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[00:00:00] and Oman, as the coastal states of the straight, have carried
[00:00:03] major share of this responsibility. While the
[00:00:07] global economy has benefited from this route, much of the burden has
[00:00:10] remained with the region: air and water pollution, the
[00:00:14] risk of fuel spills, possible collisions,
[00:00:18] search and rescue operations,
[00:00:21] wider security and environmental
[00:00:24] consequences. In this context, Iran's question
[00:00:27] becomes easier to understand, is it? reasonable for the world to
[00:00:31] benefit from vital straight without contributing to the cost of
[00:00:34] keeping it safe, and more importantly, is it fair for countries
[00:00:38] that depend on the security of this route to impose political
[00:00:41] pressure, economic sanctions and even war on
[00:00:45] Iran, while still expecting essential services in this
[00:00:48] corridor to continue free of charge. From Iran's
[00:00:51] perspective, the era of providing such services without
[00:00:55] compensation is over. This does not mean closing maritime
[00:00:58] roots or using the... straight of Hormus as a weapon, it
[00:01:02] means creating a transparent, legal and predictable mechanism
[00:01:05] for sharing the costs of the services that keep this route safe
[00:01:10] it is something greater than all of and usable, if Suez and Panama collect fees for their
[00:01:12] artificial waterways, and if some natural straights
[00:01:16] also have financial mechanisms for safety related
[00:01:19] services, then the straight of Hormus cannot be treated
[00:01:23] forever as a completely free root. The fact that Hormus is
[00:01:26] natural or international is not exempted from the costs of
[00:02:01] kilometers, all the way to the banks of already sent her to visit, her daughter Anyutka ran into the kitchen and asked, "Someone
[00:02:04] is angry, but I would, I think, fall in love with him,
[00:02:08] my dear, out of pure gratitude, if he proposed
[00:02:11] to me, but all this is nonsense, nonsense,
[00:02:14] nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, you want it not to be nonsense, Anastasia
[00:02:18] Petrovna, ask me nicely and cut off my finger,
[00:02:21] if today I don't stand his
[00:02:24] bride, of course they were very surprised, what happened to you,
[00:02:27] Dinara, that you've already put on a
[00:02:30] headscarf, that you'll go on stage in a hijab, because I was drawn here and
[00:02:33] there, I wanted to try one thing, another, cheerful
[00:02:37] companies, noisy leisure,
[00:02:40] night rehearsals, all of it really piled up,
[00:02:43] I was like a ball,
[00:02:47] a snowball, it rolled, rolled, all
[00:02:50] these events, happenings, everything stuck,
[00:02:53] stuck, I didn't know how to cleanse myself of this
[00:02:55] husk.
[00:03:09] If interesting people live in your city or village, or
[00:03:13] significant events occur, be sure to
[00:03:15] write to us, the correspondents of the "Muslims" program will go
[00:03:19] to any part of Russia. I wish you peace,
[00:03:23] mercy and blessings of Almighty Allah.
[00:03:26] Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
[00:03:31] Which bow will we choose?
[00:03:33] The white one? Yes, look, I also prepared
[00:03:37] a blue one yesterday,
[00:03:39] this one, you don't want this
[00:03:43] one? Look, it's also beautiful, we've never worn it.
[00:04:17] So we have 10 minutes until
[00:04:20] we leave.
[00:04:22] So we took an umbrella, I think you have an umbrella there, right? I don't know, let me
[00:04:26] take this one, and I think you have one in your briefcase too, I don't know.
[00:04:30] Let's look at the roads, there's no time
[00:04:32] anymore.
[00:04:34] That's
[00:04:38] it. Mom, we're
[00:04:39] leaving.
[00:04:46] Hello, Anatoly Vladimirovich, good
[00:04:48] morning.
[00:04:53] We combined them in this one, two in one,
[00:04:56] great. Well, all the best.
[00:05:00] Hold the umbrella for a bit, quiet, quiet, quiet,
[00:05:03] we'll make it, no, don't worry, everything's fine,
[00:05:06] 14 minutes, okay,
[00:05:08] we've left even later sometimes, let's go.
[00:05:18] I was born in Moscow in 1976,
[00:05:21] on June 4th. At that
[00:05:24] time, people rarely
[00:05:26] professed any religion,
[00:05:30] and it was 1976, yes, it was, in general, the era
[00:05:33] of communism at its peak,
[00:05:35] and,
[00:05:37] probably, few people thought about the soul.
[00:05:41] Open.
