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[00:00:08] of
[00:00:11] of
[00:00:12] of
[00:00:31] We should know that they speak falsely of negotiations, even
[00:00:34] now they continue to lie, when they find themselves at the height of
[00:00:38] weakness, they call for
[00:00:40] of sess
[00:00:41] of fire. From the past until today,
[00:00:43] of they continue with shameless audacity to speak of human rights,
[00:00:47] yet the crimes they have committed are unprecedented
[00:00:51] in
[00:00:51] history.
[00:00:57] So what was really
[00:00:59] a happening? was
[00:01:00] of Washington stepping back because diplomacy had suddenly prevailed,
[00:01:04] or because the
[00:01:05] of military balance was changing in ways, it could no longer
[00:01:08] ignore.
[00:01:13] The war that Donald Trump launched against the Iran, the one he once
[00:01:17] believed would only
[00:01:18] in last for few weeks, has now entered it sixth month.
[00:01:22] Casualties continue to mount, weapon stock pows are being
[00:01:25] depleted and gasoline prices have once again surged.
[00:01:29] Trump is... eager to bring the conflict to an end, but it is becoming
[00:01:33] increasingly clear that his wishes alone are
[00:01:36] of no longer enough to determine whether the war ends or
[00:01:39] continues.
[00:01:44] former Israeli military intelligence official Denis Setrinovits
[00:01:48] offered a revealing assessment. Iran, he
[00:01:52] argued, is no longer reacting to events set in motion by
[00:01:55] Washington. It is increasingly dictating the pace, timing,
[00:02:11] of in
[00:02:12] a
[00:02:30] five times that he has destroyed Iran, 88 times than an
[00:02:34] agreement with Iran is
[00:02:36] of imminent, and
[00:02:36] a 75 times
[00:02:37] of that the street of hormos is open. Well, if the street is
[00:02:41] open, why is America still struggling there? I
[00:02:44] tell you that all these lies will eventually produce
[00:02:48] a reactions against Trump
[00:02:52] a himself. deformatic efforts continued behind the
[00:02:56] scenes. Reuters reported that Oman had proposed.
[00:03:00] replacing Iran's exclusive
[00:03:01] of role in securing the straight of hormos with
[00:03:04] a regional security arrangement, involving Persian Gulf
[00:03:07] states and funded through voluntary user
[00:03:10] contributions. A day later, Reuters reported that
[00:03:14] Tehran had rejected the proposal outright, concluding
[00:03:17] in that it offered no realistic path
[00:03:19] forward. Mr. Ehsan
[00:03:23] Eqbal Said and
[00:03:25] journallist.
[00:03:29] of Until now, as matter of customary practice,
[00:03:33] the Islamic Republic of Iran, regardless of whether it was fair or
[00:03:37] not, as out of good neighborliness and in accordance with
[00:03:41] international custom, and despite existing objections,
[00:03:44] respected the state of hermus, yet over these past
[00:03:48] 40 days, this straight has been used against the lives
[00:03:52] of our officials, our people and our territorial
[00:03:55] integrity, naturally, what we have secured
[00:03:59] through. sacrifice of our youth and the resistance of our
[00:04:02] people will not accept in any plan that seeks to eliminate
[00:04:06] our independent will and the exercise of our
[00:04:10] sovereignty over the
[00:04:11] straight.
[00:04:14] meanwhile, many
[00:04:16] of observers of assumed that the daily exchanges had quietly evolved into
[00:04:20] of undeclared ceasefire, that Iran would avoid striking American
[00:04:24] forces unless directly attacked. the
[00:04:27] battlefield told
[00:04:29] a different story. Iran was no longer fighting
[00:04:32] according to the old rules. Iran's recent
[00:04:36] surprise attacks against US military bases in Jordan,
[00:04:40] could uh signal a
[00:04:41] of major shift in its
[00:04:43] of military strategy, meaning that
[00:04:44] it is now prepared to carry out preemptive strikes to
[00:04:48] deter Washington. Now what does this shift actually
[00:04:52] entil and how does it differ from Iran's previous
[00:04:55] military strategy?
