00:00Continuing to keep the focus on this big bricks blockbuster interview only on India Today.
00:07Well, Iran's president, Masoud Pazeshkia, has come out to speak on a host of subjects.
00:11And in this exclusive interview, one such focus was on him slamming the United States
00:18over the ongoing conflict and condemning the U.S. military strikes that have taken place in Iran.
00:24Now, Pazeshkia says U.S. assassinates anybody they wish and then labels them as terrorists.
00:29He accused the United States of committing state terror, no less than Israel, saying they're the real terrorists in the
00:35world.
00:36Pazeshkia has also hit back at the U.S. over blocking its route, saying trying to wage an economic war
00:41on Iran.
00:42Pazeshkia says America is trying to choke Iran and cripple their economy completely.
00:47He stresses that sanctions will not force Tehran to surrender, asserting that Iran has no choice but to respond to
00:54U.S. attacks.
00:54He's also, in fact, broken his silence on Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, saying he's alive and is performing his duties.
01:02He said that the U.S. has been unable to locate Iran's Supreme Leader and is instead spreading lies and
01:08speculations.
01:09Pazeshkia also makes it clear that the Supreme Leader remains the ultimate decision-maker in Iran.
01:15Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has also responded to some of the statements that's been made by the president
01:22in his conversation with us on India Today.
01:26He has come out to say, that is, Donald Trump has come out to say that the war will end
01:30very soon and that oil prices will come tumbling down.
01:34He's also reiterated his claim that the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz, saying that the Houthis do not
01:39want to fight with the United States and are allowing most ships to pass.
01:46One important aspect of which a lot of conversation, a lot of reporting, misreporting, disinformation has taken place, and that
01:56has to do with your new Supreme Leader.
01:58How is he, sir?
02:02Because there's so much speculation and intrigue.
02:08You know that, with the same data that they have, they have targeted most of our leaders and commanders, our
02:20scientists, even in their houses, next to their family members.
02:30They, they, no human framework would allow them to do something like this.
02:39Therefore, they are, you know, deepening this kind of speculation.
02:43Well, thank God, our Supreme Leader is alive, and it has a kind of sincere relation, and he's doing his
02:50job within the same framework, and since they cannot locate his exact place, they are, you know, spreading such speculations
03:01regarding our Supreme Leader, to do the same to him as well.
03:06But the bitter truth is that, with their technologies, actually, they are the real terrorists in the world.
03:14You look, look at Israel and America, no difference.
03:18What they are doing in Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, Iraq, Qatar, even in Iran, they assassinate anybody they wish,
03:30and then they assassinate, but they claim that these people are terrorists.
03:36So it's a, you know, weird world.
03:38They kill people very easily, for a single person, they kill a whole family, and they destroy a whole building,
03:48then they say they killed a terrorist.
03:50So this is, I think, a new way of committing crimes in a world in which we live.
03:57It's a catastrophe.
03:58They are real terrorists.
04:00They are state terrorists.
04:03The list of those, I mean, targets are written down by them, and they disseminate, and then they say they
04:11are terrorists.
04:12These people include leaders and scientists and students of a society.
04:18They are targeting bridges, factories.
04:21Are they terrorists?
04:23And then when they do that, they claim that they are fighting against terrorists.
04:29We are looking at expansion and retaliation against U.S. with attacks on Middle East countries and the Gulf countries.
04:39Isn't this exactly what the West wants?
04:42To keep you divided?
04:48Do you have any doubts in this regard?
04:55Actually, they say divide and rule.
05:00Inside our country, those, you know, incidents that took happen in January,
05:13the same American government said that they wanted to topple down our government.
05:19Right now, there are various ethnicities in Iran.
05:23They want to pit them against each other and sow the discord and bring about problems in order to topple
05:30down the government.
05:33The same happens in the neighboring countries.
05:37If you look at the writings, if you look at the writings, and they have already published them,
05:45their intention is to pit Arab countries against Iran so that we would be in quarrel and fight against each
05:55other.
05:55And then they will exploit our oil.
05:58And then, regarding that, they will sell weapons to the Arab countries, and we are just keeping fighting.
06:07So what is the rationale behind that?
06:11That in a country, one country should be scared of another country.
06:17Should humans be scared of each other?
06:23Therefore, what the Americans are doing is sowing the seeds of discord.
06:28And from the day that I took office, my utmost effort was to preserve unity and consistency inside the country
06:39and to, you know, convert these differences of opinion and taste into unity, not discord.
06:50And we stretch the hand of humanity and kindness.
06:55And that is what we are doing.
06:57Where do the negotiations stand?
06:59Who takes the final call?
07:00Is it the Ayatollah?
07:01Is it the IRGC?
07:02Or is it you?
07:06Well, naturally, in our country, it is the supreme leader who has the final say.
07:11It has been the same from the first day, and now it is the same.
07:15Naturally, he is the person who will have the final say.
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