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[00:00:00] The killer applauds and
[00:00:02] of leaves behind innumerable number of victims, welcome our
[00:00:06] good friend, all harmed by tools
[00:00:10] of
[00:00:10] killing.
[00:00:19] of
[00:00:36] of
[00:00:51] of of
[00:01:45] It was supposed to last only one night, night
[00:01:49] when people after hearing the news
[00:01:51] of the murderdom
[00:01:52] of the leader
[00:01:53] of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
[00:01:56] and the start
[00:01:57] of the U.S. Israeli military attack on would take to the
[00:02:01] streets to mourn, express their anger and stand
[00:02:04] beside the armed forces,
[00:02:08] but the first night ended and people did not go
[00:02:11] home. then came the second night,
[00:02:15] of then the third, days passed, and one
[00:02:18] night followed another, under the sound of
[00:02:22] sirens, under the thread of air strikes in the middle of a war, and
[00:02:26] while many expected the pressure
[00:02:28] of the conflict empty... Iran streets, something else
[00:02:32] happened, the streets did not
[00:02:34] empty, people picked up the Iranian flag
[00:02:38] and came out again and again and
[00:02:41] again. In some cities they stayed until
[00:02:45] midnight and sometimes until dawn. The
[00:02:48] 40th
[00:02:49] a night passed, then the 60th, the
[00:02:53] 80th, the 100th. Ramadan ended and
[00:02:57] Muharram arrived, and this time. people brought their
[00:03:00] muharram morning ceremonies into the streets as
[00:03:03] well. now more than 200 nights have
[00:03:07] passed. for more than 200 nights after
[00:03:11] darkness falls, people across Iran have
[00:03:13] of once again taken to the
[00:03:15] streets.
[00:03:46] These gatherings have taken place at more than 4,000 locations
[00:03:49] across the country. In Tehran alone, more than
[00:03:53] 130 locations have witnessed
[00:03:55] of these of gatherings. More than 56%
[00:03:58] of the country's population. have taken part in them at least
[00:04:01] once.
[00:04:09] But these numbers tell only part
[00:04:11] of the story. What matters even more is that they have
[00:04:15] continued. Thousands of
[00:04:20] of of of people gathering in the streets a single night could be explained as
[00:04:23] of a reaction to a particular event. But when the same thing happens night after night, it
[00:04:27] becomes part of society's social behavior.
[00:04:32] of
[00:04:43] of
[00:04:54] of
[00:04:55] of
[00:05:10] of
[00:06:43] and even everyday life, people have spent the
[00:06:47] nights of qadr in the streets, murders have been carried through the
[00:06:50] streets and funeral processions, gader
[00:06:54] celebrations have been held there, people have taken to the
[00:06:58] streets to celebrate the national football team's matches in the world
[00:07:01] cup, people have cried, laughed and in some
[00:07:05] places even held
[00:07:06] weddings.
[00:09:14] It's 11 p.m. and we're here in Tehran's northern Tajrish
[00:09:18] district among the people who have made a commitment, they will not
[00:09:22] leave the streets until their leader tells them
[00:09:25] to.
[00:09:29] In the first days the war, their presence was easier to
[00:09:32] explain: people were grieving, their leader had been murdered and
[00:09:36] the country was under attack. People came to the streets to mourn
[00:09:40] and show solidarity. but very soon another
[00:09:44] element became part the story, the feeling that
[00:09:47] Iran itself was under
[00:09:49] attack.
