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00:00:00All Muslims Where should we go from here?
00:00:02I wasn't really into politics and stuff
00:00:05for a long time. I was against it, actually.
00:00:09It was a blessing or whatever it was. At some point,
00:00:13I came back. According to documents,
00:00:17according to rumors, according to many things, I saw something.
00:00:19That moment of martyrdom is enough for me.
00:00:23What happened and where it happened is enough for me. I changed.
00:00:27I'm trying to change. I'm going.
00:00:30I'm investigating. This was one of the strangest things
00:00:34I saw from a very close person. It's very
00:00:37hard.
00:00:39Hasten to Their absence is unbelievable.
00:00:41I still don't believe it. I can't
00:00:45Hasten to accept
00:00:46that they're not here.
00:00:53Although
00:00:55Hasten to their spirit will protect our country even more.
00:00:58After a few
00:01:01Hasten to salvation. years, we became eager, Imam Reza.
00:01:03You brought K.I. home. We
00:01:07have a proverb in Germany that understanding comes after death.
00:01:11I never believed that some people who weren't talking to him in previous years
00:01:15said after his martyrdom what mistakes we made.
00:01:18Among the young children, but good for them. In the end, they understood
00:01:22that this man was exceptional. I wish
00:01:26the time would not come when we would be heedless.
00:01:31I mean, I'm not just talking about the son of the Leader.
00:01:35In general, at any time,
00:01:38I wish we wouldn't be heedless so that a very bad
00:01:42thing would happen and we would say again, "Oh, I wish
00:01:46I had been more careful." We are no longer the Leader's
00:01:49soldier. We are his vanguard.
00:01:52We have said many times that we are the Leader's soldiers, but we couldn't
00:01:56give our lives for him. The Leader became our martyr.
00:02:00Now, God willing, may we have the honor to be
00:02:03the vanguard of the new Leader so that the Leader's
00:02:07shadow may not diminish from us. This blue color scheme
00:02:10that they have put here, we mostly saw it on TV. When the gentlemen
00:02:14come closer to here, you see this light
00:02:18and you realize it. From that very moment, a lump forms in your throat until you reach
00:02:22here. This is unconscious. Tears
00:02:25come. Now, if you want to pretend that "No, I don't want to cry. I
00:02:29want to be strong," they come.
00:02:33Tears come. It's not in your control, and it's a really strange
00:02:36feeling.
00:02:41It was a very painful issue,
00:02:45and accepting this issue is very difficult for us.
00:02:58RQ-170. There's a
00:03:33three years later, in 2014, Iran unveiled
00:03:36an aircraft as the result of reverse engineering work
00:03:39conducted on the American drone. Initially, a lot of Western analysts
00:03:43were skeptical, looking similar to an RQ-170 doesn't
00:03:47mean matching the RQ-170's actual
00:03:49abilities, but what happened afterward made the program much harder to
00:03:53dismiss. Iran didn't simply create one display model and move
00:03:56on. There were larger versions associated with the Shahed
00:04:00and smaller aircraft such as the Shahed 161 and
00:04:03Shahed 191 family. Iranian
00:04:07engineers experimented with different propulsion systems as well, and the
00:04:10important point wasn't whether any one of those aircraft was
00:04:14an exact technological duplicate of the Sentinel. It was that
00:04:17Iran had absorbed enough from the aircraft to start
00:04:20experimenting and even improving the drone's design. The
00:04:23American RQ-170 had been designed primarily to collect
00:04:26intelligence. Iranian lineage increasingly included
00:04:30aircraft built to attack things. Iran's military
00:04:33strategy has always been constrained by geography and
00:04:37conventional military weakness. The United States had bases throughout
00:04:40the region. Israel possessed a technologically advanced air force.
00:04:44Gulf states were buying enormous quantities of Western weapons.
