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00:02:57Good evening and tonight's a spotlight. Mark 200 days
00:03:01since the United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against
00:03:05Iran, a conflict that began with the stated objective
00:03:08of of regime change,
00:03:10of crippling Iran's strategic capabilities and weakening its
00:03:14of leadership, but has since evolved into a prolonged
00:03:17of confrontation with consequences stretching across West Asia and the global
00:03:21economy. 200 days on, Iran remains at
00:03:24war, its political and military structures remain intact
00:03:28and the conflict has expanded for straight of removes, the economic pressure
00:03:32on Iran and the growing costs being absorbed by the United States
00:03:36and its allies. The question is no longer simply what
00:03:40happened during the first days of war. The bigger question is
00:03:44what these
00:03:45of 200 days have actually demonstrated about military power,
00:03:49of national resilience, deterrence, and a changing balance
00:03:53of power in the region.
00:03:58of of That's what we'll be discussing tonight with our guests.
00:04:02Muhammad John Hussain,
00:04:04of journalist and political analyst joining us from the
00:04:06of Iranian of capital of
00:04:08of of Tehran.
00:04:12And Shaw, author and
00:04:14of commentator joined us from the city of
00:04:16Belfast.
00:04:20Gentlemen, both of you, thank you so much for joining me at this
00:04:24hour. Let me begin uh with Mr. Hussein,
00:04:27our guest in Tehran. Well, the beginning of this war, mr. saying,
00:04:31the United States and Israel uh appear to believe that
00:04:35eliminating the head um or senior
00:04:39political insecurity figures and also Iran's leader
00:04:43ayatullah
00:04:44of sayid will lead to the situation that they wanted.
00:04:48um, right now we are having quite the opposite after 200
00:04:52days, your assessments on these 200 days
00:04:55overall, well thank you for having me here first of
00:04:59all, and Throughout these 200 days you've seen how the people of Iran
00:05:03have stood in the squares, in the
00:05:05of circles, a they have stood in the streets, they have been in
00:05:08a support
00:05:09of their government, and the assessment that the Iranians would somehow come
00:05:12out and follow whatever Trump was saying, was proven to be
00:05:16wrong from the first day. We saw that when they targeted the senior
00:05:20leadership of Iran when they targeted the supreme leader. We saw
00:05:24that despite Iran not having a supreme leader at that time, people were
00:05:27standing in the streets and chanting in favor the military forces who were holding front
00:05:31in Mosaiac defense formations without any
00:05:34particularly specific instructions regarding what to do, although they
00:05:38had cohesion with the decision makers, but we saw how the people stood.
00:05:42"and these 200 days demonstrate how people of a country
00:05:46can through resilience, through strength and how their military through
00:05:50might can withstand any the pressures being put forward
00:05:54to them, any any efforts to destabilize them, any wars that can be
00:05:58engaged against them by the greatest so callalled superpower in the world,
00:06:01and we saw that that so callalled greatest superpower in the world has turned out to be
00:06:05paper tiger, and we see how they themselves have got
00:06:09themselves stuck in the situation where they are now trying" to leave and the only
00:06:13way out is for them to listen to the conditions that have been put forward by
00:06:16Iran and to follow those instructions and to follow those
00:06:20conditions and to follow the agreement that was made with Iran when the
00:06:24Islamabad MOU happened
00:06:25so I think that these 200 days summarize how the entire world
00:06:29has changed in its in its ideology in its assessment as to
00:06:33how the world in fact works because a country like Iran which was
00:06:37thought of to be a weak state is now proving to to be a superpower in the
00:06:41world and people are still standing in the streets as we
00:06:44speak. Absolutely. Mr. Shoth. I wanted to put the same
00:06:48question to you, how big of a
00:06:51miscalculation would you say the US anders
00:06:55regime have gone through according to the past 200
00:06:59nights? Hello to you and your guests and your
00:07:02audience. I want to refer to the media in the
00:07:05United States of America and the west itself. Their assessment,
00:07:09their main media out. it's
00:07:12like the wall street journals, the New York Times
00:07:16and the rest them and Washington Post, all them they they they
00:07:20talk about this with the interviews with politicians
00:07:23and American influencers as
00:07:27well in there
00:07:28and strategic analys, they say how they
00:07:31were shocked, even some officials in from
00:07:35administration themselves, how shocked they were
00:07:38from the resistance that Iran showed, they thought...
