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00:00:28Good day, dear viewers. I invite you to join us for this 10 o'clock
00:00:32news segment. The Central Bank has announced
00:00:34that any online gold buying and selling services
00:00:38by financial institutions and banks
00:00:41through digital units are absolutely
00:00:44prohibited. According to the Central Bank's announcement, if these
00:00:48services are offered, supervisory and
00:00:51enforcement actions will be taken against the financial institution
00:00:55and its relevant managers. The Central Bank, emphasizing that online gold
00:00:59trading by banks weakens the implementation of the bank's
00:01:02supervisory control policies, has announced that conducting
00:01:06multiple online transactions increases
00:01:09the risk of money laundering and bypassing
00:01:12regulatory systems.
00:01:16The deadline for the 90% and 100%
00:01:19clearance of goods from the country's customs has been extended
00:01:22until October 15, 2026. Based on this approval,
00:01:26the 100% clearance of government goods and 90%
00:01:52passport number and candidate number
00:01:56The Persian language once again attracted hundreds of Iraqi enthusiasts to the application forms.
00:02:25I'm studying at Razavi University for my PhD.
00:02:27Because I want to
00:02:33defend my thesis now, I have to have a certificate.
00:02:36That's why I'm taking the exam. The very high
00:02:40cultural and academic commonalities between
00:02:43Iraq and Iran have
00:02:47led most Iraqi students
00:02:50to be encouraged to continue their studies at Iranian
00:02:54universities. Although there are Arabic-speaking universities
00:02:57all over the world,
00:03:00Iraqi students choose Iran. But what has made
00:03:04this round of exams different is the significant increase in
00:03:07the number of participants, which has tripled compared to last
00:03:10year. Well, a very good thing has happened in Iraq. Last year,
00:03:1478 people participated in this exam, but
00:03:18this year, the number of applicants has almost
00:03:21tripled, reaching 268
00:03:24people. Many of the applicants
00:03:28have learned the Persian language at centers affiliated with the Iranian Cultural
00:03:31Consulate in Iraq, and now they are testing their knowledge
00:03:35with the aim of continuing their studies at Iranian universities.
00:03:39The university in Iran is very good and advanced.
00:03:41The importance for Iraqi students
00:03:45is very good, meaning it is important.
00:03:49Our medicine, Iranian medicine, is very good. At present, our
00:03:52Iranian universities have a lot of cooperation with Iraqi universities.
00:03:55They also have a lot of relations. It is important
00:03:59for all students. For these applicants, the Sanfa
00:04:02exam is not the end of the road for learning the Persian
00:04:06language, but rather a beginning for entering a new stage of
00:04:10education and building a brighter future. Jala Kharadi,
00:04:14IRIB News Agency,
00:04:15Baghdad.
00:04:18Continued news: Announcement of the trickle of American military
00:04:21casualties in the war against Iran. The US War
00:04:25Department, in its latest statistics, has announced
00:04:28that the number
00:04:31of deaths in the war has increased to 21 people.
00:04:34According to The Hill newspaper, the Pentagon has announced that
00:04:37two people have been added to the previous death toll: one member of the Army
00:04:41National Guard who died in Kuwait on March 6 (Esfand 15), and
00:04:45another military member of the Navy whose
00:04:48identity has not been revealed. According to this report,
00:04:52the updated statistics also show that 865
00:04:55US military personnel
00:04:59have
00:05:12it and need congressional intervention to
00:05:15correct these figures. This is an embarrassment
00:05:18for the US military. The Washington Post reported
00:05:21last month that the number of US military casualties
00:05:25in the war with Iran is higher than what has been
00:05:28announced.
00:05:29Seven Palestinians were martyred
00:05:34in Israeli regime attacks on various areas of
00:05:37Gaza. Hospital sources in the Gaza Strip announced
00:05:40that army fighters
00:05:44, continuing to violate the ceasefire, bombed areas in the northern, central,
00:05:48and southern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the
00:05:51martyrdom of seven people and the injury of several others.
