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00:00:00carried
00:00:00of picture
00:00:01of the martered leader. on their way home, everything
00:00:04changed,
00:00:05of the refinery was struck, the flash was blinding, people scattered in
00:00:09every direction. alvin kept shouting, mom, run, mom, run. i can
00:00:13still hear her voice. when the dust settled, i realized my hand had
00:00:16been hit by sharpnow and my left leg had been severed below the
00:00:20ankle. her mother was holding ovine. she looked peaceful.
00:00:24there wasn't a scratched on her face. we thought she had simply lost
00:00:28consciousness. a stranger p her up and ran towards the
00:00:31hospital. I kept screaming, "don't take ovin away," but I
00:00:35couldn't move, I couldn't even hold my own daughter one last
00:00:39of time. For 10 days while Leila lay in hospital, everyone told her
00:00:43avin was intensive care. Only the day before the
00:00:46funeral did they tell her she had died. Despite the pain, Laila
00:00:50smiles when she remembers her daughter. She
00:00:52of was like a bottle of
00:00:54of perfume. Whenever she entered her room, she filled it with warmth.
00:00:57Everyone loved her. Today, perhaps... No one feels Ovine's absence
00:01:01more deeply than her six-year-old brother, Amir Ali,
00:01:05a who was also injured
00:01:07of that night. He didn't just lose
00:01:08a sister. Their mother says he lost his closest
00:01:11friend.
00:01:58It was supposed to last. only one night,
00:02:02night when people after hearing the news
00:02:04of the murderdom
00:02:05of the leader
00:02:06of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayid Ali Khamenei and
00:02:09the start
00:02:10of the U.S. Israeli military attack on Iran would take to the
00:02:14streets to mourn, express their anger and stand
00:02:17beside the armed forces, but the first
00:02:21night ended and
00:02:22a people did not go home. Then came the second
00:02:26night, then the third days.
00:02:30passed and one night followed
00:02:32another, under the sound of sirens, under the
00:02:36thread of air
00:02:38in strikes, in the middle of
00:02:39a war, and while many expected the pressure
00:02:41of the conflict empty Iran streets, something else
00:02:46of happened. The streets did not empty, people picked up the
00:02:50Iranian flag and came out again, and again and
00:02:54again. In some cities they stayed until
00:02:58midnight and sometimes until... on the
00:03:0140th night passed, then the
00:03:0460th, the 80th, the
00:03:07100th. Ramadan ended and Muharram
00:03:10arrived, and this time people brought their muharram morning
00:03:14ceremonies into the streets as well. Now more than
00:03:18200 nights have passed. For more than
00:03:22200 nights after darkness falls, people across Iran
00:03:26have once again taken to the
00:03:28of streets. of
00:03:50of
00:03:58These gatherings of have taken. in place at more than 4,000 locations
00:04:02across the country. In Tehran alone, more than
00:04:06130 locations have witnessed these gatherings.
00:04:09More than 56%
00:04:13of of the country's population have taken part in them at least
00:04:14once.
00:04:23of of But these numbers tell only part
00:04:24of the story. What matters even more is that they
00:04:27have continued.
00:05:05of
00:05:39بعد از ترور رهبر شهیدم و خانوادهشون. و این همه
00:05:43شهیدی که در راه اسلام داریم تکلیفه برای اینکه همه در میدان
00:05:47ها حضور داشته باشن به گفته حضرت آقا و
00:05:50خیابان ها را خالی نکنند تا بتونیم کشورمون
00:05:53و وطنمون ایران و حقانیتمون رو هم اثبات و هم
00:05:56حفظیم می
00:06:00میریم سازش نمی
00:06:02پذیرییم تقریباً میشه گفت
00:06:05اگه ۱۸۰ شب باشه که اینجا اجتماعات
00:06:09تشکیل میشه حداقل من ۱۶۰
00:06:43The streets have not simply been places for gatherings. For many
00:06:47people, they have become places of warning, warship,
00:06:50solidarity, opposition to the enemy, support for the
00:06:54armed sessions. Kadir celebrations have been held
00:06:58there. People have taken to the streets to celebrate the national
00:07:02football team's matches in the world cup. People have
00:07:06cried, laughed, and in some places even held
00:07:09weddings.
00:08:13چون اون بچه هایی که الان خوابن نمیان من به جاشون
00:08:17اومدم که از کشورم دفاع
00:08:20کنن آمریکا بربل
00:08:24آمریکا برفر آمریکا من اومدم
00:08:28بگم که درسته که من نظامی نیستم و در
00:08:32جنگ شرکت نمیکنم اما همین پرچمی که در دست
00:08:36ماست سلاح ماه و ما میایم اینجا به
00:08:39دشمن بگه که ما از کشورمون دفاع میکنیم.
00:09:24They will not leave the streets until their leader tells them
00:09:28to.
00:09:32In the first days the war, their presence was easier to
00:09:35explain. People were grieving, their leader had been murdered and
00:09:39the country was under attack. People came to...
