So many members of the administration find it difficult to stick to the aims and goals that we're trying to set out, even if that takes months at a time.

You had the US administration for the first time put Pentagon personnel under polygraph tests, which is basically sending the message that you will suffer as a result of speaking to media outlets.

So it's become very difficult for journalists to get verifiable information.

Pete Hexeth is not only trying to control the narrative of the war, he's also running interference when it comes to what the media has access to inside the Pentagon.

The

Trump, meanwhile, has been using social media to push his own version of the war, including this AI slop depicting a U.S. attack on Karg Island and a map of Iran altered to resemble the president's profile.

President Trump's social media posts are a perfect reflection of this war itself, where we're seeing Iran in the shape of Trump's actual face, this AI slop that Trump keeps putting on his socials.

And all of this is geared towards the American public, who more and more can't afford gas at the pumps, but are being told, stay with us a bit longer.

Tell us about what you saw when you were there.

So I'll give you a background to the museum itself.

So this is a museum that was born out of an idea that Izzy Asper had.

Izzy Asper is a very well-known Canadian Zionist.

He...

The Asper family owns a lot of newspapers, media company, and they are the ones who built this museum.

And there is a permanent Holocaust exhibit on the fourth floor.

So that girl, you're saying that the

And if there isn't that, then they can't

really? You know, it's unfortunate to say...

But the rise of antisemitism or the purported rise of antisemitism and the way it's being spun, at least here in Canada, means that more money is given to these organizations.

We have had a proliferation of newly sprung up fighting antisemitism organizations post-October 7th.

Many of them have already received charitable status.

You know, it's very difficult to receive charitable status normally, but it seems that, you know, the Canada Revenue Agency is just handing out these things.

And I liken it to, you know, if you are studying, if you are a biological researcher, all you have to say is, I'm studying cancer, and you will get the funding that you need.

These

... to get any gauge of what the level of support is?

You know, there isn't much support there, but you do see, you know, a- and I come back to this, Iran is a country of 92 million people.

It's the size of Western Europe and the 17th largest country in the world.

So it's very difficult to say Iranians feel this or that.

However, there is a lot of anger towards the government.

There's no doubt about that.

But even if, let's say, the government has 20 to 25% of the people's support, which is what many analysts say, that's still about 25 million people.

You, you think it's had a bit of a, a rally-around-the-flag effect, having seen these impacts from the, the continual US strikes?

At this point, what's your understanding of what happened with the protests? To what extent they were peaceful, who's responsible for the violence, a- a- and what was the extent of state repression?

These protests began on December 28th.

They began in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, uh, with merchants, and this is something that's sort of unprecedented in Iran during the successive number of protests that we've had throughout the years.

The, the merchants in the Grand Bazaar have never really protested, and this really happened because Iran's currency just plummeted to its lowest that it's ever been, and this reduced their ability to import items.

So for the first couple of days, people were protesting.

Iran's president, Pezeshkian, even came out and said, "People have a right to protest.

Our economy is in a shambles." And they made all these sort of concessions.

Mm.

when?

Well, the biggest ones have started about 20 years ago.

But when Iran took the American embassy hostage in 1979, that's when these sanctions really started.

So they took the 52 Americans hostage.

And it was just this constant, you know, and then the war started with Iraq.

America was helping Iraq.

They were using chemical weapons against Iranians.

It's really

I mean, it's a lot of Jack.

No, actually, I, you know, as you were saying, Matt, there's so much shit coming at us constantly that yesterday I was in another interview for just an hour and a half.

And in that hour and a half, the District 6 and District 7 of Tehran were issued evacuation orders.

So that's about 600,000 people told to evacuate.

And then I found out that right before that, like 20 minutes before, A ceasefire was announced.

So I was like, what the fuck is going on? Is it the ceasefire? Is it the evacuation? And then my friend starts messaging me and she's like, the bombs here are fucking crazy.

Like I've never seen before.

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