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[00:00:00] in zanjan for her master's degree and eventually became a PhD student
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[00:00:35] path took a different direction. She had once considered leaving Iran including
[00:00:39] moving to Norway, but she chose to stay and devote her scientific
[00:00:43] abilities to research projects in her own country. She worked
[00:00:47] on projects related to missile technology, including heat resistance
[00:00:51] and radar absorbing materials and coding. She was only
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[00:00:55] of old. In March 2026, during Israeli and American attacks on Tehran.
[00:01:00] Massa was killed at her home, her injuries were so severe that her family could
[00:01:04] identify her body only through DNA testing 10 days after her
[00:01:07] death. Her body was taken back to Iraq and buried in the city
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[00:01:15] she had chosen herself. At first glance, Masso Tohiri may have seemed
[00:01:19] simply like a brilliant young scientist, but to her family she was
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[00:01:23] a sister who loved her dolls, shared jokes with her brother, once
[00:01:27] dreamed of living abroad and had life that... What remains of
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[00:01:39] a reminder of young woman who wanted to use science to help advance her
[00:01:43] country. Her name was Mahsa. She was young, she was
[00:01:46] scientist, and yet when she was killed, her death was ignored in the
[00:01:50] international media, no headlines, no newspaper profiles,
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[00:02:32] Hello and welcome to
[00:02:33] of spotlight, I am bah. Israel is facing pressure
[00:02:39] of at the UN with its of international standing becoming a central issue in this year's general assembly during
[00:02:43] Israely prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu's address
[00:02:46] delegations from dozens of
[00:02:48] of countries were absent or walked out. The Israely officials counted
[00:02:51] 77 delegations. At the same
[00:02:54] of time of criticism over the war in Gaza, developments
[00:02:57] of in the occupied West bank and also Israeli aggression. around the
[00:03:01] region in the west Asia region in particular
[00:03:03] of has also raised lot of concern on international stage
[00:03:07] and let us not forget that the international criminal court of
[00:03:10] justice also um issued a
[00:03:14] verdict and the arrest in Netanyahu and
[00:03:17] his Netanyahu and his former war minister
[00:03:21] Yav Galant for the involvement in crimes against
[00:03:24] humanity and war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank so these are
[00:03:28] all the developments that we going
[00:03:30] to discuss um tonight and on this spotlight to see
[00:03:34] how does the international community is going to react to all of
[00:03:38] this and to the further isolation
[00:03:40] of the Israeli regime and the Israeli prime minister in particular
[00:03:44] allow me to introduce my
[00:03:46] guests
[00:03:51] in
[00:03:55] professor professor of political science joining us
[00:03:58] from university. and also chairman
[00:04:02] of the islamic human rights commission joining us from
[00:04:06] London. Well, very good to have you on
[00:04:10] of this uh bulletin. I'm going to first discuss the first question that
[00:04:14] both of you are here. I was worried, maybe one of you were missing out. It
[00:04:17] was a pleasure to have you both on this
[00:04:20] spotlight. Um, Professor Nimmer, I'm going to start with the
[00:04:24] scene at the United Nations itself. Dozens of delegations, the
[00:04:28] Israelis themselves counted seven. 27 delegations walked out
[00:04:32] over absent for Prime Minister Benyamin Nahu's address. What does
[00:04:36] this unprecedentedly visible diplomatic protest? Tell
[00:04:39] us about the atmosphere surrounding Israel and the
[00:04:42] UN. Good evening to you, to your guest from
[00:04:46] London and to all your viewers. Well, this is not
[00:04:50] the first time, but this time I think it was even bigger.
