00:00I think as an American being here in comparison to America, I think the expectations from the American regime were
00:07very unrealistic.
00:08They thought that by harming the children of what they thought were children of IRGC members, that that would be
00:15some sort of offense against the IRGC directly.
00:18In America, unfortunately and very sadly, we lose children all the time to violence, whether it's school shootings, which happen
00:26very often, or other reasons.
00:28And those children are immediately forgotten about, only to be mourned by their own families.
00:34Here, we see an entire nation coming together to mourn them.
00:40And in order to make sure that these children's names and faces are not forgotten, and in comparison to the
00:45United States, where those children are forgotten the next week,
00:49it's a really, really, it's an incredible testimony to the way that Iranians see the sanctity of life,
00:55and the difference between the thoughts of the West, and how they thought, how they thought the Iranians would react.
01:03Well, I'm a Christian, I'm actually a Catholic, and so lighting candles is something that we often, often, almost every
01:10Sunday, Catholics will light candles.
01:13And so that's very significant to me, in and of itself, it's very symbolic.
01:18But I have my own daughter, who I am not allowed to see.
01:22And so, I can't understand the pain that they're going through, but it really, really grabs at my heart.
01:31Because I can almost closely share in that pain, in a way, and it kind of stirs my soul.
01:41It gives me more empathy, praying to God for these souls to be rested in peace,
01:49and that other people, especially, will feel the empathy that is needed to understand what this suffering actually means.
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