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[00:00:00] هویتمونه. جایی که کنارش
[00:00:04] بازی می
[00:00:04] کنیم.
[00:00:09] of روزیمونو ازش می
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[00:00:11] of گیریم. باهاش شادی می کنیم و با صداش آروم
[00:00:15] میشیم. جاییه که
[00:00:19] اجازه نزدیک
[00:00:20] of شدن دشمنامونو بهش نمیدیم. و
[00:00:24] تا همیشه ازش محافظت می کنیم. خلیج
[00:00:28] فارس
[00:00:29] of ما انگار یک. کتاب تاریخه. هر کدوم از
[00:00:32] موجاش
[00:00:33] of قصه های قدیمی سرزمینمونو تو دلش
[00:00:36] داره. خلیج
[00:00:40] فارس برای همه ما
[00:00:45] of ایرانیاست.
[00:00:51] of
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[00:01:40] suggest we stop the interview here. What do you
[00:01:43] say? Why you want
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[00:03:24] On June 8th, 1967, news
[00:03:28] of spreads around the world, which wasn't easy. to believe, unknown
[00:03:31] attackers target a US military ship in the Mediterranean sea
[00:03:34] after World War II, this was the first
[00:03:38] of time someone had dared to attack the U.S.
[00:03:44] of a military.
[00:03:54] of
[00:03:57] a
[00:04:08] of
[00:04:13] of
[00:04:18] of
[00:04:33] April 30th, 1945, when an all-out rivalry broke
[00:04:37] out between the western allies and the USSR to
[00:04:40] conquer Berlin, soldiers
[00:04:42] of the Red Army reach the heart of Nazi Germany sooner than the
[00:04:46] Americans. With the fall
[00:04:48] of the city and Adolf
[00:04:49] of Hitler committing suicide, the flames
[00:04:52] of the horrendous second war in Europe burnt
[00:04:55] out.
[00:05:06] of
[00:05:12] the death and destruction, as World War II was coming to an end, the
[00:05:16] two powerful conquerors could raise their flags on the mountains of
[00:05:20] soil and ashes and reorganize world order the
[00:05:24] way they wanted
[00:05:24] to.
[00:05:34] The eastern powerhouse was the USSR, which had the dream of
[00:05:38] spreading the ideals of communism and saving the masses the
[00:05:41] labor force. from the oppression of capitalists and on the
[00:05:45] other side, the wealthy western powerhouse, meaning the US was
[00:05:49] standing on the principles of using capital to create
[00:05:52] welfare.
[00:06:00] the USSR was doing everything in its power to entice the
[00:06:03] masses toward communist ideals and turn governments into
[00:06:07] its
[00:06:08] allies.
[00:06:43] Naser wanted to fill up the entire border Egypt had with this
[00:06:46] unwanted neighbor with his own military
[00:06:49] forces.
[00:06:56] It seemed the Soviet's plot for a war between the ideologies the East and
[00:07:00] the West in the Middle East had really worked. Noser took a
[00:07:04] further step that putting his forces on standby and shut
[00:07:08] down the strategic straights of Tiran in the Gulf of
[00:07:11] Akaba. The streets of Tiran were the only
[00:07:14] waterway access Israel had with the eastern part the world,
[00:07:18] the only passage way for the Israelies to import fuel had been
[00:07:22] shut down to the zinus and with this war became
[00:07:26] inevitable.
[00:07:41] June 5th, 7 in. morning, 180 Israeli fighter jets
[00:07:45] flew towards Egypt, only 12 fighter jets were left behind to
[00:07:48] defend the Israeli
[00:07:49] skies.
[00:07:56] 45 minutes later, Egypt's military airport runways were bombed and
[00:08:00] 280 Egyptian military jets on the ground were the targets of
[00:08:04] Israeli rockets. The Egyptians were
[00:08:07] so overwhelmingly surprised that they didn't even find the time to start their
[00:08:11] jet engines.
