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00:00:25Headlines.
00:00:28Continued negotiations between Iran and Oman over
00:00:30the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan hopes that if an agreement is reached,
00:00:33negotiations between Tehran and Washington will also resume.
00:00:37Pezeshkian criticizes fueling
00:00:40internal disputes in Iran. He says that the new leader accepted
00:00:44the expert opinion of the Supreme National Security Council.
00:00:47Afghan man on trial in
00:00:51Greece for the murder of a Scottish aid worker. Sharif
00:00:54Ahmad Zai, denying the accusations, said he found Elizabeth dead.
00:00:58Increased pressure on
00:01:01Infantino to resign. The FIFA president apologized but
00:01:05did not accept calls for his resignation.
00:01:26Hello and good evening. I am Farin Asemi. Welcome to this news section
00:01:29of BBC Persian. Pakistan says it hopes that soon
00:01:33the agreement between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz
00:01:36will lead to the resumption of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
00:01:40Reuters news agency reported that the proposed agreement
00:01:43between Iran and Oman allows Tehran to
00:01:47control the entry of ships into the Persian Gulf. Iran has
00:01:51announced significant progress in these talks and says that
00:01:54the route for ships to and from will pass through Iranian waters.
00:01:58Previously, US officials had repeatedly emphasized that they would not
00:02:02agree to Iran's control over access to this important energy transit route.
00:02:05Mohammad Amini reports.
00:02:08میده.
00:02:11The wait for the final outcome of negotiations between Iran and
00:02:14Oman regarding the passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz
00:02:18continues. Tehran has described these negotiations as positive and forward-looking.
00:02:22Some reports have spoken of an imminent
00:02:25agreement. Reuters, quoting sources in Iran
00:02:29and the region, said: If this agreement is finalized, Iran will maintain
00:02:33some control over the entry of ships into the Persian Gulf, which is considered a
00:02:36significant concession. US officials have not yet reacted
00:02:40to these reports. Donald Trump said an agreement to
00:02:43reopen the Strait of Hormuz is near. But
00:02:46US officials had previously repeatedly emphasized that they would not
00:02:50agree to Iran's dominance over this important energy transit route.
00:02:53For now, the shootings have decreased. Even from
00:02:57the Houthis in Yemen, who, with their entry
00:03:01into the Bab al-Mandab Strait and declaration of a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, had
00:03:05increased pressure on the energy market. Diplomatic movements
00:03:08have also intensified. The Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief
00:03:12of the Pakistani Army are now in Saudi Arabia for a
00:03:16two-day
00:03:16visit.
00:03:20In Jordan, the foreign ministers of Arab countries met yesterday.
00:03:23The Egyptian Foreign Minister said at the meeting that
00:03:27discussions are underway to shape the future order of the region
00:03:30and emphasized that the war with Iran has inflicted great damage
00:03:34on the region. He said that the countries of the region do not want
00:03:38to be excluded from the negotiation process and final agreement,
00:03:42like the JCPOA negotiations in 2015.
00:03:45شوند.
00:03:48For now, however, the negotiation process between Iran and the US in the Strait
00:03:51of Hormuz is stuck. JD Vance, Donald Trump's deputy, acknowledged
00:03:55the criticisms and difficulties of the path in an interview with Fox News.
00:03:59اضعان کرد.
00:04:02Iranians are extremely difficult people to negotiate with. Their
00:04:06government structure is also divided. Some want
00:04:09the war to end, and some insist on continuing the war.
00:04:13Our duty is to overcome these circumstances and
00:04:16achieve the best outcome for the American people and the President of the United
00:04:20States. I believe we will eventually reach such a point,
00:04:24but the path to get there will be complex
00:04:27and will take time.
