[snorts] Good morning to you all. Good morning everybody. Um it's 9:01 in Washington DC. This is your host Arash Aloy and you're watching Capital Reports. Thank you for tuning in. It's my first live in English. Um um if you are not familiar with this channel, if you haven't been a part of this journey, we are growing very rapidly on YouTube within the past few weeks. um focusing on Iran and FARC speakers and you probably notice a lot of um um commenting um if um you turn on translations, it's um it's going to help you translate some of the subtitles, some of the comments and also this live throughout. Um thank you for tuning in. Good people of Iran. um mostly have uh join in um so if you want to make friends if you um look on the right side you see a lot of comments and know that is not Arabic that's far that's good people of Iran joining in so if you want to make friends with Iranian people if you want to know Iranians if you're curious to know about what's happening in Iran and you want to hear directly from Iranian people a lot of them join in from all over the world I say hello and greetings to you. Durude to everybody. Um, thanks for joining in. Um, let's dive right into it. As you probably have heard, the United States has uh conducted a successful operation snatching the Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro from it his own uh fortifi fortified palace. problem. Basically, they took him out and they snatched him in Karacas and now um Nicolas Maduro is being arraigned in New York in Southern District Court of New York. um a very um unique operation. Um for those of us who've been um video gamers, if you've been a video gamer, I've been a video gamer for more than two decades, mostly firsterson shooting games. and the type of video games that I've played starting from Counter Strike and then Call of Duty and Battlefield and we obviously were very competitive playing video games and watched a lot of demos from different clans throughout these two decades and even on like Call of Duty Black Ops which is the type of virtual game and operations that's similar to what has happened in Venezuela right Now um there are clans that you know they when they play against other clans and then you watch their demos. I remember this clan on Counter Strike called DBZ Divided by Zero. They were a bunch of hackers and these guys I remember they were playing I think DDS 2. It was a very popular map on Counter Strike and they um they um it was five on five counter strike was five on five five terrorists five five counter terrorists and then you you had an operation either had to plant a bomb or you had to rescue the terrorists. So it was five on five first person shootings. These guys, DBZ stormed the first um throughout the first round, killed everyone, gave zero frags. Second round, again, they gave zero frags. And then I think the third or fourth round, the other team scored two frags. They killed two of them. They still won the round, but they had two frags. And it aggravated them to a level that they went in and they just won every single round with zero frags. And mind you, this was in the winners bracket. So they were actually com they were actually competing with another winner team and they destroyed them just giving them two frags within 13 rounds. Um, now these are gamers who are sitting behind computers playing with mouse and computers. Um, and these guys ended up winning a championship. Each of them won $1 million um for that championship pretending to be um special operation forces playing a video game that is based on the reality. And this is what has happened. This is what has happened in Venezuela. And how it's different from that virtuality of this the game that I'm we are all playing is that these guys are actually doing the operation. They've done conducted an operation with zero frags. Americans were able to go in and snatch Nicolas Maduro without being pretty much taken a shot at them. Nobody was killed. No Americans were harmed. I don't I don't think anyone even got injured. It's a very successful operation that is comparable to the best video games that we've ever seen played by best clans of the world. And this is the sad truth. And my take on this is that these men and women are actually the real heroes. And they have this is where the actual sacrifice is guys. Because while video gamers and clans make millions of dollars and get famed and they get trophies and they get all sorts of attention and privileges, these real men and women who have to put at least 50 60 kilos of all sorts of equipment on their back and they have the actual weapon have to AMA and do like do it in the real life. They getting pennies. They don't make much money. They don't get no fame. Many of them are anonymous. We will never know their names. And that's unfair. And these are the people who are fighting for all of us to have that kind of privilege to be able to sit behind computer and play video games and have that opportunity to make money um off of a game that we're playing after which is built after them. Like this is what they're doing in real life. they're doing it in real life and we play video games and we make