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00:00:03If the Iranians respond, we will attack them harder in the second round. If they respond,
00:00:06we will wipe out Iran as I said. We saw
00:00:10that Iran attacked in the second round and Trump did not respond. Then Iran attacked
00:00:13again. The next day, they attacked another place. Then Trump did not respond at all. He did not even
00:00:17wipe them out. He did not even control them. He did not even
00:00:21stand on the same step of tension. Now I want to say that the wiping out part should be attributed to
00:00:25what he said. But this signal of increasing tension is alongside negotiations.
00:00:28What I understand
00:00:30from it is that it happened very quickly. Now we need to see other things. If the interview
00:00:34has other parts, we should listen to it completely. But as much
00:00:38as can be understood from it, it is that the current stagnation is
00:00:41not in America's favor because in a situation where everything is in America's favor,
00:00:45there is a general principle that says, "Let it go." Let's see
00:00:48parts of this news.
00:00:52Yeah, hey guys, good morning, I just spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran, he
00:00:55tells Fox News he's in deciding mode and that very
00:00:59big things are going to be happening
00:01:09in the not so distant future, the president described the current
00:01:13choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them
00:01:17rot economically or making a deal, he added my question.
00:01:20is if and when do I blow the entire nation up? they better
00:01:24behave. now I asked the president about the UN general assembly this week.
00:01:27Iranian president Masud Pozeshkin is
00:01:30going to be there and I asked if he'd be open to meeting with the Iranian leader
00:01:33and he said he'd probably be open to it, but described this weekend
00:01:37as no different from any other weekend despite these alerts that went out to US
00:01:41citizens across the region. remember lot of moving parts here, it's not just the
00:01:45situation with Iran and the ongoing US naval blockade, but also the
00:01:49attacks by Iran back. hooutis in Yemen that targeted Saudi
00:01:53Arabia yesterday with ballistic missiles, the president said the United States is
00:01:56in constant communication with the hoothies and that they've agreed not to
00:02:00fight the United States, but again the big headline here, the
00:02:04president says he is in a deciding mode as it relates to
00:02:08Iran and that some big things will be happening in the not so distant
00:02:11future, adding that the Iranians better behave and he is
00:02:14making this decision as to whether or not to blow up their nation
00:02:18guys, can you give us any idea about what not so disc in future
00:02:21means are we thinking hours or we thinking
00:02:25days? the president described some of the
00:02:28challenges that the Trump administration faces right now when dealing with the Iranians, he said some of the
00:02:32officials are hiding like rats, that's
00:02:35what he described it as in terms of actually getting people to the table that
00:02:39could make deal, but ultimately the Trump administration is
00:02:42dealing with two groups of people inside of Iran, the more moderate voices,
00:02:46Iranian president masozki and Abbas Argi, the country's foreign minister,
00:02:49but then you have these... hardline IRGC officials that have
00:02:53continued to try and attack US forces across the Middle East, and so the
00:02:57president seems to grasp this very well, but again, at this moment the
00:03:00US Naval bloccade remains in place, it is affecting the Iranian
00:03:04economy, and according to Scent Commander Admiral Brad Cooper, more
00:03:08than billion barrels of crude oil have been escorted out of the Persian
00:03:12Gulf since the blocade went into place, and it
00:03:15undercuts the Iranian efforts to try and stabilize their economy, and
00:03:18so in terms of a timeline, it's not clear at this moment,
00:03:21second and he refers to the fact that Trump is drawing
00:03:25a different narrative of conflict from within Iran. On one side, for example,
00:03:29government officials and the president
00:04:00and the foreign minister, and on the other side, for example, IRGC commanders. He is presenting
00:04:03a picture that Trump is paying attention to the fact that some want
00:04:07to agree and others want to fight. He is trying to create such a dichotomy,
00:04:10and then also the trip of dear, sorry, I
00:04:14don't have expertise in this field,
00:04:18but I know the issue is so dangerous that we must take it seriously.
