Mohsen Sazegara
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First of all, this IRGC is a monster.
First of all, this IRGC is a monster.
My weapon is teaching the students, talking about the constitution of Islamic revolution, mobilizing the people, sending to war fronts to help the classic army of Iran. Everybody believed that Khomeini is a man of God.
My weapon is teaching the students, talking about the constitution of Islamic revolution, mobilizing the people, sending to war fronts to help the classic army of Iran. Everybody believed that Khomeini is a man of God.
killing after killing after killing after killing after killing you should have seen glimpses earlier no this is not what we want gradually i think that he became a monster too if they can catch me definitely they will kill me one of the guys that reported to you killed your boss yeah Do you know what this sounds like? Sounds a little fishy.
killing after killing after killing after killing after killing you should have seen glimpses earlier no this is not what we want gradually i think that he became a monster too if they can catch me definitely they will kill me one of the guys that reported to you killed your boss yeah Do you know what this sounds like? Sounds a little fishy.
Conspiracy theory is attractive because it's like a story and you don't need to do any fact. When a problem is solved, then you think it's easy. Their brain box? Yes. How can it happen?
Conspiracy theory is attractive because it's like a story and you don't need to do any fact. When a problem is solved, then you think it's easy. Their brain box? Yes. How can it happen?
No, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
First of all, this IRGC is a monster. And when I look at it, it's... It looks like that you have a child, and then he or she grows up, become a killer, a murderer, or a thug, and somebody that you didn't expect it. IRGC idea actually was the idea of making a people army, like the Army of Switzerland, or Israel, or National Guard in the US.
First of all, this IRGC is a monster. And when I look at it, it's... It looks like that you have a child, and then he or she grows up, become a killer, a murderer, or a thug, and somebody that you didn't expect it. IRGC idea actually was the idea of making a people army, like the Army of Switzerland, or Israel, or National Guard in the US.
78. 78, okay. Yeah, the autumn of fall of 78, from October to January, that 2nd of February, that Khomeini were over there. I joined him after a week, and I was one of the members of the team of the press, because he had more than 200 interviews during those days, and some other jobs that I did in that house.
78. 78, okay. Yeah, the autumn of fall of 78, from October to January, that 2nd of February, that Khomeini were over there. I joined him after a week, and I was one of the members of the team of the press, because he had more than 200 interviews during those days, and some other jobs that I did in that house.
But on those days, we felt that we will have a long battle with regime of Shah, like Vietnam War or Algeria. So and we had no understanding of civil resistance, peaceful resistance, although Islamic revolution succeeded with civil resistance tactics, like strikes, like demonstrations, peaceful demonstrations, like giving flowers to the soldiers in the streets.
But on those days, we felt that we will have a long battle with regime of Shah, like Vietnam War or Algeria. So and we had no understanding of civil resistance, peaceful resistance, although Islamic revolution succeeded with civil resistance tactics, like strikes, like demonstrations, peaceful demonstrations, like giving flowers to the soldiers in the streets.
we thought that, okay, we should mobilize the people for a long battle. But after victory of revolution, nobody expected, by the way, that just in three months, Shah will leave Iran and the revolution succeeds.
we thought that, okay, we should mobilize the people for a long battle. But after victory of revolution, nobody expected, by the way, that just in three months, Shah will leave Iran and the revolution succeeds.
The tipping point was those people huge demonstration of the people in Tehran and other cities, more than a million and a half. On those days, we claimed two million and a half out of four million population of Tehran. Came to streets on Tosua and Ashura to holidays, Shia holidays, and very peacefully people said that, okay, we don't want Shah. And we said, OK, that's a referendum.
The tipping point was those people huge demonstration of the people in Tehran and other cities, more than a million and a half. On those days, we claimed two million and a half out of four million population of Tehran. Came to streets on Tosua and Ashura to holidays, Shia holidays, and very peacefully people said that, okay, we don't want Shah. And we said, OK, that's a referendum.