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00:00Well, where should I begin, Stuart? We have problems from our sky up. And as you said,
00:05the earth beneath us is also sinking. And right now, as I'm speaking to you, the power in my
00:12neighborhood is out. It has been out for an hour and a half. And this is due to the densely
00:20populated city of Tehran. This city right now hosts 15 million citizens who are now consuming
00:28a megaton of electricity. And the government is not prepared for this. There are not enough
00:34power plants to supply the electricity. So as of February, the country, the capital and the
00:40country has been shut for almost two or three days a week. And all banks, all government
00:48organizations are shut down at least twice or three times a week because of power shortage
00:55and gas, low gas supplies. And the pollution is crazy in Tehran. There have been several alerts
01:05for people with heart diseases and children and pregnant women not to leave the house if they
01:13have and they can leave the house if they have some emergency business that they have to attend to.
01:21So, Said, once again, this possibility of actually moving the capital is under discussion. I mean,
01:26could that actually really ever happen? No, it can't, because President Pesachkian
01:31actually came up with this idea of moving the capital to the city of Makran, which, as you said,
01:37is bordering the beaches of the Gulf of Oman, the Sea of Oman. But later on, his cabinet
01:47tried to soften his words, saying that, OK, this proposal was made, but it is under review.
01:52And in the latest developments, the minister of housing and urban planning said that, no,
01:58what the president actually said was that we have to develop the city. We have to develop the
02:03infrastructure there, because right now, Makran, the city of Makran is heavily influenced by its
02:12intactness of nature. There are no infrastructure for people to live there. There is absolutely no
02:22infrastructure for government organizations to set up offices there. So how can the government
02:28move all of its businesses there if there is no infrastructure? So later on, the cabinet of
02:33President Pesachkian tried to soften his words and say that, OK, this proposal was made, but it is
02:38under review, and it will likely be shut down.