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00:00:24The UK Maritime Trade Operations Organization reported
00:00:28another maritime incident in the Strait of Hormuz. The UK Maritime
00:00:32Trade Operations Organization announced that it had received a report about a container
00:00:35ship being targeted
00:00:38by an unknown projectile while entering the Strait of Hormuz.
00:00:41The report did not provide further details about the extent of
00:00:45possible damage, the status of the ship's crew, or the cause
00:00:48of the incident. Hours earlier, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Organization
00:00:52also reported an unknown projectile hitting a tanker
00:00:56while exiting the Strait of Hormuz. According to Reuters,
00:00:59the UK Maritime Trade Operations Organization announced that
00:01:03the crew's health had been confirmed and that the extent of the environmental
00:01:07impact of the incident was currently unknown. Authorities are investigating
00:01:10the matter.
00:01:14The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' statement condemning the UK's baseless
00:01:17accusations against Iran. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly
00:01:21condemned the claims by British officials attributing
00:01:24the alleged security incident at Fairford Air Base to Iran,
00:01:28calling it a heinous conspiracy to advance the anti-Iran
00:01:31campaign and evade accountability for the UK's
00:01:35involvement in the US-Zionist military aggression
00:01:38against the Iranian nation. The statement said that the UK's
00:01:42track record of fabricating security claims against other
00:01:45countries, which has in some cases led to damaging tensions and conflicts
00:01:49in West Asia, is no secret to anyone,
00:01:52and the British government must be held accountable
00:01:56for insisting on this approach that undermines international
00:01:59peace and security. Our country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
00:02:02while strongly rejecting the baseless accusations
00:02:05made against Iran, held the British government
00:02:09and the designers and perpetrators of this clumsy
00:02:13false flag operation
00:02:16responsible for all the consequences of this deception.
00:02:19The head of the judiciary, emphasizing informing the public about the disciples
00:02:23of corruption gangs and those claiming influence, said that some people
00:02:27defraud people by forging titles and falsely claiming
00:02:30influence in the judiciary, and the public must
00:02:33be made aware. Mr. Mohsen Ejei, in a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council,
00:02:37after detailing a case he had recently examined,
00:02:40added that the judiciary is like a white
00:02:44canvas, where the slightest stain is prominent,
00:02:48and we will deal decisively with corruption within the judiciary.
00:02:51کنیم.
00:02:54These types of cases, they are among those
00:02:58who damage the reputation of the judiciary,
00:03:01and sometimes their blow affects the entire system.
00:03:05The efforts that truly
00:03:07our honest, noble,
00:03:13have been bombed, especially in the UAE, in hardworking
00:03:14Bahrain, in Jordan, in judges have made day and night, under bombardment, under missile
00:03:18fire, they do their job. When such individuals appear,
00:03:21they defame, and sometimes people, unfortunately,
00:03:26and in Bab al-Mandab, affecting believe them. The honorable Prosecutor General,
00:03:30the honorable head of each section, the Disciplinary Prosecutor's Office,
00:03:34and similar protection
00:03:36should pay more attention. If some
00:03:40of these cases can be explained more transparently
00:03:43to the people, documented, and recounted.
00:03:46بشه
00:03:49The head of the judiciary also referred to the recent assassinations in Sistan
00:03:52and Baluchestan and said, "Our nation
00:03:55was their inability to will become more cohesive with these
00:03:56assassinations."
00:04:21In the face of the enemy's conspiracies,
00:04:24they feel responsible. The Islamic Republic of
00:04:27Iran will be more determined than ever.
00:04:31More resolute than ever, it will
00:04:34in no way give in to the arrogant
00:04:37power of today's America and the Zionist
00:04:41regime. It will not back down. It will not surrender.
00:04:45Surely, God willing, God will grant it victory
00:04:48as always. And we
00:04:52will see with our own eyes their demise.
00:04:56را
00:04:58The Yemeni army announced an attack on Saudi airports.
00:05:02The Yemeni armed forces announced that tonight they targeted
00:05:06King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile
00:05:10and Khamis Mushait Air Base with drones.
