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[00:00:08] Good evening, Iran is prepared for every possible
[00:00:12] of scenario, whether that means reaching a diplomatic agreement with Washington
[00:00:16] or confronting another round of military aggression.
[00:00:20] Tehron has reiterated that its seven state proposal remains under
[00:00:24] table with foreign minister Dr.
[00:00:26] Abbas Arakshi saying its implementation could be accelerated from
[00:00:30] days to just two, the foreign ministry says the ball is
[00:00:34] now in Washington's court, while China is stepping up
[00:00:37] diplomatic engagement with Iran and Oman an effort to revive
[00:00:41] of negotiations and restore regional stability. At the
[00:00:45] same time, Supreme National Security Council's secretary Mohsen
[00:00:49] Rii has confirmed that Iran is debating whether to maintain
[00:00:52] its existing nuclear doctrine if another war
[00:00:56] breaks out
[00:00:58] and following the leader's directive on On Saturday, Iran's armed
[00:01:01] forces have
[00:01:02] of asserted that any renewed aggression would be met with a
[00:01:06] far reaching response. So is diplomacy approaching a
[00:01:10] of breakthrough or are we witnessing preparations for another
[00:01:14] of confrontation? That's our focus tonight with our
[00:01:16] guests.
[00:01:21] We have joining us Alessandra Bruno, author and geopolitical analys
[00:01:25] joined us from the city of
[00:01:28] in Toronto. Also joining into this
[00:01:31] in conversation will be Ali Hamiah, military and Strategic Affairs analyst
[00:01:35] joining us from the southern Lebanon areas. Gentlemen,
[00:01:39] thank you both for joining me in this hour, I'm going to begin with our guest me in
[00:01:43] this hour, I'm going to begin with our guests in Toronto, Mr.
[00:01:46] Bruno.
[00:01:48] Let me begin with the central issue te
[00:01:50] in the US court and that its seven stage proposal could
[00:01:54] be implemented in just two
[00:01:56] in days if the US meets its conditions. Um,
[00:02:00] would you say that Tehran right now is offering
[00:02:03] Washington Washington
[00:02:05] a clear and a relatively short way to come back to
[00:02:09] diplomacy and prevent another war? well, I
[00:02:12] think Tehran has offered
[00:02:15] in in of Washington
[00:02:15] of this diplomatic solution for a long time, from the
[00:02:19] very beginning, in fact before uh right
[00:02:23] up to February 27th, 2026,
[00:02:27] and we've had on that occasion. and on the
[00:02:31] previous occasion in June
[00:02:35] 2025, both times it was Washington
[00:02:38] that broke the diplomatic relations which
[00:02:41] were the diplomatic process which was ongoing,
[00:02:45] so it's not Tehran that we have to worry about,
[00:02:49] very clearly Tehran and its
[00:02:52] allies are backing
[00:02:55] a diplomatic solution, who wants war? everyone
[00:02:59] prospers. when there isn't any, but
[00:03:02] of the there are forces at play that
[00:03:06] are compromising the diplomatic solution. for
[00:03:09] example, the current Israeli situation with the
[00:03:13] political limbo, where
[00:03:16] neither
[00:03:17] of the candidates that emerged
[00:03:21] from the recent elections can form a coalition
[00:03:24] yet, might want to use a war,
[00:03:28] particularly Netanyahu to... solidify
[00:03:31] their um compromised
[00:03:34] of personal position to remain in
[00:03:38] power, a war would benefit Netanyahu
[00:03:41] unfortunately, so because he is
[00:03:46] of under legal, he's facing number of legal problems
[00:03:49] and continued war would
[00:03:52] probably persuade the Knesset
[00:03:55] to continue with his
[00:03:58] leadership ' under
[00:04:02] a military situation, so I
[00:04:05] think
[00:04:06] that the the big issue really is, it's in
[00:04:09] Washington's court, and what Trump
[00:04:13] can do to remove himself from
[00:04:16] the the lobbies that are
[00:04:20] pushing for war, because I i don't i
[00:04:24] actually wonder whether he himself wants
[00:04:27] this, he's... is obviously compromised
[00:04:31] as well, and in order to save themselves, they will
[00:04:35] put millions of lives at
[00:04:37] risk. Mr. Hamia, thank you so much for
[00:04:41] joining us as well. I also wanted to put the same question to you,
[00:04:45] do you think that Tehran's latest proposal,
[00:04:49] seven-day road map of coming back to the
