Marandi on the Iran-US memorandum, Mohammad Marandi discusses the delicate balance of middle east geopolitics, revealing what mainstream media hides about the faltering deal and its impact on us foreign policy and the global economy.
Professor Mohammad Marandi returns to Think BRICS to unpack the Islamabad memorandum and the high-stakes friction between Iran and the US. In this exclusive interview, we delve into why the ceasefire in the Lebanon conflict remains fragile and how the Zionist project continues to influence Washington’s decisions. Marandi explains the strategic importance of the Straight of Hormuz and the potential release of billions in iranian assets, while analyzing how Trump’s peace plan was forced to shift after a clear US defeat on the battlefield. We explore the role of Pakistan and Beijing as intermediaries and the broader shift toward a multipolar world order as the global economic crisis looms. From the tragic loss of Ismael Haniyeh to the use of iran sanctions as siege warfare, this discussion provides a rare Iranian perspective on the future of diplomacy and the inevitable decline of Western hegemony in the Middle East.
While this video offers deep insights into the memorandum and current geopolitical tensions, it does not cover the specifics of the BRICS expansion summit or the technical details of the new BRICS payment system. We do not discuss internal Iranian domestic politics or the specific military logistics of the drones used in recent escalations. Additionally, the video does not analyze the long-term history of iran us relations prior to the current memorandum or provide a detailed breakdown of the global oil market's daily fluctuations outside the context of the current regional crisis. For more on the multipolar world order and the latest from the global south, subscribe to Think BRICS.
#marandi #IranUSRelations #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #MultipolarWorld
00:00 — Iran-US Memorandum: Prof. Marandi Exposes the Truth Behind the Deal
01:00 — Why the Zionist Project is Sabotaging Middle East Geopolitics
02:00 — Straight of Hormuz: How Iran Controls Global Energy Traffic
03:40 — The Global Economic Crisis: Why the Lebanon Conflict Impacts Your Wallet
04:35 — Islamabad Diplomacy: Pakistan’s Secret Role in Iran-US Relations
05:40 — Trump’s Peace Plan vs. Iran’s 10-Point Strategy: Who Really Won?
06:30 — Siege Warfare: The Failure of Iran Sanctions and US Foreign Policy
08:00 — Understanding the Memorandum: Why it’s Not a Formal Treaty
09:50 — Trump’s Dilemma: Stop the Genocide or Face Economic Collapse
11:15 — $24 Billion Released: How Iran Protects Assets from Western Interference
12:50 — Iranian Economic Leverage: Restricting Trade to Pressure Washington
15:50 — The End of US Hegemony: Why the Multipolar World Order is Rising
18:15 — Sports and Diplomacy: The Political Statement of Iran’s World Cup Team
20:10 — Beyond the Game: Why the Global South Won’t Forget Gaza an
Professor Mohammad Marandi returns to Think BRICS to unpack the Islamabad memorandum and the high-stakes friction between Iran and the US. In this exclusive interview, we delve into why the ceasefire in the Lebanon conflict remains fragile and how the Zionist project continues to influence Washington’s decisions. Marandi explains the strategic importance of the Straight of Hormuz and the potential release of billions in iranian assets, while analyzing how Trump’s peace plan was forced to shift after a clear US defeat on the battlefield. We explore the role of Pakistan and Beijing as intermediaries and the broader shift toward a multipolar world order as the global economic crisis looms. From the tragic loss of Ismael Haniyeh to the use of iran sanctions as siege warfare, this discussion provides a rare Iranian perspective on the future of diplomacy and the inevitable decline of Western hegemony in the Middle East.
While this video offers deep insights into the memorandum and current geopolitical tensions, it does not cover the specifics of the BRICS expansion summit or the technical details of the new BRICS payment system. We do not discuss internal Iranian domestic politics or the specific military logistics of the drones used in recent escalations. Additionally, the video does not analyze the long-term history of iran us relations prior to the current memorandum or provide a detailed breakdown of the global oil market's daily fluctuations outside the context of the current regional crisis. For more on the multipolar world order and the latest from the global south, subscribe to Think BRICS.
#marandi #IranUSRelations #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #MultipolarWorld
00:00 — Iran-US Memorandum: Prof. Marandi Exposes the Truth Behind the Deal
01:00 — Why the Zionist Project is Sabotaging Middle East Geopolitics
02:00 — Straight of Hormuz: How Iran Controls Global Energy Traffic
03:40 — The Global Economic Crisis: Why the Lebanon Conflict Impacts Your Wallet
04:35 — Islamabad Diplomacy: Pakistan’s Secret Role in Iran-US Relations
05:40 — Trump’s Peace Plan vs. Iran’s 10-Point Strategy: Who Really Won?
