00:02Nazila Marufian has been living in constant fear for over a week.
00:07The exiled Iranian journalist is glued to her phone,
00:11waiting for news from her family, who are still in Saqqez in western Iran.
00:47For several days now, Nazila has been getting videos of protesters being killed.
00:55Because Iran has been rocked by unprecedented waves of protest since the end of December.
01:10Thousands of Iranians throughout the country are calling for an end
01:14to the rule of the dictatorship of the Mullahs, who have been in power for 46 years.
01:18They are attacking all the symbols of the Islamic Republic,
01:22setting fire to mosques and public buildings.
01:33The Iranian regime has cut off access to the internet
01:37and is using lethal force to suppress the revolt under cover of the digital blackout.
01:43They are shooting us!
01:46The Revolutionary Guards, or Guardians of the Revolution,
01:50were firing at protesters with live ammunition.
01:57Official reports from the regime suggest that over 3,000 people were killed in just two weeks.
02:02But who are these men who are willing to massacre their own people to stay in power?
02:10Created at the inception of the Islamic Republic in 1979,
02:15the paramilitary organization is the armed wing of the regime,
02:18and its supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
02:22Its original mission was to relentlessly hunt down the enemies of the regime.
02:29But over the years, the power of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran has become almost absolute.
02:38They have their own ground forces, navy and air force.
02:43With their 125,000 men, they have supplanted the regular army.
02:50And rule supreme over the country.
02:54Their militia represses the people who refuse to submit to Islamist extremism.
03:04They have their own ground forces.
03:04But the Guards are not just a military force.
03:07They have taken control of entire sectors of the economy.
03:11The government, the government, the economic forces, and the mafia
03:17have been replaced by a huge threat in the world.
03:23Drawing on exclusive testimony from former members of the Revolutionary Guard and from Mossad agents,
03:29we reveal how they are seizing the country's wealth.
03:34Almost 100% of the money from the oil market going to the budget of the Revolutionary Guards.
03:42They need billions of dollars.
03:44They use this war chest to finance their fight against their sworn enemies, America and especially Israel.
03:53For years, they have been exporting their struggle throughout the Middle East.
03:57They arm and finance Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas.
04:04Within the country, their power is increasingly contested.
04:12Exceptionally, just a few days before the protests began, we were able to film secretly with young opponents of the
04:18regime.
04:27In recent weeks, the revolt has spread to every social class, every city and the countryside.
04:35Anger that could topple a regime that has been in power for 46 years.
04:42We went to Washington, to Düsseldorf, to Tel Aviv to investigate the Revolutionary Guards.
04:51Tehran, with its 9 million inhabitants, is the capital of one of the most closed dictatorships on the planet,
04:59the Islamic Republic of Iran.
05:02It's impossible for Western journalists to visit.
05:08These images were filmed by a local team a few weeks before the uprising that shook the country.
05:17Filming was authorised by the regime, but it was very tightly controlled.
05:22This is what the authorities want to show the world.
05:31This is the Great Friday Prayer, an unchanging ritual.
05:36As every week, thousands of supporters of the Islamic Republic have gathered at this mosque.
05:43The men are inside.
05:48Outside, the women, fully veiled, are following the ceremony on screens.
06:03This prayer is fuel for the regime's propaganda.
06:07The service is broadcast live on state television.
06:10Imam Ali Akbari stands at the podium holding a rifle.
06:16Ali Akbari!
06:18God is in power!
06:20His sermon covers all the obsessions of the Islamic Republic, including compulsory wearing of the veil.
06:50The country's disastrous economic situation also features in the sermon.
07:12Then, as at each of his prayers, the Imam attacks Iran's sworn enemy.
07:19For 10, 31 to 30, 14 years ago, there go.
07:20All theázor says, what is this?
07:22This is the language?
07:26This is what?
07:26You do think we have a wonderful thing to do.
07:31What do you think?
07:31It's your people and the rest of the country,
07:34the students ofVIDIA and the people of color.
07:34This has become the ones in their minds.
07:36Don't be the first greatestografies,
07:39and you are the best.
07:44You are the most precious.
07:45If you do, you are the most powerful ones and your profession.
07:47that left 1,200 people dead in Israel.
07:55To celebrate the anniversary of the massacre,
07:58the regime organized a large demonstration in the streets of Tehran.
