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[00:00:36] reminder in of our top stories the Israely forces upd press tv's
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[00:00:40] of nakahammed near the occupied west bank city of
[00:00:43] Bethlehem.
[00:00:48] of Iran strongly slams German chancellors accusations against
[00:00:52] Iran as a big lie saying his narrative
[00:00:55] of of the US Israel aggression is knowingly
[00:00:57] distorted. and Yemen
[00:01:01] strongly reject Saudi Arabia's false claim about attacking
[00:01:05] in Mecca saying those who gifted carbas covering to Jeffrey abstin
[00:01:09] of other bonds to
[00:01:10] of target
[00:01:10] Mecca.
[00:01:23] Hello from Teran Bahman Ray and this is Press TV news
[00:01:26] GMT. It's GMT.
[00:01:31] Pristivi's west bank correspondent kahamet has been abducted by Israeli
[00:01:35] forces near the occupied city of Bethlehem, the abduction took place
[00:01:39] after weeks of incitement against her by Israeli
[00:01:42] of settlers. Nakahmed covered violence by Israeli settlers towards
[00:01:45] Palestinians in the occupied West bank.
[00:01:48] of We have
[00:01:48] a report.
[00:01:56] Hamed reporting for Press TV tell the occupied West Bank.
[00:02:07] of These are
[00:02:10] of extracts from some
[00:02:13] of of the reports by press tv correspondent in the occupied west bank Naqa Hamed who has been
[00:02:17] abducted by Israeli forces. Naqa a Palestinian
[00:02:21] of journalist with American citizenship and the mother of three children
[00:02:25] was traveling with camera crew when the regime's troops stopped them
[00:02:29] a check. point near the town of Tuku, southeast of
[00:02:33] of Bethlehem. They released the
[00:02:36] of cameraman, but abducted nowmed. The press TV
[00:02:39] correspondent had been subjected to attacks and the smear
[00:02:42] campaign by zinis
[00:02:44] of accounts and social
[00:02:45] of media of for the past month. The campaign was launched in
[00:02:49] of august aftermet
[00:02:50] reported from Quosra, village in the west bank that saw
[00:02:54] intensified settler violence in Israely cracked down
[00:02:57] against
[00:03:01] of of Palestinians. Those social media accounts saw to intensify media campaign against Hamed by
[00:03:05] of posting similar content using nearly identical
[00:03:08] language. The campaign has been slammed as part of a
[00:03:12] targeted effort to put psychological and media pressure,
[00:03:16] restrict the space available to journalists and media outlets and
[00:03:20] of obstruct press TV's coverage of Israeli crimes from reaching
[00:03:24] audiences around the world. Nahmed was also
[00:03:28] injured in December last year. while reporting from galandia
[00:03:31] refugee camp after Israeli forces fired
[00:03:35] rubber bullets, the smear campaign violence and abduction or
[00:03:39] part of a familiar Israeli pattern, all are aimed
[00:03:43] at stifling the truth and hiding
[00:03:45] of the regimes crimes. the arrest of a journalist
[00:03:49] today is business as usual for uh for
[00:03:53] Israel, the
[00:03:54] of Israeli government has no desire for people around the world to know what's
[00:03:58] happening to know.