[00:04:52] negotiating table, having the straight off for moves back open to
[00:04:56] two-day road map. Do you think this is... Tehran
[00:05:00] giving Washington another way out of this
[00:05:03] confrontation? I can see that
[00:05:07] there is two main player, players in the world right now, Iran and
[00:05:11] United States. and like the world is dividing right now
[00:05:14] between supporting Iran or supporting United States and
[00:05:18] its aggression against Iran. We can see that if we take it
[00:05:22] like step by step that the American are losing their own allies,
[00:05:26] they are losing their own generals kicked out or
[00:05:30] fired or resigned
[00:05:33] and that spontaneous
[00:05:36] and unprovisional strategy of United
[00:05:39] States is taking the United States to s to the
[00:05:43] edge of a great United State
[00:05:47] and I believe that Donald Trump said
[00:05:49] that United States if the
[00:05:53] Republican loses this
[00:05:56] this election, United
[00:06:00] State is is going, United State is is going
[00:06:03] to tokias and going to be
[00:06:07] as a communist states, we we heard that, so
[00:06:11] I believe that... we are a very critical round the
[00:06:15] world championship of wrestling right now
[00:06:18] between the old
[00:06:22] champion the world and the new coming up
[00:06:26] to be one the main player in
[00:06:29] the not only in the region but globally is is
[00:06:33] Iran and that's what the United State is not
[00:06:36] accepted they they thought that they will
[00:06:40] demolish they thought that they will demolish Iran, they
[00:06:44] will finish Iran for they couldn't, then the
[00:06:47] the uh double western from
[00:06:50] Netanyahu telling them, you should kill the leaders in
[00:06:54] Iran and then the war, the war will be ended
[00:06:58] very soon, it didn't happen, Iran
[00:07:02] even though it's under sanction for 47 years,
[00:07:06] the financial situation is not good in Iran,
[00:07:10] but Iran played very
[00:07:14] sensitive role to move this sanction to
[00:07:17] within and to to the inside
[00:07:20] internal problem in united state.
[00:07:24] we can see now we are not living in a
[00:07:27] healthy vote and election
[00:07:31] situation united state, it's unhealthy,
[00:07:34] it's it's chaos uh
[00:07:38] voting and they are threaten each other like they are in
[00:07:42] the uh middle age, that's
[00:07:46] right. Mr. Bruno, um, we also
[00:07:49] have uh, Mohsen Rizay saying that the American tone
[00:07:53] towards Iran has changed, particularly in the latest
[00:07:57] communication from the vice president J.D. Vans, but that
[00:08:00] Iran needs to see evidence, provable evidence that the US
[00:08:04] is serious about diplomacy. My question is, what
[00:08:08] would that sort of concrete evidence looks like, look like
[00:08:12] if are talking about a US, a version the US that is
[00:08:15] serious about diplomacy and reaching a deal rather
[00:08:19] than using the negotiations, to give Iran as they did
[00:08:23] in the 12-day war, to give Iran a false
[00:08:27] sense of security to strike Iran for the third time this
[00:08:30] time, well there are two things going on right now,
[00:08:33] um, it's very important to notice tomorrow Tuesday
[00:08:37] we have the the elections for the
[00:08:41] which are white. predicted to be lost by the
[00:08:44] republicans, um, but there's something else going
[00:08:47] on, there are growing differences within the US
[00:08:51] administration, jd vans
[00:08:55] and do not like each other
[00:08:59] from reports that I've heard, and
[00:09:02] it's Hexeth is more on the aggressive side, whereas
[00:09:06] JD vans is definitely was
[00:09:10] never a big fan of this. war
[00:09:13] and if he has any presidential
[00:09:17] ambitions left, he is going, he he
[00:09:20] understands where the political wind is blowing in
[00:09:24] the United States, so there are
[00:09:27] - contract, there's a contrast within the administration itself,
[00:09:31] which might make any decision,
[00:09:35] might delay this, whatever military
[00:09:39] action I think Washington is planning, another
[00:09:43] issue as well, I think many people
[00:09:47] in the US military are very skeptical
[00:09:50] about the easy victory that Trump is
[00:09:54] promising, um, they have the equipment to
[00:09:57] deliver one or two major blows, but afterwards
