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00:00:23News headlines:
00:00:26Continuation of negotiations between Iran and Oman over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:00:29Pakistan hopes that if an
00:00:32agreement is reached, negotiations between Tehran and Washington will also resume.
00:00:36Pezeshkian criticizes fueling internal disputes in
00:00:40Iran. He says the new leader
00:00:43has accepted the expert opinion of the Supreme National Security Council.
00:00:46Execution of at least 71
00:00:49people in Iran in July. According to the Iran
00:00:53Human Rights Organization, hundreds of other protest defendants
00:00:56are still at risk of death. Increased pressure on
00:01:02Infantino to resign. The FIFA president apologized, but
00:01:05did not accept requests for resignation. Hello and welcome to this
00:01:29section of the news from BBC Persian Television.
00:01:32I am Baran Abbasi. Pakistan says it
00:01:35hopes that an agreement between Iran and Oman
00:01:38regarding the Strait of Hormuz and the resumption of negotiations between Washington
00:01:42and Tehran will soon be reached. Reuters news agency has reported
00:01:46that the proposed agreement between Iran and Oman will allow Tehran to
00:01:50control the entry of ships into the Persian Gulf.
00:01:53Iran has reported significant progress in these talks
00:01:56and says that the route for ships will pass through Iranian waters.
00:02:00Previously, US officials had repeatedly emphasized
00:02:04that they would not agree to Iran's control over
00:02:07this important energy transit route. Mohammad Amini
00:02:11reports. The wait for the final
00:02:14outcome of negotiations between Iran and Oman over the transit of
00:02:18vessels through the Strait of Hormuz continues.
00:02:21Tehran has described these negotiations as positive and forward-moving.
00:02:25Some reports have spoken of an imminent
00:02:28agreement. Reuters, quoting sources in Iran
00:02:32and the region, said that if this agreement is finalized, Iran will maintain
00:02:36a degree of control over the entry of ships into the Persian Gulf, which is considered a significant
00:02:39concession. US officials have not yet reacted
00:02:43to these reports. Donald Trump said that an agreement to
00:02:47reopen the Strait of Hormuz is close, but US
00:02:50officials had previously repeatedly emphasized that they would
00:02:53not agree to Iran's dominance over this important energy transit route.
00:02:57For now, the shootings have decreased, even from
00:03:00the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who by their entry into the scene in the Strait
00:03:04of Bab al-Mandab and the announcement of a naval blockade against
00:03:07Saudi Arabia, had increased pressure on the energy market.
00:03:10Diplomatic movements have also intensified.
00:03:13The Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Army are now in
00:03:17Saudi Arabia for a two-day
00:03:20visit.
00:03:23In Jordan, foreign ministers of Arab countries gathered yesterday.
00:03:27The Egyptian foreign minister at this meeting said that talks are underway
00:03:30to shape the future order of the region and emphasized
00:03:33that the war with Iran has inflicted heavy losses on the region.
00:03:37He said that the countries of the region do not want to be
00:03:41excluded from the negotiation process and the final agreement,
00:03:45like the JCPOA negotiations in 2015.
00:03:48For now,
00:03:51however, the negotiation process between Iran and the US in the Strait of Hormuz
00:03:55is stalled. JD Vance, Deputy Donald Trump, in an interview with
00:03:59Fox News, criticized and highlighted the difficulties of the path.
00:04:03Iranians
00:04:05are incredibly difficult people to negotiate with. Their
00:04:09government structure is also divided. Some want to end the war,
00:04:13and others insist on continuing the war. Our
00:04:16job is to overcome these circumstances and get the
00:04:20best result for the American people and the President of the United States.
00:04:24I believe we will eventually reach such
00:04:27a point. But the path to reaching it
00:04:39is where the dispute is over the impact of reports that revealed
00:04:42a shortage of ammunition and long-range missiles in the US for confronting
00:04:46Iran. US President Donald Trump
00:04:49said on Thursday that the country has vast stockpiles of ammunition
00:04:53and threatened that those who publish information to the contrary
00:04:57will face severe punishment.
00:05:00The Washington Post reported that Mr. Trump last
00:05:04Friday, during a cabinet meeting at the presidential
00:05:07residence at Camp David, asked Defense Secretary Pit Hexed
00:05:10about the shortage.
