Imam Mohammad Tawhidi

You're looking at a year and a half to two years here for learning Farsi.

And they use that

To not just strengthen your language, but for you to be accustomed with this region, this street.

Who were some of your classmates?

Okay, before we get there, next door is the Pai Gah of the Basij.

The Basij, which are the youth corps of the IRGC, is literally next door to this building.

So my classmates are, I'm going to say this, and I haven't said this before, the clerics who are now running the Al-Quds March, which is the pro-IRGC Hezbollah march on the last Friday of Ramadan every single year, running them in New York and in Toronto, they were my classmates.

We studied together.

Did they get brainwashed?

Of course, because everything they do.

Look, a cleric needs to talk religion.

How do you know a cleric respects himself when he sticks to what he is meant to be doing?

Religion, theology, doctrine, community service.

They're all politicized, political clerics of no value.

Their understanding of religion is very shallow, very deep.

I mean, it needs to be deep, but it's very shallow.

You know, an atheist can take them down easily with two questions because they haven't been taught the proper foundations of theology and doctrine in Islam.

It's always been Khomeini's biography, Khamenei's biography.

When he was born, he came out of his mother's womb and there was a scream in the heavens, Ya Ali, have you heard that?

Okay, so that's what they're taught.