Trump PANICS as Iran CHECKMATES HIM!!!

Donald Trump is panicking as Iran is. putting the screws in and publicly. taunting him. They're posting images and. memes like this on their social media. accounts from their various embassies. Brave American hero or a coward hiding. in a catering truck. They also posted. the one they claimed was hiding in a. bunker was martyred in his office, yet. the one who boasted about his massive. warships and advanced B-2 bombers ended. up fleeing in a food truck. The Iranian.

Embassy in Zimbabwe posted from I've got. a great idea to what have I done. Then. they repost the story of Trump hiding in. a food container to leave Turkey aboard. a military plane because of his fear of. Iran, and it says Iran won the war and. the Iranian Embassy mocks Donald Trump. and says the strongest army in the. history of humankind. So, you know how. Donald Trump said the whole world was.

laughing at us once. No, they're. actually laughing at you, Donald. I saw. this being reposted as well. Trump zoo. Once you have obliterated your enemy, show strength by hiding in the food. You. have Iran's Embassy in Armenia reposting. the Washington Post Trump underwent an. elaborate plan to hide his flight from. Turkey to the United Kingdom last month. using a catering food truck amid Iran.

threat. And it just keep getting worse. from there. The Iranian Embassies were. posting Donald Trump's meme about. Iran has no money. 51 years of bad. behavior. The Iranian Embassy social. media accounts posted, his attention to. our economy while he is still the. president of the United States is. admirable. To share this concern with. him, we just want to mention that the. average price of regular gasoline in the. US is $4.01.

By the way, that is the highest average. for US gas prices in August in US. history. In Iran, they're also posting, "Commander in sleep, dream about opening. the strait. Perhaps in your dreams it. would be open." And it's a video of. Donald Trump falling asleep as he. basically does now every time he is in. public, which again is further. humiliating to us here in the United. States and bringing us so much shame.

They're posting images like this, "The. biggest loser." And it's Donald Trump. and Jimmy Carter knowing that Donald. Trump. is terrified that he will be a Jimmy. Carter is what Donald Trump says. Well, Donald is way worse than that. Like Like. let's be very clear. It's way freaking. worse than that. Uh there was this post. from an Iranian embassy in July 2026, "The US Secret Service secretly moved. Trump to a military plane in Ankara. using a catering truck due to a security.

threat. The White House, Trump on the. way back home." And it's Trump in a. fatty food truck over there. And the. more information that comes out, the. more humiliating it is. The Daily Mail. reported, "Inside the catering truck sat. Trump's most trusted inner circle. A. source familiar with the matter told the. Daily Mail that in particular, the. 35-year-old Natalie Harps' selection to. ride safely with Donald Trump was, quote, 'a no-brainer. She was Donald.

Trump's first pick,' sources are telling. the Daily Mail.". And with all of this going on, Donald. Trump is saying, "The USA has total". That's what he said yesterday. "Has. total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I think we will keep it. Our naval. blockade is being called by everyone a. wall of steel, and there is nothing Iran. can do about it. No one's calling it the. wall of steel. No one knows what the. hell you're talking about, and everyday. dude puts us through a humiliation.

ritual. Just freaking stop, man. Just. sign off. Go away. Go with Natalie Harp. to Epstein Island or whatever you want. to do. Go to the Albanian island with. the uh with Natalie Harp and Ivanka. They look alike. Go go there. What the. hell are you doing? Actually, don't. I. like I like the Albanian protesters. Don't go to the Albanian flamingo. island. Go make your own island. I don't. know. Go go somewhere else. The the Iranian Port Authority uh that.

that been working out with Oman, they. go, "Claims and repeated posts by US. officials that the Strait of Hormuz is. no longer blocked do not change the. reality. The Strait of Hormuz remains. blocked and will not be reopened until. Iran's conditions are accepted." And. over here, you can see Iran's Persian. Gulf Strait Authority is accurate if you. actually look at what's happening in the. Strait of Hormuz. And if you look at the. flow of tankers through the Strait of.