[00:05:00] The change in Iran's military doctrine was fundamentally based a
[00:05:04] plan prepared by the armed forces. According to that plan,
[00:05:08] in the first stage we maintain a defensive posture and never
[00:05:11] initiate. war at the same time, however, in
[00:05:15] certain periods we adopt an offensive posture, as you
[00:05:19] can see in the recent developments in the straight of armus, Iran has
[00:05:22] introduced changes to its monetary doctrine. This
[00:05:26] was only one aspect of our strategy, which shifted
[00:05:30] to an offensive mode so that the enemy would understand it
[00:05:34] cannot simply do whatever it wishes, while we remain
[00:05:37] subordinate to
[00:05:38] it. During. the
[00:05:42] 12-day war, the United States and Israel seized the initiative,
[00:05:46] leaving Tehran to respond. This time, Iran
[00:05:50] chose to strike first. Preemptive
[00:05:53] operations, strategic surprise, and attacks on high value
[00:05:57] military targets has become central to its evolving
[00:06:00] doctrine. As Major General Ali
[00:06:03] Abdullahi, commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya's central
[00:06:07] headquarters declared, the Americans and their mercenaries
[00:06:11] have learned that their coffins are. now part their military equipment in the
[00:06:14] region, as our late leader always said, the air of
[00:06:18] hit and run is
[00:06:19] over.
[00:06:26] we also talked with general muhammad Jafar Asadi, the deputy
[00:06:30] commander of khatam-anbiya's central headquarters.
[00:06:34] Trump has once again threatened to carry out an all-out war
[00:06:38] against Iran. how do you think Iran would
[00:06:41] respond?
[00:07:12] true today: last week, when I visited Iran's islands,
[00:07:16] I saw that our forces are waiting for the day when America
[00:07:20] commits this mistake and launches a ground operation against
[00:07:24] us, and that day we will put these American captives
[00:07:28] on
[00:07:28] display.
[00:07:32] after six months of war under Donald Trump, Iran can claim
[00:07:35] one significant advantage, Washington is increasingly being
[00:07:39] forced to fight on Tehran's terms. Trump's
[00:07:43] administration's increasingly aggressive rhetoric, growing evidence
[00:07:46] suggests that the United States lacks the resources needed to sustain
[00:07:50] a large-scale military campaign against
[00:07:53] Iran.
[00:07:57] While the Trump administration continued escalate its rhetoric,
[00:08:01] different picture was emerging behind the scenes.
[00:08:04] Growing evidence suggested that Washington no longer possessed the military
[00:08:08] resources needed to sustain a prolonged war against Iran.
[00:08:21] Trump any
[00:08:22] No longer, fears not one even the young children. Now you see them come
[00:08:26] out into the streets, holding the Iranian flag in their hands and
[00:08:30] sending message to Trump. Well, Trump wanted the Iranian
[00:08:34] people to fear him and surrender. According to the words of our
[00:08:38] martered Imam, in Iran, if only one person remains,
[00:08:42] "the duty of that one person is to fight against
[00:08:45] depression.
[00:08:49] According
[00:08:50] to investigation by the intercept, conditions at
[00:08:53] muaffalti airbase in Jordan have exposed the weakness
[00:08:57] of repeated claims that Iran's military capabilities had been
[00:09:00] crippled. Instead, Iran's combination of
[00:09:04] loitering drones, maneuverable hypersonic ballistic missiles
[00:09:08] and advanced electronic counter measures has placed
[00:09:11] unprecedented. pressure on America's patriot and thought
[00:09:15] air defense systems.
[00:09:19] One US official admitted that interceptor missile stockps
[00:09:23] had been depleted so severely that commanders were now
[00:09:26] instructed to engage only missiles posing immediate threat
[00:09:30] to human life. Replenishing those
[00:09:34] inventories, the officials said could take as long as 3
[00:09:37] years.