[00:04:54] We are talking about
[00:04:55] of more than 77 nations and
[00:04:58] a delegations left the the. hall in
[00:05:01] in in the United Nations
[00:05:03] in a kind of
[00:05:04] you know protest against whatever Netanyahu is going to
[00:05:07] say, that showed that there
[00:05:11] is kind of... around the world generally, they
[00:05:14] are started to understand that Israel is not
[00:05:18] only dangerous in in the region
[00:05:22] against the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, but also against
[00:05:26] Lebanon, against Syria, against Qatar, against
[00:05:30] even Tunisia at some stage, and also against
[00:05:33] Iran, so the one who is in the
[00:05:36] area pretending and always using
[00:05:40] as Netanyahu speech, and
[00:05:43] statements clear that that they are defending
[00:05:47] themselves, this is not defending, this is atrocities against all
[00:05:51] the region to
[00:05:53] you know put forward their own agenda in the region to
[00:05:57] control the region, so everyone now started to understand
[00:06:01] that that this entity called Israel is absolutely
[00:06:05] out of all kind of laws and out
[00:06:08] the regulations by the United Nations and by
[00:06:12] the whole international community, the the thing
[00:06:16] that also some European countries also did
[00:06:19] that, not only African and Asian
[00:06:23] countries and South American, but also some European
[00:06:27] countries did that as well, so that showed
[00:06:30] that Netanyahu's policies and Israel policy and
[00:06:34] Israel existence in the region anyway,
[00:06:38] now is under a big question mark, and that came because also the
[00:06:42] people in all these countries were in in huge
[00:06:45] demonstrations against Israel and what happened
[00:06:48] in the the last three years
[00:06:52] and especially during the genocide in Gaza,
[00:06:55] so now these leaders of these
[00:06:59] countries, they have both the
[00:07:02] legal background as well as
[00:07:05] the ethical background, the legal background
[00:07:08] is quite obvious by the ICJ uh
[00:07:12] decision about
[00:07:13] you know the genocide and the ICC
[00:07:17] regarding
[00:07:18] you know the orders of of
[00:07:21] arresting Netanyahu and Gallant, that's
[00:07:25] quite obvious now in the legal side that they are covered in the
[00:07:29] legal side, it's it's the international community who's saying
[00:07:33] that the international law and and ethically when
[00:07:36] their people outside in the streets
[00:07:40] marching against Israel and it's policies that give them
[00:07:44] also this ethical background to also take action
[00:07:48] against Israel, right? Mr. Shajar, of course, what we
[00:07:51] witnessed at the UN general assembly did not
[00:07:55] happen in isolation. In recent days a number of different
[00:07:59] governments from different continents the world used the UN platform
[00:08:03] to criticize Israeli actions in Gaza and the occupied West
[00:08:07] Bank. The Gaza War has particularly become one the defining issues of
[00:08:10] Israel's relationship. the international community
[00:08:14] today, how has the scale the humanitarian crisis and
[00:08:17] destruction in Gaza affected Israel's diplomatic
[00:08:21] relationships, including with countries that have traditionally maintained really
[00:08:25] close ties with it? well,
[00:08:29] i think from one aspect, it is good to
[00:08:33] see that many people, many
[00:08:36] governments are walking
[00:08:39] out in sort of. the
[00:08:42] UN when he starts speaking, but another
[00:08:46] level I actually think is really
[00:08:50] disgraceful that he's even allowed
[00:08:53] to come and promote
[00:08:57] his war crime, I mean this is a self-confess
[00:09:01] war criminal, he is proud of committing war
[00:09:05] crime and ethnic cleansing, and
[00:09:08] indeed everyone every nation should have walked up
[00:09:13] "he shouldn't have been even allowed to come to
[00:09:16] United Nation and behave and
[00:09:20] even be able to sort
[00:09:23] of do his propaganda at the way he
[00:09:27] tried to do. I mean, let's face it, what is
[00:09:31] at the state is not just issue of Palestinians and
[00:09:35] Gaza, and is not just Lebanon or
[00:09:38] Iran, this guy and those who supports him,
[00:09:42] include..." United States and Trump are
[00:09:45] really trying to drag humanity into a very
[00:09:49] dark places, normalized genocide as means
[00:09:53] of sort of diplomatic
[00:09:57] maneuvering, and really what is at the sake
[00:10:00] is the future of humanity, and in that sort of
[00:10:04] context, I i think one should really
[00:10:08] say that United Nation and is member.
