Yannis Pappas Hour - Persia to Iran: From Zoroastrianism to Islam | The History of Iran & Are We Headed to WW3 | YP Hour

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

Are we on the brink? To understand where we’re headed, we’ve got to know where we’ve been. Yanni takes us through the rise and fall of the Persian Empire—how a Zoroastrian civilization became a Muslim one. From Cyrus the Great to Khomeini, it’s a wild ride through history. Are the Israelis dragging us into their wars? Does Iran have the bomb? Is commentary on the issue organic on the internet? Let’s get into it. Support our sponsors: Start saving time and money, without compromising your nutrition today with this exclusive offer for NEW customers of 15% using my exclusive code: YANNIS at https://huel.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up everybody? Welcome to the Yanis Papas Hour. We are close! Close to World War III as we've ever been. There's skirmishes all over the place. I'm sure you've heard. I'm sure the news is out. If it's not out and it hasn't reached you, God bless you. That's the way it should be. We need to revive local news. I am all about Ernie Anasas. Ernie Anasas, tell me what the weather is. I just want to know what the weather is in Westchester County and Long Island and Suffolk. I want to know about local crime in Harlem. I'd like to know what's going on with a protest on the Upper West Side of New York City, and that's it.

Put me back in the New York Truman Show. Everyone needs to go back into the Truman Show, where you just get past the mental borders of your neighborhood and your town, and you go, I'm turning back, I'm turning back. We gotta start living like Long Islanders. We're scared to get on planes and don't want to get on the LIE.

We need traffic build-up mentally. There needs to be traffic when you go, I want to go learn about this. You go, there's too much traffic. Turn back and stay in your home. There's no reason to go to Vegas anymore. You can go to Atlantic City. home there's no reason to go to Vegas anymore you can go to Atlantic City there's no reason anymore to go to Mexico or anywhere because you got a pool in your backyard and your nice cul-de-sac where you wave to your neighbor who dies of a cardiac arrest on his driveway at 63 because your house was built in Long Island on a golf course and underneath there Companies had irresponsibly dumped chemicals underneath so everyone on the block just drops dead of lupus Also, nobody exercises because you have to plan to take a walk and it's hard to just keep going around the same cul-de-sac

So you're not motivated to go plan to take a walk We need to go back to Long Island values. I'm going to this restaurant, it's Italian, and the guy's got on a tuxedo and he's actually Italian. Let's go back. We got to go back. You don't want to know about what's going on in the world because it just ain't good. It's just not good right now. It's not good right now. And Israel is not doing a good job of making sure people turn back from anti-Semitism. There's no traffic there, it's wide open. That lane is wide open, Bebo.

It is the Autobahn. You can go 90 on that, okay? Because Israel just seems to be at the epicenter of conflicts that Americans are unsure of. Why are they unsure of it? Because Benjamin Netanyahu has been testifying in front of Congress for nearly 30 years. He's been in office, out of office, in office,

right before October 7th. He was about to go to jail. He's a controversial figure. And he's been testifying for 30 years that Iran is enriching uranium to build a nuclear bomb. So people are going, you've been saying this for a long time, why now? And he's saying never again. He's saying there's no time like the present. He's being a little pushy.

He's being a little pushy. So in a lot of people's minds who already had a little anti-Semitism, this is kind of, this is putting them, this is making them put their keys in the ignition and drive it on the racist autobomb. It's facilitating more of it because they don't want to go to war with Iran and a lot is splitting maga it's splitting maga like the atom it's causing a nuclear reaction America first libertarians are joining force forces with progressives and they're agreeing and Tucker has become a left wing hero now because he gave it to Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is quoting scripture

for the reasons for supporting Israel. I can't tell who's Iran, who's the United States. I don't know what's what. Who's taking over? Is it the Christian fundamentalists? Kind of like Ted Cruz, his voter base? Who's who? Donald Trump, he's broken everyone's brain. I need everybody back in their tribe so I can understand them. Because right now, progressives, libertarians, anti-Semitic conservatives, they're all going, Donald, we don't wanna go.

They're going, we don't wanna go, Donald. Donald, you said America first. He said, I always said they couldn't get a nuclear weapon and they're going, you don't want to go out, Donald. Donald, you said America first. He said, I always said they couldn't get a nuclear weapon. And they're going, you don't have nuclear weapons. Don't you remember Iraq? Netanyahu told us to go in there. Regime change will be good. Do you remember Syria?

Do you remember all these things that Netanyahu said we needed to do because we share intel? They're doing it for their interest. Ted Cruz, you got half a million dollars in funding from AIPAC. Everyone knows it. Is that why you're quoting Isaiah or Exodus? Genesis, he quoted Genesis. We will defend Israel.

Christians need to defend Israel. And I have to give Tucker credit. He asked a good question. He goes, does that mean, you know, are we talking about this government? I mean question goes does that mean you know are we talking about this government I mean what does that mean which is funny because it's a Christian a hardcore Christian making fun of the Bible so I don't know what is what because you would think Tucker would go yeah I'm a Christian that's what it says let's go rah rah like he said in 2015 I don't even know who Tucker is anymore. Then we got other people saying I voted for Trump and now we should get rid of Trump. I don't know who anyone is.