money off of it or make fame and they don't. So that's the real sacrifice. That's my initial take as a video gamer who also is fascinated by this story of capturing Nicholas Maduro. Um how does this connect to other parts of the world like in Iran? I don't know about your politics folks. This is obviously the commanderin-chief, the President Trump has had a he has a vision for the new new vision for the world and regardless of your politics, this is a very successful oper operation. The mood of people in Venezuela and also in Iran, which is my home country where I was born and raised, is a one of joy. Everyone, people that I talk to, most of the people who are here, most of the Iranians who are in this live are very happy to see Nicholas Maduro fall. And not only that, he's brought into justice. That's the important thing is that the opportunity for the world to learn the atrocities and the criminality of these regimes once they're being put on trial, once they go to the under trial and then they get exposed, their lies are exposed, their regimes are exposed, once their criminality is exposed. This is going to create a lesson for the future generation not to make the same mistakes. So that is a great opportunity. It's something that makes people in Iran hopeful that they also witnessed that one day that the Ayatollah in Iran is not killed but captured and brought to justice because the atrocities, the crimes against humanity that the Islamic regime in Iran has committed throughout more than four decades and not only in Iran, not only against American soldiers, not only against American interests, not only against Iranian citizens, but in Lebanon, in Israel, in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, the atrocities and the criminality of this regime must be exposed. So the capture of Nicolas Maduro makes Iranian people hopeful that one day this could happen to the regime in Iran. They can also see the downfall. Not only the downfall, the bringing them to justice. the fact that they would be should they should be put into trial and they must be they must be exposed to the war. Their lies and their criminal regime must be exposed to the war. So that's another take that mood in Iran is hopeful. Um if um you're following the chain of events not more than 24 hours ago, President Trump made a very serious threat on through social to Iranian regime and he said if the Iranian regime goes after its own people and starts shooting people on the streets, the United States would come to the rescue. And now that he snatched Nicholas Maduro, that threat, it takes that threat to another level. Now that threat is practically means a within the last 24 hours, it means a lot more. it that the gravity of um this threat is a lot more and it is being completely noticed in tan um after and mind you when I'm looking at Venezuela and I have friends there in Venezuela if you've lived in America long enough you probably have come across Venezuelans many of them have sought refuge in the United States they're are very hardworking people they're very hardworking people they're good people and most of them most of The Venezuelans I know and in fact most of the Latin Americans that I I know are very sad of what's what has happened in Venezuela for the past two decades. I mean their country has gone to trash really. Their economy is in shambles. They've lost a lot of wealth and prosperity and millions of them have fled the country. So people in Venezuela are happy to see the Maduro fall, the Fondura regime fall and this also um gives them an opportunity back on some many of them want to if they want to go back home now this is a great opportunity for them to go back and build because the relationship between Venezuela and United States is historic. It's a historic relationship. It extends beyond a century, more than a century of very good relationship. There's a bond between Venezuela and United States. And a lot of these Venezuelans who live in the United States, they have the means to go back and build bridges, build relationship [snorts] and you know save Venezuela from the very abject poverty that is right now is basically the whole country is strangulated by by this Maduro regime by the brutality of them by the sheer incompetence of the socialist regime. There's hope now. There is that sense of hope in the air for Venezuelans and also for Iranians. Iranians are also looking at this event and they're looking at their situation in Iran and they're comparing it to Venezuela. Venezuela's situation is very similar to that of Iran in terms of incompetence in terms of the socialist regime. Pretty much a Marxist Islamics Islamic regime in Iran. very similar um bureaucracy, very similar level of corruption. And then the government spends a fortune on um we weapons, on military, on IRGC, on theocracy, things that has stop governments around the world has stopped funding for more than two centuries. The the regime in Iran takes the Iranian people's money and spends it on foreign adventurism. while the Iranian people are poor. So they look at their situation. Iranians say this is very similar to what's happening in Venezuela, you know, maybe maybe