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00:00:00that we we had before are no longer relevant today. We are united to defend Iran. To defend our country, our faith, our religion, our constitution, our rights, and our humanity. This is the best model that can be displayed, and the beauty of this movement is that there is no violence in it. Another positive point is that I, as an American, believe that if I go to these gatherings, the Iranian people will not kill me. They will tell me, 'Come here, stand, listen, and learn.' Yes, they might chant 'Death to America,' but I think everyone knows that this slogan has a political meaning and should not be interpreted literally. This slogan expresses Iran's anger at those who hate Iran, try to harm its people, and intend to kill them. If I, as an American, were in Tehran and heard people chanting 'Death to America,' I would not run away. What people mean is that they don't want anyone to harm them. They want to live in peace. I was in Iran in 2005. Iran is a beautiful country, and its people are also beautiful and lovable. It was truly an amazing experience. If more Americans could travel to Iran, see Iran up close, and understand the realities, we would not support such a war. But unfortunately, Americans today do not have a correct understanding of the reality of Iran. We see images that opponents of Iran provide to us. The Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered the claim of diplomatic initiative in Trump's deputy's letter to be contrary to warmongering and repeated violation of White House commitments, saying: The basis for talks is Iran's seven-step plan, and the ball is in America's court. Mr. Baghaei also likened Trump's threat to attack Iran's nuclear facilities to a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, warning that nuclear weapon holders are closely monitoring US behavior, and the White House, with these threats, is creating a pattern whose result is a threat to international security. The spokesperson for the foreign policy institution, in response to the accusation of Jewish. exist.
00:00:03Over the years, Jordan has become a stopover
00:00:06for Palestinians who have been driven from their homes and
00:00:10displaced to other countries. I am a
00:00:13descendant of the Atta family.
00:00:16May God bless his soul and my
00:00:18father's. He lived in Katamon, a part of
00:00:22West Jerusalem that was occupied in '48.
00:00:26Therefore, we were forced
00:00:29to leave our homes in the '48
00:00:32war and were driven
00:00:35out.
00:00:37These are parts of the architectural plans of our home
00:00:40in Katamon, and I see the date of the stamp
00:00:43on it that says "City Engineering
00:00:47Department" January 4,
00:00:511900 and let me see,
00:00:54yes, January 4,
00:00:58194.
00:01:03This was something I was very pleased and happy to see
00:01:06and find. My father's signature as
00:01:09the owner
00:01:11is here. Khalil
00:01:15Attiyeh.
00:01:17Mohammad Atta runs a farm in the Jordan Valley, directly
00:01:21opposite his hometown of Jericho.
00:01:24He is one of nearly four
00:01:27million Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who are counting the
00:01:31days until they can return to their former
00:01:34homes.
00:01:37We left Jericho when I was 13 years old
00:01:40during the '67 war. One of the things
00:01:43that remains in my memory is how all of us, my mother
00:01:47and her 12 children, and some neighbors, all got
00:01:51into one car. Well, another thing I remember is that
00:01:54Israeli planes were bombing people as they
00:01:58fled, yes, bombing them as they fled, yes, bombing them.
00:02:01We are talking about the repetition of history and how
00:02:04a family was actually
00:02:08massacred and killed by a plane.
00:02:12Right
00:02:19nearby, just across the Jordan River in
00:02:23the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel has
00:02:26walled off and isolated most urban areas and declared
00:02:30many rural communities as closed military
00:02:33zones.
00:02:37Umm al-Amad, a community of 300 people, was
00:02:40declared a closed military zone in May 2023, and
00:02:44its residents were expelled.
00:02:48In 2023 alone, 12 such communities
00:02:51were driven out at gunpoint.
00:02:55The people of Umm al-Amad today live in camps
00:02:59less than a few kilometers from their former
00:03:02homes in the occupied West Bank. It was
00:03:051967 when Israel decided to
00:03:09seize our land. By 1969,
00:03:11our displacement began. They constantly moved us from
00:03:15one place to another. One day in 1969,
00:03:18they gave us 24 hours to
00:03:22evacuate. They said, "Pack your belongings and go to
00:03:26Ramallah." We loaded everything we had onto a rusty
00:03:29truck, and they said, "You can stay in Isawiya." But
00:03:32today, March 15, 2023, two army jeeps and three
00:03:36settler vehicles arrived. From 1967 until today, I have
00:03:40not had one night of peaceful
00:03:42sleep. Since the start of the war in Gaza,
00:03:46more than 300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and the
00:03:50army.
