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00:00:49of a Good evening, welcome to spotlight
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00:00:56a as diplomatic efforts continue to avert another military
00:00:59of confront. between Iran and the United States, tensions
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00:01:04of dangerously high with Tehran
00:01:05a warning that any renewed American aggression could trigger
00:01:10of of a conflict extend extending far beyond
00:01:11of West Asia. Iranian and Qatari officials have been engaged in intensive
00:01:15consultations in Doha with a proposed two-day arrangement to
00:01:19reopen the straight of for
00:01:20of moves emerging as a potential breakthrough. yet Washington
00:01:24continues to leave the military option on the table while reports suggest
00:01:28preparations for possible renewed us strikes against Iran after
00:01:32the November the 3rd mid-term elections. Terran meanwile insists that
00:01:36its military is prepared to respond without any geographical
00:01:40limitations. So is diplomacy finally creating a pathway
00:01:43towards ending this conflict or are both sides preparing for
00:01:47another
00:01:48in and potentially wider
00:01:50of confrontations? Welcome to spotlight. Once again allow me to introduce my
00:01:53guests.
00:01:59Sayed moas.
00:02:00Shah international law expert and geopolitical analyst joining me from Islamabad
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00:02:06of Pakistan and Dr. Tamis
00:02:10Zimas, assistant professor
00:02:11of of International Law University of Nicozia joining me from
00:02:14Tessaloniki in Greece. Very good to have you both
00:02:18on this um spotlight
00:02:21of show, it's very important topic and I hope I'm going to get
00:02:24lot um from this session and this um
00:02:27of conversation. I'm going to start the conversation with you say it muaz, and that
00:02:31is the fact that after eight months of
00:02:34of war, of we are witnessing renewed diplomatic activity involving Iran,
00:02:37Qatar and the United States, what has changed in the
00:02:41calculations
00:02:42of the parties that has brought negotiations back to the
00:02:45of forefront, are we seeing genuine shift towards ending this
00:02:49conflict or simply another attempt to manage
00:02:51escalation? well, thank you very much for
00:02:55having me, I think one
00:02:56of the most important things about this element is
00:03:00that this new kind of statement, particularly from the
00:03:04IRGC
00:03:05in commander is illustrate that
00:03:08a look, at the same time we can have diplomacy, but
00:03:12understand
00:03:13of that we are having diplomatic relations from a position
00:03:15of of strength. i think we need to understand this development in three
00:03:18dimensions:
00:03:19of first, Iran is signaling that
00:03:22of deterrance is no longer simply a question of responding proportionately
00:03:25within
00:03:26of a familiar geographic theater,
00:03:28and I think they've been able to... demonstrate that and attempting to communicate
00:03:32this, that renewed military aggression against the
00:03:35of Islamic Republic of Iran will generate consequences beyond the immediate
00:03:39battlefield. Secondly, this announcement by the RGC
00:03:42commander must be read alongside with diplomatic efforts that are
00:03:46already underway, as you mentioned in
00:03:49of Qatar, but the military readiness at the same time having the diplomatic
00:03:52engagement are not necessarily
00:03:56of contradictory. We have to understand that both used influence the strategic.
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00:04:00of the parties and thirdly,
00:04:02from an international law perspective, the right to self-defense
00:04:05of remains the
00:04:06of fundamental overarching point. military response
00:04:09by the Islamic Republic Iran must remain subject to the necessity of
00:04:13proportionality and international humanitarian law. so ultimately the challenge
00:04:17of for of the international
00:04:18of community at this moment, particularly in the context
00:04:20of these Doha talks, is to help facilitate them further, but there
00:04:24is playing its role other parties, state parties around the world that are part of
00:04:28this discussion, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, all
00:04:31of them need to push uh the parties together, and
00:04:34of it's not necessarily the Islamic Republic of Iran concerns, as you know the United States has
00:04:38been repeatedly when it comes to these talks been the one to back
00:04:41pedal, and perhaps these midterm elections, we got that statement
00:04:45from um Donald Trump earlier saying
00:04:48that probably that there won't be any action until the midterms
00:04:52happen, and Abbas Araches, I think comment that was very
00:04:55important, we can we can handle it this way in Doha
00:04:59or we can handle it. another way, we're prepared to handle it either or way, and I think
00:05:03that's the message that Iran wants to give.
