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[00:00:24] When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Sayid Ali
[00:00:27] Khamani went to the frontlines. but
[00:00:30] as the war entered its second year, his role field
[00:00:34] visits to the presidency, field visits to the
[00:00:37] presidency, from military coordination to international
[00:00:41] diplomacy, he became part of Iran's war-time
[00:00:44] leadership. This is the story of his
[00:00:48] eight-year journey through the Iran-Iraq
[00:00:50] war.
[00:01:09] More than one third of Iranian pilots of these fighter jets were martyred,
[00:01:13] captured or went missing during the eight-year war between Iran
[00:01:17] and Iraq, marking the highest casualty rate among all
[00:01:20] branches of the armed forces. This program is
[00:01:23] dedicated to those unforgettable heroes, to
[00:01:26] the men of the most challenging cross-border operations.
[00:01:30] The Phantom fighter pilots of the Air Force.
[00:02:22] The Phantom Fighter Jet was originally designed to defend US aircraft
[00:02:26] carriers against enemy aircraft.
[00:02:32] However, its exceptional capabilities led the U.S. Air
[00:02:35] Force to adopt it as
[00:02:36] well.
[00:02:40] With the ability to carry over 8 tons of weaponry and its long
[00:02:44] numbers. New variants of operational range, the Phantom was employed both as
[00:02:47] light bomber and an air defense
[00:02:49] interceptor.
[00:02:54] In Iran, phantoms were purchased to fulfill both
[00:02:57] roles, serving as light bombers.
[00:03:01] domination in the region is one of
[00:04:03] Well, at first I was very happy that I shot down an Iraqi plane. I hit the enemy. But
[00:04:07] when I came home,
[00:04:11] I realized that it had affected my morale too. I thought he was just like us.
[00:04:14] We are enemies, they are our enemies.
[00:04:18] Well, he has a family now. What if he died? I was blaming myself.
[00:04:21] When I came home, my wife told me to eat lunch, but I said
[00:04:25] I couldn't. I was in this state for a week until a pilot
[00:04:29] خلبان
[00:04:35] Then I told him that on a certain date, I shot down a MiG
[00:04:38] 21 and it crashed, but I don't know what happened to the pilot.
[00:04:42] He said, "Don't worry. The pilot ejected."
[00:04:45] 1981.
[00:04:48] 1981.
[00:05:00] Informed them a Rocky aircraft was approaching. The
[00:05:04] opponent was a Mig 23 known as the
[00:05:07] Flogger. At that time the MIC-23 was considered
[00:05:10] Iraq's most advanced fighter.
[00:05:46] I pulled up quickly
[00:05:49] up at the Darcheh Marivan, there was a patch of clouds.
[00:05:52] بود
[00:05:57] As soon as I pulled out of the clouds,
[00:06:01] a person, a plane, came forward. It was very close. I came up, and it was very
[00:06:04] close.
[00:06:06] بود
[00:06:10] I hit the afterburner to get closer so they could shoot it
[00:06:13] with bullets.
[00:06:16] The moment I hit the afterburner, they shot it with bullets.
[00:06:20] The plane exploded. Something
[00:06:22] was said. I just realized that they had hit us.
[00:06:25] They started to descend and zigzag to escape from them.
[00:06:29] They were also relieved that they had hit me. They had seen that they had
[00:06:33] hit the plane. decision to use the
[00:06:36] afterburners reduced
[00:06:39] explosive impact of the iraqi missile. by dispersing the engine's
[00:06:43] exhaust gases and
[00:06:44] flames,
[00:06:48] with great difficulty he managed to land the damage Phantom on the
[00:06:51] runway.
[00:06:55] An hour later, Colonel Golchin, the base commander,
[00:06:58] confirmed the downing of the mig 21 had been hit by
[00:07:01] Harabaki's aircraft machine
[00:07:03] gun.
[00:07:06] The rocky aircraft damaged by gunfire had failed to return
[00:07:10] to its base.
[00:07:16] During the middle years of the war, the air force suffered heavily from
[00:07:20] sanctions. While the war was taking its toll on
[00:07:24] Iranian pilots and aircraft, the country was
[00:07:27] unable to purchase any new
[00:07:28] planes.
[00:07:35] Aircraft parts were rarely available and had to be acquired
[00:07:38] at extremely high prices from the black market.
