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[00:00:10] of
[00:00:17] Your headlines on Press TV's parliament speaker says despite his
[00:00:20] apparent hegemony the US is vulnerable to the straight
[00:00:24] of off closure and cannot suffocate Iran
[00:00:26] of economically. President of Yemen's Supreme Politic.
[00:00:30] Council warns of further escalation if Saudi Arabia continues
[00:00:34] this blockade
[00:00:34] of the country. And
[00:00:38] of the death toll from Ukraine's drone attacks on Russia's main oil refinery and the
[00:00:42] residential building rises to three with nearly 20
[00:00:46] others
[00:00:46] injured.
[00:00:52] of of
[00:01:01] of Hello everyone, you're watching Press
[00:01:05] TV live from the studios in Tehran, thank you for joining
[00:01:09] us. Let's begin with our top story, the
[00:01:13] Iranian Armed Forces
[00:01:15] of Khatam Ambia Central Command has
[00:01:17] of warned in the US and regional countries that any mistake could make them
[00:01:21] targets
[00:01:23] in of the country's painful attacks. The central command said Iran
[00:01:25] in has information that the US is planning to resume hostilities
[00:01:29] against the country. on the green light of some regional countries.
[00:01:33] the top military body said any such move by the US will expose its
[00:01:37] entire
[00:01:37] of interests and bases in the region to effective back to back and
[00:01:41] painful attacks by Iran. the central command warned that Iran will
[00:01:45] not think twice about its response. the military
[00:01:49] body also warned regional countries against adhering to the
[00:01:52] hypocritical approach towards Iran by supporting the US
[00:01:56] aggression. the central command said
[00:01:58] of anyone complicit in vicious acts
[00:02:00] of the US should not
[00:02:02] a expect restraint from
[00:02:04] Iran. We were
[00:02:08] earlier joined by military and strategic affairs analyst Ali
[00:02:11] Hamier from Southern Lebanon. He gave us his take on the
[00:02:15] latest warning issued by Iran's central military
[00:02:17] a headquarters
[00:02:17] of to the regional
[00:02:19] countries.
[00:02:23] Let me describe the military American military situation in the
[00:02:26] region. We can tell that as we
[00:02:30] received and saw on CNN that more
[00:02:34] than 17
[00:02:35] of American military bases either damaged
[00:02:39] or destroyed or demolished,
[00:02:41] flattened, and so many
[00:02:45] a equipment a been
[00:02:46] a destroyed, it
[00:02:49] of obligates United States to regroup its troops
[00:02:51] in the sea or
[00:02:55] in in Jordan, it was the straight of
[00:02:59] a hormose. and the war against Iran supported the
[00:03:03] American still support supported
[00:03:07] by the GCC countries by money, we
[00:03:11] don't forget 5,200
[00:03:14] billion dollar or five trillion, 5.2 trillion
[00:03:18] dollars been
[00:03:20] of paid to united state in
[00:03:22] a order to to be the biggest dominator
[00:03:26] of the region, the Iranian are telling the countries in...
[00:03:30] region up to now we can see your full
[00:03:33] a support of by uh given the bases to
[00:03:37] the
[00:03:38] of americases to the American by letting them
[00:03:42] move little bit further than this up
[00:03:45] to now we are uh attacking and
[00:03:48] retaliating against the American bases in your country
[00:03:52] that if you move from
[00:03:54] of supporting to participating in such war it will be
[00:03:58] directly against you. It's a warning, it's a
[00:04:01] warning. The
[00:04:05] US president says the options before Washington against Iran
[00:04:09] are limited to what he calls obliterating Iran, letting his
[00:04:13] economy collapse or reaching a deal. In an interview with Fox News
[00:04:17] about the ongoing
[00:04:18] of war against Iran, Donald Trump said he is
[00:04:20] in a deciding mode, adding that very big things will unfold
[00:04:24] in the
[00:04:25] of near future. Despite US travel warnings
[00:04:27] in issued across the region, Trump said this... week is no
[00:04:31] in different from
[00:04:31] of any other week. he
[00:04:33] of also said he would probably be open to meeting with
[00:04:36] Iranian president on the sidelines
[00:04:39] of the UN general assembly in New
[00:04:42] of York. grestv zaina
[00:04:47] of Virani joined us earlier in the studio to give us her take on the reason
[00:04:50] claims made by US president Donald Trump. the
[00:04:53] listen. if
[00:04:57] Trump has been consistent in something, it's has been in
[00:05:01] making false claims and the options also that they have presented the
