PRESSTV — broadcast
20260806 103000 UTC
504 transcript segments
Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp)
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.

[00:00:01] care only the day before the funeral did they tell her she had died, despite the
[00:00:05] pain, Laila smiles when she remembers her
[00:00:08] a daughter, she was like a bottle of perfume, whenever she entered her
[00:00:11] room, she filled it with warmth, everyone loved her,
[00:00:15] of today, of perhaps no one feels Ovine's absence more
[00:00:18] of deeply than her six-year-old brother, Amir Ali, who was also
[00:00:21] injured that night, he didn't just lose a sister, their mother
[00:00:25] says he lost his
[00:00:26] of closest friend.
[00:00:42] of
[00:00:45] of
[00:00:51] of a
[00:00:55] of
[00:01:00] of war,
[00:01:00] of imperialism and zionism, exploring their impact on our world and what it
[00:01:04] will take to overcome them. I've just returned
[00:01:07] of from nearly month-long trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran. I
[00:01:11] of traveled
[00:01:11] of there at the beginning of July to attend the historic funeral
[00:01:14] of the martered leader of Iran's Islamic
[00:01:16] a Revolution, grand Ali Khamenei. Unexpectedly, I
[00:01:20] stayed longer than originally
[00:01:22] of planned. While I
[00:01:23] was in Iran, I had the opportunity to speak to various interesting people, some of whom
[00:01:27] I interviewed for this show, and those
[00:01:29] of episodes will be... coming soon. Later in this show you'll
[00:01:32] of hear from journalist and anti-imperialist activist Calo Walsh, who was also in
[00:01:36] Iran for the funeral. But
[00:01:38] of first, I want to share some of my own reflections about the trip.
[00:01:42] My time in Iran began with my attendance at the
[00:01:44] a largest funeral in history for the matar imam Khamini. It
[00:01:48] was a deeply emotional, spiritual, and I must say,
[00:01:52] of beautiful experience to be among millions upon millions of people all
[00:01:56] gathered for the same purpose. I had
[00:01:58] of the opportunity to visit the Imam.
[00:02:01] with the blessed bodies of Imam Khamenei and his family members who were martered alongside
[00:02:05] him lay in state. day and
[00:02:08] of night of a continuous throng of people flooded into the masalah to catch a glimpse
[00:02:12] of their coffins
[00:02:13] in and of on the 5th of July to participate in the first
[00:02:16] a funeral of prayer. it was a great blessing for me to be able to stand
[00:02:20] and participate in that prayer. the next day I joined a
[00:02:24] huge procession in Tehran accompaning Imam Khamenei's body through the
[00:02:27] city. millions of people gathered in streets under the blistering sun to
[00:02:31] give their
[00:02:33] a farewell. Let's look at the short report that I filmed that day. I just had the
[00:02:37] opportunity to get very close to the coffin. I was about
[00:02:41] two meters away and emits all the people it
[00:02:45] of a of was of impossible to move more than a couple of inches a time. It took
[00:02:49] of me of around 30 minutes just to get out from the immediate
[00:02:53] vicinity
[00:02:54] of of the coffin which is now making its way towards
[00:02:58] this area.
