00:00let's get a iranian perspective i'm now joined by milad rabani he's a former iranian diplomat
00:05joins me live from istanbul appreciate mr rabani you joining us it appears at the moment that iran
00:12is unwilling to buckle at all are we saying that there is no deal now on the table that iran
00:17is
00:17prepared to take whatever donald trump has in uh in store for them in terms of military strikes
00:27thank you for having me uh first of all i need to tell you for the iranian regime
00:34uh when we mention iran we mean iranian regime and the iranian regime they don't care absolutely
00:42about the infrastructure and uh the life of people and the more the casualties of the war increase
00:50uh they will have the take they will take the advantage of this more and more and it's better
00:57for the iranian regime uh because now they made an enemy a foreign enemy donald trump and uh netanyahu
01:05and they are invading uh iran even the regime they know the people don't care about the regime
01:12and the iranian regime use the country as a pretext they said okay now the country is uh
01:19under invasion and there is a minister donald trump who is invading us so uh come and help us and
01:28some
01:28people believe that and uh they will join them so the regime knows how to use it as a pretext
01:36and how
01:36to take the advantage of this uh this action even the words to today trump said uh they are a
01:46blessing
01:46in disguise for uh iranian regime no so you're you're saying the iranian you're you're saying the iranian
01:53regime actually wants is spoiling for a fight this is what sustains them is that what you're saying that
01:59their future their survival is at stake so they will do whatever it takes to all they will never surrender
02:07is
02:07what you're saying exactly and if i want to give you an example no need to go for uh the
02:15word war cases
02:16you can see the uh praxis of this regime like hamas hamas uh when it was they attacked israel in
02:25october 7th
02:26they knew they don't have the capability to fight with israel but and israel in retaliation attack and
02:33destroyed uh the gaza uh they knew that the hamas i mean they did because they don't care about this
02:42they fight until they die and you cannot change their mentality their mentality is uh to fight or to
02:51die and iranian regime is in their policy it's in their blood they use crisis to solve the crisis and
03:00just imagine uh if the war is ended and the iranian regime uh they will leave the nuclear program no
03:09they
03:09will leave the praxis no they will leave the missiles absolutely not especially after these two wars
03:17and now going to weapons of mass destruction is an urgent for iranian regime so i believe i believe
03:26there is only one victory for uh trump if trump wants to be the victory of this war he should
03:33uh just consider the raging change without raging change uh it is not possible but but the images
03:44but the images that we are seeing from tehran are of people who seemingly seemingly are standing by the
03:50regime there are images and i'll play them on the screen of people actually who are standing in
03:56solidarity in bridges at various places that the u.s has threatened to target railway lines are you
04:02telling me the people want iran to surrender or or give up the fight if i want to tell you
04:10about
04:10most of the iranian people most of the iranian people wants the regime uh to collapse they don't
04:15want the regime or against the regime and you see people some people came and that's the point i
04:21mentioned at first i told you the iranian regime knows how to take the advantages of this war
04:27how to make a foreign invader like trump as a monster and to use it as a pretext for the
04:36people
04:36of iran to uh provoke them to to bring them on the street on the bridges and to use it
04:44as a news feed
04:46as a propaganda and to show the world uh what we have you know the iranian regime has got some
04:52capability they are not disabled if they were disabled absolutely disabled uh the trump is a
04:58person who believes the might is right and now we will up we would observe the uh u.s troops
05:06u.s
05:06marines were in the on the ground but still they cannot do that because they know the capability of
05:13iran and iran can continue to launching missiles right i believe there is possibility even that donald trump
05:20use uh nuclear weapons let's say uh not nuclear weapons strategic uh nuclear weapons to destroy the
05:31uh missile cities because missile cities are impenetrable and when he used that we will see he
05:39came and he start to exaggerating his achievement we did a great job we use the nuclear weapons
05:46after the world war ii for the second time to kill an evil to destroy the structures that no one
05:55can
05:55destroy and uh there will be some exaggeration on this uh so i believe uh mr rabani there will be
06:04you're you're basically saying the regime is not going to surrender that the regime is not going to
06:09accept a negotiated settlement they will continue because as you rightly said there in a way the crisis has
06:16only strengthened in some way the regime or this is exactly what the regime wants for its survival but
06:23i appreciate you joining me there mr rabani for giving us that perspective this is someone who was of
06:30of course once once with the iranian government now joining me there from istanbul
06:35you
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