What you're seeing this video is two Iranians young couple dancing
in a video that they uploaded to social media.
They were apparently, they're engaged and
they're just having a lovely night dancing and they wanted to share the love
that they feel with their followers and apparently they have a lot of followers,
a couple of million followers actually on social media.
Especially on Instagram.
That video was all that it took for the Iranian regime to sentence
each of them to 10 years in prison for the dancing that they did.
They were convicted of promoting corruption and prostitution,
colluding against national security and propaganda against the establishment.
And I was looking at this and we're told that dancing is not illegal according to
Iran's penal code, but women dancing in public particularly with men is and
I don't wanna get into a big like a terminology thing or whatever, but that's
what illegal means when you can't do it in public and so it's like it's illegal.
So the couple in no way implied that there dancing had anything
to do with the protests that were ongoing at the same time.
It would be insane to convict them of anything, even if they had done that.
And that is clearly what Iran is trying to make you think is
that this is in some way connected to those protests.
There's no sign of that 10 years, 6 months each in prison Fray.
Less than 22nd clip of them dancing together Mas, it's just insane.
>> It really is, it goes back to what I was saying.
It's an attempt to control women.
It's what we see in Afghanistan when they say women are no longer allowed
to go to school again, as westerners as Americans, we should all be appalled,
we should all be supporting these people in Iran any way we can because
it is if you're someone who sees the value in women's rights,
because women's rights is human rights.
Because if you turn a blind eye to it and say, well, whatever, that's the culture,
let them do what they want to do.
Well, they're coming after you next buddy.
Wait till you put out a video that they don't like, they're coming after you.
And on the regime side, it really is blindsided because no matter,
I mean it really is blind, I should say because no matter what they do,
the numbers are against them.
There's a majority of youth in Iran, that youth in Iran is sick of this regime.
They want their freedom.
They want to be able to dance in public without being arrested for it.
And so whether it's this year or in five years or
in 10 years, the end has to come because you will be outnumbered.
And there's nothing you can do, no matter how much of
the military the police they have, it's just the end is coming.
So it's heartbreaking for these young people as someone who's got kids.
I can't even imagine.
And then you see, like you said, these two were arrested for dancing in the streets.
There was a young girl named Nita Shah Karami 16 years old.
She went to a protest.
They shot her, another young man named, he was in a car going
past some protests, they shot him and they're unapologetic.
That's how this all started out.
It started out by killing Massa Amini and
then not admitting to the fact that they killed her.
A young 22 year old woman from the kurdish region of Iran whose hair was out of her
hijab just a little bit.
You would think that they could have gone up to her and said, hey, could you just
cover that up if that really is your laws, which by the way are crazy in itself.
But there was other ways to solve it.
And even if they went to the extent of having killed her,
then admit it and punish those who did the crime.
And yet instead they turned around and said, yeah,
Massa meany died of natural causes while they were in their custody.
It's all a load of crap and it's, it really just upsets people and again,
you sit there and you go, what can I do, what you can do is go to protest,
get the word out, write your congress people, what we can do from the outside as
americans is put more and more pressure on America now.
I used to think that diplomacy was possible.
It's not Barack Obama actually came back in an interview that he did recently and
he said looking back at the nuclear deal.
He said as a country that is supposed to be a leader in human rights.
We can't ignore that when we're making these deals and so
we need to lead with that.
So if there's a country that is committing such atrocious human rights violations,
we can't try to have a deal with them of any sort.
And we really need to put the pressure on to change this regime.
Yeah.
>> Yeah. They desperately need help and this,
it's not sustainable.
It's just utter madness.
That couple didn't even have lawyers by the way.
>> Yeah, of course.
>> Yeah.
Why would they, right?
Yeah, no, just, I'm not gonna go on a whole big thing about it.
But this is why I continue to say that like of all of the individual things
threatening human potential, the potential of our society and our civilization.
Male weakness is the number one thing it leads to so much of this.
They're just frail broken minds, their emotional like lashing out,
their need to try to control things to feel briefly the power they
think they should have gets into everything and ruins everything.
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