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[00:00:00] when the daily warning let me tell you. is issued three or four times, then they say
[00:00:04] it wasn't a real warning. The Israelis,
[00:00:08] for example, claimed this morning that a drone was heading
[00:00:11] towards Galilee or northern occupied Palestine.
[00:00:14] Then it was denied. In short,
[00:00:17] they said they were searching for hours from dawn to morning for what
[00:00:21] it was. Yes, this is preparation for military action. We have seen this
[00:00:24] in experience. In fact, this program by the Zionists, yes, the Israelis, when they want
[00:00:28] to carry out military action.
[00:00:34] access. Around the end of
[00:00:41] This preparation is clear and I don't
[00:00:44] think there is any concern about that group, this vehicle that
[00:00:48] was on the
[00:00:50] Syrian border, they were Syrians, not Lebanese, but they said this
[00:00:54] is part of the Syrian resistance groups that are active in the Golan
[00:00:58] and are supported by Iran.
[00:01:02] it appears that
[00:01:30] Given that we are gradually approaching the cold season,
[00:01:33] Mr. Fadlallah, the representative of Hezbollah
[00:01:37] groups and blocs of in the Lebanese Parliament, said that we will soon
[00:01:40] announce our plans for organizing the affairs
[00:01:43] of the displaced. Do you have any specific information about what
[00:01:47] is going to happen? There are two main goals for Hezbollah at
[00:01:50] this stage. First, a ceasefire should be implemented
[00:01:54] and Israel should stop its aggressions. The second point, and
[00:01:58] it is very important, is to reach
[00:02:00] the displaced people.
[00:02:03] 600,000 displaced people are still there. Some are in houses, some
[00:02:07] are in tents, and there is a serious problem.
[00:02:12] United for Peace. They held a And this is used as a card, meaning the opponents of Hezbollah and the resistance
[00:02:16] are taking advantage of it. They say to the public that these displaced people
[00:02:19] are no longer being provided with security. Hezbollah is under a
[00:02:24] complicity, with the use of financial siege. No, meaning
[00:02:28] of America, of financial aid is not reaching them. However, Hezbollah has been able to, in recent
[00:02:31] months, through philanthropists in the region,
[00:02:36] allies in the Middle East and one of money has reached Hezbollah, and what I said
[00:02:38] later, Hezbollah, that money has not reached them, is a rumor and so on. No, Hezbollah has announced
[00:02:42] that Mr. Fadlallah, as you mentioned, the representative of Hezbollah, announced that
[00:02:46] in the coming weeks, this
[00:02:48] plan for the displaced will be implemented, which will greatly help
[00:02:52] the situation of the displaced.
[00:02:55] The issue of providing housing, more housing and renting houses.
[00:02:59] One. Part of the houses they prepared are ready-made
[00:03:02] houses for the part that is in Lebanon.
[00:03:05] Do you mean prefabricated houses? Houses, prefabricated
[00:03:09] houses, and second, the rent of some
[00:03:14] emotion in houses. Many families have been paying rent for 3 years without
[00:03:16] a house. They have a serious problem. This
[00:03:22] mask of aid in this regard. Sheikh Naim Qassem has announced this issue again that we have a plan for the displaced in the
[00:03:26] near future. In the coming days, there was work, next week officially.
[00:03:36] What exactly has been the role of the government in helping the displaced from the beginning of the war or after the war until now,
[00:03:39] and where has it led? Thank you very much, Mr. Damas. And thank you,
[00:03:43] dear viewers, for staying with us. May you be well, goodbye.
[00:03:47] باشید ترتون سالم خداحافظ.
[00:04:44] Sentinel, and at the time it's one of
[00:05:03] At least in the past year, alongside the army and the IRGC, they have not
[00:05:06] spared their lives for Iran. For example, in the December
[00:05:10] coup, they surround four policemen in the square,
[00:05:13] kill them
[00:05:16] with knives and machetes, butcher them,
[00:05:19] and burn them alive.
[00:05:21] In the recent imposed war,
[00:05:25] the enemy, in its naive imagination, was supposed to,
[00:05:28] according to a calculated plan, shatter this strong pillar of Iran's security
[00:05:32] by attacking police headquarters.
