been being a professor of english literature and one of the most knowledgeable and r, stipulate observers of international affairs, at least as they pertain to iran. does your knowledge of english literature inform your analytical ask him in any way? i think my background in english literature has held because it gives me a better understanding of american culture and american society, which i think is key to understanding american politics. and also i think a and understanding the british culture of society and history to a lesser degree. the study of oriental is um and the history of the relationship between the west and the non western world is very important and very revealing. and even, i can say that when we look at the war and ukraine,

you see strong elements of oriental us, um, and stereo, typical elements within the narrative of the west that has existed for hundreds of years when it comes to panics and literature in particular, especially in the start countries, they have always been a sort of spiritual, divine domain, not just a mental study of tax and fees, but sort of a portal to imagination, a portal to inpatient, and a portal through a certain view of the world that does not always seem to material things, but also allows of space and was fact for the subtle and often in the visible connection between a balance between all human beings. i wonder if to some extent, as do a political battle, the 3 observing in the world between the forces who only see the material, things the forces cool, perhaps see the world in a slightly more expand this way. in general, the wes,

having been the center of power for hundreds of years for much of the world is not almost the whole world. and this has created a strong sense of entitlement as both the are central says um, exceptionalism involved deeply involved. but also, i think the very fact that it's been is going on for so long. there is a sense that the west is we have indeed reached the end of history and the sort of gabby in you and that the united states is that country which ultimately as a madeline albright one said the united states stands taller and looks further. and therefore, it is essentially superior to the rest of us. we, we are less, are people then lesser states,

them the united states. and therefore, when they send that, that they sense that they are superior, then they have exceptional rights. and when they do something, which we consider to be evil, they don't consider it to be able at god most i'll say it's a mistake, like any rock bind, beating the country and destroying the company. they then baited and destroyed the country. they never said that we did evil at most. so say there was that there was a mistake. now i know that you were born and spend your formative for teenage years in the united states. and then at a certain point of time, you returned to iran, you're also volunteer. it's uh, 25 and the iran iraq war you were subjected to, to a chemical weapons attack. and i want to ask you, it's a personal question, but i think it's very valid in this day and age. did you ever have to face

a moment the choosing of making a cautious choice of who you are? because you have various identities. you have a very abrupt introduction to the multi faceted nature of the world. did you have to make that conscious choice of who you are and what forces you align yourself with? when i was young and i was in the united states as a, as a child. you could see that, that sense of exceptionalism existed throughout society. and when we moved back to you ron, after the revolution, as i did increasingly see those red contradiction between what americans were saying to themselves and what was happening outside of the united states. although i was in a politically aware family, even when we were in the united states. so i was a child. i think that moment probably was when i,

i saw the united states using chemical weapons or the west using chemical weapons extensively through a sit down per se. when there was a decision made by the west to give set down for the same the technology to make mustard gas and nerve agents to kill many thousands of innocent people, but also many thousands of them back. and so i went to the city of culture very soon after the gas attack. and i think maybe 6000 people were killed either the exact number as i've never come out. but um, but there was no condemnation in the west during that period during that, those years of war when i was a volunteer in the war and i would transfer regularly go to the war funds and i would see the atrocities that saddam hussein was counting up with western support, i think that to change things for me in a very big way. now the reason why i'm asking is because i think this is actually

a type of question. the many people around the world not only on individual but also on collective basis have to face now primarily because of the big guys the issue. and it is quite surprising to me that it would be the palestinian issue. that's where the galvanized the soul searching of understand the who you're ultimately are and what you sent for is a human being or as a nation because because the them issue has been an result for what the over a 17 years many counted as essentially a historical anachronism. why do you think it proved to be such a galvanizing force and do you see the recent violence as something decibels essentially passed over time as the anti fathers did before? or something that may change things in a more fundamental way? that's a difficult question. i think there are a number of reasons. one is the general klein of the west and the perpetual wars

