Seyed M. Marandi: U.S. Intel Warns Iran Is Preparing a MAJOR Escalation

0:00I am ready today Saturday September 5th, 2026 and our dear friend, Professor Miranda. I'm doing this to remember. You should, we should also apologize to all your viewers because they're waiting for us. And I said that, you know, two Iranians when they start talking, one living in Latin America, they're not going to be on time. Yeah, exactly. Let me start, Professor Miranda, with the report in the New York Times. It says that US intelligence assessments suggest Iran has become increasingly confident in its ability to strike targets across the Middle East and may seek to prolong the conflict for months rather than negotiate with Washington. What is the situation right now between Iran and the United States?

1:04And I think it's better to start with this straight-offermost because there is a lot going on with this straight-offermost. And one of the main reasons it was mentioned in this article that the straight-offermost is the main conflict between Iran and the United States. Someone should go and tell the New York Times that there's this thing called the MOU that was negotiated between the two sides. I don't know if they've heard about it before, but the two sides had an agreement. Maybe if you need them up while we're talking, you could post it to the editorial board or someone in the New York Times that the texts of the MOU so that they could know about it because obviously they're completely ill-informed. Before we negotiate it, we have an agreement. Trump himself signed it. There's footage of him signing it. So there's nothing to negotiate. Iran has not left the negotiating table. It's the American to left. I mean, I don't want to go over this again and again and again.

2:08And your audience is going to get sick and tired of me. But we negotiated. They launched the 12th they were. We negotiated. They launched this war. We negotiated and then the Israelis bombed, a carpet bombed Lebanon. This was after the 48 of fighting. We had an agreement. We negotiated a ceasefire agreement. Then Netanyahu, carpet bombed Lebanon. Trump sided with him. The negotiations collapsed. Then we had siege warfare. We negotiated. We got the MOU. Trump signed it himself. And then from day one, he undermined it. He refused to hand over Iran's stolen assets. He refused to force the Israeli regime to leave Lebanon, which he committed himself to do. That's in agreement. And to end the genocide, because that's part of Article 1 in Gaza. He continued to threaten Iran by elation. By elation after violation. And then he set up his own corridor on the straight of her mous. After two weeks, Iran kept saying this is a violation of Article 5.

3:11He refused to abide by the agreement. And then we had war again. So we've negotiated many times with the United States. And every time it was the United States that was deceitful, dishonest, and tried to cheat Iran. So when Pompeo says we lie, we cheat, we steal. He was absolutely correct. He was giving a very objective observation of how not only US intelligence agencies behave, but also how the US political regime behaves. It's just the nature of the regime. And so when in your time says Iran is not interested in coming back to the negotiating table, either the New York Times doesn't know that we have an agreement. Before the United States wants to renegotiate something, well, there's no reason to do that. If Iran does not force the United States to abide by its current commitments, the commitments

4:17that it signed on to, then next time around when we sign a piece of paper, they're going to do the same thing again, because they'll know that they can get away with violating the agreement. So the MOU is the criterion. And if the United States wants this war to end, they have to abide by their commitments. Now, the other part of what the New York Times said is true. The Iranians are increasingly confident about their capabilities. And I think the fact that Bessent and Trump and the United States want to strangle the Iranian economy now, and now that the Iranians have threatened the United States to retaliate by military means, and different key figures in this country have said this openly. The Chair of the Supreme National Security Council, the Speaker of the Parliament, the

5:20First Vice President, they've all said this. So and others. So I think that the way things are going, we have entered the final phase of the war. We are entering the final phase of the war. We're sort of at the beginning of the final phase. It doesn't mean it's going to end anytime soon. The final phase of the war could be a year or two. It could be a couple of months. I have no idea. It's not going to be a couple of months. But the final phase could itself be wrong. There could be another phase after that. But I think that we're entering the final phase. And that is the most destructive part of the war, where the global economy goes down. Because if the United States really intends to strangle Iran, Iran is not going to let that happen. It's just not going to happen. So what Iran will do is it will strangle the United States.

