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00:00:25Good evening, dear viewers, welcome to the 11 o'clock news section. The academic
00:00:29year of universities began in a ceremony attended by the President.
00:00:32In this ceremony, the President, emphasizing unity and cohesion,
00:00:36asked everyone to act with skill and determination to solve
00:00:39the country's problems. Mr. Pezeshkian also spoke about
00:00:43private and loss-making companies, saying, "These companies have
00:00:46several thousand billion in capital,
00:00:50the same time, they receive hundreds of billions in management
00:00:53fees." The President continued by stating that the transportation
00:00:57of gasoline costs more than its current selling price.
00:01:00He said, "How can we manage the price of gasoline
00:01:03with the cooperation of the people and use the benefits
00:01:06derived from it based on justice, is a complex
00:01:09issue." In this ceremony, the top ranks of the 1405
00:01:12entrance exam were also honored.
00:01:14The
00:01:18head of the Atomic Energy Organization emphasized that the plan to achieve
00:01:2120,000 megawatts of nuclear power is ongoing. Mr. Eslami said:
00:01:25"Attacks on facilities and centers in the health sector,
00:01:28food safety, and industrial activities must be considered
00:01:31by international communities."
00:01:33The
00:01:36Bushehr nuclear power plant
00:01:39of Allah. Hasten to is among the top 10 power plants
00:01:42in the world in terms of safety
00:01:45Hasten to and efficiency, according to the WANO assessment. This quality
00:01:48and this achievement is not something
00:01:52that should be stopped, it must be repeated, and we will continue the 20,000
00:01:55Hasten to megawatt project with strength, with God's help. Even during the war,
00:01:59our construction projects were
00:02:02Hasten to salvation. not halted and will not be halted. Irradiation of products
00:02:05is one of the services in addition to the health sector
00:02:09for the safety of people's lives and the environment.
00:02:12Polluted soil and polluted water can only be
00:02:15truly restored and prevented
00:02:19from worsening through nuclear technology. These services
00:02:22for the environment are among the necessities, and
00:02:26an important tool for them is nuclear technology, which today all
00:02:37Attention to smart post projects from the beginning of
00:02:40the unveiling of the third generation standard address. Mr. Ahmadi said
00:02:44this project will soon be unveiled in 20 cities
00:02:48and days across the country.
00:02:49This
00:02:52smartization is defined in several layers
00:02:55in the form
00:02:57of development of smart equipment
00:03:00and new equipment
00:03:03in the field of
00:03:06sorting and analysis of our shipments.
00:03:08Over the past year, three provinces
00:03:12were actually activated in Kerman
00:03:15and Hormozgan. In Qazvin
00:03:19and Qom provinces, specifically during this
00:03:22period, sorting equipment will be added, and
00:03:25God willing, in the next few months,
00:03:29we will implement this in three other provinces.
00:03:32With the increase of these provinces, 15 provinces
00:03:35of our country will be equipped with smart sorting
00:03:39equipment, all of which are made and managed
00:03:43and supported by
00:03:44domestic knowledge-based companies.
00:03:48Tribal chiefs and elders of Iraq, present at the Iranian
00:03:52embassy in Baghdad, emphasized the fraternal ties between
00:03:55the two nations. Iraqi tribal leaders considered the steadfastness
00:03:59of the Iranian nation against aggressors, especially America,
00:04:02as a sign of the strength of the Iranian regime.
00:04:06The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baghdad hosted an unprecedented
00:04:10gathering of Iraqi tribal elders and chiefs.
00:04:12Delegates
00:04:15from tribal leaders of the five provinces of the Middle
00:04:19Euphrates, in a friendly meeting with Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh,
00:04:23the Iranian ambassador, declared their solidarity with the Iranian
00:04:26nation. This bond shows the depth of the long-standing
00:04:30relationship between the two nations in political, cultural, economic
00:04:33and social dimensions, and it
00:04:36will certainly provide more opportunities
00:04:39for cooperation between the two countries. This gathering
00:04:43was the first meeting of Iraqi tribal leaders with the Iranian
00:04:46ambassador after the declaration of national sovereignty and the
00:04:50withdrawal of American and international coalition forces from this country.
00:04:54America thought it could defeat Iran and its people,
00:04:57but Iran proved this assumption wrong. We in Iraq
00:05:00are also proud to express our honor and devotion to the
00:05:04Iranian nation and its resistance leaders, both martyrs
00:05:07and those who are still alive. Iraqi Sheikhs
00:05:11emphasized a fundamental principle: fraternal relations,
00:05:14good neighborliness, and the historical ties of the
00:05:18two nations.
