Alireza Jafarzadeh
speaker
278 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 13 Jun
Alireza Jafarzadeh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
There is a whole new reality in the region, but also inside Iran. And I think these two elements are intertwined because the regime started getting weaker and weaker inside Iran since 2018. where those uprisings started. There have been nine rounds of major uprisings in Iran, in all 31 provinces, shaking the very foundation of the regime.
People calling for change, calling for an end to the rule of clerics. There were what they called resistance units formed inside Iran, run by the main Iranian opposition, the MEK. They were targeting the revolutionary guards and centers of power. power, and then in parallel in the region, the regimes, that image of invincibility that Tehran had built over the years, that has been badly shattered.
Who would think that a regime in Damascus, that Tehran tried for about three, four years, tried to keep Assad in power. with a huge amount of money and resources, but also bringing Russia to help them, that whole thing would fall in 11 days. And the same situation with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and look at the situation in Iraq and now at the Houthis.
This regime is far weaker than they have ever been. And this is not a small thing. This is not a sideshow. All of these proxies of the regime represented what Khamenei described as the strategic depth. That's what they mean, meaning that if we don't fight in Lebanon, in Iraq, and Syria and other places, we would have to fight in Tehran to keep the regime in power.
Those are actually almost exact words that commonly used, and now all of that is happening. So this regime is far weaker than they have ever been. And therefore, I think there's a huge opportunity to end all of these threats, and of course, Nothing will be resolved unless the mullahs are overthrown, and of course, by the people of Iran and the organized resistance.
Well, you know, the good thing about what's different now, I know the Mullahs have been in power for 40 plus years. That's what they use to actually build this perception in the minds of others that, you know, we're the permanent feature here. We're going to be around and all the Middle East has always been like that. It will always be like this.
You better find a way of living with our terrorism and all of that. That's the thinking of the Mullahs. And I think we need to put an end to that because you have never seen this level of weakness of the regime in the region. but also the uprisings inside the country.
What you really, the world saw in the past few months or the past year, they saw that the head of the snake of war and terror lies in Tehran, but also the solution is also there. Nothing would be resolved unless the mullahs are overthrown. Now, what the benefit the regime had over the years was that they always managed to get concessions for their terrorism.
And terrorism became a very profitable business for the Ayatollahs, combining the export of terrorism with the hostage taking. Taking few hostage, remember back in the 80s, the Terry Anderson and all the Americans and foreign other nations that were taken hostage by Tehran. And they always got something for it. They never paid the price for it. They've developed nuclear weapons.
We were first to expose the nuclear sites of the regime right here in Washington. In August of 2002, I revealed the nuclear sites in Natanz and the heavy weather facility in Iraq near Tehran. And then in a matter of a year, we revealed several other nuclear sites of Iran. We showed a complete picture of the nuclear weapons program of the regime, even though they were in early stages.
I know Washington and other capital have been talking about this, but what we know on the ground from our information on the ground, it shows that they have a very advanced, sophisticated nuclear weapons program that is working on all levels, both in terms of the fissile material that you can get it from a rich uranium or plutonium.
They are working on the weaponization part, which has been very little overseeing on that. The IAEA is pretty much doing nothing about the weaponization part. And then the delivery system, building the missiles to carry the nuclear warheads.
We just had two press conferences within the past four months showing that the main organization in charge of building the nuclear bomb, known as CEPAD, S-P-N-D, which we first exposed in July 2011, and three years later it was sanctioned by the US government, that entity is heavily involved in developing nuclear warheads in , but also in Tehran.
So whether Khamenei decided to put all these pieces together and build a bomb, that's a different issue. We should get ourselves involved with that. We should look at the realities on the ground. It's not about their decision, it's about what they're doing. This program since day one has always been about developing nuclear weapons.
It's not about energy, and now they're moving towards that direction. But getting back to your first question about how to bring about change in Iran, change is going to happen. You need to have several elements. First, the population. has to be in a situation to reject the regime, which is already there since 2018. As I mentioned, there've been nine rounds of major uprisings.
It's not really the intellectuals anymore, it's the poor, the deprived, the smaller town cities who used to be the bedrock of support for the regime, who are now involved in the protests. you need to have the organized opposition to move things forward, to turn this content into change. And that's what those resistance units are doing on the ground, around the clock.
At least an average of seven acts of resistance are doing a day in Iran. Not much is being reported in the media. And third is with the role of the outside world. Is the outside world helping the regime in maintaining power or they're holding them accountable and squeezing them? This is the missing part over the past few years.
Different administrations, whether it was in Washington in Europe, always gave them concessions. Now is the time to reverse that and you will see the impact. If the maximum pressure policies fully implement it. And what I mean by maximum pressure, you need to squeeze them where they actually feel it. And the most important element in addition to the sanctions is the organized opposition.
US should recognize the right of the people of Iran to stand up against the regime, overthrow them, recognize the right of those resistance units to confront the Revolutionary Guards, and you will see the outcome.
What are you thinking? Well, good question. You know, that question was posed to Mrs. Maria Radja Vujicic Wolfman. She was at a hearing just last month before the US Congress, and the members of Congress asked her, what do you want from the United States? And she said, let me tell you what we don't want from the United States. There's no need for boots on the ground.
Showing 241–260 of 278 · page 13 of 14
← Previous
Next →