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[00:00:03] If the Iranians respond, we will attack them harder in the second round. If they respond,
[00:00:06] we will wipe out Iran as I said. We saw
[00:00:10] that Iran attacked in the second round and Trump did not respond. Then Iran attacked
[00:00:13] again. The next day, they attacked another place. Then Trump did not respond at all. He did not even
[00:00:17] wipe them out. He did not even control them. He did not even
[00:00:21] stand on the same step of tension. Now I want to say that the wiping out part should be attributed to
[00:00:25] what he said. But this signal of increasing tension is alongside negotiations.
[00:00:28] What I understand
[00:00:30] from it is that it happened very quickly. Now we need to see other things. If the interview
[00:00:34] has other parts, we should listen to it completely. But as much
[00:00:38] as can be understood from it, it is that the current stagnation is
[00:00:41] not in America's favor because in a situation where everything is in America's favor,
[00:00:45] there is a general principle that says, "Let it go." Let's see
[00:00:48] parts of this news.
[00:00:52] Yeah, hey guys, good morning, I just spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran, he
[00:00:55] tells Fox News he's in deciding mode and that very
[00:00:59] big things are going to be happening
[00:01:09] in the not so distant future, the president described the current
[00:01:13] choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them
[00:01:17] rot economically or making a deal, he added my question.
[00:01:20] is if and when do I blow the entire nation up? they better
[00:01:24] behave. now I asked the president about the UN general assembly this week.
[00:01:27] Iranian president Masud Pozeshkin is
[00:01:30] going to be there and I asked if he'd be open to meeting with the Iranian leader
[00:01:33] and he said he'd probably be open to it, but described this weekend
[00:01:37] as no different from any other weekend despite these alerts that went out to US
[00:01:41] citizens across the region. remember lot of moving parts here, it's not just the
[00:01:45] situation with Iran and the ongoing US naval blockade, but also the
[00:01:49] attacks by Iran back. hooutis in Yemen that targeted Saudi
[00:01:53] Arabia yesterday with ballistic missiles, the president said the United States is
[00:01:56] in constant communication with the hoothies and that they've agreed not to
[00:02:00] fight the United States, but again the big headline here, the
[00:02:04] president says he is in a deciding mode as it relates to
[00:02:08] Iran and that some big things will be happening in the not so distant
[00:02:11] future, adding that the Iranians better behave and he is
[00:02:14] making this decision as to whether or not to blow up their nation
[00:02:18] guys, can you give us any idea about what not so disc in future
[00:02:21] means are we thinking hours or we thinking
[00:02:25] days? the president described some of the
[00:02:28] challenges that the Trump administration faces right now when dealing with the Iranians, he said some of the
[00:02:32] officials are hiding like rats, that's
[00:02:35] what he described it as in terms of actually getting people to the table that
[00:02:39] could make deal, but ultimately the Trump administration is
[00:02:42] dealing with two groups of people inside of Iran, the more moderate voices,
[00:02:46] Iranian president masozki and Abbas Argi, the country's foreign minister,
[00:02:49] but then you have these... hardline IRGC officials that have
[00:02:53] continued to try and attack US forces across the Middle East, and so the
[00:02:57] president seems to grasp this very well, but again, at this moment the
[00:03:00] US Naval bloccade remains in place, it is affecting the Iranian
[00:03:04] economy, and according to Scent Commander Admiral Brad Cooper, more
[00:03:08] than billion barrels of crude oil have been escorted out of the Persian
[00:03:12] Gulf since the blocade went into place, and it
[00:03:15] undercuts the Iranian efforts to try and stabilize their economy, and
[00:03:18] so in terms of a timeline, it's not clear at this moment,
[00:03:21] second and he refers to the fact that Trump is drawing
[00:03:25] a different narrative of conflict from within Iran. On one side, for example,
[00:03:29] government officials and the president
[00:04:00] and the foreign minister, and on the other side, for example, IRGC commanders. He is presenting
[00:04:03] a picture that Trump is paying attention to the fact that some want
[00:04:07] to agree and others want to fight. He is trying to create such a dichotomy,
[00:04:10] and then also the trip of dear, sorry, I
[00:04:14] don't have expertise in this field,
[00:04:18] but I know the issue is so dangerous that we must take it seriously.