00:03:54In a parallel battlefield, Israel has a
00:03:57mechanism through which approximately 20,000 people are
00:04:01daily employed to control checkpoints for Palestinians,
00:04:05wherever they may be. A part of this control
00:04:08and surveillance sometimes includes confronting individual
00:04:12cases of ethnic cleansing. But this is a
00:04:15continuous reality that never ends
00:04:19and never stops. What Jordan and Egypt are
00:04:23doing today is raising global awareness about the
00:04:26issue of forced mass displacement and Israel's true
00:04:30goals so that such a scenario does not happen. Today, we
00:04:34can never say that forced mass displacement belongs
00:04:37to the past and cannot be repeated. We
00:04:41wait, we pray that we will return.
00:04:44I believe that I will
00:04:46return home.
00:04:49But I will take my tent with me because all
00:04:53our homes have been razed to the ground. We will take
00:04:57our children's tent and spend the rest of our lives
00:05:00there, of course, if we survive. Thank God, what
00:05:04else can we do? Nothing at all.
00:05:08Praise be to God. Despite the various crimes against
00:05:11Palestinians after October 7, many Gazans returned after
00:05:15the ceasefire, despite continued Israeli attacks on
00:05:18the Gaza Strip. Many of them do not want to
00:05:22leave Gaza at any cost, so that the bitter
00:05:25experience of 1948, which Palestinians call the Nakba,
00:05:28is not repeated. They want to remain in their own
00:05:31land, even if it has
00:05:32been destroyed.
00:05:50The proud champions of our country's
00:05:53cultural wrestling have returned from the World Championships
00:05:57with this beautiful and colorful trophy. Cheers
00:06:00to your passion! Welcome back! Glad you
00:06:03made it. It was so good. Yes, I bow my
00:06:06head in respect. We thank
00:06:09God that, praise be to Allah, the Lord
00:06:13of the Worlds, the children of our dear
00:06:17Iran had this blessing to bring smiles to
00:06:20people's faces at this difficult time, amidst these
00:06:24anxieties caused by war, and in these living
00:06:28conditions. The hearts of the people, even if
00:06:30someone was happy for a second, Ali Agha, this
00:06:34is the greatest divine event for us. Thank
00:06:37God. Long live! Long
00:06:40live! Long live!
00:06:47The best coach in the world of cultural wrestling,
00:06:51we are nothing. It's God's grace,
00:06:53reliance on the
00:06:56Ahl al-Bayt, infrastructure, hardware,
00:07:00equipment that my good brother, Mr. Dabir,
00:07:04the head of the Wrestling Federation, provided.
00:07:07All these excellent tools, all of them
00:07:10made it possible for us not to be ashamed
00:07:14in front of the people. We are all indebted to
00:07:17the people.
00:07:2510 people returned with 9 medals. They didn't
00:07:28want to give the other one. They changed the colors
00:07:32of two or three of them. Maybe it's not good to
00:07:35sour the people's mood
00:07:45now. We must prove that the ability
00:07:48of our youth, with war, sanctions,
00:07:51and all the difficult conditions that our dear people
00:07:54are afflicted with these days, our worthy
00:07:58youth can literally do it. You were very
00:08:02good, yes. Everywhere in the world, Ali Agha,
00:08:06you know that they are investing in wrestling, an
00:08:09Olympic sport. The number of medals in the
00:08:13Olympics is very high, and our kids were
00:08:17brave. They were brave. I have talked a lot. I just
00:08:20want to cut it short, Ali
00:08:23Agha. Our children's
00:08:25best feeling is that the name
00:08:42of Iran is glorified.
