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Hi, everybody.

It is Friday March 6th, 2016,

and our dear friend, the brother,

Pepe Skovar is here with us.

Welcome back there.

Welcome.

Welcome to you, Nima.

Always a pleasure to see you from the other side.

I am in Southeast Asia now.

So greetings to our audience from Southeast Asia

where this afternoon in the street

in the thermometer of the Japanese Embassy

was 42 degrees.

Yeah.

And hearing Brazil is 24 degrees Celsius.

It's only half.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And Pepe, let's start with the conflict in the middle

is the war that is escalating,

the getting to the new faces and new attacks

and escalation is somehow gradually

or if I can put it or maybe somehow drastically is happening.

Pepe, what is your understanding of the Iran strategy

and how is it going to influence the whole region?

Well, Nima, that's exactly the theme of my latest column

which came out in Russia yesterday night.

So now it's morning in Brazil now.

Anyway, now it's circulating.

It has translations, not yet imported these as far as I know

but soon we have Portuguese translation.

I focus on the decentralized Mosaic strategy

which is the official denomination of the Iranian strategy.

Exactly.

You're going to see it.

It's the illusion is right at the title.

And yes, it is a strategy of deaths by 1,000 cuts

to evoke our Chinese friends against the abstinence

syndicate, the US Israel combo.

And it's immensely sophisticated.

And once again, it proves that that's something

that we have been analyzing since the start of the war

nearly a week ago.

That was on a Saturday morning last week in Tehran.

That this whole strategy has been fine-tuned, tweaked,

perfect, sophisticated for months after the 12-day war.

And of course, everything personally conducted

by Ayatollah Khamenei.

The overall design of the strategy

is Ayatollah Khamenei's with the top leadership in IRGC,

some of them who were assassinated a week ago

and some of them were still there.

And that includes a four-level tier of replacement

for all these command and control posts

and these commanders, regional commanders, etc.

The decentralization of decisions,

this means, for instance, a commander in Kuzestan

or a commander in Iranian Azerbaijan,

they are completely autonomous.

They can make five-second decisions on the spot

without having to pick up the phone

and call a central command in Tehran.

That's the decentralized idea.

And it's a mosaic, which is,

there is even a beautiful poetic architectural,

artistic component to it.

Those fantastic mosaics that we see

in Persian mosques or palaces all over,

like in the extraordinary mosque in Isfahan.

This is it.

You see this in trincacy.

You see how this is sculpted side by side

with many angles.

And this is exactly the overall principle of this strategy.

And it allows fine tuning as they proceed,

which is exactly what they are doing throughout this week.

Very, very, very important points.

The speed of implementation of the strategy,

Nima, Ian, all of you, you all remember

that half an hour after the decapitation strike

against the residents of leader Ayazullah Kamin A,

Iran unleashed its response.

So this means that they learned from their mistakes

during the 12-day war.

Second, their greed was much better protected

than during the 12-day war,

where the grid had to be patched up by Russian technicians

between 24 and 48 hours.

So the response was immediate.

It was the first day, it was absolutely devastating,

launched between missiles and drones,

1,200 missiles and drones on day one.

Of course, now it's much, much less.

Because now they are two components.

They are changing the strategy

because they are starting to use their new generation missiles

that started only yesterday night, Thursday night,

Asia time, Friday morning, Asia time line.

And it's confirmed that this first batch

of already thousands of missiles,

they were using missiles there were produced 10 years ago,

even more than that, 2012, 13, 14, according to IRGC.

Now they're going to start using progressively the new batches.

Missiles there were made these past 10 years,

culminating later on with their state of the art hypersonics.

For the moment, they have been,

if I'm not mistaken, they use only two or three

hypersonics so far, not many.

And for very, very precise targets inside Israel.

So the whole picture of this decentralized

mosaic structure is immensely impressive.

Planning, technology, a selection of targets

carefully curated, incremental,

because some targets are being bombed over and over again

until they are totally destroyed

and this applies especially to the US military bases.

Wherever they are, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, et cetera.

Some energy installations, very, very important.

And of course, something that they are updating on the go,

hotels that they are receiving US military personnel

because they cannot sting the bases anymore,

they are targeted to these hotels.

Wherever they are, especially Bahrain and UAE.

And of course, installations, refineries, et cetera.

There's still an enormous controversy

about Tanura in Saudi Arabia.

If it was really IRGC or if this was a false flag.

Same thing about Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is almost certain that it was a false flag

for a number of reasons.

Israel, Azerbaijan, very, very close connections.

The fact that the absence indicate

wants to bring Azerbaijan in the war

to facilitate, including Azerbaijan,

as a base for them to start attacking Iran

from the west, from the southwest.

So the whole picture is evolving very fast all the time.

Iran is being pounded.

There's no question.

Tehran is being carpet bombed.

