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[00:00:25] Good evening, dear viewers, welcome to the 11 o'clock news section. The academic
[00:00:29] year of universities began in a ceremony attended by the President.
[00:00:32] In this ceremony, the President, emphasizing unity and cohesion,
[00:00:36] asked everyone to act with skill and determination to solve
[00:00:39] the country's problems. Mr. Pezeshkian also spoke about
[00:00:43] private and loss-making companies, saying, "These companies have
[00:00:46] several thousand billion in capital,
[00:00:50] the same time, they receive hundreds of billions in management
[00:00:53] fees." The President continued by stating that the transportation
[00:00:57] of gasoline costs more than its current selling price.
[00:01:00] He said, "How can we manage the price of gasoline
[00:01:03] with the cooperation of the people and use the benefits
[00:01:06] derived from it based on justice, is a complex
[00:01:09] issue." In this ceremony, the top ranks of the 1405
[00:01:12] entrance exam were also honored.
[00:01:14] The
[00:01:18] head of the Atomic Energy Organization emphasized that the plan to achieve
[00:01:21] 20,000 megawatts of nuclear power is ongoing. Mr. Eslami said:
[00:01:25] "Attacks on facilities and centers in the health sector,
[00:01:28] food safety, and industrial activities must be considered
[00:01:31] by international communities."
[00:01:33] The
[00:01:36] Bushehr nuclear power plant
[00:01:39] of Allah. Hasten to is among the top 10 power plants
[00:01:42] in the world in terms of safety
[00:01:45] Hasten to and efficiency, according to the WANO assessment. This quality
[00:01:48] and this achievement is not something
[00:01:52] that should be stopped, it must be repeated, and we will continue the 20,000
[00:01:55] Hasten to megawatt project with strength, with God's help. Even during the war,
[00:01:59] our construction projects were
[00:02:02] Hasten to salvation. not halted and will not be halted. Irradiation of products
[00:02:05] is one of the services in addition to the health sector
[00:02:09] for the safety of people's lives and the environment.
[00:02:12] Polluted soil and polluted water can only be
[00:02:15] truly restored and prevented
[00:02:19] from worsening through nuclear technology. These services
[00:02:22] for the environment are among the necessities, and
[00:02:26] an important tool for them is nuclear technology, which today all
[00:02:37] Attention to smart post projects from the beginning of
[00:02:40] the unveiling of the third generation standard address. Mr. Ahmadi said
[00:02:44] this project will soon be unveiled in 20 cities
[00:02:48] and days across the country.
[00:02:49] This
[00:02:52] smartization is defined in several layers
[00:02:55] in the form
[00:02:57] of development of smart equipment
[00:03:00] and new equipment
[00:03:03] in the field of
[00:03:06] sorting and analysis of our shipments.
[00:03:08] Over the past year, three provinces
[00:03:12] were actually activated in Kerman
[00:03:15] and Hormozgan. In Qazvin
[00:03:19] and Qom provinces, specifically during this
[00:03:22] period, sorting equipment will be added, and
[00:03:25] God willing, in the next few months,
[00:03:29] we will implement this in three other provinces.
[00:03:32] With the increase of these provinces, 15 provinces
[00:03:35] of our country will be equipped with smart sorting
[00:03:39] equipment, all of which are made and managed
[00:03:43] and supported by
[00:03:44] domestic knowledge-based companies.
[00:03:48] Tribal chiefs and elders of Iraq, present at the Iranian
[00:03:52] embassy in Baghdad, emphasized the fraternal ties between
[00:03:55] the two nations. Iraqi tribal leaders considered the steadfastness
[00:03:59] of the Iranian nation against aggressors, especially America,
[00:04:02] as a sign of the strength of the Iranian regime.
[00:04:06] The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baghdad hosted an unprecedented
[00:04:10] gathering of Iraqi tribal elders and chiefs.
