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[00:00:24] Headline news.
[00:00:26] I can say that we have now reached a two-day plan.
[00:00:30] Tehran's readiness to open the Strait of Hormuz in 48
[00:00:34] hours. Mohsen Rezaei spoke with Putin. Beijing said
[00:00:37] it supports Iran's right to defense.
[00:00:40] Chaos in Michigan, one
[00:00:46] day before the midterm elections in
[00:00:50] America. The Democratic representative, with the rejection of the Arab-origin candidate of
[00:00:53] his party, supported the Republican candidate.
[00:00:56] جمهوریخواهان حمایت کرد.
[00:01:41] Hello and welcome to this news program. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign
[00:01:44] Minister, said that as a result of ongoing talks with Qatari
[00:01:48] mediators, Iran's proposed seven-day plan has now been reduced to two
[00:01:51] days, such that if America fulfills Iran's
[00:01:55] conditions on the first day, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened on the second
[00:01:59] day. On the other hand, in continuation of Tehran's diplomatic efforts,
[00:02:02] the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council spoke with the Russian President by
[00:02:06] phone today, and the Deputy also met with the Chinese Foreign
[00:02:09] Minister. The Chinese Foreign Minister, in a meeting with Ali
[00:02:13] Bagheri Kani, said that China supports Iran's right to defend its sovereignty
[00:02:17] and security. China's Foreign Ministry also
[00:02:20] announced that the country's special envoy will travel to
[00:02:24] Iran, Oman, and Saudi Arabia in the next two weeks. Simultaneously with these
[00:02:28] developments, however, several other commercial ships were targeted in the Persian
[00:02:31] Gulf. One of these vessels was carrying Qatari
[00:02:35] gas, and the attack on it faced widespread
[00:02:38] condemnation. Kasra Naji reports.
[00:02:40] دهد.
[00:02:44] In Mahabad, in western Iran, today, we witnessed the parade of the
[00:02:47] 'Unity' unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
[00:02:51] Corps, the heroic army, a ceremony
[00:02:54] to further mobilize forces, on the eve of what
[00:02:58] might be a new round of war.
[00:03:11] You say that the result of the two-day consultations
[00:03:14] has been diplomacy and threat? The talks continue, in any case, the issue is a complex
[00:03:18] one, or rather, the issues are very complex
[00:03:21] and the passage of time, also, given America's performance,
[00:03:25] has added to the complexities.
[00:03:29] You cannot talk about the Strait of Hormuz
[00:03:32] and be concerned about insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz, but
[00:03:35] still continue the economic blockade of Iran
[00:03:38] and disregard everything
[00:03:42] you accepted in the framework of the Islamabad agreement
[00:03:46] and expect Iran to unilaterally
[00:03:49] accept commitments.
[00:03:52] In America, these are the latest words of
[00:03:55] Donald Trump, the US President. The only reason
[00:03:59] we're not finishing the job immediately is because I want to do them a favor. I want to try to save many lives.
[00:04:03] He's sitting there doing nothing. Eventually, at some point,
[00:04:07] we have to deal with them with a hammer.
[00:04:10] Iranian newspapers today
[00:04:13] are busy preparing public opinion inside. Iran
[00:04:17] has said that if the war resumes, it will attack not only targets
[00:04:21] in the region, but also beyond. Regional
[00:04:24] countries, unfortunately,
[00:04:28] I must say,
[00:04:30] some of them have even encouraged Americans to attack Iran.
[00:04:33] I hope that
[00:04:37] they have also learned their lessons. The best way is for
[00:04:41] friends to convince their friends in America not to start a new war,
[00:04:45] because we are forced to
[00:04:48] defend ourselves. The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council
[00:04:52] spoke with the Russian leader by phone today.
[00:04:55] Iran expects more help from its allies, Russia and
[00:04:59] China. Intervention to prevent
[00:05:02] war. Beijing is concerned about the consequences
[00:05:05] of such a war for the region and the world. This meeting today
[00:05:09] between the Chinese Foreign Minister and the Deputy Secretary of the Council.
[00:05:22] Hormuz is to the arrangements before the war. This country
[00:05:25] has started a new series of consultations with the leaders of the region's countries
[00:05:29] to intensify diplomatic efforts to
[00:05:33] prevent war. Kasra Naji, BBC.
[00:05:36] Abbas Feyz, analyst of Chinese issues,
[00:05:39] is with us from London. Mr. Feyz, how much.
[00:06:13] because if he wants to, for example, he said
[00:06:16] that he supports Iran's right to defend itself.
