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[00:00:00] "you have to be very, very rich. you can also
[00:00:03] compare that to African countries that have huge
[00:00:06] hurriable land that allow them to be able to
[00:00:09] farm, but most African
[00:00:12] countries still import over 70% of the food
[00:00:16] they consume.
[00:00:23] helium. 20% of the helium of
[00:00:26] well, this is one of the good restaurants in Tehran and I have come. to
[00:00:30] try very famous Iranian dish known as conme sapsi
[00:00:34] kelmannu,
[00:00:36] our brothers in this is considered by Iranian as the king of
[00:00:39] food. one thing Iran has taught us from the
[00:00:43] very first moment that have been covering sanctions around the world and
[00:00:46] especially in Iran, whether it is from their military
[00:00:49] doctrine to their technology when it comes to medicine
[00:00:53] or the ability to be able to produce your own food is that when
[00:00:57] a nation takes decision. that it
[00:01:00] can do it, it will find ways, whether you're
[00:01:04] sanctioned by everybody in the world or your sanction by the United
[00:01:08] State,
[00:01:15] very delicious.
[00:01:31] Iran, will this affect a
[00:01:42] Welcome to the Israel watch. The situation with Iran continues
[00:01:46] day for this to dominate Israeli media with varying perspectives being
[00:01:50] presented as to how that the situation may
[00:01:53] unfold. Also on the agenda was the Lebanese Front and warnings
[00:01:57] of an Israeli brain drain we will discuss.
[00:02:15] leaders in the Mossad. It's the responsibility of
[00:02:30] The military attacks are not a good option. We see that he does not hesitate to do it, even though
[00:02:34] he has plans from here and the new announcement that they planned for him in the professional
[00:02:37] circles, but also the diplomatic story, I think that's what you mean, the diplomatic story
[00:02:40] is also not very attractive, because what we see here is an agreement
[00:02:44] in which the Iranians and the Omanis will have some ability to control the Strait of
[00:02:48] Hormuz. Now, even if they find alternatives for oil and even if they find alternatives
[00:02:51] for liquefied natural gas, which are things that will take between
[00:02:54] and the propaganda in months and many years, still other things pass through the Strait of Hormuz,
[00:02:57] for example, all of America's allies,
[00:02:59] and lies. As for this victory, their food.
[00:03:00] the victory is
[00:03:30] to keep Hormuz Strait
[00:03:32] open needs a full scale world around a
[00:03:36] front of 200 kilometers
[00:03:39] from in Oman until Sulaimaniah in
[00:03:42] Iraq. So that needs a lot of
[00:03:45] the planning of forces, uh, in addition to the fleet in the
[00:03:49] Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman and the Sea of
[00:03:52] Aden and the other
[00:03:56] US bases in the region. It also needs a uh
[00:04:00] infantry and that may attack ground
[00:04:03] attacks. So it's a big business.
[00:04:07] Now, the United States is not ready to
[00:04:10] afford such business and
[00:04:15] future in in working in to and afford such casualties that may may be
[00:04:19] resulted during this confrontation.
[00:04:23] So, and if he wants to go to
[00:04:26] settlement, that means he wants to give and
[00:04:30] its legal or legitimate rights
[00:04:33] in
[00:04:36] the the the Strait of Hormuz and its sovereignty
[00:04:39] and over all its lands. So he has
[00:04:43] two options, and now he
[00:04:45] cannot go in between those options. He
[00:04:49] is squeezed in between both options. But considering America's
[00:04:52] allies, they rely on this strait. How will this affect
[00:04:55] Washington's standing in the eye of its alliance?
[00:05:00] I mean this uh Washington now is in
[00:05:03] a awkward
[00:05:06] position towards its allies. You know that the flow
[00:05:09] of oil will come in through Hormuz. And the
[00:05:13] also other things important as the
[00:05:16] the the oil. We have the urea
[00:05:20] which is very necessary to
[00:05:23] agriculture all over the world. 30% of the
[00:05:26] urea pass through her strait. And we have the
[00:05:30] helium for all medical instruments. They use
[00:05:35] the world comes from Strait of Hormuz.
[00:05:39] So and other merchandise.
