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[00:02:26] Hello, I'm Chris Williamson and this is Palestine Declassified. focus
[00:02:30] on the international struggle to liberate Palestine and expose Israel's
[00:02:34] efforts to manipulate the political class and corporate media. In
[00:02:38] today's show
[00:02:38] of we'll be
[00:02:39] of revisiting the genocide in South
[00:02:41] of Lebanon, which is continuing to see killings,
[00:02:43] of displacement, and the destruction of homes unfolding every
[00:02:47] day,
[00:02:48] of despite
[00:02:48] a
[00:02:51] of a supposed cease fire. As our video report will explain, the United States continues to exert pressure on the Lebanese government to
[00:02:55] disarm hisb.
[00:02:57] of Meanwhile, the cienist entity strengthens its plans. to permanently occupy
[00:03:01] South Levaland under the guise of so-called security
[00:03:04] a zone. The
[00:03:08] genocide in South Lebanon continues,
[00:03:10] in even of though the world forgets. Since the 2nd of March this
[00:03:14] year, more than 4,300 people have been killed,
[00:03:18] and over 12,00 wounded, with
[00:03:20] of more than 1 million people displaced its peak,
[00:03:24] although some later return a mid ongoing insecurity.
[00:03:28] Villages near the border with designist. entity have been raised to the
[00:03:31] ground, with others even further out suffering
[00:03:35] of extensive damage and
[00:03:36] of destruction. despite the cessation of hostility supposedly
[00:03:40] taking effect towards the end of June, the Zionis are still
[00:03:44] engaged in daily targeted strikes and killings.
[00:03:47] meanwhile, the United States has continued its attempt to
[00:03:51] disarm the Lebanese resistance
[00:03:53] of and to exercise effective control over the Lebanese
[00:03:56] of government.
[00:03:57] of on the 26th of June, Lebanon, the US and the zionist
[00:04:01] regime signed a
[00:04:02] a framework agreement in Washington which was rejected as being
[00:04:06] nullen void and
[00:04:08] of humiliation by
[00:04:09] of Hisballah Secretary General Naim Khassim. He argued that
[00:04:13] it conditions any zinus withdrawal a disarmament
[00:04:16] of the resistance and that it allows an extended Zionist
[00:04:20] presence in the country south. The Zionis defense minister
[00:04:24] Israel cats has stated that the Israel
[00:04:27] of occupation forces will remain
[00:04:29] in a so-called. security zone in south Lebanon, covering
[00:04:32] areas up to several kilometers inside the border.
[00:04:36] Despite this, the Lebanese President, Joseph Aun,
[00:04:40] maintains a slavish posture towards the United
[00:04:43] States. In his July visit to the White House, he declared that
[00:04:47] of Lebanon is counting on the US as its sponsor, but this
[00:04:51] is not prevented further strikes against Lebanon. On the 15th of
[00:04:55] August, the Zionis hit a house in the village of Ansar, killing
[00:04:59] of seven people. including three children and two
[00:05:02] of women of and later struck der Zarani,
[00:05:06] killing four more. Lebanese authorities recorded this
[00:05:10] as one
[00:05:10] of the highest single day death tools. Since the June
[00:05:13] Framework. The June Framework leaves Zionist
[00:05:17] forces occupying Lebanese territory while demanding the
[00:05:20] dismantling the only force that has historically constrained
[00:05:24] design is colonization of Lebanon. But for Lebanon's
[00:05:28] puppet regime under President Joseph Owen, which is under the willing
[00:05:32] tutilage the Americans, their own status and pockets appear
[00:05:36] to matter more than the well-being of Lebanese citizens and the
[00:05:40] integrity of Lebanon's borders. Our joining me
[00:05:44] today is the Bayroot based award-winning journalist and political commentator Leif
[00:05:48] Meruth. Leif established free Palestine TV in
[00:05:51] 2023, which continues to provide vital news coverage on
[00:05:55] the ground in Leben and beyond. I'm also joined as usual by our
[00:05:58] residence expert in UK's leading scholarly critic of Israel, David
[00:06:02] Miller. David recently secured a far-reaching legal precedent. This
[00:06:06] made it illegal for employers to take disciplinary action against their employees
[00:06:10] for publicly opposing sionism. addition to his empirical research
[00:06:14] on saionism, David
[00:06:15] is also a co-director the lobby watch talk spinwatch and a senior research fellow at
[00:06:19] the center for islam and global destruction in south lebanon and explain what it
[00:06:23] shows about the zinish regime's true intentions in the south the
[00:06:26] country. well the scale of destruction in
[00:06:30] south Lebanon is almost
[00:06:33] unimaginable for most of us. this
[00:06:36] is an area that is 10-20
