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[00:00:14] Iran had warned, if war begins, this time it will not remain within Iran's
[00:00:18] borders. Washington did not take Tiran's warning seriously. What followed was a
[00:00:21] widening battlefield, Israel,
[00:00:24] and US bases in Saudi Arabia, the
[00:00:26] in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait came under attack.
[00:00:30] "the war
[00:00:30] of began in the skies, but soon reached the veins
[00:00:32] of the economy. then Tairan issued its next
[00:00:35] of warning, if Iran's infrastructure
[00:00:37] of is targeted, your infrastructure will be targeted as
[00:00:40] in well, and the world quickly understood that
[00:00:42] of even silence and neutrality in this war could carry heavy price, but
[00:00:45] Iran's next
[00:00:46] in warning is even more consequential. the war could
[00:00:49] become extra regional. no official evidence says
[00:00:53] that all recent incidents are
[00:00:58] of in connected, but this is where the central question begins. when Iran speaks of an extra..." regional war, does it only mean an
[00:01:02] expansion of geography, or does it refer to a chain of energy
[00:01:05] routes, supports, military basis
[00:01:08] of markets and the global
[00:01:10] of economy? of the United States once ignored Iran's warning about the regionalization of war, and it
[00:01:14] is
[00:01:14] in still dealing with the costs. now the question is, if
[00:01:18] of Washington ignores the warning of an extra regional war this time as
[00:01:21] well, will it be able to pay the
[00:01:23] price?
[00:01:32] of a
[00:01:51] Good evening, and tonight's a spotlight, we turn once again to the straight of
[00:01:55] remoz, where Iran has now made its position
[00:01:58] of unmistakably
[00:01:59] of clear. The straight will not be reopened until Washington
[00:02:02] changes as its
[00:02:04] of hostile
[00:02:05] of behavior toward Iran. Iran's Supreme National Security Council has
[00:02:08] laid out six conditions, including an end to the aggression against
[00:02:12] of
[00:02:12] of Iran and its allies, the withdrawal of US military forces from the
[00:02:16] region,
[00:02:17] in compensation for the damage caused
[00:02:19] of by the two wars, the lifting of sanctions and the unconditional
[00:02:22] release of Iranian assets. This comes as Iran
[00:02:26] and Oman continue
[00:02:28] of negotiations over new framework for managing
[00:02:31] of traffic through the straight of hermus, but reports that the two sides have
[00:02:34] reached an understanding over the coordinates of new shipping
[00:02:38] route. At the same time, maritime tensions are
[00:02:41] of escalating of with reports of an Iranian strike on an
[00:02:45] in ADNOC of lengked of vessel and further reports of an Iranian
[00:02:48] naval boarding industry. The
[00:02:51] of implications extend far
[00:02:53] of beyond West Asia, Hormus remains one
[00:02:55] of the world's most important energy choke points, while the parallel
[00:02:59] disruption around Bob Almandov strate has also created additional
[00:03:02] pressure on global trade and energy markets, but this is no
[00:03:06] longer simply a question of whether Iran will reopen
[00:03:10] of the straight of for moves. The question is bigger: what does Iran
[00:03:13] want an exchange for reopening it? Can Washington force its
[00:03:17] preferred outcome without addressing Tehran's demands and are we
[00:03:21] witnessing the emergence of a completely new security order
[00:03:24] around the world's most critical maritime choke points? That's
[00:03:28] what we'll be discussing with our. guests
[00:03:32] of tonight, Henry
[00:03:36] Hokamaki, writer and podcaster join us from Tartor Sun in
[00:03:39] Russia
[00:03:45] and Honey Bathitch, a journalist and writer join us from the city of
[00:03:48] Beirot.
