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[00:00:08] Headlines, the IRGC Ground forces commander says armed forces are fully prepared
[00:00:12] to deliver decisive response to any hostile action
[00:00:16] following his visit to Iranian Persian Valf
[00:00:19] islands. France faces another day of nationwide
[00:00:23] of strikes and protests as trade unions mobilized workers against rising living costs and
[00:00:27] government austerity measures.
[00:00:30] of US Republican Congressman Thomas
[00:00:33] Massy has filed eight articles of impeachment against war
[00:00:37] Secretary Pete
[00:00:38] Hexen.
[00:00:54] of
[00:00:58] Hello and welcome everybody. It's two. 30 p.m. here in the Iranian capital tehron. you're
[00:01:02] watching Press TV's world
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[00:01:04] of our top story for this half hour, a senior commander
[00:01:07] of the Islamic Revolution Guard's course says Iran's armed forces are fully prepared
[00:01:11] to deliver decisive response to any hostile
[00:01:14] action. the commander
[00:01:15] of the IRGC's ground forces brigadier general Mohammed Academy made the remarks
[00:01:19] during visit to Persian Golf Islands and military units
[00:01:23] stationed there. he said Iran stands firm
[00:01:27] of against its adversaries and will not back. down, the
[00:01:30] senior
[00:01:31] of IRGC of commander also expressed confidence that Iran and the
[00:01:35] resistance front will prevail, his remarks come with renewed US threats of
[00:01:39] aggression against Iran, Iranian officials have warned that any attack could
[00:01:42] of trigger immediate and forceful response with no
[00:01:46] geographical
[00:01:46] limits.
[00:01:54] of France faces nationwide wave of strikes and
[00:01:58] protests as trade unions mobilize work. workers against rising living costs
[00:02:01] and government austerity measures. the demonstrations brought
[00:02:05] together workers, high school and university students who have been
[00:02:09] protesting deteriorating
[00:02:10] of school conditions, overcrowded classrooms and
[00:02:13] inadequate facilities. ahead
[00:02:16] of the strikes, France's four main rail unions condemned the government's
[00:02:19] proposed budget cuts warning they would deepen poverty,
[00:02:23] weaken uh social security and freeze public sector
[00:02:26] salaries. the latest mobilization comes as president
[00:02:30] a Emmanuel's government struggles to push an austerity budget through
[00:02:34] a divided parliament with public debt approaching
[00:02:37] 120%
[00:02:38] of the country's economic
[00:02:40] output.
[00:02:50] Well, to further expand on that story, we have political
[00:02:54] activist Frau Hughes who's joining us from
[00:02:57] a Belfast, also we have
[00:02:58] of
[00:02:58] in of independent International Affairs Analist Gilbert.
[00:03:25] of
[00:03:30] not just within France but across the whole of western and
[00:03:34] of southern Europe, what we're witnessing is an
[00:03:37] ongoing outsourcing
[00:03:40] of of neoliberal austerity, I mean this happened in Britain and
[00:03:43] America under Factor and Reagan in the 1970s
[00:03:47] and the 1980s, we've had public services
[00:03:50] decimated, we've had the welfare structure decimated, we've had
[00:03:54] the schools and the hospitals and education,
[00:03:58] roads, trains, infrastructure, they've all been
[00:04:02] farmed out uh increasingly to private companies
[00:04:06] for private profit, so what called the social contract
[00:04:10] between the citizens of a country and its political uh
[00:04:14] leaders has been broken by the politicians and when you add
[00:04:17] in the illegal amoral war on Iran, the war
[00:04:21] proxy and gas 25% and petrol and
[00:04:25] diesel and you have feeling European
[00:04:27] economies with a ray in
[00:04:30] unemployment and the children and the students and the people going
[00:04:34] to university see no future, the price of
[00:04:38] houses and rent has literally gone through the roof, nopon
[00:04:42] intended, but people can't afford the rent,
[00:04:44] of they can't afford the hard energy prices, they can't afford to have
[00:04:48] food
[00:04:49] of prices, so the working class is increasingly being pushed in the
[00:04:52] poverty in Europe, and I would extrapolate that as far
[00:04:56] as North
[00:04:57] of America and Canada so... It's a
[00:05:00] failure of uh political
[00:05:04] contract with the people and while the're finding
[00:05:07] of uh tens of billions of not hundreds of billions of dollars and euros and
[00:05:10] pounds for war. in Ukraine for war against
[00:05:14] Iran, ordinary people are struggling, they've had enough and the fake
[00:05:18] back has become. now let's
[00:05:21] cross over to Mr. uh Doctor's with us from Brussels. Mr.
