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[00:00:00] Why didn't we tell the people?
[00:00:24] gold medal in the International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad. The
[00:00:28] Iranian National Artificial Intelligence Olympiad team won one gold medal, two
[00:00:32] silver medals, and one bronze medal at the third
[00:00:35] International Olympiad in Kazakhstan. In this round of
[00:00:39] competitions, which were held from the 11th to the 16th of August,
[00:00:42] Shayan Rezazadeh won the
[00:00:45] Darvishi and Mohammad Amin Nazmfar
[00:00:48] won silver medals, and Mani
[00:00:51] Manjipour won the world bronze medal.
[00:00:55] This round of competitions was held with the participation of more than 400 participants from more
[00:00:59] than 100 countries around the world. This achievement was made despite serious
[00:01:03] challenges, including internet disruptions and
[00:01:06] outages, as well as cowardly attacks by the
[00:01:10] American enemy and the Zionist regime on the national
[00:01:13] artificial intelligence infrastructure
[00:01:16] of the country.
[00:01:20] The President said, "We are not seeking expansionism,
[00:01:24] but the Zionists are seeking a greater Israel."
[00:01:27] Mr. Pezeshkan, in a television program,
[00:01:30] compared Iran's and Israel's approaches to the countries of the region,
[00:01:34] adding, "We have a common border with neighboring
[00:01:37] countries, and we must live together. But the
[00:01:40] Zionist regime, which has no borders with many Islamic
[00:01:44] countries, is thinking of aggression and taking their land."
[00:01:47] For a person's ignorance, it is enough
[00:01:51] that they don't know how much power they have. They wanted
[00:01:54] to dispossess us completely. Well,
[00:01:58] if they dispossess us, they should come and plow our
[00:02:02] entire land and water, and we wouldn't be able to
[00:02:05] do anything, right? We should
[00:02:07] do this. We accept that they come and
[00:02:11] take all our military and defensive powers from us. We bow
[00:02:15] before them, which we won't do. But we won't
[00:02:18] invade other countries. We are not looking for land,
[00:02:22] I don't know, to take land and expand.
[00:02:25] Unlike Zionist Israel, which is actually
[00:02:29] looking for a greater Israel.
[00:02:32] The
[00:02:35] Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized the necessity of regional
[00:02:39] integration and reliance on domestic capabilities. Mr. Aragchi, in a message
[00:02:43] to neighboring countries, referred to the readiness and capabilities
[00:02:46] of Iran's armed forces and announced that the power
[00:02:49] of the Islamic Republic has been proven against the most advanced
[00:02:53] military forces in the world. The Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized
[00:02:56] to neighboring countries that if Muslims are united, they
[00:03:00] will stand against any threat. And now
[00:03:03] is the time to rely on our own
[00:03:05] strength and strengthen
[00:03:10] true brotherhood. Following the statements of the US Treasury
[00:03:14] Secretary about the possibility of Iran and the US reaching
[00:03:17] an agreement in the coming days, the Governor of the Central
[00:03:20] Bank said: Regardless of whether this agreement is reached
[00:03:24] or not, these statements, along with some previous
[00:03:27] materials about the imminent collapse of Iran's economy,
[00:03:47] were evident in the inflation report for July. The Governor
[00:03:51] of the Central Bank said that one of the main priorities
[00:03:54] is to prevent the financing of budget deficits through
[00:03:58] Central Bank resources.
[00:04:17] The US announced in a report that General Dunford,
[00:04:20] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army,
[00:04:24] specifically told a number of senior Trump administration
[00:04:27] officials, including Cliff,
[00:04:30] Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Marco
[00:04:34] Rubio, Secretary of State, and JD Vance, Vice President of the United
[00:04:38] States, that the United States needs to find
[00:04:41] a way to avoid war with Iran. According to this
[00:04:44] report, General Dunford
[00:04:48] warned that the military options
[00:04:51] proposed for escalating the conflict may
[00:04:54] backfire, and also said that it is unlikely that
[00:04:58] air power alone can achieve
[00:05:00] the stated goals of US President Donald
[00:05:03] Trump.
[00:05:06] کند.