[00:02:59] of Well, of course it is. very slowly with the streets absolutely
[00:03:03] packed full of people, it
[00:03:05] of was got wrenching to be able
[00:03:07] of to see the coffin
[00:03:09] of the one who I thought one day perhaps I would pray behind,
[00:03:13] perhaps I would catch a glimpse of his smile a
[00:03:17] sermon that he was delivering and said we were seeing his coffin,
[00:03:21] that of his 14 month old granddaughter and his other family
[00:03:24] members being marched through Tahan, there are
[00:03:28] people
[00:03:29] in a deep. states of morning, crying, beating
[00:03:33] their chess,
[00:03:34] of but of also there is a strong sense of defiance. there are
[00:03:37] thousands upon thousands of red flags being carried, that is
[00:03:41] the red flag of revenge and plenty of placards, not just in
[00:03:45] Persian, but also in English, calling for revenge
[00:03:49] against the US president Donald Trump and against the Prime
[00:03:52] Minister
[00:03:53] of the Zionist entity, Benyamin Netanyahu. People are
[00:03:57] chanting death to America, death to Israel, even heard
[00:04:00] death to Britain, people's antipathy and indeed righteous anger
[00:04:04] and hatred against the United States of America and the
[00:04:08] Zionist entity cannot be disputed. What all
[00:04:12] of this demonstrates, yes again, is the power
[00:04:14] of the Shia Islamic morning tradition, in which grief,
[00:04:18] sadness and tears are not
[00:04:20] of signs of weakness, but in fact are signs of strength,
[00:04:23] faith, resilience and capacity to keep going and
[00:04:27] to keep fighting after. funeral procession in Tehran,
[00:04:31] I visited the Holy City of Mashad in the northeast
[00:04:34] of the country, home to the shrine of Imam
[00:04:36] of Radha, Shia Islam's Eighth
[00:04:38] of Imam. It was within that shrine that Imam Khamenei's body was laid to rest
[00:04:42] alongside his martered family
[00:04:44] of members, following an enormous funeral procession that filled the city
[00:04:47] streets. The expansive, enchanting and beautiful
[00:04:50] shrine is fitting final resting place for towering
[00:04:54] personality, whose concrete contributions, not
[00:04:57] in of of just to the
[00:04:57] of Islamic world, but also across the globe, will be... felt for generations to
[00:05:02] of come. of After the funeral, I spent more time exploring and enjoying the beauty of
[00:05:05] Iran. As a great lover of Iranian carpets, I was
[00:05:09] in particularly delighted to visit Tahran's Grand Bazar to see some
[00:05:12] of the... fine examples of Iranian artistry and handicrafts on
[00:05:15] display. I also visited many of Tahran's beautiful cafes.
[00:05:19] At various times watching World Cup matches alongside Iranians whose
[00:05:23] love for the game was clear despite the despicable treatment their own team
[00:05:27] received from FIFA and the United States. One the places I was
[00:05:31] overwhelmed to finally visit was the Holy City of Qum just south of
[00:05:35] Tehran which hosts the shrine of Saidah Fatima, the
[00:05:38] daughter the seventh Imam of Shia Islam Imam Musa al-Kazim. and
[00:05:42] the sister of Imam Radha who was buried in mashad. I offered my
[00:05:46] salutations upon this great personality whose shrine is visited by
[00:05:50] millions of people from around the world every year. While I was in
[00:05:54] QuM I stopped by Jam Qaran mosque, huge complex on the
[00:05:57] outskirts the city, which is believed to have been built on instructions from
[00:06:01] Imam Mahdi, Shia Islam's awaited savior and 12th
[00:06:04] Imam. And before I left Kom, I saw the ruins the assembly of
[00:06:08] experts building and I filmed a short report there. I'm...
[00:06:12] outside the majlist, the assembly
[00:06:16] of experts, which has many constitutional roles in Iran, but one the most
[00:06:20] important is electing the leader the
[00:06:24] Islamic Revolution, it's a 88 member council
[00:06:27] composed of learned and noble scholars and on the 3rd of March
[00:06:31] 2026, the vicious genocidal zionist
[00:06:35] regime acting on faulty intelligence tried to blow
[00:06:38] up and kill all of those 88 members the... counsel
[00:06:42] as they gathered to elect a new leader in the wake the martterdom
[00:06:46] ofini who was killed just few
[00:06:49] days before, but thankfully their intelligence was wrong, but the entire
[00:06:53] building was raised
[00:06:54] to the ground and damage was caused to neighboring buildings as well. the
[00:06:58] counter was able to meet just few days later and they elected the new leader
[00:07:02] of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Ayatullah Sayid Mujtaba
[00:07:05] Khamenei, successfully thwarting the enemy's plans
[00:07:09] and actually ensuring that the phrase...
