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[00:00:00] all of which was produced record in wheat production domestically.
[00:00:38] is that Yemeni men, women,
[00:00:41] and children have stood by this
[00:00:45] pure religion with their blood, their
[00:00:48] honor, and their dignity. God willing, victory will
[00:00:52] be theirs. Every night, we pray for them in the squares
[00:00:55] and streets. We tell them that we are
[00:00:57] with them
[00:01:00] until the last moment. We send them
[00:01:03] positive energy, and we stand by them. We,
[00:01:07] the people of Iran, with full strength,
[00:01:10] and with reliance on the Supreme Leader,
[00:01:13] support the Yemeni forces and their commanders.
[00:01:16] God willing, we extend our best wishes to the commanders
[00:01:20] and soldiers of the dear Yemeni
[00:01:23] resistance. God bless you! God willing,
[00:01:26] we will be successful and soon celebrate
[00:01:30] the victory of the front of Islam against
[00:01:34] infidelity together, under the leadership
[00:01:37] of Imam Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei
[00:01:40] and the advent of Imam Mahdi. God willing, this flag
[00:01:44] of pure Muhammadan Islam will remain, and we will stand
[00:01:48] by this flag and Islam
[00:01:49] until the last drop of our
[00:01:53] blood. My homeland,
[00:01:56] my homeland, my homeland, my soul
[00:02:08] and body. I think we only kill people who are bringing
[00:02:12] drugs into our country. So we kill them. You know,
[00:02:15] they're gone. In September 2025, the Trump
[00:02:18] administration began targeting vessels in the Caribbean
[00:02:21] Sea and the Eastern Pacific, claiming that these boats
[00:02:25] were carrying drugs to the US. Whoever is operating
[00:02:29] those boats is a criminal because they want to kill our
[00:02:32] people. More than 220 people were killed
[00:02:35] in over 60 attacks. However, the Trump administration
[00:02:38] has not released the names of these individuals.
[00:02:41] The only public evidence of their deaths are official
[00:02:45] press releases and these videos released by the US government.
[00:02:49] A group of UN human rights experts warned on November
[00:02:53] 4, 2025, that these attacks are effectively
[00:02:56] extrajudicial killings. Can you believe your brother
[00:03:00] was fighting the US government? How is it even
[00:03:03] possible for a small person from a small country
[00:03:07] who didn't even finish high
[00:03:09] school to fight the US? No, that was
[00:03:13] never
[00:03:14] the case.
[00:03:21] On February 13, 2026,
[00:03:24] 38-year-old fisherman Ricky Joseph was at sea
[00:03:27] as usual.
[00:03:33] I called him, and no one answered. I slowly
[00:03:37] started to get worried. I called him, and it didn't
[00:03:40] ring. His
[00:03:43] wife called him and said Ricky hadn't
[00:03:46] come home yet. I said something must have happened
[00:03:50] to Ricky because it had never happened before that Ricky
[00:03:54] went to sea and didn't
[00:03:55] answer my call.
[00:03:58] Fishermen had a video of a boat
[00:04:02] exploding.
[00:04:04] They said if it was Ricky's boat, then the captain was my
[00:04:08] brother.
[00:04:11] When I saw it, I shouted that my younger brother
[00:04:14] was the captain of that boat.
[00:04:21] That same day, the Trump administration released a video
[00:04:25] of a US attack on a small boat, claiming it was a designated
[00:04:29] terrorist organization. The President
[00:04:30] and Secretary
[00:04:36] of War clearly stated that drug and terrorist
[00:04:40] groups designated by the President are targets
[00:04:44] for killing under the laws of war. This operation dates
[00:04:48] back to the first day of Trump's presidency,
[00:04:51] when he signed an executive order that led to some
[00:04:55] drug trafficking groups being designated as terrorist
[00:04:58] organizations, actions that paved the way for the attacks. We had
[00:05:01] a war on drugs, a war on terror. What we have now is the worst
[00:05:05] version of both wars. That is, we have the evils of the war on drugs
[00:05:09] and the evils of the war on terror. They kill 250,000 to 300
[00:06:12] people annually. Going to areas controlled
[00:06:16] by cartels and guerrilla groups to identify the victims
[00:06:19] was very difficult and dangerous. They made their utmost
[00:06:22] effort. But despite all their efforts,
[00:06:26] the information is still not complete, and we only know a very
[00:06:30] small part of the truth. Usually, when you go there,
[00:06:33] you go 50 to 60 miles away.