[00:10:12] longer confined to the battlefield, it is reaching American
[00:10:16] households. As gasoline and diesel prices
[00:10:20] clime, inflation remains stubbornly high and billions of
[00:10:23] dollars continue. to flow into the war effort, public support for
[00:10:27] the conflict steadily eroded. A
[00:10:31] recent political poll found that only about one-third of Donald Trump's
[00:10:35] own mega supporters now believe the war is worth its
[00:10:38] economic cost, a sharp decline from just few months
[00:10:42] earlier. The
[00:10:45] economist reported that among modern U.S. military conflicts with
[00:10:49] comparable polling, the war against Iran has become the least
[00:10:53] popular.
[00:11:03] It seems as though the United States has failed to achieve its stated
[00:11:07] objectives at the beginning the war. What is the main reason for
[00:11:11] this failure?
[00:11:15] قرار بود جنگ خیلی سریع تموم بشه. آمریکا به نتیجه نرسید. The
[00:11:19] war was supposed to end very quickly, but America failed to achieve
[00:11:23] its objective as result. rift emerge within the
[00:11:26] United States, public demands on the American president
[00:11:30] intensified, and now we witness a sense of panic in
[00:11:33] Washington's decision making. They are currently
[00:11:37] grappling with the question of whether escalate tensions and the
[00:11:41] level of conflict or move toward
[00:11:43] negotiations. This crisis has therefore
[00:11:47] wisen both among American politicians and within the
[00:11:51] American society.
[00:12:25] or to create readiness among the public for entering a
[00:12:29] war, because it is the people who pay the taxes
[00:12:33] and any case the people must submit to the policies the
[00:12:36] country. for this reason, when the people suffer harm
[00:12:40] from federal decision and begin to reflect on why
[00:12:44] this happened, situations such as the vietnam war
[00:12:47] arise in which civil protests take place,
[00:12:51] and if America fails to manage this protests. Crisis
[00:12:55] ensues.
[00:12:59] For millions of Americans, this is no longer distant foreign
[00:13:02] war. It has become a question of fuel prices,
[00:13:06] household budgets and economic
[00:13:09] security. The political pressure on the White House
[00:13:13] is mounting just as tensions with Israel are becoming increasingly
[00:13:17] visible. Shortly before Iran's strike,
[00:13:20] Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump in
[00:13:24] Washington. describing their talks as one the best
[00:13:27] conversations they had held despite months of growing
[00:13:31] friction, yet only hours earlier, Israeli
[00:13:34] minister of military affairs, Israel cats had revealed that Israel
[00:13:38] wanted to attack Iran's energy infrastructure, but had been restrained by the
[00:13:42] Trump administration. The contrast is
[00:13:46] telling.
[00:13:51] Even as Washington projects confidence, it strategic
[00:14:25] have seen that nothing remains of it, today you see Trump
[00:14:28] threatening to strike Iran's infrastructure and few
[00:14:32] moments later ordering the attack to stop. It's clear that
[00:14:36] this is the seventh time Trump has repeated this lie without
[00:14:40] wanting to strike Iran's
[00:14:41] infrastructure.
[00:14:46] For decades American military interventions across West
[00:14:50] Asia have left behind countless innocent victims and
[00:14:54] immeasurable. human suffering, the war against Iran is no
[00:14:58] exception. Beyond the headlines and geopolitical
[00:15:01] calculations, are personal tragedies that rarely appear in
[00:15:05] the world's major news reports. This is one
[00:15:08] them. It
[00:15:11] was just after 10 o'clock in the evening. The Imam Hassan community
[00:15:15] gathering in the city of Ray had began empty.
[00:15:19] Eight-year-old Aven Amir Khashani, a little girl with brown hair, dimples
[00:15:23] and bright eyes was walking. in hand with her
[00:15:25] mother, without warning, the night sky turned yellow,
[00:15:29] deafining explosion from the nearby oil refinery shook the
[00:15:33] ground beneath them. "mum, mum, run, run!" Alvina screamed.
