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00:00:24News headline. Iran's warning
00:00:27about a possible US attack with
00:00:30support from regional countries. The central headquarters
00:00:34of Khatam al-Anbiya threatened Washington's allies with a military response.
00:00:37The deepening economic recession in
00:00:41Iran, GDP since last spring
00:00:45decreased by about 11%.
00:00:47The first
00:00:49two-month election in Russia after the attack on
00:00:52Ukraine, all opponents of the war have been eliminated
00:00:56from the competition. Deadly drugs
00:01:00on the streets of Scotland raise concerns
00:01:02about the spread of a semi- narcotic substance that is hundreds
00:01:06of times stronger than heroin.
00:01:25Hello and welcome to this news program. In Iran, the central
00:01:29headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya says it has obtained information
00:01:32that the US, with the support of some Middle Eastern countries,
00:01:36is preparing to resume its attack on Iran. This high military body
00:01:40has warned about the consequences of such an attack. It seems
00:01:43that developments such as the early return of the US president from
00:01:47his vacation and the issuance of security warnings for American citizens
00:01:51in West Asian countries are among the factors that
00:01:54have increased concerns about the outbreak of conflict.
00:01:58Shabnam Majidi reports that under these circumstances, diplomatic
00:02:02efforts to end the conflict
00:02:05continue.
00:02:08Donald Trump cut short his weekend vacation at Camp
00:02:12David last night and returned to the White House earlier
00:02:16than expected without giving a reason for this decision.
00:02:19A number of US embassies in West Asia have also issued
00:02:22emergency security warnings and said that there is a possibility
00:02:26of flight cancellations in the region. The central
00:02:38military installations and interests of that country in the region
00:02:42will be targeted by continuous, effective, and painful attacks
00:02:45without any restrictions or considerations. These warnings are being issued
00:02:49while the Houthis announced yesterday that they attacked sensitive
00:02:52targets in Riyadh with missiles and drones. The first retaliatory
00:02:56attack by Ansar Allah of Yemen on Riyadh.
00:03:00The French news agency says a fuel
00:03:02depot of the oil company Aramco near the airport
00:03:06caught fire. But Saudi Arabia says it intercepted and destroyed
00:03:10the missile fired at Riyadh. Until today, the US
00:03:13has avoided direct involvement in this front. But now,
00:03:17with threats reaching the capital of Saudi Arabia, new questions
00:03:20face this ally of Riyadh.
00:03:24The port of Mocha, a strategic point that the Houthis
00:03:28have captured for several weeks,
00:04:00at the same time, efforts for negotiations are also underway. The Turkish
00:04:04foreign minister says that they are working with several other countries
00:04:08on new proposals to end the war. The Pakistani interior minister
00:04:12is also scheduled to go to Tehran today.
00:04:14Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
00:04:18Council, told Al Jazeera Arabic yesterday that Iran's conditions,
00:04:21including an end to the war on all fronts, the release of Iranian
00:04:25assets, and an end to the naval blockade, have been announced to the US,
00:04:28and we are awaiting their response. Mohammad
00:04:31Baqer Qalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, also said that the dichotomy
00:04:35of war or negotiation is not real, and one must both fight and negotiate,
00:04:39and the enemy knows very well that the path
00:04:42of deceit and one-sided imposition is closed,
00:04:46and until these conditions are met and the
00:04:49legitimate rights of the Iranian nation are not recognized,
00:04:53and the commitments of the Americans
00:04:57are not fulfilled, there will be no opening
00:05:00for a return to previous conditions of negotiation
00:05:03and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:05:07And it seems that this waterway, which
00:05:10holds the fate of the world economy, will remain closed until then.
00:05:14Shabnam Majidi, BBC.
00:05:16Shida Hooshmandi,
00:05:20our reporter from Washington, is with the program.
00:05:24Shida, is it possible that Mr. Trump's sudden return
00:05:27could be interpreted as a sign of his desire for war with Iran?
00:05:30It seems
00:05:32that Jamal, more than anything else, is related to the situation
00:05:36between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen. In this way,
00:05:40the Houthis, for the first time, as we saw in the report,
00:05:43attacked Riyadh and
00:05:46the scope of tensions
00:05:49has expanded in that point. We know that Bin Salman's
00:05:52request from Mr. Trump is to directly engage
00:05:56in a military confrontation with the Houthis. We also
00:05:59hear reports, especially from CNN, for example,
00:06:03that this weekend, Mr. Trump
00:06:06was reviewing the options
00:06:10for resolving the Houthi issue.
