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00:00:24When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Sayid Ali
00:00:27Khamani went to the frontlines. but
00:00:30as the war entered its second year, his role field
00:00:34visits to the presidency, field visits to the
00:00:37presidency, from military coordination to international
00:00:41diplomacy, he became part of Iran's war-time
00:00:44leadership. This is the story of his
00:00:48eight-year journey through the Iran-Iraq
00:00:50war.
00:01:09More than one third of Iranian pilots of these fighter jets were martyred,
00:01:13captured or went missing during the eight-year war between Iran
00:01:17and Iraq, marking the highest casualty rate among all
00:01:20branches of the armed forces. This program is
00:01:23dedicated to those unforgettable heroes, to
00:01:26the men of the most challenging cross-border operations.
00:01:30The Phantom fighter pilots of the Air Force.
00:02:22The Phantom Fighter Jet was originally designed to defend US aircraft
00:02:26carriers against enemy aircraft.
00:02:32However, its exceptional capabilities led the U.S. Air
00:02:35Force to adopt it as
00:02:36well.
00:02:40With the ability to carry over 8 tons of weaponry and its long
00:02:44numbers. New variants of operational range, the Phantom was employed both as
00:02:47light bomber and an air defense
00:02:49interceptor.
00:02:54In Iran, phantoms were purchased to fulfill both
00:02:57roles, serving as light bombers.
00:03:01domination in the region is one of
00:04:03Well, at first I was very happy that I shot down an Iraqi plane. I hit the enemy. But
00:04:07when I came home,
00:04:11I realized that it had affected my morale too. I thought he was just like us.
00:04:14We are enemies, they are our enemies.
00:04:18Well, he has a family now. What if he died? I was blaming myself.
00:04:21When I came home, my wife told me to eat lunch, but I said
00:04:25I couldn't. I was in this state for a week until a pilot
00:04:29خلبان
00:04:35Then I told him that on a certain date, I shot down a MiG
00:04:3821 and it crashed, but I don't know what happened to the pilot.
00:04:42He said, "Don't worry. The pilot ejected."
00:04:451981.
00:04:481981.
00:05:00Informed them a Rocky aircraft was approaching. The
00:05:04opponent was a Mig 23 known as the
00:05:07Flogger. At that time the MIC-23 was considered
00:05:10Iraq's most advanced fighter.
00:05:46I pulled up quickly
00:05:49up at the Darcheh Marivan, there was a patch of clouds.
00:05:52بود
00:05:57As soon as I pulled out of the clouds,
00:06:01a person, a plane, came forward. It was very close. I came up, and it was very
00:06:04close.
00:06:06بود
00:06:10I hit the afterburner to get closer so they could shoot it
00:06:13with bullets.
00:06:16The moment I hit the afterburner, they shot it with bullets.
00:06:20The plane exploded. Something
00:06:22was said. I just realized that they had hit us.
00:06:25They started to descend and zigzag to escape from them.
00:06:29They were also relieved that they had hit me. They had seen that they had
00:06:33hit the plane. decision to use the
00:06:36afterburners reduced
00:06:39explosive impact of the iraqi missile. by dispersing the engine's
00:06:43exhaust gases and
00:06:44flames,
00:06:48with great difficulty he managed to land the damage Phantom on the
00:06:51runway.
00:06:55An hour later, Colonel Golchin, the base commander,
00:06:58confirmed the downing of the mig 21 had been hit by
00:07:01Harabaki's aircraft machine
00:07:03gun.
00:07:06The rocky aircraft damaged by gunfire had failed to return
00:07:10to its base.
00:07:16During the middle years of the war, the air force suffered heavily from
00:07:20sanctions. While the war was taking its toll on
00:07:24Iranian pilots and aircraft, the country was
00:07:27unable to purchase any new
00:07:28planes.
00:07:35Aircraft parts were rarely available and had to be acquired
00:07:38at extremely high prices from the black market.
