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[00:00:00] Ali Asgarhar recalls the youngest son of Imam Hussein a
[00:00:04] baby who became one
[00:00:05] of the most powerful symbols of innocence and suffering during the
[00:00:09] tragedy of Karbala, centuries separate Aliaskar from Mohammad
[00:00:13] Ali, different wars, different times and different
[00:00:17] places, but the image is painfully familiar. A
[00:00:20] defenceless child caught in violence, he did not choose and
[00:00:24] could
[00:00:25] of never understand. For many Iranians, Muhammad Ali became modern
[00:00:29] reminder of that. that same innocence, a
[00:00:31] of child who had not even had the chance to discover what life was before
[00:00:35] war took it away. he was born into war and he died in
[00:00:39] it. his entire life lasted 20 days. that is why his
[00:00:42] name should never disappear into a list of casualties. for his
[00:00:46] memory to survive, his story must be told for years to
[00:00:50] come..
[00:01:00] of
[00:01:15] of of
[00:01:34] of
[00:01:41] The US treasury secretary Scott Beson has leveled and extreme
[00:01:45] economic sanctions package against Iran touding new methods to
[00:01:49] bring Iran to its knees
[00:01:50] in essence advocating regime change. This is road the US has
[00:01:54] traveled down before and the Iranian side has not only marked
[00:01:58] a tried and tested. policy, but as said the US will
[00:02:02] fill the burn more instead of
[00:02:07] in Iran.
[00:02:09] in
[00:02:09] of
[00:02:25] of of
[00:02:29] of
[00:02:39] a
[00:02:49] the US treasury secretary's
[00:02:51] uh operation economic outcast against Iran is said to use his words the
[00:02:55] most
[00:02:56] of severe sanctions leveled against another country in the entire
[00:03:00] history, but looking closely, the are repeated scenarios exercised
[00:03:04] against Iran, which has put into question the efficiency of
[00:03:07] this sanctions
[00:03:08] package.
[00:03:15] of Coming up in today's episode of economic divide, operation economic
[00:03:18] outcast, treasury secretary Scott Beson put a show making
[00:03:22] a
[00:03:23] of sanctions package announcements against Iran. Did he not take into
[00:03:27] account previous US sanctions against Iran, including ones from his current
[00:03:31] boss, which ultimately didn't work. our second headline,
[00:03:34] dday, all show no
[00:03:36] of substance, will punish evon, will punish anyone who aids
[00:03:40] ivone is what beson said, issuing threats that are supposed to choke
[00:03:44] iron's economy and focused on cutting off Iran's allies,
[00:03:48] yet there is no substance since Iran has worked its
[00:03:51] way around us. And our third headline, is that all you
[00:03:55] got? Meanwhile, Iran has continued with its resistance against the
[00:03:59] US and... including in the straight of removes
[00:04:01] and now with the straight of bob and mandab in the hands
[00:04:04] of the unsoda love fighters, the US is experiencing
[00:04:07] blowback of its
[00:04:09] of illegal actions. We're going to be discussing those points and a whole lot
[00:04:12] more with our guests, Matt Wainglass, political analyst and
[00:04:16] Atnon A Hussein, professor of history at Queens
[00:04:20] of University.
