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[00:00:05] The early hours of July
[00:00:07] of 29th shattered the regions uneasy
[00:00:09] a calm. Ballistic missiles launched by the
[00:00:13] aerospace force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard core
[00:00:17] streaked across the night sky toward the US Air Force Space and
[00:00:21] Central Command
[00:00:22] in headquarters in Jordan. At the same time the
[00:00:26] IRGC Navy announced that it had seized three non-comple.
[00:00:30] giant oil tankers in the straight of hormos, tightening Iran's
[00:00:33] grip over one
[00:00:35] of the world's most strategic
[00:00:36] waterways. The coordinated
[00:00:40] operations student decision makers in both Washington and Tel
[00:00:43] Aviv. US President Donald Trump admitted
[00:00:47] that Iran's attack had come as a surprise and immediately
[00:00:51] threatened a massive assault on Iranian
[00:00:53] infrastructure. Yet, as the region
[00:00:57] braced for another major escalation, Trump... Brockly
[00:01:00] reversed course. Just days later, he
[00:01:04] announced that the planned operation had been cancelled, claiming that the
[00:01:08] outlines of a possible agreement
[00:01:10] in had
[00:01:10] emerged.
[00:01:16] of
[00:01:34] a
[00:01:42] Donald Trump declared that the United States was locked and loaded and
[00:01:45] prepared to unleash
[00:01:47] of military power
[00:01:48] of not seen since World War II, but said the attack had been
[00:01:51] suspended because Iran and several regional states had asked
[00:01:55] Washington to wait while
[00:01:57] of negotiations continued.
[00:02:05] Tehran flatly rejected that account.
[00:02:09] Iranian officials dismissed Trump's statement as another lie,
[00:02:13] insisting that the country's armed forces remain on full alert and
[00:02:17] prepared for any
[00:02:18] scenario.
[00:02:23] General
[00:02:24] a Mohammad Ismail Kosari, a former Deputy Chief
[00:02:27] of the IRGC Sarallah headquarters.
[00:02:30] of
[00:02:59] of of as until today, they continue with shameless
[00:03:03] audacity to speak of human rights, yet the crimes they have
[00:03:07] committed are unprecedented in
[00:03:09] history.
[00:03:15] so what was really happening? was
[00:03:18] of Washington stepping back because diplomacy had suddenly prevailed, or
[00:03:22] because the military
[00:03:23] of balance was changing in ways it could no longer
[00:03:25] ignore.
[00:03:31] "the war that Donald Trump launched against Iran, the one he once
[00:03:35] believed would only
[00:03:36] in last for few weeks, has now entered its sixth month.
[00:03:40] casualties continue to mount, weapon stock calls are being
[00:03:43] depleted and gasoline prices have once again surged.
[00:03:47] Trump is eager to bring the conflict to an end, but it is becoming
[00:03:50] increasingly clear that his wishes alone are
[00:03:54] of no longer enough to determine whether the war ends or
[00:03:57] continues."
[00:04:02] Former Israeli military intelligence official Dennis Setrunovits
[00:04:06] offered a revealing assessment. Iran, he
[00:04:10] argued, is no longer reacting to events set in motion by
[00:04:13] Washington. It is increasingly dictating the pace,
[00:04:17] timing and direction
[00:04:18] of the
[00:04:20] of confrontation.
[00:04:24] General Kosari told us that Trump has already become irrelevant and
[00:04:28] that his remarks caring.
[00:04:30] a
[00:04:40] in
[00:04:48] a
[00:04:55] of
[00:05:00] is America still struggling there, I tell you that all
[00:05:04] these lies will eventually produce
[00:05:06] a reactions against Trump
[00:05:08] himself.
[00:05:11] Diplomatic. efforts continued behind the
[00:05:13] scenes. Reuters reported that Oman had
[00:05:17] proposed replacing Iran's exclusive role in securing the straight of
[00:05:21] hormos with regional security arrangement, involving Persian
[00:05:25] Gulf states and funded through voluntary user
[00:05:27] contributions. A day later, Reuters reported that
[00:05:31] Tehran had rejected the proposal outright, concluding that it
[00:05:35] offered no realistic path
[00:05:37] forward. Mr. Ehsan,
[00:05:40] Iqbal Said and
[00:06:12] not territorial integrity, naturally, what we have
[00:06:16] secured through the self-sacrifice of our youth and the
[00:06:19] resistance of our people will not accept any plan that
[00:06:23] seeks to eliminate our independent will and the
[00:06:27] exercise of our sovereignty the
[00:06:29] straight.