We confirmed this with our friends

on the spot, including our friend, Professor Marandi.

So the price to pay is horrendous.

But it's not going to change the resolve

of the whole system of government.

Continuity of government, very, very important.

Since the attack, since the assassination of Ayatollah Hamine

and some very important figures,

the continuity of government is there.

For instance, there is still a lot of debate

on the new Supreme Leader.

It's practically certain that it's

Moshdaba Hamine, but they have not announced that yet.

And they are not going to announce it

probably anytime soon.

They're going to keep this.

But for all practical purposes,

we can consider that Moshdaba Hamine

is already in a position of coordinate,

a lot of tasks that used to be under Ayatollah Hamine.

And of course, the other side, the Barbaria,

on the other side, they already said,

whoever is the new Supreme Leader is going to be killed.

And obviously, Nel Khaliga already said,

I have to choose the new Supreme Leader.

In terms of imbecility, Nima.

Look, all right, he gets the imbecility

of meter every day is broken by Nel Khaliga,

but this one is going to be very hard to beat.

It's one of the most stupid declarations

in terms of completely stupidity in terms of foreign policy

and in terms of how a government process works,

coming from anybody in the past 100 years or more.

But okay, but that's what we expect from Barbaria, right?

So Iran is even if it's been bounded

like how it's an immovable object.

And once again, it's something that I have been stressing

in several podcasts and in my columns and directly.

We are following two parallel tracks,

which are not going to cross anytime soon.

And they are going towards the finish line,

but we don't know even when the finish line is

and if there is the finish line.

On one side is Iran must resist whatever it takes.

And considering the sophistication

of the centralized Mosaic strategy.

And everything that we are hearing from top commanders,

from Arakshi himself, they will resist whatever it takes.

And this is Nima and I'm sure you can confirm that.

The mood, the popular mood all across Iran everywhere

because it's an existential,

people in Iran understand that this is an existential war.

And the other track is extremely dangerous

because some people with an IQ over 10 in the beltway

or in New York or in the Atlantis sphere,

certainly not the Zionist because this is a bunch

of apocalyptic cycles.

So let's forget about them.

I'm talking about the United States government

and the government apparatus of the United States.

A lot of people are already freaking out big, big time

in several levels,

especially with the approaching mega disaster

for the global economy,

all the conditions for systemic breakdown

of the global economy are already there.

And of course some people who are,

if they have access to the White House

and many of them don't,

because it's a small gangsterish clique

that has access to Trump,

we need to find a way out,

we need to find an off ramp.

We have no planning whatsoever.

We got into this without, which is absolutely true.

They got into this without any pre,

with some pre-planning, but with zero post-planning,

assuming that in a weekend,

they would decapitate the Iranian government,

start origin, change,

and everything would be wrapped up in a matter of three days

before the opening of the markets this past Monday.

So everything went wrong.

They didn't achieve any of their objectives.

And that turns them into even more dangerous cornered animals.

So considering now that we have no rules whatsoever,

that's the new geopolitical paradigm.

Considering that we are dealing with

extremely unstable childish nail caligula,

which is gonna get more dangerous by the day.

Considering that everything that he wanted to achieve,

he didn't.

Considering that he won't be able to achieve it anytime soon,

if ever.

Considering that he imploded his own presidency already.

And he's in the process of imploding the global economy

at the same time.

We have no idea what kind of absolutely absurd

and immensely dangerous decision can be just around the corner.

So that's why these next few days are going to be,

of course, absolutely crucial.

They are already rumors in the Pentagon sphere,

including the pathetic secretary of forever wars

that this could go on for months

all the way to September.

They cannot last all the way to September.

They can barely last for the next two or three weeks.

There will be no weapons after three weeks, two or three weeks.

What are they gonna do?

They're gonna bomb you, run with what?

With everything that is in Ukraine,

it still won't be enough.

And the Russians can advise the Iranians

how to defend themselves, which are,

they are already doing, by the way.

This is one of the mini chapters of my column

when I talk about the Astrakhan Tehran corridor

through which the Russians are helping Iran.

Even considering that fact that Iran did not ask for help,

very important.

This was reiterated by putting only a few days ago.

Of course, if you run tacitly,

directly asks Russia for some serious help,

they will get it.

And the Chinese, of course, their help is very discreet.

And we know as well, it's going on.

Everything, satellite intel in real time,

the Baidu satellite system, you name it.

So that's where we are, Nima, these two parallel tracks.

We don't know which one we'll reach a conclusion

in the next few days, but this will condition

the possibility of this war being diffused.

And now there's enormous pressure from the Gulf itself,

assuming that Mel Caligra listens to the Gulf,

that he abandoned completely.

And they are pissed.

And finally, those stupid Petro monarchies

are finally understanding how the game works.

You're just vassals.

We were using you.