[00:06:19] Well, this is something that any country can say about another
[00:06:23] country, but at
[00:06:25] the same time, it is also, for example, a message to
[00:06:29] America that if things get very
[00:06:33] complicated, the slogans that China
[00:06:36] gives or the words that China says will actually
[00:06:39] be more severe, but it does not
[00:06:42] seem that China is currently
[00:06:45] preparing to enter Iran
[00:06:49] militarily to defend it. First, military defense
[00:06:52] is not possible for China because
[00:06:56] there is no agreement between Iran and China
[00:07:00] for military support for each other,
[00:07:03] and second, China will not
[00:07:07] want to do anything, meaning entering Iran.
[00:07:11] Well, it would severely damage its relations with the countries of the
[00:07:14] Persian Gulf and with other countries. I don't think
[00:07:18] this is actually
[00:07:21] more than diplomatic support. But Mr. Feyz, it is also
[00:07:24] said in some academic circles
[00:07:27] that China does not want
[00:07:30] America to win the conflict it started with Iran.
[00:07:34] It does not see this as beneficial to itself in the long
[00:07:38] run, and they say
[00:07:41] that
[00:07:43] there is also evidence that, for example, the Chinese have helped Iran
[00:07:47] in various fields. How true is this?
[00:07:50] Yes, these are
[00:07:53] relatively credible reports that
[00:07:56] China, in a way that is not
[00:07:59] obvious, has provided resources to the leaders
[00:08:03] of the Islamic Republic,
[00:08:05] but if you look at the statement
[00:08:09] that the Chinese government issued today
[00:08:12] regarding its meeting with
[00:08:15] the Sultan of Oman,
[00:08:19] we see that the tone that the Chinese government
[00:08:21] uses regarding
[00:08:25] the developments in the Persian Gulf and the
[00:08:28] Middle East in general is a much
[00:08:31] milder tone. In that statement,
[00:08:35] it directly states that it is up to Iran and
[00:08:38] America to resolve their differences, and there is no mention
[00:08:42] at all that China is going to
[00:08:45] defend Iran. The only thing said
[00:08:49] in that statement
[00:08:53] is that China will send
[00:08:56] several of its political
[00:08:59] and diplomatic envoys to the region in the near
[00:09:03] future, and that will not be only to Iran, but also to other
[00:09:06] places. That is, in fact, what China said about
[00:09:09] Iran, Mr. Wang Yi said about
[00:09:12] Iran is somewhat different from the statement
[00:09:16] that China issued about the Middle
[00:09:19] East, about America, and
[00:09:22] Iran during Mr. Xi Jinping's meeting with
[00:09:26] the Sultan of
[00:09:29] Oman today. Thank you very much,
[00:09:32] Mr. Feyz, Abbas Feyz, an analyst of Chinese issues from
[00:09:36] London.
[00:09:38] In the remaining hours until the official start of voting in the US
[00:09:44] Congressional elections, Democrats and Republicans are making their final efforts
[00:09:47] to win over voters. More than 50
[00:09:51] million Americans have already cast their votes.
[00:09:54] Polls show increasing support for Democrats in key Senate races,
[00:09:58] including in the states of Ohio, Texas, and
[00:10:01] Maine. Donald Trump, moments ago, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in
[00:10:05] Washington, once again called on voters to support him and his party.
[00:10:08] He described his Democratic election opponents
[00:10:12] as dangerous radicals.
[00:10:14] Bahman Kalbasi, our correspondent from
[00:10:17] New York, is with us. Bahman, tell us a little more about Mr. Trump's latest
[00:10:21] remarks. Well, Mr. Trump made an important decision
[00:10:24] during this election, and that was to
[00:10:27] tell voters and supporters that when you go to the polls,
[00:10:31] imagine that my name is on the ballot.
[00:10:35] This means that he hoped that his supporters would feel
[00:10:38] that this election, voting for his party members, is like
[00:10:42] voting for himself. Well, in a situation where Mr. Trump's popularity is below
[00:10:45] 35 percent, it naturally ended up favoring
[00:10:49] the Democrats, because they say exactly the same thing. They say, don't
[00:10:52] imagine that you are choosing between a Republican and a Democrat in your electoral
[00:10:56] district. This is not important. What is important is not what your governor's
[00:11:00] name is
[00:11:03] or what policies he has, but that
[00:11:07] if that governor, that member of parliament, that senator you want to vote
[00:11:10] for is a Republican, according to Mr. Trump
[00:11:13] himself, you are actually voting for Mr. Trump, and this is actually
[00:11:17] nationalizing and generalizing elections that in each electoral
[00:11:20] district have a certain set of unique characteristics.