[00:05:12] With the efforts of Iranian experts and with the aim
[00:05:15] of reducing energy imbalance, 300 megawatts of electricity
[00:05:18] were added to the country's power grid capacity through
[00:05:22] the Farab combined cycle power plant.
[00:05:25] شد.
[00:05:27] This is the 900-megawatt Farab combined cycle power plant
[00:05:31] in Islam Abad Gharb. With the completion of the steam
[00:05:34] section of this power plant, 300 megawatts of electricity
[00:05:38] will be produced and fed into the grid. The steam
[00:05:40] unit with a capacity of 310 megawatts, with the
[00:05:44] expertise of local forces and Iranian
[00:05:47] experts, God willing, will be connected to the national
[00:05:51] electricity grid within the next month. The first
[00:05:54] phase of this power plant was put into operation in 2011.
[00:05:57] The commissioning of the steam power plant, let me tell you,
[00:06:01] will save us a very significant amount, approximately
[00:06:04] 583 million cubic
[00:06:06] meters of gas per year, more than
[00:06:10] 150
[00:06:12] small companies that work in industries and produce 34 megawatts
[00:06:16] can be launched, and they create very good employment in the region.
[00:06:20] Strengthening network stability is one of the most important goals of this project.
[00:06:24] Without any fuel consumption,
[00:06:28] this 300 megawatts
[00:06:31] is supplied and produced
[00:06:33] entirely by experts and educated youth
[00:06:37] of
[00:06:40] the region.
[00:06:59] The spring rains have increased production and improved the
[00:07:03] harvesting conditions for farmers in Fereydun Shahr.
[00:07:06] است.
[00:07:09] These days, farmers in Fereydun Shahr are busy harvesting
[00:07:13] lentils and chickpeas from their agricultural lands. I
[00:07:16] planted 2 hectares here, both chickpeas and
[00:07:20] lentils, one hectare each. We started planting
[00:07:24] here in April and May. This year, we planted approximately
[00:07:27] 2 hectares of chickpeas and 3 hectares of lentils. We
[00:07:30] plant chickpeas and wheat in October.
[00:07:34] Now that they are ripe, we harvest them. In the current
[00:07:37] agricultural year, more than 300 farmers have planted
[00:07:41] lentils and chickpeas.
[00:07:47] We come at 8 AM until 1 PM,
[00:07:51] then we go home, and again at 4 PM when the weather cools
[00:07:55] down, we come and harvest. When we want to harvest, we say
[00:07:58] it in knots, as the old people say. Then we slowly gather it until it becomes
[00:08:02] a bundle. We harvest at least 100
[00:08:05] kilograms per jerib and one
[00:08:08] ton of chickpeas and lentils per hectare. This year,
[00:08:12] we planted 5 hectares. The condition of this year's chickpeas
[00:08:15] and lentils is good due to the rain. This year, 400 kilograms
[00:08:19] of dryland lentils and 600 kilograms of dryland chickpeas
[00:08:23] are harvested per hectare. The area under
[00:08:26] dryland chickpea cultivation in Fereydunshahr is 1,000
[00:08:29] hectares, 400 hectares for lentils and 600 hectares for chickpeas.
[00:08:33] The harvest of these products begins in early
[00:08:36] July and continues until
[00:08:38] mid-August.
[00:08:41] This year, it was predicted
[00:09:50] Mr. President, the project of local focus,
[00:09:54] the issue that has been raised, and the necessity of it being
[00:09:57] raised, and how this project came about
[00:10:01] is a question in itself. And another question is whether
[00:10:04] this project is going to replace civil society organizations
[00:10:08] or parties, or is it a complement to these civil society organizations?
[00:10:13] Look, from a
[00:10:15] management perspective, we have a numerator
[00:10:19] and a denominator. Any organization, whether it's the
[00:10:22] government or whatever,
[00:10:26] covers a percentage of that denominator.
[00:10:29] Like the Relief Committee or these non-governmental organizations
[00:10:33] you mentioned. They don't see everyone
[00:10:36] and maybe often don't
[00:10:39] see those who are poorer and weaker. Those who
[00:10:43] have access, know, come and introduce themselves to
[00:10:46] these organizations. There are some people who are
[00:10:49] not like that, they don't reach any of these. As a result,
[00:10:53] in order for us to
[00:10:55] cover, for example, 10%
[00:10:59] of household heads, we covered
[00:11:02] 20% of them. What about the rest? When
[00:11:05] we came to the environment we live in, we drew
[00:11:08] a line and said this is the area.
