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00:00:00and Oman, as the coastal states of the straight, have carried
00:00:03major share of this responsibility. While the
00:00:07global economy has benefited from this route, much of the burden has
00:00:10remained with the region: air and water pollution, the
00:00:14risk of fuel spills, possible collisions,
00:00:18search and rescue operations,
00:00:21wider security and environmental
00:00:24consequences. In this context, Iran's question
00:00:27becomes easier to understand, is it? reasonable for the world to
00:00:31benefit from vital straight without contributing to the cost of
00:00:34keeping it safe, and more importantly, is it fair for countries
00:00:38that depend on the security of this route to impose political
00:00:41pressure, economic sanctions and even war on
00:00:45Iran, while still expecting essential services in this
00:00:48corridor to continue free of charge. From Iran's
00:00:51perspective, the era of providing such services without
00:00:55compensation is over. This does not mean closing maritime
00:00:58roots or using the... straight of Hormus as a weapon, it
00:01:02means creating a transparent, legal and predictable mechanism
00:01:05for sharing the costs of the services that keep this route safe
00:01:10it is something greater than all of and usable, if Suez and Panama collect fees for their
00:01:12artificial waterways, and if some natural straights
00:01:16also have financial mechanisms for safety related
00:01:19services, then the straight of Hormus cannot be treated
00:01:23forever as a completely free root. The fact that Hormus is
00:01:26natural or international is not exempted from the costs of
00:02:01kilometers, all the way to the banks of already sent her to visit, her daughter Anyutka ran into the kitchen and asked, "Someone
00:02:04is angry, but I would, I think, fall in love with him,
00:02:08my dear, out of pure gratitude, if he proposed
00:02:11to me, but all this is nonsense, nonsense,
00:02:14nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, you want it not to be nonsense, Anastasia
00:02:18Petrovna, ask me nicely and cut off my finger,
00:02:21if today I don't stand his
00:02:24bride, of course they were very surprised, what happened to you,
00:02:27Dinara, that you've already put on a
00:02:30headscarf, that you'll go on stage in a hijab, because I was drawn here and
00:02:33there, I wanted to try one thing, another, cheerful
00:02:37companies, noisy leisure,
00:02:40night rehearsals, all of it really piled up,
00:02:43I was like a ball,
00:02:47a snowball, it rolled, rolled, all
00:02:50these events, happenings, everything stuck,
00:02:53stuck, I didn't know how to cleanse myself of this
00:02:55husk.
00:03:09If interesting people live in your city or village, or
00:03:13significant events occur, be sure to
00:03:15write to us, the correspondents of the "Muslims" program will go
00:03:19to any part of Russia. I wish you peace,
00:03:23mercy and blessings of Almighty Allah.
00:03:26Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
00:03:31Which bow will we choose?
00:03:33The white one? Yes, look, I also prepared
00:03:37a blue one yesterday,
00:03:39this one, you don't want this
00:03:43one? Look, it's also beautiful, we've never worn it.
00:04:17So we have 10 minutes until
00:04:20we leave.
00:04:22So we took an umbrella, I think you have an umbrella there, right? I don't know, let me
00:04:26take this one, and I think you have one in your briefcase too, I don't know.
00:04:30Let's look at the roads, there's no time
00:04:32anymore.
00:04:34That's
00:04:38it. Mom, we're
00:04:39leaving.
00:04:46Hello, Anatoly Vladimirovich, good
00:04:48morning.
00:04:53We combined them in this one, two in one,
00:04:56great. Well, all the best.
00:05:00Hold the umbrella for a bit, quiet, quiet, quiet,
00:05:03we'll make it, no, don't worry, everything's fine,
00:05:0614 minutes, okay,
00:05:08we've left even later sometimes, let's go.
00:05:18I was born in Moscow in 1976,
00:05:21on June 4th. At that
00:05:24time, people rarely
00:05:26professed any religion,
00:05:30and it was 1976, yes, it was, in general, the era
00:05:33of communism at its peak,
00:05:35and,
00:05:37probably, few people thought about the soul.
00:05:41Open.