00:04:32Currently, part of the focus of headlines has shifted towards the United States itself,
00:04:36where the dispute is over the effects of reports that announced
00:04:39a shortage of ammunition and long-range missiles for the US to confront
00:04:42Iran. US President Donald Trump
00:04:46said on Thursday that the country has extensive stockpiles of ammunition
00:04:50and threatened that those who published information to the contrary
00:04:53will face severe punishment.
00:04:57The Washington Post reported that Trump had asked
00:05:00Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for explanations regarding the shortage of
00:05:04ammunition during a cabinet meeting at the presidential residence in Camp David
00:05:07last Friday.
00:05:11Mr. Modarres, if the Reuters report
00:05:23is correct and Iran takes control of the Strait of Hormuz after the Iran-Oman agreement,
00:05:26could this be a sign that Iran has the upper hand
00:05:30in these negotiations? Good evening.
00:05:34Naturally, a regime that
00:05:38has suffered such heavy military defeat,
00:05:42lost its nuclear program,
00:05:45its proxy groups have been grounded,
00:05:49and its missile program has been severely disrupted,
00:05:52cannot claim to have
00:05:55the military upper hand. The Islamic Republic
00:05:59is not the winner of this equation. The Islamic Republic
00:06:02has only been able to survive and continue
00:06:05its struggle in the aftermath of this
00:06:09conflict. And when we consider that the very nature of this regime
00:06:13was prepared for such a thing from day one,
00:06:17then we can see that even its performance in this
00:06:20regard has not been optimal. The fact that it is currently
00:06:23using the issue of the Strait of Hormuz as its
00:06:27last lever of pressure
00:06:30does not necessarily indicate the victory
00:06:34of the Islamic Republic or its upper hand.
00:06:37This is a narrative that the government tries to promote. We
00:06:41still don't know that US officials have not yet commented on this Reuters report.
00:06:45We don't have details yet, but
00:06:49if we had previously heard many times that the US said it would not allow
00:06:53Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz, do you think
00:06:56the US would fundamentally agree to this
00:06:58issue? Look, the issue of controlling
00:07:02the Strait of Hormuz has become a very, very complex
00:07:05issue at present because
00:07:09the Islamic Republic has placed its hand on one of the world's vital
00:07:12waterways, and this
00:07:16issue causes the rest of the world,
00:07:20the international community, to have no desire
00:07:23and effectively not want to live under
00:07:26the permanent shadow of this threat. In order to address
00:07:30such a thing, the history of the Islamic Republic in these 47 years has shown
00:07:33that it has a great interest in blackmail.
00:07:37The international community cannot currently
00:07:41come and pay blackmail to the Islamic Republic.
00:07:45Therefore, the issue of island ownership
00:07:47is an issue in the Persian Gulf region
00:07:51that, in my opinion, is also deeply endangered at present
00:07:55due to the reckless actions
00:07:57of this regime and its hostile and criminal actions.
00:08:01But alongside it, we should not necessarily
00:08:04only look for this to happen because of
00:08:08island ownership. There is a possibility
00:08:11that we will face new extra-regional alliances
00:08:15in the Persian Gulf region. Exactly this
00:08:18issue. Yes, yes, I wanted to point out that you mentioned Arab countries
00:08:22and the threat of the Islamic Republic to other countries. Well, throughout
00:08:26this war, we saw that many countries were under continuous
00:08:29attacks by the Islamic Republic. Now,
00:08:33what opinion can the Persian Gulf littoral states have
00:08:37about this agreement? What is clear
00:08:41is that there are two sections, two, one might say,
00:08:44leaders from the international community. One
00:08:48is regional, which is the Saudi Kingdom, and the other is non-regional,
00:08:51which is Britain. At present,
00:08:55it seems that they are seriously moving forward to
00:08:59be able to form an alliance that can somehow prevent
00:09:03the blackmail of the Islamic Republic. This is very important because
00:09:06Saudi Arabia, on the one hand, can
00:09:09create a bloc of Persian Gulf
00:09:13countries, especially countries that have closer
00:09:17ties with the Saudis. And on the other hand,
00:09:20Britain can attract the attention of its Western
00:09:24allies and its allies in NATO to this issue,
00:09:28and it can lay the groundwork for an alliance.
