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00:00:00An equivalent of about 40 million text messages inviting people to
00:00:04self-declare will be sent and registration on
00:00:07"My Government" system is only possible by the head
00:00:11of the household. For Mehr (October) that hopefully the increase
00:00:14will be done, it has not yet reached a conclusion. I think
00:00:18it will be around 500 thousand Tomans, but it is not
00:00:21yet final. However, reports indicate system disruptions
00:00:25or the system does not open or the code does not
00:00:29or citizens are confused about where
00:00:32to register their requests.
00:00:36Some citizens also reported that after receiving the eligibility
00:00:39text message for the goods coupon, they visited to follow up,
00:00:42and a sum was collected from them, and finally
00:00:46they were told they were not eligible. The question of what
00:00:49services this money was taken for is also among the criticisms. In fact,
00:00:53you see, without resources nothing can be done.
00:00:56We believe that without resources, there is no hope.
00:01:06Since the government has not paid them the money for the goods coupons
00:01:09for several months, they no longer sell anything with the goods
00:01:13coupons. "The customer just left and ruined our mood. He left. He
00:01:17completely poisoned our business. He came and got some liver and
00:01:20gizzards for his wife and children for dinner. Then he told us to deduct
00:01:24it from his goods coupon. We said, "Sir, the government
00:01:28hasn't paid us for the goods coupon. A month has passed." We swiped cards for almost 4-5 billion
00:01:32Tomans, and they only gave us 50 million. We don't have any more money or capital
00:01:35to invest in the goods coupon. The goods coupon is blocked. Then he said, "Thank
00:01:39you very much." He was upset and left.
00:01:43He ruined our mood. He wants to say that the person
00:01:46doesn't have money. He doesn't have money to buy 200,000 Tomans worth of liver and gizzards
00:01:50for his wife and children. His hope and expectation was on these goods coupons.
00:01:53You are settling these goods coupons with us this way. We also don't have money, and you have made us ashamed in front of our customers.
00:01:57Some also
00:02:00say that payments have been delayed for months.
00:02:03The seller delivers the goods at the current price to the buyer.
00:02:07But when the money reaches him late, prices
00:02:11have gone up, and the seller incurs
00:02:14the loss. In a situation where the wages of
00:02:17workers and the lower income deciles of society do not
00:02:21match inflation and the rising cost of living, an increase
00:02:24of 500,000 Tomans in goods coupons also cannot solve
00:02:28the livelihood problems of families.
00:02:30On the other hand, system disruptions,
00:02:33applicant confusion, and delayed payments
00:02:37to stores have also challenged
00:02:41the implementation of this support plan. In such
00:02:45circumstances, until the practical problems of goods coupons are resolved
00:02:48and wages do not increase in proportion
00:02:52to inflation, this limited support cannot alleviate
00:02:56the heavy pressure of high prices on people.
00:03:26Greetings to you. Almost none. You see, in a
00:03:30report published by one of the Iranian newspapers a few months
00:03:34ago, I think they came and reviewed
00:03:37a basket of 11 items
00:03:40that are part of this goods coupon plan and announced
00:03:43that if we only
00:03:47consider the cost of this basket which has increased due to inflation
00:03:50in this goods coupon to compensate for it,
00:03:53the amount should reach about 1 million and
00:03:57800 thousand Tomans. This, of course, refers to a few months ago, and since then
00:04:00we have also experienced inflation.
00:04:04Now, in fact, they have been holding meetings for several
00:04:07months. They have been going back and forth for 6 months. The government has held
00:04:11many meetings, and it seems that it has been decided to add only 500
00:04:14thousand Tomans for individuals
00:04:17under the coverage of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and the Welfare Organization. In fact,
00:04:21this amount is to be added as far as I
00:04:24know, while it can be said that a
00:04:28wide range of people, especially the lower
00:04:32income deciles, can rely on this amount. And another
00:04:35interesting point is that this small amount
00:04:38that you also mentioned may not even be enough for a yogurt
00:04:42or, for example, oil. The government
00:04:46has also considered its credit through
00:04:48the exchange rate. This means that the government
00:04:52is benefiting from the increase
00:04:55in the dollar exchange rate to provide resources for such
00:04:59a plan. Well, these
00:05:02problems were evident from the beginning. At the beginning
00:05:05of the implementation of this plan, there were many criticisms from
00:05:09the very beginning in the budget tables. Well, this
00:05:19is while the revenue that the government had identified from
00:05:23the exchange rate difference was about
00:05:26540 thousand billion, which is a huge difference.
