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00:00:15This in of sour's top headlines: Iran's president says the
00:00:19assassinations
00:00:20of the murder leader
00:00:21of the Islamic Revolution, military commanders and scientists
00:00:24proved the falsehood
00:00:25of the aggressor's claims to human
00:00:27rights. Palestinian media
00:00:31group warns that human rights violations against Palestinian
00:00:35abductees in
00:00:35of Israeli prisons have reached unprecedental levels
00:00:38and finally the US state
00:00:42of New Mexico sues the department of justice over access to
00:00:46unredacted Upsteen
00:00:48of files saying the department refuses to provide the
00:00:50documents.
00:00:54of
00:00:56of
00:01:06Hello
00:01:06of and welcome everyone, you're watching Press TV world news, let's go ahead and get started with this hour's
00:01:10top stories. Iran's president says
00:01:14all enemy plans and pressures are aimed at making the people
00:01:17dissatisfied and
00:01:18of provoking them to protest, but the Iranian people will stand for their
00:01:22country.
00:01:23of Masarl posien added that the entire Iranian nation helped to
00:01:27keep the country together, even those who had.
00:01:39but the fact that we could
00:01:41of continue, it's because
00:01:42of the noble people of Iran, not just the people
00:01:45who gathered in the streets, everybody who endears
00:01:48and holds iran dearly in their heart,
00:01:52despite all the difficulties, it's not just the people in the streets, it was
00:01:56not just them preserved iron every...
00:02:00person who sees the difficulties and tolerates
00:02:04of them, they are working for their country
00:02:09a sanctions. speaking
00:02:13a in a televised interview, pasashkan said, the government has managed the country under the most difficult
00:02:17conditions since Islamic revolution by relying on the people's
00:02:20solidarity. he cited war, sanctions, energy and balance
00:02:24and water crisis as the
00:02:26of most important
00:02:27in challenges facing the nation. posi that the enemies plotted to
00:02:31cause social collapse and force a country into submission through missile strikes
00:02:35and destruction, but the people's support prevented that. the Iranian
00:02:39president asserted that the assassination
00:02:41in of in the murder leader
00:02:42of the Islamic Revolution as well as military commanders and
00:02:46of scientists by the U.S. Israeli aggressors have proved the falsehood
00:02:50of their claims to human rights, freedoms and similar topics.
00:02:54he praised the new leader
00:02:55of the Islamic Revolution
00:02:57of (ayatullah) Sayid Mushtaba Khamenei, describing his character in terms
00:03:01of ethics, logic and humility as truly
00:03:05exceptional.
00:03:12we earlier talked to former US government government
00:03:15advisor,
00:03:16Paul Lerudi. he said the US pressure campaign against the Iranian government
00:03:20and nation cannot meet Washington's interest in the long run, and
00:03:24Iran has
00:03:25of already proved
00:03:25this.
00:03:30overall
00:03:30of goal is to make Iran basically submit
00:03:34to the will
00:03:35of the
00:03:36of the US and to control the the
00:03:39government of Iran. I think that the Iran
00:03:43is perfectly within its rights and it
00:03:47is the
00:03:50logical kind of position to
00:03:53take that that they will not accept this
00:03:57and that they will... not be
00:04:00dominated by by such things actions
00:04:04of the United States have been against both the
00:04:08people and the the government
00:04:11of these countries, and
00:04:14so I think that holds
00:04:17perfectly well, the United States does
00:04:21not act on behalf
00:04:23in of the
00:04:23in people, it has created so many death
00:04:26me and and misery and...
00:04:30refugees, this is
00:04:31this is the attacks and
00:04:35the invasions and the attempts to use
00:04:38force to get the will
00:04:42of of the United States to be the
00:04:46primary force in the government of of a
00:04:48country. um, this is,
00:04:51this
00:04:56in has been, it's a foolish way of trying to do things, in the long run it me cannot work, and and Iran certainly is proof of.