00:04:21But the first impression it gives us
00:04:25is that
00:04:27this is a propaganda text like the other 70 times he has said
00:04:31yes. Secondly, it is highly divisive.
00:04:34That is, the Iranian nation must be careful that
00:04:38the United States of America wants to create a dichotomy within the Iranian
00:04:41government through
00:04:44its most disreputable media.
00:04:47If all of this 70% To say that we have a moderate group and a hardliner
00:04:50group, while the head of the country,
00:04:53the leader of the country, is completely in control of the situation.
00:04:57Yes, and everyone has their own opinion. They express
00:05:01it in the press, but ultimately a decision is implemented.
00:05:04We must be careful that in my opinion,
00:05:07its propaganda and political clamor are
00:05:10more than its content.
00:05:14Probably now, let me say one point, apart from what the reality in the
00:05:18field in Iran is, which is certainly
00:05:21not the dichotomy they are talking about. Let's be very clear.
00:05:25The fact that people have different opinions about what
00:05:28decision should be made is not an issue. But incidentally, let me say
00:05:32that it is not that the government and the foreign ministry, for example,
00:05:35have one opinion, and then, for example, the military. In fact, someone in the military
00:05:39might believe that we should go to such and such a place to negotiate, and someone in the government might believe that we should
00:05:42stand firm in such and such a place. The fact that I say there are different opinions means
00:05:46that I say it is not a dichotomy, but there are different opinions, and
00:05:50the nature of a place where people are free to express their opinions
00:05:53is like this. Opinions are different. One of the criticisms I have of
00:05:57both groups is that both groups in their
00:06:01press statements, not internally, but externally,
00:06:04say in the press and so on, "Why don't we silence the other side?"
00:06:08I say, "Well, what is the necessity of doing this?"
00:06:11Everyone expresses their own opinion, but the government is completely
00:06:15cohesive and knows what it is doing and is moving forward. Now, this dichotomy, regardless
00:06:18of whether it exists in reality or not, which it doesn't, is a point
00:06:21that in my opinion, in the minds of American intelligence
00:06:25agencies and American political officials, such a dichotomy exists.
00:06:29The fact that they want to intensify this dichotomy is not an issue,
00:06:33but this dichotomy is in their minds. We have said something many times before.
00:06:36We said, regardless of what the reality of our scene is,
00:06:40it is the enemy's perception of us that shapes their decisions.
00:06:44Therefore, part of what we need to do is to correct the enemy's perceptions.
00:06:48Otherwise, even if we are very strong, a steel
00:06:51wall, and they think it is a soft pillow, they will come and
00:06:55hit their head against it. It is true that their head will be hurt, but they
00:06:59will take this action. War is started based on miscalculations.
00:07:03They had miscalculations. We cannot say they did not realize
00:07:06that we are weak in such and such an area. Then they came
00:07:09and saw that we are not weak. We kept saying before that we are not weak. Well, the problem
00:07:13was that they did not believe it. Now they have hit the wall of reality. Here too,
00:07:17to some extent, they believe this dichotomy. So when they
00:07:20believe it, what does this mean? He says, "Well, the president is coming
00:07:24to New York, and the foreign minister is also there. So now I will threaten
00:07:27and we will sign a peace agreement here." Let alone that the decision-making
00:07:31process in Iran is not like this. Let alone that it is not
00:07:35so fast that for example, in some places,
00:07:38decision-makers, in some places, Iran is not fast, but in some places,
00:07:42it can be a positive point. After all, something like this cannot happen,
00:07:46but in my opinion, this increase in pressure is due to this.
00:07:50These regional warnings that have been issued, meaning the US State Department
00:07:53has informed its embassies to warn American residents
00:07:56of that region or Americans who are present in those
00:08:00countries to be ready because their airspace may be
00:08:03threatened. A lot of it is due to the
00:08:07desperation of the Americans.
