 Hello and welcome to another episode of DMTV. The majority of Europe is essentially at war with Russia in every way, other than boots on the ground and bullets in the air. A series of sanctions of questionable efficiency targeting Russia have landed Europe in a veritable economic crisis and a cost of living crisis. Besides following the reported Iranian drone strike in Kiev, voices in Brussels are also calling for Tehran to be added to the list of sanctioned targets at a time when Europe has been trying to revive the bruised nuclear deal that was ripped apart by the Trump administration a few years ago. Meanwhile, long-standing neutral nations such as Finland and Sweden are moving towards joining NATO, making essentially the European Union a geopolitical appendix to the US-led alliance. With us today, we had the absolute pleasure of having Amine Kakabave, a former Peshmerga fighter in her teenage years. She eventually made her way to Sweden where she learned Swedish, graduated from Stockholm University and became an activist and eventually a member of the Riksdag, the country's parliament. In recent months following her resignation after many years of membership of the left party, Amine played a decisive role in the balance of power in the country's parliament and was targeted by the Turkish President Erdogan in his list of demanded extraditions from Sweden to Turkey in return for his support of the country's NATO membership bid. Together we discussed the rise of the far right, the failure of the left, in Sweden and the rest of Europe as well as its successes in Latin America, the invasion of Ukraine and Europe's very worrying acceptance of war as the new norm, the inspiring demonstrations in her native Iran and much more besides. Hope you enjoy the show. I have been a member of the parliament in 14 and a half years in Sweden, more than three mandates, three and a half. I am actually from the Kurdistan, Iran and I have never done anything that could be against the law against Turkey. The only thing is I use my parliamentarian position as well as criticize that Iran had the Kurdish in Turkey, Israel, countries in Latin America, Sweden and other countries. Absolutely Turkey is also one of them, their dictatorship and the Kurds, they are not, if you demand your right, you are in prison. Can you tell me a bit more about what your plans are now you didn't run in the latest European, in the latest Swedish elections, you're not in the left party anymore. Where do you see yourself politically? Because you've gathered quite a few people around you with your very principled political stance in Sweden. So where do you see this going in the future? I didn't find myself in left party because left party has bounded their own principles and the socialism, so why I left them and I didn't want to go to any other small parties. We have, they asked me, but I said no, I am again sectorism, any kind of sectorism, just the old communist parties or Trotskism, we have a lot of small parties. But I don't believe that no days we do need the left party we have now is a more look like social democratic party five years ago. And the other parties, they are stealing, they think that imperialism is just America and nothing had changed. But everything has changed actually. So I have another analysis, it's a more actually look like Die Mo and you mentioned. Just to comment that I think the idea is very, very wonderful and excellent to democratization of EU, but it takes time of course. Hopefully we can start a political movement which is for anti-war, for solidarity and anti-militarism, anti-war and anti-militarism to me is the same and for the social justice it is very important. The war in Ukraine, if the United Nations and the EU and NATO want, they could stop it because they just want to lock and to put in, to destroy the Ukraine because NATO and other countries want to and Sweden too, to make more warp and to sell to them. Right now we have multiple sides to this conflict and none of them are interested in peace. They all are interested in further entrenching and making this war a permanent fixture because everybody stands to gain. Our sanctions against Russia have essentially increased their GDP and have completely undermined European citizens through an unprecedented cost of living crisis. The Americans are making a killing through the military industrial complex and liquefied natural gas that they're exporting to Europe and countries that politically were not necessarily very much on the same page are being brought closer together as a counterbalance to this polarization that Europe and the West is creating. So you have countries like Iran and China coming closer to Russia, not because they have that much in common, other than the fact that they don't want American and NATO hegemony in the world. So these really short-sighted moves that have been done by the West are really blowing this entire conflict into a completely different proportion. Unfortunately, nobody seems to benefit from peace right now. All the major political players are interested in the continuation of this war because they still have much more to gain out of it. Absolutely, I agree that that is I told the Swedish parliament from the start when they were voting before the summer and during the summer to send a weapon to Ukraine. I said that it is not to help precisely the people and the peace. Because I have been by myself growing up during bombs and during war, I have been by myself Peshmerga. I know that the warpen, if there is NATO and Swedish and Russian and American, they actually kill people. The political discussion, the political narrative, the mainstream in Europe has completely shifted towards the right. And we see that of course in Europe in election results. But we also see it in the way, like you said, that the social democrats have basically become conservative. The left parties have become social democrats. Everything has shifted further to the right. That is where the normality is. So really the fact