00:09:31And this, over time, in the long run, can even
00:09:35become an alliance that
00:09:39can further reduce the angle between
00:09:42Arab and Israel from what it is.
00:09:45This means that this move
00:09:49of the Islamic Republic, although it became
00:09:52its last lever of pressure, in fact
00:09:56served a great purpose for what is called the Abraham Accords.
00:10:00Thank you very much, Shahin Modarres, director of the Iran section
00:10:03at the Verona Institute for Security Studies, from
00:10:07Rambama.
00:10:10Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran, said that communication with Mojtaba Khamenei
00:10:14is currently very difficult. In a recorded speech
00:10:18on the occasion of his second anniversary as president, he also reacted to the margins
00:10:22of a message attributed to the new leader of the Islamic Republic regarding
00:10:25the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the United States. Mr. Pezeshkian
00:10:29said that the current leader of the government had said that if three-quarters
00:10:33of the members of the Supreme National Security Council agreed to it,
00:10:36he would accept their opinion. Previously, a message attributed to
00:10:40Mojtaba Khamenei had been published in which it was stated that he, in principle,
00:10:43had a different opinion, but due to accepting
00:10:47the responsibility of the president and the Supreme National Security Council, he agreed
00:10:51with this decision. Groups from the hardline conservative current
00:10:55considered this message as a sign of the new leader's opposition
00:10:59to negotiations with the United States.
00:11:01It's very difficult to communicate with him now, but anyway, his
00:11:05presence is a very great
00:11:08strength for us to be able to
00:11:11continue the process, even these events that they had started
00:11:15with that message he had given,
00:11:19that
00:11:22"in principle, for example, I was not in favor,
00:11:25but now I allow this to happen."
00:11:29Well, some of these people who were looking for discord
00:11:32and were looking to revive that gap
00:11:36and then wanted to achieve their
00:11:40goals in their party movements,
00:11:43they kept exaggerating it. And
00:11:46what he said was absolutely correct. He had an
00:11:50opinion in the summary that was made in that council.
00:11:54This was reported to him,
00:11:58and he said that if it gets three-quarters of the votes, I will accept it.
00:12:01Instead of three-quarters, it got twelve-thirteenths of the votes,
00:12:05and he accepted it.
00:12:08Omid Parsanjad, my colleague here in the studio, is with me. Omid, Mr. Pezeshkian
00:12:12referred to discord and division in his speech. What can be understood from
00:12:16the internal differences in recent weeks? Internal differences
00:12:19are becoming more apparent day by day.
00:12:22They probably existed before, but they weren't so evident. Before
00:12:25the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei,
00:12:28a more coherent
00:12:31picture of decision-making within Iran emerged.
00:12:35It started from there with the raising of red flags
00:12:38as a sign of demand for revenge, slogans that
00:12:42were chanted against some officials at this ceremony. And
00:12:46after that, the atmosphere suddenly changed. The propaganda
00:12:50space mostly fell into the hands of
00:12:54those who were against agreement and understanding.
00:12:57A message was also published from Mojtaba Khamenei,
00:13:01the new leader, in which he referred to the necessity of taking revenge
00:13:04for his father's blood and those killed in the war.
00:13:08That also added to that atmosphere.
00:13:11And then you could see that despite the fact that it seems that
00:13:15the government, the Speaker of Parliament, the Head of the Judiciary,
00:13:18meaning actually, and most members
00:13:22of the National Council, as Mr. Pezeshkian is now saying
00:13:25for the umpteenth time, twelve out of thirteen people had voted
00:13:29positively. No one has denied this.
00:13:33He is also the head of the council.
00:13:36We don't have a higher authority than him to comment on the council.