[00:07:16] is the leader continues to be one the many slogans
[00:07:20] the Islamic Revolution. Back in Tehran,
[00:07:24] I attended some the nightly demonstrations at Inqalab Square where millions of
[00:07:28] people have gathered since the third imposed war began on the 28th of
[00:07:31] February. The demonstrators expressed their support for the war effort,
[00:07:35] carrying red flags in call for revenge against Trump and Netanyahu,
[00:07:39] highlighting their righteous and ceaseless anger at the killing... of Imam
[00:07:43] Khamenei and the aggression that the Zionis have launched against Iran.
[00:07:46] In one of my final nights in Tahran, I visited Tabiat Bridge, where an
[00:07:50] open-air exhibition was being held called unfinished homework,
[00:07:54] dedicated to the more than 400 children matured as result the
[00:07:58] recent US sinust aggression against the country, including Imam Khamenei's
[00:08:02] granddaughter and the school children of Minab. It was
[00:08:05] poinnant reminder the enemy's sick brutality and the scale of
[00:08:09] sacrifice endured by the Iranian people. The... many other
[00:08:12] vignetes from my time in the Islamic Republic of Iran, but I want to conclude my
[00:08:16] reflections by saying that Iran is a deeply misunderstood and underestimated
[00:08:20] nation, and I encourage those with an open mind to visit the country and to
[00:08:24] learn about it for themselves, as well as to experience the richness of its
[00:08:27] landscapes, architecture, cuisine, people and
[00:08:31] culture. I'd also caution the warmongers in the west that if
[00:08:35] it wasn't clear already, Iran and its people are not easy
[00:08:38] targets, their three thousand year old civilization, their Islamic revolution.
[00:08:42] Ethos and their resolved to be free, sovereign and independent runs
[00:08:46] deep and strong. They've already landed many defeats
[00:08:50] against the US sionist empire, and they will continue to do
[00:08:54] so. And with that, let's turn to the interview that I
[00:08:57] conducted with Kyla Walsh. Kala is a journalist and
[00:09:00] anti-imperalist activist, originally from the United States and she now
[00:09:04] works with vocal politics in Lebanon. Just recently, she became the
[00:09:08] target of letter to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the US
[00:09:11] attorney. written by Jewish zionist US congressman Randy
[00:09:15] Fine. The letter called a traiter and terrorist, asking
[00:09:19] for her to be potentially executed for attending Imam Khamenei's
[00:09:23] funeral. I give Kala my full solidarity in the face of
[00:09:27] such barbaric threats. Let's watch the interview
[00:09:30] now. Kala, thank you very much for joining me
[00:09:34] on attrition today here in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It's
[00:09:38] so great to be on the show in person with you and to be in Iran with you, although I
[00:09:42] wish you... could be here under better circumstances. Kala, we've
[00:09:45] witnessed the historic, momentous funeral
[00:09:49] the martered leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Sayid
[00:09:53] Ali Husseini Khamenei. What have been your impressions the
[00:09:57] funeral and have you been surprised by the size of it and the
[00:10:00] turnout? I think I did expect there to be huge turnout. I mean
[00:10:04] everyone was saying before it started that this would be the biggest
[00:10:07] funeral in history the world or one them, and I think it certainly
[00:10:11] beat that record. Uh, what especially surprised me, I guess, was
[00:10:15] that 10 million are estimated to have attended in
[00:10:19] Iraq, a country that was uh, a US-backed war,
[00:10:23] imposed war on Iran, uh, just... few decades ago, I think that is
[00:10:26] absolutely incredible, the solidarity between the Iranian and
[00:10:30] adaqi peoples. I've never been in crowd this
[00:10:34] large in my entire life. It's impossible to put into words. I
[00:10:37] don't think it's something I will process for
[00:10:40] years, and just to see people
[00:10:44] of all ages of all walks of life, men,
[00:10:47] women, people of different races, even people of different religious
[00:10:51] backgrounds, sobbing, crying for say come and...
