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[00:00:00] quietly a piece of broken concrete, waiting in the same place
[00:00:04] where she last knew her son existed. Malcon's body was
[00:00:08] never recovered. His story reminds us that the deepest wound
[00:00:12] of war is not only the
[00:00:14] of lives it takes, sometimes the greatest cruelty is leaving
[00:00:17] mother with nowhere to hold her final
[00:00:23] of goodbye.
[00:00:27] of
[00:00:38] of
[00:00:47] of where
[00:00:50] Iran and Oman are working toward new operational
[00:00:54] framework for one
[00:00:55] of the world's most critical maritime choke points. Iranian
[00:00:59] officials argue that any future arrangement should reflect the sovereign
[00:01:03] rights and security responsibilities
[00:01:05] of the two coastal states. report suggests discussions include
[00:01:09] new service fees for navigation. supporters
[00:01:12] of the proposed framework argue that charges for navigation,
[00:01:16] safety, vessel, traffic management, security escorts and environmental
[00:01:20] protection could be
[00:01:21] of structured in manner consistent with the existing
[00:01:25] international practice. critics, however, content that any new
[00:01:29] financial or regulatory regime could affect freedom of
[00:01:33] navigation and global energy markets, so are we witnessing the
[00:01:36] emergence of new marime order in the straight of removes? what
[00:01:40] would it mean for regional
[00:01:42] in security, the global economy and the balance of power in west Asia? that's what
[00:01:46] we'll be discussing tonight with our
[00:01:48] guests,
[00:01:52] a
[00:01:57] joining us from
[00:01:59] of London. and Christopher
[00:02:03] Horstell, author and politician joining us from
[00:02:06] Berlin.
[00:02:10] Gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. Um, I'm going to start
[00:02:15] of with Mr. Horstelle our guest in Berlin. Thank you so much for being with
[00:02:18] us. Um, let's begin with your broad takeaway on the
[00:02:22] situation
[00:02:22] of the straight of removes, the choices that the US has in order to
[00:02:26] counter any agreements that Iran and Oman um...
[00:02:30] may be reaching very soon and why and how would such an
[00:02:33] agreement be strategically important at this time and
[00:02:37] place? we see that the
[00:02:40] US now
[00:02:42] of militarily quite crippled, they are unable in
[00:02:45] fact to strongly attack Iran, it
[00:02:49] doesn't help them, Iran is much
[00:02:52] of stronger in its responses
[00:02:54] of and that
[00:02:55] in sets all these little or bigger countries in
[00:02:59] the re'. somehow free, they have nothing to
[00:03:03] fear from the US anymore, that
[00:03:05] of tiger has become a paper tiger, but
[00:03:08] it is murderous paper tiger which can kill
[00:03:12] people, so this is the the situation we have, and the
[00:03:15] talks between oman and Iran are
[00:03:19] traditionally very good, there's a
[00:03:21] in good relationship, these countries are open and honest
[00:03:25] towards each other, and this is what we see as
[00:03:28] a result, and this... serious and reliable
[00:03:32] policy of Iran towards all the
[00:03:34] of neighbors is now
[00:03:36] of paying out, that is very, very clear, so I think that it's
[00:03:40] a good chance that this works, unless in
[00:03:43] fact Trump issues military
[00:03:47] strong threats against the uh Roman
[00:03:50] government to stop them from concluding
[00:03:54] these deals, but that will set up lot of trouble, and
[00:03:57] I heard just this afternoon, from a direct
[00:04:01] quotation
[00:04:02] a from the Pakistani field marshall Assim Munier, the strong
[00:04:06] man of Pakistan so to say, that he told Donald
[00:04:10] Trump personally, quote, the time of
[00:04:13] escalation is over, unquote, so that is the
[00:04:17] situation, and the Saudis through Muhammad
[00:04:20] bin have
[00:04:22] of made it amply clear to the US, that should they start
[00:04:25] any aggression against Iran, they have
[00:04:29] no... allowance okay from the saudi side to
[00:04:33] use their airspace and that's vital, there's a huge
[00:04:37] detour they would have to fly, so in fact we have a
[00:04:40] situation here where something
[00:04:43] you know slowly, slowly, slowly something comes closer towards
[00:04:47] a solution, and a good deal right now
[00:04:50] with oman and Iran will give face
[00:04:54] saving device to us president Trump who is
[00:04:57] beleged because he's losing. the big majority
[00:05:01] of the American support for his crazy policies, so that is
[00:05:05] a good chance that this in fact can appease a
[00:05:09] little bit the
[00:05:10] of American idea,
[00:05:11] you know that... not only Iran should be there, so that's
[00:05:15] it, but there will be, that is very clear from all inside
[00:05:19] talks, no and zero compromise from the Iranian
[00:05:23] side beyond the MOU. The
[00:05:26] Americans now have to fulfill the Mou,
[00:05:30] and after that Iran talks, before that there will be zero
[00:05:34] talks, no matter what Trump is lying about his fantastic
[00:05:37] contacts to hisb
[00:05:39] and to Iran and whatsoever, we have a... very
[00:05:43] serious project and that is the situation that
[00:05:46] Iran is not attacking Israel for its
[00:05:50] violations the mou against Lebanon, which
[00:05:53] is increasingly looking like Gaza, and my
[00:05:57] Gaza brothers are calling me by the day, they are
[00:06:01] starving, and please, so to say, my Iranian friends, that's right,
[00:06:05] Mr. Israel for that, because you
[00:06:08] are the only power in the world, the only country with guts.
