Latest / The Sovereign Man Podcast / EP246: Abteen Vaziri - Why Iranian Men Are Masculine
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- 0:02Abteen Vaziri: You know Ernest Hemingway was a war hero who went and killed a bunch of Nazis and they came back and
- 0:07Abteen Vaziri: became a literary genius and wrote all these different poems? That's what men used to be.
- 0:12Abteen Vaziri: Men used to be tough. They used to go to war. They used to kill. They used to go hard. They used to do all that and then still wrote literary pieces.
- 0:19Speaker 2: You're a man living in the modern world in a time when men and manhood are not what they once were.
- 0:27Speaker 2: You live life on your own terms. You're self-sufficient. You think for yourself and you march to the beat of your own drum.
- 0:34Speaker 2: When life knocks you down, you get back up because in your gut, you know that's what men do.
- 0:41Speaker 2: You're a badass and a warrior. And on the days when you forget, we are here to remind you who you really are.
- 0:49Nicky Billou: Welcome to the Sovereign Man Podcast, where we aim to make men mess.
- 0:53Nicky Billou: And again, I'm your man, Nicky Ballou.
- 0:55Nicky Billou: And we have a very special guest, a fellow Iranian.
- 0:59Nicky Billou: He's an Iranian-American.
- 1:00Nicky Billou: I'm an Iranian-Canadian.
- 1:02Nicky Billou: Abteen Vaziri.
- 1:03Nicky Billou: Welcome to the show, Abteen.
- 1:04Abteen Vaziri: Nicky, it's a pleasure.
- 1:05Abteen Vaziri: Thank you for having me on.
- 1:06Abteen Vaziri: I was just with another Iranian-American from Canada right before this.
- 1:09Abteen Vaziri: So it's a pleasure.
- 1:10Abteen Vaziri: And I don't even know if you know, my cousins are Canadian.
- 1:13Abteen Vaziri: They live in Vancouver.
- 1:14Nicky Billou: Oh, well, there you go.
- 1:15Nicky Billou: I didn't know that.
- 1:16Nicky Billou: Now I know.
- 1:17Nicky Billou: That's fantastic.
- 1:18Nicky Billou: So listen, the reason that I asked you to come on the show is because I've been following
- 1:23Nicky Billou: your content on Instagram in particular, and you are a man who pulls no punches, stands
- 1:30Nicky Billou: up for what's right.
- 1:32Nicky Billou: God bless you for doing that.
- 1:36Nicky Billou: Maybe start by telling us a little bit about your personal story.
- 1:39Nicky Billou: Sure.
- 1:40Abteen Vaziri: You know, it's, you know, for, I'm sure you're dealing with that yourself as someone that's,
- 1:46Abteen Vaziri: you know, of Iranian descent, you know, an emotional few months.
- 1:52Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, one of the reasons I actually decided to run for office, which, you know, I've never been a politician.
- 1:57Abteen Vaziri: I decided the day the filing was due, December 8th, girlfriend who, you know, hopefully soon to be wife, was Venezuelan.
- 2:03Abteen Vaziri: And I'm Iranian.
- 2:05Abteen Vaziri: And I told my campaign manager, also a friend from law school, that his name is Adam.
- 2:09Abteen Vaziri: I said, Adam, I think something's going to give.
- 2:11Abteen Vaziri: I think, you know, there's going to be some freedoms coming.
- 2:14Abteen Vaziri: And I think President Trump's going to start with Venezuela and Iran.
- 2:18Abteen Vaziri: And President Trump's going to be gone in three years.
- 2:20Abteen Vaziri: And we need more leaders.
- 2:22Abteen Vaziri: We need more people to kind of, you know, row in the same direction.
- 2:25Abteen Vaziri: Having a free world and freeing people of the world from tyranny is a goal we all should
- 2:31Abteen Vaziri: strive for.
- 2:31Abteen Vaziri: It's not a good time for me to run for office, but I need to run for office.
- 2:35Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, I have an interesting story myself.
- 2:37Abteen Vaziri: My father was in the Air Force in Iran, did all his training in the U.S., went back to
- 2:42Abteen Vaziri: Iran.
- 2:42Abteen Vaziri: I was born.
- 2:42Abteen Vaziri: And then three months after I was born, the revolution happened.
- 2:45Abteen Vaziri: He was court-martialed and had given a death sentence.
- 2:47Abteen Vaziri: And what actually saved his life was the Iran-Iraq war because they needed him to serve.
- 2:52Abteen Vaziri: So they gave him a pardon to go serve in the war.
- 2:54Abteen Vaziri: And after the war ended, he got a fake password.
- 2:57Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, he fled to Austria.
- 3:00Abteen Vaziri: And then me and my sisters and my mom, we fled to France rendezvous in Germany and then finally came to the U.S. as political refugees in 91.
- 3:08Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, all of this stuff is coming back given what's going on in Iran, how many people are getting killed.
- 3:14Abteen Vaziri: And it's been an emotional roller coaster, I think, for a lot of Iranians.
- 3:17Abteen Vaziri: But, you know, I just it's hard to go back to your normal routine and daily life when people are suffering, especially people from your birth country.
- 3:25Abteen Vaziri: So I feel like I have to speak up and enough of us not being courageous and not talking.
- 3:32Abteen Vaziri: We all need to be courageous when people are going out and getting shot at on arms.
- 3:36Abteen Vaziri: You know, I need to just not hold back and say what I what's on my mind.
- 3:40Abteen Vaziri: That's that's the least I can do from a courage standpoint.
- 3:44Nicky Billou: That's exactly how I feel.
- 3:45Nicky Billou: You know, when I see our people, especially these young people, these children, honestly,
- 3:51Nicky Billou: who went out in January, January 8th, January 9th, before, after, with nothing but their
- 3:57Nicky Billou: bodies, and they stood in front of evil men with guns who mowed them down like wheat,
- 4:03Nicky Billou: and they showed that courage and they kept coming out.
- 4:06Nicky Billou: I thought to myself, you know, everyone tells me, man, no, don't talk.
- 4:10Nicky Billou: You can't be too political.
- 4:11Nicky Billou: You're going to tick some people off instead of the corporate world.