[00:06:32] meanwhile, many observers assumed that the daily exchanges had
[00:06:36] quietly evolved into undeclared cease fire that Iran would
[00:06:40] avoid striking American forces, unless directly
[00:06:43] attacked, the battlefield told different
[00:06:47] story: Iran was no longer fighting according
[00:06:51] to the old rules. Iran's uh recent surprise
[00:06:54] attacks against US military bases in Jordan could uh signal
[00:06:58] a major shift in its military strategy, meaning that
[00:07:02] it is now prepared uh to carry out preemptive strikes to
[00:07:06] deter Washington. Now what does this shift actually entil
[00:07:10] and how does it differ from
[00:07:12] fundamentally
[00:07:18] based a plan
[00:07:22] prepared by the armed forces. According to that plan, in the
[00:07:26] first stage we maintain a defensive posture and never
[00:07:29] initiate war. At the same time, however, in certain
[00:07:33] periods we adopt an offensive posture. As you can see in the
[00:07:37] recent developments in the straight of hormoos, Iran has introduced
[00:07:41] changes to... multary doctrine. This was only
[00:07:45] one aspect of our strategy, which shifted to an
[00:07:49] offensive mode, so that the enemy would understand it cannot
[00:07:52] simply do whatever it wishes, while we remain subordinate to
[00:07:56] it. During the
[00:08:00] 12-day war, the United States and Israel seized the
[00:08:03] initiative, leaving Tehran to respond. This
[00:08:07] time Iran chose to strike first.
[00:08:10] Preemptive operations. strategic surprise and attacks on high
[00:08:14] value military targets has become central to its evolving
[00:08:18] doctrine. as major general ali
[00:08:21] abdullahi, commander of Iran's khatam-anbiya's central
[00:08:24] headquarters declared, the Americans and their mercenaries
[00:08:28] have learned that their coffins are now part their military equipment in the
[00:08:32] region. As our late leader always said, the air of
[00:08:36] hit and run is
[00:08:37] over.
[00:09:13] "my advise is that our enemies, whether the great satan,
[00:09:16] America, or the cancerous tumor, Israel, should listen to
[00:09:20] the words of our commanders. Martter Sulaimani addressed Iran's enemies
[00:09:24] and said, you start the war, but its end is in
[00:09:28] our hands. The same holds true today. Last week,
[00:09:32] when I visited Iran's islands, I saw that our forces
[00:09:36] are waiting for the day when America commits this mistake and
[00:09:39] launches a ground operation against us. on that day we
[00:09:43] will put these American captives on
[00:09:46] display.
[00:09:49] After six months of war under Donald Trump, Iran can claim one
[00:09:53] significant advantage: Washington is increasingly being forced
[00:09:57] to fight on Tehran's terms. Despite Trump's administration's
[00:10:01] increasingly aggressive rhetoric, growing evidence suggests that the
[00:10:05] United States lacks the resources needed to sustain a
[00:10:09] large-scale military campaign against Iran.
[00:10:15] While the Trump administration continued escalate its rhetoric,
[00:10:19] different picture was emerging behind the scenes.
[00:10:22] Growing evidence suggested that Washington
[00:10:55] According to the words of our martered imam, in Iran, if only
[00:10:58] one person remains, the duty of that one person is
[00:11:02] to fight against
[00:11:03] depression.
[00:11:07] According to investigation by the intercept, conditions
[00:11:10] at airbase in Jordan have exposed the
[00:11:14] weakness of repeated claims that Iran's military
[00:11:17] capabilities had been crippled. Instead,
[00:11:21] Iran's combination of loitering drones, maneuverable hyperson.
