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00:00:00before war took it away, he was born into war and he died in
00:00:04it. his entire life lasted 20 days, that is why his name
00:00:08should never disappear into a list of casualties. for his memory to
00:00:12survive, his story
00:00:13of must be told for years to
00:00:15of come. 20 days of life, lifetime of
00:00:21of remembrance.
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00:00:33One flag, one message: for more than
00:00:36of 200 nights, Iranians have taken to the streets, raising the
00:00:39national flag and expressing their support for the Islamic
00:00:42Republic.
00:00:49What has kept them coming out night after night, and what does this
00:00:53sustained presence tell us about Iran today? More
00:00:57than 200 nights and story that is still on...
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00:01:36Welcome
00:01:37of everyone. Iran's armed forces, khatar central command has warned the
00:01:41US and regional countries that any mistake could make them immediate targets
00:01:45after until has emerged that the US may be resuming hostilities against the
00:01:49Islamic Republic after receiving a
00:01:51of green light from regional countries. The top military body said any such
00:01:55move by the US
00:01:56of will expose the entire interest and basis in the region to intent.
00:02:00back-to-back attacks. Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security
00:02:04Council, General Mony earlier acknowledged the US president's latest
00:02:07Rederick, where Donald Trump said axis that he's a quote,
00:02:11critical juncture and may carry out massive attacks to bring the war to an
00:02:15end. To this, General Reiz said that US has made one
00:02:19miscalculation after another and Iran has weather the another,
00:02:22of and Iran
00:02:23of has weather them all and is even more well prepared calculation. A number
00:02:27of these statements pointing to possible new
00:02:29of dimensions of and relation between Iran and the US and Israeli regime is
00:02:33focus of tonight spotlight program and now for your
00:02:39of guests, joining us Mr. Bruno, author
00:02:43and geopolitical analyst from
00:02:45of Toronto
00:02:50and Mr. Reza Vedadia, academic researcher and author, joining
00:02:54us from Moscot. Hello gentlemen, pleasure
00:02:57of to have you both on, I guess we'll start there in Toronto. Canada with you, Mr.
00:03:01Bruno. Welcome to the program, sir. Uh, your initial thoughts on
00:03:05what many feel is what we're witnessing in real time, it build up
00:03:09to
00:03:09a resumption of hostilities. Well,
00:03:13I mean, there's not much to think here, because the person in charge
00:03:17of this supposed operation is not is obviously not
00:03:20thinking very well. Um, this is
00:03:24absolutely ridiculous, I mean to put
00:03:28it mildly, because... It's many more
00:03:30things um that Trump would be thinking that
00:03:34he can end the conflict by
00:03:38escalating the bombing and by the sounds of
00:03:41it the plans are would be
00:03:43considerable sorry the plants would involve
00:03:48in considerable destruction of infrastructure and
00:03:52aimed at bringing Iran down to its knees now
00:03:55apart from I'm not the the logistics of
00:03:59this operation, because where would the
00:04:03bombers be coming
00:04:07from, the the bases in the middle
00:04:11east would obviously be easy targets for Iran, so
00:04:15the I suspect that the aircraft would
00:04:18be coming from
00:04:22Europe, European basis of North American, so probably
00:04:26B52's involves or other.
00:04:30strategic bombers, but
00:04:33um, the the
00:04:35the ultimately the end goal is not clear, that
00:04:39is this, the problem with this, well, one
00:04:42of of the tactic, one
00:04:45of of the problems with this هذا war from the
00:04:45هذا beginning is that Trump's goal is
00:04:48unclear, um, it started out with regime change
00:04:53a and he didn't achieve it, and then it became opening
00:04:57up the horm straight, which was already open. before the war
00:05:00started, so he's trying to cover up
00:05:04his own up his
00:05:06own errors to went
00:05:10along with with it in. of arguing with
00:05:13him,
00:05:15and bombing Iran again
00:05:19will not solve anything, because
00:05:23if any, Iran has shown that it's got allies in the
00:05:27region, and
00:05:31also I'm not sure about how much support he will be getting
00:05:35from the governments the gulf, given that those
00:05:38governments will be incurring severe damage, they know it '
00:05:43as retaliation, Iran's capabilities, missile
00:05:46capabilities are considerable and the Americans
00:05:49considerable, and the Americans have not been able to
00:05:53destroy the the launching sights or the
00:05:56arsenals, so they are going
00:06:00to, they are going into the
00:06:03unknown, and the consequences are going to be felt
00:06:07by most Americans and most people around world because they're going to be
00:06:11economic.