00:05:13The Yemeni armed forces also reported targeting
00:05:17Khamis Mushait Air Base with a drone
00:05:21and announced that the attack directly hit
00:05:24the target. The Yemeni armed forces,
00:05:28while warning all international airlines,
00:05:32experts, personnel, and passengers
00:05:35worldwide about the consequences of flying to
00:05:38Saudi airports, announced that Saudi airports are not
00:05:42safe, and only the airports and airspace of the
00:05:46holy cities of Mecca and Medina
00:05:49are exempt
00:05:51from this warning.
00:05:55A prominent professor at Columbia University in the US called
00:05:59a war with Iran extremely foolish. Professor Jeffrey Sachs,
00:06:02referring to Trump's statements that six presidents
00:06:06before him had not attacked Iran, said that attacking Iran
00:06:10is not an honor but rather a shocking indication of the most
00:06:13extreme level of incompetence. This university professor called the assassination
00:06:17of Iran's leader and the attack on our country a clear
00:06:21aggression and said that this war will only end with the US
00:06:24leaving the region. Sachs also said about the US
00:06:28agreement with Iran, "We don't even need an agreement with Iran,
00:06:31because if the US leaves the region, the Iranians will
00:06:34fully open the Strait of Hormuz for oil sales, and the people
00:06:38of other Persian Gulf regions will return to their normal lives."
00:06:42Sachs continued, "If you do something extremely foolish,
00:06:46stop doing it and go home."
00:06:49برگردید
00:06:52And that owners of diesel cars in the UK faced an additional
00:06:572.5 billion pounds in diesel fuel costs this year.
00:07:00The Guardian wrote that this amount was less than
00:07:046 million pounds last year, but initial estimates suggest
00:07:08that this amount will jump to 8.5 million pounds this year.
00:07:12This has led diesel vehicle drivers to call on
00:07:15the government to cancel the fuel duty increase plan.
00:07:19Diesel prices have reached their highest level due to a global fuel shortage
00:07:23caused by the US-Zionist regime's war against Iran and Ukrainian attacks
00:07:26on Russian oil facilities. The average fuel price at
00:07:30gas stations exceeded two pounds per liter,
00:07:34which represents an increase of more than 40% compared to before
00:07:38the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:07:40Until the next segment.
00:08:10Iran bombs these countries.
00:08:13The Zionist entity and American bases are also bombed in this
00:08:16very effective and significant way. It seems that
00:08:20the amount of destruction is truly enormous, large. 14 bases
00:08:27Kuwait. It seems he said,
00:08:31and who would have expected
00:08:33that a crisis would occur in the Strait
00:08:36of Hormuz
00:08:39the global economy? The economic situation now, even
00:08:42the issue of the economy within countries, in Britain now
00:08:46and in the Western world, the highest
00:08:50prices in history for diesel, for example,
00:08:53are a result of the war with Iran. That all
00:08:55colonialism or all Western
00:08:59invading powers
00:09:02that ultimately stopped them or ended
00:09:05their project
00:09:08continue. That is, as long as the Zionists
00:09:11feel that they have enough support
00:09:15to continue, they will continue. Yes, Iran has been
00:09:18talking about something called strategic patience all the time.
00:09:22They wage war on Iran, and not only that, they bring
00:09:25the biggest leader in the world, Trump, and drag him
00:09:29into a losing war with Iran. This losing war, which he said
00:09:33would last three or four days,
00:09:36and then it would be over, and the Iranian leadership
00:09:39would fall, and the Iranian people would revolt, and the equation would
00:09:42change. And Netanyahu clearly announced
00:09:46and boasted and said that we will change the Middle
00:09:50East, and we will change the regime in Iran, and we will
00:09:52do all that. Then now, the issue that exists
00:09:56is not overthrowing the regime in Iran, or changing the regime in Iran.
00:09:59The only story mentioned now is how
00:10:02to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open,
00:10:05and whether to open it or not. Well,
00:10:09we prevent you, we don't prevent you, a siege and so on.
00:10:33That country, that nation that can prove
00:10:36that it is ready to stand up for its independence,
00:10:40for preserving its identity, for its ideals,
00:10:43for its existence, and defend it bravely,
00:10:47that nation is dear. The honor of that nation
00:10:51is recognized even by its enemies.
00:11:25Today, Mr. Farhangdoost has repeatedly
00:11:27captured and narrated the image of the martyred leader
00:11:31through the lens of his camera.