[00:04:21] But the first impression it gives us
[00:04:25] is that
[00:04:27] this is a propaganda text like the other 70 times he has said
[00:04:31] yes. Secondly, it is highly divisive.
[00:04:34] That is, the Iranian nation must be careful that
[00:04:38] the United States of America wants to create a dichotomy within the Iranian
[00:04:41] government through
[00:04:44] its most disreputable media.
[00:04:47] If all of this 70% To say that we have a moderate group and a hardliner
[00:04:50] group, while the head of the country,
[00:04:53] the leader of the country, is completely in control of the situation.
[00:04:57] Yes, and everyone has their own opinion. They express
[00:05:01] it in the press, but ultimately a decision is implemented.
[00:05:04] We must be careful that in my opinion,
[00:05:07] its propaganda and political clamor are
[00:05:10] more than its content.
[00:05:14] Probably now, let me say one point, apart from what the reality in the
[00:05:18] field in Iran is, which is certainly
[00:05:21] not the dichotomy they are talking about. Let's be very clear.
[00:05:25] The fact that people have different opinions about what
[00:05:28] decision should be made is not an issue. But incidentally, let me say
[00:05:32] that it is not that the government and the foreign ministry, for example,
[00:05:35] have one opinion, and then, for example, the military. In fact, someone in the military
[00:05:39] might believe that we should go to such and such a place to negotiate, and someone in the government might believe that we should
[00:05:42] stand firm in such and such a place. The fact that I say there are different opinions means
[00:05:46] that I say it is not a dichotomy, but there are different opinions, and
[00:05:50] the nature of a place where people are free to express their opinions
[00:05:53] is like this. Opinions are different. One of the criticisms I have of
[00:05:57] both groups is that both groups in their
[00:06:01] press statements, not internally, but externally,
[00:06:04] say in the press and so on, "Why don't we silence the other side?"
[00:06:08] I say, "Well, what is the necessity of doing this?"
[00:06:11] Everyone expresses their own opinion, but the government is completely
[00:06:15] cohesive and knows what it is doing and is moving forward. Now, this dichotomy, regardless
[00:06:18] of whether it exists in reality or not, which it doesn't, is a point
[00:06:21] that in my opinion, in the minds of American intelligence
[00:06:25] agencies and American political officials, such a dichotomy exists.
[00:06:29] The fact that they want to intensify this dichotomy is not an issue,
[00:06:33] but this dichotomy is in their minds. We have said something many times before.
[00:06:36] We said, regardless of what the reality of our scene is,
[00:06:40] it is the enemy's perception of us that shapes their decisions.
[00:06:44] Therefore, part of what we need to do is to correct the enemy's perceptions.
[00:06:48] Otherwise, even if we are very strong, a steel
[00:06:51] wall, and they think it is a soft pillow, they will come and
[00:06:55] hit their head against it. It is true that their head will be hurt, but they
[00:06:59] will take this action. War is started based on miscalculations.
[00:07:03] They had miscalculations. We cannot say they did not realize
[00:07:06] that we are weak in such and such an area. Then they came
[00:07:09] and saw that we are not weak. We kept saying before that we are not weak. Well, the problem
[00:07:13] was that they did not believe it. Now they have hit the wall of reality. Here too,
[00:07:17] to some extent, they believe this dichotomy. So when they
[00:07:20] believe it, what does this mean? He says, "Well, the president is coming
[00:07:24] to New York, and the foreign minister is also there. So now I will threaten
[00:07:27] and we will sign a peace agreement here." Let alone that the decision-making
[00:07:31] process in Iran is not like this. Let alone that it is not
[00:07:35] so fast that for example, in some places,
[00:07:38] decision-makers, in some places, Iran is not fast, but in some places,
[00:07:42] it can be a positive point. After all, something like this cannot happen,
[00:07:46] but in my opinion, this increase in pressure is due to this.
[00:07:50] These regional warnings that have been issued, meaning the US State Department
[00:07:53] has informed its embassies to warn American residents
[00:07:56] of that region or Americans who are present in those
[00:08:00] countries to be ready because their airspace may be
[00:08:03] threatened. A lot of it is due to the
[00:08:07] desperation of the Americans.
[00:08:11] That is, the situation has reached
[00:08:22] a dead end, seemingly in the entire Western world.