6:21And when Iran strangles the United States effectively, the whole global economy is strangled. And the countries in the Persian Gulf, they will all fall apart. If we go down that path, down that path, this is just like what we were discussing during the war. And whenever they would strike, when they began, before they began striking, Iran's critical infrastructure, when they were threatening to do so, the Iranians said, use, would say that if you do that, we'll hit you back much harder. And we recall how when they hit the Iran South-Paris gas facilities, Iran hit back very hard. So Iran was not bluffing. And they created massive devastation in Qatar. And they carried out attacks on the Emirates, on their gas facilities too. But in any case, it was really bad. And then Trump had to put out a truth social post when he woke up saying that this is not

7:25going to happen again. Back then, I think I have multiple occasions over those months, those weeks and months. And during those 13 days of fighting that happened after the United States undermined the MOU, I would repeatedly say, whenever it would get very dangerous, I tell say people should leave these regimes in the Persian Gulf. Because if they're going to take Iran back to the Stone Age, then these countries go back to the Stone Age. Iran will survive, they won't. We are approaching a similar situation. If Bessons seriously moves to strangly run, whatever step he takes, Iran is going to push back. And it's going to push back hard. And Iran is not going to push back by through sanctions because we don't have those capabilities. We don't have control over the global financial system for us to sanction the United States and

8:26undermine the US economy because it's trying to undermine our economy. Our capabilities are our military capabilities. So Iran will destroy American assets or assets linked to the United States or assets that are important for the United States across the region. It could be oil facilities, it could be gas facilities, it could be banks, it could be AI centers, it could be anything. There are many, many different possibilities out there. And we already know that the economies of these countries in the Persian Gulf region are in bad shape. We're already hearing the news that they're in bad shape. And they're completely dependent on the United States. And we're going to have to be able to make sure that the United States is going to be able to use the news that they're in bad shape. And they're completely dependent on oil and gas. So if this situation continues, they can't last forever. Let alone if the situation escalates.

9:28So in my opinion, we are entering if they truly do carry out, this is what the big if, if they truly carry out the threat to attempt to strangly run. We can some baby steps, but and they're getting their response already. But if this continues, then no doubt that we're going to go down a very destructive path, which will lead to the collapse of these regimes and in the Persian Gulf and global economic depression, not recession depression. The article says that the assessment indicates that indicates Iran currently sees little incentive to reach a deal and means set seek to drag the war through the US midterm elections. And that betting that higher energy prices, American casualties and public dissatisfaction with the conflict increased political pressure on Donald Trump.

10:34When it comes to American attacks, Professor Miranda, since the war started, you see, first of all, they said that they were using AI to hit the targets in Iran. Recently, you see again, they're attacking, you know, houses, you know, civilians in the southern part of Iran. What is the assessment on the part of Iranians? These are deliberate attacks on the Iranian Iranian people to put pressure at the same time, Iran in economy and putting pressure domestically in the southern part of Iran, basically, which is so important, the security of that region for the state of foremost as well. Of course, people believe that the United States is intentionally targeting civilians. There's no doubt about it in the minds of Iranians. And if anyone is shocked, well, first of all, all they have to do is go and look at Gaza and Lebanon. The United States and Europeans, they've been supporting this genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Lebanon for years and they haven't sanctioned this right, they wish him even once.

11:43So they're of course supportive of this. So it's it is, it doesn't conflict with their non-existent values. Second of all, and we discussed this before on your show months ago, probably more than once in any major military operation. The first day of battle is a day when all of the targets are very carefully bedded in advance. Because when you want to start an attack or when you want to launch an attack, you want to have maximum effect. So I've been in major operations. I know a thing or two about this, back in the day. So when the Americans started the war, the targets on day one were very, very carefully bedded, weeks, if not months in advance. They knew what the mean of school was. They knew what the law-made sports complex was where those teenager girls were playing volleyball and boys were playing football.

12:56They knew what was there. There's that was not something that was just set up either day before. And this was not some, you know, swiftly designed or operation where they had no time to bet the targets. So when the United States bombed the wedding, was it in the midst of like weeks of fighting? No, there was no fighting. They knew what where everything was. And they were using precision missiles. And that wedding was taking place in a residential neighborhood. And if they claimed that they hit a telecommunication tower, that's one of those towers that you see in your own neighborhood for cell phones. So it's for you and me and for others to call your aunt and uncle and your sister and your brother and your wife and so on.

14:04So they bombed a residential neighborhood with three bombs and they targeted this wedding. Now whether they targeted this wedding in particular, I don't know, but they targeted those buildings. And these are very, I mean, how is it? Nima that for we, Iran has been targeting US bases and assets of proxies of the United States in this region for during this war. Iran has fired thousands of drones. Right and probably thousands of missiles. I don't know the numbers. Right. If I did a search on, on AI with AI, two different searches using two different AI apps. And I and I asked how many civilians have been killed in these, in these regimes, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates, these five countries.

