IRINN — broadcast
20261012 083000 UTC
489 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:30] we had the academic year of the university opened in a ceremony attended by the President.
[00:00:33] The President, at this ceremony, emphasized unity and
[00:00:37] solidarity, and said that we must strive with all our being for the glory
[00:00:40] and pride of Iran, and rise up and not bow our heads
[00:00:44] before enemies. Mr. Pezeshkian called on everyone to act
[00:00:47] with skill and determination to solve the country's problems.
[00:00:51] The President also made a sarcastic remark about quasi-governmental and loss-making companies and
[00:00:55] said: It takes skill to have several billion in capital
[00:00:58] but incur losses. Mr. Pezeshkian added that these companies
[00:01:02] have several thousand billion in capital at their disposal, they incur losses, and
[00:01:06] at the same time, they receive extremely high management fees of several hundred billion.
[00:01:10] Tomorrow we have a meeting. A
[00:01:13] group has been working on what we should do with these companies that we
[00:01:17] have at our disposal, how to hand them over. Now, the proposal that
[00:01:20] Mr. Doctor has given is the prelude to this work. We will invite him to come.
[00:01:24] Mr. Doctor Simayi should also come.
[00:01:28] We are determined. The companies that we have at our disposal are
[00:01:31] nearly 6 thousand
[00:01:34] billion worth of companies that are in the hands of the government or
[00:01:38] so-called quasi-governmental
[00:01:41] companies.
[00:01:43] That means 7 million billion Tomans
[00:01:46] of money, but we have problems.
[00:01:50] A group of people sit there and do things for themselves. Now, I don't want to say
[00:01:53] anything. This
[00:01:57] is the reality.
[00:02:00] We are also managing. I understand that this is not management,
[00:02:03] but how should we go this way? The same thing
[00:02:07] I said, various interventions
[00:02:09] are necessary.
[00:02:15] Mr. Pezeshkian also spoke about the price of gasoline and said that the cost of transporting
[00:02:18] gasoline is higher than its current supply price, but how
[00:02:22] we can solve this problem with the cooperation of the people and distribute the benefits
[00:02:25] fairly among all people is a complex
[00:02:29] issue. The President, in another part of his speech, spoke about
[00:02:33] consumption management and emphasized that measures must
[00:02:36] be taken regarding the consumption of groundwater. Mr. Pezeshkian called
[00:02:40] on students to bring Iran to the pinnacles of progress through
[00:02:44] effort and endeavor. Another demand of the President from universities was
[00:02:48] to achieve determination and will, and third and fourth
[00:02:52] for teenagers, which I generation universities. Mr. Pezeshkian, at this ceremony, also honored
[00:02:54] the top ranks of the 1405 entrance exam.
[00:02:57] The
[00:03:00] deadline for selecting fields of study for the national entrance
[00:03:03] exam, the national student-teacher entrance exam, and also admission based on academic
[00:03:07] records ends today. According to the announcement of the National
[00:03:11] Education Assessment Organization, this deadline will not be extended. Applicants have
[00:03:14] until the end of today to refer to the website of the Assessment
[00:03:17] Organization at sanjesh.org. Also, the guidebooks for
[00:03:21] selecting fields of study with corrections and new field locations
[00:03:25] have been published.
[00:03:25] Senior
[00:03:29] managers of technology companies in the private and public sectors of Iran and
[00:03:32] Russia, on the sidelines of the second World Digital Forum in Moscow, held
[00:03:36] the third meeting of information and communication technology of the two countries and
[00:03:40] discussed strategies for enhancing interactions in the field of artificial intelligence and
[00:03:44] ICT.
[00:03:45] The
[00:03:49] Mchta complex, located next to the Moscow River, hosted the third
[00:03:53] Information and Communication Technology Forum between Iran and
[00:03:57] Russia. A meeting attended by managers
[00:04:00] and activists from the public and private sectors of the two countries
[00:04:03] on the sidelines of the second World Digital Forum with a
[00:04:07] major goal, which is to provide a strategic platform
[00:04:10] for developing operational solutions and enhancing
[00:04:14] bilateral cooperation in the field of ICT and artificial
[00:04:17] intelligence.
[00:04:21] Russia and Iran have achieved significant achievements in the field of information
[00:04:25] and communication technologies and digital space governance.