[00:10:55] uh, he wasn't just this head of state or this figure head that
[00:10:59] the western media pants him to be, he was the father of this
[00:11:03] nation, he was the father of an uma, and he was
[00:11:07] the father of all anti-imperialist people around the world who -
[00:11:11] support the resistance who are struggling for liberation, and so
[00:11:14] people are crying as if they lost their own father.
[00:11:18] you said lot there about how mini resonates with people
[00:11:22] a general level, wanted to ask you, "what did Said
[00:11:26] Ali Khamenei mean to you and what do you think that the
[00:11:29] left in western nations can learn from his life?
[00:11:33] I think people on the left who, as we've spoken about
[00:11:37] before, have this fetishism of secularism, who
[00:11:41] refused to take any religious perspective seriously, write
[00:11:45] his work, his thought off all together, or maybe they only support him
[00:11:48] as a militant, but not actually for his thought and his
[00:11:52] contributions to revolution." revolutionary theory,
[00:11:56] anti-imperialist theory, and I think simply we have to
[00:12:00] read what he wrote. I mean, for me, reading what he
[00:12:03] wrote about say the movement in the US, his his work was truly
[00:12:07] universal, but he also spoke about so many different nations, different
[00:12:11] struggles outside of Iran, whether is Africa, Latin America. He
[00:12:15] addressed several letters to the western youth uh in regards the
[00:12:19] Black Lives Matter movement back in 2014, and then also during the
[00:12:22] Gaza solidarity encampments. addressing the western youth,
[00:12:26] supporting their struggle, recognizing that people in the west who support
[00:12:30] Palestine who are against empire also repressed by their own
[00:12:34] regimes, which is incredible hand of solidarity to extend to
[00:12:38] people a country that has been bombing and sanctioning your country and
[00:12:41] eventually assassinated you, so we've been extended
[00:12:45] this this hand of solidarity, of partnership
[00:12:49] in resistance, and so I think it's really worth listening to the words of Sad
[00:12:53] Khamene uh reading his works and
[00:12:57] understanding the universalism of his message and how he was this
[00:13:00] leader for all anti-imperialist people around the
[00:13:04] worlds. Kala, you will have seen, as I
[00:13:07] have, countless placards, thousands them
[00:13:11] saying, "kill Trump, death to trump, we will kill
[00:13:14] Trump, variants of that kind." It seems that the Iranian
[00:13:18] people have spoken when it comes to what they consider to be a just
[00:13:21] resolution to the crime the...
[00:13:27] what do you think the responsibility is the people in the
[00:13:31] United States when it comes to
[00:13:34] meaningfully holding to account the US president Donald
[00:13:38] Trump? well, one, I think the chance, death to
[00:13:41] America, kill Trump, I think those are moderate stances at
[00:13:45] this point. I think that is like the most basic stance we could have,
[00:13:49] if we are against genocide, if we are against wars of aggression, if we are against
[00:13:53] global empire, 'of course we should be uh
[00:13:57] opposed to the existence the US empire as it is, and
[00:14:01] of course, it's completely logical for people whose leader was
[00:14:04] assassinated by Trump to want Trump's blood. um, I mean, what could
[00:14:08] you possibly expect, how could Trump be surprised by this?
[00:14:12] um, I think Iranians, whatever they chant,
[00:14:16] Margbar Amerika, uh, of course,
[00:14:19] you know, the Zionist, imperialist media in the west freaks
[00:14:23] out, but truly they've always emphasized so much, and there's direct
[00:14:27] quotes from Imam Khumeini, Imam Khamenei, about this, they don't
[00:14:30] mean all the people in the US, they mean the system of global
[00:14:34] arrogance and oppression and genocide,
[00:14:37] and as I said before, they've always recognized that there are
[00:14:41] struggles for liberation within the US, whether it's black people, whether
[00:14:45] it's indigenous people, they recognize how the US was founded upon genocide and
[00:14:49] chattle slavery, and that there are people fighting for their liberation in the
[00:14:53] US, and I think we also see this with the brilliant
[00:14:56] communication uh by Iranian military units during the war, mean
[00:15:00] dedicating missiles to the victims of epistene
[00:15:03] island to Alex Preddy and Rene Good who were killed in ice
[00:15:06] shootings, to black revolutionaries like tupac, they have this deep
[00:15:10] deep understanding of us culture, society that the
[00:15:14] US leadership obviously does not have as it regards Iran,
[00:15:17] because if they had understood Iran, they would not have thought they could win this
[00:15:21] war a couple days or a couple weeks, you...