08:18Islamists were killed in Israel.
08:20Mark for Israel!
08:25Supporters of the regime proudly trample on Israeli and American flags.
08:32Some agree to answer our questions
08:34and faithfully recite the official propaganda.
08:39Do you think that the message is to the southern countries?
08:43This message is from Hamas, Guzze and Palestine.
08:46The message is that the Tramponetians were killed in the past.
08:54Islamists will give the message to our enemies
08:56so that we will be the leader of the regime.
09:00We will be the leader of the regime.
09:04The revolution this young man refers to
09:06is the revolution of 1979.
09:12The starting point of Iran's recent history.
09:17At the time, the country was an authoritarian monarchy,
09:20supported by the United States
09:22and ruled by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
09:28He was overthrown by a cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini,
09:32who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran.
09:37To maintain his power and hunt down his enemies,
09:40he created a parallel army made up of devout young men,
09:44the revolutionary guards, or guardians of the revolution.
09:48A militia was devoted to the death of the Imam,
09:52recruited among the Moustazafim, the oppressed of Iran,
09:55fervour and abeigue.
09:58I became a guardian of the revolution to defend religion and serve Islam.
10:06But over almost 50 years,
10:09the revolutionary guards have become a veritable state within a state.
10:15To understand how they managed to bring the country under their control,
10:21we travelled to Dusseldorf in Germany.
10:27There, we met with Mohamed Hussein Tokaman,
10:30a senior member of the Islamist organization.
10:50Mohamed Hussein Tokaman began his training
10:53in the Revolutionary Guard Volunteer Militia, the BASIC.
10:57It has nearly two million members,
10:59many of whom are very young.
11:18These young men are totally indoctrinated.
11:21They go out on patrols everywhere,
11:23keeping the population under surveillance.
11:36The militias are now at the forefront of the massacres of demonstrators.
11:46Mohamed Hussein Tokaman then rose through the ranks
11:50and joined an elite unit.
11:51He became one of the close protection detail
11:55for the head of the Revolutionary Guards,
11:57Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
12:00I was with them and told them,
12:04that of course we would see them every day.
12:06They work with the government.
12:10They are the real government.
12:12They are the real government and the human rights.
12:14They are the national rights of the country.
12:18They are the national rights of the country.
12:20The government and the governor of Mohamed Haerik
12:20promotes an ultra-fundamentalist interpretation
12:23of Islam.
12:24On his official channels,
12:26he often appears in front of fully-veiled female supporters.
12:55Ali Khamenei has ruled the country with an iron hand for 36 years.
13:24The Iranian people no longer want this brutal leader.
13:31According to a poll conducted in August 2025 by an independent institute based in the Netherlands, 70% of Iranians
13:39now want an end to religious dictatorship.
13:44In Tehran, a young couple opposed to the regime agreed to tell us about their daily lives.
13:50They are risking their lives by speaking out. They could be accused of espionage and imprisoned.
13:56These images were filmed a few days before the protests began.
14:00Since the protests started, we've had no news from them because of the internet blackout.
14:06I have no news. I have no news from them. I have no news from them.
14:17Taraneh and Amin are 22 and 24 years old.
14:20To show her opposition to the religious dictatorship, Taraneh has decided to stop wearing the veil, even though it's compulsory
14:28under Islamic law.
14:29I have no news from them.
14:46Masa Amin was the name of a young woman who was beaten to death by the Morality Police in 2022
14:52because she was not wearing her veil properly.
15:00The murder of this 22-year-old student sparked massive protests across the country.
15:11Protesters tore off their headscarves in the street and attacked symbols of the regime.
15:19Even at that time, the protest movement was brutally suppressed.
15:24Hundreds of women were imprisoned. Some were raped or tortured in prison.
15:31But Masa Amini's death gave thousands of Iranian women the courage to show their opposition to the religious authorities.
15:53They were the most important part of the regime. They were the most important part of the regime.
16:01I am a friend of mine. I am not a friend of mine.
16:06To hold onto power, the regime has had to give ground a little on the issue of the veil.
16:11The girls continue to live, for most of the most, especially the young, without a hat.
16:18To take the metro with no head. To sit on the terrace of the cafes without the veil.
16:25To walk in the street without the veil. Even if there are still attempts to repression of the system.
16:34The revolutionary guards regularly try to regain control by sending in the morality police.
