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Ali Khamenei will resist 'to the last drop of blood,' his nephew tells Euronews

Exiled in France since 1986, Mahmoud Moradkhani is a doctor and an opponent of the Iranian regime. The nephew of Iran's ayatollah tells Euronews that the security crackdown will not end the demonstrations.

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00:00Our family, particularly my father, became opposable about six months after the victory of the revolution.
00:08Personally, I couldn't go to university because I was already part of the opposition
00:14and there was an exam, a concoursed ideological, which I wouldn't accept, of course.
00:22So I always wanted to continue my studies.
00:25And as my father was prison, and then he was forced to exiler in Iraq,
00:32I was out of Iran with my family, with my mother and my sisters in 1985.
00:38And I arrived in France in 1986.
00:41Selon l'ONG Iran Human Rights, there were already more than 3428 morts.
00:46Is it, selon you, there could be a lot more?
00:48Is it the worst repression in the history of the Islamic Republic?
00:52Is it a sign that the regime doesn't maintain more than by the terror and more than by the ideological control,
00:58that it is a bit accueled and that, of course, it is ready to stay in place?
01:02In fact, probably the number of victims is much more than 3 000.
01:08It's the repression the most sanguine.
01:11This regime has always reprimed, and we have in souvenirs of manifestations and repressions.
01:20But this time, it seems that, according to the information that I received and that we see in the media,
01:26the number of victims is much more important.
01:29And probably the regime has really felt a danger this time,
01:32and it has wanted to show a lot more violent to calm the population.
01:39But the people iranian, in general, the Iranians, in their majority,
01:44have never accepted this regime and they will not accept it.
01:47And I think that the movements will not stop just by the repression.
01:52Is it you think, so, that the repression can put an end to these manifestations?
01:56Or is it, on the contrary, is it possible that it could be repressed?
01:58There are some sources that talk about a reprise during the 40 days of the deuil.
02:01And, of course, the repression can calm it in a transitory way.
02:09We saw this in the previous years, at several times.
02:13And, of course, the number of killed people have made that people stay at home.
02:20But it's a feu sous the sand and a stay, certainly not very far.
02:27They will wake up, the regime will be still in danger,
02:30and contested by the people.
02:32Is it you think you would think that we could assist to a chute of the regime in a close future future?
02:37Is it that it will need an external intervention, maybe military,
02:40from the Europeans or the United States?
02:43I'm not for a manifestation without program, without perspective.
02:49And I often criticize the opposition iranian, who has not managed to obtain a coalition, a program well defined.
02:58I think that the descent in the rue, the manifestation in the rue, should be the last step of a revolution.
03:04And the revolution should be more réfléchie, more programmable, prepared in advance.
03:09And, of the other hand, on the level of the military intervention,
03:13we have seen in the history that the military intervention has never been well effective.
03:17And, of course, it has often allowed to have an anarchic, wars civiles and terrorism.
03:26Is it Donald Trump a laissé tomber les Iraniens?
03:29Is it the sentiment of the protesters today?
03:31Yes, I think that the protesters, the Iraniens, have thought that Trump would do something and would help them militarily.
03:42After the story of Venezuela, there was a hope.
03:46Personally, I've never had hope in Trump and I'm not in agreement with his way of doing it and his politics.
03:53But, unfortunately, or, unfortunately, there is a great part of the Iranian people who think about it and they think about it and they think about it and they think about it.
04:05On the level of diplomatism, it is all at all possible.
04:07The European countries, in particular, should declare the pastaran as terrorists and then rompre the diplomatic relations at its maximum.
04:17But, unfortunately, there are still other countries who help this regime, who maintain this regime.
04:24It's a question quite difficult.
04:26Seul Trump, he can't do anything.
04:30At the same time, he can do several problems at the same time.
04:34So, it's not a political desire and interesting thing.
04:39If the regime tomber, or when the regime tombera, who will take the relief?
04:43Do you think that would mean the rise of the Islamic Republic?
04:47Or is there a credible alternative?
04:49And is it that we should fear a chaos in Iran?
04:51Alors, d'abord, nous avons beaucoup d'activistes politiques en Iran.
04:58And I think if we shoot, in the first time, those who are in prison, those who are in Iran, they are in the Iran.
05:05It's them who will take the power, and they will remain, and they will organize the entry of the opposition in exile.
05:16It's not to forget that there are a lot of political prisoners in Iran.
05:20And among them, there are leaders that we respect, that we respect them, that we respect them too.
05:26So, of the other hand, I think that this regime partir once Ali Khamenei is dead.
05:32Ali Khamenei has a certain prestige among the pastarans, and he is part of the first generation of the revolution.
05:42After him, there is no one at this level.
05:45And the others, they are all the second or third generation of the revolution.
05:49And I think that the rivalities are like that after the death of Ali Khamenei, the regime will fall off by a war intérieur.
05:57And that would be, in my opinion, the result, and the following will be much easier to manage that in a war mass, in an attack mass.
06:09The death of Ali Khamenei will start with the internal struggle and the disappearance of the regime.
06:17Do you think that Ali Khamenei should be captured and judged, and if yes, by who?
06:21Well, ideally, yes. If a revolution programmed and determined, using the whole population, was organized, and we could get it, we would end up with it, we would end up with it and judge.
06:38And of course, judge, it would be good because we would avoid it, we would avoid it, we would avoid it, we would avoid it after him, we would avoid it, we would avoid it.
06:47But unfortunately, the regime is in force, the arms are in the arms of the regime, and it's very difficult to be imprisoned, to be alive.
07:01But ideally, it would be that, it would be a movement well organized, well réfléchi, well programmed, which is about to the arrest of Ali Khamenei.
07:11Is it that you are directly in contact with him or via members of your family? Is it that he is on the start? Is it that you have news of his state of health? And is it that he has designated his successor?
07:23No, we don't have a relationship. My mother, in particular, who is his sister, has no relationship with him for years and years, and me no longer.
07:34But of course, in the way, we are aware of the health of his own, he doesn't have a big problem.
07:41We were talking about prostate, but probably not more. His wife is sick at all, I am aware of it, but it's on his own private life.
07:53I don't think he is on the point of the start, I don't think he is abandoned.
07:57Ali Khamenei is part of dictators like Ceausescu, and they will stay until the last minute, they will believe in their truth, in their words, and they will not accept anything else, and they will resist until the last bite of the blood.
08:15Is it that he has already designated his successor?
08:17We were talking about Moshtaba's son son, but I don't think he is. I don't think he is. I don't think he is still at his death.
08:24I have hope. The Iranians are very courageous, of course, and the political forces inside are present. They will go to prison.
08:35We don't talk about it. They are not organized. They are not organized. They are not the media. They are not the possibility, at all that currently, the Internet is cut.
08:41But I think that if we help the Iranian people, on the diplomat and political level, if we succeed to reverse this regime, we will see that later it will be much clearer and much stronger for the region and for the world.
08:58Personally, I am a Republican. I would like to say that it is a Republican. But of course, it is the Iranian people who choose.
09:05And I think that the problem the most important in Iran, it is the Islam political and it is the Islam political and it is the religion in the politics and in the society.
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