[00:06:44] we passed
[00:06:45] exams together,
[00:06:51] and as such, I didn't even understand this term
[00:06:54] religion. It's not for nothing that my
[00:06:57] sister, who was a future student of the philological
[00:07:01] faculty, came to the mosque to study
[00:07:04] Arabic. We didn't understand then
[00:07:07] why she was doing it, why she had to learn Arabic in a mosque.
[00:07:11] But she was evidently drawn, these spiritual roots, they made themselves known
[00:07:15] at that moment. I said, I'm going to, she started studying
[00:07:18] Arabic, gradually, gradually she started coming to
[00:07:22] Islam, she started reading the Quran, she started performing
[00:07:25] Salat, no, no, I she tried to
[00:07:28] bring the word of Allah to us too,
[00:07:32] but in my case, it was very bad,
[00:07:35] I resisted in every way,
[00:07:38] I absolutely did not want to spend my youth
[00:07:41] on some nonsense, as it seemed
[00:07:44] to me then. In
[00:07:48] general, one could say that my parents are also very
[00:07:51] sincere, kind people, they believed in their hearts, they also didn't
[00:07:55] understand why all this external symbolism, because my sister, after
[00:07:58] some time, put on a headscarf and started wearing
[00:08:02] a headscarf, yes. Let's call
[00:08:04] Niele.
[00:08:07] Niele, and we have
[00:08:10] from above, Sal, do you hear?
[00:08:13] This is Cyprus, mm-hmm, Cyprus, Cyprus, yes, we're sitting, looking at photos,
[00:08:16] dad is nostalgic about when he was in Bashkiria,
[00:08:20] well, arrange a Skype session for us sometime,
[00:08:23] we'd be very happy. She was probably
[00:08:27] the very first person who supported me when I
[00:08:30] entered a theater university after school. We read
[00:08:34] fables, prose, poetry, and
[00:08:37] I really liked how spirited,
[00:08:40] vibrant, and interesting she was. She sat next to me, I said, "You're
[00:08:44] so cool, you're so talented, so
[00:08:47] wonderful." I went to read.
[00:08:50] When I sat down, she said, "I liked you a lot too,
[00:08:54] she said, "You're also very cool, talented,"
[00:08:57] and we immediately felt that
[00:09:01] we had such a positive
[00:09:05] energy, that we were very similar, that
[00:09:08] we liked each other as people.
[00:09:13] that we enjoy communicating with each other, that is, I was constantly
[00:09:17] thrown from side to side, I
[00:09:19] thought, I thought that I could apply myself to journalism, to
[00:09:23] psychology, to acting,
[00:09:26] well, it turned out that acting
[00:09:29] became closer to me, and I entered
[00:09:32] GITIS. Since I came from St. Petersburg and
[00:09:36] had nowhere to live here, Dinara,
[00:09:40] in a completely amazing way...
[00:09:42] invited me to her home to stay,
[00:09:46] I lived with them for 2 weeks and it
[00:09:49] really is
[00:09:52] very warm memories I have
[00:09:55] of it, because this family accepted me as
[00:09:58] their own.
[00:10:01] After the fourth year of the institute,
[00:10:04] I was really torn by some doubts,
[00:10:08] searches, I, torn by contradictions,
[00:10:12] realized that I was lacking, and what I was lacking was precisely
[00:10:16] this basic
[00:10:19] platform. I, feeling the need for
[00:10:22] prayer, went to an Islamic
[00:10:25] camp. Do you have a program?
[00:10:28] when I, for
[00:10:32] another class, for the first class, came in a headscarf,
[00:10:36] my classmates, already seeing my sister in a
[00:10:40] headscarf, were, of course, very surprised, "What happened to you,
[00:10:43] Dinara, that you've already put on a headscarf? Will you go on stage
[00:10:47] in a hijab?"
[00:10:49] he spilled.
[00:10:54] He spilled,
[00:10:56] he spilled. I already thought that the end of the
[00:11:00] world was coming or something similar, I confess,
[00:11:03] I was scared. When I saw that Dinara had also
[00:11:07] changed like that,
[00:11:10] I asked, of course, I said, "What
[00:11:13] happened?" She says, "You know,
[00:11:16] perhaps I
[00:11:18] grew up,
[00:11:21] reevaluated many things, discovered something
[00:11:26] for myself... and I truly discovered
[00:11:29] Islam, and this didn't
[00:11:32] bother me, it didn't surprise me, because
[00:11:36] indeed every person
[00:11:39] dedicates themselves to faith as much as they need to.