- 4:14Nicky Billou: And I said, you know what?
- 4:15Nicky Billou: I'm okay with that. I'm good with that. In fact, I wear it as a badge of honor because the least I
- 4:22Nicky Billou: can do to honor those brave Iranians, least I can do is be their voice. When their voice is cut off
- 4:30Nicky Billou: by an evil Nazi-like regime, those of us whose voices are not cut off, I believe we have an
- 4:36Nicky Billou: obligation to stand up and speak, stand up and be counted. Because when I go to meet my maker,
- 4:45Nicky Billou: my maker is going to look at me and go when it counted where were you and i want to be able to
- 4:51Nicky Billou: say when it counted i stood up i spoke up i didn't back down and when our story was being slandered
- 5:01Nicky Billou: by the forces of the evil left by the progressive racist left i was one of the ones who pushed back
- 5:07Abteen Vaziri: that's what it's like for me anyways you know um my my father we would uh you know he passed over a
- 5:12Abteen Vaziri: couple years ago, and he instilled a lot of the knowledge that he had in me, and obviously his
- 5:19Abteen Vaziri: values. But he used to always get so angry when Barber Walters would interview the Shah and talk
- 5:25Abteen Vaziri: about political prisoners and people being tortured and a dictatorship. And there's this false
- 5:29Abteen Vaziri: narrative that Iran was a dictatorship. We had a monarchy. It wasn't a dictatorship. Those 1,500
- 5:35Abteen Vaziri: political prisoners—by the way, those 1,500 political prisoners were people like Masoud
- 5:39Abteen Vaziri: Rajaviv, Mariam Rajaviv, Khomeini, Khamenei, Rafsanjian, the people who are killing people,
- 5:46Abteen Vaziri: those are the political prisoners.
- 5:47Abteen Vaziri: They weren't political prisoners.
- 5:48Abteen Vaziri: They were enemies, enemies of humanity.
- 5:51Abteen Vaziri: And today, that same media is silent.
- 5:54Abteen Vaziri: You know, when the crown prince was in Europe, the European media is complicit because they're
- 6:00Abteen Vaziri: new colonialist.
- 6:01Abteen Vaziri: And even though the British Empire basically shut down and left all those countries, they
- 6:06Abteen Vaziri: continued on with this new colonialist idea.
- 6:08Abteen Vaziri: And the way they do it is by having these weak governments that they put in place.
- 6:11Abteen Vaziri: And the Mullahs are their government.
- 6:13Abteen Vaziri: So, so much, you know, adversity that we have to come, you know, overcome.
- 6:18Abteen Vaziri: So much fake news.
- 6:19Abteen Vaziri: So much, you know, so many strong powers that don't want our people to be free.
- 6:24Abteen Vaziri: And it's now become evidenced.
- 6:27Abteen Vaziri: And we need to fight back.
- 6:28Abteen Vaziri: And it's tough because, you know, they're trying to win information more.
- 6:31Abteen Vaziri: They are.
- 6:32Nicky Billou: But there's one thing that they didn't count on.
- 6:35Nicky Billou: God is on our side.
- 6:36Nicky Billou: God is on our side.
- 6:38Speaker 2: God wants this evil regime gone, and it will be gone, regardless of what these useful idiots
- 6:45Nicky Billou: of the left think.
- 6:46Nicky Billou: And here's the truth.
- 6:48Nicky Billou: The crown prince is a phenomenal, unifying figure for the Iranian people.
- 6:53Nicky Billou: He's one who is brilliant.
- 6:56Nicky Billou: I mean, look at him.
- 6:57Nicky Billou: He speaks four languages super articulately.
- 7:00Nicky Billou: He's able to converse with these people.
- 7:03Nicky Billou: He's able to go back and forth in a most brilliant way.
- 7:08Nicky Billou: knock back their specious, you know, scummy arguments and make the point that needs to be
- 7:17Nicky Billou: made for the people of Iran. He's incredible. And then all the people that are stepping up
- 7:22Nicky Billou: in the diaspora to go out to the protests all over the major and minor cities of the world.
- 7:29Nicky Billou: There have been protests here in Toronto with over 350,000 people, 500,000 people,
- 7:35Nicky Billou: Protests in Vancouver with 200,000 people.
- 7:37Nicky Billou: In Washington, D.C., a couple hundred thousand people.
- 7:40Nicky Billou: In Tehranjali, Los Angeles, 250,000 people.
- 7:44Nicky Billou: In Houston, 100,000 people.
- 7:45Nicky Billou: In Cologne, in Germany, 150,000 people.
- 7:48Nicky Billou: In Berlin, 200,000 people.
- 7:51Nicky Billou: All over the world, the Iranian diaspora is standing up and making its preferences known.
- 7:57Nicky Billou: In Iran, the people in the streets are chanting Reza Pahlavi's name.
- 8:02Nicky Billou: And these people that are trying to pretend that isn't the case are ridiculous.
- 8:07Nicky Billou: They're foolish.
- 8:08Nicky Billou: All we have to do is continue to speak, continue to fight, and continue to make sure that those
- 8:15Nicky Billou: that are sympathetic to our cause know about what's going on there, and they lock arms with
- 8:21Nicky Billou: us and move us forward.
- 8:22Nicky Billou: That's what I believe.
- 8:23Abteen Vaziri: No, I agree with you.
- 8:24Abteen Vaziri: The media is really our biggest enemy.
- 8:27Abteen Vaziri: the media, I mean, the UK media is just like, you know, puts this false, false, and by the way,
- 8:32Abteen Vaziri: the UK media, BBC is who was passing out Ayatollah Khomeini's tapes to help this regime getting
- 8:39Abteen Vaziri: power. And now they're doing everything in their power to make sure this regime survives. But,
- 8:44Abteen Vaziri: you know, there's just so many stupid arguments. They're like, oh, are you a Mossad agent? Or,
- 8:49Abteen Vaziri: you know, are you, you know, one of the things, I was just on this other podcast with another
- 8:52Abteen Vaziri: amazing Canadian, by the way. And she was asking me all of the left's talking points. They said,
- 8:58Abteen Vaziri: well, people in Iran, the youth may not resonate with Reza Pahlavi. One of the arguments that they
- 9:05Abteen Vaziri: have is that he hasn't been in Iran 47 years, so he doesn't understand Iranians. Well, let me
- 9:12Abteen Vaziri: counterargument that. That's such a stupid argument. It's just an idiotic, stupid argument,
- 9:16Abteen Vaziri: right? Khomeini was exiled from Iran 15 years, those same freaking lefties. Did they ever ask
- 9:22Abteen Vaziri: Khomeini, you were in Iran for 15 years.
