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  • 6/4/2025
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00:00I'm going to take part of the exit of the sandwich.
00:04The reason I wanted to make it easier and you can eat it and do it.
00:08If you want to make it easier, you will find the food.
00:12Please put some water in the sentence.
00:16The guest of the sandwich is about 20 minutes and is about to turn into the sandwich.
00:19The sugar is about 30 minutes.
00:24The gift is over 14 minutes.
00:28If you're listening to this,
00:33then it means you received my package.
00:36Unfortunately, this will be my last drop
00:38as I've been forced into hiding.
00:40With the U.S. hostage situation,
00:42it's become unsafe to get anything out of Iran.
00:48You must get these to the press immediately.
00:51Many people's lives depend on it,
00:53including my own.
00:55If anything should happen to me,
00:57you must trust Bibi.
01:00I'm worried that our darkest days
01:01are still ahead of us.
01:04Do you remember what I said
01:06when I first joined the revolution?
01:12The only way to defeat this violent regime
01:15is through peaceful protest.
01:17They found us.
01:18Bibi, what's going on?
01:19Quick, grab the plans. We need to go now.
01:21Okay, okay, where is it?
01:27Open the door!
01:41Now what's going on?
01:42Open the door!
01:43It's too late, Reza. I'll leave it.
02:04Come on, we have to go.
02:04Okay, okay.
02:08Freeze!
02:13You want some of this?
02:16Come on!
02:25Where's Bibi?
02:26Where's Yajkanaa?
02:27Where's Yajkanaa?
02:28Get in the room!
02:28Come on, come on, come on!
02:58You are a very lucky man, Mr. Shirazi.
03:14In my former life, I wouldn't have let you live.
03:19Drink. You must be thirsty.
03:24Reza, your chai is getting cold.
03:35Good.
03:41This could be a very unpleasant place.
03:45Because here at Evin, we are correcting paths.
03:54Is that what you call this?
03:57You will learn not to disrespect me.
04:01You were one of us. We fought side by side to overthrow the Shah. That western puppet.
04:16What changed?
04:19I was never one of you.
04:22When did you lose your fate?
04:25Instead of helping the new regime, you mastermind the horrendous acts of violence against us.
04:32Are you ready for your redemption?
04:36I can save you, Reza.
04:38Go to hell.
04:44Hell is what I'm trying to save you from, Reza.
04:51Open it.
04:55Go on, open it.
04:57Or are you afraid to confront your past?
04:59Your photos rallied our nation to rebel against the Shah.
05:05But now, they are being used to identify those who plot against our new Islamic government.
05:14Good offering.
05:16Show me an act of good faith and I will be fair.
05:20You are charged with treason and conspiring to carry out a series of attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
05:40How do you plead?
05:41Do you know what we do to traitors here in Evin Prison?
05:59Please, I just want to go home.
06:02Don't waste my time.
06:04You know what you have to do.
06:07I know so much about you, Reza.
06:12I know that you are coming from a very well-connected family who are loyal to the Shah.
06:21And I know about your Savak brother, Hussein.
06:26Leave my brother out of this.
06:27I know that upon your return from Germany, you joined our fight against the Shah.
06:35Despite your family's wishes.
06:40But, what do you know about me?
06:46Do you know who I am?
06:52No, I don't.
06:53I see.
06:57My name is Asadullah Lajewerdi.
07:01But you already knew that, didn't you?
07:07Now, what is my name?
07:18Asshole Lajewerdi.
07:19Raza.
07:20Why can't you show me the decency of remembering my name?
07:35My name is Asadullah Lajewerdi.
07:39Rajewerdi.
07:41But here, in Evan, they call me, Haj Agha.
07:54Now, what is my name?
08:01Haj Agha.
08:03Haj Agha.
08:04See?
08:08That wasn't so difficult.
08:11Get up.
08:16Get up!
08:21Sit!
08:34Raza.
08:47The three men arrested with you have been executed.
08:52They confessed.
08:54They told us everything.
08:58We found your plans to bomb the Revolutionary Guard's headquarters.
09:03Your sources are wrong.
09:12Do you know what this is?
09:16Of course you don't.
09:20A city boy like you
09:23has never had a use
09:26for a cattle prod.
09:28Until now.
09:30It takes about 400 milliamps to stop a human heart.
09:41We don't want that.
09:44Not yet, anyway.
09:46But 25 milliamps?