[00:06:40] times the size of gaza. that is occupied by the Israelis
[00:06:44] and they have been
[00:06:46] conducting total ethnic
[00:06:50] cleansing campaign in these areas, blowing up
[00:06:53] complete villages, destroying all historical
[00:06:57] sites and even
[00:07:00] uprooting the historic graveyards
[00:07:04] of this region, so over for instance just
[00:07:08] the last 24 hours, three
[00:07:11] villages behind the occupation line
[00:07:14] were completely blown up and this is bringing the
[00:07:18] number of villages that have been
[00:07:20] erased off the map close to
[00:07:24] 30 villages right now totally wiped out like
[00:07:28] that since the occupation the
[00:07:31] area was conducted and
[00:07:35] the ceasefire came into effect so i
[00:07:38] think you know what the Israelies are doing is
[00:07:43] genocide and ethnic cleansing a large
[00:07:46] scale in south Lebanon, changing the even
[00:07:50] the topography the land, blowing up all hills and
[00:07:54] mountains from
[00:07:56] existence, this you triggered the speaker
[00:08:00] the house nabi, the head
[00:08:04] the amal party to make saying that
[00:08:08] the scale, saying that the scale
[00:08:12] of uh ethnic cleansing that is happening in
[00:08:16] south Lebanon is larger than that in
[00:08:18] Gaza. David, why is these the so-called june
[00:08:22] framework agreement failed to stop the daily zionist strikes in
[00:08:26] lebanon? well, I mean,
[00:08:30] you you don't make an agreement with the sanishist entity and expect that they
[00:08:33] will keep to it, they violate every cease fire every
[00:08:37] treaty, every agreement, usually before it's even come into
[00:08:41] effect, and of course that was... the same uh in Lebanon from June
[00:08:44] onwards we've seen uh lots and lots of footage
[00:08:48] the mass uh blowing up of
[00:08:51] villages of apartment complexes across the whole of
[00:08:55] South Lebanon and and it's been a very
[00:08:58] significant uh uptaken the tempo of some of those those
[00:09:02] activities uh but started off much more slowly in late
[00:09:06] June now of course they haven't had it all their away they they
[00:09:09] have had very quite heavy casuality. inflicted by
[00:09:13] hezballah over the the
[00:09:17] succeeding weeks and also of course they have tried their
[00:09:21] best to bring in Joani their
[00:09:24] asset in Syria to attack hisb
[00:09:28] seems to have been stopped by
[00:09:32] the Islamic Republic of Iran saying to Syria that it would not
[00:09:35] tolerate Syrian forces entering Lebanon and that it
[00:09:39] would directly strike
[00:09:41] uh Syria if they did. that so that's of course come off the agenda, but
[00:09:45] what we're seeing is attempt to uh make it
[00:09:48] impossible for the people of south lebanon to return to their
[00:09:52] villages because they will be so destroyed that there will be nothing left to
[00:09:56] to rebuild and that also they will they are clearing territory for what
[00:10:00] they call security zone but also of course will be uh put
[00:10:03] potential for new jewish settlements which of course
[00:10:07] there's already some evidence of that's happening although it's been quite difficult
[00:10:11] because the... uh the lack of military success they've had
[00:10:15] uh in their campaign to raise uh lebanese
[00:10:19] villages, i don't if you recall chris, but was in
[00:10:22] Lebanon now last year and went to the south right to the border
[00:10:26] actually to see some these villages, including one called
[00:10:30] kafaakila, i was the first uh me and
[00:10:33] dimitri Lascares were the first western journalists to get there and it was
[00:10:37] almost entirely destroyed and you could the designers had only left three days
[00:10:41] before and it was almost entirely destroyed and they carved a
[00:10:45] massive star of David
[00:10:46] in the in the middle of football pitch which we saw from the hills above it, it
[00:10:50] was just truly awful and of course they continued with that kind of activity indeed
[00:10:54] if anything. escalated it into um the mass uh bombing
[00:10:58] campaigns the they've uh undertaken against particular villages and
[00:11:02] apartment blocks you know you
[00:11:05] mentioned there you can't trust the the
[00:11:09] zionist to stick to a treaty it kind of reminds me what we now
[00:11:13] know about other settle colonial projects like the
[00:11:17] United States of of America for example which made numerous
[00:11:20] treaties with the native Americans and broke them systematically mean this just
[00:11:24] seems to feature doesn't it of of settle
[00:11:27] colonialism? well, it's the arrogance the settlers,
[00:11:31] isn't it? mean, there's a particular um
