Exclusive: Iranian President Raisi speaks about prisoner exchange and protest crackdown
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2023
- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke to Lester Holt in an exclusive interview about the prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Iran. President Raisi says Iran can do whatever it wants with $6 billion in unfrozen funds, while the U.S. says Iran can only use it for humanitarian purposes.
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#Iran #President #EbrahimRaisi
It’s good to hear Borat’s doing well in his new job as an NBC Persian-English interpretor
Was really hoping to find a comment like this. Borat is all I can hear.
Bruh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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lahjaye kirish
Very nice!
Why does the translator have the worst Persian accent😂😂😂
Rumor says it’s Borat
Why not 😂 I mean Reisi sure deserves arabic accent not Persian
@@SturmavkPeople are proud of their accent unless they have inferiority believes.
@@Hermesborugerdiandude seek help
@@dollarchange2917 talk to me when you know what the black turban on his head even means..
How Insane! Iran sold oil to S.korea and now America tells how Iran should use the money earned.
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Americunt is a Hypocrite country. Run by criminals.
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Welcome to New world
Asking a countries president how they plan to spend their money is crazy
No, it's not at all! He is not Iran's president. He is a puppet for Khamenei's mafia regime. They're a bunch of terrorist, and surely the international community should care about how they spend the Iranian people's money, if they care about their own interests, until this corrupt terrorist regime is removed by the hands of Iranian people.
No not really
@@Ligressit really is
The interpreter himself is more excited about the interview, doing all the best to add more spices and making it hilarious 😂
It may looks he is but he didn’t have the voice of interpreter I was expecting. They should have let Raisi talk first and the interpreter translate. Overall good video
@@sarahvo8686 ye.. he should talk first then they translate .. it was funny 😆
Because its a sponsored interview
I have never seen that a us president gives an interview to a iranian journalist. It is always the other way. That say alot of US
We should liberate these people. There is a reason the place is called " I ran"
U cant do 💩
Who misses Ahmadinejad’s interviews😂
Ahmadinejad gave amazing interviews compared to Rouhani and Raisi lol
I can listen to Ahmadinejad the entire weekend, But can't tolerate a single moment of Raisi's BS-generating mouth.
@@alizamani1196 well said, can’t compare a Dr. With a 6 grader person
The same president took back 6 classes equivalent to 6 billion dollars of Iran's blocked money from the necks of your illiterate Americans 👊😂@@MrAbdoulray
My namesake 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤😂
Why didn't you put Farsi subtitles?
Women should not be told how to dress, just like men shouldn’t be told how to dress.
Yes they should. Boys in America 🇺🇸 should pull their pants 👖 up and nowt show their cracks. Women should dress with morals and not shake their booties on tiktok and join Onlyfans.
nuns started it, not men, lol
Tell that France
when has france killed people for choosing to not wear hijab@@MohamedAhmed-ot4oz
Thats in the western sphere of the world this is the east 😁
Who misses Ahmadinejad’s interviews. Wow! Excellent job, by Lester Holt! Great questions!!.
joe and hussaine are the biggest traders there is
You said this money is for the Islamic republic of iran, wrong answer it’s for the Iranian people.
The money belongs to the Iranian people and the US has no right to tell them how to use their own money...this is just nonsense
4:14 American way of journalism: you ask the question and then cut the answer😂
Only show the part of the answer that’s convenient. “I’m really tired about this…” this what? This nonsense the American media is trying to push? Yup that’s probably what she said.
COMPARE THESE TWO ARGUMENTS
"Islam endorses war (jihad) to impose its law (Sharia) across the world. Therefore Islam approves killing people across the world. Muslims are dangerous - your Muslim neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local McDonalds."
_"Liberalism endorses war (e.g., colonialism, humanitarian intervention, military occupation) to impose its law (international human rights law) across the world. Therefore liberalism approves killing people across the world. Liberals are dangerous - your liberal neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local mosque."_
Why do so many idiots find the first argument logical and compelling, while they find the second argument illogical and absurd? Aren't both arguments illogical and absurd?
*Do you want to know why the US is broke and subject to an increasingly totalitarian surveillance regime?*
It is because the American people allowed themselves to be duped by absurd arguments into endorsing the "Global War on Terrorism" - spending 8 trillion dollars and agreeing to give the government unlimited surveillance/policing powers in the name of "fighting terrorism/extremism" as characterized by the first argument above..
