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00:00:40Hello and welcome to this short news segment from BBC Persian with me, Farin
00:00:44Asemi. Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, in defense of continuing
00:00:48negotiations with the United States, said that when we can achieve our rights through dialogue,
00:00:51why should we fight? Mr. Pezeshkian said that Iran
00:00:55was able to stop the Lebanon war through dialogue,
00:00:58lift the siege, and reduce some sanctions.
00:01:02Meanwhile, an American official told Reuters that there has been progress
00:01:05in the talks between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of
00:01:09Hormuz, and Washington expects an agreement to be reached
00:01:12soon. According to him, after the announcement of an agreement for the complete
00:01:16and unobstructed reopening of this waterway, the US will lift
00:01:20the blockade of Iranian ports. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, also says
00:01:23that an agreement on a new shipping route in the Strait of
00:01:27Hormuz is very close. Farham Ghabadi is here in the studio
00:01:31with me. Parham, what are the latest news regarding the possibility of an agreement
00:01:34between Tehran and Oman? Look, there is ambiguity about
00:01:38what is happening. Now, the spokesperson for the Revolutionary Guards has said
00:01:42that we do not negotiate with the Americans at all, and the reopening of the Strait of
00:01:45Hormuz has nothing to do with our negotiations
00:01:49with Oman and will happen when the Americans accept all
00:01:52our conditions. On the other hand, last night the
00:01:56American side, Scott
00:01:59Bassent, their Treasury Secretary, said that today and
00:02:03tomorrow the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and an agreement
00:02:07with Iran will be reached. That's why there is some ambiguity, but in any case,
00:02:10what is happening is not just the closure of the Strait of
00:02:14Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab by the Houthis. On the other hand, the US has
00:02:17imposed a naval blockade against Iran, and now
00:02:21the Wall Street Journal has published a report saying that with shipping data
00:02:24and satellite images, they were able to find out that at least
00:02:27in the past week, no oil tanker has loaded at Kharg Island,
00:02:31which is Iran's main oil export terminal.
00:02:34And this indicates that Iran's oil exports have
00:02:38likely decreased at an alarmingly rapid rate.
00:02:41Last night, the third part of Masoud Pezeshkian's interview was broadcast.
00:02:45He also spoke about the possibility of an agreement.
00:02:48Exactly. It seems that when you look at the statements of both sides,
00:02:52neither side wants to continue the war, except for the internal hardliners. For example,
00:02:56we see that CNN has published a report and says, quoting three informed sources,
00:03:00that General Donkin, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
00:03:04US Army, said to Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance
00:03:07and others to look for a way out
00:03:10of the war with Iran because continuing this war
00:03:13might backfire, and they will not achieve results
00:03:16with aerial bombardment. On the other hand, Reuters has confirmed that Iran's
00:03:20missile reserves have decreased. Now, the Iranian side, as you said,
00:03:24Pezeshkian has spoken and said that when
00:03:27we can solve our problems through dialogue,
00:03:30why should we continue the war? We can listen to part of his speech. China and
00:03:33America are friends.
00:03:36America's biggest enemy is China. Why don't they
00:03:40fight? China does its
00:03:43own thing. It's getting stronger every day.
00:03:46We will defend what we wrote in the memorandum of understanding
00:03:49with power. Find one clause that we gave
00:03:53away. We always want to
00:03:56say let's fight. That's what Israel wants.
00:04:26Also Mohammad Bagher Kharazi, the cleric who has recently made controversial statements.
00:04:31In recent days, videos of him had been released where he
00:04:34encouraged the killing of women who do not wear hijab. In
00:04:38another instance, he spoke about Masoud Pezeshkian, saying that he had resigned
00:04:4127 times and that he had access to this information because of his friendship
00:04:45with Mojtaba Khamenei. In any case, a series of his statements
00:04:49had caused a lot of reactions. Now, today, and he is
00:04:52also the brother-in-law of Masoud Khamenei's brother-in-law,
00:04:56the younger brother of Mojtaba Khamenei. Today, they summoned him and said that if he
00:05:00does not come, he will be arrested. Thank you very much to Parham Ghabadi here in the
00:05:04studio. We have reached the end of this news segment.
00:05:07Thank you for being with BBC Persian.
00:05:09هستید.