[00:09:53] we had a chance to have a brief chat with one the people involved in
[00:09:57] the gathering since night
[00:09:58] one,
[00:10:01] مسسین امیدی. مردم ایران ابتدا
[00:10:05] پس
[00:10:06] از شنیدن news the leader the islamic revolutions, the Iranian
[00:10:10] people left their homes around six or... in the morning and headed
[00:10:14] to the main squares and cities across the country. At first we
[00:10:17] saw scenes of grief, sorrow and tears, but these soon
[00:10:21] turned into scenes the nation's strength and grandure. people took to
[00:10:25] the streets to avenge the blood their leader and confront the American
[00:10:29] Zionist enemy, even on occasions such as Rutz Day
[00:10:33] rallies, when areas around these gatherings were bombed,
[00:10:37] the people stood their ground without any
[00:10:39] fear. For part of
[00:10:43] society, the war was no longer simply a confrontation between a
[00:10:46] government and foreign enemy, it became a threat to the
[00:10:50] country's independence, territorial integrity and national
[00:10:54] existence. and under such
[00:10:57] circumstances, even people who may disagree with some domestic
[00:11:01] policies the Islamic Republic can choose to stand with the
[00:11:04] country and its national
[00:11:06] sovereignty. Iranian society
[00:11:10] cannot simply be divided into two completely separate
[00:11:13] groups: supporters the system and opponents the
[00:11:16] system. the experience of war has shown that people's
[00:11:20] political identities can be people's political identities
[00:11:23] can be.
[00:11:55] توی این مدت جنگ که تمام دنیا دارن
[00:11:58] برای پیروزی و برد ایران دعا می کنن به خاطر
[00:12:02] اینکه ایران و این پرچم تنها پرچمیه که
[00:12:06] برای معنویت تو دنیا بلند شده و اگه خدای
[00:12:10] نکرده یه روز ایران نباشه واقعاً دیگه
[00:12:14] انسانیتی تو دنیا
[00:12:15] نخواهد
[00:12:20] من خودم ۷۴ سالمه ولی هر شب آش
[00:12:24] خانوم میام چون
[00:12:55] صدمه می خورن این همه جنوب ایران را زدن این همه
[00:12:58] پاینده ان واقعا من برای بچه های
[00:13:02] مینا برای بچه های لامرد واقعا برای همشون روزی نیست که
[00:13:06] من اگر اخباری از اینا تکرار بشه گریه
[00:13:09] نکنم.
[00:13:55] What you see here today are all Iranians and
[00:13:58] Muslims, this unity is completely natural, there is no
[00:14:02] contradiction in it. I see women who
[00:14:05] waar the hijab and women who do not, people with
[00:14:09] different appearances, but we are all Iranians
[00:14:13] and we love our country, love our
[00:14:16] country.
[00:14:20] The war has for part of society placed internal
[00:14:24] question. when Iran is under attack, what should
[00:14:27] come first? And their answer has been to take
[00:14:31] to the
[00:14:32] streets.
[00:14:36] But this presence is not simply a political reaction. If that
[00:14:40] were the case, then the streets probably would have become quieter
[00:14:44] once the first phase the war ended and the Islamabad
[00:14:48] Mou was signed, but that did not
[00:14:50] happen. One
[00:14:54] of... the most important features of this phenomenon is precisely
[00:14:58] this transformation. what began as emergency
[00:15:02] response has become a lasting social
[00:15:05] pattern. in wartime, empty streets are often a
[00:15:08] sign of society under psychological
[00:15:11] pressure. people stop going outside,
[00:15:15] businesses are disrupted, everyday life
[00:15:18] retreats. fear takes over public
[00:15:21] space, but in Iran something different.
[00:15:26] public space remained in people's hands, gatherings
[00:15:30] continued, human chains were
[00:15:32] formed, religious ceremonies went
[00:15:35] on, and despite the...
[00:16:18] From this perspective, people's presence in the streets is not only a political message to the
[00:16:22] outside world, it is also psychological message to
[00:16:26] society itself, message that the war has
[00:16:30] not been able to stop social life, that people
[00:16:34] can still come together. This can also... strength and
[00:16:38] social resilience. when a person faces the
[00:16:41] pressure of war, reports of attacks and uncertainty about the
[00:16:45] future alone a sense of helplessness can
[00:16:48] grow. but when that same person stands in square
[00:16:52] among hundreds or thousands of others, the experience
[00:16:55] changes. they are no longer simply an individual
[00:16:59] facing a crisis, they become.
[00:17:03] من بزرگترین و عجیب غریب ترین صحنه هایی که.
[00:17:37] countless innocent victims and immeasurable human suffering and the
[00:17:41] war against Iran is no exception. Beyond the headlines and
[00:17:44] geopolitical calculations are personal tragedies that
[00:17:48] rarely appear in world's major news reports. This is
[00:17:52] one them.
