Today is October 6, 2022. My name is Reza. This is Tendi's podcast. I delayed. I'm supposed to give you guys every two weeks a podcast. Well, it didn't happen. So I got busy. I got busy with work and everything else. I want to talk about... I did want to talk about the philosophy and different branch of it. However, the recent Iran situation and eruption... because of Mahsa Amini changed my subject. So I'm Iranian, and I consider myself the youngster of revolutions. Well, as you guys know, by now I am 60 years old. I cannot be a youngster. But I start my life with the revolution. So I was 17, or 16, not 17. when the Iranian revolution started. And believe me or not, I am still in it after so many years. So for us, revolution never ends. We continue revolt. And as you can see, every two, three years, something happened to Iran. When we were young and I was just starting school, Revolution just started and we toppled Shah regime. It was some kind of freedom. It was compared to any other time, I remember. It was more freedom than ever. So we have free newspaper, we could talk. We were not afraid of saying names. But to the other sides, nobody fights. Everybody would talk. The time long past, the two years after revolution, so the government used the situation happened by bombing Hezbollah, Jumburi, Islami at Seventeer, change everything. And they start grabbing, putting mujahideen to the jail and then tricked to the jail. And communists get rid of communists, get rid of Tudeh. It was a party in Iran. It was a very, very old party. They basically destroy everything, every freedom, every party that was considered somewhat... Basically, not only the government, just get rid of them. And everybody played with. Back then, it was Bani Saad, the president, he played with. And even though later on he ran away and he says he wasn't part of it, but he did. I remember that. So everybody plays with. Everybody wants to have... put everybody quiet. They killed a lot of young people to make everybody afraid. Nobody say anything anymore. That was what happened. I mean, everybody was afraid. The killing was started. So oppression, people are getting one day to the next day, they were dead. Nobody say anything. Nobody was have the determination stand up in front of these bloody mortars. So I remember every day the news comes up and says hundreds of names that's been killed and these people are just young, 16, 17, 19, 20 years old. They're all bad people. So depression started and it get worse By time, I left Iran. So I left a few years after I served in the military between the Iraq wars. So it was about taking two years, two years, 10 days, and 12 hours. Nowadays, everybody is, because of Mahsa Amini coming on the street, which is correctly said, they have a right to do it, and they should come out, because it's unjust killing. So, Mahsa Amini was a young person who has, his hijab was not correct, somewhat. And they put him in the truck. And while they put him in the truck, he hit the truck. Her head was hitting a truck. And later on, I don't know, because of that or something else, she died. But the reason they put her in truck, it was a hijab. So the fault comes back to the government. This is their fault. They're basically treating people the way they're treating people was on the fault. And people are angry. People don't want to die because the hijab is bad. Hijab is not bad. Turkey is also a Muslim country. It's very similar to Iranian system. And people don't have a job. 50% of people don't have a job. And it's okay. Nobody blamed them. Everybody lives along each other. So the government came back and it says, well, they're going to investigate, as you know and I know. The investigation is okay. We didn't find anything wrongdoing. And everybody is going along. Well, people didn't accept it. Came on the street. Then the opposition outside the country, and maybe inside the country, many of them are also inside, they came back and said, well, let's use the situation, make a revolution. Instead, use the situation and give women freedom, freedom from hijab, and give them freedom who can walk on the street without having to be afraid of somebody taking them to the jail because of their job. No, they want freedom. They want revolution. They want to change everything from scratch. Okay. How do you want to do it? So we're going to come on the streets so many times. We're going to die so many people. And we're going to take guns. And then we fight governments. And then once we fight a government, we will win eventually. And then we take the control of the country. But, you know, I'm 60 years old. I know that's not going to happen. Well, assuming... Young people are going to take the gun. So the opposition is going to take a gun and gum on the street and fight in government. A lot of people are going to die. There is no food anymore because nobody can sell, nobody can buy. There is no food anymore on the street. So more people are going to die from hunger. So people cannot go on to work for electricity, to provide electricity, to provide minimum needs of people. So essential... Government help is going to be gone. I'm talking government, not the mullahs. The hospitals, the metros, all the bus taking people back and forth are going to be gone. So nobody can work. Think about it. What is the right way to do it? Now, there's a clubhouse. Now everybody wants to talk about it. Everybody wants to have a voice, which is very good. Obviously, we need to talk about it. But this is it. They want to talk about it. But back then, when I remember... Revolution time, when 1957, or 1957, in our terms, it's going to be like 1979, sorry, 1979, we build groups, we create groups between each other. We know each other. We know who is with and who is not. And we, instead of going like a long, huge protest, we get smaller protests, focused protests. But we didn't kill anyone. We didn't kill the government. We didn't take the gun. We were on the street every single day, but we were focused. And these groups were organized. They cooperate within each other, but there was no cooperation on the lower level. It was cooperation on the higher level. The head of a group knows the other head of groups. So if the lower level has been cut, nobody knows who the other groups are. So we build those groups, and then we fight. We fight the government. We did fight the government, Shah government, and we did fight The Khomeini government, same way. Well, we weren't successful because we weren't that many anymore, and nobody wants to fight anymore. They want to give a chance to this government, the Khomeini government, to maybe they give later on some three. You and me know that didn't happen. They kick... Every time, every nine or