[00:03:54] Gentlemen, both of you, thank you so much for being with us, I'm going to begin with uh
[00:03:58] Mr. Haukamaki and to talk. on thank you Henry for your
[00:04:01] time, the first question, I wanted your thoughts on um the
[00:04:05] latest uh statement by Iran Supreme National Security
[00:04:09] in Council linking the reopening
[00:04:13] in of the strate of removes to six different
[00:04:14] of political and military conditions, what does that tell
[00:04:17] you about the Tehran's strategy at this
[00:04:21] point in time and also the balance of power in the west Asia
[00:04:25] region? absolutely, and I want to
[00:04:29] begin by thanking Thank you for the invitation, it's always a pleasure being on Press
[00:04:32] TV. Now, with regards to your question, Iran putting
[00:04:36] forth these conditions signals a couple of things: first, it
[00:04:39] demonstrates
[00:04:40] a clear eyeed analysis of what is just. These
[00:04:44] conditions are absolutely what should be called
[00:04:48] for. Iran is the victim here
[00:04:50] of of an absolute unmitigated
[00:04:53] aggression, and what is becoming an unmitigated failure by
[00:04:57] the United States. It makes sense that as the... target
[00:05:00] in of such aggression, Iran would
[00:05:03] be able to get these sorts of
[00:05:07] of conditions of in return for being the victim of this aggression, but what it
[00:05:11] also signals is... that as you mentioned, there is new security
[00:05:15] order coming forth, and it shows that Iran is quite confident
[00:05:19] with its position as things stand right now. these
[00:05:22] conditions, as it is at the moment, the United States
[00:05:26] would be quite unhappy to be reading these conditions.
[00:05:29] however, as the the situation continues to develop,
[00:05:33] and as we've discussed, as I've been on this show previously,
[00:05:37] Iran is a very stable position right
[00:05:40] now, the... goals the United States were to
[00:05:44] topple the, they say to change the regime, but we know what that is code
[00:05:48] for, the dismantling the Islamic Republic, if anything, the Islamic
[00:05:52] Republic is a much more strong position than it was before this aggression by
[00:05:56] the United States, and we see that Iran is putting forth
[00:05:59] conditions that the United States is unhappy with, now why would they put these
[00:06:03] forth at the present time? one is that they believe that they are a
[00:06:07] very stable position themselves, but also there is reporting that's been
[00:06:11] coming out within the... last 24 hours that continues to show that the United
[00:06:15] States's weaponry, their munitions are being constantly
[00:06:19] depleted. the chairman the joint chiefs of staff, Dan Cayne the
[00:06:23] United States, within the last 24 hours has
[00:06:26] apparently been behind closed doors talking with the
[00:06:30] generals the United States military to try to find potential off-ramps
[00:06:34] as munitions continue to dwindle. Iran is certainly
[00:06:37] also seeing this reporting that is coming out and as result
[00:06:41] believes that now the correct time to put forth what are
[00:06:45] again just demands? the United States at some point will have
[00:06:49] to understand that whatever its objectives are at this current time are not
[00:06:52] going to be achieved by force and they are going to
[00:06:56] have to acquies to what Iran wants at some
[00:06:58] point. well thank you. now let me bring
[00:07:02] in Mr. Bathitch into this conversation as well. thank you for being with
[00:07:06] us. um your thoughts on the importants um you're
[00:07:09] welcome. your thoughts on what it means that Right now Iran is actually
[00:07:13] controlling the straight of from moves, some analysts are
[00:07:17] arguing that Iran can overplay this card at this
[00:07:20] time and space, would you say that that is a possible
[00:07:24] outcome? Well, I
[00:07:27] think Iran right now is a unique position
[00:07:31] that the United States has basically grossly
[00:07:35] miscalculated Tehran's response
[00:07:38] to the the aggression the United States
[00:07:41] and "the United States has overplayed its hand. I mean,
[00:07:45] it's obvious that what the