00:05:29This means that the government itself knew that with this
00:05:33action, it would face a budget deficit
00:05:36and would be forced to create inflation again to compensate for this
00:05:39shortage. That is, this goods coupon itself,
00:05:43which was supposed to compensate for inflation,
00:05:46turned into something that worked against itself.
00:05:50Therefore, this plan created a continuous commitment
00:05:54for the government from the beginning, and in fact,
00:05:57the government could not provide those resources
00:06:01to fulfill this commitment, and as I mentioned, these resources were not foreseen from the beginning.
00:06:05And so, in one year, we see that food
00:06:09inflation was approximately 130%.
00:06:13And now, in fact, they are holding meetings for 6 months to be able to
00:06:17add 300,000 Tomans, 500,000 Tomans to this amount, which
00:06:20is also not clear in the end. You mentioned
00:06:24that the government wants to provide
00:06:28a part of its commitments from the sale
00:06:31of foreign currency. The exchange
00:06:34rate. Yes, on the other hand, we see many people who say that
00:06:38prices are not like that, for example, they don't just go up. The rate is not even
00:06:41double. Sometimes it becomes equal and four times.
00:06:45One of the citizens said on social
00:06:47networks that prices are not going up, they are flying.
00:06:51Is this provision of currency in this
00:06:54way and the things you mentioned not themselves the cause
00:06:58of this situation?
00:07:02Look, all these issues, including currency, including
00:07:05the rise in prices of goods, can be
00:07:09said to be the result of inflation.
00:07:12The increase in inflation is due to the growth of the monetary
00:07:16base and the creation of liquidity, all of which ultimately
00:07:20lead to the government imposing this burden on
00:07:23the people. It is the government
00:07:26that, in fact, with its destructive monetary activities,
00:07:30has caused this inflation to occur, and all of these are like a chain
00:07:34that are related to each other, and ultimately the prices
00:07:37of goods go up. In general, in my opinion,
00:07:41plans like goods coupons and even
00:07:44for example, let's say the Tehran Municipality has claimed that it
00:07:48wants to offer some goods with zero inflation
00:07:51for a while. These are all due to the same
00:07:55government's view. It is a wrong logic that
00:07:59they are pricing the market, and it has always
00:08:02been common in Iran. That view is that
00:08:06instead of curbing the root of inflation
00:08:09and regulating monetary activities,
00:08:13it always comes up with a solution to fight prices.
00:08:16And this whole situation that the government has created
00:08:20with these plans like goods coupons
00:08:23is due to this anti-market view that
00:08:26has always existed, and to a large extent,
00:08:30it can even be said that there are signs of populism in it.
00:08:34That is, the government that itself is devaluing its currency
00:08:37has also come and is telling the people, "People, come, I will give you
00:08:41money. You can buy this type of oil and this type of rice
00:08:45that I have specified in these stores that I have specified."
00:08:48You can spend that credit, while
00:08:52the same government is causing inflation with its destructive
00:08:55activities in the money market, and no one can see
00:08:59this openly. And the same government causes the value
00:09:02of the same goods coupon to decrease again,
00:09:06and the same oil and rice that increase in price by several percent at the end of the month
00:09:09is again because the government has destructive monetary
00:09:13policies. And if you look at the food market in
00:09:16developed countries and healthy economies, here,
00:09:20as much as possible, there is a fair competition between stores, and
00:09:24it's interesting that if you look at large stores in Europe and America,
00:09:27for example, for a specific product like milk or
00:09:30coffee, the competition is about who can sell it a few cents
00:09:34cheaper. But in Iran, this issue of fair
00:09:38competition has never been recognized, and we see that it has
00:09:41had the opposite effect. That is, instead of competing over who can sell
00:09:45cheaper, almost all producers
00:09:48are forced to increase prices at the end of the month. Therefore,
00:09:52my whole point is that this goods coupon stems
00:09:56from an anti-market view, a punitive
00:09:59and unrealistic view of the government on pricing and the market. Ashkan
00:10:09the flight tracking website showing the sky over Saudi Arabia.
