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00:00:00he faces a calm atmosphere in both the House of Representatives and the
00:00:03Senate, and he needs a calm atmosphere to be able
00:00:07to pass. Israel needs a tense atmosphere.
00:00:11It needs an increase in tension. This has created a contradiction
00:00:14in this space, just as you see a major
00:00:18contradiction today in the behavior of Americans and Europeans regarding
00:00:22Ukraine. On the one hand, Americans are trying to lower the
00:00:26flames in Ukraine, and on the other hand, just today, they
00:00:31announced 300 new sanctions against Russia. This shows
00:00:34how much distance there is between positions and
00:00:38how much tension and trouble there is. What is this due
00:00:41to? It is due to the defeat of the Westerners
00:00:45in the Ukraine case. They were defeated and could not
00:00:48do anything for Ukraine, and also in the case of the
00:00:52Iran war. These defeats have caused them
00:00:56to be in disarray and engaged, and
00:01:00all of them have become weaker and are moving towards
00:01:03more weakness, and the world is concerned about another incident.
00:01:07It is now said that the situation in Bab al-Mandab is merely a sanction
00:01:10on the movement of Saudi vessels. Bab al-Mandab, unlike the Strait
00:01:14of Hormuz, is not closed. Traffic is happening, but now, for
00:01:17Saudi Arabia, the concern is that today, in the news and media
00:01:21and analyses, it is said that if the Americans commit
00:01:25another attack on Iran, the first
00:01:28action will be that Bab al-Mandab will also suffer the fate of the Strait
00:01:32of Hormuz. Then, this energy situation, where the price of
00:01:36oil has increased somewhat today, will go up exponentially,
00:01:40and the world will truly not be able to tolerate
00:01:43this situation. This is absolutely correct. That is, this concern
00:01:46is a significant and valid concern.
00:01:50The Yemeni resistance has shown
00:01:53that it will not remain
00:01:57silent in the face of war against its ally, whether
00:02:00this war is in Gaza, or in Lebanon, or in Iran.
00:02:04And
00:02:06the Americans know that the Iranians,
00:02:10in order to win a war, if it were
00:02:13to start, would use all their capacity this time,
00:02:16both in terms of weaponry
00:02:20and in terms of strategic decisions, like what Mr.
00:02:24Rezaei said in his interview about fiber and these
00:02:28facilities related to artificial intelligence and the internet,
00:02:31which he brought up, which terrified
00:02:34the Westerners, both in terms of using the geography
00:02:38and geographical points of Iran. It uses all of these
00:02:42to be able to end the war in the shortest possible time and with
00:02:46absolute victory, and with the acceptance of its victory
00:02:49by the Americans and others,
00:02:53and to end the war in the region forever.
00:02:56And now, how do you analyze the situation of the
00:03:00Strait of Hormuz, Mr. Zaree?
00:03:03Especially these clashes of the past few days and these super
00:03:06vessels that were targeted, how much has it been able
00:03:10to change the situation in the Strait of Hormuz? What is the situation now
00:03:13in the Strait of Hormuz? The Strait of Hormuz has become a great
00:03:17experience that when the Americans
00:03:21play a foolish game and try,
00:03:25as Sardar Rezaei put it, through smuggling,
00:03:29to break Iran's authority in the Strait
00:03:32of Hormuz and be able
00:03:36to save the oil market to some extent,
00:03:39Iran takes the initiative here.
00:03:43For a while, Iran
00:03:46did not really care about Emirati and Saudi
00:03:49tankers. It didn't
00:03:52create many restrictions for them,
00:03:55for reasons that were also justified.
00:03:58But when it saw that they were
00:04:02abusing this patience, Iran
00:04:06started attacking Emirati oil
00:04:09tankers two days ago, and the Saudis
00:04:13will not be left out. Within two
00:04:17days, three Emirati-Saudi supertankers
00:04:19were hit around the Strait of Hormuz.
00:04:23The hits are reaching the Ras al-Khaimah
00:04:27and Fujairah areas, meaning
00:04:30in the Gulf of Oman, near the Arabian Sea.