I have a slight suspicion everyone is just making content because I do nobody really seems to have any consistent positions here including Donald Trump. He's quick and all the people that now he's saying, put them back on the farms. Does anyone know what they're doing? Does anyone have a cohesive ideology or are we just making content? Or are we all just confused because we're starting to suspect that our content may be salient

or not visible based on a juiced algorithm by foreign bots who like our message. Because let's be honest, the global population now learns online. School is like, what? I can't have my phone? It's almost like prison. You're just putting kids in prison. They just want to learn history on, listen to the history hyenas or this show or you know, TikTok. That's where, it's, that's where people are learning their history. That's why we're re-litigating all this stuff

is because everyone's on TikTok making content and you have this question in your mind going, is this all organic? Because when I was 15 years old or 22 years old, I didn't know, I wasn't interested in World War II or Churchill. I was interested in are there girls there? That's what I was interested in, are there girls there? So I wonder is this, is there a demand to, for, I want to get into the weeds of Hitler's message I want to get into the weeds of whether Churchill was a bad guy because he had said a couple slurs about Indians. I Just wonder if it's organic that the youth are so interested in and stuff or if this stuff is showing up on their feet because it's juiced I

don't know I suspect I I don't know. I suspect, I suspect that wars fought this way nowadays because of mutually secure destruction. I assume everyone's online, you know, I sure they got bought from, I assume, you know, is everyone unwittingly being tailored to a certain message because being tailored to a certain message because the foreign influences know that we respond to money. So if they start doing a certain type of content and it gets the response, you're trained like a Pavlovian dog to rinse and repeat, which is what the algorithm likes. I'm so fucking sick of trying to seduce a fucking computer.

All my conversations with my fucking management now is like, well, was it a standup? How many standup things did you post before you posted the standup? You're confusing the algorithm. The algorithm just wants you to do the same thing over and over again. If you do a standup clip and then you do a podcast clip, the algorithm goes, can't compute, can't compute,

have no information, Russian bots and Chinese bots or Qatar or Israeli or whoever the fuck else have no information Russian bots and Chinese bots or Qatar or Israeli or whoever the fuck else don't know what to do with it Is it organic that all these comedians are going serious and their numbers go through the roof is that organic? Do people have a big thirst? for divisive politics and fear? I wonder. I just wonder if it's organic. I wonder.

You know, Dave Rubin and Tim Pool unwittingly, supposedly, but unwittingly were being funded by foreign interests through what do you call those shells or proxies or whatever the fuck you're called shell shell companies yeah um i just wonder i wonder on on a medium and i'm referring to internet, that thrives off of anonymity, where everyone has accounts and you're going, who is that just told me to go fuck myself? They don't reveal themselves. How rarely do you get to go fuck yourself from a public account that's been around for 15 years where you could just see them at their job, with their family. No, it's a private account that was created three weeks ago, It's been around for 15 years, private. It has three followers and it just says, go fuck

yourself. So I wonder if a medium that supports that type of anonymity on a personal level also extends to foreign interests, adversaries, bot farms, algorithms, hacks that can run up numbers to juice certain content to be more visible. I wonder. Of course we all know that that's what's happening and so that's why I keep phrasing it with the Socratic method because that's what's happening. We've gotten to a point where our freedoms have been used against us, right? We don't have any cohesive big picture common goal. Every person is in it for their own financial interest and the American culture is one of greed. So we're all individually just trying to get money. And so I think that's how the foreign

invisible hand has been able to slide in there. Cause once you start making a little money, your content starts getting very visible. You start getting a little faith from something. What do you do? Rinse and repeat. You don't even remember who you are, what you believe. You go, hey, I talked about this thing. I don't know much about this thing. I never worked in diplomacy. I never worked in the government, but I got big numbers. Double down, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

Who cares whether it's true or not? I'm getting money. And we always, you know, extol freedom of speech, which is great, but that is also something that you can take advantage of, you know, freedom of speech means if something goes viral, because you're allowed to say anything, it can be weaponized. It can certainly be weaponized. And individual rights means also we're for sale. I'm free to be for sale. Whether you know it or not, in some way you may be for sale and then the social media companies just kind of look the other way because the engagement is so good for advertising revenue. Whether the people are real or not. I've always asked, how come they haven't instituted

where the people have to be real? Like getting a driver's license or whatever. Because at this point we've noticed the internet is leaking out into the real world. So shouldn't everyone know who everyone is? You gotta get on a plane, you have to show an ID. You get a ticket, you have to have an ID. If you don't have an ID,

isn't it like a violation or something? But on the internet, it's just like, I'm Hulk, dude, or what? And everyone go fuck themselves and let's look at this Hitler speech in English. You're like, who is this guy? Where's this account coming from? You know?

But there hasn't been a movement to do that because I just, I think it's greed. I think the social media accounts go, why would we want to lower our numbers? Why would we want to find out who's real and not real? Why would we want to find out how many double or triple or quadruple accounts are coming from the same IP address or 5,000 or a million? Why would we want to do that when we could just say to our advertisers, look at the amount of people online. And the advertisers go, wait, is our 5 million of those

just three dudes in India? And they go, we don't know, we don't check for that. But this is the amount of people who watched it. So that's what the advertisement costs if you want those eyeballs. Anyway, back to the original point we got operation rising lion don't they sound like albums being put out by reggae artists israel's going rising lion

operation rising lion don't give up the fight say before your rights you got to fight for your rights who is that Jewish reggae guy the white guy you know him he stayed doing it Martin Yahoo Matt Mattas Yahoo no Mattas Yahoo you remember much here he used to do their agae with his curls going down. Bo, Bo, me say Bo, Bo, me say Hasidic Jew coming for the man and we're down with it. Buyaka, Buyaka, Hebrew nation. Buyaka, Buyaka, Lion of Zion. Buyaka, Buyaka, the Lion of Zion. Mati's Yahu, me saying me people will be free free my people will be free say why are they coming when they grow we open the door and they bark on the wall early in the evening they coming and they lies my people have survived my people