00:07:43Trump, he should he thought in few days,
00:07:47according to the Musad and Netanyahu's assessment, the
00:07:50depectate the the leadership and that's it, and then the
00:07:54country will will collapse. They were astonished
00:07:58to see the late
00:08:01martterat built
00:08:04an over so institutions in the
00:08:07country, layer after layer of that institution, we seen them
00:08:11action. holding the country intact, their
00:08:15leadership in politics and civil affairs in in
00:08:19military defense, and all of that taking places
00:08:22in and very swiftly and harmony. Iran was
00:08:26quickly answering and standing against one the
00:08:30mightest attacks and criminal wars ever been weighed
00:08:34in history. They thought they gna do
00:08:36a shock and baghdad 2003
00:08:40style, and that's it. the Iran like
00:08:43house of cards would collapse, we saw the west is becoming
00:08:47like house of cards and the zianist entity as well and collapse,
00:08:51and they're the one who their own military
00:08:54assets is not available to defend them,
00:08:58we saw their own aircraft carriers
00:09:01leaven the region
00:09:03totally in rus, we heard
00:09:07of news their own personals in these
00:09:10military destroyers and aircraft car is
00:09:13committing suicide, they
00:09:15cannot lost, we see their logistic lines coming from
00:09:19the the middle the Indian ocean insted of
00:09:23Bahrain and Qatar and this region to take
00:09:27a long long germ is to arrive to feed
00:09:31these soldiers in their ships who
00:09:34are the receiving little to what they used
00:09:38to to to receive before so the whole thing is
00:09:42put the pictures back in its
00:09:46right perspective, there is nation who standing
00:09:50together, united behind their leadership, they are
00:09:53outrage and the seeing their country and civil
00:09:56infrastructure be bombarded, their leadership being
00:09:59assassinated by a country acclaiming they are leading
00:10:03the free world, the western free world and they seen them as
00:10:07a criminal and and terrorist who is
00:10:11attacking? peaceful people, that is exactly
00:10:15right. Mr. Hussein, we have seen a large
00:10:18funeral processions after the morchism of senior
00:10:22security and military officials. really
00:10:25speaking, the Iran's late leader Ali
00:10:28Khamenei, which more than 40 million people attended his
00:10:32funeral processions, it wasn't only the biggest funeral procession
00:10:36in recorded history, it was the biggest um recorded uh
00:10:40in recorded history, the largest human gathering that we have
00:10:44witnessed so far. To what extent have those
00:10:48final ceremonies and also the nighty rallies that have been going
00:10:52on for the past 200 nights have been showing. you the
00:10:56level of miscalculation by the enemies of Iran
00:10:58a
00:11:03deliberate formation by the zianist regime to say through different
00:11:06institutions that they fund through different channels and united
00:11:10states agency for global media and the national endowment for democracy of course play their part
00:11:14in manufacturing agenda and manufacturing propaganda that
00:11:18the Iranians are perhaps not happy with their country and as you correctly pointed
00:11:22out is the largest gathering ever to have happened. across history and
00:11:26we saw with our with our own eyes how it was even difficult to
00:11:29breathe being in those spaces and it was very well managed by the Iranians otherwise
00:11:33otherwise they would have been
00:11:34a threat of stamped over there there was so much crowd and all the
00:11:38journalists who were there from different countries around the world looked at the entire
00:11:41situation with their own eyes as to how many people there were so it has become
00:11:45an un indisputable fact that Iranians are for
00:11:49their government Iranians are in support their leadership and they are standing
00:11:53together as a united country. "the miscalculation, I think in
00:11:57part was not so much with the US administration officials,
00:12:01I think that they were more so pressurized by by the
00:12:05Israeli regime and by them that you know perhaps they might be
00:12:08exposed to other things, they might be exposed to leverages and since
00:12:12Apac controls 300 more than 355 members the congress in the
00:12:16United States, I think that they sort of pushed the United States into
00:12:20this war whilst the United States clearly knew that
00:12:24perhaps..." "the situation is not as the Israelies tell them, so
00:12:28I think that the leaders in the United States and the
00:12:31Israelis have pushed the the people the United States
00:12:34into into a place where right now people are struggling over there with basic
00:12:38necessities. Donald Trump has stated that he cannot afford medicaid, medicare,
00:12:42day care, all these things. In fact, the their economy is under a
00:12:46high level of debt, 40 trillion dollars above debt they have right now,
00:12:50prices of fuel and gasoline in California for example, you
00:12:54saw that they reached..."