[00:05:42] Well now the gas and the oil are now on
[00:05:46] the daily basis. They affect all the
[00:05:50] citizens and all the the it's affecting many
[00:05:53] dimensions, the agriculture, the oil, everything. Yes, yes,
[00:05:57] they they affect the economy. Now the rise of the
[00:06:00] oil price will be accompanied by a rise of all
[00:06:04] other merchandises as well. Despite what is being
[00:06:07] said about American weapons shortage, Israeli officials
[00:06:11] claims that this will not
[00:06:22] the US shortage that supposedly influenced Trump's decision to cancel
[00:06:26] the attack on Iran. We are putting things
[00:06:29] in order. Yesterday, CNN reported that the United States
[00:06:32] has used almost 80% of its high-altitude
[00:06:36] territorial defense system. US military officials warn
[00:06:39] that the Pentagon's ammunition stock is at a dangerously
[00:06:42] low level, according to several informed sources
[00:06:45] who spoke with CNN.
[00:06:49] Meanwhile, Reuters news agency reports that the United States has used
[00:06:53] almost all of its long-range precision missiles
[00:06:56] during the campaign with Iran, and according to estimates, the US
[00:06:59] military has also used a significant portion of its Patriot
[00:07:03] systems and Tomahawk missiles. In addition, US allies
[00:07:07] in the Gulf have also raised new concerns. They expressed concern
[00:07:10] about how the shortage of defense systems could harm
[00:07:13] their ability to repel a possible Iranian response if Trump decides
[00:07:17] to escalate the confrontation. It should be recalled that some Gulf states rely
[00:07:21] on US air defense systems. But
[00:07:24] in Israel, they are reassuring and claim that the current missile stock, both of the US
[00:07:28] and Israel, does allow for a return to fighting
[00:07:32] against Iran in the immediate future. An Israeli source told
[00:07:35] Channel 12 News that the issue of missiles and systems does not pose
[00:07:38] an obstacle to a return to fighting.
[00:07:42] Gen. Yes, these informations about American
[00:07:45] weapons shortage, why are they being leaked now
[00:07:48] to the media? Yes, this is though the
[00:07:52] attention of more the all the observers in the world, why
[00:07:55] at this time the United States media, CNN and
[00:07:59] WC journal publish about the shortage in
[00:08:02] weapons mainly in the air defense weapons, Patriot
[00:08:06] and THAAD and also the
[00:08:10] cruise missiles Tomahawk.
[00:08:13] "this means that either there is really a shortage which
[00:08:17] prevents the United States from launching a war, attack
[00:08:20] to to Iran. That means that if this
[00:08:24] offensive lasted lasted a long time, two weeks or one
[00:08:27] month, the Israel will be uncovered and will be
[00:08:31] vulnerable to the Iranian
[00:08:34] ballistic missiles and it will be a catastrophe for Israel,
[00:08:38] if hundreds of missiles hit targets
[00:08:41] inside Israel, and also for the air
[00:08:44] bases as well. Well,
[00:08:47] but Israel is confident that the lack of missiles will prevent this
[00:08:51] return of war. How do we see this? I
[00:08:54] think
[00:08:58] the war did not take into
[00:09:01] consideration that the war will last
[00:09:04] long. If we went back to
[00:09:08] the first of the world, they were relying
[00:09:11] about the... killing of the
[00:09:14] supreme commander and the political
[00:09:18] and military and
[00:09:21] security leaders in Iran. And they considered
[00:09:24] that that will be over and Iran will give
[00:09:27] in as if it's just a hit. Yes, and given and
[00:09:31] either as the president said that
[00:09:34] either they give in and they will be
[00:09:38] new allies with the United States or or they will do
[00:09:41] as the uh Venezuelans did. So,
[00:09:44] but but the surprise was that the
[00:09:48] Iranian kept the stable and well
[00:09:51] pr the the command command and control was
[00:09:55] firm on all over Iran or over the military,
[00:09:59] security, administrative levels was. There was
[00:10:03] continuous command and control
[00:10:06] which
[00:10:09] put put the United States in a corner that the...
