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[00:00:12] of
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[00:00:19] Your a headlines on Press TV. Iran says the US will never play a
[00:00:22] role in the management
[00:00:24] of the straight of for moves and in case of intervention will be slapped hard
[00:00:28] in the face. Iran's president says the
[00:00:31] US and Israel are root are the root causes of instability in
[00:00:35] west Asia and are actively supporting terrorists while accusing
[00:00:39] Iran of terrorism and
[00:00:43] Hamas political bureau chief says the group will continue to resist
[00:00:46] the Israeli occupation and defend Palestinians using all
[00:00:50] legitimate means and
[00:00:51] tools.
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[00:01:07] a Hello everyone, you're watching Press
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[00:01:14] us. Let's
[00:01:16] of begin with our top story. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arakchi slams
[00:01:20] sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic saying that such
[00:01:27] of of unilateral measures amount economic
[00:01:28] of
[00:01:28] of terrorism.
[00:01:32] Unilateral cohersive measures continue to be used as as
[00:01:35] instruments of political pressure against developing
[00:01:39] countries. Iran has faced such measures for decades
[00:01:42] and they have
[00:01:44] of intensified of in recent years and months. US sanctions
[00:01:48] directly affect the daily lives of our people by
[00:01:50] restricting trade, finance,
[00:01:54] medicines, technology, education and
[00:01:57] of scientific cooperation. From our perspective, their
[00:02:00] devastating impact on
[00:02:02] of ordinary people amounts economic terrorism. the United
[00:02:06] of Nations must oppose such coerssive measures and call for
[00:02:10] their complete and unconditional
[00:02:13] removal. Abbas
[00:02:16] Arakchi made the
[00:02:18] of remarks a UN meeting on China's global development initiative. He
[00:02:21] said Iran defended its sovereignty against US Israely
[00:02:25] of attacks, stressing that the international community must condemn the war crimes against the
[00:02:29] Iranian. nation.
[00:02:31] of Arrokchi cited the US-Israely attacks a school in the Iranian city of
[00:02:35] of Minab, a sports hall in Lamed and the medical research
[00:02:39] a pastor institute in Tehran saying these facilities for
[00:02:42] education, sports and medicine were reduced to rubble. He
[00:02:46] says such attacks
[00:02:47] of expose the inhumane nature
[00:02:49] of the US aggression and must never be normalized or
[00:02:52] whitewashed. Iran. The Iranian foreign minister said over
[00:02:56] 500 people, including women and children were killed. the
[00:03:00] US-Israeli aggressions. Iraq she said the
[00:03:03] of assassination
[00:03:03] of the leader
[00:03:04] of the Islamic Revolution and Iran's senior political and military
[00:03:07] officials was heinous crime and a flagrant violation of
[00:03:11] international law.
[00:03:14] of Unilateral coercive measures continue to be used as as
[00:03:17] instruments of political pressure
[00:03:20] a against developing
[00:03:20] countries.
[00:03:39] Welcome back dear viewers and to the news review section where we'l delve
[00:03:42] deeper into one
[00:03:43] of the day's top stories so stay with
[00:03:46] us. The spokesman for Iran's
[00:03:50] armed forces says Americans will never be allowed to play any role
[00:03:54] in the management
[00:03:54] of the straight of Urmus. Brigadier general Abdul Faz Shikarchi
[00:03:58] said if Americans try to interfere in Hurmu's affairs, they will be
[00:04:02] slapped hard in the face by the Iranian
[00:04:04] of armed forces. Shikachi made the remarks
[00:04:09] of in a televised interview. He said Americans have no choice but to leave West
[00:04:12] Asia and the sooner they leave, they will set, they will
[00:04:16] suffer less damage. Shikachi noted that the region will
[00:04:20] be certainly safer following the US's withdrawal. He
[00:04:23] said the US will never reclaim his past position in the new world
[00:04:27] order and the Islamic
[00:04:29] a Republic as a world power will not allow this. the
[00:04:33] general stressed that the hormo states is in full control of Iran
[00:04:36] of and any ship trying to transit the waterway through route not
[00:04:40] authorized by Iran will not be safe.
