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Trump Launches War with Iran and Refuses to Explain... Anything | Jafar Panahi
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Man, very kind of you. Very kind of you. We got a great one for you tonight. My name is Youngster. Later on I will be talking with just the most incredible director, fabulous director, Iranian director Jafar Panahi will be joining us. He right now he's got an Oscar nominated film called It Was Just an Accident which explores the trauma of living under an oppressive, censorious theocratic dictatorship.
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I'm not gonna tell you how it ends, but.
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But hey, we're back. It's Monday and while we had originally planned a different show I thought would be a kind of a trenchant, really
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superbly witty episode on the unforeseen economic effects of government subsidies on well intentioned social service programs, it was gonna be.
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That was Friday and a lot has blown up since then as America has once again returned to the only east we can't get enough of, exploding the Middle one. In our 20 year recurring segment.
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Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.
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I've missed you, Mesopotamia.
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Early Saturday morning, America and Israel launched a surprise war against Iran. I call it a surprise war because here's what one of the mediators said after negotiations on Friday. I am confident and in my assessment of the way the talks are going,
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the peace deal is within our reach.
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The peace deal is within our reach. But it turns out the bombshit button was much closer. The devastating effects of a regional war have made everyone very nervous and one person very happy. This enables us to do what I have long hoped to do for 40
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years, what
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I've had four decades of regime change. Blue balls.
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But of course, the announcement that our nation is at war is the most solemn moment of any president's tenure and an opportunity to reassure an anxious nation and to reaffirm the righteousness of the cause.
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A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, can I just jump in here real quick? This is how we're doing this. 2:00am Mar a Lago basement, no lighting. You don't even have one of those influencer halo things. You go down in the basement and this is what we're wearing. Blazer, no tie, shirt unbuttoned, looking more like the father of the bride settling up with the caterer. Is that what we're doing? And not to nitpick, obviously, but baseball hat. We're going with a baseball Hat for a war of choice. Oh, I'm gonna go down and make my war announcement. Don't forget the hat I got you at the airport souvenir store. It's bigger than your head. Put it on. It goes great in the dark. Jesus, man, you had all the options. It's a war of choice. You could have done this at the White House in a suit in the I killed Bin Laden hallway. But no, you decided to go with vacation house trucker hat guy who was about to make an announcement at his club's member member tournament. It's classy.
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Reminds me of FDR's day that will live in infamy speech. We have nothing to fear but glare in my eyes.
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But at the very least, we should at least be thankful that the hat is on.
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Forwards. We're taking our nation to war.
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Wazza. Alright, I'll give you a mulligan.
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Come back tomorrow, dress for the war you want.
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And then you can give us perhaps
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a more sober launching of this incredibly consequential moment.
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The United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury.
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I'm going to jump in. Right there, please. Epic Fury. Is this a war or did the Paul brothers launch another energy drink? Stop letting the millennials name shit.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I got off track.
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How did Operation Epic Fury start?
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This morning, the US and Israel launching a major wide scale daytime attack on Iran. Smoke seen rising near government offices and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's residence.
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Ooh, that's gotta rattle Khamenei.
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Although Khamenei's gotta be on high alert.
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I mean, I doubt he's anywhere near a location that obvious given the advanced surveillance he's been under from American and Israeli intelligence.
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This is the moment that officials say the 86 year old Ayatollah was killed.
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And he stayed in his house. Old people are so stubborn. It's like. They really are. Like you cannot tell them anything. Sir, please, you are in danger here. I'm not leaving. This is my house. I didn't ask you to stay. You can go. I'm staying. What are they gonna do, That guy anyway? By the way, there he was martyred at 86. Man, are the virgins gonna be disappointed. I'm sorry, am I going too hard on hominy murderous dictator like, whoa, don't make fun of his erectile dysfunct. That's a bridge too far, Stuart. Guy mowed down his own people. But you know, Viagra's a serious drug no. America apparently had to start an entire war to kill an 86 year old man in ill health and not wait, I don't know, three weeks to let saturated fat do its thing. But just so you know, Israel and America made their move and now Iran
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will make their move.
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Iran is widening the scope of its response. This morning, neighbors across the region dragged into the chaos.
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Attacks at multiple bases, including those in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, basically the
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whole of the Gulf.
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It's also fired on Europe for the first time, aiming at Cyprus.
