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00:00:21Headlines.
00:00:21خبرها.
00:00:27Russia's proposal to help end the war.
00:01:00Former International Criminal Court Court in the US imposed new sanctions
00:01:03on this institution.
00:01:07And BBC's findings on the working conditions of workers producing official football club
00:01:11jerseys in Cambodian factories.
00:01:31Hello to you and welcome to this news program. In
00:01:35a meeting with Masoud Pezeshkian, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready
00:01:39to do whatever is necessary to help end the US-Iran
00:01:42war. The President of Iran also told his Russian counterpart
00:01:46that even though the US has repeatedly attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations,
00:01:49Tehran remains committed to negotiation and diplomacy.
00:01:53This meeting took place on the sidelines of the Caspian Sea
00:01:56and Eurasian countries summit in Turkmenistan.
00:02:00Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump had said that
00:02:03Washington is in constructive talks with Tehran and
00:02:07will under no circumstances attack Iran before the US midterm
00:02:10elections on November 3rd.
00:02:13Mohammad Amini reports.
00:02:17Masoud Pezeshkian's presence at the Commonwealth of Independent States
00:02:20(CIS) summit, which was held in Turkmenistan.
00:02:23This country is hosting the meeting of the Caspian
00:02:26Sea coastal states, a summit of independent
00:02:30Commonwealth states that gained independence after the collapse
00:02:33of the Soviet Union. These
00:02:37are the collective photo opportunities of the leaders. This is the
00:02:40first time that a president from Iran participates in such a meeting.
00:02:44Vladimir Putin had a warm reception
00:02:48with his Iranian counterpart. No, it's not bedtime
00:02:51after all. They also
00:02:53had a friendly chat.
00:02:56At the official meeting table, he also referred to Iran as a country
00:03:00that, according to him, had no fault in the ongoing war
00:03:03with the US.
00:03:08Of course, today the biggest problem is the situation in the region. We know that
00:03:11Iran has really tried to end the conflict and
00:03:14to stop a war that Iran had no fault in starting.
00:03:18Iran is now once again trying to resolve the issue with new proposals
00:03:21peacefully.
00:03:23آمیز.
00:03:27Mr. President, you know Russia's position. We have come to do whatever
00:03:31we can to solve the problem. This opportunity that arose,
00:03:34I immediately presented it to you. This is the second meeting
00:03:38between the leaders of Iran and Russia in the past 40 days.
00:03:41Masoud Pezeshkian told Vladimir Putin today
00:03:44that Tehran is still negotiating. We are talking.
00:03:47Every time we talked to them, they attacked again.
00:03:51But still, we are not leaving the negotiation
00:03:54table. We had made proposals.
00:03:58The Americans gave new proposals.
00:04:04We made our own adjustments to these proposals and it is planned that after it is finalized,
00:04:08we will sit together with the relationship they are currently
00:04:12working on to be able to summarize these proposals.
00:04:14Russia and China are referred to as two superpowers supporting
00:04:18the Iranian government. The level and details
00:04:21of cooperation and support between Moscow and Beijing for Tehran in the ongoing
00:04:25war with the US have many ambiguities, but some observers believe
00:04:28that Iran has been able to withstand the widespread
00:04:32and heavy blows from the US and Israel partly because
00:04:36of the support from Russia and China.
00:04:39Iran and the US are still talking about mutual contacts and exchanging
00:04:43diplomatic plans. US President Donald Trump
00:04:47said that Iran will not be attacked before
00:04:50the November 3rd elections in the US, meaning for another
00:04:5424 days. However, he emphasized that the economic
00:04:57blockade is still being powerfully implemented. It remains
00:05:01to be seen what agreements Masoud Pezeshkian will reach
00:05:04with his Russian counterpart in the ongoing meetings
00:05:07in Turkmenistan. Mohammad Amini BBC, Alireza
00:05:11Namvar Haghighi, expert on Iranian political issues from Toronto, Canada.
00:05:15Mr. Namvar Haghighi, Russia said that if anything is necessary
00:05:18to end the war between Iran and the US,
00:05:21it will do it. Is Mr. Putin in a position
00:05:25to mediate, pressure one of the parties, or do something
00:05:28in this regard?
00:05:30Yes, greetings to you
00:05:34and the dear viewers of BBC Persian TV.