We were forcing you to sell your petrodollas in US dollar,

so you could recycle and buy stuff for us,

Americans, or invest in our Wall Street.

We don't care about you.

We only care about Israel.

And now we have the tacit graphic proof

in their own mini Petro monarchies.

And they are doomed.

All of them, they are doomed.

So the change of paradigm in West Asia,

only in America one week is already radical.

And we haven't even started talking about what could happen

to the global economy in the next few days, right, Nima?

Happy, what was reported in the financial times,

it's that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,

Kuwait, Qatar are discussing withdrawing from contracts

with the United States and canceling future investment

commitments in the United States to alleviate

some of the economic strain imposed upon them

by the Iran War.

You know, this is the beginning.

This is just starting.

Yes.

These people have had no idea what the war could be

and the nature of war, because Iranians,

you remember Iranians were talking about this.

If the war starts, we're gonna hit all of the American bases

and they're literally just wiping out all these bases

in the Arab states in the Persian Gulf.

And I think the huge doubt in the mind of these Arab states,

what is the future for us?

How can we survive?

It's not just about oil, it's about food, water,

about everything.

Old and water, especially Nima, correct.

And look, let me read for you and for all of you over there.

I'm sure many of you have seen this open letter

written by Kalaf Ahmad al-Habtur.

This guy is an enormous fish in the Emirates.

Billionaire, investor, former diplomat,

respected by all the elites, respected by Mbizad himself,

respected by the Saudis, respected all across the Gulf.

He wrote an open letter to Trump,

which is devastating.

Basically saying we didn't sign up for this, of course.

Now you're seeing what the Americans forced you

to sign up to, you know.

So some of his questions,

what's this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?

Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?

You placed the GCC countries at the heart of danger,

they didn't choose.

They means all of us in the GCC.

Your board of peace initiatives were funded by Gulf states.

This is essential.

All the money for that piece of shit, board of piss

of Trump and that ghastly Jared Kushner,

the money for all that came from the Gulf.

You promised no wars.

You've conducted operations in seven countries,

including Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria,

Iran, and Venezuela.

Your approval ratings down, nine percenting for a hundred days.

And maybe this is the key point.

Before the ink has dried on your board of peace initiative,

we find ourselves facing military escalation

that endangers the entire region.

Well, the only good thing relatively auspicious from all that

is that the board of piss is dead.

There's no money for it.

Unless, of course, no Caligla and his cronies in US

will put money into it because they won't,

because it will be a losing proposition in business terms.

So that's it.

Not only he destroyed his own initiative

to bypass the United Nations, all that crap.

He destroyed forever the element of trust

among Arabs in the Gulf.

Okay, these Petro monarchies,

most of them may be a bunch of gangsters

and they are, been to all of them

and they are a bunch of gangsters.

All of us who have been to the UAE, to Qatar,

we know it, but by rain especially,

we know who these people are.

So the element of trust is broken.

Not to mention their economies are broken

and their business model is broken.

And that's where we get to the key of the whole equation,

Anima and all of you.

The business model is how the Petro dollar works.

So after that, there's gonna be a completely different story.

These gangsters who have seen, how does the game work?

They will stop using the Petro dollar

and selling their energy in dollars

and buying stuff that goes to the American economy

or to Wall Street.

They're gonna start looking for alternatives.

And that's where, guess what, Russia steps in.

Because Russia is on good terms with everybody

in West Asia, in the Gulf, et cetera.

So the role of Russia, depending on how the situation evolves,

is gonna be multi-level and immensely important.

To start with, guess who controls OPEC plus?

Now already, Russia.

And if we push this a little further,

guess who's in charge of OPEC right now?

Already Russian.

So that's it, the most important member in OPEC

and in OPEC plus from now on is Russia.

So they can dictate the terms to both cartels, in fact.

And of course, knowing the Russians, of course,

they're gonna be very lenient at accommodating,

but they're gonna tell all these people,

like, very, very important.

The collective phone call of putting,

at the beginning of this week, with all of them.

Guess where they discussed?

There were no leaks about what they really discussed.

We can imagine what they discussed.

We can imagine them desperately asking,

putting for some sort of mediation,

after all, putting can talk to that,

that's called in West Asia.

And putting can pick up the phone

and talk directly to Trump anytime.

So he could be a serious mediator.

The thing is, is the Kremlin interested in a mediation?

No, to be blunt.

The Kremlin wants to see the smashing

of the U.S. presence in West Asia as much as they run

and as much as China.

And that's where the three bricks connect

in the geochronomic financial sphere.

What's already happening for them is,

of course, if we discount the horrible things

that are happening to the Iranian civilian population

and to the Lebanese civilian population,

not to mention Gaza,

is that Iran, Russia and China are watching live

in real time, lightning quick, very fast,

the collapse of U.S. influence all across West Asia.

We can already see if all the elements are there.

