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00:00:30we had the academic year of the university opened in a ceremony attended by the President.
00:00:33The President, at this ceremony, emphasized unity and
00:00:37solidarity, and said that we must strive with all our being for the glory
00:00:40and pride of Iran, and rise up and not bow our heads
00:00:44before enemies. Mr. Pezeshkian called on everyone to act
00:00:47with skill and determination to solve the country's problems.
00:00:51The President also made a sarcastic remark about quasi-governmental and loss-making companies and
00:00:55said: It takes skill to have several billion in capital
00:00:58but incur losses. Mr. Pezeshkian added that these companies
00:01:02have several thousand billion in capital at their disposal, they incur losses, and
00:01:06at the same time, they receive extremely high management fees of several hundred billion.
00:01:10Tomorrow we have a meeting. A
00:01:13group has been working on what we should do with these companies that we
00:01:17have at our disposal, how to hand them over. Now, the proposal that
00:01:20Mr. Doctor has given is the prelude to this work. We will invite him to come.
00:01:24Mr. Doctor Simayi should also come.
00:01:28We are determined. The companies that we have at our disposal are
00:01:31nearly 6 thousand
00:01:34billion worth of companies that are in the hands of the government or
00:01:38so-called quasi-governmental
00:01:41companies.
00:01:43That means 7 million billion Tomans
00:01:46of money, but we have problems.
00:01:50A group of people sit there and do things for themselves. Now, I don't want to say
00:01:53anything. This
00:01:57is the reality.
00:02:00We are also managing. I understand that this is not management,
00:02:03but how should we go this way? The same thing
00:02:07I said, various interventions
00:02:09are necessary.
00:02:15Mr. Pezeshkian also spoke about the price of gasoline and said that the cost of transporting
00:02:18gasoline is higher than its current supply price, but how
00:02:22we can solve this problem with the cooperation of the people and distribute the benefits
00:02:25fairly among all people is a complex
00:02:29issue. The President, in another part of his speech, spoke about
00:02:33consumption management and emphasized that measures must
00:02:36be taken regarding the consumption of groundwater. Mr. Pezeshkian called
00:02:40on students to bring Iran to the pinnacles of progress through
00:02:44effort and endeavor. Another demand of the President from universities was
00:02:48to achieve determination and will, and third and fourth
00:02:52for teenagers, which I generation universities. Mr. Pezeshkian, at this ceremony, also honored
00:02:54the top ranks of the 1405 entrance exam.
00:02:57The
00:03:00deadline for selecting fields of study for the national entrance
00:03:03exam, the national student-teacher entrance exam, and also admission based on academic
00:03:07records ends today. According to the announcement of the National
00:03:11Education Assessment Organization, this deadline will not be extended. Applicants have
00:03:14until the end of today to refer to the website of the Assessment
00:03:17Organization at sanjesh.org. Also, the guidebooks for
00:03:21selecting fields of study with corrections and new field locations
00:03:25have been published.
00:03:25Senior
00:03:29managers of technology companies in the private and public sectors of Iran and
00:03:32Russia, on the sidelines of the second World Digital Forum in Moscow, held
00:03:36the third meeting of information and communication technology of the two countries and
00:03:40discussed strategies for enhancing interactions in the field of artificial intelligence and
00:03:44ICT.
00:03:45The
00:03:49Mchta complex, located next to the Moscow River, hosted the third
00:03:53Information and Communication Technology Forum between Iran and
00:03:57Russia. A meeting attended by managers
00:04:00and activists from the public and private sectors of the two countries
00:04:03on the sidelines of the second World Digital Forum with a
00:04:07major goal, which is to provide a strategic platform
00:04:10for developing operational solutions and enhancing
00:04:14bilateral cooperation in the field of ICT and artificial
00:04:17intelligence.
00:04:21Russia and Iran have achieved significant achievements in the field of information
00:04:25and communication technologies and digital space governance.