00:05:38Well, Mr. Putin, after all,
00:05:41regarding the war in Ukraine,
00:05:44compared to the Democrats' era, has a better relationship with Mr.
00:05:48Trump. Mr. Trump doesn't have the previous support
00:05:52that the US government
00:05:53provided to
00:05:56Kyiv, and today,
00:05:59as Mr. Putin's government has agreed
00:06:02to send diesel to the US, meaning it has helped Mr. Trump's
00:06:06election position, naturally,
00:06:10in this regard, Mr. Putin
00:06:13can play a role in the issues of
00:06:16guaranteeing the two countries,
00:06:19including the issue of transferring uranium
00:06:23or guaranteeing that uranium will not be transferred,
00:06:26and Israel and the US will agree not to attack Iran.
00:06:29This is one of the most important issues that is ambiguous
00:06:32between Iran, the US, and Israel. Both China and Russia
00:06:36have the ability to play a role as two
00:06:40members of the Security Council and two powerful countries
00:06:43that have relations with both countries. This is one point.
00:06:47The second point is that in the past, if you remember,
00:06:51before the 12-day war, Mr. Lavrov visited Iran
00:06:54and made the same mediation offer, but even then,
00:06:58Iran did not agree. Even the Sepah
00:07:02magazine "Sobh-e Sadegh" wrote that Russia wants
00:07:05to resolve the issue of Iran under the Ukraine issue,
00:07:09and therefore we should not accept it. It seems that
00:07:13this level of opposition has decreased
00:07:16and it seems that Iran now needs a powerful mediator
00:07:20who can guarantee any kind of agreement
00:07:24more than before. It can trust.
00:07:27The third point is that the level
00:07:31of cooperation between Iran and Russia has increased,
00:07:34especially in the field of
00:07:38food issues and relations with
00:07:41neighbors, who were formerly members of the Soviet Union,
00:07:45such as Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan,
00:07:48who also had a meeting today, Mr. Aliyev, Pezeshkian, Putin.
00:07:51And the third point is that they also have
00:07:55relations regarding defense issues. But strategically,
00:07:58the reality is that if
00:08:00Iran does not want to change its strategy,
00:08:04Putin's mediation will not help Iran.
00:08:07That's right, Mr. Namvar, our time is very limited,
00:08:09but now Iran seems to
00:08:13desperately need this ceasefire or
00:08:16peace, whatever we call it. But the American side,
00:08:19which is really involved in Ukraine,
00:08:23Russia, briefly please. Yes.
00:08:26Look, America has besieged Iran.
00:08:29This siege will not be broken easily. Second,
00:08:33and because of this, it wants more concessions
00:08:36than before. Second, that dissatisfied actors
00:08:40like Arab countries and Israel are pressuring
00:08:43Mr. Trump that he must resolve the issue,
00:08:46meaning he must create a fundamental
00:08:49change or reach a stable agreement. The third point
00:08:53is that the ambiguities that exist in Tehran
00:08:57are about who makes the final decision and whether they will implement
00:09:00an agreement if they reach one. And third, Iran's strategic
00:09:04approaches. These three issues are what it seems to me that if Iran
00:09:08does not want to make a consensus for decision-making
00:09:12and change its approach, then even if Russia
00:09:15and China are here, Iran's strategic problem
00:09:18in the conflict with the US will not be solved, and Iran could enter a long period of chronic wars.
00:09:22Alireza Namvar Haghighi, political analyst from Iran, thank you for being on the program.
00:09:26The Wall Street Journal, in a recent
00:09:30report based on internal documents of the Binance
00:09:33cryptocurrency exchange, claimed that a network consisting
00:09:37of 21 accounts and companies linked to Babak Zanjani,
00:09:40an Iranian businessman, used this platform to transfer hundreds
00:09:44of millions of dollars. According to these documents, some of the accounts
00:09:48in this network remained active for a while despite warnings
00:09:52from Western financial and security agencies, and at least $67 million
00:09:55from two accounts was transferred to wallets that Israel
00:09:59considers linked to the Revolutionary Guard. Binance says it eventually
00:10:02blocked these accounts and considers any assumption
00:10:06about the total volume of transactions' connection to the Revolutionary Guard
00:10:10misleading.
