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[00:00:00] carried
[00:00:00] of picture
[00:00:01] of the martered leader. on their way home, everything
[00:00:04] changed,
[00:00:05] of the refinery was struck, the flash was blinding, people scattered in
[00:00:09] every direction. alvin kept shouting, mom, run, mom, run. i can
[00:00:13] still hear her voice. when the dust settled, i realized my hand had
[00:00:16] been hit by sharpnow and my left leg had been severed below the
[00:00:20] ankle. her mother was holding ovine. she looked peaceful.
[00:00:24] there wasn't a scratched on her face. we thought she had simply lost
[00:00:28] consciousness. a stranger p her up and ran towards the
[00:00:31] hospital. I kept screaming, "don't take ovin away," but I
[00:00:35] couldn't move, I couldn't even hold my own daughter one last
[00:00:39] of time. For 10 days while Leila lay in hospital, everyone told her
[00:00:43] avin was intensive care. Only the day before the
[00:00:46] funeral did they tell her she had died. Despite the pain, Laila
[00:00:50] smiles when she remembers her daughter. She
[00:00:52] of was like a bottle of
[00:00:54] of perfume. Whenever she entered her room, she filled it with warmth.
[00:00:57] Everyone loved her. Today, perhaps... No one feels Ovine's absence
[00:01:01] more deeply than her six-year-old brother, Amir Ali,
[00:01:05] a who was also injured
[00:01:07] of that night. He didn't just lose
[00:01:08] a sister. Their mother says he lost his closest
[00:01:11] friend.
[00:01:58] It was supposed to last. only one night,
[00:02:02] night when people after hearing the news
[00:02:04] of the murderdom
[00:02:05] of the leader
[00:02:06] of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayid Ali Khamenei and
[00:02:09] the start
[00:02:10] of the U.S. Israeli military attack on Iran would take to the
[00:02:14] streets to mourn, express their anger and stand
[00:02:17] beside the armed forces, but the first
[00:02:21] night ended and
[00:02:22] a people did not go home. Then came the second
[00:02:26] night, then the third days.
[00:02:30] passed and one night followed
[00:02:32] another, under the sound of sirens, under the
[00:02:36] thread of air
[00:02:38] in strikes, in the middle of
[00:02:39] a war, and while many expected the pressure
[00:02:41] of the conflict empty Iran streets, something else
[00:02:46] of happened. The streets did not empty, people picked up the
[00:02:50] Iranian flag and came out again, and again and
[00:02:54] again. In some cities they stayed until
[00:02:58] midnight and sometimes until... on the
[00:03:01] 40th night passed, then the
[00:03:04] 60th, the 80th, the
[00:03:07] 100th. Ramadan ended and Muharram
[00:03:10] arrived, and this time people brought their muharram morning
[00:03:14] ceremonies into the streets as well. Now more than
[00:03:18] 200 nights have passed. For more than
[00:03:22] 200 nights after darkness falls, people across Iran
[00:03:26] have once again taken to the
[00:03:28] of streets. of
[00:03:50] of
[00:03:58] These gatherings of have taken. in place at more than 4,000 locations
[00:04:02] across the country. In Tehran alone, more than
[00:04:06] 130 locations have witnessed these gatherings.
[00:04:09] More than 56%
[00:04:13] of of the country's population have taken part in them at least
[00:04:14] once.
[00:04:23] of of But these numbers tell only part
[00:04:24] of the story. What matters even more is that they
[00:04:27] have continued.
[00:05:05] of
[00:05:39] بعد از ترور رهبر شهیدم و خانوادهشون. و این همه
[00:05:43] شهیدی که در راه اسلام داریم تکلیفه برای اینکه همه در میدان
[00:05:47] ها حضور داشته باشن به گفته حضرت آقا و
[00:05:50] خیابان ها را خالی نکنند تا بتونیم کشورمون
[00:05:53] و وطنمون ایران و حقانیتمون رو هم اثبات و هم
[00:05:56] حفظیم می
[00:06:00] میریم سازش نمی
[00:06:02] پذیرییم تقریباً میشه گفت
[00:06:05] اگه ۱۸۰ شب باشه که اینجا اجتماعات
[00:06:09] تشکیل میشه حداقل من ۱۶۰
[00:06:43] The streets have not simply been places for gatherings. For many
[00:06:47] people, they have become places of warning, warship,
[00:06:50] solidarity, opposition to the enemy, support for the
[00:06:54] armed sessions. Kadir celebrations have been held
[00:06:58] there. People have taken to the streets to celebrate the national
[00:07:02] football team's matches in the world cup. People have
[00:07:06] cried, laughed, and in some places even held
[00:07:09] weddings.