00:05:54Local sources also reported a drone attack by the occupying army
00:05:58on the Yafa area in eastern Gaza City.
00:06:02Zionist settlers also attacked Palestinian farmers in
00:06:05various areas of the West Bank who were
00:06:08harvesting their olive trees. They abducted seven
00:06:12Palestinians and injured at least four of them. The Russian Foreign Ministry
00:06:16spokesperson,
00:06:19in response to the recent stance of Kaya Kallas, likened
00:06:23the European Union to a rotten fish.
00:06:27Maria Zakharova said, "Fish rots from the head,
00:06:31and the European Union is following the same path. A process that
00:06:34began with Kaya Kallas." Kaya Kallas, the EU's
00:06:38foreign policy chief, recently criticized
00:06:41the US decision to lift sanctions on the supply
00:06:45of Russian diesel.
00:06:48Hurricane Isaias
00:06:51in the US left at least four dead
00:06:54and cut off power to nearly 900,000 customers.
00:06:58This hurricane, by destroying homes, felling trees,
00:07:02and with heavy rainfall, put the southeastern
00:07:06states of the US at risk of sudden floods.
00:07:10Hurricane Isaias, before moving
00:07:13north, destroyed the roofs and exterior facades of hotels
00:07:17and residential buildings in the Florida region
00:07:19and brought heavy rainfall, the risk of
00:07:23sudden floods, and tornadoes across
00:07:26the southeastern US. US meteorologists
00:07:30warned that flooding could extend to the Appalachian
00:07:33Mountains as well.
00:07:36And finally, in this news
00:07:40segment, let's watch a report on the ceremony
00:07:43honoring the elderly of Shaharabad village,
00:07:46Firouzkouh, with the enthusiastic presence of the villagers.
00:07:50Shaharabad, in the heart of the central
00:07:53district of Firouzkouh, is a village today that has taken
00:07:57on a different color and flavor to celebrate its
00:08:00elders. It's an elder's day celebration.
00:08:03We are serving guests, we have fire tea, we are making smoked tea. We
00:08:07cooked local ash doogh in the traditional way over the fire.
00:08:11And then local doogh and local vegetables. One of
00:08:15the largest villages in the central district with 82
00:08:18inhabitants and 300 households, and about 20%
00:08:22of the village population is elderly. This ceremony was an opportunity
00:08:26for the villagers to spend a happy and different
00:08:29day together. The elderly are a blessing, and with
00:08:33their presence, our village took shape and color.
00:08:36I got a job. 95 years old, 9 children.
00:08:40Appreciate your parents. Grandmothers and grandfathers
00:09:12alongside youth are building. The goal is to introduce
00:09:16the youth to the teachings of the elders
00:09:20through honoring them. On the sidelines of this ceremony,
00:09:23an exhibition of products by female entrepreneurs
00:09:27from the villages of the central district was held with the
00:09:31aim of supporting local products. The stall
00:09:34of products from Jelijgen village, my products
00:09:38are organic. I grow them myself and harvest them myself.
00:09:41I came from Badroud village to this exhibition.
00:09:45The apple cider vinegar is from our own apples, and this is our local
00:09:48honey. At the end of this ceremony, the pioneers and
00:09:52successful individuals of this village were honored. Sima
00:09:55Varan, IRIB News Agency,
00:09:57Firouzkouh. Until the next news
00:10:12segment.
00:10:38In the name of God, greetings to you, dear and honorable viewers. Welcome to the
00:10:42program "A Look at the Press" on Sunday, October 19,
00:10:452026. Let's start, as always, with a look
00:10:48at the newspaper headlines, and then a look at the analyses
00:10:52and stances of political and media activists in our country. Stay with us on Khabar
00:11:07Network. Arman Emrooz: Putin
00:11:11revives the Islamabad Memorandum.
00:11:13Etemad: Strong reaction from officials and experts
00:11:17to the vile statements of the US Secretary of State.
00:11:19"You will kneel before Iran."
00:11:22Etemad:
00:11:27The stock market is still soaring.
