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00:00:00in Canada and his supporters ignored his
00:00:04calls. Canadian police established that
00:00:09of a Pahlavi supporters were behind the killing, so he is not popular and there is
00:00:12no real unity among his
00:00:14supporters. That
00:00:18distinction is
00:00:19a crucial. Being the most recognizable opposition
00:00:23figure, does not make someone the most organizationally
00:00:27powerful, and the events of 2020. si put
00:00:30that distinction under extraordinary pressure.
00:00:34when the United States and Israel launched direct military action against
00:00:39of Iran, some Pahlavi supporters anticipated a rapid collapse
00:00:43of the Islamic Republic. The expectation was straight
00:00:46forward. Military pressure would weaken the
00:00:50state, the system would fracture, and
00:00:54an opposition figure with an established international
00:00:57of profile of could emerge as a leader of a transition.
00:01:01but that sequence did not materialize, and
00:01:05when political reality refuses to follow the script written on social
00:01:09media, movements have to confront an uncomfortable
00:01:12possibility, perhaps they confuse the size
00:01:17of of the audience with the size of the movement. a
00:01:21political movement becomes consequential when it can
00:01:24a turn individual supporters into a functioning structure, people
00:01:28who communicate, coordinate, make decisions, build
00:01:32allies and act
00:01:37of collectively. Social media can create the appearance of all of this
00:01:41without actually providing it. A million views do
00:01:45in not create a political machine. A viral hashtag
00:01:49does not create a chain of command and supporters
00:01:52scattered across different countries do not automatically
00:01:56constitute an organized political constituency inside.
00:02:18of
00:02:29a Iranian society, one is the
00:02:32revolutionary identity of Iranian society.
00:02:36Iranians have sought independence for decades, and that is
00:02:40fundamentally at odds with the institution of
00:02:43monarchy. even imam khumaini, the late founder
00:02:47of the islamic republic view
00:02:49the palavi regime as a symbol of dependence and national
00:02:53humiliation. the martered leader
00:02:56of the revolution also described the palevi regime as puppet.
00:03:00regime based
00:03:01on this historical narrative, Iranians do not
00:03:05a see the palivi era through the lens presented by western media, they see
00:03:09someone dependent on foreign powers and who has spent
00:03:13years watching events on fold from western hotels
00:03:16as an
00:03:17outsider.
00:03:21this is precisely why the uncertainty
00:03:23surround internal network
00:03:26matters. it does not prove that he has no support
00:03:33a is inside a Iran, it reveals something much more important,
00:03:35in the scale, structure and operational capacity of that
00:03:39support remain difficult to
00:03:41establish. For an ordinary
00:03:44opposition activist, that might not matter
00:03:47much. For someone being presented as the potential leader
00:03:51of national transition, it matters
00:03:54enormously. The reality is that Riza
00:03:58Pahlavi lacks the necessary. means to an end, that
00:04:01is the power to form a coherent
00:04:05coalition from different groups. now uh,
00:04:09do you think that such a person can claim to be the leader of a
00:04:12political transition? if this
00:04:16person uh is eligible to run the
00:04:20revolution, is he capable of performing
00:04:24the job? does he want this
00:04:27job? is there any organic? relationship
00:04:31between him and his supporters and the real people of
00:04:35Iran who live there right now as we
00:04:38speak? yes, you can
00:04:41be a president, you can be the prime minister, you can be the king in
00:04:45media, but what about the real world that we're all living
00:04:48in? so if media stops supporting
00:04:52him, will his follower
00:04:56uh go look up for another way to be connected with him?
00:05:00is there
00:05:01a any organism, is there any system, is there
00:05:04any other tool that his followers can be
00:05:07connected with him or his team? well, I would
00:05:11say these things... doesn't exist in
00:05:14reality, and the big question
00:05:18is, do they let the
00:05:20critics, ask him, challenge
00:05:24him, anybody who wants to know
00:05:28about his plan, his big plan, his master plan, will be
00:05:32criticized, will be put down by his
00:05:34followers, so this is not a good sign
00:05:38of a person who claim to...
00:05:42be the leader of
00:05:43transformation, because
00:05:47eventually followers have to become something tangible,
00:05:51people, networks, structures,
00:05:55leadership mechanisms and the ability to
00:05:58act. without those things, political
00:06:02influence remains largely
00:06:04rhetorical.
00:06:10for decades, American military intervention in west Asia
00:06:13have left behind countless innocent victims and immeasurable
00:06:17human suffering. The war against Iran is no exception.
00:06:21Beyond the headlines and geopolitical calculations are personal
00:06:25tragedies that rarely appear in world's major news
00:06:28reports. This is one
00:06:30them. That
00:06:33night was supposed to be night of joy. In Kuhestak
00:06:37aport town in Siri County Hormosgon province.