will survive and then of course Iran replies with its own album release called Operation True Promise. Operation True Promise the third, so it's a trilogy. Operation True Promise sounds like a Tony Braxton album. They responded with a little R&B to meet your reggae with R&B. R&B to meet your reggae with R&B operation true promise girl true promise girl we're gonna come with the rising lion to the Sun one day at a time gonna bum bum bum we are the true promise gonna defend against the Zionist lion the kosher Zionist lion that doesn't mix his meat and cheese and snips his dick he's gonna snip his dick we don't snip our dicks over here in operation true promise our dicks got hoods just like Hollywood be his name

are the true prophet glory be to him I'm scared You get too close to mentioning what prophet you get scared So here we are October 7th has now turned into June 16 wherever we are 18 19 20 25 25 26 whenever you listen to this if we're still here we don't know but as you know Israel's taking on another front they are the Spartan 300 right now if if if the Spartan 300 had a mega mega mega donor to make their swords. That's basically what they are Israel's the 300 Just with a massive

Weapons maker behind them. They could have taken out they could have won that battle They could have won that get battle against the Persians if they had just a swords maker Constantly throwing the nicest swords at them. Israel's got America just fucking blank check, baby. Here's what you need. And, uh, we're either in the war now or close to it, or we don't know, but I don't think this thing's going to be a couple of days. Because as we know, Iran is a nation of 92 million people, which is something that Tucker Carlson Wikipedia right before the Ted Cruz I love how he pretended he just knew that from his degree in Middle East studies he's like what do you mean you don't

know the exact population for the country you're looking to deep what do you mean yeah 92 million you don't know, 92 million. You don't know. That's very important. What if it was 80 million? I love that that was a gotcha moment, but the Bible stuff was like, that was a serious discussion. That point, like he started laughing, he's like, I can't believe this. You don't know the amount of people to the person of the country that you're in support of bombing, but then when they talked about the reason for the bombing being from a book from a long time ago, they took that very seriously. He goes, wait, I'm a Christian, so I understand that point, but I see what you're saying as

a Christian. I see what you're saying as a Christian. I see what you're saying. We need to defend Israel because it says it in the Bible. That part was a little bit more understandable to Tucker than the exact number of the population. Things are getting very weird. Tulsi Gabbard, when she became the top spy in the world, said that there's no good intelligence, that they have a bomb or they're trying to get a bomb. But now she's going, let's go. So who knows?

Maybe that was before they shared intel with the Mossad. They are. I don't know if they are. We don't know. We were told Iraq does. We don't know. Does Iran? Iran does call it the little Satan and it calls us the big Satan. So let's understand who is Iran? Now you know what Ted Cruz, if you had watched this episode you would have been better prepared for your Tucker interview on the Tucker network. On the Tucker network.

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so you know your return's done right. Intuit TurboTax Business business new from turbo tax, Canada Some regional exclusions apply learn more at turbo tax dot ca slash business tax So what is Iran? It's a very interesting place Iran is an interesting place. It wasn't always called Iran at some point point it was called different things. Most famously it was called Persia and that's why when you meet Iranians over here it's a little confusing right because we had since 1979 they've been like the bad guy right in all the movies. If you see Leslie Nielsen in the movie

there's gonna be a guy with a head wrap on who's she I'm Muslim from Iran and he's looking to hijack a plane and You go and then you meet Persians in America and you your part you go. What is Persia and they go? I'm Persian you go. Where's that right? It's like if Greece didn't exist and I said because Greece still exists as a country, but it didn't for a while, it was Ottoman. So there was no country of Greece until the Greek Revolution and then they carved up whatever land was left because that's how nation buildings done. And now there's like a Greece, right? But if I, it's like me saying I'm Greek during the time of the Ottoman, I go, you go, where?

What do you mean? Are you Ottoman? What are you talking about? I'm ethnically Greek, but I live of the Ottoman, I'd go, you go, where, what do you mean? Are you Ottoman? What are you talking about? I'm ethnically Greek, but I live in the Ottoman Empire. Just like they do now in Iran. Iran is such a complex, like I am actually Kurdish, Sunni. I speak this language, but I'm Iranian. I am Persian Jew. I am a Persian Jew, speaks Farsi, but I live in Iran.

And if you'd said that, you'd be speaking to five people. You'd be speaking to the five Persian Jews that are still left. Used to be a lot of them, dear. Not anymore. So what happened? Well, it all starts with Cyrus the Great, right? Cyrus the Great, you may know the Persian Empire from the movie 300. I think Americans, I think the best way to approach the American audience is through a Hollywood movie. So Persia was an empire that went all the way from India to the steppes of Greece before Alexander the Greek.

You should just call him Alexander the Greek because Macedonia is Greek. Relax. I love that. I'm like pretending like there's a huge audience so there's probably a lot of Macedonians who want to fight about that. What are the chances one Macedonian is watching this, let alone one Macedonian who would care about that? You know because that's like a contention thing. The Greeks go, he's Greek. The Macedonians go, he's Macedonian. He was clearly Greek. It's like, well, it was a culture, it was, whatever. Anyway, you know, then you got Darius. I think Darius was in the movie, right? I think at that point we're up to Darius. You got, or Xerxes, or one of

those. But those are the three most famous Persian guys we're gonna do this very colloquially those are your three Persian guys but the Persians had a nice long run they had the original monotheistic religion which a lot of people don't know before Judaism before Islam before Christianity which are the three known monotheistic religions, before that you had the Greeks, the Roman gods, the Vikings had a whole bunch. It was a little more by community, right? It takes a village to build the universe. It was more of a socialist deity, more of a community base.