- 9:24Abteen Vaziri: How do you know how Iranian people feel?
- 9:26Abteen Vaziri: You're not even Iranian.
- 9:27Abteen Vaziri: Most of your life you were in Najaf.
- 9:28Abteen Vaziri: Your family's from India.
- 9:30Abteen Vaziri: They never ask him that question.
- 9:32Abteen Vaziri: Adarchi, his family's from Iraq.
- 9:33Abteen Vaziri: He tells the people, I'm the voice of the Iranian people.
- 9:37Abteen Vaziri: He can barely speak Farsi.
- 9:39Abteen Vaziri: His English accent is an Iraqi, Arab English accent.
- 9:43Abteen Vaziri: And then he claims he's the voice of Iranians.
- 9:45Abteen Vaziri: The Shah of Iran was 22 years old when his father was forced to go into exile by the British and the Russians.
- 9:51Abteen Vaziri: Do you know where the Shah Iran grew up? He grew up in Europe. Out of the 22 years of his life,
- 9:55Abteen Vaziri: probably 15 years of his life, he was in boarding school. He was educated in Europe,
- 9:59Abteen Vaziri: knew six languages. But you know what? In his heart, his heart belonged to Iran. When he came
- 10:04Abteen Vaziri: back to Iran, he loved Iran. And for 37 years, he modernized Iran to one of the best economies,
- 10:09Abteen Vaziri: one of the most powerful militaries in the world. And he didn't grow up in Iran. This crown prince,
- 10:14Abteen Vaziri: the first 21, 22 years of his life, he was educated in Iran. He's actually much more
- 10:18Abteen Vaziri: Iranian than his father was. In the last 47 years, it's not like he wanted to go live outside the U.S.
- 10:23Abteen Vaziri: He was forced out. He would be killed. He spent 47 years of his life dedicated to this cause of
- 10:29Abteen Vaziri: bringing freedom to the people of Iran. And the naysayers just have stupid argument after stupid
- 10:35Abteen Vaziri: argument after stupid argument. We're all Iranian. Our heart is in Iran. We're going to do what's
- 10:40Abteen Vaziri: right for Iran. He is more Iranian than these, you know, these Iraqis and Indians and Syrians
- 10:46Abteen Vaziri: that are running the regime right now.
- 10:47Abteen Vaziri: These arguments are stupid.
- 10:48Abteen Vaziri: They don't work.
- 10:49Abteen Vaziri: They work for the uneducated mind.
- 10:51Abteen Vaziri: They don't work for the sophisticated mind.
- 10:58Nicky Billou: Look, these leftists who try to Iran-splain
- 11:03Nicky Billou: what our lived experience is,
- 11:05Nicky Billou: what our understanding of our culture is,
- 11:08Nicky Billou: what our understanding of what the people of Iran
- 11:11Nicky Billou: know and think is, are a laughingstock.
- 11:13Nicky Billou: They're idiots.
- 11:14Nicky Billou: They don't know anything about anything.
- 11:16Nicky Billou: They just need to shut up.
- 11:18Nicky Billou: They need to shut the fuck up.
- 11:20Abteen Vaziri: There's a lot of money involved.
- 11:21Abteen Vaziri: There's a lot of money involved, and there's a lot of natural resources involved.
- 11:25Abteen Vaziri: And the colonial powers, the European colonial powers, just don't want to give up their power.
- 11:29Abteen Vaziri: They don't.
- 11:30Abteen Vaziri: That's just what it is.
- 11:31Abteen Vaziri: We, unfortunately, have to fight the left.
- 11:34Abteen Vaziri: We have to fight certain elements in the Republican Party that are arguably being paid by foreign powers.
- 11:40Abteen Vaziri: We have to fight the Russias of the world, the Chinas of the world, and some Middle Eastern
- 11:47Abteen Vaziri: countries like Turkey that are enriching themselves at the backs of the Iranian people.
- 11:51Abteen Vaziri: When I see a woman in Iran who's one of the richest countries in Iran digging through trash
- 11:57Abteen Vaziri: to feed her kids, when I see China stealing $23 million a day on underpriced oil from
- 12:04Abteen Vaziri: the people in Iran who are feeding their kids trash, those European powers, those Chinese
- 12:08Abteen Vaziri: powers, those Russian powers, the naysayers, the left, those people are complicit to 45,000 people
- 12:15Abteen Vaziri: being murdered. Those people are complicit to that poor woman have to dig up trash to feed her kids
- 12:20Abteen Vaziri: while the Europeans and the Russians and the Chinese are stealing money from Iranian people.
- 12:25Abteen Vaziri: So every time they see that, I think about that woman that's eating out of the trash,
- 12:28Abteen Vaziri: and I tell the European powers and the European media and the left media, go pound sand and take
- 12:34Abteen Vaziri: a hike because you have no idea what you're talking about. You're complicit in the genocide.
- 12:37Abteen Vaziri: You're complicit in people starving to death when they're sitting on one of the richest
- 12:42Abteen Vaziri: countries in the world.
- 12:43Nicky Billou: 1,000%, brother.
- 12:45Nicky Billou: Let's talk about the Candace Owens, the Tucker Carlson's of this world.
- 12:49Nicky Billou: You know, I used to really like Tucker back in the day when he was on Fox News.
- 12:53Nicky Billou: You know, I thought he was amazing.
- 12:55Nicky Billou: I thought the way that he spoke out against the left was so authentic, raw, and real.
- 13:02Nicky Billou: And then something happened.
- 13:03Nicky Billou: I don't quite know what, but the man-
- 13:06Nicky Billou: I know what happened.