00:05:23This meeting reflects our admiration for the steadfastness
00:05:27of the Iranian people. We and Iran are in one trench,
00:05:31and our ties are deeper than our enemies can imagine.
00:05:34The end of this meeting had a meaningful image. A souvenir
00:05:38photo of Iraqi tribal leaders next to images of resistance
00:05:42leaders. Jalal Khalidi,
00:05:43correspondent of IRIB News, Baghdad. Thank you for accompanying us.
00:06:13Imagine you're sitting in a control room somewhere in the Nevada Desert in
00:06:172011. The room is dim, the air conditioning is
00:06:20humming, and the screens in front of you are connected to an aircraft
00:06:23thousands of miles away. It's called the RQ-170
00:06:27Sentinel and at the time, it's one of the most secret unmanned
00:06:30aircraft in the American Arsenal. The CIA uses it for missions
00:06:34where simply being detected could create an international incident.
00:06:38Earlier that same year, an RQ-170 has been used
00:06:41in the... surveillance effort surrounding Osama bin Laden's
00:06:45compound in Pakistan. Now, the same type of aircraft is being used to
00:06:49watch another extremely sensitive target, Iran. The
00:06:52Washington Post later reported that one of the early
00:06:55RQ-170 missions penetrated more than 600
00:06:59miles into Iran and observed the secret nuclear
00:07:02facility near Qom without provoking any obvious response
00:07:06from Iranian defenses. More missions followed: dozens of
00:07:10sites were watched and hundreds of...
00:07:13surveillance passes were reportedly conducted. Eventually, something that
00:07:16once seemed incredibly dangerous started to feel almost
00:07:19routine. The Americans send their drones into Iran, they
00:07:23watch, they leave until one night the drone doesn't come
00:07:27back. For several days, the United States doesn't
00:07:30even know what's become of one of its most sensitive intelligence
00:07:34systems. Then Iranian television provides the
00:07:37answer. The Sentinel appears beneath bright
00:07:40lights, remarkably intact. surrounded by
00:07:43Iranian military personnel. For the United States, this is already
00:07:47an intelligence disaster, for Iran, it's
00:07:50an opportunity that almost nobody could have planned. President
00:07:54Barack Obama even publicly begged Iran for the aircraft
00:07:57back, as has already been
00:07:59indicated,
00:08:02we have asked for it back. We'll
00:08:06see how the Iranians respond. Iran refused. To
00:08:09understand why that mattered so much though, we... actually need to leave
00:08:132011 behind for a moment and go back almost 30
00:08:17years because the real beginning of Iran's drone story doesn't
00:08:20involve an American stealth aircraft at all, it begins with
00:08:24a war Iran was struggling to win. I'm Jackson Hinkle from
00:08:27Legitimate Targets and you're watching the story of how
00:08:30Iran became the world's drone
00:08:33superpower.
00:08:37Modern armies are surrounded by satellites,
00:08:40drones, digital maps and video feeds,
00:08:43but in the early 1980s, battlefield reconnaissance often
00:08:47meant putting human beings inside aircraft and
00:08:51sending them over enemy territory. in the
00:08:54early years of the Iran-Iraq war,
00:08:56Iran relied heavily on RF for Phantom
00:08:59Reconnaissance aircraft. These were valuable machines
00:09:03flown by trained crews and early in the war they provided critical
00:09:07aerial imagery of Iraqi positions, but
00:09:10Iraq's air defenses improved. Radar coverage expanded and
00:09:14eventually an Iranian reconnaissance aircraft was shot
00:09:17down. Every mission now carried the possibility
00:09:21of losing not only an expensive aircraft, but also
00:09:25pilots that Iran couldn't easily replace. Under
00:09:28the Shah, Iran had been one of America's most important allies in the
00:09:32Middle East and one of the largest customers for
00:09:35American military equipment. Its air force had
00:09:39been built around American technology, then the...