Hormuz, if you look at our strategic. reserves, if you look at every indicia. right now, Donald Trump has destroyed. the US military. Our munitions are done. Our soldiers, our sailors, our marines. on the US supercarriers, the USS. supercarriers Abraham Lincoln and George. H.W. Bush have the lowest morale in. history. Six of them wanted to jump. overboard and end their lives because. recently because of the torment they are.

going through. This is an utter horror. show. And what's Marco Rubio talking. about? Secretary of State? Well, he's. going on Stephen Miller's wife's podcast. complaining that if he were to go back. on the keto diet, he may get us into. more wars. Here, play this clip. >> I did at one time, maybe 4 or 5 years. ago, I tried this thing called keto. Have you heard of this? >> And you just eat all this protein. And. so, you go through this massive. withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates.

for the first 72 hours. It was a near. psychotic event for me. >> It's true. >> Yeah, like if I did this in this job, I. would be in a Mr. President, we must. bomb, you know, you know, Paraguay. And. it's like, why? I don't know. I'm just. really mad I haven't had any sugar. >> And then you have war criminal Pete. Hegseth saying, well, under Biden, he. focused on. gender issues and diversity and dudes. and women's. I don't know what you're. even talking about. Here, play this. clip. >> Because just 18 months ago,

the previous US administration. under Joe Biden, especially the previous administration. here at Southern Command, stood in front of you promoting. priorities like gender issues, women, peace, and security, or climate change, or diversity, dudes in dresses. I've said this before, but the. Department of War is done with that.

nonsense. >> And then to add to the humiliation. ritual, you have Mike Huckabee, the US. ambassador to Israel, saying, we are. bankrupting Iran. This is a victory. This is a smack. This is what we wanted, to lose control over the Strait of. Hormuz and the Red Sea and to have to. abandon all of our military bases and. run out of interceptors and then have. the so-called commander-in-chief hiding. in food trucks because he's scared of.

Iran. Victory! Here, play this clip. >> So, today, before I got here, I did. something that I thought was very. important. I checked President Trump's. social media to make sure this was not. my last speech in Israel. >> [laughter]. >> As you know, he typically fires people. in the middle of the night by way of. social media. So, I wanted to make sure. that there was a reason for me to come.

I'm happy to report that so far, so good. >> Now, I want to get a perspective from. inside Iran right now. I want to get a. perspective from a professor at the. University of Tehran, Professor Marandi. I just interviewed Professor Marandi in. Tehran, and I have questions for him. I. want to ask him what's actually going on. in Tehran right now. I want to ask him. what his perspective is on Donald Trump.

continuing to claim Trump controls the. Strait of Hormuz. I want to ask him about the potential. deal between Iran and Oman. The US isn't. involved in this at all, and what's the. status over there? Let's bring in Professor Marandi. Now, I. want to bring in Professor Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran. He was actually with the negotiating. team working with the media over there. in the Islamabad negotiations with the.

Iranian negotiating team. Want to speak to you about what's. generally going on in Iran right now, the sentiments regarding where we are. with these. whatever you want to call the situation. I don't want to call it a negotiation. taking place. What what what what what's. your view of just kind of the current. status of where where things are right. now? >> Well, the mood in general. has been. uh one of.

uh defiance and resistance, and it's. quite amazing what has. succeeded in doing uh. since the war began. Um. the. a segment before the war began, a. segment a significant segment of Iranian. society. wanted some sort of solution with the. United States. But uh. since Trump.

uh. betrayed. uh. Iran at the negotiating table. In other. words, both last year and this year. before the 12-day war and this war, Iran and the United States were. negotiating and during those. negotiations, the United States attacked. Iran. That has led even those Iranians who are. liberal, Western-oriented, uh who are influenced by Western media. or Western-funded Persian-language. media, uh.

they have shifted a great deal. And they've become much more skeptical. of the United States and much more. supportive of the stance. of the um. of the of the state, of the government, of the Supreme National Security Council. in dealing with the United States. That's something that I have also. experienced. um. personally. It's anecdotal, but uh some. of my students who. uh previously.