00:04:28We have extensive opportunities for cooperation ahead
00:04:32and can effectively organize interactions, joint cooperation,
00:04:36and bilateral partnerships. Managers of 8
00:04:40Iranian technology companies and 9 corresponding Russian companies
00:04:43presented their innovative achievements in the fields of telecommunications,
00:04:46digital, application software, artificial
00:04:51RQ-170. There's a intelligence, and cybersecurity, and stated their practical proposals for developing
00:04:55cooperation. In all areas.
00:04:58In fact, there are good products in
00:05:01Iran and also good products in Russia. Now, the most
00:05:05important need of our country is to use up-to-date
00:05:08AI technologies in the industrial sector.
00:05:13Iran and Russia have extensive experience in replacing
00:05:17foreign software and electronic equipment in their
00:05:20economy. Both countries need
00:05:24a replacement. A replacement compared
00:05:27to Western products.
00:05:29Many communication tools, such as WhatsApp,
00:05:33Telegram, Instagram, and other similar foreign tools,
00:05:36have access to all our data, and this compromises the national
00:05:40security of our countries. The student, the technology cooperation
00:05:44and innovation attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
00:05:48in Russia, also read the message of our ambassador
00:05:51at this meeting. A message that emphasized
00:05:55the protection of vital and indigenous data for training artificial
00:05:59intelligence models, the development of data centers, and the enhancement
00:06:02of high computational capabilities for creating stable
00:06:06and secure high-capacity networks. This
00:06:09face-to-face meeting between Iranian and Russian
00:06:13companies hosted by Moscow
00:06:16is an important and effective step
00:06:19for drawing a roadmap for future cooperation between
00:06:23Iran and Russia, especially in the field of
00:06:26digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Seyed Ali
00:06:30Daraie, IRIB News Agency, Moscow.
00:06:3335 Turkish cyclists paid their respects
00:06:37to the martyrs of Minab. This caravan of cyclists, upon entering Zanjan,
00:06:40Our Iranian brothers
00:06:53are Muslims, and we are Muslims. Our nations are brothers. That is
00:06:57why we are here. This
00:07:00signifies our brotherhood with you and the affection
00:07:04of the Turkish people for you. A charitable organization
00:07:08and a valuable institution like this, a place like this.
00:07:11A few
00:07:23foreign news items: A member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that military presence in West Asia should be reviewed
00:07:27because military bases in this region are easy and defenseless
00:07:31targets for the Iranians. Chris Murphy added that these bases
00:07:35do not protect us because as soon as a war starts, they will be immediately
00:07:38taken out of commission. Murphy, who is one of the potential Democratic candidates
00:07:42in the upcoming US presidential election, described the damage
00:07:46to the US embassy building during his recent trip to West Asia
00:07:50as significant. The member of the US
00:07:53Senate Foreign Relations Committee also considered waging war against Iran a
00:07:57national humiliation for the US and criticized the Pentagon
00:08:01for not allowing him and his accompanying delegation to visit
00:08:04Al Udeid Air Base.
00:08:05Major
00:08:08oil companies around the world have withdrawn from attending the international
00:08:12energy conference in Riyadh. Reuters
00:08:15reported that security concerns and flight disruptions
00:08:19have led to senior officials of major
00:08:23global oil companies canceling their plans to attend the Riyadh
00:08:26conference. Most recently, British Petroleum
00:08:29announced that due to attacks on Riyadh
00:08:33International Airport, they would not be able to attend
00:08:36the conference. Previously, ExxonMobil, Total,
00:08:39and Shell had also withdrawn from participating
00:08:42in this conference. The five-day international energy conference
00:08:46has been held since yesterday 10 kilometers from Riyadh Airport.
00:08:50The recent Yemeni missile attack on Riyadh Airport, which was in response to Saudi
00:08:53attacks, has left at least 13 dead and hundreds
00:08:57injured. The
00:09:00Israeli regime army announced the injury of one of its soldiers
00:09:04in southern Lebanon. This Israeli regime soldier was injured as a
00:09:08result of ammunition exploding inside a tank during an operation
00:09:11in the Bufar area in southern Lebanon. The spokesman for
00:09:15the occupying army had also announced a few days ago the death of an
00:09:18officer and the injury of 3 soldiers in southern
00:09:21Lebanon.