that European nations now are reacting in the way that they're reacting to this Russian aggression and it is absolutely aggression and what is being done is illegal. And of course, that goes without saying, of course. But the fact that they are reacting to it by further polarizing and joining the other side might also be explained by the fact that there is a political hegemony, basically. There's a dominant narrative across Europe that is far more to the right than it used to be in the 90s, 80s and 70s. Wouldn't you say? Yeah, that is absolutely what I have been telling. We are in that, you know, a paradigm shift, you know, from social democracy to neoliberalism. Very, very quick neoliberalism has just destroyed. Human being destroyed, you know, the climate destroyed people's lives, people's housing, people's, you know, agriculture, class society. Now everything is in the hands of capitalism plus militarism because of the work as, you know, they have, they use everything. Now you can pay the food, 35% more, you know, expensive. This is the war. The energy is about the war. Everything they are now, capitalism, use the war as an excuse to get more money from the state. Tell us a bit more about this result in Sweden, the electoral result. And what do you think it signifies for Sweden and Europe in terms of both the success of the far right, but also this failure of the left? The working class, even here as in Iran and other countries, they are so tired. They are working, you know, who is the working class, really working class in Sweden? Believe me, it is migrants and Swedish women, they are working in the service sector, but more than 80% is the migrant, I mean refugees, people like me, you know. And they are less paid, stressful, they are not with the union. They can be said that if you say no, I put another, I replace you with another people, with another worker. I see every day, I hear every day from the people I know, they are my friends, they tell me. So from those people, unfortunately, you can have any expectation. But I have expectation from the union, working union, from the people who says that they are socialists, the social democratic, you know. But unfortunately, the society is so divided between rich and who they have so much and who they have nothing. Iran lately has been quite a bit in the news with an incredible women's movement that's given rise to a big wave of renewed solidarity from the world for the situation for women and people in general in Iran and with the government there. What is your view of that situation? What could we expect in Iran? And where do you see Europe's role in what's unfolding there? First of all, yes, the Iranian women and the Kurdish women, especially Kurdish men, they start actually the struggle from the, my city, Saqas, the regime, Masa Amini was killed. And actually, they start because the regime until yesterday, they don't want to, her parents, they say anything out on the media, you know, for international. But Masa, Regina Amini's father and mother and brother, they do not silent. And the people in Kurdistan, they actually support them. And from the start, that became a women's revolution in Kurdistan and the whole Iran. Because actually, since 2011, when they started the Arab uprising, especially in Egypt, I said for myself, next revolution, it happens, it be in Iran and Kurdistan, these women. And actually, we saw that women in Rojava, they fight against the Barbary, Islamic Barbary. Now, none country couldn't defeat if that was not taken to the Kurdish men and women, especially women in Rojava, in Kobani. So that is very important to mention about that. I have been, you know, fighting through both left parties and in the parliament and outside the parliament. I said that when that was apartheid in South Africa, all the countries in the world gathered together to be against. But when we have gender apartheid against half of the population in Iran, in Qatar, in Saudi Arabia, in Afghanistan, nobody said nothing. So if the European countries, if the European countries didn't support Iran like a country, they said that it is security, it is, you know, they maintain the stability and establishment in Middle East. That is why they don't want to, you know, do anything with Iran, even if they know that Iran has, you know, more like Putin and Erdogan, you know, the Kuti rebels in Yemen, threatening, you know, they have in the Spai Bedir and Quds in Iraq, they have Hamas in, you know, against Israel and they have Hezbollah in Lebanon. So in six countries, actually, Iran has very, very bad and influence and helping, of course. And now they sold drones to Putin in the war in Ukraine, they used. The European country, they have not done so much. They have designed to put boycott and put 11 memberships of the government of Iran. But the problem that EU leaders, they don't analyze and probably they make some agreement with the Iranian regime, because for the European country, everything is that to be bound from Putin. What happened with the Iranian women? What happened with the Kurdish? What happened with the Turkish people or the Kurdish people in Turkey? That is not any meaning. The meaning is the economical relations and the power and the, you know, weapon. Yeah. We just can't accept the current political mainstream as enough. It's not enough. We need more. We need much, much more. And if we can already all agree that the solutions will not come from the current political actors, that's already a start. So I wish you every possible success in what you do in Sweden and your initiatives for non aligned movements and for peace and for social justice. I sincerely hope that our paths on that struggle will cross with DM and we can do everything to bring more power to that and to bring it to the rest of Europe as well, which at this time when the discussion is so polarized, it's so desperately needs it. So thank you for everything that's been there. Absolutely. Thank you. Have a nice time. Thank you. Thank you very much to you. Bye.