[00:04:00] in uh the extent
[00:04:01] of the horrific genocide they're committing, that's why they have murdered or
[00:04:05] assassinated uh as many as 300
[00:04:08] of journalists in less than three years. i don't want this uh information
[00:04:12] coming out. of course, anyone in Palestine with
[00:04:15] a cellphone internet connection is able to get information out. the
[00:04:19] palestinian journalist syndicate has documented scores of violations
[00:04:23] of journalists by Israeli forces
[00:04:26] of and settlers in the west bank in August alone. the group said The
[00:04:30] violations included assaults on media crews, obstruction
[00:04:33] of their work, arrests and detentions and attacks
[00:04:37] on journalistic equipment. There have been
[00:04:40] of plenty of similar cases in
[00:04:43] in Gaza. in One year ago, the Israeli military killed five journalists
[00:04:46] in double strike on the Al-Naser Hospital in
[00:04:50] southern parts
[00:04:51] of the besieg street, no matter whether it's Gaza, the West Bank
[00:04:55] of or anywhere else, it's part
[00:05:00] of of the regime's nature to clamp down and... free speech and any effort aimed at reflecting the
[00:05:04] of truth, as there's really existence is synonymous with violence and
[00:05:08] oppression, but those measures won't stop genuine
[00:05:12] of journalism from broadcasting the truth and continuing the mission of
[00:05:15] documenting history and exposing
[00:05:18] realities. Palestinian
[00:05:22] journalist and commentator Abubakar abed joined us earlier from Dublin
[00:05:26] to share his thoughts the abduction of pressed Palestinian
[00:05:29] correspondent by the Israeli occupation forces in the
[00:05:33] occupied West
[00:05:40] have covered 19 months of. side in Gaza, I
[00:05:44] was very subjected to so much horrors and I
[00:05:48] could have been killed any time. It's also worth noting and
[00:05:52] reminding people that Named is an American citizen, she holds the
[00:05:55] US citizenship, she's a mother of three children, so
[00:05:59] when she is reporting, she's reporting with
[00:06:03] determination and with with unprecedented
[00:06:06] great, and her situation is unbearable, it's not like any
[00:06:10] other journalist across the... global coming from the outside to
[00:06:14] report, she was interrogated for 30 minutes, humiliated with her
[00:06:18] two uh colleagues, ask to sit to on the ground and
[00:06:21] then she told she, the Israel forces or the Israel
[00:06:25] soldiers who kidnapped her told her that you are
[00:06:29] detained, when you talk about hamid
[00:06:32] like for the very past monthly disappearing
[00:06:36] her, and of course the American government will not do anything about it, they will
[00:06:40] make up the news, they will... come stories to ensure
[00:06:44] that Israel will continue breaching the humanitarian law and it will continue
[00:06:48] breaching the humanitarian law and
[00:06:49] it will continue suppressing the
[00:06:51] truth.
[00:06:54] journalists in Gaza are facing double threat to Israely attacks
[00:06:58] targeting them documenting the war and a collapsing healthcaresis
[00:07:02] without adequate treatment. press tv has
[00:07:06] spoken to one gaza photo journalist who continues to
[00:07:09] document the suffering around him while battling severe illness
[00:07:13] of his
[00:07:14] own,
[00:07:20] one hand holds a camera while the other one is stitched
[00:07:24] with a canula as a freelance photo journalist in Gaza,iz has
[00:07:27] dedicated years to capturing the faces of people
[00:07:31] in during war, displacement and
[00:07:34] loss.
[00:07:38] i have been covering and documenting what has been happening in Gaza since
[00:07:42] 2012, my motive has been to convey the message the people
[00:07:46] of Gaza to the entire world that they deserve to live in
[00:07:50] dignity and to defy the systematic blackout imposed by
[00:07:54] the Israeli regime. After completing
[00:07:58] his assignments, he puts down his camera and begins a
[00:08:01] personal journey through Gaza's severely damaged healthcare
[00:08:05] system, injuring long ways for medical care and is
[00:08:08] struggling to obtain essential medicines.
[00:08:15] My suffering with the disease began in 2022 when I
[00:08:18] started experiencing severe stomach pain. Unfortunately,
[00:08:22] doctors in Gaza were unable to properly diagnose my condition. I
[00:08:26] was medically evacuated to hospital in the West Bank where doctors
[00:08:30] told me that I was suffering from Crones disease, an immune disease
[00:08:34] that causes severe pain an inflammation in the digestive
[00:08:38] system. The disease requires biological
[00:08:42] therapy.