00:08:11That is, the situation has reached
00:08:22a dead end, seemingly in the entire Western world.
00:08:26I have friends who report to us from Sweden, for example,
00:08:29that fuel rationing is starting in Sweden. In France, we know
00:08:33that they are under severe pressure. The price of a tank of diesel
00:08:36is reaching about a thousand
00:08:38dollars for trucks, which breaks historical
00:08:42records. In the upcoming midterm elections,
00:08:46Mr. Trump and the Republicans are under severe pressure.
00:08:49And the war, from a military perspective, perhaps the third
00:08:53week of the imposed war has reached a dead end
00:08:56so far. Yes, that is, they have done everything they could.
00:09:00These noises could be due to
00:09:03the reality that they are somehow
00:09:06begging us to come and talk. Yes, and this
00:09:10is an opportunity that Mr. Pezeshkian has when he goes there. No, I emphasize
00:09:13that 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
00:09:20as I want?" Because apparently, the Americans, now I am not presenting this as official news,
00:09:24but scattered reports indicate that the Americans had a plan
00:09:27for the nuclear issue and the war to be resolved in one
00:09:31place, not even like the Islamabad agreement, which Iran naturally
00:09:35did not accept because it is not in its interest to accept such a thing,
00:09:39even if it wants to resolve the nuclear issue in the way it was
00:09:42in the Islamabad agreement, it is not in its interest for these to be in one
00:09:46place. Two, because it imposes some obligations on Iran
00:09:50that Iran does not want to fulfill in cash first and then
00:09:54receive something from it in installments. And he said, "No,
00:09:57these are my seven conditions." These are the things we are seeing
00:10:01from the American side after the transfer of those seven conditions
00:10:05of Iran to them. Now, General Rezaei's tweet,
00:10:08which had a bit more than the Al Jazeera interview,
00:10:12what was that? Now, in that program that night, it was behind-the-scenes
00:10:15news, and we didn't want to say it. Now that Mr. Rezaei has said it,
00:10:19it can be stated that Iran had 3 main conditions, which we also
00:10:22addressed in that program and mentioned. But it was said that Iran has seven
00:10:26conditions, as Mr. Mohsen Rezaei tweeted today. Seven conditions
00:10:30of Iran for starting any negotiation have been announced to the US government.
00:10:33Tehran's message is clear and unambiguous. If Washington wants to get
00:10:37out of the predicament it has created and not get more entangled in it,
00:10:40there is no other way than to accept Iran's rights and conditions.
00:10:44One of the seven conditions discussed yesterday with Mr. Baghaei
00:10:48was that America should respect the agreement between Iran and Oman.
00:10:51The seventh has been added because the previous six were already
00:10:57mentioned, like the lifting of the blockade.
00:11:00When you talk about the seventh, it's Iran's control over Hormuz,
00:11:04right? The recognition of the new TS by
00:11:07America and Arab countries is a bit
00:11:11of a legal burden and it's long-term.
00:11:15Because it's long-term, it's not a short-term thing. It's not a short-term thing.
00:11:18What was your response to this memorandum of understanding
00:11:21that is much more in Iran's favor, Dr. Es? This is a trap. That is, America was not
00:11:55looking to implement it. It was not looking to implement it, and I predicted
00:11:58back then that in February, there would be war again. So what about
00:12:01renegotiation? Negotiation should always be there, and it always
00:12:05has been. We should not make negotiation a dichotomy, because
00:12:09negotiation can also happen in the middle of a war.
00:12:12My problem is not negotiation.
00:12:16My problem is whether the United States
00:12:20can finally accept an independent Iran or
00:12:23not.
00:12:25If this is your problem, which I think
00:12:28is all our problem, do you see the United States
00:12:31at that point now where it would accept an independent Iran?
00:12:34Perhaps during Mr. Trump's era, especially not.