00:10:12The Iranian people left their homes around six or seven in the morning
00:10:16and headed to the main squares and cities across the country. At
00:10:20first we saw scenes of grief, sorrow and tears, but
00:10:23these soon turn. into scenes the nation's strength and
00:10:27grandure, people took to the streets to avenge the blood their
00:10:30leader and confront the American Zinous enemy.
00:10:34Even on occasions such as What's day rallies, when areas
00:10:38around these gatherings were bombed, the people stood their ground without
00:10:41any fear. For
00:10:45part of society, the war was no longer simply a confrontation
00:10:49between a government and foreign enemy. It became a threat to
00:10:53the country's independence. territorial integrity and
00:10:57national existence, and under such
00:11:00circumstances, even people who may disagree with some domestic
00:11:04policies the Islamic Republic, can choose to stand with the
00:11:07country and its national
00:11:09sovereignty. Iranian society
00:11:12cannot simply be divided into two completely separate
00:11:16groups, supporters the system and opponents the
00:11:19system. the experience of war has shown that people's
00:11:23political identities can be
00:13:55"there is no contradiction in it. I see women
00:13:59who wear the hijab and women who do not, people with
00:14:02different appearances, but we are all Iranians
00:14:06and we love our
00:14:07country.
00:14:11The war has for part of society, placed internal
00:14:15differences behind a much bigger question. When
00:14:18Iran is under attack, what should come
00:14:21first? And their answer has been to take..." to the
00:14:25streets,
00:14:29but this presence is not simply a political reaction. if that
00:14:33were the case, then the streets probably would have become quieter
00:14:37once the first phase the war ended and the Islamabad
00:14:41mou was signed, but that did not
00:14:44happen.
00:14:47one the most important features of this phenomenon is
00:14:51precisely this transformation. what began as emer
00:14:55emergency response has become a lasting social
00:14:58pattern. In wartime, empty streets are often a
00:15:02sign of society under psychological
00:15:04pressure. People stop going outside,
00:15:08businesses are disrupted. Everyday life
00:15:11retreats. Fear takes over public
00:15:14space, but in Iran something different
00:15:18happened. Public space remained in people's
00:15:21hands. Gatherings continued.
00:15:37"these gatherings increase people's resilience and strengthen their
00:15:41spirit of perseverance and resistance. when people stand
00:15:45togetherly, they also boost the morale of our fighters as well
00:15:49as our politicians and officials. they realize that they're not
00:15:53alone, and that the people want them to stand firm and make no
00:15:56concessions.
00:16:00from this perspective, people's presence in the streets is not only a
00:16:04political message to the outside world, it is also..."
00:16:07psychological message to society itself,
00:16:11message that the war has not been able to stop social
00:16:14life, that people can still come
00:16:17together. this can also strengthen social
00:16:21resilience. when a person faces the pressure of
00:16:25war, reports of attacks and uncertainty about the future
00:16:28alone, a sense of helplessness can grow,
00:16:32but when that same person stands in square among hundreds or
00:16:36thousands of others, "the experience
00:16:38changes: they are no longer simply an individual
00:16:42facing crisis, they become part the
00:16:45collective. من بزرگترین و باشکوه ترین عجیب
00:16:48غریب ترین صحنه هایی که تو تجمعات یادمی دقیقاً همون صحنه هاییه
00:16:52که the greatest and most inspiring
00:16:56scenes we saw at these gatherings were when the enemy struck
00:16:59targets near the crowds causing massive explosions, yet the
00:17:03people stood their ground. anywhere else in the world, people..." would have
00:17:07run for cover, but that was not the case in
00:17:10Iran.
00:17:15For decades American military interventions across West Asia have
00:17:19left behind countless innocent victims and immeasurable human
00:17:23suffering, and the war against Iran is no exception. Beyond
00:17:27the headlines and geopolitical calculations, our personal to work
00:17:30that morning was a choice. She knew the place was dangerous, her
00:17:34family knew it too, but there was work left. finished and Nargis
00:17:38did not want to walk away. Nargis Haji Mollah Haydar was
00:17:42born
00:17:43in 1999, talented computer engineering graduate and a
00:17:47high achieving student at the University of Tehran. She had built
00:17:51her life around learning, discipline and service. She was also a
00:17:54Korati athlete for two years. She trained seriously and eventually won a gold
00:17:58medal in Komite and silver medal in Qatar a national
00:18:02competition. After returning from the arbane pilgrimage, Nargis
00:18:06set herself another goal. master's degree in network
00:18:09technology. She studied for five months with determination and
00:18:12face and was eventually admitted to a state university with a
00:18:16high rank. Then came new job in the cyber security
00:18:20field where her technical skills could be put to use. One
00:18:24the projects she was working on was national university project
00:18:28aimed at strengthening the resilience of Tehran's water
00:18:32network. But then war came. The family learned
00:18:35that the country had come under attacked, relatives wargies that her
00:18:39workplace could be a target and urged her not to go back.