we are next. Maybe Iran is going to be next. So that gives them a lot of hope. As you can see in Washington DC, they're scratching their head still. The whole DC has been taken by surprise. Although the writings were on the wall, although President Trump has been saying this for about a year, although the Trump administration has actively been going after narot terrorists in southern hemisphere, they have hit more than 34 boats that allegedly has been carrying drugs for Venezuelan government or Venezuelan government has facilitated. So they've killed more than 104 narot terrorists. Although the writings were on the wall, Washington DC is still surprised. And that is because Washington DC doesn't want to hear. DC is a city uh that is very bureaucratic. It's it doesn't really care what happens in the world. Unfortunately, that's the truth. The truth is that DC as long as um as long as there's no real impact im imminent impact in the on DC doesn't care and DC doesn't want to know and now that President Trump has conducted his operation they the people in DC and think tanks are they're scratching their head and trying to figure out what's going to happen next. The thing with President Trump is that he has a new vision. He has a new vision for the world. This is a new vision and Trump's vision is aligned with what is happening on the ground. So it's he's taking a lot of power out of the hands of DC bureaucrats and they don't like it because they will be the last to know. They learn about these things through social media like you and I. And DC bureaucrats don't like that. I live in Washington DC. As you probably know, I'm a White House correspondent. I'm a congressional reporter. I've been reporting in the city for more than 17 years. I've been walking in corridors of Congress. I've been invited to parties and after parties and you know talking to this group or munch or this political um action group or that political action group. It's a closed circuit. It's a very closed society. Um um and they don't like it. They don't like when they see that they're the last to know. They they don't like to be treated like other people. They always want to have the privilege to jump in the middle of everything and try to manipulate or at least insert different agendas. But President Trump is taking power out of the hands of DC bureaucrats and they don't like it a bit. They learn about what's happening through his social media posts and then once he does them just goes like you know briefs members of Congress after the fact that he's done this he he's doing it under the opaces of um law enforcement. He's smart. it. If you've been watching, if you've been reading um tweets and posts from Democratic senators mostly or the Republican isolationists, uh they're decrying, they're like, "Oh, this is illegitimate. He can't he he was not authorized. He didn't have authorization to wage war against another country." President Trump obviously had a mandate. um they the attorney general there's so many indictments against Nicholas Maduro in fact many of these indictments were issued during Biden administration against Nicholas Maduro. So he was a criminal and the long hand of justice in America extends beyond its borders. So for President Trump he doesn't believe that he needs justification or authorization from US Congress. He thinks this is law enforcement. You don't get permission to execute law enforcement. So, he's just gone and done it. Now, what are you going to do about it, DC? There's not much they can do. So, DC bureaucrats can, you know, shout and, you know, be sad about it or mad about it as much as they want. After all, this is a free country. This is the United States of America. People are free to express their thoughts. It's not Venezuela. It's not the Islamic Republic of Iran for sure. People are free to express their opinions and they're allowed to to to do that in United States. But the person who conducts the opera is conducting the this symphony is President Trump and everyone's going to play according to his tempo. So he's the one who's setting the tempo. He's if he if he was running if it was on a treadmill, Trump is running on the treadmill with speed up to 10 while DC bureaucrats and Democrats are trying to walk on number on two. They put it on level two and trying to catch up with President Trump. He's running so fast. He's going so fast in his own lane that they can barely catch up. So within the past two or three days, 2026 has started with a variety of news. I can't recall having had a year, having had a new year h and being being bombarded with so many different news and all of them unique and all of them hopeful. It is a very hopeful 2026 for sure and I hope uh for each and all of you around the world. I wish you hope and success and prosperity and I wish for all my Iranian friends to um for a better Iran, for a hopeful Iran, for a free and democratic and secular Iran. Um if you um are have been following the events in Iran, the there's been an uprising in Iran for the past six or seven days. People have taken up um taken out to the streets of Tehran, to the streets of different cities, even tiny cities, even towns that