00:11:35Mr. Mehdi Motahar, producer and
00:11:38documentary filmmaker, welcome. I want to
00:11:41ask you about your first meeting and first
00:11:44memory of the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution. When
00:11:48and where does it date back to? In the name of
00:11:51God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. If I'm not mistaken, this is my second
00:11:55interview on the topic of His Holiness and I'm happy
00:11:59to have been chosen for this interview. I
00:12:03was perhaps
00:12:05one of the lucky people to have
00:12:08met him, and it can
00:12:11be said that this opportunity arose for me from the early 70s.
00:12:15I was a child, perhaps eight or nine years
00:12:18old, but I was able to attend
00:12:21His Holiness's meetings, and after, for example, attending
00:12:25these public meetings, I attended one or two
00:12:28of his private meetings, which were held in a room
00:12:31with perhaps 40 or 50 people on the day of the martyrdom
00:12:34of some imams. That meeting was a very
00:12:38interesting event because of my father's job and some
00:12:41of my relatives, who created this atmosphere so that
00:12:45we could, so to speak, reach him more than others.
00:12:48That's why I had seen him many times in public meetings.
00:12:51And a part of your speech
00:12:55from one of the semi-private meetings that documentary
00:12:58filmmakers had with the martyred leader was widely re-published.
00:13:02Can you tell us about that meeting? In many of these
00:13:06sessions with cultural and artistic figures, he would also hold
00:13:09specialized sessions. That is, filmmakers had one session, documentary filmmakers had
00:13:13one session, and if I'm not mistaken, painters and graphic artists had one session.
00:13:17I, thank God, I think
00:13:19it was my luck that even though I work in both cinema and documentary,
00:13:23I was invited to the session that he had
00:13:27with documentary filmmakers, and we met
00:13:30him. One of the guys in that
00:13:33session, it can be said,
00:13:37I won't say he tried to be clever, but he wanted to say everything he had to say,
00:13:40so he disrupted the program a bit, and he spoke for about
00:13:4320 minutes, which even drew a remark
00:13:47from him himself. He said, "Well, you've said this several times, but
00:13:50I don't care." But that group of, for example, 30 or 40 documentary filmmakers didn't all
00:13:55get to speak. But fortunately, the moderator of the session
00:13:58was kind enough to give me permission to say a few things in that short time,
00:14:02if I'm not mistaken, about 3 or 4 minutes, which were naturally about documentaries,
00:14:06and a part of it, as you said, was broadcast in that unofficial documentary
00:14:10under your guidance. They did some things regarding social harm issues.
00:14:13If they can make much of this information more accessible
00:14:17to us, we will try to convey it to the people with patience
00:14:20and compatibility. They were training a large
00:14:24number of students and film enthusiasts.
00:14:28This training didn't solve anything. Making films is important, but making people
00:14:31is more important than making films. What was
00:14:34the most important characteristic you saw in the martyred
00:14:38leader of the Islamic Revolution from the perspective of a documentary
00:14:40filmmaker? You know,
00:14:43if I had become a military person, or if
00:14:46I had become a politician, I think there were many places
00:14:50that I could go to under the pretext of documentary filmmaking that I wouldn't have been able to reach otherwise. If
00:14:54I had become a military person, well, I could have gone to many military places, but thank God,
00:14:57under the pretext of this media and documentary filmmaking, I think
00:15:01I was able to gain special opportunities. Well, if we want to talk
00:15:05about him, his trip to North Khorasan, if
00:15:08I'm not mistaken, was in '89 or '90. And I'm
00:15:11a producer in most of the works, so in these kinds
00:15:15of trips, if they want to invite a documentary filmmaker, they prefer
00:15:19to bring a cinematographer or a director of photography with them.
00:15:22That's why we are less likely to be involved. But well, I was one
00:15:25of the few, so to speak, producers who had this opportunity,
00:15:29and I went on that trip. I remember that we had a program
00:15:33called "Gereh" on Channel 3 that we were
00:15:37airing, and that program was about lifestyle.
00:15:40Exactly, until that trip, his main
00:15:43emphasis in his speeches was about lifestyle,
00:15:47and he had a multi-paragraph statement
00:15:51emphasizing lifestyle. Well, this was a very good thing for us,
00:15:53that we had reached the same aspirations of His Holiness
00:15:57and were working in that field. But what I remember
00:16:01about that trip, for example, is that some of the guys,
00:16:05both writers and documentary filmmakers,
00:16:08had also been with him on other trips. The fact that not
00:16:12a single second there goes unplanned,
00:16:16and for example, perhaps three or four shifts of the security team
00:16:20would get tired, meaning he would work from morning, from noon, from afternoon.