- 13:06Nicky Billou: lost his marbles. I know what happened. I mean, listen, let's draw inference, right? You have Dan
- 13:13Abteen Vaziri: Bazarian, you have Andrew Tate, you have Tucker Carlson, you have Marjorie Taylor Greene, and then
- 13:18Abteen Vaziri: you have Candace Owens. All of them, all of a sudden, just went hardcore left. What do they all
- 13:23Abteen Vaziri: have in common? They all got fired. They got into financial trouble. They didn't have any money.
- 13:28Abteen Vaziri: And then all of a sudden, they're like, Israel is bad. Trump is bad. Somebody's paying them when
- 13:34Abteen Vaziri: they're broke. Dan Bazzarian, you know, his father was a corporate raider that stole like
- 13:38Abteen Vaziri: $600 million from Americans, gave up his citizenship and gave up his U.S. citizenship, became a
- 13:44Abteen Vaziri: same kid citizen because he had a $62 million fine he had to pay the SEC. So he left and
- 13:49Abteen Vaziri: hid that money. And Dan got some of that money and started playing poker. You know, he had
- 13:54Abteen Vaziri: a company go bankrupt, started losing his money in poker. All of a sudden he's broke. And then
- 13:57Abteen Vaziri: all of a sudden he's got money and then he's running for Congress and he's against Israel.
- 14:02Abteen Vaziri: Who's paying them? That's the question we got to ask. Candace Owen didn't really have any money.
- 14:07Abteen Vaziri: All of a sudden, Charlie Kirk happens. And then all of a sudden, she's getting paid.
- 14:11Abteen Vaziri: And all of a sudden, she's talking to luck. The same thing with Tucker. Tucker's having financial problems.
- 14:15Abteen Vaziri: He's fired from Fox. He doesn't have any money. All of a sudden, he's got some big money.
- 14:19Abteen Vaziri: And then all of a sudden, he's going. So, I mean, the writing's on the wall. We know what happened.
- 14:23Abteen Vaziri: You know, the same thing with Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate was, you know, claimed he was a billionaire.
- 14:27Abteen Vaziri: He was broke. He was in prison. He was a prison in Romania. He was leaking out money. He didn't
- 14:32Abteen Vaziri: really have any money, the little money that he had spent. And all of a sudden, the rumors are
- 14:36Abteen Vaziri: that the UAE government gave him $100 million to convert to Islam and start promoting tourism and
- 14:41Abteen Vaziri: Islamism to UAE. It all adds up. Listen, these people, when you're Tucker Carlson in your 50s,
- 14:47Abteen Vaziri: you don't have it come to Jesus moment where you completely change your politics without
- 14:52Abteen Vaziri: something dramatic. Sometimes that happens when something dramatic happens to your life. You go
- 14:55Abteen Vaziri: prison somebody dies you die something i think changes all of a sudden you you you go 180
- 15:02Nicky Billou: well i mean we already know the the money is very very green you know when he left fox um patrick
- 15:08Nicky Billou: bet david you know an iranian christian you know iranian christian assyrian armenian um publicly
- 15:15Nicky Billou: put out a try to hire him to hire him for a hundred million dollars plus equity hundred million plus
- 15:22Nicky Billou: equity. That was the boldest hiring move I've ever seen. I got my own issues with Patrick,
- 15:28Nicky Billou: even though I am a fan and I go to his events and all of that stuff. But I thought that was a boss
- 15:33Nicky Billou: move. And I thought, man, if Tucker's got some brains, he's going to take this offer. This is
- 15:38Nicky Billou: a great offer. A hundred million up front plus equity in what could be the greatest media company
- 15:47Nicky Billou: of all time. If it had a big star like Tucker in it, but he didn't even respond to the offer.
- 15:53Nicky Billou: He didn't even respond to the offer.
- 15:54Abteen Vaziri: I mean, somebody doubled that offer.
- 15:56Abteen Vaziri: And the rumors are that the Turkish government, Erdogan's got a fund that they put together,
- 16:03Abteen Vaziri: and they're getting money from Qatar and Iranian government to pay these influencers.
- 16:07Abteen Vaziri: And those are the rumors.
- 16:08Abteen Vaziri: Who knows where reality happened?
- 16:10Abteen Vaziri: But the truth is probably not far from the rumors.
- 16:14Nicky Billou: So he didn't take that offer.
- 16:17Nicky Billou: He's in financial trouble.
- 16:18Nicky Billou: He takes offers from other people.
- 16:19Nicky Billou: Although, you know, we can't confirm this.
- 16:21Nicky Billou: This is just speculation on our part, but it's very likely speculation based on some actual valid concepts.
- 16:31Nicky Billou: And these so-called right-wing influencers, in my opinion, are not right-wing influencers at all.
- 16:38Nicky Billou: They are grifters.
- 16:40Nicky Billou: They were in the business for the money.
- 16:42Nicky Billou: Exactly.
- 16:44Nicky Billou: Grifter is a polite term for prostitute, right?
- 16:46Nicky Billou: So basically, they were in this for the money.
- 16:49Nicky Billou: When the money for being a conservative and a truth teller wasn't good enough anymore, they shifted their point of view.
- 16:55Nicky Billou: The problem is that a lot of people that follow them have stopped following them.
- 17:00Nicky Billou: They don't have nearly the level of influence that they once did.
- 17:03Nicky Billou: Tucker Carlson's level of influence has cratered.
- 17:05Nicky Billou: Candace Owens' has cratered even more than his.
- 17:09Nicky Billou: And they're going to continue to crater because conservatives who are right-thinking people are not going to follow somebody
- 17:19Nicky Billou: who changes their views 180 in a way that's antithetical to conservatives.
- 17:23Nicky Billou: Go for it.
- 17:23Abteen Vaziri: Sorry, Sergeant Trump.
- 17:25Abteen Vaziri: No, I think you're absolutely right.
- 17:26Abteen Vaziri: But the way that I think President Trump says it,
- 17:28Abteen Vaziri: these people are always losers.
- 17:30Abteen Vaziri: They were never influencers.