[00:10:12] expecting uh unlike what happened uh
[00:10:16] so uh now uh
[00:10:19] they they consumed lot of uh
[00:10:23] missiles either uh
[00:10:26] like effort they didn't calculate and effort that
[00:10:29] they didn't calculate ahead thinking that it could be quick. They didn't calculate
[00:10:33] that they didn't have or
[00:10:36] prepare exit
[00:10:37] strategy
[00:10:41] if the offensive lasts longer than expected or
[00:10:45] planned, what will they do? They didn't have an answer
[00:10:49] to this. So this is what they this is the
[00:10:52] gap that they fell in now. So let's take a
[00:10:55] listen to some of the Israeli social media commentary regarding the
[00:10:59] news of the dismissal of several Mossad officials over
[00:11:03] the war with
[00:11:03] Iran.
[00:11:07] The failure to overthrow the Iranian regime was not solely the
[00:11:11] responsibility of the dismissed Mossad officials. Everyone
[00:11:14] bears responsibility, first and foremost,
[00:11:17] Netanyahu, Naron Benzri. Those
[00:11:21] responsible for the failure to overthrow the regime in
[00:11:24] Iran remained silent because they sold out the Mossad
[00:11:27] to Netanyahu and lost all
[00:11:30] credibility. Hadar, Netanyahu
[00:11:33] has returned to his usual method of dismissing
[00:11:37] army and Mossad commanders and blaming them for
[00:11:40] his own failure while he remains in
[00:11:42] office. General, what's what's your
[00:11:46] comment on these focuses about the shared
[00:11:49] responsibility between between the Mossad and Netanyahu
[00:11:53] that discuss the feed, the downfall plan
[00:11:57] concerning the Iran regime? Yes, it was declared that
[00:12:00] the Netanyahu or the Mossad leader fired two
[00:12:04] responsibles in the Mossad. They working on Iran
[00:12:07] and in changing the regime, and they
[00:12:11] made all the plans, although they achieved a progress
[00:12:14] in killing a lot of leaders
[00:12:17] and nuclear scientists, but
[00:12:21] the the main objective that were they achieve
[00:12:25] was to top off the regime and which did not
[00:12:28] happen. So they
[00:12:31] held them responsible to this failure, but actually
[00:12:35] it's not the respons responsibility of those two
[00:12:40] the leader of the Mossad and first of all, the
[00:12:43] responsibility of Netanyahu himself. So he wants to
[00:12:46] throw this responsibility on the shoulder of the the
[00:12:50] subordinates. Yeah, but what are the
[00:12:53] implications of these dismissals?
[00:12:55] Yes, they will that will shake the security apparatus in
[00:12:59] all Israel. That means everyone in every
[00:13:02] everyone responsible, every leader, however high his
[00:13:06] level, will think about what happened
[00:13:09] to his colleagues. So they
[00:13:12] they that will make an embarrassment for them
[00:13:16] during their tasking their subordinates
[00:13:19] as well and during the achieving their
[00:13:22] their goals. So, so... I
[00:13:25] think
[00:13:28] the the announcement of this in public also
[00:13:32] affects the the Israeli people
[00:13:34] as well and shakes the confidence of the
[00:13:37] Israeli public with the security services in
[00:13:41] Israel. Israel must strike a delicate balance in
[00:13:45] Lebanon between avoiding a full scale war while at the same time the
[00:13:48] necessity of so-called retaliation against
[00:13:51] Hezbollah. This according to a former senior Israeli official.
[00:14:25] because the Israeli interest is to maintain the calm, and apparently
[00:14:29] the attack needs to be, on the one hand, sharp,
[00:14:32] severe, but confined to the geographical area
[00:14:35] of the South. Yes, Giora, and also Hezbollah is following what is happening
[00:14:39] in the negotiations between Iran and the United States and Oman, and Trump is again threatening
[00:14:42] the Iranians who are not blinking in the meantime. Where is this heading
[00:14:45] right now, in your estimation? What is the likely scenario there between Iran and the United States?
[00:14:49] Giora? So for weeks,
[00:14:53] I, at least, estimated that the Americans would not... attack, because they
[00:14:56] are showing all the signs that this
[00:14:59] is something they do not want to happen.