00:07:51Meanwhile, Iraq was receiving advanced fighter models in large
00:07:57the mig 23 equipped with upgraded heat-seeking
00:08:00missiles for aerial combat were entering service,
00:08:04but the phantoms faced even more serious opponents,
00:08:07mig-25s and French Mirage
00:08:10F-1s.
00:08:34The Mirage F1 is fast and agile aircraft with
00:08:38delta-shaped wings. Its design and electronics
00:08:41systems. are more advanced than those of the Phantom.
00:08:45Iraqi mirages were equipped with radar guided matra
00:08:49missiles. These missiles had a longer range than the Phantom
00:08:52Sparrow Missiles. Iraqi mirages also
00:08:56carried precise heat-seeking missiles called magic used
00:09:00in close range
00:09:01combat.
00:09:06Mirage pilots in Iraq were trained in France and received thorough
00:09:10instruction in aerial combat. tactics based on this
00:09:14training, Iraq moved away from the Soviet style flight
00:09:17system, which relied heavily on ground radar controllers
00:09:21guiding the pilot and instead gave pilots more
00:09:24autonomy in air
00:09:25engagements.
00:09:31Miraja succeeded in targeting several Iranian aircraft in aerial
00:09:35combat.
00:09:37They're also used to bomb key locations inside Iranian
00:09:41territory.
00:11:11During the Tanker war, Saddam Hussein, seeking to compensate for
00:11:14defeats on the ground and to weaken the morale of the Iranian
00:11:18people, ordered air raids on the Iranian residential
00:11:21cities. This brutal campaign known
00:11:25as a war of the cities aimed to open a new front and also
00:11:28undermine the defensive capacity of Iran's air
00:11:31force.
00:11:40In the final years of the war, Iraq intensified the war of
00:11:44cities an effort to break the Iranian nation's
00:11:47resolve. As part of this escalation, the Rocky Air
00:11:51Force bombed the city of Hamadon and the third tactical fighter.
00:12:25She opened a nursing home and keeps saying
00:12:28"Don't go." She won't let her go. I asked, "Whose little girl is
00:12:31this?" They said, "These two children are from a rural family
00:12:35who lost their parents and relatives due to Iraqi
00:12:39bombings, and they brought them here for treatment."
00:12:42I asked, "Who does she have?" They said, "She only has a grandmother."
00:12:46Well, I came and told this story at home. I coordinated
00:12:50with my wife that since God didn't give her a daughter,
00:12:54we would go and adopt this girl. I said, "We went and found her grandmother
00:12:57and told her, 'Mother, you are old
00:13:01and don't have the strength to take care of this child.
00:13:04And she has no one else. Come, give her to a gentleman
00:13:08who will raise her like his own child, send her to school, send her to university,
00:13:11make her a doctor, make her an engineer, and take care of this child.'
00:13:15They said, 'The pilot is not a bad person. He will truly take good care of your child.'"
00:13:19base. It
00:13:23از بچه تو خوب نگهداری می کنه.
00:13:55appeared their target was a city of
00:13:58Kermanshah.
00:14:02The third tactical fighter base in Hamadon was tasked with
00:14:06defending Kermonsha despite shortages and
00:14:08limitations. The main challenge was that Kermanshaw was
00:14:12geographically closer to Iraqi airbases than to
00:14:15Hamedon. The mountainous terrain also meant that the
00:14:18main western radar station in Subashi, Hamedon,
00:14:22would not detect incoming Iraqi aircraft.
00:15:27We have prepared all the bombs and missiles for these people.
00:15:30اینا.
00:15:46I said yes, they have crossed the border. We crossed the border over the city of Kermanshah
00:15:49and turned on the radar. There are several planes
00:15:52inside the radar.
00:15:54هست
00:15:57We have orders that when a formation of Iraqi planes comes, you should observe them for a while.
00:16:00I said, no, I will go after them myself.
00:16:03میرم.
00:16:37the Iraqi Air Force Miraj F1s, some of
00:16:41which were armed with anti-aircraft missiles to protect the miraj
00:16:44bombers.