00:05:03that meanwhile, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says a joint statement between
00:05:07Iran and arman on the
00:05:09of straight of horm is now at the stage of final review and
00:05:14described the talks with ourman on managing maritime traffic in the strategic
00:05:18waterway as a professional, adding that both sides have agreed
00:05:22on the route coordinates. he stress that the closure the straight of hormus was the
00:05:26result of US and israeli regimes aggression against
00:05:29Iran. the spokesman said and Iran Oman understanding
00:05:33alone cannot mean that the straight has become safe for passing vessels
00:05:37as a factors causing insecurity, including the
00:05:41US's naval... cade still remain. He also said talks
00:05:45between Iran and Daman as the two coastal states the straight of
00:05:49Hormus have been underway over the past two months to establish safe
00:05:52route for commercial
00:05:53shipping.
00:05:59Iran's deputy foreign minister Calsim gharbabadi says reaching an
00:06:03understanding with our man over the straight of hormus does not mean the
00:06:06waterway will be reopened. Garbabbadi said the understanding
00:06:10will be solely between Iran and and oman, adding that Tehran
00:06:14does not accept any foreign interference. He stressed that
00:06:18reopening the straights is subject to its own conditions,
00:06:21including US commitments under the Islam abad memorandum of
00:06:25understanding. He added that Washington has violated the
00:06:29Mou, citing the naval blockade and the reimposition of
00:06:33sanctions against
00:06:34Iran.
00:06:40Moving now over to a Palestinian media. group which has released a new
00:06:44report warning that human rights violations against Palestinian
00:06:47abductees in Israeli prisons have sharply risen during
00:06:51July. According to the Assara media office, as number of
00:06:55palestinian abductees in the regime's jails reaches unprecedented
00:06:59levels. There has been a remarkable uptick in such rights,
00:07:02violations as torture, starvation, medical neglect and
00:07:06isolation. The office said it has documented
00:07:09escalation in the use of repressive. tactics inside
00:07:13Israeli prisons, including raids on sections, beatings of
00:07:17prisoners, the use of rubber bullets and police stocks and
00:07:21solitary confinement. it added that torture in Israeli jails is
00:07:25not limited to physical harm, but also extends to
00:07:28psychological damage, leaving prisoners with lasting trauma
00:07:32and fear with nightmares. the office noted
00:07:35that there are about 9500 Palestinians in Israeli jails,
00:07:39including hundreds of women and children, and over 32... 200
00:07:43administrative detainees who are being held without charges or
00:07:46trial.
00:07:52The Israeli regime launches new attacks on southern Lebanon in
00:07:55violation of a cease fire deal with the Arab country. The latest
00:07:59strikes targeted areas in and around the city of Tyre, wounding at
00:08:03least four people. The attacks force many residents to leave their
00:08:06homes. Witnesses also reported continuous Israeli artillery
00:08:10shelling in the area. The attacks came after the Israeli regime
00:08:14confirmed the killing of two of its soldiers and the injury of
00:08:18several others in an explosion in the tire district. according to
00:08:22Lebonon's health ministry, since March the 2nd, Israeli attacks
00:08:26have killed over 4,300 people and wounded more
00:08:30than 12,250
00:08:32others.
00:08:37The Yemani armed forces have struck a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of
00:08:41Aden with a ballistic missile, forcing it to turn back. The
00:08:45Yemani arms force spokesperson announced they successfully hit
00:08:49the Saudi tanker Daisy, marking the latest operation under the
00:08:53siege for siege maritime blocade. He warned that no Saudi oil
00:08:57vessel will be allowed to pass through either the southern or northern
00:09:01red sea until the Saudi blockade on Yemen is lifted. The
00:09:05incident followed Yeman's strike on the Saudi vessel Wafa
00:09:09north of Yumbo which Ansodel official called a new
00:09:12phase in the maritime confrontation, proving that efforts to bypass
00:09:16a blocade are
00:09:17futile.