It was a kaput, it was a kaput of gods, until it just became the industrious single unified monotheistic god. And Zoroastrianism was the first one and it was Persian. It was in Persia. It was started by those people over there. And Cyrus the Great, and it became the official religion of that area. And Cyrus the Great was known as a good person, I guess. He was the first guy to give people individual rights and freedom. It was called the Cyrus Cylinder. And we're not talking about his cock, because that would be a great name for his cock. Hey, baby, want to see the Cyrus Cylinder?

No. Cyrus cylinder? No, the Cyrus cylinder is the like the first or one of the earliest or most known human rights declarations, right? They had a great infrastructure. They built something called the Royal Road, which probably let merchants go through and by merchants, you know what I mean? by merchants you know what I mean. A couple of happy merchant memes walking around, Havva, Nagila Havva, and that all went great until the Floyd made weather of generals, Alexander the Great came around and conquered it and then it was a little, there was a Greek period, then Parthian, then back to the Persians for a little bit, and then everything changed after the last great Persian civilization called the Sessian. I wonder if that's why Armenians are always IAN,

because they're around that area too. Who knows? I don't know about them. All I know is they're friends with us. Greeks and Armenians are friends because we both don't like Ottomans or former Ottomans, Turks. It's a very complicated tribal world.

Everyone just goes to Iran. Yeah, Iran I think is 90 to 90, 90% Shia Muslim. Now you're going like, oh, they're Muslims. No, they're Shia Muslim. There's a thing called Sunni Muslims. And guess what? They don't like each other too much. You go go who's

the biggest perpetrator of terrorism in the world is it white supremacists? No happens to be happens to be a lot of Muslims and who is the biggest victim of terrorism in the world happens to be Muslims that's just a fact why because of this-Shia controversy. The Shia are a minority of Muslims, the Sunni are a majority. So in Persia, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Ayatollah, I'm sorry, in Iran, they are Shia, right? So Iraq was the Sunni, Saddam was a Sunni and we'll get into it. But after the Sasanian Empire, which was sort of the last great pre-Islamic Persian Empire, we get to it's let's just call this Muzzy Town baby. This was the era where another great leader much like Alexander the Great or Cyrus a guy named Muhammad the great prophet praise be his name expanded now you're saying yourself wait a second I thought he was

a prophet yeah he is a prophet I think he was he didn't even write anything down like it was just oral right and he wrote the Torah the Quran sorry praise be his name and but what a lot of people don't know about him is you know he he was you know he's trying to start an empire here he's trying to unify there was a bunch of Arab and where were the Arabs Arabs are people on the Arabian Peninsula right is the Arabian Peninsula and they were fighting each other, just like everyone at some point was fighting each other that had the same DNA, tribal, right? Because if you lived close back then, you really lived far. You know, by yesterday's standards, close was far.

We didn't have planes, we didn't have cars. If you lived over there, you did your own thing, and over here they did their thing. Back in the day, you were probably the same thing and then one of you walked this way, one of you walked the other way. You met different girls, you started a thing, then your thing got big and you walked over to that thing and said, oh, what's this thing over there? They got a thing going over there and we need more things. So I'm going to go to his thing and take his things. Because it was different, people were doing different things very close

by different things. Mountains around, nobody wanted wanted to walk it was a whole thing it was a whole schlep nobody wanted to schlep over there unless they wanted more things and it takes a while to want more things but it's a whole thing to get on the horse and oh so so the Arabs were a bunch of different tribes and then Muhammad comes along and you know he looks at Judaism, Christianity, he goes ba ba ba ba ba, praise be, glory be his name. Do Scientologists say that about L. Ron Hubbard, who started a religion, did they say glory to his name?

The Theaton. So by the way, I do believe in some sort of god. Um, I don't know, but uh, this stuff is fun. Um, so then he unites those tribes and they, they march out. They march out. They're called Mujahideen, which means we're going to spread the word, we're going to get some shit. They're called mujahideen, which means we're going to spread the word, we're going to get some shit. We're going to get some shit. We're going to go out and they come and they conquer Persia. They conquer, you know, Muhammad starts it, then he dies, and then within a couple of decades, don't, I mean, I would say, I would go like maybe you got to go Alexander the Great, Goat, right? Then maybe Attila the Hun or, or what's his name?

Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan, Napoleon, I don't, but then, how come nobody was, how come, why is he, it's just very interesting to me. Because it's like not supposed to be a thing. That part's not supposed to be a thing. But you gotta kind of put them in the, you know? It's like, it's like Deion Sanders, right?

Everyone under appreciates how good he was at basketball or Bo Jackson, he was really good, I'm sorry, at baseball. Because Bo Jackson too was good at baseball. But people just like always remember him for football. But it's like, he also did this other thing. It Bo Jackson too was good at baseball, but people just like always remember football, but it's like, he also did this other thing. It's like, Muhammad was good at that thing, but he was also kind of good at Alexander the Great's thing. He did that thing too.

So you gotta put him in the goat. When you look at the amount of land and how quick, you gotta put him in a goat conversation as conquerors, you know, which is, it's a point of contention where people go, I don't, you know, every look, in my opinion, I go with God's opinion. And God's opinion, God's opinion is the killing, there was a documented killing of I Think in what is now Iraq 600 to 900 Jews that were a tribe That he ordered executed them all

He did he did some he approved he approved of Some tactics that happened during conquering some tactics that happened during conquering. He himself was at battles, you know, he himself may have killed, but here's the thing, all those killings, and I go with God's way about this, were part of that time and also not crimes in Islamic law. So that's what we need to remember. That's what we need to remember. These were righteous, these were more, these were God approved because it was part of war. So it wasn't the type of murder you're thinking about. It wasn't the type of like killing a guy. You got to put context into it, right?