00:16:47Iraq had received advanced electronic warfare pods from
00:16:50France. These pods disrupted the radars of
00:16:53Iranian fighters, preventing them from locking on
00:16:57and launching their missiles against Iraqi
00:16:59aircraft. I performed the lock-on operation
00:17:02on the first one myself. For a few moments,
00:17:06this lock-on was broken.
00:17:09We were unable to do anything, so we had to hit them by sight.
00:17:13Therefore, when I saw one of them from a distance,
00:17:17I released the missiles,
00:17:17کردم
00:17:21and all my attention was on where this missile was going, to follow it to reach the enemy's
00:17:25defense. It was going towards him at full speed and readiness.
00:17:28طرف می رفته
00:17:32My meager experience, wisdom, age, and knowledge were telling me, "Where are you going?"
00:17:35You're going into the heart of the enemy, who
00:17:39has all these advanced words. It will definitely hit you.
00:17:42Don't doubt it at all. Believe me, in an instant,
00:17:46I saw this woman whom I had not seen before, but I saw her image and shape on the horizon,
00:17:50pointing her finger at me and saying, "Now is the time. If you want to do something
00:17:53for the narcissus,
00:17:55now is the time."
00:17:58I was getting closer, and suddenly Mr. Panahi,
00:18:01who was sad, said, "We have a problem, you have a problem."
00:18:05داری
00:18:10I saw a plane very close to us, and it still hadn't
00:18:14seen us. At the same time, we saw it, and
00:18:17it saw us.
00:18:20I looked back and saw an Iraqi Mirage next to me, very close.
00:18:24I was so close to it that I could see the indicator displays inside the cockpit.
00:18:27Suddenly, it turned and looked at me. We, the two pilots, were very close
00:18:31to each other. I couldn't believe that we were so close to each other in a combat
00:18:35situation.
00:19:42Left, meaning turn quickly to the left so that we can
00:19:46evade and the missile doesn't
00:19:48hit us.
00:19:57The plane immediately dove 90 degrees towards the ground.
00:20:01Well, there was nothing we could do.
00:20:05Mr. Panahi said to eject. I said, "Wait."
00:20:08کن
00:20:10I always turn to حضرت Fatemeh Zahra in times of trouble. I called her from the bottom
00:20:13of my heart. The plane, which was diving 90 degrees,
00:20:16slowly, slowly, its nose came up and
00:20:20it became controllable.
00:20:23I brought the plane up, and the Iraqi plane didn't follow me anymore. They thought
00:20:27they had shot us down. I was so happy, so excited.
00:20:31My eyesight was blurry. I kept saying, "Baqer, did you see? Did you see what a blessing
00:20:34we had? How God had mercy on us. Did you see?"
00:21:20When the air force specialists came and saw it, they said it was impossible
00:21:24for this plane to fly in this condition. Even worse, the enemy's missile
00:21:27had come and completely taken over the work. Several
00:21:31shrapnel pieces had remained in one of my missiles and had gone into its charge,
00:21:34the missile's charge. And the interesting thing is that it didn't cause the missile to explode.
00:21:38For a long time, the technical personnel didn't dare to remove this missile from the shelf.
00:21:42Downing of seven
00:21:45aircraft and destruction of 60
00:21:48tanks and personnel carriers.
00:22:58both friend and foe a commendable
00:23:00record,
00:23:02yet it seems the very people who made that record possible have been lost
00:23:06in the twists and turns of time.
00:23:43They call themselves on Sarula or the supporters of
00:23:46God and regard confronting American and Israeli aggression. and
00:23:51their principal objectives. They are among
00:23:54the most courageous fighters of our time, men who face
00:23:58bombardment and death, yet refused to retreat even a single
00:24:01step from their beliefs in their path of resistance. For
00:24:05years they have fought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in
00:24:09defense of Yemen, in a war backed by American military
00:24:12support. They have resisted every attempt to force their country into
00:24:16submission, and in support of the people of God.