that we've seen over the last 2 decades, which has created so angry across the world. but also it's created weakness in the west. and therefore, the west has less control over at events in other countries, when they have less control over governments then reporting in these countries across the global south begins to shift that becomes more open and realistic with regards to the behavior of the west. so i think that was important. i think also the war and ukraine made it even more problematic for the west because a greater gap was created between the west and major powers like russia and even china. so you have this global south gradually moving away from the west and then major powers shifting, especially russia, shifting away from the west as well. and then you have the rise of social media

because of the sheer amount of information coming in. it's very difficult for the rest to control the narrative anymore. so what is unique in gaza is that we are now seeing it live. we see it basically a we see the genocide they can face as it happened. and people are shocked to wake up in the morning to see new scenes of, of devastation and death. yet, at the same time, you're watching western officials saying that we shouldn't have a ceasefire. now is not the time. and that i think is shocking. people across the world and even people in the west coast and they said, i think is it, this is specially important because as i said, when i was young in the united states, americans thought very highly of their country. but now i think among young

americans who become dissolution because of the decline of the united states because of the perpetual, the costs and wars and all the things that i've been polluting to plus a lot more. they are now more open to new ideas. and there they are confronting this reality, and at the same time they're seeing that the western media, which is supposed to be open in the symbol of freedom and democracy, they're seeing that the western media is silent. it is not saying what their seats start speaking about and discussing what they're seeing with their own eyes. absolutely. i think there's a gap between the impulse perception and the actual reality is, is so hard that you know, and those same person can believe. i mean, even if they try for self preservation purposes, if it's very, it's very hard to do that. now, um, as saying people, we have to take a very short break right now to process what do we have just discussed with family back in just to couple of minutes. agent

the, there's no end in sight over how you're going to continue to destroy the earth. is the case of the med, most of the people i tried to go to the gym, but i'm certainly not ready to fight russia. this is also a pursuit. this is the 3rd world lunacy re washington press for so the funder line likes to say, we have the tools while we just start with stability and business deals. what are you living on that we have very close propaganda. you know a price here in new york. i think we don't know the aftermath any time that you're not allowed to ask questions, you should ask all of the questions. some more questions ask the better. the answer is, will be the

the welcome back to all the parts website. my son is mirandi, professor of english literature and oriental, is at the university of to from a media advisor to uranium new create negotiating team. now professor miranda before the break, you disagree a big trans uh that may be uh,

or the consequence of your band stuff. make the guys a conflict unique. it's no longer possible to turn a blind eye to it. and i'm sure whatever you think of a benjamin left in the ass was really a prime minister. he's also pretty cunning on what's for politicians. he's been in politics for a long time. he has a team of advisors. sure. so he, he shouldn't be keeping his taps on what's going on. and yet i've heard many experts say that the purpose of how much does raise on october 7th, was to deliberately provoke israel into a disproportionate response. a response that would be beyond the payment. it seems that these really leadership deep changes that be my question to you is do you think that's a failure or judgment on nothing? yeah. as far as a personal mistake or do you think that's a failure of the system? that is these really safe as it exists today. i think it is similar to the problem

that exists in the united states of the united states. a political establishment lives in a bible. they continue to think that they are the most important country in the world by far, that they can see to call up their opponents because they are exceptional because they are destined to be different than god mag. i think that's the most appropriate description of that perception of himself. so israel, this really regime is very similar. they see themselves as gods chosen people. even those who are secular and israel a somehow are they believe in something which they don't believe exist, paradoxically, or they, they're not religious, but they somehow believe that they are exceptional. that sense of arrogance and that sense of uh, uh, exceptionalism in israel, i think rates

a complacency that is similar to what we try to, to what we see in the united states. and so, as there's rarely is, don't consider the palestinians to be human beings equal to them with capabilities. so it can be brilliant. and i think that's what basically destroyed this whole narrative about this invincible is rarely army or is, is rarely intelligence gathering a, been a they've been outsmarted by the palestinians and their defense mechanisms and the means in which they're defending their territory. and cause a shows that the people in come uh, send the assignment, john are very resourceful, very smart and very, very different from what this riley's imagine them to be. i think the guy that