00:05:06Right, um, Dr. Zemos and world diplomats leader has
00:05:10and leader
00:05:11of of the Islamic leader has. of and leader the Islamic Revolution has ordered the
00:05:15armed forces to prepare immediate response to any renewed
00:05:19aggression without geographical limitations. How should we
00:05:22interpret this military directive? is Tehran signaling
00:05:26that it will it will not allow another round of attacks to unfold under
00:05:30the same circumstances as the two previous
00:05:33conflicts? I think that this is
00:05:37a continuation the military order from the
00:05:40marted supreme leader. who had before the
00:05:44initiation of this war by before the Ramadan
00:05:48war by the US and Israel, um, the
00:05:52previous supreme leader of Iran had informed
00:05:55everybody that such attack would be confronted with
00:05:59regional war, the US and Israel
00:06:03didn't count his words as they
00:06:06showed, and indeed we had regional war with global
00:06:10consequences, now the news. film
00:06:12leader, given that the US
00:06:15has a significant
00:06:18extent been harmed in terms
00:06:21their of significantly harmed in terms their military
00:06:25presence in the gulf area, so the
00:06:27the they probably will
00:06:31use some their allies who
00:06:34are a bit more from more far from
00:06:38Iran than than the gulf region, the news.
00:06:42leader informs that the Iranian
00:06:45response uh apart from Israel will include
00:06:49possibly Cyprus or Greece or
00:06:53assist the United States, assist the United States
00:06:57and this is quite, but also it's not only
00:07:00about the place, it's also about the quality. We know that AI,
00:07:04data centers, under sea
00:07:06cables, other choke points of global
00:07:10commerce may be involved as well.
00:07:14so
00:07:14the global consequences of this
00:07:17already regional conflict will become much much
00:07:21wighter and this
00:07:25is and this is agility of global economy. i
00:07:29think that
00:07:29the it is mainly in these regards that ahead
00:07:33the that while we're waiting for the midterm elections
00:07:37probably the US administration wants to send the
00:07:41sign. possibly to calm the market somehow that
00:07:45you know negotiations are happening and maybe there will be
00:07:48a peaceful solution. i'm not buying that to be
00:07:51honest um the odds
00:07:55are that the united states of america and israel will launch
00:07:59attack right after the midm elections
00:08:02in the US and they're
00:08:04just buying time
00:08:07is forced to climax
00:08:10in terms of its response of its milit. response um because
00:08:14until now um the US attacks either a
00:08:18bleach greek mode or
00:08:19in atrition war mode, but the US main goal is the
00:08:23same, change of political system in Iran and
00:08:27mutilation the Iranian state,
00:08:29right? um, state bars, one the most significant
00:08:33developments is Iran's proposed two day
00:08:36arrangement for the reopening the straight of her most conditional
00:08:40on Washington meeting, tarons the... how significant do you see
00:08:44this initiative as a confidence building measure and could a
00:08:48confidence building measure and could it become the starting point for a
00:08:52broader? well absolutely, I think the straight of hormos has
00:08:56always been the key pinnacle issue and the Islamic
00:09:00Republic of Iran has strategically understood this, has always
00:09:03provided and I must say from the beginning of this conflict
00:09:07reasonable kind of discussions around
00:09:10it, and the United states has been
00:09:14unfortunately frustrated by the strategic use the
00:09:17of straight of power moves in this conversation because it was never a calculated
00:09:21measure when they initiated this aggressive
00:09:24action many months ago, and so I think
00:09:28Iran has all, said that, look, if you remember in the Islamabad
00:09:32talks, this was key element, but Iran would be responsible for it,
00:09:36and Iran would also then be able to govern the
00:09:39execution of it, it was very clearly written in the mou, and
00:09:43unfortunately the United States then of course went back on that the
00:09:47situation in Lebanon got out of hand and
00:09:50there was a lot of elements that fell back, but what was really surprising is the Islamic