00:09:421979 Islamic Revolution overturned that
00:09:45relationship almost overnight. The new Islamic
00:09:49Republic inherited F4 Phantoms, F5
00:09:52Fighters, F-14 Tomcats and enormous
00:09:55quantities of sophisticated equipment. But the country
00:09:59that had sold around those weapons was now one of its greatest
00:10:02enemies. Spare parts became difficult to obtain,
00:10:06sanctions tightened, Iran's military couldn't afford to keep losing
00:10:10reconnaissance aircraft. So a group of students and
00:10:13engineers from Isfahan University began working
00:10:16on another idea. What if you could just put a camera in
00:10:20an aircraft without putting the pilot in it. That's exactly what
00:10:23they did. The first Iranian drones were primitive compared to what
00:10:27would come later, medical IV bags were used as
00:10:30improvised fuel containers, propellers were made from wood,
00:10:34launching equipment was assembled by hand. These early machines
00:10:37had limited range and could struggle badly in windy
00:10:40conditions, sometimes even forcing operators to use
00:10:44parachutes and search for them after missions, but
00:10:47they worked. Iran's early UAV effort surveyed nearly
00:10:5114,000 square kilometers and produced more than 5%
00:10:55reconnaissance frames during the Iran-Iraq war. Our
00:10:58country fighting much better supplied Iraq while increasingly
00:11:02isolated from western technology. The lesson was
00:11:05powerful: a crude, unmanned aerial aircraft did
00:11:08not need to be better than the fighter jet, it just needed to
00:11:12solve a problem that the fighter jet was too valuable to
00:11:15solve, and that idea would stay with Iran for
00:11:18decades.
00:11:22After the war, Iran could have treated these primitive drones as
00:11:26an emergency experiment and simply moved on. Instead, the
00:11:30country began institutionalizing them.
00:11:32Organizations such as Quds Aviation worked on
00:11:36increasingly capable unmanned systems, while
00:11:39aircraft from the Mohajer and Ababil families gradually
00:11:43improved range, reliability and
00:11:45usefulness. Engineers learned about autopilots,
00:11:49communication systems, cameras, engines and
00:11:51airframes. Military commanders learned what unmanned
00:11:55aircraft could and could not do, factories learned how to produce and
00:11:58repair them, procurement networks learned which foreign components could
00:12:02be acquired and which had to be replaced domestically, and
00:12:06sanctions shaped the entire process. if the preferred engine
00:12:09was unavailable, another engine had to be adapted, if specialized
00:12:13electronics were restricted, they had to be sourced through intermediaries,
00:12:17reverse engineered or replaced with civilian components. The question
00:12:21wasn't always what's the best possible system, instead it was:
00:12:25what can we actually build? And once you understand that mindset,
00:12:29Iran's later obsession with captured foreign equipment starts making
00:12:32a whole lot more sense, because every foreign system that fell
00:12:36into Iranian hands represented something sanctions
00:12:39had made incredibly difficult to obtain access.
00:12:43Around the end of the 1990s, Shahed Aviation
00:12:47Industries, which primarily focused on creating helicopters, began
00:12:50moving seriously into drone development. One important part of this
00:12:54development involved examining foreign unmanned aircraft,
00:12:57including the Israeli Hermes family. By 2007,
00:13:01the organization had produced the Shahed 123, while work soon
00:13:05moved toward the much more ambitious Shahed
00:13:08129, designed not simply to observe, but
00:13:11eventually to conduct combat missions as well. So by
00:13:142011, Iran's drone industry was no longer a collection
00:13:18of students, building improvised aircraft with wooden
00:13:21propellers. It had decades of experience, it had...
00:13:25organizations dedicated to drone development, it had already learned
00:13:28to examine foreign technology and incorporate useful ideas
00:13:32and it was beginning to move from basic reconnaissance
00:13:35toward armed long-range aircraft, then almost
00:13:39unbelievably, one of America's most sophisticated unmanned
00:13:43aircraft landed in its
00:13:45lap.
00:13:48Iran already knew American drones were operating near its borders, but
00:13:52the United States's RQ170 was... different
00:13:55from everything Iran had previously obtained. This aircraft came
00:13:59from Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks. The organization
00:14:02associated with some of America's most secret aviation
00:14:05projects. The US Air Force publicly described the Sentinel
00:14:09only as a low-observable unmanned
00:14:12aircraft system. Even its existence had only been officially
00:14:16acknowledged in 2009 after aviation enthusiasts
00:14:19began spotting a mysterious aircraft around the
00:14:23Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, they nicknamed it the
00:14:26Beast of Kandahar, but what happened in December 2011 was
00:14:30that one of those aircrafts stopped being something Iran could only watch
00:14:34from the ground. It became something that Iranian
00:14:37technicians could actually touch. The United States never
00:14:40publicly released the classified telemetry and attributed the
00:14:44loss to a malfunction, so the complete technical sequence
00:14:47remains unknown outside the participants, but the
00:14:50operational result is undeniable. The CIA
00:14:54lost the RQ-170 inside Iran, and Iran
00:14:57recovered the aircraft in unusually intact condition.