[00:05:05] three options is wiping Iran
[00:05:08] of out right the night before the cease fire was announced. he
[00:05:12] said that he was going to wipe out an entire civilization, it ended in
[00:05:16] sece fire, and then he is talking about another option which
[00:05:20] is to let Iran rought economically, well the
[00:05:23] sanctions that they have imposed their economic, the so-called economic dday operation,
[00:05:27] it's not something new, Iran has been facing sanctions for the past 47
[00:05:31] years, Iran has not rotted economically, but it has indeed
[00:05:34] flourished, and by the way, none these sanctions, new sanctions that they
[00:05:38] have imposed on Iran, Russia and China rejected those,
[00:05:42] out right bause US credibility does not exist anymore and then another one
[00:05:46] is making a deal with Iran. Iran has presented its options and its
[00:05:50] conditions that if you want to make deal these are conditions, if you accept it
[00:05:54] then great, if you don't then there is not going to be deal, so this is the
[00:05:58] dual track strategy that the US has employed
[00:06:01] for the past several decades, it's not just Trump, several
[00:06:05] administrations have tried the strategy of on the one hand they
[00:06:09] give the option of talks and negotiations, but of course... Washington style
[00:06:13] which is imposing their conditions on the other party and if you
[00:06:17] don't then of course they have the other option which
[00:06:21] is sanctions and threats and pressure, but it has not worked
[00:06:25] in the past and it is not going to work in the future either because Tehran has
[00:06:29] made it stance very clear in the past several decades that
[00:06:33] Iran does not respond that um Iran does not respond to
[00:06:36] thread son
[00:06:40] as demands for sovereignty. and an end to the Saudi blockade.
[00:06:44] President of Yemen's Supreme Political Council Mahtial Mashat
[00:06:47] slammed Saudi Arabia's aggression and unjust
[00:06:50] blockade saying the situation has reached a stage that can no longer
[00:06:54] be tolerated. he noted that the Yemani army and people have taken
[00:06:58] action to end the blockade warning of further escalation if their
[00:07:02] demands were not addressed. he also renewed Yemen's support for
[00:07:06] Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. the official made the remarks on the
[00:07:09] 12th anniversary the Yemeny Ref'
[00:07:42] Hello, dear viewers and welcome back to the news review section, we will
[00:07:46] delve deeper into one the day's top stories, so stay with
[00:07:50] us. Now Iran's parliament speaker has
[00:07:54] warned that despite his apparent strength, the US is quite vulnerable
[00:07:58] economic terms as result of his aggression on Iran and the closure the
[00:08:02] straight of Urmus. Mohammed baqir Khalibaf made the remark in social
[00:08:05] media post. He used the famous internet meme based on
[00:08:09] the schrodinger paradox to show how... how vulnerable the
[00:08:13] US is to the situation in the straight of horms and the oil
[00:08:17] market crisis resulting from it. he said despite his apparent
[00:08:21] hegemony, the US weakness is now fully exposed and
[00:08:25] it is clear that it is impossible for Washington to
[00:08:29] suffocate Iran economically without any blowback.
[00:08:32] Khalib attached to his post recent report by the
[00:08:36] American multinational banking institution, JP Morgan. The
[00:08:40] banking giant said for the first time, the start the US-Israeli
[00:08:44] aggression, it does not have clear baseline view for oil
[00:08:48] markets. JP Morgan warned that global inventories of crude and
[00:08:51] refined products have fallen by about
[00:08:54] 555 million barrels. It caution that
[00:08:58] if west Asia oil supply disruptions persist, prices could move
[00:09:02] higher later this year as inventories decline
[00:09:05] further. And to talk
[00:09:09] more on this issue, we have Mr. Ferraz and Najim Humor. Right activist joining
[00:09:13] us from Toronto and we also have Mr. John Bosnis, journalist,
[00:09:17] activist and political analyst joining us all the way from
[00:09:20] Federicton again, Canada. Uh, gentlemen, thank you for
[00:09:24] being with us once again. Uh, let's begin
[00:09:27] with you Faras. Faraz, your thoughts on Iran, exposing the
[00:09:30] U.S.'s so-called might, but rather displaying
[00:09:34] Iran's strength during the two or three stages the
[00:09:38] war, uh, breaking a way, if you
[00:09:41] agree with
[00:09:42] with, uh, us as well, a way breaking the US,
[00:09:45] US, both militarily and also
[00:09:48] economically.