[00:04:12] Delegates
[00:04:15] from tribal leaders of the five provinces of the Middle
[00:04:19] Euphrates, in a friendly meeting with Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh,
[00:04:23] the Iranian ambassador, declared their solidarity with the Iranian
[00:04:26] nation. This bond shows the depth of the long-standing
[00:04:30] relationship between the two nations in political, cultural, economic
[00:04:33] and social dimensions, and it
[00:04:36] will certainly provide more opportunities
[00:04:39] for cooperation between the two countries. This gathering
[00:04:43] was the first meeting of Iraqi tribal leaders with the Iranian
[00:04:46] ambassador after the declaration of national sovereignty and the
[00:04:50] withdrawal of American and international coalition forces from this country.
[00:04:54] America thought it could defeat Iran and its people,
[00:04:57] but Iran proved this assumption wrong. We in Iraq
[00:05:00] are also proud to express our honor and devotion to the
[00:05:04] Iranian nation and its resistance leaders, both martyrs
[00:05:07] and those who are still alive. Iraqi Sheikhs
[00:05:11] emphasized a fundamental principle: fraternal relations,
[00:05:14] good neighborliness, and the historical ties of the
[00:05:18] two nations.
[00:05:23] This meeting reflects our admiration for the steadfastness
[00:05:27] of the Iranian people. We and Iran are in one trench,
[00:05:31] and our ties are deeper than our enemies can imagine.
[00:05:34] The end of this meeting had a meaningful image. A souvenir
[00:05:38] photo of Iraqi tribal leaders next to images of resistance
[00:05:42] leaders. Jalal Khalidi,
[00:05:43] correspondent of IRIB News, Baghdad. Thank you for accompanying us.
[00:06:13] Imagine you're sitting in a control room somewhere in the Nevada Desert in
[00:06:17] 2011. The room is dim, the air conditioning is
[00:06:20] humming, and the screens in front of you are connected to an aircraft
[00:06:23] thousands of miles away. It's called the RQ-170
[00:06:27] Sentinel and at the time, it's one of the most secret unmanned
[00:06:30] aircraft in the American Arsenal. The CIA uses it for missions
[00:06:34] where simply being detected could create an international incident.
[00:06:38] Earlier that same year, an RQ-170 has been used
[00:06:41] in the... surveillance effort surrounding Osama bin Laden's
[00:06:45] compound in Pakistan. Now, the same type of aircraft is being used to
[00:06:49] watch another extremely sensitive target, Iran. The
[00:06:52] Washington Post later reported that one of the early
[00:06:55] RQ-170 missions penetrated more than 600
[00:06:59] miles into Iran and observed the secret nuclear
[00:07:02] facility near Qom without provoking any obvious response
[00:07:06] from Iranian defenses. More missions followed: dozens of
[00:07:10] sites were watched and hundreds of...
[00:07:13] surveillance passes were reportedly conducted. Eventually, something that
[00:07:16] once seemed incredibly dangerous started to feel almost
[00:07:19] routine. The Americans send their drones into Iran, they
[00:07:23] watch, they leave until one night the drone doesn't come
[00:07:27] back. For several days, the United States doesn't
[00:07:30] even know what's become of one of its most sensitive intelligence
[00:07:34] systems. Then Iranian television provides the
[00:07:37] answer. The Sentinel appears beneath bright
[00:07:40] lights, remarkably intact. surrounded by
[00:07:43] Iranian military personnel. For the United States, this is already
[00:07:47] an intelligence disaster, for Iran, it's
[00:07:50] an opportunity that almost nobody could have planned. President
[00:07:54] Barack Obama even publicly begged Iran for the aircraft
[00:07:57] back, as has already been
[00:07:59] indicated,
[00:08:02] we have asked for it back. We'll
[00:08:06] see how the Iranians respond. Iran refused. To
[00:08:09] understand why that mattered so much though, we... actually need to leave
[00:08:13] 2011 behind for a moment and go back almost 30
[00:08:17] years because the real beginning of Iran's drone story doesn't
[00:08:20] involve an American stealth aircraft at all, it begins with
[00:08:24] a war Iran was struggling to win. I'm Jackson Hinkle from
[00:08:27] Legitimate Targets and you're watching the story of how
[00:08:30] Iran became the world's drone
[00:08:33] superpower.