00:12:37But, and but, now we are at a very high
00:12:41point. If we do not back down
00:12:45from our current positions, we have put the West
00:12:48in its worst crisis. Remember, the war in Ukraine
00:12:52is also happening, and the war in Ukraine
00:12:56has completely taken the energy market out of the control
00:12:59of Westerners. The effect of this on the European
00:13:02economy means 0.7% economic growth for
00:13:06this year, which is nothing at all.
00:13:10The Middle East is lost. The US economic growth
00:13:13has decreased by 1.1%. Contrary to Mr. Trump's
00:13:16opinion, who was the head of the Federal
00:13:19Reserve, they changed this by removing Mr. Jeremy Powell
00:13:23and bringing in Mr. Warsh, so that they would either keep
00:13:27interest rates stable or lower them. But contrary
00:13:30to the opinion of the US president, all 12 members
00:13:34of the Federal Reserve's decision-making body
00:13:37raised the interest rate by 0.25%
00:13:40for the first time after 3-4 years, after
00:13:43Corona, specifically after 3 years. All of this shows
00:13:47that Republicans, in particular, are under
00:13:51severe pressure, and if we want to make a compromise
00:13:54with them now, a compromise that does not consider our
00:13:57rights, the minimum that Mr. Rezaei mentioned in his
00:14:01tweet, and if we do not get serious guarantees from them,
00:14:05for the United States of America, especially its current ruling
00:14:07elite, it is as easy as drinking water to violate
00:14:10this. So why get involved again? You see,
00:14:14your words are true, Dr. I don't think anyone would
00:14:18disagree with this, that we don't have any problem or objection
00:14:21with the principle of negotiation now. But the time and place
00:14:25of it. For example, if you, at this very moment, I was
00:14:28looking at Mr. Azari Jahromi, who is politically aligned
00:14:32with Dr. Pezeshkian, he wrote in his channel that
00:14:36diplomatic function sometimes requires not attending some meetings
00:14:40and assemblies. Perhaps in special circumstances,
00:14:43the benefit and achievement of not attending at the presidential
00:14:47level in New York is greater than attending at such
00:14:51a level. We also referred to it yesterday. Basically, some
00:15:01even feel a concern related to the delegation itself.
00:15:04If during this trip, tension intensifies, what will be
00:15:08the situation of our delegation that has traveled?
00:15:11I mean, from a security perspective, and whether it
00:15:15can be part of an American design, as you know, America
00:15:18is still, at least until the end of Trump's term, saying that it is not
00:15:22in a position to accept it. Despite the fact that we say
00:15:26there is no problem with any kind of meeting or negotiation.
00:15:29That's right. No, I don't emphasize this. I consider
00:15:32this whole issue to be tactical. I consider the discussion
00:15:36of negotiation or the presence of the president in New York
00:15:39to be part of public diplomacy, which fortunately
00:15:42is now very much in our favor. In the world,
00:15:46the atmosphere is in our favor. Yes, I agree,
00:15:49and we should not give this
00:15:53atmosphere to the Americans, especially Mr. Trump, who
00:15:56is personally despised throughout the world among the
00:16:00nations of the world, including Western countries
00:16:03like Canada. Look at the behavior that America exhibits towards Canada.
00:16:07What does that lead to? After that behavior, do you think
00:16:10they will have mercy on Iranians? Or will Iran have mercy on Iran?
00:16:14We are putting the Islamic Republic aside for this very reason.
00:16:18My main issue is not whether to negotiate or not.
00:16:21I say that in the worst conditions, like the Vietnamese, we
00:16:25can carry out our negotiations and advance public diplomacy
00:16:29both domestically and internationally.
00:16:32But we cannot retreat from our positions. Why? Because
00:16:35I am certain that this is a trap. Before,
00:16:39before the 12-day war, we had predicted this,
00:16:43and we predicted it in the middle of it. And now my assumption is that
00:16:46if the Americans get a chance, as soon as the midterm elections
00:16:50are over, they will get through Christmas and the heart
00:16:53of winter in the West, they may be ready
00:16:57for a military confrontation with Iran. The danger is so
00:17:00serious that we should not lose any ground now.
