00:00Hello, thank you very much. My name is Dieter Reynisch. I'm a journalist from Austria and I came here to
00:08honor and pay my respect to Ayatollah Sayyid Al-Khaviney, to participate in his funeral, but also to report from
00:19his funeral directly for non-Iranian Western European audience.
00:26What did you see on the streets, in the funeral?
00:30First of all, a lot of people. I've never seen so many people in my life and I've reported from
00:36many countries, many mass mobilizations, demonstrations and things like that.
00:41This amount of people, unbelievable how many people. But within this crowd, I was really struck about the emotions, how
00:56welcoming people were.
01:00When they saw me, when I went to Mo Salah, also, in particular when I went to Mo Salah, people
01:06were coming, they wanted to speak with me.
01:09I didn't need to look for interview partners. People came to me, they wanted to know where I'm from and
01:15everyone was happy and thankful, grateful that I was here.
01:22When I was here, there were people who were hugging me, kissing me and saying, thank you, thank you that
01:30you are here. It was very, very emotional.
01:34And apart from the morning, the deep morning for Said Ali Khamenei, I saw a proud, very, very proud and
01:47resilient people.
01:48And I want, I really want to stress that. On the one hand, the hospitality of the people on the
01:54streets and the resilience, the proudness, because the Iranian people went through so much.
02:05Not only last year, in the last 20 years, because of the sanctions regime. Then came the June war, the
02:15Ramadan war.
02:16And despite all that, and the lingering threat of another aggression, it can happen anytime.
02:24Trump and Netanyahu are completely unpredictable. And only a few days, only last week, there was another bombardment, attacks, bombardment
02:35in the south of Iran.
02:36But still, despite this hardship, people are so friendly, so welcoming, so open and so proud, so proud of their
02:45country.
02:45And people said to me, we came here, not only for our leader who has been assassinated, but for our
02:54country, to defend our country.
02:57And we are pledging revenge. They demanded revenge for the blood of the leader.
03:03And this is really an example. It leads the wave for all oppressed people and nations in the world.
03:16But there are so many other states that were apparently threatened by imperialism, most notably Cuba.
03:27And after the events in Venezuela, at the beginning of the year, everyone thought, like, Trump can do whatever he
03:32wants, no one can stop him.
03:33But this chain of imperialist aggression has been smashed by Iran.
03:44In future generations, historians will describe this as a turning point in history.
03:50Maybe some people don't see it now, because there are wars going on, proxy wars going on.
03:56But in the long term, this will lead to acceleration of the downfall of US imperialism.
04:07And I am an optimist. I always look positive for the future.
04:11And I am sure we will see the establishment of a more peaceful world.
04:16And at the moment, we are right in the middle of these historical events.
04:19And the funeral procession was part of this historical movement that we are witnessing.
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