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[00:00:24] Headline
[00:00:25] news.
[00:00:30] Russia's proposal to help end the Iran-US war.
[00:00:33] Pezeshkian told Putin Tehran will not leave the negotiating table. Will not
[00:00:37] leave.
[00:00:43] Trump administration emphasizes continued sanctions until
[00:00:46] the collapse of the Iranian regime. US Deputy Treasury Secretary tells BBC that the economic
[00:00:50] operation has brought the Islamic Republic to its knees.
[00:00:54] That's
[00:00:55] all.
[00:01:00] Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay, former judge of the International
[00:01:04] Criminal Court. The United States imposed new sanctions against this entity.
[00:01:07] Attached them.
[00:01:10] And BBC findings on the working conditions of workers producing official football club
[00:01:14] apparel in Cambodian factories.
[00:01:34] Hello everyone, and welcome to this news program. Vladimir Putin, in a
[00:01:38] meeting with Masoud Pezeshkian, said that Russia is ready to do whatever
[00:01:41] is necessary to help end the US-Iran war.
[00:01:45] The Iranian President also told his Russian counterpart that
[00:01:49] despite repeated US attacks on Iran during negotiations,
[00:01:52] Tehran remains committed to negotiation and diplomacy.
[00:01:56] This meeting took place on the sidelines of the Caspian
[00:01:59] Sea and Eurasia regional summit
[00:02:02] in Turkmenistan. Hours earlier, Donald Trump, the US President, had said that
[00:02:06] Washington is engaged in constructive dialogue with Tehran and will not
[00:02:10] attack Iran under any circumstances before the US midterm elections
[00:02:13] on November 3rd. Mohammad Amini reports. reports.
[00:02:17] Masoud Pezeshkian's presence
[00:02:20] at the summit of Commonwealth of Independent States in Turkmenistan.
[00:02:23] This country hosted the summit of the Caspian
[00:02:26] Sea littoral states, the summit of the Commonwealth of
[00:02:30] Independent States leaders, which gained
[00:02:33] independence after the collapse of the Soviet
[00:02:37] Union. These are the formalities
[00:02:40] of the leaders' group photo. This is the first time that an
[00:02:44] Iranian president participates in such a meeting.
[00:02:48] Vladimir Putin had a warm encounter with his Iranian counterpart.
[00:02:51] No. After all, it's not
[00:02:54] bedtime. They exchanged pleasantries.
[00:02:56] You're welcome. Behind the
[00:02:59] formal meeting table, he also referred to Iran as a country
[00:03:03] that, in his words, had no fault in the ongoing war with the United States.
[00:03:06] Of course,
[00:03:11] today the biggest problem is the situation in the region. We know that Iran has truly
[00:03:14] tried to end the conflict and struggle, to stop a war that Iran
[00:03:18] had no fault in starting. Iran is now once again trying
[00:03:22] to solve the issue with new proposals in a peaceful manner.
[00:03:26] Mr. President,
[00:03:30] you know Russia's position. We are ready to do whatever
[00:03:33] we can to resolve the issue. The opportunity that
[00:03:37] has arisen for you, this is the second meeting
[00:03:40] between Iranian and Russian leaders in the past 40 days.
[00:03:44] Masoud Pezeshkian told Vladimir Putin today
[00:03:47] that Tehran is still negotiating. We are talking.
[00:03:50] Every time we talked to them, they attacked again.
[00:03:54] But we still will not withdraw from the negotiating
[00:03:58] table. The proposal.
[00:04:27] Tehran's role in the ongoing war with the US is very ambiguous.
[00:04:32] But some observers believe that Iran's ability to withstand widespread
[00:04:36] and severe US and Israeli strikes has been partly
[00:04:39] due to the support of Russia and China. Iran
[00:04:43] and the US still speak of mutual contacts and diplomatic
[00:04:46] initiatives. Donald Trump, the US President, said
[00:04:50] that Iran will not be attacked before the November
[00:04:53] 3rd elections in the US, meaning for another 24 days.