[00:15:25] from leftest political background, what does
[00:15:29] the left in white western nations have to learn
[00:15:33] from Shia Islam when it comes to combatting Jewish
[00:15:36] supremacism? and genocidal American war
[00:15:39] crimes? I think we need to
[00:15:42] engage with Islamic and especially Shia Islamic
[00:15:45] Liberation theology, not just in
[00:15:49] supporting the militancy, but also engaging in study the
[00:15:53] thought and ideology. I think there is so much to learn from, as it
[00:15:57] pertains to how leftist movements, particularly western leftist
[00:16:01] movements have failed. I mean, something I think about lot in
[00:16:04] regards to Iran is how far
[00:16:06] it is in the... trajectory of its revolution, it's
[00:16:09] been uh 50 years and at that point in
[00:16:13] say soviet history or Chinese history, there had been
[00:16:16] revisionism, like there had been kind of a condemnation the
[00:16:20] revolution's own history, its past leaders, there had been a walking
[00:16:24] back of its support for militant liberation
[00:16:27] movements abroad, there had been just this focus on building socialism in
[00:16:31] one country, and Iran, I think why
[00:16:34] it is so successful is one, it has... ever engaged in
[00:16:38] such historical revisionism, and again, I'm not underminding the important
[00:16:41] role Russia and China play now in in making
[00:16:45] Iran's uh military, it's economy possible in terms
[00:16:48] the global like economic delinking from US imperialism, but if we're
[00:16:52] talking about building revolutionary state that is supporting broader liberation
[00:16:56] movements, Iran has never walked back its support for the
[00:17:00] other axis of resistance, nations and movements, and I think that is huge
[00:17:04] key to why
[00:17:05] it is so successful now, it's could have just
[00:17:08] you know stop supporting Palestine, stop supporting Lebanon, the sanctions could have been
[00:17:11] lifted, and it never made that choice because in
[00:17:15] Iran, supporting the oppressed is required in the
[00:17:18] constitution, and I don't think there's a single other constitution on earth with such
[00:17:22] clause as it requires supporting uh the oppressed,
[00:17:25] and third, I think there is a really important aspect
[00:17:29] the resistance in Iran, in the
[00:17:33] hasseini tradition, in the tradition the battle of
[00:17:36] Karbala. where it is justified to
[00:17:39] resist, it is required to resist, even if you are the
[00:17:42] last man standing or last woman standing, whereas
[00:17:47] think a lot of western marxism is characterized by this constant
[00:17:50] delaying the responsibility of resistance, this constant waiting
[00:17:54] for the perfect material conditions, which when most people say that they mean waiting for the
[00:17:58] western working class to be organized, and when we look at the western working
[00:18:02] class,
[00:18:03] it is bought off by the breadcrumbs from imperialism, the breadcrumbs.
