Discussion on Economic Sanctions and Iran

Doctor, you're an academic representing Tehran University. Don't repeat politicians' narratives and lies to us, and the lies

of politicians and the lies

of the Revolutionary Guard. What kind of assessment

study can you offer on the consequences of the economic blockade

in the Strait of Hormuz?

Dr. Hassan, please respond.

I mean, it's shameful to use such words.

You're also a professor at Kuwait University. I'm not accusing you of lying.

And what is shameful? What is shameful about what I say?

It's shameful to repeat such words. Don't trade obscene insults.

I, I, I, I.

Dr. Hassan, Dr. Faisal, may I?

And I will not… I will not stoop to this level with you.

Dr. Hassan, Dr. Hassan, Dr. Faisal, just let me intervene.

Perhaps what I understood from the doctor's remarks is merely…

The criterion is not, is not…

Excuse me, just a point, a point of view, of course, perhaps, and I will speak

on his behalf. He did not mean to insult or offend, but he is asking about

the criterion by which you assess this situation.

Is it through your role as a professor and academic, or because you accepted that you repeat what the Revolutionary Guard says?

I am not making this a matter of insult or

Defamation.

And do you know why?

He tells me, "You keep repeating the Revolutionary Guard's lies."

He considers what the Revolutionary Guard says to be lies.

Let me explain.

By saying you repeat these lies, he has impugned the doctor.

Since he said, "It's shameful," let me explain. At the beginning of his remarks, he said

"I subscribe to the Iranian narrative, and you are an objective academic."

You should not subscribe to the narratives and lies of politicians.

Politicians lie, but as an academic, you are supposed to offer

an objective opinion.

All right, let's hear what Dr. Hassan has to say.

I said—

I will defer to what came before.

I said that I—

I did not accuse you.

Let me speak.

Go ahead, Dr. Hassan.

I told you, I trust what the Iranians say, I do not trust what the

Americans say. It's up to you whether you believe them.

You keep repeating, you keep repeating lies.

Dr. Faisal, let's hear what Dr. Hassan has to say.

The point is that he noted that we have 47

years of testing. All of this happened, everything

he referred to happened, and it did not lead to what the Americans hoped for.

This is propaganda. For 47 years, they have not reached any

Something. Today, the situation has changed, for example.

Of course it has changed, the indicators have changed.

They have become, for example.

The indicators have changed.

Let me speak.

Of course, the destruction, the destruction of the oil industries

and the infrastructure of Iran's oil industry is unprecedented

in Iran.

Today, as we speak, the United States, the United States

is trying to find a way out through a blockade, through opening

the Strait, through a change in the equation. Iran has done nothing.

Iran is biding its time, standing on its own

territory, and telling the United States there is no path

to negotiation or war. This is not a narrative, this is

a position.