[00:11:34] dimension to settle colonialism, which we should be conscious of,
[00:11:38] but maybe we sometimes forget, which makes it different to the kind of resource
[00:11:42] colonialism which affected other parts
[00:11:45] of what used to be called the developing world, so for example India
[00:11:49] wasn't a settler colony, whereas radisia which became Zimbable was,
[00:11:53] south africa was, Algeria was, the north of Ireland of course is
[00:11:56] remains a settler colony and what happens is
[00:11:59] that the settlers um they start to
[00:12:03] adopt their own interests, they start to have their own interests which are
[00:12:07] separate from whoever is their sponsor, whether that's an imperial
[00:12:11] power or or or the the home country
[00:12:14] from which they have come, so that's a dynamic
[00:12:18] which you saw in Algeria, you saw in in Zimbabwe,
[00:12:22] you saw in South Africa and of course in America. and the other colonies in
[00:12:26] Australia, New Zealand, etc., because of course the Metropolis quite
[00:12:30] often takes a more liberal imperialist
[00:12:33] view and not and not so much of a
[00:12:36] genocidal, directly genocidal view, so there's a kind of tension
[00:12:40] there quite often between the different sorts of of imperialist
[00:12:44] view in terms of controlling the territory, and that's why in the
[00:12:48] end settle colonies cease to exist, because the the set
[00:12:52] has become so extreme and so genocidal that either they are
[00:12:56] kicked out or they they they complete settle
[00:12:59] colonialism which is which means of course that they effectively
[00:13:03] eliminate all the natives or sufficient number the natives that
[00:13:07] they can't make any difference to politics such as the case for example in
[00:13:11] Australia, Canada and the US, but so far in
[00:13:14] in uh in Palestine they've not managed that and it looks like it's going
[00:13:18] to be very difficult for them to manage that even though they though they have inflicted
[00:13:22] heavy blows of course on the palestine resistance. and
[00:13:26] indeed on hisballah and of course they took out the the government
[00:13:30] of basar al-asad a key element the axis of resistance, but they cannot defeat
[00:13:34] Iran, so they are a bit of bind to Netanyahu's most recent
[00:13:38] statement talks about how they have effectively destroyed Iran's
[00:13:42] military capability, it's nuclear program, it's missile
[00:13:46] program, and everybody knows that that's not true, so
[00:13:49] that's the they find themselves in, yes absolutely,
[00:13:53] and you mentioned David and of course that's an
[00:13:57] inspirational tale isn't it where the resistance did prevail didn't they but hear
[00:14:00] a lot the mainstream media uh or making
[00:14:04] commentators actually refer to that but I mean that that was a real
[00:14:07] inspirational and and successful resistance campaign
[00:14:11] wasn't it went through in the end yeah I mean the set was have been
[00:14:15] there for a long time longer actually than uh the zines have been
[00:14:19] there at least since 1948 obviously there were some designers before
[00:14:23] 1948 but they were there. for over hundred years and they were kicked
[00:14:26] out and as result Algeria is now predominantly Muslim
[00:14:30] country and is an independent country, it is one the biggest supporters
[00:14:34] the Palestinians uh shore of direct military
[00:14:38] support for the Palestinians that we have in the world, sure now
[00:14:42] indeed, but leif I mean the Zionists haven't exactly been having
[00:14:45] easy time in South Leven and have they, I mean despite temporarily
[00:14:49] capturing lots of land, just tell us about some the difficulties that the Israeli
[00:14:53] occupation forces have faced there. Yeah, the
[00:14:57] isionist occupation in South Lebanon is not a walk in the
[00:15:00] park, it is very, very difficult
[00:15:04] military operation, Hezbulah
[00:15:07] is kind of restraining itself at this
[00:15:11] moment because the cease fire, but that is not
[00:15:15] stopping Hizbullah from ambushing
[00:15:18] any Israeli forces that
[00:15:21] attempt to move forward. in the
[00:15:25] occupation
[00:15:26] so where you know the
[00:15:29] occupation um is not comfortable just
[00:15:33] yesterday also released some videos
[00:15:37] their operations against the Israeli occupation forces
[00:15:41] before the cease fire came into effect,
[00:15:44] showing that
[00:15:45] they are able to conduct these operations if they want to
[00:15:49] again, and I think we will be going back
[00:15:52] to that situation of full
[00:15:56] confrontation between Hizbullah and the Zionist occupation
[00:16:00] forces very soon momentarily, I think it will going to
[00:16:04] be triggered, since the morning the...
