PRESSTV — broadcast 20261012 083000 UTC 464 transcript segments Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp) Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:01] Her close friend Elena spoke through tears. She said she missed Maho and [00:00:04] wished she could [00:00:06] in still be beside them. She wanted Mahya to stay with them and grow up [00:00:10] with them, but Mahya will never enter the third grade. The new school year [00:00:14] of is just around the corner. Soon, the school bell will ring again, [00:00:17] children will return to their classrooms, new books will be opened [00:00:21] and third grade will begin, but this time there will be one less [00:00:25] student. Mahal was supposed to be there, but all that remains in her [00:00:29] classroom. is empty seat and the memory of a little girl who was [00:00:33] supposed to grow up, study and build a future of her [00:00:39] of own. [00:00:40] of [00:00:47] a [00:01:00] tonight on expose three years after October 7, the headlines [00:01:03] remain, but so do the contradictions. [00:01:06] of We follow the trail across the electronic intifada. [00:01:10] TRTX and the T network, examining claims that helped [00:01:14] shape the narrative October 7 and the war that followed. We [00:01:18] revisit a digital reporting on allegations of sexual violence and [00:01:22] warnings reportedly received before the attack. On x, [00:01:26] we traced viral claims and the footage challenging some [00:01:29] of the stories to. circulated in the aftermath, fake news takes [00:01:33] us to zeteo and TRT, exposing claims [00:01:36] surrounding the hostages, hospitals and alleged [00:01:40] propaganda, infigures, un findings and Israeli entity [00:01:44] reporting put numbers, evidence and official records [00:01:47] under the microscope, and in voices, Norman [00:01:51] Finkelsten asks who will enforce [00:01:54] of Zinist Israeli departure from Gaza, welcome to season two [00:01:58] of Exfase, the award winning show that leads no stone on [00:02:00] turn. [00:02:07] of three years after October 7, many [00:02:10] of the zionist claims that dominated the airways are facing [00:02:13] very different media spotlight, with zeo and TRT [00:02:17] revisiting disputed narratives surrounding the hostages, [00:02:21] hospitals and the justification for the war. here are the [00:02:24] headlines. the tail, the hostages could have been [00:02:28] released, so why did war continue, [00:02:31] TRT, from beheaded [00:02:34] of babies me to hospital claims, examining October 7 [00:02:38] propaganda. [00:02:45] October 7 was followed by torrent of claims that shaped public [00:02:49] opinion and helped frame the war that followed. Three [00:02:52] years on, reports from Zainas, Israely, regional and international media [00:02:56] have challenged or contradicted number of those narratives. Tonight we [00:03:00] revisit two broadcast clips that put some [00:03:03] of the most consequential claims under the spotlight. Joining us our [00:03:07] broadcast video [00:03:08] experts. [00:03:11] Foad over to you. Thank you. So three years since the start [00:03:14] of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and lot [00:03:16] of the claims presented as [00:03:18] in unquestionable facts have been extensively challenged by [00:03:22] reporting and evidence from multiple media outlets over the years. So we begin [00:03:26] with Zeteo and its clip titled the truth about Hamas. [00:03:30] and the hostages, so here mehdi Hassan is highlighting [00:03:34] haaret's report concerning warnings allegedly received before 7 [00:03:37] October, and then turns to another revelation, the claims that Hamas offered [00:03:41] to release civilian hostages on the very evening of October 7. [00:03:45] Let's watch. We got to talk about this bumshell piece in the [00:03:49] Israeli newspaper hat. Now, lot of people have been focusing on the headline, [00:03:53] revealed. Netanyahu received an explicit warning days before October the [00:03:57] 7th, [00:03:58] of he didn't brief Israel's security. chiefs, it's a huge deal. [00:04:02] Apparently the president [00:04:03] of the UAE, Muhammad bin Zayat called the Prime Minister of Israel and told him to be ready [00:04:07] for a quote major event from Hamas and Netanyahu [00:04:10] did [00:04:12] of nothing, which has led to even people like former US secretary of state [00:04:15] of Hillary Clinton, suggesting maybe [00:04:17] of Netanyahu let the October 7th attacks happen. Netanyahu had been [00:04:21] literally called by from UAE and [00:04:25] warned, from UAE and warned, [00:04:29] of and of either... and either or he it's [00:04:33] of horrible to say [00:04:33] a he or he's horrible to say he wanted to see what they could plan [00:04:37] so [00:04:38] that then he could come down hard, but for me the really devastating and [00:04:41] revealing and important part [00:04:43] of the story is not the bit everyone is focused on about the mbz call [00:04:47] and the bb [00:04:47] in action, it's further down in the story, it's where Haret also [00:04:51] confirms that Hamas was ready to release all the civilian hostages not [00:04:55] weeks or months later, but on [00:04:58] of October [00:04:58] of the 7th itself. At 7 pm on October the 7th, the prime minister of [00:05:02] Qatar called the head [00:05:04] of the masad and told him, I explicitly threatened Hamas that if [00:05:07] all civilian hostages are not released immediately, I will personally order their [00:05:11] expulsion from. 'I would like to inform you that Hamas [00:05:15] is ready to release all civilians now and we are prepared to [00:05:19] mediate, but the Israelies weren't interested. The piece also adds that [00:05:22] there was a message sent from Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwa who had no problem [00:05:26] releasing all civilians without anything in return. Those were his exact [00:05:30] words, all civilians without anything in return, [00:05:34] except the start of negotiations. But the Israelis weren't interested. Netanyahu [00:05:38] doesn't want to talk about anything, he only wants war and the elimination of [00:05:41] Hamas. was the message from Israeli security officials to Palestinian [00:05:45] and Qatari intermediaries. Think about that. For the past three years [00:05:49] of this genocide, we have been told by the people in power that [00:05:53] all the violence and killing and war was all about getting back [00:05:57] the hostages. Remember, Hamas has a choice to [00:05:59] make. Their only way out is to release the [00:06:03] hostages. This war can end tomorrow. It can [00:06:06] end if Hamas lays down its arms and returns our [00:06:10] hostages and as I said in my opening statement, it could... than today, if Hamas [00:06:13] would release all the hostages, lay down their arms uh and and surrender up [00:06:17] those responsible for the October 7th attacks. This could end today if they would [00:06:21] let the women, the wounded, the elderly [00:06:25] go, it could end, this could end. It was all a lie, [00:06:29] a brazen, shameless, demonstrable [00:06:32] lie. So the clip ends with [00:06:36] Hasan describing the contradiction that he's seen between years of political [00:06:39] messaging that the war was necessary to secure. the hostages [00:06:43] and the account presented in the haarets reporting that Hamas [00:06:47] had offered to release the civilians that same evening. [00:06:49] You know, this is the stricking point that if that account is accurate, it's [00:06:52] directly complicating this repeated claim that we've seen that [00:06:56] continued war was simply about bringing the captives home, [00:07:00] which we all know was not the case. But it also raises a fundamental [00:07:04] question, Fuad, about which parts the October 7 [00:07:07] narrative were treated as a mutable facts and [00:07:11] which was later. reveal to be far more complicated than what [00:07:15] has been seen, yeah, exactly. now we move to [00:07:19] TRT with the clip titled gaza, lies Israel titled [00:07:22] gaza, lies Israel fed the world since October 7, so he [00:07:26] circulated after October 7, he circulated after October [00:07:29] 7, including the alleged Hamas headquarter and many [00:07:33] other claims it describes as propaganda. Let's [00:07:35] watch. One lie after another, some [00:07:39] even more outrageous than the last batch, and one after. to the other, they keep [00:07:43] getting debunked. Since October 7, Israel has employed a [00:07:47] well-orchestrated PR campaign to change