[00:06:12] with the good population was behind its government and
[00:06:16] punish this country for its multiple crimes, exactly, my brother
[00:06:20] Abu Safia is dying an Israeli
[00:06:23] prison, we are going to come back to that, I'm so sorry to
[00:06:27] interrupt, but we are going to come back to that topic, let me also bring in to
[00:06:31] this conversation, Masud Shajara, chairman the Islamic Human
[00:06:35] Rights Commission joining us from the British Capital, London, thank you so much Mr. Shajara
[00:06:39] for being with us, um, so many things uh... to talk
[00:06:43] about, let's talk about the situation on February 27,
[00:06:47] 2026, the straight off moves was open to
[00:06:50] commercial shipping, um, even different ships from different
[00:06:54] countries entered the straight uh and into the Persian
[00:06:57] Gulf, also at the same time Donald Trump had
[00:07:01] so-called allies in the Persian Gulf countries. Right
[00:07:04] now, after more than five months, the situation has changed
[00:07:08] dramatically, the straight of for moves is in full control the...
[00:07:12] Iranian armed forces and those allies, according to Mr.
[00:07:15] Horstoll's analysis, are turning
[00:07:19] back from what they have been doing throughout the
[00:07:22] years. Absolutely, I think we need
[00:07:25] to sort of separate illusions
[00:07:28] that Trump is trying to hold up
[00:07:32] and create, and the reality, the reality is
[00:07:36] that United States has lost this war, the
[00:07:40] reality is that Trump. stop, he doesn't know
[00:07:44] what to do, he knows that he needs to give
[00:07:47] concession, he knows that the game has totally
[00:07:51] changed, not just regarding the sort
[00:07:55] the governments in
[00:07:58] the Persian gulf, but the
[00:08:01] you know whole spectral
[00:08:04] the situation has changed, Iran is a very
[00:08:08] powerful position because United State...
[00:08:12] all his mind and support of Israel and
[00:08:16] indeed even some the local
[00:08:19] governments and and indeed Europeans
[00:08:22] providing logistical support
[00:08:26] is failed, it actually lost the war and there is no
[00:08:30] way that that could change
[00:08:33] and and what Trump is trying to do by
[00:08:37] creating illusions and by sort of one
[00:08:40] minute saying that there is deal. and the next minute is saying that
[00:08:44] is going to wipe Iran the
[00:08:48] map the world
[00:08:49] and and destroy it totally is trying to
[00:08:53] manage this defeat, this
[00:08:56] you know total defeat and is not manageable, it's getting
[00:08:59] worse and now regional
[00:09:03] governments all realizing that they cannot no
[00:09:07] longer continue supporting united
[00:09:10] state and and indeed they
[00:09:14] want resolution, they want end to this
[00:09:17] conflict, they want to go back to some level of
[00:09:21] normality, and they realized that that
[00:09:24] normality could only be
[00:09:27] realistic and could be only achieved by giving
[00:09:31] Iran what is rightful
[00:09:35] sort of position is in the region and
[00:09:38] in in regarding the hormones so... so
[00:09:42] this is a reality that the longer Trump
[00:09:46] tries to ignore and try to um sort of
[00:09:50] undermine it by creating illusions, the worse you
[00:09:54] will become, and the best thing all
[00:09:57] around for everyone, including United States and
[00:10:00] Europeans and the regional government is
[00:10:04] to see solution to see the implementation of
[00:10:08] memorandum of understanding, to see solution of...
[00:10:13] ending the aggression of zionist
[00:10:16] state against his neighbor, against
[00:10:18] humanity, and
[00:10:21] you know, so
[00:10:22] the world could actually start
[00:10:24] putting the... lives back together and this
[00:10:28] crisis to begin to be
[00:10:31] resolved. that's right. mr.