00:05:42is not divided and said that some officials of
00:05:46the Islamic Republic are seeking an agreement, while some crazy
00:05:49ones want to continue the war. But overall,
00:05:53he believed that this path should move
00:05:57towards a final agreement, even if it
00:06:00will not happen quickly. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has said that
00:06:04the negotiations and talks are going very well
00:06:07and he hopes that they will
00:06:10reach a conclusion. From Mr. Trump, we have seen so
00:06:13many 180-degree turns that this is neither surprising
00:06:17nor, when compared to two days ago when he threatened a large-scale
00:06:21attack, it would greatly
00:06:24surprise
00:06:26the audience. But in this speech, Mr.
00:06:30Trump also talked about not wanting more
00:06:34bloodshed in this war.
00:06:37He preferred an agreement.
00:06:40And this narrative that Mr. Trump has repeatedly
00:06:44expressed in recent days is a narrative that he really
00:06:48wants to establish, and that is that we wanted
00:06:51to launch a very large attack, they got scared and called
00:06:54us, the Iranian side pleaded with us not to attack and to
00:06:57talk, and now we are talking. Therefore,
00:07:01validating this strategy that he
00:07:05believes has been effective in public opinion
00:07:08is important to him. The realities
00:07:11of the matter do not specifically
00:07:14confirm that such a conversation and such a request
00:07:17was even raised by the Iranians. On the other hand,
00:07:21various media reports in recent days have reported
00:07:25that US missile stockpiles have
00:07:28decreased, and the Washington Post also
00:07:31reported on this and said that Mr. Trump questioned his
00:07:35Secretary of War about this. What makes
00:07:37the Washington Post report different and received more attention
00:07:41is that unlike other reports
00:07:44about the shortage of these ammunition and defense
00:07:48systems and high-precision missiles
00:07:51we had, it now shows that
00:07:54in the White House itself and the President personally, there is
00:07:58a kind of anger about this situation, and the Secretary
00:08:01of Defense has been questioned about what happened,
00:08:04because you told me that this issue has been resolved,
00:08:07and then the Secretary of Defense
00:08:11tried to blame his deputy, according to the Washington Post report.
00:08:15All of this indicates that not
00:08:18only officials of the Department of Defense and commanders
00:08:22of the US military have expressed concern
00:08:25in recent weeks and months about this issue,
00:08:28but also at the level of the President and the Secretary
00:08:32of Defense, it is not clear whether they have an accurate
00:08:35picture of what the US military's arsenals are,
00:08:39because it seems that Mr. Trump was surprised by this report
00:08:43that this issue has not been resolved, and Mr. Hexed, the Secretary of Defense,
00:08:46had promised that it would be resolved, while in practice,
00:08:50all reports show that the reproduction and replacement
00:08:54of these munitions is much more time-consuming
00:08:57than imagined and requires more time,
00:09:01and it is not the case that they can quickly replace many
00:09:04of these missiles and defense systems. And how much does this show the internal
00:09:08differences within
00:09:11Mr. Trump's cabinet? Now,
00:09:14regardless of how much disagreement there is among ministers, which we
00:09:18know there are disagreements regarding Iran between Mr. Vance and others,
00:09:21especially with the Secretary of Defense, but what is clear is that within
00:09:25the body of the US Department of Defense,
00:09:28there are those who are strongly opposed to this war, concerned about its
00:09:32continuation and its impact on the US military's readiness, and therefore
00:09:36they are leaking this information to the media,
00:09:39and Mr. Trump is clearly very angry that
00:09:43this information is leaking, and has threatened that those who are giving out this information will go to prison
00:09:47and will be dealt with severely. Therefore, when this news
00:09:51leaks, it usually indicates internal discontent.
00:09:54Thank you, my colleague Bahman Karouas from New York is with
00:09:57us.
00:09:59And a piece of news that has just reached us: a source in the Kuwaiti
00:10:03Ministry of Education told Agence France-Presse
00:10:06that Kuwaiti officials have issued an order to close a local Iranian
00:10:09school. An Iranian school,
00:10:13which is the only Iranian school in Kuwait. This action comes
00:10:17after Kuwait, during the Iran-US war, including
00:10:20during the new round of
00:10:23clashes, was repeatedly targeted by Iranian
00:10:27attacks. This report says that Kuwait
00:10:31has not provided a specific reason for closing this Iranian
00:10:34school, but said that similar measures
00:10:38were also taken at the start of the war in the United Arab Emirates against
00:10:41schools and a hospital that was
00:10:45connected to Iran. Countries on the Persian Gulf
00:10:48have been repeatedly targeted during this conflict,
00:10:52including Kuwait. They have strongly
00:10:55condemned Iranian attacks, describing them as despicable.