And from now on, you only get worse for the Americans.

So later on is different.

Later on, in terms, for the Chinese is also,

wow, very, very sweet,

because the transition is gonna be

from the petrodollar to the petrodollar you want.

No question about that.

And for Russia, in terms of the umbrella to protect

all these Gulf Petro monarchies,

could eventually become a Russian umbrella.

If the Russians are interested,

it's up to them, would be an extra for them.

So can you imagine everything that we're talking now

has been happening in less than a week.

So this means the whole system,

it is a systemic shock,

because the whole system is already upside down

in only one week.

And can you imagine after three or four weeks

with the straight of Hormuz

for all practical purposes blocked,

even though the Iranians are saying it's not.

That's a diplomatic way of saying, yes,

it's blocked for all these

NATO stun members and host-style nations.

For our friends, it's open.

For instance, if an Indonesian cargo

wants to cross the straight of Hormuz, no problem.

For the moment for Russians and Chinese,

it's totally open, back and forth.

For the West, for the West as a whole,

it's totally, I mean, for Israel,

we don't even completely blocked.

So we are already seeing spike in price of Brent crude,

panic all over, especially certain parts of Asia,

especially Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,

they are absolutely desperate.

China, they still have sizable reserves.

China, their reserves, if I'm not mistaken,

they are around 240 to 150 days,

which is more than enough for them to reorganize

the flux of energy from the Middle East

and count on more coming from the power of Siberia,

from Russia, oil from Kazakhstan,

gas via the Turkmenistan, Xinjiang pipeline,

they have several other options.

But for Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

is an absolute disaster.

For Europe, what Europe depends on a person go of oil,

same thing, replace gas coming from Qatar

to Europe forget it because the Qatar turn off the taps.

And even if they would turn it back,

it would take at least one month to regularize the whole system.

And on top of it, we have that fabulous, casual,

just like in the middle of a conversation,

oh look, I had an idea, I was thinking, I had an idea.

This European elites, they want to cut off Russia

completely from selling energy to Europe.

Look, why not, there's no problem, we could do this now.

And sell to our friends and partners across Eurasia

or Global Salsa, et cetera.

So once again, the euro shiwahuens,

which is their speciality,

the only thing that they know how to do

is to step themselves in the back.

So now there's no more energy,

especially gas coming from Russia

and no gas coming from Qatar.

So what are you gonna do, Vada Fakas?

Okay, start laughing because you're going down

completely even faster than before.

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All that Nima in less than a week.

I think the war is somehow the main agenda,

if one of the main agendas behind this war

is how to dominate the energy market

and how to control the energy all around the world.

And what is happening in the West Asia between Iran

and these Arab states somehow shows the fragility

of the agenda on the part of the United States

because they thought Donald Trump was so much happy

with the case of Venezuela that we control everything right now.

But he's not aware, he's not that much understanding

that the case of the West Asia is totally different.

He's not in charge in West Asia.

I think what is happening, Iran is showing the United States

that everything in the region is defined by Iran

but by Iran's strategy.

And to a larger extent, Russia and China coming

because they know the importance of this region.

And if Iran can control us so far, we've seen,

what is the benefit of these United States,

these air bases, these bases in Arab states?

So far, Donald Trump, the United States was getting a lot of money

from these countries for such a long time.

What was the main concept we are defending you?

We are not, you know, nobody can attack you.

It's all gone, in less than a week.

It was a protection and racket, Nima.

It was a mafia operation and they fell for it completely.

So now it's fascinating because it takes only a few days

to show that this was fake from the beginning.

And they have nowhere to go because they never thought

about a plan B.

You're going to have to start thinking about plan B now.

Yes, crucial point, which all of us

independent analysts agreed.

This is an energy war, no question.

From the point of view of the empire of chaos,

splendor, permanent strikes and blah, blah, blah.

And if you don't follow us, we kill you, literally.

This is what they're doing.

So this is the complete breakup of international law.

And Nelcaligula himself in his own words.

I don't believe in international law.

I believe in my own morals.

I am quoting him.

No need to comment, right?

It was absolutely total anatomal for the American ruling

classes to have a sovereign country in West Asia full of energy,

oil and gas, one of the biggest producers

as employers in the world, to trade energy

by passing the US dollar, which is what Iran has been doing

and especially these few years.

So this is what Venezuela was doing.

And once again, as you mentioned correctly,

Venezuela was very easy, but Iran is a completely

different story.

You were dealing with a mid-ranking power, extremely well

weaponized, under 47 years of sanctions, surviving

after 47 years of sanctions, with a highly educated population,

with fantastic universes, with a very high level degrees

of top level scientists and engineers.

And not to mention what everybody knows,

a civilization state with a previous empire that

was one of the most powerful empires in the history of humanity

when those stupid people who later went to America

was a practical living in caves.