[00:08:26] I have friends who report to us from Sweden, for example,
[00:08:29] that fuel rationing is starting in Sweden. In France, we know
[00:08:33] that they are under severe pressure. The price of a tank of diesel
[00:08:36] is reaching about a thousand
[00:08:38] dollars for trucks, which breaks historical
[00:08:42] records. In the upcoming midterm elections,
[00:08:46] Mr. Trump and the Republicans are under severe pressure.
[00:08:49] And the war, from a military perspective, perhaps the third
[00:08:53] week of the imposed war has reached a dead end
[00:08:56] so far. Yes, that is, they have done everything they could.
[00:09:00] These noises could be due to
[00:09:03] the reality that they are somehow
[00:09:06] begging us to come and talk. Yes, and this
[00:09:10] is an opportunity that Mr. Pezeshkian has when he goes there. No, I emphasize
[00:09:13] that he says they should make the right decision. Make the right decision, meaning,
[00:09:16] "Look, do you want me to destroy you, or will you announce an agreement
[00:09:20] as I want?" Because apparently, the Americans, now I am not presenting this as official news,
[00:09:24] but scattered reports indicate that the Americans had a plan
[00:09:27] for the nuclear issue and the war to be resolved in one
[00:09:31] place, not even like the Islamabad agreement, which Iran naturally
[00:09:35] did not accept because it is not in its interest to accept such a thing,
[00:09:39] even if it wants to resolve the nuclear issue in the way it was
[00:09:42] in the Islamabad agreement, it is not in its interest for these to be in one
[00:09:46] place. Two, because it imposes some obligations on Iran
[00:09:50] that Iran does not want to fulfill in cash first and then
[00:09:54] receive something from it in installments. And he said, "No,
[00:09:57] these are my seven conditions." These are the things we are seeing
[00:10:01] from the American side after the transfer of those seven conditions
[00:10:05] of Iran to them. Now, General Rezaei's tweet,
[00:10:08] which had a bit more than the Al Jazeera interview,
[00:10:12] what was that? Now, in that program that night, it was behind-the-scenes
[00:10:15] news, and we didn't want to say it. Now that Mr. Rezaei has said it,
[00:10:19] it can be stated that Iran had 3 main conditions, which we also
[00:10:22] addressed in that program and mentioned. But it was said that Iran has seven
[00:10:26] conditions, as Mr. Mohsen Rezaei tweeted today. Seven conditions
[00:10:30] of Iran for starting any negotiation have been announced to the US government.
[00:10:33] Tehran's message is clear and unambiguous. If Washington wants to get
[00:10:37] out of the predicament it has created and not get more entangled in it,
[00:10:40] there is no other way than to accept Iran's rights and conditions.
[00:10:44] One of the seven conditions discussed yesterday with Mr. Baghaei
[00:10:48] was that America should respect the agreement between Iran and Oman.
[00:10:51] The seventh has been added because the previous six were already
[00:10:57] mentioned, like the lifting of the blockade.
[00:11:00] When you talk about the seventh, it's Iran's control over Hormuz,
[00:11:04] right? The recognition of the new TS by
[00:11:07] America and Arab countries is a bit
[00:11:11] of a legal burden and it's long-term.
[00:11:15] Because it's long-term, it's not a short-term thing. It's not a short-term thing.
[00:11:18] What was your response to this memorandum of understanding
[00:11:21] that is much more in Iran's favor, Dr. Es? This is a trap. That is, America was not
[00:11:55] looking to implement it. It was not looking to implement it, and I predicted
[00:11:58] back then that in February, there would be war again. So what about
[00:12:01] renegotiation? Negotiation should always be there, and it always
[00:12:05] has been. We should not make negotiation a dichotomy, because
[00:12:09] negotiation can also happen in the middle of a war.
[00:12:12] My problem is not negotiation.
[00:12:16] My problem is whether the United States
[00:12:20] can finally accept an independent Iran or
[00:12:23] not.
[00:12:25] If this is your problem, which I think
[00:12:28] is all our problem, do you see the United States
[00:12:31] at that point now where it would accept an independent Iran?
[00:12:34] Perhaps during Mr. Trump's era, especially not.