ten years, clean the government, more people lay off. So a lot of people who used to be with government and starting, they're not with them anymore. And everyone knows it. So-called Islah Talab, they're not there anymore. They're not Islah Talab. They're in the pocket. Most of them are in the pocket of... U.S. and outside government, Saudi Arabia, you name it, they're in their pocket. They're saying a democracy, meaning including those governments, not including people, including outside governments. And you and me know what's outside government going to do. They're going to come, they're going to take all the resources they want to, and they're going to do anything to our people. to Iranian people. That's what they're going to do. People don't like to hear it, but that's what's going on. So instead of hanging out to the outside government, asking for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressmen, they all want everything for U.S., not Iran. They want everything. everything for U.S. And you know, they're friends. Israeli government, it's their friends. European government is their friends. But not Iranian. Iran has oil, has a lot of resources. That's what they want. The best ideas for them to Iran became 20 countries. Everybody run by a corrupt guy that they can just Pay him some money and take all the resources. And you know what happened to the people, to Palestinian people? They left. They left. Most of them left the country. And the people stayed there to fight. They have no resources to fight. They're just struggling. You know, everybody's going to come back and say, oh, we're talking about Palestinians. Palestinians don't have rights. They're against Israeli government. It's not good. The fight with them begins. So instead of talking about Palestinian Israelis, take some books. Read some books. And understand the situation. I know government, Iranian government, somewhat shows they're on the side of Palestinians and somewhat shows that they're against Israelis. But you and me know that Iranian government on top, hiding, have relationship with Israel, have relationship with U.S., and give resources to those countries. And it's true, 100%. There are many proofs. Iranian-Iraq wars. Iran bought ammunition from Israel. It's all facts. And Iraqi bought from the U.S. Supposedly, the U.S. gave bullfighting. This is what's going on. People think We don't want to go on the street and fight each other. I know the other side is bad people, a lot of bad people. Some good people too, but a lot more bad people. I understand, fully, 100% agree. But you go on the street, take your gun, there's no right thing to do. You go ask U.S. government or other foreign government to come and fight the government and kill Iranian people. It's not good. It's just like an Iraq war. You know, starting Iraq war, the Mujahideen was in the side of Iran fighting Iraqis. And in the war, they go to Iraq and fighting Iranians. And you see what happened to them. So no Iranian would like that. And we support that. Iran must be freed in our hands. We don't want no involvement from any foreign countries. At the same time, we'll go on the street. We tell the government we don't like what they're doing, what you guys are doing. We want women for women's freedom, complete freedom. They should have a right to separate from husband. They should have a right not having hijab. They should have a right, have a right clothes, just like a man do. The woman, just like a man, has rights. And that's what we should advocate. We should go on the street for it. Just voice. We don't want to fight. We don't want to kill anyone. We want to just let you guys know that we need freedom. We need to talk. We don't want corruption. We don't want all these banks corrupting the system. We don't want the banks giving 20-30%. On the foreign countries, the people are saying, the left usually saying, the Iranian government don't take interest on the money. Man, go back to Iran, take a look. They're doing 20% interest. They call it something else, but it's still interest. Interest on top of the money. They talk about Rothschild. Rothschild wants to take over Iranian banks. That's why they want to fight with Iran. They left saying that. They want to promote that there is propaganda going on. It's not really Mahsa Amini. But truly, Mahsa Amini died, and the government killed her. Accidental, most likely. But it was their fault that she died. Now, we blaming, this left group blaming on Rothschild, the banking industry. They want to take over the bank of Iran. Man, the Iranian bank is so corrupt. Worse than Rothschild. Believe me, it's much worse. No, I'm not advocating that Rothschild come to Iran and take over the banks. I'm just saying what you guys saying is not correct. At the same time, we should not advocate any other country. It doesn't matter what. Iraqis, Afghanis, which is very related to us, they don't even have, shouldn't have the rights to fight our country. Even though this saying is for our goods, no, it's not for our goods. We will fight ourselves. You can go to hell. You can go freedom your countries. Americans should freedom their countries. We have so many problems in America. By the way, I'm leaving Washington, D.C. I know what's going on. I know how many poor people are on the street. How much pressure is on Americans. So, free America. Don't free Iran. Let Iranians free Iran. That's why I'm advocating. Don't send texts to each other and tell them, go talk to your congressmen, talk to your senators to go fight Iran. Don't put more sanctions on Iranians. This is a sanction on Iranian people. not government. They don't have medicine, the cancer medicine they cannot buy. People are dying because of sanctions. If you want more sanctions, go ahead. Do you think the Iranian government is not going to buy the guns? They can buy guns. They can buy any gun they want to, but they cannot buy medicine. That's what they cannot buy. They cannot buy food. This sanction, this is towards these goals. More pressure on the people that push the people, for example, to the street. So I'm not for sanction. You should call your congressmen, your senators, tell them, take off the sanction of Iran. That's not fair. to Iranian people. And focus on the government if you really mean it. Okay, next time I'm going to promise that I'm going to talk about philosophy. That's what I promise you guys. I mean, I want to talk about philosophy. Philosophy is so good. It gives us the the path to think correctly. That's what I'm thinking. So I love philosophy. So help me. Give me your idea. If you think differently, if you have different ideas, give me ideas we can talk about. Or anything. I'm open to your suggestion. Thank you again for listening.