[00:11:24] In some electoral districts, a Republican
[00:11:27] candidate may have more popularity among the people of that
[00:11:30] region, has a longer historical
[00:11:33] record, or has not had any violations in his record,
[00:11:37] but all of these have now been overshadowed by the fact that this election is in a way
[00:11:40] a referendum on Mr.
[00:11:43] Trump. Now, if Mr. Trump's popularity was above 50 percent or
[00:11:47] around that, well, this strategy might have ended up favoring the Republicans, but given
[00:11:51] the 65 to 70 percent dissatisfaction of the people with Mr. Trump.
[00:12:05] his policies in the past two years. He also emphasized
[00:12:09] that the price of oil dropped by $10 today, and all of these are signs
[00:12:12] that the steps he has taken have been effective. But in any
[00:12:16] case, in this situation and atmosphere that we are in, if this election
[00:12:20] happens the way Mr. Trump's words have helped and the Democrats have pursued
[00:12:23] it, there is a
[00:12:29] high probability that the polls' predictions are correct. Based on these
[00:12:32] polls, in the House of Representatives, Democrats will almost
[00:12:36] certainly win the majority, and then the competition will be for the Senate,
[00:12:39] whether Republicans will lose their majority,
[00:12:43] and if Democrats win, with what
[00:12:46] number can they take the majority of the Senate? These are all
[00:12:49] questions that we must wait until at least
[00:12:53] Wednesday morning for a picture to emerge
[00:12:57] of whether these polls predicted correctly or not. In
[00:13:00] America, it is common, with one or two exceptions, for a president
[00:13:04] in his second term to lose one of the houses of Congress,
[00:13:07] but it is very unusual to lose both houses. Correct.
[00:13:11] درسته
[00:13:14] It's both unusual and the size of the defeat,
[00:13:17] the number of seats that one party concedes to another, is also
[00:13:21] important. As a result, if, for
[00:13:24] example, in the House of Representatives, you need 218 seats to
[00:13:28] reach a majority. If Democrats have 230 seats
[00:13:31] or 239 seats at the end of the count,
[00:13:35] according to the prediction of one of the most reputable polls, this indicates
[00:13:39] that this defeat was not just
[00:13:41] a usual traditional midterm defeat for a president,
[00:13:45] but rather a clear rejection by the majority
[00:13:49] of public opinion of the president. That will naturally
[00:13:53] have deeper consequences for
[00:13:55] Republicans. Also, regarding the Senate, if
[00:13:58] Democrats win with 51 seats or 53
[00:14:02] or 54, each has different
[00:14:05] meanings and consequences.
[00:14:08] Thank you very much, Bahman Kalbasi, our correspondent in
[00:14:11] New York.
[00:14:14] We continue the program with a few short news items. In the
[00:14:18] United Arab Emirates, the CEO of the state-owned
[00:14:21] Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has warned that global
[00:14:25] crude oil reserves have sharply declined. Sultan Ahmed
[00:14:28] Al Jaber said that since the disruption of tanker traffic
[00:14:31] in the Strait of Hormuz, nearly one billion barrels of crude
[00:14:35] oil have been withdrawn from global reserves. According to the Emirati
[00:14:38] official, the cost of oil transportation, which was previously
[00:14:42] 5% of the price of each barrel, has now risen to over 30%.
[00:14:45] He called for an increase in strategic
[00:14:49] reserve capacity.
[00:14:50] شده.
[00:14:53] The Ansar Allah group in Yemen, known as the Houthis, says
[00:14:57] that 7 people were injured in Saudi airstrikes on the port of Ras Isa
[00:15:01] on the Red Sea coast and an oil facility in Hodeidah
[00:15:04] province. The Houthi Health Ministry spokesman
[00:15:08] called these attacks a clear violation of international humanitarian
[00:15:11] law. The Saudi-led coalition says
[00:15:15] the aim of these operations was to disable the resources that the Houthis
[00:15:18] use. According to the United
[00:15:22] Nations, in the Yemen conflict this year.
[00:15:30] The governor of Hebron says that Israeli forces, after 10 days of siege,
[00:15:34] withdrew from the center of this province in the southern occupied West Bank.
[00:15:41] They took
[00:15:43] control of the area. The mayor of Hebron also said that families who were forced to leave their homes
[00:15:47] can now return. Students and
[00:15:50] university students also went to schools and universities for the first time in 10
[00:15:54] days. The Israeli army besieged this city about 10 days
[00:15:58] ago following a deadly shooting at its soldiers.