[00:09:52] Yes, it's very clear that the Islamic Republic of Iran and
[00:09:56] the armed forces truly have control the
[00:09:59] doorknob and also have their fingers on the
[00:10:03] trigger and also targeting the American bases all over the
[00:10:07] region, and the
[00:10:11] Islamic Republic. governan has made it very clear that they
[00:10:15] will not uh withdraw from this battle, that they will continue this
[00:10:19] battle, and they will secure their resources, they will secure
[00:10:23] their nation and they will secure. the region as
[00:10:26] well because the the access of resistance obviously relies on the
[00:10:30] Islamic Republic of Iran because Islamic Republic of Iran has contributed lot and continues
[00:10:34] to contribute a lot to the Palestinian cause and the whole access of
[00:10:38] resistance um and it's very clear that what Trump says
[00:10:41] and his declarations are have no credibility and he has lost
[00:10:45] his credibility in the world uh because of
[00:10:48] his arrogance and his uh tyrannical
[00:10:52] behavior uh in the region especially West Asia.
[00:10:55] and it's also sacrificing you know
[00:10:58] the neighboring countries to the Islamic Republic of Iran that
[00:11:02] are most like most most them are obviously puppet regimes but
[00:11:05] still he's also using their land as a platform to attack and not
[00:11:09] respecting there is no even consultation there's no even
[00:11:12] consultation ruling those countries the ruling those
[00:11:16] countries the ruling um
[00:11:19] and
[00:11:21] the repercussions are coming down on all these on on all these countries.
[00:11:26] primarily it's
[00:11:27] you know obviously
[00:11:28] the Islamic Republic of Iran is very precise its attacks, they're attacking the US bases,
[00:11:32] intelligence centers, things like that, they're not killing any civilians
[00:11:36] in the neighboring countries, thankfully that's because
[00:11:40] their advancement and their
[00:11:43] technology and their weapons and their intelligence, and this shows
[00:11:47] the they have very strong foothold on the region actually and
[00:11:51] not to control the region obviously not to colonize the region.
[00:11:55] and that is not
[00:11:56] you know the Iranian government's plan or history,
[00:12:00] especially during the revolution the Islamic Republican, they've
[00:12:04] always reached their hands out to help
[00:12:08] the neighboring countries and always wanted to build good relations with the
[00:12:11] neighbors, this was always what we heard from the
[00:12:15] government officials and the IRGC commanders and so
[00:12:18] on, that we are not here to control the region, we're not here to
[00:12:22] dominate the region, we're not here to dictate the region, but "we will also not
[00:12:26] accept that your land is going to be used to attack our land, and this
[00:12:29] is very logical, I think, you know, that
[00:12:33] this is what would happen,
[00:12:35] you know, if neighboring countries is island is being used to launch
[00:12:39] missiles and kill innocent children in minab school
[00:12:42] or you know police stations or whatever it is in Iran, obviously they
[00:12:46] have a right to respond and try to destroy those
[00:12:49] areas where they launch those missiles or the fighter
[00:12:53] jets that fly or the drone. or whatever
[00:12:55] that they're using the Americans in the region and then
[00:12:59] door is in their hands and that is hormos, the Americans
[00:13:03] claim that they have control of it or they have obliterated and destroyed
[00:13:07] the Iranian navy and you know it's it's the total
[00:13:11] opposite because we can see now the oil prices and the gas prices
[00:13:15] here in Canada even affected a heavy level
[00:13:18] everywhere we go every dealings that we have uh with people
[00:13:22] here we see people complain. about the gas prices that
[00:13:26] are driving up and they all blame Trump, we're talking about everybody in
[00:13:30] general here, they know that Trump is behind this and his
[00:13:34] administration and design entity for the ones that have extended
[00:13:38] their research, but the ones that know the basic research and they know that Trump
[00:13:41] is behind the war, the
[00:13:45] west Asian region in the middle east, and this is spiking up the
[00:13:49] prices of oil and gas and so
[00:13:52] on, and now we're having lots of... also
[00:13:56] problems with shipments and that is also affecting us with
[00:13:59] inflations and almost everything that we purchase over here, that's right
[00:14:03] for us, some great points there as well, mr. b sorry for the
[00:14:06] weight, mr bozanish as faras says uh, he talked about the
[00:14:10] us bases, Iran had warned the the
[00:14:14] countries, not just the regional countries, the literal states, said if
[00:14:17] anyone's complicit, you're a target, it
[00:14:21] doesn't matter who it is, that was number one one point and also Mr.