00:09:23and other news, the US state of New Mexico has suwed the department of
00:09:26justice for access to unredacted files on Jeffrey
00:09:30Upstein, saying the federal agency is stonew
00:09:33stonewalling investigation into the late sex offender by
00:09:37refusing to provide the documents. The Democratic State Run
00:09:41States reopen is Ubsten investigation in February
00:09:44requesting unredacted files to identify visitors and
00:09:48staff a property owned by Ubstein in New Mexico.
00:09:52The department of Justice says it can provide some files but cannot
00:09:55supply other material due to privacy protections.
00:09:59The New Mexico lawsuit argues that federal inaction does not
00:10:03merely solve the investigation, but also prolongs and compounds
00:10:07the suffering of survivors. He has requested that the US
00:10:11District Court for the District of Colombia compell acting
00:10:14attorney general Todd Blanch to release the requested
00:10:18files. The developmentts came after New Mexico legislators release
00:10:22an interm report on their independent investigation into the
00:10:26Upsteen case. They said evidence to date shows Upsteen
00:10:30abused at least five women and girls at his New Mexico Ranch
00:10:34between 1996 and
00:10:362012.
00:10:42Well with that viewers like to thank you very much for watching this hours top headlines for latest
00:10:45updates, please stay tuned surpress TV world news. Goodbye for
00:10:48now.
00:11:19مامانم میگه اسمش همیشه خلیج فارس
00:11:22بوده. ما بچه های خلیج.
00:11:25فارسی اینجا برای ما فقط یه دریا
00:11:28نیست هویتمونه
00:11:32جاییه که کنارش بازی می
00:11:34کنیم
00:11:38روزیمونو ازش می گیریم
00:11:42باهاش شادی می کنیم و با صداش آروم
00:11:45میشیم جاییه که
00:11:49اجازه نزدیک شدن دشمنامونو بهش
00:11:52نمیدیم و تا همین. همیشه ازش محافظت می
00:11:56کنیم. خلیج فارس ما انگار یه کتاب
00:12:00تاریخه. هر کدوم از موجاش قصه های
00:12:04قدیمی سرزمینمونو تو دلش
00:12:06داره. خلیج
00:12:10فارس برای همه ما
00:12:12ایرانیاست.
00:13:07There are journalists that look past the headlines to capture the quiet
00:13:10resilience found in the world's most volatile regions from the
00:13:14frontlines of Ukraine to the post war landscapes of Iran. They
00:13:18risk everything to bear witness to our shirt humanity. My
00:13:22guest today is one such storyteller. Welcome to SOAP, I am
00:13:26Bahman, your
00:13:27host.
00:13:35Lauren Streller is an award winning Austrian photo journalist
00:13:39dedicated to telling the human stories behind the
00:13:42headlines. From the frontlines of Ukraine to the streets of
00:13:46Lebanon, and now the post war landscapes of Iran, his work
00:13:49captures both the brutality of conflict and the resilience of those
00:13:53who endure it. guided by empathy and a commitment to
00:13:57bearing witness, Strela uses his lens to give voice to the
00:14:01unheard and reveal the shirt humanity that connects
00:14:05us
00:14:05all.
00:14:15Mr. Lauren Streller, it's a pleasure to have you on Sob. Thank you so
00:14:19much for having me. Uh, it's the pleasure is
00:14:22all ours. You've said, I saw
00:14:24an interview, um, of you in which you said powerful
00:14:28images in your parents photo books, those were especially from
00:14:32the Vietnam war, um, went beyond words and opened
00:14:35new worlds to you, do you remember a specific image that
00:14:39changed you? it's not about specific images
00:14:43that inspired me to do what I'm doing, it was more
00:14:47like these worlds that
00:14:51opened to as a teenager, as a child, I couldn't disc
00:14:55tribe what is happening, i just it evoked the feeling in
00:14:59me that i have to do the same, i want to go
00:15:03out there, explore, document, and i want to become a
00:15:06photo journalist, and you speak about photography's
00:15:10ability to connect us through time and space with
00:15:14shared emotions, um, when did you first truly feel that
00:15:18connection yourself? i think for
00:15:21as a European um als
00:15:25person that of course learned a lot about the
00:15:29second world war, um, it was always very important to
00:15:33see the images the war, because they
00:15:37sh...
