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In this explosive exclusive interview on March 17, 2026, Iranian-Canadian activist and former Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari reacts to the U.S.-Israel strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. She thanks Israel and the United States for the ‘long-overdue rescue,’ predicts the biggest uprising since 1979, and urges them to ‘finish the job’ for regime change. Ghamari highlights Reza Pahlavi as transitional leader, the 3,000-year Iran-Israel friendship, diaspora celebrations, and a path to secular democracy via the Iran Prosperity Project. Iranians inside and outside celebrate as the Islamic Republic crumbles. She slams the regime's 47 years of oppression, including recent mass killings, and calls on Canada to recognize Pahlavi.
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00:03what was your first reaction uh around the u.s israel strike uh first of all i was in shock
00:10and then i was very grateful
00:20what the united states and israel are doing is they are leveling the playing field
00:24they are giving iranians an opportunity to fight back
00:30it was only when the islamic regime occupied iran and they brought with them
00:36their 7th century jihadi ideology that's when they started chanting you know death to america
00:41death to israel
00:45what are your concerns around the civilian deaths or the humanitarian impact in this case when it comes
00:52to iran iranians are actually safer when the islamic regime is being attacked by the united
00:59states and israel
01:08today we're being joined by goldie gamari an iranian born uh human rights activist former
01:15ontario mpp and one of the fiercest voice in the entire score of calling for a free iran
01:20as we speak the islamic republic is being targeted by the constant reeling the constant strikes
01:28and with the death of the supreme leader khamini what is being described right now is that the
01:35biggest uprising since 1979 miss gamari has gone on record publicly
01:41hanking israel and the united states for what she describes as the long overdue rescue operation
01:48thank you miss gamari for joining here today and for this exclusive conversation with us
01:54um miss gamari first i'd like to begin with understanding of in your opinion as an iranian
02:01canadian lawmaker how what was your first reaction uh around the u.s israel strike in which
02:08the supreme uh leader died uh so well first of all thank you so much for having me on it's
02:15an honor
02:16to be here very excited to speak with you uh and your audience so my first reaction upon hearing of
02:22the israeli american strikes and uh the the extermination of ali khamini the supreme dictator of the islamic
02:29regime uh first of all i was in shock and then i was very grateful and the reason that i
02:37was in shock
02:38is because this is something that we iranians have been asking for for the last 47 years we have been
02:43asking for um you know someone to come and help liberate us because we iranians for the last 47 years
02:52uh ever since 1979 when the islamic dictatorship took over we have been under a brutal islamic oppression
03:00and they have been murdering us they have been raping us they have been silencing us and every single time
03:06that we have tried to rise up in the last 47 years they have murdered us because we iranians we
03:13are
03:13unarmed so my reaction upon hearing that the united states and israel finally intervened and the first
03:21thing they did was exterminate khamini was gratefulness so thank you so much to israel and the united states
03:38israel to topple the regime so the purpose of the operation itself is not to topple the regime
03:50so the purpose of the operation itself is not to topple the regime because ultimately it's not up to the
03:52united states or israel to topple the regime that's up to the iranian people what the united states and
03:59israel are doing is they are leveling the playing field they are giving iranians an opportunity to
04:04fight back against the savage oppressors who have been murdering us for the last 47 years what's really
04:12important to remember is that we iranians have a leader his name is reza pahlavi he is the crown prince
04:19of iran his royal highness he's also the leader of the iranian national revolution and so a lot of
04:26people uh don't factor in that equation ultimately the people who will topple the regime will be the
04:34iranians themselves under the leadership and guidance of his royal highness reza pahlavi we have a plan for
04:41that it's called the iran prosperity project um in your opinion i do think the iranian canadian
04:48community would have responded to or reacted to this uh these airstrikes these operations and
04:55possibility of a routine change well they have been very grateful iranian canadians have been out of
05:01the streets uh celebrating uh we have gathered in front of the u.s uh embassy in ottawa also the
05:07u.s
05:08consulate in toronto and of course in various cities in montreal and vancouver calgary windsor elsewhere
05:14and all iranian canadians are very grateful uh they're they're holding uh you know photos of
05:20president trump they're waving american flags they're saying thank you trump thank you bb so
05:25iranian canadians are very grateful and this is a direct reflection of iranians inside occupied iran