[00:08:19] "the next target for Israeli fighter jets was Syria. two
[00:08:22] hours later, the Assyrian air force was totally destroyed and in
[00:08:26] only few minutes, Jordan's air force had been dealt a heavy
[00:08:30] blow by Israeli fighters. this extraordinary surprise
[00:08:33] attack could not have been carried out without detailed intelligence
[00:08:37] superiority."
[00:08:42] on the... Sini desert, where Egyptian and Israeli armored units had
[00:08:46] lined up against each other, the Egyptians had the upper hand in
[00:08:49] military force. Egypt had three times the number of tanks that
[00:08:53] the Israelis did, but there was no air cover to keep
[00:08:56] sini sky safe for the
[00:08:58] Egyptians.
[00:09:17] The Egyptians had no option but to retreat. The orders to retreat
[00:09:21] in the Sinai desert came from the office of General Abdul Hakim
[00:09:25] Amir, the Egyptian War minister, but there was no plan
[00:09:29] for it. The unplanned retreat the Egyptians began and the
[00:09:32] Israeli fighter jets used the opportunity the best they could
[00:09:36] and devastated the
[00:09:37] Egyptians.
[00:09:50] When the USSR realized that in the matter of hours the balance of
[00:09:53] military power in the war in the Middle East had switched
[00:09:57] dramatically in favor of Israel, it gave 48 of
[00:10:01] its Mic fighter jets to fly from Ukraine to Armenia's naval
[00:10:04] base to prepare for attack against
[00:10:07] Israel.
[00:10:24] On the other. and the Kremlin activated the hotline between the US and
[00:10:28] the USSR so that Kosigin's ultimatum could be
[00:10:32] delivered to Washington, the text contained the message that
[00:10:35] since the US is Israel's supporter, we ask you to stop the
[00:10:39] continuation of Israel's aggression against Egyptian
[00:10:43] soil.
[00:10:47] about 7:15, the telephone rank was the duty officer in the war
[00:10:51] room, miss secretary, prime minister Kesegins on the hotline,
[00:10:55] speak to the president, so the president came on the line, he said, god damn it,
[00:10:59] Bob, what are you calling me for at this time in the morning? I said, Mr. President,
[00:11:03] Prime Minister Casigan's on the hotline, how do you wish to
[00:11:06] respond? Johnson didn't want the situation to turn into
[00:11:09] a military confrontation with the USSR. He
[00:11:13] immediately sent word to Moscow that with the help the
[00:11:16] USSR and the UN, the US will use any means to put an
[00:11:20] end to the war.
[00:11:31] "the first day of war was nearing midday when in a televised
[00:11:35] speech, eshkul and king Hussein and the rest the
[00:11:38] Arabs. We appeal to king
[00:11:41] Hussain and to other neighbors
[00:11:45] to stay their hand and Israel would do
[00:11:48] like, but king Hussein didn't take the advice so
[00:11:52] seriously.
[00:11:59] Therefore, at 10:30 in the morning the 5th of June,
[00:12:02] Al-Quds came under the attack of Jordan's artillery
[00:12:05] forces.
[00:12:22] But the Jordanians weren't able to do anything either. and the old city
[00:12:26] of Jerusalem Albuts, which they had control of before the war,
[00:12:30] fell to the
[00:12:30] Israelis.
[00:13:08] The sixth-day war was in his third day as the main battle was taking
[00:13:11] place somewhere far from where the Arabs and Israelis were
[00:13:15] fighting in the depths the Mediterranean waters. The US
[00:13:18] was unhappy about the USSR's dominance over the Middle
[00:13:22] East to confront communism from. anymore in the
[00:13:26] region, it was trying very hard to uncover the details
[00:13:30] the relations the USSR had with Arabs in the
[00:13:33] Middle East, this motivated them to quietly snoop around the
[00:13:37] intelligence cables of Cairo and Moscow, but because it
[00:13:41] didn't want the issue to be revealed so that no one would find out about it,
[00:13:45] everyone else had to be busy dealing with another
[00:13:48] crisis.
[00:13:52] the third day the war was reaching the evening when the... reached the international
[00:13:56] waters in the north of Egypt and Israel and it
[00:13:59] transmitted the initial news of Israel's victories and the conquest
[00:14:03] the old city of Alkuz to the
[00:14:05] NSA.