[00:10:13] are really behind when it comes to standing
[00:10:17] up against this sort of behavior and
[00:10:20] genocidal tendencies of
[00:10:24] Israel and united states and and
[00:10:28] ordinary people around the world are much
[00:10:31] more aware and committed
[00:10:34] against or even western
[00:10:38] Europe, I mean overwhelming majority of people around the
[00:10:41] world, including united state, including
[00:10:44] the sort of republican are
[00:10:48] against this war, they're against war against Iran
[00:10:52] and they see it for what it is, and i
[00:10:55] i think the international community including UN
[00:10:59] and international courts are really failing
[00:11:02] humanity. right, professor, focusing on prime
[00:11:06] minister Netanyahu himself,
[00:11:08] you know, there was, this seemed to be this change of attitude,
[00:11:12] personally speaking about Prime Minister Netanhu, um,
[00:11:16] comparing to for example, the way he addressed the international
[00:11:20] community, like in 1998 for example, where he was openly
[00:11:24] saying that ' "the are going to always prioritize
[00:11:28] peace and that sort of stuff, but this year he had
[00:11:31] chosen to be aggressive, even when it came to the delegations, he
[00:11:35] started by, if there are more cowards among
[00:11:38] you who would like to leave, please do it now, it was something
[00:11:42] totally unprecedented, even for an Israeli prime minister, how do you
[00:11:46] analyze that? well, yes, I
[00:11:49] think that the the statement came out of Netanyahu in the
[00:11:53] United Nations was..." so arrogant and so rude as
[00:11:57] well, you know, first of all he insulted all these
[00:12:01] delegations, he's talking about 77 countries around the
[00:12:05] world who left the the the hall and
[00:12:09] and yet
[00:12:10] he is calling them cowards,
[00:12:12] you know, this is really insult to all these countries showing
[00:12:16] this arrogance that they have, this is on one hand, on the
[00:12:20] other hand, all the speech that he talked about, he was trying to
[00:12:23] defend ' his army and his country in whatever
[00:12:27] they are doing and especially in Gaza and especially with the genocide
[00:12:31] war and he tried to deny that there was a
[00:12:35] genocide, forgetting that he was he is wanted by the
[00:12:39] ICC and at the same time he tried to
[00:12:42] justify that this is you know kind
[00:12:46] of self-defense for
[00:12:49] Israel in order
[00:12:51] you know to attack all these countries around the middle east.
[00:12:55] so
[00:12:55] it it is kind of
[00:12:56] you know very poor and very full of
[00:13:00] lies kind of speech, no one is going to buy it
[00:13:04] at all, or even give it any any
[00:13:08] weight, but at the same time it showed to what extent the
[00:13:11] errogance of Israel and how they are you know
[00:13:15] insisting on what they are doing is right and it's their
[00:13:19] right to do it and that will justify their attacks on
[00:13:22] Lebanon, on Syria, on Qatar, Tunisia and on
[00:13:26] Iran as well, so he's like speaking from
[00:13:30] this point of view that we have the right,
[00:13:33] that's basically, because we are much better than
[00:13:37] you,
[00:13:38] and we are much better than you, and we have to control all this
[00:13:41] region, he's forgetting that Israel since it was
[00:13:45] established 1948, till today there isn't
[00:13:49] one single decade, there wasn't a war major war
[00:13:53] in the region, so they were created. to do that, they were there
[00:13:56] in order to make instability to the whole middle
[00:14:00] east. right, um, Mr. Shajar, we are also
[00:14:04] seeing developments beyond the UN itself, um,
[00:14:08] several countries have changed or strengthened the diplomatic
[00:14:11] positions regarding Palestinian statehood, how important
[00:14:15] is the growing recognition of Palestine in understanding
[00:14:19] Israel's changing position in international
[00:14:22] politics. I
[00:14:25] think I think what we are seeing indeed
[00:14:29] there is huge change in the international
[00:14:32] relations and the position the
[00:14:36] people who see the truth and have been woken
[00:14:40] up and that has created a amazing
[00:14:43] opportunity, I mean you only have to go among
[00:14:47] mass only have to go among masses even in
[00:14:51] London and the streets of Europe and to real
[00:14:55] is that there is
[00:14:57] a understanding which was not there two three
[00:15:01] years ago and people have realized
[00:15:05] that we are at
[00:15:06] the crossroad is not just issue of
[00:15:09] gaza and is not just issue
[00:15:13] of western asia, it really is
[00:15:17] the humanity at the stake and people are making a stand
[00:15:21] and so what we've got at the moment is crossroad for...