05:32because uh when you see videos of iranians from february 28 right before the islamic regime shut down the
05:39internet some of the first few videos that came out were iranians in occupied iran singing dancing
05:46celebrating saying thank you trump thank you bb and that's exactly why the islamic regime
05:52shut down the internet on february 28 because they did not want the outside world to know
05:57that 90 million iranians are celebrating the fact that the united states and israel are attacking the islamic
06:05regime um miss gamari there are a lot of people iranian people there uh as we speak stuck in iran
06:14when these strides are ongoing if you had to send them a message what that message uh would be for
06:21the iranians stuck there so my message to iranians in occupied iran would be well first of all i have
06:28to i have to let you know what their message is because that will make my message make sense so
06:32the message from iranians in occupied iran to us iranians outside their message is do not allow
06:41anyone to say that we are not grateful the biggest fear that iranians in occupied iran have right now
06:49is that the united states and israel will stop the military strike before the regime is overthrown and
06:56that is their biggest worry that the that the regime will survive so my message in fact all of
07:02our message as iranians outside of iran to iranians in the country is that do not worry we iranians
07:10those of us who are outside we will be your voice we will continue to be your voice we will
07:14not stop
07:15and we will make sure that everyone knows that we want the united states in israel to finish the job
07:21we will make sure that the islamic regime is destroyed and when the islamic regime is is destroyed
07:27that will be the moment that iranians under the leadership of his royal highness reza pahlavi
07:33will go out to reclaim the country and free iran
07:37mrs marif i have to understand this uh back in the days iran and israel shared a very positive
07:45relationship yes so in your opinion does this operation has the possibility of restoring the kind
07:52of relationship it shared back in the days uh so to say from uh cyprus the great uh so is
07:59there a
07:59possibility 100 in fact uh in fact that is uh one of the reasons why israel is helping us right
08:07now
08:07because this uh alliance and friendship between iranians and israelis goes back thousands of years
08:14well before islam was invented and prior to 1979 iran and israel were very very close allies it was
08:22only when the islamic regime occupied iran and they brought with them their 7th century jihadi
08:28ideology that's when they started chanting you know death to america death to israel but the reality
08:34is that we iranians and and israelis we have been close friends and allies for 3 000 years and you
08:40know 47 years of islamic occupation cannot erase that and israelis already know that we iranians
08:47we're so grateful to them and prime minister netanyahu is actually more popular in iran right
08:55now than he probably is in israel so uh yes absolutely one of the first things that we plan
09:01on doing under our transitional government under the leadership of rizal pahlavi is to uh once again
09:08formally recognize the state of israel and uh to to re-establish and normalize uh that alliance that we had
09:15with israel also you if uh moving forward if uh for you someone as an iranian canadian a lawmaker
09:23uh do you think is it time for canada to support the regime change there in iran or for that
09:30matter
09:30should canada uh help and support or also at the same time recognize the democratic iranian government
09:39if so to say well yes absolutely i i think i think uh the government of canada should absolutely call
09:45for regime change uh and i think uh the government of canada should in fact recognize his royal highness
09:51as the leader of iran's transitional government uh i've actually submitted a petition to the canadian
09:56parliament uh asking the canadian government to do exactly that now whether or not uh mark carney and
10:02the liberal government are going to do that is something else entirely unfortunately the current
10:07canadian government they seem to be more interested in uh in catering to the to islamist needs than
10:14they are to standing for what's right and that's very shameful very very shameful of of the canadian
10:20liberal government for not taking um a strong unequivocal stance against islamic terrorism and we
10:28as iranian canadians we will not forget this betrayal miss gamari um as i understood your whole
10:35perspective behind uh how canada should uh uh come forward and support iran at this hour um diaspora at the
10:45very
10:45moment at the very same time plays a huge huge role so do you think diaspora should help build iran
10:53with
10:54all that is happening there at this very moment given the current situation that there is uh what kind
11:01of the role should diaspora play at this point i mean i i i can't i can't say what sort
11:08of role
11:08diaspora should or should not should not play but what i can tell you is that the vast majority of
11:15iranians who escaped iran who escaped occupied iran did so because they did not want to live under an
11:22islamist regime now many of us have gained a lot of experience in various countries including canada