[00:15:37] Then came the dust, the smoke and the
[00:15:40] silence. The night before avine had
[00:15:44] written in her diary, dear leader, I want to become a martter like
[00:15:48] you, less than 24 hours later she died in her
[00:15:52] grandmother's arms. This is story of Oven's brief
[00:15:55] life told through the memories of her mother, Deida Rasek, who
[00:15:59] was herself seriously wounded in the attack. When the war
[00:16:03] began, Leila recalls I rushed to collect oven from school, two fighter
[00:16:06] jets. flew over head and she kept asking what was happening. I told
[00:16:10] her, I think America has attacked, but don't worry, you're safe.
[00:16:14] Nothing will happen to you. As Leila reaches the
[00:16:18] night the explosion, her voice begans to shake. That evening,
[00:16:22] after breaking our fast, we went shopping for New Year's clothes. We bought
[00:16:26] avine new pair of trousers. They were a little too
[00:16:29] long. I plan to shorten them later, yet never
[00:16:33] happened. Her husband dropped Laila Ovine and her younger brother
[00:16:37] at her. house together they walked to the nightly gathering,
[00:16:41] avin happy carried picture the martered
[00:16:43] leader. on their way home, everything changed, the
[00:16:47] refinery was struck, the flash was blinding, people scattered in
[00:16:51] every direction. oving kept shouting, mom, run, mom, run, i can
[00:16:55] still hear her voice. when the dust settled, i realized my hand had
[00:16:58] been hit by sharpno and my left leg had been severed below the
[00:17:02] ankle. her mother was holding ovine. she looked peaceful.
[00:17:06] there wasn't a scratch. on her face, we thought she had simply lost
[00:17:09] consciousness. a stranger picked her up and ran towards the
[00:17:13] hospital. kept screaming, don't take ovine away, but i
[00:17:17] couldn't move, i couldn't even hold my own daughter one last
[00:17:21] time. for 10 days, while lailla lay in hospital, everyone told
[00:17:25] herene was intensive care. only the day before the
[00:17:28] funeral did they tell her she had died, despite the pain, laila
[00:17:32] smiles when she remembers her daughter. she was like a bottle of
[00:17:35] perfume, whenever she enter her room, she filled it with
[00:17:39] warmth. everyone loved her. today, perhaps no one feels
[00:17:42] Ovine's absence more deeply than her six-year-old brother, Amir
[00:17:46] Ali, who was also injured that night. he didn't just lose
[00:17:50] sister, their mother says he lost his closest
[00:17:52] friend.
[00:17:56] having come under intense military pressure and suffered several
[00:18:00] setbacks in recent days, the United States is now trying to
[00:18:04] draw other countries into the conflict in attempt. to avoid what could
[00:18:08] become a historic, strategic
[00:18:10] defeat. The
[00:18:14] consequences the confrontation with Iran are now extending
[00:18:18] far beyond the battlefield. Critics argue that Trump
[00:18:22] has repeatedly prioritize Israel's security objectives
[00:18:25] over broader American and regional interests, but the
[00:18:29] consequences of that approach may now be reaching even Washington's
[00:18:33] closest allies. After.
[00:18:37] exhausting portions of its cruise missile inventories abroad and naval
[00:18:41] assets operating in the Indian Ocean, the United States is preparing
[00:18:45] to expand the use of B1 strategic bombers deployed from
[00:18:48] Raf Fairford in Britain, yet several
[00:18:52] European allies have refused to participate any expanded military
[00:18:56] operation until a lasting cease fire with Iran is
[00:18:59] achieved, a sign of growing and the western
[00:19:03] alliance. حالا مردی به نام ترامپ در ایالات متحده
[00:19:07] ایده.
[00:19:39] Washington's relationships with its Arab partners in the Persian Gulf have
[00:19:43] also come under unprecedented pressure. According
[00:19:47] to multiple reports, one factor behind Trump's decision to
[00:19:51] postpone another major strike on Iran was the repeated warnings of
[00:19:55] Arab leaders. Their countries home to key American
[00:19:58] military bases have become increasingly exposed to possible
[00:20:02] Iranian retaliation. Iran has stated
[00:20:06] as one of its object.