16:41To set an example, they round up women who reveal too much of their hair.
16:46That happened to Taranay last year.
16:48Let me start walking in man's town. I am very happy to see the ocean of Bahari, too.
16:54There was a machine that came from there. Also two devices were stopped.
16:59I arrived with an accident in a very bad situation.
17:03We have to sit in the jungle for two minutes.
17:09To find another person.
17:12They found another man.
17:13They've put such a piece of barrier.
17:13They leave him at the lodge.
17:15They've got to get an arm.
17:24Despite this heavy-handed reminder of the law, Taraneh continues to walk around bare-headed,
17:29living an apparently almost normal life for a young person.
17:47It's impossible to kiss in public, but this unmarried couple smoke openly in the street.
17:53And lovers can sit together at this cafe in central Tehran.
18:04There's no alcohol on the menu, but apart from that, you could think you were in a European capital.
18:29It's a space they can feel free, where Taraneh and Amin no longer hesitate to openly criticise the supreme leader
18:37of the revolution, Ali Khamenei.
18:39You're welcome.
18:43You're welcome.
18:45You're welcome.
18:46You're welcome.
18:48You're welcome.
18:49You're welcome.
18:50You're welcome.
18:53Like many young Iranians, Taraneh and Amin try to carve out spaces of freedom for themselves.
18:59Tonight, the couple are going to a party at a friend's house.
19:04Little tops and silk blouses have replaced traditional outfits in Taraneh's wardrobe.
19:12Some of the characters also play a lot.
19:14Two years ago, I won't be surprised.
19:17But when I do not know the family of Shal посмотреть,
19:20I don't know if they are afraid of any animated,
19:25I feel like I am always better.
19:29I'm more confident than myself.
19:31And my character is very negative.
19:32And my character in my home is a different problem.
19:36It's important to me.
19:37I think it's very important.
19:41How are you?
19:43How are you?
19:43How are you?
19:46Yes.
19:47How are you?
19:48How are you?
19:52How are you?
19:53Before leaving for the party,
19:55the couple have a drink of smuggled alcohol.
19:59How are you going to drink?
20:01Yes, let's drink.
20:04What are you thinking about?
20:06What are you thinking?
20:07I thought that if the door of each other
20:11and the other people would not come to me,
20:14I would not say anything.
20:18That's...
20:20The party is in a residential district of Tehran.
20:25How are you going to get the start?
20:28Yes.
20:30I'm going to get the start.
20:33Tehranay and Armin order a taxi using an app
20:36for a night out like any European party goers,
20:39but with an added worry.
20:45With a quarter of the population still in favour of the government,
20:49young people are afraid of being reported.
21:10As with the veil, the Islamist regime has relaxed the rules on gathering somewhat,
21:15in an attempt to win young people over.
21:19That night, the 30 or so friends were able to dance to American rock music
21:24until the early hours of the morning without being disturbed.
21:29The Mullah's regime is progressively losing its grip on the people of Iran.
21:34Even their so-called glorious deeds no longer interest many people.
21:39The Revolutionary Guards allowed us to film in a place they're very proud of.
21:43The former US Embassy, now converted into a museum of espionage.
21:49This is a place that promotes hatred of America.
21:53But it no longer thrills the crowds.
21:56The rooms are desperately empty.
21:58There are no Iranians.
22:00We came across only a few Japanese tourists,
22:03who seem to be there by mistake.
22:06While the regime likes to demonize its enemies,
22:10above all, it loves to display its military power.
22:13We headed for the National Aerospace Park,
22:16about 20 kilometres from Tehran.
22:19The official guide agreed to show us around this museum,
22:22dedicated to armaments.
22:34The Islamic Republic's impressive military arsenal is on display here.
22:40There are drones, but mainly cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
22:47This is a strategy that we have, the Khurramshan's mission.
22:51It is 2,000 kilometres.
22:53A war would be a war, 2 tons.
22:56The most war would be a war,
22:58in this event,
23:00is 300 soldiers and 600 soldiers.
23:04This show of force is a message to the regime's enemies.
23:09Some of these missiles have recently struck Israel.
23:25The 12-day war.
23:2712 days during which the conflict between Iran and Israel,
23:31which had long been simmering, escalated into open warfare.
23:44At 3 o'clock on the first morning, Tehran was shaken by a series of explosions.