[00:12:00] will sit down a bit.
[00:12:29] And somehow I managed to exist in
[00:12:32] this, I tried to pray, to fast,
[00:12:35] gradually, gradually I did everything, it was very difficult for me, but
[00:12:39] I tried to preserve these
[00:12:41] teachings that I received in the Islamic camp.
[00:13:07] They were looking for my sister, they asked me where she was now,
[00:13:11] they were very upset that she wasn't there, and somehow a
[00:13:14] conversation started, gradually I told them that I had just graduated
[00:13:17] from GITIS, I am an actress. The young man on the
[00:13:21] other end of the line was very interested in this and said, "Oh, what then?"
[00:13:24] "We're looking, you come," I say, "Wait, wait, wait, what's
[00:13:28] it about?" "We're looking for a correspondent for a new
[00:13:32] program that is opening on the satellite TV channel AST
[00:13:34] Prometheus." I say, "But I'm not a
[00:13:38] journalist, I'm an actress." "It's nothing, it's nothing. Come and see, maybe it will work out for you."
[00:14:03] Hello. Hello,
[00:14:06] thank you.
[00:14:16] Good to see you,
[00:14:17] beautiful.
[00:14:20] Dina is the closest person to me, a close
[00:14:24] friend.
[00:14:29] Yes, it's ready. So I filmed the first shoot. I
[00:14:33] came in a short costume, took some kind of headscarf, definitely. I
[00:14:37] sat at the table with my co-host Damir
[00:14:40] Vagapov. On top of me was a hijab, tied very
[00:14:43] correctly. I already knew how to tie a hijab at that point, but
[00:14:47] my knees were sticking out from under the table. I realized that the viewers saw me in
[00:14:50] a hijab, but I was actually not in a hijab
[00:14:54] at that moment. Perhaps that was a turning point for
[00:14:58] me. I realized that I couldn't deceive the
[00:15:00] viewers. Yes, I am a practicing
[00:15:04] Muslim woman, I pray, and I
[00:15:07] fast, I strive, as much as possible,
[00:15:11] to observe all the precepts of religion.
[00:15:14] But I am not dressed according to Sharia.
[00:15:17] This was really difficult for me. The second
[00:15:21] recording, already coming in a hijab,
[00:15:25] and after the second recording, I left
[00:15:28] in a hijab and never took off my long
[00:15:32] clothes again.
[00:15:48] Well, tell me, it turned out beautifully, this color suits
[00:15:51] you very well, and most importantly, there are color transitions,
[00:15:55] mm-hmm, such delicate ones, just
[00:15:58] what's needed, it will be very good for the program.
[00:16:02] I'll call you next week when I'm
[00:16:05] on air, beforehand. So that I see it,
[00:16:09] so that I have time to watch, well, you can find it on the internet,
[00:16:11] on the internet, well, yes, yes, of course, by my very appearance
[00:16:15] on screen, I also break the stereotype of the oppressed
[00:16:18] Muslim woman who cannot work or
[00:16:21] study, and even more so appear on screen, how can
[00:16:25] she be seen, they even saw her. What's your
[00:16:28] name? Martov, Martov, very nice to meet you, my name is Khava,
[00:16:31] Khava, this is Leila, this is Feruba, Mama Leila,
[00:16:34] Mama Leila. our Muslims.
[00:17:07] I also wanted to invite another girl, she's married to a
[00:17:11] Dagestani, yes, Alyona, the girl with whom we probably
[00:17:13] communicate the most right now,
[00:17:16] and she is a very good sister,
[00:17:19] your neighbor, no, a Russian converted to
[00:17:22] Islam. There is such a stereotype in Russia, unfortunately,
[00:17:26] that a woman in a hijab cannot study, she cannot
[00:17:29] work. Women who sit at home,
[00:17:33] who do not go anywhere, they are backward, undeveloped women, she this...
[00:18:26] Islam and leads
[00:18:29] a program related to this, "Hour of
[00:18:32] Muslims," so
[00:18:35] this... one flows from the other.
[00:18:57] We found Dinara by chance, our director Ivanova found
[00:19:01] her, whose voice you heard. My
[00:19:04] sister, Nailya, came from Iran. and
[00:19:08] she was invited to work
[00:19:12] for the newspaper "All About Islam."
[00:19:16] She worked.