[00:07:51] Meanwhile, Iraq was receiving advanced fighter models in large
[00:07:57] the mig 23 equipped with upgraded heat-seeking
[00:08:00] missiles for aerial combat were entering service,
[00:08:04] but the phantoms faced even more serious opponents,
[00:08:07] mig-25s and French Mirage
[00:08:10] F-1s.
[00:08:34] The Mirage F1 is fast and agile aircraft with
[00:08:38] delta-shaped wings. Its design and electronics
[00:08:41] systems. are more advanced than those of the Phantom.
[00:08:45] Iraqi mirages were equipped with radar guided matra
[00:08:49] missiles. These missiles had a longer range than the Phantom
[00:08:52] Sparrow Missiles. Iraqi mirages also
[00:08:56] carried precise heat-seeking missiles called magic used
[00:09:00] in close range
[00:09:01] combat.
[00:09:06] Mirage pilots in Iraq were trained in France and received thorough
[00:09:10] instruction in aerial combat. tactics based on this
[00:09:14] training, Iraq moved away from the Soviet style flight
[00:09:17] system, which relied heavily on ground radar controllers
[00:09:21] guiding the pilot and instead gave pilots more
[00:09:24] autonomy in air
[00:09:25] engagements.
[00:09:31] Miraja succeeded in targeting several Iranian aircraft in aerial
[00:09:35] combat.
[00:09:37] They're also used to bomb key locations inside Iranian
[00:09:41] territory.
[00:11:11] During the Tanker war, Saddam Hussein, seeking to compensate for
[00:11:14] defeats on the ground and to weaken the morale of the Iranian
[00:11:18] people, ordered air raids on the Iranian residential
[00:11:21] cities. This brutal campaign known
[00:11:25] as a war of the cities aimed to open a new front and also
[00:11:28] undermine the defensive capacity of Iran's air
[00:11:31] force.
[00:11:40] In the final years of the war, Iraq intensified the war of
[00:11:44] cities an effort to break the Iranian nation's
[00:11:47] resolve. As part of this escalation, the Rocky Air
[00:11:51] Force bombed the city of Hamadon and the third tactical fighter.
[00:12:25] She opened a nursing home and keeps saying
[00:12:28] "Don't go." She won't let her go. I asked, "Whose little girl is
[00:12:31] this?" They said, "These two children are from a rural family
[00:12:35] who lost their parents and relatives due to Iraqi
[00:12:39] bombings, and they brought them here for treatment."
[00:12:42] I asked, "Who does she have?" They said, "She only has a grandmother."
[00:12:46] Well, I came and told this story at home. I coordinated
[00:12:50] with my wife that since God didn't give her a daughter,
[00:12:54] we would go and adopt this girl. I said, "We went and found her grandmother
[00:12:57] and told her, 'Mother, you are old
[00:13:01] and don't have the strength to take care of this child.
[00:13:04] And she has no one else. Come, give her to a gentleman
[00:13:08] who will raise her like his own child, send her to school, send her to university,
[00:13:11] make her a doctor, make her an engineer, and take care of this child.'
[00:13:15] They said, 'The pilot is not a bad person. He will truly take good care of your child.'"
[00:13:19] base. It
[00:13:23] از بچه تو خوب نگهداری می کنه.
[00:13:55] appeared their target was a city of
[00:13:58] Kermanshah.
[00:14:02] The third tactical fighter base in Hamadon was tasked with
[00:14:06] defending Kermonsha despite shortages and
[00:14:08] limitations. The main challenge was that Kermanshaw was
[00:14:12] geographically closer to Iraqi airbases than to
[00:14:15] Hamedon. The mountainous terrain also meant that the
[00:14:18] main western radar station in Subashi, Hamedon,
[00:14:22] would not detect incoming Iraqi aircraft.
[00:15:27] We have prepared all the bombs and missiles for these people.
[00:15:30] اینا.
[00:15:46] I said yes, they have crossed the border. We crossed the border over the city of Kermanshah
[00:15:49] and turned on the radar. There are several planes
[00:15:52] inside the radar.
[00:15:54] هست
[00:15:57] We have orders that when a formation of Iraqi planes comes, you should observe them for a while.
[00:16:00] I said, no, I will go after them myself.
[00:16:03] میرم.
[00:16:37] the Iraqi Air Force Miraj F1s, some of
[00:16:41] which were armed with anti-aircraft missiles to protect the miraj
[00:16:44] bombers.