[00:04:28] We have extensive opportunities for cooperation ahead
[00:04:32] and can effectively organize interactions, joint cooperation,
[00:04:36] and bilateral partnerships. Managers of 8
[00:04:40] Iranian technology companies and 9 corresponding Russian companies
[00:04:43] presented their innovative achievements in the fields of telecommunications,
[00:04:46] digital, application software, artificial
[00:04:51] RQ-170. There's a intelligence, and cybersecurity, and stated their practical proposals for developing
[00:04:55] cooperation. In all areas.
[00:04:58] In fact, there are good products in
[00:05:01] Iran and also good products in Russia. Now, the most
[00:05:05] important need of our country is to use up-to-date
[00:05:08] AI technologies in the industrial sector.
[00:05:13] Iran and Russia have extensive experience in replacing
[00:05:17] foreign software and electronic equipment in their
[00:05:20] economy. Both countries need
[00:05:24] a replacement. A replacement compared
[00:05:27] to Western products.
[00:05:29] Many communication tools, such as WhatsApp,
[00:05:33] Telegram, Instagram, and other similar foreign tools,
[00:05:36] have access to all our data, and this compromises the national
[00:05:40] security of our countries. The student, the technology cooperation
[00:05:44] and innovation attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
[00:05:48] in Russia, also read the message of our ambassador
[00:05:51] at this meeting. A message that emphasized
[00:05:55] the protection of vital and indigenous data for training artificial
[00:05:59] intelligence models, the development of data centers, and the enhancement
[00:06:02] of high computational capabilities for creating stable
[00:06:06] and secure high-capacity networks. This
[00:06:09] face-to-face meeting between Iranian and Russian
[00:06:13] companies hosted by Moscow
[00:06:16] is an important and effective step
[00:06:19] for drawing a roadmap for future cooperation between
[00:06:23] Iran and Russia, especially in the field of
[00:06:26] digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Seyed Ali
[00:06:30] Daraie, IRIB News Agency, Moscow.
[00:06:33] 35 Turkish cyclists paid their respects
[00:06:37] to the martyrs of Minab. This caravan of cyclists, upon entering Zanjan,
[00:06:40] Our Iranian brothers
[00:06:53] are Muslims, and we are Muslims. Our nations are brothers. That is
[00:06:57] why we are here. This
[00:07:00] signifies our brotherhood with you and the affection
[00:07:04] of the Turkish people for you. A charitable organization
[00:07:08] and a valuable institution like this, a place like this.
[00:07:11] A few
[00:07:23] foreign news items: A member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that military presence in West Asia should be reviewed
[00:07:27] because military bases in this region are easy and defenseless
[00:07:31] targets for the Iranians. Chris Murphy added that these bases
[00:07:35] do not protect us because as soon as a war starts, they will be immediately
[00:07:38] taken out of commission. Murphy, who is one of the potential Democratic candidates
[00:07:42] in the upcoming US presidential election, described the damage
[00:07:46] to the US embassy building during his recent trip to West Asia
[00:07:50] as significant. The member of the US
[00:07:53] Senate Foreign Relations Committee also considered waging war against Iran a
[00:07:57] national humiliation for the US and criticized the Pentagon
[00:08:01] for not allowing him and his accompanying delegation to visit
[00:08:04] Al Udeid Air Base.
[00:08:05] Major
[00:08:08] oil companies around the world have withdrawn from attending the international
[00:08:12] energy conference in Riyadh. Reuters
[00:08:15] reported that security concerns and flight disruptions
[00:08:19] have led to senior officials of major
[00:08:23] global oil companies canceling their plans to attend the Riyadh
[00:08:26] conference. Most recently, British Petroleum
[00:08:29] announced that due to attacks on Riyadh
[00:08:33] International Airport, they would not be able to attend
[00:08:36] the conference. Previously, ExxonMobil, Total,
[00:08:39] and Shell had also withdrawn from participating
[00:08:42] in this conference. The five-day international energy conference
[00:08:46] has been held since yesterday 10 kilometers from Riyadh Airport.
[00:08:50] The recent Yemeni missile attack on Riyadh Airport, which was in response to Saudi
[00:08:53] attacks, has left at least 13 dead and hundreds
[00:08:57] injured. The
[00:09:00] Israeli regime army announced the injury of one of its soldiers
[00:09:04] in southern Lebanon. This Israeli regime soldier was injured as a
[00:09:08] result of ammunition exploding inside a tank during an operation
[00:09:11] in the Bufar area in southern Lebanon. The spokesman for
[00:09:15] the occupying army had also announced a few days ago the death of an
[00:09:18] officer and the injury of 3 soldiers in southern
[00:09:21] Lebanon.