[00:16:02] کرد.
[00:16:05] Shabana Mahmood, the UK Home Secretary, announced the changes to immigration
[00:16:08] regulations an hour ago.
[00:16:12] Accordingly, immigrants who earn less than 50,000 pounds a year
[00:16:16] will be allowed to receive permanent residency after 10 years.
[00:16:19] This period of residency will be more than 5
[00:16:23] years for individuals earning more than 50,000 pounds and 3 years for immigrants earning
[00:16:27] between 125,000 and more than 125,000 pounds.
[00:16:31] Under current regulations, this period was 5
[00:16:34] years for all immigrants. Also, from now on,
[00:16:37] immigrants who enter Britain via small boats across the English
[00:16:41] Channel instead of legal routes may have their waiting
[00:16:44] period for permanent residency extended to 30
[00:16:48] years.
[00:16:51] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that at least 18 people
[00:16:55] were killed in successive Russian attacks on a school in the southeastern part of the
[00:16:58] country. According to him, the school building in
[00:17:02] the Zaporizhzhia region was used to distribute humanitarian
[00:17:05] aid. Mr. Zelenskyy
[00:17:07] said that the school has been attacked more than 10 times. He says
[00:17:11] that Moscow knew that humanitarian aid was being distributed in this
[00:17:15] building. According to local officials, rescue and
[00:17:19] relief operations are ongoing.
[00:17:23] Ukraine and Russia accused each other of having infiltrated each other's emergency
[00:17:26] alert systems. It has been reported that in both
[00:17:30] countries, fake warning messages about chemical
[00:17:33] attacks, nuclear attacks, and street clashes were sent to citizens.
[00:17:50] One minute later, a message in Russian about an incoming
[00:17:53] missile, then a warning of a chemical attack
[00:17:57] and street fighting. These were fake messages that
[00:18:00] Ukrainian citizens received on their phones only a few minutes after
[00:18:04] the end of the ceasefire with Russia, through
[00:18:07] the widely used system that Ukrainians
[00:18:11] rely on to be informed of air attacks.
[00:18:14] Ukraine's
[00:18:17] Center for Strategic Communications has blamed Russia for
[00:18:21] hacking this application and has asked the country's people not to pay
[00:18:25] attention to fake warnings. However, some
[00:18:28] Ukrainian citizens say that they are used to these fake messages and
[00:18:32] hackers.
[00:18:36] Now we are all in the same situation. With all these applications like Telegram, which
[00:18:40] is Russian, we are at risk in terms of cyber security. Now they are hacking
[00:18:44] all these accounts. In the fake
[00:18:47] warning, subscribers were told that they were in danger and
[00:18:51] nuclear warheads had been fired towards all regions of Russia.
[00:18:54] This means that such applications,
[00:18:58] which are designed for the safety of civilians, when they are placed on the list
[00:19:02] of war targets, are hacked, they can create confusion
[00:19:06] and tension, and have dangerous consequences for citizens.
[00:19:09] پرخطری برای شهروندان در پی داشته باشند.
[00:19:13] Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of these attacks.
[00:19:16] But regardless of where the hackers infiltrated these
[00:19:19] applications, the main question is what is the alternative
[00:19:23] solution when these systems are hacked?
[00:19:26] Attention, attention. Just a few
[00:19:29] decades ago, sirens and loudspeakers warned people of
[00:19:33] danger. And the meaning and concept of that
[00:19:36] is that everyone.
[00:20:00] But in Iran, where the shadow of war still hangs heavy over the people,
[00:20:04] there is no news of these warning applications.
[00:20:07] Even when America and Israel attacked Iran, neither a warning siren
[00:20:11] sounded nor a warning message was sent to people's
[00:20:15] phones.
[00:20:18] Nazanin Samsami, BBC.
[00:20:20] سی.
[00:20:23] Dozens of grocery stores in seven countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium,
[00:20:27] Luxembourg, and Ireland, have reported malfunctions in their refrigerators.
[00:20:30] It is likely that the cause of this malfunction is a
[00:20:34] cyber attack on the software controlling these systems.