[00:11:25] ballistic missiles and advanced electronic counter measures has
[00:11:29] placed unprecedented pressure on America's patriot and
[00:11:32] thought air defense
[00:11:34] systems. One US
[00:11:37] official admitted that interceptor missile stock pows had been
[00:11:41] depleted so severely that commanders were now instructed to
[00:11:45] engage only missiles posing immediate threat to human
[00:11:48] life. Replenishing those
[00:11:51] inventories
[00:11:52] the officials said could take as long as
[00:12:25] and turned it
[00:12:26] back, the
[00:12:29] strain is no longer confined to the battlefield, it is reaching
[00:12:33] American households. as gasoline and
[00:12:37] diesel prices climb, inflation remains stubbornly high
[00:12:41] and billions of dollars continue to flow into the war effort, public
[00:12:45] support for the conflict steadily
[00:12:47] eroded. recent political poll found
[00:12:51] that only about one third of Donald Trump's own mega supporters
[00:12:55] now believe the war is worth its economic cost, a sharp decline
[00:12:59] from just few months
[00:13:00] earlier. the
[00:13:03] economist reported that among modern US military conflicts with
[00:13:07] comparable polling, the war against Iran has become the least
[00:13:11] popular.
[00:13:15] meanwhile, we had at our studio Mr. Hamed Naserian, an expert
[00:13:19] in American Affairs. It seems as though the United
[00:13:23] States has failed to achieve its uh...
[00:13:55] grappling with the question of weather escalate tensions and the
[00:13:59] level of conflict or move toward
[00:14:01] negotiations. this crisis has therefore a
[00:14:05] rison both among American politicians and within the
[00:14:08] American
[00:14:09] society.
[00:14:13] with congressional mid-term elections approaching, those numbers carry
[00:14:17] growing political significance. if the conflict
[00:14:20] continues, the greatest price may not be paid on the battlefield, but at
[00:14:24] the...
[00:14:55] For this reason, when the people suffer harm from federal
[00:14:59] decision and begin to reflect on why this happen, situations
[00:15:03] such as the Vietnam war arise in which civil
[00:15:07] protests take place, and if America fails to manage
[00:15:11] these protests, crisis
[00:15:13] ensues.
[00:15:17] For millions of Americans, this is no longer a distant foreign
[00:15:20] war. It has become a question of fuel prices,
[00:15:24] how... budgets and economic
[00:15:27] security. The political pressure on the White House
[00:15:30] is mounting just as tensions with Israel are becoming increasingly
[00:15:34] visible. Shortly before. Before Iran's strike,
[00:15:38] Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump in
[00:15:42] Washington, describing their talks as one the best
[00:15:45] conversations they had held despite months of growing
[00:15:48] friction. Yet only hours earlier, Israeli
[00:15:52] Minister of Military Affairs, Israel Cats had revealed that Israel
[00:15:56] wanted to attack Iran's energy infrastructure, but had been restrained by
[00:16:00] the Trump administration. The contrast is
[00:16:03] telling.
[00:16:38] They are mistaken, this America has shown its power
[00:16:41] and we have seen that nothing remains of it. Today you
[00:16:45] see Trump threatening to strike Iran's
[00:16:48] infrastructure and few moments later ordering the attack
[00:16:52] to stop. It's clear that this is the seventh time
[00:16:56] Trump has repeated this lie without wanting to strike Iran's
[00:16:59] infrastructure.
[00:17:04] For decades American military interventions. cross-west Asia
[00:17:08] have left behind countless innocent victims and
[00:17:12] immeasurable human suffering. The war against Iran is no
[00:17:15] exception. Beyond the headlines and geopolitical
[00:17:19] calculations are personal tragedies that rarely appear in
[00:17:23] the world's major news reports. This is one
[00:17:25] them. It
[00:17:29] was just after 10 o'clock in the evening. The Imam Hassan community
[00:17:33] gathering in the city of Ray had becoon to empty. A.
[00:17:37] old avian Amir Khashani, a little girl with brown hair, dimples and bright
[00:17:41] eyes, was walking hand in hand with her mother.