[00:06:36] After they explode the boat, the boat comes all
[00:06:40] the way here. To prepare this documentary, we,
[00:06:43] in cooperation with journalists from six countries, tried
[00:06:47] to find the families of those believed to have been killed in these attacks.
[00:06:50] Most of them did not want to speak openly. They feared the cartels,
[00:06:53] their own governments, or the Trump administration. You know,
[00:06:57] my brother Ricky Joseph was killed by the US government. He was just
[00:07:00] a small-time fisherman. But in Saint Lucia, Ricky's
[00:07:04] family spoke to us. I am very angry about this.
[00:07:07] They said that day he was not alone. He had gone
[00:07:11] to sea with another man, Joseph
[00:07:13] William, known as Naughty. Naughty was a brilliant
[00:07:17] fisherman. He was one of the people I paid the most.
[00:07:21] He was truly, I must say, amazing. Kamran Naughtyliam
[00:07:25] rents boats to local fishermen. That day they
[00:07:29] were on one of those boats. I tried to call Naughty,
[00:07:32] and I couldn't reach him. You know, I called
[00:07:34] him several times. Most of these attacks leave
[00:07:38] no evidence. But in this attack, Kamran recognized
[00:07:42] the boat in a video that was circulating on social
[00:07:46] media and managed to save some remains before it sank.
[00:07:49] When I brought the boat ashore, I realized
[00:07:52] it had my own colors. It was green on the outside,
[00:07:55] black on the bottom, and red on the inside. I didn't want to believe
[00:07:59] it was my boat because I can't believe
[00:08:03] that I completely lost these wonderful people so easily, and they are
[00:08:07] no longer here. It was truly
[00:08:10] painful. Kamran says a few months ago, he was told
[00:08:14] that before the attack, they saw several drones
[00:08:17] hovering over the boat. Ricky's brother, Titus, says
[00:08:20] fishermen told him they saw an explosion in the direction
[00:08:24] of Ricky Naughty's boat. Did you talk to the fishermen
[00:08:28] who were there? Well, the kids who went to sea that day
[00:08:31] saw a boat pass them. After a while, they saw
[00:08:35] an explosion. They said there was a big fire and thick
[00:08:38] black smoke. Ricky left behind his wife Lucia
[00:08:43] and four children. He was a good father. He didn't buy clothes or shoes
[00:08:47] for himself. He spent everything on his children. He loved
[00:08:50] the sea.
[00:08:53] He would go to sea to fish.
[00:08:57] On weekends, I and the children would go fishing
[00:09:00] with him. He liked to speed up the boat and make
[00:09:04] us laugh. He did things to make us all have a good time.
[00:09:07] Our lives are hard now because I have
[00:09:11] to be both a mother and a father to the children.
[00:09:15] I have to earn money to buy them bags, books,
[00:09:18] and shoes so I can send them to school.
[00:09:21] How can I explain to the children where their father
[00:09:24] actually went? When Naughty and Ricky
[00:09:28] didn't return home, their families went
[00:09:30] to the police. I went to the police station
[00:09:34] and filed a missing person report. I asked a few
[00:09:38] questions, and then nothing else.
[00:09:42] We contacted the St. Lucia police several times by
[00:09:46] email and phone to ask what they knew about
[00:09:49] Ricky Naughty's disappearance, but we received
[00:09:53] no response. So we went to the police station to see
[00:09:56] if we could talk to someone. What happened
[00:10:00] to the families who filed missing person reports for the two men?
[00:10:03] I cannot answer any of your questions, sir. Do you understand?