comes to life does that make sense validated in the rain in narrative they, they or the rainy in view of the israeli said that it is a s not centric ideological entity that exploits jewish history or jewish search reality. for political purposes of zionism and there are many more people not just sitting around who question whether the the state of israel, in its current shape or form in which it equates its own right to defend itself to the wholesale destruction of its neighbors. whether it's such a space has the right to exist. what are your thoughts as easy? do you think it would be if it will get the sort of a broader hearing? yes, i think the, the greatest it feet that the resume has suffered is not on the battlefield even though it has lost on the battlefield during these 34 months. but the greater security was actually created by the regime itself by showing so many people by

counting out all these maps that goes by reading this genocide, even empty is rarely young. actually is rarely do is in the united states, are speaking of it as a holocaust. and one of the very important elements, by the way, in this shifting narrative that we're seeing across the world is the fact that many of the key opponents of this genocide and of this really regime our young cubes, especially in the united states. their activism is extraordinary. and they are manufacturing, really gro, and then in this struggle for justice. so i think what this is, randy regime is d, legitimizing itself in the eyes of the international community by a view, by not only do you even the palestinian people and presenting them as an inferior and sub human. but also by explicitly speaking about how this ends being

sub german and speaking about the intention to carry out genocide and it is a very significant that the country that went out and came out and complain to the international community. and uh, went to the, i see that it was actually south africa that the country that was also an apartheid regime where a minority ruled over a majority that was presented as a sub human. unless human themselves is trying to clear the israel in its current form wouldn't have been able to exist regardless of central america. american military and political support mutual. dickens sought to advance america's own pretty cynical material interest in the region. but our frontier say recently that at this point you believe the america's standing by israel goes

against its own court interest. why so? well, a case can be made that during the cold war, israel had benefits to the united states and it was, it was helpful to preserve us domination in west asia, in north africa. best debatable. i. i'm not sure i agree with that, but in any case, over recent decades, there's really which even has become increasingly its existence detrimental to western interest as i think the best example is the current and current genocide that we're seeing in gaza. the wes, this are not being seen across the world as just simply and is a genocide being carried out by israel. they are seeing this as a western genocide. you're seeing this as a when i do the nighted stakes lead genocide against the palestinian people. and it

is creating enormous animosity across the region and across the, across the world at a time when the united states is increasing tensions with china at a time when there's ad, cuz i'm probably gonna say towards russia, the united states and the europeans can no longer speak about human rights to anyone. they cannot speak about the human rights north korea because as soon as they say a single sentence, everyone will respond and say, we just witness the most horrific crimes being committed on our cell phone. i don't seem to hear it shouldn't even give credence to american ad or incest about the human rights because, i mean, that's not just the, the recent developments. i mean that you, yourself mentioned the iran iraq war and the use of chemical weapons against civilian sir. it's uh, i think in a way we are sort of supporting this american launch of the base supposedly care when, if you look at the how they conduct their voice, it's like it's playing for anyone to draw conclusions. now,

i want to ask you the about the side of it. you want to add something though, is that, is that you're absolutely correct. but the americans created crisis. americans that mean the, the, the, the less we can go on for hours. but the point is for that on a certain i'm, an awareness has been created today as by what has been done in gaza with regards to the west that is unprecedented. and the west is seen by everyone as carrying out this genocide. so israel to is so selfish interest is not just destroying, as well as not only destroying the so called legitimacy as well in the eyes of the world. but it's destroying the, the whole of the western project, the whole of the notion of western civilization. and somehow western civilization being exceptional, or the greatest civilization. now people are looking down at the, where they're saying that you are the cause of misery. and then all those of the