[00:04:44] Shikarchi noted
[00:04:45] of that in case of any new aggression against Ivan, the country's forces
[00:04:48] will respond with new
[00:04:50] of military of technologies. He stress that the Iranian armed forces
[00:04:54] are in very good shape. The country has more advanced missiles,
[00:04:58] drones and military technology. And his enemies will face
[00:05:02] new surprises in case of a possible
[00:05:05] aggression.
[00:05:10] of of Now to talk more on
[00:05:14] this, we have Miss Sakina Dato, journalist and author
[00:05:18] and producer joining us and also Mr. Said Morson our
[00:05:22] boss, journalist and political commentator, both them joining us from
[00:05:25] London, Miss Datu and Mr. Said
[00:05:29] that boss, thank you for being with us once again on Press TV, uh
[00:05:33] Miss Datu, let's begin with you and let's for this section dissect
[00:05:37] the comments made by the brigadier general
[00:05:40] Shikarchi, Miss Datu, we said American... have no choice but to
[00:05:43] leave West Asia and the sooner they leave, the less damage they will
[00:05:47] suffer. US assessment so far in the three wars, the 12-day
[00:05:51] war, the 40-day war and the 13 or
[00:05:55] 14-day war. how do you see Iran
[00:05:58] respond to the US Israeli aggression and do you think
[00:06:02] they've learn a lesson? so I definitely
[00:06:06] think that you know Iran has destroyed all these
[00:06:09] bases the US and Iran has dealt them
[00:06:13] a huge blow, not just the US and the Israelis
[00:06:17] but also the neighboring countries that you know
[00:06:21] allowed their land to be used, allowed the air bases and you
[00:06:25] know their territory to be used to attack Iran, so Iran
[00:06:29] responded very, very sharply and it has managed to
[00:06:33] destroy quite significantly all these
[00:06:35] airbases the US, not just that,
[00:06:39] but Iran's response in terms the straight of formers has... been
[00:06:42] very efficient and they have managed to
[00:06:46] stop not just
[00:06:48] you know the ships passing but control alongside of
[00:06:52] course you know it they do not dictate what
[00:06:55] happens by ansarulah but these are exes of
[00:06:59] resistance who work together and collaborate together and
[00:07:03] so I think bringing the whole exes of tog of access of
[00:07:07] resistance together what they have managed to do is teach Americans
[00:07:10] a lesson and show the world that they have control
[00:07:14] the waterways and they also have the control because of that
[00:07:18] the world economy and so if
[00:07:21] you know the US and Israel is continue to target
[00:07:25] Iran that Iran has got not only these economic
[00:07:28] measures through which they can bring the whole world economy
[00:07:32] down but that on military basis Iran is very advanced
[00:07:36] country which before these wars nobody was aware of Iran's
[00:07:40] you know military capability. Apart from that, of course it
[00:07:44] has proven that there is also unity at home, there is
[00:07:47] acceptance the government and legitimacy, and people are
[00:07:51] together like never before, all the propaganda we used to hear
[00:07:54] about the fact that Iranians did not support their
[00:07:58] government, this is all been thrown out the window, and so the
[00:08:02] all the reasons you know that are there for any country to win a war,
[00:08:06] Iran has proven that to be the case, but having said that,
[00:08:09] you know, I don't believe that it is nothing that is going to
[00:08:13] stop here, don't believe that they have learned their lessons as you ask,
[00:08:17] because I don't believe that this is the end of war. I do think that
[00:08:21] when we combine what is happening in west asia alongside
[00:08:25] what is happening in Ukraine, because I personally believe that these two
[00:08:29] wars are linked, they are not separate, they are together. I
[00:08:32] actually feel like we are heading towards World War 3
[00:08:36] and all the elements are aligning. If you look at historical
[00:08:40] examples of things leading up to... world war ii, they are very
[00:08:44] frightening examples of how things are coming together
[00:08:48] for yet another global war, so yes, I do think that
[00:08:51] Iran has responded very strongly and shown its might,
[00:08:55] but I don't think that the zionis and Americans have learned their