So that's a completely different story.

So now that's why this war, obviously,

was not planned this past few weeks,

was not planned even before the 12-day war,

was not planned during Trump 1.0, was planned already

in the 90s.

Everybody knows that.

Everybody who has read all those documents,

everything around the project for the new American Century

we before 9-11.

And of course, after 9-11 during the 2000s,

a story that many of us followed on a day-to-day basis

at the time of the bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,

Iran, paranoia in Washington, 2005, 2006,

the second term of W. We all know it will be inevitable.

And of course, they simply cannot allow

Iran to exist, the system exists,

and especially the way the system resists sanctions

and trades energy by passing the US dollars.

So this was inevitable.

So obviously, Trump is just a messenger child,

the messenger with a four-year-old brain,

maybe two-year-old brain.

The ruling elites and the usual suspects

that I don't need to enumerate here,

I enumerated some of them in one of my previous columns

talking about Russia.

They're the same.

The ones who want to destroy Iran

are the same ones that want to destroy Russia

and then go to war of X-China.

So, and now they are on a three-front war already,

which is absolutely impossible for them to win.

So what that, well, he was always posing

as the great geopolitical analyst of the end

of the last millennium, Brzynski.

And even before he wrote the Grand Chasseport in 1997,

and he was saying that, you know,

we have to prevent the emergency of,

I'm sorry, the emergence of a peer competitor in Eurasia.

Now it's even worse.

Now it's two peer compact competitors

supporting another one, which is,

okay, it's not a peer competitor,

but it is a mid-ranking power of the first order.

This is the ultimate nightmare for the American elites.

Means that in terms of controlling Eurasia,

it's by-by definitive.

And they can even lose that part of Eurasia

that they controlled until now, South-Swest Asia,

part of West Asia, the former Middle East.

Now this is dissolving as well.

And the great thing conceptually in terms,

in geopolitical terms is that the elite in Eurasia,

they see this very, very clearly.

Only if you come from a civilization,

a state with the imperial experience

in 2,500 years of diplomacy and juggling politics,

you can understand that.

It's not a bunch of neo-fights

from New York and Washington who understand that deep,

deep inside out of the question.

So that's right, they knew the war was inevitable.

They prepared for it.

And for this chapter, they prepared very well.

They had, I would say, the honor to have a leader,

the statue of Ayatollah Khamenei,

who, by the way, had actual war experience

during the Iranian Iraq war.

Very, very important.

He's not a draft dodger.

He doesn't hop on a plane and escapes like a rat

when they're going to get stuff.

That's a completely different story, you know?

So, elements of time, experience, history, culture,

everything explains why Iran is able to resist now.

But of course, and we all know,

and we have to be realistic,

the destructive firepower of the abstinence indicate

is overwhelming.

It's very, very serious.

They can level any nation, anywhere,

the way they want it.

Like, you know, they can do the Gaza thing

on whole nations, everywhere.

So, the price that Iran is already paying

and is going to pay is going to be practically unbearable,

but there's no way out.

And this is something, certainly that Ayatollah Khamenei

had very clear in his mind.

And the people who are now running in Iran,

they have it very, very clear,

including now the face of Iran for the West,

which is foreign minister Arakshi.

And he's behaving with a lot of dignity at this moment.

A lot of dignity, you know, like those assholes

from what was it, NBC, now?

And we see that they got an exclusive interview

with Arakshi and he behaved.

He was shocked with the exact,

and obviously the NBC people, they were like speechless.

Because you never have on mainstream television,

Iranian officials speaking very good English

and explaining the Iranian position.

This was probably a first in decades.

So, obviously they were speechless, you know.

So, of course, the only thing that interest NBC

and NBC was to try to find a way to frame Iran even more

as a aggressor or authoritarian, all that usual crap.

So Arakshi's performance was very, very helpful

for internal domestic public opinion in the US.

Constructing already that the war is unpopular in the US.

That's very important.

The war is unpopular for over 60% of America's.

That's already a big, big, big thing.

So, this proves once again that this is not merely

up, Epstein syndicate a Trump gangsterish clique war.

This war comes from the real elites

who run the show in the US.

And that proves that they are really desperate.

If they launch this war, now is that they see that look,

we have a window of opportunity now.

If we don't do it later on,

then we're going to be

simply expelled from the picture.

And once again, Nima, very, very important.

It is a war against three bricks.

It is a war against a full bricks member

supported by two bricks founders.

So, this means it's a war against bricks as a whole,

especially, and this is the horrible component on all that,

within direct vicious participation

of another bricks member, India,

which has behaved in the most disgusting,

diplomatic way possible.

The blow up of bricks at the moment,

the responsibility is totally with India.

India has betrayed.

Their economic partner Iran.

Don't forget, they are partners

in the same transportation corridor.