"Humanitarian purposes"
Iran: *immediately invests it into its nuclear program*
Our money we will use anywhere.
its iranian money not american
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can't wait till Lester retires from NBC!
How did they allow you to come to my country and ask questions that have nothing to do with you?
you should ask the US politicians about the crimes they have committed against humanity, rather than coming to Iran and asking what we should or shouldn't do with the money you stole from us.
President Raissi" Do you have any information that such protest is going to take place?" Priceless! Thank you Mr. President that was awesome...
Tiny kooni beband oon gale ra. Khaye mele mooshak savar. Ridam be to va raeisi ba ham vatan foroosh
Iran already locked up everyone who would dare protest. Everyone else is too scared. Funny how Iran replaced their tyrant shah with another group of tyrants. Another failed revolution. No freedom.
no, no one knows for sure if any protest will happen or not, because in authoritarian countries, protests for whatever reason are _NOT AUTHORIZED_ , if _EVER_ , by the government, so protests just happen on the _PEOPLE'S_ accord, whether or not (likely not) the government approved it.
Also, if a protest _DID_ happen, it is perfectly _REASONABLE_ to predict that police and security forces, in an authoritarian country, will crack down on the protestors.
did the mahsa amini protests happen with authorization from the government? no, they did not.
was there a crackdown on the protest? Yes, there was.
would it be reasonable to suspect, before the crackdowns happened, that they _WOULD_ happen, in a country like iran? Yes, it is.
@@dbuc4671
I got some response to your comment to explain how it works for those from outside in relation to the protests inside Iran, and what the government inside Iran is concerned with. The response is quite long but I think it would be important for future. I leave it up in the comment. Good luck.
@@dbuc4671دولت من چیزی به نام اعتراض حالیش نمیشه ما در دیکتاتوریه کامل بسر میبریم
The title is misleading. That wasn’t crackdown. The incident was something well planned from outside of iran, very unexpected. They act very soft The brutal case was what happened in France, 5000 police came to street control few people in street. That was crackdown 😢😢
Exactly
exaclty and yet they themselves seem to forget the brutal crackdowns that happened during the George floyd riots. All the tear gasses, arrests, and security forces who arrived to the protests to crackdown the protestors/rioters.
@@dollarchange2917 Is that what Khamenei told you to spread in social media you thug?
And also these 'peaceful protestors' literally stoned to death a member of the volunteer force who was clearing a blocked motorway
5 CIA men costs 6 billion 😊
THIS IS IRAN? 🇮🇷 First Impressions of the Mysterious Country
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Land of thousand of year’s civilization and culture..
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It would be better to subtitle this interview than to use Borat's voice over. It makes the Iranian president sound foolish.
Don't use the dollar anymore n don't open a bank account for your country in the USA or the EU
مترجم بهتری نبود خدایی 😂😂
با یک تیر دو نشان زدند.
هم انگلیسی به فارسی ترجمه کرد و هم فارسی به انگلیسی.
از Press TV یک نفر می گرفتند ترجمه بکند بهتر بود! 😂😂
Iran makes tonnes of that money. Just unnecessary
The money is the money South Korea refuse to pay back Iran after buying their oil,so Iran can do what ever they want to do with it with anyone dictating how to spend it.
There are snares under the feet of the wicked, but the righteous walks full of joy.
It's their money and they will decide what to spend it on. Isn't that the capitalist way or have we become totally fascists now and think we have the right to decide how others spend their money?
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So you give them the money... and then you expect them to spend it exactly how you see fit... after you've given it to them... and they control it... and you don't...
" So you give them THEIR money back...".
Small but very important detail!
Their own money! Do you Israelis have a problem with that?
It’s not their money
That money belongs to people of Iran
That corrupt Government will use against people and the world
You don’t know that Government
@@Cbus83it’s the people’s money! That gov is using it against us the people of Iran to murder us and further oppress us and terrorize the world. U seem to forget THAT important detail
Its Iran money
after 9 eleven, talks with terrorist were banned rightfully so, why not show the same attitude to iran or other autocracies ?