[00:08:13] چون اون بچه هایی که الان خوابن نمیان من به جاشون
[00:08:17] اومدم که از کشورم دفاع
[00:08:20] کنن آمریکا بربل
[00:08:24] آمریکا برفر آمریکا من اومدم
[00:08:28] بگم که درسته که من نظامی نیستم و در
[00:08:32] جنگ شرکت نمیکنم اما همین پرچمی که در دست
[00:08:36] ماست سلاح ماه و ما میایم اینجا به
[00:08:39] دشمن بگه که ما از کشورمون دفاع میکنیم.
[00:09:24] They will not leave the streets until their leader tells them
[00:09:28] to.
[00:09:32] In the first days the war, their presence was easier to
[00:09:35] explain. People were grieving, their leader had been murdered and
[00:09:39] the country was under attack. People came to...
[00:10:12] The Iranian people left their homes around six or seven in the morning
[00:10:16] and headed to the main squares and cities across the country. At
[00:10:20] first we saw scenes of grief, sorrow and tears, but
[00:10:23] these soon turn. into scenes the nation's strength and
[00:10:27] grandure, people took to the streets to avenge the blood their
[00:10:30] leader and confront the American Zinous enemy.
[00:10:34] Even on occasions such as What's day rallies, when areas
[00:10:38] around these gatherings were bombed, the people stood their ground without
[00:10:41] any fear. For
[00:10:45] part of society, the war was no longer simply a confrontation
[00:10:49] between a government and foreign enemy. It became a threat to
[00:10:53] the country's independence. territorial integrity and
[00:10:57] national existence, and under such
[00:11:00] circumstances, even people who may disagree with some domestic
[00:11:04] policies the Islamic Republic, can choose to stand with the
[00:11:07] country and its national
[00:11:09] sovereignty. Iranian society
[00:11:12] cannot simply be divided into two completely separate
[00:11:16] groups, supporters the system and opponents the
[00:11:19] system. the experience of war has shown that people's
[00:11:23] political identities can be
[00:13:55] "there is no contradiction in it. I see women
[00:13:59] who wear the hijab and women who do not, people with
[00:14:02] different appearances, but we are all Iranians
[00:14:06] and we love our
[00:14:07] country.
[00:14:11] The war has for part of society, placed internal
[00:14:15] differences behind a much bigger question. When
[00:14:18] Iran is under attack, what should come
[00:14:21] first? And their answer has been to take..." to the
[00:14:25] streets,
[00:14:29] but this presence is not simply a political reaction. if that
[00:14:33] were the case, then the streets probably would have become quieter
[00:14:37] once the first phase the war ended and the Islamabad
[00:14:41] mou was signed, but that did not
[00:14:44] happen.
[00:14:47] one the most important features of this phenomenon is
[00:14:51] precisely this transformation. what began as emer
[00:14:55] emergency response has become a lasting social
[00:14:58] pattern. In wartime, empty streets are often a
[00:15:02] sign of society under psychological
[00:15:04] pressure. People stop going outside,
[00:15:08] businesses are disrupted. Everyday life
[00:15:11] retreats. Fear takes over public
[00:15:14] space, but in Iran something different
[00:15:18] happened. Public space remained in people's
[00:15:21] hands. Gatherings continued.
[00:15:37] "these gatherings increase people's resilience and strengthen their
[00:15:41] spirit of perseverance and resistance. when people stand
[00:15:45] togetherly, they also boost the morale of our fighters as well
[00:15:49] as our politicians and officials. they realize that they're not
[00:15:53] alone, and that the people want them to stand firm and make no
[00:15:56] concessions.
[00:16:00] from this perspective, people's presence in the streets is not only a
[00:16:04] political message to the outside world, it is also..."