[00:12:37] But, and but, now we are at a very high
[00:12:41] point. If we do not back down
[00:12:45] from our current positions, we have put the West
[00:12:48] in its worst crisis. Remember, the war in Ukraine
[00:12:52] is also happening, and the war in Ukraine
[00:12:56] has completely taken the energy market out of the control
[00:12:59] of Westerners. The effect of this on the European
[00:13:02] economy means 0.7% economic growth for
[00:13:06] this year, which is nothing at all.
[00:13:10] The Middle East is lost. The US economic growth
[00:13:13] has decreased by 1.1%. Contrary to Mr. Trump's
[00:13:16] opinion, who was the head of the Federal
[00:13:19] Reserve, they changed this by removing Mr. Jeremy Powell
[00:13:23] and bringing in Mr. Warsh, so that they would either keep
[00:13:27] interest rates stable or lower them. But contrary
[00:13:30] to the opinion of the US president, all 12 members
[00:13:34] of the Federal Reserve's decision-making body
[00:13:37] raised the interest rate by 0.25%
[00:13:40] for the first time after 3-4 years, after
[00:13:43] Corona, specifically after 3 years. All of this shows
[00:13:47] that Republicans, in particular, are under
[00:13:51] severe pressure, and if we want to make a compromise
[00:13:54] with them now, a compromise that does not consider our
[00:13:57] rights, the minimum that Mr. Rezaei mentioned in his
[00:14:01] tweet, and if we do not get serious guarantees from them,
[00:14:05] for the United States of America, especially its current ruling
[00:14:07] elite, it is as easy as drinking water to violate
[00:14:10] this. So why get involved again? You see,
[00:14:14] your words are true, Dr. I don't think anyone would
[00:14:18] disagree with this, that we don't have any problem or objection
[00:14:21] with the principle of negotiation now. But the time and place
[00:14:25] of it. For example, if you, at this very moment, I was
[00:14:28] looking at Mr. Azari Jahromi, who is politically aligned
[00:14:32] with Dr. Pezeshkian, he wrote in his channel that
[00:14:36] diplomatic function sometimes requires not attending some meetings
[00:14:40] and assemblies. Perhaps in special circumstances,
[00:14:43] the benefit and achievement of not attending at the presidential
[00:14:47] level in New York is greater than attending at such
[00:14:51] a level. We also referred to it yesterday. Basically, some
[00:15:01] even feel a concern related to the delegation itself.
[00:15:04] If during this trip, tension intensifies, what will be
[00:15:08] the situation of our delegation that has traveled?
[00:15:11] I mean, from a security perspective, and whether it
[00:15:15] can be part of an American design, as you know, America
[00:15:18] is still, at least until the end of Trump's term, saying that it is not
[00:15:22] in a position to accept it. Despite the fact that we say
[00:15:26] there is no problem with any kind of meeting or negotiation.
[00:15:29] That's right. No, I don't emphasize this. I consider
[00:15:32] this whole issue to be tactical. I consider the discussion
[00:15:36] of negotiation or the presence of the president in New York
[00:15:39] to be part of public diplomacy, which fortunately
[00:15:42] is now very much in our favor. In the world,
[00:15:46] the atmosphere is in our favor. Yes, I agree,
[00:15:49] and we should not give this
[00:15:53] atmosphere to the Americans, especially Mr. Trump, who
[00:15:56] is personally despised throughout the world among the
[00:16:00] nations of the world, including Western countries
[00:16:03] like Canada. Look at the behavior that America exhibits towards Canada.
[00:16:07] What does that lead to? After that behavior, do you think
[00:16:10] they will have mercy on Iranians? Or will Iran have mercy on Iran?
[00:16:14] We are putting the Islamic Republic aside for this very reason.
[00:16:18] My main issue is not whether to negotiate or not.
[00:16:21] I say that in the worst conditions, like the Vietnamese, we
[00:16:25] can carry out our negotiations and advance public diplomacy
[00:16:29] both domestically and internationally.
[00:16:32] But we cannot retreat from our positions. Why? Because
[00:16:35] I am certain that this is a trap. Before,
[00:16:39] before the 12-day war, we had predicted this,
[00:16:43] and we predicted it in the middle of it. And now my assumption is that
[00:16:46] if the Americans get a chance, as soon as the midterm elections
[00:16:50] are over, they will get through Christmas and the heart
[00:16:53] of winter in the West, they may be ready
[00:16:57] for a military confrontation with Iran. The danger is so
[00:17:00] serious that we should not lose any ground now.