00:16:23Before he gave his speech, in
00:16:27the corridor leading to where His Holiness was going to give
00:16:31his speech, they would again arrange some meetings and some people for him.
00:16:34He would use that interval and that
00:17:07before and is no longer available to us. Well, we
00:17:10had put the camera in check and
00:17:13then we were just following the crowd and him in a car.
00:17:16But I was so excited that I ran into
00:17:20the crowd, and then, of course, I left
00:17:23the check and was still filming him, but I couldn't
00:17:27go back to the car that the security team was accompanying
00:17:31to prevent anything from happening. But well, I mean it was
00:17:35a strange event that I wanted to again
00:17:39follow him, even though dozens of other cameras were also doing the same
00:17:42thing. Besides that, I was fortunately able to do it several other times.
00:17:46Well, many people were the cinematographers of the organizations related to
00:17:50the office, but we, for example, perhaps once a year, once every two years,
00:17:53once it was also at the military academy. The Imam Hussein Military Academy was a very
00:17:57good event, in my opinion. It was a student meeting with him.
00:18:00I myself, as a student, had met him many times, but as a documentary
00:18:04filmmaker and a media person, for which I also made a documentary.
00:18:08If you don't mind,
00:18:11let me tell you that I had made three or four documentaries about him during his lifetime.
00:18:15One is the documentary "Exam," which is about his
00:18:18information during his premiership, the then prime minister,
00:18:22when he was president, and that prime minister
00:18:26who was during his time, there was some information,
00:18:29there were some challenges that perhaps the leadership was the reward
00:18:33for his patience and tolerance. There was another documentary
00:18:36called "Ziad al-Din," about his Quranic life
00:18:40in Mashhad, and I think it was a good
00:18:43film. It's good to know that Ziad al-Din was the name
00:18:47he used in his signatures until he was 17 or 18 years old.
00:18:50Ziad al-Din. For example, regarding the martyrdom of Hajj Qassem, I have a documentary called
00:18:54"72 Hours," which we made with a team of guys about the days leading
00:18:57up to the hour, the days leading up to the martyrdom, and then the story of the martyrdom,
00:19:01then the story of finding the pure bodies of the martyrs, Abu Mahdi
00:19:05and Hajj Qassem and their companions. Seyyed Hassan
00:19:08recently, television was kind enough to show this film several times, "That Night," which
00:19:11is about Seyyed Hassan. This incident, the radical incident,
00:19:15from him, I never wanted such an incident to happen to him.
00:19:18That is, the same days that I was making the film about Seyyed Hassan,
00:19:22it was always in my mind
00:19:25that God forbid we should have to do such a thing about him. But unfortunately,
00:19:29this happened. Now, that needs to be discussed in another topic, in another place,
00:19:32but well, on the day of the martyrdom that it happened, this idea that such
00:19:36a thing should also be done
00:19:40about him started, and two or three very strange interviews
00:19:44were taken in those first days about what happened and the rest
00:19:47of the events. And that, God willing, will probably be ready
00:19:50around the anniversary of his martyrdom in Esfand. God willing.
00:19:54Documentary is
00:19:57one
00:20:02of the
00:20:06artistic achievements of the Islamic
00:20:10Republic today. Fortunately, good documentaries
00:20:13are being made. Basically, documentary is a valuable
00:20:17thing, and
00:20:20thankfully, its direction is
00:20:24revolutionary, religious,
00:20:27and values-based. Try to maintain this direction.
00:20:31You certainly followed his speeches in the field of
00:20:34culture and art, especially cinema. What was his
00:20:38view on cinema, and how much
00:20:41has the cinema community moved in the direction he
00:20:45mapped out?
00:20:47Look,
00:20:49first, I suggest that the majority of the audience of this
00:20:52program read Mr. Azarshab's book "A Heart that Became a Jewel,"
00:20:56which contains His Holiness's own writings. Mr. Azarshab compiled it. Read
00:21:00it. The main, so to speak, point of that book and the main
00:21:04way of looking at His Holiness's life is that his
00:21:07life had a strong cultural attachment.