[00:17:56] For Nargias going to work that morning was a choice. She knew
[00:18:00] the place was dangerous, her family knew it too, but there was work
[00:18:04] left unfinished and Nargis did not want to walk away.
[00:18:08] Nargiz Haji Molla Haydar was born in 1999, talented
[00:18:11] computer engineering graduate and a high achieving student at the
[00:18:15] University of Tehran. She had built her life around learning,
[00:18:19] discipline and service. She was also a karate athlete for two
[00:18:22] years, she trained seriously and eventually won a gold medal and committee
[00:18:26] and silver medal in Qatar a national competition. After
[00:18:30] returning from the arbane pilgrimage, nargas set herself another
[00:18:34] goal, master's degree in network technology. She studied. for five
[00:18:38] months with determination and face and was eventually admitted to
[00:18:42] a state university with a high rank. then came new
[00:18:45] job in the cyber security field where her technical skills
[00:18:49] could be put to use. one the projects she was working on was
[00:18:53] national university project aimed at strengthening the
[00:18:56] resilience of Tehran's water network.
[00:19:00] but then or came, the family learned that the country had come under
[00:19:04] attacked. relatives warn Nargas that her workplace could... be a target
[00:19:08] and urged her not to go back, narguez refused, she told
[00:19:12] them she could not bear the thought of leaving her work
[00:19:14] unfinished. the night before her death she
[00:19:18] said something that her mother would never forget. mom,
[00:19:22] forgive me if you don't see me again. the following
[00:19:25] morning, some colleagues decided not to come to work because
[00:19:29] the danger, nargez chose differently. before leaving home, her mother
[00:19:33] asked her to stay away for just two days. now smiled and repl.
[00:19:38] "we cannot stand by and leave our country alone, it needs
[00:19:41] people who are not afraid." A few hours later,
[00:19:45] at around 2:30 p.m. on March 2nd, 2026, to a missile
[00:19:49] strucker workplace on Tehran pass, eastern Tehran. Nargas was killed
[00:19:52] alongside several of her colleagues. Her
[00:19:56] father spent hours searching for her body, for days the family did not know
[00:20:00] which the recovered bodies was their daughter. Finally, DNA
[00:20:04] Testing identified her remains, now I guess was only 26.
[00:20:07] young woman who had wanted to study, to compete, to build a
[00:20:11] career and to finish the work she had started. for her family, the
[00:20:15] last words she spoke before leaving home would become something
[00:20:19] much more than farewell. they would become the final words of
[00:20:22] daughter who knew the danger and went away
[00:20:25] anyways.
[00:20:29] there is another dimension to these streets and that is their relationship
[00:20:33] with the armed forces. during the war, people did not come out.
[00:20:37] only to mourn, they also wanted to tell that they were not
[00:20:41] alone, that they were not
[00:20:43] alone,
[00:20:47] a time when Iran's armed forces were facing major military
[00:20:51] power, the presence of people in the streets could be seen as a sign of
[00:20:54] social support for the resistance. this was where the
[00:20:58] slogan the streets with us, the battlefield with you
[00:21:01] emerged. only days after the war
[00:21:05] began, brigadier general Sayyad Majid Musawi, commander
[00:21:09] the IRGC aerospace force sent a message to the Iranian
[00:21:13] people, keep the streets, we have the
[00:21:15] battlefield.
[00:21:50] not limited to military warfare, the streets are also part of
[00:21:54] another battlefield, the cognitive war. in
[00:21:58] modern conflicts, missiles and aircrafts are not the only
[00:22:01] things that matter. the image of society, the morale of
[00:22:05] its people, public perceptions, and how united or
[00:22:09] vulnerable a country appears can also be
[00:22:12] decisive.