narratives at this lights, [00:07:51] spread false information and drum-up sport for its decades long [00:07:54] occupation of Palestinian territories and its brutal onslot [00:07:57] unblocated Gaza. Remember the infamous calendar at the [00:08:01] Araranticy Hospital, there is a list and the [00:08:05] fake nurse at has to know what Hamas is has to [00:08:08] know what Hamas is making here, [00:08:11] they taking over. the entire [00:08:13] hospital. [00:08:17] Israel has a right to defend itself, that's a statement that has been [00:08:21] repeated over and over again by Israel and its [00:08:25] allies since Selaviv's war on the besieged enclave began. [00:08:28] Israel calls its actions in Gaza and other places [00:08:31] self-defense, but experts denounce the talking point, saying [00:08:35] it's not validated by international law. the right [00:08:39] to self-defense applies to a state when is attacked by [00:08:43] another and its national security and existence are exposed [00:08:47] to danger. At that time, this state informs the United [00:08:51] Nations first, and then uses force to defend [00:08:54] itself. This does not apply to the current situation [00:08:57] here. Yeah, so this is [00:09:01] actually revisiting specific examples of claims that became very [00:09:05] powerful images during the information war, while also challenging this [00:09:09] repeated framing the zionist entities actions as [00:09:12] self-defense, self-defense, and and once again, those early claims become [00:09:16] headlines, as obviously we have seen several times, they can shape [00:09:20] public perception, even long after their factual [00:09:23] basis has been challenged. Fuad and Sima, thank you very much [00:09:27] for joining us. Thank [00:09:28] you, [00:09:35] from the electronic intifada design as Israeli's own her [00:09:39] arres, digital media has documented claims. warnings and [00:09:43] questions surrounding October 7 that deserve to be heard beyond the [00:09:46] headlines. Here are the headlines: the electronic antifada [00:09:50] revisiting the October 7 rape [00:09:52] narrative. [00:09:54] I read Netanyahu knew long before us, [00:09:58] families demand [00:09:59] answers. [00:10:07] Now we turn to mainstream digital media and the reports challenging [00:10:11] some the most consequential. claims surrounding October 7. Seima [00:10:15] will take us through two reports, one examining false [00:10:18] allegations of sexual violence and another raising questions about [00:10:22] warnings received before the attack, joining us Again our digital media [00:10:26] expert Sima itam and analyst Fuad Itaim. Welcome both. [00:10:29] Sima, let's begin. Thank you. So let's just get right into it. So the first [00:10:33] report comes from the electronic intifada and it's written by Ali Abu [00:10:37] Name and it's titled Israel's seven October rapee hoges gets a [00:10:41] 300 page reboot. So it examines how this new [00:10:44] report that's presented as evidentiary breakthrough and argues that it's [00:10:48] largely repackaging earlier allegations that we saw. [00:10:52] He writes major media outlets are promoting he writes major. media outlets are promoting [00:10:56] new report as an evidentiary breakthrough on alleged mass rapes of [00:10:59] Israelies by Hamas on 7 October 2023, and it [00:11:03] is nothing the kind, weighing in at almost 300 [00:11:06] pages, silence no more published by supposedly independent [00:11:10] civil commission is largely repackaged compilation of [00:11:14] old claims, anonymous allegations and speculation, which is what we saw from the [00:11:18] start by the way, exactly, and what makes it significant is that the article is not [00:11:22] simply disputing one base that has been presented to the base [00:11:26] that has been presented to the public in the history of some of those sources, [00:11:30] yeah, and the article is pointing specifically to this previous criticism of [00:11:33] koshav Levi, quoting an Israeli government source [00:11:37] reported by Ynet, people disconnected from her because her investigation is not [00:11:41] accurate, said adding that she actually had circulated a [00:11:45] story about slicing the belly of a pregnant woman, if you guys [00:11:48] remember that, and this was