00:04:33On this side, in the Persian Gulf,
00:04:37hits are occurring. After periods
00:04:40when there were no incidents here,
00:04:43ships have been facing mine hits
00:04:47for the past few days. This shows
00:04:50that the tables have turned, and
00:04:54Iran's patience has run out, and Iran
00:04:57has gradually started an escalating
00:05:00pressure against Americans and
00:05:04America's agents. These escalations
00:05:07are the result of American foolishness,
00:05:10just as the escalation of the war
00:05:12in Yemen
00:05:15I'm sorry, is the product of Saudi
00:05:19foolishness. Otherwise, Saudi Arabia and Yemenis
00:05:23had no desire to escalate, and Iran had no desire
00:05:26to escalate. When they act foolishly,
00:05:30it backfires on them, and the more
00:05:33they resist Iran's rightful demands,
00:05:37the more difficult
00:05:39it will become. The
00:06:05letter, of course, explicitly mentions the cessation of the Gaza war and the cessation
00:06:08of the Yemen war. Previously, it was mentioned generally.
00:06:12Now it has been explicitly stated, and the nuclear
00:06:15issue has been removed from the file.
00:06:18Iran's letter has some specificities,
00:06:22but the main part is the Islamabad Memorandum. So, what was
00:06:25the Americans' answer? They gave a rude answer
00:06:29to Iran's letter. Well, when they give
00:06:33a rude answer, Iran
00:06:35is not waiting for this issue. Iran is not weak.
00:06:39The day Iran accepted America's request
00:06:42for a ceasefire on April 8th, it was
00:06:46not in a position of weakness. Well, the sign of this
00:06:49is that Iran did not request a ceasefire, and
00:06:52in fact, in the last days, the
00:06:56pressure of Iran on American military forces has
00:07:00increased. So, we were not in a position of weakness. Very
00:07:04well, now we wanted the war to end. The Americans
00:07:07played dirty, and it will be to their detriment because
00:07:11we have levers of power. and we
00:07:14can gradually
00:07:16increase our pressures in various
00:07:20dimensions on America and America's agents, and
00:07:23force them
00:07:26in a weaker situation to
00:07:30accept our rights. Then, at that time,
00:07:33certainly, our demands will no longer be the demands
00:07:37of Islamabad. As Mr. Baghaei, the spokesman
00:07:40of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "Yes, we
00:07:42are negotiating, but we will not go back to square
00:07:46one. We will not go back." The more they delay,
00:07:49the harder it will become. The number of
00:07:53our demands will increase, just as it has increased now. Regarding
00:07:57Iran's announcement that, as you said, the Americans' response was rude, Iran announced
00:08:01that a sufficient response had not been given
00:08:04to the seven conditions. Do you know exactly
00:08:08what the points of difference are now? You see,
00:08:10the points of difference are much more
00:08:14than the points of agreement here.
00:08:17Well, Iran has demanded
00:08:20a ceasefire. The Americans have
00:08:23prevented a ceasefire and also the lifting
00:08:27of the siege, in terms of
00:08:30nuclear issues, we should agree to what they want,
00:08:33which is to return the issue to before the war, not even
00:08:37the Islamabad negotiations. That is,
00:08:40the gap has widened. The American
00:08:42response to Iran's letter has
00:08:46greatly widened the gap between us and America
00:08:50and between us and the agreement. Well, when this
00:08:53gap widens, what happens next? The military
00:08:57element comes into play, and now they will see who
00:09:00gets hurt the most here.
00:09:03And these
00:09:07days, there's a lot of talk about elections, the fifth of
00:09:10Aban, also elections.
00:09:18To increase tension in the region, especially attacks against
00:09:21Iran, how much do these elections and these
00:09:25two crucial dates determine, and do Americans really
00:09:28analyze and decide based on this, or not?
00:09:32This could be part of the story
00:09:35and analysis. From the behavior of the US government,
00:09:38we understand that the Americans have designed
00:09:42a combined operation for a period of approximately
00:09:469 months, which started in early
00:09:49September with that
00:09:52economic operation that Basant
00:09:55announced there. Since then,
00:09:59they started from early September, a
00:10:029-month period until the end
00:10:05of next May. They have in their
00:10:07plan that we must do two or three things:
00:10:11one, increase economic pressure.
00:10:14Two, we must wait
00:10:17for these economic pressures to affect Iranian society
00:10:21and create social unrest.