06:30 — Siege Warfare: The Failure of Iran Sanctions and US Foreign Policy
08:00 — Understanding the Memorandum: Why it’s Not a Formal Treaty
09:50 — Trump’s Dilemma: Stop the Genocide or Face Economic Collapse
11:15 — $24 Billion Released: How Iran Protects Assets from Western Interference
12:50 — Iranian Economic Leverage: Restricting Trade to Pressure Washington
15:50 — The End of US Hegemony: Why the Multipolar World Order is Rising
18:15 — Sports and Diplomacy: The Political Statement of Iran’s World Cup Team
20:10 — Beyond the Game: Why the Global South Won’t Forget Gaza an
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00:00Dear friends of Frinkbricks, welcome back today with a special guest, Professor
00:05Mohammad Marandi. A friend of ours just came back to us for a special interview about the recent
00:12events on the memorandum between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America.
00:20Professor Marandi, thanks a lot for being here with us.
00:23Thank you very much for inviting me. It's a great pleasure.
00:28So, Professor, the deal seems has failed. Something is happening and we would really
00:34like to understand what's going on. What actually happened in Geneva should happen and didn't happen.
00:44What is going on also by the Iranian perspective, who is trying to sabotating this deal and who really
00:53actually truly controls the US foreign policy?
00:59Well, I think you answered the question. The problem is the Israeli regime. The deal
01:06needs to be implemented. And one of the key elements of the deal is to end the genocide
01:14in southern Lebanon, the ethnic cleansing and the mass slaughter. The Israeli regime is insistent on
01:21destroying Lebanon. And they say it openly. They say it in their statements. They say it in their
01:26social media posts. Western media won't tell us this because Western media protects
01:33these genocidal maniacs. But a part of the deal is for the Israeli regime to withdraw from Lebanon and to
01:42end the slaughter. And instead, what the regime does is that it intensifies the slaughter. It bombs more
01:50towns and more cities and kills more women and children just to wreck the agreement. They did this before,
01:57I'm sure you recall, after the 39 days of fighting, when the Americans accepted defeat and we had a
02:05ceasefire, there was an agreement back then, too, for Iran to allow more ships to go through the Strait
02:13of Hormuz. Because the Strait of Hormuz, Iran never has closed it. It's always been open to Russian, Chinese,
02:21Iraqi ships, Oman ships, Pakistani ships, countries that did not participate in the war.
02:29But it was closed to Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, because they helped the United
02:37States wage war and kill Iranians. So in the ceasefire, Iran was supposed to allow ships from those
02:47countries to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. And then the Israeli regime was supposed to leave
02:53Lebanon and end the slaughter. But what happened was Netanyahu immediately carpet bombed different
03:00cities in Lebanon. In 10 minutes, he murdered hundreds of people, ordinary people in different
03:06cities, just to wreck the ceasefire. This is how monstrous the Israeli regime is. And of course,
03:12Western media hides it from the public. They say these are Hezbollah targets. Many of the places
03:19they bombed were in areas that had nothing to do with the resistance. Even the people in those
03:24neighborhoods were pro-Western or pro-Saudi or pro-Qatari and pro-Israeli. But they didn't care.
03:34They bombed everyone. So they wanted to wreck the ceasefire back then, about two months ago, which they
03:41succeeded. And this led to the growing global economic crisis. And now they're doing the same
03:47thing again. They are bombing towns and villages, trying to kill as many people as possible in order
03:53to wreck this agreement. Because at the very beginning of the agreement, it says that the war
04:00in Lebanon must end and Lebanese sovereignty must be restored. And so the Israelis have to withdraw.
04:06And the Israeli regime is doing the exact opposite in order to wreck the entire agreement. The Israelis
04:14don't care if the global economy collapses. They don't care if the American economy collapses.
04:22They don't care if the Indian economy collapses. They only care about their Zionist project.
04:27The Israelis project. Thank you, Professor Muhammad. Well, we were talking about the Islamabad
04:38memorandum. And so the role of Pakistan was a key role. And everybody was discussing about this. We had
04:46also a field marshal Azim Mounir as a key intermediary backed by Beijing. But now that the deal has failed,
04:53is it still possible to talk about a key role about Pakistan's shut diplomacy or not? What's
05:01the future of the mediation of Islamabad in this possible future deal with Iran and the US?
05:12The deal hasn't failed completely, but it is it is closer to failure, even though it's only been a
05:19couple of days. The Pakistanis have obviously played a positive role. But at the end of the day,
05:26these are written messages that are sent back and forth between Iran and the United States.
05:32And it was the United States that was impeding an agreement. Ultimately, the Americans had to accept.