00:12:55to do 9.99 dollars, theoretically they can't grow more,
00:12:59so we see right now how their miscalculations or how their deliberate
00:13:02attempts to do something that they perhaps understood that cannot happen
00:13:06and yet they took their chance, we see how the American people are suffering,
00:13:10so I feel, I personally feel bad not just for whatever
00:13:14happened in the region, but because the fact that the people the United States
00:13:18who are yet again protesting against their government, who do not stand with what their
00:13:22government is doing, they are the ones who are suffer. and they are the ones who are
00:13:26basically paying for all the decisions that the American administration is doing and
00:13:30I think the American people realize now as to how the American foreign
00:13:34policy is not only tilted but
00:13:36it is entrenched with the Israeli interests and their
00:13:40expansionist plans in the region so I think that that
00:13:43miscalculation with which they they made earlier perhaps
00:13:47they they have not yet understood their lesson and perhaps they might plan
00:13:51to do something against Iran but I I know for fact that this will only
00:13:55prove to be for at their own peril and they will again
00:13:58understand that whatever they're thinking about Iran and whatever they think about Iranian
00:14:02people is wrong. Absolutely. Mr. Shoth,
00:14:06I'm interested in knowing what has been the effects
00:14:10the past 200 days on regional and
00:14:14global balance of power. This is very important
00:14:18question, the 200 days they
00:14:21showed how a united people. behind their
00:14:25leadership and those people are so proud their
00:14:29achievement, let me put it this way,
00:14:33this this 200 days they change
00:14:37the whole prospective the geopolitics
00:14:41regionally and internationally. today
00:14:44if i want to say it this way, there is few
00:14:48countries who if you wage on them that such a war,
00:14:52maybe they can last, maybe it's china, maybe
00:14:55Russia and the United States of America and now Iran, the same
00:14:59countries are the only countries in the world who
00:15:03they can say food wise
00:15:06and regional, I mean
00:15:09in domestic production, they are
00:15:13self-sufficient like Iran, China,
00:15:17the Russia and the United States of America, these countries can, if they
00:15:21lock their own borders, they can survive for for.
00:15:25period of time while the fighting, this is the only four
00:15:28countries in the world, Iran, one them, today Iran
00:15:32is moved from regional player to
00:15:36a global player. talking about the new
00:15:40the new political system and the international order
00:15:44after this war will be different, what is before that war
00:15:48is not like when like today or tomorrow, it's totally
00:15:52different, and all of that came didn't come from nowhere,
00:15:55this is came from revolution happened in
00:15:581979, it started building schools,
00:16:02building universities, research centers,
00:16:05educating the women and de man in the country,
00:16:09eliminating all kind of backwardness in that
00:16:13country, giving power and empowering the people,
00:16:17and from there we can see, I heard, I said that
00:16:20before, but I want to say it again, I heard and a
00:16:24Japanese well known thinker and academic
00:16:28saying in research, today Japan is number
00:16:3213 in the country in research, scientific research institutions,
00:16:36Iran is number 12. Iran is head of Japan today, if
00:16:39you look at Iran today, Iran in nanotechnology, in
00:16:43space technology, it's it puts its own satellite
00:16:46systems by its own indigenous rockets in
00:16:50orbit. Iran is it, it
00:16:52have its own satellites who's watching all over the
00:16:55region, and this is how Iran can spot what the Americans doing,
00:16:59and this is how Iran can target its own its
00:17:03own weaponry to be within even zero.
00:17:07meter accuracy in there, so all of that came
00:17:11from educated nation, it's the leadership the revolution
00:17:15invested heavily in developing this country while it's
00:17:19been bloccaded and beseed by the the western
00:17:23countries who thought they lost a milking cow, the
00:17:27shah of Iran used to provide for the west, let me say the last point
00:17:30in here, sharan used to supply the zinis
00:17:34entity with the free oil, that free... used to
00:17:38attack all the Arab countries in that
00:17:41region. Absolutely. Thank you so much for those
00:17:44insights, Mr. Shath. I'm going to come back to that. Mr.