[00:16:47] Iraq had received advanced electronic warfare pods from
[00:16:50] France. These pods disrupted the radars of
[00:16:53] Iranian fighters, preventing them from locking on
[00:16:57] and launching their missiles against Iraqi
[00:16:59] aircraft. I performed the lock-on operation
[00:17:02] on the first one myself. For a few moments,
[00:17:06] this lock-on was broken.
[00:17:09] We were unable to do anything, so we had to hit them by sight.
[00:17:13] Therefore, when I saw one of them from a distance,
[00:17:17] I released the missiles,
[00:17:17] کردم
[00:17:21] and all my attention was on where this missile was going, to follow it to reach the enemy's
[00:17:25] defense. It was going towards him at full speed and readiness.
[00:17:28] طرف می رفته
[00:17:32] My meager experience, wisdom, age, and knowledge were telling me, "Where are you going?"
[00:17:35] You're going into the heart of the enemy, who
[00:17:39] has all these advanced words. It will definitely hit you.
[00:17:42] Don't doubt it at all. Believe me, in an instant,
[00:17:46] I saw this woman whom I had not seen before, but I saw her image and shape on the horizon,
[00:17:50] pointing her finger at me and saying, "Now is the time. If you want to do something
[00:17:53] for the narcissus,
[00:17:55] now is the time."
[00:17:58] I was getting closer, and suddenly Mr. Panahi,
[00:18:01] who was sad, said, "We have a problem, you have a problem."
[00:18:05] داری
[00:18:10] I saw a plane very close to us, and it still hadn't
[00:18:14] seen us. At the same time, we saw it, and
[00:18:17] it saw us.
[00:18:20] I looked back and saw an Iraqi Mirage next to me, very close.
[00:18:24] I was so close to it that I could see the indicator displays inside the cockpit.
[00:18:27] Suddenly, it turned and looked at me. We, the two pilots, were very close
[00:18:31] to each other. I couldn't believe that we were so close to each other in a combat
[00:18:35] situation.
[00:19:42] Left, meaning turn quickly to the left so that we can
[00:19:46] evade and the missile doesn't
[00:19:48] hit us.
[00:19:57] The plane immediately dove 90 degrees towards the ground.
[00:20:01] Well, there was nothing we could do.
[00:20:05] Mr. Panahi said to eject. I said, "Wait."
[00:20:08] کن
[00:20:10] I always turn to حضرت Fatemeh Zahra in times of trouble. I called her from the bottom
[00:20:13] of my heart. The plane, which was diving 90 degrees,
[00:20:16] slowly, slowly, its nose came up and
[00:20:20] it became controllable.
[00:20:23] I brought the plane up, and the Iraqi plane didn't follow me anymore. They thought
[00:20:27] they had shot us down. I was so happy, so excited.
[00:20:31] My eyesight was blurry. I kept saying, "Baqer, did you see? Did you see what a blessing
[00:20:34] we had? How God had mercy on us. Did you see?"
[00:21:20] When the air force specialists came and saw it, they said it was impossible
[00:21:24] for this plane to fly in this condition. Even worse, the enemy's missile
[00:21:27] had come and completely taken over the work. Several
[00:21:31] shrapnel pieces had remained in one of my missiles and had gone into its charge,
[00:21:34] the missile's charge. And the interesting thing is that it didn't cause the missile to explode.
[00:21:38] For a long time, the technical personnel didn't dare to remove this missile from the shelf.
[00:21:42] Downing of seven
[00:21:45] aircraft and destruction of 60
[00:21:48] tanks and personnel carriers.
[00:22:58] both friend and foe a commendable
[00:23:00] record,
[00:23:02] yet it seems the very people who made that record possible have been lost
[00:23:06] in the twists and turns of time.
[00:23:43] They call themselves on Sarula or the supporters of
[00:23:46] God and regard confronting American and Israeli aggression. and
[00:23:51] their principal objectives. They are among
[00:23:54] the most courageous fighters of our time, men who face
[00:23:58] bombardment and death, yet refused to retreat even a single
[00:24:01] step from their beliefs in their path of resistance. For
[00:24:05] years they have fought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in
[00:24:09] defense of Yemen, in a war backed by American military
[00:24:12] support. They have resisted every attempt to force their country into
[00:24:16] submission, and in support of the people of God.