[00:10:07] I cannot answer any of your questions. But because of that,
[00:10:10] I have to tell you that I cannot
[00:10:15] answer your questions at all. Has anyone from the US government
[00:10:19] or an official from the St. Lucia government ever told you what
[00:10:23] actually happened to Ricky?
[00:10:25] No. You know, since
[00:10:27] this happened, no one from the government
[00:10:31] has contacted us.
[00:10:40] We had an opportunity to ask this question directly to the Prime
[00:10:44] Minister of Saint Lucia. The last question from the
[00:10:47] journalists. We were investigating the disappearance of two
[00:10:50] Saint Lucian citizens, Ricky Joseph and Naughty Williams.
[00:10:54] All evidence indicates that their deaths were due to a US
[00:10:58] attack on their boat on February 13, 2026. Therefore, my question
[00:11:02] to you, Prime Minister Pierre,
[00:11:06] is how can justice be achieved in this case and
[00:11:09] the truth be revealed? We have requested information
[00:11:13] from the United
[00:11:17] States, and we have no information
[00:11:20] about what happened. As far as we are
[00:11:24] concerned, these individuals are
[00:11:27] missing, and our law enforcement agencies
[00:11:30] are doing their best to determine what happened. As far
[00:11:34] as we are concerned, the United States has not
[00:11:38] provided us with any information on this matter. We wanted
[00:11:42] to see the only physical evidence in this case
[00:11:45] with our own eyes: the remains of the boat
[00:11:48] Ricky Naughty was on.
[00:11:51] This boat is one of the only suspected survivors of an attack
[00:11:55] from the South Spear operation in South America.
[00:11:58] We found it outside the police
[00:12:12] station. It is clear that the evidence points to a massive
[00:12:16] explosion. Its holes can be seen throughout
[00:12:19] the boat. Prime Minister Pierre says he is waiting
[00:12:22] for information from the US to complete his investigation.
[00:12:26] This is the only physical evidence available. Weeds
[00:12:28] and vines have grown on it. In five more months,
[00:12:32] I don't know if anything
[00:12:33] will be left of this boat.
[00:12:42] They are high-ranking officials. What can I do? Imagine
[00:12:46] you live in a small country. Even the prime
[00:12:50] minister is afraid of that man because he might drop
[00:12:54] the same bomb he dropped on that boat on this small
[00:12:58] country and level it. How do you think justice can be served
[00:13:01] for your father? Sometimes I wonder if justice even
[00:13:05] exists. The attacks were carried out by US Southern
[00:13:08] Command, which oversees military activities in Latin
[00:13:12] America and the Caribbean. But they don't explain
[00:13:16] how they selected their targets or what the legal basis
[00:13:20] is for killing these innocent people. The arguments
[00:13:23] are presented in a classified
[00:13:26] Department of Justice memorandum. For the military to target
[00:13:30] these individuals as enemy forces, you have to deeply
[00:13:33] believe that the US is at war with drug and terrorist
[00:13:37] organizations and that these individuals are enemy
[00:13:41] forces harming the United States, and also
[00:13:44] that the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are war zones.
[00:13:48] None of the points we raised are true
[00:13:51] or factual. According to
[00:14:10] or violence against Americans. They have no intention of attacking
[00:14:13] the United
[00:14:14] States.
[00:14:18] We have not seen any evidence that any of these killed individuals
[00:14:22] intended to reach US shores. In a statement,
[00:14:26] a Southern Command spokesman said: All our attacks
[00:14:29] are carried out under strict legal authority and based
[00:14:33] on complete information and specific targeting
[00:14:36] criteria. The President has authorized commanders to take
[00:14:39] any necessary action, meaning difficult, covert actions
[00:14:43] in the dead of night on behalf of the American people.
