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[00:00:40] Hello and welcome to this short news segment from BBC Persian with me, Farin
[00:00:44] Asemi. Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, in defense of continuing
[00:00:48] negotiations with the United States, said that when we can achieve our rights through dialogue,
[00:00:51] why should we fight? Mr. Pezeshkian said that Iran
[00:00:55] was able to stop the Lebanon war through dialogue,
[00:00:58] lift the siege, and reduce some sanctions.
[00:01:02] Meanwhile, an American official told Reuters that there has been progress
[00:01:05] in the talks between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of
[00:01:09] Hormuz, and Washington expects an agreement to be reached
[00:01:12] soon. According to him, after the announcement of an agreement for the complete
[00:01:16] and unobstructed reopening of this waterway, the US will lift
[00:01:20] the blockade of Iranian ports. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, also says
[00:01:23] that an agreement on a new shipping route in the Strait of
[00:01:27] Hormuz is very close. Farham Ghabadi is here in the studio
[00:01:31] with me. Parham, what are the latest news regarding the possibility of an agreement
[00:01:34] between Tehran and Oman? Look, there is ambiguity about
[00:01:38] what is happening. Now, the spokesperson for the Revolutionary Guards has said
[00:01:42] that we do not negotiate with the Americans at all, and the reopening of the Strait of
[00:01:45] Hormuz has nothing to do with our negotiations
[00:01:49] with Oman and will happen when the Americans accept all
[00:01:52] our conditions. On the other hand, last night the
[00:01:56] American side, Scott
[00:01:59] Bassent, their Treasury Secretary, said that today and
[00:02:03] tomorrow the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and an agreement
[00:02:07] with Iran will be reached. That's why there is some ambiguity, but in any case,
[00:02:10] what is happening is not just the closure of the Strait of
[00:02:14] Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab by the Houthis. On the other hand, the US has
[00:02:17] imposed a naval blockade against Iran, and now
[00:02:21] the Wall Street Journal has published a report saying that with shipping data
[00:02:24] and satellite images, they were able to find out that at least
[00:02:27] in the past week, no oil tanker has loaded at Kharg Island,
[00:02:31] which is Iran's main oil export terminal.
[00:02:34] And this indicates that Iran's oil exports have
[00:02:38] likely decreased at an alarmingly rapid rate.
[00:02:41] Last night, the third part of Masoud Pezeshkian's interview was broadcast.
[00:02:45] He also spoke about the possibility of an agreement.
[00:02:48] Exactly. It seems that when you look at the statements of both sides,
[00:02:52] neither side wants to continue the war, except for the internal hardliners. For example,
[00:02:56] we see that CNN has published a report and says, quoting three informed sources,
[00:03:00] that General Donkin, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
[00:03:04] US Army, said to Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance
[00:03:07] and others to look for a way out
[00:03:10] of the war with Iran because continuing this war
[00:03:13] might backfire, and they will not achieve results
[00:03:16] with aerial bombardment. On the other hand, Reuters has confirmed that Iran's
[00:03:20] missile reserves have decreased. Now, the Iranian side, as you said,
[00:03:24] Pezeshkian has spoken and said that when
[00:03:27] we can solve our problems through dialogue,
[00:03:30] why should we continue the war? We can listen to part of his speech. China and
[00:03:33] America are friends.
[00:03:36] America's biggest enemy is China. Why don't they
[00:03:40] fight? China does its
[00:03:43] own thing. It's getting stronger every day.
[00:03:46] We will defend what we wrote in the memorandum of understanding
[00:03:49] with power. Find one clause that we gave
[00:03:53] away. We always want to
[00:03:56] say let's fight. That's what Israel wants.
[00:04:26] Also Mohammad Bagher Kharazi, the cleric who has recently made controversial statements.
[00:04:31] In recent days, videos of him had been released where he
[00:04:34] encouraged the killing of women who do not wear hijab. In
[00:04:38] another instance, he spoke about Masoud Pezeshkian, saying that he had resigned
[00:04:41] 27 times and that he had access to this information because of his friendship
[00:04:45] with Mojtaba Khamenei. In any case, a series of his statements
[00:04:49] had caused a lot of reactions. Now, today, and he is
[00:04:52] also the brother-in-law of Masoud Khamenei's brother-in-law,
[00:04:56] the younger brother of Mojtaba Khamenei. Today, they summoned him and said that if he
[00:05:00] does not come, he will be arrested. Thank you very much to Parham Ghabadi here in the
[00:05:04] studio. We have reached the end of this news segment.
[00:05:07] Thank you for being with BBC Persian.
[00:05:09] هستید.