- 17:32Abteen Vaziri: President Trump kind of made them big.
- 17:34Abteen Vaziri: Alex Jones was always a conspiracy theorist.
- 17:37Abteen Vaziri: He was a crazy kook.
- 17:39Abteen Vaziri: Tucker Carlson didn't graduate college.
- 17:42Abteen Vaziri: It wasn't like he had all this experience.
- 17:45Abteen Vaziri: Somebody gave him a chance, and people kind of liked what he had to say.
- 17:48Abteen Vaziri: And now it's obvious that he's not being genuine.
- 17:51Abteen Vaziri: It's very obvious.
- 17:52Abteen Vaziri: I mean, he has to really try not to laugh or hold a straight face to things that he says,
- 17:56Abteen Vaziri: because you know that he doesn't believe in any of them.
- 17:58Abteen Vaziri: You know, and another thing that's interesting, and by the way, Candace Owens, she can barely speak English correctly.
- 18:04Abteen Vaziri: I think she was a novelty that she was an African-American woman that was somewhat well-spoken
- 18:09Abteen Vaziri: and, you know, would talk about conservative causes.
- 18:11Abteen Vaziri: And I thought, you know, people think Republicans are racist.
- 18:14Abteen Vaziri: Republicans aren't.
- 18:15Abteen Vaziri: Republicans welcome people with open arms when they come from other races, other religions, other cultures.
- 18:21Abteen Vaziri: And that was just, you know, she was a novelty.
- 18:23Abteen Vaziri: But when you listen to her, she's just gone completely just off the hinges.
- 18:28Abteen Vaziri: And President Trump is right.
- 18:29Abteen Vaziri: Nobody really cared and gave these people credit and built them up on a pedestal.
- 18:34Abteen Vaziri: But, you know, we're not stupid.
- 18:36Abteen Vaziri: We realize that somebody's paying you to say these things because we know they can't.
- 18:41Abteen Vaziri: It just doesn't add up, doesn't match with your identity a short time ago.
- 18:47Abteen Vaziri: Absolutely.
- 18:48Nicky Billou: Absolutely.
- 18:50Nicky Billou: And the problem right now is that on the left, these folks, they don't have two brain cells to rub together to be able to come up with an original thought.
- 19:01Nicky Billou: Whatever they hear, their overlords tell them they should think is what they end up thinking.
- 19:07Nicky Billou: And that's a massive, massive problem.
- 19:10Nicky Billou: You know, I'm here in Canada and I've been posting on social media saying controversial take, right?
- 19:20Nicky Billou: Iranians would rather see their country bombed than the Islamic Republic stay in power.
- 19:26Nicky Billou: And all these moronic leftists start piling up on me and saying, what are you talking about?
- 19:32Nicky Billou: You don't know what you're talking about.
- 19:34Nicky Billou: Iranian people don't want to be bombed.
- 19:36Nicky Billou: And I go, of course they don't want to be bombed.
- 19:38Nicky Billou: They want the Islamic Republic and its agents and instruments of repression to be bombed.
- 19:43Nicky Billou: And they can't wrap their heads around the fact that the Islamic Republic is not the same as the nation of Iran.
- 19:51Nicky Billou: Can you talk a little bit about that? Because I think that's an important distinction.
- 19:55Abteen Vaziri: Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of times politicians, even smart politicians like President Trump or Pete Hexac,
- 20:01Abteen Vaziri: accidentally, and by the way, me who was an Iranian-American, I accidentally sent Iran sometimes too.
- 20:05Abteen Vaziri: They failed to distinguish between the Islamic Republic and Iran and the people of Iran.
- 20:11Abteen Vaziri: Let me take a step backwards.
- 20:12Abteen Vaziri: Iran is a country that's been around 5,500 years.
- 20:16Abteen Vaziri: Iran, amazing people, amazing cultures, a cultural mix, and a lot of different people.
- 20:21Abteen Vaziri: The people that are running Iran today, or I should say the Islamic Republic today, they're not Iranians.
- 20:27Abteen Vaziri: They're foreign invaders, and they're using Iran's natural resources as a tool to expand this backwards ideology of an Islamic caliphate and grow it around the world.
- 20:37Abteen Vaziri: They have caused death and destruction.
- 20:39Abteen Vaziri: They're a leading sponsor of terrorism in the world.
- 20:42Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, all of Iran's natural wealth, all of Iran's oil money, gas, everything that's getting built goes to an organization that's got two arms.
- 20:53Abteen Vaziri: It's a political organization, a terrorist called IRGC, and then a charity organization also called IRGC.
- 21:00Abteen Vaziri: And IRGC takes all this money and spends it on pain, misery, destruction, and terrorism around the world.
- 21:05Abteen Vaziri: The IRGC not only does not represent the people of Iran, it doesn't even have Iran in its name.
- 21:11Abteen Vaziri: People mistakenly think IRGC stands for Iran Republican Guard.
- 21:14Abteen Vaziri: No, it stands for Islamic Republic Guard, of course.
- 21:17Abteen Vaziri: So it's basically a bunch of foreign invaders that have hijacked the country, and these people are making decisions.
- 21:23Abteen Vaziri: for the people of Iran.
- 21:24Abteen Vaziri: Ad-Akchi, who's the prime minister,
- 21:27Abteen Vaziri: whatever his title is,
- 21:28Abteen Vaziri: he comes out and they said,
- 21:29Abteen Vaziri: Foreign Minister.
- 21:31Abteen Vaziri: Foreign Minister.
- 21:31Abteen Vaziri: Why do you have the internet cut off
- 21:34Abteen Vaziri: for 90 million people?
- 21:35Abteen Vaziri: Well, the answer is because
- 21:36Abteen Vaziri: they want to create genocide
- 21:37Abteen Vaziri: and they don't want any evidence of it.
- 21:39Abteen Vaziri: That's why they cut the internet off.
- 21:40Abteen Vaziri: But he says,
- 21:41Abteen Vaziri: I am the voice of the Iranian people.
- 21:43Abteen Vaziri: How can you be the voice of Iranian people
- 21:45Abteen Vaziri: when your name literally says,
- 21:47Abteen Vaziri: Ad-Akchi, you're from Iraq.
