Imam Mohammad Tawhidi

Everything revolves around the character of Khamenei.

Did you ever meet him?

No, I have not.

Here's the thing.

Meet face to face?

No.

But we were together in a... So when he came to Qom, he came to Qom and we were chosen by a cleric.

I'm going to mention his name, Sheikh Adman.

I won't mention his first name, but he was the man responsible for the Australian students.

He came to me and he said, we're doing two things.

We are going the week before Khamenei comes to Tehran, and I still have the entrance ID badge that you wear, and you attend.

You're not sitting in the front lines because that's where the IRGC officials sit.

You're sitting towards the center of his sermon.

I saw him, and again...

To be honest with you, they prepare you for a spiritual event.

It's not like the bus drops you off and you enter into a mosque and then there he is.

No, no, no.

It's not tunnels, but it's alleys that you walk through.

that are prepared with banners and signs and flags and just symbolism, revolutionary symbolism.

And then you enter and the gods everywhere, the Sepah and they're green and sometimes blue.