00:11:29Iran:
00:11:31500,000 toman deposited into the accounts of families
00:11:35covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and Welfare
00:11:38Organization. The increase
00:11:40in food voucher credit
00:11:45has begun. Jamejam: 50% increase
00:11:48in food vouchers for low-income individuals. Islamic
00:11:51Republic: The President at the national ceremony
00:11:58for the start of the new agricultural year: "Iranian agriculture must be transformed by relying on
00:12:00modern knowledge."
00:12:05Javan Newspaper: Iranian officials responded to the US Secretary of State's
00:12:09distortions. Khashayar Setizi:
00:12:12Little Ruby.
00:12:16Khorasan: Again, meaningless dualities.
00:12:19Marashi and those like him do not understand that the international
00:12:22system is a dangerous world where nations have no choice
00:12:26but to build
00:12:27power to survive.
00:12:34Donya-e-Eqtesad: Four key factors of production and investment
00:12:37were examined. Economic bottlenecks in the second
00:12:41half of the year.
00:12:45Resalat Newspaper: America's strategic overload
00:12:48in the crisis triangle. Shargh Newspaper:
00:12:52Slow Pulse. Negotiation.
00:12:55Shargh's narrative of simultaneous military preparedness
00:12:59and diplomatic movement. Morning
00:13:029: Ansarullah is moving towards changing the war equation
00:13:05from the siege of Sana'a to the siege
00:13:08of Riyadh.
00:13:11Asr-e Iraniyan: Surrender advocates. The law must stand
00:13:15against those who undermine
00:13:16national security.
00:13:19Farhikhtegan: Take Rubio to these plays.
00:13:23Shahnameh is the focus of three popular plays these days. Why are
00:13:27these plays important
00:13:28in the middle of a war?
00:13:34Kayhan Newspaper: The largest Saudi oil field was destroyed.
00:13:38Mearsheimer: There is no way to defeat Iran and Yemen.
00:13:42Nowbandian.
00:13:46China from the field. In the days when Rubio,
00:13:49looking at regional achievements, speaks of 2500
00:13:53years of enmity with Iran, Zarif, in a newly released
00:13:57video, once again attacked this capacity-building force,
00:14:01and by presenting the duality of threat and opportunity,
00:14:04he tries to find the root of America's hostility not in Washington's
00:14:07goals, but in the view of the Islamic
00:14:21Republic. Vatan Emrooz: Trump's
00:14:25Just one day after Marco Rubio's attempt in Athens to portray
00:14:28an ancient and ideological Western alliance against
00:14:31Iran, Trump stabbed Europe in the back
00:14:35by authorizing diesel exports from Russia to the US in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
00:14:39This morning,
00:14:47Mr. Rubio, Trump's palace
00:14:51carpet is also Iranian. Examining the reason
00:14:54for the attack on the civilizational
00:14:57identity of Iran.
00:15:00And Hamshahri newspaper: What happened, Ahmad? The 14-day deadline
00:15:04set by the US Treasury Secretary has expired, but there
00:15:07was no news of the collapse of Iran's
00:15:22economy. Why do Trump and Rubio portray the confrontation with Iran
00:15:26Extensive reactions in today's press to the controversial statements
00:15:30of the US Secretary of State in Athens. Analysts and prominent
00:15:33political figures, by analyzing the new
00:15:36media line of Washington, emphasize that the ultimate
00:15:40goal of the enemy is not the nuclear issue, but targeting
00:15:44Iran's identity and integrity.