[00:04:57] Although he emphasized that
[00:05:00] the economy is still operating strongly, it remains to be
[00:05:03] seen what agreements Masoud Pezeshkian will reach
[00:05:07] with his Russian counterpart in the ongoing meetings
[00:05:10] in Turkmenistan. Mohammad.
[00:05:19] He said that if anything needs to be done to end the war
[00:05:22] between Iran and the United States, he will do it.
[00:05:26] Is Mr. Putin in a position to mediate, pressure one of the parties,
[00:05:29] or do something in this regard? Yes, with
[00:05:33] greetings to you and the dear
[00:05:37] viewers of BBC Persian Television.
[00:05:41] Well, Mr. Putin has, in any case,
[00:05:44] a better relationship with Mr. Trump
[00:05:47] in comparison to the period of the Democrats regarding the Ukraine war. Mr. Trump does not
[00:05:51] have the previous support that the US government
[00:05:54] used to provide
[00:05:56] to
[00:05:59] Kiev, and today,
[00:06:02] since Mr. Putin's government has agreed to send
[00:06:05] diesel to the United States, meaning it has helped Mr. Trump's
[00:06:09] electoral position, naturally,
[00:06:13] in this regard, Mr. Putin
[00:06:16] can play a guarantor role in the
[00:06:19] issues between the two countries,
[00:06:22] including the issue of uranium transfer or
[00:06:26] guaranteeing that the uranium will not be transferred.
[00:06:30] That Israel and the US will agree not to attack Iran. This is one of the most important
[00:06:33] issues that is ambiguous between Iran, the US, and Israel.
[00:06:37] Both China and Russia have the ability
[00:06:41] to play a role as two permanent members of the Security Council
[00:06:44] and two powerful countries that have relations
[00:06:47] with both countries. This is one point. The second point
[00:06:51] is that in the past, if you remember, before the 12-day
[00:06:54] war, Mr. Lavrov traveled to Iran and
[00:06:58] made the same mediation proposal. But at that
[00:07:01] time, Iran did not agree. Even the
[00:07:03] Sepah Sabh Sadegh newspaper wrote
[00:07:07] that Russia wants to resolve the Iran issue
[00:07:10] under the umbrella of the Ukraine issue. And as a result, we should not agree.
[00:07:14] It seems that now this level of opposition has decreased,
[00:07:17] and it seems that now Iran
[00:07:21] needs a powerful mediator who can guarantee
[00:07:25] any agreement more than before.
[00:07:28] It needs to trust. The third point
[00:07:32] is that the level of cooperation between Iran
[00:07:35] and Russia has increased, especially in
[00:07:39] the field of the issue of
[00:07:54] Putin, and the third point is that they also
[00:07:57] have communication regarding defense issues. But strategically,
[00:08:01] the reality is that if Iran does not want
[00:08:05] to change its strategy, Putin's mediation
[00:08:08] will not help Iran.
[00:08:42] discontented countries like Arab countries and Israel are pressuring
[00:08:46] Mr. Trump to resolve the issue,
[00:08:50] meaning to make a fundamental change or reach a lasting
[00:08:53] agreement. The third point is that
[00:08:57] the ambiguities in Tehran are about who has the final say
[00:09:01] and whether, if an agreement is reached, it will be implemented.
[00:09:04] And third, Iran's strategic strategies. These are three issues
[00:09:08] that it seems that if Iran
[00:09:11] does not want to unite for decision-making and change
[00:09:14] its strategy, in my opinion, even if Russia
[00:09:18] and China are here, Iran's strategic problem in
[00:09:21] conflict with the US will not be solved, and Iran could enter
[00:09:25] a period of chronic wars. Alireza Namvar Haghighi,
[00:09:28] political analyst, thank you for being on the program.