[00:10:01] when when these ships will have to leave
[00:10:05] the the ships that they're using the aircraft carriers and all the
[00:10:09] will don't have solid base anymore. in the
[00:10:12] Persian Gulf, because Iran has the caused
[00:10:16] enormous damage to US
[00:10:20] military platforms in the Middle East, in fact a lot of this
[00:10:23] military, including the... what was in
[00:10:27] Iraq has moved to Jordan, so
[00:10:31] we have a general, there is a weakened
[00:10:34] position the the United States with
[00:10:38] respect to what we had on
[00:10:42] February 28, 2026, so already the
[00:10:46] picture, the military picture, what he's hearing most
[00:10:49] likely, if anyone has the guts to tell him from the
[00:10:53] military establishment. and this would
[00:10:56] include the so, i forgot his
[00:10:59] name, they call him raisen, the
[00:11:02] the the main us military figure in the
[00:11:04] in the trump administration, grayson cane, they
[00:11:08] call him, the chief of stuff, i
[00:11:12] think he is on the cautious side as well,
[00:11:16] so the military advice he's getting is
[00:11:18] against another attack, i'm
[00:11:22] sure um and
[00:11:26] Trump will
[00:11:27] be making a decision going against the military, he's
[00:11:31] taking quite a risk,
[00:11:33] especially considering
[00:11:37] the very like the
[00:11:39] likely huge shift in the
[00:11:42] US senate and congress in general,
[00:11:46] which could proceed to
[00:11:50] impeach him, and this time not just impeach as
[00:11:54] a... away but actually remove him from
[00:11:57] power, so I think Trump really faces a big personal
[00:12:01] risk here - at the same
[00:12:05] time he is beholden to Israeli
[00:12:08] interests and Netanyahu remains the prime
[00:12:12] minister, he's still in in power, that's the danger,
[00:12:15] so I don't think um
[00:12:19] the Trump is a position, he's probably going to
[00:12:23] delay uh... any
[00:12:27] decision or the military, the military action could
[00:12:31] look like something that Trump will boast as
[00:12:34] big, using a big bomb against perhaps one the
[00:12:38] mountains where the nuclear one the mountains the where the
[00:12:42] nuclear to to make sure
[00:12:46] uh later for now, mr. ham, I wanted to ask you about
[00:12:50] the leaders directive on
[00:12:53] Saturday which was... is particularly significant ordering
[00:12:57] immediate and effective response to any threat
[00:13:01] without any geographical restrictions and calling for the expansion
[00:13:05] of Iran's target bank. Is Iran right here in
[00:13:09] your opinion signaling that another attack would trigger a
[00:13:12] fundamentally different response from itself?
[00:13:16] Exactly. Let me say that all uh all the
[00:13:20] scenarios are on the table right now. Iran is
[00:13:23] ready for war. and ready for
[00:13:27] dialogue simultaneously at the same time,
[00:13:31] and what we heard from Sayid Mushtaba khamani
[00:13:34] yesterday, like seven points, very
[00:13:38] sensitive, critical, vital,
[00:13:42] precise points that he mentioned,
[00:13:46] starting with without geographical restrictions and
[00:13:50] going into physical to hit physical and non physical
[00:13:53] targets within. beach against the American and the Israelis
[00:13:57] and to consider if being attacked by American or by
[00:14:01] Israel separately, it means they are both will
[00:14:04] be retaliated against against
[00:14:08] also that so
[00:14:10] many, I believe so many
[00:14:14] sensitive in the doctrine declaration
[00:14:18] yesterday by the leader leader,
[00:14:22] I think he is moving, Iran is moving not only. from
[00:14:25] deterrance to moving not only from deterrance to
[00:14:28] initiator to be initiation to init, but they
[00:14:32] are moving for to be
[00:14:36] as the main player in the region and
[00:14:39] to have much influence as they can,
[00:14:43] if we see the situation, we have two main
[00:14:47] subjects that happened last last week, first of all
[00:14:51] the mecca agreements which is
[00:14:55] agreed upon between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and
[00:14:59] Pakistan, we saw them all gathered and met in
[00:15:02] Tahran with Said Muhsin Ridai,
[00:15:06] and then I think also the
[00:15:10] NPT, the NPT, the
[00:15:13] TPNW and also the
[00:15:17] AIA, now
[00:15:21] is on the table also for Iran, because according to the...