11:29so i'm not here to say what diaspora iranians should do however what i can tell you is what i've
11:36heard
11:36from a lot of iranians including iranian canadians is that as soon as iran is free many of them do
11:44actually want to go back and they want to help rebuild the country so one of the things i that
11:50i
11:50expect to see not just in canada but around the world is as soon as uh iran is free we're
11:56actually
11:56going to see one of the biggest um uh mass re-immigrations back to iran from the iranian
12:04diaspora around the world because many of us are very excited and looking forward to using the skills
12:11that we have gained uh in other countries to go back and help rebuild our country
12:17um miss gamari you have been a very vocal human rights advocate uh when such a situation arises
12:26when countries are involved in conflict at such a stage um the humanitarian impact increases a lot
12:34what are your concerns around the civilian deaths or the humanitarian impact in this case when it comes
12:41through that so for the last 47 years the terrorist islamic republic has been murdering iranians in
12:48the name of allah and islam and jihad and muhammad um without any consequence so the islamic regime has
12:56the blood of millions of iranians on their hands and they have brutally uh murdered us they have raped us
13:03they have tortured us uh just you know a few days ago a story came out about how the islamic
13:08regime
13:09um they they uh arrested and raped two iranian nurses just because they were treating uh injured
13:17iranian protesters just two months ago just two months ago the islamic regime mass slaughtered
13:24almost 90 000 innocent unarmed iranians just because they wanted freedom so one of the things that we
13:32iranians have said and one of the main messages that we're getting from iranians and occupying iran
13:38is that what is happening right now this is all at the hands of the islamic republic every single
13:45innocent life lost is at the hands of the islamic republic because they refuse to surrender they
13:52refuse to back down when they know that iranians don't want them however what i can say is that even
14:00though every single innocent life lost is a tragedy what's really frightening is that the current amount
14:09of uh innocent civilian lives lost in this conflict is less than a thousand probably somewhere between
14:20you know less than 500 even however two months ago the islamic regime murdered 90 000 iranians
14:29so right now this conflict iranians are actually safer when the islamic regime is being attacked by
14:38the united states in israel than then when it's not because the biggest the biggest murderer of
14:45iranians is the islamic regime and that's why iranians are are saying that they want this conflict
14:52because this is the only way this is the only way that we can uh liberate ourselves from this cancer
14:57that
14:58has occupied our country for the last 47 years and every single innocent life lost we're only blaming
15:05khamenei and the islamic dictatorship because they are the ones who have been murdering us and oppressing
15:10us for the last 47 years and we are very grateful to the united states and israel for for coming
15:16to iran
15:17to liberate us um this is my last question to you now um in this circle back to this entire
15:25interview
15:26you did mention about reza palavi twice now we look at the future of the iran post the regime of
15:34fall
15:34uh what kind of a role do you see reza palavi playing for a democratic iran so he has already
15:44stepped in as transitional leader that's at the call of the iranian people so all the iranians who went out
15:50two months ago and you know 90 000 iranians lost their lives because they were chanting javid shah
15:56which means long live the king they were also chanting which means this is a final battle
16:03palavi will return so the iranian people have already voted with their blood and voted with their lives
16:10for who they want but i want to make something very clear his royal highness reza palavi he's not coming
16:16back as the shah of iran he's coming back as the transitional leader why because we trust him
16:22he is the only person that we iranians trust to transition iran from an islamic dictatorship
16:30into a secular democratic society now what sort of secular democratic society that will be
16:37that's up to the iranian people in a national referendum so whether or not iranians choose to
16:42have a constitutional monarchy like england for example or whether iranians want to have a republic
16:49like the united states that will be up to the iranian people to decide and then based on that
16:56national referendum we will then move forward with writing and establishing a constitution but one of
17:03the things that we are committed to is a democratic state uh with you know separation of religion and and
17:11government we want to respect our territorial integrity and of course we have a commitment to
17:17maintaining human rights thank you so much mr marifay insights insights uh were extremely extremely
17:26powerful the perspectives are powerful um is it safe to say that and um i'm grateful for your
17:33unwavering hope for iran thank you so much for speaking to us exclusively thank you so much for having
17:40me on it was an honor to be here
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