It is not anybody´s bussiness what they do with the mony that us stole from iran.
Nobody has stolen anything. It’s Irans money but when you stop hassle the commercial ships in international waters than you will get it back. Be nice, in order to get what’s yours. You are not entitled to do whatever you want..
@@Confucius_Spirit
international water? are you talking about persian golf?
american dont have any bus. there. they still iranian oil. that is why they go there.
@@minanoori5863 no, oil has nothing to do on that side. Look at the map between where we get our oil Saudi Arabia or Qatar has no connection with Iran which is further north. Trade doesn’t matter where you live. That’s why International Waters were put to place and expected from every country (common sense for every country). Nobody cares about your oil. If we wanted oil, we could of kept Iraq under strains (which has more oil than Iran) but that was never the intentions. Do you know that USA didn’t get a gallon out of Iraq with all that war investment..
@@Confucius_Spirit
You are in the sleeping group.
you are mistaking.
@@minanoori5863 being in a sleeping group is different than being in propaganda one. I suggest you do a deep cleaning of your brain because it stinks right now..
US you just lost your credibility in the world!
So let me get this correct. They get 5 people and 6billion dollars. Then our goverment lie says what they will use it for. Their president clearly 😂😂😂 says they are going do what they want. SMH!!
Money is own iran not usa this money frozen in sounth korea
It wasn't the US's money in the first place, it was in Iranian bank accounts in South Korea and was illegally frozen by the US
Replace your translator with a better one, its like he was having a stroke and not even trying to tranlate according to the context. Coming from an iranian
It's their money to do with like exactly how they see fit to use it it's ludicrous to think other wise ...
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Yes make deals with evil, what was the price? Your soul?
Iran made a deal with evil
It's their own money!
And every president before de mentia Joe knew that if they got their hands on the money that they would use it to enhance their terrorist organization and military equipment to attack Americans
Whose money? Iranian people or Mullahs?
That's right and it is leverage against a figging terriorist state that was using the stability of the US to hide their money.
@@joost298 iranian people. Oil is nationalized in Iran.
I agree. Iranian people's. But that money is going to Mullahs' deep pocket not Iranian people's.@@rfs55
They are not worth a billion each. Sick HW! Sick! Make ‘em pay it back!!!
Why did you even interview this guy?
Why don’t I fully trust this Chanel?
be nice if Lester was this tough with Biden
He tell you what you don’t want to hear, iran won’t do what you want dude, OKAY big shut
Special Thank you to Borat for translating
It's their money they can do what ever they want with it
Ebrahim- The Iranian people need more drones and weapons of mass destruction for humanitarian reasons.
Defending themselves against of evils like USA army !
The money belong to iran.you can't tell Iran what do with it..Iran can't tell you american.what.to.do.with yours..you own the world
It belongs to Iran, but the US conducts economic warfare and can sanction anyone it wants. That's why the US president is considered the most powerful man on earth. If you want to take the money, then send an aircraft carrier and take it from the New York Fed.
Three weeks later, this interview didn't age well.
Question ❓ What happened to the Old Guy that looked like a cross between Santa Claus and Stevie Wonder
Raisi is the butcher of Tehran who also issued hundreds of death sentences to regime opponents when he was judge, his education is only to 5th grade and only theology school after that!
The reporter asking the Iranian leader about the violence in Iran is a bit rich given children are being gunned down in schools in the USA! Hypocrisy at its best!
👍exactly
WOOOOOW, I'm just amazed how you Americans dare to criticise iran and talk about how iran should spend their own money. Have you asked your own government how they spend the money that they've been looting from all over the world only in past few decades?
America is better deal with it's internal f'd up situation, USA would be soon changed to UZA (United Zombielands of America).