00:06:44we passed
00:06:45exams together,
00:06:51and as such, I didn't even understand this term
00:06:54religion. It's not for nothing that my
00:06:57sister, who was a future student of the philological
00:07:01faculty, came to the mosque to study
00:07:04Arabic. We didn't understand then
00:07:07why she was doing it, why she had to learn Arabic in a mosque.
00:07:11But she was evidently drawn, these spiritual roots, they made themselves known
00:07:15at that moment. I said, I'm going to, she started studying
00:07:18Arabic, gradually, gradually she started coming to
00:07:22Islam, she started reading the Quran, she started performing
00:07:25Salat, no, no, I she tried to
00:07:28bring the word of Allah to us too,
00:07:32but in my case, it was very bad,
00:07:35I resisted in every way,
00:07:38I absolutely did not want to spend my youth
00:07:41on some nonsense, as it seemed
00:07:44to me then. In
00:07:48general, one could say that my parents are also very
00:07:51sincere, kind people, they believed in their hearts, they also didn't
00:07:55understand why all this external symbolism, because my sister, after
00:07:58some time, put on a headscarf and started wearing
00:08:02a headscarf, yes. Let's call
00:08:04Niele.
00:08:07Niele, and we have
00:08:10from above, Sal, do you hear?
00:08:13This is Cyprus, mm-hmm, Cyprus, Cyprus, yes, we're sitting, looking at photos,
00:08:16dad is nostalgic about when he was in Bashkiria,
00:08:20well, arrange a Skype session for us sometime,
00:08:23we'd be very happy. She was probably
00:08:27the very first person who supported me when I
00:08:30entered a theater university after school. We read
00:08:34fables, prose, poetry, and
00:08:37I really liked how spirited,
00:08:40vibrant, and interesting she was. She sat next to me, I said, "You're
00:08:44so cool, you're so talented, so
00:08:47wonderful." I went to read.
00:08:50When I sat down, she said, "I liked you a lot too,
00:08:54she said, "You're also very cool, talented,"
00:08:57and we immediately felt that
00:09:01we had such a positive
00:09:05energy, that we were very similar, that
00:09:08we liked each other as people.
00:09:13that we enjoy communicating with each other, that is, I was constantly
00:09:17thrown from side to side, I
00:09:19thought, I thought that I could apply myself to journalism, to
00:09:23psychology, to acting,
00:09:26well, it turned out that acting
00:09:29became closer to me, and I entered
00:09:32GITIS. Since I came from St. Petersburg and
00:09:36had nowhere to live here, Dinara,
00:09:40in a completely amazing way...
00:09:42invited me to her home to stay,
00:09:46I lived with them for 2 weeks and it
00:09:49really is
00:09:52very warm memories I have
00:09:55of it, because this family accepted me as
00:09:58their own.
00:10:01After the fourth year of the institute,
00:10:04I was really torn by some doubts,
00:10:08searches, I, torn by contradictions,
00:10:12realized that I was lacking, and what I was lacking was precisely
00:10:16this basic
00:10:19platform. I, feeling the need for
00:10:22prayer, went to an Islamic
00:10:25camp. Do you have a program?
00:10:28when I, for
00:10:32another class, for the first class, came in a headscarf,
00:10:36my classmates, already seeing my sister in a
00:10:40headscarf, were, of course, very surprised, "What happened to you,
00:10:43Dinara, that you've already put on a headscarf? Will you go on stage
00:10:47in a hijab?"
00:10:49he spilled.
00:10:54He spilled,
00:10:56he spilled. I already thought that the end of the
00:11:00world was coming or something similar, I confess,
00:11:03I was scared. When I saw that Dinara had also
00:11:07changed like that,
00:11:10I asked, of course, I said, "What
00:11:13happened?" She says, "You know,
00:11:16perhaps I
00:11:18grew up,
00:11:21reevaluated many things, discovered something
00:11:26for myself... and I truly discovered
00:11:29Islam, and this didn't
00:11:32bother me, it didn't surprise me, because
00:11:36indeed every person
00:11:39dedicates themselves to faith as much as they need to.