[00:04:26] of
[00:04:51] of
[00:05:19] Operation economic outcast is in fact sanctioning
[00:05:23] 60 plus entities all over the world, anybody who's tied
[00:05:26] to Iran's oil or nuclear missile programs uh
[00:05:30] right now, and the reason that lot of people are calling this kind of
[00:05:34] a show is because uh the US has not uh
[00:05:38] been showing any sort of toughness against uh uh
[00:05:42] players like China and like when you notice that China banks and
[00:05:45] companies um have been purchasing more than 80% of Iran's
[00:05:49] oil experts that would be the first phone call you think that Trump would
[00:05:53] be making right now but he's not so lot of and that's just one example this is
[00:05:57] for show because Besson himself says the point of
[00:06:01] putting this out there is to cause Iran to be
[00:06:05] making a deal because they see uh uh the severity of what
[00:06:09] this looks like are we willing to follow through with this? on some the phone
[00:06:13] calls have been made. Today we are launching operation Economic
[00:06:17] Outcast to foreclose every other option
[00:06:20] available to the Iranian regime. Treasury has mapped
[00:06:24] every node, every facilitator and every network
[00:06:28] that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade
[00:06:31] sanctions. Beginning today, the actions of
[00:06:35] treasury and other agencies will tighten the news and
[00:06:39] block every potential source of revenue that... the
[00:06:42] IRGC and the evil Iranian regime, we
[00:06:46] are enforcing a zero leakage approach, there will be no minimal
[00:06:50] breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity to
[00:06:54] inflict terror against America and the
[00:06:57] world. The final refuge of this regime is
[00:07:01] the mistaken conclusion of nations that still finance the
[00:07:05] Iranian threat in the hopes of evading it. It is
[00:07:09] no longer acceptable to operate in the grace. spaces
[00:07:13] of this conflict, countries cannot claim they are
[00:07:16] blind to enabling this activity. I do think um
[00:07:20] that uh lot these threats are legitimate threats on
[00:07:24] smaller levels uh, but make no mistake, when this thing
[00:07:28] goes all the way, like we have to be willing to let our
[00:07:31] entire petro dollar system fail, and there seems to be
[00:07:35] people wanting that to happen or at least not caring about those results,
[00:07:39] but uh, no, there absolutely is a show. going on
[00:07:43] here uh because the idea is that if you can get Iran to maybe
[00:07:47] come back to the negotiating table uh
[00:07:50] then we can actually get somewhere. it doesn't look like Iran's in any position
[00:07:54] uh
[00:07:55] to want to do that uh right now. their conditions have remained
[00:07:59] very very unchanged uh they haven't budged at all they need they want
[00:08:03] that 300 billion in US compensation uh they want the US
[00:08:07] to be lifting all the sanctions. there's a whole list of things and that includes
[00:08:11] uh stopping the... is the uh bombardment of south Lebanon and
[00:08:15] Gaza, none of this stuff has happened,
[00:08:17] this was stuff that was put into the mou originally, it's been
[00:08:21] signed by both parties, so that's the thing that Iran's not going
[00:08:25] to budge on, so we'll see how far bessent and the rest the Trump team
[00:08:29] uh want to take
[00:08:29] this.
[00:08:41] Iran has spent years developing alternative mechanisms for
[00:08:45] sanctions evasion, including intermediaries, informal banking
[00:08:49] channels, borter arrangements, a front companies and
[00:08:53] alternative trading partners. the effectiveness of operation
[00:08:57] economic outcast will therefore depend heavily on how willing
[00:09:01] countries such as China, the UAE, Turkey and
[00:09:04] others are to cooperate with Washington and how
[00:09:07] aggressively the US uses secondary sanctions against
[00:09:11] them.
[00:10:01] sanctions never actually do the thing they tell us they're going to do and there is
[00:10:04] absolutely a history of this um and so and let's go
[00:10:08] to the actual the narrative that is is not holding up right now the...
[00:10:12] the fact that Trump originally in this second term he ran on being the
[00:10:16] anti-war president, that was never the thing, and you have to go back to that
[00:10:20] 2018 maximum pressure campaign when he was president to
[00:10:23] really show what... was re-elected to do this time uh, he
[00:10:27] started uh that campaign, we're talking about when he first got in,
[00:10:31] he ran on tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, that's
[00:10:35] exactly what he he ran on, that's what he actually did, and
[00:10:39] that's as it was called maximum pressure, and it was actually designed
[00:10:43] escalate, not to de-escalate, and that's why we
[00:10:46] saw Iran respond thoroughly that way, to to
[00:10:50] rise up and be ready for what is happening now, and Trump's been the
[00:10:54] only. president that's been willing to actually start this war
[00:10:58] with Iran, that's why his handlers allowed him back in, because he
[00:11:01] showed every sign that he was going to be able to do the thing that
[00:11:05] Bill Clinton didn't do, that Obama didn't do, that Biden didn't
[00:11:09] do, and so this is exactly what's happening now, it's not a fluke, it's not
[00:11:13] a oh, he Baiten switched us, he's doing the thing that he showed
[00:11:17] us with that maximum pressure
[00:11:19] campaign.