00:16:07but i feel like the emotions that you can see and feel from photographs
00:16:11in the faces of people that have to go through
00:16:15hardship or certain events create like a
00:16:18bigger image and a bigger feeling that you can gain
00:16:22even if time passes how people must
00:16:26have felt during that time and um i remember
00:16:30once somebody told me that the lines on the faces the people are kind of
00:16:33reminders the kind of journey they've been on and they've taken in.
00:16:37lives, um, are you also working on
00:16:40documentaries? um, I'm doing
00:16:44mostly documentary work with my photos, so
00:16:48these these documentary essays, they
00:16:51can contain up to 50 photographs
00:16:54and some them work
00:16:57has a single image, because the single images are that
00:17:01strong or some photos they work together well with other photographs
00:17:05and This is what I tried to
00:17:09create here, for example, I tried to create one
00:17:13big photo essay that really um
00:17:16shows the current situation the country.
00:17:19Right, and you often talk about very important figures and
00:17:23photography as um, your inspiring figures in this
00:17:27field, um, the likes of um,
00:17:31don, we have Robert Carper, Henry
00:17:34Cartier Bresson, Dorothy Lang and the... turnly
00:17:38brothers, what specifically you about the philosophy
00:17:41the work, not just technicalities, um, are so
00:17:45inspiring to you, if you can give us examples, I feel it's the
00:17:49mix between what they have shown through the
00:17:53work, and also how they did
00:17:56it, because it is one thing to go somewhere and
00:18:00take photos of a certain event, but to have this kills
00:18:04and do it a beautiful and respectful way,
00:18:09um you have to have some talent and some
00:18:13um perspectives that not
00:18:16everyone has and that's what i respect about the big
00:18:20legends or the big names in photography and which one these
00:18:24names would you uh consider like the main your
00:18:28main inspiring figure in your journey? i think
00:18:31don mccallin is is i think one the
00:18:35biggest inspirations i had that? Why is
00:18:38that? It has multiple um
00:18:42reasons. First of all, he he documented a world that wasn't
00:18:46changed during that time in the in the 50s, late 50s,
00:18:4960s, he did a lot of work in Europe, um, when
00:18:53europe was tragically changing, then he also did
00:18:57a lot of work in in areas of crisis
00:19:01of conflict, he was in the Vietnam war, lot of different
00:19:04wars, but as I'm a big Beatles fan, he als took photos
00:19:08the Beatles, which I think is nice contrast,
00:19:12yes, absolutely, and what took you from
00:19:15that world, the European style of living, style of
00:19:19photography, to um, conflict
00:19:22photography and crisis photography, I think
00:19:26it's just um, a personal feeling that is
00:19:30interesting for me to be part of history that is
00:19:34in the making right now, in the moment when I'm there, It's
00:19:37a feeling you can't describe um
00:19:41knowing that the place that
00:19:45you are in right now is all over the news and it will be all
00:19:49over the school books in the next
00:19:51generations um and of course the
00:19:54feeling and my belief that through my work
00:19:57I might have a positive impact on the future and
00:20:00future generations so in best
00:20:04case these
00:20:06bad things don't happen again. and but I was looking
00:20:10at of course I'm going to talk about um your experience, you're now
00:20:14in Iran, well Iran is in the middle of a conflict with the US
00:20:18and Israel, you've been to some the impact sites in southern Iran, I'm
00:20:22going to talk about that later, but something that I could feel from the photography on
00:20:26your website and also um on your instagram page
00:20:30uh was that people are the main characters of your
00:20:33photography and your photos um what do you find
00:20:38um so inspiring when it comes to
00:20:41the faces of people, i think
00:20:45faces and mostly the eyes of a
00:20:48person. can tell more than
00:20:52anything else you can take photos of, i think
00:20:56um, seeing a certain
00:21:00face, looking into a child's
00:21:03eyes, taking a photo a honest,
00:21:06raw moment where the door to the
00:21:10soul is open, um, you can tell more
00:21:14than any written essay or any film documentary