00:12:00will sit down a bit.
00:12:29And somehow I managed to exist in
00:12:32this, I tried to pray, to fast,
00:12:35gradually, gradually I did everything, it was very difficult for me, but
00:12:39I tried to preserve these
00:12:41teachings that I received in the Islamic camp.
00:13:07They were looking for my sister, they asked me where she was now,
00:13:11they were very upset that she wasn't there, and somehow a
00:13:14conversation started, gradually I told them that I had just graduated
00:13:17from GITIS, I am an actress. The young man on the
00:13:21other end of the line was very interested in this and said, "Oh, what then?"
00:13:24"We're looking, you come," I say, "Wait, wait, wait, what's
00:13:28it about?" "We're looking for a correspondent for a new
00:13:32program that is opening on the satellite TV channel AST
00:13:34Prometheus." I say, "But I'm not a
00:13:38journalist, I'm an actress." "It's nothing, it's nothing. Come and see, maybe it will work out for you."
00:14:03Hello. Hello,
00:14:06thank you.
00:14:16Good to see you,
00:14:17beautiful.
00:14:20Dina is the closest person to me, a close
00:14:24friend.
00:14:29Yes, it's ready. So I filmed the first shoot. I
00:14:33came in a short costume, took some kind of headscarf, definitely. I
00:14:37sat at the table with my co-host Damir
00:14:40Vagapov. On top of me was a hijab, tied very
00:14:43correctly. I already knew how to tie a hijab at that point, but
00:14:47my knees were sticking out from under the table. I realized that the viewers saw me in
00:14:50a hijab, but I was actually not in a hijab
00:14:54at that moment. Perhaps that was a turning point for
00:14:58me. I realized that I couldn't deceive the
00:15:00viewers. Yes, I am a practicing
00:15:04Muslim woman, I pray, and I
00:15:07fast, I strive, as much as possible,
00:15:11to observe all the precepts of religion.
00:15:14But I am not dressed according to Sharia.
00:15:17This was really difficult for me. The second
00:15:21recording, already coming in a hijab,
00:15:25and after the second recording, I left
00:15:28in a hijab and never took off my long
00:15:32clothes again.
00:15:48Well, tell me, it turned out beautifully, this color suits
00:15:51you very well, and most importantly, there are color transitions,
00:15:55mm-hmm, such delicate ones, just
00:15:58what's needed, it will be very good for the program.
00:16:02I'll call you next week when I'm
00:16:05on air, beforehand. So that I see it,
00:16:09so that I have time to watch, well, you can find it on the internet,
00:16:11on the internet, well, yes, yes, of course, by my very appearance
00:16:15on screen, I also break the stereotype of the oppressed
00:16:18Muslim woman who cannot work or
00:16:21study, and even more so appear on screen, how can
00:16:25she be seen, they even saw her. What's your
00:16:28name? Martov, Martov, very nice to meet you, my name is Khava,
00:16:31Khava, this is Leila, this is Feruba, Mama Leila,
00:16:34Mama Leila. our Muslims.
00:17:07I also wanted to invite another girl, she's married to a
00:17:11Dagestani, yes, Alyona, the girl with whom we probably
00:17:13communicate the most right now,
00:17:16and she is a very good sister,
00:17:19your neighbor, no, a Russian converted to
00:17:22Islam. There is such a stereotype in Russia, unfortunately,
00:17:26that a woman in a hijab cannot study, she cannot
00:17:29work. Women who sit at home,
00:17:33who do not go anywhere, they are backward, undeveloped women, she this...
00:18:26Islam and leads
00:18:29a program related to this, "Hour of
00:18:32Muslims," so
00:18:35this... one flows from the other.
00:18:57We found Dinara by chance, our director Ivanova found
00:19:01her, whose voice you heard. My
00:19:04sister, Nailya, came from Iran. and
00:19:08she was invited to work
00:19:12for the newspaper "All About Islam."
00:19:16She worked.
00:19:18That is, the editorial office of this newspaper was located on the territory
00:19:22of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part
00:19:24of Russia. When our director came
00:19:28to the Mufti's residence to
00:19:31find an interior in which we would conduct
00:19:33filming, she was completely...