00:06:41Families were getting ready for. a wedding, night for new clothes,
00:06:45seeing the bride and groom, music and laughter and children
00:06:48playing among their relatives, but at around 9 o'clock on
00:06:52September 1st, a US military attack on the wedding ceremony
00:06:56changed everything a matter of seconds. The explosion filled the
00:07:00wedding venue with smoke and rubble, music and laughter
00:07:04gave way to screams and cries. In the attack carried out by US
00:07:07force, five people were killed and nearly 70 were
00:07:11injured. One of those killed was four-year-old
00:07:15boy named Amir Ali Karemi. Amir Ali had not gone to war. He had gone
00:07:19to a wedding. That day he had taken a bath, fixed his
00:07:22hair and could hardly contain his excitement about going to the
00:07:26celebration. His mother was supposed to leave a little later with
00:07:30him and the rest the family, but Amir Ali, his
00:07:3314-year-old sister Kiana and several other children left early.
00:07:37A few minutes later, the explosion happened. Amir
00:07:41Ali's mother later said, " there was a terrible sound, everything was filled with
00:07:45smoke, my heart sank. ran into the street and started looking
00:07:49for my children, but she could not find amir ali or kiyana. through
00:07:53the smoke and dust, she had only one question, where are my
00:07:56children? then the phone rang, they told me your son has been
00:08:00killed. Amir Ali, the youngest child in the family, was no
00:08:04longer among the injured. his body had been taken to the
00:08:08hospital within the first few minutes, so quickly that his mother
00:08:12did not... not even have the chance to hold her son one last
00:08:16time, but Canana had survived. Sharpnell had wounded her and she was
00:08:19taken to the hospital, doctors saved her life, but the wound she
00:08:23brought home was not only a physical one. Kiano had
00:08:27witnessed her little brother's final
00:08:29moments. Her mother says that even while she was
00:08:33injured herself, Kana kept crying and saying, "I saw blood coming from Amir
00:08:37Ali's head, I saw him fall to the ground. Now
00:08:41this mother must learn to..." without the little boy who filled their
00:08:44home with his energy, the child who was supposed to start
00:08:48preschool this year, the home that was supposed to be filled with
00:08:52laughter and memories after the wedding is now
00:08:56missing one voice. ami's voice, and perhaps
00:09:00the hardest question in his grief is this: a child who only wanted
00:09:04to go to a wedding and play with his relatives children, why did
00:09:08his last night have to be spent among smoke, sharpenel, blood
00:09:12and tear?
00:09:16Then comes an even harder test: can Pahlavi build a coalition
00:09:20or can he mobilized the people who already support
00:09:23him?
00:09:27Iran's opposition is not a single political
00:09:29camp. It includes monarchists,
00:09:33republicans, liberals, leftists, secular
00:09:36activists, ethnic and regional movements, former
00:09:40officials and groups with radically. different visions for Iran's
00:09:44future, a potential transitional
00:09:47leader therefore has to accomplish something much harder than
00:09:51attracking supporters. He has to bring people who
00:09:55fundamentally disagree with one another into the same political
00:09:59framework, and that is where the division surrounding
00:10:03Pahlavi become
00:10:04significant. Mr. Amin
00:10:08Sophi, an Iranian expert in International Affairs.
00:10:25their own personal goals, some of those goals were
00:10:28interpreted as regime change, but ideologically lacked
00:10:32clear vision for overthrowing the
00:10:35system. the ali
00:10:39karimi episode is one example, but it is
00:10:43hardly the only one. public disputes have
00:10:47repeatedly erupted among opposition personalities over
00:10:50who represents the movement, who belongs inside its political
00:10:54code.
00:11:25number of followers and during the 2022
00:11:27campaign, they recruited many high profile
00:11:31influencers. now he is pressuring them to deliver on
00:11:35promises they
00:11:36made to him. Pahlavi also issued several calls during
00:11:40the recent war, apparently expecting something similar to the recent
00:11:43riats. Karim opposed the Islamic Republic, moved
00:11:47abroad and continued his campaign, but saw no
00:11:50results and became laughing stock.
00:11:55more likely their dispute is over funding
00:11:58they had agreed on, we may see more revelations
00:12:02from other
00:12:03bloggers. the problem
00:12:07is not that political movements contain disagreements,
00:12:11every serious political movement does. the
00:12:15problem is that pahlavi's personal popularity has so far failed to
00:12:19translate into a stable, disciplined and broadly
00:12:22accepted political coalition.