The Russia Iran, India International,

North-South transportation corridor,

the theme of the documentary that I shot in Iran last year,

that you can all watch on Price TV.

But now maybe I should relaunch the documentary everywhere

with an explanation saying, look,

this was what the transportation corridor

was until this week.

Now India bombed this idea and Russia

and Iran should expel India from this corridor

and bring in China, which, by the way,

and it gets even more interesting.

When I was in Chabahar interviewing

the authorities of the port of Chabahar,

which, by the way, was also bombed

by the Deskoto in West Asia early this week.

We don't know exactly what they were hitting

in the port of Chabahar, but they bombed the port

because they knew the importance of the port.

And I talked to one of the responsible engineers

for logistics.

And he was saying, yes, the Indians invested

in the screens that you're watching.

They came from India, they're investing here.

But we have Chinese ships coming all the time.

And one of those there,

I saw at least two Chinese cargoes.

So the Chinese, obviously, they look at Chabahar.

Excellent.

So now we can have an extra note of our maritime Silk Road.

And make no mistake, the Chinese

are going to start investing in Chabahar

as soon as it's visible, and they will incorporate that

to the Chinese maritime Silk Road.

And India can be completely sideline.

And the Iranians, I would say that this

would happen as much as simultaneous

to the Iranian-stelling India.

So you want to be part of our economic corridor.

After what you did to us, after we did not

condemn the assassination of Ayatollah Khmerley,

after you let our ship be sunk in international waters

near Sri Lanka, after we sent our ship

to your maritime show in India.

So it's so, the betrayal of India is mind-boggling.

It's predictable, because not only Modi,

which is a puny character, and this is in dutfa fanaticals

around him.

And of course, they have a tremendous inferiority complex.

And of course, they signed one day before the start

of the Operation Stupidity of Fury, Stupid Fury,

or whatever they want to call it.

They were best buddies.

They're called Epstein Fury.

Epstein.

Epstein Fury.

Yes, we can call it Epstein Fury.

But the name is Epic Fury.

Exactly.

Epstein Epic Fury.

Absolutely.

So they were best buddies in Netanyahu and Modi.

And he actually said that India is the modern land,

and Israel is the father land.

After that, what the, are you doing inside bricks?

This is something that I'm sure the Chinese

will be picking up the phone to tell the Russians.

Should we leave these guys here?

What's the point?

They are blowing up our organization from the inside.

So this is one of the key takeaways of everything

that are happening only one week.

You cannot trust India.

It's a neo colony of the Epstein syndicate.

It's not going to change anytime soon.

Well informed, Indians are beyond embarrassed.

Not only they are pissed, but some of the best Indian analysts

and businessmen, they are appalled in barrens.

And they are, they say, we don't know what to say.

We have been betrayed by our own government.

So there will be serious repercussions for bricks.

In fact, the bricks summit in India this year,

well, it has already been blown up by India itself.

So at the moment, bricks is in coma, serious coma.

It pains me to say that and all of us

who have been following bricks very, very closely,

but that is going to be a huge task to resurrect bricks

from this fatal stabbing by one of the founding members.

I think the problem with the United States

and their legitimacy in these Arab states

is not just in their Arab states.

Look at what is happening in considering Japan and South Korea.

These two countries were hit by the closure of this rate

of foremost, which yesterday, I don't know if you've learned.

UN asked Iran, if you did you close this rate of foremost,

they said, no, we didn't close it by it's not open.

It's not currently open.

It's not open, but it's not open.

And we know how important this rate of foremost

is for South Korea and Japan.

And you feel how when you see Peter Till in Japan

is how the United States is trying to say now everything

can be normal, we're going to do everything we can.

But after all, they're somehow bringing

or all these fat system air defense system

from South Korea to Israel.

Because we know that the Iranian air defense system,

the Iranian capabilities, somehow Iranian missiles

have hit the tax system they had in Jordan and in Israel.

So they have to replace this air defense system.

They're bringing from where can they find

this sort of air defense system in South Korea

or maybe some weapons coming from Ukraine.

And you see how everything is shrinking.

Yes, they are ready trying to repatriate.

It's not enough.

It's going to last another few days.

And Iran is timing everything, right, Nima?

It was a completely crazy first two or three days.

Of course, launchers are being destroyed.

But in many cases, they are launching missiles

even without the launchers.

And they can do that.

And very, very important, if you look at everything

that is being struck by the abstinence indicate

is in the western part of Iran.

The eastern part of Iran, you know,

getting close to the Afghan border, for instance,

no strikes from the Americans

or from the desks out of it.

So everything is still there.

And all those underground missile factories,

they are there intact,

which they're going to use much later.

We should never forget.

You run plan for a very long war.

And even if everything is destroyed,

they have, we still don't know the exact number,

but they must have what?

Over 20,000 drones, if not more, maybe 40,000 drones.