[00:16:07] psychological message to society itself,
[00:16:11] message that the war has not been able to stop social
[00:16:14] life, that people can still come
[00:16:17] together. this can also strengthen social
[00:16:21] resilience. when a person faces the pressure of
[00:16:25] war, reports of attacks and uncertainty about the future
[00:16:28] alone, a sense of helplessness can grow,
[00:16:32] but when that same person stands in square among hundreds or
[00:16:36] thousands of others, "the experience
[00:16:38] changes: they are no longer simply an individual
[00:16:42] facing crisis, they become part the
[00:16:45] collective. من بزرگترین و باشکوه ترین عجیب
[00:16:48] غریب ترین صحنه هایی که تو تجمعات یادمی دقیقاً همون صحنه هاییه
[00:16:52] که the greatest and most inspiring
[00:16:56] scenes we saw at these gatherings were when the enemy struck
[00:16:59] targets near the crowds causing massive explosions, yet the
[00:17:03] people stood their ground. anywhere else in the world, people..." would have
[00:17:07] run for cover, but that was not the case in
[00:17:10] Iran.
[00:17:15] For decades American military interventions across West Asia have
[00:17:19] left behind countless innocent victims and immeasurable human
[00:17:23] suffering, and the war against Iran is no exception. Beyond
[00:17:27] the headlines and geopolitical calculations, our personal to work
[00:17:30] that morning was a choice. She knew the place was dangerous, her
[00:17:34] family knew it too, but there was work left. finished and Nargis
[00:17:38] did not want to walk away. Nargis Haji Mollah Haydar was
[00:17:42] born
[00:17:43] in 1999, talented computer engineering graduate and a
[00:17:47] high achieving student at the University of Tehran. She had built
[00:17:51] her life around learning, discipline and service. She was also a
[00:17:54] Korati athlete for two years. She trained seriously and eventually won a gold
[00:17:58] medal in Komite and silver medal in Qatar a national
[00:18:02] competition. After returning from the arbane pilgrimage, Nargis
[00:18:06] set herself another goal. master's degree in network
[00:18:09] technology. She studied for five months with determination and
[00:18:12] face and was eventually admitted to a state university with a
[00:18:16] high rank. Then came new job in the cyber security
[00:18:20] field where her technical skills could be put to use. One
[00:18:24] the projects she was working on was national university project
[00:18:28] aimed at strengthening the resilience of Tehran's water
[00:18:32] network. But then war came. The family learned
[00:18:35] that the country had come under attacked, relatives wargies that her
[00:18:39] workplace could be a target and urged her not to go back.
[00:18:43] Nargas refused, she told them she could not bear the thought of
[00:18:46] leaving her work unfinished. The night before
[00:18:50] her death, she said something that her mother would never
[00:18:54] forget. Mom, forgive me if you don't see me again. The
[00:18:58] following morning, some colleagues decided not to come to work
[00:19:02] because the danger. Margas chose differently. Before leaving
[00:19:05] home, her mother asked her to stay away for just two days, nah
[00:19:09] smiled and replied, we cannot stand by and leave our country
[00:19:13] alone, it needs people who are not afraid.
[00:19:17] few hours later at around 2:30 p.m. on March 2nd,
[00:19:20] 2026, two missiles struck her workplace in terhamps, eastern
[00:19:24] Tehran. Nigas was killed alongside several of her
[00:19:27] colleagues. Her father spent hours searching for her
[00:19:31] body for days the family did not know which the recovered bodies was
[00:19:35] their daughter. Finally, DNA has saying... Identified her remains, now I guess was
[00:19:39] only 26, young woman who had wanted to study, to
[00:19:43] compete, to build a career and to finish the work she had started. For her
[00:19:47] family, the last words she spoke before leaving home would
[00:19:50] become something much more than farewell. They would become
[00:19:54] the final words of daughter who knew the danger and went
[00:19:58] away
[00:19:58] anyways.
[00:20:02] There is another dimension to these streets and that is their relationship
[00:20:06] with the armed force. forces during the war, people did not come out
[00:20:10] only to mourn, they also wanted to tell the country's military
[00:20:14] forces that they were not
[00:20:16] alone.