[00:11:11] Then when we said in this area,
[00:11:13] now our audience, if the NGO wants to work, it should say
[00:11:17] who its audience is in this area,
[00:11:21] and then say what percentage it covers, and what percentage
[00:11:24] is left behind. That person who wants treatment,
[00:11:28] that person who wants to reach a household head, that person who wants
[00:11:31] to reach an elderly person, that person who wants to reach a neighborhood, that person who wants
[00:11:35] to reach employment, meaning depending on what we have
[00:11:38] in mind, in a neighborhood, which
[00:11:41] is a small part of a building,
[00:11:44] let's see if those accesses or
[00:11:48] that work that needs to be done here takes place or
[00:11:52] not. We need to see if there. Is there
[00:11:56] anyone to help an old, sick, lonely person
[00:11:59] at home? Or not? It's not about
[00:12:02] an NGO being formed and seeing some people and then giving
[00:12:06] a number, for example, we saw 10 people, 100 people, 10,000
[00:12:09] people. How many 10,000 people did you see?
[00:12:12] As a result, the question remains unanswered.
[00:12:15] But when you specify an area,
[00:12:19] then in that area, you can see how many
[00:12:22] customers that NGO or educational institution
[00:12:26] or, I don't know, doctor or
[00:12:30] cultural, sports, artistic
[00:12:33] organization in this area has seen, and how many are left
[00:12:36] behind. Then what should I and the government do for
[00:12:40] those who are left behind? In order to be able
[00:12:44] to manage, in order to be able to see everyone, first of all, we must
[00:12:47] involve everyone. The government is not able
[00:12:51] to do all this with the departments it has created. It has not been able
[00:12:55] to do so. This has not happened anywhere in the world.
[00:12:59] In any society where
[00:13:02] these so-called community social capabilities increased,
[00:13:05] the power and stability
[00:13:08] of life, unity, and social cohesion were
[00:13:12] greater. Wherever there was hope that someone
[00:13:15] from above would do something, the problems increased.
[00:13:18] In order to see the problems of our
[00:13:22] people,
[00:13:24] as a result, we define a neighborhood. A neighborhood
[00:13:28] with a defined population, now 10,000, 20,000, 30,000.
[00:13:32] Then we have to see that these people
[00:13:34] themselves sit down and assess
[00:13:37] their needs. Those who can solve their
[00:13:40] needs themselves should solve them. Those who can't,
[00:13:44] we as the government should help them solve them. As
[00:13:48] a result, a neighborhood should not be without a school,
[00:13:52] without a clinic, without, I don't know, health
[00:13:56] facilities, and thousands of other problems that they need,
[00:13:59] and we are unaware of. They come forward, and we also
[00:14:03] help. There are NGOs that go and say what
[00:14:06] problem they want to solve in which of these cells.
[00:14:10] Another issue in this project is the perception of mosque-centricity,
[00:14:14] meaning that only religious people are included in this
[00:14:17] circle. Is neighborhood-centricity merely mosque-centricity
[00:14:20] or does it have other structures? Look.
[00:14:25] I think you should have inferred
[00:14:28] from what I just said that the elderly, women,
[00:14:31] education, roads, treatment, employment,
[00:14:34] and all these things. The mosque
[00:14:38] can only answer a fraction of the denominator. What about
[00:14:42] the rest?
[00:14:45] When we say mosque, we now say mosque,
[00:14:48] school, health center,
[00:14:50] and other institutions like the municipality.
[00:15:05] We should have a mosque in a neighborhood for 130,000 to
[00:15:09] 120,000 people. We have
[00:15:11] schools. That means these are the places. We
[00:15:15] have nearly 7,000 health centers.
[00:15:18] That means there is one health center for every
[00:15:22] 10 to 12,000 people in the country. These
[00:15:25] are bases from which operations can be carried out. A mosque
[00:15:29] is a base for operations. A school is a base for
[00:15:33] operations. A health center is a center
[00:15:36] for operations. The health houses that municipalities
[00:15:39] have or the bases they have are operation centers.
