Persian → English transcript

We can no longer say Israel is bad, the Shah was bad,

he was bad, this is bad, that is bad.

Because right now, for the moment, we ourselves are the worst of all.

And the disasters we are bringing down on our own people, in every area,

none of them have ever brought on this scale. Now, since I mentioned Israel,

I would like to say this.

Look, if you look at the number of Syrians killed, just the dead,

and set aside their displaced people and destruction and refugees and all that,

it is five hundred thousand people,

and in any case we played a role in that. Or look at Yemen now,

it has been seven years of civil war, in which we played a role,

and we have set off Muslim- on- Muslim killing.

If you add up the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel,

I doubt it even reaches,

say, one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand.

So right now our Muslim- killing has become greater than Israel’s, and the policy…