[00:09:31] The Wall Street Journal, in a recent report based on internal documents
[00:09:34] of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, claimed
[00:09:38] that a network of 21 accounts and companies linked to Babak
[00:09:42] Zanjani, an Iranian businessman, used this platform
[00:09:45] to move hundreds of millions of dollars. According to
[00:09:49] these documents, some of the accounts in this network remained active for
[00:09:53] some time despite warnings from Western food and security
[00:09:56] agencies, and at least 67 million
[00:10:00] dollars were transferred from two accounts to wallets that Israel considers linked to the Revolutionary Guards.
[00:10:04] Binance says it eventually blocked these accounts and considers
[00:10:08] any inference about the total volume of transactions'
[00:10:11] connection to the Revolutionary Guards misleading.
[00:10:14] Mahnoush Pourzaiee, our correspondent from Washington, is with us.
[00:10:18] Mahnoush, what more information do we have in this regard?
[00:10:22] What is new in the Wall Street Journal report
[00:10:25] is mostly the
[00:10:28] path of money and cryptocurrency. That is, we
[00:10:31] had this news of sanctions and that Babak Zanjani's network
[00:10:35] was involved in these cryptocurrencies. Now we see
[00:10:39] how these monies were moving.
[00:10:42] That is, the money, for example, oil revenue,
[00:10:46] first entered the network through companies in the Emirates
[00:10:50] and Turkey. These would enter
[00:10:53] this network. Then, for example, a company called ZDPIC, which is a
[00:10:57] platform in Turkey, would convert it
[00:11:01] to cryptocurrency, and then from cryptocurrency, through
[00:11:04] accounts that were linked to Babak Zanjani,
[00:11:08] as this report states,
[00:11:11] for example, the name of Babak Zanjani's sister, his emotional partner,
[00:11:15] and a number of others appeared in these accounts,
[00:11:19] through this network and Binance,
[00:11:22] they were carrying out money transfers.
[00:11:26] Approximately 850 million dollars were transferred
[00:11:29] through this method, and as you said,
[00:11:33] only 67 million dollars apparently
[00:11:36] went to wallets that are linked
[00:11:39] to the Revolutionary Guards. This is another issue
[00:11:42] that we see in the report. Just today,
[00:11:46] the US Treasury Secretary announced that soon,
[00:11:49] meaning this week and next week, the US will confiscate
[00:11:53] nearly one billion dollars of
[00:11:57] Iran's assets. The source of these assets,
[00:12:00] which wallets or accounts they plan to
[00:12:04] confiscate, is still unclear, and no one else
[00:12:07] has commented on it. Thank you very much,
[00:12:11] Minoosh Pourzaiee, our correspondent in
[00:12:13] Washington.
[00:12:15] The US Treasury Department sanctioned 17 oil tankers and several companies
[00:12:19] linked to Iran's maritime transport network. Washington said
[00:12:22] this action targets one of the regime's
[00:12:25] main sources of income. These sanctions are part of
[00:12:29] what is known as the "economic strangulation" operation, which the Donald
[00:12:32] Trump administration began about a month and a half ago with the aim
[00:12:36] of increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic. But what
[00:12:39] effect will these pressures have on the Islamic Republic's behavior,
[00:12:43] and what is the US government's response to concerns about the growing
[00:12:47] pressure of sanctions on the lives of Iranian people? Khashayar Janani, our correspondent in Washington,
[00:12:50] asked these questions of Erin Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
[00:12:55] Affairs at the US Department
[00:12:55] of the Treasury.
[00:13:00] In the past six weeks, we have transitioned from a maximum pressure operation
[00:13:04] to an economic strangulation operation. An operation
[00:13:07] whose goal is the complete isolation of the Iranian terrorist regime.
[00:13:11] Even in the past few days, we have witnessed significant
[00:13:14] developments in the Iranian government. Last weekend,
[00:13:18] the oil minister resigned. Also, on Saturday, the Iranian president
[00:13:21] spoke about the country's economic decline.
[00:13:25] Therefore, in recent days, we have seen that pressure on the Iranian
[00:13:28] government has sharply
[00:13:30] increased.
