He is such a good example to look to for how to handle the bullshit that imperialist media peddles. Notice that he doesn't take the questions of interviewers at face value as neutral and try to answer them in a neutral way. Instead, he understands the narrative being peddled, he calls attention to it, and he brings a counter narrative of his own.
Some people get tripped up in the kind of dynamic like, "Do you condemn Hamas" style bullshit. He counters rather than answering on their terms. Imagine if a guy like Mamdani was like this instead of folding so easy on imperialist narratives. He'd probably gain even more traction among the populace because of the fire behind it. By contrast, you can tell Marandi understands that he isn't here to make friends with the empire and its mouthpieces; the empire treats himself and so many others as subhuman, so why would he? It's probably easier for him to grasp this vs. a person who lives in the empire and wants to believe in reform.