[00:08:37] Modern armies are surrounded by satellites,
[00:08:40] drones, digital maps and video feeds,
[00:08:43] but in the early 1980s, battlefield reconnaissance often
[00:08:47] meant putting human beings inside aircraft and
[00:08:51] sending them over enemy territory. in the
[00:08:54] early years of the Iran-Iraq war,
[00:08:56] Iran relied heavily on RF for Phantom
[00:08:59] Reconnaissance aircraft. These were valuable machines
[00:09:03] flown by trained crews and early in the war they provided critical
[00:09:07] aerial imagery of Iraqi positions, but
[00:09:10] Iraq's air defenses improved. Radar coverage expanded and
[00:09:14] eventually an Iranian reconnaissance aircraft was shot
[00:09:17] down. Every mission now carried the possibility
[00:09:21] of losing not only an expensive aircraft, but also
[00:09:25] pilots that Iran couldn't easily replace. Under
[00:09:28] the Shah, Iran had been one of America's most important allies in the
[00:09:32] Middle East and one of the largest customers for
[00:09:35] American military equipment. Its air force had
[00:09:39] been built around American technology, then the...
[00:09:42] 1979 Islamic Revolution overturned that
[00:09:45] relationship almost overnight. The new Islamic
[00:09:49] Republic inherited F4 Phantoms, F5
[00:09:52] Fighters, F-14 Tomcats and enormous
[00:09:55] quantities of sophisticated equipment. But the country
[00:09:59] that had sold around those weapons was now one of its greatest
[00:10:02] enemies. Spare parts became difficult to obtain,
[00:10:06] sanctions tightened, Iran's military couldn't afford to keep losing
[00:10:10] reconnaissance aircraft. So a group of students and
[00:10:13] engineers from Isfahan University began working
[00:10:16] on another idea. What if you could just put a camera in
[00:10:20] an aircraft without putting the pilot in it. That's exactly what
[00:10:23] they did. The first Iranian drones were primitive compared to what
[00:10:27] would come later, medical IV bags were used as
[00:10:30] improvised fuel containers, propellers were made from wood,
[00:10:34] launching equipment was assembled by hand. These early machines
[00:10:37] had limited range and could struggle badly in windy
[00:10:40] conditions, sometimes even forcing operators to use
[00:10:44] parachutes and search for them after missions, but
[00:10:47] they worked. Iran's early UAV effort surveyed nearly
[00:10:51] 14,000 square kilometers and produced more than 5%
[00:10:55] reconnaissance frames during the Iran-Iraq war. Our
[00:10:58] country fighting much better supplied Iraq while increasingly
[00:11:02] isolated from western technology. The lesson was
[00:11:05] powerful: a crude, unmanned aerial aircraft did
[00:11:08] not need to be better than the fighter jet, it just needed to
[00:11:12] solve a problem that the fighter jet was too valuable to
[00:11:15] solve, and that idea would stay with Iran for
[00:11:18] decades.
[00:11:22] After the war, Iran could have treated these primitive drones as
[00:11:26] an emergency experiment and simply moved on. Instead, the
[00:11:30] country began institutionalizing them.
[00:11:32] Organizations such as Quds Aviation worked on
[00:11:36] increasingly capable unmanned systems, while
[00:11:39] aircraft from the Mohajer and Ababil families gradually
[00:11:43] improved range, reliability and
[00:11:45] usefulness. Engineers learned about autopilots,
[00:11:49] communication systems, cameras, engines and
[00:11:51] airframes. Military commanders learned what unmanned
[00:11:55] aircraft could and could not do, factories learned how to produce and
[00:11:58] repair them, procurement networks learned which foreign components could
[00:12:02] be acquired and which had to be replaced domestically, and
[00:12:06] sanctions shaped the entire process. if the preferred engine
[00:12:09] was unavailable, another engine had to be adapted, if specialized
[00:12:13] electronics were restricted, they had to be sourced through intermediaries,
[00:12:17] reverse engineered or replaced with civilian components. The question
[00:12:21] wasn't always what's the best possible system, instead it was:
[00:12:25] what can we actually build? And once you understand that mindset,
[00:12:29] Iran's later obsession with captured foreign equipment starts making
[00:12:32] a whole lot more sense, because every foreign system that fell
[00:12:36] into Iranian hands represented something sanctions
[00:12:39] had made incredibly difficult to obtain access.