[00:09:24] The US President threatened Ukraine that if attacks on
[00:09:28] Russian energy facilities continue, intelligence assistance to
[00:09:32] Kiev would be cut off. Trump also warned that if
[00:09:35] these attacks continue, arms sales to European
[00:09:39] countries for shipment to Ukraine would be stopped. Meanwhile,
[00:09:43] Trump has called for the resignation of Ukrainian President Zelensky.
[00:09:46] The US President claimed an energy ceasefire between
[00:09:50] Russia and Ukraine to protect the energy facilities of the two
[00:09:54] countries, a matter about which Zelensky has claimed ignorance.
[00:09:58] At the same time, the Ukrainian President and some European officials
[00:10:01] emphasized that the increase in fuel prices in the US and globally
[00:10:05] has no connection to Ukraine, and the reason for it is the closure of the Strait
[00:10:09] of Hormuz. Thank you for your company.
[00:10:38] three years later in 2014, Iran unveiled
[00:10:42] an aircraft as the result of reverse engineering work
[00:10:45] conducted on the American drone. Initially, a lot of Western analysts
[00:10:49] were skeptical. Looking similar to an RQ-170 doesn't mean
[00:10:53] matching the RQ-170's actual abilities, but what happened
[00:10:56] afterward made the program much harder to dismiss: Iran didn't simply
[00:11:00] create one display model and move on, there were larger versions associated
[00:11:04] with the Shahed 171 and smaller aircraft such as the
[00:11:08] Shahed 161 and Shahed 191 family.
[00:11:12] Iranian engineers experimented with different propulsion systems as
[00:11:15] well, and the important point wasn't whether any one of those aircraft was
[00:11:19] an exact technological duplicate of the Sentinel, it was that Iran
[00:11:23] had absorbed enough from the aircraft
[00:11:25] to start experimenting and even improving the drone's design.
[00:11:29] The American RQ-170 had been designed primarily to collect
[00:11:32] intelligence. Iranian lineage increasingly included
[00:11:35] aircraft built to attack things. Iran's military
[00:11:39] strategy has always been constrained by geography and
[00:11:42] conventional military weakness. United States had bases throughout
[00:11:46] the region, Israel possessed a technologically advanced air force.
[00:11:50] Gulf states were buying enormous quantities of Western weapons.
[00:11:53] Iran had partners instead, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the
[00:11:57] Palestinian resistance in Gaza, Shia militias in
[00:12:01] Iraq, and Ansarullah in Yemen. Drones fit
[00:12:04] naturally into this network. They were relatively
[00:12:07] inexpensive compared with combat aircraft, easier to conceal,
[00:12:10] easier to move, and could allow armed groups without any real air
[00:12:14] force to suddenly possess a form of long-range air
[00:12:17] power. By the early 2020s, Iranian drones, designs or
[00:12:21] components had appeared across the Middle East. This is one of the most
[00:12:25] important transitions in our whole story: a militia that can never
[00:12:29] afford a fleet of modern combat aircraft could now launch
[00:12:32] an unmanned system toward a military base, oil facility
[00:12:36] or naval asset, and no Iranian drone would demonstrate that idea more
[00:12:40] clearly than the Shahed 136.
[00:12:43] Shahed 136 isn't impressive because it's
[00:12:46] extraordinarily sophisticated, the importance comes from almost the
[00:12:50] opposite quality. It's just simple enough, a relatively
[00:12:53] small engine pushes an inexpensive airframe across
[00:12:57] a very long distance. The aircraft carries an explosive
[00:13:00] payload and it's not designed to return. That means there is no need
[00:13:04] to build an expensive recovery system because there
[00:13:07] will be no recovery. And that simplicity changes the economics
[00:13:11] of air warfare. Think about the problem from the defender's perspective:
[00:13:15] a cheap drone is approaching your airbase. You may know that it's
[00:13:19] relatively primitive. That doesn't mean you can ignore it, because if it hits a
[00:13:22] radar station, a fuel storage facility, electrical
[00:13:25] substation or even a parked aircraft, the damage will vastly
[00:13:29] exceed the price of the drone itself, so you have to stop it.