[00:08:51] As you know, the war erupted on
[00:08:52] October 7th, 2023, and I was unable to take my first dose,
[00:08:56] which was scheduled
[00:08:57] for the following day, consequently, my health has been getting worse day
[00:09:01] after day. Over the past three months, I have been admitted to the
[00:09:05] hospital 13 times. Muz is
[00:09:09] among nearly 13,000 patients wearing for med.
[00:09:12] evacuation, but the situation is dia with only a
[00:09:16] tricle of patients being allowed through the waf crossing, even
[00:09:20] as his own condition worsens, he continues to document the
[00:09:24] stories of others suffering around
[00:09:26] him. like all the Palestinian patients in
[00:09:30] Gaza, I'm literally dying slowly as the Israeli regime
[00:09:34] continues to prevent us from leaving Gaza for medical treatment. guess
[00:09:38] what, many the patients whose cases I documented passed away
[00:09:42] before the... names could even be added to the
[00:09:44] list has another mission too, he
[00:09:48] has vowed to follow in the footsteps of his brother
[00:09:51] Muhammad,
[00:09:57] my brother Muhammad was
[00:09:58] the first Palestinian journalist to be killed in the Israeli
[00:10:01] war. Since that moment, it has been very clear that
[00:10:05] targeting Palestinian journalists in Gaza was part of a
[00:10:09] systematic policy to deter us from reporting the truth.
[00:10:13] However, we will persist in exposing the true face the
[00:10:16] Israeli occupation. While he continues to document the
[00:10:20] suffering of others, why is himself becoming one
[00:10:24] the? stories he once stood behind the camera to tell he is
[00:10:28] documenting a humanitarian crisis while becoming part
[00:10:32] of it, a journalist struggling to preserve the stories of
[00:10:36] others as he fights survive his own illness
[00:10:40] under the blockade the central area
[00:10:43] of
[00:10:44] gazab the
[00:10:48] Iranian forem ministry has strongly slamed german chancellors
[00:10:52] anti Iran accusation saying his narrative of "the US Israi
[00:10:55] aggression is knowingly distorted. The ministry spokesman made the
[00:10:59] comment a social media post in reaction to Fredrich Metz's
[00:11:03] claim about what he called the Iran War Teran's peaceful
[00:11:07] nuclear program and resistance groups. Ismail Bagai said it
[00:11:11] was the US and Israel at started the war of aggression and Germany
[00:11:14] failed to show even the minimum moral courage required to deplore
[00:11:18] that. He also rejected Merzer's characterization of resistance
[00:11:22] groups as Iran's proxies saying. They are independent
[00:11:26] actors with their own causes and calculations. Bukai said
[00:11:30] those groups are fighting for self-determination, freedom and dignity
[00:11:34] against occupation. He also called the German leaders claim about
[00:11:37] Iran having a military nuclear program as repetition of Israel
[00:11:41] speak live which is fabricated by the regime's
[00:11:44] apologises. But I added that the west Asia region should not
[00:11:48] have to pay the price for Germany's guilt complex or its habit of
[00:11:52] appeasement with bullies.
[00:11:58] Political commentator, Saip shav calls the German chancellor's
[00:12:02] decision to blame Iran for the war pathetic, arguing
[00:12:06] that Iran was defending itself after being attacked during
[00:12:09] negotiations.
[00:12:14] Even the American media itself and politicians
[00:12:17] admits that today, they the one who
[00:12:21] started this war, illegal war in Iran.