00:10:12Although the country's sky is witnessing
00:10:16many aircraft flights,
00:10:20at least two airports have been partially or completely shut down. One
00:10:24of them is Riyadh Airport. We know
00:10:26that hours ago, news came out that
00:10:30loud explosions were heard in Riyadh. But now, the latest
00:10:33news indicates that the city of Riyadh was apparently targeted
00:10:37by ballistic missiles by the Houthis. These missiles,
00:10:40according to Saudi military sources,
00:10:44were all intercepted and no one was harmed.
00:10:47This is what Saudi military sources say,
00:10:51and various news agencies, including Reuters, have quoted
00:10:55it. Therefore,
00:10:58the situation in Riyadh, according to them, has returned
00:11:00to normal. But the circling
00:11:04flights in the Saudi sky that were supposed to
00:11:07reach Dammam airport are still visible. At
00:11:10least three flights are seen to be still circling
00:11:14in the sky, and one of them has been delayed for five hours
00:11:18and has been in the sky for hours. Anyway, let's see what
00:11:21will happen. Simultaneously with the escalation of tensions
00:11:25between Moscow and Kyiv, NATO has warned about a possible Russian attack
00:11:29on its members. On the other hand, the European Union has announced
00:11:32its largest sanctions package against the Kremlin's military
00:11:35industries. This is while the President of Ukraine says
00:11:39that despite the energy ceasefire agreement that Donald Trump had announced,
00:11:43Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy facilities have continued, and today
00:11:47six energy infrastructures in this country were targeted.
00:11:51Mahshid Hosseini reports.
00:11:59Last night, Kharkiv was again targeted by Russian attacks.
00:12:02گرفت.
00:12:07Only 10 minutes after they promised not to hit energy facilities
00:12:11had passed when we witnessed five attacks. My child and I saw that this
00:12:14missile hit power plant number 5 and we witnessed it burning.
00:12:18It's terrible. The President of the United States
00:12:21wrote yesterday in a post on the social media Truth Social:
00:12:55electricity in Kharkiv, which caused further damage
00:12:58to our energy infrastructure. It is clear that Putin
00:13:02does not read Truth Social.
00:13:05According to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia today attacked six other
00:13:09energy facilities in Ukraine. Simultaneously with
00:13:12the intensification of military pressure on Kyiv,
00:13:16Moscow is facing a new wave of political pressure.
00:13:19In Luxembourg, European Union foreign
00:13:22ministers sanctioned more than 160
00:13:25companies related to Russia's military industries,
00:13:29the largest sanctions package by the European Union since the start
00:13:32of the Ukraine war.
00:13:36The question is, have the sanctions been effective?
00:13:39Yes, these sanctions have deprived Russia under Putin's rule
00:13:43of resources worth 500 billion Euros,
00:13:46resources that were spent on the war. 500 billion
00:13:50Euros is equivalent to the cost of 3 years and even more than 3 years
00:13:53of war.
00:14:04Closer to Russia, at the Warsaw Security Conference in Poland, the supreme commander of NATO in Europe warned that in case of an attack, this military alliance is ready
00:14:07to enter the war
00:14:09tonight.
00:14:13If anyone is foolish enough to attack us, we will fight. We will prevent
00:14:17his attack and will not allow him to achieve his goals, whatever
00:14:21they may be. The increase in pressure by Europeans
00:14:24on Russia has coincided with a decrease
00:14:27in pressure from the United States. Donald Trump, whose main
00:14:31priority these days is the war with Iran and controlling energy
00:14:34prices, has announced the supply of Russian diesel to the US and
00:14:38global markets, a trade concession
00:14:41that Moscow has been deprived of since the start
00:14:43of the war. At the same time, Trump has called
00:14:47for a change in the Ukrainian president and accused him of wasting
00:14:51many opportunities to end the war.
00:14:56Winter is coming, and Ukraine is concerned about the intensification
00:14:59of Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure in
00:15:02the cold season, a trend that has been repeated
00:15:06every winter since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:15:08Mahshid Hosseini, BBC.