00:06:13and this before the mid-term elections where Trump had to
00:06:16promise bribe essentially voters into
00:06:20uh supporting his party uh
00:06:24so the situation is desperate on Trump's
00:06:28side um and I'm hoping I'm hoping that
00:06:32within the military there are still and there there are some reasonable
00:06:36people in the US military I've met them i'm hoping
00:06:40that those voices prevail. over
00:06:44this want to be
00:06:46romel you know in charge the white
00:06:50house who is bringing the world to ruin, perhaps he's
00:06:54got shorts on various stocks,
00:06:57because this is the only explanation I can give myself
00:07:01for why he would be launching another yet another attack
00:07:05instead of really trying to wrap it up and
00:07:09and end
00:07:09and end it obviously someone has something. on him. All
00:07:13right, thank you, Mr. Bruno, and Reza Vidadi, thanks for your patience, Paul, welcome
00:07:17to the conversation, and Reza, your opening take as well on the US president
00:07:21statements in Iran's response, two said statements,
00:07:25so we know that few weeks ago the
00:07:29Arab countries from the Persian Gulf had a meeting in
00:07:32Europe with the military the United States and the
00:07:36Israelis, so there's no doubt that the United States wants
00:07:40to have another go at Iran. and it's just
00:07:44binding its time to prepare and consolidate
00:07:47whatever it can uh from the current situation where
00:07:51Iran has devastated the US military bases, but what's
00:07:55interesting is that you have Saudi Arabia at the moment,
00:07:58which is being attacked by Yemen, and Yemen, even
00:08:02though it's the poorest, even though it's the poorest country, poorest
00:08:06arab country in the world, it's doing immense
00:08:10damage to the richest arab country in. well then we all know why,
00:08:13because the blockade that the Saudis had imposed on the
00:08:17Yemenis that killed women and children, innocent people for over
00:08:20decade, so it's their right to defend their country and their
00:08:23territory and not have a blockade around them, but it's interesting
00:08:27that these arab countries even know, even though
00:08:30now they know the capability of Iran, and they all accept
00:08:34and recognize that Iran has only demonstrated a fraction of
00:08:38its capability, this is not the full capability of Iran, which what we
00:08:42in the 45 days and even after that, it's only a fraction and
00:08:46only a small tip of its capabilities and
00:08:50power, and yet they are not trying to find a way to
00:08:54pressure the united states to end this, they still trying to find
00:08:57a way to work with the United States against
00:09:00Iran, and this will be for their own detriment,
00:09:04unfortunately, so they are so wedded to being
00:09:07anti-Iran and supporting the and
00:09:11supporting the United States. for whatever reason that they've been
00:09:14groomed from young age to answer to the United States and the
00:09:18west, for whatever reasons that anyone can come up with, they
00:09:22seem to have determination of
00:09:25self-destruction, and I think Iran has made that clear to them
00:09:29with the defense of its territory when
00:09:32it was attacking the United States and also again in the last day or
00:09:36so, it's warn them that this time before we were restricting,
00:09:40I think the attacks, this is what the... are saying to the American
00:09:44basis, but this time if you basis, but this time if you
00:09:48collude and assist the United of your country will be
00:09:51fair target. All right, thank you the
00:09:55resident. Alexandre, you made some good points there, you mentioned that
00:09:59it seems at this point Donald Trump, his goals are somewhat unclear, murky as well
00:10:03as his ambitions, and it's really tough to get read on what is
00:10:06feeding into these statements and his decision making, you mentioned midterm elections,
00:10:10you mentioned desperation and frustration.