Very interesting how the mainstream media always tries really really hard to avoid long or medium shots when it comes to capturing footage from Iran, to avoid people from seeing the real face of Iran, streets, highways, bridges, tunnels, people, cars, trees, buildings, nature, beautiful mountains surrounding Tehran, etc. (same for the presidential Palace being a beautiful historical building represented here by a room full of film crew equipment as opposed to showing a nice wide shot of white house). Its always some weird, ugliest possible close ups at very carefully selected locations and viewpoints. Even that religious worship place shown I'm sure if they stepped back 10 meters and held camera normally and not tilted it would look way different with the nice dome and arts and stuff. What shown here does not look like the picture you have when visiting or living in Tehran at all. OMG talking to that girl in the elevator in a dark corner of a building as if it is a hidden prison, poor girl seems scared being cornered like that lol.. how about walking down one of many newly built malls and shopping centers or coffee shops or entertainment districts, Parks, etc. and show hundreds of young people shopping living and eating normally, dressing like its a fashion show specially the newer generation? that's more like what you see normally, every where you go in Tehran plus a crazy traffic somewhat due to the price of gasoline being about 4-8 cents per liter (since Iran's production of oil per capita is similar to the US).
Are you insane? I'm sure the Iranian govt only allowed NBC to go to approved areas. I'm sure they had govt agents watching them the whole time, telling them what they can or cannot shoot. Are you silly enough to think the Iranian govt would let a U.S news team loose in Tehran to film whatever they wanted? NEVER.
Das glaube ich soforr
@@bettiromani2912 if you don't believe it look on Google maps and look at the photos
How much Biden will receive from this deal?? 😡
I'm sorry. Could they get a better translator that doesn't sound like he speaking from the top of his mind?
The Iranian state picked him. He's probably the leader's brother. lol.
Stop supporting Iranian government. !!!
I can’t understand this translator
Foolish Interviewer. Not all Iranian women has been using headscarf
The US becomes weaker!! 😮
Congrats Lester Holt for completing your resume by going to the belly of the beast!
You're a legend 👏
Could you elaborate?
"The belly of the beast" lol, not even. Iran looks like a western democracy when compared to our other "allies and partners in the region". Now if he were to go to North Korea or even China, that would be the belly of the beast. People just hate on Iran because they're embarrassed it turned so fast and it dislikes Israel so much. Iranians love Americans, many Arabs in the Gulf States hate us.
This is an interview that would have made the late Mike Wallace proud. Wallace interviewed the Aytollaah and didn't hold back in 1979
The most dangerous country in the world is the US
YOIRE a fool
America keeps all the countries in the region like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and Iran in war and economic poverty in order to maintain the pressure lever, but the era of colonialism is over.
Good questions, Lester!
What a waste of an opportunity
Peace peace Peace ✌️
Peace with Islamic terrorism and Islamic facism I don't think so
Peace with World's main enemy of Peace (Aka The Great Satan Jewish Land of USA) Is a CRIME!
Very intelligent young lady speaking to Lester in English.
Dear friend! My name is Andrey, Cordially 🙏 I ask you for help, I was laid off from my job, please help, in four days I have to pay rent and loans, I’m even embarrassed to write this, help as much as you can, I can provide all the bills and receipts, I don’t want to deceive you, I ended up in hopeless situation. Therefore, I am turning to you with a kind heart, a person. Once I get a job, I will transfer funds to you or to a charity fund 🙏. God bless your family and you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart🙏.
Mr President: are you aware of any protest planned ahead?
Host: ammmmm nooooo. I do not want to be the next prisoner.
It’s Iran money they can do what so ever they want to do with it when Iran put the money in the bank it was not justified for what the money should be used spent for if anyone put money in the bank it’s their money when they withdraw it the bank has no right to tell them how and what their money should be use for Iran is not a child to be told how to spend it’s own money no one has the right to tell America or anyone how use their own money that’s why everyone has a individual accounts number to their account/ money America is totally wrong for telling Iran how it’s money should be used for
No. Iran is evil.
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Borat doing great work as translator 😂
another event of We Lie We Cheat We Steal.
He is a good loyal hardworking president
Western double standards 😂
If it were a double standard, it would be more apparent. You can call it what you please, but it won't make any difference. That's just Iranian political talking points for the domestic audience. The US has never had a foreign policy stance supporting the actions of a hostile foreign adversary and regional competitor.
long live iran!@@ritemolawbks8012
@@ritemolawbks8012
"The US has never had a foreign policy stance supporting the actions of a hostile foreign adversary and regional competitor."
What? You do realize US shipped its industry to China and allowed Chinese spies to steal US technology for decades right?
One expensive person or people. 10% for the big guy?
anyone else tired of permanent enemies ?