00:09:54Republican Iran didn't stop and said that, okay, the talks have broken down
00:09:58with the United States and there's still some conflict going on,
00:10:02but we're going to still talk with the regional powers and the
00:10:05regional partners, we're going to make this straight of hormoves arrangement or
00:10:09reality, and they started talks with Oman, and it goes to show you that the
00:10:13Islamic Republic is intended well, even without the United
00:10:16States, to come with solution to the straight apart moves that is
00:10:20equitable that protects it interest and the interest the
00:10:24regional allies. and you
00:10:25now the countries came partner, partner we could talk to, a good partner,
00:10:29partner we could talk to. a good example is the sultanate of
00:10:32Oman, has realized in the length of since this
00:10:36conflict has started that Iran is the more responsible partner in coming
00:10:40to terms with in creating a viable solution to help with global
00:10:43shipping, but again Iran has to look for its defense
00:10:47interest and people have to understand that when a country is at war, when
00:10:51another country, all its allies as well, their ships are... subject
00:10:55to special restrictions, and that's what the Islamic Republic of Iran has always
00:10:59said that peaceful countries we have no conflict with us are allowed
00:11:03to use the straight of moves a responsible manner with their guidance, and
00:11:07this is something that international law gives coverage to, so we're hoping that the United States
00:11:10finally, finally has understood this and is coming to
00:11:14that solution that's always been lying there, but I think Trump has
00:11:18been very tough about this for some odd reason, and I think he's
00:11:22always looking for some sort of joker out the hat. to try to solve this trade of por
00:11:26moves, which is just not possible without the collaboration the Islamic Republic,
00:11:30so this is I think the Americans have understood,
00:11:34and I hope that Donald Trump understands it
00:11:36and they can go back to the plan and allow Iran and reasonal
00:11:39um the countries around the straight of hormoos to come
00:11:43together for an amicable solution that will be long lasting, but that
00:11:47requires the United States to kind of give up, it's uh one lopsided
00:11:51demands when it comes to the straight of f. dr. z.
00:11:55are mixed signals coming from Washington, though President Trump has
00:11:58described negotiations as productive while Secretary of State Marco
00:12:02Rubio says the military option is still very much on the table and
00:12:06available. How should Teran interpret this dual
00:12:10track approach? Is Washington genuinely interested a
00:12:13negotiated settlement or is diplomacy also being used to
00:12:17extract further concessions?
00:12:20Look, um, we can only, obviously I
00:12:24don't
00:12:24have information. from within the US establishment, but
00:12:28we can only be based on on our
00:12:30experience. uh, as of
00:12:34today, there has been no honesty on behalf the US,
00:12:37it is obvious that the United States of America use
00:12:41negotiations in terms of manipulating
00:12:45their internal public audience, global and global
00:12:48markets. if it was in the intention
00:12:52the US to reach
00:12:55a peaceful settlement with Iran, first of all, the war
00:12:58would not have begun since 2025, in
00:13:02the first place, or at least it would have been
00:13:06concluded with the Mou of Islamabad. The Mou of
00:13:09Islamabad was a very accurate way
00:13:13towards peace, it was pathway to peace.
00:13:17It included specific benchmarks,
00:13:20specific provisions that would have lead
00:13:24us to. full settlement, it was the United States that
00:13:27decided not implement the Mou as soon
00:13:31as they signed it, so in order to guess whether
00:13:35war will resume or not, we need to go back to the
00:13:38fundamentals of this war, to the initial causes
00:13:42of this war. why did this war begin? it didn't
00:13:46begin because the state of hormos, it began because the
00:13:50united states together with Israel attempted to
00:13:53move towards as they call it regime change in
00:13:57Iran, which is a code name for the destruction the Iranian
00:14:01state, so have they abandoned this plan?