00:10:25now that are impacting is is this a man of consequence at this point or is
00:10:29he still in the driver or is he still in the driver seat making
00:10:32decisions? uh, well, unfortunately he's still making
00:10:35decisions and he's making very bad
00:10:39decisions, he's and he's
00:10:42also he's trying to score points
00:10:46with some of his voters, but I think the maga
00:10:49is definitely disintegrating, there
00:10:53was some few... two republican senators
00:10:56including although predictably senator
00:10:59massy just was
00:11:03it
00:11:03kennedy few
00:11:07days ago refused to go along
00:11:11with a trump plan not that
00:11:14many
00:11:19we we're starting to see some erosion of support
00:11:23even within the maga movement. at the political level,
00:11:26I'm sure that at the street level at there is plenty
00:11:30of opposition, because Trump's tariffs
00:11:34have not hurt the rich, Trump's tariffs have
00:11:38hurt working Americans, food
00:11:42prices are through the roof, gas prices are through the roof,
00:11:45California, diesel is incredibly high,
00:11:49and in the United States everything depends on
00:11:52vehicles, you people..." live in suburbs and suburbs are
00:11:56designed are by design
00:12:00neighborhoods that require driving to get your
00:12:03daily groceries or whatever
00:12:06it is you need,
00:12:07you need to drive. the whole system is designed
00:12:10along around the car in the united states and
00:12:14in in many parts the west as well,
00:12:17so maga is the maga
00:12:21is that there's definitely fraction
00:12:24from ' Uh, one interesting bit,
00:12:28just, I think this is no coincidence, on
00:12:32Friday, Trump announced his big
00:12:35Greenland deal,
00:12:37the that United States will be in charge of security for
00:12:40Greenland for indefinite amount of
00:12:44time, and with the support or with the
00:12:47satisfaction the Danish government,
00:12:51but quite, that's a big announcement, but really.
00:12:55really the United States was never denied that, they
00:12:58could have just asked for it uh
00:13:02quietly and they would have gotten it, but this is um Trump is trying
00:13:06to score a small victories making it look big
00:13:10because he needs something to to uh
00:13:13before the elections, I'm not sure the the the
00:13:17attack is supposedly imminent, but I'm not sure
00:13:21really, I keep thinking that any attack right now, with
00:13:25the consequences that it will inevitably have uh will
00:13:29only hurt the Republicans, if he does this attack, he's
00:13:33clearly under some kind of
00:13:36pressure from an external source, we can only get imagine
00:13:40that this might have something to do with the absten
00:13:43files, the Adelson, Mrs. Adelson and the
00:13:47donation, we don't know, but um, this is not in
00:13:51his interest, let's put it that way, thank you, Mr.
00:13:55and
00:13:55you you want to also weigh in on that how a marriate of factors at this point may be
00:13:59influencing donald trump statements, his actions, him a moving forward and
00:14:03what does he what do you not what do you feel, what do you
00:14:07uh feel his per Donald Trump's perspective is that he
00:14:11feels he's going to achieve a resumption of hostilities that
00:14:15he didn't between February 28th and late
00:14:17June? I mean we can sit here and
00:14:20guess what his intentions are, but I think nobody knows, only God knows what his
00:14:24intentions. are, but in time people will find out what his intentions are, you
00:14:28have to think that either the United States is
00:14:31suicidal, which doesn't really make sense if you sit down and think about
00:14:35it, or you may think that this is a grand strategy by
00:14:39causing so much havoc in the west age base
00:14:42for the uh base for the uh the colonial
00:14:46project by weaking the colonial project by weakening these
00:14:50arab countries and forcing because you know the Saudi
00:14:54Arabia was starting to do its trade with China for
00:14:58its oil uan or wanted to do that, the other arab countries were thinking about
00:15:01this, so I think Trump is trying to basically or the
00:15:05empire, I don't think Trump is in in charge the empire, we have to
00:15:08understand that Trump is the tip the iceberg, there's an empire and there's
00:15:12a group of elites that have plans in place for whoever comes
00:15:16into power, sometimes it has smiling face, sometimes it has a
00:15:20angry face, sometimes it has a angry face, you see the
00:15:24face... of empire, however, what they're trying to do, we're not 100%
00:15:28sure, we'll find that in time, but what they're trying to do is cause enough havoc in
00:15:32the region so that there's Iranian phrase that you
00:15:36mudy the waters so you can catch fish, so this idea that
00:15:40all of sudden Trump doesn't want to defend Saudi Arabia
00:15:44because they have some kind of agreement with the Yemenis doesn't make sense, the
00:15:47fact that he knows it's suicidal for the economy the United States
00:15:51and the majority the world if they attack Iran and Iran
00:15:55devastates the oil fields and infrastructure the region,
00:15:59they know this, there's no reason why if me and you know this, they don't
00:16:03know that, so they have a bigger plan that they trying to rearrange.