No mention how much he is kicking back to Biden and Assoc.
Bring back Trump please
I love Raisi ❤️🇮🇷
How is this even constitutional
What does the constitution have to do with any of this? Please explain
Very little money, no difference
What? 'very little money?' Give it to me then.
Makes no difference to Iran or the USA, it's just a political move. You will never acquire such monies even though it is just a pittance compared to the trillions worldwide@@cocofluff
Excellent interview, push back without interruption. Literally let him speak his mind, which I wonder, in his hindsight if he's going to be asking himself why he did the interview. I hope he didn't think NBC would be like CBS where Nora just let the DeSantis lie on a national platform.
COMPARE THESE TWO ARGUMENTS
"Islam endorses war (jihad) to impose its law (Sharia) across the world. Therefore Islam approves killing people across the world. Muslims are dangerous - your Muslim neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local McDonalds."
_"Liberalism endorses war (e.g., colonialism, humanitarian intervention, military occupation) to impose its law (international human rights law) across the world. Therefore liberalism approves killing people across the world. Liberals are dangerous - your liberal neighbor literally wants to knife your little daughter and then blow up the local mosque."_
Why do so many idiots find the first argument logical and compelling, while they find the second argument illogical and absurd? Aren't both arguments illogical and absurd?
*Do you want to know why the US is broke and subject to an increasingly totalitarian surveillance regime?*
It is because the American people allowed themselves to be duped by absurd arguments into endorsing the "Global War on Terrorism" - spending 8 trillion dollars and agreeing to give the government unlimited surveillance/policing powers in the name of "fighting terrorism/extremism" as characterized by the first argument above..
Ahhh blame other people. This politician is a professional!
Can the USA followup every penny on its use? I doubt they can dictate how it's spent
6billion dollars....this happens when you don't ask tough questions to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Proud to be Muslim and Iranian.
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Whenever a dictator's regime is close to collapse, the hand of God, America, reaches out to him!
😂😂😂you will go to after life and wont see iran Fall
@@bksmd1288 basiji "go after life"!!!!! Improve you english before you comment
@@english_with_hamid99 1-kos nnt 2-nnt basijie 3-im not going waste my time and Money on learning idiots language who always were attacking our country
@@english_with_hamid99 1-kos nnt 2-nnt basijie 3-im not going waste my time and Money on learning idiots language who always were attacking our country
Even worse than your governments, they will not see the collapse of Iran@@english_with_hamid99
See he’s clearly lyingabout how there gonna use the $6 billion
Is their money and they will decide what to do with it.
Last 2 are the reason why they freed them
This translator is a voice over by NBC or others. Definitely is not the accent and style of Iranian translators. It is a comedic approach to degrade foreign accents such as in Borat movies. .
I visited Tehran almost 15 years ago for a business trip. There were anit-governemnt protests all over the city that summer and my Iranian colleagues were excited that the Islamic Regime was about to go away any second
Sad to hear that the protests are still ongoing and the dictators still in power :(
People there were open minded and friendly
If you met your Iranian colleagues again feel free to spit in their faces on my behalf.
if an iranian journalist asked these questions, his/her whole family would be made ti disappear.
These Iranian Americans who were held in Iran should be made to pay that $6 billion back to the US Government.
Now Iranian understand American democracy
We don't negotiate with terrorists I mean you know except for when we do
Forget about negotiating, we're in bed with terrorists, case in point the Saudis and taliban.
You mean Israel? I have literally never heard of a "Persian" terrorist in any way. Grow up kid.
can you name even one terrorist act by a Persian non existing terrorist group or person?
name a single Terrorist organization From Iran.
@@lw1xwyd761 " IRAN "
Nbc could have stayed home. Conflict
Endorsement of The terrorist industry of kidnapping. Negotiating with terrorism is treason
Wow! Excellent job, by Lester Holt! Great questions!!
😂😂and great answer 👏👏👏
I know america human right will delete this comment. But, not all Iranians has always been using headscarf
two of them were real spies 🤣
Shame on Biden.
How easy it is to blame it on others when you have created a problem inside your own country.
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Please read history books regarding Western Imperialism in many countries in 5-6 continents all over the world....
tell me more about those criminals beheading millions to plunder, and you're still broke, lol