So they can take this to forever if they want.

And another example of Russian-Iranian military integration.

I remember when the Iranian delegations

were going to Moscow

to finalize the selling of the Shahids to Russia.

So Russia start building their Shahids,

which in Russia called the Geraniums.

They perfected the Shahids.

In fact, the Geraniums are now the absolute state of the art.

And some of the, perhaps a great deal

of the drones that Iran are using now.

They are sons of Geraniums.

You know why?

Because the antenna that they use,

the commit Russian antenna

that they use to jam a signal is Russia.

So they are Shahids with a Russian developed,

a component, this fantastic commit antenna.

So this explains the back and forth

in the military relationship between both.

It's something that many of us,

when we discuss this in Moscow for instance,

the Russians never give us a straight answer.

They said, ah, there's a lot of stuff

that we're doing of course,

but the most important thing is what you don't see, exactly.

And for instance, this shuttle, in fact,

between Astra-Can and Tehran across the Caspian,

it's very, very close.

Astra-Can to Tehran is probably an hour and a half maximum

by planes.

We know some of the stuff inside,

but we don't know most of it.

And even considering the fact that the Iranians

did not ask for hardcore Russian help yet,

according to the Russians, on the record.

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by the reporter, and he was asked if Russia and China

are helping Iran.

And he hears what was the response from Rachi.

Excellent.

Are your allies, are your allies,

Russia and China helping you?

Well, they are supporting us politically and otherwise.

Are they supporting you militarily?

Well, the military cooperation between Iran and Russia

is not a secret.

We have worked with each other in the past

and that has continued and will continue, I guess.

And they are actively helping you in this war?

Well, they have always helped us.

So I'm going to understand that to mean yes,

that they are actively assisting you in this war.

Well, I'm not going to give the details of our cooperation

with other countries, right in the middle of the war.

He's not.

He was impeccable.

Go on size straight to the point

and obviously the idiot interviewer was perplexed.

Excellent, very good.

That was a very good performance.

And of course, this is going to play very, very well

inside the US.

People are going to start asking questions.

Even people who don't follow anything

have said, how come our blood is stupid government

didn't know that in that China and Russia,

they have got to run spec well played.

What's what's so amazing, Pepe,

you see Donald Trump is asking, you know,

IRGC commanders, fighters to put down their arms.

It's amazing to me.

Now to watch how much you have to be totally disconnected

with the reality of what is going on,

which is not the new, we've seen this in the war in Ukraine.

But this sort of, you know,

they really think that Iran is somehow,

it seems that Donald Trump just watching Fox News all the time.

He doesn't have any understanding of what's going on.

No, Nima, you touched the heart of the matter

in terms of Trump's very, very peculiar mix of arrogance

and total ignorance.

It's typical.

He doesn't read.

This is something that we had from people

in New York who did business with him.

He doesn't read Intel reports,

which land on his desk every morning.

He only reacts to Fox News sound bites.

And this varies between five seconds to 10 seconds.

That's it.

And obviously he only reacts to what some people

who have direct access to him.

There are not many.

Maybe one of two sentences register in his mind.

And that's it.

And then he plays that around.

Basically, he is a functional illiterate.

This is extremely serious.

I have no idea what he's going to do.

I have no clue how this guy got an university degree.

Well, there are many in the US, in the US,

who actually managed to do it.

And obviously, if you look at his vocabulary,

if you look at his terminology, if you look at the selection

of words that he uses over and over again

to the point of extreme redundancy,

it's between 50 and 60 words maximum.

Not to mention three or four adjectives

that are repeated over and over again,

of the tremendously kind.

That's it.

The restriction of the vocabulary

and the restriction of how he communicates,

it's a direct reflection of how restricted

his view of the world is.

He doesn't know shit about the rest of the world.

That's it, period.

So that's why it's so dangerous.

We are dealing with a larger than life functional illiterate,

making these decisions capable of saying something

monumentally stupid like they should call me

so I select the next leader of Iran.

And it's not a joke.

He actually believes that.

No, it's not a joke.

He's not a bright or brilliant enough

to throw one liner like this or make it a joke.

No.

So that's why it is so much more dangerous

than it would be in the first place

if we were dealing with a relatively rational president.

Well, there are not many in the modern history of the United

States.

But for instance, Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton was a relatively rational guy

with all his problems.

He was a good orator.

He used to read at least.

He could, you know, he was a very good public speaker.

But now we are dealing with this thing.

So on top of it, even worse, he thinks

that he can do anything because I don't

care about the international law.

I only care about myself.

I can rule the world.

He is acting like a nail caligula, not only

for the nail Roman Empire or for the whole planet.

And we are all hostages of this.

So from the point of view of the ruling elites

to have a mad dog like this express, this is wonderful.

Because the way they think is, I hate the stabilizes

everybody.