00:21:18can can tell,
00:21:19and my... goal is always evoke
00:21:23anything, any emotions or questions
00:21:27or answers within the person that looks at my photos,
00:21:30so if I have the
00:21:33success that the viewer might
00:21:36be, might feel discomfort
00:21:40or might feel um confusion or
00:21:43whatever, just some emotions that are evoked into
00:21:47the in in the in the viewers. um
00:21:50eyes, then everything is is achieved that
00:21:54I want to do with my photos and I think the easiest way to do
00:21:57this is showing face that
00:22:01has um lift through lot of um
00:22:05experiences and I can only imagine Lauren
00:22:08that um that brief moment that the window to the heart and
00:22:12to the soul the person or that character in front of you is
00:22:16open um also I can only imagine
00:22:20once again places immense amounts amount of
00:22:23responsibility on your shoulders as a photographer, isn't that the
00:22:27case? it's definitely the case, but um,
00:22:31always compare like creating
00:22:33a portrait, it's
00:22:37an immense moment of trust between
00:22:41two people that don't know each other, sometimes don't even speak the
00:22:45same language, all they share is this very
00:22:48moment, and it's and create some really
00:22:52magical um connections
00:22:55between totally strangers
00:22:57and I think it's always like
00:23:01how you approach a person, the body
00:23:04language, respect, calmness,
00:23:08and the other
00:23:10person will feel it and will feel comfortable and will let
00:23:13you into their space and let you photograph
00:23:17their soul in the best way. and have you
00:23:21ever what of course because you've been also photographing the
00:23:25Ukrainian conflict um have you ever felt like um
00:23:28the person in front of your lens is a way in
00:23:32that look in that momentary window to their
00:23:36soul as you beautifully described it are asking
00:23:40for some sort of help like physical help you
00:23:44mean no just to kind of
00:23:47what i mean is to help them have the voices
00:23:50heart
00:23:51on the global stage, i feel from
00:23:55my experience, people who are in the
00:23:58deepest need or in moments of
00:24:02despair, they are mostly the ones
00:24:06who want to get their photo taking, because they want their
00:24:09story to be told, and they want the world to
00:24:13look and see their atrocities that they have to live
00:24:17through, and I think... That's a very
00:24:20very um important thing um to not step back
00:24:24when things get very hard and
00:24:27sad, these are mostly the moments the people who
00:24:31are affected they want
00:24:33you to take the photo the most and at the same
00:24:37time um those moments are could be also very
00:24:40dangerous for a photographer, how do you handle the risk and the
00:24:44dangers that come with this job? I mean it takes
00:24:48a lot of preparation beforehand. um, if you go into an
00:24:51active war zone, for example, you have to to be
00:24:55prepared, you have to um take all the
00:24:59necessary
00:25:02um um life saving like vest, the the press
00:25:06vest, the helmet, like a turn a kit, first eight kit
00:25:10and so on, but then you also have to prepare a
00:25:13a very professional way, who i working
00:25:17with, who is my driver, who is my translator? do I have a way
00:25:20out if if things get really dangerous? um, so
00:25:24there is lot of aspects that you have to think about to reduce the
00:25:28risks, um, but in the end
00:25:32nobody can predict the future and nobody can predict what really
00:25:36is happening, so I had moments where I was
00:25:39perfectly prepared, but in
00:25:41the end everything went a whole different path, and
00:25:45we ended up being a very different, tell me about a couple of those
00:25:49moments. um, I found myself
00:25:53um, accompanying a drone unit in
00:25:56Ukraine, and the plan was to stay with them for
00:26:00two or thre hours and they were... 100 or 150
00:26:04away from the from the Russian soldiers, so it
00:26:07was directly at the frontline, and I was brought
00:26:11there to take some photos to document like how they live
00:26:15and so on, and I did my work, and while I was in this
00:26:19bunker, it started raining very heavily outside,
00:26:23and there is no, obviously no real roads, it's
00:26:27just some some dirt dirt paths and because of
00:26:31this rain, the...