[00:18:07] from genocide, we can't understand the western working class, albeit oppressed by its
[00:18:11] own ruling class, we can't understand it without understanding how it was engineered and
[00:18:15] props up by imperialism, and so I think this constant
[00:18:19] deferral the responsibility to resist bears start
[00:18:22] contrast with the constant
[00:18:25] embrace the role of resistance,
[00:18:29] not as something to be feared, but as sacred duty, whether it ends in
[00:18:33] victory or marterdom, each is considered victory, and this
[00:18:36] understanding of of revolution as transcending one's own lifetime
[00:18:40] carried on generation, generation, generation. I think the
[00:18:44] western left, the movement as a whole, leftist movements as a whole have
[00:18:47] lot to learn from this, because the left has ultimately
[00:18:51] in almost every place in the world, put down its arms, stopped
[00:18:55] resisting, stop fighting, and that is frankly why it is irrelevant on the
[00:18:59] international scene today, and that is why Iran, the access of
[00:19:02] resistance stand as the forefront of global resistance to
[00:19:06] imperialism. and zionism and is this new poll the
[00:19:10] world that countries are gravitating towards and people are gravitating towards because of what it
[00:19:14] represents, and not just what it says, but what is what it has shown it is
[00:19:18] materially willing to do in sacrifice for liberation. i think that
[00:19:22] lot of what you said there has actually made me think about
[00:19:25] Venezuela uh and the treatury that's going on there
[00:19:29] now under the presidency of Delhi
[00:19:32] Rodriguez and the comparison of course between the Islamic Republic of
[00:19:36] Iran and... Venezuela, Venezuela, which has
[00:19:40] really not put up a fight when it comes to counter
[00:19:43] revolution, following the removal of
[00:19:47] Nicholas Maduro, someone I consider to be hero as the president of
[00:19:50] Venezuela, someone who was deeply aligned with the resistance alongside his
[00:19:54] predecessor Hugo Chavez, and now we see Delti
[00:19:57] Rodriguez uh, among her the many things that she has
[00:20:01] done, now welcoming in officials from
[00:20:05] the Israel occupation forces. to help when it comes to
[00:20:09] Venezuela's earthquake getting people out of rubble, because of
[00:20:12] course the Israel occupation forces are experts and getting people out the
[00:20:16] rubble that they have produced in Gaza, south Lebanon
[00:20:20] and elsewhere, and also helping Venezuela to embark a
[00:20:24] plan for reconstruction. Tell me what you think about
[00:20:28] this and the comparison between Venezuela and the
[00:20:31] Islamic Republic? Absolutely. I mean, I tried to
[00:20:35] give Delsi Rodriguez and her... administration lot the benefit
[00:20:39] the doubt despite all the reporting coming out that even in October she was
[00:20:43] in these conversations to kind of take over if it came to
[00:20:47] it and uh have a more us
[00:20:50] friendly uh administration and my
[00:20:54] approach has not been, like I'm not coming up with some grand conspiracy about what
[00:20:57] happened, I think it's pretty clear what happened just looking at how the policy
[00:21:01] the Venezuelan government has changed, um, allowing
[00:21:05] oil to be sent even indirectly to the Israeli
[00:21:08] occupation, condemning Iran's retaliatory strikes
[00:21:12] on US military basis whilst not condemming the US Israely war of
[00:21:16] aggression on Iran, um, even like the domestic ec'.
[00:21:20] economic reforms are more justifiable or explanatory,
[00:21:23] but kicking out cuban doctors, cutting off ties and
[00:21:27] trade with Cuba, Iran, China,
[00:21:30] Russia, and deporting Alex Sab and
[00:21:34] making up these insane excuses for what Alex Sabab needs to be deported, that he had
[00:21:38] fake ID when he was granted an id and diplomate on behalf the
[00:21:41] Venezuelan government. I mean it's absurd, and I think we're offending
[00:21:45] ourselves if we're not admitting this reality for what it is. I
[00:21:49] think the western. left has made lot of excuses, i see all the time when these critiques are
[00:21:53] raised, oh it's this only the western left making these critiques
[00:21:56] and you're just being shovenis and you don't understand they're making
[00:22:00] a tactical retreat and what do you want the venezuelans to do all just
[00:22:04] die? um and again i'm i'm not saying what should or shouldn't
[00:22:07] have been done, but living in Lebanon for example, speaking to people in the
[00:22:11] community the resistance, it's incomprehensible to
[00:22:15] people that even if your leader, your army commander told you
[00:22:19] to... stand down and not resist the empire. If that happens in
[00:22:23] Hezbulah, if the leaders said stop fighting Israel, the
[00:22:27] fighters, the community, the base the resistance, they would keep fighting, they would kill their
[00:22:30] leadership, and so I think there is like huge distinction, and
[00:22:34] again, like I'm from the US, I'm from the country that has been at war against
[00:22:38] Venezuela that it staged this coup and invasion. It makes me very sad thinking
[00:22:42] about Nicolas Maduro and his wife sitting in solitary confinement
[00:22:46] every day, but this my perspective, it's based on conversations with people.