00:04:48Iran had partners instead: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the
00:04:52Palestinian resistance in Gaza, Shia militias in
00:04:55Iraq, and Ansarullah in Yemen. Drones fit
00:04:58naturally into this network. They were relatively
00:05:02inexpensive compared with combat aircraft, easier to conceal,
00:05:05easier to move, and could allow armed groups without any real air
00:05:09force to suddenly possess a form of long-range air
00:05:12power. By the early 2020s, Iranian drones, designs
00:05:16or components had appeared across the Middle East. This is one of the most
00:05:19important transitions in our whole story. A militia that can never
00:05:23afford a fleet of modern combat aircraft, could now launch
00:05:27an unmanned system toward a military base, oil
00:05:30facility or naval asset, and no Iranian drone would demonstrate
00:05:33that idea more clearly than the Shahed 136.
00:05:37Shahed 136 isn't impressive because it's
00:05:40extraordinarily sophisticated. The importance comes from almost the
00:05:44opposite quality. It's just simple enough. A relatively
00:05:48small engine pushes an inexpensive airframe across
00:05:51a very long distance. The aircraft carries an explosive
00:05:55payload and it's not designed to return. That means there is no need
00:05:58to build an expensive recovery system because there
00:06:02will be no recovery. And that simplicity changes the economics
00:06:05of air warfare. Think about the problem from the defender's
00:06:08perspective: a cheap drone is approaching your airbase. You
00:06:12may know that it's relatively primitive. That doesn't mean you can ignore it,
00:06:16because if it hits a radar station, a fuel storage facility,
00:06:19electrical substation or even a parked aircraft, the damage will
00:06:23vastly exceed the price of the drone itself, so you have to stop it. Now
00:06:27imagine the missile used to stop it cost many more times than the attacking
00:06:31aircraft. You've successfully defended your target, but the
00:06:34attackers force you into an expensive exchange,
00:06:37then another drone appears, then another, and 20,
00:06:4150, 300. Perhaps the drones are only the first
00:06:44wave of the attack, forcing radars and air defense crews to react
00:06:48before faster cruise missiles and eventually ballistic missiles
00:06:51arrive. The idea would soon be tested on an enormous
00:06:55scale in Europe. This drone has become part of an international
00:06:58feedback loop, and while this is happening, Iran itself is
00:07:02preparing to demonstrate what mass drone warfare looks like at
00:07:06their national level. On the night of April 13th,
00:07:092024, Iran had launched its first large directive attack
00:07:12against Israel from Iranian territory. The attack was
00:07:16unusual, not only because of its scale, but because of the way different
00:07:20weapons were combined. The drones were launched first. Cruise
00:07:23missiles then followed. Last came ballistic missiles traveling
00:07:27dramatically faster. The timing meant different kinds of weapons could
00:07:30converge on the defended area within a more concentrated
00:07:34period. Roughly 170 drones were involved in the initial
00:07:37attack, alongside dozens of cruise missiles and more than 100
00:07:41ballistic missiles. From the perspective of Iran's drone program, the
00:07:45event represented something extraordinary. The drone was no
00:07:48longer a substitute, used because Iran had run out of better
00:07:51options. It had become part of Iran's core way of fighting. In
00:07:55April 2026, US Central Command released footage showing
00:07:58a strike against an Iranian flying wing, UAV
00:08:02on the ground. Aviation analysts identified the aircraft as
00:08:06belonging to the family Iran had developed from the captured
00:08:11remarkable symmetry in that moment, but during the same conflict,
00:08:14an even stranger reversal was taking place. For
00:08:18decades, American drone development largely moved
00:08:21toward greater sophistication: advanced sensors, satellite
00:08:25communications, long endurance and increasingly expensive platforms.