[00:11:38] This is the social section the program, ironically this is very
[00:11:42] telling confession. In other words, Iran is capable of
[00:11:45] outpacing the US administration's
[00:11:48] miscalculations, not only on the military front, but also
[00:11:52] on the economic front. It can expose the... failure of
[00:11:55] officials like Scott Beson to contain the blowback the
[00:11:59] administration's missteps under US economy, desperately trying to
[00:12:03] hide behind empty, desperately trying to hide behind empty
[00:12:07] rhetoric. Iranians, if you look at their x accounts
[00:12:11] that they are trying to create economic problems in the US,
[00:12:15] either they from using the bond yields, using the
[00:12:18] oil price, and just because the whether
[00:12:22] it's Stephanie Bloomberg
[00:12:24] the financial time.
[00:12:31] they want to give the Iranians a platform the to
[00:12:35] operate on. Scott Beson exposes that operation economic
[00:12:39] outcast is not about Iran. It is about attacking
[00:12:42] China, Venezuela and Iran or outcast right now, and
[00:12:46] this is the greatest economic isolation operation in the history the world, we
[00:12:50] are going to exfixiate this regime. Now we have the bloccade, and because the
[00:12:54] bloccade. the oil is not getting
[00:12:58] out, so there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude
[00:13:02] oil left the china hasn't bought, so that will run out
[00:13:05] soon, and there will be no problem with china buying because they have
[00:13:09] no product, so the blockade is is the blockaid is
[00:13:13] working. reporters, you described this as
[00:13:16] economic dday, but dday wasn't a threat of
[00:13:19] invasion and the US didn't give a timeline to germany,
[00:13:23] so why not impose this? sanctions today, bson said, why would
[00:13:27] i want to blow up the global financial system?
[00:13:31] well, we we are giving everyone the
[00:13:33] opportunity,
[00:13:35] the to remedy bad behavior, why would i want to blow up the global
[00:13:39] financial system? we believe that it is important to level
[00:13:42] set and give people a cure period, but they should
[00:13:46] know that that will move very quickly and that we
[00:13:50] are serious. secondary sanctions are a
[00:13:53] very powerful tool. and we hear at treasury, this is
[00:13:57] Jean Lang, the acting under secretary for terrorism
[00:14:00] finance, and in the terrorism finance department and at
[00:14:04] OFAC, the reason we are able to use secondary sanctions
[00:14:08] is because we do not take their use lightly. How did
[00:14:11] Beson see how his fund would work
[00:14:15] out, and how did it actually work out? Bestant was a
[00:14:18] failure in the private sector and is now just puppet for Donald
[00:14:22] Trump, he square capital manager. when Scott Beson
[00:14:26] started to fund in 2015, after leaving George
[00:14:29] Sorus's firm, he raised $4.5 billion dollars,
[00:14:33] making it one the largest fund launches in history.
[00:14:37] The fund reaches peak of about 5.1
[00:14:41] billion dollars in assets under management in
[00:14:44] 2017, but it lost money during several
[00:14:48] difficult years, client withdraws because the weak
[00:14:51] returns, major institutional investors pulled. still
[00:14:55] money out: the number of big investors dropped from 180
[00:14:59] down to 20. asset shrinkage, total assets
[00:15:03] fell by nearly 90% from their peak, dropping to roughly
[00:15:07] $577 million dollars by the end
[00:15:11] of
[00:15:11] 2023.
[00:15:54] That is exactly the reason why some are calling it a show or
[00:15:58] a charade or demonstration effect
[00:16:02] rather than an actual plan uh that may be
[00:16:06] effective. in achieving uh
[00:16:10] goals that the military and diplomatic assault
[00:16:13] upon Iran has failed to achieve up to this point
[00:16:17] since the illegal US- Israeli attack upon
[00:16:21] Iran on February 28th. I think it's very
[00:16:24] important to remember at the very outset
[00:16:28] that unilateral and secondary sanctions
[00:16:32] like the US has imposed in the past and is
[00:16:35] proposing to do. now under this
[00:16:39] new uh program that they've
[00:16:41] un oil is at the
[00:16:45] heart of sanctions, the new strategy is find everyone who makes
[00:16:49] the oil sale possible, that means targeting all these
[00:16:52] channels, ship owners, vessel managers, brokers, insures,
[00:16:56] shipping companies, bunkering companies, front companies,
[00:17:00] financial intermediaries, petroleum companies, shadow fleet
[00:17:04] vessels, people who receive and move the proceeds. Does
[00:17:08] the US really think that is
[00:17:10] possible.