00:17:48Hussein, the Pentagon Inspector General has reported
00:17:51major US munitions shortfall. After the first
00:17:55months of this confrontation with Iran saying with more than
00:17:5922 billion dollars worth of munitions only
00:18:02expended. This shows us the level of economic
00:18:06expenditure that the US. has been um allocating to this
00:18:10war, we do not know the exact numbers in the past 200 days, yet
00:18:14again you are saying that they are still thinking about
00:18:17another round of confrontation with Iran, how would you say that will
00:18:21look like in the future? that interceptors have fallen perhaps by
00:18:2480%, whilst the Israeli regime has not used their
00:18:28own interceptors, they have relied on the United States and the basis in the Middle
00:18:32East to provide cover for them, and we see now not only that that
00:18:36their interceptors have shollen. but also their bases have been hit really
00:18:39hard. Dr. Abbas Arakshi when he very recently when he tweeted we
00:18:43saw that tweet and we we saw the report from the Pentagon that stated that
00:18:47hundreds of military structures were destroyed by Iran and effectively
00:18:5120 the bases according to their own news websites, for example
00:18:55media outlets like BBC and New York Times, they themselves say that 20
00:18:59bases have been destroyed, the CIA center, the headquarters in
00:19:03Riyadh has been destroyed, the United States if it chooses to
00:19:06go... for another round and I think that there is some
00:19:10likelihood that they might be they might be thinking about it, but I think that
00:19:13again this is this is a miscalculation because if they try to
00:19:17do so and if for example they try to you know look
00:19:20at kulang and they try to do something they
00:19:24perhaps do not yet realize how the response the Iranians will be,
00:19:28they don't know so far that whatever the Iranian generals have been saying that the
00:19:32Iran has not used its new technology, they have not revealed their new weapons, many
00:19:36the weapons have not been tested even. so I think that this miscalculation that they
00:19:40will take, this will this will take the war outside the region
00:19:43as stated previously by many the leaders, so I think that another
00:19:47miscalculation would be detrimental for the United States and that will be the last
00:19:51push for the dedollarization all around the
00:19:54globe and we will see a massive economic crisis for the United States
00:19:58itself, because the dollar stands on credibility and it stands on all of
00:20:02this confidence that 1974 agreement has provided.
00:20:06Thank you so much for your. insights and those were Mohammed John Hossain journalist
00:20:10and political analyst join us from the city of Tehran and Saib
00:20:13Shath author and commentator joining us from the city of Belfast. Thank you
00:20:17both for your insights tonight and
00:20:19that brings us to the end of this edition over a spotlight program. Thank you so much for
00:20:23joining us and
00:20:24bye-bye.
00:20:42This week on expose what happens when the headlines stop telling the whole
00:20:46story when CNN rewrites the chronology of a war when
00:20:50military commandants warn that the conflict is becoming
00:20:53unsustainable when social media turns the spotlight on Washington's
00:20:57loyalty to zionus Israel when Jordan pays the price for
00:21:00hosting foreign forces when the numbers expose what political
00:21:04speeches try to conceal. Expose this week follows the
00:21:08story across the platforms with one question: who benefits
00:21:12from the story we are being told and who pays the
00:21:15price? American lies exposed this week on
00:21:18exposed.