[00:15:43] And the Red Crescent, and now NGOs, or anyone
[00:15:46] else who is there, we first
[00:15:49] select a defined population in the neighborhood. In
[00:15:52] this defined population, we identify
[00:15:56] the places from which various audiences can be
[00:15:59] reached. Some are cultural, some are athletic,
[00:16:02] some are, so to speak, employment-related.
[00:16:05] Some are health-related, some are
[00:16:09] mental health-related, some are, I don't know,
[00:16:13] دونم
[00:16:16] shopkeepers, some are industrialists. As a result,
[00:16:19] we see that neighborhood as a region. From these
[00:16:23] positions, we can reach the audience that
[00:16:27] exists there. We design the program and
[00:16:31] coordinate among these bases.
[00:16:34] The mosque, in my view,
[00:16:38] should ideally have all of these, but since
[00:16:41] our views are closed, since we consider
[00:16:44] someone religious whom we call religious, and someone else
[00:16:47] non-religious, as a result, we cannot
[00:16:51] attract everyone. The prophets and imams did not
[00:16:55] come to say, "Let those who are religious come, and those who are not
[00:16:58] not." They saw everyone. We came and drew
[00:17:02] a line and divided into insiders and outsiders.
[00:17:06] There are no outsiders. Everyone in that neighborhood is ours, and
[00:17:10] we must reach them. One person in that neighborhood is addicted,
[00:17:13] another is in trouble, another, I don't know, has a fight.
[00:17:16] Well, we must reach them. If we are
[00:17:18] human, this is the cell of
[00:17:21] life. If we put this life into
[00:17:25] motion there, we can solve the problems of the region,
[00:17:29] its employment, its health, its education, its logistics
[00:17:32] and auxiliary services, all of them. The problem is not
[00:17:36] one thing, the problem is all the things that can be created
[00:17:40] in a region. The mosque is a base with
[00:17:42] beliefs that we must prove in action.
[00:17:46] Instead of giving orders to do this,
[00:17:50] let's help the people. If we help the people,
[00:17:53] they will believe us, regardless of the help we give, which must
[00:17:57] be selfless and without expectation.
[00:18:01] In the Quran, there is a detailed verse. If I want to
[00:18:04] say it, it will take another hour. It says, "Say."
[00:18:37] it doesn't match these. Now, let it do whatever
[00:18:41] it wants to do. If your government is facing
[00:18:45] two challenges, one is economic, and the other is foreign policy. Here,
[00:18:48] the questions become a bit more challenging, and the answers
[00:18:51] are probably more direct. Mr. President, you
[00:18:55] started your government when the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh
[00:18:59] happened. Immediately after that, with a small
[00:19:02] delay, we had the snapback issue and the re-issuance
[00:19:05] of UN resolutions. At that time, what efforts
[00:19:09] did your diplomacy team make to prevent these two, to prevent the snapback?
[00:19:13] Look, the view in society regarding
[00:19:17] foreign issues, after all, these domestic challenges
[00:19:19] کشور
[00:19:22] have existed and still exist, and
[00:19:25] there is a possibility that they will continue. And,
[00:19:29] of course, it depends on those views and the lack of
[00:19:32] cooperation that is taking
[00:19:33] shape.
[00:19:36] Regarding our neighbors, we have solved many of our problems.
[00:19:40] It has become much better. Now, this war
[00:19:44] that has taken shape, Israel and the US are trying
[00:19:48] to unite the Persian Gulf countries
[00:19:51] against us, and we are trying to prevent
[00:19:54] that from happening. Of course, we have a challenge internally
[00:19:58] because we have different views,
[00:20:01] and naturally, the US
[00:20:05] is taking advantage of this situation, and Israel is taking advantage
[00:20:09] of it. My belief is that I said this,
[00:20:13] not because I want to give a slogan, but
[00:20:16] I believe Muslims are brothers.
[00:20:19] The Prophet of God says this, the Book of God
[00:20:23] says this. Brothers does not mean
[00:20:26] that Shia and Sunni Muslims are separate.
[00:20:29] A Muslim is a brother.