00:08:50Sir, your little ones must be
00:08:53feeling strange now, because you're not there to
00:08:56see them. I think they will. We had
00:09:00three events, yes. Asian Games, World Championships,
00:09:03World Hopes in America. If I stay longer,
00:09:06they'll call me uncle. This Miss Hana
00:09:10is my breath, my heart, my life,
00:09:14my beautiful daughter. She
00:09:17takes good care of me and her mother. She was
00:09:20here waiting for you with flowers. And this Mr. Herman,
00:09:24now that he saw me, he won't leave me alone
00:09:28until further notice, because
00:09:42he says, "If he leaves home now, who knows when he'll be back?"
00:09:46One of the kids from the wrestling federation told me
00:09:49that many teams were trying to recruit Hassan
00:09:53Rangraz for their national teams. Do you accept
00:09:56good foreign offers that I've heard? As long
00:10:00as I can serve these kids and do my
00:10:03duty, I will definitely do it with pride.
00:10:06The good offer was from
00:10:10two years ago. After the Olympics, these
00:10:13offers have been continuous.
00:10:16We are
00:10:19the dust under the people's feet, we are the
00:10:22people's servants. Well, God willing, we can serve
00:10:26these kids, and they can make the people
00:10:30happy. There is no greater
00:10:31honor for us, is there?
00:10:40Mr. Rangraz, is there any specific reward
00:10:43you have in mind that they should give to this
00:10:47team, to you, to the kids, for the valuable
00:10:50work they did? They should definitely be served
00:10:54in a dignified manner,
00:11:25and most importantly, this kid. You broke the
00:11:28record, you're in the headlines, you made history.
00:11:32In 5 minutes, it was a gold medal. I don't
00:11:35know, yes, I think it was almost 5 minutes
00:11:39for all your matches. You dominated everyone.
00:11:41He doesn't even have the patience to wrestle
00:11:45much. One more time, 7-0. Everything goes
00:11:49back to the effort we put in before.
00:11:53We started working last
00:11:55Azar (November/December). They held national team camps,
00:11:59and we were also present in the camps.
00:12:02We went through a
00:12:07lot of training.
00:12:12What was the story of the angiography? You
00:12:16had an angiography a few weeks before the
00:12:20competitions, 15 days before the competition. Sir,
00:12:23for a year or two, we were dealing with a
00:12:27heart issue. Yes, in the last 20 days,
00:12:31this issue came up. We said, "Let's go
00:12:34and get it done so the danger is removed."
00:12:37Thank God, yes, I had a surgery, and
00:12:40that surgery went well. And I was able to.
00:12:44Where are you from, sir? Mazandaran, Amol.
00:12:46Did you see what was happening
00:13:25in your neighborhood? The people are kind. My
00:13:28neighbors and fellow citizens gave their all.
00:13:31So, you're a capitalist's
00:13:34son, no, this is hard. Livestock farming
00:13:38is a hard job.
00:13:45The beginning and spring are a
00:13:48bitter taste. You see, one
00:13:52shouldn't forget their past. We came from where to
00:13:56where? I came from the
00:14:09heart of that very Rosetta to here. I
00:14:12shouldn't forget my past. I shouldn't forget my
00:14:16roots. Fahdeen, what do you want now? A
00:14:19reward? People are going through difficult times.
00:14:22War conditions, and in this situation, if
00:14:26we have been able to bring a smile to
00:14:29their lips even for a minute, the One
00:14:32above will provide.
00:14:50Thank God. Good for you, go and join
00:14:54your family. They are waiting a lot. I
00:14:58will hand you over to Mr. Gholam and Merci.
00:15:00Yes.
00:15:03How old are you, Mr. Foroughi? 24. Mashallah.
00:15:06Where are you from? Shiraz, south of the
00:15:09city, Darvazeh Kazer. They used to say "Kaku Shirazi".
00:15:12You're on your own.
00:15:15This is your second world senior gold. The
00:15:19second one, yes. Last year was also gold.
00:15:22Last year was also gold. Mashallah. I'll
00:15:26go from there. Four points, four points.
00:15:29Everyone there was already bowing in respect. They
00:15:33look at Iran with a different eye now.