[00:13:32] Now imagine the missile used to stop it cost many more times than the
[00:13:36] attacking aircraft. You've successfully defended your target,
[00:13:39] but the attackers force you into an expensive exchange,
[00:13:43] then another drone appears, then another, then 20,
[00:13:46] 50, 300, perhaps the drones are only the first
[00:13:50] wave of the attack. Forcing radars and air defense crews to react before
[00:13:54] faster missiles and eventually ballistic missiles
[00:13:57] arrive. The idea would soon be tested on an enormous
[00:14:00] scale in Europe. This drone has become part of an international
[00:14:04] feedback loop, and while this is happening, Iran itself is
[00:14:07] preparing to demonstrate what mass drone warfare looks like at
[00:14:11] their national level. On the night of April 13th,
[00:14:14] 2024, Iran had launched its first large direct attack
[00:14:18] against Israel from Iranian territory. The attack was
[00:14:21] unusual, not only because of its scale, but because of the way different
[00:14:25] weapons were combined. The drones were launched first, cruise
[00:14:29] missiles then followed, last came ballistic missiles traveling
[00:14:32] dramatically faster. The timing meant different kinds of weapons could
[00:14:36] converge on the defended area within a more concentrated
[00:14:39] period. Roughly 170 drones were involved in the initial
[00:14:43] attack, alongside dozens of cruise missiles and more than 100
[00:14:47] ballistic missiles. From the perspective of Iran's drone program, the event
[00:14:50] represented something extraordinary. The drone was no
[00:14:53] longer a substitute, used because Iran had run out of better options,
[00:14:57] it had become part of Iran's core way of fighting. In April
[00:15:01] 2026, US Central Command released footage showing a
[00:15:04] strike against an Iranian flying wing UAV
[00:15:08] on the ground. Aviation analysts identified the aircraft as
[00:15:11] belonging to the family Iran had developed from the captured
[00:15:16] remarkable symmetry in that moment, but during the same
[00:15:19] conflict, an even stranger reversal was taking
[00:15:22] place. For decades, American
[00:15:25] drone development largely moved toward greater
[00:15:27] sophistication, advanced sensors, satellite
[00:15:30] communications, long endurance and increasingly expensive platforms
[00:15:34] in the Russia-Ukraine war demonstrated the value of cheap
[00:15:37] aircraft that could be lost in enormous numbers, that lesson spread
[00:15:41] rapidly through militaries around the world, and in
[00:15:43] 2025, the Pentagon unveiled the
[00:15:46] Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System or
[00:15:50] LUCAS drone. By March 2026, Reuters reported that
[00:15:53] the US had already used LUCAS in combat against
[00:15:56] Iran, only months after the system was publicly unveiled. The
[00:16:00] aircraft cost roughly $35,000, and it
[00:16:03] belongs to the same category of long-range expendable drone
[00:16:07] popularized by the Shahed. The United States' LUCAS drone
[00:16:11] was developed after the US obtained an Iranian-designed Shahed
[00:16:14] 136 and reverse-engineered the aircraft.
[00:16:18] Effectively taking Iran's own low-cost drone technology and
[00:16:22] turning it into an American weapon. Now the United States was doing something
[00:16:25] remarkably similar to what Iran had done with the RQ-170
[00:16:29] 15 years earlier, taking an adversary's aircraft,
[00:16:33] studying it, learning from it and building a version of its own. No one had
[00:16:37] on the idea anymore. We shouldn't forget that the
[00:16:40] United States' downed RQ-170 drone
[00:16:43] didn't create Iran's drone program, it accelerated it. By
[00:16:47] 2011, Iranian engineers had decades of drone development
[00:16:51] behind them. The Sentinel arrived at the exact moment when Iran had
[00:16:54] an industry mature enough to exploit it. By 2026,
[00:16:58] Iran's drones were no longer primarily interesting because they
[00:17:01] were Iranian, they were interesting because the ideas behind them had
[00:17:05] become global. Cheap drones were changing how militaries thought about air
[00:17:09] defense, mass production was changing how commanders calculated
[00:17:13] the value of interceptors, commercial electronics were changing
[00:17:16] who could build long-range weapons and electronic warfare was
[00:17:19] changing how drones navigated. The cycle of copying, adapting and
[00:17:23] improving had become international, and all of this makes the scene in
[00:17:27] December of 2011 look very different in
[00:17:30] hindsight. Back in Nevada, the operators saw their feed disappear
[00:17:34] and understood that they had lost a drone, but in Iran, engineers
[00:17:37] looked at that same event and saw an opportunity. 15 years
[00:17:41] later, we're still watching the consequences fly.