[00:16:07] Israelis are bombarding villages far away
[00:16:11] from the frontline as as part
[00:16:14] their you know overall
[00:16:17] policy of you punishing the
[00:16:21] population in for anytime they
[00:16:24] lose battle on the ground with Hisballah
[00:16:27] they
[00:16:29] you know do collective punishment against the civilians in South
[00:16:32] Lebanon so that's that's what's happening right now and I
[00:16:36] think you know if we if we look at all those videos over the
[00:16:40] last four five months the
[00:16:43] confrontation between hizballah and the occupation
[00:16:47] forces, it is clear that they have lost
[00:16:51] a lot of men and lost a lot of equipment, some something like
[00:16:54] 500 tanks were blown up by Hispallah in
[00:16:58] this battle. well David, what does south
[00:17:02] leban tell us about the difficulty the ziners are going to have in
[00:17:06] actually realizing their? plan for a supposed greater Israel
[00:17:09] then? well the difficulty that they have uh
[00:17:13] it is uh at root is demographic one. they they aren't
[00:17:16] even able to demographically dominate Palestine
[00:17:20] because uh there are about the same number of non-jews as they are Jews
[00:17:24] and if the the right of return was allowed there would be the
[00:17:28] Jews would be a minority and and there wouldn't be a Jewish
[00:17:31] state. so the the difficulty is that they haven't got enough people to
[00:17:34] occupy uh the new parts that the... in
[00:17:37] Syria or the parts the trying to occupy in Lebanon,
[00:17:41] they haven't got enough people and and it doesn't matter uh how how it's
[00:17:45] going
[00:17:45] to take a long long time for that to be the case, so as result they have to
[00:17:49] find other ways to dominate, and that of course means using assets and
[00:17:53] proxies, so for for example Syria Giovanni is their asset and
[00:17:56] their proxy, although of course uh there are some tensions in that relationship
[00:18:00] where uh the the Syrian government were going to allow
[00:18:04] uh turkish troops to deploy near Aleppo.
[00:18:08] which which is a threat to Israeli national security interests according
[00:18:11] to uh Benjamin Netanyahu and they they they have
[00:18:15] you know uh they have made sure that this clean clear that they
[00:18:19] will will bomb Syria again having destroyed almost all their military
[00:18:23] capability same is true of course in Lebanon where they have to have uh
[00:18:27] proxies in the the government of Lebanon who are quizlings and
[00:18:30] effectively is of Vishi regime uh collaborating with the
[00:18:33] occupiers their own country despite the fact that uh lebanese
[00:18:37] law still requires that they don't do that, so that that's that's a really
[00:18:41] significat issue and of course we see the same in the region
[00:18:45] as well with the abraham accords, the normalization processes in the
[00:18:49] United Arab Emirates, key key to that, Morocco key to that, which of
[00:18:52] course has an intelligence services which was set up by the mossard, so all of
[00:18:56] that is a is an indication that they can't, they can't send
[00:19:00] jews out to settle everywhere because
[00:19:01] there aren't enough juice, and there won't be enough, and so
[00:19:05] so that's the problem. Sure, it is absolutely a
[00:19:09] problem, can seem to me to be
[00:19:10] a fundamental flow
[00:19:12] in the in their overall plan, but leif tell us about the the Lebanese president she made
[00:19:16] in deference to Donald Trump, and and what this means going
[00:19:19] forward
[00:19:20] for for Leban as a potential US fassel state? Yeah,
[00:19:23] well president Josephn and prime
[00:19:27] minister Noaf salam have basically bent
[00:19:31] over backwards to appease the
[00:19:34] imperialist and the Jewish supremacist.