[00:14:25] wasn't we news about uh the the prices in the US, it's not
[00:14:29] just gas, petrol or diesel uh food, other
[00:14:32] commodities, so I want to tell us your first hand
[00:14:35] experience on how it's affecting the ordinary US
[00:14:39] citizens who never wanted any war, and that's why
[00:14:43] some them even uh voted for Trump, because
[00:14:47] Trump said he's going to stop all the wars, he's going to stop uh the the
[00:14:50] Ukraine you uh Russia war with just a phone call within
[00:14:54] 24. hours and that was one the reasons they they voted for
[00:14:58] him now they are paying the
[00:15:00] price. you
[00:15:03] accurately for Donald Trump among my
[00:15:07] American friends nationally, because I
[00:15:10] nationally, because I believe this man when he said that there
[00:15:14] would be no more wars, my primary interest.
[00:15:18] I lived through the 78 days of US
[00:15:21] bombing of Belgrade and the rest of Serbia. I...
[00:15:25] had 16 of my colleges that radio television Serbia
[00:15:28] murdered by the United States when they bombed the
[00:15:32] main broadcast studio the country, there was a
[00:15:36] hope, not just... fine, it was many, many people who were
[00:15:39] conservatives and republicans in the United States and conservatives like
[00:15:43] myself here in Canada, who supported Trump and thought he was
[00:15:47] going to do what he said he would do, but we did not
[00:15:50] know that Donald Trump had already sold
[00:15:54] his soul to Israel. We did not know that
[00:15:58] Donald Trump had taken a quarter of billion dollars
[00:16:02] from these dionist owners the casinos in Las
[00:16:05] Vegas. We did not know. that Donald Trump had
[00:16:09] basically sold his daughter, his own daughter to
[00:16:13] the Israel lobby, and now we see a
[00:16:16] situation in which the man who presented himself to us as
[00:16:20] something different has been exposed, and in effect the
[00:16:24] emperor has no close, the world knows what
[00:16:28] is going on, and message that Iran has
[00:16:31] sent with this precision
[00:16:34] targeting of US bases in the region with...
[00:16:37] striking the assets the host countries has
[00:16:41] proven that Iran could have sunk the US
[00:16:45] aircraft carrier in the region and killed
[00:16:48] 500 US military servicemen,
[00:16:51] addition to sinking at least 40 their hundred
[00:16:55] million dollar airplanes that would have never ever
[00:16:58] seen the air, so Trump is a crisis, he
[00:17:02] is a political crisis, he is six weeks, six weeks
[00:17:06] away from being becoming a permanent permanent
[00:17:10] lamed president for the rest of his term, because if things
[00:17:13] go the way they are, he's going to lose the mid-terms, he
[00:17:17] will not have legislative majority, and so politically he's
[00:17:21] crushed, and the economic problems are now rising, as
[00:17:25] prices rise right up to election day, he couldn't
[00:17:29] have made a worse trap for
[00:17:31] himself. that's right, Mr. Boson, Mr. Bosen, you kind
[00:17:35] of not answered my question. you hinted on it, I will come back to you
[00:17:39] because I want to ask that question, see uh, what happens if uh Iran
[00:17:43] does that uh, firas, uh, what could we expect in the
[00:17:47] coming days, uh, Trump is still threatening
[00:17:50] Iran, not Iran, yeah, Iran, not the
[00:17:53] Islamic Republic, he uses Iran, so he doesn't have a problem with just
[00:17:57] the Islamic Republic establishment, with Iran, with the whole country and his
[00:18:01] people, which we believe is like that, so I want your
[00:18:04] opinion, Yemen is taking gains on the other side. Saudi Arabia stuck with
[00:18:08] no friends to help him uh for help them NBS the US
[00:18:12] has turned this back on them uh we had the mecca pact we have Pakistan
[00:18:16] and Turkey they turn their back this it's just the
[00:18:20] packed a piece of paper so what is happening for us in your
[00:18:23] opinion I think that uh the
[00:18:27] Americans are trying uh what what
[00:18:31] they can to try to uh regain
[00:18:35] control kind of uh up their mess that they
[00:18:38] caused, but it's not working out for them, we can see the Yemen advancements
[00:18:42] and how Yemen is controlling very important key
[00:18:45] areas that
[00:18:47] you know that are just on the shoreline
[00:18:50] of Babel and that they're
[00:18:54] also paralyzing their mercenaries on the
[00:18:57] ground, their mercenaries on the ground in
[00:19:00] Yemen as well, the Islamic Republic of Iran has
[00:19:03] hormos under their control and they have choked that area and...