15:06And in one said 41. The other which I asked a few weeks ago, it was less than 20. So maybe they're both correct. But the one that said 41, I did. And yesterday. So why is it so few civil, I mean, and most of them were by the way foreign workers, sadly, people were there just once civilian debt is more is more than what we should have. But in any case in this war, after all that destroyed US, we've seen all those destroyed US bases and that concept bombing of Kuwait and the concept bombing of the Emirates and and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Only 41 people died civilians. Why? Because Iran was careful not to target civilians.

16:06But we have thousands of said dead Iranian civilians. And the Americans have better technology than us. We're told that they have the bet. Well, I don't think they do. I think China's way ahead of the United States. But anyway, that we're told that they have the most the best military capabilities in the world. So why is it that we have so many casualties? Why so many people died? Why why did the Gandhi why did they target the Gandhi hospital ironically? Why did they target the children's cancer hospital in a while? Why did they count? We saw the United States and Israel regime bomb people protesting on the streets when people were rallying on the streets in defense of the armed forces and protests against the United States and Israel regime. And it was there on two occasions when they bombed the gathering and in one occasion they bombed near the gathering and another they bombed the gathering.

17:14So I was on Engel I was near Engel I was street when they bombed a side street near Engel I street and a woman died. She was martyred. In neighborhood there was another gathering which they bombed and murdered another woman not more than a 20 minute walk from here. So they they they target civilians. We have footage of that. A woman I don't know if you recall a woman who was filming her own martyrdom they had carried out and they bombed a civilian neighborhood and then they bombed it again in a double tap attack and she was saying her shall detain. And then she she was martyred. So you know we're dealing with people who go after civilians. It's not as if you don't know and should believe their propaganda.

18:18And then and then Vance has the audacity the shameless monster to say that you know we're not likely Iranians. We don't target civilian. He said the IRGC the combined operations by the IRGC and the army the Iranian army led to at most 41 deaths among civilians throughout this war. So it's the exact reverse of what he says and then he would not even acknowledge that he says we're we're studying it. We're you know we're well that's what also we're. That's also what he said said at the beginning of the war when he was asked about when Trump was you know saying that you know maybe it was the Iranians he said at that time said that we're doing an investigation. Well what's what are the results of those investigations. You know they they pretend that they have all sorts of intelligence on Iran. They know exactly what's going on in the country but after they can't tell us where their missile struck and what it struck.

19:23Can't tell us that. They want to apologize they won't even acknowledge it. They have the shamelessness to try to attribute it to Iran and then they say the Iranians are the people who do these sort of things. Well I use I forgot the name again I think it's keemi right it's a it's a Chinese AI I ask you know how many civilians were dead and they showed exactly Kuwait what these governments claim it was 41. And then I use deep seek a few weeks ago. I mean before the 13 days of fighting when the after Trump under my demo you 13 14 15 days so those it said that said it was less than 20 maybe it's something in between. But in any case it's the exact opposite of what he says. Actually the number of death I check it in the media and I didn't check by AI by I didn't check I check it in media it was something like 18.

20:25And for example to to death in Saudi Arabia was those Indian and Bangladesh. And so the people were killed in Saudi Arabia one of them and we had a. All of them in Bahrain it was all about injuries 32 in other something like that and 16 injuries not not not know death in Oman nothing was reported. But but let's say but let's say it's 41 let's let's go to the maximum number right may have been less than 20 may have been 15 whatever. Throughout this war 41 civilians died because of Iranian drones and missiles okay this is the maximum number in. Meenab alone on day one more than four times that number were killed in a single attack all civilians all almost all children the rest would young women.

21:27The what do we know about the straight of our most we know that there is a lot of shooting happening in the straight of our most yesterday and the day before. And it was reported that Iran is using anti ship ballistic missiles in the straight to control the straight today we've learned that one of the Iranian tankers nearly hard island was hit by Americans you know they have used you know they hit the Iranian tanker. And the reports that the United States is getting something like 17 million barrels a day out of the straight of the most what are these reports and what is the assessment on the part of Iranians when it comes to the oil that is getting out of this rate. No it's not it's never it's never been 17. At any point maybe during the two weeks when the MOU was being implemented on a couple of days they had numbers that high if not a bit higher even but I don't know the exact number now but it ranges between five and seven in general but.