[00:05:25] Doctor uh, going over the uh the core
[00:05:29] grievances here uh that we were just discussing with Mr.
[00:05:32] Hughes, um, is this just uh in your
[00:05:35] opinion um an affordability crisis uh
[00:05:39] and which also involves school conditions or is this an outr?
[00:05:42] rejection the Emmanuel Mcron
[00:05:44] government?
[00:05:48] Emmanuel Macron has a popularity rating of 10 to
[00:05:51] 15% depending on which pole you're using, so the
[00:05:55] the man is despised when in his
[00:05:57] own own country. The question is, what is the political
[00:06:01] outcome from the demonstrations that we are witnessing now for several
[00:06:04] weeks? They are major, the very important, and the unique
[00:06:08] feature today, I think you highlighted in your opening remarks.
[00:06:12] that the various group and what remains the
[00:06:16] yellow jackets movement, they've all come together in
[00:06:20] what they expect peaceful protest, the
[00:06:24] real issue, the driving issue clearly
[00:06:28] is the economy and the which is very
[00:06:31] weak and the cost of living which is very high and
[00:06:35] rising all the time, and my fellow panelist called out some
[00:06:39] the reasons for that, like to prioritize among the...
[00:06:42] reasons in Europe, the single biggest issue
[00:06:45] today is the rise in
[00:06:49] petrol and diesel prices which are passed
[00:06:52] along to other key sectors the economy which are so
[00:06:56] dependent on diesel fuel, that is agriculture and
[00:06:59] logistics, so they they raised all prices to
[00:07:03] the consumer, and that is felt with
[00:07:06] great difficulty, the the heating
[00:07:10] costs have gone up. for reason that is
[00:07:13] unrelated to the Iran war, but is very much
[00:07:16] related to the sanctions that Europe has imposed on
[00:07:20] Russia
[00:07:21] and which Manuel Macron is one the cheer leaders for
[00:07:24] punishing Russia, for humiliating Russia and bringing it to its
[00:07:28] needs. now these issues relating to the war in
[00:07:32] Russia uh are not discussed at all in the
[00:07:35] demonstrations that we see, and I don't think that people are
[00:07:39] stupid, it is just not acceptable for demon traders
[00:07:43] to be directing attention to foreign policy,
[00:07:46] it is entirely acceptable for them to be directing attention
[00:07:49] economic quotes and that is why we hear so much about cost
[00:07:53] of living, why the cost of living is what it is is, as I
[00:07:56] say, the sanctions on Russia and the war in Iran,
[00:08:00] will this bring down the macron
[00:08:04] government? I don't believe so, well government, perhapsron, not
[00:08:08] at all, not just because Macron is
[00:08:11] stupid. stubborn and
[00:08:14] resisting all the pressures on himself, but
[00:08:18] because other factors including the
[00:08:21] CIA, are certainly resisting
[00:08:23] any departure of Macron from
[00:08:26] office, because it would be very inconvenient to have elections
[00:08:30] now when it is perfectly clear that the pen would
[00:08:34] win, that is to say the CIA, which has interfered in French
[00:08:38] elections for the last 20 years, would find it hasn't...
[00:08:42] had the time to prepare alternatives to
[00:08:46] to uh the the the the far right of
[00:08:49] Lepen who is headed for victory if
[00:08:52] he were headed now if elections were held
[00:08:54] now. frawues
[00:08:58] um back to this cohesion that we're seeing uh with
[00:09:01] these protests, how durable uh is this
[00:09:05] um this unison uh this nexus of uh
[00:09:09] of different sectors coming together in the... protests, university
[00:09:13] students, the trade unions, the yellow vests and even other civil
[00:09:17] society
[00:09:18] groups.
