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[00:00:30] Welcome to the short news segment of BBC Persian Television. I am Baran Abbasi.
[00:00:33] Following the Democrats' victory in the US congressional elections,
[00:00:37] leaders of this party say ending the Iran war
[00:00:41] will be one of the top priorities for the next term of the House of Representatives
[00:00:44] and Senate. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries promised
[00:00:48] that Congress would no longer be completely subservient to the Trump administration.
[00:00:51] Yesterday, J. D. Vance, the US Vice President, said that the reason for the Republicans' defeat
[00:00:55] in the midterm elections was the Iran war.
[00:00:58] On the other hand, in Iran, some officials welcomed the results
[00:01:02] of the US elections and considered it a defeat for Donald Trump
[00:01:06] in the political arena, while others say that for
[00:01:09] the Islamic Republic, there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
[00:01:13] My colleague Farnoush Amirshahi is here to talk more about these issues.
[00:01:16] more do we know about the reaction
[00:01:20] of Iranian officials to the US elections? For days,
[00:01:24] officials in the Islamic Republic had been talking about the US elections.
[00:01:27] This election was important for Iran because
[00:01:30] the shadow of the US-Israel war still hangs
[00:01:34] heavily over Iran. Donald Trump had previously said
[00:01:37] that he might launch new attacks on Iran after
[00:01:41] the end of this round of elections. When I was looking through
[00:01:45] the newspapers and sifting through the officials' statements,
[00:01:48] I found almost three positions. On the one hand,
[00:01:52] as we are seeing in the images now, the newspapers reported that
[00:01:55] Trump's defeat was the result of the US.
[00:01:59] This was attributed to Trump himself and his policies.
[00:02:02] They interpreted it as the Islamic Republic being the winner
[00:02:06] in what happened in the US, and they even said
[00:02:10] that not only did the US lose the war,
[00:02:13] but it also lost the political arena, and they interpreted it that way.
[00:02:17] At the same time, some officials
[00:02:21] and factions in Iran hoped that
[00:02:24] with the Democrats coming to power, policies would change and they would be able
[00:02:28] to limit Donald Trump. They have such an expectation from the Democrats,
[00:02:32] but on the other hand, there are still concerns
[00:02:35] about another round of attacks beginning.
[00:02:39] For this reason, there are also reports that preparations are being made.
[00:02:43] Two senior officials told Reuters that Iran is fully prepared
[00:02:46] and has concerns in this area. Moreover,
[00:02:50] yesterday, Mojtaba Khamenei in a message
[00:02:54] attributed to him, said that if any
[00:02:57] ruling party in the US
[00:03:01] changes, it does not mean that the policy of the Islamic Republic and the US policy will change
[00:03:04] and cause Iran to want to change its policies
[00:03:08] towards the US. That is, in a way, he made it clear
[00:03:12] that America's approach towards
[00:03:15] Iran, its approach towards the US, will not change.
[00:03:19] If we want to distance ourselves from the events in Iran and the US,
[00:03:23] today in Europe, there has been another security threat
[00:03:26] that has caused many flights to be canceled. As far as I reviewed the news
[00:03:30] before I came to the studio, at least 15 flights across
[00:03:34] Europe received security threats.
[00:03:37] If I want to mention some of them, there was a flight from Dublin
[00:03:40] to Rome, Milan, Warsaw, Helsinki also had
[00:03:44] a flight to Rome, to Sofia there were three flights, one of which was from
[00:03:48] London Stansted, from Madrid and Copenhagen.
[00:03:52] Also, four other flights were going to Prague.
[00:03:56] All of them had received security threats. Then some of them were forced
[00:03:59] to change their course. But so far, no
[00:04:03] explosive device or any serious threat
[00:04:07] has been found in any of these planes after inspections.
[00:04:10] Yesterday, at least seven other flights in Europe
[00:04:14] also either changed course
[00:04:18] or the flights changed due to receiving these security threats.
[00:04:21] No one has claimed responsibility
[00:04:25] for these attacks. It is not clear what the source
[00:04:29] of these attacks is. Is it, for example, a hack
[00:04:31] or is there a government behind it,
[00:04:35] or even hacker groups? Nothing is clear.
[00:04:38] Nothing has been confirmed, but
[00:04:41] in any case, this is the second time this week that flights in Europe
[00:04:45] have faced these threats and have been disrupted.
[00:04:48] Thank you very much, Farnoush. The images we are seeing
[00:04:51] are live images. The plane that landed
[00:04:55] in Paris, France, was a plane that was flying
[00:04:58] from Dublin, Ireland, to Rome, Italy.
[00:05:02] But because of this bomb threat,
[00:05:05] the bomb threat warning that Farnoush also mentioned,
[00:05:08] it landed in France.