00:16:07the world system because china is ascending, russia is ascending
00:16:11a rate that they cannot stop unless there's
00:16:14dramatic impact on the whole world
00:16:17economy, on the whole world global
00:16:21energy sources, so you have to step back and look
00:16:25at it like this, there may be some episten files with the
00:16:29zionist kind of blackmailing
00:16:32him, but i think that's not enough reason to push
00:16:36the united states into su difficult situation and
00:16:39Alessandro, how are we to look into all the deception and lies from this
00:16:43administration with respect to this conflict? compiled a small
00:16:47list, lies about the US fatalities,
00:16:51dwindling missile stocks and other munitions, lies about damage, level of
00:16:55damage to us bases in west Asia, lies about servicemen of
00:16:58moral, mental health, lies about control the hormone straight,
00:17:02lies about Iran's depleted ability to fight, what
00:17:05is this indicative? of this level
00:17:09of of lying and deception, well the lying and
00:17:13deception from the United States, particularly when it comes to the middle
00:17:16east is not new. Trump has
00:17:20just made the how shall we
00:17:23say, trumped it up,
00:17:26trumped it up, let's begin
00:17:30with the first conflict with Iran in in the
00:17:34summer in June of 2025, Trump. promised
00:17:37us that he eliminated Iran's nuclear
00:17:41capability outright,
00:17:44you know, in the biggest beautiful bombers that that they used
00:17:48to do so, of course there was no proof of
00:17:52that, and then we were told again that they had to
00:17:55interven to block Iran's nuclear capability
00:17:58again, in in in
00:18:01march, so that's the
00:18:04first lie, but the bigger lie. is that Iran
00:18:08is a threat in the first place, Iran is not a
00:18:11threat, Iran was making peaceful moves toward
00:18:15all its neighbors, reaching deals, in fact it reached
00:18:19a number of reconciliations with
00:18:23many the Gulf states including Saudi
00:18:25Arabia in in the last few
00:18:28years, so Iran was no threat,
00:18:32and with Syria having gone to the
00:18:35Al-Qaeda, sorry west, side um, you
00:18:39know, Syria was supposedly not no longer serving
00:18:43as a conduit for weapons
00:18:47and other hardware assistance from from Iran
00:18:50to Hezbollah in in in Lebanon. Also, this
00:18:54fixation that Hezbollah is a terrorist, that's another story, but
00:18:58we keep hearing it, it's a it's a legitimate political party
00:19:02and organization in in Lebanon, so
00:19:05the lies are... "you know, there are too
00:19:09many to to shake. Trump is just an experienced liar,
00:19:13he's a salesman, and he he is also
00:19:17ignorant, he doesn't read, he has no clue what he's
00:19:21doing, so one hopes that there are people
00:19:24around him that can keep him
00:19:27in, and but he he's not listening, and
00:19:31unfortunately, in the so-called American democratic
00:19:34system, this president has way" too much
00:19:38authority, he's making the same mistakes that all dictators
00:19:41make, thinking, believing that they are infallible.
00:19:45this is exactly what Hitler and Mussolini did in
00:19:49World War II, they thought they were infallible and they led their
00:19:53populations to disastrous wars, they thought they could
00:19:56win, so ... there is
00:20:00the the the level of lying is,
00:20:04well, I'm I'm not surprised by it. but I did
00:20:08think there is something that Trump may be trying to push
00:20:12as salesman. He's got a meeting with Zin
00:20:15Ping coming up in the next few in the next 48
00:20:19hours I believe in next few few days.
00:20:23So uh, he might be using this threat in
00:20:27the Middle East as leverage against uh
00:20:30China to get some kind of concession, because of course China still
00:20:34imports a lot of oil from the Gulf.
00:20:38so that in trying to look for
00:20:41logical strategic goal here, that's the
00:20:45only one I can think of, and another concerning
00:20:49layer.