[00:17:45] Without warning, the night sky turned yellow, deafining explosion from the
[00:17:49] nearby oil refinery shook the ground beneath them. Mom,
[00:17:52] mum, run, run, avina screamed, then came the
[00:17:56] dust, the smoke and the
[00:17:58] silence. Then I before avine had
[00:18:02] written in her diary, dear leader, I want to become a martter like
[00:18:06] you, let 2. four hours later she died in her
[00:18:10] grandmother's arms. this is story of Oven's brief life
[00:18:14] told through the memories of her mother Leila Rasek who was herself
[00:18:18] seriously wounded in the attack. when the war began laila
[00:18:21] recalls I rushed to collect oven from school two fighter jets flew over
[00:18:25] head and she kept asking what was happening. I told her I think America has
[00:18:29] attacked but don't worry you're safe. Nothing will
[00:18:33] happen to you. As Laila reaches the night the
[00:18:37] explosion. and her voice begans to shake, that evening, after breaking
[00:18:41] our fast, we went shopping for New Year's clothes, we bought avine new
[00:18:44] pair of trousers, they were a little too long, I plan to
[00:18:48] shorten them later, yet never happened, her husband
[00:18:52] dropped Layala ovin and her younger brother at her mother's house,
[00:18:56] together they walked to the nightly gathering, in happly
[00:18:59] carried picture the martered leader, on their way
[00:19:03] home, everything changed, the refinery was struck, the flash was...
[00:19:07] blinding, people scattered in every direction. Alvin kept shouting, mom,
[00:19:11] run, mom, run. I can still hear her voice. When the dust settled,
[00:19:15] I realized my hand had been hit by Sharpnow and my left leg had been
[00:19:19] severed below the ankle. Her mother was holding ovine. She
[00:19:23] looked peaceful. There wasn't a scratch on her face. We thought she had
[00:19:27] simply lost consciousness. A stranger picked her up and ran
[00:19:30] towards the hospital. I kept screaming, "don't
[00:19:33] take ovin away," but I couldn't move, I couldn't even hold my. own
[00:19:37] daughter one last time. For 10 days, while Leila lay in
[00:19:41] hospital, everyone told her Ovine was intensive
[00:19:44] care. Only the day before the funeral did they tell her
[00:19:48] she had died. Despite the pain. Laila smiles when she remembers her
[00:19:51] daughter. She was like a bottle of perfume. Whenever she entered
[00:19:55] room, she filled it with warmth. Everyone loved her.
[00:19:58] Today, perhaps no one feels Ovine's absence more deeply than her
[00:20:02] six-year-old brother, Amir Ali, who was also injured that night. He
[00:20:06] didn't just... lose sister, their mother says he lost his closest
[00:20:10] friend.
[00:20:14] Having come under intense military pressure and suffered several
[00:20:18] setbacks in recent days, the United States is now trying to
[00:20:22] draw other countries into the conflict in attempt to avoid what could
[00:20:26] become a historic, strategic
[00:20:28] defeat. The
[00:20:32] consequences the confrontation with Iran are now extending
[00:20:36] far beyond the battlefield. critics argue that Trump
[00:20:40] has repeatedly prioritized Israel's security objectives over
[00:20:44] broader American and regional interests, but the
[00:20:47] consequences of that approach may now be reaching even Washington's
[00:20:51] closest allies. After
[00:20:55] exhausting portions of its cruise missile inventories abroad and naval
[00:20:59] assets operating in the Indian Ocean, the United States is preparing
[00:21:03] to expand the use of B1 strategic bombers deployed from
[00:21:06] Raf Fairford in Britain. Yet, several
[00:21:10] European allies have refused to participate any expanded military
[00:21:14] operation until a lasting seasfire with Iran is
[00:21:17] achieved, a sign of growing unease.
[00:21:50] let alone confronts rising lion named Iran in a straight of
[00:21:54] hermus.
[00:21:57] Washington's relationships with its Arab partners in the Persian Gulf have
[00:22:01] also come under unprecedented pressure. According
[00:22:05] to multiple reports, one factor behind Trump's decision to
[00:22:09] postpone another major strike on Iran was the repeated warnings of
[00:22:12] Arab leaders. Their countries home to key American
[00:22:16] military bases have become increasingly exposed to... possible
[00:22:20] Iranian retaliation. Iran has stated
[00:22:24] as one of its objectives, the withdraw of US forces from the
[00:22:28] region. To what degree do you think that this has become
[00:22:32] closer to reality? And what steps or measures should be
[00:22:35] taken
[00:22:36] further.
[00:22:44] Expelled Americans from the region and already many their
[00:22:47] bases have been destroyed. design regime
[00:22:51] must also be eliminated because this criminal regime is the
[00:22:55] source of corruption and permanent
[00:22:57] war.