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What? Cyprus? I don't even know where that is. Is Cyprus even on that risk board? I don't even think it's around there. So wait a minute, wait a minute, let me get this straight. America and Israel attack Iran and Iran's answer is to just attack everybody? You know, having been in a bar fight or two in my life, I'm pretty sure the worst thing you can do during a two on one beatdown is slap everyone else. Hey, hey. Not every part of me is getting punched. What are you doing? What are you doing? Hey, you. For more on the situation in Iran, we go live to Istanbul with our very own Jordan Klepper. Jordan, nice to see you, sir. How are you?
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Yes, yes, thank you, John. Istanbul right now, which is not in Iran, but close enough to kind of look like I am if you squint.
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What's the latest over there, Jordan?
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I'll tell you the latest, Jon. We're back. USA and Israel. USA and Israel. Feels so good to be back at war. Those four weeks since Venezuela were so boring. Oh, man, things were so dull, we had to pretend to care about hockey. Dark stuff. I think it's clear this is exactly why America voted for Trump.
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Yeah, but is it though, Jordan? I mean, I seem to remember Trump saying he was explicitly against new wars.
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Well, John, you're very old and your memory is cascading down a long, dark road into oblivion.
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I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I believe I have a clip.
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No new wars. No new wars. We don't need the wars.
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Hmm. You know what? That's not how I remember it. I'm pretty sure this is what he said.
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New wars. New wars, Whitney, the wars.
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Ho, ho, ho. Seems pretty cut and dry. Or do you not believe your own eyes, Jon?
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No, I don't. You edited that.
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Really?
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Really.
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You look like I was at a rally during the campaign and watched him say this.
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Me like Me like. Me like war. It makes me rock hard.
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Hey, John. Hey, John boy, Do you like apples? Can you say yes so I can insult you?
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Yeah, sure. I like.
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Well, how do you like them apples?
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Not that clever.
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You walked right into that one, dummy.
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Jordan, the location changed on every syllable of that clip. There's no way you watched him say that.
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You know what? Trump thought you might say that, which is why he also said this.
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You are wrong, John. Jordan, watch me say this. He is a beautiful guy. Also, every time I think about Jordan, it makes me rock hard.
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I really don't think that Donald Trump
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talked about how you arouse.
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Oh, you know, he thought you might say that too, John.
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No. So look, Jordan, look, the concern for me is that Trump doesn't seem to have a plan here.
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Yeah, exactly.
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What do you think?
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We've lost every war since Vietnam. We had a plan. This time Trump's doing the sensible thing and just winging it.
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No, you can't just wing it. You can't wing a war.
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Yeah, yeah, you can just sort of come up with it on the spot. Like jazz. Skibidi. Bop bop. Drone strike. Chibidi.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Tomahawk missile. Salt peanuts. Salt peanuts. Inevitable sectarian violence. Jazz hands.
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No. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but we've been scarred by arrogant American action that has led to unforeseen consequences and ultimately defeat.
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That's a negative attitude. If the gold medal hockey team had that attitude, we wouldn't have won. Best day of my life.
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You just said two minutes ago that you were only pretending to care about
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hockey, not how I remember it. Pretty sure this is what I said. I'll tell you, John, feels good to care about USA hockey. So, so good. It makes me rock hard. John, I forget you said you were a fan of apples.
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All right, Jordan Klepper, everybody. Thank you so much. Now look, the interest, the interesting thing about this war, which just started, was that it was clearly a long time in the planning and yet the American people have heard very little that is consistent about the war's justification or ultimate aims. In fact, the normally loquacious President had an opportunity with the national press on Sunday night after flying back from Mar a Lago to the White House, where I'm sure he'd want to clarify the public's uncertainty and reassure us.
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President Trump tonight came home from the White House. He usually stops and talks to the press. He completely ignored us, instead stopped and admired some new statues that were being put into the Rose Garden.
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Come on, that's fake news. He's not a doddering Mr. Magoo having full on conversations with inanimate sculpted bronze.
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Mr. President. Who do you want to lead her on?
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Unbelievable statute, you see. Did you know the founders were 14ft tall? And so smooth. By the way, if the President isn't
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being forthcoming in a time of war, it's not his power to declare war. Anyway, where's Congress on the.