[00:10:34] horstoll, under the strato for moves deal currently being
[00:10:38] discussed
[00:10:39] uh the st that i'm going to tell you are based on
[00:10:42] routers. um, Iran is seeking transit fees
[00:10:45] of 5% to 7% the cargo price of
[00:10:49] vessels passing through the strategic waterray the strict of remoz.
[00:10:53] Omani officials are pushing or lower fees of around
[00:10:56] 3%. Washington is claiming that it wants zero
[00:11:00] transit fees. I don't know where
[00:11:03] that come from comes from. A fully laiden VLCC, which is very
[00:11:07] large crude carrier carries around 150
[00:11:11] million dollars worth of oil, um, which a 5%
[00:11:15] fee on it that the very least would equal 5.7 million
[00:11:19] dollars per ship, and when considering the average cargo and
[00:11:22] volume of ships passing through the straight each. it would net
[00:11:26] Iran roughly about 45 billion dollars in
[00:11:30] tolls yearly when we are speaking about that, this number
[00:11:33] is uh is big enough
[00:11:37] that it has two different ramifications, one
[00:11:41] it gives iran an economic leverage over different countries that are
[00:11:45] coming in through the straight of her mouse and at the same time a
[00:11:49] political one, your thoughts,
[00:11:53] well to make that very clear. Iran has charged already
[00:11:57] 1 million dollar per ship,
[00:12:00] roughly like like this, and that was
[00:12:03] easily taken up by the economy. We are now a
[00:12:07] situation where the global economy is suffering to such
[00:12:11] huge extent that we don't know how much
[00:12:15] the catastrophe in the end will be globally. So this
[00:12:19] is the situation under these circumstances and
[00:12:22] also seeing. the
[00:12:25] sacrifices of 30,000 dead
[00:12:29] Iranians, hundreds of hospitals and schools
[00:12:33] intentionally destroyed by the US,
[00:12:36] I do think there is a growing understanding that
[00:12:40] Iran is good and capable to maintain
[00:12:44] a very healthy order for a
[00:12:48] long period over hormous, and that is what the global
[00:12:51] economy, what all the peoples around the world want. "they
[00:12:55] finally want peace, they want order, they want new
[00:12:59] security for their shipments, and I think they are ready
[00:13:03] to pay a higher price than before. I'm no
[00:13:06] expert on these things, I can only do my
[00:13:10] political judgment, and the political judgment very clearly
[00:13:14] says that Iran's reputation globally has
[00:13:18] grown so much, while the US have gone
[00:13:22] gone down like a missile in the..." the direction so
[00:13:26] to say, so this is the situation, so for that reason I
[00:13:29] think the world is ready for Iran to
[00:13:33] levy a justified price, and that's it, if
[00:13:37] that is now five to 7%, from my side, I
[00:13:41] can politically agree, um, but as I say,
[00:13:45] I'm not an expert, and I think couldn't be more, mr.
[00:13:49] horstoll, would Europeans back an Iranian plan over
[00:13:52] the straight of moves, or would they... uh, in your opinion, is it
[00:13:56] likely that they will go with Donald Trump
[00:13:59] here? yeah, that last part of your
[00:14:02] question is so very interesting, so for one thing, the
[00:14:06] Europeans are,
[00:14:08] you know, toothless vessels, they are not free to
[00:14:12] do or to say anything, as far as the
[00:14:16] global deep states rule over Europe,
[00:14:20] Germany as a non-sovereign state has a special situation, we
[00:14:24] are ruled by the... American deep st, that's
[00:14:26] a special story globally, so this kind of rule
[00:14:30] makes sure that nothing that is good for Iran will
[00:14:34] come from Europe, no matter what Mr. Macron
[00:14:38] from time to time is telling, he is just making up stories, we
[00:14:41] know that he talked about peace with Russia and special understanding
[00:14:45] and he kept zero promises and is a cheater, so this
[00:14:49] is the situation unfortunately, so I'm not expecting
[00:14:53] anything good from the Europe. but yes, Iran
[00:14:57] is independent, Iran is strong enough to impose its own
[00:15:01] rules and make the Europeans
[00:15:04] understand that you know, if they try anything
[00:15:08] funny sending warships to the Gulf
[00:15:12] of Persia or even into the Red Sea, they have just withdrawn, the
[00:15:16] Germans for example, they understand they are in no
[00:15:19] way capable to put a counterweight against
[00:15:23] Iran, so
[00:15:24] I think... simply obey, that's all. Thank you so much.