22:38And again most of that oil is not because of the Americans it's because. The Iranians allow a lot of that oil to get through Iran allows Chinese ships to get through Iran allows Iraqi ships to get through. Because they didn't participate in the war their friendly to Iran. And Iran has these many agreements these side agreements with countries like the Emirates where they allow some oil to get through and by the way Iranian oil gets through how it gets through that's a different story but in any case some of that oil that goes through every day is Iranian oil. But the Iranians are going to continue limiting the amount of oil that gets through and it may lessen the amount of oil that gets through if the Americans carry out their threats to try to strangle the Iranian economy. And it's not you know the street of hormones is not. One of the strange things is that the Americans think okay let's say that the straight of hormones is normal.

23:44Let's say the American forces take the straight of hormones they just land and take both the Iranian side and the Iranian and the Omani side and the Iranians. And let's say Iran did not have long range with the capabilities to strike ships in the straight of hormones and we saw them use ballistic missiles as you pointed out anti ship missiles so that undermines this whole notion but Iran could easily destroy the ports. Where the ships go to take the oil. If Iran wanted to stop the flow of oil if it was determined to stop the full world it could stop it today it could turn it to zero. You know this is not and Trump was saying that you know Syria they're they're all kind of agents in Damascus that they want to have pipelines. What's the use of pipelines it will take years to build them but if Iran wants to destroy the flow of energy all it has to do is destroy the oil field or the gas field who cares about the pipeline.

24:51If Iran really wants to stop it they'll stop it at the source. When they stop it at the source then they'll have to go and sell those the the the the bits and pieces of the pipeline on you know the steel junk and you know and have these people who take steel and other metals for to use to reuse them it'll it'll be just an empty pipeline to use this pipeline. So Iran has slowed the floor floor of oil but also what is even what is not being discussed is that the amount of oil that's getting through is disproportionately the amount of oil that is getting through is disproportion compared to other goods other goods are not getting through.

25:53Like the sulfur like the petrochemicals the helium the you know aluminum everything that is produced in the Persian Gulf region the LNG the fertilizers all the different things that are produced they're not getting through. This proportionally there's more oil getting through why because Iran's interest is also in in that some that oil gets through right because Iran export some of its own oil through the straight of foremost by different means. But if the United States tries to strangle Iran then Iran will strangle the US economy to it's a double digit sort so it's not as if the Americans can control anything whether they can't they're not in control of the straight but even if they were in control of the straight can Iran stop the flow of oil yes it can stop all the oil that leaves this region.

26:59Whether it's through pipelines or from ports outside of the straight of hormones or from within the Persian Gulf we saw Iran's capabilities during the 40 days we saw what Iran did to dress as one example the atari gas. Comp the LNG complex in Katab. It's very simple for Iran it can all be destroyed in one day. Where is the net no as you know is running in Israel he wants to be you know he wants to be reelected in Israel but he said recently yesterday if I'm not mistaken he said that he wants to do regime changing Iran his main goal is that and. The reason that Iran is not attacking them is because they're afraid of Benjamin Netanyahu. What what what is the assessment of Iran when it comes to Israel because.

28:05Do they I'm talking about the military assessment or whatever you hear from the Iranian media is that Israel is going to be able to attack Iran without the United States or. Is Iran afraid of attacking Israel because recently I don't know if you saw the article in the in in Reuters it mentioned Iran said to Israel to American officials if Israel attacks the southern part of Lebanon. And you know I'm going to attack Israel that didn't happen because Iran was afraid of attacking Israel what was the story behind that article in Reuters together with what Ben Benjamin Netanyahu said. No that Roy you know I've discussed this before not just on your show but on other shows Reuters is one of the worst of the worst it's like oxus if fabricates news and I first hand knowledge of this because. I think the new nuclear negotiations in 2015 but also the nuclear negotiations which led to the JCPO the nuclear deal and also the nuclear negotiations which were held a few years ago when President Ray C was.

29:17Was was running the country the the martyr the late president AC I was in I was also on both cases I was a media advisor. And I of course I was a media advisor because I wanted freedom to say what I wanted to do I wasn't the spokesman but I knew what was going on and Reuters would regularly lie during the negotiation saying that informed Iranian sources high ranking Iranian sources when but I since I knew what was going on I knew they were it was lying they were not speaking to any Iranians. They were just making this up or it was Americans with Israel use or someone else who was feeding them information to put out or fake news to put out and they would do that. Iran did not say anything of the sort first of all the hill that you're talking about is not nearly as important as they say and and and hence will. Was not with through from that area while back there's nothing spectacular in there sorry for interrupting they said.