[00:14:20] But the question which had kept the officers on board the Liberty
[00:14:23] busy
[00:14:24] was why? an unarmed military ship should be present in the vicinity of a
[00:14:28] conflict zone without an armed escort and be left all
[00:14:32] alone. the commander the liberty, captain William
[00:14:35] McGonigal asked this question from the commander the US
[00:14:38] Navy's sixth fleet which had retreated 100 miles from the
[00:14:42] region. we were told there was no need to worry, we had
[00:14:46] asked commander six fleet for
[00:14:50] an armed guard to go along with us, destroyer,
[00:14:54] he... sent the message back saying we were in in
[00:14:58] international waters flying the American insen, there was no need
[00:15:01] for an armed
[00:15:03] escort. When Egypt and
[00:15:06] Jordan were removed from Israel's path, it was time for the golen heights on
[00:15:10] the border between Israel and Syria to come under the watchful
[00:15:14] eyes the Israelis. 12 hours later, and with heavy
[00:15:18] fire of fighter jets and artillery forces, not only did the
[00:15:22] Syrians retreat from Israel's borders, but the... on heights were
[00:15:26] also occupied by the
[00:15:27] Israelis.
[00:15:43] A few kilometers away from the war zone on the fourth day the
[00:15:47] battle, the officers and crew the liberty had just woken up
[00:15:51] and were busy with their morning activities. A while later,
[00:15:54] several unknown planes got closer to the ship and encircled it
[00:15:58] many times to completely identify the ship. The planes
[00:16:02] didn't display any flags on their bodies and the Liberty's crew wasn't
[00:16:06] able to identify. which country they belong to, but the
[00:16:09] recorded conversation the pilot and watch tower shows that
[00:16:13] the planes had identified the liberty
[00:16:15] well.
[00:16:29] few hours later, when it was few minutes past 2 pm, three mirage
[00:16:33] jets, which still didn't have the insignia of any country, got...
[00:16:37] close to the liberty and bomb the ship as much as they could with their
[00:16:41] rockets,
[00:16:55] but the main question was which side the war may have attacked the
[00:16:59] liberty, Egypt or
[00:17:00] Israel.
[00:17:08] as a wounded and astonished crew was thinking about the Egyptians don't
[00:17:12] even have mirage jets, something else
[00:17:15] happened.
[00:17:29] the minutes later, unknown mistier jets reached the liberty and
[00:17:33] targeted the halfburn ship with a nap
[00:17:35] bomb.
[00:17:42] When the liberty was burning under the fire of attacking jets, three unannounced
[00:17:46] guests which were displaying the American flag, were watching the events
[00:17:50] unfold from beneath the waters in the region, and we're informing the
[00:17:54] Pentagon of every single moment of what was
[00:17:56] happening.
[00:18:05] The telecommunications officers the ship. were trying their best to
[00:18:08] transmit news the attack to the sixth fleet and ask them for
[00:18:12] help, but the noise that the attack jets were sending on the liberties
[00:18:16] frequencies to transmit communications prevented the
[00:18:19] transfer the
[00:18:20] messages.
[00:18:24] here's the question I have to ask: who would know the frequencies
[00:18:28] other than ally, and who is the ally in
[00:18:32] the war? it wasn't Egypt, it was
[00:18:35] Israel. in the end and one the liberties
[00:18:38] transmissions reached the USS America warship and the commander
[00:18:42] the ship issued orders for two US fighter jets to take
[00:18:46] off to defend the
[00:18:47] liberty.