[00:20:32] Imam Ali, peace be upon him, said this in those meetings,
[00:20:35] I have said it many times in sermon 18. He says,
[00:20:39] "They take a case to a judge, he gives a ruling. Then
[00:20:42] they take the same case to another judge, he gives
[00:20:45] another ruling. Then these judges come to the one who
[00:20:49] ruled for them."
[00:21:50] Well, you are better than me. Well, God
[00:21:54] will reward you. Why do you put me under obligation?
[00:21:57] Why do you act superior to me? Why do you command
[00:22:01] me? Who said you should command me? You are
[00:22:04] good, praise be to God. Be good to me too, without
[00:22:08] obligation, as the Quran says, for God, not
[00:22:12] that you should, for example, command others to do
[00:22:15] this or not to do that. That is
[00:22:19] fleeing from religion and faith. Imam Ali, in his letter to Malik,
[00:22:22] says that commanding and forbidding has three negative
[00:22:26] consequences. He says, "Do
[00:22:29] not say, 'I am the commander, and they must obey.'" We say
[00:22:33] that society cannot be managed by commanding and forbidding. This
[00:22:37] trend, its negative consequence
[00:22:40] is to weaken faith, to weaken religion,
[00:22:43] and to darken the heart and change this
[00:22:47] command. As a result, now
[00:22:50] all of these, with the support of the Supreme Leader and the
[00:22:54] support of the dear Leader, who is now also making
[00:22:58] every effort for unity and cohesion. Our situation with foreign neighbors
[00:23:02] is much better than before. Mr. President, there were
[00:23:05] negotiations with the facilitation of the French,
[00:23:09] so that they could reach a reconciliation between
[00:23:12] us and the United States. What happened there that Trump
[00:23:16] did not accept? It was not facilitation. First, with God, these Europeans should have accepted.
[00:23:32] what they did, which shows that even the Europeans
[00:23:34] themselves
[00:23:36] do not have the authority to make decisions, because
[00:23:40] if they had the authority, we would have reached an agreement
[00:23:43] with Macron. We said that their expectations
[00:23:47] were in line with our expectations and demands.
[00:23:50] Of course, it was also with the permission and coordination
[00:23:53] of the Supreme Leader. The dear Leader
[00:23:56] is showing in this broadcast that he has said that we
[00:24:00] will not negotiate at all.
[00:24:02] With the same permission of the Leader, we did these things and
[00:24:06] had also reached an agreement, but then the United States
[00:24:10] withdrew and then they took us to snapback, whereas
[00:24:13] if they had accepted what we had coordinated with Macron,
[00:24:16] there would have been no need for them to snapback us.
[00:24:20] We didn't start the war. We were in talks. They
[00:24:23] started the war. Of course, this
[00:24:26] war, because many people say that they came to prevent
[00:24:29] the war, and war happened. We did not
[00:24:32] start the war. They, with this
[00:24:35] situation, that we were going forward,
[00:24:38] their calculations were that the country would fall apart,
[00:24:42] and they said that something could be done in this context.
[00:24:46] But the process did not go as they wanted.
[00:24:50] The Iranian people cooperated,
[00:24:51] even those who had objections
[00:24:54] put their hearts into it, and we were
[00:24:58] able to stay here until now, and we will remain stronger
[00:25:01] and more powerful, God willing. In this very context that you
[00:25:05] are stating, one of the things that happened in the 12-day
[00:25:08] war and more broadly and deeply in the 40-day war
[00:25:12] was that we hit US bases across the region.
[00:25:15] Did this have a significant impact on our relationship
[00:25:19] with the Persian Gulf countries?
[00:25:25] Look, the problem we have is that
[00:25:28] the countries of the region, the US
[00:25:32] has hit our bases from there. Where did they hit the Mina school
[00:25:36] from? From those Muslim and friendly countries. Why
[00:25:40] should they allow them to come and hit us? And
[00:25:43] we don't want to hit them. We hit them from where
[00:25:46] they hit us. Why should the US come here and set
[00:25:50] up bases? To hit any Islamic country that doesn't
[00:25:54] listen to them. Who said we should
[00:25:58] be their obedient servants?
[00:26:00] Why?