we've never heard uh that there there has been any demonstration or protest against the regime for the past six or seven days. They have taken out to the streets and there's a lot of supports. There's a lot of strikes. There's a lot of um solidarity with the Iranian people amongst the Iranian diaspora mostly in United States, Canada, other countries. But they're coming together. People are coming together and um chanting. Most of the chants that we're hearing in Iran are people are chanting Resi's name, Prince Reshavi, who is the heir to um the last king of Iran, Muhammad Res. And um this is the irony of history that after 47 years um now people are chanting his name and the dynasty of Pahvi in Iran again and it's not one or two videos it's like hundreds of thousands of people chanting Pahlavi's name either praising his grandfather Razasha the great Razasha the first which who ruled Iran in early 1900s they're either chanting his name. Um they're chanting like resa like your soul maybe um come with peace you know they just chant many chants that include the name of Palavi Muhammad Rasha Palavi also they call his name and also the um the crown prince of Iran resi who resides here in United States not so far away from us he lives in PTO Maryland in the Vim Hill, Washington DC area. And um as you probably know if you've been following um the Iranian affairs, he's been very active um res. He's been very active lately as of late because he's a lot of Iranians have been reaching out to him and asking him um to join basically to um offer um pretty much his life as as a leader to be being the leader to this movement in Iran. And um we're hopeful to see that this time around it's been the uprising in Iran are happening in a much faster frequency. We're hopeful to see that this time the regime is weak weakened enough and this operation in Venezuela brings much more hope. Um the fact that the United States is taking back the leadership in the world again and this is like setting by setting an example. They're setting an example. It's not just talk. When you want to lead the world, it's not just talk. United States is the only country who has the capability to conduct operations like this. They went in and came out without taking a single bullet at them. They like they this is the this must have been one of the most successful operations that have been conducted throughout the history of of warfare or law enforcement as President Trump wants to call it. So when you want to lead the world, you have to lead by setting an example and the United States military really did that. This is um a unique time. And another issue that I'd like to touch on is the kind of technologies that United States possesses because obviously when you look at this operation in Venezuela [sighs] first of all them the fact that they only have sent a few warships. Yes, it's one of the biggest armada flirtillas that has been witnessed throughout the western hemisphere history. It's but it's not a huge armada. It's like 15,000 service men and women who have been deployed around Venezuela. So with 15,000 people, you can't really control even a city. Like 15,000 people, I don't think there has been an instance that the United States or even any country in the world has been able to successfully go and snatch some other country's leader and not even being taken a shot at. So the closest that comes to mind is 1989 1990 in Panama which even at that time United States deployed more than 80,000 troops. Uh so this time 15,000 troops what helped these 15,000 troops is technologies that they have. The United States military and also the United States intelligence possess types of technologies that nobody in the world has and it does nobody has the can match them. Nobody has the capability to match them and the type of technologies that they possess and they deploy. If you look at this operation, not being taken a shot at, um they've been able to isolate the leaders of Venezuela. The generals that have been running the um um Venezuelan army were isolated and they completely their command and control completely collapsed. They were able to target each of these people separately. And then what obviously has been able they've been able to do which is very unique is that CIA has been able to provide accurate information very accurate information that is actionable actionable information and then then the military also followed suit and then they worked like a handing glove. Um, so it it it just fit perfectly. And so the type of technologies that the United States has, no other country has. Um, also we sort of have a muted response from Venezuelan allies, mainly Russia, China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran because they're still scratching their head like DC bureaucrats. They're left behind. They just ba basically learn about these events as they happen in real time. So they've been left out completely and this shows that how isolated many of these regimes are. They're just incapable and incompetent to communicate even with their own so-called allies. And lastly, what I want to touch on for my American friends, for my good followers in United States, um