[00:09:22] across France, it's across Europe, it's Greece, it's Spain, it's Belgium, it's
[00:09:26] Portugal, and Ireland on the 12th of November, we are having a
[00:09:30] national strike upon the attempts by the Irish government
[00:09:33] to remove the triple ock for neutrality and Ireland where we could possibly
[00:09:37] end up joining an EU army and needle, which are talking
[00:09:41] about a con vergence between disparate and separate
[00:09:45] groups and have all come together to challenge the orthodoxy that's
[00:09:49] in place in France at the moment, how long can it
[00:09:53] last? you see, there won't be any political reforms
[00:09:56] outside of an election, there isn't the opportunity for people to
[00:10:00] show their dissatisfaction with the current
[00:10:03] government and policies that are being carried out without these mass
[00:10:07] demonstrations on the street. some the violence that we witnessed has been
[00:10:11] started by state we have seen undercover police,
[00:10:15] spooks, the security apparatus, breaking windows,
[00:10:18] starting some the violence, because the only way the state can
[00:10:22] react to a mass movement, the people on
[00:10:26] the streets is to encourage violence so that they
[00:10:29] distract the rest of society and say, this
[00:10:33] is violent protest, these people are criminals, they
[00:10:37] are not peaceful citizens seeking change,
[00:10:41] and then we have the interference from America, from Trump and others, you're
[00:10:45] claiming that the violence is orchestrated by migrants and
[00:10:49] not this replacement, displacement theory that they promote all
[00:10:53] the time is that immigrants. and asylumseekers in
[00:10:57] Europe are the ones who are causing the violence and causing
[00:11:00] the disturbances, so the political system isn't going to
[00:11:04] change, it is set up to uh replicate itself
[00:11:08] during every election cycle, so the only response the
[00:11:12] government has if it's not going to react
[00:11:15] by actually meeting the demands the
[00:11:19] students and the railway workers and the trade unionness
[00:11:23] who simply want an end to neoliberal austerity and
[00:11:27] end to the crushing their disposable income, they
[00:11:31] want a future for their children, they want safety at work, they want to be
[00:11:35] able to afford the rent and pay for food and pay for the
[00:11:39] utilities and gas and electricity, if the government will
[00:11:42] not come to some form of subsidy for those
[00:11:46] people and to uh fully address their
[00:11:49] concerns, they will simply use violence to
[00:11:53] beat the protesters. off the street to imprison people,
[00:11:57] to incarcerate people, to find people in order to
[00:12:01] end the protest, so it is a war of attrition
[00:12:05] between those who are demanding equal part and
[00:12:08] and st within society and those who want the
[00:12:12] money to continue to go to corporations, capitalists,
[00:12:16] politicians and billionaires at the expense
[00:12:19] the national soul
[00:12:23] and at the expense of... slaves and liberty of
[00:12:26] futures. Gilbert
[00:12:30] doctor uh, let's let's talk about the heavy hand of police
[00:12:34] tactics, the crackdown that we've seen over the
[00:12:37] past weeks against the protesters, the
[00:12:40] curfews uh that that have
[00:12:43] imposed uh nationwide, do you think that they they're
[00:12:47] actually worsening the situation, the the
[00:12:51] repression, let's also uh not forget the repression and the...
[00:12:55] of civil been seeing
[00:12:55] liberties from the french
[00:13:01] we've that government, well this is nothing new, the crackdown on the yellow jack is
[00:13:04] vicious, macron is not a nice
[00:13:07] guy, he is willing to do
[00:13:10] anything to hold to power, including
[00:13:14] actions against the public which are
[00:13:17] illegal or are excessive to
[00:13:21] the threats to public order, and so a way he is the violent.
[00:13:25] of police suppression of demonstrations has of
[00:13:29] course uh heightened popular
[00:13:32] anger and has reinforced determination
[00:13:36] to continue these these demonstrations for a good long
[00:13:39] time right and let's also address that
[00:13:43] same question to Mr. Froh Hues as well uh give us your
[00:13:47] perspective on the massive crackdown that we've been
[00:13:50] seeing from the security apparatus in France.
[00:13:55] we take this in the palestine right, because previous to lot
[00:13:59] these demonstrations and solidarity with the people
[00:14:03] of passions in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Gaza, the occupied
[00:14:07] territories, but I trued Iran and Iraq and Syria and
[00:14:10] Yemen and Lebanon, so there's been crackdowns against them, what we
[00:14:14] have are increasingly authoritarian states that are
[00:14:18] using violence, repression and incarceration in
[00:14:21] order to control the masses to prevent.