00:26:34path has become very muddy and it was not possible for
00:26:38any car to pick me up again, so I had to stay in this
00:26:42bunker, and we were all down there and
00:26:46all of sudden we heard an engine howling
00:26:50and one the soldiers went outside and we saw that
00:26:54a big truck from the
00:26:57Ukrainian who wanted to to bring new ammunition
00:27:01and so to the front. got stuck in the mud directly in front
00:27:05of our bunker, so everyone went
00:27:08absolutely um crazy, because they thought we
00:27:12going to get shot now
00:27:14in every minute, direct it, so I was just sitting
00:27:17there and I thought, okay, this is it, because the
00:27:21moment I felt that the soldiers around me, they were losing their
00:27:25their cool, I know that this is serious,
00:27:29and basically we were just sitting there waiting for an...
00:27:32impact of of artillery or drones and so
00:27:35on, but thank god um this driver made it
00:27:39out and nothing happened, but i it happened
00:27:43that i stayed 20 hours in this place before i got
00:27:46evacuated, 150 meters is basically
00:27:50nothing, so um we're like the russian
00:27:53soldiers, russian forces also aware of your presence
00:27:57and they somehow keep you and people
00:28:01of your profession. exempt from fire and firing lines
00:28:05or no, you were like using some sort of
00:28:07camouflage? i don't think that um they make
00:28:11difference, because none of both parties
00:28:15make difference, who who is in this area is in danger,
00:28:19and i think they don't have the the time to make difference
00:28:23between soldier or press or journalist, um,
00:28:27i think you have to be aware the dangers that you put
00:28:30yourself in when you're... close to the
00:28:33frontline and but always compare it
00:28:37like lot of people they ask me why do you even find yourself
00:28:40again a situation like that and i compare it to be
00:28:44like imagine you have the
00:28:47flu, you're very sick and then you think wow
00:28:51this is the worst feeling ever and never
00:28:55want to be that sick again and then the moment you're
00:28:58you're healthy and healed again you forgot how
00:29:02it was, yeah, right, so um, it was
00:29:06basically like that, in that moment i thought never again i want
00:29:09to to be that um close to
00:29:13danger, and then one day passed and i found myself on the frontline
00:29:17again, and and these jobs are they
00:29:21commissioned or do you that for your own personal
00:29:24interest? no, um, it depends some
00:29:27the the the places that i'm going or the stories, very
00:29:31dangerous. no, that was for a big um German media
00:29:35outlet that I did a a whole story on on the drone
00:29:39um units of of Ukraine and some other places
00:29:43um but also of course it's my own interest as
00:29:47well but um I don't think I would I would go to
00:29:50places like this if it's not um
00:29:53a um yeah master
00:29:57personal of course yeah yeah yeah so both are
00:30:00important at the same time of course. it comes to such
00:30:03situations, um, you describe, I'm I'm going to go
00:30:07back to the interview that I read from you, you describe your dream as following
00:30:11in their footsteps, these important figures,
00:30:15um, don mccallin to be particular, to shed some
00:30:19light on untold stories, what does bearing
00:30:22witness - mean to you today after
00:30:26years in conflict zones and
00:30:28photographing in difficult situations, I mean that's...
00:30:32always the the noble thought of all the people
00:30:36that work in this field to um being
00:30:40able to create some sort of change in the
00:30:44future and i think you have to really believe in this
00:30:47otherwise you would not um
00:30:51stand doing this kind of job for very long
00:30:54time um so this is my belief and i think
00:30:58bearing witness