- 21:48Abteen Vaziri: You're not even Iranian.
- 21:49Abteen Vaziri: You don't even speak with an Iranian accent.
- 21:51Abteen Vaziri: You speak with an Iraqi accent.
- 21:53Abteen Vaziri: And then you're the voice of the Iranian people.
- 21:54Abteen Vaziri: It's just a shame.
- 21:57Abteen Vaziri: And people don't understand.
- 21:59Abteen Vaziri: The Iranian people are like frogs in boiling water.
- 22:02Abteen Vaziri: They know they're dead.
- 22:03Abteen Vaziri: They're willing to go on the street with no weapons and get a shot at.
- 22:07Abteen Vaziri: They're willing to get bombed out every night just to have a chance to potentially get rid of this regime.
- 22:12Abteen Vaziri: And by the way, I think it's going to happen.
- 22:13Abteen Vaziri: I think President Trump gets it.
- 22:16Abteen Vaziri: He's going to get rid of these crazy Islamists.
- 22:19Abteen Vaziri: There's about 900,000 to a million and a half of them that just need to go.
- 22:23Abteen Vaziri: They're just no good.
- 22:24Abteen Vaziri: They have no home anywhere in the world because they're a death cult.
- 22:27Abteen Vaziri: And I think the way that he's doing it is through economic pressure.
- 22:30Abteen Vaziri: And I think they probably have three, four weeks of money left.
- 22:33Abteen Vaziri: And once the money dries up, they can't pay their mercenaries.
- 22:36Abteen Vaziri: It's going to fall apart.
- 22:37Abteen Vaziri: And President Trump knows that.
- 22:39Abteen Vaziri: President Trump wants the straight home ones closed, even though he says, open the, you
- 22:43Abteen Vaziri: know, gosh darn it, you know, straight home ones.
- 22:45Abteen Vaziri: I'm not going to repeat what he said.
- 22:47Abteen Vaziri: But when he says that, it's just acting.
- 22:48Abteen Vaziri: He wants the straight-of-homements closed, but he knows that they're such lunatics, the leftists have such bad TDS,
- 22:54Abteen Vaziri: and the Mullahs have such bad Trump derangement syndrome that they will do the opposite of everything he says.
- 22:59Abteen Vaziri: So he plays them like a flute.
- 23:00Abteen Vaziri: He wants the straight-of-homements to be closed for pressure on the Chinese and the Europeans.
- 23:04Abteen Vaziri: And Iranian Islamic Republic government, who is generating $500 million a day from trade, that's gone.
- 23:11Abteen Vaziri: And now when the money dries up, they can't pay those mercenaries from Iraq, those mercenaries from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
- 23:17Abteen Vaziri: They're all going to go home and it's over.
- 23:20Nicky Billou: You're 100% correct.
- 23:21Nicky Billou: The strategy really has been to choke off the money spigot.
- 23:24Nicky Billou: So they're not in a position to defend themselves anymore because they're starting to lose the rank and file in the Atish that are not willing to fire on their own people anymore.
- 23:37Nicky Billou: Sure, some IRGC and Basij crazies still are.
- 23:41Nicky Billou: But for the most part, they've had to rely on these foreign mercenaries to repress the Iranian people.
- 23:47Nicky Billou: and these mercenaries are only going to stay there as long as there's money.
- 23:50Nicky Billou: Once the money's gone, they're in the business of money.
- 23:53Abteen Vaziri: That's it.
- 23:54Abteen Vaziri: I mean, look at what happened.
- 23:55Abteen Vaziri: People say Iran is like Iraq.
- 23:57Abteen Vaziri: Iran is like Afghanistan.
- 23:58Abteen Vaziri: It's not.
- 23:59Abteen Vaziri: And it's not like Syria, but the situation is very much like Syria.
- 24:02Abteen Vaziri: Iran is not Syria, but the situation, the way that Assad got beat us eventually
- 24:06Abteen Vaziri: is he ran out of money.
- 24:07Abteen Vaziri: He couldn't pay the mercenaries.
- 24:08Abteen Vaziri: They all went home.
- 24:09Abteen Vaziri: And it was like, it was just so anticlimactic.
- 24:11Abteen Vaziri: Like in one day, Syria just fell.
- 24:14Abteen Vaziri: And, you know, he went to Moscow.
- 24:16Abteen Vaziri: And that's the plan.
- 24:18Abteen Vaziri: And by the way, President Trump has also got that same plan in Venezuela.
- 24:22Abteen Vaziri: They just took out the leader.
- 24:24Abteen Vaziri: They didn't kill anybody else.
- 24:25Abteen Vaziri: There was no war.
- 24:26Abteen Vaziri: But Venezuela is acting through the blockade, through pressure.
- 24:30Abteen Vaziri: Trump knows those pain points and how to play economic pressure.
- 24:33Abteen Vaziri: And that's the other thing.
- 24:34Abteen Vaziri: I think that a lot of presidents have made such a huge mistake.
- 24:37Abteen Vaziri: They always think that the economy and foreign policy and wars and all of those things are
- 24:44Abteen Vaziri: you know are completely compartmentalized no they're all related trump uses economic power and
- 24:49Abteen Vaziri: and and other other leverages to put pain point points on these people and at the end of the day
- 24:53Abteen Vaziri: this is not about iran this is all about china and china wants to be the sole dominant superpower
- 24:59Abteen Vaziri: in the world and trump is finally the first president that has the cojones to stand up and
- 25:03Abteen Vaziri: say no hell no no and hell no and and look at look at the unfortunately the canadian government
- 25:10Abteen Vaziri: China peace to China. 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border. Canada
- 25:19Abteen Vaziri: is really in the business of doing trade with the U.S. If you cut out trade with the U.S.,
- 25:23Abteen Vaziri: it's just stupid. Why would you want to go to the hands of the Communist Party that all they want is
- 25:29Abteen Vaziri: your natural resources? They don't want to take over Canada for its natural resources.