00:09:24The US President threatened Ukraine that if attacks on
00:09:28Russian energy facilities continue, intelligence assistance to
00:09:32Kiev would be cut off. Trump also warned that if
00:09:35these attacks continue, arms sales to European
00:09:39countries for shipment to Ukraine would be stopped. Meanwhile,
00:09:43Trump has called for the resignation of Ukrainian President Zelensky.
00:09:46The US President claimed an energy ceasefire between
00:09:50Russia and Ukraine to protect the energy facilities of the two
00:09:54countries, a matter about which Zelensky has claimed ignorance.
00:09:58At the same time, the Ukrainian President and some European officials
00:10:01emphasized that the increase in fuel prices in the US and globally
00:10:05has no connection to Ukraine, and the reason for it is the closure of the Strait
00:10:09of Hormuz. Thank you for your company.
00:10:38three years later in 2014, Iran unveiled
00:10:42an aircraft as the result of reverse engineering work
00:10:45conducted on the American drone. Initially, a lot of Western analysts
00:10:49were skeptical. Looking similar to an RQ-170 doesn't mean
00:10:53matching the RQ-170's actual abilities, but what happened
00:10:56afterward made the program much harder to dismiss: Iran didn't simply
00:11:00create one display model and move on, there were larger versions associated
00:11:04with the Shahed 171 and smaller aircraft such as the
00:11:08Shahed 161 and Shahed 191 family.
00:11:12Iranian engineers experimented with different propulsion systems as
00:11:15well, and the important point wasn't whether any one of those aircraft was
00:11:19an exact technological duplicate of the Sentinel, it was that Iran
00:11:23had absorbed enough from the aircraft
00:11:25to start experimenting and even improving the drone's design.
00:11:29The American RQ-170 had been designed primarily to collect
00:11:32intelligence. Iranian lineage increasingly included
00:11:35aircraft built to attack things. Iran's military
00:11:39strategy has always been constrained by geography and
00:11:42conventional military weakness. United States had bases throughout
00:11:46the region, Israel possessed a technologically advanced air force.
00:11:50Gulf states were buying enormous quantities of Western weapons.
00:11:53Iran had partners instead, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the
00:11:57Palestinian resistance in Gaza, Shia militias in
00:12:01Iraq, and Ansarullah in Yemen. Drones fit
00:12:04naturally into this network. They were relatively
00:12:07inexpensive compared with combat aircraft, easier to conceal,
00:12:10easier to move, and could allow armed groups without any real air
00:12:14force to suddenly possess a form of long-range air
00:12:17power. By the early 2020s, Iranian drones, designs or
00:12:21components had appeared across the Middle East. This is one of the most
00:12:25important transitions in our whole story: a militia that can never
00:12:29afford a fleet of modern combat aircraft could now launch
00:12:32an unmanned system toward a military base, oil facility
00:12:36or naval asset, and no Iranian drone would demonstrate that idea more
00:12:40clearly than the Shahed 136.
00:12:43Shahed 136 isn't impressive because it's
00:12:46extraordinarily sophisticated, the importance comes from almost the
00:12:50opposite quality. It's just simple enough, a relatively
00:12:53small engine pushes an inexpensive airframe across
00:12:57a very long distance. The aircraft carries an explosive
00:13:00payload and it's not designed to return. That means there is no need
00:13:04to build an expensive recovery system because there
00:13:07will be no recovery. And that simplicity changes the economics
00:13:11of air warfare. Think about the problem from the defender's perspective:
00:13:15a cheap drone is approaching your airbase. You may know that it's
00:13:19relatively primitive. That doesn't mean you can ignore it, because if it hits a
00:13:22radar station, a fuel storage facility, electrical
00:13:25substation or even a parked aircraft, the damage will vastly
00:13:29exceed the price of the drone itself, so you have to stop it.
