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00:00:08Good evening, Iran is prepared for every possible
00:00:12of scenario, whether that means reaching a diplomatic agreement with Washington
00:00:16or confronting another round of military aggression.
00:00:20Tehron has reiterated that its seven state proposal remains under
00:00:24table with foreign minister Dr.
00:00:26Abbas Arakshi saying its implementation could be accelerated from
00:00:30days to just two, the foreign ministry says the ball is
00:00:34now in Washington's court, while China is stepping up
00:00:37diplomatic engagement with Iran and Oman an effort to revive
00:00:41of negotiations and restore regional stability. At the
00:00:45same time, Supreme National Security Council's secretary Mohsen
00:00:49Rii has confirmed that Iran is debating whether to maintain
00:00:52its existing nuclear doctrine if another war
00:00:56breaks out
00:00:58and following the leader's directive on On Saturday, Iran's armed
00:01:01forces have
00:01:02of asserted that any renewed aggression would be met with a
00:01:06far reaching response. So is diplomacy approaching a
00:01:10of breakthrough or are we witnessing preparations for another
00:01:14of confrontation? That's our focus tonight with our
00:01:16guests.
00:01:21We have joining us Alessandra Bruno, author and geopolitical analys
00:01:25joined us from the city of
00:01:28in Toronto. Also joining into this
00:01:31in conversation will be Ali Hamiah, military and Strategic Affairs analyst
00:01:35joining us from the southern Lebanon areas. Gentlemen,
00:01:39thank you both for joining me in this hour, I'm going to begin with our guest me in
00:01:43this hour, I'm going to begin with our guests in Toronto, Mr.
00:01:46Bruno.
00:01:48Let me begin with the central issue te
00:01:50in the US court and that its seven stage proposal could
00:01:54be implemented in just two
00:01:56in days if the US meets its conditions. Um,
00:02:00would you say that Tehran right now is offering
00:02:03Washington Washington
00:02:05a clear and a relatively short way to come back to
00:02:09diplomacy and prevent another war? well, I
00:02:12think Tehran has offered
00:02:15in in of Washington
00:02:15of this diplomatic solution for a long time, from the
00:02:19very beginning, in fact before uh right
00:02:23up to February 27th, 2026,
00:02:27and we've had on that occasion. and on the
00:02:31previous occasion in June
00:02:352025, both times it was Washington
00:02:38that broke the diplomatic relations which
00:02:41were the diplomatic process which was ongoing,
00:02:45so it's not Tehran that we have to worry about,
00:02:49very clearly Tehran and its
00:02:52allies are backing
00:02:55a diplomatic solution, who wants war? everyone
00:02:59prospers. when there isn't any, but
00:03:02of the there are forces at play that
00:03:06are compromising the diplomatic solution. for
00:03:09example, the current Israeli situation with the
00:03:13political limbo, where
00:03:16neither
00:03:17of the candidates that emerged
00:03:21from the recent elections can form a coalition
00:03:24yet, might want to use a war,
00:03:28particularly Netanyahu to... solidify
00:03:31their um compromised
00:03:34of personal position to remain in
00:03:38power, a war would benefit Netanyahu
00:03:41unfortunately, so because he is
00:03:46of under legal, he's facing number of legal problems
00:03:49and continued war would
00:03:52probably persuade the Knesset
00:03:55to continue with his
00:03:58leadership ' under
00:04:02a military situation, so I
00:04:05think
00:04:06that the the big issue really is, it's in
00:04:09Washington's court, and what Trump
00:04:13can do to remove himself from
00:04:16the the lobbies that are
00:04:20pushing for war, because I i don't i
00:04:24actually wonder whether he himself wants
00:04:27this, he's... is obviously compromised
00:04:31as well, and in order to save themselves, they will
00:04:35put millions of lives at
00:04:37risk. Mr. Hamia, thank you so much for
00:04:41joining us as well. I also wanted to put the same question to you,
00:04:45do you think that Tehran's latest proposal,
00:04:49seven-day road map of coming back to the