00:23:05The question now circulating through business and political circles around the
00:23:09world is this: does Iran have the right to charge ships for passing
00:23:13through the straight of hormoz? The answer is not simple: Hormus is
00:23:17natural international straight, but does being... natural mean
00:23:20being cost-free, the modern world still runs on maritime
00:23:24transport. more than 80% of global trade moves by
00:23:28sea, oil, gas, food, metals,
00:23:31medicine, cars, industrial components, and consumer
00:23:35goods, all travel between continents by ship. in other words, the
00:23:39backbone of global trade is still shipping, and these vast oceans
00:23:43depend a handful of narrow, highly sensitive passages, the
00:23:47suez canal, the Panama Canal, Bab el
00:23:51Mandeb, the straight of Malaca,
00:23:54Gibraltar, and the straight of Hormus, the
00:23:57energy artery the Persian Gulf. Some these roots are
00:24:01artificial, they were once land, then transformed into waterways
00:24:05through massive human investment. Sues and Panama are clear
00:24:09examples, giant engineering projects built and operated
00:24:13through excavation, dredging, traffic management, constant
00:24:16maintenance, and complex infrastructure. That
00:24:19is why... my passage through them is not free, but the story of
00:24:23Sweez is not only economic, it is deeply
00:24:26political. For years, Britain and France benefited from the canal's
00:24:30revenues. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasir
00:24:34nationalized the Sues Canal and declared that waterway
00:24:38located on Egyptian soil had to be under Egyptian
00:24:41sovereignty, despite the military attack launched by Israel, Britain and
00:24:45France to reverse that has passed the $10 billion dollar mark,
00:24:49but not all choke points. points are artificial, some are natural, such as the
00:24:52Bosperos and the Dardinels in Turkey, the straight of
00:24:56Malacca, Gibraltar, and the straight of
00:25:00Hormus. In natural straights, states generally
00:25:04cannot charge vessels simply for the active passage in the same way
00:25:08road tool is collected, but that does not mean these roots carry
00:25:11no costs. In many such passages, fees are collected for
00:25:15specific services, navigational assistance, lighthouse
00:25:19services. Search and rescue,
00:25:22pilotage, tug support, port
00:25:25management, traffic control, and environmental
00:25:29protection. Now return to Hormus. The straight of
00:25:33Hormus is one the busiest and most sensitive maritime roots on
00:25:37earth. Every day, around 200 vessels may pass through
00:25:41this narrow corridor, oil tankers, LNG
00:25:44carriers, chemical tankers, container ships, and
00:25:48even naval vessels. In such an environment, a collision
00:25:52between two ships is not simple accident. Lives can
00:25:56be put at risk, chipping lanes can be disrupted, millions of
00:26:00dollars in damage can occur. Oil, fuel or chemicals
00:26:04can spill into the waters the Persian Gulf. This is not two
00:26:08cars scraping bumpers a street. It can become an
00:26:12environmental and economic crisis, but unlike
00:26:15cars, massive vessels need significant time,
00:26:18distance, and coordination to change course or come to a full
00:26:22stop. That is why passage
00:26:26through Hormus requires constant management. Just like
00:26:29crowded urban road, the straight of Hormus. needs designated
00:26:33inbound and outbound lanes, traffic separation
00:26:37zones, maritime warnings, coastal
00:26:40monitoring, radio coordination, and
00:26:43crisis management mechanisms. For years, Iran
00:26:47and Oman, as the coastal states the straight have carried
00:26:51major share of this responsibility. While the global
00:26:54economy has benefited from this route, much the burden has remained
00:26:58with the region: air and water pollution, the risk of fuel.
00:27:02spills, possible collisions, search and rescue
00:27:06operations, wider security and
00:27:10environmental consequences. In this context, Iran's
00:27:14question becomes easier to understand, is it reasonable for the
00:27:18world to benefit from vital straight without contributing to the cost of
00:27:22keeping it safe? And more importantly, is it fair for countries that
00:27:25depend on the security of this route to impose political pressure,
00:27:29economic sanctions and even war on Iran? while still
00:27:33expecting essential services in this corridor to continue free of
00:27:37charge. From Iran's perspective, the ear of providing
00:27:41such services without compensation is over. This does not
00:27:44mean closing maritime roots or using the straight of hormous as a
00:27:48weapon. It means creating a transparent, legal and predictable
00:27:52mechanism for sharing the costs the services that keep this route
00:27:56safe and usable. If Suez and Panama collect fees for their
00:28:00artificial waterways and if some'. natural straits also
00:28:04have financial mechanisms for safety related services,
00:28:08then the straight of Hormus cannot be treated forever as a completely free
00:28:12route. The fact that Hormus is natural or international does not
00:28:15exempted from the costs of management and protection, and its
00:28:19strategic importance is exactly why financing its safety and
00:28:22management must be taken
00:28:24seriously.
00:30:02Press TV Headlines Iran says a Pentagon report on the damage done to US
00:30:06military assets in the region is just the tip the iceberg
00:30:10and uh real figures much
00:30:12higher.
00:30:16A new report says U.S. aggression against Iran has cost
00:30:20$38 billion dollars so far and