[00:08:59] lesson and because they are interested in perpetuating war,
[00:09:03] and I fear that we are heading towards you know
[00:09:07] at some point much bigger war. that's right,
[00:09:10] Miss Datu, and as general Shikachi said uh, maybe
[00:09:14] another slap this time around, huh? Mr. Said
[00:09:18] Abbas, general Shikarjin noted that the region will be
[00:09:22] certainly safer uh following the US's
[00:09:25] withdrawal uh, but as uh we were told or
[00:09:29] we are told by the US, by Trump, by Israel, by
[00:09:33] Netanyahu, the west in general, they are here for our
[00:09:36] safety, for our future, prosperity, bringing us
[00:09:40] humanity and democracy. your thoughts on
[00:09:43] them? well, it's
[00:09:46] commonly passing you isn't say? it? the
[00:09:49] can statements what i was listening to the UN, the american delegation and even
[00:09:52] trump of course, it doesn't even listening
[00:09:56] to any intelligent, decent geopolitical
[00:10:00] analyst, even even young child who follows this sort
[00:10:03] of affair in west Asia knows what realities,
[00:10:07] everybody knows the US
[00:10:11] and... agenda in the region, they
[00:10:15] have been confidence with
[00:10:19] the military spotsman is is expressing
[00:10:22] his about. this is now
[00:10:26] born out by
[00:10:27] evidence
[00:10:33] saying
[00:10:50] that the
[00:10:51] americans
[00:10:58] uh sorry said Abbas, sorry to go you sure, I think we got problems
[00:11:01] with the sound, if you can just fix it, I'll go to
[00:11:05] Miss Datu and come back to you again, sorry for that uh, Mr. Abpos, uh,
[00:11:09] Miss Datu, uh, the general also mentioned that
[00:11:13] the US will never uh reclaim his past position in the new
[00:11:17] world order uh, and that the Islamic Republic
[00:11:21] uh, as a world power will
[00:11:23] not allow this, so uh, the question... would be, are we seeing a
[00:11:26] shift in power? this decline in US
[00:11:30] Hegemmany, and what about re Iran a regional
[00:11:33] power for sure, but what about a world power, and how do you
[00:11:37] define that? i think it is
[00:11:41] fact that the western hegemony in
[00:11:44] you know west Asian region, the American hegemony is over.
[00:11:48] there is no way that they would now be able to operate from
[00:11:51] those regions even if they wanted to, because
[00:11:55] "first of all Iran can very easily repeat what it did and
[00:11:59] in fact you know there
[00:12:00] is I believe lot more advanced
[00:12:03] you know missiles and military capability that Iran
[00:12:07] has not yet shown its hand so I think they will
[00:12:11] not Iran at this stage I don't believe will ever allow this
[00:12:15] basis to operate again in west Asian region because they have
[00:12:19] proven to be a threat you know to the national
[00:12:22] security also the because" straight of hormos is is
[00:12:26] closed and I think this we are hearing of course lot of
[00:12:29] propaganda in western media about how the Americans are controlling
[00:12:33] the straight of hormos and that
[00:12:35] you know the oil is passing, it is Iran that is not able to, which is
[00:12:39] completely not true as we speak, you know I'm just seeing that there are
[00:12:43] some more attacks currently that Iran has hit some more ships
[00:12:47] you know on the straight of homo so if there was
[00:12:49] a control you know there wouldn't be all this
[00:12:52] price heights that we are seeing here. in Europe and like the rest the
[00:12:56] world is seeing the increase in the prices of oil, so
[00:13:00] because they will not be able to ship in all the
[00:13:03] ammunitions, there is no way that Iran will allow that, so the
[00:13:07] the hegemony of Americans on that basis first of all is
[00:13:11] over, but also even though
[00:13:13] you know these gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
[00:13:17] Emirates, at the moment they are not able to detach themselves from the
[00:13:21] US, and
[00:13:23] you know
[00:13:23] there is frustration from lot of people. because it looks like you know they
[00:13:27] are complicit and they continue to be complicit, but there are
[00:13:31] a lot of talks going on in the background,
[00:13:35] because these countries have come to realize that this false promise
[00:13:39] of America protecting them, you know it is nothing but that, it's