[00:22:17] we also talked with Mr. Muhammad Ofshore. another person engaged in the
[00:22:21] night gatherings since the very
[00:22:23] beginning
[00:22:28] the streets starting right here, the streets starting right here
[00:22:32] at enqalab square was ayatullah khamenei's
[00:22:35] martterdom, at first the main motivation was to avenge the blood
[00:22:39] of our marted leader, the injustice tone to him
[00:22:42] strengthened our motivation even further, but as time went
[00:22:46] on, people no longer saw their presence simply as an act of.
[00:22:50] they side as standing alongside our military forces who are
[00:22:54] fighting the
[00:22:55] enemy. from this
[00:22:59] perspective, the continued presence of people in the streets can become a
[00:23:03] message. society has not fallen
[00:23:06] apart. the streets are not controlled by the crisis
[00:23:10] and Iran story is not being shipped only
[00:23:14] by foreign media or social media platforms outside the
[00:23:17] country. people that... themselves can create their
[00:23:21] own narrative in public spaces, but
[00:23:25] why should this presence continue? the answer is
[00:23:29] simple: the war did not end when the bombing
[00:23:32] stopped. the security thread may have changed its
[00:23:36] form. negotiations may have begun, a cease
[00:23:40] fire may have been reached, but questions of trust,
[00:23:44] deterrents, support for the armed forces, seeking justice for the
[00:23:48] murders and preserving national...
[00:24:08] we are now showing the word what it means to stand firm. this
[00:24:12] resilience comes from our faith and convictions and
[00:24:16] it gives us the strength to move forward through difficult times.
[00:24:23] Even after the immediate threat of attacks and cities has declined,
[00:24:27] concerns remain about attempts to create insecurity and exploit
[00:24:30] internal divisions. At the same time, as
[00:24:34] negotiations have begun and military action has become more limit
[00:24:38] action has become more limited, people's presence in the
[00:24:41] street support. That is the idea that resistance and the defense
[00:24:45] the country's rights are not simply military or government
[00:24:49] decisions. For a large part of society, they are a
[00:24:53] public demand. Perhaps that is why these 200
[00:24:57] nights should not be measured only by the number of people who have taken
[00:25:00] part, they should be understood as a collective
[00:25:03] experience. An experience of people who in the middle
[00:25:07] the war did not leave the streets, people who
[00:25:11] connected Ramadan with Muharram, people who brought morning
[00:25:15] together with everyday life and support for the armed forces together
[00:25:19] with
[00:25:19] the defense. of Iran, people who may disagree on
[00:25:23] many issues, but who at this moment have chosen to define
[00:25:27] themselves under one flag, the flag of
[00:25:30] Iran.
[00:25:36] more than 200 nights have passed, that means more than
[00:25:39] 200 times darkness has fallen and the people have decided
[00:25:43] to leave their homes. For more than 200
[00:25:46] nights, Iran streets have witnessed the people who...
[00:25:50] go here,
[00:25:56] go here, perhaps history will one day understand these nights better than
[00:26:00] we can today. Perhaps much more will be written
[00:26:04] about why this presence emerged, who took part in it and what
[00:26:08] impact it had on Iranian
[00:26:10] society.
[00:26:18] Iran. Of course, in Egypt during the Islamic awakening,
[00:26:22] people also took to the streets and said they would not
[00:26:25] leave until they achieve results, but for people to come
[00:26:29] out like this during the war, defend them. country and
[00:26:33] stand that country and stand that ground is truly
[00:26:37] accep and Iranian missile is launched, the sirens go off
[00:26:41] and people head to shelters, here when the sirens go
[00:26:45] off, people go up to their roof tops to
[00:26:49] watch, but the
[00:26:53] people themselves have already given their answer,
[00:26:57] they have spent more than 200 nights in the streets and
[00:27:00] if necessary they... they will stay for another
[00:27:04] 200, even for year, for two
[00:27:07] years, and if Iran is at stake, perhaps for as long
[00:27:11] as it takes, because for them, this is no longer
[00:27:15] simply nightly gathering, it is not a social
[00:27:18] habit, it is not a ceremonial
[00:27:21] program, it is a declaration of
[00:27:24] presence, a declaration by people who say that
[00:27:28] whenever Iran needs them, they will not leave its streets and
[00:27:36] That's all for today, thank you for watching from the whole team, please do join
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