00:13:32Now imagine the missile used to stop it cost many more times than the
00:13:36attacking aircraft. You've successfully defended your target,
00:13:39but the attackers force you into an expensive exchange,
00:13:43then another drone appears, then another, then 20,
00:13:4650, 300, perhaps the drones are only the first
00:13:50wave of the attack. Forcing radars and air defense crews to react before
00:13:54faster missiles and eventually ballistic missiles
00:13:57arrive. The idea would soon be tested on an enormous
00:14:00scale in Europe. This drone has become part of an international
00:14:04feedback loop, and while this is happening, Iran itself is
00:14:07preparing to demonstrate what mass drone warfare looks like at
00:14:11their national level. On the night of April 13th,
00:14:142024, Iran had launched its first large direct attack
00:14:18against Israel from Iranian territory. The attack was
00:14:21unusual, not only because of its scale, but because of the way different
00:14:25weapons were combined. The drones were launched first, cruise
00:14:29missiles then followed, last came ballistic missiles traveling
00:14:32dramatically faster. The timing meant different kinds of weapons could
00:14:36converge on the defended area within a more concentrated
00:14:39period. Roughly 170 drones were involved in the initial
00:14:43attack, alongside dozens of cruise missiles and more than 100
00:14:47ballistic missiles. From the perspective of Iran's drone program, the event
00:14:50represented something extraordinary. The drone was no
00:14:53longer a substitute, used because Iran had run out of better options,
00:14:57it had become part of Iran's core way of fighting. In April
00:15:012026, US Central Command released footage showing a
00:15:04strike against an Iranian flying wing UAV
00:15:08on the ground. Aviation analysts identified the aircraft as
00:15:11belonging to the family Iran had developed from the captured
00:15:16remarkable symmetry in that moment, but during the same
00:15:19conflict, an even stranger reversal was taking
00:15:22place. For decades, American
00:15:25drone development largely moved toward greater
00:15:27sophistication, advanced sensors, satellite
00:15:30communications, long endurance and increasingly expensive platforms
00:15:34in the Russia-Ukraine war demonstrated the value of cheap
00:15:37aircraft that could be lost in enormous numbers, that lesson spread
00:15:41rapidly through militaries around the world, and in
00:15:432025, the Pentagon unveiled the
00:15:46Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System or
00:15:50LUCAS drone. By March 2026, Reuters reported that
00:15:53the US had already used LUCAS in combat against
00:15:56Iran, only months after the system was publicly unveiled. The
00:16:00aircraft cost roughly $35,000, and it
00:16:03belongs to the same category of long-range expendable drone
00:16:07popularized by the Shahed. The United States' LUCAS drone
00:16:11was developed after the US obtained an Iranian-designed Shahed
00:16:14136 and reverse-engineered the aircraft.
00:16:18Effectively taking Iran's own low-cost drone technology and
00:16:22turning it into an American weapon. Now the United States was doing something
00:16:25remarkably similar to what Iran had done with the RQ-170
00:16:2915 years earlier, taking an adversary's aircraft,
00:16:33studying it, learning from it and building a version of its own. No one had
00:16:37on the idea anymore. We shouldn't forget that the
00:16:40United States' downed RQ-170 drone
00:16:43didn't create Iran's drone program, it accelerated it. By
00:16:472011, Iranian engineers had decades of drone development
00:16:51behind them. The Sentinel arrived at the exact moment when Iran had
00:16:54an industry mature enough to exploit it. By 2026,
00:16:58Iran's drones were no longer primarily interesting because they
00:17:01were Iranian, they were interesting because the ideas behind them had
00:17:05become global. Cheap drones were changing how militaries thought about air
00:17:09defense, mass production was changing how commanders calculated
00:17:13the value of interceptors, commercial electronics were changing
00:17:16who could build long-range weapons and electronic warfare was
00:17:19changing how drones navigated. The cycle of copying, adapting and
00:17:23improving had become international, and all of this makes the scene in
00:17:27December of 2011 look very different in
00:17:30hindsight. Back in Nevada, the operators saw their feed disappear
00:17:34and understood that they had lost a drone, but in Iran, engineers
00:17:37looked at that same event and saw an opportunity. 15 years
00:17:41later, we're still watching the consequences fly.