[00:19:18] That is, the editorial office of this newspaper was located on the territory
[00:19:22] of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part
[00:19:24] of Russia. When our director came
[00:19:28] to the Mufti's residence to
[00:19:31] find an interior in which we would conduct
[00:19:33] filming, she was completely...
[00:20:07] I was hired and to this day, for
[00:20:11] more than 10 years, I have been hosting the program "Muslimania." This is
[00:20:14] evidenced by the preserved ancient religious monuments,
[00:20:17] among which are the unique high-mountain
[00:20:21] temple of Thaba Yerdy and
[00:20:22] mausoleums.
[00:20:26] Probably by sounds,
[00:20:29] at the same time, Allah rewarded me by enabling me to,
[00:20:33] using my professional skills, somehow make
[00:20:39] the word of Allah known,
[00:20:42] to strive for people to learn more about
[00:20:46] Islam, about religion, about the traditions of Muslims. And for
[00:20:50] me, this is really very valuable. I know many non-Muslims who
[00:20:53] know, watch her program, thanks to her program they learned a lot
[00:20:57] of good things about Islam. When I asked why, why
[00:21:01] did you do this, she said: "You
[00:21:04] know, I discovered an amazing thing in
[00:21:07] Islam,
[00:21:10] that you should rejoice every day,
[00:21:14] you should rejoice when you wake up,
[00:21:17] see the sun, see... the blue sky, and you
[00:21:21] say: thank you very much for all of this
[00:21:25] that I have, thank you very much for the
[00:21:29] opportunity to live this day, to see
[00:21:33] this sun, to breathe fresh air and
[00:21:36] to enjoy life, thank you for that.
[00:22:04] I gained much more than
[00:22:06] I lost, I gained
[00:22:10] the help and protection of Almighty Allah, and that is
[00:22:13] much more than just playing on stage,
[00:22:16] the applause of the audience, the recognition
[00:22:20] of people. I, I think,
[00:22:23] received the love of the Almighty.
[00:22:36] Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, peace be upon you,
[00:22:40] the mercy of the Almighty and his blessing, and his
[00:22:43] blessings.
[00:23:03] When you are born on Iranian soil, something is born with
[00:23:06] you, the belief that a homeland is not merely a place to live,
[00:23:10] but sometimes a place you must be willing to die for. The roots
[00:23:14] of this belief can be found even in the legends of Iran, and
[00:23:17] perhaps no legend expresses it more... powerfully than the story of
[00:23:21] Arash. After the war between Iran and Turan, it
[00:23:25] is decided that Iran's new frontier will be determined by the
[00:23:28] flight of a single arrow. Arash stands atop Mount
[00:23:32] Damavand. He puts all his strength, all his life into the
[00:23:35] arrow and releases it. Arash dies, but the arrow
[00:23:39] flies on. Where did it land? To find the answer, we
[00:23:42] must leave legend behind and enter history. 330
[00:23:46] BC, Alexander had crushed nearly every major
[00:23:50] power in his path and was advancing toward Persepolis. At the
[00:23:53] Persian Gate, Ario Barzanis stood with around
[00:23:56] 700 warriors against an army of more than
[00:23:59] 10,000. They knew that if they resisted, they would die,
[00:24:03] but they chose an honorable death over life under
[00:24:06] domination. They stopped Alexander's first assault and
[00:24:09] forced him to retreat, and for the generations that followed, they left
[00:24:13] behind a legacy. Resistance means knowing that you may
[00:24:17] lose your life, yet refusing to let an enemy cross your land without
[00:24:21] paying a price. Two centuries later, this time Rome
[00:24:24] came from the west. In 53 BC,
[00:24:27] Crassus invaded Parthian territory with a vast
[00:24:30] army. Facing him stood young commander, Surena, with his
[00:24:34] mounted archers and a thousand camels carrying an endless supply
[00:24:38] of arrows. Surena filled the skies with a storm of
[00:24:41] arrows. The Roman army suffered one of the most devastating
[00:24:45] defeats in its history. But for Iranians, land is not
[00:24:48] the only frontier. The sea is a frontier too. At the
[00:24:52] beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese seized
[00:24:55] Hormuz, a small island at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, whose
[00:24:59] control meant command over one of the most important trade routes between
[00:25:03] East and West. They built fortresses, they brought
[00:25:06] cannons, and they remained for more than a century. In
[00:25:09] 1622, Iranian forces under the command of Imam
[00:25:13] Koli Khan reached Hormuz. After a hard-
[00:25:16] fought siege, Portuguese power in Hormuz was broken, and the
[00:25:20] island was retaken.
