“Tehran 2022” — what should be done next? — Arbak Khachatryan

Our interlocutor is independent human rights advocate, geopolitical expert, and political oracle Arbak Khachatryan.

— Mr. Khachatryan, what did “Tehran-22” give us?

— As I have already said, Iran is now being used against Russia amid competition over gas and oil. The event deserves attention only insofar as the Russian Federation’s leader visited Iran for the first time. I cannot fail to note that the “raven of peace,” Erdogan, spoiled the whole backdrop. Even to discuss urgent questions, he could have been met separately and in another territory. So we should not expect particular results from these decorative meetings.

— But agreements have already been signed; perhaps there will be new arrangements too…

— Until the international currency system, the dollar system, is eliminated, these agreements will not operate fully. The once most powerful financial operator, Israel, will not allow Iran to strengthen. The only chance for Jews and Persians to interact will arise if some entirely “Ancient Testament” suddenly “surfaces,” attesting to the kinship of these peoples. But this latest fairy tale will be the hardest to believe, given these peoples’ origins, despite the hundreds of peoples who believed their invented fairy tales, beginning with the 10 commandments. Great Persia is a country with a colossal historical, cultural, and spiritual heritage, unlike those who, in my view, were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. There is no evil more terrible than a slave who has seized power.

— Mr. Khachatryan, you speak of a state that controls finances. Does that mean rich countries have come out ahead today?

— No, having gas and oil, having plundered wealth, means nothing today. Whoever owns the international financial and banking system orders sanctions, decides where there will be peace and where war, produces terrorists, and so on. It no longer matters whether you support Putin or the global sanctions metastasis, which has no leader. There is war in Ukraine today, and “compassionate” countries supply it with weapons. People die, while the world is occupied with gas questions and humanitarian questions remain unresolved.

During the Second Karabakh War of 2020, terrorists were brought into the region and Bayraktars supplied, and Armenians were left alone with enemies superior in numbers and military equipment. Our dead young people are a sacrifice offered to Bayraktar. After this meat grinder, where are the sanctions against Turkey and Azerbaijan? The “masters” decide which state to sanction, because all the financial levers are in their hands. Iran has both oil and gas today, but it is under sanctions. That did not save the country at all, and many are beginning to see where evil nests.

Very soon, humanity will forget diamonds and fabulously expensive paintings by Malevich and Picasso, valued by agreement among a small group of people at the budget of an entire country. Humanity will face the question of survival. European countries will experience rolling power cuts, as Armenia did in the 1990s; gas will be supplied to homes on a schedule, and so on. The house of cards is collapsing. Unfortunately, decent, honest people will also remain under the ruins. The planet cannot withstand human sinfulness.

Nature itself destroys vice in the guise of pandemics and earthquakes; because of various cataclysms, entire cities will go underwater or burn. Understand that wheat, oil, gas, and other natural resources were given to humanity to create a favorable life, not the reverse.

To save themselves, these financial operators invent monetary institutions and cryptocurrency, and go to any lengths, even creating money for people with a nontraditional sexual orientation.

— How can they be stopped? Are there any levers?

— Until world leaders, even a few, understand and join the struggle against the corrupt global financial system and its “masters,” and want to change it, humanity is in danger; nobody will be saved. These slaves destroyed everything good that existed in the world.

— Back in 2003, you wrote from Lefortovo and called for getting rid of slaves who do not love their home or country.

— If someone does not love their home or country, they cannot befriend a neighbor or love and respect another people. Who are slaves? We know from history that they are those who destroyed Egyptian culture, the Roman Empire, and all the noble institutions and systems that served as examples to humanity. Instead, these slaves created the financial system and made it supreme, bringing the whole world to its knees through sanctions. State leaders must understand this truth and create some countermechanism—a structure that must not govern the world through money, which has made the planet’s entire population hostages.

Banks operating within this structure will be deprived of the right to earn for themselves, and anyone violating that rule must be strictly punished, up to the death penalty. That is how thieves were dealt with in the distant era of horse theft. A bank’s mission is not self-enrichment through insanely high interest, but strengthening and advancing the country and supporting weaker states. The entire system and its substructures must be changed. Only then will relations between states cease to depend on international and global banks.

But until the countermechanism is created and the system destroyed, all peoples and countries will suffer; nobody will be saved. The planet will heal only through global changes to the financial system. For some, the phoenix reborn from its ashes may be a prototype; for Christians, the saving Noah’s Ark. Though, frankly, I am beginning to doubt reason’s victory over earthly evil.

— As a human rights adviser to the president of the Russian Federation, you ended up in Lefortovo. In your messages from there, you advised Russia’s leader to disregard American sanctions and help Iran’s people. Why did that not happen then? Why were you not heard?

— At that time, Russia pursued an entirely different policy, occupied with other “important” matters: it protected and cultivated criminal, corrupt figures in the former union republics—Ukraine, Armenia, the Asian countries… Today, the plundered money those operators kept in American and other Western banks is used against Russia. It turns out Russia itself produced these vermin against itself. But this is only a small part of the evil. The world’s financial operators hold every lever for printing money “whenever and in whatever quantity they wish.”

Laws must be changed so that these global fixers understand that their time has come to an end. This system must be completely destroyed. Banks and money must serve people’s benefit; they are conveniences, like a car or a woman’s tampon, not something that makes a person toil all their life and pay interest. The new system must be intended to finance only projects aimed at supporting, developing, advancing, and strengthening states.

— From your words, does it follow that Russia is indirectly involved in the 30-year plunder of Armenia?

— Look: in Armenia itself, Russia’s favorites became operators and criminals who looted the country, morally corrupted the local population, and for 30 years set a corrupt example for the current hyenas who seized power. Lions are not born among hyenas. Recently, one of today’s politicians went to Poland, a country hostile to the ally that ensures Armenia’s entire security. He might as well have gone straight to Ukraine. These hyenas are here today and there tomorrow. They shout about Russian peacekeepers while going to Poland themselves.

It is grotesque. Why was I able, while sitting in Lefortovo, to openly raise objections and criticize the policy Russia’s authorities pursued toward my country? I was fighting for my people, worried that they would turn my people into a vassal. Do you think I had no family or children, nobody to fear for? So the ending “yan” in a person’s surname no longer says anything today. Judging by actions and thinking, I hope that, if tested for the presence of an Armenian gene, a substantial part of Armenia’s population would fail.

That would at least give me some reassurance. Generally, however, if a person has values, a purpose, principles, and genuine faith, no Devil can shake their thoughts and soul. I have always said that religion is not important to me; far more important is that God be in a person’s soul. That determines the degree of morality. Today, even icons depicting saints can boldly be replaced with icons of the Devil, since, judging by their actions, a substantial part of humanity worships him.

— Mr. Khachatryan, you speak of the Devil in thoughts, God in the soul, and universal human values, yet you placed Great Persia and the Armenian gene on one side of the barricades and slaves who seized power on the other…

— A people must have a backbone of great history and rich spirituality, not a monetary crown on its head. State leaders must finally understand this and sow what is reasonable, good, and eternal for the benefit of all humanity. P.S. I want to add that, at the end of our conversation, Arbak Khachatryan apologized for the outburst of indignation caused by the situation’s extreme seriousness.