So I'm skating on thin ice. But I'm just reporting what they say in history. So you know, that's a little controversial. Some skeptics will say, oh, what about that? And then, but you got to remember that they don't understand that that's Islamic law and that is okay. And Muhammad is the perfect human being. Praise be his name.

So he comes and they conquer. They conquer the Persian Empire, they conquer all the way to Spain, they conquer all that area, the Arabs spread out and you know, people now go, oh, the Arabs are all in the Middle East. That's not how it goes. The Arabs are there. They multiplied somewhat, but there's all these other types over there. A lot of them have left because the Arabs got in there but you know for example the Arabs in

Iran we I think most Americans go those Arabs over there. You know it's like two percent Arabs in Iran so two percent it's like the Jews here there's not a lot of Arabs in Iran. There are Persians who were converted after they were conquered. And I think they had them for a long time. The Muzzies had them for a long time, so there's plenty of time for them to convince them to change things up a little bit. How that convincing happened is a historical debate. What the Muzzies did is, you know, a lot of places they let you have your religion

or your thing, but they taxed you pretty heavy. And so I think the most, you know, I think a way, you know, you look at some sciences when sciences says certain things like genders, contracts, things like that, or you go, or you look at history and when history says, you know, what they did was they didn't want to get taxed anymore. So they converted. You go, if I was a historian, that's the way I'd phrase it too.

Because why cause a stir? Let's just go with the, you know, they peacefully decided to convert because they didn't want to be taxed. That's what happened. That's the way. There was no forced conversion. There was no murders. There was nothing like that. There was no rape. There was none of that. It was, hey, if you don't convert, you get charged this amount of money. If you do convert, you get just, your choice is yours. There was just a kind, it was a handshake type of thing. It was a handshake type of thing that everyone in that area decided to somehow abide by because now 90% of Iran, which used to be Persia, which used to all be Zoroastrianists or whatever

are now Shia Muslims. Now what's the difference between Sunni and Shia? Okay. One of them is more into divine right of kings. The other one's more a little bit Who's the best guy for the job, right? The she is they go. Hey, listen Muhammad was the guy Okay, so somebody who's related to him

Has to be the guy so we're gonna go what I think his cousin who is his uncle or something We're gonna go with him We're gonna back him but then he got killed and so that radicalized them and they've always considered themselves a persecuted minority Whereas the Sunnis go hey, it's gotta be the best guy for the job. So they supported I think one of his generals To lead Islam, which again we have that issue. He's a general, but he's also a spiritual leader You know, there's killing but the killing is He's also a spiritual leader. You know, there's killing, but the killing is okay in Islamic law. At the time, it's okay.

It's all okay. So those, that's the difference. One of them wants the best guy for the job, the one of them wants everyone to be the descendant of Muhammad, and Shia is the big minority. Sunni is the majority of Muslims. And they have a spit here and there, a spit and a spat, they kill each other, they bomb each other, they blow each other up, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But ethnically they're not Arabs. They're just like Turkish or ethnically not Arabs. They're Turkic.

A lot of them are paler. So it's really Islam that became the dominant religion there, right, over time. But then the Europeans got strong. Europeans got strong, they figured out industrialization, and they said, we need some oil. Sandra's, Sandra, they called Sandra on the phone and said, you got some oil. And they said, we're praying five times a day. And we say, okay, look, we're going to come bomb you. What we need is a good oil. And they say, you can't take it. You're exploiting our people. Say, okay, we're going to bomb you. And they say, okay oil and they say you can't take it You're exploiting our people say okay. We're gonna bomb you and they say okay

Look, we want to pray and we'll give you the oil So we said up the oil we came like Omar from the wire and we said up the oil And he said okay. He said in order for us to keep getting this oil. I need to put my guy in there So the British the Russians whoever else got in there and said boom boom bang, here's your guy. He went to school in Switzerland, now he's your leader. CIA, MX-16, whatever they did, boom bang bang. We fast forward all the way, 1915 or something like that. Where are we? Where are we at? 19 19, I'm sorry, 1925. So that was off 10 years, 1925.

They say, here's your guy. His father, he hated him, but his son, he went to Switzerland, he was educated. He's never been to Iran. He's gonna show up there, he's gonna lead you. He speaks with an American accent. Have you ever heard his interviews? You ever seen him?

I mean, a guy has no accent. He's like, lead in Iran. He's like, leading Iran. He's like, here's the thing. You're like, you're Iranian? It's like, actually, I'm just, I don't know, I'm Swiss. I don't know what's going on. They put me in. So we install this shah, and we say,

we install the shah to say, hey, business as usual, good prices on this oil. And they go, yeah, but the people feel like we're being exploited. You say, you suppress those people. Here's on this oil. And they go, yeah, but the people feel like could be exploited. You say you suppress those people. Here's all this money. So he lives lavishly, he does big celebrations and the people start to get a little fed up because of the income disparity. They're Islamic, they're they feel like the Western influences their rape in their country during this time, you know, discos's there chicks are showing their mini skirts and whatever

The Muslims are getting a little like what's going on? This is not what we're about next thing, you know, boom Revolution shot is ousted and At this time Israel and Iran were chill. They were chill. They were sharing Intel They were doing all this stuff trading boom then Ayatollah comes in and he goes, boom, it's a revolution, anti-American, because we installed a puppet, we did, and we're against them and they're a little Satan. That's the big Satan and the little Satan is Israel and they just adopt that sort of victim, you know, because they're Shia, so they're victimized by the Sunni, and they go, America, the Western powers, they're in here, which they're not wrong.