[00:25:23] But the Persian Gulf never disappeared from the ambitions of
[00:25:26] colonial powers. In 1915, British
[00:25:30] forces occupied Bushehr. Against an army
[00:25:33] backed by warships, artillery, and the power of one of the
[00:25:36] world's greatest empires, the people of southern Iran stood with
[00:25:40] simple rifles. Their resistance was led by a man
[00:25:43] named Rais Ali Delvari. During the months of
[00:25:46] occupation, he organized the resistance of the people of Tangestan.
[00:25:50] For Rais Ali, the question was never how many soldiers stood
[00:25:54] on either side. The principle was simple: Iranian
[00:25:57] soil is not negotiable, even if defending it costs your
[00:26:01] life. Ali was eventually martyred in that
[00:26:04] struggle. September 3rd, the anniversary of his martyrdom is
[00:26:08] commemorated in Iran as the National Day of Struggle Against
[00:26:12] British Colonialism. But the resistance did not end with his
[00:26:15] death. Years later, British forces finally left
[00:26:18] Bushehr, yet the ambitions of foreign powers toward Iran
[00:26:22] did not end there,
[00:26:25] because Iran also had oil. For decades, much of
[00:26:29] Iran's oil industry remained under the influence of a British
[00:26:32] company until 1951, Mohammed
[00:26:35] Mossadegh stood against threats, political pressure, and
[00:26:38] economic pressure, and declared, "Iran's oil must belong to
[00:26:42] Iran." The oil industry was nationalized. Two years
[00:26:46] later, a coup backed directly by the United States and Britain overthrew
[00:26:50] his government. Mossadegh was removed from power and spent the
[00:26:54] remaining years of his life in imprisonment and house arrest.
[00:26:57] But one demand could no longer be erased: Iran's wealth
[00:27:01] must remain in Iranian hands.
[00:27:05] Land, oil. But now the
[00:27:08] issue is no longer only land, water or oil,
[00:27:13] them, independence. The question of who has the right to
[00:27:16] decide Iran's future. In June 2025, the
[00:27:20] United States directly attacked Iran's nuclear
[00:27:23] facilities, and since February 2026,
[00:27:26] Iran has been engaged in direct military confrontation with the
[00:27:30] United States and Israel for months. Military and economic
[00:27:34] pressure has continued, but Iran has never been willing to trade
[00:27:37] its independence for temporary peace. Bows, arrows
[00:27:41] and horses have given way to launchers, missiles,
[00:27:45] tanks, drones, and
[00:27:48] fighter jets, but the blood of Arash still
[00:27:52] runs through Iranian veins. And now, let us
[00:27:55] return to the same question. Where did Arash's arrow land?
[00:27:59] The arrow flew more than a thousand
[00:28:03] the Amu Darya River. Arash lost his
[00:28:06] life, but he did not allow the enemy to decide
[00:28:10] Iran's fate,
[00:28:12] and that legacy passed from one generation to the
[00:28:15] next. An Iranian may give his life for his
[00:28:18] homeland and independence, but he will never surrender their fate to
[00:28:22] foreign
[00:28:23] power.
[00:28:33] "I found Iranian Jewish leaders, like Dr. Sameah, to
[00:28:37] be both stoic about the reality of the region they inhabit
[00:28:40] and confident about their future inside the Islamic
[00:28:44] Republic. Indeed, the Jewish community was
[00:28:47] secure inside Iran, at least until soon after
[00:28:51] I left the
[00:28:51] country.
[00:29:00] When Israel launched its..." unprovoked attack, initiating
[00:29:04] a war that left almost 1,000 Iranians dead.
[00:29:08] From the Jewish community of Yazd, Kodadad
[00:29:11] Goharian denounced the Israeli attacks on his country and
[00:29:14] endorsed Iran's military response. Despite the
[00:29:18] growing pressure from the outside. Iran's Jews
[00:29:21] are holding their ground, observing their traditions
[00:29:25] inside the country they recognize as their authentic
[00:29:28] homeland.
[00:30:23] Iran's president has criticized us for failing to abide by the Islam by
[00:30:27] Mo saying the agreement can be the basis for the
[00:30:30] reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq's prime
[00:30:33] minister has called for exemptions for us uh from US sanctions targeting
[00:30:37] global companies that work with Iranian airlines.
[00:30:39] And
[00:30:45] occupied West Bank Israel raids Birzeit University and Ramallah and
[00:30:49] other areas of the Palestinian territory have also seen
[00:30:51] incursions.