[00:20:38] The CEO of a company that installs cooling equipment in
[00:20:41] Belgium says that during the night, the temperature of the freezers rose and the food
[00:20:45] inside them spoiled. A few weeks ago, hackers also took control
[00:20:48] of the refrigerators of several chain stores across
[00:20:52] France. Mohsen Behshad Karimi, analyst of EU affairs from Brussels,
[00:20:56] Belgium. Behshad Karimi, given that this happened
[00:21:00] before in France, and now in several other
[00:21:03] countries, is this a targeted and coordinated
[00:21:06] campaign? Look, this
[00:21:10] is an example of behavior in today's world
[00:21:13] of communication and in today's cyber
[00:21:16] world, like a series of actions that we have always
[00:21:20] witnessed throughout history. Now, in a way, these seem new and scary to me. The news
[00:21:24] you were just reading about Ukraine,
[00:21:27] well, if you study the history of wars and political tensions,
[00:21:31] at every point in time, in a way,
[00:21:35] now, during the Second World War, news
[00:21:38] was dropped from airplanes or road signs were changed
[00:21:42] to confuse the enemy,
[00:21:46] and now these cyber actions, in my opinion,
[00:21:50] are a wake-up call that this unified and coordinated structure
[00:21:53] in Europe will be placed at the top
[00:21:57] of the agenda and will receive more attention. As I wrote in an
[00:22:01] article that I published last month and week
[00:22:04] in one of the magazines I work with, regarding the warning to
[00:22:08] this sorcerer's apprentice, the sorcerer's apprentice that we
[00:22:12] designed as an AI or that unified cyber
[00:22:15] structure, and there are still some bugs in it, and these
[00:22:19] bugs create a kind of vulnerability.
[00:22:22] These seemingly trivial actions can
[00:22:24] neutralize these bugs from now on
[00:22:28] and deal with them in a more unified
[00:22:31] way. We are correct.
[00:22:34] Well, you referred
[00:22:36] to the gaps that exist. We know that
[00:22:40] Europe is in tension with Russia over
[00:22:44] the Ukraine issue. Now, the Iran issue is also raised,
[00:22:48] and then some other countries.
[00:22:51] How much does this vulnerability really affect
[00:22:55] judicial security and general public opinion in
[00:22:59] Europe? Look, those who are
[00:23:03] skeptical of Europe, those we call
[00:23:05] "skeptics," are fueling
[00:23:08] this trend of pessimism towards Europe. Others are waging psychological
[00:23:12] warfare,
[00:23:16] powers outside the framework of the European Union trying
[00:23:20] to create instability. These two sets
[00:23:23] of news are one thing, but what we are actually witnessing
[00:23:27] is not that tangible. Even in Belgium,
[00:23:31] where I live, or those in France or Luxembourg with whom I am in contact,
[00:23:34] were not really shocked by this news, or didn't even know about it.
[00:23:38] Anyway, it's not the first time. During this Ukraine-Russia war,
[00:23:42] we are seeing the issue of fuel, even the issue of gas,
[00:23:46] which they fueled last year, the issue.
[00:23:55] create instability, as this passive defense system of
[00:23:59] all these member countries, although in a unified way, exchanges
[00:24:02] information with each other. They also exchange
[00:24:06] supplies, so to speak, when needed, as we saw with
[00:24:10] fuel and gas and diesel and so on. But these are also
[00:24:13] decentralized and non-centralized at the same
[00:24:16] time. In fact, there is a double emphasis that
[00:24:22] is on Europe's agenda, on the one hand, and on the other
[00:24:25] hand, decentralizing these structures
[00:24:29] for times when it is needed, like today.
[00:24:32] Anyway, it's more of a psychological war, which is
[00:24:35] very easy to deal with. Even Carrefour company had
[00:24:38] 15 of its supermarkets attacked in Belgium. Now hundreds
[00:24:41] of its supermarkets in
[00:24:44] France, with a very small change in the structure
[00:24:48] of their programming, they can very
[00:24:51] easily define a threshold for the maximum temperature, and this problem will be
[00:24:55] solved. That is, it is not a complicated problem,
[00:24:58] or the issue of food security that we witnessed, or the
[00:25:01] issue that even during the Corona period, outside of this
[00:25:05] category of war and Russia and North Korea and Iran, even during
[00:25:08] the Corona period, we witnessed that the supply
[00:25:11] chain, the transportation
[00:25:14] chain of food and daily necessities,
[00:25:18] was disrupted.
[00:27:32] has launched a device that tracks mosquitoes in flight and burns their
[00:27:36] wings with a laser. This device is almost
[00:27:40] the size of a brick and uses technology used in
[00:27:43] self-driving cars to find mosquitoes.
[00:27:47] Artificial intelligence also determines when it is safe
[00:27:51] to fire the laser. According to the CEO of the
[00:27:54] company, these mosquitoes can no longer fly and cause
[00:27:58] problems for people.