[00:18:02] In the name of God, hello. At the beginning of the program, we will
[00:18:05] visit the Book of the Week.
[00:18:11] This time, Iranian writers narrated the 40-day war with
[00:18:15] 40 enduring works.
[00:18:17] A
[00:18:24] narration of the moment when a nation experienced a great
[00:18:27] tragedy.
[00:18:31] We lost our leader during
[00:18:34] a war in the form of martyrdom, in the first
[00:18:38] moments. It was a historical moment.
[00:18:41] We went to writers who are knowledgeable
[00:18:44] and insightful in this field. Some of these narratives took shape in homes,
[00:18:48] neighborhoods, and among the people. Each
[00:18:51] book is a part of a collective memory. The empathy
[00:18:55] and cooperation of the people during the Ramadan War, for example, they brought
[00:18:58] food and provisions to the checkpoints. Popular narratives that, during
[00:19:02] the imposed war, themselves became a part of
[00:19:05] the history of this land. Narratives of nights when people went
[00:19:09] to the square, of martyrs who sacrificed
[00:19:11] themselves in this path.
[00:19:16] Ahmad Askari, IRIB News Agency.
[00:19:30] Mr. Hossein Golestani, Manager of International Publishing,
[00:19:33] is our guest today. Hello and welcome to the
[00:19:37] Book Program. I hope you have a good week. Thank you.
[00:19:41] Mr. Golestani, please allow me to start by asking about the name of your
[00:19:45] publishing house. International Printing and Publishing. This question arises
[00:19:48] as to how much international presence your works have had and how much
[00:19:52] you have focused on international book markets. Yes, Blal Publishing Company
[00:19:55] is one of the relatively old
[00:19:59] collections in our country, which started
[00:20:02] its work in the 1980s and is still active. During a period in the 1990s
[00:20:06] and after the 2000s, we translated Qurans into various
[00:20:09] languages such as Chinese, Russian, and French, and some Latin books
[00:20:13] from Persian into different languages. In the 2000s,
[00:20:17] the work process changed. It entered, for example, the space of
[00:20:21] the resistance front, and now we are also active in the same path of the resistance
[00:20:24] front, and we are translating books from various languages
[00:20:28] into Persian, and we are trying to also translate from Persian into
[00:20:31] various languages, God willing. Excellent. Well,
[00:20:35] I saw two books in your list of books: one titled "The Way to
[00:20:39] Heaven," in which Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah drew inspiration from
[00:20:43] Imam Khomeini's book "Adab al-Salat" and held ethical sessions. There is also
[00:20:46] a book titled "The Battle with Me," which he also
[00:20:50] drew inspiration from Imam Khomeini's book "40 Hadiths." These books
[00:20:53] have a few common chapters. In fact, first
[00:20:57] of all, we see the connection of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah with Imam Khomeini,
[00:21:01] and then the religious aspects of the book. If possible,
[00:21:04] please tell us what kind of perspective your publishing
[00:21:08] house has pursued, and what extra-textual point we can say
[00:21:11] about Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah himself, who drew inspiration from Imam
[00:21:15] Khomeini. You see, after the martyrdom of Seyyed Hassan
[00:21:18] Nasrallah, we had a lot
[00:21:50] of Imam Khomeini's Hadiths, peace be upon him, which Martyr Nasrallah explains to his
[00:21:53] audience. It's a very concise and student-friendly
[00:21:56] book that helps make the texts very fluent. The second three sessions are also the book
[00:22:00] "The Path to Heaven," which is an explanation of Imam
[00:22:03] Khomeini's book "Adab al-Salat," peace be upon him. This collection
[00:22:07] is expected to continue for almost 50 volumes, God willing,
[00:22:10] and various topics will be covered. It will continue for 50 volumes. Yes, the name
[00:22:14] of this collection was also from the spiritual journey of Imam Khomeini, which was held
[00:22:18] in Lebanon itself,
[00:22:20] and it was all based on the ethical works
[00:22:23] of the late Imam Khomeini, peace be upon him, on which Martyr Nasrallah focused
[00:22:26] his work.