[00:15:02] On the other hand, and here my opinion changed, during
[00:15:06] the last 24 hours, there is a limit
[00:15:09] to how much Trump can absorb direct personal insults
[00:15:12] from the Iranians,
[00:15:14] and therefore, in my opinion, if there is no reasonable
[00:15:18] agreement of some kind in the very near future, this time I
[00:15:22] expect an attack within a few days. Meaning, you are saying
[00:15:26] that there is a possibility of returning to intense fighting against Iran already
[00:15:29] in the coming days, according to how you describe it. I do not rule it out at all,
[00:15:32] also because it is difficult to reach an agreement
[00:15:36] on this issue.
[00:16:07] cuts to announce cease fire in Lebanon.
[00:16:10] That was the cease fire ordered by President Trump
[00:16:14] based on the threat of Iran to
[00:16:18] close the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:16:21] So now had Israel responded on what happened
[00:16:25] in Majdal Zoun when an explosion blew
[00:16:28] up house and killed two Israel
[00:16:32] and wounded more than 10.
[00:16:35] So they they will cause...
[00:16:38] the full scale war with the in the Lebanese
[00:16:41] front, that likely will
[00:16:44] push Iran to intervene in Lebanon. So
[00:16:48] that will the all the cease fire between the United States and
[00:16:52] Israel will fall, and Iran will fall and
[00:16:55] all the negotiations in order to open the Strait of
[00:16:59] Hormuz or to find a settlement with Iran will also
[00:17:02] fall. Yes, but
[00:17:05] returning a full scale war with
[00:17:09] returning of a full scale also on the Lebanese front? Yes,
[00:17:13] I think there is an association
[00:17:16] between the two tracks, between the war between
[00:17:19] Lebanon and Israel and Iran and United States
[00:17:23] as well. Israeli commentators claimed that
[00:17:26] Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers to sabotage the
[00:17:30] so-called Lebanese Israeli talks in Rome, this despite the
[00:17:33] fact that Israeli troops continue to occupy Lebanese territory.
[00:17:38] a very silent and very fictitious one, because Hezbollah, like Hezbollah,
[00:17:42] tries to find and has tried to find every loophole
[00:17:45] to strengthen itself and to enable the ceasefire. We don't
[00:17:48] know the details of the incident yet, but it's clear that there's a very serious violation of
[00:17:52] the ceasefire here, and the timing couldn't be more critical, because
[00:17:55] at the same time today, today is the second day of
[00:17:59] talks between an Israeli delegation
[00:18:03] in Rome. In other words, it's not just happening, this escalation is happening now. Hezbollah
[00:18:06] is also threatening.
[00:18:09] This is already the seventh round of talks, and I expected Hezbollah to be threatening even before.
[00:18:13] We still don't know, as I said, if this was something that happened before or not, but it's
[00:18:16] clear that Hezbollah is trying to sabotage the talks.
[00:18:20] Yesterday, Na'im Qassem also, on Lebanese television, basically belittled
[00:18:23] Joseph Aoun, the president, and said that he is humiliating himself by going to talks with Israel.
[00:18:27] And the truth is, they are succeeding, because we are getting reports that the Israeli
[00:18:30] delegation requested to end the talks three hours earlier. Tomorrow,
[00:18:34] the talks will resume, and I can tell you that this is happening on two tracks.
[00:19:07] now the
[00:19:10] the the explosion has taken place in Majin, two Israeli
[00:19:14] soldiers killed and more than 10 were wounded.
[00:19:17] Hezbollah kept silent, which makes
[00:19:21] Israel, makes Israel worry more and
[00:19:24] more. Some people in Israel
[00:19:28] believe that it is an accident, it's a
[00:19:30] malfunction of some explosives. It
[00:19:34] is a matter of... default
[00:19:38] in other uh explosives as well.
[00:19:41] So uh they if they want
[00:19:44] to uh retaliate with
[00:19:47] definite
[00:19:50] offensive on some places, they don't have
[00:19:54] the pretext, the solid pretext.
[00:19:57] So if they want to open all the front
[00:20:00] against the the resistance in Lebanon, that means
[00:20:03] from Litani to Bint Jbeil to Mansouri,
[00:20:07] so that will cost them mobilization of
[00:20:11] forces - to towards
[00:20:14] the towards South Lebanon. Given that
[00:20:17] they mobilized their forces to the West Bank in order to
[00:20:21] persecute the the new Intifada.