[00:07:48] president and this administration in Washington thought would be
[00:07:53] easy win for them, turned out to be a
[00:07:56] quagmire, and I, I, I
[00:07:59] doubt that that Iran can,
[00:08:02] as you, as you mentioned, overplay this hand. In fact, right now, many
[00:08:06] analys are saying that Iran's best weapon is
[00:08:10] patience, and time is on it." side, not on Donald
[00:08:14] Trump side, so I don't see that, I see what we're
[00:08:18] facing today is major shift, a techtonic shift
[00:08:21] in the balance of power at least in our
[00:08:24] region, and it's obvious that the United
[00:08:28] States has failed utterly
[00:08:32] and will will probably
[00:08:35] withdraw, I mean, as foreign affairs, the magazine mentioned, I
[00:08:39] mean, Washington has to disengage. I mean, there
[00:08:43] is, they don't have an option, the only other option is a land war, and
[00:08:47] that would be very expensive and very unpopular, and I doubt
[00:08:51] that Donald Trump or any president would would take
[00:08:54] this this gamble, so no, I don't see it at all, I think
[00:08:58] it's time is on Iran side here,
[00:09:01] and as as your guest mentioned,
[00:09:05] it is the country that's been aggressed upon, it is
[00:09:09] the victim here, it was '
[00:09:12] attacked, an unprovoked attack in the midst of
[00:09:16] negotiations, so I don't see it, I think
[00:09:20] Iran has all the cards right
[00:09:22] now. Henry, when it comes to the
[00:09:25] disengagement the US military forces from
[00:09:29] the region, would you say that is a likely scenario to happen
[00:09:33] after all we have seen a witness uh and
[00:09:37] happen in the past 160 days,
[00:09:41] and if something like that happens. how do you think that is going to affect the
[00:09:44] balance of power in the region first, specifically speaking to
[00:09:48] regime? yeah, well, I'm so sorry, I'm going to
[00:09:52] come back to you, Mr. Badhitch, that question was for Henry, yeah,
[00:09:56] okay, yeah, I have to agree
[00:09:59] entirely with what you just said, and also, I'm sorry to reiterate things that
[00:10:03] I've said on previous programs, but over the last several weeks, I've
[00:10:07] been having to say the same thing again and again, which
[00:10:11] is that the... United States is a position where it is not going
[00:10:14] to achieve its strategic goals, the United States is
[00:10:18] messaging around its strategic goals has continued to
[00:10:22] alter at at the first point they said that "this was all
[00:10:25] about the nuclear program, then the United States has begun altering
[00:10:29] this to regime change to, this should have happened 47 years
[00:10:33] ago, the the actual reason for the United
[00:10:37] States undertaking this aggression at the present time, the rhetoric
[00:10:40] begins changing and has continued to change over the last
[00:10:44] several weeks. what we understand from this is that the reason
[00:10:48] for this aggression was always the same, it was to dismantle the
[00:10:52] Islamic Republic, nothing more, nothing less. Now the way
[00:10:56] that this was going to be undertaken of course is changing as the United
[00:11:00] States has begun to realize that the methods that has been taking over the
[00:11:04] last several months are not achieving the desired
[00:11:07] result. If anything, as I already have mentioned, the Islamic Republic is a
[00:11:11] much stronger position now than it was when the aggression
[00:11:14] began. Before the aggression began, the straight of hormoves was
[00:11:18] open, now Iran completely controls the straight of Hormus,
[00:11:22] and as you mentioned at the top the program is in uh
[00:11:26] negotiations with Oman about making a
[00:11:28] permanent route in which they would jointly
[00:11:32] control this route. This is a completely different situation than there
[00:11:36] was before, which again just shows that the Islamic Republic is a more
[00:11:40] strengthened position uh almost perversely.
[00:11:44] However, the United States is not going to be able
[00:11:47] to continue this operation forever. As we mentioned, the
[00:11:51] munitions are being depleted, a ground war would be extremely.