00:04:52negotiating table, having the straight off for moves back open to
00:04:56two-day road map. Do you think this is... Tehran
00:05:00giving Washington another way out of this
00:05:03confrontation? I can see that
00:05:07there is two main player, players in the world right now, Iran and
00:05:11United States. and like the world is dividing right now
00:05:14between supporting Iran or supporting United States and
00:05:18its aggression against Iran. We can see that if we take it
00:05:22like step by step that the American are losing their own allies,
00:05:26they are losing their own generals kicked out or
00:05:30fired or resigned
00:05:33and that spontaneous
00:05:36and unprovisional strategy of United
00:05:39States is taking the United States to s to the
00:05:43edge of a great United State
00:05:47and I believe that Donald Trump said
00:05:49that United States if the
00:05:53Republican loses this
00:05:56this election, United
00:06:00State is is going, United State is is going
00:06:03to tokias and going to be
00:06:07as a communist states, we we heard that, so
00:06:11I believe that... we are a very critical round the
00:06:15world championship of wrestling right now
00:06:18between the old
00:06:22champion the world and the new coming up
00:06:26to be one the main player in
00:06:29the not only in the region but globally is is
00:06:33Iran and that's what the United State is not
00:06:36accepted they they thought that they will
00:06:40demolish they thought that they will demolish Iran, they
00:06:44will finish Iran for they couldn't, then the
00:06:47the uh double western from
00:06:50Netanyahu telling them, you should kill the leaders in
00:06:54Iran and then the war, the war will be ended
00:06:58very soon, it didn't happen, Iran
00:07:02even though it's under sanction for 47 years,
00:07:06the financial situation is not good in Iran,
00:07:10but Iran played very
00:07:14sensitive role to move this sanction to
00:07:17within and to to the inside
00:07:20internal problem in united state.
00:07:24we can see now we are not living in a
00:07:27healthy vote and election
00:07:31situation united state, it's unhealthy,
00:07:34it's it's chaos uh
00:07:38voting and they are threaten each other like they are in
00:07:42the uh middle age, that's
00:07:46right. Mr. Bruno, um, we also
00:07:49have uh, Mohsen Rizay saying that the American tone
00:07:53towards Iran has changed, particularly in the latest
00:07:57communication from the vice president J.D. Vans, but that
00:08:00Iran needs to see evidence, provable evidence that the US
00:08:04is serious about diplomacy. My question is, what
00:08:08would that sort of concrete evidence looks like, look like
00:08:12if are talking about a US, a version the US that is
00:08:15serious about diplomacy and reaching a deal rather
00:08:19than using the negotiations, to give Iran as they did
00:08:23in the 12-day war, to give Iran a false
00:08:27sense of security to strike Iran for the third time this
00:08:30time, well there are two things going on right now,
00:08:33um, it's very important to notice tomorrow Tuesday
00:08:37we have the the elections for the
00:08:41which are white. predicted to be lost by the
00:08:44republicans, um, but there's something else going
00:08:47on, there are growing differences within the US
00:08:51administration, jd vans
00:08:55and do not like each other
00:08:59from reports that I've heard, and
00:09:02it's Hexeth is more on the aggressive side, whereas
00:09:06JD vans is definitely was
00:09:10never a big fan of this. war
00:09:13and if he has any presidential
00:09:17ambitions left, he is going, he he
00:09:20understands where the political wind is blowing in
00:09:24the United States, so there are
00:09:27- contract, there's a contrast within the administration itself,
00:09:31which might make any decision,
00:09:35might delay this, whatever military
00:09:39action I think Washington is planning, another
00:09:43issue as well, I think many people
00:09:47in the US military are very skeptical
00:09:50about the easy victory that Trump is
00:09:54promising, um, they have the equipment to
00:09:57deliver one or two major blows, but afterwards