[00:20:25] So that's a problem. Then we heard in in the media
[00:20:29] a
[00:20:31] small
[00:20:33] from something from the United States that the...
[00:20:37] United States believes that Hezbollah is not responsible on
[00:20:40] this
[00:20:45] on this explosion. So that as
[00:20:49] if they the United States is calling Israel to calm down, to
[00:20:52] calm down and not retaliate in order to
[00:20:56] avoid the full scale war which
[00:21:00] needs the which will leads to
[00:21:04] intervention of Iran. Yeah, but is this is there
[00:21:07] a possibility or what are the chances that the Rome
[00:21:10] talks could lead to an end of the Israeli attack that's
[00:21:13] requested by the Lebanese delegation? I
[00:21:16] think the situation now
[00:21:20] you can call it a status quo in
[00:21:23] Lebanon,
[00:21:26] that what Israel called it a blue yellow
[00:21:29] line and Lebanon does not I
[00:21:33] mean recognize this partition of its land
[00:21:36] and the resistance is to
[00:21:40] many of its leaders said they they
[00:21:44] refuse such
[00:21:47] namings of the zone. Uh, and the
[00:21:51] United States through its mediation
[00:21:54] between and Israel in Washington and in Rome, they did not
[00:21:58] achieve anything, did not give Lebanon anything,
[00:22:01] any Israel withdrawer from
[00:22:04] any village in the south.
[00:22:07] So the this status quo will continue
[00:22:11] as long as the status quo and all the region
[00:22:15] continue and it will follow. Yes, it will
[00:22:17] follow what will be between Iran.
[00:22:50] also very economic and a matter of cost of living, which is perhaps one of the main
[00:22:54] goals. Clear, clear, clear that this is one of the main goals that
[00:22:57] should be before your eyes, against the government
[00:23:01] at the moment. But let's not paint a picture, let's not
[00:23:04] paint a picture, let's not paint a picture as if all
[00:23:07] the high-tech workers or most of the high-tech workers or most
[00:23:10] of the educators or most of them are really not the data. Morit, you know the data. The data
[00:23:14] is not most, but the trend is dangerous and worrying, and it must not
[00:23:18] be ignored. Because in the end, we are talking about Israelis
[00:23:21] who are competing for their hearts all over the world, in all countries. By the way, there are
[00:23:25] national programs that compete for talent. By the way, I also
[00:23:28] don't agree with you on "not most," because I already know many doctors
[00:23:32] who have left.
[00:23:34] And it is still not a measure for most. It is most if I tell
[00:23:38] you why it is most, because I know, for example, 30
[00:23:41] doctors,
[00:23:44] then that's already a lot, then that's already a lot. It's not, it's not you
[00:23:48] hear here and there one in a million.
[00:24:06] about Israeli doctors, good ones too.
[00:24:10] You should think, this affects every single one of us. Worse
[00:24:14] service in hospitals.
[00:24:18] is this brain drain situation
[00:24:20] is temporary or permanent? Is it like existential for Israel?
[00:24:24] Yes, actually the immigration started
[00:24:27] directly after October 7 when hundreds of thousands of people
[00:24:31] flew the country outside. Some people went
[00:24:35] to Cyprus, to across Cyprus. They went to Europe and
[00:24:39] to to Russia. Of these people who
[00:24:42] migrated, there are high talented people.
[00:24:45] There are doctors, they are experts, engineers and high
[00:24:48] tech experts as well. So those
[00:24:51] people, now you are in the third year.
[00:24:55] Israel is in a state of war. Those people
[00:24:58] are highly high qualified and they they are,
[00:25:01] they feel that they are losing their
[00:25:05] a country in the state of war, and they
[00:25:08] can achieve progress more in United States and
[00:25:12] Europe and other countries as well. But
[00:25:15] so what they are talking about in in this
[00:25:18] episode that... "They are talking about
[00:25:21] 562 doctors in the Israeli hospital,
[00:25:24] which is something dangerous that
[00:25:28] qualified doctors emigrate and leave the country of Israel to other places
[00:25:32] because they don't feel safe in Israel as well
[00:25:35] as they don't feel that they can achieve any progress in
[00:25:39] this situation. Thank you, General, yes, for joining us today.