[00:11:55] unpopular, and so the administration at some point or another is
[00:11:59] going to have to look for an off-ramp, what that off-ramp can
[00:12:03] look like, nobody really knows, however, we have
[00:12:06] speculated on previous programs that the United
[00:12:10] States is going to
[00:12:11] have to seek a way in which they can say, look, we have one in some
[00:12:15] way, that's why the rhetoric keeps changing, they changed the rhetoric so
[00:12:19] that if they ever achieve a goal, that was never really the goal in the
[00:12:23] first place, they can claim "well, this is, this is our opportunity
[00:12:27] declared victory, and now we can pull out. none these
[00:12:31] objectives are being achieved, so the United States is being left with very
[00:12:34] little in terms of what can actually be done. one these things that has
[00:12:38] been talked about recently is the bombing of pickax mountain,
[00:12:42] which, as we've discussed previously, nothing short of tactical
[00:12:46] nuclear weapons and even in that case, only maybe tactical nuclear
[00:12:50] weapons could disrupt what is underneath pickaxe mountain is on
[00:12:54] the table right now.
[00:12:55] "no one knows if the United States is actually going to take this remarkably
[00:12:59] egregous step to move into a nuclear
[00:13:02] warfare scenario and whether or not that would even
[00:13:06] work, but the other option is for them to just pull
[00:13:09] out. now the messaging is what is going to be the
[00:13:13] key. to me it's more likely that the United States is just
[00:13:17] going to have to pull out the operation entirely as they see that what they're
[00:13:20] trying to achieve is not going to happen. the question is how are they going to
[00:13:24] pack?" that for the American domestic audience, how are they
[00:13:28] going to be able to say, look, we achieved our goals, we, quote
[00:13:32] unquote, won this war, that's what we're really
[00:13:36] going to have to think about, because Iran is being strengthened, but the United
[00:13:40] States, when they are going to pull out, and we know that they're going to, because
[00:13:44] they cannot win in the situation that we see right
[00:13:47] now, they're going to
[00:13:49] have to find some way to spin it rhetorically, and that is what is going to be the interesting
[00:13:52] thing to look at. That's right. Mr. Badhitch,
[00:13:56] what would it look like if the US
[00:14:00] forces withdraw from the
[00:14:02] region?
[00:14:05] Well, I think that
[00:14:07] eventually, they they'd already
[00:14:11] started to reduce their their
[00:14:15] their presence or footprint within the Persian
[00:14:18] gulf itself,
[00:14:19] I mean the last aircraft carrier to actually transit the straight of
[00:14:23] hormos was in 2012. 23 I believe, it's
[00:14:27] clear that even their most
[00:14:31] cherished and precious bases in Qatar or any other gulf
[00:14:35] countries have become liabilities
[00:14:39] basically for them, they're just sitting ducks
[00:14:42] especially with the the shortage of
[00:14:45] munitions, defensive
[00:14:49] missiles, patriot systems or or others and lot
[00:14:53] of talk about uh basically pulling out
[00:14:57] US forces, maybe to bases in
[00:15:01] Israel, that's a foregone
[00:15:04] conclusion now, how the white house, how the administration will
[00:15:08] spin this withdrawal, how they will frame it, that's
[00:15:12] another matter, but if you recall in the text the
[00:15:15] mou itself between the US and Iran, which the US did not
[00:15:19] live up to, it is mentioned that US
[00:15:23] has 30 days to... pull its forces away
[00:15:27] from or outside the proximity the Islamic
[00:15:30] Republic. now proximity to means the
[00:15:34] bases, it's US basis in Iraq and... and in the
[00:15:38] Gulf, this is proximity,
[00:15:41] so uh, had the US actually
[00:15:45] implemented the MaU in good faith, which they didn't, they would
[00:15:48] have to say to their to the American people, we're pulling out because
[00:15:52] this is what we agreed to, and how they frame a
[00:15:56] victory or how they frame a success to the
[00:15:59] US, people, I can't see how they could
[00:16:03] possibly do that, because most Americans today have access to...
[00:16:07] news and can see for themselves this
[00:16:11] failure, in fact
[00:16:12] I would go as far as to say that the American empire has
[00:16:16] stumbled right here, this is the beginning the
[00:16:19] fall as far as I can see, and Hormus is
[00:16:23] to Trump, as suas was to Anthony Eden, the British
[00:16:27] Prime Minister in the 50s, and that
[00:16:30] signaled Britain's disengagement east of Sewers
[00:16:34] and eventually the clapse of...
