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[00:00:00] and Oman, as the coastal states of the straight, have
[00:00:03] carried major share of this responsibility. While the
[00:00:07] global economy has benefited from this route, much of the burden has
[00:00:10] remained with the region: air and water pollution, the
[00:00:14] risk of fuel spills, possible collisions,
[00:00:18] search and rescue operations,
[00:00:20] wider security and environmental
[00:00:23] consequences. In this context, Iran's question
[00:00:27] becomes easier to understand, is it? reasonable for the world to
[00:00:31] benefit from vital straight without contributing to the cost of
[00:00:34] keeping it safe, and more importantly, is it fair for countries
[00:00:38] that depend on the security of this route to impose political
[00:00:41] pressure, economic sanctions and even war on
[00:00:44] Iran, while still expecting essential services in this
[00:00:48] corridor to continue free of charge. from Iran's
[00:00:51] perspective, the era of providing such services without
[00:00:54] compensation is over. This does not mean closing maritime
[00:00:58] roots or using the st. of Hormus as a weapon, it
[00:01:02] means creating a transparent, legal and predictable mechanism
[00:01:05] for sharing the costs of the services that keep this route safe
[00:01:09] and usable, if Suez and Panama collect fees for their
[00:01:12] artificial waterways and if some natural
[00:01:15] straights also have financial mechanisms for safety related
[00:01:19] services, then the straight of Hormus cannot be treated
[00:01:22] forever as a completely free root. The fact that Hormus is
[00:01:26] natural or international is not exempted from the costs of man.
[00:01:30] and protection and its strategic importance is exactly
[00:01:33] why financing its safety and management must be taken seriously.
[00:02:04] Mrs. Mr.
[00:03:19] sickbed, she had a
[00:03:39] Mehdi's father had been transferred by Bank
[00:03:42] Keshavarzi to Malayer and Mehdi
[00:03:45] attended elementary school in a school that years
[00:03:48] later Saddam would bomb during the eight-year
[00:03:52] war. That very same school with its
[00:03:56] brick walls. I fell in love with these little
[00:03:59] boys sitting in the corner of this school in the photo
[00:04:03] and it is unclear what he is thinking
[00:04:05] about
[00:04:10] during the revolution days Mehdi was a teenager, like
[00:04:13] any other teenager swept by the fever of the
[00:04:17] revolution into the streets
[00:04:19] of
[00:04:24] Chalous. Mehdi said that in those days he and his friends
[00:04:27] used every opportunity to get themselves
[00:05:00] position in the fields
[00:05:02] of, in fact, basic sciences, especially
[00:05:06] physics, mathematics, biophysics, and some
[00:05:09] aerospace fields, they said that Russian universities in
[00:05:13] these fields, in these areas, are strong universities,
[00:05:17] they are good universities, and it is better to go there.
[00:05:20] He went to the Institute of General Physics
[00:05:23] there, and in fact,
[00:05:26] he started his work in the field of laser magnetism.
[00:05:30] My father's personality was such
[00:05:34] that, since he was a government
[00:05:37] scholarship recipient, he only felt obliged
[00:05:40] to study in Russia and not do anything else.
[00:06:12] they had a dream, but with your father's knowledge, I chose
[00:06:16] him, in a way, a person who is completely
[00:06:18] Hezbollahi, with a clean
[00:06:22] collar, for example, his collar buttons are neat,
[00:06:25] and his beard, they said, was not like someone who was going to
[00:06:29] propose, but rather a "bazaar kid,"
[00:06:32] they said, that he maintained
[00:06:36] his student status, and his Hezbollahi
[00:06:39] and regional identity.
[00:07:42] free opportunity to visit Karbala.
[00:07:46] Mahdi's mother was also with us on many of these
[00:07:49] trips.
[00:07:53] After Haj Abdullah's passing, Mehdi never
[00:07:56] separated from his mother for moments. My
[00:07:59] relationship with his mother in those years was more like
[00:08:03] a mother-daughter relationship. I
[00:08:06] remember when people saw us together, they would think I was her
[00:08:10] daughter. Even when we moved to a new
[00:08:14] house, Mehdi always made sure his mother was
[00:08:17] close to us. In those final
[00:08:20] years, she even lived with us. She was the
[00:08:24] blessing of our
[00:08:25] life.