00:06:12But I saw another report on Fox News
00:06:16where a Fox News reporter interviewed Mr. Trump,
00:06:20and he said that in the
00:06:23not-so-distant future,
00:06:26he would make a decision about Iran. The decisions
00:06:29are these, the options are these, according to Mr. Trump:
00:06:33Iran will be completely wiped
00:06:36out. The second option is that
00:06:38it will actually collapse economically.
00:06:43And the third option is that they will reach an agreement.
00:06:45And finally, it seems that it is true
00:06:48that the issue of Iran is not directly involved,
00:06:52but it is somehow involved in the war with Iran.
00:06:56We have six weeks until the midterm elections. The situation is very
00:06:59complicated for Mr. Trump. I saw that Mike Wallace
00:07:03spoke with the US government representative at the UN
00:07:07on Face the Nation today.
00:07:09He was asked about the plan that Mr. Trump has regarding
00:07:13the Houthis, and he did not definitively
00:07:17say that Mr. Trump would engage in a direct confrontation
00:07:20with the Houthis. But he emphasized
00:07:24that Mr. Trump would make a firm decision
00:07:27in this regard. The issue for Mr. Trump is that if he
00:07:31actually waits until after the midterm
00:07:34elections to confront the Houthis, the Houthis may be able
00:07:37to destabilize the oil and energy markets,
00:07:41and this would be bad for Mr. Trump. If he engages
00:07:44in a direct confrontation,
00:07:48it will definitely increase tensions,
00:07:51which is something the Islamic Republic also wants,
00:07:55and in the end, it can again be detrimental to Mr. Trump
00:07:59on the eve of the midterm elections. We have to see
00:08:02what decision the White House will make in the coming
00:08:06days. Thank you, Shida Hooshmandi, our reporter in
00:08:10Washington. Masoud Safiri, journalist
00:08:14and political analyst from Washington, the capital of the United States.
00:08:17Mr. Safiri, it's interesting that Shida mentioned the three
00:08:21options that Mr. Trump reportedly sees before him:
00:08:25the complete elimination of the Iranian government, the economic
00:08:28collapse of Iran, or an agreement in accordance
00:08:31with American conditions. In your opinion, which option
00:08:35do the evidence and signs support?
00:08:37I think the Americans have come to the conclusion
00:08:41that the more difficult Iran's economic situation, the more
00:08:44difficult decision-making will be in Tehran. In fact,
00:08:47the final confrontation that will take place in Tehran
00:08:51between the two factions ready for negotiations and the faction
00:08:54opposed to negotiations, that confrontation
00:08:58may get closer. And certainly,
00:09:01during that confrontation, the Americans can make more use
00:09:05of that fault line of differences, both in negotiations and
00:09:08in military operations if they have planned them.
00:09:19The Islamic Republic is preparing itself for the second option,
00:09:23meaning for a widespread war. Do you
00:09:26see the ability in the Iranian government
00:09:30to continue, for example,
00:09:32now
00:09:34what is clear is that Iran's economic situation is very
00:09:38difficult, and its opposing
00:09:40front is extensive.
00:09:43The Islamic Republic fundamentally does not
00:09:46consider the people as its social base for a defense
00:09:50in a war or a defense
00:09:53because it knows that this is a private
00:09:57war between itself and the US. The 10% to 15%
00:10:00(or whatever number, I don't really know)
00:10:03of its social base might defend it
00:10:06or come to the field for it, but the rest of the people
00:10:10are not in a situation
00:10:12where they can even understand why their country
00:10:16or their destiny is tied to a war that has no end
00:10:20and no reason to continue. In fact, it is not clear
00:10:23when the Islamic Republic will be defeated. It is not clear
00:10:27whether the moment of the Islamic Republic's collapse will happen on the battlefield,
00:10:31in a war, or if it will suffer
00:10:34from internal arthritis and its entire
00:10:37body will crumble. We know
00:10:40that the economic recession in Iran, based on the statistics
00:10:44announced today, has passed negative 10%,
00:10:47and this makes the economy irreversible.
00:10:51Of course, we will also talk about that.
00:10:55But ultimately, the American side
00:10:57is not in a very
00:10:59favorable situation either. Time is passing quickly.
00:11:03Elections are approaching, and on this side, Iran's allies, for example, the Houthis,
00:11:07have shown their strength against Saudi Arabia
00:11:11and the oil market. Yes,
00:11:14your analysis and the question you
00:11:17raise are completely correct. But we have to see how much
00:11:21damage the other side suffers from the war,
00:11:24and how vulnerable this side, which is essentially
00:11:28saying it is defending itself, is. The important issue is
00:11:31resilience. How much resilience does the Iranian political system
00:11:34have? How much resilience do the American people have?