00:13:39Despite the fact that we see that the most powerful
00:13:43figures in the government
00:13:46agree with this process, we see that the propaganda
00:13:49atmosphere in the media and in the streets
00:13:52is completely against this. The very
00:13:55sharp and unprecedented language of people like Mr.
00:13:59Rasaee or Mr. Kharrazi is being used
00:14:02against those who are pursuing this.
00:14:06Mr. Ghalibaf, Mr. Pezeshkian, in an insulting
00:14:09way,
00:14:13and their voices apparently do not reach anywhere in the propaganda space.
00:14:17Therefore, it seems that for
00:14:20making difficult decisions, which are necessary from now on,
00:14:24and difficult decisions mean giving concessions that are hard to give.
00:14:27Naturally, when you enter negotiations, especially under
00:14:31such circumstances, to preserve
00:14:34national interests, sometimes you are forced to give concessions that you didn't want to give before.
00:14:38For that, cohesion within is necessary, which seems
00:14:41to be lacking now, and the absence
00:14:45of the new Mr. Khamenei, Mr. Mojtaba Khamenei,
00:14:49at least from public view, makes the issue very difficult.
00:14:52Because little by little, the opponents of this
00:14:56are casting serious and explicit doubts on the accuracy and authenticity
00:14:59of the statements issued by his office or the messages published
00:15:03on his behalf. And they are slowly moving towards
00:15:06saying that no, who said these messages
00:15:10are from him? And
00:15:13the issue is becoming very, very difficult. And this is happening at a time
00:15:17when the Iranian government needs to make decisive and
00:15:21coherent decisions. What exactly can be its effect on the issue
00:15:25of the agreement under these circumstances? First, after
00:15:28assuming that we resolved the issue
00:15:32of the Strait with the agreement between Iran and Oman,
00:15:34Iran expects the naval blockade
00:15:38to be lifted immediately. Probably,
00:15:41the Americans will bring up the issue of Bab al-Mandeb,
00:15:44and then we will enter much more difficult issues
00:15:47that Mr. Araqchi said some time ago that in the nuclear issue,
00:15:51they want things from us that we cannot give them, so we tried
00:15:55to divide this into two and separate the issue
00:15:58of the Strait of Hormuz from that. Therefore,
00:16:02they themselves know that from a reputational
00:16:05point of view, it may not be very important for really national interests.
00:16:08But from a reputational point of view, they are in a situation where
00:16:12giving concessions there is very difficult for them. And if
00:16:15Iran does not want to give any meaningful concessions regarding, for example, nuclear
00:16:19and enrichment and, I don't know, uranium reserves and so on,
00:16:23then it is clear that that will not succeed.
00:16:26That is where the main negotiations
00:16:29and that is where they face problems.
00:16:32That is where they need a coherent
00:16:36voice.
00:16:52In Mr. Pezeshkian's speech last night, there was a part where he was saying that if the people had not stood by the government and Iran,
00:16:55everything might have fallen apart. And he emphasized
00:16:59that he meant all the people, not necessarily just the Hezbollah members who came to
00:17:02the streets, because they are the only ones who dare
00:17:06and have the opportunity to come to the streets. The rest of the people cannot come to the streets.
00:17:09There is no possibility for street presence for critics of the government,
00:17:13and they may be the majority without
00:17:17their voices being heard anywhere. This is what seems to be behind
00:17:20the words. Mr. Pezeshkian doesn't say it so explicitly, but it seems that he is hinting
00:17:24that if there is not at least a minimum
00:17:27of public satisfaction, the government could actually
00:17:30collapse. Thank you, Omid
00:17:38news headlines of this program.
00:17:41Pakistan has expressed hope that if an agreement is reached
00:17:45between Iran and Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations
00:17:48between Tehran and Washington will also resume.
00:17:50شود.
00:17:52Masoud Pezeshkian, criticizing the fueling of internal differences,
00:17:56says that if the people had not resisted,
00:17:59Iran might have
00:18:25Last month, a few days after she was reported missing,
00:18:29she was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned building. Sharif
00:18:33Ahmad Zai, 26, from Afghanistan, has been accused of murder, robbery,
00:18:36and ... related to weapons.