00:14:05if they consid that they have been defeated, yes,
00:14:09but as of today, the US administration doesn't
00:14:13seem ready to accept that it has been
00:14:16defeated, will they do so after the mitter elections,
00:14:20it's possible, i don't consider it very much
00:14:23likely, but yes there is... the possibility, unless
00:14:27this is the case, unless President Trump is ready to accept
00:14:31implicitly, obviously, or even
00:14:34explicitly, that he has been defeated, which will
00:14:38lease to, which will lead to cataclysmic
00:14:41transformations the region with global
00:14:44consequences, the main transformation is that the US
00:14:47will be finished from the region, unless president Trump is
00:14:51ready to do so, the others
00:14:55solution, the let's say solution, the other path
00:14:59is the path of war. this is why do
00:15:01not trust very much these diplomatic
00:15:05initiatives. said mars, reports
00:15:08indicate, turning more realistic, reports indicated
00:15:11washington has privately edged regional allies to
00:15:15prepare for possible renewed strikes against iron following the november
00:15:19the third midterm elections, how seriously should this be
00:15:22taken, this possibility be taken? and I'll be looking at
00:15:26preparations for a limited military option, or could this develop into
00:15:30a much wider confrontation? your take on
00:15:32that? well, as you know,
00:15:36in the history of this conflict we have seen that market
00:15:40manipulation has actually been the primary goal
00:15:44um and it's actually the world market economy that's suffering and few
00:15:48people are benefiting off that. there's been many new stories that have already
00:15:51exposed white houses engagement with that. and i
00:15:55think that's really what Donald Trump is actually pandering to is
00:15:59is that baseline support, particularly those who fund
00:16:03um him in his political camp manipulation for those announcements
00:16:06and ation for those announcements and sudden changes that
00:16:10happen right before the weekend and then right after the weekend there's something else, and I
00:16:14think that's something that we've seen repeatedly, the markets have proven it, the record
00:16:18is there, and we see these massive trades happening 15 minutes
00:16:22before Trump makes these outlanger statements and and comments
00:16:26from peace to war, and I think that's something that's actually
00:16:29very, it's sadly the truth, I mean we can't deny
00:16:33the the quantifiable truth that's before us and so if Donald Trump does
00:16:36try to... escalate this post uh election time
00:16:40period and will it expand to regional
00:16:43conflict? um, there is a possibility, mean i'm not taking that
00:16:47out the mix, because as we know that there has been some interesting
00:16:51activity with the Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and
00:16:55they're kind of pushing this idea that the Saudis to get engaged in some
00:16:59sort of process, but I was very happy to note that Saudi Arabia,
00:17:03Turkey, Pakistan and an Iranian leadership met in
00:17:06Tehran. of all places, not in Riyad, not in Istanbul, not in
00:17:10Islamabad, but met in Tehran. I think that's a very powerful message
00:17:14that whatever the situation may be on the border of
00:17:17Yemen, um, that is trying to trigger into
00:17:20some possible,
00:17:22you know, relationship, deterioration, there is a
00:17:25greater goal
00:17:27at at play, and I think this is the sort of narrative of a broader
00:17:30regional conflict, which is something that the Americans had hope for. I mean, Lindsay Graham's
00:17:34famous uh, clip that went viral after he died, clearly indicated
00:17:38this is what the Americans wanted, they wanted to uh, strike a
00:17:42match and they wanted the oil the Gulf nations to flare up this
00:17:46fight uh between Iran and its Gulf brothers, and I think
00:17:49that's what Israel and America intended, it didn't go down that way, but as
00:17:53my colleagues rightly, rightly indicated that Iran, the
00:17:57US and Israel had initial war goals that
00:18:00essentially uh have been absolutely unsuccessful, let
00:18:04alone they have actually lost ground than what was had before.
