Ex-CIA (! straight from the horse's mouth) Analyst Larry C Johnson , turned anti-American imperialism ( with dozens of youtube videos on West Asia) tells truth about Iranian Shia Muslims peaceloving , anti-nuke Ayatollah and humane policies in contrast with lies American regimes tell about Iran for 45 years . <




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Transcript 39:02 Larry, we're coming to the end of our time here and I just love your insights because it's just raw. It's unfiltered. It's the insights that we can't get on Western media. This is why we have YouTube channels. This is why we have independent journalism. <


So I want to just ask you a little another another broad question here. What is the biggest miscalculation that the west has made about Iran up until this point? <


that Iran is a extreme an radical is extremist group of Muslims committed to terrorism and violence. That is that in and of itself is the biggest lie. you know, <


when you go back and look at the history, the fact that even though the United States encouraged Saddam Hussein to start the war with Iran in September of 1980, Jimmy Carter was still president, Zabnia Bjinski was his national security adviser. you then in in 1983 he Reagan administration continued that support and a guy named Don Rumsfeld, you may have heard of him, correct? he was meeting with Saddam Hussein, he was one of the conduits for providing Iraq with the chemical precursors used to produce chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction that were used against Iran. it was during this period this was that started in August of 83 and it continued for six years and ended in August of 1988. <



During those six years of being attacked with chemical weapons that were provided essentially by the west, Iran never reciprocated in kind. They did not develop chemical weapons. They did not use chemical weapons. And the reason they didn't is because the Ayatollah uh Transcript :X they didn't is because the Ayatollah uh Kami or Kmeni at the time again thought it was a sin. This was before Kami declared that Iran wouldn't build a nuclear weapon. But but Iran didn't go down that road. Uh they saw that as sin. So you know you get quite a different picture than is painted. Iran as a Shia prim Shia dominated Muslim republic has a completely different attitude compared to the Sunni extremists, the al-Qaeda, the folks that were part of ISIS. Their version of Islam stipulates that only they have the truth and that everybody else who does not adhere to their truth are apostates andextremists, the al-Qaeda, the folks that were part of ISIS. Their version of Islam stipulates that only they have the truth and that everybody else who does not adhere to their truth are apostates and must be killed. That's why the those <


Sunni extremists had been killing Shia Muslims for many years. That is why under Solmani, General Solommani, the Iranians went into Syria to support Basher al-Assad against al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra, radical Islamic sects that were attacking Shia Muslims as being not not real Muslims as well as uh Alawits, another version of Islam, as well as Christians. So you know that's thatradical Islamic sects that were attacking Shia Muslims as being not not real Muslims as well as uh Alawits, another version of Islam, as well as Christians. So you know that's that understanding that big lie that Iran is not the number one sponsor of terrorism. Iran. In fact, 42:32 all you can look at uh all of the terror so-called terrorist acts attributed to Iran have been reactions to what the United States was doing to Iran, reactions to US attacks on Iran and they've been but at the same time as we saw and I mentioned with the desalinization plant once even though we 42:53 hit their desalinization plant, Iran did nothit their desalinization plant, Iran did not respond in kind because they 42:58 recognized the potential damage it would and a needless death for other Muslims 43:04 in the in the region even though they're Sunni Muslims. Great. Oh, that's a fantastic insight, 43:10 Larry. I want to say thank you for bringing the historical context in there always going back all the way back to the early 1980s with Jimmy Carter in 43:18 office, Reagan. I mean, this is this is why I think it's really important that we study history to understand, you 43:24 know, the context behind this. even going back to Donald's Remfield giving the supplies to Saddam Hussein which 43:29 then was used as chemical weapons and