[00:14:47] We support them. The operation dubbed "South Spear"
[00:14:51] has faced questions about its legality since its first
[00:14:55] attack on September 2. It later became clear that the US
[00:14:58] had attacked a boat for the second time that day, killing two
[00:15:02] people who survived the first attack. If you look at it
[00:15:06] from the perspective of domestic law, it's murder. If you
[00:15:09] look at it from the perspective of international
[00:15:12] law, it's a war crime. The government
[00:15:15] apparently acts as if it can kill you if it
[00:15:19] calls you a terrorist. Can it? No, it's not
[00:15:22] that easy to put your name on a kill list. In a military
[00:15:26] situation, to kill someone, either Congress must
[00:15:29] have authorized it, or there must be an immediate
[00:15:33] self-defense justification. Then the government can temporarily
[00:15:37] authorize killing, but
[00:15:40] later Congress must confirm it. Yet, it seems
[00:15:43] the US can kill people with impunity. There seems
[00:15:47] to be no legal justification for the use of lethal force,
[00:15:51] and it also seems that no one will be held
[00:15:53] accountable for these killings. On September 15, 2025,
[00:15:57] 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza was off the coast
[00:16:00] of Colombia when his family says they lost
[00:16:04] contact with him. People told me that Alejandro was probably
[00:16:07] killed in one of the bombings. They said that. His childhood
[00:16:11] friends were among the first to link his disappearance
[00:16:15] to a video of an attack that Trump had posted on social
[00:16:18] media. You can see in the video that the engines are up.
[00:16:22] This indicates that the boat is adrift in the water
[00:16:25] and it's a complete emergency.
[00:16:33] What made you think that person in the boat was Alejandro?
[00:16:37] We had no doubt it was him. Some time has passed,
[00:16:39] and there has been no news
[00:16:42] from Alejandro. The family came to identify
[00:16:45] him, and the fishermen found out
[00:16:48] that the boat was Colombian. And all this evidence
[00:16:52] on its own was telling of what a heartbreaking
[00:16:55] thing had happened to my friend. A truly
[00:16:58] terrible event. Alejandro's family filed
[00:17:02] a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
[00:17:06] accusing the US government of violating his right
[00:17:09] to life and due process. If he was really
[00:17:12] a narco-terrorist, as they say, why
[00:17:16] didn't they go after him and arrest
[00:17:20] him and prove that he was
[00:17:22] a narco-terrorist? And if he really
[00:17:25] was a narco-terrorist, at least we would have
[00:17:29] had an inheritance and lived a better
[00:17:32] life. They can check his life and see
[00:17:35] how we are living.
[00:17:54] I wanted to send a message to America and to
[00:17:57] Trump. I ask him to use
[00:18:00] his conscience, his humanity,
[00:18:03] and his feelings to help stop
[00:18:08] these bombings because no human being deserves
[00:18:12] to die the way my children's father
[00:18:15] died. Volker Turk, the UN High
[00:18:19] Commissioner for Human Rights, also called
[00:18:23] the US military attacks in the Caribbean Sea
[00:18:26] and the Eastern Pacific extrajudicial killings
[00:18:29] and explicitly stated that these actions have
[00:18:32] no justification under international law. He emphasized
[00:18:36] that combating drug trafficking is inherently
[00:18:39] a law enforcement issue, not a military
[00:18:43] operation, and the intentional use of lethal force
[00:18:47] is only permissible in the face of an immediate
[00:18:50] threat to life. A look at the past few decades shows
[00:18:54] that the US has repeatedly demonstrated its disregard
[00:18:58] for international law. From the 1986 International
[00:19:01] Court of Justice ruling that ordered the US
[00:19:04] to pay over $12 billion in reparations
[00:19:08] to Nicaragua, which Washington simply refused to implement,
[00:19:12] to the unilateral withdrawal from the Paris Climate
[00:19:15] Agreement and the sanctions on International Criminal
[00:19:19] Court prosecutors to prevent investigations into US war
[00:19:23] crimes, there is no doubt that the US has a selective
[00:19:26] approach to international law. As long as it benefits
[00:19:30] it, it is a staunch defender. The moment it turns against
[00:19:33] it, it renders it ineffective with a veto, sanctions,
[00:19:36] or unilateral withdrawal. The US government has released
[00:19:39] few details about where and how the boats
[00:19:43] were targeted. However, senators who have seen
[00:19:46] the targeting criteria say that drugs do
[00:19:50] not necessarily have to be on the boats
[00:19:54] that the US attacks, and there is no evidence
[00:19:57] that these operations have stopped drug trafficking.