00:21:10If he has a view on the Quran, if he has a view on foreign novels,
00:21:13if he has a view on any writings,
00:21:17on any topic, it's fundamentally all a cultural thread, and then
00:21:20media. After all, His Holiness, with all this
00:21:24occupation and with all this diversity of themes
00:21:28he had to deal with, his artistic and media
00:21:31sessions with media and cultural and artistic figures
00:21:34were extremely important and had to be held on time,
00:21:38and he benefited from those sessions, and
00:21:42he would convey the themes
00:21:43to those friends.
00:21:46Many years ago, perhaps in the late 70s,
00:21:50he gave an analysis of cinema that filmmakers
00:21:53recently say that the statement and the themes he had mentioned
00:21:56were truly the Achilles' heel and weakness of cinema,
00:22:00and how we wish we had realized it then, and that our
00:22:03main flaw is in the screenplay. That is, in many
00:22:07technical aspects, in many equipment,
00:22:10in many industries that fall under cinema,
00:22:14we have truly seen significant growth, but what can make Iranian cinema
00:22:18different is truly the script. After all, some filmmakers
00:22:22fortunately had the chance that even before their screenplay was turned
00:22:25into a film, their screenplay had reached him, and he had taken the time
00:22:29to give his opinion. For example, "The Glass Agency" is one of the famous
00:22:32cases, or he would visit Mr. Majidi's project,
00:22:35visit Mr. Mirbagheri's project. I deliberately want to name them
00:22:38so that we know it's not only a certain type of filmmaker or
00:22:42a specific class, and he truly dedicated time.
00:22:46Another story about that library was that Mr. Azarshab
00:22:50recently had a video of his
00:22:53circulating, which is a very good video, and it might be useful
00:22:56in your program. He met Seyyed Hassan and him
00:23:00in their last meetings with very little time in between. He says
00:23:03that there were six or seven of us with Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah,
00:23:07and at the end, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah hugged me. When he hugged
00:23:10me, he made a joke that his laugh
00:23:14scared me, meaning it was as if it was the last meeting. Then he
00:23:17said that exactly one month later, we
00:23:23had such an experience with him one month before his
00:23:27martyrdom, and when he hugged me, he said,
00:23:29"I have the same feeling,
00:23:33the same thing happened." Now, the story is that Mr. Azarshab is again a person
00:23:37who is known in the field of writing, in the field
00:23:40of Arabic language. He had contacts with many media
00:23:44people. Now, the office is gradually releasing some of them. For example,
00:23:48a certain poet had willed to be buried
00:23:52in a certain place for his death, but because he was perhaps not very
00:23:56religious, they didn't coordinate. He said, "No, it must be done in the middle."
00:23:59There was a famous writer, and he had said that he
00:24:03must see him. Then, because he had short sleeves, they were
00:24:07taking him forward, then I want to say again
00:24:10that the story was so important to him, I even heard an interview
00:24:14from Mr. Haddad who said that he had meetings with some people that he himself
00:24:17was surprised by. He expected that he would at least involve him or tell him
00:24:21that they had arranged the meeting. That is, he truly had opened
00:24:24a separate window for the story of culture and art, and he wouldn't wait
00:24:28for others to plan for him. He would plan for himself in this story.
00:24:31Why don't we use chemical weapons? It's forbidden. For them, it's permissible. For us, it's forbidden.
00:24:35Chemical weapons are unfair.
00:24:38Now do you understand why we don't use chemical weapons? Gradually,
00:24:41you have to learn. Then, things you don't like to see, take pictures
00:24:45and let everyone know that anyone who enters this land and takes a wrong
00:24:48step will either leave with their back or with a red face.
00:24:52But if the commander
00:24:55is on the front line and tells his forces to come,
00:24:58it's very different from
00:25:00telling them to go.
00:25:06My life for
00:25:07Iran.
00:25:10Iran has this number of actors.
00:25:14Truly valuable. Some of
00:25:18our actors are truly in the top rank.
00:25:21All-round artists.
00:25:23هنرمند
00:25:27This commitment exists both
00:25:31in the form of art and the framework
00:25:35of art itself. It has commitment.
00:25:37I consider the dignity of cinema to be this.