[00:19:38] in in their hopes of getting something in return, it
[00:19:42] seems like, but that they never
[00:19:44] materialized, you know,
[00:19:47] the cease fire is seems
[00:19:51] like to be one way, the
[00:19:54] the way that um, to
[00:19:58] show you the level of humiliation for this government,
[00:20:02] few days ago, the Lebanese ambassador to the
[00:20:06] UN in Geneva... and the human rights
[00:20:09] council uh just spoke lately
[00:20:12] about the crimes being committed by Israel
[00:20:16] in south Lebanon and that triggered the
[00:20:19] Israeli government to call Trump
[00:20:23] and uh then
[00:20:24] uh Trump's cabinet calling the president of
[00:20:28] Lebanon demanding that the uh
[00:20:31] this ambassador be removed from his
[00:20:35] post and they were referring to to one the articles
[00:20:38] in the memorandum thestanding
[00:20:41] between the own regime and the
[00:20:45] Israelis which state that libanon cannot
[00:20:47] anymore ' you
[00:20:50] know bring Israel and
[00:20:54] or complain about Israel's
[00:20:58] actions in libanon either in courts or
[00:21:02] diplomatic venues, which means that it's not only that the
[00:21:05] Lebanese government is not going to be able to sue for
[00:21:09] damages or for war crimes, but it can't even speak about them
[00:21:13] a public way, and that is the level of
[00:21:15] humiliation of this government and what it accepts.
[00:21:22] "the good thing for Lebanon out of all of this is
[00:21:26] that this government, Josephn and Noaf
[00:21:29] salam have no power really in the country,
[00:21:32] neither the military and or the
[00:21:35] security forces are under their
[00:21:38] control, and they cannot
[00:21:40] deliver on the demands the
[00:21:44] Israelis and the Americans, they can yap, they
[00:21:48] can humiliate themselves." more publicly, but that's all they can
[00:21:52] achieve. Well, David, I
[00:21:53] mean in the end, this strategy of of appeasement, isn't
[00:21:57] going to go well for the Lebanese president, or indeed
[00:22:00] is his prime minister, now of Salam, is it, or for that
[00:22:04] matter, the rest the collaborators in the Lebanese
[00:22:07] government? No, look, I mean, the
[00:22:10] the the position of hisb, which of course has representatives in the government,
[00:22:14] as always been that they wouldn't
[00:22:17] um uh coup or to try and take. over Lebanon,
[00:22:21] although they would surely be justified in trying to do so, but
[00:22:25] that position might change in the future, but of course what the zian
[00:22:29] want is the for the to be a civil war, so they want
[00:22:32] to try and engineer Sunny Garillas
[00:22:36] coming in from from Syria to
[00:22:39] attack, and they also want to engineer of course the
[00:22:43] Christian falangis, the fascist militions that
[00:22:46] are in the north more northerly part of Lebanon to. in that
[00:22:50] conflict as well, of course they were used famously in the shabara
[00:22:53] massacers uh back in the day overseen by the
[00:22:56] zionists under the watchful eye the zionis, so
[00:23:00] the strategy is a strategy of tenting to try and uh create
[00:23:04] a civil war which would have the effect of as they would
[00:23:08] say
[00:23:09] the used to say in gaza of mowing the grass of diverting
[00:23:12] hisb from defending against scienist
[00:23:16] occupation and invasion to defending themselves against.
[00:23:20] uh fellow Lebanese, which of course would would likely um
[00:23:23] be heavy tool for hisb's personnel,
[00:23:27] so that that's the kind of strategy that they're using, because they can't settle
[00:23:30] everywhere, they they try and find ways to destroy all their enemies and
[00:23:34] set their enemies against each other, and another aspect of this
[00:23:38] david is the fact that yeah the more
[00:23:41] um war and and and
[00:23:44] difficulties the sort of problems you've just been outlining there
[00:23:48] plays into the... Israel with
[00:23:52] with weapons, so so there's money to be made, isn't there out of this as
[00:23:55] well? there is money to be made, of course some arms firms
[00:23:59] supply all sides in the conflict, just like the
[00:24:01] zionists supply all sides in in politics in the UK and
[00:24:05] elsewhere, but sometimes those those arms
[00:24:08] firms are much more ideological, so the the
[00:24:11] Israeli arms firms, for example elbit for example, is
[00:24:15] really aircraft industry, they are
[00:24:19] quite ideal. are used to pursue
[00:24:23] zinanis foreign policy ambitions, so that of course
[00:24:26] means that they they won't sell arms to some
[00:24:29] some participants in conflict, but they will sell arms to
[00:24:33] those governments which they think they can use or have an advantage
[00:24:36] with no indeed,
[00:24:40] tragic state of affairs and shows the amorality the
[00:24:44] immorality, probably more appropriate description the the arms
[00:24:48] dealers really, but I'm afraid that's all we've got time for today,
[00:24:52] so I'd like to thank our guess, Leif Marof and of course our residents expert David
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[00:26:09] Prix TV Studio Tehran, Iran and we
[00:26:13] on TV out of New Delhi, India present bricks
[00:26:17] summit 2026, held in New Delhi,
[00:26:21] India. We on TV presenter, Diksha Wisla. Hi, this is Diksa
[00:26:24] Wisla from Beyond.