00:18:07"a lot the Gulf nations do not trust the United States to be a
00:18:11military deterrant for their own protection, now they're looking to other
00:18:14parties like Turkey and Pakistan and this maka defense for
00:18:18example, so these are illustrative of America's loss of
00:18:22regional hegemony, and Israel of
00:18:25course, attempting to
00:18:28deescalate its own kind of attention around
00:18:32Gaza and other areas, so unfortunately it's gone back, I don't see this going into
00:18:36regional conflict." I see this more as market manipulation, if it does happen,
00:18:40small flear up after the mid-term elections. Right, Professor Zimos,
00:18:44Iranian officials have also described recent letter from US
00:18:47vice president to um Iran's secretary the
00:18:51Supreme National Security Council, as a positive indication
00:18:55of a change in Washington's diplomatic tone, yet Terran says
00:18:59it is not currently prepared for direct negotiations with American
00:19:03representatives. What does this tell us about the level of mistrust between
00:19:07the... two sides and what guarantees would Iran need before
00:19:10entering new negotiating process? i
00:19:14will say
00:19:15this clearly as possible, if the Iranian
00:19:18leadership makes the mistake of accepting anything
00:19:22else uh than the full
00:19:25implementation the mou of
00:19:28islamabad, it will lose significant ground,
00:19:32both diplomatically and on the ground. the only
00:19:36thing that iran should accept as i
00:19:39see it would be the full
00:19:42implementation the mou of islam but
00:19:45because this is the foundation
00:19:49on which both parts agreed in terms of a pieces
00:19:53of the
00:19:54a peace settlement of a peaceful settlement conflict so why should
00:19:57iran accept any
00:20:01other document that would give to
00:20:04Iran much less I'm not I'm not. much less in terms
00:20:08of
00:20:09you know of making profit after because the
00:20:12world, i'm i'm referring to much less
00:20:15in terms of peace guarantees
00:20:19of, mean there is an mou and it was
00:20:22violated by the united states, so why should iran accept
00:20:26anything else,
00:20:27any any kind of letter from jd vans or from anyone else? what
00:20:30is the actual value of any such document? we
00:20:34have an mou that was signed. and it was
00:20:38violated the next day or few days afterwards by US
00:20:42administration and why was it violated? because the US
00:20:46administration actually wants uh...
00:20:51let me change that, not necessarily wants, but it is ready to
00:20:55accept the destruction of its allies in the
00:20:59gulf region in order
00:21:01safeguard larger zionist
00:21:04interest, larger zionist interests, this is the
00:21:08main issue here, so
00:21:12no actual basis other than the mou of
00:21:15islamabad, there is no any other
00:21:18actual basis. for any type of diplomatic
00:21:22solution, the crucial question is whether the
00:21:26Iranian leadership will accept to step back
00:21:30and negotiate it on some other document other
00:21:33than other than the mou, which most likely if it does,
00:21:37if the Iranian leadership accepts some other basis,
00:21:41it will be tricked again,
00:21:45and there will be no actual guarantee
00:21:49eventually. but the war of of attation will go on
00:21:53right, sas speaking about Iranian leadership, the warning that
00:21:56new war could extend beyond and west Asia is
00:22:00particularly significant. what is the exact geopolitical message
00:22:04terran is trying to send to washington and its international
00:22:08partners? is Iran attempting to demonstrate that the
00:22:11consequences of another aggression against it would not be confined
00:22:15to the Persian gulf region? yeah, like
00:22:19I said, It's most important to understand this from these
00:22:23perspective that this message is that deterrance is
00:22:26ultimately about changing and advisary
00:22:30advisor adversaries calculation and not
00:22:33merely by demonstrating military capability, and I think a
00:22:37military unrestricted warning does not
00:22:41translate into an unrestricted right to necessarily use
00:22:45that, but what it does, it creates the environment
00:22:48to push p. to push forward
00:22:52a dialogue that may be necessary, and as well question is
00:22:56whether both sides can establish credible grounds against another
00:23:00cycle of violence, and I feel like the Islamic Republic
00:23:03Iran has elevated the conversation,
00:23:07and not just said that, we're going to strike wherever we are getting
00:23:11targeted, we are now expanding the geographical limits in the