00:15:01This was the turning point that accelerated Iran's existing
00:15:04drone programs. Iran now had something in their hands
00:15:08that years of espionage might not have produced, physical
00:15:11access to an actual advanced American drone.
00:15:15American officials had already recognized the broader
00:15:18danger. December 2011, then Air Force
00:15:21chief of staff, General Norton Schwartz acknowledged publicly.
00:15:25There was clearly potential for reverse engineering.
00:15:46Nobody in the world wants to go to war except
00:15:50Washington, that's the problem. We're the ones that
00:15:53initiate, we're the ones that are precipitating the conflict,
00:15:56and if you look at the dire consequences of the war with
00:16:00Iran right now, we're only just now beginning to feel the effects in a big
00:16:03way. Remember, we talked months ago about the fertilizer
00:16:07shortage, then we talked about access to
00:16:10critical elements like helium, sulfur,
00:16:14without sulfuric acid, you can't refine anything, you can't smelt
00:16:18anything, it's catastrophic, and then of
00:16:21course you have the problems with natural gas and and oil
00:16:24period, well that's begun to hit, and
00:16:28we're going to see famine in large parts of the world as we move through the
00:16:31winter and into the spring, it's going to be
00:16:34catastrophic. What we demonstrate,
00:16:38sadly in Washington, is a complete
00:16:40contempt, not just for our
00:16:43enemies or our opponents. We feel
00:16:46contempt for the whole world, because if anyone had the
00:16:50slightest humanitarian concern for the people that live on the
00:16:54planet with us, they'd stop this now,
00:16:57immediately, but remember
00:17:00this is the Jewish supremacy
00:17:04war waged by Israel and its agent, the United States. This
00:17:08is not us, this is not what we want, this
00:17:12is not necessary for us. All this nonsense about can have
00:17:15nuclear weapon. Well, the Indians have nuclear weapons, the Pakistanis have nuclear
00:17:19weapons, no one has talked about going to war with them. North Korea has had
00:17:23nuclear weapons, and if you're going to tell me that Mr. Kim
00:17:27is infinitely more stable and rational and
00:17:30reasonable than anybody sitting in Tehran, well then you're going to have a tough time
00:17:34convincing me. This is all nonsense. This is
00:17:37about one thing and only one thing: international
00:17:41Jewish supremacy in Israel, in the Middle East and
00:17:45through finance in the United States, that's where we're
00:17:48headed, on the fast track into the deepest part of
00:17:52financial hell that you can go. Why
00:17:55then would you do this? Well, this government, which is the
00:17:58Israel first government, is going
00:18:01to exhaust whatever resources we have in pursuit
00:18:05of this regional Jewish supremacy,
00:18:08and capture, and this is important, capture of
00:18:11control of all the oil resources in the Middle East, because at
00:18:15the end of the day it's direct access and control over those
00:18:19resources by forces that are at
00:18:22least Israel friendly, if not under Israel's thumb.
00:18:47Nazzadeh
00:18:48from Osti
00:18:51did not give 5.
00:20:55In the name of God, the Light.
00:20:58In the name of God, the Light.
00:21:02In the name of God, the Light.
00:21:05The Light. In the name of God,
00:21:08the Light upon
00:21:11Light. Allahu Akbar. Allahu
00:21:15Akbar.
00:21:17Allahu Akbar.
00:21:25Allahu Akbar.
00:21:28I bear witness that there is no god
00:21:31but Allah.
00:21:35I bear witness that there is no god
00:21:38but Allah.
00:21:45I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
00:21:49of Allah.
00:21:54I bear witness that Muhammad
00:21:57is the Messenger
00:21:59of Allah.
00:22:06I bear witness that Ali is the friend
00:22:10of Allah.
00:22:15I bear witness that Ali
00:22:18is the proof
00:22:29prayer.
00:22:35prayer.
00:22:45salvation.
00:23:04Hasten
00:23:07to the best of
00:23:09deeds.
00:23:12Hasten to
00:23:16the best of deeds.