00:10:01when when these ships will have to leave
00:10:05the the ships that they're using the aircraft carriers and all the
00:10:09will don't have solid base anymore. in the
00:10:12Persian Gulf, because Iran has the caused
00:10:16enormous damage to US
00:10:20military platforms in the Middle East, in fact a lot of this
00:10:23military, including the... what was in
00:10:27Iraq has moved to Jordan, so
00:10:31we have a general, there is a weakened
00:10:34position the the United States with
00:10:38respect to what we had on
00:10:42February 28, 2026, so already the
00:10:46picture, the military picture, what he's hearing most
00:10:49likely, if anyone has the guts to tell him from the
00:10:53military establishment. and this would
00:10:56include the so, i forgot his
00:10:59name, they call him raisen, the
00:11:02the the main us military figure in the
00:11:04in the trump administration, grayson cane, they
00:11:08call him, the chief of stuff, i
00:11:12think he is on the cautious side as well,
00:11:16so the military advice he's getting is
00:11:18against another attack, i'm
00:11:22sure um and
00:11:26Trump will
00:11:27be making a decision going against the military, he's
00:11:31taking quite a risk,
00:11:33especially considering
00:11:37the very like the
00:11:39likely huge shift in the
00:11:42US senate and congress in general,
00:11:46which could proceed to
00:11:50impeach him, and this time not just impeach as
00:11:54a... away but actually remove him from
00:11:57power, so I think Trump really faces a big personal
00:12:01risk here - at the same
00:12:05time he is beholden to Israeli
00:12:08interests and Netanyahu remains the prime
00:12:12minister, he's still in in power, that's the danger,
00:12:15so I don't think um
00:12:19the Trump is a position, he's probably going to
00:12:23delay uh... any
00:12:27decision or the military, the military action could
00:12:31look like something that Trump will boast as
00:12:34big, using a big bomb against perhaps one the
00:12:38mountains where the nuclear one the mountains the where the
00:12:42nuclear to to make sure
00:12:46uh later for now, mr. ham, I wanted to ask you about
00:12:50the leaders directive on
00:12:53Saturday which was... is particularly significant ordering
00:12:57immediate and effective response to any threat
00:13:01without any geographical restrictions and calling for the expansion
00:13:05of Iran's target bank. Is Iran right here in
00:13:09your opinion signaling that another attack would trigger a
00:13:12fundamentally different response from itself?
00:13:16Exactly. Let me say that all uh all the
00:13:20scenarios are on the table right now. Iran is
00:13:23ready for war. and ready for
00:13:27dialogue simultaneously at the same time,
00:13:31and what we heard from Sayid Mushtaba khamani
00:13:34yesterday, like seven points, very
00:13:38sensitive, critical, vital,
00:13:42precise points that he mentioned,
00:13:46starting with without geographical restrictions and
00:13:50going into physical to hit physical and non physical
00:13:53targets within. beach against the American and the Israelis
00:13:57and to consider if being attacked by American or by
00:14:01Israel separately, it means they are both will
00:14:04be retaliated against against
00:14:08also that so
00:14:10many, I believe so many
00:14:14sensitive in the doctrine declaration
00:14:18yesterday by the leader leader,
00:14:22I think he is moving, Iran is moving not only. from
00:14:25deterrance to moving not only from deterrance to
00:14:28initiator to be initiation to init, but they
00:14:32are moving for to be
00:14:36as the main player in the region and
00:14:39to have much influence as they can,
00:14:43if we see the situation, we have two main
00:14:47subjects that happened last last week, first of all
00:14:51the mecca agreements which is
00:14:55agreed upon between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and
00:14:59Pakistan, we saw them all gathered and met in
00:15:02Tahran with Said Muhsin Ridai,
00:15:06and then I think also the
00:15:10NPT, the NPT, the
00:15:13TPNW and also the
00:15:17AIA, now
00:15:21is on the table also for Iran, because according to the...