00:10:19What's new in the Wall Street Journal report
00:10:22is mostly the path
00:10:25of money and cryptocurrency, meaning
00:10:29we had this news about sanctions and that Babak Zanjani's network
00:10:32was involved in these cryptocurrencies. Now
00:10:35we see how these monies were moving around.
00:10:39Meaning, first, for example, oil revenues would first
00:10:43enter the network through companies in the UAE and
00:10:47Turkey. These would enter
00:10:50this network. Then, for example, a company called Z-Pic,
00:10:54which is a platform in Turkey, would convert
00:10:58it to cryptocurrency, and then from cryptocurrency, through
00:11:01accounts linked to Babak Zanjani,
00:11:05as this report states, for example, the name
00:11:09of Babak Zanjani's sister, his romantic partner, and
00:11:13a few others have appeared in these accounts,
00:11:16and through this network and Binance,
00:11:20they were carrying out monetary exchanges, of which nearly
00:11:23$850 million was transferred this way,
00:11:27and as you said, only
00:11:30$67 million of it apparently
00:11:33went to wallets that are linked to the Revolutionary
00:11:36Guard. This is another issue that we see
00:11:39in the report. Just today, the US Treasury
00:11:43Secretary announced that soon,
00:11:47meaning this week and next week, the US will confiscate
00:11:50nearly $1 billion of Iranian cryptocurrencies.
00:11:53Where this source
00:11:57is, which wallets or which accounts they are going
00:12:01to confiscate, is still unclear and no one else
00:12:04has talked about it. Thank you very much
00:12:08from Maroush Pouzei, our correspondent
00:12:10in Washington.
00:12:12The US Treasury Department has sanctioned 17 oil tankers
00:12:16and several companies linked to Iran's maritime transport network. Washington said that this
00:12:20action targets one of the regime's last
00:12:23major sources of income.
00:13:02We have passed. An operation whose goal is the complete isolation
00:13:06of the terrorist regime of Iran. Even in the past few days,
00:13:10we have witnessed significant developments in the Iranian
00:13:13government. Last weekend, the oil minister resigned.
00:13:17Also, on Saturday, the President of Iran spoke about the country's
00:13:20economic decline. Therefore, in recent days,
00:13:23we have seen that the pressure.
00:13:59I believe the economic pressure we have applied so far
00:14:03has brought the Iranian regime to its knees, and now we see that
00:14:07they don't have much time left. Their financial resources
00:14:10have become very limited. Only $1.5 billion
00:14:14of oil remains outside the scope of the naval blockade. When
00:14:18this oil is not sold, it's over. There will be no
00:14:21income left for the Iranian regime.
00:14:55Their purchases have decreased, and their quality of life
00:14:59is declining. Aren't you worried that at
00:15:02some point, with the continued fall of the rial,
00:15:06we will see a negative reaction from the Iranian people
00:15:09to US policies towards Iran? President
00:15:13Trump has a great deal of empathy for the Iranian people.
00:15:16In fact, at every stage, he has tried
00:15:20to provide humanitarian facilities and exceptions
00:15:24to ensure the flow of food and medicine to Iran. We
00:15:27actually believe that the Iranian people will ultimately hold
00:15:31the terrorist regime of Iran responsible for this situation.
00:15:34They will understand that the United States government
00:15:38is doing everything it can to provide more peace and prosperity
00:15:41for the Iranian people. During the Shah's rule,
00:15:45Iran had a dynamic, prosperous economy with a highly educated
00:15:49workforce. We want that dynamism and prosperity
00:15:52to return to Iran. Do you hope that economic
00:15:55pressure will lead to regime change?
00:15:58I think we hope that this economic pressure will eventually
00:16:02lead to the end of the terrorist regime in Iran.
00:16:05Do you expect people to once again take to the streets?
00:16:09I don't want to predict what the Iranian people will eventually do.
00:16:13But what I want to see is the return of dynamism,
00:16:15peace and prosperity to the lives
00:16:17of the Iranian people.
00:16:20You referred to the Iranian President's statements about
00:16:24economic problems. However, the Governor of the Central
00:16:28Bank of Iran announced that the government will inject
00:16:31$2 billion into the market to support the value of the rial.
00:16:35This shows that the Iranian government also.