00:15:36They come and fight
00:15:39for second and third place. Excellent. You
00:15:43made a very good move. What did you
00:15:46do on the mat? Tell us so we
00:15:50can show the picture. The symbol of Ghadir,
00:15:53yes. Before the competitions, I went to Karbala.
00:15:56I went to Karbala, made a pilgrimage, and
00:15:59came back. Najaf, my
00:16:01father's house.
00:17:41Have mercy on me. The country's situation is
00:17:45very difficult. The people are in great hardship.
00:17:48War, livelihood, many problems. Help me raise
00:17:52this flag, make them happy. Let me stand
00:17:56in the middle as the symbol of Ghadir
00:17:59and shout. Give me this worthiness
00:18:03to be able to do this. Thank
00:18:06God, it happened. I still respect Iran
00:18:10as a country, I respect the people of
00:18:13Iran, and I respect the Iranian army. You
00:18:17know, in the West, especially in America, we
00:18:20tend to judge others. We treat you with
00:18:24extreme disrespect because we cannot overcome cultural
00:18:28differences and see beyond them. As a result,
00:18:32we fail to understand important realities, including
00:18:35the fact that Iran has one of the
00:18:39highest ratios of specialists and researchers with PhDs
00:18:43and peer-reviewed scientific works. Iranians are among
00:18:47the most educated people in the world. Iran
00:18:51holds a prominent position in mathematics, physics, and
00:18:54various sciences. This superiority is not limited
00:18:58to academia but is also reflected in how
00:19:01Iran has developed its economy and industry.
00:19:04I was familiar with some of Iran's military
00:19:08achievements. These achievements are truly remarkable. Such
00:19:12advancements are only possible when Iran has mastered
00:19:16advanced technologies. To be honest, in some
00:19:19areas, the technologies that Iran has achieved are
00:19:23even beyond America's capabilities. Some of the work
00:19:27Iran is doing in ballistic missiles is truly
00:19:31astonishing. These capabilities are admirable. Iran is
00:19:34very capable in rapidly identifying this technology,
00:19:38then analyzing it to understand how it works
00:19:42and finding ways to counter it. We had
00:19:45a 40-day war with you. I believe a
00:19:48large part of the actions Iran took during
00:19:52this period were to test the missile defense
00:19:56capabilities of the United States, Israel, and
00:19:59the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, and
00:20:02then to find solutions for the problems it
00:20:06identified. Today, I believe
00:20:09Iran has found the necessary solutions and has
00:20:13incorporated them into its current ballistic missile
00:20:17capabilities. We imagine that we have limited
00:20:20ability to counter Iran's
00:20:24missiles because we look at the successes we
00:20:27achieved during this conflict. But we don't realize
00:20:31that those were not actually successes but rather
00:20:35tests from which Iran learned and adapted its
00:20:39capabilities to the new conditions. I don't think
00:20:42we have a solution for the Iran problem.
00:20:46Therefore, I believe we will enter into a
00:20:50situation that we don't understand, and it will
00:20:53not have a good outcome for us.
00:20:57We have seen many reports and news in
00:21:00the mainstream media about the shortage of American
00:21:03missile reserves. Given these reports, what is
00:21:06your opinion on America's military capability?
00:21:10Well, first of all, I respect the men
00:21:14and women who wear the uniform of the
00:21:18United States military. They joined the military not
00:21:22to fight against Iran, but to defend their
00:21:25country. Unfortunately, the government asks them
00:21:29to do things that are not their own
00:21:32desire. But we must also be realistic.
00:21:35America waged a 40-day war against you, and
00:21:39I must say, we lost. That's the
00:21:42reality. We didn't win. There's another
00:21:46point I want the people of Iran to
00:21:50understand. People say America lost in Vietnam.
00:21:53Yes, we lost politically in Vietnam. But the
00:21:56Vietnamese never defeated us on the battlefield.
00:22:00Never. We also lost politically in Afghanistan.
00:22:04But the Taliban never defeated us on the
00:22:07battlefield. We were invincible on the battlefield.