00:08:28The Russia-Ukraine war demonstrated the value of cheap
00:08:32aircraft that could be lost in enormous numbers. That lesson
00:08:35spread rapidly through militaries around the world, and in
00:08:382025, the Pentagon unveiled the Low Cost Unmanned
00:08:42Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone. By March
00:08:452026, Reuters reported that the US had already used LUCAS
00:08:49in combat against Iran, only months after the
00:08:52system was publicly unveiled. The aircraft cost roughly
00:08:56$35,000, and it belongs to the same category
00:08:59of long-range expendable drone popularized by the
00:09:03Shahed. The United States' LUCAS drone was developed after the
00:09:07US obtained an Iranian-designed Shahed 136 and
00:09:10reverse-engineered the aircraft, effectively taking Iran's own
00:09:14low-cost drone technology and turning it into an American weapon. Now
00:09:18the United States was doing something remarkably similar to what Iran had
00:09:22done with the RQ-170 15 years earlier:
00:09:25taking an adversary's aircraft, studying it,
00:09:28learning from it and building a version of its own. No one had a monopoly on the idea
00:09:32anymore. We shouldn't forget that the United States' own
00:09:36RQ-170 drone didn't create
00:09:39Iran's drone program. It accelerated it. By 2000
00:09:4211, Iranian engineers had decades of drone development behind
00:09:46them. The Sentinel arrived at the exact moment when Iran had an industry
00:09:49mature enough to exploit it. By 2026, Iran's drones
00:09:53were no longer primarily interesting because they were
00:09:56Iranian. They were interesting because the ideas behind them had
00:10:00become global. Cheap drones were changing how militaries thought about air
00:10:03defense. Mass production was changing how commanders calculated
00:10:07the value of interceptors. Commercial electronics were changing
00:10:11who could build long-range weapons, and electronic warfare was changing
00:10:14how drones navigated. The cycle of copying, adapting and improving had
00:10:18become international, and all of this makes the scene in December of
00:10:222011 look very different in hindsight.
00:10:25Back in Nevada, the operators saw their feed disappear and understood that they had
00:10:29lost a drone. But in Iran, engineers looked at that same event
00:10:33and saw an opportunity. 15 years later, we're still watching
00:10:37the consequences fly.
00:11:02Sunday, July 18, 2026,
00:11:04news of the arrest of two French diplomats in
00:11:08Tehran is published. The French Foreign Minister called the arrest of two diplomatic
00:11:12staff members of their embassy in Tehran a clear
00:11:15violation of diplomatic immunity. France says two
00:11:19embassy employees in Tehran were arrested and interrogated for
00:11:23several hours. Jean-Noël Barrot also said that both diplomats are now safe
00:11:27and are expected to return to France within the next few
00:11:30hours. The French Foreign Ministry reacted to this news,
00:11:34and the matter was even taken to the European Union.
00:11:37It was immediately clear that both diplomats, who were released a few hours
00:11:40later, were operating under the guise of cultural
00:11:44responsibilities. The French Foreign Ministry described
00:11:46their mission in Iran as follows.
00:11:50The French Foreign Minister called this action
00:11:53shocking because these two officials are responsible for implementing
00:11:57French programs to support civil society, especially Iranian
00:12:01artists and scientists. The French are keen to associate
00:12:05themselves with culture and art and thereby create soft
00:12:08power and a position of influence for themselves. The story
00:12:12is that at some point in their eventful history, they came to the conclusion
00:12:16that in military matters, they
00:12:19cannot compete with their rivals and must stop
00:12:22their expansionist programs. As a result,
00:12:26they began trying to become a cultural and artistic
00:12:29power, but not an introverted
00:12:33or endogenous cultural power, but a power with an aggressive
00:12:37and colonial stance, and with the nature
00:12:41of aggression against the indigenous national cultures of other countries. This
00:12:44model of culture and art is to be promoted by the French in
00:12:48the world and form an important part of the hybrid
00:12:51wars against independent nations. Of course, this mission
00:12:55does not mean that the French do not play a role
00:12:58in the political, security, and even military projects of the bloc
00:13:02they are in, but their main priority in recent years
00:13:06has been cultural issues. Based on this program and approach,
00:13:10the cultural section of the French embassy in Tehran is considered
00:13:13the most active part of this embassy. The activities of the French
00:13:17embassy in these years have had four main pillars.
00:13:21The first pillar, the CILAF Center.