00:11:38Mr. Trump has a timeframe to win the November
00:11:42midterm elections. Almost everyone knows that,
00:11:45except for Mr. Clinton's time, the incumbent president in the White House
00:11:49does not win the midterm elections. This only happened during Mr. Clinton's time
00:11:53when the Democrats were able to
00:12:00defeat the Republicans. Therefore, this is actually part of American
00:12:04political tradition. But if Mr. Trump gets angry, meaning
00:12:08if he actually receives that message and sees that
00:12:11he will be pressured in Congress, then he has a timeframe
00:12:15from approximately November 7th to January 20th
00:12:18when the new members come and sit, and the new composition is announced.
00:12:22What will happen in those two and a half months? I absolutely
00:12:55less than last spring. The sharp decline in oil production
00:12:58and a more than 35% decrease in export revenues
00:13:01were the main factors behind the negative economic
00:13:04growth. Behrang Tajdin, our economic affairs reporter,
00:13:08is here in the studio with me. Behrang, what do the statistics
00:13:11say? Look, the quarterly report
00:13:14from the Statistical Center is very clearly
00:13:17showing that the war between the US and Israel
00:13:21and Iran and the
00:13:24blockade of the southern ports and the intensification
00:13:27of sanctions against Iran have affected Iran's economy.
00:13:31As you said, the amount of exports this
00:13:34spring was 35.7%
00:13:38less than last spring. Look, this is the value
00:13:42of the export contracts, it doesn't mean the money
00:13:46that came in. Their value was 35%
00:13:50less than last year, and the amount of extraction
00:13:54or value of oil and gas extracted, despite the increase
00:13:57in oil prices, was 26%
00:13:59less than last spring. And overall,
00:14:03if you look at the total income of the Iranian economy,
00:14:06including the government, the private sector, the people, companies,
00:14:10all together, it was 10.8% less than last year.
00:14:14Inflation is
00:14:16also there. You see, when we talk about GDP,
00:14:20you can replace the word production with income. The income
00:14:23of the Iranian economy was 10% less
00:14:27than last spring. And the issue is
00:14:30that, with the exception of the agricultural sector,
00:14:33which had a slight growth
00:14:35of about 2%,
00:14:38other industries and mines, for example, if we exclude
00:14:41oil and gas, other industries and mines also
00:14:45saw a 5% decrease in their production,
00:14:48a decrease in their income. The same is true in the service
00:14:52sector. So, if you look at different sectors,
00:14:55you see that all of them were struggling with recession,
00:14:59and the result is that the income of many people
00:15:03and companies also decreases, and purchasing power goes down,
00:15:06especially with inflation. A final interesting point
00:15:10is that if you look at consumption, you see that
00:15:13for the government sector, it has decreased
00:15:17by 17%. For the private sector, meaning people
00:15:20and private companies, it's 4. What does
00:15:24that mean? It means a decrease
00:15:27in purchasing power and a worsening of poverty
00:15:30for people, more than twice as severe as for the government.
00:15:34So, what is the overall concept of these? What is the
00:15:38economic translation of this for ordinary people
00:15:42and their lives? I say the most important
00:15:45translation for people is that, ultimately, the entire
00:15:49Iranian economy is poorer. The Iranian economy also
00:15:53includes its people. So, just think,
00:15:56we don't care how much inflation is, because these statistics
00:15:59actually remove the effect of inflation. The problem
00:16:03is that people's incomes have not increased as much
00:16:06as inflation. And one of the ways that people's incomes don't
00:16:09increase is that you see that, for example,
00:16:12employment has decreased, meaning there are fewer people
00:16:16who have income. Well, this itself can,
00:16:19in total, mean that, overall, the Iranian people
00:16:23and economy are poorer than last year. And
00:16:27this is especially true in a situation where inflation
00:16:30is at its highest level since World War II,
00:16:34in more than 80 years. It shows how difficult life
00:16:38is, and the issue is that getting out of this
00:16:41crisis has no economic solution. Its solution is political.
00:16:44The main solution is to end the war,
00:16:48in a way, to end the war and start the return
00:16:51of Iran's foreign trade to at least
00:16:55pre-war conditions. Now, I can't
00:16:58call these conditions normal, but the issue is that
00:17:01the continuation of the current situation can cause
00:17:04this situation of poverty for the people and the economy
00:17:08to last longer. Thank you, Behrang Tajdin. I must remind
00:17:12you that in the 60-minute program, we will talk in detail with Behrang
00:17:16about this. A look back at the most
00:17:19important news headlines of this program. The central
00:17:23headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya warned about a possible attack
00:17:27on Iran and threatened that US interests in the region
00:17:31would be targeted without any restrictions or considerations.