00:15:47Shargh Newspaper, in an article by Kioumars Asharian titled
00:15:51"Public Diplomacy in the Service of Warmongering," evaluates
00:15:54the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as an attempt
00:15:58to link ancient history to Washington's current confrontation
00:16:02with Iran and to gain Europe's support in this
00:16:06confrontation. According to Asharian, he tries to turn
00:16:09the historical defeats of Greece into a part of the West's current
00:16:13identity and thereby provide the necessary mental groundwork
00:16:16to justify America's confrontational policies. Abbas Salimi Namin,
00:16:19a contemporary history researcher, in an article titled
00:16:23"America's Historical Contradiction: From the Massacre of Natives
00:16:27to the Accusation of Warmongering Against Iran," published in Iran
00:16:30Newspaper, points to the massacre of Native Americans, slavery,
00:16:34foreign interventions, and the use of atomic bombs
00:16:37against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the support for Saddam's
00:16:41government in the war against Iran, to raise the contradiction between
00:16:45America's historical record and the accusation of warmongering against Iran.
00:16:48Mohammad Ali Bahmani Ghajar, in an article in Arman Emrooz
00:16:52newspaper titled "The Necessity of National Consensus in Rejecting
00:16:55Foreign Intervention," writes: "Rubio's statements in Athens
00:16:59are very important. They show that at least the justification
00:17:02for America's and Israel's war against Iran is a civilizational
00:17:06and existential war. The main and important goal of this battle
00:17:09is the destruction of Iran's integrity." The author believes
00:17:13that Rubio's statements are a clear and strong refutation of the sad
00:17:16story of common interests between America and Israel and the Iranian
00:17:19nation, and an unforgivable audacity. Help is on the way
00:17:23and help has arrived. Seyed Mohammad Beheshti Shirazi,
00:17:27a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Heritage and Tourism,
00:17:30regarding Rubio's recent statements, said: "They use history
00:17:34as a tool and want to justify their actions today and tomorrow
00:17:38by tampering with history. The truth behind what is happening
00:17:41between Iran, the US, and the Israeli regime is no longer a secret.
00:17:45Now all Iranians, regardless of their vote or belief,
00:17:48more than ever, know that they have a problem
00:17:52with Iran and Iranians being Iranian. While our powerful
00:17:56weapon to confront this monster is relying
00:17:58on this very Iranian identity."
00:18:02However, Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, a reformist political activist,
00:18:05in an article in Etemad newspaper, titled "What Marco
00:18:09Rubio Said in Athens," refers to the European religious
00:18:13wars, the two World Wars, colonialism, and the slave
00:18:16trade, and reminds that the history of the
00:18:19West has been full of war and violence.
00:18:23Mohammad Reza Norouzpour, Deputy Minister for Media Affairs and Propaganda
00:18:26at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, in an
00:18:30article in Arman Emrooz newspaper, believes that Rubio deliberately
00:18:34framed the current political conflict as a civilizational
00:18:37confrontation in an attempt to create an image of Iran
00:18:41as an existential threat to Western civilization. He believes
00:18:45that such a narrative unveils the bitter reality that
00:18:48there are serious similarities between the storytelling methods
00:18:52of the far-right wing and the so-called MAGA movement in US
00:18:55domestic politics and the methods they employ in their foreign
00:18:58policy and geopolitical approach.
00:19:02Vatan Emrooz newspaper, in a report titled "Trump's
00:19:05Ancient Ideology," wrote that just one day after the
00:19:09US Secretary of State in Athens, referring to the war between
00:19:13Greece and Xerxes, emphasized the shared historical and
00:19:16ideological foundations of the US and Europe in confronting
00:19:20Iran, Trump, by issuing a temporary permit for the import
00:19:23of Russian diesel, created the conditions for meeting a part
00:19:27of the US's needs from this country. This newspaper considers
00:19:30the agreement between Washington and Moscow as a sign
00:19:34of the gap between the West's ideological claims and the economic
00:19:39and political considerations of the Trump administration. Ali Yekdeli,
00:19:42an expert on US affairs, in an interview with Arman Melli, believes
00:19:46that Rubio suffers from a kind of historical poverty. He believes
00:19:50that this discussion is more about cultural struggle, meaning
00:19:53in addition to military war, we are also engaged in a cultural
00:19:57and media war, and various tools are being used to isolate
00:20:00Iran and put pressure on it from all sides. Mohammad Mehdi
00:20:04Esmaeili, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tehran,
00:20:07in an article in Nowbandian newspaper, considers Rubio's
00:20:11statements to be a confirmation of the view that the confrontation
00:20:15with Iran goes beyond issues such as the nuclear issue
00:20:18and is related to Iran's independence and cultural
00:20:22identity. The author believes that reducing the current
00:20:26confrontation to excessive demands and irrationality
00:20:29or the speculative view of a president is an
00:20:33insufficient explanation. He writes that understanding
00:20:35the stable roots of the conflict
00:20:45is essential for strategic decision-making because it prevents
00:20:48the future of a nation from depending on waiting
00:20:52for changes in leadership in the rival country.