[00:16:37] British imperial power in the region, which was later taken over by the
[00:16:41] US, of course, but still, so I think this is
[00:16:45] major turning point, and there is no way to frame
[00:16:49] this as any victory. I mean, even the American
[00:16:53] people can see clearly that this was a gross
[00:16:56] miscalculation and a big mistake.
[00:17:00] That's right. Henry, so many different things to ask right
[00:17:03] here, if the reopening of this rate of hormous is now. to
[00:17:07] sanctions relief as it was uh today in the
[00:17:11] statement by the Supreme National Security Council uh and also the
[00:17:15] compensation for war um and there is this
[00:17:19] leverage right now by Iran that if they are controlling the straight of moves
[00:17:23] and they reach to deal with the Omani side um how
[00:17:27] would that affect the US
[00:17:30] um you know role in the region that is my first question and if there are no
[00:17:34] sanctions on Iran because the reopening the straight off from and
[00:17:37] Iran is actually collecting money from the ships that are
[00:17:41] passing through the strategic waterway, that is also going to
[00:17:45] affect Iran economically speaking, again giving Iran
[00:17:49] another leverage? yeah,
[00:17:52] absolutely. I agree entirely, and I think that in either case what
[00:17:56] we're going to see is a change in the power balance
[00:18:00] within the region. Until this moment, really,
[00:18:04] the United States and Israel had assumed that they had. total dominance
[00:18:08] the region and have been acting with impunity for
[00:18:11] decades uh really doing any actions that they really
[00:18:15] wanted to, because no regional actors had the
[00:18:18] ability either individually or collectively to really push back
[00:18:22] any substantive way against these egregous actions that the United States and
[00:18:26] Israeli governments have been undertaking for these decades.
[00:18:30] however, the the situation today is one in
[00:18:33] which we see that the power balance is already shifting,
[00:18:37] Iran is having the ability to act
[00:18:41] against this agregous action by the United States and
[00:18:44] Israel, it is standing firm in the face these
[00:18:48] attacks by the imperialists from the west, and
[00:18:52] if the conditions that Iran has laid
[00:18:55] out are agreed to, which I don't believe that
[00:18:59] they will be in the near future, just to make it clear, but if they
[00:19:03] are agreed to, what that would be is huge change in...
[00:19:07] the balance of power, the lifting the blockade, lifting
[00:19:11] of sanctions and unfreezing of Iranian assets would be
[00:19:15] huge, huge, economically for the Islamic
[00:19:18] Republic, it would allow them to trade much more
[00:19:22] freely, it would allow them to utilize assets that have been frozen
[00:19:25] abroad, and it would allow them for making further connections
[00:19:29] beyond the countries that
[00:19:30] it is already actively engaged with, like Russia, like
[00:19:33] China, but I don't see that happening in the near future after. all it
[00:19:37] is in the current days where the United States
[00:19:41] Congress is attempting to put further sanctions
[00:19:45] on Iran on Russia on China
[00:19:48] and it would be a bit strange if they are
[00:19:52] implementing new sanctions at the same time that they're going to be dropping sanctions so I
[00:19:56] don't see that happening within
[00:19:57] the next few days but as I mentioned a little bit ago as the
[00:20:01] situation continues to develop and the United States understands it
[00:20:05] cannot win in this scenario. it is eventually going
[00:20:09] to have to agree to at least some demands. now whether it is the current demands that
[00:20:13] have been laid out by the national security council of
[00:20:16] Iran? it may be, it may not be. there may be further
[00:20:19] negotiations down the road when the United States actually comes to the table
[00:20:23] and understands that it has to agree to something, that it's not going to achieve
[00:20:27] its objectives. the moment that that happens, Iran is going to
[00:20:31] be monumentally strengthened, not only in terms of economics, but also in
