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[00:00:26] Headlines.
[00:00:31] Despite renewed Saudi air strikes and escalating clashes around
[00:00:35] the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, Yemeni Houthis once again targeted
[00:00:38] Riyadh International Airport.
[00:00:39] گرفتند.
[00:00:42] A day after the assassination of the Deputy Head of Police in Sistan and Baluchestan, a group called the Popular Front for Struggle claimed responsibility.
[00:00:46] نام جبهه مبارزه مردمی مسئولیتش را
[00:00:49] Reducing energy prices at the cost of concessions to the Kremlin,
[00:00:53] Zelensky says lifting sanctions on Russian gas sales
[00:00:57] will prolong the war.
[00:01:33] Welcome to this news program. Yemeni Houthis once again
[00:01:36] targeted Riyadh International Airport, the capital of Saudi Arabia,
[00:01:39] with a missile. Hospital sources say that
[00:01:43] dozens of people were injured in this attack, and five Saudi citizens were admitted to intensive care.
[00:01:46] در بخش مراقبت های ویژه بستری شدند. شرکت های
[00:01:50] Etihad and Qatar Airways canceled their scheduled flights
[00:01:54] to Riyadh for Sunday and Monday. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia says it has bombarded
[00:01:57] more than 133
[00:02:00] Houthi positions in Yemen. Saudi officials say the goal
[00:02:04] is to eliminate the Houthis' ability
[00:02:07] to fire ballistic missiles. Sara Naji reports.
[00:02:10] دهد
[00:02:16] King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh was attacked by Houthi missiles
[00:02:19] on Thursday.
[00:02:22] Saudi Arabia says 3 people were killed in these attacks,
[00:02:25] including a pilot from Saudi Airlines,
[00:02:29] whose plane was also targeted here.
[00:02:32] At least two Houthi ballistic missiles
[00:02:36] landed here. In this attack, which
[00:02:39] is the second attack on this airport in recent weeks,
[00:02:43] several airlines, including Air India and Lufthansa,
[00:02:46] have suspended their flights here.
[00:02:49] متوقف کردند.
[00:02:53] has launched extensive air strikes against the Houthis.
[00:02:57] It says to eliminate the threat
[00:03:01] of their ballistic missiles, which were launched in the recent attack
[00:03:04] on Riyadh from about a thousand kilometers away. These missiles,
[00:03:08] Saudi Arabia says, were given to the Houthis by Iran.
[00:03:12] Saudi Arabia says that in retaliation,
[00:03:15] it has bombarded Houthi positions more than 130 times
[00:03:18] in the past two days.
[00:03:21] These images show some of these attacks in and around Sana'a,
[00:03:25] which is controlled by the Houthis.
[00:03:29] Saudi Arabia: There have also been extensive air strikes in support of government ground forces.
[00:03:32] Reports indicate
[00:03:36] they are trying to retake coastal areas in the Red Sea.
[00:03:40] تلاش می کنند.
[00:03:43] In Sana'a, Houthis and their supporters gathered yesterday
[00:03:46] and emphasized their continued path.
[00:03:50] According to them, escalation of war against escalation of war,
[00:03:53] siege against siege.
[00:03:54] محاصره
[00:03:59] This man says, it doesn't matter how much Saudi Arabia and its allies
[00:04:03] conspire against the Houthis; in the end,
[00:04:06] they will fall.
[00:04:07] کرد.
[00:04:10] Meanwhile, the UN Security Council discussed developments in Yemen and
[00:04:14] Saudi Arabia yesterday without issuing a statement or resolution.
[00:04:18] The UN special envoy for Yemen
[00:04:21] said Yemen has now returned to a full-scale war.
[00:04:25] The Saudi representative said his country
[00:04:28] would not allow it.
[00:05:00] It shows that the airport was closed to flights after this attack.
[00:05:03] A long night tonight in Riyadh.
[00:05:07] Kasra Naji, BBC.
[00:05:10] Saleh, Middle East analyst.
[00:05:15] To what extent can missile
[00:05:19] bombardments
[00:05:21] or missile launches by the Houthis change the situation
[00:05:25] or force Saudi Arabia to, for example, negotiate or
[00:05:28] lift the siege on the Houthis?
[00:05:31] Yes, the conflicts of the past few months
[00:05:35] in the region have generally shown that
[00:05:38] military achievements do not necessarily translate into political results.
[00:05:41] And
[00:05:44] none of the actors have been able to translate
[00:05:48] their military achievements into a political achievement
[00:05:51] on the diplomatic table.