09:49That burns you from the inside.
09:52It could damage an organ if I'm not careful.
09:57But you have been such a good...
10:03Here you are, Babak-chan.
10:08Here you are, Babak-chan.
10:12Reza, what are you doing?
10:14I know I'm good looking, but save your film for something important.
10:20Every image has a story, Babak-chan.
10:23And today, right now, every picture counts.
10:26But I have plans for this picture back in Germany.
10:27Oh, yeah?
10:29That's nice of you, Reza, John.
10:31Oh, not for me. It's for Hannah.
10:33Hannah? Hannah, what?
10:34Oh, you're going to like her. She's got a thing for Iranians.
10:36Oh, yeah!
10:38Yeah, man.
10:39I've told her about you and your legendary disco moves.
10:42John Travolta, Baba has nothing on me.
10:45Nice!
10:47Here.
10:49What's this?
10:50Listen to it, Reza.
10:52It's Khomeini's latest speech and it just came from France.
10:56A new Iran is coming, Reza, John.
10:58And I'm here to help spread the word.
11:01That cassette came from France?
11:03Yeah, that's where Khomeini's been recording all his speeches.
11:06Babak, what are you so worried about?
11:08They have eyes everywhere.
11:10And these cassettes have become the voice of the revolution
11:12and therefore a threat to the regime.
11:13Now take it, Baba.
11:15You know you want to.
11:18Okay, I'll take it.
11:20Trust me.
11:21You're not going to regret it.
11:22You think what's on this could really make a difference?
11:25Come on, Reza.
11:26Let's change Iran.
11:27It's not my kind of propaganda, Babak.
11:30What you call propaganda, Reza, is my truth.
11:33It's just words, Babak.
11:34Maybe to you, it's just words.
11:37But to me, it's words that have never been spoken out loud before.
11:40The time is now, Reza, John.
11:42You know this.
11:43That's why you're here.
11:45Okay, I'll give it a listen.
11:46I mean, that's all I ask.
11:48Okay?
11:49But keep it hidden.
11:50And whatever you do, do not listen to it at home.
11:53I don't even want to imagine what your mother would do.
11:55You're still scared of my mother, huh?
11:57And you're not?
11:59Good point.
12:01Okay, Baba, Bia.
12:02Let's get a better view.
12:03Bibi wants you to capture how big this is becoming.
12:05Who's Bibi?
12:06You're going to like her.
12:07This is all because of her.
12:09See why I told you to save your film?
12:11This is incredible.
12:12This is the future of Iran.
12:14This is our future.
12:17Start taking pictures.
12:18I never thought I'd see the day the Shah statue would be trashed.
12:19Hey, can you read what that says, Reza?
12:20Some people call them martyrs.
12:21But to me, they were victims.
12:22I never thought I'd see the day the Shah statue would be trashed.
12:27I never thought I'd see the day the Shah statue would be trashed.
12:44Hey, can you read what that says, Reza?
12:47Some people call them martyrs.
12:49But to me, they were victims.
12:50I've never seen anything like this.
12:58There has to be at least 100,000 people on the streets.
13:15Looks like Khomeini, right?
13:17It's Shariot Madari, Grand Ayatollah.
13:20We want our army to be independent.
13:26We want our army to be independent.
13:28You army commanders.
13:30You generals and major generals.
13:32Do you not wish to be independent?
13:34What is our reward for saying that we would like our army to be independent?
13:40Is it the right to punish us by killing our young men in the streets?
13:44Just because we wish you to be your own master,
13:46rather than having to take orders from foreign powers?
13:50At this point, I would like to thank those units of your army,
13:54which have joined the rights of the nation.
13:57We praise the NCOs, the Air Force, and officers of the Air Force,
14:01who are already left and call upon the rest of you to join.
14:06Abandon your foreign masters.
14:08I do not fear that if you abandon them, we will come and hang you.
14:12Such orders are served by your enemies.
14:14Can you not see your other comrades, the officers, the NCOs, and the pilots,
14:18who have joined us?
14:19We love them, we respect them, and we want to keep our poor army intact.
14:26We want to have a powerful country.
14:29We want to preserve the structure of the army.
14:32But for the standard of the nature.
14:34To some, those people praying would be inseminating.
14:45But to me, it's pretty powerful.
14:47Hey, good luck trying to buy anything from the bazaar.
15:11All the shopkeepers have gone on strike too.