23:49It was the beginning of Operation Rising Lion.
23:53Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion,
23:58a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
24:07A few hours earlier at the Nevatim military base in southern Israel,
24:11nearly 200 aircraft had taken off, including F-16 and F-15 fighter jets.
24:23The scale of the raid was unprecedented.
24:26There were also radar planes for detection and protection of the raid,
24:32and for sure, there were ravitaillement planes,
24:34because we had a very significant distance of more than 1,500 km between Israel and Iran.
24:41So it was a very massive raid, like we hadn't seen it in the 21st century.
24:51This is one of the most impressive military operations in modern times.
24:58With formidable efficiency, the IDF neutralized Iran's air defense systems.
25:11They destroyed the S-400, Russian, who are part of the best anti-aeron batteries,
25:17which allowed them to conquer the Iran's air completely.
25:23The air force operated in the Iranian sky, like it was a stroll in the park.
25:30Caught off-guard, Iran sent its kamikaze drones into the sky.
25:38But they were immediately destroyed by Israeli combat helicopters.
25:53Cornered, the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force then made a serious mistake.
26:00They decided to meet to organize a counter-attack.
26:04The trap, set by the IDF, was closing in on them.
26:09They sent encrypted false messages to these commanders of the Iranian IRGC,
26:18and they brought them together to the same bunker.
26:21There were agents also near the locations in order to ensure that indeed they are there.
26:28And then there, Israeli officers bombed the place.
26:36They aim for what we call the C2, that is, the commandment system.
26:41The fact that the commandment of the commandment suddenly creates a surprise effect.
26:48And it also causes, of course, the fear.
26:53In retaliation, the Iranian regime fired more than 500 ballistic missiles at Israel.
27:04Around 50 of them reached the heart of Tel Aviv.
27:10Israel retaliated in turn.
27:17It attacked all the symbols of the Islamic Republic.
27:21Including the state television station, Irib News.
27:30Leading figures from the regime were simply taken out in their Tehran homes.
27:49During the 12 days of war, around 30 high-ranking officials were assassinated.
27:55Among them were Hossein Zalami, the head of the Revolutionary Guards.
28:00Amir Ali Aguizadeh, the commander of its air force.
28:04Mohammed Bagheri, the chief of staff of the armed forces.
28:14But Israel's main aim in Operation Rising Lion was to strike at the heart of the Iranian system.
28:21Its closely guarded nuclear program.
28:25Several of the program's top scientists were assassinated.
28:32Including the head, Feredun Abassi.
28:36So the Israeli assassinations of between 10 to 15 nuclear scientists during the war
28:41was certainly an impressive accomplishment.
28:45Mainly due to the fact that those were not ordinary nuclear scientists.
28:48They were actually playing a major role concerning the weaponization part of Iran's nuclear program.
28:54The research center in Isfahan was bombed.
29:02But the Israeli air force was unable to reach one of the country's most strategic uranium enrichment sites,
29:09the Fordo site, hidden in the mountains 200 kilometers south of Tehran.
29:27They put the Fordo, an enrichment plant, 40, 50 meters deep inside the ground, even in some places 90 meters.
29:35Now the Israeli air force doesn't have these monstrous bombs.
29:42Even if we had the bomb, we don't have the bombers.
29:46But Israel was then able to count on very valuable assistance.
29:51Assistance from the skies.
29:54The Americans and Trump said, we will do it, we will do it.
29:59And that's the Americans, the bombers came with these huge bombs and the GBU bombs.
30:06On June the 22nd, 2025, 12 penetrating bombs, each weighing 13 tons,
30:13were dropped on the Fordo site by the United States.
30:16Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
30:24Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Thank you.
30:31Donald Trump congratulated himself.
30:34But despite the huge craters visible in these satellite images, the truth was slightly different.
30:41Iran's nuclear program was certainly degraded and delayed.
30:45They still have the technical capabilities and the technology.
30:49And they still have about 450 kilograms of enriched uranium to 60 percent.
30:55So from the technical point of view, they can still do that.
30:58But it's going probably to be a very risky decision for them
31:01if they don't want to trigger another round of Israeli or even US strike.
31:09But how did Israel prepare for this large-scale operation?
31:15The military offensive would never have been possible,
31:18without an infiltration campaign by the Israeli secret services, Mossad.