[00:26:03] We don't intend to oppress anyone, but
[00:26:06] we won't submit to force. They are not supposed to force
[00:26:10] us. They are not supposed to come to our country and take
[00:26:14] our resources. In Iraq, they sell oil, and they
[00:26:16] don't get their money.
[00:26:19] We had to defend ourselves.
[00:26:21] And honestly,
[00:26:25] our fighters, our air and space forces, army, IRGC,
[00:26:29] and our fighting youth defended heroically.
[00:26:33] They amazed the world, and of course, with the blessing and support
[00:26:36] of the people and, naturally, with the
[00:26:40] management that the government has carried out. If this
[00:26:43] process and support had not taken shape, the support
[00:26:46] that the government had for this set of issues,
[00:26:50] this process would not have been possible.
[00:26:53] We are one body, one, so to speak, power,
[00:26:56] not fragmented. Those people, those who want to separate
[00:27:00] us, are those who want to create
[00:27:03] a rift in society between us and all these people
[00:27:07] who live in this country.
[00:27:10] There are regulations, laws, and a leadership
[00:27:13] that governs, not these warlords that
[00:27:17] they have created. Sometimes some people don't want to accept
[00:27:20] this. Well, one of the
[00:27:24] important points in your foreign policy period
[00:27:27] is that we had two indirect
[00:27:30] dialogues with the United States. One before the 12-day war
[00:27:34] and one after the
[00:27:36] 12-day war, which led to this recent war. Believers say
[00:27:40] that these two negotiations that took place
[00:27:43] were a deception. Some more radical people even say
[00:27:47] that Mr. Pezeshkian and the government of the martyred
[00:27:50] leader pressured him to negotiate, but in
[00:27:53] the end, we saw that the system decided to negotiate. What
[00:27:57] else happened that the system decided to hold these two
[00:28:00] rounds of negotiations?
[00:28:27] This process has continued, otherwise in these talks
[00:28:30] they wanted to completely dispossess us.
[00:28:34] Well, if they dispossessed us, they would have to
[00:28:38] come and plow our entire land and water,
[00:28:41] and we wouldn't be able to do anything. Is that right?
[00:28:44] We do this. We accept that they come
[00:28:47] and take all our military and defensive power from us,
[00:28:51] and we bow before them, which we do not do. But
[00:28:55] we do not invade other countries. We are
[00:28:58] not looking for land, I don't know, to take land
[00:29:02] and expand. Unlike Zionist Israel, which
[00:29:05] is actually looking for a greater Israel, we
[00:29:08] are not looking for a greater Iran. We consider all
[00:29:11] these countries our brothers. We don't need
[00:29:15] this at all. We are together. We have
[00:29:18] a border, we are neighbors. But Israel has no border
[00:29:22] with us, no border with Islamic countries. It is
[00:29:26] thinking of aggression and taking their land. Mr. President,
[00:29:29] my question was about you being accused of
[00:29:33] pressuring the martyred leader to negotiate.
[00:29:37] What is the answer to this question? Look, those who say
[00:29:40] this either don't know the Leader
[00:29:44] or actually don't have logic and common
[00:29:47] sense. In order for us to survive, we must
[00:29:51] know what we are doing. When do we want to fight,
[00:29:54] when do we want to make peace, when do we want him to
[00:29:57] do his work, and I do mine? Neither war nor
[00:30:01] peace. China and the US are friends.
[00:30:04] China is America's biggest enemy. Why don't they
[00:30:06] fight? China does its
[00:30:10] own thing and is getting stronger every day. When we can
[00:30:14] achieve our rights through dialogue. When we were able
[00:30:17] to, in this very agreement we made,
[00:30:21] to stop the Lebanon
[00:30:23] war, so to speak.
[00:30:25] Every day there, 100 people, 200 people of
[00:30:29] Muslims were martyred there. Now,
[00:30:33] it didn't happen. We were able to lift
[00:30:35] the siege. We were able
[00:30:38] to get our money back. They wanted to return it.
[00:30:41] We were actually able to get some
[00:30:45] waivers or sanctions lifted. We were also supposed
[00:30:49] to open the strait. Now, they say that
[00:30:52] they did not comply, and we also struck.
[00:30:55] What did we give to the US? We had many achievements.