[00:08:28] In the last days, on her
[00:08:32] request for Mehdi.
[00:08:35] She told him, "I am content with leaving,
[00:08:38] you should also be content."
[00:08:42] Mehdi stayed by his mother's side until the very
[00:08:45] last moment, until she was
[00:08:47] satisfied.
[00:08:51] Despite all these sorrows and unfortunate events,
[00:08:55] Hajj never lost his motivation for scientific
[00:08:58] work. He attended to his managerial and university
[00:09:02] duties with that same motivation.
[00:09:06] Mehdi knew from the very beginning the path he had
[00:09:09] chosen, and he knew that the path could not...
[00:09:42] The head of Nature, in fact, the European
[00:09:46] editor of Nature, was sent to Iran. He came,
[00:09:49] quickly took a tour,
[00:09:52] and returned. There, he wrote
[00:09:56] two articles analyzing
[00:09:58] why Iran
[00:10:02] is fossil-rich. It's the first.
[00:10:05] Iran is first.
[00:10:08] Iran's Long March, the great Iranian march.
[00:10:13] The subtitle that, as you, dear friends, know,
[00:10:17] says that the scientific
[00:10:20] authority in Iran is being
[00:10:23] rebuilt.
[00:10:26] Unless it is stopped by political
[00:10:29] unrest or additional sanctions.
[00:10:32] In 2004 and 2005, it was
[00:10:35] 198.
[00:10:40] It was a very difficult task with all this great work, but he accepted, as they say,
[00:10:44] he went into the lion's mouth,
[00:10:47] but he believed that it would become a lion's den. Perhaps
[00:10:50] no minister, no university president
[00:10:54] has seen anyone like this
[00:10:58] person who is so involved in the discussion of
[00:11:01] development, in the discussion of innovation, in the discussion of
[00:11:04] new ideas and mastery of the
[00:11:07] subject matter. For example, you have a document
[00:11:10] that says, for example, which province is ranked what in research.
[00:11:13] Believe me, during the time that Dr.
[00:11:17] was not there for a century, the entire presence of
[00:11:20] Dr. Azad University as the president of Azad University of the country
[00:11:23] is 98.
[00:11:27] Four who are martyred.
[00:11:29] He used to say that Western
[00:11:33] countries and America allow
[00:11:36] other countries to have science to a certain extent.
[00:11:40] Well, beyond that, if our scientists'
[00:11:43] heads hit the ceiling of this red
[00:11:47] line, they will confront and eliminate them.
[00:11:50] This was his view. He said the edge of science. He said Ali Mohammadi
[00:11:54] Shahriyari's group knew more than what the
[00:11:57] enemy had drawn for them.
[00:11:59] That's why
[00:12:02] this animosity happens.
[00:12:05] Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most
[00:12:09] Merciful. With praise and thanks to
[00:12:12] the presence of the Almighty God, and greetings to the Seal of Prophets and his
[00:12:16] noble household, according to explicit
[00:12:20] documents, the scientific development of the United States and England in recent
[00:12:23] years has progressed. The progress of other
[00:12:27] countries and the changing geography of
[00:12:30] research and education, and even after decades of American and
[00:12:34] European leadership, is considered a threat to the
[00:12:37] dominance of these countries. Therefore, from the
[00:12:40] perspective of the West, the scientific progress inspiring Islamic
[00:12:43] Iran, with its nuclear, missile,
[00:12:46] space, and converging sciences and technologies,
[00:12:50] and changes in the foundations of social humanities, must be
[00:12:53] stopped.
[00:12:56] We must note that the cessation of support for
[00:13:00] national mega-projects and university research
[00:13:03] has not been without effect
[00:13:06] on the audacity of the other side and its treachery.