30:19Iranian commanders are trapped in that you know. Okay so so now that they've taken it they can show all the commanders and all the dead bodies of the Hezbollah soldiers and where are they? They can show the enormous or no they didn't take any key area by Hezbollah's assets it's real capabilities are in other places deep underground far. You know it's so again if the Israelis took such a spectacularly important place let's see all those Iranian commanders taken or their dead bodies or the dead bodies of all the Hezbollah people or it's not. It's not. But Iran's has said and they repeated it if they strike Bay root definitely Iran will hit Israel hit Israel is ready machine. And Iran is also said that if they go too far in the south that they will be punished they've said that so that is something for Iran and Hezbollah to decide but I think there's two things that are happening.

31:27What is that Iran is focused on the United States to a large degree because the United States Iran wants to this war between Iran and United States is an existential war. But Iran has an eye on Lebanon simultaneously and Iran is looking at two elections very closely one is the US midterm elections which is in your New York Times eludes to. And I think the Americans after this what Trump seems to seek is quiet during the next two months or at least till November the third and then probably he'll like to escalate again being the paper cut that he is he wants the American people to feel the thing. So the people to feel the things are quiet and they're ending control prices inflation and then afterwards he'll go on doing what his sign is overloads overlords demand him to of him most probably that's what it is prop plus is ego.

32:27So the Iranians are looking at the US election and I think that the Iranians will probably be doing the exact opposite of what Trump wants during the next few weeks and that is Iran is going to increase the pain especially because the President wants to strangle Iran he wants to crush 90 some million people so Iran is going to retaliate so and as I said Iran's capabilities are military Iran does not have the ability to sanction US banks and then have them crash or whatever Iran's response will be through military means directed US economic interests. So I think it's going to happen thanks to Trump and best end is that during the next few Iran is going to increase the pressure on Trump. So that the post so that so that Trump the post November US political landscape looks more unfavorable for Trump that doesn't mean that the world's going to end after the midterm elections know but it makes it more difficult.

33:45But also Iran is going to step up the pressure because we are moving closer and closer as we've been saying with you and I and others have been discussing for the last few months we're moving more closer and close. Cliff. And Iran is going to keep pushing the US economy in that direction. So the next two months I think Iran is looking at the US election but also but Iran I think and I can't release this I'm like less certain about I don't know if there's a consensus consensus in Iran. But I think Iran is definitely I'm sure Iran is looking at the Israeli regime elections. And I think that the Iranians as long as Netanyahu doesn't push too hard and that could happen pretty soon. It could happen pretty soon that he goes too far and Iran will punish him and has below will get involved that's something that I think is quite likely with the way in which he's behaving now.

34:47And then if that happens Iran will hit him very hard. But I think what Iran would is wants to do is is just see the internal. Bickering and hostility and hatred that exists among Zionists in Israel. And so if Iran wants to make life very difficult for Netanyahu at home. And so if you run initiate something without without really a major reason to do so Netanyahu could be seen as the victim. And he could you know he could rally people around him saying the Iranians have attacked us. And so if he's in the country that's postponed election or keep me in power so I can. But if Netanyahu of course pushes too hard in Lebanon or he starts he starts killing people regularly and he's beginning that. So that's why I think that we could be moving towards in Iran and miss us strike on on on the Israeli regime.

35:54And so that's not the only way to do that. But I think if Netanyahu is quiet. Iran relatively quiet Iran would like to see Iran thinks that the destruction that the internal Bickering is creating inside the regime during these weeks is significant in itself. And so it's the divisions in Israel are very deep and they're deepening and Iran wants that to face up on this is a bad time for Netanyahu. He's losing the election. It's not clear if he will lose that's why he's he's a death he's desperate and a desperate person such as him could do crazy things and that that's why we could have more with Israeli regime in the coming days and weeks. I don't at all rule that out because Iran will there are clear red lines that Iran will not allow to be cross but Iran does these things in coordination with with Haspola.