00:10:25And three, that we can, through
00:10:29security measures,
00:10:31disrupt the internal situation of Iran, something they are
00:10:35currently doing in Pakistan with the leadership
00:10:38of the UAE. The Emiratis should know
00:10:42that we know that the UAE is
00:10:45leading the incitement in our border
00:10:49region in Sistan and Baluchestan, and in
00:10:51the intense events that occurred in this province
00:10:55these days, the assassinations that took place, and what they are
00:10:58doing in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
00:11:01They are doing this to be able to bring
00:11:05security measures into Iranian cities,
00:11:08especially the capital, and then bring
00:11:12these economic pressures to the point of unrest,
00:11:16and finally, when these and
00:11:19also, they are looking at political differences
00:11:23among the bodies of the Islamic Republic, to create discord.
00:11:26The government's influence in society should decrease. These
00:11:30actions that some do in the name of revolutionary
00:11:34zeal to weaken the government are part of America's plan
00:11:38to weaken the authority of the government, including the government, within
00:11:41Iranian society. The political
00:11:44sector is also in disarray, and the social sector is engaged.
00:11:48On one hand, terrorist operations, on the other hand, street riots,
00:11:52and finally, a military strike will finish the job.
00:11:55This is what they have planned, but this
00:11:58is naive in our opinion. Why do we say it is naive?
00:12:01One, with this warm presence of people in
00:12:04the streets, the possibility of street riots
00:12:08has almost approached zero, and the continuation of this
00:12:12presence shows that the atmosphere indicates that this
00:12:15will continue. The people will not give up and understand
00:12:19their role in this scene. On the other
00:12:22hand, these armed counter-revolutionary groups, whether
00:12:26in the southeastern region or in the northwest,
00:12:29are under heavy attack
00:12:33from our armed forces and our security forces every day.
00:12:36We will not allow them to make any significant
00:12:40inroads, and also, for that plan
00:12:43that Basant said about continuing economic pressure progressively,
00:12:47we have a plan, just as in the past
00:12:5110 days, Basant also gave
00:12:53an ultimatum. We witnessed
00:12:57more calm in the economic sphere. That period
00:13:00is over, its time is up, and
00:13:04the Islamic Republic truly has an economic design
00:13:08to prevent what they have in mind from happening,
00:13:11and that the Americans thought that with four
00:13:15diplomatic trips and four statements,
00:13:18they could bring the land, air, and
00:13:22sea blockade of Iran to a point where Iran would be locked down.
00:13:26This is absolutely not possible. Our north is open
00:13:29to Iran. Just a few days ago, the President traveled
00:13:33and met with officials there. We have warm relations with Iraq.
00:13:36We have relations with Turkey, with Pakistan,
00:13:40with Afghanistan. In the south, we still
00:13:44have traffic despite American pressure in Iraq.
00:13:48We have traffic, and this is not something they will succeed
00:13:51in. But you asked, and I explained that they have
00:13:55taken a combined approach in economic,
00:13:57military, political, security,
00:14:01and social fields,
00:14:04hoping to achieve something by May. Now,
00:14:08my question, we only have two minutes. My question was
00:14:11whether the elections
00:14:14are influential, meaning, for example, if Netanyahu's coalition
00:14:17loses in the Knesset elections, Netanyahu
00:14:20loses his political life altogether, or if the Republican
00:14:24Congress loses in the elections
00:14:27and Trump is even impeached, meaning things that are predicted
00:14:31might happen, are these really influential in the
00:14:35war? If the war, for example, is to happen after the elections,
00:14:39or if, as they say, for a surprise,
00:14:42it might happen before, specifically, the election date,
00:14:46I want to know how much it can actually be a basis for analysis.
00:14:50In my opinion, almost nothing. It has no effect
00:14:53on our situation or America's.
00:14:57Why? Because winning this war
00:15:00is vital for the Americans, for the Westerners, for the Zionist
00:15:03regime, for our southern Gulf
00:15:07countries. It is a vital issue.
00:15:10That is, it doesn't matter if it's Democrats or Republicans.
00:15:13It doesn't matter if it's the
00:15:16Likud party or another party there.
00:15:20Whether it's Netanyahu or Eisenkot,
00:15:24winning the war against Iran is vital for all of them. And therefore,
00:15:28as long as they can, whether it's Trump or
00:15:31someone else, whether it's Netanyahu or Eisenkot,
00:15:34the fact that they are motivated
00:15:38to resist defeat from Iran will continue.
00:15:42However, with God's help, the further they go,
00:15:45the more disorganized their situation becomes, and their desperation
00:15:49increases, just as right now, compared to two months ago, they are very
00:15:52desperate. This steadfastness of the Iranian
00:15:56nation will destroy their cohesion, and ultimately,
00:15:59all of them will be forced to accept what they don't want
00:16:03easily in a difficult situation.