[00:12:25] "Iran was going to the sixth round of
[00:12:29] negotiation with the Americans when they
[00:12:33] start attacked with the zin entity Iran in that 12th days
[00:12:36] war, so the the the whole thing is well known to the
[00:12:40] international community, but what a bathetic man comes and
[00:12:44] show how he is becoming and his country is studies, this
[00:12:48] is very dangerous because this man now is been
[00:12:52] militarizing his own country." to push it in
[00:12:56] further wars against the Russians, this is in
[00:13:00] the days to come, United States of America militarizing Germany
[00:13:03] and militarizing Japan as well, so these things we have to
[00:13:07] keep an eye wide open to what they are
[00:13:11] playing, so what he's coming out with, he's coming out
[00:13:15] with from background that Germany
[00:13:19] becoming more militarized and
[00:13:22] involved, Germany is part the... E3, which
[00:13:26] is the supposed to be part
[00:13:30] the GCBA, the last point, and
[00:13:33] they pushed and
[00:13:37] creating the bullet sized kind of report
[00:13:41] by the
[00:13:41] IEA.
[00:13:46] Political analyst John Bost says Germany has become an American
[00:13:50] colony and its chancellor understands that following Washington's
[00:13:53] policies is... necessary to remain in
[00:13:56] office,
[00:14:01] there is no doubt, and nobody says
[00:14:05] differently that Iran was attacked by
[00:14:08] America on Israeli orders, that's
[00:14:11] clear even in Washington, and since Martz's
[00:14:15] own country is an occupied military
[00:14:19] colony the United States, if he wants to keep his
[00:14:22] job, he should stop disagre. being with the
[00:14:26] government that controls his country, which is the United States.
[00:14:30] It's as simple as that, the man is delusional, his
[00:14:33] own party knows that he's not representing the
[00:14:37] German people, and the German people are voting in
[00:14:41] massive groups to support the
[00:14:44] alternative of Deutschland, which is a
[00:14:47] German national party which is opposed to
[00:14:51] war and which is opposed to continuing Germany.
[00:14:55] as an occupied American military
[00:14:59] colony,
[00:15:03] the 70th general conference the international atomic energy
[00:15:07] agency is on the way in Vienna, beyond the political
[00:15:10] debates, the conference gives researchers from member states an
[00:15:14] opportunity to learn about the latest technological and scientific
[00:15:18] advances in the nuclear industry. Ibran has a strong presence
[00:15:21] at the event press to energy agencies channel conference in. Beyond
[00:15:25] the diplomatic delegations, almost 4000 people are attending this year's
[00:15:29] conference to share the latest developments in nuclear science. At the
[00:15:33] side event, the atomic energy organization of Iran showcased the
[00:15:37] country. latest scientific achievements in nuclear
[00:15:41] medicine, in Iran actually we achieved to
[00:15:44] have the different type the solutions for the nuclear medicine for the
[00:15:48] diagnostic and also the therapy to cure the people for the
[00:15:52] better treatment and at the moment we have more than
[00:15:55] 75 different products in the portfolio the products which
[00:15:59] is the one the biggest portfolio
[00:16:03] among the producers the nuclear medicine. Iran operates more than
[00:16:07] 200. 13 nuclear medicine centers, scientists are
[00:16:10] also seeking to expand the field beyond the country's
[00:16:14] borders, in the middle east we are the leader, one the
[00:16:18] leaders in the production and in
[00:16:21] supplying more than
[00:16:23] 76 different type the radio
[00:16:26] pharmaceuticals. the nuclear elements for these pharmaceuticals are mainly
[00:16:30] produced in Iran itself, most the radio isotos that we
[00:16:34] need as the radio pharmace to as
[00:16:36] the raw material. for the radio pharmaceutical production are producing in
[00:16:40] Iran, in the Iranian and the government facilities, they are
[00:16:44] producing that, we have very big basket the big portfolio
[00:16:48] the different radio pharmaceuticals, as a leading institution in
[00:16:51] science and emerging technologies, the atomic energy organization of