So nobody can predict anything or calculate

anything or pre-plan anything because, you know,

he changes his mind because of a whim

or because of something he heard or because of something

like this on TV, one image is on TV.

So I can imagine Anima for a very rational Iranian leadership.

You have to factor this into your models, all of them.

Not to mention the ludicie and the dementia

of the death cult in West Asia.

So together.

So they're fighting this cycle killers.

It's very, very tough.

And the fact that only in one week,

they managed to destabilize the whole game

is already immensely impressive.

But they have to keep it.

So that's, we are entering the crucial stage

of non-stop resistance.

And at the same time, attacking.

A symmetrical warfare, yes.

There's no question this is an asymmetrical war.

But Iran has to sustain this asymmetry for days, weeks,

and if it's the case, months.

And that's the challenge.

And that's why we, all of us, we are worried.

Do they have it?

Personally, I think they have it.

As long as they keep their ability

to continue launching their missiles and their drones,

they can go one for a long time.

And once again, as absolutely heartbreaking

as it is for all of us, for you as an Iranian,

for all of us as members of the global South,

Iran is going to be a very, very heavy price.

But there's no escaping.

And they're producing 24, 7.

They're not that much afraid of a long war.

They have been prepared for this.

They are prepared for a long war.

They are prepared for what they're going to suffer, yes.

I think, Peppy, before wrapping up,

you mentioned Donald Trump being ignorant

or doesn't understand the situation.

But I would argue the whole system is the same.

The whole system doesn't work.

Look at what is happening in the case of Ukraine,

in the case of right now Iran.

And next China, do you see any expert in the American system

like, you know, of the caliber of Ray McGovern

or Ambassador Chas Freeman?

They don't exist, no?

Yes, he needs people in the system.

They don't understand Russia.

They don't understand Iran.

They don't understand China.

They want to dictate.

They want to force their sort of mindset on these people,

on these nations.

These are civilizations.

You know, these are not little countries

that you can force.

You can govern.

You can manipulate.

There is no understanding of that in the whole system.

It doesn't matter if the public and the Democrat,

they don't understand it.

Well, it's cultural, Nima.

It's, you know, these idiots never read Levy's toast.

They don't understand anthropology to start with.

This means they don't understand the other.

For them, the other, as a category,

it's by necessity inferior.

And that buys with the manifest destiny,

with exceptionalism, with the fact

that we are better than anybody else.

And you know, that's what I have to go back to it.

The speech by the little Guzano Marco Rubio

at the Munich Security Conference,

the recolonization speech.

Not only he was selling the recolonization

of the Global South as a whole,

but he called Europeans to tie their wagons

to the big American wagon.

Because if they do that, they're going to recover

the glory that they lost.

Which means, among other things,

that this whole historical tradition

of, especially the past, 2250 to 300 years.

It's not 500 years.

The Europeans were not ruling the world

in the 16th century or the 17th century.

They started in the 18th century to rule the world really.

This idiot is tying up the Americans to this tradition.

So in fact, there was never an independence

of the American states.

So if you read it, obviously, the idiots who wrote this,

he didn't write that.

He doesn't have the mental capacity

to write a speech like that.

His speech writers obviously didn't make this connection.

He's selling the speech writers.

He knows who he is.

His speech writers didn't.

Exactly.

But he's selling the US in the continuity

of colonial exploitation of the West,

which is the tradition of the West.

At least, well, if people read the people

who actually read the speech from the Global South,

they can understand that in a flash.

Yes, these idiots are even worse than the previous colonizers.

And it's the same unbroken tradition coming from the West.

And it's true, because the American elites, essentially,

the real American elites, old money in the West,

the people behind those old, what we call the Boston Brahmins,

the really old money in the East Coast.

They are essentially Europeans.

Their mentality is colonial Europe.

So at least now that's clear.

And obviously, the Russians see that the Russians see

that the Chinese obviously see that.

The Indians know intellectuals in India.

Yes, see that.

Not this absolutely ghastly model, BJP gang.

And Brazil, I'm sure, the best minds in Brazil see that as...

They see, yeah.

You're in Brazil, they're well, that, yeah.

It seems that they've lost Pepe.

Yeah, you're back, Pepe.

Lima?

Yeah, can you hear me?

Are you back?

Yes, you're back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, so we're going to have to wrap up.

Yeah, of course.

Thank you.

Thank you, Pepe, for being with us today.

Great pleasure, as always.

Thank you so much, Lima.

And, wow.

I'll look to continue to speak.

The struggle continues.

And I'm pleased that you are not in your run at the moment.

It's stuff.

And it's good for you to be outside and keeping your critical analysis.

Yeah.

Invulable.

Be careful.

Sure.

Thank you, Pepe.

Thank you, Kirito.

You're welcome.

Great pleasure.

Thank you, Pepe.

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