[00:20:37] force of corruption and permanent
[00:20:39] war.
[00:20:43] meanwile, the conflict has begun intersecting with another major
[00:20:46] global crisis. on July... 25th,
[00:20:50] Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial cargo vessel in the
[00:20:54] Caspian Sea killing a civilian
[00:20:56] sailor. Tehran condemned the attack as
[00:21:00] a violation of article 2 paragraph 4 the United Nations
[00:21:03] Charter and warned that such actions risked expanding
[00:21:07] the conflict into new theaters. The incident
[00:21:11] highlighted a growing concern. The boundaries between the world's
[00:21:15] major conflicts are becoming increasingly difficult to
[00:21:18] separate. Following Ukraine's attack
[00:21:22] on uh an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian
[00:21:25] Sea, Iran's Ministry of Foreign affairs has described the incident as
[00:21:29] a violation the UN charter. Now does Tehran
[00:21:32] regard this as primarily a bilateral dispute with Ukraine
[00:21:36] or as a part of a broader coalition against
[00:21:39] Iran and what legal and political measures are being
[00:21:43] pursued. من این رو داستان کیف و تهران نمی
[00:21:47] بینم. داستان تلآویم و تهران می دونم. I do not see Ukraine's
[00:21:51] attack on the Iranian ship as kiv tell on the story, but
[00:21:55] rather as a Tel Aviv tell on the story. It's part of a
[00:21:58] plan enabling the enemy to broaten the fronts and
[00:22:02] complicate decision making. Ultimately, this action
[00:22:06] places Iran, Russia and Europe a new decision making
[00:22:10] situation. Naturally, this is not soly about
[00:22:13] Kief. Naturally, one must act with patience.
[00:22:17] There is sufficient time and the Iranian nation will... punish any
[00:22:20] aggressor a proper
[00:22:22] moment. The
[00:22:25] timing the attack also attract attention.
[00:22:29] It came shortly before Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's
[00:22:33] plan meeting with President Trump in Washington where he was expected to
[00:22:37] see continued American support for Ukraine while emphasizing
[00:22:41] Russia's growing partnership with Iran.
[00:22:45] Reports have suggested that the United Kingdom may allow the
[00:22:48] United States to use.
[00:23:20] must understand that if the please trump they become part of his
[00:23:24] plan of aggression against Iran they will receive devastating
[00:23:28] blows from Iran and his allies in return. Iran is a
[00:23:32] freshly established power on the ground that alongside China and
[00:23:36] Russia will shape the new world order. Europe must
[00:23:39] realize that working with Iran will bring it far greater
[00:23:43] benefit than hostility toward the Iranian nation and standing
[00:23:47] beside an America that is now.
[00:23:49] struggling for his own
[00:23:51] survival. the
[00:23:55] greatest danger of war against Iran is not that Washington will
[00:23:59] suffer military defeat, it is the fact that it will become trapped in
[00:24:03] a cycle of attritional war, one from which is harder
[00:24:06] escape than to enter. this is the scenario that American
[00:24:10] strategic thinkers have long described as an endless
[00:24:13] war.
[00:24:18] the freeze forever war entered American political
[00:24:21] vocabulary after the United States became trapped in the prolonged
[00:24:24] conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those wars
[00:24:28] began with clear objectives but no clear path to
[00:24:32] conclusion. Many analysts warn that a confrontation
[00:24:36] with Iran carries the same danger. Over
[00:24:39] four decades Iran has developed a vast network of regional
[00:24:43] partnerships while building its own military capabilities in
[00:24:47] ballistic missiles, drones and asymmetric.
[00:25:20] capabilities at the
[00:25:21] appropriate
[00:25:25] time. Iran's geography makes the challenge even
[00:25:27] greater. any prolong conflict would threaten some
[00:25:31] the world's most important energy roots, including the Persian Gulf and the
[00:25:35] straight of hormos.
[00:25:38] It could disrupt global markets, place America's regional allies under
[00:25:42] severe pressure and create a chain
[00:25:44] reaction.
