Persian → English transcript

Look, analytically speaking, look,

the Trump administration has now quite clearly, well, not accepted it.

Mr. Pahlavi as… Why has it not accepted him? He says very logical things.

He says,“ Sir, you were not able to create unity among the rest of the opposition.

You were not able to show that the entire opposition is behind you. Now Mr.

Pahlavi’s supporters keep saying,“ In Iran…”

Where has the Trump administration ever said such a thing?

Well now, first of all, Mr. Javanmardi,

who after all is not the head of Voice of America, from the government’s side…

has said it many times, and in addition, they have told various reporters.

If you look at, for example, the Free Press report…

Of course, it did not say this unity, it did not say the unity of the opposition…

No, look, the U.S. government has a spokesperson, a State Department…

you cannot, for example, count the head of

the Persian section of Voice of America as the spokesperson for the U.S.

government. The last thing we heard from Mr. Trump himself… The last thing…

What we ourselves heard from Mr.

Trump was that we have to see what happens on the ground…

But it seems that he is a good man and

I think it is natural that Mr. Trump or the U.S. government, in this situation…

would not officially support any of the opposition groups,

just as they still have not done in Venezuela.

I understand what you are saying,

that maybe there is not a very organized structure behind him…

But we are not talking in a vacuum, Mr. Azizi, it is not like that,

I mean you are in the middle of a game… and when you are playing cards,

you have to play based on the cards you have in your hand.

Another option that does not now seem to be

meaningfully available to Iranians is, one…

and two, the protesters themselves,

both in Iran and all over the world, are now protesting… it seems that there is a

considerable cohesion behind him. The political situation is fluid,

someone else might be there in four years,

but at this moment It seems that he has this consensus in his hands.

No, I do not think that is the case at all, he…