[00:13:09] Finally, I would like to point out that disheartening
[00:13:12] and frustrating scientists, especially
[00:13:16] nuclear scientists, is one of the main goals of the enemies of the Islamic
[00:13:20] Republic. The implementation of international treaties should not be such
[00:13:23] that it causes restrictions in the execution of
[00:13:27] projects, cuts financial resources, and induces
[00:13:31] despair among scientists and even
[00:13:34] supporting businesses
[00:13:35] and workers.
[00:13:40] One Monday, my wife came to the university to pick me up. We went to get
[00:13:44] wedding invitations. I was sitting
[00:13:47] in the car as we were going towards Baharestan.
[00:13:51] My wife told me that one of her colleagues, I was at school in the morning, said
[00:15:28] Ali Mohammadi studied in Iran. He told a beautiful story. He said
[00:15:31] it takes 50 years for someone like Ali Mohammadi to be
[00:15:35] nurtured. If all these conditions of
[00:15:38] time and place remain the same, it will take 50
[00:15:42] years.
[00:15:45] Well,
[00:15:49] when I became the president of Shahid Beheshti, I told these ambassadors
[00:15:52] to come and see me. What kind of creature am I? I told
[00:15:56] the German ambassador that I am a physicist and I teach the history of
[00:16:00] science. You once persecuted Galileo, and
[00:16:03] hundreds of years later, you received a black response.
[00:16:08] You will not be able to answer for what you are doing to Iran today 100
[00:16:11] years from now. You killed Shahriyari, you sanctioned
[00:16:15] the university. You sanctioned information
[00:16:18] sources. The German ambassador turned
[00:16:22] around and said, "I agree with
[00:16:24] you. We have held everything hostage against you, and
[00:16:28] science as well."
[00:16:30] That's why the West sanctions Shahid Beheshti. It sanctions
[00:16:34] Mr. Tehranchi. The institution of
[00:16:37] power is the institution of science. Without the institution of
[00:16:41] science, other institutions are
[00:16:42] meaningless.
[00:16:46] Martyr Shahriyari was assassinated at the entrance of
[00:16:49] Mahallati town when he was going to Shahid Beheshti
[00:16:52] University. What happened
[00:16:56] that day was that my father was a little busy with work and so on.
[00:16:59] He left the house a little
[00:17:03] later than usual. The incident
[00:17:05] that happened to Martyr Shahriyari,
[00:17:09] immediately, Martyr Shahriyari's driver
[00:17:13] called, and my father's driver,
[00:17:17] who had just come out at the moment of the
[00:17:20] assassination and had seen the events, the first thing he did was
[00:17:24] call my father's driver, and my father's driver immediately
[00:17:28] called my father and told him not to come out.
[00:17:31] This was the incident that later security
[00:17:34] friends said that more than two assassinations were planned for that
[00:17:38] day, which led to the assassination of Martyr Shahriyari and Martyr Abbasi,
[00:17:42] whose assassination was unsuccessful. Martyr
[00:17:46] Shahriyari was martyred.
[00:17:49] But they said it was more than that.
[00:17:52] The danger that I was sure would definitely happen one
[00:17:56] day was after the martyrdom of Martyr
[00:17:59] Fakhrizadeh. With the evidence we have from
[00:18:03] his desk, from the papers that this
[00:18:05] assassination event
[00:18:07] would be carried out for him,
[00:18:11] but he had absolutely told none of us anything.
[00:18:15] The fact that my father was really happy
[00:18:17] that Israel and America
[00:18:21] were trying to assassinate him or impose sanctions
[00:18:24] on him, or for years Israeli
[00:18:28] media reported on this, my father
[00:18:31] always said that it was like a
[00:18:35] medal of honor for him that much in the eyes of Israel and
[00:18:39] America. But the truth is it was difficult,
[00:18:42] the stress was difficult, and
[00:18:45] all these years, when my phone rang outside
[00:18:48] regular hours, my hands and feet would
[00:18:51] tremble. The only thing that came to my mind was that
[00:18:55] probably they had hit him, especially
[00:18:59] this.