They were not wrong. We're not going to be exploited by them anymore. Israel's an illegal occupation. Palestinians were going to support them, even though I think the Palestinians are Sunni, right? It's weird because it's very weird. No, because Hamas I think Hezbollah is like Sunni, Hezbollah is Shia, but Israel unites them, which is like that's a good thing. At least Israel unites Sunni and Shia. It's very, I don't know which one's which,

but Hezbollah I think could be Sunni or Shia and Hamas is, they're not all, my point is they see common ground because if they hate Israel if you didn't have Israel they very well could be killing each other yet has bliss is Shia but Hamas I think is Sunni right is Hamas Sunni Hezbollah is Shia so they're more Persian but Hamas is Sunni. So they're supporting Hamas, but they wouldn't otherwise do that if there was no Israel, lion in Zion.

If there was no lion in Zion. So it's very complicated. Then you got the Kurds. The Kurds are Sunni, but they hated Saddam Hussein who was Sunni, because he was oppressing them because they wanted their own land but but but So even though sometimes you may even have the same religion They don't like each other because then it becomes about nationalism or something else is a lot of fighting this fucking area is

from another century my friends Where things weren't so unified it's very messy over there You got Azerbaijan's who have their own country, their tribe, but then there's also an ethnic group of them in Iran. You know, Farsi, they don't speak Arabic in Iran. They speak Farsi, which is the Persian language. So that's really the turning point was when you know They had the Islamic Revolution and they said we hate America It was a rebellion against the CIA backed coup and how they were controlled the oil You know, and of course we didn't want a nationalized oil. We didn't want an Islamic Revolution

We wanted business as usual and we want to be able to go to a drive-in movie theater. We wanted kids to be able to afford burgers, fries, and take a girl for a nice drive in your new Ford or your Buick. And just be able to afford it just with a little pocket money from your parents who worked at the factory, or your mom was a cashier at Sears.

And so our lifestyle was like, hey, you gotta be able to take your girl was a cashier at Sears and so our lifestyle was like hey you got to be able to take your girl for a milkshake at a diner and not have to pay out the pocket you got to be able to afford the milkshake so the gas has to be low and Iran said fuck you though the people said fuck you because the Shah was living nice and people connected to him who was selling the oil to the west was living nice and the people said we're taking off heads. And then from that point on, it's been an Islamic country that is a little less than understanding to women's needs because when Islamics came in, now what you don't know is 70 to 80 percent of the graduates in engineering and shit like that now are women in Iran.

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Conditions apply. So that's where we are today. After this 1953 CIA-backed coup that then led to a revolution, and that revolution, as soon as it got into office was extremely Muslim and and hated the United States and Israel from its founding and then from that point on Israel and Iran have just been lobbing shit back at each other just missiles I mean imagine just being in Lebanon and just you're like you know shit it's just it's going back and forth. It's like watching a tennis match.

They're just sitting there in Lebanon at like nightclubs, just going like this. And then of course, Lebanon gets hit a little bit too, cause they have some Hezbollah in there, you know, which is Iranian funded. So Iran's been trying to fucking get, uh, Israel for a long time. And so Israel has now finally just fucking went all out and is taking on this nation of 92 million from a country that's smaller than New Jersey. So Israel's going like, they tried to kill the president and you're going like, was that Iran?

They're going like, we're telling you it was Iran. Cause they want us in. And Trump wants to go in anyway, cause he doesn't want an Iran with the bomb and I think a lot of countries don't want Iran with a bomb it's not just us there's a lot of people you wouldn't think I don't think Saudi Arabia wants Iran with a bomb because they're not cool because why the Saudi Arabians are Sunni and the Iranians are Shia and they fucking hate each other they hate each other they They hate each other. They're not all unified. So are they enriching

uranium according to the Israelis? They are. I mean they probably are. They probably are because I don't know if Israel would risk this if they weren't. It seems like they're just going like we're just gonna take the head off now like we've fucked this But then there's the other side you're going like this is also convenient You know is really prime minister about to go to trial about to maybe go to prison Definitely not gonna be outed out of office all of a sudden some hand gliders come in They kill his political opponents really who were like, you know those fucking like hippie-dippy

Israelis not his party the Likud party right there more like the hey man, let's make a deal people So he doesn't really care about them anyway, right? They're his political enemy They go in and kill them and then he goes Oh, I get to go into Gaza and then you're gonna like are you gonna go and then you're like, whoa What do you do? Whoa? Whoa? He's like, I'm doing go into Gaza, and then you're going like, all right, you're gonna go, and then you're like, whoa, what are you, whoa, whoa, he's like, I'm doing what I always wanted to do, cleanse them, get a greater Israel, and you're going, that's inconvenient,

and then you go, wait, wait, are you gonna fucking, you always wanted to go to where they ran to, are you gonna fucking go to a, and you go, he's not gonna do that, this is not, what, and then he's doing it, so you're going like, was this all kinda like part of his thing? Probably, Probably.

It's messy over there. But what I can tell you is Israel is a traumatized group of people surrounded by people who don't like them, and they kind of act accordingly. who don't like them and they kind of act accordingly. And I could tell you that Muzzies, they just never were big fans of the Frisbees either. So, you got a problem over there. You got a really messy problem. And here we are, we don't know what's gonna happen, but that's a little bit of how we got here.

Now, so what Netanyahu's hoping for and everyone's hoping for is a little regime change, but not just a regime change because that's been done before and we see that it doesn't work in Iran. But here's why people, I think, who are doing these things may think, oh, Persia was once this. That's why we're talking about Persia. Persia was once, you know, the homorumi and great thinkers. Yes, that was during the Islamic period, but culturally, it was very advanced.

