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"Theological Thugs Took Over" - Israel's Netanyahu SHREDS Iran’s Islamic Revolution & EVIL Regime
26 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What was Iran like before the Islamic Revolution in 1979?
When I lived in Iran for 11 years, I was born in 78. The Shah was leading Iran, you know, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. And when you look at the stats from 1941 when he took office to 1979, that 38 years that he was in, not a lot of wars. It was fairly peaceful. You have some numbers on the low end of 17,000 people that died due to war in Iran during that 38 years. High numbers, 50,000.
in the Middle East, not as chaotic. Of course, there was issues, but not as much as they have now. Then from 1979, Khomeini comes in IRGC, which I had the former founder of IRGC here. We had a conversation with him.
Chapter 2: How did the Iranian Revolution change the country’s stability?
Khomeini comes in in 79. From 79 till today, If you look at the numbers, the low end, 600,000 people died in Iran, 2 million people. In the Middle East, 4.5 to 5.5 million people have died. Of course, some of the words are different places, but still, when you go back to Iran, you have Houthis, you have all these other things that they control. How much do you think of...
what the Middle East was like pre the Islamic Revolutionary Guard took over, how everybody was able to find a way to get along versus what happened after 79. I know you're a big history person. What is the difference between those two eras?
Well, the big difference is the Islamist revolution that basically took these very gifted people.
Chapter 3: What are the consequences of Iran's economic collapse since the revolution?
The Iranian people are enormously gifted. First of all, they have a tremendous historic culture, and you won't be surprised, but maybe your listeners would be surprised, that in antiquity, in the time of the great Persian king Cyrus, there was a honeymoon between the Jews and the Persian people. And that relationship actually continued in modest ways, but in significant ways under the Shah.
When the Shah went down and these theological thugs took over Iran, They basically said, our goal, that's in their constitution, is to export the Islamic revolution worldwide. And that's what they proceeded to do. So all the mineral resources, all the economic resources were now tuned to war.
In the time that I, when I was finance minister, and till today, Iran at that time and Israel had roughly the same GDP per capita. Ours went up. from $17,000 to $60,000 per capita. And there it stayed flat. Why?
Because they took all that money, all that money to arm Hezbollah, arm Hamas, arm the Houthis, and purvey terror around the globe, not only in the Middle East, against the Arabs, against Israel, against everyone else, against Americans. So what has happened is that Iran collapsed economically.
Chapter 4: How has Iran's foreign policy affected global terrorism?
They have now infrastructure that is completely destroyed, their water system is depleted, their dams are empty, their rivers are drying up, because they don't take care of their people. This is a horrible sect. So I gave, in this room where I'm sitting, a few days ago, I gave a podcast to the Iranian people, which I do from time to time, and I had a glass of water,
And you know a pitcher of water and I said, you know We helped Iran and we're ready to help Iran with its water problems And when you free yourselves of this tyranny, we'll do it again now Patrick how many how many views do you think I got for this? This podcast how many? It's a video actually. How many? How many? 70 million. From Iran? About 50 million, we think.
Wow.
So it's huge. I mean, that's half the population. And you can tell that it hit a nerve because all the Iranian leadership proceeded to respond to it and to attack it and so on, which tells you it really got to them.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of Iran's nuclear ambitions?
And that's, in fact, what is happening. This regime is not only tormenting and executing and killing the people of Iran, they subjugate them, but they seek to subjugate the entire world in their mad fantasies, the Muslim world and then everyone else. And of course, we're not Muslims, so we have to be eliminated because we stand in their way of conquering the entire Middle East.
So Israel is fighting here, not only our war, but the war of our Arab neighbors, the war of the Western countries. They're developing now ballistic missiles that can reach deep into the heart of Europe. Their plan is to develop the next thing is an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile that will reach 8,000 kilometers. You add another 3,000 and they can reach New York.
Where are you broadcasting from, by the way? Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yeah, they can reach Florida, Fort Lauderdale, New York, Washington, Boston, and after that, any other city in the United States. And they intend to put nuclear warheads on these ballistic missiles. So this is a fact. And the main fact that I want to say is that we're fighting, in many ways, the war of the West.
the war of Western civilization against these barbarians.
Chapter 6: How does Israel perceive the threat from Iran today?
And our victory will be your victory. And one more thing. You talked about the Iranian Revolution. You remember how it started? You remember what the first thing that they did when they took over Tehran?
You talking about the toast with Carter or are you talking about after when they took over?
Well, they took over and then they took the American embassy and held some 50 hostages. Yes, my aunt was in the embassy, absolutely, yes. So this regime began by taking hostages. And what do their proxies do today? They take our hostages for extortion. They take our hostages. I liberated 205 out of 255. We still have at least 20 alive and about 30 dead, and we intend to get all of them.
And that's what we're fighting for now.
Chapter 7: What historical events shaped the current Iran-Israel relationship?
But it just tells you what the nature of this regime and its proxies is. It's anti-West, anti-America, anti-Western civilization. It's not good to be a Christian. It's very bad to be a Jew in Iran. And it's very bad to be either one of those in any part of Iran's proxies. Right.
I wish we had a couple hours to talk about Iran because I have a lot of interest in that topic with you. So if you like this clip and you want to watch the entire interview, click here to watch it. And if you may have any questions for me, you want to ask me directly, download the app, ask me the question there. I will respond back to 100% of people that ask me the question. Take care, everybody.
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