PAUL: PROTESTS CONTINUE THIS
WEEK IN IRAN.
AS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
DEMONSTRATORS TOOK TO THE
LARGEST OUTPOURING OF GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETING HIS
SUPPORT FOR THE PROTESTERS ON
TUESDAY SAYING, QUOTE, THE
PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE FINALLY
ACTING AGAINST THE BRUTAL AND
CORRUPT IRANIAN REGIME.
ALL OF THE MONEY THAT PRESIDENT
OBAMA SOCIALISTS GAVE THEM WENT
THE PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE FOOD, BIG
INFLATION AND NO HUMAN RIGHTS.
THE U.S. IS WATCHING.
WE HAVE THE MANAGERRING DIRECTOR
AT THE ISRAEL PROJECT.
WELCOME.
>> THANK YOU.
PROTESTS OR ARE THEY LIKELY TO
OVERWHELMING ODDS.
THE CONSENSUS IS PROBABLY THAT
THIS ROUND WILL NOT BE THE ROUND
THAT BRINGS DOWN THE REGIME.
BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IS YOU'RE
PEOPLE NOT HAVING FOOD LIKE THE
PRESIDENT SAID, BEING CHANNELED
INTO POLITICAL COMPLAINTS AND
POLITICAL REQUESTS AND POLITICAL
GRIEVANCES.
PAUL: THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN
2009 WHICH WAS MAINLY POLITICAL.
>> YEAH.
IT STARTED OFF DIFFERENT.
LISTEN, ECONOMIC DISSATISFACTION
UNDER LIES ALL PROTESTS.
THESE PROTESTS BEGAN IN
DIFFERENT PLACES BY DIFFERENT
PEOPLE THAN BEFORE.
IT IS PEOPLE WHO ARE HUNGRY AND
UNEMPLOYED MARCHING IN THE
STREETS.
AND THE REGIME MADE A MISTAKE.
THEY IMMEDIATELY TREATED IT AS A
POLITICAL ISSUE, NOT AN ECONOMIC
ISSUE.
AND WE SAW THEY CAME DOWN ON THE
PROTESTERS AND THEY MADE IT A
POLITICAL ISSUE.
AND NOW THEY FACE A PROBLEM,
BECAUSE THE REGIME IS CORRUPT
AND BECAUSE IT SPENT ITS MONEY
ON TERRORISM AND THAT NOW IS A
POLITICAL ISSUE.
DEMONSTRATIONS IS COMPLAINTS
ABOUT FOREIGN AD VENTURISM.
MONEY TO SYRIA, MONEY TO
HEZBOLLAH.
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET MONEY TO
HELP IRAN.
THAT'S A PRETTY POTENT THING.
>> IT'S INCREDIBLY WHEN THE NUCE
>> IT'S INCREDIBLY WHEN THE NUCR
>> IT'S INCREDIBLY WHEN THE NUCD
>> IT'S INCREDIBLY WHEN THE NUCA
>> IT'S INCREDIBLY WHEN THE NUCL
WAS SOLD IN 2015, THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION TOLD US THAT THE
REGIME WOULD SPEND ITS MONEY ON
AGAINS, ON BUTTER AND ROADS, NOT
ON GUN.
PAUL: THE ADMINISTRATION SAID
IN FACT THEY SENT PEOPLE OUT TO
SAY IT.
THAT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE TRUE.
AND NOW THE OBAMA GUYS ARE
SAYING, WE UNMASKED THE REGIME.
BUT THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED.
WHAT HAPPENED IS IT'S THE LATEST
EXCUSE, IT'S THE LATEST RALLYING
POINT, IRANIANS
TO SAY LISTEN, WE'RE NOT SEEING
A PENNY OF ANYTHING AND THE
CYCLES ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE
SPIRALING DOWNWARD.
PAUL: WHEN YOU SAY CYCLES
THEN YOU'LL FIND IT ERUPTING YOU
THINK IN THE FEW CHR.
>> YEAH.
RA JAMES
RE JAMES
REGIAMES
REGIMEES
REGIME IS UNABLE TO GET FOOD ON
THE TABLES, YOU'LL SEE THAT.
THE ECONOMIC ISSUES HAVE BECOME
COMMITTED TO EXPORTING THE
REVOLUTION AT ALL COSTS.
COMMITTED TO MILITARY AD
VENTURISM AT ALL COST.
UNREST.
PAUL: JUST STEP BACK FOR A
SECOND.
ABOUT THIS.
COULD THEY POSSIBLY PULL BACK
FROM SYRIA?
COULD THEY STOP FUNDING SHIITE
MILITIAS IN IRAQ?
WOULD THAT BE POSSIBLE AND HAVE
THEM SURVIVE?
>> POLITICALLY, YEAH.
I'D LOGICALLY THEY WOULDN'T DO
IT.
BUT IT'S AN INTERESTING POINT
YOU'RE MAKING.
PAUL: WHY NOT?
>> BECAUSE THIS IS A REGIME
COMMITTED TO EXPANSION.
THIS IS A REVOLUTIONARY REGIME.
PAUL: SHIITE MANY LINEALISM.
>> BUT ALSO OLD SCHOOL
EXPANSIONISM.
THEY ARE COMMITTED TO EXPLOITING
THE REVOLUTION.
THE PEOPLE RUNNING IT ARE
COMMITTED.
PAUL: AND YET OTHER PEOPLE
WATCHING THINGS INSIDE IRAN SAY
THE MOSQUES ARE A LOT LIKE
EUROPEAN CHURCHES.
FIR FER
FIRFFER
FIRFERR
FIRFER WITH THE PUBLIC.
>> THE IDEA THAT THIS IS NOT A
REGIME THAT'S CAPABLE OF
REALIGNING ITSELF WITH ITS
POPULATION.
BUT YOU MAKE AN INTERESTING
POINT.
WE MAY THINK THAT.
WE MAY ASSESS THAT THIS REGIME
CANNOT PULL BACK FROM IRAQ,
CANNOT PULL BACK FROM YEMEN.
BUT IF YOU'RE IRAQIS, IF YOU'RE
THE HIGHWAY
THE HOUHWAY
THE HOUTHAY
THE HOUTHIS, YOU'VE GOT TO BE
WORRIED.
AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
UNITED STATES TO BEGIN LOOKING
AT THIS SITUATION AND GOING TO
FOLKS ON THE BUBBLE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST SAYING, LIKE,
LISTEN, THIS REGIME IS GOING TO
HOW SURE ARE YOU THAT THEY'RE
NOT GOING TO PULL BACK.
PAUL: AND MAKING THEM BUY A
HIGHER COST, ARMING SOME OF THE
OPPONENTS, FOR EXAMPLE.
CAN WE ALSO DO SOMETHING -- WE
DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME.
CAN WE DO SOMETHING TO HELP
COMMUNICATIONS INSIDE IRAN?
THEY PUT DOWN THE COMMUNICATION,
THE INTERNET POPULAR SERVICE.
CAN WE HELP THEM GET AROUND THE
HELP THEM.
BUT IT'S THE RIGHT WAY OF
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE E
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE T
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE R
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE S
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE A
BEGINNING TO ASK THIS HELP THE D
THEY'RE LOOKING AT A RANGE OF
THINGS.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ARE
BRIEFING PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR
EFFORTS TO INCREASE
COMMUNICATIONS TO UPPING THEIR
GAME TO MAKING SURE THAT
INFORMATION GETS THERE AND GETS