later proven un true as the [00:11:52] babies in the oven was, yeah, [00:11:54] so so... obviously here, the issue that has been raised is [00:11:57] not what was claimed, but whether the sources and the [00:12:01] methodology, according to the information that you're highlighting, behind [00:12:05] those claim would stand scrutiny at one point, yes, and they haven't [00:12:09] been able to, and the article actually then identifies what it calls the central [00:12:13] evidentiary problem, which is the key problem with Israel's 7 [00:12:16] october mass rapes narrative has never been merely the failure to name [00:12:20] victims publicly, and it also asks how many complaints [00:12:24] were made. how many victims were positively identified and how many alleged [00:12:28] cases rest on witness interference here say or [00:12:31] speculation? fundamental questions for any investigation involving [00:12:35] allegations of this magnitude? yeah, and now onto our second report from [00:12:39] Israeli newspaper, hardets. Netanyahu knew long before us [00:12:43] October 7 families demand answers over warnings by Bar Pelleg, [00:12:47] so this report documents Israeli families demanding [00:12:51] answers over the warnings reportedly received before October. [00:12:55] seven that were they say ignored many times over, so [00:12:59] one the central questions raised is the question, how did he [00:13:02] sleep? because he knew, he knew long before any of us did, how did he [00:13:06] sleep instead of protecting liby? that is the question, how does [00:13:10] he think they deserve to keep leading this country? yeah, and that [00:13:14] moves the discussion actually, from what happened during the attack to what [00:13:18] israely authorities allegedly new [00:13:21] beforehand. yeah, and whose [00:13:24] son spent seven 137 days in Hamas captivity says another [00:13:28] warning and another alert, and we all saw the result on October [00:13:32] 7 calling the repeated response, I didn't know, I wasn't told, [00:13:36] I wasn't woken up, false campaign, okay, so [00:13:39] this reflects increasingly prominent demand inside [00:13:43] the zionist entity over the warnings and the decisions that preceeded October [00:13:47] 7, particularly the state state commission of inquiry and all those [00:13:51] things, yes, and that is where we actually leave at the... [00:13:55] segment examining not only the blatant claims made by [00:13:59] the zionist regime after October 7, but also the [00:14:02] questions raised by journalists about how those claims [00:14:06] were constructed and what authorities knew beforehand. Sima Faad, thank you [00:14:10] about. Thank you [00:14:11] for. [00:14:19] October 7 was followed by a barrage of shocking Zionist claims [00:14:23] that quickly became headlines. political talking points and [00:14:26] viral social media posts, but as more footage, testimonial [00:14:30] evidence emerge, some of those claims come under growing scrutiny. here are the [00:14:34] headlines: October 7, the claims that built the [00:14:38] narrative, shocking claims, viral headlines and the evidence that [00:14:42] challenged [00:14:42] them. [00:14:50] In this episode we are examining how narratives surrounding October [00:14:54] 7 were... amplified and repeated and how social [00:14:58] media has become crucial space for challenging claims presented [00:15:01] as unquestionable facts when in reality they [00:15:05] were mere lies with us again our social media [00:15:09] exper and analytim let's begin with what [00:15:12] people are actually saying on x sure far [00:15:16] so this first post that we have challenges the way accusations of [00:15:20] antisemitism have been used in debates over gaza [00:15:24] and the post re representative at UN [00:15:27] ecosok and accredited at UN office at Geneva, [00:15:31] Muhammad Safa wrote, almost 80 years ago you were an [00:15:35] anti-semite, if you are [00:15:37] an antis. opposed you are an anti-semitive opposed who did this to [00:15:40] gaza want to lecture us about who did this to gaza want to lecture us about watch [00:15:44] gaza and ruins as watch gaza and ruins as watch [00:15:48] gaza and ruins as muhammad [00:15:50] posted. [00:16:08] so the post points to a broader media problem, how language