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The House is set to vote on
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the War Powers Resolution on Thursday. This coming Thursday. Thursday. Monday. Thursday. You're gonna vote Thursday? The war already happened. This is Trump's whole presidency. He does whatever the he wants, and then a few days later, Congress is like, Excuse me, roll your window down. Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. Roll your window down. Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. You're not allowed to knock down the east wing without a permit from the homeowners association. We're gonna let it slide this time, but next time you will lose access to the clubhouse. I swear to God, the United States Congress is like male nipples. Why? Why do you exist? What do you do? Nothing. You do nothing. You just sit there waiting for angels to grab you when we die. I can't think of anything more than dismissive and arrogant than this President not directly addressing the American people and explaining this war more thoroughly.
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Well, good morning. This is not a so called regime change war, but the regime sure did change.
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Oh, for God's sakes. I stand corrected. Yes. Apparently the responsibility of articulating our nation's military strategy in Iran fell to Alpha Beta alum Pete Hegseth, whose humility and just the facts, ma' am approach made him the perfect vessel for this important task.
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We're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. We would never, in front of a press pool, lay out how long that may take. Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what we're willing to do and not do. It's foolishness. We're not dumb about it.
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Is there a concern of this spiraling into a longer war and then one for the chairman when you're done?
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Did you not hear my remarks?
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Looks like somebody's been chugging a little too much epic fury.
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I know you're the Defense Secretary, but you don't need to get so defensive.
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President Trump put a four week timeline.
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Are you saying that's wrong?
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I heard the question about four weeks. It's the typical, typical NBC sort of gotcha type question.
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Typical gotcha. How long will the war last, sir? Zing. But of course, the basic gist of the briefing is that the United States
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will not tolerate a country that worships this kind of supreme leader.
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It took the 47th president, a fighter who always puts America first, to finally draw the line. It takes guts to actually enforce it. And our president has guts. There's no better communicator than our president. He has shown an ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have the aperture to do.
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You're right. Nobody's got the laser focus of one Donald Trump. Let's go to the President at the White House today giving brief remarks about
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the war before a Medal of Honor ceremony.
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Right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if the President wants to do it really quickly after that he'll get bored. I don't get bored.
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Laser focused,
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you sure don't get bored. You're not some three year old that
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gets easily distracted by something shiny on the wall.
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We have a lot of great service members here with us too, in this beautiful building. Isn't it beautiful? We're adding on to the building a little bit. We're improving the building. See that? Nice drape. I picked those drapes in my first term. I always like gold, but I think we can save a lot of money. I just saved. I just saved curtains. But. And it will be. It'll be spectacular because the most beautiful ballroom. I believe it's because I built many a ballroom. I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.
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Can't believe it. Our bombs are now smarter than our President,
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so. Well,
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Jesus. Anyway, back to the war.
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So will any congressional leaders be more forthcoming with the American people?
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Is anybody going to let the American people in on the plan here?
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Is there a plan? Does the President have a plan to guarantee that that happens?
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No.
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It's not his job or my job to do this. How many times do I have to tell you?
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Why are you trying to ruin my war? Why? I just started and I'm having such a. I bought a new suit and shiny shoes. The kind to put a nickel in for good luck in my. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some celebrity canapes and a Lime Ricky with my name on it. Good day. I said good day. This is Trump's America. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but even regimes I disagreed with respected the American people enough or felt some obligation to at least lie to us in primetime. Did anybody get filled in on this? An Israeli military official I spoke to
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told me that there were thousands of hours of planning between us and Israeli military officials.
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Oh, anything for the bombing, buddy.
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Bibi, you told Israel more than you told us.
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But like giving a hand job on your birthright trip, it was a secret
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that stayed in Israel.
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Yeah, yeah, they did it.
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They know. On the bus, under the blanket. They know. That's all. But all this parsing is meaningless in the first place. We can expose their hypocrisy and contradictions and arrogance.
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Till we're blue in the Congress, the right doesn't care.
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They supported Trump for a very particular reason. A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for war.
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A vote for Donald Trump is a
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vote for a man who wants to end wars.
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The president has a commitment to peace,
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frankly, unlike anything we have seen. He is the great dealmaker, the art of the deal.
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He can negotiate the end of wars around the world.
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He is America's dealmaker in chief. He leads from a position of securing peace through strength.
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That's why they voted for him.
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The doctrine, peace through strength.
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And now they support Trump for a very different reason.
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The president's not afraid to take action with hard power when necessary.
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We have a president that has finally shown the strength and boldness that is needed.