00:18:02In the name of God, hello. At the beginning of the program, we will
00:18:05visit the Book of the Week.
00:18:11This time, Iranian writers narrated the 40-day war with
00:18:1540 enduring works.
00:18:17A
00:18:24narration of the moment when a nation experienced a great
00:18:27tragedy.
00:18:31We lost our leader during
00:18:34a war in the form of martyrdom, in the first
00:18:38moments. It was a historical moment.
00:18:41We went to writers who are knowledgeable
00:18:44and insightful in this field. Some of these narratives took shape in homes,
00:18:48neighborhoods, and among the people. Each
00:18:51book is a part of a collective memory. The empathy
00:18:55and cooperation of the people during the Ramadan War, for example, they brought
00:18:58food and provisions to the checkpoints. Popular narratives that, during
00:19:02the imposed war, themselves became a part of
00:19:05the history of this land. Narratives of nights when people went
00:19:09to the square, of martyrs who sacrificed
00:19:11themselves in this path.
00:19:16Ahmad Askari, IRIB News Agency.
00:19:30Mr. Hossein Golestani, Manager of International Publishing,
00:19:33is our guest today. Hello and welcome to the
00:19:37Book Program. I hope you have a good week. Thank you.
00:19:41Mr. Golestani, please allow me to start by asking about the name of your
00:19:45publishing house. International Printing and Publishing. This question arises
00:19:48as to how much international presence your works have had and how much
00:19:52you have focused on international book markets. Yes, Blal Publishing Company
00:19:55is one of the relatively old
00:19:59collections in our country, which started
00:20:02its work in the 1980s and is still active. During a period in the 1990s
00:20:06and after the 2000s, we translated Qurans into various
00:20:09languages such as Chinese, Russian, and French, and some Latin books
00:20:13from Persian into different languages. In the 2000s,
00:20:17the work process changed. It entered, for example, the space of
00:20:21the resistance front, and now we are also active in the same path of the resistance
00:20:24front, and we are translating books from various languages
00:20:28into Persian, and we are trying to also translate from Persian into
00:20:31various languages, God willing. Excellent. Well,
00:20:35I saw two books in your list of books: one titled "The Way to
00:20:39Heaven," in which Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah drew inspiration from
00:20:43Imam Khomeini's book "Adab al-Salat" and held ethical sessions. There is also
00:20:46a book titled "The Battle with Me," which he also
00:20:50drew inspiration from Imam Khomeini's book "40 Hadiths." These books
00:20:53have a few common chapters. In fact, first
00:20:57of all, we see the connection of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah with Imam Khomeini,
00:21:01and then the religious aspects of the book. If possible,
00:21:04please tell us what kind of perspective your publishing
00:21:08house has pursued, and what extra-textual point we can say
00:21:11about Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah himself, who drew inspiration from Imam
00:21:15Khomeini. You see, after the martyrdom of Seyyed Hassan
00:21:18Nasrallah, we had a lot
00:21:50of Imam Khomeini's Hadiths, peace be upon him, which Martyr Nasrallah explains to his
00:21:53audience. It's a very concise and student-friendly
00:21:56book that helps make the texts very fluent. The second three sessions are also the book
00:22:00"The Path to Heaven," which is an explanation of Imam
00:22:03Khomeini's book "Adab al-Salat," peace be upon him. This collection
00:22:07is expected to continue for almost 50 volumes, God willing,
00:22:10and various topics will be covered. It will continue for 50 volumes. Yes, the name
00:22:14of this collection was also from the spiritual journey of Imam Khomeini, which was held
00:22:18in Lebanon itself,
00:22:20and it was all based on the ethical works
00:22:23of the late Imam Khomeini, peace be upon him, on which Martyr Nasrallah focused
00:22:26his work.