were very uh. critical, uh if not hostile, towards the Islamic Republic. uh. because they believed the Islamic. Republic was. uh. unwilling to. uh. deal with the United States and to do to. do a deal with the United States, um. their views changed uh dramatically. Uh and uh so and another thing is that.

although it's not really. uh the number one topic nowadays, but before the 12-day war last year, I think uh a uh. roughly half the Iranian half of the. Iranian population. believed that Iran should have nuclear. weapons. Uh but now. uh even and that's. uh. yeah, the the state and um. government officials have always been.

saying. that we do not need nuclear weapons, and. they were always explaining why we do. not need nuclear weapons. And. yet. now, according to the polls that I saw. 2-3 months ago, a very strong majority. believed that Iran should have nuclear. weapons. So, what Trump has done. is that he's. shifted Iranian public opinion. toward I think a small minority believe. a small majority majority believed back.

then that we shouldn't have nuclear. weapons. But now a strong majority believes that. we. uh do need nuclear weapons. So, Trump uh. uh. single-handedly has uh convinced. uh many Iranians that Iran should. develop a nuclear weapon, despite the. fact that the government, the leader, uh. political parties for the most part are. still saying we we shouldn't pursue. nuclear weapons, at least for now. >> I had read that the Iranian government.

prepared a psychological profile on. Donald Trump. They read The Art of the. Deal in preparing for. uh again, these negotiations or whatever. it is. And there was a psychological. profile regarding Donald Trump's. behavior, even if he's capable of doing. a deal or not doing a deal, going back. and forth, kind of having phantom. discussions. One day we're speaking, one. day we're not speaking, and you know, and just saying all of these things over. and over again. What what what do you.

know about that? Like, when you see the. posts, for example, that Trump was. making earlier today, "We own the Strait. of Hormuz. He I control it. I'm going to. be I'm a pirate." The memes that he. posts, obviously, y'all are watching. that pretty and seeing the behavior. And. so, what's the general view? One is Was. there that psychological profile. created? What What's the general view. >> I have that right now. >> Yeah, I've read about it. I I don't know.

the details, and I don't know how true. it is. I think it is I think it's probably. true, but I I don't know the details. Um what I can say is that in general, the interest in Trump has and he and his. and his statements and his posts have. decreased a lot. Uh. last year, I think he was taken. more seriously at the beginning of this. war, somewhat seriously, but I think by. uh.

the first after two, three, four weeks, I'm just guessing. Um interest in general in his. statements, his threats, his. his um. Truth Social posts. uh declined. And now. it. it when he says something, it has. literally no impact. No one. bothers to. uh. talk about it or it's not discussed on. television or on any of these online.

programs in Iran or in these Telegram. channels. It's sometimes reflected. I. mean, if he says something about Iran, you'll you'll see it in. in the news or in the different channels. that exist, but then it doesn't have the sort of. impact on society that it had. a year year a year and a half or even. 4 or 5 months ago. Uh he said so many things so many. different times. He's made so many. different threats. He's changed his mind.

so many. uh. times in the in in in such short periods. of time. that uh. he he's his statements are not really. relevant anymore. >> Talk to us about Iran's engagement at. the foreign ministry level and at other. government levels with other countries. at this point. Both the countries that. are the neighboring countries, um. China, Russia, others, even Europe. You.

know, I I saw that Foreign Minister. Araghchi was speaking to his German. counterpart the other day and before. that Italy. Are you seeing kind of a. different type of engagement and is. Iran, do you see being treated. differently at that foreign ministry. engagement level? I know I. There's a lot to unpack there, but I'm. observing new security structures being. created and Iran's involvement looking. different than it was before uh. the February Trump-Netanyahu attacks and.

invasion. >> Uh there has been enormous change. Uh. after this war in particular, after the. 12-day war there was some change, but. after this current war. that's been going on for 5 and a half. months or so, um. leaders uh across the world have been. treating Iranian officials with uh. much. respect.