[00:05:34] The result was these memorial
[00:05:38] images. Despite the main building being
[00:05:42] hit by an enemy missile,
[00:05:45] service to the people has not stopped.
[00:05:49] These images and the performance of the police in the past year
[00:05:52] remind us that the command of the Islamic Republic of Iran's police
[00:05:56] is not dependent on headquarters and buildings. Our home is Kianshahr.
[00:05:59] They hit our police station in our area, but
[00:06:03] they didn't abandon security. They didn't let go.
[00:06:06] They are preserving the people's security with their blood. It's true that the building was destroyed,
[00:06:09] but the connection between the people and the police...
[00:08:12] I arrange
[00:08:15] a pattern by color with cards, then I cover it,
[00:08:18] then the children with the cards they have must arrange
[00:08:22] that pattern in 5 seconds. A game, but what a game!
[00:08:25] Introduction of Iranian heroes,
[00:08:28] heroes, heroes of resistance. We have placed a symbol like Jihad Mugniyah,
[00:08:32] Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, for example, a very good personality, Qasem
[00:08:35] Soleimani.
[00:08:37] Goodbye.
[00:08:44] Behind these cards, in short, their biography or
[00:08:48] on them, like their age and the time of their martyrdom
[00:08:51] and the type of work they did, and now the children have chosen
[00:08:55] a role model for themselves: Commander Hajizadeh,
[00:08:58] Ebrahim Hadi, Martyr Fakirzadeh, Martyr Tanisiri
[00:09:01] Tehrani, Maqdad Ebrahim Zolfaghari. What did we learn
[00:09:04] from Hajj Qasem? We learn to be kind to others
[00:09:07] and to strike fear into the hearts of the enemies of Morteza
[00:09:11] Ali and Iran. Respect for parents.
[00:09:14] A game
[00:09:17] that was not only about heroes.
[00:09:20] We also introduced missile, military, nuclear
[00:09:24] and even scientific achievements of our martyrs alongside it.
[00:09:27] Fatah, Allah, the flag
[00:09:31] is high, high, O witness, and O
[00:09:34] Fatah, the flag is high, high.
[00:09:37] A few fields away, for the children of Iran
[00:09:41] to become heroes.
[00:10:14] What would you do for Iran? I would engineer missiles. I would do whatever I can
[00:10:18] for my country to bring honor. I want
[00:10:21] to fix it this way and teach other children in the future.
[00:10:27] Why are you teaching now? Because it's necessary now to strengthen myself for the future.
[00:10:31] This is a Simorgh missile, and this missile works like a boomerang,
[00:10:34] returning to the sender. We teach several types of missiles to children.
[00:10:38] First, we teach 7 models of paper missiles. If they can make
[00:10:42] paper missiles well, they move on to foam gliders,
[00:10:45] then to building water rockets. After learning how to make these water rockets, the selected
[00:10:49] ones go to a camp where they are taught to fly
[00:10:53] radio-controlled airplanes.
[00:11:55] I would give the police force about 80 out of
[00:11:58] 20. We give them 20 out of 20. Really, they deserve a very high score. They truly
[00:12:02] deserve a score of 20 out of 20.
[00:12:03] In recent
[00:12:06] months, during the period from the days before intensified
[00:12:10] tension to the escalation of direct confrontation,
[00:12:13] the police force underwent a different test, not only as a
[00:12:17] judicial officer, but also as a pillar of social stability.
[00:12:20] The most important criterion is this security that we have had during this period,
[00:12:24] especially
[00:12:31] during the second and
[00:12:35] third imposed wars, they were truly present in the field
[00:12:38] alongside all our armed forces, and they truly did
[00:12:42] a great job, beyond their specified
[00:12:45] and assigned duties. They truly shone
[00:12:48] in their positions. They came earlier than us, they left later than us,
[00:12:52] and they were committed to the field and the revolution. The issue is
[00:14:01] F four. two one.
[00:14:04] Let's
[00:14:06] go.
[00:14:11] Palestine.
[00:14:14] Free, free. Palestine.
[00:14:18] Free, Palestine.