00:15:12"Women of the Revolution" is
00:15:16a documentary film by Mina Akbari that was screened at the closing
00:15:19ceremony of the Medilist New Festival in Florence, Italy. This
00:15:23film is a personal and collective narrative of the 1979
00:15:27revolution until the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. The festival
00:15:30jury awarded a special appreciation award to the film. Ms.
00:15:34Akbari had said in a message on her Instagram account that the making
00:15:38of this film was almost complete when, with the killing of Mahsa Amini
00:15:41in the custody of the Guidance Patrol, she decided to change the ending
00:15:45of the film. Let's watch a part of Mina Akbari's speech along with parts of the
00:15:49film itself.
00:15:50Here,
00:15:54women like me are criminals
00:15:57for hijab. Their hair is
00:16:00their tool of crime. What did we want that we were suppressed
00:16:04like this? The right to divorce, child custody, leaving the country,
00:16:08the right to education, singing, going to stadiums,
00:16:11but all these basic rights were taken
00:16:15from women by the adoption of oppressive
00:16:16laws.
00:16:19After two years, I was able to finish the film,
00:16:22its filming and its editing,
00:16:26when suddenly news arrived that a young girl in the same
00:16:30Vozara building where we used to go
00:16:33for our car work,
00:16:36there...
00:17:00members of parliament were following up.
00:17:04I think this was the final blow
00:17:08to us women that a young girl who
00:17:12didn't even have a very unconventional
00:17:16hijab, her hair had become her tool of crime
00:17:19and for that
00:17:22she was killed.
00:17:24And on the other hand, again in the film, when I talked to
00:17:27the members of parliament,
00:17:30they were also hopeless about being able to pursue
00:17:34our demands through the parliament. And
00:17:37they believed that this path had reached
00:17:41a dead end. I decided
00:17:44to change the ending of the film.
00:17:48That is, Mahsa's killing gave me an ending
00:17:52that well,
00:17:55these forty-something years of pressure on women
00:17:59had led
00:18:02to a boiling point, and Mahsa's death is
00:18:06that boiling point. which practically means
00:18:09the end of dialogue with the government for me.
00:18:12For me, "Women
00:18:15of the Revolution" is not just a narrative of the past.
00:18:19It is a narrative of the path that Iranian women
00:18:22have traversed over the past
00:18:25years and are still traversing.
00:18:28A path that shows that social
00:18:32change, even when it takes years,
00:18:35can
00:18:38begin from everyday life and individual choices
00:18:41and turn into a
00:18:44collective movement.
00:18:48We were watching and listening to Mina Akbari's words. She is the one
00:18:52who made the film "Women of the Revolution." Meanwhile, in
00:18:55Britain, the 70th London Film Festival
00:18:59is also underway, and several films by Iranian filmmakers are being
00:19:02screened there. "Friend's House Is Here," "Cursed Seizure," "Ambush
00:19:06of Light," and "I Bury My Hand in the Garden" are among these
00:19:10films. Most of these films are about contemporary issues
00:19:13in Iranian society, including the film "Friend's House
00:19:17Is Here," directed by Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz, which offers
00:19:20a different portrayal of Iranian society after the 12-day
00:19:23war. The film tells the story of the friendship of two young
00:19:27people and their efforts to achieve their dreams in today's
00:19:31Iran. Let's watch some parts of this film and then talk to
00:19:34the director.
00:21:14we had very good images, although we had a small
00:21:17group, we tried not to cut
00:21:20corners cinematically, and everyone
00:21:24I think worked very hard for this. This is also a scene from the film,
00:21:28if I'm not mistaken, yes.
00:21:31Well, it's a very different image, especially
00:21:35after the 12-day war and after the war that is now called the 40-day war.
00:21:38It still seems to be continuing.
00:21:41Iran has changed a lot. This is also highlighted
00:21:45in your film, right? Yes, well,
00:21:48let me tell you that the reason we decided
00:21:52to make this film was that when we went
00:21:55to Iran,
00:21:58we saw that the lives of young people had changed so much.