[00:15:28] Mr. Shajar, how would in your opinion a formalized
[00:15:32] Iran and Oman maritime arrangements the
[00:15:36] strage of horm? affect the global economy at this
[00:15:39] point? well, i
[00:15:42] think the global economy needs recovery,
[00:15:46] the global economy needs stability
[00:15:49] and an agreement and
[00:15:53] process will exactly give it what it needs
[00:15:57] and this is why everyone is waiting for it to
[00:16:00] happen, but i think it will be wrong to
[00:16:04] look at the thing only from economical.
[00:16:07] perspective, economy is important, is important to
[00:16:11] Iran, is important to Oman, is important to the
[00:16:15] regional nations, and indeed important
[00:16:18] globally, but I think what is really
[00:16:22] has happened, what significant the
[00:16:25] victory of Iran, victory for Iran out of
[00:16:29] this war is that Iran cannot no longer
[00:16:33] be treated as it was treated before,
[00:16:37] facing sanction, facing demonization,
[00:16:40] facing sort of every
[00:16:44] possible pressure, economically,
[00:16:47] politically, and being demonized,
[00:16:50] you know, iranophobia have become a n,
[00:16:53] and but after this war, after this victory, this
[00:16:57] cannot happen any longer, Iran will
[00:17:00] not allow it to happen, it's not just about how much you are going
[00:17:04] to charge for the services. allowing
[00:17:08] every ship to go through is about the fact
[00:17:11] that
[00:17:12] you know Iran has got a pain card that
[00:17:16] is very powerful, it affects the global
[00:17:19] economy and not everybody knows that the gene
[00:17:23] cannot be put back into the bottle, and this is
[00:17:27] exactly where we are, and unless there is recognition of
[00:17:31] this by Trump and
[00:17:34] and then we will have...
[00:17:38] more time for him to sort
[00:17:41] of be forced to recognize the
[00:17:44] reality of geographical reality, political
[00:17:48] reality and military
[00:17:51] reality the region and recognize that
[00:17:55] you know he cannot lie his way out of this, and looking
[00:17:59] at the situation of Europe, Europeans have
[00:18:02] proven that they are irrelevant, they have been irrelevant
[00:18:06] for very long. long time, JCPO,
[00:18:10] you know, they showed that they are incompetent and
[00:18:13] irrelevant, they can neither resolve or bring any
[00:18:16] solution or indeed have any
[00:18:20] say in in the
[00:18:22] in the in those processes and right now they
[00:18:26] have, they have made it very clear by their
[00:18:29] action that they are not plays in this state,
[00:18:33] and Trump has shown that he wants to
[00:18:37] be... the main man of a player, but he had no card to
[00:18:40] play, he is indeed stuck in the
[00:18:43] mod and he has to recognize the
[00:18:47] reality. the longer it takes is going to be more
[00:18:50] painful for everyone, but at the end of
[00:18:54] it, the game is not going to change, the reality is that
[00:18:58] Iran is a very powerful position after this
[00:19:02] victory and indeed the future and
[00:19:06] the future of region. belongs to it and it is
[00:19:09] irrelevant the agreement with oman or
[00:19:13] not, there would be agreement, the relationship, as my
[00:19:17] colleague said between Iran and Roman is is
[00:19:20] exceptional, and they will come with
[00:19:23] the resolution, but the problem is that is not
[00:19:27] resolution with Oman, is is recognition of
[00:19:30] Trump, recognizing that he
[00:19:33] hasn't got any other option and he... has
[00:19:37] to give concession to Iran, not
[00:19:41] just over the charges, but over the
[00:19:45] right to be to pay
[00:19:47] equal right within the international
[00:19:51] community. Mr. Shajar regarding the Europeans
[00:19:55] as it is known fact, of course you can tell me
[00:19:59] from wrong here that the Europeans are still having issues when it comes
[00:20:03] to the Ukraine policy and that is against what has
[00:20:07] happened. against Donald Trump and the world is changing, it is said time
[00:20:11] and again that new global order is emerging. um, isn't
[00:20:15] a time for the Europeans to back something that Donald Trump is
[00:20:19] not backing, and that can be Iran's authority over the straight of
[00:20:23] removes?