[00:22:50] in Venezuela, in Latin America uh about you, this
[00:22:54] ultimate betrayal, and as I said earlier, Iran's strength has really been
[00:22:57] in never abandoning its allies, even when Iran has been
[00:23:01] under imposed wars under these in meant sanctions regimes, and of
[00:23:05] course that in America is different context being more directly under the boot of US
[00:23:09] empire, but at the same time I think we can attribute what happened in
[00:23:12] Venezuela, like it's not just the fault of one
[00:23:16] individual Delsi, and it would be um, it would be...
[00:23:20] just mistaken to blame it on that or attribute it to that, it's also result
[00:23:24] of Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, taking these really
[00:23:27] cowardly stances that ultimately delegitimize
[00:23:30] Maduro's legitimacy and and sovereignty
[00:23:34] and election results, the same governments who of course are abandoning Cuba right
[00:23:38] now and letting Cuba be strangled in this economic
[00:23:41] blockade, um so I think it's it's really shameful what has
[00:23:45] happened and that the US thought that the same thing would happen in
[00:23:49] Iran is a fundamental difference in the understanding of
[00:23:53] Iran, and that's not to downplay the immense successes
[00:23:57] the Bolivarian revolution, but the Bullivarian revolution was
[00:24:01] this more like social revolution, this electoral process, and I think
[00:24:04] even the Cuban Revolution has very different character
[00:24:08] because it was one through uh many years of gorilla
[00:24:12] warfare of actually uh completely consolidating a one-party
[00:24:15] revolutionary state and ousting the opposition, outing...
[00:24:20] the war criminals, the US-backed war criminals that ruled before, and of course
[00:24:24] the Iranian revolution also had its own unique process, but of a
[00:24:27] militant revolution that really like reestablished an entire
[00:24:31] new system, and I don't think the Bullivarian revolution was ever that
[00:24:34] consolidated or completed to that end, and I think
[00:24:38] that can explain some of what we've seen today, but I
[00:24:42] think probably out of all the betrayals and
[00:24:46] counterrevolutionary setbacks that we've seen since January 3rd,
[00:24:50] IOF leaders sitting a table with Delhi
[00:24:53] Rodriguez planning not just their expertise and home
[00:24:57] demolition, which they know because they're committing genocide in Gaza and South
[00:25:00] Lebanon, but also Delsi is asking them to present an entire
[00:25:04] national reconstruction plan for the future.
[00:25:08] Um, I mean, how more blatant does this get, how many more excuses can
[00:25:12] we make before we recognize that this is a counter revolution, and I don't
[00:25:16] think pretending that it's not helps anyone. I'm also interested in carrying on the
[00:25:20] Bolivarian Revolution, I'm not so quick to say that
[00:25:22] it is dead, but it's up to the masses, it's up to the communes, it's up to the people to
[00:25:26] take it back into their own hands and sees it from this leadership that is
[00:25:30] selling it out to the Epstein regimes. Well K, you provided
[00:25:34] lot of food for thought there, I'd love to carry on engaging in this
[00:25:38] conversation, but I know that we're both very tired, it's been a long schedule
[00:25:41] here for the funeral the blessed
[00:25:44] Matatullah Khamenei, and I really appreciate you taking the time
[00:25:48] to speak with me. Thank you,
[00:25:50] it was a great discussion and thank you very much to all of our
[00:25:53] viewers, see you next
[00:25:55] time.