[00:05:54] But what is happening in Yemen
[00:05:58] is that this conflict
[00:06:00] between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government
[00:06:04] is not just an internal conflict. It certainly has
[00:06:07] regional geopolitical
[00:06:10] aspects and has even gone beyond the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia
[00:06:14] and has been able to some extent to gain a global dimension,
[00:06:17] because control over the Red Sea coasts,
[00:06:21] control over Bab-el-Mandeb, and if the Houthis can
[00:06:24] control the city that connects the north and south, which is very strategically important,
[00:06:28] and eventually, if they can control
[00:06:32] the city of Marib, which is very important in terms of oil
[00:06:36] and can be a huge financial source for the Houthis,
[00:06:39] so to speak, they can gain control. It can play a very important card
[00:06:43] in changing
[00:06:47] the power equations in this
[00:06:49] Arabian Peninsula. That's why
[00:06:53] the warring parties must take this into account
[00:06:56] that such
[00:06:59] conflicts do not necessarily have military solutions
[00:07:03] and are very intertwined and interwoven
[00:07:07] and connected to everyone, and all these problems, both bottlenecks,
[00:07:10] مشکلات چه دو گلوگاه.
[00:07:26] we have many reports that not only could the Houthis not take Taiz,
[00:07:30] but they are being pushed back from Bab-el-Mandeb.
[00:07:33] They have lost a large part of the control of Zabab
[00:07:37] and are severely under
[00:07:39] Saudi strikes.
[00:07:59] The large Saudi oil tankers that export oil
[00:08:03] from the western ports of Saudi Arabia
[00:08:06] on the Red Sea to Asia will be threatened,
[00:08:10] and this can ultimately be a great for Saudi Arabia,
[00:08:13] because the giant Saudi oil tankers cannot pass through the Suez Canal
[00:08:17] and are forced
[00:08:20] to use Bab-el-Mandeb to export oil.
[00:08:24] And if they control and continue to control
[00:08:28] even just the Red Sea coasts in Yemen,
[00:08:32] the Houthis can threaten both global energy
[00:08:35] security and shipping security
[00:08:38] and use it as a lever.
[00:09:00] Iran has conveyed to Donald Trump ways to resolve the Tehran-Washington dispute.
[00:09:03] The presidents of Russia and Iran met the day before yesterday on the sidelines
[00:09:07] of two summits of Caspian coastal countries and CIS countries
[00:09:11] in Turkmenistan.
[00:09:14] At the same time, the IRGC Navy said that dealing with vessels that
[00:09:18] they consider to be in violation will not be limited to the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:09:22] According to the IRGC, any vessel that passes through an unauthorized passage
[00:09:25] will be pursued throughout the region and will be punished.
[00:09:29] خواهد شد.
[00:09:32] According to HRANA, Mostafa Mehrayeen, a sociologist, was arrested and transferred to prison
[00:09:36] to serve an 8-year sentence. He was sentenced late last autumn
[00:09:39] on charges of assembly and conspiracy
[00:09:46] and insulting the leader of the Islamic Republic to a total of 8 years in prison
[00:09:49] and a 2-year ban from leaving the country. Mr. Mehrayeen's verdict
[00:09:53] was upheld by the appeals court, and the most severe punishment,
[00:09:57] which is 5 years in prison, is to be carried out for him.
[00:09:58] شود.
[00:10:02] The group called the Popular Front for Struggle claimed responsibility for the assassination of Nosrat
[00:10:06] Eftekari, Deputy Head of Social Culture of the Police in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
[00:10:09] Ms. Eftekari's car
[00:10:12] was targeted by gunfire yesterday after hitting a roadside mine
[00:10:16] in the Cheshmeh Ziyarat area of Zahedan.
[00:10:20] The Popular Front for Struggle is a coalition of Jaish al-Adl and
[00:10:23] several Baloch militia groups that have been operating under this name
[00:10:27] in recent months. Meanwhile, the governor of Faryab
[00:10:30] announced the killing of the shooter of the Head of Prevention Police
[00:10:33] in this county in Kerman Province. The IRGC says that
[00:10:37] Israel and the US, after failing in the war, began
[00:10:41] activating and strengthening armed groups in southeastern Iran.
[00:10:45] Reza Talebi, a political analyst
[00:10:48] from Berlin, Germany, is with us. Mr. Talebi, it has been some time
[00:10:52] since the insecurity in that part of Iran
[00:10:55] is being reported more than ever
[00:10:59] and claiming victims.
[00:11:01] What do you think?
[00:11:03] With greetings and respect to you and the esteemed viewers.