[00:15:26] world law, any country
[00:15:30] being you know
[00:15:33] attacked and or any country
[00:15:36] that - string its strings coming out of
[00:15:40] its nuclear weapon against any
[00:15:43] other countries, the other countries should have if they are
[00:15:47] capable to to withdraw or leave the
[00:15:51] MPT or the TPNW, so I
[00:15:55] think the Iranian now at the edge of taken
[00:15:59] very as
[00:16:00] i said sensitive and critical decisions in this matter
[00:16:03] and also maybe it will be supported for what's on in
[00:16:07] Beijing today, the the trilateral talk
[00:16:11] between foreign minister of China and
[00:16:15] also from
[00:16:16] the the Iranian deputy secretary the Supreme National Council
[00:16:20] plus the Omanis in in in Baijin, so I
[00:16:24] think we are at the very, we are at the very
[00:16:28] critical turning point worldwide, that's right,
[00:16:31] I'm going to ask you that question, Mr. Hamiah, but before
[00:16:35] that, Mr. Bruno, Mr. Hamia mentioned
[00:16:39] uh the NPT, the IAEA and international safeguards
[00:16:43] and the effects that this two wars of aggression have
[00:16:47] had on those safegards. This was mentioned
[00:16:50] actually by uh Mohsen Razi uh saying
[00:16:54] that uh Iran is right now debating whether to re
[00:16:57] uh stay its uh or
[00:17:00] you know contain itself it's existing nuclear doctrine
[00:17:04] if another war of aggression against Iran -
[00:17:08] out, what does the emergence of this debate inside Iran? the people of
[00:17:12] Iran have been asking this for very long time right now, after the
[00:17:15] 12-day war, that right now there is
[00:17:19] debate inside Iranian officials to to stay and
[00:17:23] have the same nuclear doctrine or actually change
[00:17:27] it if another war of aggression against Iran breaks
[00:17:30] out? well, let's begin by saying that
[00:17:34] some people, serious people believe that...
[00:17:37] Iran may already have nuclear weapon
[00:17:41] ready, so um,
[00:17:44] that we, I don't discount that possibility, because Iran
[00:17:48] certainly had the technical capability of making one, there was a fatwa,
[00:17:52] yes, issued by the previous supreme leader who
[00:17:56] was killed on February 28th,
[00:17:59] um, but
[00:18:01] we don't know strategically,
[00:18:03] you know, when you uh, you will
[00:18:06] hide. certain information, so we don't know what the posture
[00:18:10] has been since then, and it's
[00:18:14] all it's vague, Iran has certainly
[00:18:18] expressed plenty of times its
[00:18:22] willingness to cooperate with all the relevant
[00:18:25] authorities, allow inspectors by all means
[00:18:29] and it was only after
[00:18:33] the the war that in June of
[00:18:36] 2025. five that there were some complicate some
[00:18:40] issues arose when Iran accused the ia of being
[00:18:44] biased particularly the former the
[00:18:47] leader the argentinian i
[00:18:51] forgot his name right now um but
[00:18:55] Iran has always shown a willingness to
[00:18:58] share all of its all the details of
[00:19:02] its program so certainly they
[00:19:06] will they will certainly be an aggressive
[00:19:09] posture from some the people in the
[00:19:13] Iranian government or people close to the
[00:19:16] IRGC for example, because Iran is not a monolith,
[00:19:20] people think that Iran is some monolithic entity,
[00:19:24] no, just like in all other countries, there are
[00:19:27] currents and tendencies,
[00:19:29] there aren't any formal political parties say,
[00:19:33] but there are currents, and there are
[00:19:36] multiple. multitude of currents because
[00:19:38] Iran technically is in
[00:19:41] fact what
[00:19:43] the whatever the western authorities say
[00:19:47] democracy of sorts so it has different
[00:19:50] opinions and I'm sure that
[00:19:53] after this multiple wars
[00:19:56] and the constant threat of war that exists
[00:20:00] right now um it's quite
[00:20:03] obvious it would be particularly for a
[00:20:07] country. with the
[00:20:10] historical legacy
[00:20:12] of perhaps the place where chess was
[00:20:13] invented, that's right,
[00:20:17] it's impossible to think that they are not planning some a
[00:20:21] change in that posture, and that's the risk that
[00:20:24] the world is taking, and this is one another reason why China is
[00:20:28] taking a very pro, very
[00:20:31] active diplomatic position, this is something that really
[00:20:35] needs to be discussed as well, because China is the emerging
[00:20:38] superpower and it certainly does not want another war,
[00:20:42] so Trump also has to calculate what China
[00:20:46] wants and what China's retaliation might be exactly. because there
[00:20:50] will be one. yes, mr. bruno. mr. ham,
[00:20:54] can a can be claim that a country is in
[00:20:57] possession of nuclear weapons when they haven't had a hot test
[00:21:01] yet?