31:28It was built over years, layer upon layer.
31:36For a decade, the Israeli secret services have been deeply penetrating Iran.
31:42They've recruited dozens of agents capable of operating in complete secrecy.
31:47But the Mossad began working on a program to recruit foreigners.
31:55Foreigners who are familiar with Iran.
31:59So mostly they have to be Iranians, but not necessarily.
32:02They have to speak the language, Farsi.
32:05They have to know the culture.
32:08It's called foreign flag recruitment.
32:12Mossad relies on a number of key levers to attract recruits.
32:18Mossad relies on a number of key levers.
32:19The matrix for the information is the matrix that we call MICE.
32:22So money, that is to buy people.
32:25Ideology, that is rather the hate regime.
32:30The coercition, that is to get information on whether a person is homosexual,
32:36whether a person is homosexual, whether a person has a liaison,
32:37and then to punish them against people.
32:39And then the ego, that is the desire to have a decisive action on history.
32:51These undercover agents are said to have helped to transport ammunition
32:55and remote-controlled missile launchers into Iran via networks of smugglers.
33:04The easiest way is to smuggle through the borders.
33:08Smuggling in Iran is a way of life.
33:11There is human traffic, you smuggle women, you smuggle drugs,
33:16you smuggle goods, electronic goods, and you smuggle weapons.
33:23Some of the components transported were also used to assemble kamikaze drones
33:28in clandestine workshops.
33:31Mossad agents then used them to destroy military targets.
33:40The 12-day war left a total of nearly 1,000 dead in Iran.
33:48In Tehran, a few days after the end of the fighting,
33:54the revolutionary guards who had been killed were elevated to the rank of martyrs.
34:04Thousands of supporters of the Islamic Republic came to pay their respects as their coffins passed.
34:11Even though the guards had been decimated, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei proclaimed victory.
34:34The authorities were trying to save face, as over the years the regime has built its image
34:40as being the ultimate bulwark against Israel.
34:44Anti-Israeli propaganda is omnipresent in Tehran.
34:48This clock displays a countdown to the destruction of the state of Israel promised within 25 years.
34:55It's broadcast all day long on state television, as in this animated clip.
35:04Lego-like figures caricature Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump with a hamburger in his hand.
35:16The regime was titled to have won the victory.
35:19It was buried in a rhetoric of propaganda, of victory, of posters, of grand fresques,
35:27in the name of the new martyrs of Iran today, through the streets of Tehran capital.
35:33But the reality is all other.
35:35And what's interesting is that today, the Iranians are no longer dupes of this propaganda.
35:40Iranians are not really interested in the enemy identified by the regime.
35:45They have a much more practical problem, their purchasing power.
35:51As illustrated by the young couple Taraneh and Amin,
35:54who have come to shop in the financial heart of the capital, the bazaar.
36:13Pomegranates are a staple of Iranian cuisine.
36:24But the prices are exorbitant nowadays.
36:32International sanctions and the misappropriation of wealth by the guards have ruined the economy.
36:40There has been over 50% inflation in one year.
36:44So the young couple are having to cut back on everything.
36:49That's 7 euros.
37:00With an average wage of 170 euros per month,
37:04even basic necessities have become unaffordable.
37:20milk has gone up 50% in two months.
37:26Bread, the staple food for Iranians on low incomes, has tripled in price in one year.
37:37The young couple go to a wealthy district of Teheran, to have lunch with Taraneh's mother.
37:57There's an American fridge, air fryer and espresso machine.
38:02This is an upper-class family.
38:12But the fridge is almost empty here too.
38:16What do you want to do?
38:16Bougie?
38:17Bougie, home, home.
38:19Home, home, home.
38:21Do you want to go inside your life?
38:24I don't want to go inside your house.
38:25My dad and my dad have a question.
38:26I have a question.
38:27I have a question.
38:45Amin doesn't hesitate to help in the kitchen.
38:48Here, the rigid patriarchal society seems far away.
39:06BBC Persian is on in the living room.
39:11Taraneh's mother also gets her news from the internet.
39:15Taraneh's mother also gets her news from the internet.
39:27Taraneh's mother also gets her news from the internet.
39:27The authorities censor social media, so many Iranians use VPNs.
39:44The Revolutionary Guards control the media and telecommunications.