00:22:10The American soldier was invincible. If we went
00:22:14into battle, we would win that battle. But
00:22:17this is the first
00:22:20time in American history that we have been
00:22:23defeated. The Iranians defeated us. You literally
00:22:27defeated us. The Iranians won by ensuring
00:22:31that we did not achieve any of our
00:22:34goals. You defeated
00:22:36us because you had
00:22:39a better plan than us. We have no
00:22:43solution to counter your missiles. We cannot intercept
00:22:47and destroy them in the necessary numbers.
00:22:50You are still producing missiles and you are
00:22:54still improving them. Your air defense system
00:22:57is also very effective
00:23:02and efficient. We would like to say that
00:23:06we defeated you. But if that happened, why
00:23:09were our planes still being lost at the
00:23:13end of the war? The reason is that
00:23:17we had not defeated you. You are smarter
00:23:20than us. You know us better than we
00:23:24know you. Since the end of the
00:23:27war, nothing has happened to convince me that
00:23:31the United States has learned the necessary lessons
00:23:35to change the course of future battles. Our
00:23:38ammunition for self-defense will run out. The
00:23:42ammunition we have to attack Iran will also
00:23:46run out. But the Iranians will not run
00:23:50out of ammunition, and ultimately, we will once
00:23:54again be defeated in battle by the Iranians.
00:23:57Finally, I want to ask you a question
00:24:00about the resistance of the Iranian people. We
00:24:04in Iran have been coming to the streets
00:24:08for over 200 nights. We say
00:24:11that we support our country, we support Ayatollah
00:24:15Khamenei, and we are ready to fight America
00:24:19and Israel. What is
00:24:21your opinion about the resistance of the Iranian
00:24:25people? Well, I have to
00:24:29be careful here because I am an American.
00:24:33As you know, I have stood against aggressive
00:24:36and illegal wars. I opposed the invasion of
00:24:40Iraq, and I oppose the current conflict against
00:24:44Iran. For a while, I have been trying
00:24:47to get the American people to remember
00:24:50what it means to be responsible and worthy
00:24:54citizens. There was a time when we gathered
00:24:58a million people in Washington to fight for
00:25:02civil rights. The American people have a long
00:25:05history of civil disobedience and holding protests that
00:25:09lead to change. But in recent years, we
00:25:13can no longer continue these movements consistently.
00:25:16One day we demonstrate. Here we have a
00:25:19movement called "Not My King" which opposes
00:25:22Donald Trump. In one day, it brings hundreds
00:25:26of thousands of people to the streets. But
00:25:30the next day, everyone goes home because we
00:25:34don't have the commitment and perseverance to continue
00:25:37this movement. Therefore, when you tell me
00:25:40that the people of Iran, hundreds of thousands,
00:25:43and perhaps even millions of people, have filled
00:25:46the streets of Iranian cities for more
00:25:50than 20 consecutive nights, I am truly amazed.
00:25:54This level of commitment is truly astonishing because
00:25:57it shows that people believe in what they
00:26:01are doing. In the West, they say that
00:26:05these people are paid to be in the
00:26:09streets. But you cannot buy people to stand
00:26:13in the streets for more than 20 consecutive
00:26:16nights. Those who go to the streets believe
00:26:20in what they are doing and in their
00:26:24cause. And the reason for this belief is
00:26:27that we, the United States, have committed a
00:26:31terrible act of aggression against you. We assassinated
00:26:35Ayatollah Khamenei. We killed his grandson, and we
00:26:38massacred children in Minab. The people of Iran
00:26:41are aware of this, and these issues have
00:26:45greatly angered them. I believe that before the
00:26:48war began, there were still concerns among the
00:26:52Iranian people. Economic dissatisfaction certainly existed. People were
00:26:56asking what happened to the economy and came to the streets to
00:26:59protest. The Iranian government
00:30:22said, "We hear your voice." But the CIA
00:30:26and Mossad tried to use these protests to
00:30:30achieve other goals. Before the war, there
00:30:33was popular opposition to the government. But the
00:30:37US and Israel launched a war against Iran.
00:30:40They assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei, attacked the Minab school
00:30:44and killed people. And how did the
00:30:48Iranian people react? They come to the streets
00:30:51every night and stand united, saying, "We are
00:30:55Iran. There is no division between us and
00:30:58the government. Any differences
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