[00:24:20] have repeatedly struck Israeli targets nearly 2,000
[00:24:23] kilometers away. On July 13th,
[00:24:26] 2026, Saudi Arabia bombed the runway at
[00:24:30] Sanaah International Airport an attempt to prevent an Iranian
[00:24:34] aircraft from landing. Ansarula declared that Riyad had
[00:24:37] ended the period of deescalation, he promised immediate
[00:24:41] response. Within hours, Saudi airports
[00:24:44] including Ababa International Airport came under attack.
[00:24:48] This was nothing new. The Yemini Resistance movement has
[00:24:52] repeatedly demonstrated its ability to reach deep inside Saudi
[00:24:55] Arabia. In September 2019,
[00:24:59] its drone strike on the ABC and Kurais oil facilities
[00:25:03] exposed the vulnerability of Saudi Aramco despite billions of dollars
[00:25:07] worth of American-made air defense systems. Now,
[00:25:10] the resistance movement warns that any new attack on Yemen's
[00:25:13] infrastructure could bring even more strategic targets into
[00:25:17] range, including the vital oil facilities at
[00:25:20] Today, more than 70% of Saudi oil
[00:25:23] exports bypass the straight of Hormus through pipelines to Yanbu
[00:25:27] on the red sea, but from there they must still pass through the
[00:25:31] Bob Almandab straight. If that route is
[00:25:34] closed, Saudi Arabia's alternative export corridor
[00:25:37] disappears. Ansarula has already shown it can disrupt one of the
[00:25:41] world's busiest maritime choke points. Since the
[00:25:44] outbreak of the Gaza War in 2023, it has launched
[00:25:48] attacks in the Red Sea. declaring that it would target vessels linked to
[00:25:52] Israel in support of the Palestinians.
[00:25:55] The Red Sea operations have forced major shipping companies to reroot
[00:25:59] around Southern Africa, increased global transport cost. costs and
[00:26:03] pushed Israel's southern port of ilot, the brink of
[00:26:06] collapse. if both the straight of Hormus and Bob
[00:26:10] Almanda were closed at the same time, nearly a quarter of the
[00:26:13] world's oil and gas supply, and almost one third of global container
[00:26:17] traffic could be affected. oil prices could sore toward
[00:26:21] $200 per barrel, while Europe's energy security would face severe
[00:26:25] pressure. for Ansarula, Yemen is not
[00:26:28] merely another battlefield, it is a strategic front with the...
[00:26:32] power to reshape the global economy,
[00:26:36] the axis of resistance still holds powerful strategic cards in
[00:26:40] reserve, cards that once played could leave
[00:26:44] even America unable to respond despite all its military might.
[00:26:59] in today's show we'll be considering statement
[00:27:02] to the house of commons on Tuesday, marked sea change
[00:27:06] in the UK's relationship with the zianist colony, or was it simply
[00:27:09] performative politics? this is a performative
[00:27:12] measure, and and the performance is that the British
[00:27:15] government is seem to be doing something serious, and the performance is
[00:27:19] also that the zionists are seem to be resisting as if this is
[00:27:23] the end of the possibility of Jews living in the UK, which of course is
[00:27:27] ridiculous, we see Israel increasingly
[00:27:30] integrated with imperialism on the one hand, but considering itself an
[00:27:34] independent imperial power and trying to leverage
[00:27:37] all kinds of uh tech advantages and economic advantagesuh that
[00:27:41] it enjoys um to have not only the Abraham cause but the Isaac cause and being
[00:27:45] increasingly close to certain prime ministers including Miley.
[00:28:07] And I myself, the term religion
[00:28:11] was more associated with Christianity, with
[00:28:13] icons, with images, with churches. I had
[00:28:16] never even been to a mosque at that time.
[00:28:18] была.
[00:28:27] I realized that the viewers see me in a hijab, but
[00:28:31] I'm actually not in a hijab.
[00:28:33] And at that moment, perhaps, that was a turning point for
[00:28:37] me. I realized that I cannot deceive the viewers.
[00:30:15] The headlines, Iran's armed forces a spokesman warns that
[00:30:19] the US and this regime, if they make
[00:30:22] another miscalculation, the Islamic Republic's response will be
[00:30:25] stronger. Cuban foreign minister Bruno
[00:30:29] Rodriguez rejects unilateral corsive measures and
[00:30:32] intimidation, saying the law of the jungle cannot be
[00:30:35] humanit, humanity's future. A morning
[00:30:39] ceremony has been held in Iraq's capital Baghdad for the second
[00:30:42] Martin anniversary of hisbul's leader Sayid Hasan.