- 25:33Abteen Vaziri: Unfortunately, when President Trump says the 51st state, what he means is that if we don't bring
- 25:38Abteen Vaziri: Canada on our side, they're going to be a 51st state of China. Let me put it to you this way.
- 25:44Nicky Billou: The people in charge of Canada right now are milquetoast Marxists. They don't know a damn
- 25:49Nicky Billou: thing about how to run a country effectively. And unfortunately, they're in charge. We need to,
- 25:56Nicky Billou: from within Canada, continue to fight for a great Canada, a glorious Canada, the type of Canada that
- 26:02Nicky Billou: we've always had. Because if we do that, I think Canada can be one of the most incredible countries
- 26:06Nicky Billou: in the world. But at the end of the day, until we get rid of Mark Carney and his illiberal party,
- 26:14Nicky Billou: we're in trouble. But let's switch gears. I think it's very important that President Trump
- 26:19Nicky Billou: understands something. There's no deal to be made with the Islamic Republic. There's no Delcy
- 26:25Nicky Billou: Rodriguez in the ranks of the Islamic Republic's leadership. Whoever's giving him that information
- 26:31Nicky Billou: is feeding him bad information. The only person the Iranian people want as their interim transitional
- 26:39Nicky Billou: leader is Reza al-Nabi, the al-Hazrat, the crown prince of Iran. And I have to tell you this,
- 26:46Nicky Billou: his plan for transitioning Iran away from the Islamic Republic and toward a bright new future
- 26:52Nicky Billou: involves letting the people decide what type of government they have. In my opinion, what's going
- 26:58Nicky Billou: to happen when there is a plebiscite about that and the Iranian people get to choose what form of
- 27:03Nicky Billou: government they want, they're going to have a Sultanatev Ashutr, they're going to have another
- 27:07Nicky Billou: constitutional monarchy. They're going to want Reza Pahlavi and the Pahlavi family at its head.
- 27:12Nicky Billou: Because the Iranian people, the older ones like me, remember what Iran was like before the Islamic
- 27:17Nicky Billou: Republic. And the younger ones have something called the internet, where they found videos of
- 27:24Nicky Billou: Iran before the Islamic Republic, where they've seen videos of their former Shahan Shah al-Yamir,
- 27:30Nicky Billou: Mohammed Azal Pahlavi, speaking in Farsi to his people, speaking in French to French media,
- 27:37Nicky Billou: speaking in English to American and English media, and behaving like this ultra-sophisticated,
- 27:45Nicky Billou: incredible economic manager who took the country from 1941, when he came into power,
- 27:52Nicky Billou: to the time he left in 1979, and he raised the GNP by a hundredfold. No country grew as fast
- 28:00Nicky Billou: as Iran did during his reign in the entire 20th century. He was the most effective national leader
- 28:08Nicky Billou: of the 20th century, if you measure effectiveness, by how many people you pull out of poverty,
- 28:14Nicky Billou: and you bring into a comfortable middle-class life, and by how much you increase the day-to-day
- 28:20Nicky Billou: lot of the average person.
- 28:22Nicky Billou: Shansh al-Yamir was the best
- 28:24Nicky Billou: and the greatest, and that's why I believe the people of Iran
- 28:26Nicky Billou: are going to vote for a constitutional monarchy.
- 28:28Nicky Billou: What are your thoughts on this?
- 28:29Abteen Vaziri: I agree. I think,
- 28:32Abteen Vaziri: first of all, what a shame that these
- 28:34Abteen Vaziri: imbeciles in European media
- 28:36Abteen Vaziri: say that Iranian people are not ready
- 28:38Abteen Vaziri: for a democracy.
- 28:40Abteen Vaziri: I mean, that tells you how stupid...
- 28:42Abteen Vaziri: Racist. Racist comic.
- 28:44Abteen Vaziri: They believe Iran is their birthright
- 28:47Abteen Vaziri: natural resources,
- 28:48Abteen Vaziri: and they want to destroy and keep our people down.
- 28:50Abteen Vaziri: First of all, Iran, women had the right to vote before many European countries had the right to vote.
- 28:56Abteen Vaziri: Yep.
- 28:57Abteen Vaziri: Our answers to Cyrus the Great created the first cylinder of human rights before Europe even knew what human rights are.
- 29:03Abteen Vaziri: We're not ready for democracy.
- 29:05Abteen Vaziri: I mean, it's just it's just it just tells you this elitist, racist, backwards mentality.
- 29:11Abteen Vaziri: And by the way, these are the same people that would criticize the show about political prisoners.
- 29:15Abteen Vaziri: Barbara Walters would march and say, you know, you guys have political prisoners and you're treating all these people wrong.
- 29:21Abteen Vaziri: Where all that media, have they ever criticized the Islamic Republic?
- 29:24Abteen Vaziri: Not once.
- 29:25Abteen Vaziri: Not once.
- 29:25Abteen Vaziri: Well, the Iranian people are going to remember.
- 29:27Abteen Vaziri: I mean, unfortunately, Europe is done.
- 29:31Abteen Vaziri: It's finished.
- 29:32Abteen Vaziri: Europe is not an economic powerhouse it once used to be, and it's definitely not a military.
- 29:36Abteen Vaziri: So it's a has-been country.
- 29:38Abteen Vaziri: And all they have, or has-been continent, and all they have left is, you know, the remnants of their past.
- 29:45Abteen Vaziri: It's like, you know, if you were trying to start a basketball team, you know, you wouldn't pay Michael Jordan, you know, 100 million a year for what he was able to do in the late 90s or in the early 90s.
- 29:55Abteen Vaziri: You would pay Michael Jordan zero right now because he's a has-been, you know, and rightfully so.
- 30:00Abteen Vaziri: Well, Europe is a has-been.
- 30:01Abteen Vaziri: Europe at one point had its glories.
- 30:03Abteen Vaziri: And all the presidents previously think, well, we've got to give Europe this respect for what once they were and what they're able to do.
- 30:09Abteen Vaziri: Well, no, they don't produce anything.
- 30:11Abteen Vaziri: They're far leftists.
- 30:13Abteen Vaziri: They're allowed radicalism to completely take over.