00:23:15targeting, and I think that's a very strong message that has elevated the
00:23:19conversation, I think... United States is begining to consider the possible
00:23:23attacks outside the region in response to that, if those
00:23:26facilities are used to attack Iran, Iran has legal
00:23:29right in self-defense to target them, and I think
00:23:33that's something that would change the dynamics the conflict, if for example
00:23:37Iran for would to strike in the United States and I think
00:23:41that's something that I think really would shake up things, which is something that
00:23:45you know, I think the strategists and geopolitical analys are really
00:23:49suggesting that... "this would then change the
00:23:51ball game uh, but I think that's an important message, because if you're
00:23:55going to have talks unfortunately with the United States, it needs to be done from a
00:23:59place of power,
00:24:00and I think that's what Iran is attempted to do with these words. Right,
00:24:04and professor Zemas, of course, there is a third element to this
00:24:08equation and that is the Israeli regime,
00:24:11um, how central is Israel's position to the current
00:24:15diplomatic deadlock, could Israeli calculation undermine the
00:24:18potential US" on agreement:
00:24:22yes, profoundly, yes,
00:24:26there is a hybrid relationship between US and
00:24:29Israel establishment on the basis of
00:24:33obviously some very important
00:24:35lobbies within the US and some
00:24:39strategic
00:24:40interest on on some
00:24:44strategic interests on behalf the US, which are served by
00:24:48the existence of Israel. um, I'm sorry I have to interrupt you,
00:24:52professor Zimas, there is also another program that needs to come in, and we are
00:24:56pressed for time, I'm really sorry, professor Zemos and also
00:24:59sayid, it was a pleasure to have you on this
00:25:03spotlight, and that brings us to the end the program, the truth will
00:25:06always come
00:25:07out.
00:25:17This is for palestine. In today's show
00:25:21we'll be considering the impact of motion that was adopted by the Green Party of
00:25:24England and Wales at their recent conference in Brighton, which clearly
00:25:28stated that Zionism is racism. Colonialism is
00:25:32evil, slavery is evil, settler colonialism is
00:25:35evil, racism isn't evil, and therefore
00:25:39this zinism as it's materialized in
00:25:42Israel is racism and therefore must
00:25:46be conduct as an ideology, it's a very significant
00:25:50step, but of course we need to build on it, we need to build on it, most
00:25:54obviously by dismantalingism as an ideology and as movement in
00:25:58this
00:25:58country.
00:26:09طول ما في طفل فلسطيني واحد
00:26:13في غزه لن يستطيع اي محتل ان
00:26:16يطء ارض غزه غزه لاهل
00:26:19غزه ترامب ولا غير ترامب واحد بيقدر
00:26:23ياخذ ياخذ
00:26:24غزه what
00:26:28is the jeويش
00:26:28identity
00:26:33in the Jews who are Zionis and those who are not recent survey
00:26:36in the states in the United States the Jewish, the whole
00:26:40Jewish community, they're representative sample, and
00:26:44there are some around six eight
00:26:48million Jews in the states, some
00:26:5160% them no longer identify themselves
00:26:55as zianists, it's an astounding
00:26:57change.
00:27:072d,
00:27:081963.
00:27:12Dallas stood still as President John F. Kennedy's motorcade
00:27:16entery plaza. Moments
00:27:19later, gunshots shattered the silence and changed history
00:27:23forever.
00:27:29America mourned a suspect was arrested.
00:27:33then, before the truth could be uncovered, he was silenced on live
00:27:37television. The official story was
00:27:40written, but the questions never died: was it the mafia, the
00:27:44FBI, the Soviets, or Castro? Or did the real
00:27:48secret begin thousands of miles away, buried deep beneath
00:27:52the sands the Negev desert near Demona? It is a
00:27:56mystery, a conspiracy and assassination that still
00:28:00haunts the world.
00:29:51Your headlines on press TV. The IRGC says two oil
00:29:54tankers trying to cross the straight off for moves through an illegal
00:29:58route have exploded and caught fire after striking naval marks.
00:30:03Ama strongly condemns the Israely massacre of Gaza's police
00:30:07personnel saying the regime seeks to undermine stability and
00:30:10cause chaos across the wartorn
00:30:13territory and the new poll shows
00:30:1660% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance in the White
00:30:20House just few days after the midterm
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00:30:50In our top story, the Islamic Revolution Gaz Course says two oil
00:30:54tankers trying to cross the straight of Furmus via an illegal route.