00:13:24Hello. This is Tehran. You see and hear my image
00:13:27and voice from the French Language Center. CILAF Center
00:13:31is an institution in Tehran without
00:13:34legal permits that annually provided specialized French
00:13:38language training to about 3,000 Iranians, and its main goal
00:13:41was to promote the French language as a cover
00:13:45for anti-security activities in Iran. All their planning
00:13:49and efforts in this regard can be summarized in one
00:13:52sentence: If someone speaks French,
00:13:56they will think French. Second pillar: Campus France,
00:13:59whose main mission is marketing for French
00:14:03universities and identifying and attracting students,
00:14:06but only in certain fields of humanities. It does not allow
00:14:10Iranian students to study advanced technologies
00:14:13and high-tech. Third
00:14:15pillar: the French school in Tehran. In common
00:14:19diplomatic practice, embassy schools are solely
00:14:22for the education of diplomats' children.
00:14:29The students of the French embassy school in Tehran were
00:14:32Iranians. A school with French language and culture that every year
00:14:36received 13,000 Euros from the parents of each
00:14:39Iranian student. Parents who were mostly from among personalities.
00:15:00Allahu Akbar, Allahu
00:15:02Akbar.
00:15:04Allahu Akbar,
00:15:07Allahu
00:15:13Akbar.
00:15:15I bear witness that there is no god but
00:15:18Allah.
00:15:23I bear witness that there is no god but
00:15:26Allah.
00:15:33I bear witness that Muhammad
00:15:35is the Messenger of Allah.
00:15:41I bear witness that Muhammad
00:15:44is the Messenger of
00:15:47Allah.
00:15:53I bear witness that Ali is the Guardian of
00:15:57Allah.
00:16:02I bear witness that Ali
00:16:05is the Proof of Allah.
00:16:16prayer.
00:16:22prayer.
00:16:33salvation.
00:16:51Hasten to
00:16:55the best
00:16:56of deeds.
00:16:59Hasten to
00:17:03the best
00:17:04of deeds.
00:17:41All these actions were, of course, a pretext for establishing direct
00:17:45communication with Iran's cultural and artistic elite and
00:17:49creating an effective network among them, and a kind of
00:17:52mental and cultural engineering that could later spread to other
00:17:56social strata. Now,
00:17:59give good food to customers,
00:18:02help his
00:18:05friends, no expenses.
00:18:08But he'll eventually get
00:18:11us to go to his house.
00:18:14The crazy house's president. Connecting with
00:18:17this class sometimes happened through financial support for their works,
00:18:21sometimes by creating
00:18:25conditions for their presence in a study period or
00:18:29participation in residencies and workshops in France, and
00:18:33sometimes by granting French national honors such
00:18:36as Chevalier and Soldier. One issue is
00:18:40Chevalier. I don't know why you emphasize this so
00:18:44much. If Shahram Nazeri alone is not enough,
00:18:47then we should always use the title
00:18:51Chevalier, which the French themselves laugh at us for giving
00:18:55to our best artist, to our great artist.
00:18:58Let's not say that this artist is from
00:19:01Kermanshah or Iranian. This is something
00:19:04that I very, very, perhaps because of this, I myself
00:19:08did not accept this title and this so-called
00:19:11honor because I want to remain Iranian, because I want to be Hossein Alizadeh.
00:19:15I don't want to be French. The French sometimes
00:19:18and for some people, they proceeded through the attraction
00:19:21of the Talent Visa, also known as the Talent Visa or the
00:19:25Schengen Visa, and of course, sometimes at
00:19:28the night parties of the diplomats of this embassy in Tehran,
00:19:32they pursued the project. But all these actions had
00:19:35an important flavor, promoting anti-ethical
00:19:39issues such as the culture of homosexuality in
00:19:43Iran or expanding underground and erotic
00:19:45dances. France has been so insistent
00:19:49on this that sometimes it even selected its own diplomats
00:19:52in Tehran from among homosexuals.