And uh. the Chinese leaders and the Russian. leaders in particular have. been saying that. uh Iran's status in in their eyes and. the eyes of others have uh have grown. enormously. And it's largely because. of the fact that. most people outside of Iran. believe that Iran would not. survive the war, let alone. win the war.

Uh although I personally and and many. people in Iran, we never had any doubt. Not everyone, but many of us never had. any doubt that Iran. would uh overcome and that it would. succeed. Although I'm. uh. pleasantly surprised that it did even. better than I expected. But anyway, outside of Iran, the general sentiment. among friends of Iran, well, uh people who I was personally in.

contact with, let's say some people. uh abroad uh. during the war, they were very skeptical. about Iran's future. But uh. uh after the war, Iran's status has uh grown immensely. And even the Europeans who. unfortunately, due to uh. centuries of empire, uh they would. regularly speak with Iranian leaders and. diplomats with a a particular type of.

arrogance. Um they have great difficulty in doing. that nowadays. Their behavior towards Iran, uh they're still in the American camp, the Europeans, unfortunately, to their. detriment. But uh the way in which they approach. Iran and the Iranians has definitely. changed. >> I remember back in late April, Donald. Trump was saying that based on. the way the blockade was working, which. we know it wasn't, but that the pipes.

were going to fill up and it was going. to burst and there was 3 days and Iran. was going to explode. And now he says. we're semi-negotiating and we're just. going to low-key it because if you read. his posts and then our media here. regurgitates it, you know, they're say. he says, you know, Iran and Tehran. they're broke, they can't afford. anything, you know, it's all being. destroyed and the blockade's working. perfectly. Can you tell we have lots of.

international viewers, what what's. actually happening you know, in Tehran. and across Iran? What's the condition. like and what's a day in the life like. and you know, we don't really get to see. cameras of what's going on and he posts. that. What what's what's really. happening over there? >> Well, life in Tehran is quite ordinary. It's if you travel to Iran tonight, it's. 1:00 a.m. here, but if you travel. to Iran tomorrow. and walked around the streets or took a.

a bus or a taxi or. traveled around using the metro, it would be very normal. And you would. you would probably not see any damaged. buildings because it's a huge city. Um. and and also some of the the the damaged. buildings have all been brought down and. they're rebuilding them, but. um but still you wouldn't probably see. any damage. If you walk down the. streets, the restaurants are full, the. shops are.

full of customers, but I'm sure that if. you went and asked the shop owners. or the restaurants how is business. doing, they would probably say that it's. not doing all that well. And that uh. business is is is not great. I'm sure some of them are doing quite. well, but I would imagine that the. overall sentiment is not that great. You. wouldn't notice if you just drove around. town or walked down the streets. It's. just.

like any. other. pretty wealthy city that exists in the. world. Tehran is a is a very large city. It's a beautiful city. Um. foreigners who come here you are very. impressed by how clean it is. They take. out the trash every day. It's it's very. It's a very developed city. Uh in. comparatively speaking. It's not a. Shanghai, but it's still it's it's. pretty good. Um. The mood in Iran right now is I don't.

know if the word hawkish is is. appropriate, but uh people are resilient. They're. steadfast. And uh they believe that uh Iran has to. be firm. Uh not many people uh believe that. negotiations. are any use right now. There is a. segment of society that believes that, but in general the skepticism towards. the United States is enormous. So, they. support the armed forces and they.

support. the strong position taken by the state. uh because they don't see anyone in the. United States as being a real. negotiating partner. That's uh one of. the. attributes of Trump. One of the things. that Trump has done is that he has. united people in Iran in a way which. I've never seen before. At least in uh since I was a teenager. And uh. and we saw this in the funeral, how the.

animosity toward Trump and towards uh. his regime and the the the US government. in general, uh when many millions of people. participated in the funerals in in in. Tehran. And for the first time Western. media had to acknowledge the sheer size. of the funeral, whether in Tehran or the. holy cities of Qom and Mashhad. So, you. saw a huge You saw um really. unprecedented crowds. Uh tens of millions of people. participated in the funeral when you.

combine the three cities. And they the hostility towards the US. government, I think, was profound. Uh. people sought sought revenge in the. funeral. So, uh what Trump has done is. is amazing. And I think that he himself. alone and Netanyahu, of course, alongside him, uh they have made it uh. much more difficult for the United. States. uh to get anywhere with Iran.