[00:26:28] Hi, we've had the pleasure of working with Weon TV to highlight them.
[00:26:33] the brick summit held in India this year. India and Iran are two
[00:26:36] countries that can further strengthen their relationship to their bricks
[00:26:40] partnership.
[00:26:44] Join us in this special event,
[00:26:46] this year's theme: redefining bricks is building resilience and
[00:26:50] innovation changing fresh ideas from Tehran and New
[00:26:53] Delhi. Do check out the VON Press TV production on bricks
[00:26:56] 2026. You don't want to miss
[00:26:58] it.
[00:27:10] Masa Tahiri was born in 1993 in Iraq,
[00:27:14] Iran. Her life journey took her from simple room in her family home
[00:27:18] in Iraq to laboratories and advanced scientific research projects
[00:27:21] in Tehran. She began studying pure chemistry at Iraq
[00:27:25] University and continued her studies in Zahn for her master's
[00:27:28] degree and eventually became a PhD student in physical chemistry.
[00:27:32] history at Tarbiyat Mudarres University in Tehran where she also
[00:27:36] taught and worked on research projects, but behind the
[00:27:40] image of a brilliant young researcher was young woman with
[00:27:44] very ordinary and deeply personal world. She loved dolls
[00:27:47] and gave each them a name on her desk. She even kept a
[00:27:51] two-sided doll that reflected her mood, one smiling down for when she
[00:27:55] was happy, and one sad side for when she was feeling
[00:27:58] down. In the final years of her life,
[00:28:02] path took a different direction, she had once considered leaving Iran, including
[00:28:06] moving to Norway, but she chose to stay and devote her scientific
[00:28:10] abilities to research projects in her own country. She worked
[00:28:14] on projects related to missile technology, including heat
[00:28:17] resistance and radar absorbing materials and coding. She was
[00:28:21] only 32 years old. In March 2026, during
[00:28:25] Israeli and American attacks on Tehran, Massa was killed at her home. Her injuries
[00:28:29] were so severe that her family could identify her body. only through
[00:28:33] DNA testing 10 days after her death, her body was taken back to
[00:28:37] Iraq and buried in the city cemetery for marters that I
[00:28:40] sight that according to her family she had chosen herself. At
[00:28:44] first glance, Masso Tohiri may have seemed simply like a brilliant young
[00:28:47] scientist, but to her family, she was daughter and sister who
[00:28:51] loved her dolls, shared jokes with her brother, once dreamed of
[00:28:55] living abroad and had life that could have stretched decades into the
[00:28:59] future. What remains of that are few... words
[00:29:02] memories and a small piece of metal from one of her scientific projects,
[00:29:06] reminder of young woman who wanted to use science to help advance her
[00:29:10] country. her name was maha, she was young, she was
[00:29:14] scientist, and yet when she was killed, her death was ignored in the
[00:29:17] international media, no headlines, no newspaper profiles, no
[00:29:21] sustained coverage the young scientist whose life was cut
[00:29:25] short, her death was met with complete
[00:29:28] silence.
[00:29:39] When you are born on Iranian soil, something is born with you, the
[00:29:43] belief that a homeland is not merely a place to live, but
[00:29:46] sometimes a place you must be willing to die for. The roots of this
[00:29:50] belief can be found even in the legends of Iran, and perhaps no
[00:29:54] legend expresses it more powerfully than the story of Arash.
[00:29:58] After the war between Iran and Turan, it is decided that Iran's...
[00:30:02] new frontier will be determined by the flight of a single arrow.
[00:30:06] Arash stands at top mount damavand. He puts all his
[00:30:09] strength, all his life into the arrow and releases it.
[00:30:13] Arash dies, but the arrow flies on. Where did it
[00:30:16] land to find?