[00:20:34] terms of legitimizing the political project. The United States having
[00:20:38] to acquies to the demands of Iran, legitimizes the political project
[00:20:42] and demonstrates the strength the
[00:20:45] government. That is something that would be
[00:20:48] unprecedented. for the United States to do for Iran and would
[00:20:52] signal a dramatic sea change in power. now with
[00:20:56] regard to uh Israel, Israel is certainly not going
[00:21:00] to be very happy about that, and what we have seen
[00:21:04] is that as soon as there's any action that the Israeli government
[00:21:08] is unhappy with, they begin to act in increasingly
[00:21:11] terroristic ways. so what I would anticipate
[00:21:15] is that as this situation that is unfolding draws
[00:21:19] further. towards the conclusion and Iran
[00:21:22] inevitably is strengthened because the United
[00:21:25] States's gross miscalculation and absolute
[00:21:29] incompetence within the situation, Israel is going
[00:21:33] to feel, I guess in some ways embulden, but in also
[00:21:37] other ways desperate, because they're going to realize that the balance of power
[00:21:41] in the region is shifting further and further away from them, and every time that they
[00:21:45] has even been a hint of power shifting away from
[00:21:48] Israel within the Middle East, the government has resorted to open
[00:21:52] terrorism and I would anticipate that that is something that would happen and that
[00:21:56] is something that inevitably the national security council of
[00:21:59] Iran will be preparing for, because this is
[00:22:02] historically what we have seen from that government.
[00:22:06] Mr. Bathich, right now with the straight of remos
[00:22:10] closed by the Iranian armed forces and also the straight of
[00:22:14] bobal mandab at the very least facing disruptions by
[00:22:18] the Yemeni armed forces. "are we looking a new
[00:22:21] maritime uh regime, new maritime system in the
[00:22:25] west Asia region uh, and is this something that Washington
[00:22:29] can neutralize? well, we're
[00:22:33] certainly looking a new regime, certainly uh,
[00:22:37] the straights of hormus will not go back to the
[00:22:40] way uh that they were before, certainly there
[00:22:44] will be some form of agreement with between Iran and
[00:22:48] Oman over uh..." some
[00:22:51] form of payment or
[00:22:55] fees for services, mean it's similar to
[00:22:58] the bospherus, the
[00:23:02] which is also major commercial
[00:23:06] waterway, as far as the balbel
[00:23:09] mandab states go, mean the emines
[00:23:13] have effective control, missile
[00:23:17] control over that straight and do threaten it. and
[00:23:20] have for for some time now
[00:23:23] choked Saudi commerce going through
[00:23:26] that Saudi vessels or Saudi bound vessels
[00:23:29] as a result the the bombing
[00:23:33] the runway the SANA airport and the continued blockade
[00:23:37] against the the the Yemen
[00:23:41] the Yemen government Sanah so
[00:23:45] uh certainly it's going to change the way that
[00:23:49] things have been... done for too long,
[00:23:52] shipping has taken has passed through
[00:23:56] these two waterways without much trouble and without
[00:24:00] much, so I think
[00:24:04] now with the situation changing and power
[00:24:07] shifting towards Tehran and indeed
[00:24:10] towards regional countries as well, who
[00:24:14] will want to take agency
[00:24:18] over their territorial water. and that's only
[00:24:22] right and proper. now it's in no one's
[00:24:25] interest to bar entry or to
[00:24:28] choke commerce in the long term.
[00:24:32] mean, this,
[00:24:35] so in some way, i think there
[00:24:39] will be an agreement reached that
[00:24:43] will give Iran and oman and
[00:24:46] probably even Yemen, a degree of control. "and there
[00:24:50] will be some form of agreement, some sort
[00:24:54] of
[00:24:55] you know give and take, obviously
[00:24:59] this form of control over waterways is
[00:25:03] an asset a way that you can use in your
[00:25:06] inbtering for better deal, better,
[00:25:09] so I do see that happening, certainly we're never going to
[00:25:13] go back to the way things were before, so
[00:25:17] who knows how how things will will shape."