00:18:40Let's watch the report by Ben
00:18:41Philipp.
00:18:45This is the first time we see the man suspected of Lisa Ross's
00:18:48murder in person since his arrest. Sharif
00:18:51Ahmad Zai, handcuffed and wearing sportswear, was transferred by heavily armed police
00:18:55to a car under strict security measures. A short while
00:18:59later, the car arrived at the Central Court of Athens. Many people in the city are closely
00:19:03following this case. Lisa's body was found on July
00:19:0618th. The body of the 38-year-old woman was discovered
00:19:09in a suitcase in an abandoned building.
00:19:13چمدانی در ساختمانی متروکه کشف
00:19:16Ahmad Zai was in court for about an hour and twenty minutes.
00:19:18He was told that he is suspected of murder, robbery, and
00:19:22weapons-related crimes.
00:19:25This 26-year-old man,
00:19:27born in Afghanistan, had entered
00:19:29Greece as a refugee at the age of 15. He did not speak
00:19:32during the trial, and his case was adjourned
00:19:36until Thursday. When he left the court,
00:19:40we were able to get close to him. He was returned
00:19:43to detention by officers, head down, without a word.
00:19:47The abandoned building where
00:19:50Lisa's body was found is just a few steps
00:19:53away from the courthouse building. Residents of this area are still
00:19:57in shock.
00:20:00Everyone in the area is suffering from severe anxiety
00:20:02and distress.
00:20:06that Ahmad Zai, after placing
00:20:36Lisa's body in a suitcase, abandoned it there and withdrew
00:20:40about 11 thousand dollars in cash with Lisa's bank cards.
00:20:43It is expected that with the resumption of the investigation
00:20:47into Ahmad Zai's case, the charges will be officially
00:20:51announced to him. Investigations are currently
00:20:54ongoing to clarify exactly what happened
00:20:57to Lisa in the Greek capital.
00:21:00Gianni Infantino, who has been under pressure
00:21:04in recent days to resign from the presidency of the International Federation
00:21:08of Association Football (FIFA), apparently
00:21:11intends to run again in the elections
00:21:15next spring against other potential
00:21:18rivals after receiving support from senior officials of the organization. Mr.
00:21:22Infantino had a meeting with FIFA's board members in Morocco
00:21:26on Wednesday. This meeting took place after increasing criticism
00:21:30of his failed proposal to sell a portion of FIFA's
00:21:33competition shares to private investors.
00:21:37The criticism of the FIFA president mostly came from UEFA,
00:21:40the governing body of European football, an organization that
00:21:44said it had lost confidence in him. More details in
00:21:47a report by Kavi Meshkat.
00:21:53Now, after days of heavy pressure, he can smile,
00:21:56even after an unsuccessful attempt
00:22:00to sell a portion of FIFA's competition shares.
00:22:04Gian Infantino now has the support he wanted behind him.
00:22:07FIFA's office in Rabat,
00:22:11Morocco. An emergency meeting with FIFA's senior executives
00:22:14and the president of the organization. After increased
00:22:18pressure on Gianni Infantino to resign.
00:22:20After this meeting, FIFA officials
00:22:24issued a statement declaring their support for their president.
00:22:27The statement said that FIFA
00:22:31admits its mistake in presenting the FIFA Forward 2.0 plan.
00:22:35The goal was not for the FIFA Council and
00:22:38member associations to feel excluded from the decision-making process.
00:22:42However, it was acknowledged that this process should
00:22:45have been managed differently. It was also stated that mistakes
00:22:48were made after leaking this proposal to the media.
00:22:52The controversy began when FIFA intended to establish
00:22:56a company and sell a portion of its shares to a private
00:22:59company. A company that controlled
00:23:03the commercial and executive activities of FIFA's main competitions,
00:23:06including the World Cup.