00:16:07I hope
00:16:17you found tonight's analysis useful. Good night and goodbye.
00:16:55If you are a woman, you can with all your strength and
00:16:58feminine power move the world in a direction where
00:17:02you are both a mother and a lover of your
00:17:05homeland. You just need to swear
00:17:09to God's greatness so that he grants
00:17:12you the success of selfless service in every fiber
00:17:16of your being. Yes, sometimes you are chosen
00:17:19to be a hero, to shine like
00:17:22a light across this world,
00:17:26and to be the solace of needy children.
00:17:29Martyr Eftekhar, what covenant
00:17:32did you make with your God that you continued your
00:17:36mission of motherhood with such immense love
00:17:39and courage to the heavens?
00:17:42Let me continue with the moments
00:17:45when we were getting closer to the heavens, step
00:17:49by step, welcomed by angels.
00:17:51That was the moment when you were close
00:17:53to the people in public gatherings,
00:17:57when you were with the people. The moment
00:18:01you embraced the children of this land
00:18:04tightly in your motherly arms.
00:18:07The moment you sacrificed yourself so that a needy
00:18:11child would not cry, and
00:18:14those moments when you were a listening
00:18:17ear to the pains of your fellow
00:18:20citizens, and finally, in the position
00:18:24of Cultural and Social Deputy of the
00:18:27Provincial Police Command of Sistan and Baluchestan,
00:18:31you earned the seal and signature of martyrdom.
00:18:34کردیم.
00:19:07The absence of a father should not hinder their education,
00:19:11showing that you no longer belong
00:19:14to this earth, and how beautiful it
00:19:17is to return to your God's embrace
00:19:21by the hands of the worst and lowest.
00:19:24She was someone
00:19:28who was with the people. She was of the people. Her concerns
00:19:32were cultural and social issues and attention to
00:19:35colleagues and people.
00:20:17She dedicated her entire life to efforts and revitalization of social activities
00:20:20and communication between tribes and people,
00:20:24social participation, and public education.
00:20:27And today, we are proud to see the name of this
00:20:31doctor, who was indeed a leader in terms
00:20:34of knowledge
00:20:36and beliefs and thoughts for all of us,
00:20:40and was well-known, on the
00:20:43forehead of the police organization, and
00:20:46we hope to be able to continue her path.
00:20:50Fridays are always the promise of true
00:20:53lovers, and you beautifully fulfilled
00:20:57the divine promise to embark on an eternal journey
00:21:01as the guest of the Master of Martyrs, Imam
00:21:05Hussein (peace be upon him),
00:21:07to remain forever
00:21:11in our hearts.
00:21:14و قلب
00:21:16Congratulations
00:21:42on your martyrdom, O glorious woman
00:21:45of Iran.
00:21:47ایران.
00:23:32It's not like uh Hamas attacked on
00:23:35October 7th because there were just a bunch of anti-semites who
00:23:39hated Jews and wanted to kill Jews. This is not
00:23:43Nazi Germany, right? This is directly related
00:23:46to the occupation and to what was going on in. side of
00:23:50Gaza, and it's not in Israel's interest or the lobby's
00:23:54interest to have an open discourse about what the
00:23:57Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians, since I
00:24:00would say roughly 1903 when the second
00:24:03Aliah came to Israel or came to what was
00:24:06then Palestine, right? we want to talk
00:24:09about that, and we don't want to talk about from the lobby's point
00:24:13of view, the influence that the lobby has,
00:24:16right? it's better from the lobby's point of view. if most
00:24:20americans think that uh American support of
00:24:24Israel is just done for all the right moral and strategic
00:24:27reasons, not because of the lobby, and when John Mirschermer and Steve Walt
00:24:31come along and say you have to understand that this special
00:24:34relationship is due in large part to the lobby's
00:24:38influence, that is not an argument that people
00:24:42in the lobby want to hear, people in the lobby understand that if you have an open
00:24:45discourse Israel will end up looking very bad,
00:24:49right? you don't want to... about the occupation, you don't want to talk
00:24:52about how Israel was created, right? i think the
00:24:55israelis are doing in
00:24:58gaza represents massacre, i would
00:25:02use that term, given the number of civilians that they've killed,
00:25:06and the fact that they've been indiscriminate in terms of how they've been
00:25:10bombing gaza, and i believe that's to be condemned, the
00:25:14killing of civilians,
00:25:16this is not legitimate collateral damage, they're direct.
