Earlier this week Iran lost to the United States in the World Cup
with the US scoring one goal and Iran scoring zero.
Now there are ongoing protests in Iran and some
of these protesters actually celebrated the fact that Iran lost in the World Cup.
And unfortunately one Iranian man has been shot dead by security forces for
celebrating his country's exit at the World Cup in Qatar.
Miron Samak who's 27 was shot dead after honking his car horn
which in a city that's north-west of Tehran according to human rights activist.
Semak was targeted directly and
shot in the head by security forces following the defeat of the national
team against America said the Oslo based group Iran Human Rights.
We do have an image of him and
he's unfortunately no longer alive because security forces shot him dead.
Now the execution came as Iranians were celebrating the country's
World Cup exit as as a symbolic victory against the country's regime.
And remember there are mass protests against the country's regime following
the death of a 22 year old woman who allegedly wasn't wearing her headdress
correctly and they alleged that she died from cardiac arrest.
But there is reason to believe that she was actually beaten to death after she was
placed in custody, she was a healthy 22 year old woman.
There was no reason for her to die from cardiac arrest.
Now Iran's security forces have killed at least 448 people in the crackdowns on
the protests, including 60 children under the age of 18 obviously and 29 women.
>> Yeah so I think that there's a couple of interesting parts of the story.
One is, how much popular sentiment was against the Iranian national team.
So if you're not a soccer fan, It's hard for
you to understand how much countries care about soccer.
Especially if you live in America you probably don't get it, okay.
Some of you do of course if you've been following along and
played it etc when you were younger.
But countries are mental about their soccer teams,
just they live and breathe that stuff.
And for them to turn on their own national team, tt's extraordinary,
especially on the World Cup.
Especially as they could reach the round of 16,
which makes them one of the means they could win the whole World Cup.
And it has nothing to do with their team and
a lot of the guys on the team are good guys.
Remember protested against the government to their anger,
the population's anger is towards the government, right?
So it is just extraordinary that they were happy that they're Iranian nationals,
I've never seen anything like that, okay.
And I've been watching the World Cup now for depressingly long time [LAUGH] okay.
So now then the Iranian regime shows you why their own people hate them that
much by executing that guy in the street for honking a horn.
Summary execution on the spot.
That's what tyranny looks like.
A tyranny also looks like taking a young woman because she didn't dress
appropriately and you wanted to dictate every part of her morality.
And beating her to death in a room full of guys because they're the moral ones, okay.
They're the most disgusting pigs I've ever seen and that goes all the way to the top.
The Ayatollah is a is a tyrant and
now there's chance all over Iran about death to the dictator.
Now there's one last element of this that I've been telling you
throughout these protests, thank God America didn't intervene.
If we had dropped one bomb on Iran, none of this would have happened.
Then the young people of Iran would have rallied around the flag and
the Iranian regime would have gotten to do propaganda and
say it's not the Iranian people, it's the goddamn americans.
And it would have helped their propaganda tremendously,
if we had done something as stupid as what the neocons wanted,
dumbass horrible Benjamin Netanyahu wanted, just bomb them, who cares?
It's not just that they're bad people, it's that they're incredibly dumb,
it would have been counterproductive.
Instead, we have an organic revolt, maybe even revolution against
the horrific regime in Iran and this is the way it's supposed to go.
And to every person that does something as simple as honking a horn or
clanging on a pot or shouting in the streets or showing up your heroes,
your absolute heroes trying to get freedom for everybody.
And by the way, you're the moral ones for singing out for
that young girl who they beat to death, those goddamn tyrants.