00:20:07I was hired and to this day, for
00:20:11more than 10 years, I have been hosting the program "Muslimania." This is
00:20:14evidenced by the preserved ancient religious monuments,
00:20:17among which are the unique high-mountain
00:20:21temple of Thaba Yerdy and
00:20:22mausoleums.
00:20:26Probably by sounds,
00:20:29at the same time, Allah rewarded me by enabling me to,
00:20:33using my professional skills, somehow make
00:20:39the word of Allah known,
00:20:42to strive for people to learn more about
00:20:46Islam, about religion, about the traditions of Muslims. And for
00:20:50me, this is really very valuable. I know many non-Muslims who
00:20:53know, watch her program, thanks to her program they learned a lot
00:20:57of good things about Islam. When I asked why, why
00:21:01did you do this, she said: "You
00:21:04know, I discovered an amazing thing in
00:21:07Islam,
00:21:10that you should rejoice every day,
00:21:14you should rejoice when you wake up,
00:21:17see the sun, see... the blue sky, and you
00:21:21say: thank you very much for all of this
00:21:25that I have, thank you very much for the
00:21:29opportunity to live this day, to see
00:21:33this sun, to breathe fresh air and
00:21:36to enjoy life, thank you for that.
00:22:04I gained much more than
00:22:06I lost, I gained
00:22:10the help and protection of Almighty Allah, and that is
00:22:13much more than just playing on stage,
00:22:16the applause of the audience, the recognition
00:22:20of people. I, I think,
00:22:23received the love of the Almighty.
00:22:36Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, peace be upon you,
00:22:40the mercy of the Almighty and his blessing, and his
00:22:43blessings.
00:23:03When you are born on Iranian soil, something is born with
00:23:06you, the belief that a homeland is not merely a place to live,
00:23:10but sometimes a place you must be willing to die for. The roots
00:23:14of this belief can be found even in the legends of Iran, and
00:23:17perhaps no legend expresses it more... powerfully than the story of
00:23:21Arash. After the war between Iran and Turan, it
00:23:25is decided that Iran's new frontier will be determined by the
00:23:28flight of a single arrow. Arash stands atop Mount
00:23:32Damavand. He puts all his strength, all his life into the
00:23:35arrow and releases it. Arash dies, but the arrow
00:23:39flies on. Where did it land? To find the answer, we
00:23:42must leave legend behind and enter history. 330
00:23:46BC, Alexander had crushed nearly every major
00:23:50power in his path and was advancing toward Persepolis. At the
00:23:53Persian Gate, Ario Barzanis stood with around
00:23:56700 warriors against an army of more than
00:23:5910,000. They knew that if they resisted, they would die,
00:24:03but they chose an honorable death over life under
00:24:06domination. They stopped Alexander's first assault and
00:24:09forced him to retreat, and for the generations that followed, they left
00:24:13behind a legacy. Resistance means knowing that you may
00:24:17lose your life, yet refusing to let an enemy cross your land without
00:24:21paying a price. Two centuries later, this time Rome
00:24:24came from the west. In 53 BC,
00:24:27Crassus invaded Parthian territory with a vast
00:24:30army. Facing him stood young commander, Surena, with his
00:24:34mounted archers and a thousand camels carrying an endless supply
00:24:38of arrows. Surena filled the skies with a storm of
00:24:41arrows. The Roman army suffered one of the most devastating
00:24:45defeats in its history. But for Iranians, land is not
00:24:48the only frontier. The sea is a frontier too. At the
00:24:52beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese seized
00:24:55Hormuz, a small island at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, whose
00:24:59control meant command over one of the most important trade routes between
00:25:03East and West. They built fortresses, they brought
00:25:06cannons, and they remained for more than a century. In
00:25:091622, Iranian forces under the command of Imam
00:25:13Koli Khan reached Hormuz. After a hard-
00:25:16fought siege, Portuguese power in Hormuz was broken, and the
00:25:20island was retaken.