It wasn't like this repressed against women. Women were in skirts, and they had these revolutions recently with the young students going like, we wanna take off the hajibs, and Nike says, that's disrespectful. We want to sell Nike hegebs. Is it how transparent was that when they said,

another piece of merch we can sell, we're for it. Why would you take it off? Why would you take, we can't, I can't put a Nike sign on your head, but I can put a Nike sign on your hegeb. Remember when they were selling Nike fucking jeeps oh god we're a funny we're a funny species and they did that sort of with righteousness like we're standing out for a Muslim person you go isn't that like oppressive towards women they go

listen dude we're trying to sell another piece of apparel. It's another thing that adds to our revenue Where it's a market? There's the Nike. There's the Nike a Nike imagine walking around with a Nike frisbee on if you're a job It's a Nike the Jeep Said Nike Jeep. There's a fucking swoosh on the Jeep. I Mean how funny is that? Dude, that's like if you had a cross on and Jesus was wearing fucking Jordans.

That's if Nike started making crosses with Jordans on his feet. They're branding religion, I mean, it's fucking hilarious. And then they claim the moral high ground. I mean, it's fucking hilarious. So they're hoping, you know, and those revolts are coming from, you know, maybe some younger minorities. They live in different places.

Here's the thing, Iran is mostly urban. I think 65 or 75% of the people live in urban areas. It's not a backwoods place. And so they're hoping for a cultural revolution, right? And here's the thing, Jews, there were a lot of Jews in Iran, right? And like, like, I like, I don't know if I mentioned, but Cyrus, when he took control and established sort of the Persian Empire, he freed the Jews. He was like one of the first, right? Am I right about that? Cyrus freed the Jews. So the Jews were flourishing. There's a lot of Iranian Jews. I met my first Iranian Jew who I think was in retrospect

a Mossad spy, but besides that, one of my good friends, he was like the first like dark skin Jew that I met. Because when you grow up in Brooklyn, they're all kind of European Jews. And that's another thing people go, those are colonizers, like you do know that they're all Semitic. They just got paler because they intermarried with Europeans. But the Jews are from fucking the Middle East. So they, yeah, they got kicked out and they went to Europe and then over generations and generations, who are they gonna bang?

They bang Polish people, they bang Czech people, they bang Russians, they went up to Russia, they went to England, they banged white people. But originally, I don't have any Jew genes in me, thank God. No, but I'm saying like, you know, they have Middle Eastern, I don't have Middle Eastern, I got more North African and Ottoman,

which I guess is Middle Eastern. I got a little bit Arab, what can you do, 2%. An Arab got in there, I got 2%. That's low though, right? It's about the same amount as my Neanderthal DNA. So it's not that much. You know, all white people have Neanderthal DNA, which is crazy.

I think it's like, I think mine was like, yeah, 2 2% or something like that or less than that, but I have 2%. So at some point there was like a full Arab in my family line. So yeah, just to let you know, in 586 BCE, way before Christ, the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar – fuck it, who cares, conquered the kingdom of Judah, that's when Babylon took the Jews, and that was the first destruction, okay, now I remember, the first destruction of the temple, not the second temple, this was the first temple. So, this dude, Nebuchadnezzar, hard to pronounce, conquered Judea, Judah,

Nezor, hard to pronounce, conquered Judea, Judah, and destroyed the first temple. So this was the first time the Jews got a little ass kicking in what is now Israel. And here's the first time the Jews were exiled out of that area. And they were exiled to Babylon. And this is known as the Babylonic activity. But in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great reconquered Babylon and incorporated it into the Persian Empire, and then he issued his proclamation, the Cyrus Cough, Cyrus Cylinder, and he allowed the Jews, the exiled people, to return to their homelands and rebuild the temples.

So this is where the lore comes from. They've always been getting kicked out. They were first kicked out by Ebenezer Scrooge and then after Ebenezer Scrooge it was the Romans. So but they were there and they wanted to set up the thing. I don't know why people are always quick at them fucking kicking them out. Maybe it's because they just they got sick of haggling. It's just the price is what the price is. The price is what the price is, Solomon. You're making me upset. But I guess they've been feisty from the beginning. I don't or maybe they're so committed or maybe it's because they called them chubs of truth.

I don't know. Um, but yeah, I mean, I think it's because they don't want to convert because usually like let's say I think it's because they don't want to convert because usually like let's say neb neb Ebenezer Scrooge conquers and he goes okay now we're gonna be whatever his god was and they just stick to their shit then you're just gonna go alright we're gonna kill you kick you out or both that's probably what it is and if you look through the thousands year if they stuck to that fucking religion so I guess it has to be that or maybe they're just wicked annoying.

I don't know. So Cyrus allowed them to return and then they were hanging around for a long time because that Persian Empire lasted a long time. So they kind of flourished in Iran. And that's why Cyrus is kind of remembered, I think favorably by the Jews. And they look at Iran and that's what Netanyahu is probably playing on. It's like, remember, we were Persian, we were Jew,

and we went and we, you know, we all went to the same thing and we had milkshakes and hummus plates and stuffed peppers and dolmades and all the food that we call Israeli, but it's really Arab food. So that's what they're hoping for. So they're kind of playing on that old Persian thing, and there are a lot of Persian people, it's very complicated, who like, you know, they glorify, they remember that Persian era, but it's been Muslim for so long, but that great era when they were Persian, you know,

they glorify probably like, you know, the Greeks are Christian, but that great era when they were Persian, you know, they glorified probably like, you know, the Greeks are Christian, but before we were Christian we had this great Greek civilization. So a lot of Greeks hold those two things in their heads at the same time, and it's very interesting. But yeah, there's this dissonance about it being a conqueror's god. There's a dissonance about that. And I think that the Persians have that same dissonance because it's so long ago because I always you know as a Greek heretic As I'm probably known in the Greek community Which just means independent thinker I just noticed that you know the Greeks it's a it's a conqueror's God I mean there it is what it is the Romans it's a conqueror's god I mean it is what it is the Romans it was a conqueror's god it became the official the Romans conquered

Greece and then they spread Christianity unified everyone was a conqueror's god it wasn't originally a Greek god it was originally a Jew Jesus was a Jew and then the Jews and then again Constantine made it the thing and so it's just accepted so I think it's very similar in Persia where Islam is just accepted it's just accepted. So I think it's very similar in Persia where Islam is just accepted. It's not thought of as a conqueror's god. I mean, even the blacks, it's the same way. Like the people who were enslaving them gave them a god.