[00:19:07] "you economically this is very very bad for the whole world
[00:19:11] actually
[00:19:12] and you know it's obviously because the
[00:19:16] wrong decisions by the American administration being
[00:19:20] pushed and most likely pressured and and and and
[00:19:23] choked by the zionist
[00:19:26] you know entity and by the zionist lobbies in the
[00:19:28] US
[00:19:31] a it's it's kind of a collaboration of few things that's going together but i
[00:19:35] think that the the access of resistance" is growing out to be very
[00:19:38] strong, I'll have to disagree with the other side, the brother that was talking
[00:19:42] there, um, was saying that, he he
[00:19:46] was surprised that Trump did all these different things or he
[00:19:50] changed course or, he was deceived by him, I think that we seen that in
[00:19:54] his first term that he was a war mungering
[00:19:58] tyranical person, especially when he killed Qasim
[00:20:02] Sulaymani, the IRGC Quds force commander
[00:20:05] and general, and when he killed...
[00:20:10] this was one the books and also when
[00:20:14] he called for the
[00:20:17] handing over of Jerusalem as the capital the ziist
[00:20:20] entity, many things
[00:20:23] you know that he did show that this person does not
[00:20:27] care about peace, does not care about
[00:20:30] stabilizing the region or you know kind
[00:20:33] of making the world more more stable and
[00:20:37] It was the total opposite, we we we knew we knew that this is what
[00:20:41] Trump is all about, and nobody can get deceived by the
[00:20:45] Ukraine war saying that he's going to stop this war or he's going to
[00:20:49] solve the Gaza. issue or he's going to bring a two-state
[00:20:53] solution, this is all lies and deception, we can see that
[00:20:56] he he he also claims that the golden heights is part the
[00:21:00] Israeli state, and he's he's letting Netanyahu and his and
[00:21:04] his terrorist you know extremist cabinet uh kind
[00:21:08] of uh call call call out what they want and control what they
[00:21:11] want and and to make any type of
[00:21:14] you know statements that they want without any reprecutions, without any
[00:21:17] condemminations, nothing like that, so for us to sorry for us to cut
[00:21:21] you short because you only got one minute left, i want to get my last question to
[00:21:25] mr. b sorry for that for us, mr. b
[00:21:28] in one minute if you can,
[00:21:29] i know sometimes not easy, you talked about the us warship, what
[00:21:33] if Iran, because Iran warn that it could very well do this, what
[00:21:37] if it sinks the warship, what happens then, if the us
[00:21:41] loses, if the us loses major ship than their
[00:21:45] entire entire power projection as
[00:21:48] empire is... over and
[00:21:52] uh, you know, their only hope is to get Muslim fighting
[00:21:55] Muslim, just as they have done in Ukraine, getting slav, fighting
[00:21:59] sl. If you resist this, if you do not call for
[00:22:03] their crap, you manage to focus your energies only on
[00:22:07] America, you have every chance and every likelihood of
[00:22:11] winning this money. Thank you, gentlemen, thank you, Mr.
[00:22:14] Boznic, there you have, Mr. Boz, journalist, activist and political analyst joining
[00:22:18] us from Federicton and also for. and Najim Human Rights Activist from
[00:22:21] Toronto, both from Canada. Gentlemen, as always, thank you for your time,
[00:22:25] analysis and your commentary. And also, dear viewers, stay with
[00:22:29] us, more headlines coming
[00:22:30] up.
[00:23:03] Welcome back, the death toll from Ukraine's attack on Russia's main oil
[00:23:07] refinery and residential building in Moscow in the Moscow region
[00:23:11] has risen to three. The strikes also left nearly 20 people
[00:23:14] injured. Ukraine used hundreds of drones in the attack. President
[00:23:18] Vladimir Zelinski says. the strike targeted key Russian oil
[00:23:21] facility and logistic site, the site supplies more than a
[00:23:25] third of Moscow region's fuel. Russian officials have described the
[00:23:29] attack as the largest drone strike in recent years. Both
[00:23:33] Russia and Ukraine have escalated long-range strikes against each
[00:23:36] other in recent
[00:23:38] months. Activist and
[00:23:41] commentator Don Dabar was with us earlier with his take on the latest
[00:23:45] spike intentions between Russia and Ukraine. Let's take a
[00:23:48] listen.