- 30:15Abteen Vaziri: continents and they don't have the cojones to stand up to them. And economic, they don't produce
- 30:19Abteen Vaziri: anything. They're basically buying everything from China and listening to these, even Russia that
- 30:27Abteen Vaziri: we have to go protect them against, they're buying oil from Russia, financing the old war against
- 30:32Abteen Vaziri: themselves. I mean, it's just the amount of mismanagement and stupidity in Europe is
- 30:37Abteen Vaziri: ballooned so much. But I hope whoever is working with Crown Prince Reza Pallavi on running the
- 30:43Abteen Vaziri: country from a constitutional monarchy, which I agree, I think it's definitely going to head
- 30:47Abteen Vaziri: towards constitutional monarchy. Whoever's running, I hope they have a long memory and they remember
- 30:52Abteen Vaziri: the governments, the countries that try to hold our people down and they used this fake
- 30:59Abteen Vaziri: liberalism that somehow they care about people. But in fact, liberalism is really racism
- 31:05Abteen Vaziri: because these same liberals were out in the streets marching for Gaza. They refused to even
- 31:11Abteen Vaziri: acknowledge that 45,000 people have been massacred in Iran. And every time you talk to them, all they
- 31:16Abteen Vaziri: talk about is that school with 166 kids who, by the way, weapons were in them. To this day, we don't
- 31:21Abteen Vaziri: know who actually hit them. If it was Iran, if it was Israel, if it was the U.S. That's all they talk
- 31:25Nicky Billou: about. The IRGC actually admits that they mistakenly hit that school. I've seen that. That came from
- 31:31Nicky Billou: the IRGC. Those people are lying. Look, the left is made up of a bunch of lying liars who basically
- 31:37Nicky Billou: want to push a narrative forward. They don't care about truth. They'll lie about anything in order to
- 31:42Nicky Billou: virtue signal and in a performative way, try to persuade as many people to come and see things
- 31:47Nicky Billou: their way as they can. But I got to tell you, Apteen Man, you are a rock star brother. Really
- 31:51Nicky Billou: enjoy having you on the show. Thanks for coming. Thanks for sharing it with us. And I want you to
- 31:58Nicky Billou: just close off by giving the young men listening to this podcast a piece of advice about how to be
- 32:05Nicky Billou: a useful, strong, powerful young man in 2026.
- 32:10Abteen Vaziri: Go.
- 32:11Abteen Vaziri: There was a video of a guy whose wife was being robbed.
- 32:15Abteen Vaziri: Him and his wife were being robbed.
- 32:16Abteen Vaziri: And this guy was such a worthless man.
- 32:20Abteen Vaziri: He allowed his wife to get beat up and he sat there and watched.
- 32:24Abteen Vaziri: And that's a Democrat for you.
- 32:26Abteen Vaziri: A Republican, a Republican man is, you have to, you know,
- 32:31Abteen Vaziri: Jordan Peterson from your neck of the, says something beautiful.
- 32:35Abteen Vaziri: a man a man has to be a monster but being a good man means being able to control that monster
- 32:42Abteen Vaziri: where that monster doesn't come out unless it's absolutely needed if you're not if you don't have
- 32:46Abteen Vaziri: that monster inside of you if you're not a tough person that knows how to protect your woman
- 32:52Abteen Vaziri: protect your children protect the people in your tribe in your community in your house
- 32:57Abteen Vaziri: then you're not a man you're weak and we don't need a future generation of weak men in this world
- 33:03Abteen Vaziri: We need monsters who are gentlemen who know how to control that monster inside of them and be a good person.
- 33:10Abteen Vaziri: But when it's time to go to war, when your wife is getting robbed by a bunch of hoodlums, if you stand up, if you just sit there and you watch your wife getting beat up, you're not a man.
- 33:19Abteen Vaziri: You're just a worthless member of society.
- 33:22Abteen Vaziri: A man is someone that's going to die for his wife and make sure that nothing happens to his wife or his girlfriend.
- 33:27Abteen Vaziri: And we need more men like that.
- 33:29Abteen Vaziri: And this whole concept of being, you know, foofy and, you know, I call them soy boys, that doesn't work.
- 33:37Abteen Vaziri: If you went to World War II, do you know the people that went to World War II?
- 33:41Abteen Vaziri: You know Ernest Hemingway was a war hero who went and killed a bunch of Nazis and they came back and became a literary genius and wrote all these different poems?
- 33:49Abteen Vaziri: That's what men used to be. Men used to be tough. They used to go to war. They used to kill. They used to go on.
- 33:54Abteen Vaziri: They used to do all that and then still had to, you know,
- 33:57Abteen Vaziri: kept that monster in place and wrote literary pieces.
- 34:01Abteen Vaziri: But if you just do the literary pieces and you can protect your wife,
- 34:04Abteen Vaziri: you can protect your family, you can let that monster out
- 34:07Abteen Vaziri: when that monster comes out, you're really not a man.
- 34:10Abteen Vaziri: And you got to remember that.
- 34:11Abteen Vaziri: We need men in society.
- 34:12Nicky Billou: We don't need weak people in society.
- 34:14Nicky Billou: Amen.
- 34:15Nicky Billou: Brilliantly said.
- 34:16Nicky Billou: Aptim Bazeera, man.
- 34:17Nicky Billou: An honor to have you here, brother.
- 34:18Nicky Billou: Look forward to having you here.
- 34:19Nicky Billou: Honor is all mine.
- 34:20Nicky Billou: Thank you, Nicky.
- 34:20Nicky Billou: It's been a pleasure to be on.
- 34:22Nicky Billou: No, man.
- 34:22Nicky Billou: So let's have you on the business podcast next and let you and I find some time and kick some butt out there.
- 34:29Nicky Billou: And I'd like to find more ways of connecting and engaging with you.
- 34:33Nicky Billou: Thanks, brother.
- 34:34Nicky Billou: God bless you, man.
- 34:35Abteen Vaziri: God bless you.
- 34:35Abteen Vaziri: Thank you so much for having me and keep kicking butt.
- 34:39Nicky Billou: Man, you know it.
- 34:40Nicky Billou: You know it.
- 34:41Nicky Billou: Cheers.
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