[00:20:00] Blowing up traffickers who are not carrying fentanyl
[00:20:04] or any drugs at all and are not heading
[00:20:07] towards the US, as far as I know, has had
[00:20:11] little effect on drug trafficking operations. What
[00:20:14] policies have actually been effective in reducing
[00:20:18] drug trafficking? I think large-scale criminal
[00:20:22] prosecutions and targeting cartel members in disrupting
[00:20:25] networks have been very successful. But at the same time
[00:20:29] that the US was killing alleged drug traffickers at sea,
[00:20:33] Trump completely pardoned a man convicted
[00:20:36] of drug trafficking in court.
[00:20:50] Hernandez and his accomplices helped. He said he wanted
[00:20:53] to put cocaine in the foreign ring. Then the president
[00:20:57] said, "Well, I have some friends who say he's not really
[00:21:01] that criminal, so I'll let him go." So really,
[00:21:04] who gets killed and who goes through the normal
[00:21:08] legal process is completely arbitrary. Lawmakers from both
[00:21:12] parties have questioned these attacks. If they were
[00:21:16] drug traffickers, why weren't they arrested
[00:21:20] and prosecuted? We still haven't received
[00:21:23] adequate answers to these basic questions at all. In a letter
[00:21:26] to the White House, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said
[00:21:30] that evidence shows the US has killed people
[00:21:33] who were not involved in drug trafficking. He called
[00:21:37] them victims of murder and called on the White House
[00:21:41] to stop these illegal, ineffective, and costly
[00:21:45] operations. Despite these objections, the attacks
[00:21:48] continued. We don't even have a hearing on this
[00:21:52] issue. No one is publicly testifying about what
[00:21:54] happened. On August 4, 2026, the US ended
[00:21:58] Operation South Spear. The same day, it was announced
[00:22:02] that a broader military campaign against drug
[00:22:06] trafficking would be launched across Latin America. Attacks
[00:22:09] resumed on August
[00:22:11] 23, 2026.
[00:25:03] Given that one unit is already there, why is a second unit
[00:25:06] going to the region, and why is Trump doing this now?
[00:25:10] He could have waited another month and done this after
[00:25:14] the election. Finally, Trump has not backed
[00:25:18] down from the nuclear issue,
[00:26:02] so now we see what happens. But I think the idea
[00:26:06] is that this week he had information that the Iranians
[00:26:10] want to target American planes at one of the American
[00:26:13] bases in Britain, and therefore he carried
[00:26:16] out a large-scale evacuation of planes from this base.
[00:26:20] And I think this military buildup by the US is also
[00:26:24] aimed at deterring Iran and maintaining full
[00:26:27] readiness against them. Imagine if the Iranians really
[00:26:31] succeeded in hitting those very expensive planes
[00:26:34] that are in Fairford, Britain, what would happen? Now
[00:26:38] Trump is preparing for an event in which the Iranians might
[00:26:41] be lucky and be able to hit one of America's
[00:26:45] assets or damage it, and then Trump
[00:26:48] will be forced to react. I think he wants to keep
[00:26:52] all options open and scare
[00:26:54] the Iranians.
[00:30:23] In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear viewers, good morning.
[00:30:27] Welcome to the 7:00 news section. The Minister of Agriculture Jihad
[00:30:31] announced the settlement of 95% of wheat
[00:30:35] farmers' claims and said that the remaining 20
[00:30:39] trillion Tomans will also be paid soon. Mr. Nouri
[00:30:42] stated that this year's agricultural production
[00:30:46] fully meets domestic needs and said that imports
[00:30:49] are still ongoing. The head of the Wheat Farmers' Foundation
[00:30:53] also announced a historic
[00:30:56] with 14 million tons,