[00:22:32] Seyyed Rouhollah Musavi Khomeini is someone
[00:22:36] who brought religion
[00:22:39] from the margins of
[00:22:42] history to the center. Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, in my opinion,
[00:22:44] we can understand this kind of infatuation
[00:22:48] with Imam Khomeini in those moments when he recounts his
[00:22:52] memory of the demise of Imam Khomeini. He says that we were more bewildered
[00:22:56] than you were in Iran.
[00:22:59] In any case, given that International
[00:23:03] Printing and Publishing indeed pursues religious
[00:23:06] aspects in its works, what does this book itself show
[00:23:10] us? And at the same time, you are focused
[00:23:13] on another kind of perspective in religious texts. Martyr
[00:23:16] Dialameh had a saying, he used to say that
[00:23:20] Imam's shouts—now I'm paraphrasing—Imam's shouts against arrogance
[00:23:24] were the result of his humility and devotion in his night prayers.
[00:23:27] Practical and ethical mysticism that leads
[00:23:30] to the rejection of arrogance, that leads to the rejection
[00:23:34] of tyranny, has been and is one of our main foundations.
[00:23:37] What we have in this collection is
[00:23:41] this approach, that in fact, Martyr Nasrallah does not have
[00:23:44] a purely ethical, secluded, ascetic approach. He has
[00:23:47] a completely practical approach and wants to turn
[00:23:51] the ethical aspect of religion into the rejection of tyranny,
[00:23:54] the rejection of arrogance. That is, in the first volume of the book, we encounter
[00:23:57] Martyr Nasrallah talking about Satan, describing the characteristics of Satan,
[00:24:01] and saying that this great Satan is America, Satan is Israel, which comes
[00:24:05] and kills children, comes and commits genocide. This aspect makes
[00:24:08] the resistance forces and the children of the resistance strive
[00:24:12] to achieve their religious goals against arrogance and oppression,
[00:24:15] which was one of the main indicators of this collection and these statements of Martyr Nasrallah.
[00:24:21] After this week, you also had a launching ceremony for a book titled
[00:24:25] "Qiyam Lillahi" (Rise for God). Yes, yes, you have this book
[00:24:29] now. Yes, the book "Qiyam Lillahi" is a collection of speeches by Mr.
[00:24:32] Mojtaba Arab at Amirkabir University of Technology, which he had with
[00:24:36] students. This book focuses on the issue of
[00:24:39] rising, a rising that is accompanied by action. It's a very
[00:24:41] serious and very profound
[00:24:44] book that helps all young people and students
[00:24:48] who are at the beginning of their path to better understand
[00:24:52] this path, better understand the thoughts of Imam Khomeini and
[00:24:55] our martyred leader, and be able to take steps
[00:24:59] in this direction. Thank you very much. Our colleagues have prepared a report
[00:25:03] on this book, which, if you agree, we will watch together.
[00:25:06] A report on the book
[00:25:08] "Qiyam Lillahi."
[00:25:15] "One must rise" is the keyword of the book "Qiyam
[00:25:19] Lillahi." The divinely appointed nation after
[00:25:22] the Ramadan War symbolizes responsible people in the special
[00:25:25] conditions of today's Iran who acted upon "Qiyam Lillahi."
[00:25:29] The book "Qiyam Lillahi" first addresses an important
[00:25:33] issue: how we can, in short, pursue divine goals
[00:25:36] in our lives and in our society. It has examined
[00:25:40] its harms and related issues. One of the good features
[00:25:44] of the book is its movement between principles and instances. That is,
[00:25:47] you don't have an excess of principles in this book, nor do you only have a discussion
[00:25:51] of politics. It constantly moves back and forth between principles and instances.
[00:25:54] The book "Qiyam Lillahi" introduces the revolutionary lifestyle
[00:25:58] to young readers. This book, especially for the young generation,
[00:26:02] will, God willing, be a bridge for intellectual
[00:26:05] coherence and for reaching solutions
[00:26:09] for practical action to grasp the concept
[00:26:12] of uprising, intention, spirituality, justice, rationality, and to extract
[00:26:16] a series of concepts from expectations. And also for the dear
[00:26:20] appointed people, what should be done in such a field, despite these hardships,
[00:26:23] despite obstacles, despite the enemy, and how each of us
[00:26:27] can fulfill our duty. Ahmad Aminfard, IRIB News Agency.
[00:26:30] Mr.
[00:26:37] Hossein Golestani, CEO of International Printing and Publishing, is the guest
[00:26:40] of the Book of the Week program. Mr. Golestani, please tell us about your other works.
