimes, Qatar, the Saudis, the Amiratis, they allowed the Bahinis and others, they allowed their territory to be used against Iraq. They allowed their territory to be used against Syria. They allowed their territory to be used against Yemen and against Iran.

[00:52:24]That's not going to happen anymore.

[00:52:27]It's up to them if they accept this new reality.

[00:52:33]If not, I don't think they'll last. I think you'll have new regimes in power and that would be a good thing if you have actual people in charge of Kata, you know, the people of Kata, the people who live there, ordinary people, uh, making the decisions in the Emirates and Bahrain and Kuwait. I think uh, we've been living in a much more prosperous region and a much more integrated region.

[00:53:01]>> Thank you so much, Professor Mandi, for being with us today. Great pleasure as always.

[00:53:06]>> Thank you very much, Nemo. It's always a honor being on your show.