00:15:26world law, any country
00:15:30being you know
00:15:33attacked and or any country
00:15:36that - string its strings coming out of
00:15:40its nuclear weapon against any
00:15:43other countries, the other countries should have if they are
00:15:47capable to to withdraw or leave the
00:15:51MPT or the TPNW, so I
00:15:55think the Iranian now at the edge of taken
00:15:59very as
00:16:00i said sensitive and critical decisions in this matter
00:16:03and also maybe it will be supported for what's on in
00:16:07Beijing today, the the trilateral talk
00:16:11between foreign minister of China and
00:16:15also from
00:16:16the the Iranian deputy secretary the Supreme National Council
00:16:20plus the Omanis in in in Baijin, so I
00:16:24think we are at the very, we are at the very
00:16:28critical turning point worldwide, that's right,
00:16:31I'm going to ask you that question, Mr. Hamiah, but before
00:16:35that, Mr. Bruno, Mr. Hamia mentioned
00:16:39uh the NPT, the IAEA and international safeguards
00:16:43and the effects that this two wars of aggression have
00:16:47had on those safegards. This was mentioned
00:16:50actually by uh Mohsen Razi uh saying
00:16:54that uh Iran is right now debating whether to re
00:16:57uh stay its uh or
00:17:00you know contain itself it's existing nuclear doctrine
00:17:04if another war of aggression against Iran -
00:17:08out, what does the emergence of this debate inside Iran? the people of
00:17:12Iran have been asking this for very long time right now, after the
00:17:1512-day war, that right now there is
00:17:19debate inside Iranian officials to to stay and
00:17:23have the same nuclear doctrine or actually change
00:17:27it if another war of aggression against Iran breaks
00:17:30out? well, let's begin by saying that
00:17:34some people, serious people believe that...
00:17:37Iran may already have nuclear weapon
00:17:41ready, so um,
00:17:44that we, I don't discount that possibility, because Iran
00:17:48certainly had the technical capability of making one, there was a fatwa,
00:17:52yes, issued by the previous supreme leader who
00:17:56was killed on February 28th,
00:17:59um, but
00:18:01we don't know strategically,
00:18:03you know, when you uh, you will
00:18:06hide. certain information, so we don't know what the posture
00:18:10has been since then, and it's
00:18:14all it's vague, Iran has certainly
00:18:18expressed plenty of times its
00:18:22willingness to cooperate with all the relevant
00:18:25authorities, allow inspectors by all means
00:18:29and it was only after
00:18:33the the war that in June of
00:18:362025. five that there were some complicate some
00:18:40issues arose when Iran accused the ia of being
00:18:44biased particularly the former the
00:18:47leader the argentinian i
00:18:51forgot his name right now um but
00:18:55Iran has always shown a willingness to
00:18:58share all of its all the details of
00:19:02its program so certainly they
00:19:06will they will certainly be an aggressive
00:19:09posture from some the people in the
00:19:13Iranian government or people close to the
00:19:16IRGC for example, because Iran is not a monolith,
00:19:20people think that Iran is some monolithic entity,
00:19:24no, just like in all other countries, there are
00:19:27currents and tendencies,
00:19:29there aren't any formal political parties say,
00:19:33but there are currents, and there are
00:19:36multiple. multitude of currents because
00:19:38Iran technically is in
00:19:41fact what
00:19:43the whatever the western authorities say
00:19:47democracy of sorts so it has different
00:19:50opinions and I'm sure that
00:19:53after this multiple wars
00:19:56and the constant threat of war that exists
00:20:00right now um it's quite
00:20:03obvious it would be particularly for a
00:20:07country. with the
00:20:10historical legacy
00:20:12of perhaps the place where chess was
00:20:13invented, that's right,
00:20:17it's impossible to think that they are not planning some a
00:20:21change in that posture, and that's the risk that
00:20:24the world is taking, and this is one another reason why China is
00:20:28taking a very pro, very
00:20:31active diplomatic position, this is something that really
00:20:35needs to be discussed as well, because China is the emerging
00:20:38superpower and it certainly does not want another war,
00:20:42so Trump also has to calculate what China
00:20:46wants and what China's retaliation might be exactly. because there
00:20:50will be one. yes, mr. bruno. mr. ham,
00:20:54can a can be claim that a country is in
00:20:57possession of nuclear weapons when they haven't had a hot test
00:21:01yet?