[00:17:04] So what should we do until then, Doctor?
[00:17:07] Also, focus a little on your internal affairs, Mr. Razavi.
[00:17:11] Focus a little on your economy. Address the livelihood of the people.
[00:17:15] Fix the loopholes through which dollars are
[00:17:18] continuously flowing out, as I am speaking to you today.
[00:17:22] Revive the relationship between the nation and the government.
[00:17:26] Make your bureaucracy a little more agile. Adapt the country
[00:17:30] to the wartime conditions it is facing.
[00:17:33] wartime decisions and behaviors, otherwise, when
[00:18:00] we look at Mr. Mohsen Nijahi, he is completely in agreement.
[00:18:04] But when we go into the body of the judiciary, it still
[00:18:07] adheres to the restrictions and clauses related to companies
[00:18:11] that I don't know how to close their accounts.
[00:18:13] The same bureaucratic delay in judicial proceedings that the
[00:18:17] respected head of the judiciary has protested about 10 times
[00:18:21] still exists. In the government, at the decision-making
[00:18:24] levels, we act very slowly. We have not been able to manage
[00:18:27] the country's costs in the currency sector properly.
[00:18:30] You might say that if we import luxury cars,
[00:18:34] the amount is small. I say that even one dollar
[00:18:37] of it is too much when there is a risk that half of your
[00:18:41] cancer patients will die due to lack of medicine.
[00:18:45] We allocate the same amount, save two patients,
[00:18:49] and address the livelihood of the people a little.
[00:18:52] Look, from the beginning, they say there are no resources.
[00:18:56] They say it's because of the blockade and sanctions and so on.
[00:18:58] I know there are no resources, but we don't have dollars.
[00:19:02] When I calculate it, I see that while we are
[00:19:06] talking to each other, you know that in this hour and a half
[00:19:10] that we have been talking, 2000 billion tomans have been added
[00:19:13] to Iran's liquidity. The government doesn't spend that much.
[00:19:16] How has it been added to the liquidity? Almost 30,000 billion tomans are added
[00:19:20] to Iran's liquidity every day. This number is so large
[00:19:23] that how? How can money be printed?
[00:19:27] Unsupported money is printed. Because economic growth is also
[00:19:30] negative. Well, this gives you inflation. Well, don't
[00:19:33] do it, brother. That is, I say the worst estimates within
[00:19:38] the government say that we have 200,000 billion tomans in budget per month,
[00:19:41] which is a very high number. But still,
[00:19:44] this budget is not enough to give you 70% inflation.
[00:19:48] Therefore, part of it is due to inefficiency
[00:19:52] and other imbalances. Since we have repeated this a thousand
[00:19:55] times, it is useless to repeat it here, but we know
[00:19:59] it exists. The respected officials of the Central Bank, the respected
[00:20:03] Minister of Economy and Finance, all the respected authorities
[00:20:06] admit to it and say they want to stop it. But
[00:20:10] that behavior is not in line with these wartime conditions.
[00:20:13] You know, at the time of that urgency that I
[00:20:17] اون رفتار مطابق این شرایط جنگی نیست
[00:20:21] moved forward more firmly.
[00:20:24] that has been our inflation growth this year,
[00:20:28] now there is a danger that, as you know, it will reach
[00:20:32] 80 or 90 by the end of the year. Because when the point-to-point
[00:20:35] inflation rate overtakes the average inflation rate,
[00:20:39] it means that the average inflation rate is increasing.
[00:20:43] If it's the opposite, it's decreasing. Now, the point-to-point inflation
[00:20:46] rate in Iran is higher than the 12-month average. What
[00:20:50] does that mean? We should expect even more inflation. That is,
[00:20:53] our average inflation rate is going towards triple digits.
[00:20:57] I hope Dr. Hemmati, with all his sensitivity,
[00:21:00] will stop this, but this can only be done with financial
[00:21:04] discipline, to the extent of dealing with corruption.
[00:21:07] Otherwise, if we want to provide 300,000 tomans
[00:21:11] to the livelihood of 30%, 40% of subsidy recipients,
[00:21:14] it is much more than the expenses that the
[00:21:18] government is incurring. Why
[00:21:27] are they in kind? That is, instead of money,
[00:21:31] so that they can buy goods, even in the form of goods.