as an Iranian American, I was born in Thran. I was born and raised in Tehran until I was 27. I was a reporter in Tehran. I reported mostly for American outlets, but I also worked with a lot of Europeans as a freelancer. Um, but I was um charged with conspiring against national security because of two reports that I did with CBS actually. One of them was CBS 60 Minutes. Um, and I was I went to court. I I was summoned to the court of 1410 revolutionary court in Iran for two reports that I made for CBS. My main char the first charge was conspiring against national security and that could have got me behind bars for 25 years for one video for a single video that I made and I had to go to court. it it was a very you know long process 9 months basically going in and out every day um I survived that ordeal and I fled to United States I came here as a refugee and ever since I've also been a reporter mostly in forc outlets but you know I've also here and there worked with American media the what we've been witnessing in the Middle East for the last 47 years is the degradation of the Middle East going back to a two to a cold system that was abolished hundreds of years ago and they just came back and they were revived and they took Middle East down to hell. the kind of atrocities, the kind of um murders that they committed in countries like Iran under the [clears throat] auspicious of like the Sharia law under the rule of Sharia law they the techniques and tactics they developed they degregated the Middle East they brought it back a thousand years and many of those tactics are being caught copied now by narot terrorists in Latin America. If your head is not in the sand, Hezbollah, Hamas, many of these groups like ISIS, they've been communicating with each other and also with countries like Venezuela, countries like Mexico, they've been teaching these techniques to cartels. And we've been hearing [snorts] about this from Mexican people, from Colombians, from Venezuelans for a long time, that these cartels are using the same tactics of torture and fear mongering the same way as ISIS did, the same way as Hezbollah does or the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guard Corps do. Um, cutting I I don't want to get into details because I'm afraid YouTube might um flag this. I'm not going to get into the details of what they do, but the kind of murders, the kind of tactics we've watched on ISIS videos, they're doing the same things in Mexico because the cartels are ruling through fear. And they employ kids as they snatch kids from different cities in Mexico, mostly boys to do their bidding as early as 11, 12 years old. They teach them tactics. They teach them how to cut people open or torture people from very early age in Mexico. These cartels do. And who do they learn it from? They learn it from ISIS. They learn it from um these terrorist organizations especially ISIS that the way they torture and they rule nations through fear. So this is coming to our border now. These things these the type of the that type of mentality that type of thinking is very contagious. It is spreading through the world. It is spreading through Latin America. It has come to our shores. that's come to our borders in Mexico and the type of things that again if I talk about and I watch videos about it I'm really afraid that YouTube or other outlets they just flag you they you know because algorithms have no empathy algorithms have no empathy so as soon as you say words or you start you know reporting about what's actually happening in Mexico and in other countries you might get flagged I'm I'm not going to get into the details of that, but that ideology is contagious and it's coming to our borders and you know, you know, we have a choice. We have a choice now. My choice here is to report on it. My choice is not to be silent, not to be standing on the sidewalk and just letting that happen. Whether it comes to my home in America, whether it comes to, you know, my allegiance to the flag of this country. This country took me as a refugee. It was patient with me. It gave me opportunities. People here love me. I love them. This relationship, you got to love America to be able to survive here. It's not easy. Very competitive. It's a very competitive environment. Everyone's at their best. everyone is, you know, on top of their game, especially in Washington DC. It's not easy to survive in Washington DC. And I love it. You know, I've been thriving here. It's my home. And also, I come from Iranian descent. I was born and raised in Iran. So, you know, my choice is to speak up, to be vocal, and I suggest you do the same. Well, President Trump is um also um having a press conference at 11 a.m. Washington DC time. That will be a almost 90 minutes. We expect to hear from him what's going to happen next for Venezuela. Um it's I'm I'm hoping that he takes questions. I'm not going to be there in this press conference obviously on a Saturday. Um but h if I was there I would have wanted to ask him if this will have any kind of bearing or any kind of message for the Iranian regime. And again mind you 24 hours before this operation in Venezuela he threatened the Iranian