168: Pashinyan Should Go Out Again, Put Soil, Metal Lach, Carpet Or Laminate From Armenia

Satik Seyranyan in the “Pressing” program the guest is Dr. Artur Khachikyan of Stanford University political science is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• It was impossible to imagine that an 18-year-old boy would be punched and thrown to the ground during the liturgy in Armenia. This group crossed all the red lines. The head of state writes such things on Facebook that I will not allow myself to write even when drinking with my friends. We learned that Vehapar and the church can be attacked, that the exit of Vehapar can be closed. This is what they teach now։

• This person provokes and tries to break the people’s resistance to see how far they will tolerate… Tomorrow he can enter your house, force you to love him, and if you refuse, they will imprison you.   

• This person has a need for revenge because he sees that he has failed, he has not succeeded, neither as a leader of the country, nor as a journalist… He is a vindictive person. He takes revenge on us because he sees that there are many decent people who could make a decent peace, and he hates them. He hates us all because we witnessed his downfall. 

• They changed the name of corruption, they put reward. Poor pensioners are given 10,000 drams, and they are given 10-12 million drams.

• We woke up a long time ago and realized that human rights are only for serving western interests. Imagine if Putin’s bodyguard did something like that, hit an 18-year-old boy in church, those pro-Western human rights defenders would talk about it until they foamed at the mouth like a washing machine… 

• 75,000 women and children have been killed in Gaza, the West is quietly watching. They bring a terrorist and make him the head of Syria. This is the West today.

• He shouted in 2020: this is our new Sardarapat, even in 2021 he told the people of Karabakh: you should live safely in Artsakh. Now, how does the head of state talk to the woman who became a refugee because of him? Every morning our day is ruined, the reality show continues…

• Looking at Pashinyan’s and Putin’s body language and voice intonations, one can imagine what kind of conversation took place behind closed doors. Putin calmly, but very accessible and transparent hints about what could happen if Armenia goes to NATO and EU. The next day, Deputy Prime Minister Overchuk further elaborated on what was said by Putin. And today Dmitry Medvedev already put the end point. This government is fighting with Russia for something that will not happen. Even they admit that Armenia will not be in the EU, that we will not be accepted into the EU, we were neither invited nor expected… 

• Previously, in 2017, the leaders of Armenia signed CEPA, a real document that needed to be developed, but today they have fallen behind unreal things. Quotas, right to work, various privileges could be obtained from Europe with that document, but they did not. We will become a nursing home if this continues, the youth will flee the country…

• Tomorrow the Europeans can tell us: don’t grow apricots because Spain doesn’t want them, don’t produce wine because you’re hurting French winemaking… You didn’t like communism, now you’re going to get Eurocommunism. They will tell you what to do, but that will not happen because Armenia will not be a member of the EU.

• Pashinyan’s behavior inside and outside reminds me of the meeting between King Arshak and the Persian Shapuh. The next time Pashinyan goes to Russia or somewhere else, put soil from Armenia in his pocket, a mat or khali, a laminate so that he can stand on it, get a little angry, and talk the way he talks to us in Armenia.։

• Russia is a huge territory, Russians have 10 time zones, they come from Vladivostok to Moscow, the day changes, or the government changes in Italy… So, Russia does not need Armenia to become part of Russia. Enough of repeating that over and over again, as if the Union State wants to take us away…

• It is sad that we are presented with this disgrace, who, when 180 baby girls were buried in Iran, was playing drums in Georgia…

• Yes, the speech of Russian officials is harsh, and it is very bad that they talk about the leader of our country like that. But they clearly tell us that if you leave the EAEU, the 40,000 drams paid for gas per month in winter will become at least 120,000 drams. Are our pensioners ready to pay such a price? As soon as we leave the EAEU, I will advise our citizens to buy raskladushkas, because tens of thousands of Armenians will come here from Russia, those who have supported their friends in Armenia for 35 years.

• You can’t blame anyone for Artsakh, neither Iran nor Russia, although I hope that those countries have now understood what value Artsakh had for them… If you recognize Artsakh in Prague as part of Azerbaijan, it means that it’s over, there is no conflict, and what would Russia or any other country do? He did everything to get Russia out of Artsakh…

• A head of a vassal state headed by his lord would threaten with war. Yes, it is very possible that they agreed with Aliyev that he would attack before the elections, that he would say this: you see, I am the only leader of the country who can ensure peace. There is no precedent in the history of the world for a leader of any country to consider a part of his people as a yoke around his neck…

• It is already the biggest economic crisis in the whole world. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and this creates problems. The USA wants to occupy Kharg Island as well. They want to send marines to extract uranium from Iran. This will be a disaster, there will be thousands of victims, there will be chaos. This is a psychological war. As soon as the financial markets fall, Trump announces something, the situation stabilizes, then it falls again… Great Britain already has a week’s worth of fuel left. Half of the data center projects for the next year have been canceled. This is a major blow to the AI ​​industry. Agriculture is in decline. According to the UN, we are heading towards starvation. Trump brags like a child that they blew up the most modern bridge in Tehran… This is a war crime. Iran is also attacking oil and gas infrastructures. We are heading for a huge economic crisis. Iran may go to negotiations, but it will demand a big price for it: the US must withdraw its bases from the Gulf countries, which is hard to imagine, the Strait of Hormuz must remain under its control, it must be given full guarantees. Maybe the US has an advantage militarily, but the economic, psychological and political advantage in this war is on the side of Iran.

• It is clear that the Republicans will not win in the USA this fall. Democrats will take over Congress and begin the process of impeaching Trump. In the US, 8 million people took to the streets against the war against Iran։

• Iran will be a new Vietnam for America, and it will have to deal with its consequences for tens of years. Trump trades. He says to Europe, if you don’t help me open the Strait of Hormuz, I won’t help you in Ukraine either.։

• Maybe the Kurds also have KP and can still give in to the promises of the Americans, but at the moment they do not want to give in to the provocation of the USA once again, because they have seen that they have been defeated twice.

• Israel’s goal is to establish hegemony in the entire Middle East by destroying all anti-Israeli states. The US has become a branch of Israel, but if Israel feels that the US is withdrawing, they say that Israel will go for nuclear escalation, but then Iran will also create nuclear weapons very quickly, and as a result of this war, nuclear weapons will spread to our region.։

• The former head of the US CIA announced yesterday that we helped to strengthen the power of radicals in Iran, and this is logical. It turned out exactly the opposite of what they intended․ they wanted to change the Iranian regime, the opposite happened. So, this war was a shameful mistake of the USA, and it fell into Israel’s trap.

• We were lucky that they did not manage to make TRIPP, because if there was an American object on our border, the first drones of this war would have landed on our heads. The government of Armenia conducts the world’s most short-sighted foreign policy. We are turning Iran and Russia against us and bringing 10,000 km to the region a distant country that loses in Iran. 

• The USA is withdrawing its citizens from Iraq because pro-Iranian Shia Muslims have declared jihad there.