[00:19:07] On the sixth floor, from this
[00:19:11] adjacent unit, one person was martyred, meaning there was a young couple
[00:19:13] whose wife was martyred.
[00:19:17] On this side, there were also four
[00:19:20] neighbors. The wife's
[00:19:23] daughter was killed by the blast that destroyed the walls between the two
[00:19:27] houses, and
[00:19:30] 16 people were martyred from all the floors.
[00:19:34] طبقات.
[00:19:46] A month before his martyrdom, he called
[00:19:49] me and said, "These are my articles,
[00:19:52] correct them." Well, they had students who corrected them,
[00:19:56] they had joint articles, and
[00:20:00] they had removed these
[00:20:03] to, now, this is the doctor's own
[00:20:08] words, "they want to do something wrong."
[00:20:11] He meant assassination, so that when I am not
[00:20:15] around, people search for who Tehranchi
[00:20:18] is, and they say, "Look, this was a nuclear
[00:20:22] scientist." As friends said, they had misspelled the doctor's
[00:20:25] name so that when you search for Mohammad
[00:20:28] Mehdi Tehranchi, you don't find
[00:20:31] his articles.
[00:20:35] were together, but the
[00:20:39] security detail didn't allow us to leave the house
[00:20:42] together.
[00:20:46] Mahdi, along with his protection team, left the house a little
[00:20:50] earlier.
[00:20:52] After a while, I set off in my own car. On our
[00:20:56] way, suddenly two ambulances with their sirens
[00:20:59] blaring passed by my car. It seemed an
[00:21:03] accident had happened ahead.
[00:21:06] All the pain in the world poured into my heart. I
[00:21:10] was certain something had happened to Mehdi. I
[00:21:14] couldn't drive properly. I pulled
[00:21:16] over to the side of the highway and suddenly burst out.
[00:21:51] media but
[00:21:53] we are from the school of an Imam
[00:21:56] whose 72
[00:21:59] companions and himself were
[00:22:02] killed in front of his family
[00:22:05] and wives and children, but the religion
[00:22:09] continued and gained strength.
[00:22:13] Someone who reaches the status of a scholar
[00:22:15] is not just intelligent,
[00:22:19] but also pure-hearted.
[00:22:21] There is
[00:22:24] a sun hidden in a particle,
[00:22:26] suddenly that particle
[00:22:30] will open its mouth,
[00:22:34] and the heavens and earth will become particles
[00:22:37] before that sun, when it emerges from
[00:22:41] its shell.
[00:22:45] If you worked hard for your
[00:22:48] country,
[00:22:51] you must also expect a reward.
[00:22:55] A person who has no enemies, in
[00:22:59] my opinion, does not exist. The more
[00:23:02] ruthless your enemy is, the more serious
[00:23:05] it means
[00:23:07] that, in my opinion, you have been more effective in your life. Well, how is life going?
[00:23:11] You should ask my wife how strange life has been that
[00:23:14] we can no longer walk together, we can't go anywhere together, we can't.
[00:23:18] Wherever you go, there are guards and so on. It's part of life.
[00:23:22] For example, if we want to leave, everyone is a partner.
[00:23:24] In other words, this is part of it. But let me tell you something,
[00:23:27] Mr. Najasat, today, with all these
[00:23:31] hardships, I perhaps
[00:23:34] knew the day when I
[00:23:37] believed that we should dedicate
[00:23:40] all our lives, our knowledge, God's blessings
[00:23:44] to the good people of this country and the great
[00:23:47] name of this country. That day too,
[00:23:51] I knew it wasn't without trouble, but I didn't think it would be so painful. I mean, that day,
[00:23:55] I used to say you are comfortable in Tehran,
[00:23:58] outside of Tehran, I didn't know it would be difficult even in Tehran,
[00:24:01] but I'm not a bit regretful. I mean, if I could go
[00:24:05] back, I would follow the same
[00:24:07] path again.