00:12:55and popularity, economic problems give some people an
00:12:58opportunity to ride that wave, but anyone who
00:13:02truly understood iranian society would notilerity
00:13:05has largely existed, hilarity has largely existed
00:13:09online, while social media does not reflect the reality
00:13:13of Iranian society, such narratives are often
00:13:17driven by organizational interests and cyber
00:13:20armies, the question
00:13:24becomes even more revealing when money enters the
00:13:27picture. A Reuder's investigation recorded that
00:13:31several Iranian American investers had contributed more than
00:13:35$3 million dollars to Pahlavi's political effort,
00:13:38expecting that he could play a role in leading a future transitional
00:13:42government.
00:13:46The significance is not simply the amount of money. It
00:13:50is what that money represented. These people were
00:13:54not. merely supporting celebrity or a symbolic opposition
00:13:58figure, they were investing a political
00:14:01project, they believe could eventually produce
00:14:04power, and some later became
00:14:07dissatisfied with Pahlavi's performance and his response to Donald
00:14:11Trump's policies. That tells us something
00:14:15important. The greater the political expectations
00:14:19surrounding Pahlavi, the more difficult it becomes to hide the gap
00:14:23between political image and political
00:14:25capacity, people can tolerate ambiguity
00:14:29from a symbolic figure, they demand results from
00:14:33someone presented as a future
00:14:35leader.
00:14:39Then comes perhaps the most politically explosive issue, and that is
00:14:43Pahlavi's relationship with foreign power and the fact that he has
00:14:46openly welcomed American pressure on Iran as a
00:14:50whole.
00:14:54Un... February 28, following the launch of operation Epic
00:14:58Fury, he published an article in the Washington Post thanking
00:15:02Donald Trump and arguing that the moment could create path toward
00:15:06Iran's freedom. He also called for the
00:15:09international community to be prepared to recognize legitimate
00:15:13transitional government when the time
00:15:15came.
00:15:22That was not simply commentary on events. It was
00:15:26clear political alignment with an American military campaign
00:15:29against Iran and the message became even more
00:15:33striking in the days that followed.
00:15:37After American soldiers were killed, Pahlavi publicly expressed
00:15:41condolences to their families and thank them for what he
00:15:45described as their defense the Iranian
00:15:47people.
00:15:53For his supporters, these statements demonstrate
00:15:56pragmatism. An opposition leader welcoming the action of
00:16:00foreign power confronting the Islamic Republic.
00:16:04For his critics, they expose much deeper problem.
00:16:09If someone wants to lead Iran, but his political strategy
00:16:12increasingly appears intertwine with the military and political power
00:16:16of another country, where does his political
00:16:19legitimacy actually come from? That
00:16:23is not merely an ideological question, it is a
00:16:26question of political independence. A
00:16:30leader cannot simply assume that foreign military pressure will
00:16:34create domestic legitimacy for him. the
00:16:37opposite can happen, the more a political figure
00:16:41appears dependent on an outside power to create the conditions for
00:16:45his rise, the harder it becomes to demonstrate that his
00:16:48authority originates from inside the country
00:16:51itself, and there is an extraordinary
00:16:54irony here. even Donald Trump, the American
00:16:58president whose confrontation with the Islamic Republic, Pahlavi
00:17:02openly welcomed, has questioned whether Pahlavi actually
00:17:06has enough support inside. Iran to lead the
00:17:08country. In January,
00:17:12Trump told routers that Pahlavi seems very nice while
00:17:16questioning whether Iranians would actually accept his
00:17:19leadership.
00:17:23Riza Pahnavi has tried to introduce himself beyond a monarch
00:17:27and as a leading figure guiding Iran's political transition.
00:17:31Now to what extent do you think he has been successful in solidifying
00:17:35this change in political identity? among the opposition and
00:17:39the Iranian society, we need to ask
00:17:42this: where is
00:17:46this uh eligibility come from? does it come from a
00:17:50name? does it come from being
00:17:53relevant - to a dynasty
00:17:56which was toppled back in
00:17:591979, so these are the questions we need to
00:18:03ask, if this person is
00:18:06capable? of managing or
00:18:10leading, well then we can
00:18:14discuss this issue, but we need to ask ourselves, what
00:18:18is the background of this person? so
00:18:21anything related to this capabilities
00:18:25will answer the next question will be,
00:18:29is he a good choice, is he able to lead
00:18:33Iran through transformation period? so from
00:18:37what a... see or from what i
00:18:39observed and there is no fact against
00:18:43it, this doesn't exist in real
00:18:46world, that
00:18:50statement is revealing, not because trump is an authority
00:18:54on Iran, but because it demonstrates that even the foreign
00:18:58political establishment most closely associated with Pahlavi
00:19:02strategy recognizes the difference between international
00:19:05visibility and domestic.
00:20:07powerful political organization is far less
00:20:10convincing. He has visibility, but
00:20:14visibility is not power. He has
00:20:18supporters, but supporters are not necessarily an
00:20:21organized constituency. He has
00:20:25international access, but international access
00:20:29is not domestic legitimacy. He has
00:20:32financial backing, but money does not automatically
00:20:36produce political. and he has famous
00:20:40name, but famous name does not create a
00:20:43government. can we say that the major
00:20:47shortcomings attributed to?