[00:15:25] humanity on one side, the direction of genocide and
[00:15:28] genocidal policy and normalization
[00:15:32] promoted by Netanyahu, Trump
[00:15:35] and his clonies. and and supporters and
[00:15:39] then on other side those who are saying that this has to
[00:15:43] stop and they are very clearly
[00:15:47] day by day coming to the realization that
[00:15:51] the only option is resistance and supporting
[00:15:55] the resistance and is
[00:15:58] commitment to resist against this
[00:16:01] policy and then we have people who really
[00:16:05] just want to get on with their lives. in the middle who really
[00:16:09] don't care one way or other, but what we are seeing, the number
[00:16:13] of those who are recognizing the
[00:16:16] danger that is facing humanity and are
[00:16:20] willing to make a stand, be it in the west or
[00:16:24] the east or Africa or anywhere else in the
[00:16:27] world is increasing day by day, and they are
[00:16:31] willing to make a commitment and to make a commitment
[00:16:35] and they are also willing to... pay the against these
[00:16:39] genocidal tendencies of Netanyahu
[00:16:43] and co, and so that's why that's the real game,
[00:16:47] what we are seeing that awakening among people and
[00:16:51] then being the politicians are being forced
[00:16:55] to change their position, and I think this is the
[00:16:58] reality that we are facing day by
[00:17:02] day, and the days of Netanyahu and
[00:17:05] Trump and is cloning. and their
[00:17:08] elites are outnumbered and there is
[00:17:12] huge awakening and this awakening
[00:17:15] is thank god is is is
[00:17:19] getting stronger day by day and hour by
[00:17:23] hour right professor num well at the same
[00:17:26] time let us not forget that Israel continues to have powerful
[00:17:29] diplomatic partners most them Israel is facing
[00:17:32] today
[00:17:37] activate your voice, professor, sorry, I think that the
[00:17:41] United States is facing really a hard time now
[00:17:45] after supporting this genocidal war and
[00:17:48] supporting Israel in general, providing them not only with weapon and
[00:17:52] money and also protect them diplomatically in
[00:17:56] the United Nations, so the changes are
[00:18:00] coming, that's absolutely sure about it, but
[00:18:04] maybe that will take some some time, till now... "there
[00:18:07] is very profound and strategic relationship
[00:18:11] between Israel and the Americans in the part on the
[00:18:15] the interest, the interest the United States, the deep state in the
[00:18:19] United States is interested in supporting Israel because that will
[00:18:23] provide them with kind of
[00:18:25] you know control over the region, which is one the most
[00:18:28] important regions around the world, especially because
[00:18:32] the oil, so definitely there will
[00:18:35] continue, but we can..." see now the changes
[00:18:39] in the American society itself, not only by the
[00:18:43] demonstrations, but also all the poles showed that more than
[00:18:46] 60% in the American people in general changed
[00:18:50] their mind about what's going on in in the middle east and
[00:18:54] about Israel and they don't want to support Israel
[00:18:57] anymore, on the other hand also it's
[00:19:01] among the Jewish young
[00:19:04] generation who are more than 50%. them
[00:19:08] now is against Israel and what Israel is doing and this
[00:19:11] is very important because these are the generation which is going to
[00:19:15] be next in in in in America in the
[00:19:19] political positions and political pressure,
[00:19:22] so till now we can see these changes, but these
[00:19:25] changes are not going to show directly a
[00:19:29] very
[00:19:30] you know short time, it it needs some middle and and
[00:19:34] long term you know period. Mr.
[00:19:38] Shajar, what about Israel's traditional relationships with
[00:19:41] Europe, countries such as France, Britain and others that have
[00:19:45] increasingly voice criticism when it comes to Gaza and the West
[00:19:49] Bank, of course, not Iran, for example, but I'll be
[00:19:52] witnessing a lasting change in Europe's approach to
[00:19:56] Israel as well, we are seeing a
[00:20:00] tremendous change, I mean Macron's speech
[00:20:04] and Spain's.