[00:14:25] people land revolution against the current
[00:14:29] political kind of status quo, so you'll see
[00:14:33] continued repression, I believe that will get worse, I believe
[00:14:37] that what will happen is the state a perfect example is
[00:14:41] in Italy, they sent 500 troops to
[00:14:44] Milan to uh help the police
[00:14:48] restore order in adverted comma, so they're going to use
[00:14:52] the army, they're going to use the police, they're going to... use the
[00:14:55] secret service and increasingly I might be concerned that they may
[00:14:59] begin to use the rate with counter demonstrations and with
[00:15:02] violents attacking people who are taking to the
[00:15:06] streets, because previously again we have witnessed the rise the right
[00:15:10] across Europe, that is being funded in may made, that
[00:15:14] is being directed and that is being uh given a
[00:15:17] political coverage by politicians in western Europe
[00:15:21] byisanism that wants to uh create a war between...
[00:15:25] christianity and Islam and they are promoting
[00:15:28] anti-Muslim anti-immigration protest across Europe,
[00:15:32] but the interesting thing that we're witnessing is the people on the streets aren't
[00:15:36] blaming. even if Donald Trump is trying to
[00:15:40] to play that card, they're blaming the government, they're blaming the policies, they're
[00:15:44] demanding change, these governments will not bring about
[00:15:48] change, they will bring about further repression and violence, and they
[00:15:52] will try to beat people off the streets and they will try and encarcer it enough
[00:15:56] people that they will cadule and frighten
[00:16:00] and intimidate people the streets, but things might have gone too
[00:16:03] far, revolution start and parents can't put bread and... on
[00:16:07] the table for their children and we're possibly heading in that
[00:16:11] direction with these uh neoliberal fiscal policies
[00:16:15] where there are hundreds of billions of euros for the
[00:16:19] proxy war in Ukraine, as our comrad
[00:16:22] said there are sanctions against Russia which is destroying the
[00:16:26] economic uh beast within Europe, especially within
[00:16:29] Germany and we're paying twice the price for
[00:16:33] natural gas and oil coming from North America and
[00:16:37] we were. from Russia and possibly from Iran,
[00:16:41] so these conditions are going to change in the short term, I expect
[00:16:44] potentially the protests to become larger
[00:16:48] and possibly then even more
[00:16:51] repression, so we could end up with civil violence, civil
[00:16:55] disturbance all over sectors of France and Italy and
[00:16:59] Spain and Portugal and Greece and continuing in Albania and possibly in
[00:17:03] Belgium simply because the more the state represses people, the more
[00:17:07] people... resist. Mr.
[00:17:10] Doctor. Let's talk
[00:17:14] about
[00:17:14] uh the uh uh end game scenarios here. What are the most plausible
[00:17:18] outcomes uh that you see over the next few months heading into
[00:17:22] 2027? We know with the upcoming uh presidential election in
[00:17:26] April, will there be negotiated concessions or are we looking a prolonged
[00:17:29] staale? I think it's the latter
[00:17:33] scenario, prolonged state. This is the
[00:17:36] last lap. the Macron regime,
[00:17:40] and he will not make concession, he has no need to, he'll be leaving
[00:17:44] office, why, why should he give in
[00:17:48] and appear weak? he won't, as I said, he
[00:17:52] is prevented from resigning, which is what a normal
[00:17:55] political leader would do, given the the depth of his
[00:17:59] unpopularity and the demonstrations that are disrupting the political
[00:18:03] border today, he is not allowed to resign because the...
[00:18:07] "the opposition will win if
[00:18:11] they have elections now, and the CIA and the
[00:18:15] other forces that are controlling your French
[00:18:18] politics for last 20 years, will not allow that to happen, so it's
[00:18:22] not just the stubberness of Mr. McGrum, it is the
[00:18:26] entrenched deep state which
[00:18:29] is monitored or controlled by the
[00:18:32] CIA that prevents resolution the conflict that
[00:18:36] we see today." by some compromise
[00:18:40] um and by early departure of Mr. Macron, neither will
[00:18:43] happen. Fraw Huves, your thoughts on on
[00:18:47] the same issue as well, Mr. Doctor believes that there are foreign
[00:18:50] players at hand here as well, but uh, parallel
[00:18:54] to that, given the fiscal constraints and France's debt and
[00:18:58] deficit pressure, uh, we already know the public debt is approaching
[00:19:01] 120% the country's economic output, what realistic
[00:19:05] concessions can the government even make consider? this budget
[00:19:08] impass? well, firstly, I agree with Dr.