00:17:08We are talking about the pressures that these policies have exerted on Iran.
00:17:12But the war and crisis in the Persian
00:17:16Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have had widespread effects
00:17:19on the American economy as well as the global economy.
00:17:22How long do you think this situation
00:17:26will be tolerable and sustainable?
00:17:29If you look at the amount of oil that is now being exported
00:17:33from this region, you will see that it is almost at the same level
00:17:37as before the war. But the interesting point is that none of this oil
00:17:40belongs to the terrorist regime of Iran. All of it
00:17:44is supplied from other countries other than Iran.
00:17:46میشه.
00:17:53When you talk to the Iranian people, they believe that
00:17:56the main pressure is on them. Ordinary Iranian
00:18:00citizens who have no connection to the government
00:18:03and have played no role in the war.
00:18:07They say that many government officials and their associates
00:18:11still live a prosperous life
00:18:14and have been able to transfer their assets and money
00:18:18abroad to foreign banks.
00:18:22We are targeting those who are part of the terrorist regime of Iran.
00:18:25We identify their money and assets and sanction
00:18:29them. The United States government in no
00:18:33way wants to harm the Iranian people or prevent their
00:18:36wealth.
00:18:40For a very long time, people have suffered from terrorist acts. We try
00:18:44to find a way for Iran to be reintegrated into
00:18:47the global financial system when this conflict
00:18:51ends and we see that the terrorist regime of Iran
00:18:54has ended its war and its dominance over society.
00:18:58This was an interview with
00:19:02my colleague Khashayar Ghandi with Ervin Brown, Deputy
00:19:05Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Department of the Treasury. The program will continue with a few news items.
00:19:12The co-pilot who caused an incident on a FlyDubai flight last week
00:19:15intended to crash the plane into the terminal building of Ben Gurion
00:19:19Airport in Tel Aviv. The prosecutor said that in the investigations
00:19:23conducted by the UAE, this Omani co-pilot confessed
00:19:26that he was inspired by al-Qaeda's September 11th attacks on the US.
00:19:30He reportedly said that the September 11th attacks were among the reasons
00:19:34for his decision to learn to fly.
00:19:37Following the Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport, more
00:19:40airlines are canceling their flights to Saudi Arabia.
00:19:44Saudi officials announced that three people were killed
00:19:48in yesterday's attack, one of whom was a pilot
00:19:51of the national airline of Saudi Arabia. Several people were also injured and
00:19:55one plane was damaged. After the Houthi attacks two days ago
00:19:59on the same airport and another airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia,
00:20:02Pakistani, Indian, and Lufthansa airlines stopped
00:20:05their flights to Riyadh.
00:20:09The US announced that it will impose financial sanctions against the International
00:20:12Criminal Court. Based on this, after a six-month
00:20:16grace period, transactions with this court will be prohibited. The US Secretary of State
00:20:20said that the President of this country will never allow a
00:20:23court, which he called arbitrary, to prosecute Americans.
00:20:27The International Criminal Court and the UN Secretary-General
00:20:31described these sanctions as an attack on international justice.
00:20:35کردند.
00:20:38Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, won the Nobel
00:20:42Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that Ms.
00:20:45Pillay was awarded this prestigious prize for her efforts
00:20:49to promote peace and international law. The current UN
00:20:52Human Rights Commissioner said that awarding this prize to Ms.
00:20:56Pillay is a collective victory for human rights. But
00:20:59Israel expressed dissatisfaction. Nasser Madani reports.
00:21:03دهد.
00:21:08The 102nd Nobel Peace
00:21:10Prize.
00:21:12The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel
00:21:16Peace Prize for 2026 to.
00:21:30This year's winner played a decisive role in ensuring the prosecution of war crimes,
00:21:33crimes against humanity, and genocide.
00:21:37Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old lawyer,
00:21:41was born into a poor family of Indian descent in South Africa.
00:21:45She experienced apartheid. She fought against discrimination.
00:21:49تبعیض را.
00:23:20to tell me which of our documents was wrong.
00:23:23They call me an anti-Semite. How come when they accepted me
00:23:26as the only UN reporter in Israel to report
00:23:30on their oppression, my work was considered
00:23:33credible then?
00:23:38This morning was different for Navi Pillay.
00:23:41She didn't know that she had won one of the most prestigious
00:23:45international awards. Please encourage
00:23:48the award.