[00:25:43] Thank you everyone for watching and
[00:25:44] goodbye.
[00:26:27] from brotherly Iraq to the Islamic Republic,
[00:26:30] we, the people of the city of Souq al-Shuyukh in Dhi Qar province, Al-Nasiriyah district,
[00:26:34] came to support and assist
[00:26:39] the Islamic Republic. And now our work is to prepare
[00:26:42] meals to support the demonstration
[00:26:45] squares and to maintain the momentum in the demonstration
[00:26:47] squares. We came here to clear
[00:26:51] our conscience before Almighty God first,
[00:26:54] and to fulfill our duty, and wars do not frighten us, because
[00:26:58] as Imam Khomeini said, if they fight us with hunger, we are the children of
[00:27:02] Ramadan. And if they fight us with weapons, we are the children of
[00:27:04] Karbala.
[00:27:09] Welcome, welcome.
[00:27:10] Welcome.
[00:27:13] The news was announced. I was in the Islamic Republic in holy
[00:27:16] Mashhad. The martyrdom of Sayyid Sadiq on Sunday, God willing,
[00:27:19] and I came out, meaning, it was a shock, because the shock of Sayyid Hassan
[00:27:23] did not go away, and Sayyid Ali Khamenei
[00:27:26] also really hurts me,
[00:27:29] meaning, I bear witness
[00:27:41] It was a stance that shook
[00:27:44] the body. May God reward us on that
[00:27:49] affliction. We have lost a symbol of the Shiites
[00:27:52] and a leader of the nation, Sayyid
[00:27:56] Ali Khamenei, may God have mercy on him and make
[00:28:00] him with the Shiites of the Commander of the Faithful.
[00:28:03] And may God bring him with my master, the Master of the Age and Time, God willing,
[00:28:07] on the day of meeting and on the day of encounter and on the day
[00:28:10] of revenge, God willing. God willing, Sayyid
[00:28:13] Khamenei will be brandishing his sword with a victorious Imam from the household
[00:28:17] of Muhammad. Therefore, its impact was
[00:28:19] like the impact of the day of Karbala.
[00:28:22] And it coincided with the days of the martyrdom of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon
[00:28:26] him, the Commander of the Faithful,
[00:28:30] Ali, the master of the monotheists, Ali, the Imam
[00:28:33] of the pious, Ali, the husband
[00:28:36] of the Pure, Ali, the son-in-law of the Messenger,
[00:28:39] Ali, the father of Hassan, Ali,
[00:28:42] the father of Hussein, Ali, who strikes
[00:28:45] with two swords, Ali, the lion, God willing.
[00:28:47] It is clear from what is present now in Iran
[00:28:51] and in Tehran that victory is our ally,
[00:28:56] the media and on social media is all lies
[00:29:03] in the people, in the people's standing with their state, in the people's standing
[00:29:06] with their sect, in the people's standing with their religion, with
[00:29:10] the Shiites of the Commander of the Faithful, with the Shiites of Ali ibn Abi
[00:29:12] Talib.
[00:29:17] This is a stance that time has repeated
[00:29:20] again. This is the stance for Hussein, and today
[00:29:24] for our master, the Master of the Age and Time, and tomorrow
[00:29:27] for the oppressed, God willing, an honorable stance from the Iraqi
[00:29:30] people with the Islamic state,
[00:29:33] the Iranian state, the state that said no,
[00:29:36] no to falsehood, no, no to the oppressor,
[00:29:40] no, no to every tyrant.
[00:29:43] Death, death to Israel. Death, death
[00:29:47] to Israel. Death, death
[00:29:49] to America. Death, death
[00:29:52] to America. Death, death
[00:29:54] to Israel. Death, death
[00:29:57] to Israel.
[00:30:32] revealed the strategic deadlock of US and Israel, adding world media
[00:30:36] admits Trump's failure.
[00:30:40] IRGC spokesman says reopening of Strait of Hormuz hinges on Washington's
[00:30:44] acceptance of Iran's
[00:30:45] conditions.
[00:30:52] And Spain announces border controls against Italy, an eye for an eye
[00:30:55] move as row over Ceuta migrants.
[00:30:59] Russia's intensive.