00:24:20have repeatedly struck Israeli targets nearly 2,000
00:24:23kilometers away. On July 13th,
00:24:262026, Saudi Arabia bombed the runway at
00:24:30Sanaah International Airport an attempt to prevent an Iranian
00:24:34aircraft from landing. Ansarula declared that Riyad had
00:24:37ended the period of deescalation, he promised immediate
00:24:41response. Within hours, Saudi airports
00:24:44including Ababa International Airport came under attack.
00:24:48This was nothing new. The Yemini Resistance movement has
00:24:52repeatedly demonstrated its ability to reach deep inside Saudi
00:24:55Arabia. In September 2019,
00:24:59its drone strike on the ABC and Kurais oil facilities
00:25:03exposed the vulnerability of Saudi Aramco despite billions of dollars
00:25:07worth of American-made air defense systems. Now,
00:25:10the resistance movement warns that any new attack on Yemen's
00:25:13infrastructure could bring even more strategic targets into
00:25:17range, including the vital oil facilities at
00:25:20Today, more than 70% of Saudi oil
00:25:23exports bypass the straight of Hormus through pipelines to Yanbu
00:25:27on the red sea, but from there they must still pass through the
00:25:31Bob Almandab straight. If that route is
00:25:34closed, Saudi Arabia's alternative export corridor
00:25:37disappears. Ansarula has already shown it can disrupt one of the
00:25:41world's busiest maritime choke points. Since the
00:25:44outbreak of the Gaza War in 2023, it has launched
00:25:48attacks in the Red Sea. declaring that it would target vessels linked to
00:25:52Israel in support of the Palestinians.
00:25:55The Red Sea operations have forced major shipping companies to reroot
00:25:59around Southern Africa, increased global transport cost. costs and
00:26:03pushed Israel's southern port of ilot, the brink of
00:26:06collapse. if both the straight of Hormus and Bob
00:26:10Almanda were closed at the same time, nearly a quarter of the
00:26:13world's oil and gas supply, and almost one third of global container
00:26:17traffic could be affected. oil prices could sore toward
00:26:21$200 per barrel, while Europe's energy security would face severe
00:26:25pressure. for Ansarula, Yemen is not
00:26:28merely another battlefield, it is a strategic front with the...
00:26:32power to reshape the global economy,
00:26:36the axis of resistance still holds powerful strategic cards in
00:26:40reserve, cards that once played could leave
00:26:44even America unable to respond despite all its military might.
00:26:59in today's show we'll be considering statement
00:27:02to the house of commons on Tuesday, marked sea change
00:27:06in the UK's relationship with the zianist colony, or was it simply
00:27:09performative politics? this is a performative
00:27:12measure, and and the performance is that the British
00:27:15government is seem to be doing something serious, and the performance is
00:27:19also that the zionists are seem to be resisting as if this is
00:27:23the end of the possibility of Jews living in the UK, which of course is
00:27:27ridiculous, we see Israel increasingly
00:27:30integrated with imperialism on the one hand, but considering itself an
00:27:34independent imperial power and trying to leverage
00:27:37all kinds of uh tech advantages and economic advantagesuh that
00:27:41it enjoys um to have not only the Abraham cause but the Isaac cause and being
00:27:45increasingly close to certain prime ministers including Miley.
00:28:07And I myself, the term religion
00:28:11was more associated with Christianity, with
00:28:13icons, with images, with churches. I had
00:28:16never even been to a mosque at that time.
00:28:18была.
00:28:27I realized that the viewers see me in a hijab, but
00:28:31I'm actually not in a hijab.
00:28:33And at that moment, perhaps, that was a turning point for
00:28:37me. I realized that I cannot deceive the viewers.
00:30:15The headlines, Iran's armed forces a spokesman warns that
00:30:19the US and this regime, if they make
00:30:22another miscalculation, the Islamic Republic's response will be
00:30:25stronger. Cuban foreign minister Bruno
00:30:29Rodriguez rejects unilateral corsive measures and
00:30:32intimidation, saying the law of the jungle cannot be
00:30:35humanit, humanity's future. A morning
00:30:39ceremony has been held in Iraq's capital Baghdad for the second
00:30:42Martin anniversary of hisbul's leader Sayid Hasan.