36:56So we'll see we'll see nothing is for certain we could have war with the United States within the next few weeks why because if. The best end starts trying to sanction your businesses that deal with Iran or banks or whatever or financial institutions that work with Iran or companies that work with Iran and in order to strangle the country. Iran is going to use its military and then the United States will use this military most probably so we could be at war and the coming days or weeks with the United States. Netanyahu who appears to be losing the election if he out of desperation raises the stakes and we will if it's if he if he starts you know trying to take over new parts of Lebanon or do something outrageous then we will have war there too. So as I said we're entering what seems to be the final phase of the war but when I say the final phase of the war that doesn't mean okay so we're it's coming to a conclusion that final phase could be long it could take many months it could take a year but this is a new phase as I see it.

38:14It may not even be the final phase after that there may be another phase but the way I seem at the way I feel it that it's things are move I feel that things are moving in the direction where we're entering a final phase based on my understanding of the behavior. You're basins and netanyahu and Trump. What do you make the behavior of has well has well I didn't respond they're doing ambushes they're sending their they're using FV drones to hit in some targets selected targets under par but you don't see that much of fighting going on between has well and Israel. What is the strategy on the part of as well in your eyes again I'm speculating and I don't want to anyone to think that this is the Iranian position or this is has well as position. I'm being completely open about this I can say with better clarity what Iran's position is on the United States right now but on Israel actually haven't been following it.

39:27In a way in which I can say this with confidence but I think that has well as also viewing the internal dynamics of the Israeli regime in a similar light has Iran in fact we Iran and has well are very closely coordinated you know I've said this before under note sometimes some Iranians get very angry and say why is Iran doing nothing some Iranians say the MOU was a betrayal of has well on the existence and the people of Lebanon. Well actually then you know has this is really killing tens of people every day women and children they're still killing I mean just hours ago they murdered a young woman and I'm not. You know 20 year to 18 I think 18 year of girl. They don't care and western journalists of course don't care western media doesn't care they're horrible I mean western media has shown itself to be. Just a tool western journalist or just tools I mean legacy media journalist I'm not talking about our friends alternative media there you know completely different thing altogether there you know I need the white heroic and there are a lot of them are troubles.

40:34But there's really reaching this but back then it's really regime was killing innocent people in large numbers and remember this is a brutal barbaric supremacist regime they like slaughtering every day they're killing kids in Gaza that's you know they like it they enjoy it they take pleasure in it so and the western media will let them get get away with it because I mean I just saw when this young woman was killed I saw the sort of headlines and Twitter say that. They were strike Israel the Israeli regime was striking has bullet targets and then I looked at I saw that like one three people were killed one was this woman who was killed in her home so this is how ex or Twitter and this our western media frames everything to sort of give the Israeli regime as much. A bill you know to as much room as possible to carry out its atrocities without outraging western audience to hear this.

41:35But the so back then the you know the run was coordinated with his below Iran is continue to be coordinated and he under no circumstances the chances for Iran allowing this right the regime to defeat his below is zero not close to zero it's absolutely zero. And we saw that in the mo was article one Lebanon the country was named and of course it also said other fronts because back then the war was in Lebanon but also meant Gaza and the Iranians have said very clearly that. As a part of this deal the Supreme National Security Council has said it more than once so there's no way that we're going to have some sort of final deal with the Americans I mean meaning the mo fully implemented without the genocide in Gaza coming to that without occupation and never not coming. It's not quite it's how does Iran feel about the occupation in Syria and what is the Iranian policy when it comes to occupation that is there any sort of difference between the occupation in Syria and Lebanon or Gaza for Iranian.

42:46Well Syria the Syrian regime has chosen the United States and and of course Erdogan within the context of the US camp and you know that's who that's who is chosen and he's chosen to antagonize the resistance he's chosen to to ignore the Palestinian cause if he was to truly resist Israel this ready regime. No doubt the resistance would help him even though even despite all that he has done I mean this is hypothetical I'm not saying it's going to happen some people criticize me why how on earth would Iran support al Qaeda or whatever Iran has never you know this is that's a US asset I'm saying but hypothetically let's say something happened for whatever reason Syria decided to truly defend its interests and they spell this right the regime. No doubt that Iran would and the resistance would support them more than anyone else more than anyone else but there they this regime is a is a US proxy we knew this from 2012 13 14 news clear what was a NATO project this was a US project this was an Israeli project these groups were being supported by Israel they were being supported by NATO they were being supported by Katat and Saudi Arabia.