[00:20:20] a time when Iran's armed forces were facing major military
[00:20:24] power, the presence of people in the streets could be seen as a sign of
[00:20:27] social support for the resistance. this was where the
[00:20:31] slogan, the streets with us, the battlefield with you,
[00:20:34] emerged. only... after the war
[00:20:38] began, brigadier general sayid Majid Musavi, commander
[00:20:42] the IRGC aerospace force, sent a message to the Iranian
[00:20:46] people, keep the streets, we have the battlefield.
[00:21:21] But this relationship is not limited to military
[00:21:24] warfare. The streets are also part of another
[00:21:27] battlefield, the cognitive war. In
[00:21:31] modern conflicts, missiles and aircrafts are not the only
[00:21:34] things that matter. The image of society, the morale of
[00:21:38] its people, public perceptions, and how united or vulnerable
[00:21:42] a country appears can also be
[00:21:45] decisive.
[00:22:20] no longer saw their presence simply as an act of vengeance, they
[00:22:24] side as a standing alongside our military forces who are
[00:22:27] fighting the
[00:22:28] enemy. From this
[00:22:32] perspective, the continued presence of people in the streets can become a
[00:22:36] message, society has not fallen
[00:22:39] apart, the streets are not controlled by the
[00:22:42] crisis and Iran's story is not being shipped
[00:22:46] only by foreign media or social media platforms out. outside the
[00:22:50] country, people themselves can create their own
[00:22:54] narrative in public spaces, but why
[00:22:58] should this presence continue? the answer is
[00:23:02] simple: the war did not end when the bombing
[00:23:05] stopped, the security thread may have changed its
[00:23:09] form, negotiations may have begun, a cease
[00:23:13] fire may have been reached, but questions of trust,
[00:23:17] deterrance, support for the armed forces,
[00:23:41] We are now showing the word what it means to stand firm, this
[00:23:45] resilience comes from our faith and convictions and
[00:23:49] it gives us as strength to move forward through difficult
[00:23:52] times. even
[00:23:56] after the immediate threat of attacks and cities has declined,
[00:24:00] concerns remain about attempts to create insecurity and exploit
[00:24:03] internal divisions. at the same time as
[00:24:07] negotiations have begun and military action has become more
[00:24:10] limited, people's presence in the streets can represent another
[00:24:14] form of support, that is the idea that resistance and the
[00:24:18] defense the country's rights. are not simply military or
[00:24:21] government decisions. For a large part of
[00:24:25] society, they are a public demand. Perhaps that is why
[00:24:29] these 200 nights should not be measured only by the number of people who
[00:24:33] have taken part, they should be understood as a collective
[00:24:36] experience. An experience of people who in the middle
[00:24:40] the war did not leave the streets, people who
[00:24:44] connected Ramadan with Muharram, people who brought morning
[00:24:48] together with everyday life. and support for the armed forces together
[00:24:52] with the defense of Iran. People who may disagree
[00:24:56] on many issues, but who at this moment have chosen to
[00:24:59] define themselves under one flag, the flag of
[00:25:03] Iran.
[00:25:08] More than 200 nights have passed, that means more than
[00:25:12] 200 times, darkness has fallen and the people have decided
[00:25:16] to leave their homes for more than 200 nights.
[00:25:50] achieve results, but for people to come out like this,
[00:25:53] during the war, defend their country and stand that
[00:25:57] ground is truly exceptional. In Israel, when an
[00:26:01] Iranian missile is...
[00:26:20] spent more
[00:26:21] They have than 200 nights in the streets and if
[00:26:24] necessary they say they will stay for another
[00:26:27] 200 even for year for 2 years
[00:26:30] and if Iran is at stake perhaps for as long as
[00:26:34] it takes, because for them this is no longer
[00:26:38] simply nightly gathering, it is not a social
[00:26:41] habit, it is not a ceremonial
[00:26:44] program, it is a declaration of
[00:26:47] presence, a declaration by people who say that
[00:26:51] whenever Iran needs them, they will not leave its streets
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[00:28:34] This documentary reveals how Iran's F4 fighters, once
[00:28:38] symbols of power, became the front line a brutal
[00:28:41] war,
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[00:28:49] impossible
[00:28:49] odds.