00:23:54Governance is not just about ruling.
00:23:57Governance
00:24:04is about being in hearts, in hearts.
00:24:07Governance is about
00:24:09acceptability in minds.
00:24:12They are from
00:24:50America. These systems detect aircraft, drones,
00:24:54and air threats at a distance of several hundred kilometers,
00:24:57determine their path and altitude, and provide
00:25:01a real-time image of the sky to command
00:25:04centers, fighters, and air defense.
00:25:08These radars were stationed in Emirates, Bahrain,
00:25:11Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and
00:25:15Jordan. The FPS-17
00:25:193D radar
00:25:22with a range of about 450 kilometers is usually deployed as a fixed
00:25:26unit and is responsible for continuous air space surveillance.
00:25:29The TPS-78 radar with a range of about 45
00:25:33kilometers is the mobile version of this network.
00:25:37A radar that is moved to provide air cover for
00:25:40bases and operational units. The TPS-75 radar
00:25:44with a range of about 450 kilometers is
00:25:47a mobile and multi-purpose 3D system.
00:25:50In addition to detecting aircraft and drones,
00:25:54this radar is also used for guiding fighters
00:25:57and intercepting some tactical ballistic missiles.
00:26:00If two of these radars are used simultaneously and networked,
00:26:04they also provide command and control capabilities
00:26:08for the battlefield. These radars can
00:26:11detect, differentiate, and classify targets.
00:26:15They create an independent path for each target
00:26:18and determine whether it is friend or foe.
00:26:22The TPS-78 radar even has the ability
00:26:26to automatically detect and track small targets
00:26:29and drones. Alongside this network
00:26:32are the engagement radars of the Patriot missile system.
00:26:36These radars track aircraft,
00:26:39drones, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles,
00:26:43and provide the necessary information for calculating
00:26:46the shot and guiding the interceptor missile
00:26:49to the firing unit. Without these radars,
00:26:53the independent detection and engagement capability
00:26:57of the firing unit is severely impaired. By taking these
00:27:00radars offline and creating
00:27:02gaps in air cover, Iran was able to use
00:27:06them for combined missile and drone attacks.
00:27:09Reducing warning time and disrupting interception
00:27:13also increased the chances of projectiles reaching
00:27:16US bases and sensitive centers. Because when
00:27:20the field surveillance layer fails, the defensive
00:27:23network sees later, decides later,
00:27:26and reacts
00:27:28later.
00:27:47I'm a doctor and I'm a dad, and as a dad I know
00:27:50how much it costs me to fill up my gas tank. It is insane.
00:27:54$80, $80 to fill up your gas tank. And yes, I would
00:27:57support pausing the federal gas tax, but there is one thing that
00:28:01is actually causing this. It's the war in Iran, a war that has been
00:28:04cheerled by my opponent since the beginning, called it a win, win, win. I
00:28:08don't know about you, but when I go to the gas tank, I don't feel like I'm winning, I don't feel like our country is
00:28:12winning. Seven months on, eight months on, how long is this going to last?
00:28:16We can do so much better, but here's the problem, if we don't stop this
00:28:20war, we don't stop it now, we're going to continue to watch as the
00:28:23Iranian regime chokeholds the Strait of Hormuz, making our
00:28:27energy prices higher, and you're going to pay for it both at the gas tank and at the
00:28:31grocery store. "And so we've got to end that war above and beyond
00:28:35pausing the gas tax. Our ostensible ally in
00:28:39Israel has lobbied us to go to war with
00:28:43Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded, and
00:28:46then choking off the world's energy supply.
00:28:50So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part. I
00:28:54don't want to be pushed into war by Israel, and I don't want to be in a
00:28:57war with Iran. I want our money spent here to buy
00:29:01schools and healthcare and child care here. I don't understand why that
00:29:05is so inconceivable."
00:30:26Good evening. With the announcement of 12 o'clock, we will present the news of this section. The academic
00:30:30year of the university began in a ceremony attended by the President.
00:30:34The President emphasized unity and cohesion in this ceremony and
00:30:37said: "We must strive with all our might for the glory
00:30:41and honor of Iran, and rise up and not bow down to our enemies."
00:30:44Mr. Pezeshkian asked everyone to act with skill and
00:30:48determination to solve the country's problems. The President
00:30:51also made a sarcastic remark about quasi-private and loss-making
00:30:55companies, saying: "It takes skill to have billions
00:30:59in capital but incur losses."