[00:13:37] Iran has been involved in two wars with two military
[00:13:40] powers, the US and Israel, over the past two years,
[00:13:43] and has not yet surrendered to the pressures. Do
[00:13:47] you think economic pressure can force the Iranian
[00:13:51] government to accept demands that military
[00:13:55] operations have not been able to achieve?
[00:13:58] I
[00:14:01] think it will. In my opinion, the economic pressure we have
[00:14:04] applied so far has brought the Iranian regime to its knees,
[00:14:08] and now we see that they have little time
[00:14:11] left. Their financial resources have become very limited. Only
[00:14:15] 1.5 billion dollars of oil remains outside
[00:14:19] the maritime blockade. Once this is not sold,
[00:14:22] it's over. There will be no more sources of income for.
[00:14:55] It affects the Iranian people. Their purchasing power
[00:14:58] has decreased, and their quality of life
[00:15:02] is declining. Aren't you worried that at some point,
[00:15:05] with the continued fall of the rial, we will see a negative
[00:15:09] reaction from the Iranian people towards US policies
[00:15:12] regarding Iran? President
[00:15:16] Trump has a great deal of empathy for the Iranian people.
[00:15:19] In fact, at every stage, he has tried to provide
[00:15:23] humanitarian facilities and exceptions to ensure
[00:15:26] the continued flow of food and medicine into Iran. We
[00:15:30] actually believe that the Iranian people will ultimately hold
[00:15:34] the Iranian terrorist regime responsible for this situation. They will
[00:15:37] understand that the United States government is doing
[00:15:41] everything in its power to provide more peace and prosperity
[00:15:44] for the Iranian people. During the Shah's rule, Iran had a
[00:15:48] dynamic, prosperous, and highly educated workforce.
[00:15:52] We hope that dynamism and prosperity will return
[00:15:55] to Iran. Do you hope that economic pressure will lead
[00:15:58] to regime change? I
[00:16:01] think we hope that this economic pressure will ultimately lead
[00:16:05] to the end of the terrorist regime in Iran.
[00:16:08] Do you expect people to take to the streets again? I don't
[00:16:12] want to predict what the Iranian people will ultimately do. But what
[00:16:16] I want to see is the return of dynamism, peace, and prosperity
[00:16:19] to the lives of the Iranian people.
[00:16:23] You referred to the Iranian President's statements about
[00:16:27] economic problems. However, the Governor of the Central
[00:16:31] Bank of Iran announced that the government will inject
[00:16:34] 2 billion dollars into the market to support the value of the rial.
[00:16:38] This shows that the Iranian government still has the necessary
[00:16:41] financial resources. In your opinion,
[00:16:44] how long can the Iranian government continue this?
[00:16:48] I think their time is up.
[00:16:51] Their financial resources have become very, very limited. We
[00:16:55] know where their resources are, and we have repeatedly cut off their
[00:16:59] access to these resources. We are taking every possible
[00:17:02] action to eliminate the last remnants of the financial
[00:17:05] ties of the Iranian terrorist
[00:18:07] regime and had no part in the war. They
[00:18:10] say many government officials and their affiliates still
[00:18:14] live lavish lives and have been able
[00:18:18] to transfer their assets and money abroad
[00:18:21] to foreign banks. We target
[00:18:25] those who are part of the Iranian terrorist regime.
[00:18:28] We identify their money and assets and sanction
[00:18:32] them. The United States government absolutely
[00:18:36] does not want to harm the Iranian people or hinder
[00:18:40] their wealth creation. People who have suffered
[00:18:43] from terrorist acts for a very long time. We
[00:18:47] are trying to find a path for Iran's reintegration
[00:18:51] into the global financial system. When this conflict ends
[00:18:54] and we see that the Iranian terrorist regime
[00:18:58] has ended its war and its domination over
[00:19:01] society. That was a conversation
[00:19:04] with my colleague Khashayar Janani with Erwin Brown,
[00:19:08] Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury Department. We continue the program with a few short
[00:19:10] news items. The UAE Attorney General says
[00:19:14] the co-pilot who caused an incident on a FlyDubai flight
[00:19:18] last week intended to crash the plane into the Ben Gurion Airport
[00:19:21] terminal building in Tel Aviv. The prosecutor said that in
[00:19:25] the investigations conducted by the UAE, this Omani
[00:19:28] co-pilot confessed that he was inspired by Al-Qaeda's September 11 attacks
[00:19:31] on the US. He reportedly said that the September 11 attacks
[00:19:35] were among the reasons for his decision to become a pilot.