00:22:02The streets had changed so much. Many girls no longer
00:22:05wore hijab. Well, it's true that the hijab law is still
00:22:09in place, but the image that exists
00:22:12on the street, you walk around and many people are without
00:22:15hijab. And
00:22:19we went to so many
00:22:22underground places that were not there
00:22:25at least when I was a student. Now, in the last two
00:22:29or three years, it has become very prominent. This
00:22:32dynamic society and this, I think,
00:22:36I can't express how culturally
00:22:39attractive it was to see these artists
00:22:43and these young people. As a result, we decided that
00:22:46we thought it was important to capture this historical period.
00:22:59And I'm very happy that cinematically, they say that
00:23:02it has very high value. Well,
00:23:06of course, I'll ask about
00:23:08that in a year, but I also want to ask if
00:23:11the presence of women is very much discussed in today's society,
00:23:15as you mentioned, the issue of hijab and so on.
00:23:18There are many discussions in this regard. I think
00:23:22the main theme of your film is also this, right?
00:23:25No, the main issue is not the hijab. Well,
00:23:29of course, the presence of women in society, well, when you turn
00:23:32the camera, you see
00:23:35that women are without hijab. You can't, if you want
00:23:39to, let's say, make a report everyone will be without hijab. Some
00:23:43women wear hijab, some don't. Right? You know
00:23:46the main issue is these
00:23:49young people. These are two girls who now
00:23:53we show their dreams, and both my husband and I
00:23:57were very keen to show a different image
00:24:00of love and
00:24:03kindness and the help that
00:24:06people give each other. For example, imagine
00:24:10we planned to make this film before the war, but when this war happened,
00:24:14and especially that first night was very
00:24:18close to our house.
00:24:20And I still live with the nightmares of that night. That is, the sound was so loud,
00:24:24but seeing people and how they endured,
00:24:27how mothers helped
00:24:31their children get through these conditions, young people
00:24:35who, despite the war,
00:24:38still had parties, still had their gatherings.
00:24:42Exactly. Well, this is very interesting.
00:24:45If we talk about the festival, we don't have much
00:24:49time either. How was this reflected
00:24:53in the festival and what did it say? It's a very good question, actually,
00:24:56because this London
00:24:59festival is a very good festival. Well, as you can
00:25:03see, almost all the actors of cinema are here now
00:25:07and their films are in this festival. But on the first night, the film
00:25:10"Elsa Noir" was
00:25:13screened, and we went to see
00:25:17the film and then attended the party. The film
00:25:20is about a theater actor who plays
00:25:24Hamlet in England in his last month before
00:25:27he dies of AIDS,
00:25:30and there are many scenes in the film that cut between
00:25:33the theater and the life of this artist,
00:25:37this actor.
00:25:40There, they were comparing our film to this film, saying that Maryam's
00:25:44and Hossein's film is also about theater. And the children
00:25:47and theater actors in Iran. I couldn't
00:25:51believe that I heard from some
00:25:54people who are in theater here that "Does Iran even
00:25:58have theater?" And that's when
00:26:01I was shocked.
00:26:32both during the war and
00:26:35even now,
00:26:38you see that many plays are performed in Iran.
00:28:23Nawaz Sharif came back and I said they will never
00:28:27reach an agreement. Until Afghans decide to set aside
00:28:30their personal interests,
00:28:34and reach an agreement in which everyone has a share, there will be no peace. Iran shares a border of more than
00:28:37a thousand kilometers with Afghanistan. As long
00:28:41as Iran is not involved in the peace agreement,
00:28:44there will be no peace in Afghanistan.
00:28:47A conversation with Ben Swann, former UN representative in
00:28:51Afghanistan, who recently
00:28:52passed away.
00:30:22Headlines:
00:30:25Cancellation of most incoming and outgoing flights to Saudi Arabia due to ongoing Houthi
00:30:29attacks. A number of major oil companies did not
00:30:32attend the Riyadh Energy Conference. You told us to deduct
00:30:36from the goods coupon for us. We said, "Sir, the goods coupon has not
00:30:39paid us for a month. We swiped cards for almost 4-5 billion
00:30:42Tomans, and they only gave us 50 million. We don't have any more money or capital
00:30:46to invest." The problem of Iran's lower
00:30:50income deciles in purchasing essential goods. According to the media,
00:30:53the credit for goods coupons for 40 million people
00:30:56will be paid.