00:20:55Farhikhtegan newspaper, in an article by Nikouh Sorkhosh,
00:20:58challenged the common duality of negotiation and resistance.
00:21:01The author ironically asked, "If negotiation
00:21:05is a solution, why don't you negotiate with the trustees
00:21:08to get the dollars back?" A part of this article
00:21:12states: "Today, dualities such as extremist, centrist,
00:21:16interactionist, and confrontational, warmonger, negotiation-seeker,
00:21:20or ultimately agreement and understanding versus struggle
00:21:23and resistance, despite their weaknesses, inefficiency,
00:21:27and ineffectiveness, have gained such currency
00:21:30and become so self-evident that wherever you sit
00:21:33and in every street and alley, it is said that Iran
00:21:36has not negotiated properly and has not given enough
00:21:39concessions and is a warmonger, and that is why the other
00:21:43side is not willing to end the war and aggression against
00:21:47the country. However, in response to this so-called
00:21:51common analysis, qualified individuals also refer to historical
00:21:54documents and negotiations with the US, from the JCPOA
00:21:58to the 12-day war, the Ramadan War, the Islamabad
00:22:02Memorandum, and even regional and global examples and experiences,
00:22:05and in a word, tired and weary, from stating
00:22:09and repeating all these clear documents, they say that we
00:22:12negotiated and it didn't work, we negotiated and it was torn
00:22:15up, we negotiated and we were attacked, we negotiated and it
00:22:19was violated. However, this answer is not convincing for
00:22:23some officials, media lords, and their media armies,
00:22:26and in short, they say that we must negotiate at any cost,
00:22:30and anyway, how long do you want to fight? Sorkhosh,
00:22:34referring to France's experience of resistance against Nazism
00:22:38and Iran's 8-year defense against Iraqi aggression,
00:22:41emphasizes that resistance cannot be evaluated solely
00:22:44by comparing the military power of the parties. He
00:22:48further writes: "Today, many analysts and economists, even
00:22:52those close to the government, agree that a large part
00:22:55of the country's economic problems are due to internal
00:22:59corruption, rent-seeking, nepotism, aristocracy, and especially
00:23:03the trustees who took the oil and did not return the dollars,
00:23:06and in this, war plays a small part in this disorder."
00:23:09The author sarcastically suggests that to prove the
00:23:12fundamental idea of negotiation or to test the theoretical
00:23:16framework of the dialogue of civilizations, first go and
00:23:20negotiate with these very trustees, and if necessary,
00:23:23give them more concessions. If necessary, beg, if necessary,
00:23:27kneel, and do whatever you can so that eventually the dollars
00:23:31flow into the country and the Iranian economy gains
00:23:34some prosperity. It is clear that this statement or
00:23:38such a request is a sarcastic statement. We all know that
00:23:42negotiation and dialogue cannot even bring one dollar
00:23:46back into the country's foreign exchange reserves. Sorkhosh,
00:23:50in his summary, emphasizes that negotiation and resistance
00:23:53are not two completely separate paths, but both find
00:23:57meaning within the framework of power relations. In
00:24:01his opinion, the main issue
00:24:14is not merely whether to negotiate or not, but
00:24:18how to maintain and strengthen the country's position
00:24:21in the field of conflict. When it is clear that the
00:24:25enemy has an issue not over a specific file,
00:24:27but with the very existence and independence of Iran,
00:24:31our approach in the field of diplomacy becomes twice
00:24:34as important here. But unfortunately, sometimes in
00:24:38domestic analyses, historical experiences are used to justify
00:24:41incorrect narratives. Asr-e Iraniyan newspaper,
00:24:44in an article by Reza Salehi, criticized the recent
00:24:48statements of Hossein Marashi, the Secretary-General of the Executives
00:24:52of Construction Party, and wrote: "Officials have absolutely
00:24:55no right to take any risks to prevent a third
00:24:58war. Any tactical retreat necessary for Iran must be
00:25:02carried out." The headline of Khabar Online news agency,
00:25:06in an interview with Hossein Marashi, the Secretary-General
00:25:08of the Executives of Construction Party, openly reproduces
00:25:12the discourse of surrender and injects fear into the national
00:25:16will in the midst of a heavy confrontation with the enemy.