00:10:59And now we are seeing that a source in the Kuwaiti
00:11:03Ministry of Education told Agence France-Presse that an Iranian school in Kuwait
00:11:06has been closed. And in other news related to
00:11:10Iran, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said that communication with Mojtaba Khamenei
00:11:14is currently very difficult. In a recorded speech
00:11:18on the occasion of his second anniversary as president, he also
00:11:21reacted to the message attributed to the new leader of the Islamic
00:11:25Republic regarding the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the United States.
00:11:29Mr. Pezeshkian said that the current leader of the government had said
00:11:32that if three-quarters of the members of the Supreme National Security Council
00:11:36agreed with it, he would accept their opinion.
00:11:39Before this message, a message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei
00:11:43was published, in which it was stated that he had a different
00:11:45opinion in principle, but due to accepting the responsibility of the president
00:11:49and the Supreme National Security Council, he agreed with this decision.
00:11:53Groups from the hardline and conservative factions considered this a sign
00:11:57of the new leader's opposition to negotiations with the United States.
00:12:00The possibility of communicating with him is very difficult now,
00:12:04but in any case, his presence
00:12:07is a very high
00:12:10strong point for us to be able to continue the process. In these same events that they had started,
00:12:14between the message that he had given,
00:12:18that
00:12:20in principle, for example, I was not in favor, but now
00:12:25I allow this to happen, well,
00:12:28some of these people who were seeking discord
00:12:31and were trying to revive that rift again
00:12:35and then wanted to achieve their intentions
00:12:38in their party activities, they kept magnifying
00:12:42it, and what
00:12:45he had said was completely correct. He had
00:12:49a view in the summary that was done in that council,
00:12:53these were presented to him.
00:12:56And he said if it gets three-quarters of the votes, I will
00:13:00accept it. Three-quarters, instead of three-quarters,
00:13:04it got twelve-thirteenths of the votes, and he accepted it.
00:13:08Hossein Razzaq, a political activist from
00:13:11Germany, is with us. Mr. Razzaq, what kind of picture
00:13:14do Mr. Pezeshkian's statements give you about
00:13:18the relationship with the leader of the Islamic Republic and the differences
00:13:22within the structure of the Islamic Republic?
00:13:25You see, we are in a state of turmoil
00:13:29in the Islamic Republic, which on the one hand
00:13:33is an internal turmoil,
00:13:36the results of which are also visible externally. We see that their
00:13:40disagreements are such that
00:13:43a person like Massoud Pezeshkian, who is the president, comes and
00:13:47says all the unspoken words on television.
00:13:50On the other hand, this turmoil is also working in favor
00:13:53of the Islamic Republic. And since it is in an asymmetric
00:13:56war with the United States, it also tries to use
00:14:00this turmoil to confuse its enemy. But the issue is that after
00:14:03Mr. Trump came to power in the new era, the Islamic Republic entered
00:14:07a period of suspension and indecision. Mr. Khamenei himself once
00:14:11said, "Neither war nor negotiation." A few months later, he said that
00:14:14the era of "neither war nor peace" must end, and he went for negotiations,
00:14:18and then, of course, there was a war. This suspension and indecision
00:14:22continued in the presence of a leader who was the ultimate
00:14:26authority for that country, that government, until we reached
00:14:29the period of power transfer, and his son came, a son who
00:14:33is in hiding, no one has seen him. There is only one account from Pezeshkian
00:14:37that I went and saw him, and then contradictory accounts emerged.
00:14:41But that ultimate authority who had ruled for 37 years and had a charisma that
00:14:45could have authority and dominance over the supporters
00:14:48and loyalists of the government no longer
00:14:51exists. It is here that Mojtaba Khamenei's "in principle"
00:14:55statements attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei create a dichotomy
00:14:58in negotiation and war, where some hardliners who are
00:15:02against the government, against the Security Council, or
00:15:06who have not entered the government and have not gained a share of power,
00:15:10can come forward and take the lead.