[00:16:55] Iran is committed to advancing scientific knowledge and
[00:16:59] translating it into peaceful practical solutions that
[00:17:02] benefit society. We were on the sanction, we couldn't
[00:17:06] import this. type of instrument, fortunately we
[00:17:10] are for ourself, we are manufacturing all
[00:17:14] this type of industries, in case
[00:17:17] of also nuclear power, we are advanced
[00:17:21] a lot, we are able to
[00:17:24] manufacture most part the nuclear power plants and
[00:17:28] reactor of course research reactors, so Iran is
[00:17:31] pioneer in the field of nuclear industry, despite
[00:17:35] all this... sanction and pressure they have
[00:17:39] created on us, what i can tell
[00:17:42] you, the sanction has not stopped us. Iran is
[00:17:46] established itself as a leading country in nuclear science and
[00:17:50] technology, the country continues to develop its nuclear industry
[00:17:53] despite sanctions, the assassination of its
[00:17:57] scientists by the US and Israel and attacks by the two
[00:18:01] regimes its research centers over the past
[00:18:04] year
[00:18:05] did rejected Saudi Arabia's false claim. that the Yemani forces
[00:18:08] targeted Mecca calling it a desperate attempt to rally the public
[00:18:12] opinion in favor the regime. Madial Mashad said Ameny people
[00:18:16] have demonstrated their commitment to Islamic holy sights and are ready to
[00:18:20] make sacrifices in defense the Grand Mask just as they
[00:18:24] support Alaksa mask yet that those who gifted the covering of
[00:18:28] carbas to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Upsteen out the
[00:18:32] ones to target Mecca and Islamic holy sites. Mashath
[00:18:35] noted that instead of raising. accusations against Yemen, the
[00:18:39] Saudi Regime should have rallied Muslim peoples when the criminal US
[00:18:43] President Trump insulted Mecca and depicted Kaaba an
[00:18:47] inappropriate manner. He stressed that such claims no longer
[00:18:50] deceive Arab and Muslim peoples, just as earlier claims about Yemen's
[00:18:54] threats to international navigation failed to do so. Earlier
[00:18:58] member of Yemen's ansarullah political bureau Muhammad al
[00:19:01] Bukhaiti also rejected Saudi Arabia's
[00:19:04] accusations saying they stem from the regimes. fear and
[00:19:08] confusion over Yemen's missile and drone
[00:19:10] strikes.
[00:19:18] author and journalist Robert Fontina says Saudi Arabia's attempts to
[00:19:22] gain sympathy in the muslim world by leveling accusations
[00:19:26] against yemensarlah movement will also
[00:19:28] fail.
[00:19:33] the idea that is would
[00:19:36] are threaten. Mecca any way is
[00:19:39] ludicrous, the huti regime
[00:19:43] is completely respectful the
[00:19:47] muslim holy sites and of Islam in general. The
[00:19:50] comment about the secret covering being given
[00:19:54] to Jeffrey Epstein is very telling
[00:19:57] that the US president would give such
[00:20:01] sacred Islamic relic to uh a convicted
[00:20:05] sex offender. those that's where the disrespect is,
[00:20:09] that's where the the disrespect for mecca, islam
[00:20:13] comes into play, nothing Yemen has done that, I have
[00:20:16] seen any way indicates disrespect
[00:20:20] for Islam or for the holy city of Mecca, that is the
[00:20:24] goal of Saudi Arab Arabian
[00:20:27] statement
[00:20:28] in in wanting to gain the support and sympathy
[00:20:32] the other the leaders and the
[00:20:36] populations, especially the... populations these other Muslim nations,
[00:20:40] but as I said,
[00:20:40] I don't see that succeeding at
[00:20:42] all.
[00:20:46] Top Democratic representative on the US house is for. Affairs
[00:20:50] committee says he will not support US president Trump
[00:20:53] administration's bomb sale to Israel. Gregory Meeks
[00:20:57] said he would not support the sale of 2000 pound bombs to
[00:21:00] Israel over concerns that ammunitions would be not would not be used
[00:21:04] accord in accordance with international law. Meeks added that the Trump
[00:21:08] administration's proposed sale of thousands of two thousand pound
[00:21:12] bombs raises grave unresolved concerns about these
[00:21:15] munitions being used in densely populated areas of Gaza and.