00:25:23But the Persian Gulf never disappeared from the ambitions of
00:25:26colonial powers. In 1915, British
00:25:30forces occupied Bushehr. Against an army
00:25:33backed by warships, artillery, and the power of one of the
00:25:36world's greatest empires, the people of southern Iran stood with
00:25:40simple rifles. Their resistance was led by a man
00:25:43named Rais Ali Delvari. During the months of
00:25:46occupation, he organized the resistance of the people of Tangestan.
00:25:50For Rais Ali, the question was never how many soldiers stood
00:25:54on either side. The principle was simple: Iranian
00:25:57soil is not negotiable, even if defending it costs your
00:26:01life. Ali was eventually martyred in that
00:26:04struggle. September 3rd, the anniversary of his martyrdom is
00:26:08commemorated in Iran as the National Day of Struggle Against
00:26:12British Colonialism. But the resistance did not end with his
00:26:15death. Years later, British forces finally left
00:26:18Bushehr, yet the ambitions of foreign powers toward Iran
00:26:22did not end there,
00:26:25because Iran also had oil. For decades, much of
00:26:29Iran's oil industry remained under the influence of a British
00:26:32company until 1951, Mohammed
00:26:35Mossadegh stood against threats, political pressure, and
00:26:38economic pressure, and declared, "Iran's oil must belong to
00:26:42Iran." The oil industry was nationalized. Two years
00:26:46later, a coup backed directly by the United States and Britain overthrew
00:26:50his government. Mossadegh was removed from power and spent the
00:26:54remaining years of his life in imprisonment and house arrest.
00:26:57But one demand could no longer be erased: Iran's wealth
00:27:01must remain in Iranian hands.
00:27:05Land, oil. But now the
00:27:08issue is no longer only land, water or oil,
00:27:13them, independence. The question of who has the right to
00:27:16decide Iran's future. In June 2025, the
00:27:20United States directly attacked Iran's nuclear
00:27:23facilities, and since February 2026,
00:27:26Iran has been engaged in direct military confrontation with the
00:27:30United States and Israel for months. Military and economic
00:27:34pressure has continued, but Iran has never been willing to trade
00:27:37its independence for temporary peace. Bows, arrows
00:27:41and horses have given way to launchers, missiles,
00:27:45tanks, drones, and
00:27:48fighter jets, but the blood of Arash still
00:27:52runs through Iranian veins. And now, let us
00:27:55return to the same question. Where did Arash's arrow land?
00:27:59The arrow flew more than a thousand
00:28:03the Amu Darya River. Arash lost his
00:28:06life, but he did not allow the enemy to decide
00:28:10Iran's fate,
00:28:12and that legacy passed from one generation to the
00:28:15next. An Iranian may give his life for his
00:28:18homeland and independence, but he will never surrender their fate to
00:28:22foreign
00:28:23power.
00:28:33"I found Iranian Jewish leaders, like Dr. Sameah, to
00:28:37be both stoic about the reality of the region they inhabit
00:28:40and confident about their future inside the Islamic
00:28:44Republic. Indeed, the Jewish community was
00:28:47secure inside Iran, at least until soon after
00:28:51I left the
00:28:51country.
00:29:00When Israel launched its..." unprovoked attack, initiating
00:29:04a war that left almost 1,000 Iranians dead.
00:29:08From the Jewish community of Yazd, Kodadad
00:29:11Goharian denounced the Israeli attacks on his country and
00:29:14endorsed Iran's military response. Despite the
00:29:18growing pressure from the outside. Iran's Jews
00:29:21are holding their ground, observing their traditions
00:29:25inside the country they recognize as their authentic
00:29:28homeland.
00:30:23Iran's president has criticized us for failing to abide by the Islam by
00:30:27Mo saying the agreement can be the basis for the
00:30:30reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq's prime
00:30:33minister has called for exemptions for us uh from US sanctions targeting
00:30:37global companies that work with Iranian airlines.
00:30:39And
00:30:45occupied West Bank Israel raids Birzeit University and Ramallah and
00:30:49other areas of the Palestinian territory have also seen
00:30:51incursions.