[00:19:12] Doctor in that Macron's not going to go anywhere. see,
[00:19:16] it's not just the running the French government within the French
[00:19:19] political fiscal system. this is about the EU. this is
[00:19:23] about needle, this is about being vassle of American
[00:19:27] hijemany within western Europe. so there are
[00:19:30] possibly hidden hands behind the throne and
[00:19:34] hidden voices that are telling him what to do. for the
[00:19:38] wider European project and for NATO and what the
[00:19:41] Americans want to see play out over the next six months, the
[00:19:45] easiest uh route or
[00:19:48] off-romp as people might describe it, if it was me, I
[00:19:52] would call elections, I would have the elections so that the
[00:19:56] opposition would win, I would have the opposition tell the people in
[00:20:00] the country, we have heard you, we are going to make
[00:20:03] changes, give us time, give us six months. give
[00:20:07] us year, give us 18 months to turn the economy round, to
[00:20:11] get the schools repaired, to put more teachers in place, and
[00:20:15] then simply do what they all do, these populist
[00:20:19] governments and politicians will make those
[00:20:22] promises, that they will address the
[00:20:25] concerns the masses and the people in distress and the
[00:20:29] people falling further in the poverty, and then they will do absolutely
[00:20:33] nothing about it, and we will be back in the same position in three years.
[00:20:37] but I don't think they have the nerve or the courage or the vision to
[00:20:41] do that, but if you want to stop these continued uh
[00:20:45] mass protest, then you must throw the dog bone, you
[00:20:49] must tell the... that we've heard your concerns, we will do something
[00:20:53] about it, please give us time, but they won't give the present administration
[00:20:57] time because they have feel them, so they have to have elections
[00:21:00] and in through those elections uh they will just continue
[00:21:04] to deceive and to distract the
[00:21:07] population, so elections will get people off the
[00:21:10] streets, ultimately there'll be no change, for art
[00:21:14] elections the uh mass protests will
[00:21:17] continue and repression and balance from the state
[00:21:21] will become greater. Gilbert Doctor, I want to turn
[00:21:25] our attention to the European spill over, what are the
[00:21:28] similarities that we can see in the protests unraveling
[00:21:32] across other European countries, and do you think that there's a common
[00:21:36] cause behind them? No, the commonality is what I highlighted is
[00:21:40] the driving force in the French French crisis.
[00:21:43] That is the the sanctions against Russia,
[00:21:47] which took out cheap energy. is of prime
[00:21:50] importance in the investment atmosphere, in the
[00:21:54] industrial atmosphere, jobs
[00:21:56] and in GDP
[00:22:00] growth, the Europe across the board is
[00:22:04] suffering severely from the loss of
[00:22:07] Russian raw materials, particularly energy
[00:22:10] materials, and the Iran war
[00:22:14] of course compounded these
[00:22:15] difficulties in specific areas -
[00:22:20] "diesel being one them, so um, the that
[00:22:24] there would be disturbances in various countries that are all
[00:22:28] coming from the same common source, cost of living was out of
[00:22:31] control, and going back to these two, these two driving
[00:22:35] forces that I just mentioned, the Russia Ukraine war and the Iran
[00:22:39] war, um, not to mention
[00:22:42] the the draining away of
[00:22:46] available tax payer money to support."
[00:22:50] unsupportable war in Ukraine. Okay, gentlemen, we're going to have to leave it
[00:22:54] there. Thanks to my guess political active joining us from
[00:22:58] Belfast and thanks to Independent International Affairs analyst Gilbert Doctor
[00:23:01] joining us from
[00:23:02] Brussels. And
[00:23:06] lastly proceedings in the coming days. The move comes as Republicans
[00:23:10] seek to blame Hegseth for their midterm election losses. Some
[00:23:14] party members say he played a key role in convincing President
[00:23:18] Donald Trump to attack. without clear strategy or
[00:23:22] plans to deal with the political fallout, Trump has repeatedly defended
[00:23:25] Hexset rejecting calls to replace him on Wednesday and saying
[00:23:29] the war secretary is doing a good job. Trump has also acknowledged
[00:23:33] Hegset his role in backing the war describing him as the
[00:23:37] first member of his administration to support the aggression.
[00:23:40] Democrats for their part have vowed to investigate hex that his leadership at the
[00:23:44] Pentagon, the inquiry could cover his handling the
[00:23:47] war, and that's... For now, thanks for watching, press
[00:23:51] tv's world news and see you
[00:23:52] soon.
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[00:26:36] نرجع.
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