[00:24:10] About two weeks before, I think it was
[00:24:14] Sha'ban, the month of Sha'ban,
[00:24:16] we went on a trip that happened very
[00:24:20] coincidentally. Suddenly, we told Hajj Agha Reza,
[00:24:24] his brother, that we wanted to go to Karbala. He said, "Okay, I
[00:24:27] will make the arrangements so that we can
[00:24:30] go together." I, along with my four sisters
[00:24:33] and Hajj Agha Reza, went on a two or three-day
[00:24:37] land trip. We joined them and went
[00:24:40] there for a pilgrimage and thank God, we were able to visit
[00:24:44] both Najaf and Karbala. Then,
[00:24:47] in Karbala, when we wanted
[00:24:51] to return, we wanted to say goodbye
[00:24:54] and return.
[00:24:56] He always used to say, he often used to say, "Pray that I will be martyred with Dr.
[00:25:00] We said, "How do you know?" Sometimes I would jokingly ask him, "How do you know Dr.
[00:25:03] will be martyred?" He said, "No, I know that he will eventually be martyred, but
[00:25:07] pray that I will be with him." Then I said, "Okay, God willing,
[00:25:11] may He grant your wish." Then during the farewell pilgrimage, as we were
[00:25:14] coming, in the area between the two
[00:25:17] shrines,
[00:25:19] they lined us all up and said, "Stand facing the shrine of Imam
[00:25:23] Hussein." We also stood facing the shrine and
[00:25:26] he said, "Pray that I will be martyred."
[00:25:30] I jokingly told him, "Are you saying it again?" He said, "No, pray that I will be
[00:25:33] martyred so that I can be with Dr.
[00:25:36] Well, we said okay, and we prayed for him
[00:25:40] that God willing, his wish would be granted. All his wishes were granted, just
[00:25:44] as he
[00:25:44] wished.
[00:25:53] The month before her martyrdom, Haj Khanum had a dream about Haj
[00:25:56] Qasem, who gave her six
[00:25:58] pieces of Karbala soil. She recounted this
[00:26:02] dream to Dr. and said, "Sir, I had such a dream, and in short,
[00:26:06] we don't know who to give the other two
[00:26:09] to. We didn't understand who they wanted to give these four
[00:26:13] to." Dr. jokingly told his friends, "Sir, we have four pieces of Karbala
[00:26:16] soil." In short, for the martyrdom, it was the soil of Haj
[00:26:20] Qasem. Haj Khanum saw this dream. You see, then
[00:26:24] we see that on the day of their martyrdom, even though
[00:26:27] there were five guards in the house, four of them were
[00:26:31] martyred. One of them had a closet fall on him and
[00:26:35] was not martyred. Some of the children were on the fifth
[00:26:37] floor. Then we realized that the two pieces of soil belonged to Haj Khanum
[00:26:41] herself, and the four were for the companions of Hajj.
[00:26:57] In fact, we
[00:27:01] had a river. We throw a stick into this
[00:27:03] river, but our difference, our point has only been
[00:27:07] that they threw us into this river,
[00:27:11] and you are looking at the issue from
[00:27:14] the perspective of that dry stick. The idea that
[00:27:17] we were something, no,
[00:27:21] our only art has been to be a dry
[00:27:24] stick and try not to have too many
[00:27:28] branches and leaves, as they say, so we don't get
[00:27:31] stuck. It should be
[00:27:35] easy to go with this
[00:27:38] water. Therefore,
[00:27:40] the main point is that all this narrative
[00:27:44] is the narrative of a generation in a cradle, a soldier in a cradle.
[00:27:47] است سرباز درگهاره.
[00:28:44] Social media platforms are vying to get the attention of more and more
[00:28:48] users because it means more money for
[00:28:51] them, but it isn't a new
[00:28:54] phenomenon.
[00:28:56] It has roots in the past decades since newspapers were the only
[00:29:00] mass media.
[00:29:03] Today the old tactics have become more complicated and of course
[00:29:07] scarier,
[00:29:10] they're everywhere with
[00:29:11] you.
[00:29:15] They even offer you free services to get your attention, but don't be
[00:29:19] duped.
[00:29:22] The old saying goes, if you are not paying for the product, then you
[00:29:26] are the
[00:29:27] product.
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