Because uh. uh the mood in Iran has shifted so much. against the United States. So, even. during the negotiations, which I. as you pointed out, traveled with the. negotiating team. Um during the negotiations, there was a. lot of skepticism. And uh I would meet people on the. streets, even though I was not a. negotiator, who would say that. why are you negotiating? Uh. what is there to negotiate about? They.

killed our kids. They killed our school. children. They killed the leader. They. uh. They're completely untrustworthy. They'll attack us again. And after the MOU was signed, and then Trump began began to undermine. the MOU and uh ultimately restarted the. war, this mood. intensified. Again, I mean, perhaps there was sort of. there was there more people who were. beginning to say, well, maybe there's a.

solution out there. But after. uh Trump effectively tore up the MOU. because he violated all of the different. articles uh from article one onwards, uh the mood again again hardened. And if. And of course, this is my anecdotal. experience, but when I would. even though I again, I'm not a. negotiator, but many people, since they. saw me with the negotiating team, assumed that I was a part of the. negotiations. Um most people who would ask me.

or speak with me about negotiations, most of them were critical. >> So, where do we go from here? Um Trump says. and I guess when you even start. something now, right? And I reflect on. this, Trump says it's. words. It's okay. Well, what what what. does it even mean, Trump says? But today. it's low-keying it. It's wait and see. The black might control the Strait of. Hormuz. I mean, we here in the United.

States have now seen our gas prices, I. think it's the highest average ever in. history right now at this point in time. Um the strategic petroleum reserves have. hit. uh a tank bottom. That's not a state. secret. I mean, y'all y'all follow this. I mean, you you you know these issues. I. saw one of the Iranian generals talking. about He said, you know, it's not even. like uh like they're even doing anything. purporting in the American interest. They just go just looking when the stock.

market closes. And that's when they. That's when they time these things. It's. like, you know, and I and I saw that. come. So, how what. One, maybe there's You all know that. Um. you know, what is there a path forward? Is Is there other Is it basically the. MOU and it needs compliance with the. MOU? What Where Where do we even go from. here? Or is it really at this point just. kind of wait it out and and wait until. 2029 until another person comes in? Or. what Where Where do you see it?

>> You know, in Iran, people know a lot. more about the United States than. uh the number of people who know. anything about Iran in the United. States. English is our second language. at school. Uh many people are are fluent or at. least partially fluent in in English. A lot of people follow uh. American politics. You have uh. uh. Most academics at at.

uh. important universities are fluent in. English. Or at least they can read and write in. English. Um so they they there is a strong. understanding of Iran in general. I'm. not saying the whole population follows. American politics, but there's a there's. a substantial. uh number of people who do. And um. I have I have students whose English s-. skills, at least when they speak,

uh they're more fluent than I than I am. Uh. so that I think that shows how um. how things are here. And there are very. few books in the United States that I. would uh. endorse. uh. about Iran that would give a clear. understanding about the country because. the problem in the United States is that. if you want to get anywhere, you you. have to be hostile towards Iran. If you want to get a job at a good. university, if you want to get a uh.

uh. position at a think tank, uh. you can't uh do it by saying Iran is a. normal country which is legitimate and. the state is legitimate and uh it has. popular support among the people, the. state, and so on. You You just you you. you you might as well get a different. job and go and work in the supermarket. Uh so there there's very little that. people uh material in in the United. States that that I think people can.

read, very few books that would help. them understand Iran. That that is a big. problem. And that I think is uh made worse by the. fact that Trump has no real experts on. Iran. uh anywhere near him uh or in the. national security establishment. Uh. and. therefore everything that he says. and everything that he hears. uh is based on inaccurate information or.