[00:23:52] Desperation is uh, it seems that's what's going
[00:23:55] on in Kieve. Um,
[00:23:59] the, around Zelensky, there have been all kinds of
[00:24:02] abdications, abandonments, people running out, selling their
[00:24:06] story about how crazy and chaotic it is, and that
[00:24:10] he doesn't even speak Ukrainian uh, very
[00:24:13] well, um, and in the capitals in Europe
[00:24:17] though, in Bon, sorry, in Berlin, and... uh
[00:24:20] and London and Paris in particular uh, they're
[00:24:24] ramping up everything that they can dump into you thing
[00:24:28] that they can dump into Ukraine that can be fired into
[00:24:31] Russia, while Russia says, look, we're going to put
[00:24:35] a the report of whether it was true or not a
[00:24:38] warning certainly was sold as one where
[00:24:42] uh the rail lines, one the rail lines uh
[00:24:46] running between uh Poland and Ukraine that has been used. was
[00:24:50] supplying the Ukrainian troops uh was bombed and they
[00:24:53] took out the uh the trains that run on it too, they're trying to
[00:24:57] get the Germans to sell them trains, but they won't fit the
[00:25:01] gauge of track that's uh goes into Ukraine um and
[00:25:05] supposedly this hit was right after uh Boris
[00:25:09] Johnson and a couple of other knuckle heads from uh from western
[00:25:13] Europe had uh visited Ukraine and left
[00:25:16] um the fact that the
[00:25:20] British and the Germans and the French
[00:25:24] are conducting
[00:25:26] on the open now, a war against Russia, means that there is a
[00:25:30] war between uh Western Europe and
[00:25:32] Russia, they have those with the
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[00:27:38] 20 days, that was all the time Mohammad Ali Khalaha had
[00:27:42] in this world. He was born in Gazby in Iran a time when the
[00:27:46] country was already at war, but war was never supposed to define his
[00:27:49] life. He was supposed to grow up, sleep safely in his mother's
[00:27:53] arms. Here his seven-year-old brother laugh and slowly discover the
[00:27:57] world around him. Instead, his life lasted just
[00:28:01] 20 days during. a US Israeli air strike on
[00:28:04] Tehran, residential building in the Majidi area was
[00:28:07] strike. Muhammad Ali, his mother, his seven-year-old brother and
[00:28:11] several other family members were killed while visiting relatives at
[00:28:15] their home. The explosion was so powerful that the baby's
[00:28:18] body was thrown out the house. He was only 20
[00:28:22] days old. He was not a soldier, he was not a
[00:28:26] politician, he carried no weapon and had no role in the conflict. He
[00:28:30] was simply baby. Wars are off. can describe through statistics
[00:28:34] how many missiles were fired, how many buildings were destroyed, how many
[00:28:38] people were killed, because the true cost of war is not
[00:28:41] measured only by numbers, sometimes by
[00:28:44] it is measured silent cradle, by tiny piece
[00:28:48] of clothing that will never be worn by room where a
[00:28:52] baby's cries will never, that is why the story of Muhammad, that
[00:28:56] is why the story of Muhammad Ali is more than the story of one
[00:29:00] victim, it forces simple... question: when war
[00:29:04] reaches baby's room, what happens to our ideas of
[00:29:07] security, humanity and the value of human life? for many
[00:29:11] Iranians, muhammad ali's name carries even deeper
[00:29:14] meaning. in shia muslim tradition, the name aliaskar
[00:29:18] recalls the youngest son of imam hussein a baby who became
[00:29:22] one the most powerful symbols of innocence and suffering during
[00:29:26] the tragedy of karbala, centuries separate aliaskar from
[00:29:29] mohammad ali, different wars, different times in
[00:29:33] different places, but the image is painfully familiar.
[00:29:37] A defenceless child caught in violence, he did not choose
[00:29:41] and could never understand. For many Iranians, Muhammad Ali became
[00:29:45] modern reminder of that same innocence, a child who had not
[00:29:49] even had the chance to discover what life was before war took
[00:29:53] it away. He was born into war and he died in it. His entire
[00:29:57] life lasted 20 days. That is why his name should never
[00:30:00] disappear into a list of. casualties, for his memory to
[00:30:04] survive, his story must be told for years to come. 20
[00:30:08] days of life, lifetime of
[00:30:10] remembrance.
[00:30:25] one flag, one message, for more than 200 nights,
[00:30:29] Iranians have taken to the streets raising the national flag and
[00:30:33] expressing their support for the Islamic
[00:30:34] Republic.
[00:30:41] What has kept them coming out night after night?