00:23:10However, the reaction of the football world to this plan has made Gianni
00:23:13Infantino's position as FIFA president more precarious than
00:23:17ever before. UEFA.
00:23:21The Asian
00:23:25and CONCACAF confederations also opposed this plan,
00:23:28and even political leaders described
00:23:32him as unsuitable to lead FIFA.
00:23:35That someone would think that proper management means
00:23:38not saying anything about an important issue that is even under consideration, let alone
00:23:42proposing it to his closest
00:23:45advisors, his Chief Operating Officer, and his board members.
00:23:48مدیری خودش چیزی نگه.
00:23:58But I certainly do not trust Mr. Infantino after what happened.
00:24:01ندارم.
00:24:05Gianni Infantino spent last week in Morocco
00:24:08amidst intense pressure to step down from the FIFA
00:24:12presidency. Within FIFA, figures such as
00:24:14Arsene Wenger, FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development, and Mattias
00:24:18Grafström, FIFA's Secretary General, have also joined the critics
00:24:22and described the events of the past nearly two weeks
00:24:26as disturbing and reprehensible. In Europe,
00:24:29some federations and also UEFA said that he should
00:24:33resign. A picture of Gianni Infantino with
00:24:36the FIFA Secretary General, someone who had criticized
00:24:40him. Despite the storm at FIFA,
00:24:44the number one man in this organization does not intend
00:24:47to leave.
00:24:56In recent months, and after the October ceasefire agreement,
00:25:00global attention has shifted from Gaza. The US President
00:25:03announced last week an agreement between the peace delegation and Hamas
00:25:07on disarming the group. However, the Israeli army says that
00:25:11it continues to target Hamas members, in which civilians are also killed.
00:25:14This is while before the war, Gaza was turning
00:25:18into a technology hub. Now, as Yolande Nell reports,
00:25:22thousands of young people with their laptops are connecting to the outside world
00:25:26to earn an income for their families.
00:25:30درآمدی کسب
00:25:31In the rubble of Gaza,
00:25:34Palestinian technology experts have found ways to earn
00:25:38the much-needed income while taking a break
00:25:41from the difficult reality of their lives. Tariq
00:25:45Zaim is a software engineer and is developing a mobile
00:25:49application for international clients.
00:25:52We speak to him via video. Everything is gone.
00:25:56I lost my home, I lost my job.
00:25:59Now I have to start a new career path from scratch.
00:26:03During the two years of war, all people in Gaza
00:26:07faced many problems in accessing water and food.
00:26:10Many still live in camp tents.
00:26:14Nevertheless, thousands of people are trying to connect
00:26:17with the world through the digital economy.
00:26:21Generators and solar panels provide
00:26:24the electricity and internet needed for shared workspaces.
00:26:28های کاری اشتراکی را تأمین
00:26:30From here in southern Israel,
00:26:33the Gaza Strip can be clearly seen. Given the massive destruction,
00:26:36it may be hard to believe that Gaza still remains a kind of advanced
00:26:40technology hub.
00:26:43Before the recent war,
00:26:46Gaza was under Hamas control and under Israeli-Egyptian siege.
00:26:50Therefore, remote work and informal activities
00:26:54were among the few ways for university graduates
00:26:56in the region to make a living. Now, aid workers
00:27:00are trying to revive this industry. They refer to it as a kind of digital lifeline.
00:27:04In a situation where about 80% of Gaza residents
00:27:07have no income, helping people return to work
00:27:11is truly essential. Wala Folly Dies is talking
00:27:14to a coach in Silicon Valley about artificial intelligence.
00:27:18She is 24 years old and the breadwinner of her family.
00:27:21She is trying to send her injured sister out of Gaza
00:27:25for treatment. She recently started working remotely
00:27:28at a company.
00:28:16depicts a brighter future.
00:28:19We have reached the end of this news section.