[00:21:35] Why direct goods? Tactical, but
[00:21:38] its flexibility is less. The model that Mr. Meydari
[00:21:41] and Mr. Hemmati are using now for paying
[00:21:45] cash subsidies. You say that we are printing money.
[00:21:48] At least let's print money and
[00:22:20] give it to people to buy goods, where the worker and employee
[00:22:24] need extra money to be printed. But that inflation is less
[00:22:27] than this. In the last 25 years, we have destroyed
[00:22:31] the livelihoods of more than 70% of Iranians.
[00:22:34] It doesn't matter if they are reformists or conservatives. It has been
[00:22:38] completely organized and systematic.
[00:22:42] While during this same period, 100% has been added to Iran's
[00:22:45] economic growth. The volume of production.
[00:22:49] It's not like there was a war.
[00:22:53] Whenever we tell government officials, "Why don't you increase the minimum
[00:22:57] wage or the average wage by the amount of inflation?"
[00:23:00] They say it will cause inflation. I say, "Sir, because there is
[00:23:04] inflation, we are saying this." So the fact that you are
[00:23:07] increasing it by 25% and inflation becomes 50%
[00:23:11] must mean that inflation has another cause, like the issue
[00:23:14] of gasoline. What was the cause of that at that time?
[00:23:17] The growth of liquidity.
[00:23:21] As Milton Friedman says, inflation is essentially
[00:23:24] a monetary phenomenon, brother. When you talk about the rate
[00:23:27] of growth of liquidity, my experience with the Iranian economy says
[00:23:31] that up to 10-15% growth in liquidity, provided you have
[00:23:35] 3-4% economic growth, gives you single-digit inflation.
[00:23:39] Above this, inflation goes a little higher and then becomes runaway from somewhere else.
[00:23:43] We have broken the record of Iran's
[00:23:47] modern economic history in liquidity growth.
[00:23:50] And it's interesting that this trend started in September
[00:23:54] 2024. Sir, we had a war in September 2024,
[00:23:58] before the 12-day war. That is,
[00:24:01] economists and experts should, without being
[00:24:04] influenced by populism, demagoguery, and ignorance,
[00:24:07] sit down and think about this issue of inflation.
[00:24:11] Sir, this Russia right next to us has inflation.
[00:24:15] It has also been mostly deprived of its oil exports.
[00:24:18] It used to export about 600
[00:24:20] million cubic meters of gas to Western Europe daily. From the first
[00:24:24] day of the war, it has been deprived of this and cannot do it.
[00:24:28] At first, they had some inflation. Their exchange rate rose from
[00:24:31] 100 rubles against the US dollar to even 10, 11, 12.
[00:24:35] But now, for example, it is 75-80, even
[00:24:39] less than when their war started. Even their currency
[00:24:42] became stronger. Yes, it became stronger. Afghanistan
[00:24:46] too, and then. In contrast, Turkey
[00:24:50] and Argentina, both allies of America, perhaps we can
[00:24:54] say they are in the pocket of the United States, if we don't want to use
[00:24:58] a more impolite term in the presence of
[00:25:01] the noble people of Iran.
[00:25:04] And inflations, for example, 35% to 40% are predicted
[00:25:08] for both countries this year. But both Turkey
[00:25:12] and Argentina have had much higher inflations. Therefore,
[00:25:16] the fuse of inflation is essentially in the hands of the government. And by controlling liquidity,
[00:25:21] it can do this. But controlling liquidity is in the hands
[00:25:24] of banks that are not for the government, in a sense.
[00:25:28] This is where, when you hold a powerful leaders' meeting,
[00:25:32] you must make a decisive decision. And
[00:25:35] that is in the political sphere. That is, you must make decisions
[00:25:38] that will definitely hurt a group. What will
[00:25:42] be the consequences then? They say, "In a wartime situation,
[00:25:46] I will make such a decision and confront a group that
[00:25:50] will be hurt." Brother, you either have to fight America
[00:25:54] or your own people. You can't fight both. And in our nation,
[00:25:57] the only country in the world that wants to satisfy both its
[00:26:01] proletariat and its bourgeoisie
[00:26:04] is Iran. We are as afraid
[00:26:07] of the goldsmiths' strike as we are of the workers' strike.
