00:00Thank you for taking my questions today.
00:06How does the State Department interpret the President's recent remarks when he said, quote,
00:23The Iranian people need to have guns, and I think they are getting some guns, end quote.
00:30What did he mean, and do those comments relate to any ongoing or potential U.S. actions like supplying those
00:35weapons?
00:36Well, I think it goes back to the question I was asked a moment ago.
00:38I think the President thinks it's heartbreaking that the Iranian people are abused by this regime the way they are.
00:43In the end, I mean, this regime is not...
00:44Guys, I know, I've said this, I think I said this in my hearing before the Senate when I got
00:48confirmed.
00:49I don't know of any country in the world where there's a bigger difference between the people and the people
00:54who run the country.
00:55This country is run by radical Shia clerics, and that's not what Iran and the Iranian people are.
01:00Now, they may be Shia, but they're not radicals and they're not clerics, and they just want a normal life
01:04and a regular life,
01:05and in many ways a very cosmopolitan country with an incredible history, incredible history and incredible legacy and the like.
01:12So there's this huge divide between the people of Iran, whom we sympathize with, and who the President sympathizes with,
01:18because they're the ones suffering.
01:19Look, the world is a victim of Iran, okay?
01:21The world is a victim of Iran because they're terrorists, because of what they're doing now in the Straits.
01:25But the people of Iran are daily victims of the regime, and the President has deep sympathy for what they're
01:30going through.
01:30And I think he's just expressing that sympathy and that frustration that they don't have the ability to do more
01:35to get rid of this regime that has crushed this country and isolated it from the world,
01:41which is a country that shouldn't be isolated from the world because its people are phenomenal.
01:43I don't know.
01:44All right.
01:48I wish I had like a dice.
01:49Go ahead.
01:50Yeah.
01:51No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:52Right there, because I'm going to Italy.
01:54Okay.
01:57He's Italian.
01:57I know him, he used to cover Capitol Hill.
01:59You're Italian, right?
02:00For many years.
02:01For many years.
02:01Okay.
02:02Got it.
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