[00:20:26] well, so sorry Mr. that question was for Mr. Shadow,
[00:20:30] I'm going to come back to you,
[00:20:34] indeed, I think, I think this racky nation. is long over
[00:20:38] due, but as is been said, as
[00:20:42] is been sort of proven over and over
[00:20:45] and that Europeans are
[00:20:49] failing. "they're incompetent to make right
[00:20:52] decisions for themselves, they have failed to do so in
[00:20:56] Ukraine, they have failed to do so over
[00:21:00] sort of economical agreements with
[00:21:04] United States and the failing here
[00:21:07] regarding Iran, and
[00:21:10] and the reality is, the reality is
[00:21:14] that Europe is going to pay heavy price for
[00:21:18] this, and they know it." but they are scared to stand
[00:21:22] up against the bully, and the bully has
[00:21:26] still demands and total respect. I
[00:21:30] mean, look,
[00:21:31] you know, it's been proven over and over, do you
[00:21:35] remember when all these Europeans went to the
[00:21:38] oval overal room at
[00:21:42] the white house, and they were all
[00:21:46] set together like bunch of kids being...
[00:21:50] sort of bullied by Trump, that is a reality that is
[00:21:53] happening within the international community and they
[00:21:57] are too scared to stand up against the bully
[00:22:01] and they will suffer for it, they are irrelevant right now and
[00:22:05] they will suffer long term sort
[00:22:09] economic and political consequences of
[00:22:12] this, but i don't know how they
[00:22:16] will be awaken to do the right thing. own
[00:22:20] citizens in Europe, be in Britain,
[00:22:24] France, Germany, Spain or Italy and
[00:22:27] elsewhere are demanding that their governments make the
[00:22:31] right disposition and stand on the right side of history, but the
[00:22:35] still they are failing. Mr.
[00:22:38] Horstole, as the last question, how much longer would
[00:22:42] you say the US obstructionism in the region can go
[00:22:45] on? Well, I
[00:22:49] think... Unfortunately it can go on quite
[00:22:53] long and there's the issue of
[00:22:56] tactical nukes which may be used if
[00:23:00] there's enough craziness in the white house and enough
[00:23:04] pressure of
[00:23:05] you now roach satanist zionist
[00:23:08] billionaires who are financing trump so this is the
[00:23:12] situation it's a very very complex and
[00:23:15] corrupt situation so it's not very sure what will...
[00:23:20] happen and anything is imaginable, we understanding
[00:23:24] that the global deep state wants a prolonged conflict
[00:23:28] around, because they want huge global crisis
[00:23:31] and
[00:23:32] then a wonderful huge world war to
[00:23:36] kill lot of people, this is the secret planning they
[00:23:39] have, so trump is just the little eront
[00:23:43] boy, the shine boy these guys and he's he
[00:23:47] is becoming with his family incredibly rich. through
[00:23:50] the deals which are enabled by this deep state just
[00:23:54] recently with Saudi Arabia, so this is a situation which is which
[00:23:58] is unclear, so we will see in the next days how
[00:24:02] Trump will decide, we understand what is the
[00:24:05] downside for the good side for the world, that there will
[00:24:08] peace and stability maintained by Iran, now the
[00:24:12] downside is Trump will certainly and
[00:24:15] crazily lose the midterm election, and that
[00:24:19] can lead... to his you know impeachment
[00:24:23] and that can lead to his imprisonment even, so this
[00:24:27] is a Trump's situation, it's a very dangerous situation, and we
[00:24:31] understand it is very close to the situation
[00:24:34] of his dear unloved
[00:24:38] ally Netanyahu who is facing prison if he loses
[00:24:42] his job in the next election, and we have a time now in the
[00:24:46] end of October there's the election in Israel and... beginning
[00:24:50] of November, just one week apart, there two elections in Israel and the
[00:24:54] US, and if something goes wrong, these two
[00:24:57] crazys decide that they want to have another attack with
[00:25:01] Iran and stop the elections, it's
[00:25:05] very unclear. Thank you so much, both of you for
[00:25:09] your time tonight, those were Masud Shajar, chairman the Islamic Human Rights
[00:25:13] Commission, join us from the British capital, London and Christopher Horstell
[00:25:17] author and politician join us from the city of Berlin. Thank you so
[00:25:20] much for your time tonight, and that brings us to the end of this edition
[00:25:24] of our spotlight program. Thank you for being with us and
[00:25:26] bye-bye.
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[00:30:07] Tops sorry on Press TV: Iran's parliament speaker dismisses Donald Trump's threats of
[00:30:11] military action followed by demand for negotiations as theater
[00:30:15] diplomacy on loop and a failed strategy. A new
[00:30:19] report reveals nearly 700 American forces have suffered traumatic brain injuries
[00:30:23] in Euron's missile and drone strikes on US
[00:30:26] bases.
[00:30:33] and yemeny arm forces say they have conducted major operation against Saudi back
[00:30:37] mercenaries in Yemen planning to attack the capital
[00:30:40] son
[00:30:44] out.