39:49But they also have a stranglehold on almost every other economic sector in the country.
39:56So how did they become a veritable state within a state?
40:05In a residential suburb of Washington, there's a man who has known the organization's secrets
40:10since its inception.
40:14Mohsen Zazegara fled Iran after being threatened by the Revolutionary Guards.
40:35Mohsen Zazegara created this monster more than 50 years ago.
40:46Mohsen Zazegara created this monster more than 50 years ago.
40:49Mohsen Zazegara's mother to the country.
40:53I am here.
40:55Mohsen Zazegara witnessed the gradual transformation of the Islamic militia.
41:08MAHsen Zazegara witnessed the gradual transformation of the Islamic militia.
41:14It's a great opportunity.
41:16In fact, the Iranian civil regime is a 12-year-old mafia government
41:23who is also a dictator who is a godfather,
41:30who is the father of God,
41:31who is the only mafia with them.
41:34The Revolutionary Guards have swapped their uniforms for smart suits
41:39and taken control of all the country's strategic businesses.
41:44In Tel Aviv, Israel, there's a man who has investigated their economic empire.
41:51Udi Levy is a former Mossad commander.
41:53My name is Udi Levy.
41:55I was in charge inside the Mossad
41:59in all the economical warfare against Iran for 15 years.
42:06Along the year, the Iranian, very clever,
42:11they developed two kinds of economy.
42:15The regular economy for the common people
42:18and totally different economy for the Revolutionary Guards.
42:22The meaning was that the Revolutionary Guards took control
42:27of all the main sources of the Iranian.
42:31To control the economy, these new oligarchs created several holding companies,
42:37such as the Khatam al-Anbiya conglomerate,
42:39which is worth more than $10 billion.
42:43Khatam al-Anbiya reconstruction headquarters has moved towards super projects,
42:48which were hitherto undertaken by foreign companies.
42:54Khatam al-Anbiya is one of the main institute for real estate building.
43:05They are doing almost of the huge infrastructure.
43:08They are more contractors than the Khatam al-Anbiya.
43:13And the major projects of the country
43:16have taken from goods and goods, goods, goods and goods
43:21to goods and goods.
43:25Their main resource is oil.
43:28Iran has the fifth largest reserves in the world,
43:32a source of considerable wealth.
43:36Almost 100% of the money from the oil market
43:39going to the budget of the Revolutionary Guards.
43:43This is one of the main sources that they have
43:46to finance this auto activity.
43:48They need billions of dollars.
43:50The oil, subject to international sanctions,
43:53is mainly sold to China.
43:55And the Iranians have set up a sophisticated system
43:58to circumvent the embargo.
44:02Every day, two million barrels of oil leave the Iranian coast
44:06aboard ships that disappear from maritime radar
44:09by cutting off their geolocation beacons.
44:15For example, when they take an Iranian tanker, oil tanker,
44:20it doesn't leave directly to China.
44:22It goes, for example, to Malaysia or Indonesia,
44:25where the oil is transferred on another vessel
44:29with a different flag.
44:31And then from Malaysia and Indonesia, it goes to China.
44:34There is no answer to any question.
44:36The oil is at the price,
44:39and then the oil is at the price.
44:43This trafficking allows them to rake in colossal profits
44:47estimated at nearly $50 billion a year.
44:50And to launder this money, the Revolutionary Guards
44:55have woven a global network of shell companies
44:58in Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates.
45:07When you are under sanction, immediately your name entering
45:11to the blacklist.
45:15The meaning that the banking cannot work with you,
45:18the banking cannot transfer money.
45:20Companies, other companies cannot work.
45:21So if you want to bypass, you have to build a shell company.
45:26The moneychanger opened a cover company
45:28in China, or in Dubai, or in Hong Kong.
45:33For denouncing this mafia-like system,
45:36Mohsen Sazeghara was imprisoned five times
45:39in Teheran's Eve imprisoned by the Revolutionary Guards,
45:42the organisation he himself created.
45:46I lost after two long hunger strikes totally.
45:51It took about 79 days.
45:54When I was released, I was only 42 kilogram.
45:59I lost about 35 kilogram of my weight.
46:03Mohsen Sazeghara was eventually released.
46:06He fled Iran and continues to oppose the Islamic Republic
46:10from the United States.
46:11But his life remains under threat.