[00:14:49] Already tens of thousands of people lining up on embankment
[00:14:53] this morning. I think this is going to be a very big demo,
[00:14:56] partly because the government has over the last
[00:15:00] few weeks and months, the government has had to retreat on the
[00:15:03] issue of Palestine. They have said that they were wrong
[00:15:07] and we were right. And I think there's a sense of confidence that at
[00:15:10] last we're making an impact on the political scene. Obviously it's
[00:15:14] inadequate, obviously it hasn't got anything like far enough, and people
[00:15:18] are demanding today, an end to all arms to Israel, a
[00:15:21] complete break with Israeli politically,
[00:15:25] and diplomatically. But nevertheless there is a big sense here that
[00:15:29] we are making a difference, we are winning the argument, we are making
[00:15:32] progress.
[00:16:37] Here in the background, the British government
[00:16:41] must commit and fulfill its obligations towards
[00:16:45] international law, and call the genocide by its name
[00:16:48] that Israel has been committing for three years in the
[00:16:52] Gaza Strip, and commit
[00:16:55] to the laws so that it works to stop this genocide
[00:16:58] in the besieged sector. Regarding
[00:17:01] this march, it is the 37th national march
[00:17:04] of its kind since the beginning
[00:17:07] of the Israeli aggression three years ago on the Gaza
[00:17:11] Strip. As you can see, there are
[00:17:15] demonstrators, the student bloc
[00:17:18] and the doctors for Palestine bloc and health
[00:17:22] sector employees, health for
[00:17:25] Palestine. Berlin, as you can see
[00:17:28] behind me the the
[00:17:29] demonstration.
[00:17:37] are already here outside of the
[00:17:40] office of the German chancelor. Uh this
[00:17:44] demonstration is organized by coalition called
[00:17:49] similar demonstration last year which was attended by tens
[00:17:53] of thousands of people. And you can see the mood here uh today as
[00:17:57] well. People are angry with the German government, with the
[00:18:02] the uh
[00:18:05] the Ramstein.
[00:18:37] night, each one on his
[00:18:41] shadow, each one on his shadow
[00:18:44] redouble,
[00:18:47] banishing, banishing the false
[00:18:51] the, the fleeting
[00:18:55] kiss, the
[00:18:59] faith,
[00:19:00] now that
[00:19:04] above,
[00:20:06] Imagine you're sitting in a control room somewhere in the Nevada Desert in
[00:20:09] 2011. The room is dim, the air conditioning is
[00:20:13] humming, and the screens in front of you are connected to an aircraft
[00:20:16] thousands of miles away. It's called the RQ-170
[00:20:22] the most secret unmanned aircraft in the American
[00:20:25] Arsenal. The CIA uses it for missions where simply being
[00:20:28] detected could create an international incident. Earlier that
[00:20:32] same year, an RQ-170 has been used
[00:20:34] in the surveillance effort surrounding Osama bin Laden's
[00:20:38] compound in Pakistan. Now, the same type of aircraft is being used to
[00:20:42] watch another extremely sensitive target, Iran. The
[00:20:45] Washington Post later reported that one of the early
[00:20:48] RQ-170 missions penetrated more than 600
[00:20:52] miles into Iran and observed the secret nuclear
[00:20:55] facility near Qom without provoking any obvious response
[00:20:59] from Iranian defenses. More missions followed: dozens of
[00:21:03] sites were watched and hundreds of surveillance passes were
[00:21:06] reportedly conducted. Eventually, something that once seemed
[00:21:10] incredibly dangerous started to feel almost routine. The
[00:21:14] Americans send their drones into Iran, they watch, they
[00:21:17] leave until one night the drone doesn't come back.