00:17:04So what should we do until then, Doctor?
00:17:07Also, focus a little on your internal affairs, Mr. Razavi.
00:17:11Focus a little on your economy. Address the livelihood of the people.
00:17:15Fix the loopholes through which dollars are
00:17:18continuously flowing out, as I am speaking to you today.
00:17:22Revive the relationship between the nation and the government.
00:17:26Make your bureaucracy a little more agile. Adapt the country
00:17:30to the wartime conditions it is facing.
00:17:33wartime decisions and behaviors, otherwise, when
00:18:00we look at Mr. Mohsen Nijahi, he is completely in agreement.
00:18:04But when we go into the body of the judiciary, it still
00:18:07adheres to the restrictions and clauses related to companies
00:18:11that I don't know how to close their accounts.
00:18:13The same bureaucratic delay in judicial proceedings that the
00:18:17respected head of the judiciary has protested about 10 times
00:18:21still exists. In the government, at the decision-making
00:18:24levels, we act very slowly. We have not been able to manage
00:18:27the country's costs in the currency sector properly.
00:18:30You might say that if we import luxury cars,
00:18:34the amount is small. I say that even one dollar
00:18:37of it is too much when there is a risk that half of your
00:18:41cancer patients will die due to lack of medicine.
00:18:45We allocate the same amount, save two patients,
00:18:49and address the livelihood of the people a little.
00:18:52Look, from the beginning, they say there are no resources.
00:18:56They say it's because of the blockade and sanctions and so on.
00:18:58I know there are no resources, but we don't have dollars.
00:19:02When I calculate it, I see that while we are
00:19:06talking to each other, you know that in this hour and a half
00:19:10that we have been talking, 2000 billion tomans have been added
00:19:13to Iran's liquidity. The government doesn't spend that much.
00:19:16How has it been added to the liquidity? Almost 30,000 billion tomans are added
00:19:20to Iran's liquidity every day. This number is so large
00:19:23that how? How can money be printed?
00:19:27Unsupported money is printed. Because economic growth is also
00:19:30negative. Well, this gives you inflation. Well, don't
00:19:33do it, brother. That is, I say the worst estimates within
00:19:38the government say that we have 200,000 billion tomans in budget per month,
00:19:41which is a very high number. But still,
00:19:44this budget is not enough to give you 70% inflation.
00:19:48Therefore, part of it is due to inefficiency
00:19:52and other imbalances. Since we have repeated this a thousand
00:19:55times, it is useless to repeat it here, but we know
00:19:59it exists. The respected officials of the Central Bank, the respected
00:20:03Minister of Economy and Finance, all the respected authorities
00:20:06admit to it and say they want to stop it. But
00:20:10that behavior is not in line with these wartime conditions.
00:20:13You know, at the time of that urgency that I
00:20:17اون رفتار مطابق این شرایط جنگی نیست
00:20:21moved forward more firmly.
00:20:24that has been our inflation growth this year,
00:20:28now there is a danger that, as you know, it will reach
00:20:3280 or 90 by the end of the year. Because when the point-to-point
00:20:35inflation rate overtakes the average inflation rate,
00:20:39it means that the average inflation rate is increasing.
00:20:43If it's the opposite, it's decreasing. Now, the point-to-point inflation
00:20:46rate in Iran is higher than the 12-month average. What
00:20:50does that mean? We should expect even more inflation. That is,
00:20:53our average inflation rate is going towards triple digits.
00:20:57I hope Dr. Hemmati, with all his sensitivity,
00:21:00will stop this, but this can only be done with financial
00:21:04discipline, to the extent of dealing with corruption.
00:21:07Otherwise, if we want to provide 300,000 tomans
00:21:11to the livelihood of 30%, 40% of subsidy recipients,
00:21:14it is much more than the expenses that the
00:21:18government is incurring. Why
00:21:27are they in kind? That is, instead of money,
00:21:31so that they can buy goods, even in the form of goods.