[00:25:21] Exactly, very interesting conversation. Thank you, both gentlemen, Henry
[00:25:24] Hakamaki, writer and podcaster, joining us from the city of
[00:25:27] Toturston and Henry Honey Batich, journalist and
[00:25:31] writer joining us from the city of Beirot. Thank you both.
[00:25:35] Thank you for having me. And that brings us to the end of this edition
[00:25:39] of our spotlight program. Thank you for being with us and
[00:25:41] bye-bye.
[00:26:06] "as an African, I can't help but think about sanction as in Zimbabwe,
[00:26:10] because that was what introduced me to sanction in the first place, where the
[00:26:13] Zimbabwe people had to suffer because of US unilateral
[00:26:17] sanction and also the EU sanction, and what that sanction did
[00:26:21] to the entire economy, but having come to Iran, I realized the
[00:26:25] sanction can be treated as swatt. What is what? In
[00:26:29] business, swat means s w o t."
[00:26:33] which means strength, weakness, opportunities and threat, and
[00:26:37] that is how Iranians have shooted sanctions by turning it
[00:26:40] into strength, and today Iran
[00:26:44] produces over 90% of its food
[00:26:47] consumption.
[00:27:01] According to the... Most recent sensors, Iran has 90 million
[00:27:05] people, or over 90 million people, and this
[00:27:09] produces over 90% the food that its people
[00:27:12] need. It is so self-sufficient in creating food and
[00:27:16] producing food that
[00:27:17] it is also exporting to other countries. There are only
[00:27:21] very few countries that have been able to attain over
[00:27:24] 70% of food sufficiency according to the
[00:27:27] UN, and those countries are China,
[00:27:30] Russia, the United States. and Iran is also one
[00:27:34] them, but the difference is Iran is heavily
[00:27:38] sanctioned.
[00:27:46] According to UN estimate, export of agricultural
[00:27:50] products now amounts for 12% of Iran's total
[00:27:54] GDP. When you compare that to the
[00:27:57] countries around Iran that are well, relatively
[00:28:01] much, much richer. than Iran, but they cannot produce
[00:28:05] even 2% the food that they consume,
[00:28:09] countries like Saudi Arabia, like Kuwait, like
[00:28:12] Oman, what we can argue that some these countries are
[00:28:16] experiencing drought, and the geography does not allow for
[00:28:19] food production, but one the lies we've been told is that
[00:28:23] to be self-sufficient in food and consumption, you have
[00:28:27] to be very, very rich. You can also compare that to African
[00:28:31] countries that have... have huge hurriable land that allow
[00:28:35] them to be able to farm, but most African
[00:28:39] countries still import over 70% the food
[00:28:43] they
[00:28:43] consume.
[00:28:53] well, this is one the good restaurants in Tehran and Africam to try
[00:28:57] very famous Iranian dish known as conme
[00:29:00] sapsi. "this is
[00:29:04] considered by Iranian as the king of food.
[00:29:07] one thing Iran has taught us from the very first moment that are uncovering
[00:29:11] sanctions around the world and especially in Iran, whether it is from their
[00:29:15] military doctrine to their technology when it comes
[00:29:19] to medicine or the ability to be able to produce your own food, is
[00:29:23] that when a nation takes a decision that it
[00:29:27] can do it, it will find ways, whether you're
[00:29:30] sanctioned by everybody in the world. or your sanction by the United
[00:29:34] States,
[00:29:41] very
[00:29:42] delicious.
[00:30:36] The headlines, the Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council
[00:30:40] says the straight
[00:30:41] of removes will not reopen until the US corrects its behavior and
[00:30:45] stops threatening the Islamic Republic. The Iranian president
[00:30:48] says Tehran took reciprocal action after the US violated the
[00:30:52] Mou, stressing that the Islamic Republic will continue to defend
[00:30:56] its interest while pursuing diplomacy.