[00:13:43] just false, and so they are also rethink on those
[00:13:46] manners, if you look at Qatar
[00:13:48] for example, not that you know what Qatar says is something that we take at first
[00:13:52] value, but the tit and tat between... them you know in in what happened
[00:13:56] at the UN assembly and what they were saying about the zionist
[00:14:00] entity, this also shows you that these countries are not exactly the
[00:14:04] same as they were before the war and at some point you know
[00:14:07] they are going to find a way out to detect
[00:14:11] themselves from the US that that's my belief it may not happen very
[00:14:15] you know quickly but eventually this is what is going to happen also
[00:14:19] I think you know the local populations in all these
[00:14:21] countries it it it will take a bit more to
[00:14:25] push them out, but I do again see that in some point there will
[00:14:29] be uprisings in this nations, and and people want
[00:14:33] peace and they see Iran as a neighbor with whom they can
[00:14:37] have peace, because Iran has never invaded any country, it has never
[00:14:41] threaten them, but even while this war is going on, it we have been
[00:14:45] getting very clear messages time and again,
[00:14:47] you know Iranian officials saying that their fight is not with the
[00:14:51] neighboring muslim and neighboring
[00:14:53] you know countries, that their fight is with Zionis
[00:14:57] and with with Americans also the the
[00:15:00] major problem in the region remains the Zionist entity and it is
[00:15:04] threatening Turkey, it's threatening Lebanon, Saudi, everybody, you
[00:15:08] know, and so all these nations are also seeing the
[00:15:12] bigger ambitions the greater Israel and that all
[00:15:15] them will be subjected to the same principle, so it is in their
[00:15:19] interest to have better relationships with Iran rather than with the
[00:15:23] US and Zionis, but It's also true that they cannot detach so
[00:15:27] quickly because of so many years of cooperation, it is not possible and
[00:15:31] also these monarchies,
[00:15:32] you know these heads the monarchies that are sitting there, these are part the
[00:15:36] abstent class, these are part. the same group of
[00:15:39] oligarks, but they can be removed, at some point people
[00:15:42] will rise and they will remove them or alternatively may they
[00:15:46] may come to their senses and want to work with Iran, so I do think that the
[00:15:50] hegemony the US in west Asia is quite
[00:15:54] over. That's right, some important points there as
[00:15:57] well, uh, Mr. Abbass, glad we could have you back again,
[00:16:01] Mr. Abbas, we don't have much time, but uh, for you,
[00:16:04] it's okay, uh, first of all, it it
[00:16:08] seems like everyone's a target with Israel, mean from
[00:16:12] Turkey, Lebanon, uh, all the countries around, even
[00:16:15] Egypt uh, they should know that, and also I don't understand why
[00:16:19] these arab countries, these Muslim countries, these regional countries,
[00:16:23] personal gulf countries haven't realized that uh,
[00:16:26] the US will never stand up for them,
[00:16:30] unless it's worth it
[00:16:32] for them, there's g to be some money, some oil, something in it
[00:16:34] for them, uh, and they still extend their hands to the... us they're not learning
[00:16:38] their lesson, that's one the things that I wanted to ask you about why are the
[00:16:42] puppet regimes, these khalifas and especially
[00:16:46] MBS, Saudi
[00:16:48] Arabia, the the the war planes that they
[00:16:52] have the stuck with Yemen, a country that was
[00:16:55] besieged for 10 years, more than 10 years, they still can't do anything
[00:16:59] about it and the US is not helping
[00:17:01] them, well we have to understand the
[00:17:04] origins these regimes is basically one
[00:17:08] of slavery, they owe their existence to
[00:17:12] the british zio american empires, they
[00:17:15] wouldn't be here if that wasn't the case, so every one the leaders
[00:17:19] who's tied to the apron strings the Americans and the
[00:17:22] Israelis is behoven to them, the
[00:17:26] their extraction of oil or they can't
[00:17:29] do that on their own, who do we think actually comes and extracts all this oil, it's
[00:17:33] American companies, it's western companies, who provides them with their...