05:38And anyone who reads the agreement recognizes that the Americans had to concede defeat. And it's obvious
05:45why? Because they lost in the war. At the beginning of the war, Trump demanded unconditional surrender
05:52and for Iran to lay down its arms. And by the end of the war, he had to accept Iran's
05:5710-point
05:58peace plan as the framework for negotiations. And then he went and imposed a siege warfare,
06:04which was a double-edged sword. Trump wrecked the global economy in the hope that he'll destroy the
06:11Iranian economy. And Iran outlasted him. So he had to accept negotiations. And of course, the negotiation
06:20text, the text that was negotiated, is reflective of the defeats on the battlefield and in siege warfare.
06:29But the problem is implementation. The United States resists implementation,
06:36and so does the Zionist regime. And if the deal is not implemented, then trade from these five countries
06:43that helped the United States kill Iranians, the Saudis, the Qataris, the Emiratis, Kuwait and Bahrain,
06:50they will not be able to use the straighter problems.
06:57Well, let me say, do you think that maybe all of this was just a kind of trap
07:03to figure out who were the falcons behind the lines to discover these falcons, both by the United
07:15States and the Iranian side, as they have signed a memorandum, not an accord, not a treatise. And
07:23some analysts were discussing about this. Why is such a kind of a legal agreement, which is so weak,
07:30when they could maybe look for something stronger? But what we have seen in the last 48 hours is that
07:37actually, since the deal was trying to fail, you know, because of the attacks by the Israeli regime,
07:44and on the other side, we see that the US are still waiting, not answering, not showing any kind
07:50of official position. Do you think this could really be in the mind of both sides signing the treaties?
08:00Well, this MOU, this Memorandum of Understanding, can only be implemented if the United States is
08:13honest. And the United States has to lift the siege, which it has done. It has to lift the sanctions
08:20on
08:21Iran's energy sector, which we haven't seen yet. And it has to free Iranian assets, which we haven't seen
08:31yet. In addition to that, it has to end the war, the genocide in Lebanon. Now, the West traditionally
08:39supports the Israeli regime, no matter what it does, if they kill hundreds of thousands of people, the
08:44Europeans, the Americans, the elites, they fully support them, even though ordinary people hate the
08:52regime. And in Italy, for example, we saw huge protests against the genocide. But where I'm talking about
08:59the elites, the people in power. So now this is where things stand. Traditionally, the West supports
09:09the Israelis when they bomb Beirut, when they bomb cities in southern Lebanon, when they bomb people's
09:15homes. Actually, yesterday, a friend of mine, his father-in-law was killed. His house was bombed, and he
09:25was left under the rubble. And the Israeli regime wouldn't allow people to get near to the building to
09:32save him. So this old man died. But this is just one example. But the problem is that if they
09:41allow
09:42the Israelis to violate the deal, then the global economy will move closer and closer to crisis.
09:50So Trump has to make a choice. Does he want and does he want to allow the global economy to
09:57collapse or
09:58should he stop the Zionists from killing women and children? This is the real issue here. The issue
10:07is whether the United States is prepared to expel or force the Israeli regime to leave
10:17Lebanon and to stop killing people. If it has the will to do that, then the agreement can move forward.
10:24If it doesn't have that will, then the agreement will collapse.
10:30What everybody is expecting to see. So let's move the subject to another topic. I have a very practical
10:38question by an Iranian businessman on our team. So in case of agreements, we're talking about billions
10:46from frozen and found that were actually released. 24 billions plus more billions to invest in the
10:57rebuilding. How can Iran guarantee that there won't be American influence in the management of this
11:04money? I mean, is there a specific legal financial framework to protect these assets from the Western
11:13government? Interference or not? Well, the release funding, which is $12 billion and then over the
11:22next couple of months, another $12 million of Iranian money that was stolen. That money, the 24,
11:3025 billion dollars that will be released according to the plan, that is Iranian money. So the Iranians
11:37will use it in whatever way they want. The other money that you're speaking about, the investment
11:45money, that, of course, has to go through Iranian laws and it has to go through the government,
11:52just like in any other country. Foreign investment has its own regulations. And basically what this is
12:00doing it is is that it's breaking the sanctions regime, because the Americans have imposed many laws to
12:07prevent countries from doing business with Iran, from investing in Iran. So basically this deal is
12:17breaking that sanctions regime, this element.
12:26That's very interesting because it's one of the points I think we would like to see. And of course,
12:32we're happy that Iran will have back its own money. And exactly about this, about this Iranian economic
12:40leverage. We know that the United States are so sensitive to the economic pressure, especially about
12:49the energy shortage. So how does Iran plan to use its leverage, such, for example, restricting, again,
12:59the traffic in the Strait of Hormones, to make this kind of pressure more painful for Washington,
13:06because we know they cannot afford it for so long time? Well, first we have to always keep in mind
13:12that
13:12Iran didn't start this war and the trade through the Strait of Hormones was always normal. And the United
13:18States waged war and those countries that helped the United States, the Iranians decided to stop their ships.