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The Iranian government found out what the
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Trump doctrine is all about, and that is mess around and find out Donald
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Trump has the guts, the balls, and the vision to do things that nobody else will do.
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I'm gonna leave the balls thing alone for now. But how quickly the right has gone from peace through strength to peace through
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war, and we're all just along for the ride in a war with no clear purpose, no end in sight. It's all just at the whims of Donald Trump. You know. You know what I need right now? My comfort monkey. I need my comfort monke.
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It actually works. You know, I went after poor Punch
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pretty hard last week.
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Said some things,
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but I get it now. This does help a lot. By the way.
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It was crazy.
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They were sold out. And this might get me in a
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little bit of trouble.
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I had to go to Ichikawa and take this from Punch. When we come back, Jafar Panahi will be here. Don't go away.
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Hello to my guest tonight, an incredible award winning filmmaker. His latest it was Just an Accident
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is currently nominated for two Academy Awards.
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Please welcome to the program.
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Jafar Panahy
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Alexa.
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Welcome sir. I am such an enormous fan of your work. It is trenchant brave. You've been banned from making filmmaking for 20 years. Yes,
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I had a 20 year sentence that banned me from making films, writing scripts and traveling abroad. I was watching your show. Now if you say 100th of what you just said in Iran, the sentence will be Execution.
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I would be killed.
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Because in our films, we don't even get to 100th of what you said here. There are many Iranian filmmakers now who are in prison. And in the past two months that there were protests, one of our filmmaker friends got killed on the war. You're dealing with a state, with a regime that will not allow you to even say 100th of what you just said.
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Right.
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And people are on the street now because they want to reach a point that they could criticize anyone, But they will not even tolerate a peaceful protest. And that's why they start shooting people en masse and committing mass murder. I'm sorry if I messed up the mood of your show.
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Not even close. I'm in awe of your courage. You're right. We often take for granted even the most. Our fear is we're heading in the wrong direction in terms of being censored and those types of things. But so clearly our perspective is warped because in our country, freedom is. We consider it a birthright and settled
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law
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and why we fight so hard to preserve it when we see it threatened. Which is why you were, I think, such a real hero of mine. So you were banned from making films. So what you did is you made a film called this is Not a Film.
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It's not really about being a hero. When you talk about heroism, you have to say, compared to. What. Is it? Compared to the person who's been in prison for 10 or 15 years, then I've only been imprisoned for a few months.
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But you've been in prison. They imprisoned you for making movies, and
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your answer was, how do you like this movie?
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I've just tried to do my job.
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But that's the fact that you feel compelled and you could live anywhere. When you're done, you're here for the award season. You'll go to la. Where will you go after that?
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Iran.
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That's what I mean. Now, to be clear, I'm not crazy about LA either. So I understand if the choice is.
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It's just my country.
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How is your family?
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Half of my being is there. My family is there. And I lived there permanently until three, four months ago when I came out because of the Oscar campaign. My son, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, my colleagues, everyone is there. When half of you is there, then how could you be out?
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See, this is what I'm noticing in America now, and it may seem quaint, you know, when you said it earlier, how can I be a hero if other people have been imprisoned longer? And we think here, what rights we may be fighting for seem quaint comparatively to the mass murdering of the mullahs and the terrible censorship and the way it lives. But what I think breeds optimism and hope is what you just said, which is you love where you're from. And as hard as it is, you fight to create the kind of world that you would rather live in, in the place that you love, with the people that you love.
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People will resist in any form or way. I resist with the kind of work I do, and someone else might resist in another form. In the past 45 days, in that mass killing, which happened only in two days and in fact, only in 10 hours, about 40,000 people got killed. And of course, people were shocked and they went into sorrow and a state of mourning. Then the regime even banned mourning. But people found a way around that. And they started dancing on the graves of their loved ones and their children, and they played music and danced to that music. Their elementary school kids or their children who were about to get married, they came up with the dance of death. But it wasn't death. It was a form of life. What I'm trying to say is that everyone will find a way to show the resistance, even in death. I, too, will find a way in my job to work and to resist. And I know that that resistance will come with a price. So I'm not doing anything extraordinary. What people are doing is much bigger than what I'm doing. Because I am a socially engaged filmmaker. I am a witness. I witness the time period. And what happens in my society and around me. I'm not doing anything extraordinary. I'm not giving any particular opinion. What I'm doing is witnessing what I have seen in this time period. And the people of my country have accepted that they will have to pay a price because they love their country and they want to live in it.