00:17:34Following an 11% decrease in Iran's GDP
00:17:38since last spring, the country's economy officially entered a recession.
00:17:42In the continuation of this
00:17:44program, the worsening drug crisis
00:17:48in Scotland with the entry of a deadly substance
00:17:51that is hundreds of times stronger than
00:17:54heroin.
00:17:58Today is the third and final day of voting
00:18:02in Russia's parliamentary elections. Elections in which everything
00:18:06has been arranged so that the ruling party, United Russia,
00:18:09maintains its majority. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia,
00:18:13has described these elections as a test of public support
00:18:16for the war in Ukraine. This is while almost all
00:18:20anti-war candidates have been barred from participating
00:18:24in this competition, including the candidate of the Yabloko
00:18:27liberal party, whose name was removed from the ballot
00:18:30by a ruling of the Russian Supreme Court. The Kremlin justifies
00:18:34these actions by saying that imposing restrictions
00:18:37to protect national interests during wartime is necessary.
00:18:41Erfan Nourbakhsh, an analyst of Russian affairs from Nottingham,
00:18:45UK, is with us. Mr. Nourbakhsh, when it is said that the names
00:18:48of war opponents have been crossed out, how is this done? Does
00:18:52only the Russian judiciary intervene, or do they also
00:18:55have a body similar to the Guardian Council? Yes,
00:18:58it's very interesting. Even this Yabloko party
00:19:02issue in the previous election did not gain more than 1.5%
00:19:06of the votes and was even described by the Kremlin as
00:19:09a political corpse. It was in late July that it gained
00:19:13a lot of popularity on social media
00:19:16by chanting anti-war slogans, calling for
00:19:20an immediate agreement, a ceasefire, and
00:19:24very easily in August, as you mentioned,
00:19:27its candidates were removed, and the party itself
00:19:31was removed for
00:19:34copyright issues, which was very interesting.
00:19:38You see, the Russian system is a system
00:19:41where all its components are at the service of the ruling
00:19:44elite. This system existed both during the Soviet era
00:19:48and during the tsarist rule. It absolutely does not allow
00:19:52anything that goes against the ruler
00:19:55to rise up. Someone rising up against the ruler means
00:19:59the destruction of the ruler, at least in the Russian dictionary.
00:20:02Therefore, the judiciary can easily remove
00:20:06them with a phone call from the Kremlin.
00:20:15There is no need to have a legal process
00:20:19to remove them. As I said, this party
00:20:23was removed for another reason. There was no
00:20:26talk about entering the elections or not entering
00:20:30them because of
00:20:33peaceful slogans. Therefore, what
00:20:36Putin announces, he says these elections are a test
00:20:40of support. When you have no other
00:20:43option, all options are in favor of the policy
00:20:47of the ruling party, and in fact, not to say
00:20:51the policy of the ruling party, but of the ruler.
00:20:55Talking about elections or a test
00:20:59is ridiculous in this situation. In the previous Russian
00:21:02presidential elections two years ago, we saw the same
00:21:06thing happen. The candidates who were against Mr. Putin
00:21:09were happy about their elimination, happy about their defeat.
00:21:12We remember we had a program with you then and we discussed
00:21:16this. Therefore, in current Russia,
00:21:19in Putin's Russia, one cannot hope that anything
00:21:22will change through elections. These elections are not that
00:21:26important even for the Kremlin. Elections in European countries
00:21:30where the Kremlin is intensely and actively interfering
00:21:33to bring right-wing parties to power are more important
00:21:37to it than these elections. You know, with these elections,
00:21:41it will easily perform the show it wants, and then
00:21:44the Kremlin's actions will never face internal challenges,
00:21:48unless through violence.
00:22:09The Iranian parliament, in its ongoing review
00:22:13of the bill known as "Combating Foreign Influence," approved
00:22:16Article 10 of the bill. Based on this article, the Ministry
00:22:20of Interior is obligated to establish a system
00:22:23for registering, managing, and supervising foreign communications
00:22:27within three months of the implementation of this law. Security agencies,
00:22:31including the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC Intelligence Organization,
00:22:34will have full access to the information in this system.
00:22:37Since the approval of its generalities, this bill has faced
00:22:41criticism and opposition, including from the government itself.
