>> Martha: PRESIDENT TRUMP
SPEECH TODAY WAS NOT JUST A
MESSAGE TO THE LEADERS OF IRAN
BUT ALSO AT TIMES SPOKE TO THE
PEOPLE OF IRAN AS WELL.
>> TO THE PEOPLE AND LEADERS OF
IRAN, WE WANT YOU TO HAVE A
FUTURE AND A GREAT FUTURE, ONE
THAT YOU DESERVE.
ONE OF PROSPERITY AT HOME,
HARMONY WITH THE NATIONS OF THE
WORLD.
THE UNITED STATES IS READY TO
EMBRACE PEACE WITH ALL WHO SEEK
IT.
>> Martha: HERE NOW, NAZEE
MOINAN, A SCHOLAR OF IRAN.
SHE MOVED TO THIS COUNTRY WHEN
SHE WAS 16 AND A CLINICAL
CONSULTANT ON >> Neil: THREE
AS WELL.
AND LARA LOGAN
, GREAT TO HAVE BOTH OF YOU.
I THINK IT WAS SO IMPORTANT THAT
WE TALK, AND GREAT TO YOU, NAZEE
NAZEE, TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE OF
IRAN SEPARATE FROM THE
LEADERSHIP OF IRAN.
HOW DID THE PEOPLE OF IRAN
RECEIVE THAT MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT?
>> THAT TO ME IS THE MOST
PARAMOUNT QUESTION RIGHT NOW.
IT'S TOO BAD THAT MANY IN THIS
COUNTRY AND ABROAD IN THE
WESTERN MEDIA THAT THE
LEADERSHIP SPEAKS FOR ITS
PEOPLE.
SOLEIMANI WAS A VERY POLARIZING
FIGURE, ALMOST AS MANY IRANIANS
ARE CELEBRATING HIS DEATH AS OUR
MOURNING HIS DEATH.
WE SHOULD NOT BE FOOLED BY THE
THRONGS OF PEOPLE YOU SEE IN THE
STREETS OF IRAN.
WE ARE TOLD TO GO OUT, BEAT
THEIR CHEST, AND CRY, AND SHOW
SOLIDARITY.
THAT'S NOT THE TRUE STORY.
>> Martha: IS THE SORT OF
THING YOU SEE IN THE STREETS OF
NORTH KOREA.
DEAR LEADER AND EVERY BODY IS
TOLD TO CRY.
YOU, I SEE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
FROM THE KIDS WERE TOLD THAT
THEY COULDN'T GO TO SCHOOL.
GO OUT THERE AND DO YOUR THING,
RIGHT?
>> THAT'S UNFORTUNATELY THE
STORY ABOUT IRAN.
THIS REGIME TELLS THE IRANIAN
PEOPLE HOW TO DRESS.
WOMEN HAVE TO COVER UP, MAN ARE
NOT ALLOWED TO BE OUTLANDISH
IN THEIR DRESS AND OUTFITS.
WHAT TO THINK, WHAT TO READ IT.
THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO
CELEBRATE.
MANY OF THEIR NEW YORK CUSTOMS
ARE
BANNED NEW YEAR CUSTOMS ARE
BANNED.
THIS IS AS REGIME
WE IN THE WESTERN MEDIA ARE NOT
GIVEN A VOICE.
THE TRUE IRANIANS, WHAT DO THEY
WANT?
THEY REMEMBER WHERE THEY CAME
FROM AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE
CAPABLE OF DOING AND GOING.
THIS REGIME DOES NOT DO IT.
>> Martha: YOU TALK ABOUT THE
DEEP PERSIAN CULTURE IN IRAN.
YOU SPENT A LOT OF TIME SPEAKING
TO A PEOPLE ON THE GROUND HERE.
WHAT DID THEY TELL YOU?
>> THE ONE THAT OF THE THINGS
THAT IRANIANS HAVE SAID OVER AND
OVER TO ME IS HIS FUNERAL WAS
THEATER, SHOW PUT ON FOR THE
WESTERN MEDIA.
THEY WERE DISGUSTED AND HOW THEY
WESTERN MEDIA HAS TREATED A MAN
THEY SEE AS A MONSTER WHO WAS
RESPONSIBLE, THE MAIN INSTRUMENT
OF THE IRG CECUM OF THE MAIN
INSTRUMENT OF SUPPRESSION AND
OPPRESSION UP IN THE STREETS OF
IRAN.
IF YOU REMEMBER THE GREEN
MOVEMENT BACK IN 27 BRUTALLY
SUPPRESSED, HUNDREDS OF IRANIANS
MURDERED THEN.
AGAIN IN 2017, THAT WAS
SUPPRESSED.