[00:21:03] you know, there is two difference, two different, as
[00:21:07] we say, agreements upon the
[00:21:10] nuclear weapons in 1967 when
[00:21:14] they invented the MPT, it means the the
[00:21:18] countries that has neck.
[00:21:21] have has nuclear power power, they are not allowed to
[00:21:24] distribute it to another country, and then later
[00:21:28] between 1967 with the
[00:21:32] MPT going to PT NW in
[00:21:35] 2017, you have more than five
[00:21:39] countries like North Korea, Pakistan,
[00:21:42] India, also
[00:21:46] Israel entity, they acquire. the
[00:21:50] nuclear power and weapon, so
[00:21:54] it means now it might change right now, you are
[00:21:58] allowed to withdraw from the
[00:22:02] ii, ia, ea, and
[00:22:06] go for nuclear weapon, if the nuclear weapon
[00:22:08] is not useful, why you are using it, and if it is useful so
[00:22:12] why you forbidden us from from having
[00:22:16] it, so I think I think right now...
[00:22:20] Iran in a position to
[00:22:23] say like country, such a country,
[00:22:26] Iraq country like Israel,
[00:22:29] at 2000 kilometers, 8 million people, without the
[00:22:32] nuclear power, it's nothing, so they are
[00:22:36] thrinking and they are hiding behind the nuclear
[00:22:40] capabilities and threaten all the countries
[00:22:43] around because of such power, I
[00:22:47] believe that Iran after so many...
[00:22:51] aggression against Iran done by United States and
[00:22:55] Israel, they are entitled to have such
[00:22:58] power. Let's hypothetically talk about that, Mr.
[00:23:02] Hamiah, let's say that Iran is right now a position in
[00:23:06] possession of nuclear weapons. What does that mean to the
[00:23:09] US and Israel and also to the strategic calculations
[00:23:13] in the region? Mr.
[00:23:14] Hamia.
[00:23:19] Mr. can you hear us? yes, yes, yes,
[00:23:23] let's say, let's say Iran as declared by United
[00:23:27] States, let's say what the United States say is
[00:23:30] saying that Iran has 480
[00:23:34] kilogram of enriched uranium over 60,
[00:23:37] 60%, and to go and
[00:23:40] reach 85 up to 90, which is
[00:23:44] entitled to have nuclear war head, they need
[00:23:48] 13 days only. and
[00:23:51] with the
[00:23:54] ir 8 and IR
[00:23:56] 12, the Iranian are
[00:24:00] capable to do so within days, but what
[00:24:04] blocked that is the fatwa of imam Ali
[00:24:08] Khamenei, now this
[00:24:11] fatwa can be changed because it's secondary fatwa, it's not
[00:24:15] from that essential from fatwa that you
[00:24:18] cannot change it can be 30
[00:24:21] seconds, excuse me, we have 30
[00:24:25] seconds, please wrap up your thoughts, yes, so all the
[00:24:29] now the Iranian inside, they are at
[00:24:32] the most and the pick power the
[00:24:36] Iranian, because all the Iranian are are gathered
[00:24:40] all unified to have the nuclear weapon and to defend
[00:24:44] themselves against any common aggression, thank you
[00:24:48] so much both of you gentlemen for your... thoughts tonight, Alessandra Bruno,
[00:24:52] author and geopolitical, geopolitical analyst joining us from the city of
[00:24:55] Toronto, and Ali Hamia, military and Strategic Affairs
[00:24:59] analys joined us from southern Lebanon. Thank you both again, and
[00:25:03] this brings us to the end of our disadition of our
[00:25:06] spotlight program. Thank you for joining us and
[00:25:08] bye-bye.
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