13:26Not all ships, as I said earlier, just those who helped kill Iranians.
13:32So right now we have an agreement and
13:36ships from these countries can move back and forth like they used to.
13:40But if the United States violates the agreement, then its allies who helped it,
13:44they will still have restrictions. So the smart thing for the United States to do would be to implement
13:51the deal. Otherwise, those countries that are guilty of war crimes against Iran, their ships will
13:58continue to face restrictions. Now, those restrictions could be, you know, absolute, they could be,
14:05they could all be restricted or they could be only small numbers of them can use this trade.
14:13That would depend on the circumstances. But what Iran wants is normalization.
14:18And the only way for normalization is for the Americans to end the genocide. And they can end the
14:24genocide because they're the ones providing the bombs and the weapons and the money. I mean,
14:29Israel without the United States would fall apart. It's a weak country. It's a small country. All of its
14:35capabilities are simply because the Americans pour them into the country. The Europeans as well,
14:39the Germans, the British, but the Americans do far more than anyone else. So if the Americans want the
14:46normalization of business and trade and the flow of energy, it's very easy. All they have to do is stop
14:54the
14:54genocide. Otherwise, if they don't, that means the deal falls and fails. And if it fails, then Iran will
15:05treat those five countries differently.
15:13Approaching now by the Global South and Briggs perspective, the U.S. once again showed to the
15:21world that they cannot afford any kind of international agreement. They are not trustful.
15:27So do you think that this event will impact on the beliefs and on the trust of the emergent economies
15:35and countries in the relations, financial relations with the Western diplomacy and the U.S.-led financial
15:46system or not? Robert Kagan, who is basically the godfather of the neocons and a very close person to
15:59Dick Cheney, who was George Bush's vice president, he said that this was the biggest defeat that the
16:08United States ever experienced. And that means that this is much bigger than any other war, even Vietnam.
16:15And this, I think, is a clear indication of the fact that the world will be severely impacted by the
16:26U.S.
16:26defeat. And the empire, of course, was already on the decline. But this, I think, was a very, very special
16:35moment in history. And I think that the process of change across the world
16:41and the emergence of a multipolar order is going to quicken. Because for the first time, the United
16:49States has utterly failed. It's not that it's just that Iran survived. It's much more than that. Iran,
16:56until the very last minute, was firing missiles and drones at U.S. bases, destroyed almost all of them,
17:02the rest badly damaged, targeting the Israeli regime day and night, retaliating when Iran's
17:09critical infrastructure was struck by destroying critical infrastructure and infrastructures of the
17:15Israeli regime in those countries that were assisting the U.S. in the war. So this was a war where
17:21the
17:21Americans failed completely. And of course, Iran emerged much stronger. And Iran became a hero,
17:29the hero for the global majority. So I do think that as a result, there's going to be enormous changes
17:38and that it will impact the control over the United States, the control of the United States over the
17:45global economy, over events across the world, its ability to impose its will on other peoples and other
17:54nations. This will act as a catalyst and it will fast forward the changes that we are witnessing.
18:10Let me, Professor, end with a question about the political role of a sport. We are in the period of
18:17the
18:17World Cup and a few days ago the Iranian national team played against Nigeria and the players came onto the
18:25field carrying the children's backpack during the national anthem in remembrance of the martyrs of the
18:33school of the school of Minab. New Zealand. Yeah, yeah, sorry. Tomorrow is going to play the second
18:41match against Belgium, if I remember well. And we know that with the clear U.S. ostrichism toward the Iranian
18:49athletes. Let me ask you with with a touch of irony. What would you give to see Trump personally hand
18:59the
18:59World Cup, give it to the Iranian national team on the American soil? Well, the Iranian national team is
19:08a good team. I find it highly unlikely that we will reach that point. I would rather not the Iranian
19:16team
19:17have to receive the full cup from Trump. I'd rather Trump never be seen beside any Iranian. What I'd like
19:29to see is the World Cup to pass off peacefully and for people to enjoy it. The United States is
19:35treating the Iranian team very poorly. And just as it treats the Iranian people, the Lebanese people, the
19:41Palestinian people in a very disgraceful way, it's even in football, it cannot behave normally. But I hope that
19:51the games are an opportunity for people to forget some of their pains and some of the suffering that takes
20:03place in the world. But at the same time, I also hope that people don't forget Gaza, they don't forget
20:10Lebanon, and they don't forget the crimes being committed on a daily basis by the Israeli regime.
20:19And everyone remains active in putting pressure on the United States, on the Europeans for supporting
20:28ethnosupremacism, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. Professor Marandi, thank you so much for your time
20:36and your insights as always. And we really hope to see you very soon. Thank you so much to all
20:42our audience.
20:43Stay tuned, stay informed, and see you the next interview. Goodbye.
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