00:25:40I say this country is highly advanced. Today,
00:25:44to a large extent, it is in your hands. You can raise
00:25:47this generation as a progressive generation. Hopeful,
00:25:51passionate, believing in themselves, believing
00:25:55in their Islamic and national values.
00:25:59You can raise them this way.
00:26:03You can make this generation
00:26:05ashamed, regretful,
00:26:09questioning past glories,
00:26:12questioning the glory of the Revolution, the glory
00:26:16of the Sacred Defense. You can raise
00:26:19them this way.
00:26:25There is really nothing like cinema now.
00:26:28If you yourself want to make a film about the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution,
00:27:02I am making a documentary in the sense that it is his
00:27:06own writing, that is, it is his
00:27:10own narration, and it is very strange, and since he was also
00:27:13very good at, so to speak, both writing and
00:27:17reading other people's memoirs and reading novels,
00:27:20I think it's a very good manuscript,
00:27:23and as far as I know, he used to write daily
00:27:26memoirs from the age of 17 or 18 onwards. Well, we have seen
00:27:30many memoirs from some of our officials, but he wrote his memoirs moment by moment,
00:27:34and with great detail, for example, "My view there was this,
00:27:38I will do this this way." Very detailed and special
00:27:41events. And one of my regrets is that this book, even though
00:27:45it was published during his lifetime, I read this book
00:27:49after his martyrdom. I wish I had read this book during his lifetime.
00:27:52I think it's a very good way to get
00:27:56to know him, to understand his essence.
00:28:00First, I say I recommend that all friends read it, and I
00:28:15thank you very much. I would like to hear
00:28:19the final words of this part from Mr. Farhangdoost
00:28:22from you.
00:28:25You know, I mean, I myself knew during his lifetime
00:28:29that a lot of work needed to be done about him. I,
00:28:33to the extent of my ability, was a bit clever.
00:28:36I made three or four documentaries. I say clever in the sense that many times
00:28:39the publishing office, due to his own emphasis, prevented
00:28:43a film from being made about him. I'm not saying I had bad taste
00:28:47that he had said he didn't want expenses or spiritual
00:28:51discussions to be spent on introducing him,
00:28:55but everyone has their own duty, and it was my duty to do this.
00:28:58I feel that I myself should do more than five or six works
00:29:02about him. This cinematic film of mine that you kindly watched
00:29:06was also in the recent festival. "Kooch." Well, "Kooch" is about a great
00:29:10personality, about Hajj Qassem Soleimani, but from '98 to
00:29:13'44. Well, for six years, different groups went. Now,
00:29:17perhaps on paper, I don't have a chance
00:29:20to make a film about him, a cinematic film, but I
00:29:23know that because I have faith in the story, there will be a period
00:29:27of his life that is my destiny, and I must make that film,
00:29:30and I hope you pray that this happens to us. I hope that if this happens
00:29:34to me, I will create a good event for that film.
00:29:37Thank you very much. God willing, the time frame chosen for "Kooch"
00:29:41is, I think, a very attractive time frame.
00:29:45From childhood to youth. That same
00:29:49film "Kooch" is from childhood to the first day of the war.
00:29:53This book of his is mostly about his life
00:29:56before the revolution, and how interesting it was.
00:29:59For example, I want to mention a characteristic of his that I myself
00:30:03am very weak in. He had a very organized and systematic
00:30:06view, meaning he would divide. so-and-so
00:30:10the deputy did such and such so-and-so is the result of the news
00:30:13others about Imam Khomeini they worked in a very organized way
00:30:16Mr. and it's very strange, meaning perhaps in the 1960s
00:30:19no one, not even the most optimistic person, would have thought that these
00:30:23struggles would lead to the establishment of the Islamic Republic, I mean, I want to
00:30:26say, but Mr. during those same days, this formation, this text that belongs to that time
00:30:30is not something we can say Mr. is saying orally after the revolution. No, I thought so from the beginning, no, these are the writings from that time,
00:30:34Mr. and it's very strange, this event that Mr. thought in an organized way and
00:30:38in my opinion, the most important event during the leadership of Agha is this very story
00:30:42of being organized, meaning it seems that a person's emotions and
00:30:45individual decision would not return. Thank
00:30:48you very much for your presence. We benefited greatly from your
00:30:51words. Thank you for your presence, Mr. Farhang.
00:30:55My friend, I also thank
00:30:56you very much.
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