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So in 1979, the lie that the regime sold to the Iranian people was that the way to free Iran and the people of the Middle East from the oppressor is to eliminate all forms of Western imperialism in Iran.

But it is them who are the empire builders. It is them who sent their proxies out to Lebanon, to Yemen, to Gaza, because for the regime, to export its revolution across the Middle

East, Israel, the Jewish nation will have to fall. Now, of course, they can't come out and say

that to the world because they just will essentially sound like the Nazis that they are. This is a

Nazi regime. And so they disguise their Nazism behind anti-imperialist rhetoric. They tell the world, well, this isn't about

the fact that we hate Jews or this Jewish nation. It's just about the fact that we hate

imperialism.

It's 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, March 8th here in New York City. It is 11 p.m. on Sunday, March 8th in Tehran,

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