00:15:14But again, this dichotomy, this polarization,
00:15:17may have caused that side to benefit the Islamic Republic and also confuse
00:15:21the United States so that it doesn't know who to deal with in the Islamic Republic,
00:15:25who it should really negotiate with, and who will declare a ceasefire
00:15:28and accept the agreement. Will Shoaam accept it,
00:15:32who says twelve-thirteenths voted, or will Mojtaba Khamenei again
00:15:36say that in principle,
00:15:45it continues, and
00:15:49it's not clear where it will lead. It is said that
00:15:52these hardliners who are against dialogue with
00:15:55the United States are in the minority. But even
00:15:58if that is the case, how much influence do they have on dollar
00:16:02decisions and how much influence do they have on Mojtaba
00:16:06Khamenei? You see, there is a narrative
00:16:09from the 60s when Mr. Hashemi,
00:16:12when he went to Friday prayers and was the speaker of the parliament,
00:16:16he would incite the Hezbollah faction to go and, for example,
00:16:20as Ansar Hezbollah or as the loyalist
00:16:23factions of the government, they would punish
00:16:27some of their opponents. When they complained to Mr. Hashemi,
00:16:31Mr. Hashemi would say, "I am also against it, but if I say anything
00:16:35to them, the moment I need supporters,
00:16:49he may not agree with their opinion, but he knows that the moment he gets into trouble,
00:16:53these are the thugs who come and help him, suppress the people,
00:16:56remove opponents, and are loyal to the Islamic
00:17:00Republic until the end. That's why he doesn't know
00:17:03what to do. If Ali Khamenei
00:17:06were the ultimate authority,
00:17:47the Islamic Republic cannot completely sideline them. Mr.
00:17:51Ghalibaf, for example, was considered a person
00:17:54close to Mojtaba Khamenei and desired
00:17:57his leadership, according to reports. Has this relationship changed
00:18:01now, in your opinion, with Mojtaba Khamenei?
00:18:04No, absolutely.
00:18:13And the affairs of the country are still in his hands. He is the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Speaker of Parliament,
00:18:17and of course, he is the head of the negotiating team.
00:18:20That connection definitely exists. Now, whether it's really Mojtaba or
00:18:24not, the reality is that these doubts are constantly increasing.
00:18:27But in any case, he is currently,
00:18:31ostensibly, the closest person to Mojtaba, a trusted
00:18:35confidant of Mojtaba. But the reality
00:18:38is that if both Mojtaba and his team and President Pezeshkian and his team
00:18:42had counted on Ghalibaf to come forward and manage
00:18:46the situation, or if on this side, the West,
00:18:49Trump himself and his administration, had also counted on Ghalibaf,
00:18:53Ghalibaf showed that he doesn't have the ability to
00:18:57sign something and then be pelted with stones in the Imam Reza shrine,
00:19:00with slogans against him. And when he sees these slogans,
00:19:04he backs down and steps aside, because he doesn't have the ability
00:19:14transition seeker from Germany.
00:19:17The Iran Human Rights Organization, in a report, announced the execution
00:19:20of at least 71 people in Iran last
00:19:23month. The report states that 36 people were executed
00:19:27for murder, 26 people for drug-related crimes,
00:19:318 people for security offenses, and one person for rape.
00:19:35Six of those executed this month were protest
00:19:38defendants. This organization has recorded the execution of
00:19:42at least 44 people in the first seven
00:19:45months of this year. At the same time,
00:19:48UN experts today called on the authorities of the Islamic
00:19:52Republic to end the increasing arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture,
00:19:56and other forms of ill-treatment, as well as arbitrary executions
00:20:00against ethnic minorities, especially Kurdish and Baloch
00:20:04minorities. Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam, Director of the Iran
00:20:11Human Rights Organization, is with us from Oslo. Mr. Amiri Moghadam, what picture does this report on executions
00:20:14last month give you of the trend of executions
00:20:17compared to previous months?
00:20:20Yes, greetings to you.
00:20:24You see, in the first three weeks
00:20:27of the war,
00:20:31a relatively small number of executions were reported,
00:20:34and then immediately after that, the execution of
00:20:37protesters and political prisoners began. It seems
00:20:41that the system is returning to its normal routine,
00:20:44meaning that we have the execution
00:20:48of drug defendants,
00:20:50those whose charges are murder, more than one person
00:20:54per day is executed on these charges.
00:20:57And at the same time, the execution of protesters
00:21:01continues, and we think this is because
00:21:05of the low cost of these executions,
00:21:07because all the attention of the international
00:21:10community, especially countries that have
00:21:13diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic,
00:21:16is on the war. And the Islamic Republic is taking
00:21:20advantage of this. Now we see that UN experts
00:21:23have also called for arbitrary arrests and executions
00:21:27to be stopped. What tools do they have other than asking
00:21:31the Islamic Republic?