propaganda or. material provided to him. by the Zionist lobby. So, I I'm very skeptical about um. uh. possibility for any form of. uh. progress at the negotiating table. We. already have a deal. We have an. agreement at least the MOU which Trump. himself signed. But he effectively. violated all of the deal. He was.

supposed to release Iran's stolen funds. He refrained from doing that. He was. supposed to force the Israeli regime to. withdraw from Lebanon and stop the. killing. He refrained from doing that. He was supposed to lift um. the sanctions on the Iranian oil. exports. He. removed them and then put them back in. place within a few days. And the list goes on. I mean every. article in the MOU he he undermined. And. then in article five where he was.

supposed to. uh where the Iranians were supposed to. control the Strait of Hormuz and. normalize it trade. uh and the passage of ships through the. them through the the strait. he went and set up his own corridor with. the Saudis and the Emirates and the. Kuwaitis in violation of article five. And that ultimately led to him attacking. Iran again because Iran blocked it. So, after he signed the MOU and then. undermined it in Iran.

no one believes that uh his signature is. worth anything and that negotiating with. the United States is uh worthwhile. So, I think the only thing left really. is uh actions. If the United States, for. whatever reason, uh. begins moving towards some sort of. implementation of the MOU, even if it. doesn't declare it, that would be what the Iranians are. looking. The only thing that's important. for Iran right now is implementation. And for the United States to carry out.

its commitments. Because, again, as I said earlier, Trump's signature means nothing. Do the Iranians believe that the United. States is going to carry out its. commitments? No, I think there's a lot. of skepticism. And there's a lot of talk. right now. that Iran will just have to wait till. Trump's presidency is over. So, this. conflict could hypothetically. go on for well over 2 more years. >> And when Donald Trump says that Iran. would be incapable of waiting it out,

and that time is on the side of the. United States, what's what's the general. view there? You know, just when that is. a talking point that happens here a lot, which is we just keep this blockade, you. know, we've got the two supercarriers. there, you keep the blockade, and then. that'll resolve it. 2 years, you know, you know, as as Trump says, you know, that that's the best strategy. Iran. won't be able to last that long or. something like that. What's Before we.

go, what's kind of the the view there. when when he says that? >> I don't think, at least I don't know of. anyone who thinks that Trump knows what. he's talking about. When the war began, Trump. demanded unconditional surrender by day. 40. Uh he accepted the Iranian 14-point plan. as the framework for negotiations. That. was accepting defeat. Then, he. [clears throat] started the siege. warfare, assuming that Iran collapse,

and he ultimately had to accept the MOU. So, it was the global economy and the US. economy that was. being hit hard that forced him to accept. it. Remember, he spoke about Herbert. Hoover, the Great Depression, and he didn't want to be a president. like a Hoover. So, it was clear that the. siege back then wasn't working. And then. he restarted the war again, it failed, and now we're in siege warfare again. Uh the Iranians are going to be patient.

It's It will hurt, but the Iranians will be patient and. ultimately. the global economy is heading toward a. cliff, and the Iranians recognize that. And uh it is going to hit Trump hard. It's going to hit. the global economy and the American. people hard, just as it's hitting us. hard. But uh the Iranians know that they. have to persevere. They have no option. But what the ordinary Americans, they have no incentive to resist because.

it's not their war. They know that the. Israeli regime designed this lobby and. imposed it upon them, and they're. suffering. uh because of war that was completely. unnecessary. So, I think it's pretty. clear that uh. the Iranians will definitely outlast. Trump. >> And the Iran-Oman. negotiations as part of the Gulf uh. organization, um I know those discussions are. continuing. I know that, you know, it it. seemed like last week the United States. tried to Trump tried to be like, "I'm.

involved in that." And and you know, I. think Iraq was like, "No, you're not. involved. You're not We're not talking. to you about this. We're doing the deal. with Oman." Um any sense of where that's. going? It's It seems, you know, they're. working on a route. You're working on a. route together. What's What's, you know, the latest there? >> Uh the There is. an agreement with Oman. They're They're. not declaring it. uh because uh. there's no reason to since there's a the. United States has imposed a siege, the. Iranians I no intention of opening the.