[00:19:38] Following the Houthi attacks on
[00:19:42] Riyadh Airport, more airlines are canceling their flights
[00:19:46] to Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials announced
[00:19:49] that three people were killed in yesterday's attack, one of whom was a pilot
[00:19:53] for Saudi Arabia's national airline. Several people
[00:19:56] were also injured, and one plane was damaged. After
[00:20:00] the Houthi attacks two days ago on the same airport and
[00:20:03] another airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Airlines,
[00:20:06] Air India, and Lufthansa stopped their flights
[00:20:09] to Riyadh.
[00:20:11] The US announced that it would impose financial sanctions
[00:20:15] against the International Criminal Court. Based on this,
[00:20:19] after a six-month grace period, dealing with this court will be prohibited.
[00:20:23] The US Secretary of State said that the President of this
[00:20:26] country would never allow a "rogue" court, as he called it,
[00:20:30] to prosecute Americans. The International Criminal
[00:20:34] Court and the UN Secretary-General called these sanctions an attack
[00:20:37] on international justice. Navi
[00:20:41] Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
[00:20:45] won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said
[00:20:48] that Ms. Pillay won
[00:20:50] this prestigious award for her efforts to promote peace
[00:20:54] and international law. The current UN Human Rights Commissioner
[00:20:57] said that awarding this prize to Ms. Pillay is a collective
[00:21:01] victory for human rights, but Israel expressed dissatisfaction.
[00:21:04] Naser Madani reports.
[00:21:06] The
[00:21:11] 102nd Nobel Peace
[00:21:13] Prize.
[00:21:15] The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
[00:21:50] She experienced. She began her fight against discrimination
[00:21:53] in her birthplace. Her motivation to defend
[00:21:57] human dignity led her to chair the UN Commission
[00:22:01] of Inquiry into the Occupied Palestinian
[00:22:04] Territories. The organization later stated that
[00:22:08] Israel had committed genocide in the Gaza War.
[00:22:12] Genocide
[00:22:16] is occurring in Gaza and continues to do so,
[00:22:20] and the responsibility for it lies with the Israeli
[00:22:23] government. Ms. Pillay specifically blamed the Prime Minister,
[00:22:27] the then Minister of Defense, and the Israeli President
[00:22:31] for the genocide in Gaza. She concluded that the Israeli
[00:22:34] government had committed genocide, an accusation
[00:22:37] that Israel has never accepted.
[00:22:41] On October 9,
[00:22:43] 2023,
[00:22:46] Israel's then-defense minister said his country was fighting
[00:22:50] "human animals" and should act accordingly.
[00:22:53] When a group of people are dehumanized,
[00:22:57] killing them becomes easier and more
[00:23:00] justifiable in the eyes of the perpetrators
[00:23:03] of violence. The Israeli government, in response
[00:23:07] to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to her, described
[00:23:10] this award as legitimizing hatred against Israel.
[00:23:14] Ms. Pillay is no stranger to these definitions.
[00:23:16] I
[00:23:21] ask these critics to tell me which of our
[00:23:24] documents was wrong. They call me an anti-Semite.
[00:23:27] How can that be when they accepted me as the only UN reporter
[00:23:31] in Israel to report on the oppression against them?
[00:23:35] At that time, my work was
[00:23:36] credible.
[00:23:41] This morning was different for Navi Pillay.
[00:23:44] She didn't know that she had won one of the most prestigious
[00:23:48] international awards. A little more applause,
[00:23:52] and I'll share my award
[00:23:53] with Trump.