can shift this [00:16:12] discussion away from evidence and toward accusations and allegations [00:16:16] intended to discredit criticism, basically, yeah, and that is precisely [00:16:19] why examining uh the original claims rather than [00:16:23] simply repeating them a different note um [00:16:26] actually matters at one point, yeah, and the next post actually [00:16:30] makes a much more direct allegation about October 7 [00:16:34] arguing that the attack was used to justify what followed, so... post comes [00:16:38] from holding to truth after the truth it reads October 7 [00:16:41] was false flag to justify the ethnic cleansing in Gaza three years [00:16:45] later it's more clear now than ever um let's take [00:16:49] a look someone tells you there isn't a [00:16:53] genocide in Gaza show them this video look at the difference in the port alone from [00:16:57] 2023 to 2026 that's not enough for you here's [00:17:00] Google's updated satellite imaging of Gaza look at this it has been [00:17:04] completely destroyed guys hardly any buildings are left I mean you're... talking about [00:17:08] schools, restaurants, home about this is apple [00:17:11] refuses to about this as Apple refuses to update their maps like [00:17:15] Google did to show the destruction. I wonder who's making the newest iphone. Oh, [00:17:18] Shocker. This is justifiable from what happened on October [00:17:22] 7th, right? No, wrong, cuz Netan Yahoo actually knew that this was going to take [00:17:26] place, implemented a standown order to then justify what's been going on in [00:17:30] Gaza. Was there a stand down [00:17:31] order? Was there a stand down [00:17:35] order? Six hours? I don't believe it, [00:17:39] Israel's deciding size New Jersey, when I took a helicopter, size New [00:17:42] Jersey, when I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem [00:17:46] to the Gaza border, it's 45 minutes, 6 hours, did [00:17:50] somebody in the government say stand down, conspiracy [00:17:53] question, the whole country is the IDF, the [00:17:57] whole country is be careful the way I say this, they're going to try [00:18:00] to ethnically cleanse Gaza, I mean that that's and I [00:18:03] don't use that term lightly, okay, they're talk. talking about [00:18:07] basically removing 2.5 million people okay and let tell you [00:18:11] my pattern recognition over the last five [00:18:15] years has become pretty sharp covid [00:18:19] mowie fires when i see [00:18:23] story and it doesn't click we're [00:18:26] our guts are usually right [00:18:30] as the evidence presented here suggests october 7 narrative wasn't simply about what [00:18:34] happened that day but about how those events were subsequent used to justify what fall [00:18:38] in gaza and that's what they mean by false flag, not actual false flag, but [00:18:42] okay, exactly, and this is where social media again and [00:18:45] again has played a pavital role um bringing forward [00:18:49] information and also a testimony that directly [00:18:53] challenged the narrative that was initially presented to the public a different [00:18:56] perspective. yeah, exactly. the next post that we have [00:19:00] shares a video featuring former spokesman chris gunis [00:19:04] and it's discussing a contested accounts surrounding seven. october [00:19:08] double down news posted it and captioned it with former UN chief [00:19:11] absolutely demolishes october 7 lies so here's the video of chris let's take a look [00:19:15] at that video you see what happened in [00:19:19] october is that the israelis got their talking points out [00:19:22] brilliantly and as someone who's done public communications i can recognize [00:19:26] so the narrative went out it was a surprise attack there was no real context there were [00:19:30] hamas butchers they kill 1400 people or 1200 there was no [00:19:34] context Israel could do whatever it liked in order implement. its right of [00:19:38] self-defense. Israel has a right to defend itself. Israel must have that, does have [00:19:42] that right to defend herself. all of those talking points are [00:19:45] wrong. there was a context, the context of 1948, the disposession the [00:19:49] palestinians, the context of 1967, the context the [00:19:53] occupation, 2007, the context the