00:22:44The Iranian
00:22:46judiciary announced the sealing of the French Language Center
00:22:50in Tehran, known as CILF, and deemed its activities
00:22:54illegal. This institution claims
00:22:57that this center, which is affiliated with the French
00:23:00Embassy, has conducted activities against national security
00:23:04under the guise of language teaching and has created
00:23:08networks for the departure of Iranian elites. CILF
00:23:11in Tehran was the only center for official
00:23:14French language proficiency exams, DELF and DALF,
00:23:18which are particularly required for applicants
00:23:22to study at French-speaking universities.
00:23:24A former
00:23:31senior Syrian army commander has been arrested on suspicion
00:23:35of involvement in human rights violations during Bashar al-Assad's
00:23:39rule. According to Syrian officials, Major General Ahmed Mohammad
00:23:43Ismail was one of the commanders of military operations in Aleppo,
00:23:46Daraa, and Eastern Ghouta during the Syrian civil war.
00:23:54Since then, dozens of officials from the former
00:23:57government have been arrested,
00:24:10The agency responsible for monitoring and combating
00:24:14addiction and drug production in the European
00:24:17Union has announced the entry of hundreds of new, powerful,
00:24:21and dangerous drugs into the continent. At the same time,
00:24:25new official statistics expected to be released
00:24:28later this week are likely to show
00:24:31an increase in the annual death rate due to drug
00:24:34use in Scotland. Experts say one of the reasons
00:24:38for this trend is the increased production and distribution
00:24:42of synthetic opioids. James Cook reports on this.
00:24:45The appearance
00:24:48of this very clean laboratory in Dundee, in southeast
00:24:52Scotland, is miles away from the reality of drug
00:24:55abuse. But scientists here are working to combat
00:24:59this deadly and ever-changing threat. They examine
00:25:02confiscated drug samples to understand exactly
00:25:06what is inside them. This is because
00:25:09newer drugs are always being produced. The answers from these scientists
00:25:12are concerning. We are seeing that approximately
00:25:16one new type of drug enters the European market every
00:25:20one or two weeks. We have a challenge to keep up with
00:25:23the pace of this trend, and this must be dangerous,
00:25:27right? Yes, these drugs are extremely dangerous.
00:25:30Over time, drug production and distribution in Scotland
00:25:34is becoming much more dangerous. These scientists are particularly
00:25:37concerned about a synthetic opioid called nitazene,
00:25:41which is often hundreds of times stronger than heroin.
00:25:44Criminals mix these substances with any other substance,
00:25:48from Valium-like pills to cocaine powder. The value
00:25:52of drugs seized by Scottish police on the streets of the country
00:25:56last year was 80 million pounds. So far this year,
00:25:59this figure has reached 78 million pounds. And we can also
00:26:03announce now that the police, by raiding laboratories
00:26:07suspected of producing nitazene in two regions of Scotland,
00:26:10have arrested 5 people so far. This is not just a city
00:26:14problem. The rapidly changing nature of drug distribution
00:26:17has also reached rural Scotland. We came to the Kintyre peninsula
00:26:20in the westernmost part of Scotland to hear stories
00:26:24about this community's efforts to save lives. Here,
00:26:27every method is used to save people's lives. This group
00:26:31tries to help former drug users reconnect
00:26:34with nature and heal their trauma
00:26:38in this way. Some of these substances are so strong
00:26:41that even a small amount is enough to make the person
00:26:44lose control of their body and take their life, right?
00:26:48Yes, it will probably even kill them. It's really
00:26:51scary. I usually don't say such things, but I don't
00:26:55think drugs have ever been this dangerous before. Now,
00:26:59people almost never know what they are consuming.
00:27:13Many
00:27:16lives have been lost, and much more work needs
00:27:20to be done to save
00:27:21other lives.
00:27:27Thank you for joining our news segments. At the
00:27:30end of this news program,
00:27:34I remind you again that Mr. Trump is said to be
00:27:37making big decisions. He himself told Fox News
00:27:41that network. Fox News quoted
00:27:45him as saying that big things are happening
00:27:49regarding Iran, and before that, the central
00:27:53headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya said that we have received
00:27:56information that the US, with the support of some regional
00:28:00countries, wants to attack Iran. Thank you for being with
00:30:39our news segments. All right. And now on BBC
00:30:43Persian Television,
00:30:46"Respond mercilessly and go to the extent of killing."
00:30:50Amnesty International says its extensive investigation
00:30:53into how the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement was suppressed
00:30:57can be summarized in this one instruction.