[00:24:01] Honestly, I'm still not sure if this news
[00:24:03] is true. The problem was
[00:24:07] that she didn't have a good relationship with her phone.
[00:24:10] Unfortunately,
[00:24:14] we couldn't find her. My message to Ms. Pillay is this:
[00:24:18] if you see a formal
[00:24:28] football shirt is produced by workers in Southeast Asia
[00:24:32] whose basic wages for some of them are less than one
[00:24:36] and a half dollars per hour. BBC Sport's investigation
[00:24:39] traced the production path of official kits for clubs
[00:24:43] including Arsenal, Celtic, and Liverpool, and arrived at two
[00:24:46] factories in Cambodia. These findings are being published
[00:24:50] while fans are complaining about the rising price of official
[00:24:53] jerseys, and at the same time they are being warned against
[00:24:57] buying cheaper fake versions. Dan Rann reports.
[00:25:00] I
[00:25:04] want foreign customers to know that every single one of
[00:25:08] these jerseys is stained with the sweat of Cambodian workers.
[00:25:11] These jerseys are a popular commodity for fans and a lucrative
[00:25:15] source of income for clubs and manufacturers. The official jersey production
[00:25:19] industry is a multi-billion dollar market,
[00:25:47] These factories do not belong to Adidas, but
[00:25:50] they are considered its main suppliers. In these same factories, we
[00:25:54] found official kits for some of the world's biggest football clubs.
[00:25:58] Workers, whose identities we are not revealing for their safety, speak
[00:26:01] of the pressure they say they face at work. Workers
[00:26:05] are forced to work at a very high speed to meet production
[00:26:08] targets, so much so that they don't even have time to go
[00:26:12] to the bathroom. This leads to severe exhaustion and fatigue.
[00:26:15] If semi-finished garments are piled up on their workstations, they
[00:26:19] are scolded. Seven thousand people work in these factories. We have
[00:26:23] also received reports of concerns about electrical safety and
[00:26:27] evidence of temperatures above 35 degrees
[00:26:29] Celsius in the workplace. All of this
[00:26:33] comes at a time when football fans are urged to buy official
[00:26:36] kits instead of cheaper fake products. But these findings
[00:26:40] will likely make many fans wonder if the authentic product
[00:26:43] is really worth it, and what is the role of the clubs in this?
[00:26:47] This situation exists in a large part of the apparel industry,
[00:26:50] and millions of workers around the world face such conditions.
[00:26:54] Clubs should send a very clear message that if
[00:26:57] workers are not treated with respect and dignity, they are not willing
[00:27:01] to put their names on these jerseys. Adidas told us that it
[00:27:05] has taken various steps to ensure fair and safe working conditions
[00:27:09] throughout its supply chain. The company said it monitors
[00:27:12] supplier performance, strives to resolve problems, and acts
[00:27:16] to improve conditions wherever necessary. Adidas also
[00:27:19] stated that workers typically receive wages significantly higher
[00:27:23] than the minimum wage. Specific guidelines exist to combat
[00:27:27] heat stress, and the company's standards do not permit any
[00:27:30] harassment. Tens of thousands of kilometers away
[00:27:34] from where these jerseys are produced, fans might expect that when they
[00:27:38] buy an official kit, compliance with specific standards is guaranteed.
[00:27:41] Dan BC
[00:27:43] News.
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[00:29:02] Persian. Nawaz Sharif returned, and I said
[00:29:05] they will never reach an agreement. Until Afghans
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[00:30:08] And now on BBC Persian Television, current
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[00:30:18] In the American elections, is it the voters who elect
[00:30:21] their representatives, or is it the parties that choose
[00:30:25] the voters? And the Senate race
[00:30:28] in Texas, can Democrats really win
[00:30:31] in Texas?
[00:30:33] Welcome
[00:30:40] to the Underbelly of the American Elections, a podcast from
[00:30:44] BBC Persian. I am Sameh Farzaneh.
[00:30:47] The system of government in the United States is
[00:30:50] representative democracy or electoral democracy,
[00:30:54] or something along those lines. That is, the people themselves.