44:10I mean would they ever support the Syrian people would any of these entities support a real revolution these decaterships of course not of course not I mean I mean some people who are deeply deeply sectarian and they're stuck in this sickness or you know these people who are who are on the payroll of Katat and Saudi Arabia Erdogan you know NATO countries with the US government or you know these NGOs yes of course they that's how what they are doing. They'll say that because that's their pay to say that. But these are proxies obvious. We had the SEO summit in Bishgik which was important many ways one of them is the joint statement and everybody signed that the condemned US Israeli attack on Iran for the first time. Every single one of them every single one of them they condemned the United States and Israeli attack whether it's China whether it's India whether it's Russia whether it's Pakistan whether it's the you know the Central Asian countries everyone condemned.

45:21That's together with that it was the case of sanctions as well they condemned the sanctions. That's right. And one other thing by the way, the President, President of a very good meeting with different leaders including President Putin but also. Now I saw reports in the Western media about President Xi and President Pesitia not meeting President Xi only met two people one was President Putin and. The the the president of Mongolia no one else and then he but he had a brief meeting with President Pesitia but they're also going to be meeting most probably again in India not quite sure I think so for the break summit. But for them to say that he he was ignored no it's nonsense. He he was there present she was there briefly he only met two leaders and then he went to a state visit to Egypt so there's no the relationship between Iran and China is very solid and.

46:26And the nonsense that Western media and Arabic media out of zero out of the sky news 24 you know the Arabic media that that's in the American camp. They what they say is just not. The word DC professor and the case of you mentioned the SEO summit SEO summit is so important when it comes to the security the understanding of the these countries coming together but you mentioned the bricks bricks is going to be this month and 12 is going to be next week. At the end of the next week and for two days they're going to be in India talking and I assume one of the major issues which was mentioned the joint statement of the SEO is the sanctions that the United States is putting tremendous pressure on the economy particularly on the economy of Iran together with Russia. And they're trying to strangle crush the economy putting suffering a lot of people as you mentioned the Iranian people it's about the Iranian people be under the sanctions of the United States.

47:36But they call it the regime we're sanctioning the so called regime as though you know there is a division something or they're living in a little island separated from Iran. What is the basic or what what are the major issues for these countries who are under tremendous sanctions of the United States considering breaks. Well you know there's a Lancet report that came out a while back and the Lancet is a western journal it's not like a Russian or Chinese or Iranian term so western journal with western biases. It said that western sanctions from 1971 to 2021 have led to the deaths of 38 million people across the world. 38 million people. That's that's like and then if you add it to the number of people that they murder in all their wars because they're the ones who do all the wars the free world and the civilized world and whatever else they like to call themselves.

48:42If you add them together that's world war two like numbers. But sanctions is good for them because they kill people quietly doesn't you know they're no explosions so you know kids die because of a lack of medicine. They die because they don't have the proper equipment or the equipment which is broken and they can't refix it. People lose their job so they don't have money to for to pay for expensive treatments treatments that can you know people can as it was you know because of those treatments people could survive. Young children would die of malnutrition or when they have special needs what is it butterfly what was it the butterfly I forget what it's called. Butterfly disease yeah yeah so you know and that sort of thing and they're all sorts of things you know families are broken when there's no jobs poverty addiction that's what the United States and the West does that's the that's what their experts in destroying people and you know what they're doing.

49:44They're not in the communities in the United States. And they do it across the world. They did it in Afghanistan. They did it in Iraq. They did it in Syria. They devastated they destroyed Syria and they so they use it is ISIS and Al Qaeda and sanctions and they pretend that they're the good guys and then they these proxies in attack and Saudi Arabia and and in. NATO countries, they would say the Syrian government is evil. Whatever the Syrian government was, these people were worse, and the people that they brought to power were worse. But in any case, the Iranians, the Russians, and the others who are sanctioned, they're going to increase their cooperation, and they are increasing cooperation. And countries like China are increasingly concerned about these sanctions, because they know that ultimately they are already being targeted. So this is creating an enormous incentive to move away from the United States and US

50:47controlled financial institutions, and that's already happening. It's a slow process, but it's happening. This transition is... But these gatherings are not just about collective decisions, which may take time for things to happen, but it's also the bilateral meetings that take place on the sidelines. So the Iranian leader, or the Russian leader, the Chinese leader, the Indian leader, the Pakistani leader, the Brazilian leader, depending... I mean, he's not in the SEO, but Brics. So they get to meet each other more often and coordinate and cooperate. So when you have the Shanghai organization, and then two weeks later you have the Brics organization, have it summit meetings, then Iranian leader president is able to inform minister and other officials are able to meet these people to further cooperate and coordinate their work together. So these... While they will not provide overnight solutions, sometimes some of our friends are...