[00:26:03] و مولا با
[00:26:07] ما است این پیچ
[00:26:09] تاریخی طاقت
[00:26:12] فرساز
[00:26:15] باطل خواهد
[00:26:18] رفت ها بر
[00:26:21] جاست باید
[00:26:24] برخواست
[00:26:31] باید peace deal, i know, i know peace
[00:26:35] deal is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, like calling
[00:26:38] hostage negotiation, a play date. here's the
[00:26:42] setup, one side has tanks parked in the other side's backyard, the
[00:26:46] other side's resistance, the only force that actually fought
[00:26:50] Israel to a stand still in this region for two decades was
[00:26:53] even allowed in the room. that's not negotiation, there's the
[00:26:57] occupier writing the terms and calling it diplomacy. washington
[00:27:01] called it a good day. Israel side called it a major win,
[00:27:05] lebanon's government called it a first step towards sovereignty,
[00:27:08] but here's what the deal actually says, israely troops stay in
[00:27:12] southern Lebanon for as long as they want, no
[00:27:16] deadline, no exit date, meanwhile the Lebanese army is
[00:27:20] handed the job, this arm the Islamic resistance, the
[00:27:24] group that drove Israel out of Lebanon, once before
[00:27:28] a strict timeline with Israel and Washington grading its
[00:27:31] progress. they even build a committee for it, the military
[00:27:35] coordination group whose job is to decide if Lebanon is being
[00:27:39] sovereign enough. Think about that, nation needs a permission
[00:27:43] slip co-signed by the country occupying it to
[00:27:46] prove it controls its own territory, and while Lebanon
[00:27:50] disarms its own defenders, Nitin Yahoo, a
[00:27:53] man wanted by the international criminal court is
[00:27:57] celebrating, because the deal lets his army stay
[00:28:00] exactly where it is, when the side facing war
[00:28:04] crime charges is the happiest person at the signing, that
[00:28:07] tells you everything about who this deal actually serves. this is
[00:28:11] after months of Israeli strikes that killed
[00:28:14] 4,200 people and displaced
[00:28:17] hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians, according to Lebanon's
[00:28:21] own health ministry. now even rebuild their homes,
[00:28:25] lebanese families need their government to hit
[00:28:28] milestones approved by the same countries that
[00:28:31] just b. them
[00:28:33] we have seen this movie before 1983, same promises,
[00:28:37] same playbook and even weaker lebanese government
[00:28:41] and far more Israeli troops on the ground. it took the Lebanese people less than
[00:28:45] year
[00:28:45] to rip it to pieces and built a resistance that fought
[00:28:49] Israel out their country instead. history already answered the
[00:28:53] question this agreement is pretending to ask. the only
[00:28:57] thing that ever restored lebanese sovereignty wasn't a
[00:29:00] signature in Washington. It was
[00:29:03] resistance.
[00:29:53] Press TV headlines, Iran's acting defense minister, brigadier general, Maggi Dib
[00:29:56] Norez says the country's armed forces are ready to respond to any
[00:30:00] threats.
[00:30:04] The Israeli regime attacks
[00:30:06] Sadandia refugee camp in the occupied West Bank for the second consecutive
[00:30:09] day. Nearly dozen Palestinians are
[00:30:12] injured.
[00:30:17] Japanese prime minister
[00:30:18] San Itakaichi leads the commemorations on the 81st anniversary
[00:30:22] the US nuclear attack on the Japanese city of
[00:30:25] Hiroshima.
[00:30:38] Hello and welcome everybody, it's 2:30 p.m. here in the Iranian capital tehron, this is Press TV's
[00:30:42] world news. Our top story for this half hour, Iran's acting
[00:30:46] defense minister, brigadier general Majid Ibn Reza
[00:30:50] says, the country's armed forces are ready to respond to any
[00:30:53] threats. The top military commander said the Islamic Republic's military is
[00:30:57] fully equipped with indigenous military.