00:24:25Official football jerseys are produced by workers
00:24:29in Southeast Asia whose basic wages are less than $1.50
00:24:33an hour for some of them. BBC Sports' investigation
00:24:37tracked the production of official jerseys for clubs including Arsenal,
00:24:40Celtic, and Liverpool and reached two factories
00:24:44in Cambodia. These findings are being released as fans
00:24:47complain about rising prices
00:24:50for official jerseys, and at the same time are warned against buying
00:24:54cheaper counterfeit versions. Dan Roan reports.
00:24:58می دهد.
00:25:01I want foreign customers to know that every single one of these jerseys
00:25:05is drenched in the sweat of Cambodian workers. These jerseys
00:25:08are a popular commodity for fans and a profitable source of income
00:25:12for clubs and manufacturers. The official jersey production industry
00:25:16is a multi-billion dollar market and buying them is not cheap.
00:25:19But only fans pay the cost. We tracked
00:25:22the supply chain of official jerseys to factories in Cambodia,
00:25:25where the basic wages of some workers are at or
00:25:29slightly above the minimum wage, less than $1.50
00:25:32an hour. Workers receive less than $10 US
00:25:35for producing about 400 to 500 shirts daily. Huge profits
00:25:39are made from these products, but a very small share goes
00:25:43to the workers. These factories do not belong to Adidas, but
00:25:46are considered its main suppliers. In these same factories,
00:25:50we found official jerseys of some of the world's biggest football clubs.
00:25:54Workers, whose identities we are not revealing for their safety,
00:25:57speak of the pressure they say they face at work.
00:26:01Workers.
00:26:35But these findings will probably make many fans wonder if the
00:26:39actual product is really worth it or not, and what is
00:26:42the role of clubs in this matter? This situation exists in a large part
00:26:45of the clothing industry, and millions of workers around
00:26:49the world face such a situation. Clubs must send
00:26:53a very clear message that if workers are not treated
00:26:56with respect and dignity, they are not willing to have their names
00:27:00on these jerseys. Adidas has told us that it has taken various
00:27:04steps to ensure fair and safe working conditions throughout its supply chain.
00:27:08The company said it monitors supplier performance,
00:27:11strives to resolve problems, and takes action to improve
00:27:15conditions where necessary. Adidas also said that workers usually
00:27:18receive wages significantly higher than the minimum wage.
00:27:22There are specific guidelines to combat heat stress, and
00:27:25the company's standards do not tolerate any harassment.
00:27:29Tens of thousands of kilometers away from where these jerseys are produced,
00:27:33fans might expect that when they buy an official uniform,
00:27:36adherence to specific standards is guaranteed.
00:27:39باشد.
00:27:43Thank you for watching our news segments.
00:28:18are standing. Is it in the territory of Iranian Kurdistan or in the territory
00:28:21of Iraqi Kurdistan? We try to cover
00:28:25everything that happens here live
00:28:27for you.
00:28:30Tell us what we know, new details.
00:28:34They move the meeting up an hour and quickly leave
00:28:37here. They are not tourists
00:28:41at the Turkish border, but they are not refugees
00:28:45either. Here, they were attacked
00:28:48by Israeli forces.
00:28:51The images we receive are very
00:28:55limited due to internet
00:28:56outage.
00:28:59Continuous coverage of news on television.
00:29:02Social media and BBC Persian website.
00:29:05They use fake names.
00:29:09Their phones are disposable and they remain hidden
00:29:12from view. Not to escape the law, but to
00:29:16expose lawbreakers. They
00:29:18are BBC World Service journalists.
00:29:22And this program is Global Eye from BBC Persian.
00:29:26Nawaz Sharif returned, and I said they will never
00:29:29reach an agreement. Until Afghans decide
00:29:33to put aside their personal interests and reach an agreement
00:29:37in which everyone has a stake, no peace will be established.
00:29:40Iran shares more than a thousand kilometers of border with
00:29:43Afghanistan. As long as Iran is not involved in the peace
00:29:47agreement, no peace will be established in Afghanistan.
00:29:50An interview with Ben Swann, former UN representative in
00:29:54Afghanistan, who recently
00:29:55passed away.
00:30:00And now on BBC Persian TV, a TV series.