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But that, sir, is what's so moving to me, I think, is the idea that. That for you to just live a human experience that I take for granted every day as an act of utter defiance, it shows you what you would consider the ordinary are capable of when pushed, and to see it in your work. And I think the film really explores that. Your film, and I assume that it is influenced by your time in Evin prison, which is the terrible, notorious prison. I assume that it's this journey of five people who had been tortured, four that have been tortured, and the other along for the ride, each one representing, it seems, a different way of processing that trauma. Is that what you were expressing through this? Just an observation of what that trauma had done for people.
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In fact, this was not my experience alone. It was my experience and the other prisoners. When a prisoner of conscience enters the prison system, the first thing they do is they interrogate that person. Without having an attorney. They will give you you a piece of paper and a pen, and they will blindfold you and put you in front of a wall. And you will have to respond to the questions that a person behind you asks. At that moment. It is your auditory sense that works most your other senses don't really engage. And what you're thinking is whether or not you're going to recognize this person outside jail. What you're thinking is, how old is this person? What does this person look, look like? And what am I going to do if I encounter this person? This is a question constantly, and it is a collective experience. But when you go into a public ward, then you meet other prisoners and you always talk to them every day. Some people have been incarcerated for five or 10 years. They just talk because it's pastime. When I was talking to them, I really was not thinking that. That one day I'm going to make a film about it. But the day that the gates opened and I was released, I turned around for a second and I saw that big wall behind. And I asked myself, what is it that I'm doing outside? My friends are still in there. That's when I thought that there was a burden weighing heavy on my shoulders. And it kept getting heavier by the day.
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It.
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But I didn't use the memory until
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the day that I couldn't tolerate carrying it anymore. And I had to unburden. So to put that burden down, I asked myself, what can I do? And I realized I have to make a film about them. A film about that collective experience and about those stories that I heard from every single one of those people. The result became this one. And in fact, it wasn't my fault. It was the fault of that burden that kept getting heavier. And that burden is that duty. It's that social duty of the filmmaker. You might feel a burden about the future of your country. And anyone going against the law or trying to hurt the law, you might want to try to say what you need to say. And that would be putting that burden down. But in my country, putting that burden down is a crime. And many people were in contact, incarcerated for it.
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But you did something, I think, in your work that really demonstrated that showed the difference between humanity and authoritarianism. And that is doubt. Your characters, one of the main threads through it is they're not sure if this is the man who tortured them in prison. And they wrestle, wrestled with their doubt. And it's what made you realize they had retained, what made them human. Because the authoritarian regime has only certainty and treats people not as individuals. It didn't matter if they were guilty, innocent in this prison. They're just. They're nothing. But your character still maintain their humanity. To look at this torturer and want to see him as an individual. And by showing that, I can't tell you how it articulated and illuminated what it means to be free and to be human. And one of the most interesting things is when the one gentleman, as soon as he saw his captor, he reached down and he felt his leg to feel the scars, to make sure that those were the scars that while blindfolded, he had felt before, to know if this was the man or not. It's so beautifully done, sir. I thank you for the work.
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Thank you. We only have two types of filmmakers in the world now.
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You gotta tell us the types.
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95% are filmmakers who are after what the audience wants, Meaning they adapt their taste to the taste of the audience and they give the audience what it wants. And I'm talking about everywhere around the world, not just in Iran, But another 5% says, this is how I look, and now it's on the audience to come and find me. And where you're not going with the taste of the audience, and you're just going according to your own taste. You will not anything, you will not allow anything to dictate you. You will not allow anyone to tell you what to make. And that's when you will make the reality. And in fact, in that reality, everyone is a human being. And you will have a humanistic look on everyone. There is no purely good or purely evil person. But we only have dysfunctional systems. And it is that dysfunctional system that has divided people as such. This comes from. This is a characteristic of a socially engaged cinema, a humanistic look on everybody. And to a future in which the cycle of violence comes to an end. So it is a choice. It's a choice of what kind of films to make and what group to belong to. When you're in the 5% category, it will automatically tell you how to see things, how to look at people, how to see the world.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for being an artist, thank you for being in the 5%, and thank you for making art that fills us with the possible. Truly, Jafar Panahi it was just an accident. Is now streaming on Hulu.
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We'll be right back right after this.
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