00:25:20Juxtaposing the terms "third war" and "retreat" conveys
00:25:23this dangerous perception that Iran's inevitable fate is
00:25:27complete defeat or succumbing to the enemy's conditions,
00:25:31even when all Western media outlets themselves admit
00:25:34to America's defeat and predicament. Marashi, by
00:25:38claiming that the enemy's audacity stems from a decrease
00:25:41in power due to economic conditions, reverses
00:25:45the cause-and-effect relationship. This is while the darkest
00:25:48economic decade of the country was spent with attachment
00:25:52to the US. These same figures, with promises
00:25:55of multi-thousand-billion investments by Washington
00:25:59in Iran, have been the cause of economic weakness
00:26:03and emboldened the enemy in attacks. However, Marashi,
00:26:06overlooking economic mismanagement and delusions such as
00:26:09a superficial tension with the US, which was previously
00:26:13raised by his associates, blames national resistance
00:26:17and says, "Who said that war is the priority
00:26:20and peace has no importance?" These are statements
00:26:23that attempt to put a deceptive cover of peace on the imposed
00:26:27demand for surrender to an aggressor who seeks the
00:26:31destruction and plunder of Iran,
00:26:34so that a time worse than what surrender advocates brought
00:26:37upon Iran in the First
00:26:40and Second World Wars is repeated. Contrary to
00:26:44the image portrayed by this current, society stands firm
00:26:47on the pillars of national power, as in the latest
00:26:50credible polls, people rejected missile
00:26:53range limitations in an agreement. They did not
00:26:57agree. They rejected
00:27:07the dilution or removal of 400 kg of enriched uranium,
00:27:11and 69.4% insist that the cessation of enrichment
00:27:15should not be a condition for ending the war. Also,
00:27:18in response to the possibility of renegotiating with the
00:27:22US, the majority of public opinion
00:27:25did not agree with it. The hard test for policymakers
00:27:29in the currency market. Can new currency funds control
00:27:33liquidity and alleviate the plight of low-income groups?
00:27:37Shargh newspaper, in an article by Nasser Zakeri, examined
00:27:40the recent policies of the Central Bank and the offering of currency
00:27:43funds, and noted that solving the economic problems fundamentally
00:27:47requires directing liquidity towards production and special
00:27:51attention to less fortunate groups. In a part of this
00:27:55article, it is stated that the reasons for the increasing
00:27:58exchange rate can be sought in three areas: First,
00:28:02with the publication of some news and rumors, there is
00:28:05always the possibility of a selling or buying rush
00:28:09for some goods, especially
00:30:21currency, in the form of emotional behavior. Second, in inflationary
00:30:25conditions where the purchasing power of the national currency
00:30:29decreases, citizens resort to alternative methods,
00:30:32especially buying and holding currency, to preserve the
00:30:36value of their assets. In a situation where the country's
00:30:40export markets are limited and the return of revenues
00:30:43faces difficulties, the exchange rate will logically
00:30:47increase. Thank you very much for joining us.
00:30:50Stay tuned for the rest of the program
00:30:53on Khabar Network. Good evening, dear viewers.
00:30:56We are with you for the