[00:17:37] security who provides them with their military so callalled
[00:17:40] military you defense mechanisms, everything is not only
[00:17:44] supplied but very lightly controlled by the
[00:17:48] anglo-zionist empire, they literally have outsourced everything, so
[00:17:52] therefore even the
[00:17:54] the the govern governance the country behind the scenes is the deep state
[00:17:58] intelligence services who work with whoever they put in
[00:18:02] charge there and lot them are their own people who will be there in the background
[00:18:05] so to be fair they're basically client public states, and so the leaderships
[00:18:09] have got no interest in divorcing
[00:18:13] themselves from what is obviously going to sink them. the people is
[00:18:16] different story, the people are gradually waking up, i think to the
[00:18:20] reality that they are led by by these puppets,
[00:18:24] what will make them change? i think it's the reality on the ground, the the
[00:18:28] the war that Iran is is conducting
[00:18:31] has shown them that their asymmetric power is not going to go
[00:18:35] away, it's shown them that their... resistance economy works in
[00:18:39] spite of all the sanctions and contrary
[00:18:43] to what the the arabs do, siven off all their money into real
[00:18:47] estate in America or into Swiss bank accounts which will get gumped one
[00:18:50] day as soon as one these these sultons
[00:18:54] or or kings dies, that's it, that money just get gazum, same
[00:18:58] thing happened to Gaddafi, they put their money in those banks and the real estate, and when
[00:19:02] these regimes are are finished by the Americans, all of that
[00:19:06] cash, all that countries. cash which has been stuck stopped away in western
[00:19:10] uh
[00:19:10] you know bank bank vaults is confiscated, so this is exactly
[00:19:14] what's going to happen to them, but they can can't do anything about it. Iran is
[00:19:18] shown that they you can create decentralized mosaic defense structure
[00:19:22] and they can't destroy you by just taking out leader as they did with Gaddafi
[00:19:26] and as they did with Assad. If you have the right uh defense
[00:19:29] mechanisms you can resist that. And if you have a strong military and
[00:19:33] Iran still in spike of two efforts by the Zionist empire.
[00:19:37] "they've managed to still retain at least, I'd say
[00:19:41] two-thirds the air force, that's conservative estimates from outside
[00:19:44] Iran, they're saying that two thirds the air force is intact, this is
[00:19:48] so coming from them, that's a major amount really,
[00:19:51] 2,500 ballistic missiles is their estimate that are there, which is up
[00:19:55] from the 1300 which are there in the mid-20s, and of course the
[00:19:59] most missile drone capacity is huge, there's
[00:20:03] like thousands of those lying around underground in bunkers."
[00:20:07] that can't be touched by the Americans, Iran's
[00:20:11] you know minuscule 7.8 billion dollar
[00:20:14] military has managed to destroy a a trillion
[00:20:18] a multi- trillion dollar military which has been
[00:20:22] rendered pretty much ineffective and that I think should be a lesson to
[00:20:26] these these regimes that actually in the long run they can't be
[00:20:29] sustained, but it's not the regimes that need to change change
[00:20:33] things, they're not going to, it's the people on the ground whether the Arab world.
[00:20:38] begins to wake up, recapture its dignity, look at Iran as a model, as an
[00:20:42] example of resistance, and look at the yemensar as resistance
[00:20:45] models and look at the lebanese resistance model and then
[00:20:50] recognize that actually their dignity lies in regional security, in
[00:20:54] allying with Iran, in in backing up their
[00:20:57] own, the their own
[00:21:00] real uh representatives and to boot out these these
[00:21:04] puppets, that's the only way forward, there has to be recognition
[00:21:08] on the ground, and in the long run, Iran's war of attrition, the
[00:21:11] strategic patience and the attrition that they're capable of fighting, will defeat the
[00:21:15] Americans in the region anyway, because Iran has an
[00:21:18] existential. survival situation, the Americans don't, the
[00:21:22] Iran knows it has to fight to the last man in order
[00:21:26] to maintain its sovereignty, and the Iranian people have recognized that, and even those
[00:21:30] were maybe a bit weak within the Iranian establishment, they've had to
[00:21:34] uh go quiet and they have seat to the people's desire for
[00:21:38] revenge, the desire for sovereignty, the desire
[00:21:40] for that's right, they got
[00:21:44] to get the dignity and sovereignty back because it's not going to work like
[00:21:47] this, Mr. Said Abbass uh... I will have to ask you about
[00:21:51] the anglo-zionis later on, we don't have enough time now, but when we get
[00:21:55] the chance I will ask you because I want to see what where the UK is in all of this
[00:21:59] because I think it's a major player in all of this and as Miss Datu said and
[00:22:03] even uh we could see World War II and it's for the benefit the
[00:22:07] UK and the US. On that note I would like to thank Miss
[00:22:11] Sakina Datu as always journalist author and producer and also
[00:22:14] Said Morsen Abbass a journalist and political commented both them joining
[00:22:18] us from London is ' is a pleasure to have both of you with us for your
[00:22:22] analysis and your commentary. thank you very much and also our dear
[00:22:26] viewers, thank you for being with us, but i'll be back with more headlines, so stay
[00:22:29] tuned.