00:19:55But
00:19:57let's go back to the story of the arrest of two French
00:20:00diplomats. The French, who at some point realized
00:20:04the Iranian security apparatus's sensitivity to
00:20:07the extent and depth of the interventions of their high-flying
00:20:11individuals under the guise of cultural activities, designed a new
00:20:15project. Villazadig is a platform that was supposed to
00:20:18realize the goal of networking among the elite or intellectuals
00:20:22for the French as a virtual and completely hidden embassy,
00:20:25and its contract was signed with the letterhead of the
00:20:29illegal CILAF institution and with the signature of the former French
00:20:32ambassador to Tehran. The name of this project comes from the name of one of the anti-
00:20:36books.
00:20:47France sought to empower and ultimately network
00:20:51effectively among Iranian scientific, cultural,
00:20:54and artistic elites. This special mission was defined in a very
00:20:58diverse context. From cinema and theater to
00:21:01music, architecture, archaeology, visual and digital
00:21:05arts, and branches of humanities and even
00:21:09translation and publishing.
00:21:11Villazadik was supposed to place Iranian elites' connection with the French
00:21:14government under a comprehensive program and software of
00:21:18Francophilia to be an effective help to the plan of widespread
00:21:22social and cultural changes in Iran with special
00:21:25French sponsorship and with the ambition of realizing
00:21:29a revolution. The two
00:21:31delinquent French diplomats were caught in the trap of the unknown soldiers
00:21:35of Imam Zaman (may Allah hasten his reappearance). The Ministry of Intelligence warned the French
00:21:39government: You must be accountable for the interventions
00:21:42of your diplomats. The story of the arrest of the
00:21:46diplomat and his colleague is directly related to this issue.
00:22:01Two suspects linked to infiltration projects, two foreign individuals
00:22:04are also present at their personal residence, who, upon encountering
00:22:08Iranian security forces, declare that they are there to coordinate
00:22:12the implementation of a special plan by the French government.
00:22:16This special plan is the Villazadie project.
00:22:20Now, parts of the Ministry of Information's statement, which was released
00:22:24on August 15th, can be more accurately
00:22:27deciphered. The statement reads: The Ministry of Intelligence, in the
00:22:31process of investigating one of the important infiltration cases,
00:22:35while executing a judicial order to arrest two of the accused in the case,
00:22:38became aware of the illegal presence of two French diplomats
00:22:42at a secret meeting place. The illegal actions and behaviors of these two
00:22:46diplomats had, of course, been repeated before.
00:22:50The matter was announced to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the delinquent
00:22:53diplomats were handed over to the French ambassador to Iran with the presence
00:22:56of diplomatic police. They had planned to hold
00:23:00the official opening ceremony of Villazadik on September 3rd at the Paul
00:23:04Duchamp Hall in Paris with the presence of the French Foreign and Culture
00:23:08Ministers, and of course, guests from Iran, in an unofficial
00:23:12manner. This was a new and different phase of the Social
00:23:16Change project in Iran. Amidst
00:23:20the national resistance of Iranians against American
00:23:23aggression, however, the situation has changed.
00:23:27The French cannot expect the non-interference
00:23:30of foreign countries in internal affairs only for themselves
00:23:34and only be concerned about France's national
00:23:37security. Concerns that have manifested
00:23:41themselves in a law known as the PIF. The law to prevent
00:23:44foreign interference in France, which was approved in
00:23:472024.
00:23:51The explanations provided by Mr. Casalani are important.
00:23:54There is a difference between infiltration and intervention. In this
00:23:58case, we are dealing with infiltration in the case of those who agree
00:24:01to do their work, and after this
00:24:05work, they must transparently declare their goals to the authorities
00:24:09because they are present here representing a foreign
00:24:12power and have acted. In their case, within the first 15
00:24:16days and after that,
00:24:20within 3 months after their action, they will be given a certificate
00:24:24of no criminal record because they have
00:24:27accepted the transparency laws.
00:24:30Therefore, the goal is to be transparent in the face
00:24:33of public opinion.
00:24:36The French, who are apparently concerned about the reaction of some countries
00:24:40to their policies and actions, emphasize in this law:
00:24:43The threat against French interests is no longer
00:24:47limited to conventional warfare and traditional interventions
00:24:50such as espionage. Intervention is no longer only
00:24:54in the realm of intelligence services and has involved many
00:24:58actors. Political parties, universities, technology
00:25:01companies, and media are all targets
00:25:04of malevolent
00:25:05powers.