[00:26:11] Is this not practical? Look, economics is the science
[00:26:15] of allocating scarce resources to unlimited needs. What does that mean?
[00:26:18] It means you have to decide where you want to wear it,
[00:26:22] like a short skirt. It's right that it's
[00:26:24] necessary. You decide for yourself.
[00:26:28] You, as the government, give it, but you can't cover
[00:26:51] all these places. I would like to point out something. A certain
[00:26:54] high-ranking official's son had said that it's impossible for you to
[00:26:57] talk about war, give Yemen as an example, praise it, and then
[00:27:01] talk about economic problems. The first thing in his heart,
[00:27:05] that is, his words, which he learned from Yemenis, "Don't use government
[00:27:09] electricity, don't travel, don't buy gasoline, eat less."
[00:27:12] They had listed a bunch of things for His Holiness. First of all,
[00:27:16] I don't know where he lives, but
[00:27:18] then the nation, as he calls it, the "martyr-nurturing nation."
[00:27:22] First of all, many of the martyr-nurturing nation don't even have cars
[00:27:26] or don't travel that much. And they are among those
[00:27:29] who, even if they turn on all the lights in their house, it won't make a difference.
[00:27:33] Again, those villagers who get a discount on their electricity
[00:27:36] bill, how many lamps do you want to turn on in a 40-meter house,
[00:27:40] or even in a 70-meter house? Compare that to the other thing.
[00:27:44] That is, I mean to say that the main point, which is wrong,
[00:27:46] the second point in that discussion was that the assumption
[00:27:50] was that those who are talking about economic problems are doing
[00:27:54] so because the war, sir, has caused these economic problems.
[00:27:57] Well, accept it then. Either war or let's solve
[00:28:00] these economic problems. Here,
[00:28:32] let's really see what the other side is saying. Because one
[00:28:36] of the big drawbacks of Twitter is that I don't
[00:28:38] have it in any space for it.
[00:28:42] You want
[00:28:45] the British have a saying: you can pour 10 pounds of stuff into
[00:28:48] a 5-pound container, but the handles and everything get messy.
[00:28:52] So you can't say everything you want
[00:28:55] in a few words.
[00:28:58] This inevitably creates misunderstandings.
[00:29:02] But what I know is that none of
[00:29:05] our structural problems have been solved, and we're not taking any steps
[00:29:09] to solve them. When Mr. Pezeshkian was approved
[00:29:12] on the first day, I said about half an hour after
[00:29:16] his approval in an interview that one
[00:29:20] of the reasons the Islamic Republic regime
[00:29:22] approved his candidacy was, and my assumption
[00:29:25] on that day in that interview was that he would become president,
[00:29:29] that he has to deal with the
[00:29:33] imbalances now, and these imbalances
[00:29:36] need legitimacy, and this legitimacy comes through
[00:29:40] a comprehensive approach to the issue
[00:29:43] of corruption, the issue of inefficiency,
[00:29:47] the issue of waste, and all of these. And if
[00:29:50] we want to be fair, it's not just the government.
[00:29:54] We can accuse the government of
[00:29:57] not taking a wartime stance to that extent. I've always
[00:30:01] said this. You yourself, Mr. Pezeshkian,
[00:30:04] are an exception. In my opinion, even among his honorable ministers,
[00:30:07] except for one or two cabinet members, because
[00:30:11] some of them might not even be ministers, those who are working seriously,
[00:30:15] the rest I haven't seen
[00:30:18] Iran take a wartime stance. Brother, the judiciary hasn't taken it either.
[00:30:22] Your parliamentary representatives haven't taken it either. We say
[00:30:26] we'll launch missiles in the morning, but
[00:30:29] drones and missiles come after us. It doesn't work.
[00:30:32] Every day, you take an importer of luxury goods
[00:30:36] to a minister's office and say, "Give him an exceptional
[00:30:39] permit," and the person
[00:30:42] who gets it, and the minister, why does he give it?
[00:30:46] Please ask him. This is exactly what
[00:30:50] happens in wartime conditions. I believe
[00:30:53] we fundamentally don't have a wartime
[00:30:56] posture except for our armed forces.