00:25:37Why does Nature magazine say the Australian fires are the work of the British?
00:25:40A multi-year case that was handed over to different
00:25:44detectives after the police failed. Melbourne
00:25:47University professors. The question was why. Why does the fire
00:25:51alarm go off so often in the Australian forests, especially in the southeast
00:25:54of the country, like the Black Summer fires six years ago
00:25:58that turned 8 million hectares of forest into ash?
00:26:02New detectives found no
00:26:05clues from the ashes of the crime scene, but they guessed
00:26:09that to find the culprit's footprint, they would have to go
00:26:12back further.
00:26:15They pulled
00:26:17a cylinder of mud from the bed
00:26:20of a lake with a special tube that helped
00:26:24reconstruct the crime scene several hundred years ago
00:26:27with a distinct method,
00:26:31a method called science.
00:26:36You have certainly heard about plant fossils and
00:26:40you know what pollens are and what they do. Those very
00:26:43tiny grains that are responsible for fertilizing plants
00:26:46and are, of course, an allergen for some
00:26:50of us. But what you might not know is the extremely
00:26:54tough shell of these pollens. Unlike vulnerable plants,
00:26:58pollens have a shell that neither decays easily nor dissolves
00:27:01easily and can remain intact for
00:27:05thousands of years. Pollens are moved by wind and water
00:27:09currents. So, on a sedimentary layer of pollen, a large number
00:27:12of plants from far and near are found.
00:27:15In short, examining a sedimentary
00:27:19layer of lake mud and identifying the types
00:27:22and abundance of pollen gives us an approximate
00:27:26picture of the vegetation cover of the region during
00:27:30a specific historical period.
00:27:32Researchers at the University of Melbourne used this method to reconstruct
00:27:36a thousand-year historical period of vegetation
00:27:40in southeastern Australia, but their work was not just
00:27:43about mapping vegetation. They also wanted
00:27:47to find the pattern of fires. So,
00:27:50they also selected 19 samples of charcoal
00:27:54remaining in the sediments to determine the quality
00:27:57of the fuel materials.
00:28:00The result was that during an 800-year period, most fires
00:28:04resulted from the burning of herbaceous plants and a small amount
00:28:08of woody material, whereas from the mid-19th
00:28:11century, the pattern changed. Charcoal samples show
00:28:15that fires from this period onwards were mostly caused
00:28:19by the burning of shrubs and eucalyptus trees.
00:28:22What change occurred? Researchers at the University of Melbourne
00:28:25realized that Australia's vegetation, which until
00:28:28then was mostly grassland, had changed and had become
00:28:32dense forests. So if a fire occurred,
00:28:35it would be more destructive because the flammable
00:28:39materials were more abundant and denser. But
00:28:42had the cause of the fire also changed in these two time
00:28:46periods? This is where
00:28:49historical books came to the rescue. A major change
00:28:53in the 65,000-year life trajectory
00:28:57of Australia's indigenous people:
00:29:00the arrival of the British. Before the British government sent
00:29:04Captain James Cook to explore eastern Australia and establish
00:29:07its colonial government there, the people of this
00:29:10region managed the forests
00:29:13in a different way. They started
00:29:16small, controlled fires at different times
00:29:20to manage both plant diversity and density
00:29:24and to prevent uncontrollable wildfires,
00:29:27but when the British came,
00:29:31the practice changed. On the one hand, in some places, they cut
00:29:35down trees to create suitable land for agriculture,
00:29:38and on the other hand, they abandoned some areas
00:29:42and did not allow the indigenous people to manage
00:29:46the forest areas in their own way. Since then,
00:29:49these forests have entered a cycle of fire that continues
00:29:52to this day. After the hotter fires, only species
00:29:56like eucalyptus sprout, which make the forests denser
00:29:59and also provide more
00:30:02flammable material for subsequent fires. This
00:30:06is a sentence from the Nature article. The colonizers called
00:30:10Australia an ownerless land and, justifying
00:30:13the seizure of land, devalued the indigenous knowledge
00:30:17contained within it. In short, the British both changed
00:30:21Australia's vegetation and, by
00:30:24eradicating the indigenous culture,
00:30:27sowed the seeds of fire
00:30:28in this land.
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