AND A THIRD UPRISING WHERE
IRANIAN PEOPLE, THEY WERE SHOT
IN THE STREETS, THE BODIES
TURNED UP IN RIVERS AND ON THE
STREETS, MANY OF THEM HAD THEIR
HANDS TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS,
SACKS OVER THEIR HEAD, SOME HAVE
BEEN TORTURED.
WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME, I HAVE
KNOWN MANY OF THESE OPPOSITION
LEADERS IN FIGURES 415-20 YEARS
NOW.
I'VE KNOWN THEM THROUGH ALL THE
PROTESTS.
NOT A SHORT-TERM RELATIONSHIP.
NOT THINGS THAT ARE INCONSISTENT
WITH THIS.
WHAT THEY REMIND ME OF IS THE
1988 MASSACRE IN IRAN WHERE IRAN
WENT AFTER THE MAIN OPPOSITION
GROUP.
AND 30,000 POLITICAL PRISONERS
OVER IRAN, MANY OF THE
PROTESTERS IN IRAN, IRANIAN
CITIES IN NOVEMBER WERE THE
CHILDREN OF THOSE PEOPLE
MURDERED BACK THEN AND THE
JUSTICE MINISTER OF IRAN TODAY
ONE OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN
THAT MASSACRE.
WHAT ONE OF THE OPPOSITION
LEADERS SAY TO ME, THIS IS THE
CONSCIOUS OF THE NATION COMING
BACK TO HAUNT THESE MURDERERS
AND THE MESSAGE THEY RECEIVE
FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S STATEMENT
TODAY ACCORDING TO THEM IS THAT
THIS IS A MOMENT, FROM THE
PEOPLE OF IRAN, YOUR OPPRESSORS
WILL NOW BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
AND THAT FOR THEM IS A MOMENT OF
OPPORTUNITY.
ARE THEY MOBILIZING?
THEY SAY YES.
THEY HAVE RESISTANT UNITS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY, IMPOSSIBLE TO
VERIFY THAT.
CERTAINLY THEY
SOLEIMANI IS THE SOUL OF THE
REGIME, NUMBER TWO.
>> Martha: NAZEE, YOU AND I
WERE TALKING FOR THE PODCAST
TALKING ABOUT SAYING ABOUT
SANCTIONS AND THE PRESIDENT
RAMPED UP THE SANCTIONS TODAY.
DO THE IRANIAN PEOPLE, DO THEY
BLAME THE UNITED STATES FOR
EVERYTHING THEY CAN'T DO,
EVERYTHING THEY DON'T HAVE?
THEY CAN'T USE A CREDIT CARD.
IT'S VERY STIFLING.
DO THEY BLAME THE U.S.?
>> IN FACT, THEY ARE NOT.
IRANIANS ARE NATURAL ALLIES OF
THE AMERICANS.
THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED,
EDUCATED POPULATION.
THEY LOOK TO THE WEST, THEY SEE
ALL THE YOUTH, THE SAME
EDUCATION.
EVEN SOMETIMES NOT AS EDUCATED
AS THE IRANIAN COUNTERPARTS AND
THEY HAVE THE LIFESTYLE, THEY
CAN AFFORD AN APARTMENT, CAN GET
MARRIED, MOVE ON.
THE IRANIAN COUNTERPARTS ARE
BASICALLY REPRESSED, THEY DO NOT
HAVE AN OUTLET FOR THEIR
DISSENTING VOICE, THEY DO NOT
HAVE A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, AND
IT'S IN STARK CONTRAST TO OBAMA
WHERE HE WAITED 11 DAYS, 11
CRUCIAL DAYS BEFORE HE OFFERED
SUPPORT AND 2009 IN THE UPRISING
FOR THE IRANIAN PEOPLE.
I WAS TELLING YOU BEFORE FOR THE
BROADCAST, TELLING YOU
BEFOREHAND, THE CHANCE ON THE
STREET OF IRAN, 29 OF THEM
ERUPTED IN PROTESTS.
THEY ARE NOT DEATH TO AMERICA.
THEY ARE HOLDING THE REGIME
ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR MISERY.
NOT SYRIA, NOT LEBANON, MY LIFE
IS IN TEHRAN.
THEY KNOW THAT THE REGIME IS
CRACKING DOWN ON THEM.
THEY KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT THE
REGIME THAT THEY BARGAINED FOR.
THEY KNOW REVOLUTION, THEY WANT
THE REGIME TO BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE.
>> Martha: WE WILL SEE.
EVERY TAXICAB CAN YOU ASK IS
THIS IT, THE REGIME COULD FALL.
LARA, YOU CALL IT A MOMENT.
THAT'S THE WHOLE THING,
POTENTIALLY SOME OF THIS WILL