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Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

A Refugee’s Warning: Dr. Sheila Nazarian on Escaping Iran, The Red-Green Alliance, & America’s Future

Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Nutrition

4.14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Keeping it Real, we sit down with world-renowned plastic surgeon and human rights activist Dr. Sheila Nazarian. Before the success and the Beverly Hills practice, she was a six-year-old Jewish refugee fleeing the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Dr. Nazarian shares the terrifying reality of her family's escape—smuggled through the desert in the back of a truck under burlap sacks, taking fire from Iranian border police just to survive. We pull back the curtain on the "Red-Green Alliance"—the historic and deadly partnership between communists and Islamists that overthrew the Shah—and why Dr. Nazarian sees that exact same playbook unfolding on American college campuses today. From dissecting the hypocrisy of modern political movements to the reality of the current uprisings in Iran, this is an unfiltered look at what it actually takes to protect freedom. What We Cover: The brutal reality of Dr. Nazarian's family fleeing the 1979 Islamic Revolution.+1 How the "Red-Green Alliance" of communists and Islamists historically dismantled Iran.+1 The dangerous parallels between 1979 Iran and modern American college protests. The critical difference between true asylum seekers and economic migrants. Why the current protests in Iran could fundamentally reshape the Middle East and why a nuclear Iran is a global threat. Shopify: Launch your dream business with Shopify. Sign up for your $1/month trial at https://Shopify.com/Jillian and start selling today! 120Life: Go to https://120Life.com and use code JILLIAN to save 20% Cozy Earth: Visit https://www.CozyEarth.com/MICHAELS & Use code MICHAELS for up to 20% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5

Today's guest is Dr. Sheila Nazarian.

0:34.2

She fled Iran as a child after the Islamic Revolution and today, as uprisings

0:39.3

continue in the U.S. may be at war with Iran by the time this airs, her voice could not

0:44.9

be more urgent. Basically it's the Islamist joining hands with the communists.

0:50.5

And it's exactly what's happening here. So we've smelled, heard, tasted all of this before,

0:56.3

and we're just staring at America being like, hell no, are we going to let America go down

1:00.9

the way Iran went down. Dr. Nazarian pulls back the curtain on what the world rarely sees,

1:07.4

the brutal reality of life under the Islamic Republic in Iran.

1:11.6

We'll talk about her escape at only six years old,

1:14.4

the current protest movement, what a free Iran could look like

1:17.6

and its impact globally.

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