[00:19:02] so all of this happens and they call guys, help us, we're under attack, we're being engaged by
[00:19:05] torpedo boats and bombers and fighters and we need your help
[00:19:09] and they're locking down bulkheads and burning and people are dying and they're strifing
[00:19:12] lifeboats against the Geneva Convention and all rules of war and common sense and
[00:19:16] decency buse they had to kill everybody and Macton comes on and says you will not launch
[00:19:20] a wing we're not going to do that and but as soon as word
[00:19:24] reached the white house that the jets had taken off to defend the liberty the
[00:19:27] defense secretary sent an urgent message to the sixth fleet and asked
[00:19:31] the commander the fleet to immediately return his jets back to the
[00:19:35] warship without asking any. questions, since
[00:19:39] Admiral Gates was shocked by this strange order, he contacted
[00:19:43] Washington to remind them that an American Warship is under
[00:19:46] fire by unknown planes and asks why he shouldn't act to support
[00:19:50] the ship. In
[00:19:54] the end, he told Macnima implement such strange order and
[00:19:58] return the jets which had taken off to support the liberty. He
[00:20:02] needed orders from a more superior position. This time
[00:20:05] President Johnson spoke and told geis that he wanted that damn
[00:20:09] ship to sink and had no intentions in upsetting his
[00:20:12] ally, order the jets to fly back, he
[00:20:15] said, the admiral ignores it, they go ahead and launch
[00:20:19] wings, they're not calling them back, they've been launched, and then all of sudden over the radio
[00:20:23] line comes the telephone call, batched in, it's the president, i want
[00:20:27] that goddamn shit going to the
[00:20:29] bottom, that's a
[00:20:32] quote, i want that
[00:20:35] goddamn ship. into the bottom, but when
[00:20:39] even the witnesses to the event didn't know whether the attacks were being carried
[00:20:43] out by the Egyptians or the Israelis, how did Johnson know that the
[00:20:47] fighter jets belong to his friends and ally Israel?
[00:20:55] Sometime later, Johnson accompanied by Mac Numera and the Secretary of
[00:20:59] State, Dean Rusk, and number the government's advisors gathered
[00:21:03] in the White House the situation room to come to the conclusion that the
[00:21:07] party to blame for the crisis is Egypt, and number the
[00:21:10] government's advisers gathered in the White House's situation room to come
[00:21:14] to the conclusion that the party to blame for the crisis is
[00:21:18] Egypt, therefore, This time, the hotline between Washington
[00:21:22] and Moscow was activated by the White House. The message was,
[00:21:26] a US Warship has been attacked by unknown fighter planes in
[00:21:30] international waters in the north of Egypt, and the only suspect in this
[00:21:34] attack is the Ally the USSR, meaning
[00:21:37] Egypt. The White House wants to respond to this attack with nuclear
[00:21:41] attack on Cairo. The orders for the attack reached the sixth
[00:21:45] fleet. Without wasting any time, three US fighter jets were
[00:21:48] equipped with nuclear. weapons and flew toward the Egyptian
[00:21:52] capital.
[00:22:21] word of an inevitable attack on Cairo reach Richard Parker, the
[00:22:25] US political consul in Cairo first. there was
[00:22:28] this message that they the navy was uh
[00:22:32] preparing to retaliate against Egypt for the
[00:22:36] attack on the liberty. they thought that it
[00:22:40] was the Egyptians who attacked it. they were
[00:22:43] preparing to to attack Egypt in
[00:22:45] response.
[00:22:50] It was 2:30 p.m. when three Israeli torpedo boats got close to
[00:22:54] the half-burnt liberty and fired five torpedos at
[00:22:57] it.
[00:23:02] One them hit the middle the ship and created a huge hole in its
[00:23:06] starboard side. Due
[00:23:10] to the torpedo attacks, the ship's propulsive forces stopped
[00:23:13] working and the transmitting systems were totally
[00:23:16] destroyed.
[00:23:21] At the same time that US jets armed with nuclear weapons
[00:23:25] were on the way to Cairo, Robert McMamera, the US defense
[00:23:29] secretary, contacted the USS America the sixth
[00:23:32] fleet so he could deliver another strange order to the
[00:23:36] commander the ship. Macnamera asked guys to immediately
[00:23:40] recall the jets which were in route to
[00:23:42] Cairo.
[00:23:50] Early next morning, the USS America, USS Davis
[00:23:53] and USS Massi arrived to remove the 34 dead
[00:23:57] sailors and 174 naval officers
[00:24:01] from the burnt down liberty and transfer the warship to Malta for
[00:24:05] repairs.