[00:12:43] Around the end of the 1990s, Shahed Aviation
[00:12:47] Industries, which primarily focused on creating helicopters, began
[00:12:50] moving seriously into drone development. One important part of this
[00:12:54] development involved examining foreign unmanned aircraft,
[00:12:57] including the Israeli Hermes family. By 2007,
[00:13:01] the organization had produced the Shahed 123, while work soon
[00:13:05] moved toward the much more ambitious Shahed
[00:13:08] 129, designed not simply to observe, but
[00:13:11] eventually to conduct combat missions as well. So by
[00:13:14] 2011, Iran's drone industry was no longer a collection
[00:13:18] of students, building improvised aircraft with wooden
[00:13:21] propellers. It had decades of experience, it had...
[00:13:25] organizations dedicated to drone development, it had already learned
[00:13:28] to examine foreign technology and incorporate useful ideas
[00:13:32] and it was beginning to move from basic reconnaissance
[00:13:35] toward armed long-range aircraft, then almost
[00:13:39] unbelievably, one of America's most sophisticated unmanned
[00:13:43] aircraft landed in its
[00:13:45] lap.
[00:13:48] Iran already knew American drones were operating near its borders, but
[00:13:52] the United States's RQ170 was... different
[00:13:55] from everything Iran had previously obtained. This aircraft came
[00:13:59] from Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks. The organization
[00:14:02] associated with some of America's most secret aviation
[00:14:05] projects. The US Air Force publicly described the Sentinel
[00:14:09] only as a low-observable unmanned
[00:14:12] aircraft system. Even its existence had only been officially
[00:14:16] acknowledged in 2009 after aviation enthusiasts
[00:14:19] began spotting a mysterious aircraft around the
[00:14:23] Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, they nicknamed it the
[00:14:26] Beast of Kandahar, but what happened in December 2011 was
[00:14:30] that one of those aircrafts stopped being something Iran could only watch
[00:14:34] from the ground. It became something that Iranian
[00:14:37] technicians could actually touch. The United States never
[00:14:40] publicly released the classified telemetry and attributed the
[00:14:44] loss to a malfunction, so the complete technical sequence
[00:14:47] remains unknown outside the participants, but the
[00:14:50] operational result is undeniable. The CIA
[00:14:54] lost the RQ-170 inside Iran, and Iran
[00:14:57] recovered the aircraft in unusually intact condition.
[00:15:01] This was the turning point that accelerated Iran's existing
[00:15:04] drone programs. Iran now had something in their hands
[00:15:08] that years of espionage might not have produced, physical
[00:15:11] access to an actual advanced American drone.
[00:15:15] American officials had already recognized the broader
[00:15:18] danger. December 2011, then Air Force
[00:15:21] chief of staff, General Norton Schwartz acknowledged publicly.
[00:15:25] There was clearly potential for reverse engineering.
