The US gave asylum and citizenship to Bassem Youssef because he was allegedly threatened by the regime in Egypt.
He now performs on Egyptian state television, and released a statement yesterday supporting the killing of American soldiers as something worth celebrating on the condition that the Iranian region ultimately survives.
““Someone watching what’s happening might admire the military victories of Iran or its fighters in the war. And I understand that very well. Resilience and not breaking is a powerful step forward in history. That’s definitely important.
But what scares me are the same scenes we used to celebrate (and we had every right to celebrate, of course), like when someone destroys a tank from point-blank range in Gaza. There were truly heroic acts.
But in the end, unfortunately, over time, Gaza was flattened and destroyed, and nearly 100,000 people died, compared to almost negligible losses on the other side.
The same idea of people celebrating the killing of 6, 7, or even 12 American soldiers, while thousands of Iranians die. Because unfortunately, we see the American or Israeli soldier as worth hundreds of lives from us.”
“From us” - he doesn’t see himself as American or really identify as American in any way. He instead identifies with the Iranian regime forces fighting America.
Ultimately he’s saying that he would completely support killing American soldiers just so long as Iran’s regime was victorious. Youssef says “killing American soldiers is tactically pointless if you lose the war.”
Pretty straightforward case here that he lied on his asylum application and citizenship application, Trump administration should initiate court proceedings to remove citizenship.
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