15:12Bobak, seriously, I can't wait to get these developed.
15:16Did you get a picture of Ayatollah's Shariat Madari?
15:19People are saying that he should lead Iran.
15:22Who's Shariat Madari?
15:23He's a cleric who understands the hearts of the oppressed.
15:25No religious mullah is going to lead this country.
15:28Fahmidi, understand? That's over.
15:31Why not? Are we not a nation of Muslims, brother?
15:34Brother? Marudar?
15:36We are a nation of equality greater than Western capitalism or your paganism.
15:40Fahmidi, understand?
15:42No mullah will run this government.
15:44You follow me, Chimigan?
15:45Hey, comrade.
15:47Lighten up.
15:48Jufti, you better back away before I come over there.
15:51We don't do this, alright?
15:53All of this is about non-violence.
15:55We don't want to give the army any reason to intervene.
15:57I don't trust this punk with his camera.
16:04Hey, relax, man.
16:05Sayid, relax.
16:07Keep walking.
16:08That's right.
16:10He's communist.
16:11Always posturing, never thinking about the bigger picture.
16:14Relax.
16:15Man, Babak, what happened to you back there?
16:17Look, just because I didn't kick his ass doesn't mean I didn't want to.
16:21Did you see his hair?
16:22You guys share the same barber?
16:24Comrade, that's all you got.
16:25Come on, let's hit the streets.
16:45This is not the Iran you left a year ago.
16:47The people are angry, especially after Savak burned down the cinema wrecks.
16:54They're like the Gestapo.
16:55Hey, Vuna.
16:56They're killers.
16:57They murdered all those people.
17:00And now, it's time for answers.
17:02You think it can get out of control?
17:03Look, it could get ugly, but we won't achieve anything through...
17:13That's an interesting look.
17:15I've seen this guy before.
17:17He calls himself The Walking Dead.
17:19He's a walking memorial.
17:22Besaram, my son.
17:24Please, take a picture.
17:26Show the world what is happening here.
17:31Okay, Reza.
17:32Just look at this street as a sandwich.
17:35Are you okay, Babak?
17:37Yeah, I'm great.
17:39It's the perfect analogy with the perfect ingredients.
17:41The bread, the cheese, the siyadunet, the sabzi, and the tea.
17:46The Iran government says that the death toll from the terrorist attack on cinema wrecks in Haberdan has officially reached 400.
17:53Radio Iran reports that the bodies of 377 people were recovered from the rubble.
17:57Two weeks ago, the cinema was filled with moviegoers, when terrorists, who were positioned at all four corners of the theater, set it ablaze.
18:06The exit doors were locked, leaving the patrons unable to escape the building.
18:11Our BBC journalist in Tehran says that this is the biggest act of violence involving arson that Iran has ever seen.
18:17Another cinema issue.
18:20As I was saying, Reza, the cheese, the paneer, that's what makes a sandwich a sandwich.
18:26And the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, the things we follow, that's what makes Iran Iran.
18:33Mint, basil, tarragon.
18:35The students, writers, the revolutionaries, giving us the extra kick we need to set change in motion.
18:40My father and my brother are rotting in jail. How many more must unjustly be imprisoned so that the Shah can live in his lavish palace and deny us our basic freedoms?
18:59Here, brother, read the truth of what is really happening. Anything else you read is corrupt and filled with lies.
19:05Thank you, sister.
19:10Stay true, brother.
19:12It's the only legitimate source to read now.
19:21Who wants to read about the truth?
19:27No more listening to the Shah's lies.
19:29We must come together as one for real democracy.
19:39You're welcome, sister.
19:46That says it all. You can't trust the Americans.
19:50This monarchy must be abolished.
19:52That's the Zoroastrian system.
20:00Furuhan.
20:02In school they tell us it means royal power, but my mom always told me it stands for inner strength.
20:06Who wants to read about the truth?
20:12You're welcome, sister.
20:13You're welcome, sister.
20:21Here you go, brother.
20:27Time to be enlightened.
20:28Here we go.
20:29You're welcome, brother.
20:31There is no wonder.
20:32Can you tell us all of us?
20:33You're welcome, brother.
20:35The newspapers are lying.
20:36This speaks the truth.
20:38The newspapers are lying.
20:45The newspapers are lying. This speaks the truth.
20:52Here you go, sister.
20:58We must come together as one for real democracy.

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