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Point to one ally in the past forty- seven years that Iran has backed away from

supporting and standing with, and I will accept this narrative.

Hasan, let me remind you of a piece of information and a fact: Iran shut the door

on Hamas when Hamas refused to stand with the Syrian regime.

Will Iran abandon Lebanon and

Hezbollah after what Israel did in Beirut yesterday?

Of course, Israel is clearly separating the two fronts, and I completely

agree with that. This has never happened, and if it does, it would be a one-

hundred- eighty- degree change from Iran’s course for forty- seven years.

I said, point to one ally in the past forty- seven years

that Iran has backed away from supporting and standing with,

and I will accept this narrative. There is none, there is none. Whereas the United

States throws

its friends and those who ally with it under the bus and does not care about them.

Hasan, let me remind you of a piece of information

and a fact: Iran shut the door on Hamas when Hamas refused to stand with the

Syrian regime.

There is a commission at the

United Nations that denied…

I am just reminding you, in New York. What support?

And this exists. Hasan, to clarify,

the allies Iran has two specific conditions, if they lose them,

they will no longer be allies in the Iranian perspective. First, that they do not

align with the United States and Israel.

And second, that they do not stand against Iran and its allies.

If an ally stands against another ally, they remove him,

and Iran is then free of him.

To move away from a policy of generalization,

Iran thinks about its own interests

and it can reconsider its relationship with its allies when it sees that this ally

is not moving along with it or is becoming a burden on it.

This is behavior that can His interpretation can be justified, as Dr. Hassan wanted.

But let me also be clear, the system of the Islamic Republic under

these circumstances,

over the past forty- seven years,

has not faced any existential danger like this.

Therefore, it should not be surprising that it repositions itself, even with its

allies in this. I mean, one should not defend it and say “ By God,

it has abandoned them,” Dr. Hassan might say otherwise.

No, it can abandon that in exchange for survival.