00:21:31Look,
00:21:35the United Nations generally can issue
00:21:38statements, condemn, and request, but what
00:21:42is important is that member
00:21:45states of the United Nations, especially European countries,
00:21:48react. The Islamic Republic currently, I
00:21:51think,
00:21:53wants
00:21:56to improve its relations with European countries,
00:22:00and in these circumstances, Western European
00:22:03governments, in particular, can exert more pressure
00:22:06on the Islamic Republic to stop executions.
00:22:09And as I said, unfortunately,
00:22:13in the past few months, this has not been the case.
00:22:16We remember that after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests,
00:22:20for every protester who was executed,
00:22:23the European Union would condemn it and
00:22:27react strongly. But now,
00:22:30in the past few months, 28 protesters have been executed,
00:22:3413 political prisoners, 10
00:22:38people on charges of espionage, but we have not seen such
00:22:41reactions. Do you know
00:22:45the reason for this change in behavior? Please explain.
00:22:49Because, you see, the issue of human rights and the issue of executions are not
00:22:52the top priority for European countries, but rather
00:22:56their national interests, such as the Strait of Hormuz being open
00:22:58and oil prices coming down.
00:23:02But, through public opinion
00:23:05in these countries, it is possible to influence their governments.
00:23:09I think that is why in the 1980s, when
00:23:12Khomeini said that war is a blessing, it was
00:23:15because in the shadow of war, they could suppress
00:23:19with very low political cost. And currently,
00:23:23it is the same way. But we, Iranian human rights organizations
00:23:27abroad, can, through influencing public opinion
00:23:30in Western
00:23:34European countries in particular, compel
00:23:37their governments to give the issue of human rights and the issue
00:23:41of executions a higher priority. Thank you, Mahmoud Amiri
00:23:45Moghadam, Director of the Iran Human Rights Organization, from Oslo
00:23:48with us.
00:23:50Gianni Infantino, who has been under pressure in recent days to step down
00:23:54as president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA),
00:23:57seems to have decided, after the support of senior
00:24:00officials of the organization, to run for re-election
00:24:04next spring against other potential candidates.
00:24:08Mr. Infantino held a meeting with FIFA Board
00:24:11members in Marrakech on Wednesday. This meeting came after
00:24:15increased criticism of his failed proposal to sell part
00:24:19of the shares of FIFA competitions to private investors.
00:24:21The criticism of the FIFA president came mainly from UEFA,
00:24:25the governing body of European football,
00:24:29which said it had lost confidence in him.
00:24:32More details from Kaveh
00:24:34Meshkat.
00:24:39Now, after several days of heavy pressure, he can smile,
00:24:42even after an unsuccessful attempt
00:24:46to sell part of the shares of FIFA competitions.
00:24:55The FIFA office in Rabat, Morocco, held an
00:24:58emergency meeting with the presence of FIFA senior officials
00:25:01with the head of the organization after increasing pressure
00:25:05on Gianni Infantino to resign. After this
00:25:08meeting, FIFA officials, in a statement, announced their
00:25:12support for their president. In this statement,
00:25:15it was said that FIFA admits its mistake in presenting
00:25:18the FIFA Forward company plan. The goal was
00:25:22not for the FIFA Council and member federations to feel
00:25:26that they were excluded from the decision-making process. However,
00:25:29it was accepted that this process should have been managed differently.
00:25:32It was also said that after this proposal was leaked to the media,
00:25:36mistakes were made. The controversy began when
00:25:40FIFA intended to establish a company and sell part
00:25:43of its shares to a private company.
00:25:46A company that would control the commercial and executive
00:25:50activities of major FIFA competitions, including the World Cup.
00:25:53But the reaction of the football world
00:25:57to this plan jeopardized Gianni Infantino's position as FIFA president
00:26:01more than ever.
00:27:02FIFA Global, and Mathias Grafström, FIFA Secretary General,
00:27:06also joined the critics and described
00:27:09the events of the past two weeks as upsetting
00:27:12and blameworthy. In Europe,
00:27:16some federations and also UEFA said that he
00:27:20should go. A picture of Gianni Infantino
00:27:24with the FIFA Secretary General, who had criticized
00:27:27him. Despite the storm in FIFA, it seems
00:27:31that the number one man of this organization does not intend to leave
00:27:35and wants to fight for his position. Kaveh
00:27:38Meshkat, BBC. We have reached
00:27:42the end of this news section. Thank you for choosing BBC Persian.