So this is your new god. And then I think it just, I think they like it. I think they go, this is fucking pretty good. I don't know if it's Stockholm syndrome. I don't know if we all got good gods. I don't know if it's Stockholm syndrome. I don't know if we all got good gods. I don't know what it is. But so is it going to work? I don't think so. Unfortunately, you can't apply new school rules to an old school beef. This is an old school beef. The only way to solve this beef is if somebody wipes somebody out because that's the way it

used to go and people just flee because like I don't want to get wiped out. The Jews fled Judea, the kingdom, whatever. So many names to remember and so much changing hands in history but when they, they fled because they were getting wiped out. And there was nobody protesting for them. They were just like, we're going to go to rock. We're fucking rotting away. And that's the way it ends. And that's what this is.

It's a fight over land. People who were there a long time ago, people there more recently. But the people were there more recently also came. And it's this thing. They're fighting over these hunting grounds, like animals do and now the Israelis have the power. They got the thing and they want it and the other people don't want to leave and it's like you can't and everyone's going what's right what's wrong and you're like this isn't a right wrong thing. This is an animal thing. People fighting over land. So it's an old school problem and

people are trying to solve it with new school rules and you can't and unfortunately There's just what is there 50 arab countries or something like that? And let's not even call them arab countries because they're not all arab because they're muslim countries, right? So there's how many? a lot there's a lot And there's this tiny little jewish country and it's in their neighborhood. It's it's a you know, I mean it just It just is what it is. And they look at it like South African government. They look at it like Israel's the South African government of all of the Middle East, right? Because they all hate each other, but what they're united in is like

despising Israel, the people. You know, Saudi Arabian people, I'm sure if you go to Saudi Arabian people on the street, they'll all say we hate Israel. The government is starting to make concessions because they're modifying and they want to do business, but Muslims hate Jews because of Israel. There are 27 countries, 50 in the world, so 27 in the Middle East. That's a lot. And so they're always going to be surrounded and this is never going to end and that's what makes it so fucking scary and I will admit part of it, a big part of

what makes it scary is Israel has a nuke. So everyone's worried about Iran having a nuke, but everyone's trying to wipe Israel, all their average is trying to wipe Israel. Israel will just nuke. They will do it because they're zealots too. They have religious zealots and that's why they went back to Israel because of their religion. So like they'll nuke. So fuck. So just fuck. So just fuck because I can't see how this doesn't end. It's like almost like I don't see a way. Do you? Because they're just, you think there's just gonna be this massive enlightenment amongst all the Muslim world where they're just going, you know what? It's fine. Let's just take the Palestinians, move them. They'll be upset.

We'll put them... Do you see that? No, the Palestinian one is tougher, but if you can get what that dude is doing in Saudi Arabia, if you get a guy like him in over in Iran. You just want to wet their beak a little bit? Yeah, build some casinos, build some strip clubs, get it going, you know. But then what happens in Saudi Arabia when the, again, when the Islamists go, this is the devil's shit, devil's juice, and then they come in and they wipe out that regime. We can't have that, no, no, no. Well, you know, it's just inevitable.

Once the Western influence comes, then, you know, the carpets come out. Is it equal but opposite reaction? Because let's be honest, our culture's a little debaucherous. We gotta give them a little thing called TikTok, a little thing called Instagram, get them hooked on the algorithm, get them nice and peaceful. Yo, yo, yo, yeah. I'll just be honest with you, I don't see an exit

out of this quagmire without major fucking carnage that's gonna ripple and reverberate everywhere. This is a tough one. This is just as tough as Taiwan. I think Taiwan's not as scary as people think Taiwan's scarier. I don't think it's scarier because I'm just, I'm not trying to give you a tip China, but I don't think fucking NATO is going to do shit. I think China is just going to take it. I think we're preparing for that. And that's why we're bringing all the chips and shit. Everyone thinks, oh, that's America first. We're also preparing. It's everything's financial. We're just preparing. They want the thing. It's the smart move. Fucking bring the chips here and fucking throw Taiwan to the lions. Who gives a fuck about Taiwan?

One China, who gives a fuck? The only reason we like Taiwan is because they give us good deals. And they're, you know, they help us control that growing thing a little bit, some bases and shit. Who gives a fuck? What are they going to do? Nobody's going to, who gives a shit about Europe too? Take it! Just stay away from fucking... You know what I mean? Take Canada! I'd like to get some shwarma up there.

I don't give a fuck! Just stay out of New York! It's gonna get to that point where it just keeps encroaching. We're like, okay, just stay out of the tri-state area. They're like, okay, just stay out of the tri-state area. And they're like, okay, just stay out of Brooklyn. Okay. Just stay out of Bay Ridge. Okay. Just stay off this block. Everyone's trying to take over the world. Um, and it's just what it is. And, um, I see no exit. it is. And I see no exit. The only exit I see is aliens coming or a massive, massive, massive high dose. I'm talking high dose of clonopin in the water supply for the whole globe. And that's it. That's the only, or AI, AI taking over, like AI,

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