[00:20:07] position and and other
[00:20:11] European nations are now having
[00:20:15] to sort of respond and behave
[00:20:18] differently because of what their own
[00:20:20] population is demanding and
[00:20:24] this is also the same situation in united
[00:20:28] state, ordinary people are demanding, if it
[00:20:31] wasn't because the
[00:20:34] genocidal behavior of... and the
[00:20:38] support of Trump and
[00:20:42] and his administration, Trump would have
[00:20:45] been much more popular, there wouldn't have been these
[00:20:48] crisis right? not in united state, so
[00:20:52] these the politicians to to behave
[00:20:55] a different way, one could argue that this is too
[00:20:59] little, too late, but nevertheless this
[00:21:03] direction is becoming much
[00:21:06] more stronger and in very much more
[00:21:10] effective, and one has to say
[00:21:14] that the days of Netanyahu and Trump are
[00:21:18] indeed ' long gone and there
[00:21:21] are real crisis
[00:21:24] vis of popularity, and professor
[00:21:28] Nimmer, finally, looking ahead, what would actually
[00:21:31] demonstrate whether this diplomatic pressure is producing
[00:21:34] any substantial fundamental change, should we
[00:21:38] be looking at further recognition of Palestine, changes in
[00:21:42] arms or diplomatic policies, stronger international
[00:21:46] legal action, UN measures or something else as the key indicat.
[00:21:50] of where Israel's international position is
[00:21:53] heading? yes, let me remind you
[00:21:57] that when the boycott of South Africa started, it
[00:22:01] started on the grassroot level, and people who started that,
[00:22:05] and then that growed grows more and
[00:22:08] more and then affecting the governments and then governments took
[00:22:12] decisions against South Africa, so the same thing we
[00:22:16] are now watching, the people around the world are you. rising
[00:22:20] Israel and they are forming
[00:22:22] you know lots of action around that what we need, not
[00:22:26] only that people going out in demonstrations, but we want to see some
[00:22:29] action being taken like pressure groups or
[00:22:33] boycot and other things which will affect Israel
[00:22:37] particularly and also
[00:22:40] pressurize their governments to take action. some the
[00:22:44] governments till now what they are doing is just minor
[00:22:48] things which just to... to come down their own audience, their
[00:22:52] own people, like you know, recognizing a Palestinian state,
[00:22:56] yes,
[00:22:56] it it's in the long run, this is good, but that didn't
[00:23:00] stop the genocide when it was going there,
[00:23:03] so what do you mean by recognizing the parestinian state, if you want to
[00:23:07] recognize a Palestinian state, you have to do something, or otherwise you are
[00:23:11] going to recognize a state without people, because the
[00:23:15] genocide and
[00:23:16] the ethnically cleansing of Palestine, so that's...
[00:23:20] That's the issue that to take action, yes, on the level the
[00:23:23] United Nations, we know that all these laws were which
[00:23:27] was set after the second world war, but what
[00:23:31] what was called the international community, what is the
[00:23:35] international community, we are talking about America and the western
[00:23:38] countries in Europe and their allies here and there, is
[00:23:42] that the the international community, however this
[00:23:46] international community laws which they've been put for.
[00:23:50] after the second world war had failed miserably in
[00:23:54] dealing with any issue, what can the United Nations do?
[00:23:58] you know, nothing, nothing, because there is veto by United
[00:24:01] States if there is any action will be taken, so we have to
[00:24:05] go to the general assembly under the seventh article
[00:24:09] to say that united for peace and to
[00:24:13] have a force decisions on on
[00:24:16] even the security council in order to... force
[00:24:20] Israel to stop what they are doing all the time and to take
[00:24:24] measures against Israel, professor, mr.
[00:24:28] masud chajer, it was indeed a pleasure to have you both on this
[00:24:31] spotlight, and that's about it for this evening's
[00:24:34] program, the truth will always come out, thank you for your attention, i
[00:24:38] am
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