Strait of Hormuz as a result. But there is an agreement and the two. sides have agreed. uh the Iranians will have oversight both. over ships coming into the Persian Gulf. and ships leaving the Persian Gulf. through the Strait of Hormuz uh Hormuz. And there will be a fee. Uh so they've. agreed upon that. There there of course. details as to how. the everything will be carried out. But. uh I think what is important for Trump.

to know is that that has been agreed. upon and I'm sure he knows the details. or he's been told the details. I mean I. I doubt he he he cares to. listen and. uh. to whoever explained it to him. But I. think they've explained to him that the. Iranians will be taking fees and they. will have oversight. Um. the the Americans push a put a lot of. pressure on Oman. uh to uh. prevent any fee from being a part of uh.

this um agreement and to prevent uh Iran. from having full oversight. But the. Iranians. uh told Oman on numerous occasions that. look we want to do this with you. We want to do this together because. these are not international waters. This. is uh territory the territorial water of. Iran and Oman. It's not wide enough to. be an international waters. But. if you do not cooperate with us, we'll. do it alone.

And this is a security issue for us. War. has been waged on our people and we're. not going to. uh. um we're we're not going to just leave. the Strait of Hormuz like it was before. And so ultimately the Americans backed. off and Oman. uh they agreed the Iranians and and the. Omani government came to an agreement. But again, this hasn't been declared yet. although they've made positive noise. about the negotiations, but it hasn't. been declared because right now.

whether there's an agreement or not, nothing changes as long as the United. States is imposing a siege on uh. uh the Iranian ports, and also as long. as the United States refrains from. implementing. uh its commitments in the MOU that Trump. signed. >> That's fascinating because, you know, 2. weeks ago Treasury Secretary Besson. said, "We've got this deal. It's about. to be announced." And then Trump kind of. swooped in and wanted to kind of take.

credit for it as though, "Look at the. deal that I did between Oman and. Tehran." So, hearing you say, "Yeah, look, they they did the deal. It's just. why would they announce it if the Strait. of Hormuz is closed at this point?" And. it would basically, what, Trump's going. to take credit for doing a deal he. didn't do while the Strait remains. closed. So, no, follow the commitments. of the memorandum of understanding, and. then we can, you know, implement the. structure. Anything we missed that you. think is not being, you know, kind of. talked about, you know, that you you you. you.

you want that that you think there's. disinformation or misinformation about. that. um you know, that that that was on your. mind? >> Iranians make a clear distinction. between the American people and the US. government. And. they have no hostility towards. Americans. Um. I've had many American friends travel to. Iran on numerous occasions, and they. would even come to Iran.

like during a time when there. anti-American protests, and they. participate in them and to see what's. going on. And they were treated with great respect. always. So, Iran's problem with the United. States has to do with the political. regime, the leadership of the country. And it's not just Trump. Trump is more. crude and more. uh. dishonest and uh uh. more. uh. uh. hostile.

uh openly hostile than previous. presidents. But uh the the uh. the United States has the United US. government has always been very hostile. towards Iran and. um the Iranians have been a victim of US. policy for for many decades since 1953. when Americans have carried out a coup. in that country and overthrow overthrew. the national government and impose a. police state for 2 and 1/2 decades. But despite all that, as I said, any American who travels to Iran would.

it really within a couple of days. recognize that uh Iranians have uh no. hostility towards ordinary Americans. And when the Iranians do chant slogans. like death to America, it's not to be. taken literally. This is about the. American empire. It has nothing to do. with the in the country of the United. States where ordinary people live and. have jobs and. uh and so on. This is just like when. people would say "Yankee go home." uh.

they wouldn't it wouldn't be taken. literally. It didn't mean that if. there's an American in that country that. they'd have within a or a a person with. an American passport that they'd have to. leave the country. It meant that the the. the empire should leave that country. alone. So, these are uh not to be taken. literally. >> Professor Marandi, thanks for joining. us. Appreciate the perspective. Appreciate you sharing what's happening. in Tehran. >> Thank you very much for having me. It's.

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