[00:11:07] Certainly, the crisis that exists in these areas,
[00:11:10] despite the overlap of this
[00:11:14] crisis across the border, continues to affect
[00:11:17] the country's internal crises in this gap.
[00:11:21] In a situation where
[00:11:24] the country has entered a war, and we have reached
[00:11:28] a cycle of violence and repression,
[00:11:31] despite the efforts
[00:11:34] of the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic of Iran
[00:11:38] to not only not manage these issues
[00:11:41] but to suppress them, in my opinion, at the threshold of pressure,
[00:11:44] and perhaps it is better to say, within this military
[00:11:48] and economic pressure that exists,
[00:11:51] it will gradually get worse.
[00:11:55] What is seen in Sistan and Baluchestan provinces
[00:11:58] and some western provinces
[00:12:02] is the possibility that, based on
[00:12:05] past scenarios, considering that a large part
[00:12:08] of this responsibility
[00:12:11] stems from the security policies
[00:12:14] of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a situation where
[00:12:17] the country and the military
[00:12:21] and security apparatus are more focused on an external attack, there is a possibility
[00:12:25] that at the threshold of this rupture and fault lines that exist
[00:12:28] in the country, we will face a multiplicity of violence
[00:12:32] and the issue of revenge instead of justice, and enter
[00:12:35] stages where a huge volume of these attacks that occur
[00:12:38] will increase widely and sporadically
[00:12:42] in the country, and with the increasing weakness
[00:12:45] of the security and military forces, whose management
[00:12:49] is also in disarray and fragmentation, there is a possibility
[00:12:53] that in the stages that occur, we will witness
[00:12:57] very great tensions within the country in these areas as well.
[00:13:00] A war over Iran weighs heavily.
[00:13:04] The war is not over; from time to time,
[00:13:07] something new might happen. Can it,
[00:13:11] on a larger scale, if we look at
[00:13:14] the bigger picture,
[00:13:17] affect this military conflict as well?
[00:13:19] Unfortunately,
[00:13:22] I have to say yes. On a larger
[00:13:26] scale, we are not moving towards improvement. Well, at the center of gravity
[00:13:29] of these lies the geography of Iran.
[00:13:33] And if collapse goes in a direction that now, through economic issues
[00:13:36] or gradually through military means,
[00:13:39] these fault lines will show themselves over time,
[00:13:43] we will witness the spread of these tensions
[00:13:46] to regional countries as well. As we know,
[00:13:50] in Pakistan, where ISI forces and
[00:13:54] ISIS-K have been stationed there, or that there is a possibility
[00:13:57] that other armed forces
[00:14:00] will enter the country, and this is happening in a situation where the Islamic Republic
[00:14:04] has been concentrating the combat power of its forces for more than 8 months
[00:14:08] in the shadow of economic pressure
[00:14:11] on the borders and also on offensive
[00:14:14] and defensive systems. In this economic
[00:14:18] and military exhaustion, there is a possibility that, given the very
[00:14:21] great dissatisfaction of Iran,
[00:14:25] that is, all of Iran, and who Iran is, with the diversity that exists,
[00:14:28] there is a possibility that
[00:14:31] if the central regime is weakened,
[00:14:35] we will witness that these will not only be at the level of militia forces
[00:14:39] that deal with violence but also at the general level,
[00:14:43] resulting in an uprising or widespread protests
[00:14:46] that will intensify these, leading to a situation where we cannot escape
[00:14:50] this cycle of crisis, violence, and revenge.
[00:14:54] Thank you, Mr. Talebi.
[00:15:00] The United States said that Ukraine needs a new president to end the war with Russia.
[00:15:04] It accused Volodymyr Zelensky of deliberately
[00:15:08] fueling the continuation of the war and ignoring America's requests to stop
[00:15:12] attacks on Russian refineries and oil facilities.
[00:15:15] Earlier, Mr. Zelensky described America's decision to suspend part
[00:15:19] of the sanctions on Russian gasoil exports as a weak gift
[00:15:22] to Vladimir Putin.
[00:15:34] Since the start of the war with Iran, there has been a significant increase.
[00:16:07] Do whatever you want with Russia, just don't hit the refineries, because this will cause
[00:16:11] a global problem. But he wants to create problems for the world,
[00:16:14] for our farmers and ranchers with gasoil, because
[00:16:18] Russia exports a lot of gasoil to the world. That was Donald
[00:16:22] Trump, the President of the United States. Mahnoosh Poouziai, our correspondent from
[00:16:25] Washington, is with the program. Well,
[00:16:28] Manouche, a new situation has been created with Mr. Trump's statements
[00:16:32] when he says Mr. Zelensky must give his place to a
[00:16:36] new leader.