[00:22:45] now continuing with the rest the news, we have a
[00:22:49] comment by the Iranian president which he said the United States and
[00:22:52] Israel are the root causes of instability in the West
[00:22:56] Asia region. Masu Pasisichon stress that they do not uh,
[00:23:00] they do not honor their promises and agreements and say something
[00:23:04] new everyday. Pesition was addressing reporters upon his return
[00:23:07] from New York where he took part in the 81st UN General
[00:23:11] Assembly session. He said Tefan on engaged in negotiations with
[00:23:15] Washington so that the world would not think Iran is
[00:23:19] afraid of talks. or is stoking instability, but the Americans did
[00:23:22] not abide by the agreement they had signed. Fizishkan said Iran
[00:23:26] has no ilogical demands and only pursues this right
[00:23:30] within the framework of international laws and commitments. He stress
[00:23:34] that Iran will not give into any demand that the other side
[00:23:38] makes. He noted that those who actively aid and abet terrorism
[00:23:42] accuse Iran of terrorism themselves. Pesishion said
[00:23:46] the US is behind many assassinations around the world and trains.
[00:23:50] terrorists and Israel also assassinates people anywhere in the
[00:23:54] world with a US support and they claim to be fighting
[00:23:57] terrorism.
[00:24:04] Iran Supreme National Security Council secretariat says sevon
[00:24:08] is pursuing negotiations with relevant countries to lift on lawful
[00:24:12] US restrictions on air travel while warning that several non-military
[00:24:16] retaliatory options could be applied to certain airports if...
[00:24:20] the secretariat said efforts to resolve the issue are being seriously
[00:24:24] pursued and expresses hope that the situation will not
[00:24:28] escalate further. meanwile, bad organization
[00:24:31] secretary general Hardiel Amiri strongly condemned the US
[00:24:35] blockage of Iran, particularly the recent restrictions on
[00:24:38] flights. He urged Iraq's government not to submit to the measures,
[00:24:42] saying the issue is a test of Iraq's full sovereignty.
[00:24:46] Earlier, Iraq's prime minister called for exemptions from US
[00:24:50] sanctions, targeting global companies that work with Iranian
[00:24:54] airlines. Baghdad says it is in contact with Washington to
[00:24:57] exclude several Iraqi airports from US. Hamas
[00:25:01] says he will continue to resist this really occupation and defend Palestinians
[00:25:05] using all legitimate means and tools. Hamas political bureau chief
[00:25:09] Khalillah said the regime is seeking to expel Palestinians
[00:25:12] and warn that they will confront the displacement plans. He said
[00:25:16] October 7 was response to his. Israel's criminal
[00:25:20] conduct and its attempts to erase the Palestinian cause. He also
[00:25:24] pointed out that the criminal nature the occupation emerged in his most
[00:25:28] horrific forms after the alaxa flood operation. Haya
[00:25:32] said the world has demonstrated this rejection the Israeli
[00:25:35] occupation, noting that the solidarity movement with the Palestinian
[00:25:39] people has grown. He said the Palestinian president is being
[00:25:43] prevented from reaching the United Nations, whether
[00:25:45] it is the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu who should be bought
[00:25:49] from doing
[00:25:50] so,
[00:25:58] they have, those were the top stories on press tv, thank you for being with us,
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