00:21:35Why direct goods? Tactical, but
00:21:38its flexibility is less. The model that Mr. Meydari
00:21:41and Mr. Hemmati are using now for paying
00:21:45cash subsidies. You say that we are printing money.
00:21:48At least let's print money and
00:22:20give it to people to buy goods, where the worker and employee
00:22:24need extra money to be printed. But that inflation is less
00:22:27than this. In the last 25 years, we have destroyed
00:22:31the livelihoods of more than 70% of Iranians.
00:22:34It doesn't matter if they are reformists or conservatives. It has been
00:22:38completely organized and systematic.
00:22:42While during this same period, 100% has been added to Iran's
00:22:45economic growth. The volume of production.
00:22:49It's not like there was a war.
00:22:53Whenever we tell government officials, "Why don't you increase the minimum
00:22:57wage or the average wage by the amount of inflation?"
00:23:00They say it will cause inflation. I say, "Sir, because there is
00:23:04inflation, we are saying this." So the fact that you are
00:23:07increasing it by 25% and inflation becomes 50%
00:23:11must mean that inflation has another cause, like the issue
00:23:14of gasoline. What was the cause of that at that time?
00:23:17The growth of liquidity.
00:23:21As Milton Friedman says, inflation is essentially
00:23:24a monetary phenomenon, brother. When you talk about the rate
00:23:27of growth of liquidity, my experience with the Iranian economy says
00:23:31that up to 10-15% growth in liquidity, provided you have
00:23:353-4% economic growth, gives you single-digit inflation.
00:23:39Above this, inflation goes a little higher and then becomes runaway from somewhere else.
00:23:43We have broken the record of Iran's
00:23:47modern economic history in liquidity growth.
00:23:50And it's interesting that this trend started in September
00:23:542024. Sir, we had a war in September 2024,
00:23:58before the 12-day war. That is,
00:24:01economists and experts should, without being
00:24:04influenced by populism, demagoguery, and ignorance,
00:24:07sit down and think about this issue of inflation.
00:24:11Sir, this Russia right next to us has inflation.
00:24:15It has also been mostly deprived of its oil exports.
00:24:18It used to export about 600
00:24:20million cubic meters of gas to Western Europe daily. From the first
00:24:24day of the war, it has been deprived of this and cannot do it.
00:24:28At first, they had some inflation. Their exchange rate rose from
00:24:31100 rubles against the US dollar to even 10, 11, 12.
00:24:35But now, for example, it is 75-80, even
00:24:39less than when their war started. Even their currency
00:24:42became stronger. Yes, it became stronger. Afghanistan
00:24:46too, and then. In contrast, Turkey
00:24:50and Argentina, both allies of America, perhaps we can
00:24:54say they are in the pocket of the United States, if we don't want to use
00:24:58a more impolite term in the presence of
00:25:01the noble people of Iran.
00:25:04And inflations, for example, 35% to 40% are predicted
00:25:08for both countries this year. But both Turkey
00:25:12and Argentina have had much higher inflations. Therefore,
00:25:16the fuse of inflation is essentially in the hands of the government. And by controlling liquidity,
00:25:21it can do this. But controlling liquidity is in the hands
00:25:24of banks that are not for the government, in a sense.
00:25:28This is where, when you hold a powerful leaders' meeting,
00:25:32you must make a decisive decision. And
00:25:35that is in the political sphere. That is, you must make decisions
00:25:38that will definitely hurt a group. What will
00:25:42be the consequences then? They say, "In a wartime situation,
00:25:46I will make such a decision and confront a group that
00:25:50will be hurt." Brother, you either have to fight America
00:25:54or your own people. You can't fight both. And in our nation,
00:25:57the only country in the world that wants to satisfy both its
00:26:01proletariat and its bourgeoisie
00:26:04is Iran. We are as afraid
00:26:07of the goldsmiths' strike as we are of the workers' strike.