00:20:50we have a little bit of time left and I'd like to also if you could to tap into
00:20:54all these falsehoods for the Trump administration officials, they've painted uh for
00:20:57many people watching this thing very closely from the onset, very pathetic
00:21:01uh picture, usually don't lie that much when you think you're you're in the winning seat do you, but
00:21:05nevertheless Iran has given a shark warning to lot of regional countries that
00:21:09supposedly have given the US a green light for so-called
00:21:13resumption of hos of hostilities and attacks against the Islamic
00:21:17Republic, that's a concerning very... you concerning layer to this,
00:21:21isn't it
00:21:21that we might see serious regional escalation, Iran is not going to
00:21:25tolerate uh regional countries given safe haven and
00:21:28refuge to US attacks against
00:21:30Iran. remember on
00:21:34many occasions warned and advised, not just the Iranians
00:21:38but everyone that there's two types of war, there's the kinetic hard war
00:21:42that Iran managed to win well and defend the Iranian
00:21:45territory and Iranian people, but the second one which the
00:21:49empire... has perfected through its media, through its
00:21:53academia, through its diplomacy
00:21:57of changing the narrative of losing a battle to winning a
00:22:00battle or causing havoc or or causing
00:22:03division within its enemies ranks, as we so we see
00:22:07in Venezuela, people are confused, how is it possible that they came in
00:22:11and took our president and our vice president is okay about
00:22:15it, so this is something that the United States has done for
00:22:1847 years, against Iran has spent billions
00:22:22creating uh hundreds of channels to cause
00:22:26division and confusion of narrative
00:22:30against the Iranians and yet what we see and we see these on your screens
00:22:33right now the Iranian people who have come into the
00:22:37streets these are the individuals that are defending the Islamic
00:22:40Republic by defending the Islamic Republic they're defending all the
00:22:44freedom loving people the world and they putting pressure
00:22:48on politicians in Iran. "who are willing after all that's happened
00:22:52to uh work with the United States and even
00:22:56give advantages to the United States, but the people in the
00:23:00streets will not allow that, so these people have learned the lessons that
00:23:03Shaheid Khamenei has taught them, and now they've become wise
00:23:07and they will not allow uh this kind of narrative to take shape in Iran
00:23:11even though some attempt to uh support it. You
00:23:15know what, we have we have lesson 50 seconds, I really want to give this last question um out
00:23:19to one." you, I'm going to put it to uh, you uh, Mr. Bruno, um,
00:23:23a US president said options before Washington against Iran are
00:23:27limited to what he calls obliterating Iran, letting its economy
00:23:30collapse or reaching a deal, he mentions reaching a deal, he flew halfway
00:23:34around the world to sign the Islamabad mediated memorandum of understanding,
00:23:38why do they take it so lightly, why do they let it basically run its
00:23:42course, lead to a possible indef or a strong
00:23:46peace deal after it's a initial 60 days, why violated?
00:23:50so grossly from the onset, well again this
00:23:53really brings us back to the the problem
00:23:57of who is behind Trump's decisions when
00:24:01it comes to Iran, because not only has he been lying, but
00:24:05he's been sabotaging every single solution that they've
00:24:09ever reached, ever since June. In June we had that war that
00:24:13was, I think Trump's big declaration on the
00:24:16nuclear facility destruction. was a
00:24:20way to tell Israel to shut up and say, we look, we've done it, that's
00:24:24it, don't bring this up again, but obviously Netanyahu again bring it
00:24:28out, every
00:24:29time he comes to Washington, and let's not be clear, he's in Washington
00:24:33or he will, he's in Washington or he will be soon before
00:24:36the UN general ass, so obviously they've got something
00:24:40on Trump, and Trump is trying to protect himself
00:24:44and his family and his wealth, we got
00:24:48to go, he is not acting in the US. interest, he's acting on his own
00:24:52interest, so he keeps delaying whatever solution will
00:24:56bring peace,
00:24:59because it's not in Israel's interest. all right, gentlemen,
00:25:03stay safe, pleasure to have you both on, Mr. Alessandro Bruno, author
00:25:07and geopolitical analyst joining us there out of Toronto Canada, Mr.
00:25:11Rezady, academic researcher and author, joining us from Muscot, and
00:25:15viewers, that's it for another segment of your Press TV spotlight program, thank you for tuning
00:25:19in and goodbye.
