00:00There is another accusation by the West all the time that Russia and China continue to support Iran militarily, strategically,
00:07and technologically, including real-time intelligence. How would you respond to that? What's the kind of help?
00:28Russia and China are friends. They are also our neighbors, and we have relations with them. Right now, we want
00:42to deepen our relation with your country as well.
00:46Since thousands of years ago, we have had this kind of relation. So do you expect us not to have
00:52this relation? And then if we have relations, they accuse us of exchanging of intelligence.
01:00You know, technology is at the hands of the U.S., Israelis, and Europeans. They have their own satellites, and
01:08they're spies, and they do whatever they want.
01:12So why can't they analyze how come that the Iranian people stood against such a great power? They cannot even
01:21imagine that. It is our people who stood against it. It is not the technology.
01:26In fact, they bombarded and targeted any place they wished, but our people stood against that. And now, we are
01:40finding a kind of way out of these problems automatically.
01:43And since they cannot defeat us, they think that we are being supported from outside. They know what kind of
01:52technologies we do have, but what has led to our sustainability and resilience is not tools. It is the unity
02:02and consistency among the people inside Iran.
02:05Okay, I cannot end the conversation without one important aspect of which a lot of conversation, a lot of reporting,
02:13misreporting, disinformation has taken place. And that has to do with your new Supreme Leader. How is he, sir? Because
02:25there's so much speculation and intrigue.
02:30You know that. You know that. With the same data that they have, they have targeted most of our leaders
02:40and commanders, our scientists, even in their houses next to their family members.
02:52They have no human framework would allow them to do something like this. Therefore, they are, you know, deepening this
03:04kind of speculation. Well, thank God our Supreme Leader is alive and it has a kind of sincere relation and
03:11he's doing his job within the same framework.
03:14And since they cannot locate his exact place, they are spreading such speculations regarding our Supreme Leader to do the
03:26same to him as well. But the bitter truth is that with their technologies, actually, they are the real terrorists
03:35in the world.
03:36You look, you look at Israel and America, no difference. What they are doing in Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza,
03:44Iraq, Qatar, even in Iran, they assassinate anybody they wish.
03:52And then they assassinate, but they claim that these people are terrorists. So it's in a weird world. They kill
04:01people very easily. For a single person, they kill a whole family and they destroy a whole building. Then they
04:10say they killed a terrorist.
04:12So this is, I think, a new way of committing crimes in a world in which we live. It's a
04:19catastrophe. They are real terrorists. They are state terrorists. The list of those targets are written down by them and
04:30they disseminate.
04:31And then they say they are terrorists. These people include leaders and scientists and students of a society. They are
04:40targeting bridges, factories. Are they terrorists?
04:45And then when they do that, they claim that they claim that they are fighting against terrorists. So this is,
04:51I think, a new logic for them.
04:54Transition of authority. Where do the negotiations stand? Who takes the final call? Is it the Ayatollah? Is it the
05:00IRGC or is it you?
05:04Well, naturally, in our country, it is the Supreme Leader who has the final say. It has been the same
05:10from the first day and now it is the same.
05:12Naturally, he is the person who will have the final say.
05:17On that note, President Sir, thank you so much.
05:22You're welcome.
05:24I hope all the listeners and viewers would know that a group of people who are totalitarian and they don't
05:39want other countries to have a sound and healthy relation with each other.
05:44And anybody who would not bend against them should be eradicated.
05:54But we stand here and we will not allow this to happen.
05:59Thank you so much.
06:01That was Iran's president, Massoud Pazashkian, a leader in a rare and candid interview coming from a country that has
06:09weathered loss, damage and pressure from every direction, yet refuses to be counted out.
06:16To Washington and the world, the message is clear.
06:20Engage, don't dictate.
06:22As the famous Persian saying goes,
06:25Ta nafas ast, ummid ast.
06:28Till there is breath, there is hope.
06:30And by the conversation we just had with the leader, it seems like Iran isn't done breathing yet.
06:37Thank you, sir.
06:38Thank you so much.
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