Mojtaba Khamenei and servitude to Putin

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An English translation of the talk, which is in Persian. It was made with AI from YouTube's automatic captions and may contain errors; the Persian transcript is authoritative. Click a timestamp to jump to that part of the video.

0:01 Hello. It is Monday, 7 Ordibehesht 1405, April 27, 2026. People's livelihood problems, which already existed with the high rate of inflation as well as unemployment, recession and so on, have intensified as a result of the war and are now showing themselves. Apart from the issues we raised before, there is talk of 4 million workers losing their jobs in the country's factories, who together with their households amount to about 15 or 16 million of the country's population, and likewise 10 million people who have run into trouble because of the internet shutdown. The chain

0:58 that keeps the country's economy turning in the service sector has also run into trouble: transportation, the hotel business, housing transactions and housing construction, and especially shopkeepers, trade, banking, insurance and so on. All of these, like an interconnected chain, have run into trouble, and the service sector, which makes up 50 percent of the country's economy, is showing its problems. There are delays in paying nurses' salaries; they have not received their pay for the month of Farvardin, and according to the head of the organization, nurses' salaries

1:53 are gradually being paid. Health workers have gathered in protest in Yazd. Staff at Iran's universities are protesting, and in some cases, such as the University of Tehran, they have stopped work, because besides not receiving their Farvardin salaries, there is discrimination in the pay system. And the government's debt of a thousand thousand-billion tomans, or 1,000 "hemat," to the Social Security Organization has made the shaky condition of this, the country's largest pension fund, even shakier. In fact, under the current circumstances, what could previously have been raised as a

2:49 trade or livelihood demand must now be raised as a must: the country's assets that are in the hands of Khamenei and the Office of the Supreme Leader — more than half of the country's economy has been transferred there, and 30 percent of it has also been transferred to the IRGC — must be taken from these organizations and returned to the people, so that people can survive and get through this difficult economic situation, which will become harder day by day, with inflation forecast to reach rates above 70 or 80 percent and even more than a hundred percent. Therefore, the central demand of taking back the assets held by the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order (Setad), the Mostazafan Foundation,

3:50 banks such as Parsian, Pasargad and others, and other institutions connected to the Leader, as well as the institutions in the hands of the IRGC, is a demand that can embrace the entire nation and help it get through these conditions. Meanwhile, Mr. Abouali Golzari, a member of the strategic council of the Department of Environment, has also stated that the issue of 10 million tons of debris and the 200,000 trucks needed to move it has turned the problem of transporting the debris into a must,

4:46 and it is very worrying, because the debris from the war's destruction, contaminated with pollutants, has made the pollution of water, air and soil more complicated than before. But Mr. Araghchi's trip to Islamabad and Muscat, and his meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg as a continuation of this trip, is a subject being closely followed in news circles. At the end of his meeting with Mr. Araghchi, Mr. Putin stated that last week he had received a letter from Mojtaba Khamenei, and he also emphasized the strategic relations between the two countries and said:

5:45 "Convey my greetings to the Supreme Leader." And what a Supreme Leader — Mojtaba Khamenei, about whom no one knows whether he is alive or dead, whether he has arms and legs or not, whether he is in a coma, conscious or unconscious, whatever he is. But in any case, if what Mr. Putin says is true and the letter really came from Mojtaba Khamenei, then one has to say that he too is following in his father's footsteps and has bowed his head in servitude before the Tsar of the Kremlin, and before anything has even happened, he has started trailing after Putin. On the other hand, Axios in the United States has reported that the Islamic Republic has proposed a three-stage plan to

6:39 America: in the first stage, a ceasefire and peace with a guarantee that war will not resume. In the second stage, the issue of the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring security in the strait — and of course, probably control of the strait by the Islamic Republic and Oman — would be agreed upon, and then in the third stage they would turn to the nuclear issue. In response to this — which Axios, of course, reported citing its own sources, and which appears to be accurate — Mr. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, said in an interview with Fox News that a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran in this way is not acceptable.

7:42 He said that what the Islamic Republic means by reopening the strait is: come coordinate with us, get permission from us in order to pass. Mr. Marco Rubio also stated that in Iran, hardliners with an apocalyptic outlook hold power. This remark by Mr. Rubio has intensified speculation about Mr. Ghalibaf being somewhat sidelined as head of the delegation, although none of the Iranian officials have confirmed this so far. Following Iran's [proposal] reaching America, Mr. Trump held a meeting this morning at the White House with the US National Security

8:39 Council to review Iran's proposals. When reporters asked White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt about this meeting, she said that if there is any new news, Mr. Trump himself will share it with everyone. And she is right: if Mr. Trump wants to do something, he basically does not wait for the spokesperson and the so-called officials he has appointed; from morning till night he himself is either negotiating or posting. In any case, Pakistan has announced that indirect negotiations between America and Iran are ongoing, but it seems that for now a meeting in

9:32 Islamabad is off the table, especially since on Friday Mr. Trump also held back Witkoff and Kushner from going to Pakistan, saying they would fly 18 hours and get no result. So contact can be made by telephone as well. It is also said that the security equipment America had taken there to protect the American delegation, especially if Mr. Vance were to go, has all been brought back. The streets of Islamabad, which had been closed for two weeks for several kilometers around the hotel to ensure security, have been reopened, and for now it seems a meeting in Islamabad is not on the agenda. In addition, with this news, the price of oil

10:34 went up again, and North Sea Brent crude reached $107 a barrel, although the actual price at which it is traded is mostly 20 to 30 dollars above this price. In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.