[00:26:02] Today we have heroic and courageous people who are unmatched
[00:26:06] in the world. Thank God we have succeeded in shattering the
[00:26:10] image these so-called superpowers. The people
[00:26:14] the world have come to understand that it's possible to
[00:26:18] stand against the great Satan for half a century and
[00:26:21] emerge from this struggle with honor, success and
[00:26:24] victory.
[00:26:29] Donald Trump has long criticized America's wars in Iraq and
[00:26:32] Afghanistan as costly failures. During his
[00:26:36] 2024 presidential campaign, he repeatedly promised that he
[00:26:40] would prevent the United States from becoming trapped in another endless
[00:26:44] conflict, yet today he faces the
[00:26:47] possibility of leading exactly the kind of war he once
[00:26:51] promised to
[00:26:51] avoid.
[00:27:22] war takes lives, but sometimes it takes something even
[00:27:26] more cruel, the chance to say goodbye. this is story of
[00:27:30] a boy who never came home for. following a bloody, unprovoked
[00:27:34] war waged by the US and Israel against
[00:27:37] Iran. On the morning of February 28th,
[00:27:40] 2026, seven-year-old Makon Nasiri left home for school just
[00:27:44] as he always did. It was his birthday, his mother helped him put on his blue
[00:27:48] jacket to keep him warm in the cool morning air. She was preparing
[00:27:52] Makan's favorite food for lunch. With a
[00:27:56] quiet excitement of a first grade boy, he walked into Shajara
[00:27:59] Tayiba elementary school, never knowing it would be... the last time anyone
[00:28:03] would see him at 11:15 a.m. tomahaw cruise missiles
[00:28:07] struck the school within seconds classrooms collapsed walls
[00:28:11] crumbled the sound of children reading and laughing were replaced
[00:28:15] by dust fire and silence rescue workers for days
[00:28:19] parents searched with their own hands one by one the victims were
[00:28:23] found families were finally able to bury their
[00:28:26] children but one child never came home
[00:28:29] mon nasiri his father searched through the rubble for in the very first
[00:28:33] afternoon, his uncle together with relatives spent 46
[00:28:36] days searching every corner the destroyed school and the
[00:28:40] surrounding fields. more than 100 DNA tests were carried
[00:28:44] out. Investigators searched for anything, a strand of hair, the
[00:28:48] smallest trace that could bring certainty to a grieving
[00:28:51] family. Nothing. The only things ever found were crumpled blue
[00:28:55] jacket and a single small trainer discovered far from the school
[00:28:59] after the blast had thrown it into a nearby orchard.
[00:29:03] Experts later concluded that the American missile had struck
[00:29:06] directly where Macon had been standing. The explosion was so
[00:29:10] devastating that no identifiable remains were left
[00:29:13] behind. For most parents, grief begins when they lay
[00:29:17] their child to rest. Macon's family was
[00:29:21] denied even that final act of love. They were forced to bury empty
[00:29:25] grave, a grave with nobody beneath it, only a name carved
[00:29:28] into stone. Even today, Malkan's mother returns to the ruins the...
[00:29:32] school, she sits quietly a piece of broken concrete,
[00:29:36] waiting in the same place where she last knew her son
[00:29:39] existed. alcan's body was never recovered. his
[00:29:43] story reminds us that the deepest wound of war is not only
[00:29:47] the lives it takes, sometimes the greatest cruelty is leaving
[00:29:51] mother with nowhere to hold her final
[00:29:53] goodbye.
[00:30:13] This our's top headlines: Iran's president says
[00:30:16] assassinations the murder leader the Islamic Revolution, military
[00:30:20] commanders and scientists prove the falsehood the aggressor's claims to
[00:30:24] human rights. A
[00:30:27] Palestinian media group warns that human rights violations
[00:30:31] against Palestine. and abductees and Israeli prisons have reached
[00:30:35] unprecedented levels
[00:30:36] and finally,
[00:30:40] the US state of New Mexico sues the department of justice over
[00:30:43] access to unredacted upsteam files, saying the department
[00:30:47] refuses to provide the
[00:30:49] documents.