00:22:32Seyyed Rouhollah Musavi Khomeini is someone
00:22:36who brought religion
00:22:39from the margins of
00:22:42history to the center. Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, in my opinion,
00:22:44we can understand this kind of infatuation
00:22:48with Imam Khomeini in those moments when he recounts his
00:22:52memory of the demise of Imam Khomeini. He says that we were more bewildered
00:22:56than you were in Iran.
00:22:59In any case, given that International
00:23:03Printing and Publishing indeed pursues religious
00:23:06aspects in its works, what does this book itself show
00:23:10us? And at the same time, you are focused
00:23:13on another kind of perspective in religious texts. Martyr
00:23:16Dialameh had a saying, he used to say that
00:23:20Imam's shouts—now I'm paraphrasing—Imam's shouts against arrogance
00:23:24were the result of his humility and devotion in his night prayers.
00:23:27Practical and ethical mysticism that leads
00:23:30to the rejection of arrogance, that leads to the rejection
00:23:34of tyranny, has been and is one of our main foundations.
00:23:37What we have in this collection is
00:23:41this approach, that in fact, Martyr Nasrallah does not have
00:23:44a purely ethical, secluded, ascetic approach. He has
00:23:47a completely practical approach and wants to turn
00:23:51the ethical aspect of religion into the rejection of tyranny,
00:23:54the rejection of arrogance. That is, in the first volume of the book, we encounter
00:23:57Martyr Nasrallah talking about Satan, describing the characteristics of Satan,
00:24:01and saying that this great Satan is America, Satan is Israel, which comes
00:24:05and kills children, comes and commits genocide. This aspect makes
00:24:08the resistance forces and the children of the resistance strive
00:24:12to achieve their religious goals against arrogance and oppression,
00:24:15which was one of the main indicators of this collection and these statements of Martyr Nasrallah.
00:24:21After this week, you also had a launching ceremony for a book titled
00:24:25"Qiyam Lillahi" (Rise for God). Yes, yes, you have this book
00:24:29now. Yes, the book "Qiyam Lillahi" is a collection of speeches by Mr.
00:24:32Mojtaba Arab at Amirkabir University of Technology, which he had with
00:24:36students. This book focuses on the issue of
00:24:39rising, a rising that is accompanied by action. It's a very
00:24:41serious and very profound
00:24:44book that helps all young people and students
00:24:48who are at the beginning of their path to better understand
00:24:52this path, better understand the thoughts of Imam Khomeini and
00:24:55our martyred leader, and be able to take steps
00:24:59in this direction. Thank you very much. Our colleagues have prepared a report
00:25:03on this book, which, if you agree, we will watch together.
00:25:06A report on the book
00:25:08"Qiyam Lillahi."
00:25:15"One must rise" is the keyword of the book "Qiyam
00:25:19Lillahi." The divinely appointed nation after
00:25:22the Ramadan War symbolizes responsible people in the special
00:25:25conditions of today's Iran who acted upon "Qiyam Lillahi."
00:25:29The book "Qiyam Lillahi" first addresses an important
00:25:33issue: how we can, in short, pursue divine goals
00:25:36in our lives and in our society. It has examined
00:25:40its harms and related issues. One of the good features
00:25:44of the book is its movement between principles and instances. That is,
00:25:47you don't have an excess of principles in this book, nor do you only have a discussion
00:25:51of politics. It constantly moves back and forth between principles and instances.
00:25:54The book "Qiyam Lillahi" introduces the revolutionary lifestyle
00:25:58to young readers. This book, especially for the young generation,
00:26:02will, God willing, be a bridge for intellectual
00:26:05coherence and for reaching solutions
00:26:09for practical action to grasp the concept
00:26:12of uprising, intention, spirituality, justice, rationality, and to extract
00:26:16a series of concepts from expectations. And also for the dear
00:26:20appointed people, what should be done in such a field, despite these hardships,
00:26:23despite obstacles, despite the enemy, and how each of us
00:26:27can fulfill our duty. Ahmad Aminfard, IRIB News Agency.
00:26:30Mr.
00:26:37Hossein Golestani, CEO of International Printing and Publishing, is the guest
00:26:40of the Book of the Week program. Mr. Golestani, please tell us about your other works.