51:51They used to be very too optimistic about Brics and SEO and what will produce. It's not... It's a slow process, but it is moving in that general direction. But also in addition to that, Nima, the crisis that is emerging in Western economies, that is also going to accelerate this change. And the slow demise of the regimes in the Persian Gulf, the Arab family dictatorships. I mean, right, they were supposed to be giving trillions of dollars to Trump for his AI projects and so on. They were cows that were being milked. The leader of fattener, the leader of Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, they were cows. Just being milked by Washington. That's what they were saying openly about them. Well, they had no milk. And now they need milk. So they have to take back their assets. They have to sell their bonds for a period of time they can get loans or they can find

52:52means to slow down the process at least for a short term, in the short term. But ultimately they're going to have to sell their bonds and stocks and their assets in the West to just sustain themselves. So the United States is no longer benefiting. And these are the foundation... The foundational... These countries, these four or five countries, are the reason why we have the dollar as the reserve currency is the petrodal. So the war against Iran is weakening the United States at so many levels. Thanks to the Israeli regimes, thanks to the Zionist lobby, thanks to the Israeli Persons, thanks to Trump and thanks to Netanyahu. Scott Besson yesterday, he said that the European Union has officially joined Operation Economic Outcast and we appreciate their strong and early stance.

53:58Europe, what is the connection, economic connection or communications between Iran and Europe? I remember they had the stab-back sanctions. They somehow... There is nothing basically going on between Iran and Europe. And why is that significant for Scott Besson and how is that going to be helpful for him with ongoing pressure on Iran? Europe is not important to Iran. And the trade between Iran and Europe has gone down to almost zero. Iran in embassies in Europe are... They have a skeleton staff. There is not much going on anymore. Basically, I guess, for some people who want visas or political messages, in fact, the trade between Iran and Europe is very close to zero. And that trade is not something that's going to be affected because it's not like a

54:59key goods or product or anything like that. They're replaceable. Iran actually present Pezishyan and President Putin and they're meeting together. They were speaking of enhanced cooperation. There almost all of Iran's trade has moved away from the West, almost all of it. And that includes Korea, that includes... And by the way, if the Koreans... If some of what we hear about the Koreans, if they do indeed want to participate with Americans against Iran, Iran will target their ships. But then also Iran will shut out Korea from the Persian Gulf for good. And then the Korean assets in the Persian Gulf region will go up and smoke. And go up and smoke. So that would be utterly foolish. But in any case, Iran's trade with the Western camp or the camp controlled by the West is close to zero.

56:01You mentioned yesterday, there were reports that South Korea going to join the United States to help them in the trade over most. The question, what would they bring to the table to help the United States? I don't know. Do they have... What is the capability? What is the assessment of Iran? The capability that the Korean can bring to the Persian Gulf? Do they have the mineswippers? They said that we want to remove the mines from the trade of almost... They have no capabilities. And mineswippers cannot just go in. First of all, if they are no mines, why did they need mineswippers? Trump has said they are no mines. So if they are no mines, why did they need mineswippers? If they want to bring in mineswippers, well, there has to be no adversary.

57:02But Iran will knock out those mineswippers with their ballistic missiles. So all it does is then it gives Iran an opportunity to punish South Korea. And the damage that Iran can do to South Korea because of its assets in the Persian Gulf region, because of its need for the Persian Gulf, because of its ships that use the Persian Gulf. The damage that Iran can do to South Korea is much greater than anything South Korea can do to Iran. It's just the utter foolishness of if they think Iran is going to let them get away with that sort of thing. Especially, especially if we do move into what seems to be the final phase of the war, where we move towards the two sides trying to strangle each other. That's when Iran starts to destroy.

58:03So I don't know if that's going to happen. It depends on Washington. But we are possibly in the most dangerous phase of the war. This is where the global economy sinks. If this is indeed what the United States is attempting to do. Iran is not going to allow the United States to get away with anything. Come what may. Thank you so much Professor Mahendi for being with us today. Great pleasure, as always. Sanan and Ima, thank you very much for having me. And I hope and pray that all of your viewers see better days. Sure. Thank you.