[00:21:21] Several days, the United States doesn't even know what's become of one of its
[00:21:25] most sensitive intelligence systems. Then Iranian
[00:21:29] television provides the answer: the Sentinel appears
[00:21:32] beneath bright lights, remarkably intact,
[00:21:35] surrounded by Iranian military personnel. For the United
[00:21:39] States, this is already an intelligence disaster. For
[00:21:42] Iran, it's an opportunity that almost nobody could have
[00:21:46] planned. President Barack Obama even publicly begged
[00:21:49] Iran, "aircraft back." As it's already
[00:21:52] been indicated, we
[00:21:55] have asked for it back. We'll see how the
[00:21:59] Iranians respond. Iran refused. To
[00:22:02] understand why that mattered so much though, we actually need to leave
[00:22:06] 2011 behind for a moment and go back almost 30
[00:22:09] years, because the real beginning of Iran's drone story doesn't
[00:22:13] involve an American stealth aircraft at all. It begins with
[00:22:17] a war Iran was struggling to win. I'm J and Hinkel from
[00:22:20] Legitimate Targets and you're watching the story of how Iran
[00:22:24] became the world's drone
[00:22:26] superpower.
[00:22:30] Modern armies are surrounded by satellites, drones,
[00:22:34] digital maps, and live video feeds. But in the early
[00:22:37] 1980s, battlefield reconnaissance often meant
[00:22:40] putting human beings inside aircraft and
[00:22:44] sending them over enemy territory. In the early years of the
[00:22:48] Iran-Iraq War, Iran relied heavily on
[00:22:51] RF-4 Phantom reconnaissance aircraft.
[00:22:54] These were valuable machines flown by trained crews,
[00:22:57] and early in the war they provided critical aerial imagery of
[00:23:01] Iraqi positions. But Iraq's air defenses
[00:23:04] improved, radar coverage expanded, and eventually an
[00:23:08] Iranian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down. Every
[00:23:11] mission now carried the possibility of losing not
[00:23:15] only an expensive aircraft, but also pilots that Iran
[00:23:19] couldn't easily replace. Under the Shah, Iran had been
[00:23:23] one of America's most important
[00:23:26] the largest customers for American military
[00:23:30] equipment. Its air force had been built around American
[00:23:33] technology. Then the 1979 Islamic
[00:23:37] Revolution overturned that relationship almost
[00:23:40] overnight. The new Islamic Republic inherited
[00:23:43] F-4 Phantoms, F-5 Fighters, F-14 Tomcats,
[00:23:47] and enormous quantities of sophisticated
[00:23:50] equipment. But the country that had sold Iran those weapons
[00:23:54] was now one of its greatest enemies. Spare parts
[00:23:57] became difficult to obtain, sanctions tightened, Iran's
[00:24:00] military couldn't afford to keep losing reconnaissance
[00:24:03] aircraft. So a group of students and engineers from
[00:24:07] Isfahan University began working on another idea.
[00:24:11] What if you could just put a camera in an aircraft
[00:24:14] without putting the pilot in it? That's exactly what they did. The
[00:24:17] first Iranian drones were primitive compared to what would come
[00:24:21] later. Medical IV bags were used as improvised fuel
[00:24:24] containers, propellers were made from wood, launching equipment
[00:24:28] was assembled by hand. These early machines had limited range
[00:24:31] and could struggle badly in windy conditions, sometimes even
[00:24:35] forcing operators to use parachutes and search for them
[00:24:38] after missions. But they worked. Iran's early
[00:24:42] UAV effort surveyed nearly 14,000 square
[00:24:45] kilometers and produced more than 5,000 reconnaissance frames
[00:24:49] during the Iran-Iraq War. A country fighting
[00:24:52] a much better supplied Iraq, while increasingly isolated from
[00:24:56] Western technology. The lesson was powerful: a crude,
[00:24:59] unmanned aerial aircraft did not need to be better than the
[00:25:03] fighter jet, it just needed to solve a problem that the fighter jet
[00:25:07] was too valuable to solve. And that idea would stay with Iran for
[00:25:11] decades.
[00:25:15] After the war, Iran could have treated these primitive drones as
[00:25:19] an emergent experiment and simply moved on. Instead, the
[00:25:22] country began institutionalizing them.
[00:25:25] Organizations such as Quds Aviation worked on
[00:25:28] increasingly capable unmanned systems, while
[00:25:32] aircraft from the Mohajer and Ababil families gradually
[00:25:36] improved range, reliability, and
[00:25:38] usefulness. Engineers learned about autopilots,
[00:25:41] communication systems, cameras, engines, and
[00:25:44] airframes. Military commanders learned what unmanned
[00:25:48] aircraft could and could not do.
