The regime's plan to sow division and the need for vigilance

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0:01 Hello. It is Monday, 24 Azar 1404, December 15, 2025. The seventh-day memorial for Khosrow Alikordi, held on Friday in Mashhad, which I reported on in the previous program and which ended with the arrest of a number of participants, now totaling 40 people, provoked a wave of protests, statements and calls for the release of the detainees, not only in Iran but all over the world. Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, human rights organizations, the bar associations of France, or the national bar of France, and the Paris Bar

1:07 Association separately; in short, dozens of international figures and organizations issued statements condemning this action by the regime and demanding the release of the prisoners. Inside Iran, among the statements was one by 20 civil and political activists, signed by people such as Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abolfazl Ghadiani, Mehdi Mahmoudian, Abdolfattah Soltani, Saeed Madani and others. Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh also said in an interview that a fact-finding committee must be formed, and

2:00 the regime is obliged to hand over, in full and without anything missing, all the footage from the 16 cameras that were in Mr. Khosrow Alikordi's office, so that the truth can be established. Because the regime has released a video that makes it look as if Khosrow Alikordi had a stroke, while, as Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh put it, this video resembles the one they released about the death of Mahsa Amini, in which she suddenly seems to fall to the floor of that facility on Vozara Street and die, while they had censored what came before, when they had beaten her and struck Mahsa Amini on the head. In any case, nobody believes these moves by the regime,

3:04 that these videos are genuine, and people know that the regime's killers can, for example, by injecting potassium, produce all the symptoms of a heart attack. So they have deleted, or are withholding, the footage that would show those killers entering and so on. If the regime has nothing to hide, it must hand over all the footage, just as Javad Alikordi, Khosrow's brother, who is currently in prison, has demanded. Javad Alikordi himself is a political prisoner whom all the courageous lawyers and political prisoners know well and speak highly of. But you have probably seen the news of this incident and the footage and videos that have been released,

4:02 and followed them. What I want to say is that after this incident, which counts as another page in the regime's record of crimes, and after the magnificent presence of people, not only from Mashhad and Khorasan but from many cities of Iran, in a large gathering in Mashhad, which showed that people value and honor public servants like Khosrow Alikordi, the regime has stirred up a huge uproar on social media, Haidari-Ne'mati-style feuds that have set the opposition at each other's throats. The warning I want to give is this, and I have said it

4:56 many times before: there must be one goal shared by everyone, of whatever orientation and whatever viewpoint, and that is the Velayat-e Faqih, both as a concept and in its concrete form, both the system of the Velayat-e Faqih and the person, who is Khamenei. Any quarrel that deflects the main needle away from Khamenei himself, his office and his system and shifts it somewhere else, wittingly or unwittingly, ends up serving the regime. Those who, for example, at such ceremonies chant slogans, attack the speakers with stones, or chant slogans against, say, Narges Mohammadi, or conversely, a group who, in the name of

5:54 supporting Narges Mohammadi, attack Mr. Pahlavi, and then they say this one lashes out at that one and that one at this one, all of this is the best gift that can be given to the regime and in fact fulfills the old proverb "divide and rule." For this very reason we must be vigilant. On social media, the regime's agents, dressed up as monarchists, insult the left. Then, dressed as leftists, they insult the right. Dressed as ethnic groups, they insult the centralists, and as centralists they insult the ethnic groups, and that's how they create fights. The responsibility of well-known figures who are in the leadership of each of

6:51 our political and social tendencies is heavier in this respect, and they must rebuke their followers and give them a serious warning that anyone who, in the guise of this group or that group, hurls abuse at another must in fact be expelled from their ranks, and they should state clearly that these people may be agents of the regime. Now, the US dollar crossed the 131,000-toman mark today. This free fall in the value of the national currency, the Iranian rial, which on one hand stems from the increase in liquidity and on the other hand from

7:46 the shortfall in production and in the country's gross domestic product, in a word, this causes inflation and has caused the national currency to collapse, the practical result of which is high prices, and in fact all goods become more expensive, including foreign currencies. But since the dollar, for example, is a single commodity that everyone can watch, it is a very good indicator showing how, on one side, the increase in liquidity and the regime's printing of unbacked banknotes, and on the other side, the decline in GDP because of sanctions, the lack of exports, the lack of investment, and the slowing of every kind of

8:46 production cycle in the country, result in this situation, of which the dollar is one good indicator. In fact it is an effect, not a cause. It is like a stick on a flood: we see it bobbing on the flood that's coming, but it is not what causes the flood. In these conditions, as we discussed before, one of the rightful demands of fixed-salary earners can be that, like other countries that were in runaway inflation as Iran is, the minimum wage be adjusted at the end of every month based on the average dollar rate in that month. The minimum wage that can cover a minimal living in Iran is $500, and

9:46 all salaries should be set on the basis of this minimum wage. In that case, when the dollar reaches 131,000 tomans, the wage becomes 65.5 million tomans. Or if by the end of the year it reaches 200,000 tomans, then the minimum wage should become 100 million tomans, and so on, not what the regime is now straining to do, to make the minimum wage, say, 20 million tomans, when inflation has already swept all of that away in advance. Now, a meeting of the leaders of European countries was held in Berlin together with the President of the European Commission, Ms. Ursula

10:42 von der Leyen, with Mr. Zelensky and Messrs. Witkoff and Kushner, representatives of the White House, present, on Ukraine, and it reached conclusions which, one can say, largely reflect the 20-point European plan that was put forward, and apparently America has agreed as well. Its most important points are, in fact, security guarantees for Ukraine: it has been agreed that a force led by European countries, made up of volunteer countries, will be formed to secure Ukraine's airspace and waters. On the ground, Ukraine is to have at least 800,000 armed forces, while Russia wants that cut to half this number, and they will also carry out their training, with America's help, to rebuild the Ukrainian army.

11:39 After this security guarantee is in effect, then the question of Russia's territorial claims should be left to the people of Ukraine, and in fact the people of Ukraine should be asked in a referendum. In any case, if this plan is finalized and presented, we have to see whether Russia accepts it or not, and if it refuses, whether America will stand fully behind Europe or not. Now, in Australia, as you have surely followed the news, at a celebration on the second day of Hanukkah, which Jews around the world celebrate, a Muslim father and son, Sajid Akram, the 50-year-old father, and Naveed Akram,

12:38 the 24-year-old son, opened fire on ordinary, innocent people. So far at least 15 people have been killed. 25 are wounded, 6 of them in critical condition. In this affair the father was killed by police gunfire, and the son was also badly wounded and is in critical condition. But this affair also produced a hero, a fruit seller originally from Idlib in Syria named Ahmed al-Ahmed, who disarmed the father with his bare hands and is now in hospital with five bullets fired into his body by the son. All the news media, not only in Australia but around the world, have praised this brave 43-year-old man, and the people of Australia have poured money into a special account opened

13:37 to help him, in which more than 950,000 US dollars has been collected so far to help this brave man. In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.