00:18:43Nargas refused, she told them she could not bear the thought of
00:18:46leaving her work unfinished. The night before
00:18:50her death, she said something that her mother would never
00:18:54forget. Mom, forgive me if you don't see me again. The
00:18:58following morning, some colleagues decided not to come to work
00:19:02because the danger. Margas chose differently. Before leaving
00:19:05home, her mother asked her to stay away for just two days, nah
00:19:09smiled and replied, we cannot stand by and leave our country
00:19:13alone, it needs people who are not afraid.
00:19:17few hours later at around 2:30 p.m. on March 2nd,
00:19:202026, two missiles struck her workplace in terhamps, eastern
00:19:24Tehran. Nigas was killed alongside several of her
00:19:27colleagues. Her father spent hours searching for her
00:19:31body for days the family did not know which the recovered bodies was
00:19:35their daughter. Finally, DNA has saying... Identified her remains, now I guess was
00:19:39only 26, young woman who had wanted to study, to
00:19:43compete, to build a career and to finish the work she had started. For her
00:19:47family, the last words she spoke before leaving home would
00:19:50become something much more than farewell. They would become
00:19:54the final words of daughter who knew the danger and went
00:19:58away
00:19:58anyways.
00:20:02There is another dimension to these streets and that is their relationship
00:20:06with the armed force. forces during the war, people did not come out
00:20:10only to mourn, they also wanted to tell the country's military
00:20:14forces that they were not
00:20:16alone.
00:20:20a time when Iran's armed forces were facing major military
00:20:24power, the presence of people in the streets could be seen as a sign of
00:20:27social support for the resistance. this was where the
00:20:31slogan, the streets with us, the battlefield with you,
00:20:34emerged. only... after the war
00:20:38began, brigadier general sayid Majid Musavi, commander
00:20:42the IRGC aerospace force, sent a message to the Iranian
00:20:46people, keep the streets, we have the battlefield.
00:21:21But this relationship is not limited to military
00:21:24warfare. The streets are also part of another
00:21:27battlefield, the cognitive war. In
00:21:31modern conflicts, missiles and aircrafts are not the only
00:21:34things that matter. The image of society, the morale of
00:21:38its people, public perceptions, and how united or vulnerable
00:21:42a country appears can also be
00:21:45decisive.
00:22:20no longer saw their presence simply as an act of vengeance, they
00:22:24side as a standing alongside our military forces who are
00:22:27fighting the
00:22:28enemy. From this
00:22:32perspective, the continued presence of people in the streets can become a
00:22:36message, society has not fallen
00:22:39apart, the streets are not controlled by the
00:22:42crisis and Iran's story is not being shipped
00:22:46only by foreign media or social media platforms out. outside the
00:22:50country, people themselves can create their own
00:22:54narrative in public spaces, but why
00:22:58should this presence continue? the answer is
00:23:02simple: the war did not end when the bombing
00:23:05stopped, the security thread may have changed its
00:23:09form, negotiations may have begun, a cease
00:23:13fire may have been reached, but questions of trust,
00:23:17deterrance, support for the armed forces,
00:23:41We are now showing the word what it means to stand firm, this
00:23:45resilience comes from our faith and convictions and
00:23:49it gives us as strength to move forward through difficult
00:23:52times. even
00:23:56after the immediate threat of attacks and cities has declined,
00:24:00concerns remain about attempts to create insecurity and exploit
00:24:03internal divisions. at the same time as
00:24:07negotiations have begun and military action has become more
00:24:10limited, people's presence in the streets can represent another
00:24:14form of support, that is the idea that resistance and the
00:24:18defense the country's rights. are not simply military or
00:24:21government decisions. For a large part of
00:24:25society, they are a public demand. Perhaps that is why
00:24:29these 200 nights should not be measured only by the number of people who
00:24:33have taken part, they should be understood as a collective
00:24:36experience. An experience of people who in the middle
00:24:40the war did not leave the streets, people who
00:24:44connected Ramadan with Muharram, people who brought morning
00:24:48together with everyday life. and support for the armed forces together
00:24:52with the defense of Iran. People who may disagree
00:24:56on many issues, but who at this moment have chosen to
00:24:59define themselves under one flag, the flag of
00:25:03Iran.
00:25:08More than 200 nights have passed, that means more than
00:25:12200 times, darkness has fallen and the people have decided
00:25:16to leave their homes for more than 200 nights.
00:25:50achieve results, but for people to come out like this,
00:25:53during the war, defend their country and stand that
00:25:57ground is truly exceptional. In Israel, when an
00:26:01Iranian missile is...
00:26:20spent more
00:26:21They have than 200 nights in the streets and if
00:26:24necessary they say they will stay for another
00:26:27200 even for year for 2 years
00:26:30and if Iran is at stake perhaps for as long as
00:26:34it takes, because for them this is no longer
00:26:38simply nightly gathering, it is not a social
00:26:41habit, it is not a ceremonial
00:26:44program, it is a declaration of
00:26:47presence, a declaration by people who say that
00:26:51whenever Iran needs them, they will not leave its streets
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00:28:38symbols of power, became the front line a brutal
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