[00:21:20] on his remarks came after revelations about the Trump administration's plan
[00:21:24] to sell to Israel ammunitions package worth 2.8
[00:21:28] billion dollars including tens of thousands of highly
[00:21:31] destructive 2000 pound bombs. Israel has already
[00:21:35] used heavy bombs hundreds of times in Gaza and Lebanon, including
[00:21:39] in areas it had designated say for civilians drawing
[00:21:42] sustained criticism from breit
[00:21:45] groups.
[00:21:50] The American president's offer of $500 to every
[00:21:53] adult citizen in return for a Republican sweep in the
[00:21:57] midterms has provoked massive skepticism and
[00:22:00] criticism. Many say it's effectively a bribe and also that
[00:22:04] it tries to take advantage of a population which has been racked
[00:22:08] by plometing purchasing power for years. Ramin Mazoiri has
[00:22:12] more from Washington
[00:22:13] DC.
[00:22:17] $500 in what many. amounts to
[00:22:21] bribing voters, US president Donald Trump has doubled
[00:22:24] down on his promise to give every adult citizen
[00:22:28] $5,000 if the Republicans retain
[00:22:31] control the House of Representatives and the Senate in
[00:22:35] November's mid-term elections and now they say oh the
[00:22:38] 500 500 is going to happen 100% and the
[00:22:42] reason is because our country is taking it in trillions and
[00:22:46] trillions of dollars and it's going to happen because
[00:22:50] deserve it because they were preated so badly by the democrats and by
[00:22:53] v. the one-time payout would cost an estimated
[00:22:57] 1.2 trillion dollars or 3% the
[00:23:00] infamous 40 trillion in the annual budget for the department of war
[00:23:04] and the annual budget for the department of war and double the budget
[00:23:08] for medicare which provides healthcare for the elderly.
[00:23:12] after 10 years of making unprecedented promises
[00:23:16] and being accused of not delivering perhaps just...
[00:23:20] As often, voters appear to be incredibly
[00:23:23] skeptical. This man is not, has
[00:23:27] no integrity. He says things to get
[00:23:31] what he wants. Nobody's going to see a
[00:23:34] $5,00 check in America, except
[00:23:38] maybe the the politicians who don't need it. His
[00:23:42] so-called Trump dividend would require an act of
[00:23:45] Congress to make it happen, and while it's not exactly clear
[00:23:49] where's... huge amount of money would come from, many
[00:23:53] know the ultimate source. well, he's offered
[00:23:56] 1,76 at one point, he's offered
[00:24:00] $2,00 at one point. i think it's
[00:24:04] just a game, and
[00:24:07] if he were to pay any these amounts,
[00:24:11] it comes from people's taxes. many Americans may feel
[00:24:15] that they deserve the money. they pay average of about
[00:24:19] 20%. their wages in state and federal
[00:24:22] taxes, but don't forget about raft of
[00:24:25] sales, property, gasoline and other taxes,
[00:24:29] and very often their own healthcare costs, and all for
[00:24:33] what is considered to be one the weakest social
[00:25:04] from bombs stop falling, casualty figures are tallied, names are
[00:25:07] added to list, but numbers cannot measure the lives that
[00:25:11] unravel after the explosions, wars count those killed by
[00:25:15] missiles, they rarely count those who survived them and may
[00:25:19] later... to die of grief, yes, you heard that right,
[00:25:23] grief. 31 year-old sayqi became
[00:25:27] one of those in the early hours of March 26, a US
[00:25:30] Israel strike reduced her family home after
[00:25:34] neighborhood to rubble. Her husband, local football coach
[00:25:38] Hussein Maliki and their two young sons, age five
[00:25:42] and three were killed. Around them, nine homes were destroyed and
[00:25:45] 24 people died from the US Israely attack. Alham
[00:25:49] survived. For seven hours rescuers searched through
[00:25:53] concrete and twisted steel before pulling her from beneath the
[00:25:57] debris. A fallen sofa had shielded her head from the