46:15The FBI has warned me,
46:18the intelligence of the Revolutionary Guard
46:22is planning to kill you.
46:24They informed that they want to kill me.
46:26I heard that Khamenei personally has ordered that
46:32shut down and close the mouth of this guy outside Iran.
46:41Because the Revolutionary Guards
46:43make assassination attempts on their opponents,
46:47well beyond Iran's borders.
46:50Vidal Cuadras is recovered from a shot in the face
46:52that he received close to his house in Madrid.
46:55The police believe it's a work of sicarians
46:57and he is investigating a possible iranian connection.
47:01The feds charged one Iranian and two Canadian nationals
47:04for plotting the murders of two Maryland residents,
47:07one of whom had defected from Iran.
47:09A couple of Iranian people tried to shoot a bomb
47:12during the assembly of an Iranian opposition party
47:15last Saturday in Villepinte, near Paris.
47:17Matthew Levitt, a former US counter-terrorism official
47:21based in Washington, has meticulously documented
47:24these clandestine operations.
47:28I created a map which we will update on a regular basis
47:31of Iranian external operations.
47:33The map shows very clearly that Iran has been using these tactics,
47:37specifically assassination, kidnapping and violent intimidation
47:43all over the world since, you know, weeks into the revolution.
47:48This phenomenon has accelerated significantly in recent times.
47:53Matthew Levitt has documented at least 88 clandestine operations
47:57carried out by the Guardians abroad over the past five years,
48:01including 11 in France.
48:02IRGC has a mission to address those at home or abroad
48:07that present threats to the revolution.
48:09So Israelis, Jews that support Israel or speak out against Iran,
48:14Iran and, of course, Iranian dissidents.
48:18Every day, every day,
48:22they will be organized.
48:24All of you want to drink.
48:28An Iranian dissident has agreed to tell us
48:31about the persecution he is suffering.
48:34For security reasons,
48:35it is impossible to meet him in person.
48:40If you meet me, you may be followed by some people.
48:45So this is the point,
48:48that from you or through you, they can reach me.
48:53Siamak Tadayon Tamazbi is a journalist
48:56and opponent of the Islamic Republic.
48:59For the past two years,
49:01he's been living in hiding in the Netherlands
49:03under the protection of the Dutch security services.
49:08I'm not in the same place every day.
49:11It's a solitary, actually,
49:13a very limited version of life.
49:16There is no social life
49:20or communication with the people.
49:23Siamak lives under high security
49:25because he has narrowly escaped death.
49:28In June 2024,
49:30on his surveillance cameras,
49:31he saw two men lurking around his flat
49:34in the middle of the night.
49:37They were wearing the masks,
49:40and one of them was carrying a big hammer.
49:44They were, you know,
49:45trying to prepare to come inside.
49:49I just pushed the panic button
49:51to alarm the police.
49:55And fortunately, they were very fast.
49:59The Dutch police arrested the two men
50:01and found handguns on them.
50:03But their profiles surprised the investigators
50:06because they were not Iranian.
50:09One of them,
50:11Mares Ayari,
50:12is a Franco-Tunisian drug trafficker.
50:16He was also wanted for an assassination attempt in Madrid
50:20against a politician critical of the Islamic Republic.
50:23So, for Siamak, there was no doubt about it.
50:26He had been sent by the Iranian regime.
50:30They hired the mafia that, you know, they just pay,
50:35and they don't want anything to know about that.
50:38They just want a picture from the person who got killed.
50:41And the rest, they are not involved.
50:45Nobody can prove it.
50:47Assassins in the pay of the mullahs.
50:50The Revolutionary Guards rely on organized crime,
50:54such as the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Canada.
51:01Or drug traffickers in Europe.
51:04For these organizations, this is business.
51:06If the money is good,
51:08and if they have the capabilities,
51:09they'll seriously consider the job.
51:11And for Iran, that's useful
51:12because those are people who presumably have some skills.
51:16This theory is confirmed by the Dutch intelligence services
51:19in their 2024 annual report.
51:43The terror of the Revolutionary Guards exported all over the world
51:47strikes mainly within Iran.
51:49The recent crackdown on protests claimed at least 3,500 victims
51:54over a period of only two weeks.
52:03It was a long time,
52:07and that is something that you view the
52:07It..
52:15The mission of the Revolutionary Guardswith
52:16It's
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