regime against um shooting Iranian citizens the peaceful protesters and said United States is going to come to your rescue. So very hopeful to see what's going to happen next for Iran. Um my first live hit in English. Thank you so much for um being with me with Capital Reports today. Um it's 9:34 in Washington DC. It's been over a half hour. Um it's been going well. Thank you for joining in and u um if you know usually during my live hit I take questions at the end of the live. So if you have any questions in English if you're from the diaspora if you have if you're curious to know what you know what's happening in Iran how it relates how this operation that United States just conducted affects Iran. Um, please ask questions and I'll be happy to do my best. So, what are the Democrat think tanks thinking right now and the whole Iran or D? Is there an unified voice of policy Brits search in the United by regime change they've very well installed? Great question. Um, thank you so much for this question. It's so here's my analogy. Um, the United States was born the United was the United States was formed um by fighting the old colonial powers and of course the Great Britain being the biggest of them all. United States actually broke away was one of the colonies. It broke away. Uh so United States was the idea of United States was formed fighting old colonial powers and the the stronger the United States is the more unnerved these European colonial powers are all of them. It's not only the Britain, it's France, it's also Germany, Russia, all these old colonial powers, they envy the United States and they're not happy to see the United States growing stronger. The fact is that even for the Democrats because they have a constituency of Latins in the United States and this is how power works in the United States in order for you to have any kind of legitimacy um in the political spectrum. You need to have people voting for you. You need to have constituents who have plightes and they come approach you with their plightes and then basically how you rule is by forming coalitions. There is a very strong Latin coalition in United States. obviously very historic relationship between Latin America and the United States extends beyond a century more more and this um they they have pretty much a united front when it comes to fighting socialism the kind of Latin Americans who have fled and came here to United States are mostly capitalists capitalists who couldn't survive the socialist rule in Latin America America. So they came here because of the opportunities and also to to to be away from that ideology of socialism, Marxism. They fled Marxism. So they're generally happy to see what's happening in Venezuela, the Latin Americans who live in the United States. And these are the constituents of many of these Democrats as well. So even for the Democrats, they're threading the needle. Although they don't they hate to see President Trump win. They do anything. Democrats they they do anything to take away a win from President Donald Trump. Although they hate President Donald Trump because of the fact that they have constituents who are Latin, they're kind of threading the needle. there's not much pressure that they can put on President Trump on this one because it would have ramifications for them that extends beyond just a political act. So, um they said, "What do you uh have to say about the leftists in America that are silent?" Um I've if you've been wa watching if you've been following capital reports I've been criticizing the left um especially after the latest uprising in Iran. Like I have friends in Washington DC who spend hours talking about Gaza and what's happening in Gaza and um putting pressure on Israel and some of them rightfully so. I mean many of them many of us are not happy to see things that are happening in um Gaza or or or also in Israel. The fact of the matter is that when these things, the same atrocities take place in Iran, the left is silent because they kind of have a relationship developed with these Islamic groups and then they go basically on a um an estate that is just comparing apples and oranges. So the left has been out of touch. Um they had a they were hopeful after the JCPOA, the nuclear deal, the framework that President Barack Hussein Obama developed that that would survive. They're very they were really unnerved, mad at Trump when he pulled out of the Iran deal. So that has they take it with a a grain of political salt, if you will. And um they're threading their I think on a on a wrong side of history. I think they're they're on the wrong side of the history. Only history has to prove it. I requested if possibly as the director of um stand. So this is I'm um basically you know I have my own YouTube channel folks um because I wanted to communicate my own thoughts, my own line of thoughts. the fact that this technology exists an American company like YouTube the fact that they've brought brought this technology so that we can connect to you directly not only them but like other American innovative companies social media companies meta be it MetaB or you know other companies like I don't know Tik Tok which