[00:15:46] Nobody in the world wants to go to war except
[00:15:50] Washington, that's the problem. We're the ones that
[00:15:53] initiate, we're the ones that are precipitating the conflict,
[00:15:56] and if you look at the dire consequences of the war with
[00:16:00] Iran right now, we're only just now beginning to feel the effects in a big
[00:16:03] way. Remember, we talked months ago about the fertilizer
[00:16:07] shortage, then we talked about access to
[00:16:10] critical elements like helium, sulfur,
[00:16:14] without sulfuric acid, you can't refine anything, you can't smelt
[00:16:18] anything, it's catastrophic, and then of
[00:16:21] course you have the problems with natural gas and and oil
[00:16:24] period, well that's begun to hit, and
[00:16:28] we're going to see famine in large parts of the world as we move through the
[00:16:31] winter and into the spring, it's going to be
[00:16:34] catastrophic. What we demonstrate,
[00:16:38] sadly in Washington, is a complete
[00:16:40] contempt, not just for our
[00:16:43] enemies or our opponents. We feel
[00:16:46] contempt for the whole world, because if anyone had the
[00:16:50] slightest humanitarian concern for the people that live on the
[00:16:54] planet with us, they'd stop this now,
[00:16:57] immediately, but remember
[00:17:00] this is the Jewish supremacy
[00:17:04] war waged by Israel and its agent, the United States. This
[00:17:08] is not us, this is not what we want, this
[00:17:12] is not necessary for us. All this nonsense about can have
[00:17:15] nuclear weapon. Well, the Indians have nuclear weapons, the Pakistanis have nuclear
[00:17:19] weapons, no one has talked about going to war with them. North Korea has had
[00:17:23] nuclear weapons, and if you're going to tell me that Mr. Kim
[00:17:27] is infinitely more stable and rational and
[00:17:30] reasonable than anybody sitting in Tehran, well then you're going to have a tough time
[00:17:34] convincing me. This is all nonsense. This is
[00:17:37] about one thing and only one thing: international
[00:17:41] Jewish supremacy in Israel, in the Middle East and
[00:17:45] through finance in the United States, that's where we're
[00:17:48] headed, on the fast track into the deepest part of
[00:17:52] financial hell that you can go. Why
[00:17:55] then would you do this? Well, this government, which is the
[00:17:58] Israel first government, is going
[00:18:01] to exhaust whatever resources we have in pursuit
[00:18:05] of this regional Jewish supremacy,
[00:18:08] and capture, and this is important, capture of
[00:18:11] control of all the oil resources in the Middle East, because at
[00:18:15] the end of the day it's direct access and control over those
[00:18:19] resources by forces that are at
[00:18:22] least Israel friendly, if not under Israel's thumb.
[00:18:47] Nazzadeh
[00:18:48] from Osti
[00:18:51] did not give 5.
[00:20:55] In the name of God, the Light.
[00:20:58] In the name of God, the Light.
[00:21:02] In the name of God, the Light.
[00:21:05] The Light. In the name of God,
[00:21:08] the Light upon
[00:21:11] Light. Allahu Akbar. Allahu
[00:21:15] Akbar.
[00:21:17] Allahu Akbar.
[00:21:25] Allahu Akbar.
[00:21:28] I bear witness that there is no god
[00:21:31] but Allah.
[00:21:35] I bear witness that there is no god
[00:21:38] but Allah.
[00:21:45] I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
[00:21:49] of Allah.
[00:21:54] I bear witness that Muhammad
[00:21:57] is the Messenger
[00:21:59] of Allah.
[00:22:06] I bear witness that Ali is the friend
[00:22:10] of Allah.
[00:22:15] I bear witness that Ali
[00:22:18] is the proof
[00:22:29] prayer.
[00:22:35] prayer.
[00:22:45] salvation.
[00:23:04] Hasten
[00:23:07] to the best of
[00:23:09] deeds.
[00:23:12] Hasten to
[00:23:16] the best of deeds.
[00:23:54] Governance is not just about ruling.
[00:23:57] Governance
[00:24:04] is about being in hearts, in hearts.
[00:24:07] Governance is about
[00:24:09] acceptability in minds.
[00:24:12] They are from
[00:24:50] America. These systems detect aircraft, drones,
[00:24:54] and air threats at a distance of several hundred kilometers,
[00:24:57] determine their path and altitude, and provide
[00:25:01] a real-time image of the sky to command
[00:25:04] centers, fighters, and air defense.
[00:25:08] These radars were stationed in Emirates, Bahrain,
[00:25:11] Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and
[00:25:15] Jordan. The FPS-17
[00:25:19] 3D radar
[00:25:22] with a range of about 450 kilometers is usually deployed as a fixed
[00:25:26] unit and is responsible for continuous air space surveillance.