bloccade and then all the [00:19:56] conflicts that happened since then, the idea that Israel has the [00:20:00] right of self-defense. according to the 2004 legal [00:20:04] opinion the ICJ, occupied people can't not be [00:20:08] attacked, the occupying power has an obligation to protect [00:20:11] them, and yet here was Israel destroying, blowing them up, doing all these [00:20:15] terrible things to them, the idea that it was a butchery by [00:20:19] Hamas, people don't report much on the Hannibal [00:20:22] directive, and this is a directive that comes, it's an IDF directive [00:20:26] that they put to their [00:20:27] soldiers, so [00:20:31] gunis is questioning several claims and is pointing the viewers toward the [00:20:34] distinction between lot the early reports and the more accurate [00:20:38] information that came out later, and that distinction is central [00:20:42] to this episode specifically, claims made in the immediate [00:20:46] aftermath, should not become permanently immune. [00:20:50] from examinations, and yet somehow people still fall for it every time, though it's [00:20:54] been happening for decades. we have our final post [00:20:56] that uh focuses specifically on allegations involving children and the widely [00:21:00] circulated claims about the beheaded [00:21:04] Israeli babies. so international observer posted [00:21:08] footage revealed that hamas didn't harm children on 7 october, then [00:21:11] why western mainstream media spread lies about beheading [00:21:15] of Israeli babies, so here is some footage uh actual footage from [00:21:19] october. [00:21:50] claims that the Israelis made in the aftermath were supported by verified [00:21:54] evidence and clearly they weren't, as shown in this video the Hamas fighters, [00:21:57] yeah, and that is exactly what Expose is doing, separating [00:22:01] claims, evidence and repetition. C mount f, thank you, thank [00:22:05] you. [00:22:13] When the headlines fade, the numbers remain un [00:22:16] investigations, Israeli entity reporting an official record. [00:22:20] have exposed contradictions in the story told about October 7 [00:22:24] from the Hannibal directive and civilian death to disputed [00:22:27] evidence and warnings before the attack. Here are the [00:22:30] headlines. The Hannibal directive enters the October 7 [00:22:34] record. 5000 photos, 50 hours of [00:22:38] footage. What the UN found behind the [00:22:40] claim? [00:22:48] Numbers can tell a story, but Sometimes they can also expose the story [00:22:52] that was told. Tonight we turn to the figures, findings and [00:22:55] official records behind some the most contested [00:22:59] narratives of October 7. Joining us our senior researcher [00:23:02] Hiba Murad and analyst. Take us through the record [00:23:06] please. Thank you. Let's begin with what the UN Independent [00:23:10] International Commission of Inquiry found: the [00:23:14] so-called honeyball director, the so-called honeyball [00:23:17] director 7 20. 7 [00:23:21] 20 23 and that its application resulted in the killing [00:23:25] of hundreds of Israeli entity colonial settlers. now the [00:23:29] commission also documented cases involving Israeli entity tank [00:23:33] and helicopters fire where settlers were [00:23:37] and militants were present. so the familiar picture of October [00:23:40] 7 as story in which every civilian death was [00:23:43] attributed exclusively, if you repeat with me here to [00:23:47] hammas is challenged by the UN findings [00:23:50] exactly, and then comes a bigger number, 500, the [00:23:54] UN sexual violence mission reviewed more than 500 [00:23:58] photographs and approximately 50 hours of footage, [00:24:02] alongside 34 confidential interviews, but it also found the [00:24:06] venensice evidence had not been systematically [00:24:10] had not been systematically collected with potentially valuing [00:24:14] handling and the prioritization of identification and [00:24:17] burial, which actually matters enormously. when these sensational claims [00:24:21] are you repeated and transformed into supposedly definitive [00:24:25] facts, because evidence has to survive scrutiny, not just simply [00:24:28] survive the headline. yes, sema, and and the UN findings [00:24:32] here also more nuanced than