crimes that you alluded to, people are rolling, waking up to that as well. they're doing research and then discovering yeah, me and discovering the rock, they're discovering chemical weapons or discovering what happened in latin america because once a country or a regime has been exposed, then people who are working actively against its policies start learning about other things that that regime or those to the front, those groups of countries have been doing now, can i bring us back to your point that on the americans have been essentially put into a position where they don't want to be? i mean, they have to be there because of the previous pronouncements, but they really hate being there. are there any other actors apart from israel? that's what's one that kept the united states in the region. wasting is resources wasting is credibility, but still being there in this sort of suspended position one, they cannot leave and they cannot do anything effectively. that is

a very good question because on the one hand, the resistance across the region, once a ceasefire, everyone wants an immediate cease fire and gaza. but at the same time, as the fact that this war continues, we see that it's only hurting it, is hurting this rain the regime and his allies are more than anyone else. so as a sort of paradox, a co situation be what everyone wants toward the end. but the side that insist that the war continue meaning the united states israel and some western countries that are aligned to it as they are undermining themselves. because they are cementing patriot towards the united states every day that goes by only makes this a new world order for this multi color world that everyone has been

talking about become more important in the eyes of the world. the global style increasingly looks for ways to realign themselves. public opinion becomes more assertive in opposing the west and visual pros. we cried going to china twice in the past 3 months. and before the war, the chinese were ambivalent about his rel, perhaps most chinese had positive views of israel. now it's almost a universal that the chinese look down upon israel. they see it as barbaric they see it as in humane. so the world has changed. now there is one more, very cynical question i want to ask you. this is about the situation in the red sea with the attacks of basically the forces. and it is one thing everybody has discussed that the united states can do. uh, pretty little about that. they sometimes they, with all that might,

that have not been able to contain them. but i think there's another overlooked. imagine it is that the situation added another group of stakeholders to this whole conflict, not only conscientious people of the world who can be very distressed about the suffering of the people and garza, but in realistic terms, can do very little about it too. but they're also the millionaires and billy, interested with an interest in uh, it's a national shipping and trans border manufacturing and global trade who are losing money. because of that, there's also large constituencies in the west who with price is going up and people not being able to sell or to get the goods on time. do you think these financial interest? um they are measure it in uh in many, many zero's. do you think they're influential enough to move politics around this issue? i don't think then future countries across the global south. we'll be looking to

israel for high tech products because israel has failed in gaza with regards to intelligence gathering. they won't be looking to israel for weapons because israel has failed again. small groups, and many countries like china. they won't be investing in this row anymore because they don't see it as a safe face for investment. when you see, and this is it's very it's, it's a sort of quite a justice that the united states and europe pins, canada, france, germany, britain. they helped carry out the genocide examine for a decade and they use the red sea to create trim colors of starvation, sage. and now it is. yeah, i mean the, this country that has been beaten and battered, that is staffing firm in saying that we will not allow you to carry out this genocide. we will block a this port in the americans and the west can't do anything about it. if the united

states and the west had behaved more only towards non western countries, if they are treated countries with respect, you wouldn't have the situation. but now, i mean, this being stuck a standing step box against the rest and human being. so for them, convers, imagine how butterball the united states is elsewhere in the world. and now the united states is contemplating a major care campaign against the rocky resistance of a resistance that's supposed to be us illegal occupation in syria and iraq, and their support for isis and their support for israel. so once this air campaign happens is america, the americans going to wait any rock them, sir? no, they're only going to make it worse for themselves because they're going to make the resistance any rocket, more popular. they are going to respond to the americans and ever so they'll show the world that the americans are not as strong as they claim to be. and this sends messages across the world. people across the world are saying, well,

then this super power or what we, what, what someone, what's called a hyper power is not really a whole that strong. so business people re seeking solutions for their own interest . the world will be seeing the united states as much weaker than it claims to be. professor miranda, unfortunately, we have to wrap it up or be out of time, but it's been always a quick as always, a great pleasure and great honor for me to talk to. thank you very much for your time. you're very kind. thank you very much. and thank you for watching hope to share again on the part the, [000:00:00;00] the,

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