[00:26:44] The book "Ham Bavaran" is one of the prominent works
[00:26:48] that in fact pursues a new topic. If possible, please explain
[00:26:52] this work as well. Dr. Khamyar was a cultural attaché
[00:26:55] in Lebanon for more than 20 years. We had a conversation with him. He was
[00:26:59] kind enough to agree to provide us with direct
[00:27:02] narratives and direct conversations with 16 Christian literary figures.
[00:27:06] This resulted in the book "Ham Bavaran" and the conversations we
[00:27:10] had with him. The book contains 16 narratives from 16
[00:27:13] great Christian figures, from George Jaragh, with
[00:27:17] whom he directly spoke, visited his house, and conversed
[00:27:20] with, to other figures of Christianity in Lebanon.
[00:27:24] The main point of this book is that all these 16 noble
[00:27:27] individuals with whom Mr. Khamyar conversed, and whose narratives
[00:27:31] he wrote about, are described
[00:27:34] on the cover of the book as "lovers of Ahl al-Bayt and
[00:27:37] admirers of Iran." And this was
[00:27:40] a very strong and very important winning card for this book,
[00:27:44] which, thank God, managed to achieve a very good position both
[00:27:47] in Iran and in various other countries. It is also available in the market now.
[00:27:50] It is possible to prepare, as you mentioned, this book is written by Mr.
[00:27:54] Abbas Khamehyan. We had a conversation with him about
[00:27:58] this book, and if you agree, we will watch this interview together.
[00:28:01] میبینیم.
[00:28:07] Since my teenage years,
[00:28:10] I have heard the name Giorgia. A great
[00:28:13] Christian scholar who wrote 7 volumes about Imam Ali.
[00:28:17] Fate led me to become a cultural attaché
[00:28:21] of Iran in Lebanon and
[00:28:23] some of these Arab countries, and I got to know him. I discovered
[00:28:27] that it's not just one person. There are dozens of
[00:28:30] Georgias. In this book, I became relatively
[00:28:33] familiar with 15 people
[00:28:37] who were at the level of Georgias.
[00:28:41] I lived with them and wrote down my experiences
[00:28:44] with them.
[00:28:45] کردم
[00:28:49] Mr. Golestani, International Publications also has a series of books
[00:28:54] am seeing here now. My Sneakers of Kookam, if possible,
[00:28:58] please introduce this book and explain
[00:29:01] what made you enter the field of young adult literature. My Sneakers
[00:29:05] is a narrative of the first days of the imposed
[00:29:09] war in the villages of Abadan. We have
[00:29:12] several Arab and non-Arab teenagers in this book who are busy with
[00:29:16] their lives. A very serious point
[00:29:20] from this book that is relevant to these days and has deeply affected
[00:29:23] us is that teenagers
[00:29:27] enter the defense of their neighborhood, they enter the defense of
[00:29:30] their living area, and
[00:29:32] they take control of the field. Something that we really need these days,
[00:29:36] and it has caused the teenagers to understand
[00:29:40] that this logic of defense of the field and defense of the neighborhood
[00:29:43] has existed since ancient times, and we still need it now. Yes, if we want to summarize
[00:29:47] your books, for example, I see
[00:29:51] the book "Zabur-e Moghavemat" (Psalms of Resistance). I see books in the field of children's and
[00:29:54] young adult literature. I see religious books. This categorization
[00:29:58] is in our view as the audience of your works.
[00:30:02] What axes does the publishing house actually emphasize more
[00:30:05] that we don't know and would like to hear from you? You see,
[00:30:09] we can actually divide it into two sections.
[00:30:13] There is a common thematic system, but I want to talk about two general sections.
[00:30:16] A part of the books that we are designing and producing
[00:30:20] are our foundational and intellectual books, which are, so to speak,
[00:30:24] needed in society by researchers
[00:30:27] and specialists who want to refer to them and read them. A large
[00:30:31] and essential part that we are engaged in and working on
[00:30:35] is to transform these scientific concepts and foundational topics
[00:30:38] into the language of the general society, to
[00:30:41] actually bring them closer to public
[00:30:45] understanding. In this area, when we want to enter, the space
[00:30:48] of literature and fiction and the space of narration becomes very prominent,
[00:30:52] it gains a lot of priority, and all our efforts are to
[00:30:55] be able to transform those topics and main principles into, in
[00:30:58] fact, language.