00:21:20media to build his image and gain online fame, he
00:21:23believed live streams, likes and views could win over the
00:21:27Iranian people, but the unity the Iranian people around their
00:21:31leadership and the preservation of Iran's integrity showed
00:21:35that all of this was just
00:21:36illusion.
00:21:40The question then is not whether Razza Pahlavi is
00:21:44popular, he clearly is among sections the Iranian
00:21:48opposition. The real question is whether that
00:21:51popularity can survive contact with the realities of
00:21:54politics. Can he build an organization capable
00:21:58of functioning inside Iran? Can he unite the
00:22:02monarchists and Republicans, liberals and leftists,
00:22:06secular activists and regional movements? Can he
00:22:10command loyalty beyond the digital world?
00:22:14Can he persuade people who do not already support him that he should
00:22:17lead them? Can he dement? strate that his political authority
00:22:21comes from Iranians themselves rather than from Washington,
00:22:25western media or social media
00:22:27algorithms, and ultimately, can he
00:22:31turn popularity into power? so
00:22:35far, the answer to all these questions have been
00:22:38no, and the ali carry me drama has just been
00:22:41a case in
00:22:42point.
00:23:15You may not know this, but there is city that
00:23:19keeps. a metro while at
00:23:21war,
00:23:40if you follow the news, you've probably heard countless stories about
00:23:43conflict in the middle east, missiles, air
00:23:47strikes, ceasefires, casualties. but there's
00:23:51another story that rarely makes the headlines. It's the
00:23:55story of city that keeps
00:23:56breathing, keeps moving
00:24:00forward and keeps growing even under
00:24:03fire.
00:24:11A city that refuses to let war define it, and whose sense of
00:24:15dignity won't allow images of helplessness to become its
00:24:18identity. Let
00:24:22me introduce you to city where nearly 28 million daily
00:24:26journeys keep life
00:24:27moving.
00:24:46A city of more than 10 million people in less than three.
00:24:50300 days, this city endured two major wars,
00:24:54during the second conflict in the winter and spring of
00:24:572026, more than 640
00:25:00locations were hit by missiles, rockets and
00:25:03drones. around 51,00 homes were
00:25:07damaged, yet more than 10,00 displaced residents
00:25:11were given free accommodation in hotels for
00:25:13weeks. what may surprise
00:25:17you even more is what happened while the attack... were still
00:25:20ongoing as fighter jets remained overhead
00:25:24and the sound of explosions echoed across the city,
00:25:28250 new electric taxis entered
00:25:31service, two new metro train sets were added to the
00:25:34underground network, public transport, both buses
00:25:38and the metro, became completely free for residents
00:25:42affected by the war, parks continued to
00:25:45bloom, streets were maintained, essential
00:25:49goods remained available, 50 meters beneath the
00:25:52ground, engineers and construction workers continued digging
00:25:56new metro tunnels using advanced tunneling
00:25:59technology while the sky above them was burning.
00:26:03At the same time, architects were designing new metro
00:26:07station in the historic city of Ray, inspired by
00:26:10Iran's early steam railway and generations of pilgrimage
00:26:14journeys. This is also a Muslim majority city that had
00:26:18previously opened a metro station named St. Mary, with
00:26:22distinctive architectural design that reflects respect
00:26:26for religious and cultural heritage.
00:26:29Buildings, towers and neighborhoods were dance.
00:26:32damaged, yet within hours the city's roads were
00:26:36operating again, with traffic moving instead of grinding
00:26:40to a halt. even the rubble tells another
00:26:43story. construction waste has been recycled into concrete
00:26:47jersey barriers and protective planters that make streets
00:26:50safer. electricity generated from waste to energy
00:26:54facilities continues to help power parts the
00:26:57city.
00:26:58this is the story of a middle eastern city whose famous nature bridge.
00:27:02was publicly threatened with destruction during the gather
00:27:05there, gather
00:27:07there. This is the
00:27:11story of
00:27:12Teran.
00:27:18A city whose municipal government chose not only endure,
00:27:22but to keep building, serving its people, and protecting
00:27:26hope, reminder that even under the shadow of missiles
00:27:29everyday life can continue. This
00:27:33isn't fiction, it's the reality of a Metropolis of more than
00:27:3710 million people in the heart the Middle
00:30:23The headlines, Iran says the crisis be setting the straight of removes
00:30:27is directly caused by the US and is radioactive aggression against the Islamic
00:30:31Republic of.
00:30:37military
00:30:37forces v retaliation after fresh saudi rates kill two yemen
00:30:41civilians.