is Chinese the fact that we can communicate with you directly is magic and I've been in this business for TV business for 20 years now So that's why I chose to talk to you directly. It gives me the opportunity to also get a sense of what's happening in Iran, get your pulse. So please feel free to comment. Send me your comments. I I learn a lot from your comments. I learn a lot. Please keep them coming. I really want to know your thoughts, your line of thoughts. Um, in light of the developments in Iran over the past four days and recent US policy statements which Iran's neighboring countries have influenced a preventtor slow regime change in Iran. Great question. Well, [clears throat] you have to put yourself in those countries shoes. when it comes to um ruling, when it comes to politics, you have to be practical. Any country, they have to put their own country's interest first. That's what President Trump is doing. America first. That only makes sense. It's common sense. Put your interest first. Also, I think it was the great George Washington who said, uh, countries have no friends, they only have interests. Or I think it was Henry Kissinger maybe. Anyhow, um, famous saying. So those countries they have their own interest and the regime in Iran really satisfies their interest mainly Qatar. So Qatar is I think there's no country like Qatar that benefits from an incompetent regime in Iran like in real dollar amounts because Qatar is has Qatar shares the largest gas reserve in the world with Iran. So there is this huge depositive of gas under Persian Gulf that is shared between Qatar and Iran and because of the incompetence of the Iranian regime because of the brain drain in Iran because of the fact that the regime in Iran has isolated is sanctioned and it's also not that knowledgeable. They haven't been able to develop any technologies. It all comes down to knowledge. It all comes down to technology. The regime is incapable of basically taking advantage of that natural gas reserve while at the same time Qataris on the other side have multi-billion dollar contracts with the French companies and American companies and they're extracting all of that gas away. So as long as the regime in Iran is isolated and sanctioned, Qataris are making billions of dollars. Qatar has probably made north of $300 billion from that oil from that oil and gas reserve while Iran has been able to make maybe 10 or 20 billion like not even a tenth of it. So Qatar directly benefits from having an incompetent regime in Iran, which is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Qatar does not want to see Iran prosper because that really diminishes their money reserve. Basically, this is how they make money. They make hundreds of billions of dollars. If they have an Iranian, if [clears throat] they they are faced with a free Iran, they would lose that opportunity altogether. American companies would come to Iran. it will be easy for Iran to extract from the same gas and oil reserve. Iran would be starting making a lot of money from that reserve. And if you watched videos of the oil reserve, like I've watched some of these Iranian engineers, they have to go on a on a boat to some of these oil rigs on Persian Gulf and you could see like there's basically on the it's the border you could see on the other side gigantic oil rigs. um built by the French and American companies for Qatar and on this side this decaying oil league 50 60 year old built during the show of Iran mostly the Iran is unable to extract any gas from it. So Qatar is the main culprit when it comes to helping the Iranian regime survive. Qatar is the main culprit. Um, I am so so honored to have all of you joining me here on my first very first live in English on Capital Report. It's been over 45 minutes. Um, I'm I'm very pleased. I'm very honored. Thank you very much for joining in. Please do comment, do share, do like and subscribe. Do support Capital Report. It means a lot to me. I hope to see you again. [snorts] I'm trying to make a habit of coming back not every day but every other day and do a live in English. It really depends on your response. If I see an overwhelming response from my followers and friends, I would come more often. If not, mostly this channel is for Iranian people inside the country. You know, I don't have much time. my between my day job of being a TV correspondent, being at the White House, congressional reporter and then you know all of those responsibilities and this wouldn't be able to find much time but as much as I can find time I'll be happy to come by and um you know report on Iran give hope to Iranian people. I want them to know that they're not forgotten. People inside Iran are not forgotten. you know that when you're in Iran, it's a bad feeling. You think the whole world has forgotten about you. And I've been there. I've been in Iran. I've been persecuted. You know, I've gone through that ordeal once. It's a very lonely feeling. I don't want them to feel lonely. I do this video because I want to connect to them and say, "You're not alone. You're not alone in this. Your support means a lot to me. Thank you so much. Um, I'll hope I see you again soon.