[00:16:40] That's right, at least in Washington, it's a new situation
[00:16:43] in the sense that some
[00:16:46] politicians are falling into despair, and
[00:16:50] the reactions that Republicans have shown so far,
[00:16:54] we see that some of them have remained silent,
[00:16:57] naturally those who are close to Mr. Trump and see their goals
[00:17:01] at risk, or those
[00:17:04] who have been willing
[00:17:08] to criticize him. Mr. Trump,
[00:17:11] in domestic affairs, both during this period
[00:17:14] and in his first and second administrations, wherever he saw an obstacle,
[00:17:18] he tried to remove that obstacle
[00:17:20] by removing people from their positions.
[00:17:23] In foreign policy, he also thinks he can do this.
[00:17:27] He has removed the leader of Venezuela to solve
[00:17:31] the Venezuela problem
[00:17:34] and gain access to energy resources
[00:17:38] there. We know that he has targeted the leader of Iran
[00:17:40] and leaders from Iran to change
[00:17:44] the situation in Iran, and now,
[00:17:48] because there are many criticisms against him
[00:17:50] regarding the decision he made against Russia
[00:17:53] and naturally Ukraine has many supporters
[00:17:57] both in America, in Congress, and in Europe,
[00:18:00] Mr. Trump is saying that
[00:18:04] it is actually the President of Ukraine who should step aside
[00:18:07] so that the problem of the war with Russia can be solved.
[00:18:11] And
[00:18:13] now, how have the reactions been? We know that, of course, Republicans
[00:18:17] would not have been very unhappy if the price of gasoil
[00:18:20] had gone up due to the electoral situation,
[00:18:23] but from Mr. Trump's words, as mentioned, they should not be very satisfied.
[00:18:27] نباید خیلی راضی باشن
[00:18:30] Look, for example, a legislator from
[00:18:34] Nebraska, a state whose
[00:18:37] economy is focused on agriculture and whose voters
[00:18:41] were under a lot of pressure due to the high price of gasoil,
[00:18:44] for example, these legislators had pressured Mr. Trump
[00:18:48] to stop gasoil exports and find a solution.
[00:18:51] Some of them said
[00:18:55] that the war with Iran should be stopped because
[00:18:59] the fuel crisis problem arose after the Iran war.
[00:19:02] But for example, today,
[00:19:05] their reaction was that peace with Russia is a wrong
[00:19:09] answer to the problem that exists.
[00:19:12] One of the senators from Alaska also said, he is also a Republican.
[00:19:16] He also said that this strengthens Russia's war
[00:19:20] machine, and if Mr. Trump wants to solve the energy problem,
[00:19:23] he should solve this issue after the end of the Ukraine war.
[00:19:27] In any case, the move that Mr. Trump has made is not in line with the Republican Congress
[00:19:30] that has imposed heavy sanctions
[00:19:34] against Russia, and...
[00:19:39] Now, the team from Congress that went and met with Mr. Zelensky
[00:19:42] in Kyiv to help in the war,
[00:19:45] they are probably also speechless about this new policy.
[00:19:49] Thank you, Mirnosh Pourziai, our correspondent in Washington.
[00:19:53] We continue the program with a few short news items.
[00:19:57] More than 7,000 supporters of the People's Party
[00:20:00] were arrested in India. Police imposed a curfew
[00:20:04] in parts of Delhi to prevent demonstrations,
[00:20:09] and mobile communications were also restricted. The leader and founder of this party,
[00:20:13] who had gone to Delhi to participate in the rally, was also arrested.
[00:20:16] Protesters are demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner
[00:20:20] and accuse the institution of manipulating voter lists in favor of the ruling party.
[00:20:24] The Election Commission has denied this accusation.
[00:20:28] کرده.
[00:20:31] In an unprecedented move, Brazilian prosecutors sued the oil company Shell.
[00:20:35] They are demanding
[00:20:38] $100 million in compensation for the devastating floods two years ago
[00:20:42] in Rio Grande do Sul state. In that flood, more than
[00:20:45] 180 people were killed, and half a million were displaced.
[00:20:49] According to the French news agency, prosecutors said that the requested revenue
[00:20:53] is commensurate with the material and moral damages and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions
[00:20:57] from Shell's fossil fuels.
[00:21:00] With the arrival
[00:21:04] of Hurricane Isaias on the southern
[00:21:07] US coast, power to hundreds of thousands of people in Florida
[00:21:11] and Alabama has been cut. This storm was accompanied
[00:21:14] by winds of 150 kilometers per hour and heavy rainfall.