[00:18:00] Iran has shown incredible resilience and
[00:18:04] resistance and this has had an effect in
[00:18:07] global and geopolitical and international
[00:18:11] relations in exposing the US weakness
[00:18:15] uh, and as result
[00:18:18] it has demonstrated and shown that the
[00:18:21] failures to uh with this imposed
[00:18:24] war uh suggest that uh it
[00:18:28] is possible for countries, even countries that are not
[00:18:32] superpowers to find the
[00:18:34] resources um to resist. um
[00:18:38] us uh
[00:18:39] domination,
[00:18:59] this is the info news section the program, the brick system, bricks
[00:19:03] summit, changing world cannot be steered by outdated in...
[00:19:08] reforms are essential in representation, responsiveness and
[00:19:12] rule making. The Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a greater
[00:19:16] role for the global south in international decision making, Saudi
[00:19:19] oil output. Saudi oil output plunges to lowest
[00:19:23] since 1990. Riad told OPEC that production
[00:19:27] fell by 1.9 million barrels per day last month
[00:19:31] to 6.238 million barrels per day. The
[00:19:35] Iran war and the law campaign. against the kingdom have a
[00:19:39] squeezed export roots as oil prices have surged
[00:19:42] above $100 per barrel. Donald
[00:19:46] Trump's dividend promise, will Trump pay all US
[00:19:50] adults $500. Some Trump supporters are
[00:19:53] skeptical. Observers on both sides
[00:19:57] the political divide express concern about Donald Trump's pledge to
[00:20:01] award cash dividend for midterm wins. The high
[00:20:05] price tag would be outrageous. that would cost over
[00:20:09] $1 trillion dollars, that would add to the deficit,
[00:20:13] it's already $40 trillion dollars. now palestine
[00:20:16] economy: israely checkpoints in the west bank are
[00:20:20] choking the palestinian economy and escalating
[00:20:23] matrix of military closures and road blocks is
[00:20:26] devastating local businesses and fragmenting
[00:20:30] the palestining land. there are about 925 checkpoints
[00:20:34] and military gates across the occupied west. Bank
[00:20:38] 147 located in the Napolis
[00:20:41] Governor.
[00:21:13] This is the in-depth section the program, operation
[00:21:16] economic d-day or economic outcast, can get
[00:21:20] these are some the terms the US has used when it comes to
[00:21:24] Iran. To push Iran into submission with economic
[00:21:27] strangulation at the heart of it, but Iran has time and again
[00:21:31] said it will not surrender, rather it's the US actions that are
[00:21:35] pushing the US itself to surrender when it comes to
[00:21:38] Iran.
[00:21:46] The US secretary of Treasury Scott Beson official. announced
[00:21:50] the beginning of operation economic outcast against Iran, this
[00:21:54] marks the beginning of economic isolation campaign that
[00:21:58] includes sanctions, secondary sanctions and cutting off
[00:22:01] all economic lifelines to Iran, any country doing business
[00:22:05] with Iran, facilitating trade or providing
[00:22:09] credit will be hit with secondary sanctions. China already
[00:22:12] announced that it will not follow these US
[00:22:15] sanctions. That is said to be different from
[00:22:19] orden. sanctions, but it has been done in the past and
[00:22:23] failed. the easiest way to understand the difference is
[00:22:27] traditional sanctions target Iranian people and companies. economic
[00:22:30] outcast targets the entire financial
[00:22:34] ecosystem, particularly transactions are
[00:22:37] blocked. we have the economic outcast attacks the
[00:22:41] networking enabling transactions. sounds good on paper,
[00:22:45] but has been tested before and failed. now on that point,
[00:22:49] let me bring again. matlass, political analyst, the question that I
[00:22:52] had, Matt is, the criticism is basically this,
[00:22:56] that sanctions can seriously damage Iran's economy
[00:23:00] without necessarily forcing Iran's leadership to capitulate
[00:23:04] or surrender, that is what the US has always been warning,
[00:23:08] that distinction is achieve what, provoke protest, then
[00:23:12] regime change, yes, again, all the
[00:23:16] reasons we conduct these campaigns of economic warfare, and it's not just with
[00:23:20] Iran we have a history of doing this um all over the place, this is
[00:23:24] our this is our mantra, this is what imperialism looks like
[00:23:27] uh, the these these type of sanctioning it's about going in,
[00:23:31] stealing land, stealing resources, murdering uh elected
[00:23:35] leaders in cases, some cases kidnapping them as we've done in Venezuela,
[00:23:39] but this is this has been our tried and trude uh uh blueprint
[00:23:43] for how we conduct uh imperialism on behalf the war
[00:23:47] machine and in this case this particular administration We're doing it on
[00:23:50] behalf of Israel, his handlers, we're talking about the Greater
[00:23:54] Israel project, the Adelsons, uh, that's the biggest money that was been
[00:23:58] contributed to this campaign, and that's again why Trump was
[00:24:01] handselected to come back in the second term and and
[00:24:05] conduct this these, this economic warfare. Now
[00:24:08] let's take a look at what harm the economic Dday has done to
[00:24:12] the US, putting Iran to decide for moment. The first one
[00:24:16] is oil prices have risen by 8% to 100.