00:26:44The book "Ham Bavaran" is one of the prominent works
00:26:48that in fact pursues a new topic. If possible, please explain
00:26:52this work as well. Dr. Khamyar was a cultural attaché
00:26:55in Lebanon for more than 20 years. We had a conversation with him. He was
00:26:59kind enough to agree to provide us with direct
00:27:02narratives and direct conversations with 16 Christian literary figures.
00:27:06This resulted in the book "Ham Bavaran" and the conversations we
00:27:10had with him. The book contains 16 narratives from 16
00:27:13great Christian figures, from George Jaragh, with
00:27:17whom he directly spoke, visited his house, and conversed
00:27:20with, to other figures of Christianity in Lebanon.
00:27:24The main point of this book is that all these 16 noble
00:27:27individuals with whom Mr. Khamyar conversed, and whose narratives
00:27:31he wrote about, are described
00:27:34on the cover of the book as "lovers of Ahl al-Bayt and
00:27:37admirers of Iran." And this was
00:27:40a very strong and very important winning card for this book,
00:27:44which, thank God, managed to achieve a very good position both
00:27:47in Iran and in various other countries. It is also available in the market now.
00:27:50It is possible to prepare, as you mentioned, this book is written by Mr.
00:27:54Abbas Khamehyan. We had a conversation with him about
00:27:58this book, and if you agree, we will watch this interview together.
00:28:01میبینیم.
00:28:07Since my teenage years,
00:28:10I have heard the name Giorgia. A great
00:28:13Christian scholar who wrote 7 volumes about Imam Ali.
00:28:17Fate led me to become a cultural attaché
00:28:21of Iran in Lebanon and
00:28:23some of these Arab countries, and I got to know him. I discovered
00:28:27that it's not just one person. There are dozens of
00:28:30Georgias. In this book, I became relatively
00:28:33familiar with 15 people
00:28:37who were at the level of Georgias.
00:28:41I lived with them and wrote down my experiences
00:28:44with them.
00:28:45کردم
00:28:49Mr. Golestani, International Publications also has a series of books
00:28:54am seeing here now. My Sneakers of Kookam, if possible,
00:28:58please introduce this book and explain
00:29:01what made you enter the field of young adult literature. My Sneakers
00:29:05is a narrative of the first days of the imposed
00:29:09war in the villages of Abadan. We have
00:29:12several Arab and non-Arab teenagers in this book who are busy with
00:29:16their lives. A very serious point
00:29:20from this book that is relevant to these days and has deeply affected
00:29:23us is that teenagers
00:29:27enter the defense of their neighborhood, they enter the defense of
00:29:30their living area, and
00:29:32they take control of the field. Something that we really need these days,
00:29:36and it has caused the teenagers to understand
00:29:40that this logic of defense of the field and defense of the neighborhood
00:29:43has existed since ancient times, and we still need it now. Yes, if we want to summarize
00:29:47your books, for example, I see
00:29:51the book "Zabur-e Moghavemat" (Psalms of Resistance). I see books in the field of children's and
00:29:54young adult literature. I see religious books. This categorization
00:29:58is in our view as the audience of your works.
00:30:02What axes does the publishing house actually emphasize more
00:30:05that we don't know and would like to hear from you? You see,
00:30:09we can actually divide it into two sections.
00:30:13There is a common thematic system, but I want to talk about two general sections.
00:30:16A part of the books that we are designing and producing
00:30:20are our foundational and intellectual books, which are, so to speak,
00:30:24needed in society by researchers
00:30:27and specialists who want to refer to them and read them. A large
00:30:31and essential part that we are engaged in and working on
00:30:35is to transform these scientific concepts and foundational topics
00:30:38into the language of the general society, to
00:30:41actually bring them closer to public
00:30:45understanding. In this area, when we want to enter, the space
00:30:48of literature and fiction and the space of narration becomes very prominent,
00:30:52it gains a lot of priority, and all our efforts are to
00:30:55be able to transform those topics and main principles into, in
00:30:58fact, language.