00:25:12Foreign interventions are a serious threat that France cannot
00:25:16take lightly. These interventions take forms such
00:25:20as cyber attacks, the dissemination of false information, and infiltration
00:25:24of universities. We do not want to be passive in the face
00:25:27of these attacks. For this reason, the Ecologist group
00:25:30agrees with the objective of this legal draft. It is necessary
00:25:34for Parliament to strengthen its powers in these sovereign
00:25:38areas more than ever before. Of course, this text alone
00:25:41will not be enough to protect us from all foreign
00:25:45interference. Special attention must be paid to the issue of
00:25:48multi-vocal media information and its independence.
00:25:52They
00:25:57claim that they passed this law to combat France's vulnerability
00:26:01to foreign influence, but they continue
00:26:04their illegal infiltration and interventions
00:26:08in the affairs of other countries.
00:26:11Other countries also have similar
00:26:14laws and implement them seriously.
00:26:18However, Iran, with a serious response to the
00:26:21Villazadik infiltration and networking project, by banning
00:26:25the two delinquent diplomats and also shutting down
00:26:29the illegal activities of the CILAF Center,
00:26:32by closing the Eiffel Tower and giving a serious warning
00:26:36to the French school in Tehran to operate only within
00:26:39conventional and legal frameworks, showed
00:26:43that it has entered a new era of policies.
00:26:45The implementation of anti-cultural
00:26:49schemes under the guise of the language
00:26:53training institution, the illegal center affiliated with the French
00:26:56embassy in Tehran, known as CILAF, was sealed
00:26:59by order of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office. It was
00:27:03operating without a license and, under the guise of language
00:27:06training, played a role in identifying elites and networking for
00:27:09their departure from the country. The judiciary, while emphasizing
00:27:13the need for foreign embassies to abide by the country's
00:27:16laws, stopped the activities of this
00:27:19center. The French Language Center of Tehran,
00:27:23in addition to holding language classes, is also considered
00:27:26part of France's cultural presence in
00:27:29Iran. The collective memory of Iranians has no
00:27:32fond memories of France, neither of its colonial
00:27:36and criminal history, nor of the Mirages
00:27:39and Super Etendards that bombed the people of Iran,
00:27:43nor of the Exocet missiles that were provided to Saddam,
00:27:47nor of the complex case of contaminated blood,
00:27:51nor of France's hosting and support for terrorists, and of course,
00:27:54their overt and covert interventions against Iran's independence
00:27:58and their support for the recent war.
00:28:08The French people probably do not want their government
00:28:12to add new problems to its accumulated difficulties.
00:28:15Paris has been grappling with the violent suppression of marginalized protests
00:28:19and the Yellow Vest movement, and the continuation of various
00:28:23socio-economic problems and the weakening of its soft
00:28:26power and influence. And since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,
00:28:30it has been constantly busy creating.
00:29:11That country, that nation that can
00:29:14prove that it is ready for its independence,
00:29:18for the preservation of its identity, for its ideals,
00:29:22for its existence,
00:29:24to resist and defend manfully,
00:29:28that nation is honorable. Even their enemies
00:29:32acknowledge the honor of that nation
00:29:36deep within themselves, even if they are not
00:29:39willing to utter it. Today,
00:29:41your enemies also acknowledge your honor,
00:29:45and many even speak ill of it.
00:30:14The head of the Regulatory Organization of Radio and Television,
00:30:18referring to the inversion of the internet consumption pattern in Iran compared
00:30:22to the rest of the world, said: Globally, the majority
00:30:25of user communication traffic is carried by fixed-line telephone
00:30:29and fiber optics, while in Iran, we are witnessing the opposite
00:30:33situation. Mr. Fattahi said in a special news interview: The main burden of the country's communications
00:30:37has focused on the mobile network. In
00:30:41the world, there is this flexibility that, for example, 70 percent of communications
00:30:44are fixed for you, and the remaining 30% is either 80-20.