Hassan Rouhani

It's still online.

A letter to then President Rouhani.

But those are his final words.

And sorry to add one more thing.

Something incredible is about to happen.

Hassan Rouhani.

The good people of Iran have the power.

Fight for your freedom.

Now, the legislation that would have accomplished that, something the American people deeply want, was rejected by every Senate Democrat.

Thus, it is not moving to the president's desk.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune addressed the matter today.

The stock purchase ban would prohibit members of Congress, their spouses or their dependent children from purchasing stocks issued by public companies.

Here is one of those top IRGC generals.

Pay attention.

25 years ago, the president of America announced that Iran was no more than a few weeks away from getting a nuclear weapon.

So the few weeks Iran supposedly had left to get a bomb still haven't passed? 25 years ago, they said it was no more than a few weeks away.

I think in the short term, we can expect the US-Iran confrontation to remain quite intense.

I don't think there's really any scope for the kind of more optimistic assessments that were made at the time of the JCPOA, right? During the Rouhani period, there was talk of a greater degree of normalization, a greater degree of rapprochement, All of that is gone, right? Like the scope for any kind of political figure in Iran to emerge within the Islamic Republic who would advocate for those kinds of policies, I think just doesn't exist right now, given the experience of these wars, the experience of not just this Trump administration, but the previous Trump administration has made espousing those views within the system very difficult and building a political career out of it probably impossible.

That said, the experience of this war has shown, has illustrated the limitations of U.S. power when it comes to confronting Iran.

The U.S. and Israel threw essentially everything they had at Iran this year, and Iran survived.

The very early examples of this.

And who was one of the negotiators between Iran and Americans was Hassan Rouhani, the man who even today, he's the godfather of the liberals in Iran.

And he famously met with an American diplomat who ended up being an Israeli agent.

So in 1986, 86, I think, or 86 or 87.

So instead of showing and announcing messages and slogans of resistance, resilience, and and steadfastness, they constantly talk about the weaknesses and the shortcomings of Iran's economy.

Most famously, Donald Trump, three days ago, I think he quoted Peshkian's recent speech saying that our economy is in dire situation.

Or, for example, when Rouhani, Hassan Rouhani came and he had a meeting with his ministers and some of his governors of the time between 1993 to 2021.

He said, if Iran is going to continue this war with America, there should be a referendum and people have the right to know if this war is going to continue for another 20 years for ideological reasons.

And they are run and they're like led by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Second person, quietly, there is Hassan Rouhani, who comes into the scene long later in 2013 and becomes Iran's president.

And you have diplomatic people here.

What do they do? First, they facilitate dialogue and dialogue.

But Ali, you know, the thing is, it's not just from outside and, you know, the spoilers and infiltrators.

It is from the heart of the reformist leaders as well.

I mean, you cannot argue that Hassan Rouhani.

also thought, why the hell are we in Syria? And this is after watching what had happened through the Arab Spring.