[00:21:18] Officials in both states issued mandatory evacuation orders
[00:21:22] for residents. Isaias
[00:21:24] is moving north, and its intensity has also decreased.
[00:21:27] This storm is one of three weather systems that have affected parts of North America.
[00:21:31] The other two systems
[00:21:34] have affected Mexico and Southern California.
[00:21:38] کردند.
[00:21:41] Philadelphia police in Pennsylvania, USA, say
[00:21:44] an artificial intelligence model from Anthropic company
[00:21:47] introduced itself through the police website
[00:21:59] as a person who has information about the case, but Anthropic itself was informed of this
[00:22:03] a few weeks ago. Yesterday, Anthropic company confirmed
[00:22:06] that its artificial intelligence agents were acting against the company's wishes
[00:22:09] and tried to access several government
[00:22:13] and local systems.
[00:22:14] کردن
[00:22:18] London police, in the largest operation in their history against mobile phone theft,
[00:22:22] have arrested hundreds of people. In this operation,
[00:22:25] officers used
[00:22:28] powerful electric bicycles and facial recognition cameras
[00:22:31] to identify suspects. They discovered drugs,
[00:22:35] weapons, tens of thousands of pounds in cash, and hundreds of stolen phones.
[00:22:39] Graham Satchell, BBC correspondent, was with them
[00:22:43] during the raid on a used phone store.
[00:22:46] گوشی دسته دوم همراه اونها بود.
[00:22:53] It is estimated that in London, a mobile phone is stolen every 7 to 8 minutes.
[00:22:57] What appears to be random
[00:23:01] and opportunistic theft
[00:23:02] آید.
[00:23:05] is in most cases the starting point for international organized crime.
[00:23:09] ست.
[00:23:13] London police are combating this with drones, CCTV cameras, facial recognition cameras,
[00:23:17] and electric bicycles.
[00:23:26] Here, they pursue and surround a suspect inside a park.
[00:23:29] میکنند.
[00:23:34] He emerges from a pond.
[00:23:36] آورد.
[00:23:39] Slowly and gently, slowly and gently. All right, buddy, calm down.
[00:23:43] You're under arrest for attempting to evade the police.
[00:23:45] باشه.
[00:23:50] We focused on mobile-related crimes because two years ago, the number of mobile-related crimes
[00:23:53] was significant; about 80,000
[00:23:57] phones were stolen across London through theft, snatching, pickpocketing, or mugging.
[00:24:00] This year, we managed to reduce this figure to about 70,000.
[00:24:04] But I think the very large scale and organized nature
[00:24:08] of the problem is what led us to launch this operation.
[00:24:11] کنیم
[00:24:15] Officers find a package in the pond.
[00:24:17] میکنند.
[00:24:22] The number of phones wrapped in aluminum foil to prevent tracking.
[00:24:25] نشوند
[00:24:28] We have a mobile phone snatch thief riding a shared LIME bicycle. He just snatched several of these phones.
[00:24:32] رو همین الان قاپیده
[00:24:35] Police action on the streets has become much more decisive.
[00:24:38] شده.
[00:24:41] I think the trick we are using is logical. We directly confront
[00:24:44] the challenge created by the criminals and use their own tactics to target
[00:24:48] and trap them.
[00:26:03] Comments and narratives in the online space, probably from political circles outside the country,
[00:26:06] suggest that London is somehow the worst city
[00:26:10] in the world in terms of theft and violence. This is by no means true.
[00:26:13] نیست.
[00:26:17] My message to criminals is that if you are in London or dealing with stolen second-hand phones
[00:26:20] or distributing them,
[00:26:24] you are very likely to be arrested
[00:26:26] and punished.
[00:26:30] Despite this tone, Britain...
[00:27:04] This old whiskey with a special design is a product of the Macallan distillery
[00:27:07] that was produced in 1926.
[00:27:11] It is one of 40 bottles of whiskey
[00:27:14] whose contents were aged for 60 years
[00:27:17] in a wooden barrel. This whiskey is highly sought after
[00:27:21] by collectors.
[00:27:24] گرفته.
[00:27:28] Finally, I should mention that moments ago, Donald Trump, the President
[00:27:32] of the United States, in response to the Houthi attack
[00:27:35] on Riyadh Airport, said that he would soon
[00:27:39] decide on US involvement in Saudi attacks against
[00:27:43] the Houthis, and he said that if he does,
[00:27:46] it will be very swift and decisive.
[00:27:49] Thank you for being with our news sections.