the competing propaganda [00:24:36] narrative suggests, the UN mission determining that at least [00:24:40] two widely reported allegations of rape in bairy were [00:24:44] unfounded, so even the UN, its [00:24:48] record itself demon straights why separating verified [00:24:51] findings from exagerated or unsupported [00:24:55] claims is crucial, yes, and finally now, there is [00:24:59] a question of warnings and responsibility. Israely entity [00:25:03] reporting has increasingly focused on what senior [00:25:06] officials knew before October 7 and what was documented in government [00:25:10] meeting protocols. now those records have [00:25:14] been part, have become part of an internal Israely entity [00:25:17] debate over Netanyahu's account them. Okay, you know this at [00:25:21] three years on since the start the genocide, and this leaves us with the striking pattern, [00:25:25] which is the more the record is examined through UN investigations and other [00:25:29] investigations, Israel's reporting and [00:25:32] official documentation, um, you know, the harder it [00:25:36] becomes to sustain the simple uncontested version of [00:25:40] October 17 that they want to maintain. Well, um, the figures [00:25:44] have spoken and the record is far more complicated than the [00:25:48] headlines first suggested. h b and see you more thank you very [00:25:51] much [00:25:59] in our voices segment we turn to scholar. Finkel [00:26:03] speaking on the T network YouTube channel in the tea with [00:26:07] Miriam Francis a discussion titled they gave the keys [00:26:11] of Gaza to Trump. Finka scene examines the [00:26:14] political implications the demand for Zionist Israel to leave [00:26:18] Gaza and ask the crucial question of who if anyone will enforce [00:26:22] it. Let's watch the clip together. President [00:26:26] Trump owns Gaza. They gave it to [00:26:30] him. [00:26:30] It was the most, I would say shock. breach of [00:26:34] international law as defined [00:26:38] over 80 years since [00:26:40] 1947. now here's the kicker, as [00:26:44] defined by the UN, the law and the UN [00:26:47] bodies, be at the general assembly, the security [00:26:51] council, the international court of justice, they [00:26:54] have all weighed in over an 80-year period [00:26:58] to define the parameters, the term [00:27:03] for apprehending the Israel palestine conflict, UN [00:27:07] resolution 2803, believe it or not, it [00:27:10] abolished all of it, it was all witted [00:27:14] out, [00:27:22] ladies and gentlemen, with that we conclude our expos for tonight right here on pris tv, until [00:27:26] next week, question the headline, trace the source and never surrender your [00:27:29] judgments. [00:27:51] At the cradle of Western Civilization, US Secretary of State, [00:27:55] Marco Rubio tells a familiar story: Persians as [00:27:59] villains, Athenians as heroes. But is that [00:28:02] history or just Washington's preferred [00:28:05] vision? Persians plundered the temples, [00:28:09] they burned the shrines, they raised the acropolis to the ground. Case [00:28:13] closed, not so fast, history has habit of [00:28:16] talking back. [00:28:19] Alexander, he had great respect for the Persian culture, a little [00:28:23] inconvenient for narrative that reduces Persia to an army of [00:28:27] barbarians, and Oscar winning filmmaker, Oliver Stone has [00:28:31] message for those... lecturing the world its past. i think westerners [00:28:35] don't understand completely the history of Iran and [00:28:39] Persia. I would suggest this book is is a great place to [00:28:42] start. [00:28:48] Washington may think it can dictate the narrative, but history has [00:28:51] outlasted empires before, and it has empires before, [00:28:55] and it has a warning for those who think they can rewrite it. You cannot [00:28:59] change history. You cannot change history. You'll be [00:29:02] defeated by the forces of history, which are inevitable, and [00:29:06] Americans seem to believe that the this is the defeats us every [00:29:09] time. [00:29:59] That lines Iran has rejected Washington's. claims that energy [00:30:03] shipments continue freely through the straight of hormos, saying the US [00:30:07] reliance on other countries for fuel contradicts its own narrative.