[00:25:50] Factories learned how to produce and repair them. Procurement networks learned
[00:25:53] which foreign components could be acquired and which had to be
[00:25:57] replaced domestically. And sanctions shaped the entire
[00:26:00] process. If the preferred engine was unavailable, another engine had
[00:26:04] to be adapted. If specialized electronics were restricted, they had to be
[00:26:08] sourced through intermediaries, reverse engineered, or
[00:26:11] replaced with civilian components. The question wasn't always, what's
[00:26:15] the best possible system? Instead, it was often, what can we
[00:26:19] actually build? And once you understand that mindset, Iran's later
[00:26:22] obsession with captured foreign equipment starts making a whole lot more
[00:26:26] sense, because every foreign system that fell into Iranian
[00:26:30] hands represented something sanctions had made incredibly
[00:26:33] difficult to obtain
[00:26:36] the 1990s, Shahed Aviation
[00:26:39] Industries, which primarily focused on creating helicopters, began
[00:26:43] moving seriously into drone development. One important part of this
[00:26:46] development involved examining foreign unmanned aircraft,
[00:26:50] including the Israeli Hermes family. By 2007,
[00:26:54] the organization had produced the Shahed 123, while
[00:26:57] work soon moved toward the much more ambitious Shahed
[00:27:01] 129. Not simply to observe, but
[00:27:04] eventually to conduct combat missions as well. So by
[00:27:07] 2011, Iran's drone industry was no longer a collection of
[00:27:11] students building improvised aircraft with wooden
[00:27:14] propellers. It had decades of experience. It had
[00:27:17] organizations dedicated to drone development. It had already
[00:27:21] learned to examine foreign technology and incorporate useful ideas,
[00:27:25] and it was beginning to move from basic reconnaissance
[00:27:28] toward armed long-range aircraft. Then almost
[00:27:32] unbelievably, one of America's most sophisticated unmanned
[00:27:36] aircraft landed in its
[00:27:38] lap.
[00:27:41] Iran already knew American drones were operating near its borders, but
[00:27:45] the United States's RQ-170 was
[00:27:47] different from everything Iran had previously obtained. This
[00:27:51] aircraft came from Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the
[00:27:54] organization associated with some of America's most secret
[00:27:57] aviation projects. The US Air Force publicly described the
[00:28:01] Sentinel only as a low-observable unmanned
[00:28:05] aircraft system. Even its existence had only been officially
[00:28:09] acknowledged in 2009, after aviation enthusiasts
[00:28:12] began spotting a mysterious aircraft around the
[00:28:16] Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. They nicknamed it
[00:28:19] the Beast of Kandahar. What happened in December 2011 was
[00:28:23] that one of those aircrafts stopped being something Iran could only watch
[00:28:27] from the ground. It became something that Iranian
[00:28:30] technicians could actually touch. "The United States never
[00:28:33] publicly released the classified telemetry and
[00:28:36] attributed the loss to a malfunction. So the complete technical sequence
[00:28:40] remains unknown outside the participants. But the
[00:28:43] operational result is undeniable. The CIA
[00:28:47] lost the RQ-170 inside Iran, and Iran
[00:28:50] recovered the aircraft in unusually intact
[00:28:53] condition." This was the turning point that accelerated Iran's
[00:28:56] existing drone programs. Iran now had something in their
[00:29:00] hands that years of espionage
[00:29:02] might not have produced: physical access to an actual advanced
[00:29:06] American drone. American officials had already recognized the
[00:29:10] broader danger. In December 2011, then Air Force Chief
[00:29:14] of Staff, General Norton Schwartz, acknowledged publicly
[00:29:17] that there was clearly potential for reverse engineering.
[00:30:25] The head of the Regulatory Authority said that despite
[00:30:29] efforts, we have less than 7 million fixed internet connections based
[00:30:32] on copper cables and only 2 million fiber internet connections in
[00:30:36] the country. Mr. Fattai, in a special interview
[00:30:40] program, cited challenges in implementing fiber optic internet in
[00:30:43] metropolises as the main reason for the slow
[00:30:47] progress.
[00:30:49] Specifically, regarding metropolises, especially Tehran,
[00:30:53] we don't have good statistics
[00:30:57] due to the lack of,