00:26:11Is this not practical? Look, economics is the science
00:26:15of allocating scarce resources to unlimited needs. What does that mean?
00:26:18It means you have to decide where you want to wear it,
00:26:22like a short skirt. It's right that it's
00:26:24necessary. You decide for yourself.
00:26:28You, as the government, give it, but you can't cover
00:26:51all these places. I would like to point out something. A certain
00:26:54high-ranking official's son had said that it's impossible for you to
00:26:57talk about war, give Yemen as an example, praise it, and then
00:27:01talk about economic problems. The first thing in his heart,
00:27:05that is, his words, which he learned from Yemenis, "Don't use government
00:27:09electricity, don't travel, don't buy gasoline, eat less."
00:27:12They had listed a bunch of things for His Holiness. First of all,
00:27:16I don't know where he lives, but
00:27:18then the nation, as he calls it, the "martyr-nurturing nation."
00:27:22First of all, many of the martyr-nurturing nation don't even have cars
00:27:26or don't travel that much. And they are among those
00:27:29who, even if they turn on all the lights in their house, it won't make a difference.
00:27:33Again, those villagers who get a discount on their electricity
00:27:36bill, how many lamps do you want to turn on in a 40-meter house,
00:27:40or even in a 70-meter house? Compare that to the other thing.
00:27:44That is, I mean to say that the main point, which is wrong,
00:27:46the second point in that discussion was that the assumption
00:27:50was that those who are talking about economic problems are doing
00:27:54so because the war, sir, has caused these economic problems.
00:27:57Well, accept it then. Either war or let's solve
00:28:00these economic problems. Here,
00:28:32let's really see what the other side is saying. Because one
00:28:36of the big drawbacks of Twitter is that I don't
00:28:38have it in any space for it.
00:28:42You want
00:28:45the British have a saying: you can pour 10 pounds of stuff into
00:28:48a 5-pound container, but the handles and everything get messy.
00:28:52So you can't say everything you want
00:28:55in a few words.
00:28:58This inevitably creates misunderstandings.
00:29:02But what I know is that none of
00:29:05our structural problems have been solved, and we're not taking any steps
00:29:09to solve them. When Mr. Pezeshkian was approved
00:29:12on the first day, I said about half an hour after
00:29:16his approval in an interview that one
00:29:20of the reasons the Islamic Republic regime
00:29:22approved his candidacy was, and my assumption
00:29:25on that day in that interview was that he would become president,
00:29:29that he has to deal with the
00:29:33imbalances now, and these imbalances
00:29:36need legitimacy, and this legitimacy comes through
00:29:40a comprehensive approach to the issue
00:29:43of corruption, the issue of inefficiency,
00:29:47the issue of waste, and all of these. And if
00:29:50we want to be fair, it's not just the government.
00:29:54We can accuse the government of
00:29:57not taking a wartime stance to that extent. I've always
00:30:01said this. You yourself, Mr. Pezeshkian,
00:30:04are an exception. In my opinion, even among his honorable ministers,
00:30:07except for one or two cabinet members, because
00:30:11some of them might not even be ministers, those who are working seriously,
00:30:15the rest I haven't seen
00:30:18Iran take a wartime stance. Brother, the judiciary hasn't taken it either.
00:30:22Your parliamentary representatives haven't taken it either. We say
00:30:26we'll launch missiles in the morning, but
00:30:29drones and missiles come after us. It doesn't work.
00:30:32Every day, you take an importer of luxury goods
00:30:36to a minister's office and say, "Give him an exceptional
00:30:39permit," and the person
00:30:42who gets it, and the minister, why does he give it?
00:30:46Please ask him. This is exactly what
00:30:50happens in wartime conditions. I believe
00:30:53we fundamentally don't have a wartime
00:30:56posture except for our armed forces.