[00:24:17] An hour later, admiral Isaac who was in charge of
[00:24:20] investigating the liberty incident arrived on the scene to hear what the
[00:24:24] victims had to say so he can offer a written report to his
[00:24:27] superiors.
[00:24:31] after the suspicious liberty incident, word the bizarre Israeli
[00:24:35] attack on the US warship spread around the
[00:24:38] world. israelis claimed they'd mistaken the liberty with the
[00:24:42] Egyptian ship al-kuser. this is while the
[00:24:46] al-cuser was retired cargo ship and wasn't even half the s
[00:24:50] the USS
[00:24:51] Liberty.
[00:25:21] The bombs may have passed, but don't mistake that for
[00:25:24] peace. This week on the mide east stream we uncover the dangerous
[00:25:28] illusion behind Washington's diplomacy as Donald Trump talks
[00:25:31] negotiations with Iran while reportedly preparing for even bigger
[00:25:35] military strike. Is the Armani mediation buying peace
[00:25:39] or merely buying time before the next explosion? Then
[00:25:43] we shift south where Saudi Arabia's return to war against Yemen has
[00:25:47] ignited new front with the devast. consequences from
[00:25:51] the burning Aramco complex in Gizan to mounting threats
[00:25:55] against one the world's most vital shipping
[00:25:58] lanes. We'll examine how one reckless decision could turn an...
[00:26:02] already fragile global economy into a full-scale
[00:26:06] maritime crisis, the road to wider war this
[00:26:10] week on the midiast
[00:26:11] stream.
[00:26:56] the picture behind me is that the marcher leader and when you look at that
[00:27:00] picture it really signifies. or he was a sense
[00:27:04] someone larger than life, because he was not just the leader of
[00:27:07] Iran, he was also a marlid
[00:27:10] and within shah islam, that is someone where people around the
[00:27:13] world, especially shia muslim take their jurispundence from him, this
[00:27:17] translation the Quran is exogeneces on some the
[00:27:21] ahadit the prophet, and in reality how people should live
[00:27:25] their daily
[00:27:25] life,
[00:27:29] and so when the news of is mat delivered, the
[00:27:33] grief did not stay here in Iran, we saw people mourn
[00:27:37] in Lagos, in Kinshasa, in Kenya,
[00:27:41] in India, in Pakistan, in Syria, all over the
[00:27:44] world, he had people who loved him, even people who
[00:27:48] were not religious mourned his martredom, because he
[00:27:52] stood as figure who stood against injustice, who
[00:27:56] stood against the abstin class and he was matured for
[00:28:00] that,
[00:28:06] his voice will be greatly missed, not just because of by the people in
[00:28:09] Iran, but people outside Iran who love this man,
[00:28:13] who embodied everything Iran is, it was lover of
[00:28:17] heart, lover of poet and someone who
[00:28:21] loves to read, and so when you look at the
[00:28:25] personality of sayid, was matured, there is something
[00:28:29] you can pick that makes you love him, and that is why he... does not
[00:28:32] just belong to the people of Iran and the coming days we will be seeing and
[00:28:36] perhaps interviewing people from all over the world who have come to Iran to
[00:28:40] say a
[00:28:40] good
[00:28:48] boys.
[00:30:09] The headlines, yemy armed forces say they have conducted major
[00:30:12] military operation against Saudi back mercenaries in
[00:30:16] Yemen who were planning to attack Capital Sana.
[00:30:20] Iran dismantles a network spying for Musad and Kermon
[00:30:24] and a terrorist cell planning attacks in Sistan and
[00:30:27] Baluchestan
[00:30:28] province. And also.
[00:30:32] Coming up, Israely troops raid the Glondia refugee camp in the west bank for
[00:30:36] the second day, they've also injured at least eight people in
[00:30:40] southern Lebanon as
[00:30:41] well.
[00:30:54] You're watching Press AV world news with me Kirash Punemati here at the Iranian
[00:30:58] capital, Tehran, welcome to.