[00:25:29] The TPS-78 radar with a range of about 45
[00:25:33] kilometers is the mobile version of this network.
[00:25:37] A radar that is moved to provide air cover for
[00:25:40] bases and operational units. The TPS-75 radar
[00:25:44] with a range of about 450 kilometers is
[00:25:47] a mobile and multi-purpose 3D system.
[00:25:50] In addition to detecting aircraft and drones,
[00:25:54] this radar is also used for guiding fighters
[00:25:57] and intercepting some tactical ballistic missiles.
[00:26:00] If two of these radars are used simultaneously and networked,
[00:26:04] they also provide command and control capabilities
[00:26:08] for the battlefield. These radars can
[00:26:11] detect, differentiate, and classify targets.
[00:26:15] They create an independent path for each target
[00:26:18] and determine whether it is friend or foe.
[00:26:22] The TPS-78 radar even has the ability
[00:26:26] to automatically detect and track small targets
[00:26:29] and drones. Alongside this network
[00:26:32] are the engagement radars of the Patriot missile system.
[00:26:36] These radars track aircraft,
[00:26:39] drones, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles,
[00:26:43] and provide the necessary information for calculating
[00:26:46] the shot and guiding the interceptor missile
[00:26:49] to the firing unit. Without these radars,
[00:26:53] the independent detection and engagement capability
[00:26:57] of the firing unit is severely impaired. By taking these
[00:27:00] radars offline and creating
[00:27:02] gaps in air cover, Iran was able to use
[00:27:06] them for combined missile and drone attacks.
[00:27:09] Reducing warning time and disrupting interception
[00:27:13] also increased the chances of projectiles reaching
[00:27:16] US bases and sensitive centers. Because when
[00:27:20] the field surveillance layer fails, the defensive
[00:27:23] network sees later, decides later,
[00:27:26] and reacts
[00:27:28] later.
[00:27:47] I'm a doctor and I'm a dad, and as a dad I know
[00:27:50] how much it costs me to fill up my gas tank. It is insane.
[00:27:54] $80, $80 to fill up your gas tank. And yes, I would
[00:27:57] support pausing the federal gas tax, but there is one thing that
[00:28:01] is actually causing this. It's the war in Iran, a war that has been
[00:28:04] cheerled by my opponent since the beginning, called it a win, win, win. I
[00:28:08] don't know about you, but when I go to the gas tank, I don't feel like I'm winning, I don't feel like our country is
[00:28:12] winning. Seven months on, eight months on, how long is this going to last?
[00:28:16] We can do so much better, but here's the problem, if we don't stop this
[00:28:20] war, we don't stop it now, we're going to continue to watch as the
[00:28:23] Iranian regime chokeholds the Strait of Hormuz, making our
[00:28:27] energy prices higher, and you're going to pay for it both at the gas tank and at the
[00:28:31] grocery store. "And so we've got to end that war above and beyond
[00:28:35] pausing the gas tax. Our ostensible ally in
[00:28:39] Israel has lobbied us to go to war with
[00:28:43] Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded, and
[00:28:46] then choking off the world's energy supply.
[00:28:50] So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part. I
[00:28:54] don't want to be pushed into war by Israel, and I don't want to be in a
[00:28:57] war with Iran. I want our money spent here to buy
[00:29:01] schools and healthcare and child care here. I don't understand why that
[00:29:05] is so inconceivable."
[00:30:26] Good evening. With the announcement of 12 o'clock, we will present the news of this section. The academic
[00:30:30] year of the university began in a ceremony attended by the President.
[00:30:34] The President emphasized unity and cohesion in this ceremony and
[00:30:37] said: "We must strive with all our might for the glory
[00:30:41] and honor of Iran, and rise up and not bow down to our enemies."
[00:30:44] Mr. Pezeshkian asked everyone to act with skill and
[00:30:48] determination to solve the country's problems. The President
[00:30:51] also made a sarcastic remark about quasi-private and loss-making
[00:30:55] companies, saying: "It takes skill to have billions
[00:30:59] in capital but incur losses."