00:25:29النساء الفلسطينيات اللي قامتت وسابرت وظلتها
00:25:33ثابته لحتى الوقت لحتى اليوم واحنا
00:25:36ثابتات قويات اي
00:25:40ونتامل من الله انه الكل يحس ويشوف قد ايش
00:25:44نحن ثابتين واقفين وبدنا اياهم يدعمونا
00:25:47بالثبات وباليو. to stop
00:25:51or band any trade with settlements in the west bank, I
00:25:55mean, the UK's role has been massive in the
00:25:59creation of of Israel itself, the west has always put
00:26:02themselves in picture as the saviors, having the
00:26:06savior complex, but at the same time they do not look inverdly and look
00:26:10at how they have massively created the situation that we are in right
00:26:13now, by you through their diplomatic ties, through
00:26:17the export of arms, you know, and and following
00:26:21only limited international law where it is feasible for
00:26:25them.
00:26:30they call themselves ancerula. the supporters of God and
00:26:34regard confronting American and Israeli aggression and domination in the region
00:26:37as one their principal objectives. They are among the most
00:26:41courageous fighters of our time, men who face bombardment and
00:26:45death, yet refuse to retreat even a single step from their beliefs
00:26:49and their path of resistance. For years they have fought
00:26:53Saudi Arabia, for years they have fought Saudi Arabia by American
00:26:56military support, by American military support. They have
00:27:00resisted every attempt to four. their country into
00:27:03submission, and support
00:27:05in
00:27:06the people of Gaza, have repeatedly struck Israeli targets
00:27:09nearly 2, kilometers away. On July
00:27:1313th, 2026, Saudi Arabia bombed the
00:27:16runway at Sanaah International Airport and attempt to prevent an
00:27:20Iranian aircraft from landing. Ansarula declared that Riyad had
00:27:24ended the period of deescalation, he promised immediate
00:27:27response. Within hours, Saudi airports including
00:27:31Aba internet. national airport came under attack. this was
00:27:35nothing new. the yemeny resistance movement has repeatedly
00:27:39demonstrated since movement has repeatedly demonstrated in Saudi
00:27:42Arabia. it's drone strike on the
00:27:46drone strike on the oil facilities
00:27:50exposed the vulnerability of Saudi Aramco despite billions of dollars
00:27:53worth of American-made air defense systems. now the
00:27:57resistance movement warns that any new attack on movement warns that any new
00:28:01attack on yemen infrastructure could bring even more strategic
00:28:05targets into rainbilities at yanbu. Today, more than
00:28:0970% of Saudi oil exports bypass the straight of Hormus through
00:28:13pipelines to Yanbu on the Red Sea, but from there they
00:28:16must still pass through the Bob Almandab straight. If that route
00:28:20is closed, Saudi Arabia's alternative export corridor
00:28:24disappears. Ansarula has already shown it can disrupt one the
00:28:28world's busiest maritime choke points. Since the outbreak the
00:28:32Gaza. war in 2023, it has launched attacks in the red
00:28:35sea, it has launched attacks in the red sea declaring that it would target
00:28:39vessels linked to Israel in support the red sea operations have
00:28:43forced major shipping companies to re-root around southern Africa,
00:28:47increased global transport costs and pushed Israel's southern port
00:28:51of ilot, the brink of collapse. if both the straight
00:28:55of Hormus and Bob Almandab were closed at the same time.
00:28:59nearly a quarter the world's oil and gas supply and almost
00:29:021/3ird of global container traffic could be affected. oil
00:29:06prices could soare toward $200 per barrel, while Europe's energy
00:29:10security would face severe pressure. for
00:29:13Antarula, Yemen is not merely another battlefield,
00:29:17it is a strategic front with the power to reshape the global
00:29:20economy. the axis of
00:29:24resistance still holds powerful strategic cards in
00:29:27reserve. cards that once played could leave even
00:29:31America unable to respond. Despite all its military
00:29:34might.
00:30:22Your headlines on Press TV's parliament speaker says despite his
00:30:26apparent hegemony, the US is vulnerable to the hormouse straight
00:30:29closure and cannot suffocate Iran economic. without