[00:26:00] collapsing building, but her injured. were severe, her
[00:26:04] greatest wounds, however, were invisible. weeks later, a
[00:26:07] video of at home standing on the ruins of her home spread across
[00:26:11] Iran. in her hands was a hand-written note rescued from the
[00:26:15] rubble, one her young son had written before the
[00:26:19] attack. as she read it, her voice faltered. around
[00:26:23] her lay the remains the life she had built. her
[00:26:27] father says that after losing her husband, her children
[00:26:30] and her home, she was never. never the same, she withdrew
[00:26:34] from the world, spoke consently of her family and
[00:26:38] struggled to bear even ordinary sounds. after more than
[00:26:42] two months of overwhelming grief after losing her family in
[00:26:46] US Israely attack, she suffered fatal stroke and
[00:26:50] died. her story speaks to a quieter taller war of
[00:26:53] survivors who carry the destruction with them
[00:26:57] long after the dot settles. it also reflects a wider
[00:27:01] pattern of us. aggression across the region that has
[00:27:05] left behind a deeper tool not only a single moment of
[00:27:08] impact, but in the lasting human consequences that
[00:27:12] follow.
[00:27:22] July 31st, 2026, nighttime straight of
[00:27:25] Hormus, southern Iran. The United States launched a heavy
[00:27:29] wave of strikes against command centers, radars.
[00:27:33] surveillance systems and air defense positions across southern
[00:27:36] Iran, intended to make the skies over southern Iran safer for
[00:27:40] American aircraft. But just hours later, something
[00:27:44] unexpected happened. An
[00:27:47] American MQ9 Reaper was shot down over the straight of
[00:27:50] Hormus. The MQ9 is no ordinary
[00:27:54] drone, it is one of America's primary platforms for intelligence,
[00:27:58] surveillance, reconnaissance and precision strikes capable of remaining
[00:28:01] airborn. for more than a full day while carrying an advanced suite of
[00:28:05] sensors and weapons, and this was not the first reaper lost. since
[00:28:09] the beginning the war, Iran has taken around 50 MQ9
[00:28:13] Reapers out of operation, roughly one quarter the entire US
[00:28:17] Reaper fleet, but the real story was only beginning. Shortly
[00:28:21] afterward, an F-35 entered the picture, one the world's most
[00:28:24] advanced combat aircraft, designed specifically to penetrate
[00:28:28] sophisticated air defense networks, but stealth does not mean...
[00:28:32] visible, one radar may detect only faint signature,
[00:28:36] infrared sensor may pick up the heat from its engines, another system
[00:28:40] may detect its electronic emissions, and when the information from all
[00:28:44] these systems is connected through a single network, much clearer picture
[00:28:48] the target begins to emerge. that same night, the tracking the
[00:28:51] F-35 reached the level of a weapon's quality lock, a
[00:28:55] warning the pilot could not ignore, the F-35 did not continue
[00:28:59] its mission and quickly left the area, and perhaps the...
[00:29:02] That is the most important part the story. Air defense success does not
[00:29:06] always mean shooting an aircraft down. Sometimes
[00:29:09] it is enough to stop an aircraft designed to penetrate hostile
[00:29:12] airspace from completing its mission. And now, for the United
[00:29:16] States, the issue is no longer simply the loss of an
[00:29:19] MQ9 or the retreat of an F35. The bigger
[00:29:23] question is, how could a network whose radars and key components had been
[00:29:27] attacked only hours earlier remain operational and
[00:29:31] still force one of America's... is most advanced aircraft to abandon its
[00:29:34] mission, incident that now forces the United States to
[00:29:38] rethink not just a flight path, but its entire calculation over
[00:29:42] Iran's
[00:29:43] skies. The
[00:29:47] equation in Iran's skies is no longer the
[00:29:50] same.