00:21:03you know, there is two difference, two different, as
00:21:07we say, agreements upon the
00:21:10nuclear weapons in 1967 when
00:21:14they invented the MPT, it means the the
00:21:18countries that has neck.
00:21:21have has nuclear power power, they are not allowed to
00:21:24distribute it to another country, and then later
00:21:28between 1967 with the
00:21:32MPT going to PT NW in
00:21:352017, you have more than five
00:21:39countries like North Korea, Pakistan,
00:21:42India, also
00:21:46Israel entity, they acquire. the
00:21:50nuclear power and weapon, so
00:21:54it means now it might change right now, you are
00:21:58allowed to withdraw from the
00:22:02ii, ia, ea, and
00:22:06go for nuclear weapon, if the nuclear weapon
00:22:08is not useful, why you are using it, and if it is useful so
00:22:12why you forbidden us from from having
00:22:16it, so I think I think right now...
00:22:20Iran in a position to
00:22:23say like country, such a country,
00:22:26Iraq country like Israel,
00:22:29at 2000 kilometers, 8 million people, without the
00:22:32nuclear power, it's nothing, so they are
00:22:36thrinking and they are hiding behind the nuclear
00:22:40capabilities and threaten all the countries
00:22:43around because of such power, I
00:22:47believe that Iran after so many...
00:22:51aggression against Iran done by United States and
00:22:55Israel, they are entitled to have such
00:22:58power. Let's hypothetically talk about that, Mr.
00:23:02Hamiah, let's say that Iran is right now a position in
00:23:06possession of nuclear weapons. What does that mean to the
00:23:09US and Israel and also to the strategic calculations
00:23:13in the region? Mr.
00:23:14Hamia.
00:23:19Mr. can you hear us? yes, yes, yes,
00:23:23let's say, let's say Iran as declared by United
00:23:27States, let's say what the United States say is
00:23:30saying that Iran has 480
00:23:34kilogram of enriched uranium over 60,
00:23:3760%, and to go and
00:23:40reach 85 up to 90, which is
00:23:44entitled to have nuclear war head, they need
00:23:4813 days only. and
00:23:51with the
00:23:54ir 8 and IR
00:23:5612, the Iranian are
00:24:00capable to do so within days, but what
00:24:04blocked that is the fatwa of imam Ali
00:24:08Khamenei, now this
00:24:11fatwa can be changed because it's secondary fatwa, it's not
00:24:15from that essential from fatwa that you
00:24:18cannot change it can be 30
00:24:21seconds, excuse me, we have 30
00:24:25seconds, please wrap up your thoughts, yes, so all the
00:24:29now the Iranian inside, they are at
00:24:32the most and the pick power the
00:24:36Iranian, because all the Iranian are are gathered
00:24:40all unified to have the nuclear weapon and to defend
00:24:44themselves against any common aggression, thank you
00:24:48so much both of you gentlemen for your... thoughts tonight, Alessandra Bruno,
00:24:52author and geopolitical, geopolitical analyst joining us from the city of
00:24:55Toronto, and Ali Hamia, military and Strategic Affairs
00:24:59analys joined us from southern Lebanon. Thank you both again, and
00:25:03this brings us to the end of our disadition of our
00:25:06spotlight program. Thank you for joining us and
00:25:08bye-bye.
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