[00:23:01] meanwhile, the conflict has begun intersecting with another major global
[00:23:05] crisis. on July 25th, Ukraine
[00:23:09] struck an Iranian commercial cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea
[00:23:12] killing a civilian sailor.
[00:23:16] Tehran condemned the attack as a violation of article 2. paragraph
[00:23:20] four the United Nations Charter and warn that such
[00:23:23] actions risked expanding the conflict into new
[00:23:27] theaters. The incident highlighted a growing
[00:23:30] concern. The boundaries between the world's major conflicts are
[00:23:34] becoming increasingly difficult to separate.
[00:23:38] Following Ukraine's attack on an Iranian commercial
[00:23:42] vessel in the Caspian Sea, uh Iran's Ministry of Foreign affairs
[00:23:46] has described the incident as a violation the UN charter. Now.
[00:24:20] and complicate decision making, ultimately, this action
[00:24:24] places Iran, Russia, and Europe a new decision making
[00:24:27] situation. Naturally, this is not soly about
[00:24:31] Kief. Naturally, one must act with nations. There
[00:24:35] is sufficient time, and the Iranian nation will punish any
[00:24:38] aggressor a proper
[00:24:40] moment. The timing
[00:24:44] the attack also attract attention. It
[00:24:48] came shortly before Ukrainian. President Vladimir Zelensky's planned
[00:24:51] meeting with President Trump in Washington where he was expected to see
[00:24:55] continued American support for Ukraine while emphasizing Russia's
[00:24:59] growing partnership with Iran. Reports have
[00:25:03] suggested that the United Kingdom may allow the United States
[00:25:07] to use its military bases uh for attacking Iran.
[00:25:11] Now by doing so would that make the United
[00:25:14] Kingdom uh accomplice in the Israeli
[00:25:18] US Aggression against Iran.
[00:26:02] hostility toward the Iranian nation and standing beside an
[00:26:06] America that is now struggling for its own
[00:26:09] survival. the
[00:26:13] greatest danger of war against Iran is not that Washington will
[00:26:17] suffer military defeat. It is the fact that it will become trapped in
[00:26:21] a cycle of attritional war, one from which is harder
[00:26:24] escape than to enter. This is the scenario that American
[00:26:28] strategic thinkers have long described as an endless
[00:26:31] war.
[00:26:35] "the phrase forever war entered the American political
[00:26:38] vocabulary after the United States became trapped in the prolonged
[00:26:42] conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those wars
[00:26:46] began with clear objectives, but
[00:26:48] no clear path to conclusion. Many analysts warn
[00:26:52] that a confrontation with Iran carries the same
[00:26:55] danger. Over four decades, Iran has developed
[00:26:59] a vast network of regional partnerships while..."
[00:27:32] Highly positive results have been achieved, god willing, we
[00:27:36] will unviel these capabilities at the appropriate
[00:27:39] time. Iran's
[00:27:43] geography makes the challenge even greater, any
[00:27:47] prolong conflict would threaten some the world's most important energy
[00:27:51] roots, including the Persian Gulf and the straight of
[00:27:54] hormos. It could disrupt global markets,
[00:27:57] place America's regional allies under severe pressure and create a
[00:28:01] chin react.
[00:28:32] world have come to understand that it's possible to stand
[00:28:36] against the great satan for half a century and emerge
[00:28:40] from this struggle with honor, success and
[00:28:42] victory.
[00:28:46] Donald Trump has long criticize America's wars in Iraq and
[00:28:50] Afghanistan as costly failures. During
[00:28:54] his 2024 presidential campaign, he repeatedly promised that he
[00:28:58] would prevent the United States from becoming trapped in another endless
[00:29:01] conflict. yet today he faces the
[00:29:05] possibility of leading exactly the kind of war he once
[00:29:09] promised to
[00:29:09] avoid.
[00:30:15] This hour is top headlines: the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says
[00:30:19] the imposed wars on Iran have revealed the strategic deadlock the
[00:30:22] US and Israel, adding that the world media admits Trump's
[00:30:26] failure. The Yemani armed forces say they have carried out
[00:30:30] strikes on Saudi back troops in the... mara province of
[00:30:33] Yemen
[00:30:39] and finally Spain has announced border controls against Italy
[00:30:43] a tit for tap move as row
[00:30:44] a over Sayuda migrant influx
[00:30:47] intensifies.