[00:24:21] '$9 per barrel, diesel has been breaching
[00:24:24] $6 a gallon, and has been taking
[00:24:27] over the Bob at mandab straight, and bond yields have been
[00:24:31] through the roof 5.2%, of course it has
[00:24:35] been economic dday that has backfired on itself rather
[00:24:38] than on Iran, yes it has been economic dday, I
[00:24:42] guess, now on that final point, let me bring
[00:24:45] in Adnon A Hussein, professor of history at Quins University,
[00:24:49] the question that I at add none. It's an open secret that the US
[00:24:53] knows that sanctions won't impact the Islamic Republic in the way
[00:24:57] that the US wants. The US wants regime change, that's
[00:25:01] plain and simple. Uh, even the
[00:25:03] U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said so. Is
[00:25:06] this the US sanctions package meant to do just
[00:25:10] that? Well, I think that's an important point, because sanctions
[00:25:14] certainly can do damage to the economy without
[00:25:17] achieving the political goals that are... the rational for it, and
[00:25:21] that's why I said at the very outset that
[00:25:23] it is a form of collective punishment that harms and hurts the
[00:25:27] poorest and the most vulnerable, and the US has been doing this,
[00:25:30] imposing unilateral illegal sanctions upon so many countries
[00:25:34] in the world, and the evidence is that it doesn't
[00:25:37] achieve so-called regime change or any the political
[00:25:41] goals, it just causes serious harm in the
[00:25:45] economy, and those who are affected most by it are, as I said, the poor
[00:25:49] and the vulnerable.
[00:26:15] The US has failed in its military operation against Iran, including
[00:26:19] in the straight of removes. its military ambitions have made the situation
[00:26:23] much worse for the US economy. The numbers speak for
[00:26:26] themselves, now that
[00:26:28] the ansorol resistance movement has taken over the Bob Almand up straight,
[00:26:32] things. look even worse for the US, which is basically left with no
[00:26:36] choice but to withdraw from its military operation and the west
[00:26:39] Asia region
[00:27:27] Ladies and gentlemen, we're interrupting uh the normal course of programming as
[00:27:31] Yemenson leader.
[00:28:02] stability and their aspirations is something
[00:28:06] that not they cannot aspire to, they want people to be a
[00:28:10] state of surrender, a state of
[00:28:13] defeat where their
[00:28:16] independenced and they
[00:28:20] have no confidence. and this is
[00:28:23] very problem
[00:28:26] that the people
[00:28:28] are in such a state where there is always tension and that the
[00:28:31] impact of...
[00:29:17] the aggression, they are the ones who began the aggression against
[00:29:21] our people, there is absolutely no pretext, no
[00:29:25] reason for
[00:29:28] regime to begin their aggression against our people for many.
[00:29:32] years they faild in achieving their objectives
[00:29:36] and all the
[00:29:39] attempts of their aggressions and their attacks and the attempts to try to take and
[00:29:43] steal the resources of our
[00:29:45] people, they have no rights
[00:29:48] and have no rights and their aggression, our dear
[00:29:51] people are not the ones who began this
[00:29:55] problem with not
[00:29:57] Saudi in Arabia, of a being
[00:29:59] we are the state aggressors. people who
[00:30:03] have begon