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00:00:00in MQM 170 drones over Resh Island while
00:00:04destroying the 55th US MQ9
00:00:06drone. An Iranian army commander says the aggression
00:00:10against Iran shattered the image of US power while inflicting
00:00:14$47 billion dollars in direct
00:00:16of losses to the pentagon and the Yemen Armed forces fresh
00:00:20reprisal attacks target Saudi Arabia's Danmam airport and
00:00:24radar site in
00:00:28of Gizan.
00:00:41Hello everyone, you're watching Press TV live from the studios in
00:00:45Tehran. Thank you for joining us.
00:00:48Let's begin with our top story. The Islamic Revolution Gas Course says it has
00:00:52of captured two more American MQM-170
00:00:56reconnaissance drones in the skies
00:00:58of the southern island of Qisp. In a statement, the IRGC said the
00:01:02reconnaissance drones
00:01:03of were grounded using advanced electronic warfare systems
00:01:07operated
00:01:07of by his aerospace division. The statement added that the new
00:01:11capture increases the total number of US MQM
00:01:14170 drones seized by the
00:01:17of IRGC 2:4. The IRGC
00:01:20of said it also managed to destroy the 55th American
00:01:24MQ9 drone east
00:01:25of the straight of Urmus. It added that the Iranian forces have
00:01:29of already kept. 14 American MQ1 drones as
00:01:33of well, the IRGC said the invading American enemy has once
00:01:36again failed to achieveus objectives through the deployment of such
00:01:40drones. It stress that the new deployment is another chapter of
00:01:45of defeat and failure
00:01:46of added to the track record
00:01:47of the terrorist
00:01:48of commander
00:01:48of the US central command, Brad
00:01:52a Cooper.
00:01:55of Now to talk more on this, we have Mr. Ken Stone with us, executive committee
00:01:59member. at Hamilton Coalition to stop the war, joining
00:02:02of us from Ontario, Canada, Mr., Mr. Stone, good
00:02:06to see you
00:02:07of again, Mr. Stone, your thoughts on the IRGC uh, once again
00:02:10capturing two more US reconnaissance drones, which would definitely
00:02:14be uh reverse and genered, the most famous of which goes
00:02:18back to the shahed
00:02:20of drones, uh, it was so good, effective and cheap that
00:02:24even the US copied it as
00:02:26well, well the... many
00:02:30people in this country who are
00:02:34happy that the Iranian people are so
00:02:37resourceful and well educated and dedicated to the
00:02:41interest the national interests of
00:02:44of Iran
00:02:45of that
00:02:45they are able to foil the plans
00:02:48of the US for regime change in the country and have been able to do
00:02:51that now for 47 years, which is
00:02:54a remarkable achievement against the most powerful country in the
00:02:57of world, that most power country in the world, of
00:03:01course, is waging and illegal aggression
00:03:05along
00:03:06of with the Israeli genocidal regime on the
00:03:10people of Iran, and it should be opposed by all
00:03:12people. the the main difference i think between
00:03:16the way that the US wages war and the way
00:03:20of that the Iranians defend themselves, is that the
00:03:22US has a private procurement
00:03:27of system which benefits? a handful of private
00:03:31corporations, there are there is a military budget
00:03:35of $1.5 trillion dollars, which is way
00:03:39more than what Russia, China and Iran spent
00:03:43of every year on their military, and yet the US is not winning the
00:03:47war against Iran, and that's because much
00:03:50of the uh 1.5 trillion goes for profits for the
00:03:54military industrial complex corporations, and then there's
00:03:57bribery price fixing kickb. and so on, and the
00:04:01US also is
00:04:02of fixated on these big ticket items like
00:04:06aircraft carriers, fighter jets and
00:04:10armored vehicles of all kinds, which worked for them just great in
00:04:14World War II, but this is the 21st century,
00:04:18and the their failed attack on Iran which started in
00:04:22February 28th have shown that they
00:04:24are that these these big ticket
00:04:28items are pretty well, obsolete and the US does
00:04:32not is not able because of its private procurement
00:04:35system to produce
00:04:38a enough interceptors, missile
00:04:42aircraft interceptors to defend themselves
00:04:45against Iran's very late, the
00:04:48Iranian government with lot less money, and while it's
00:04:52under sanctions all and has been
00:04:55of for 47 years has a military procurement system which
00:04:59is... It's highly
00:05:02centralized, it's integrated with its defense
00:05:05ministry and with the IRGC, so
00:05:09that everything that's made fits in together in. a unified
00:05:13plan to defend the country against foreign aggression and it's
00:05:17working, but we have to keep in
00:05:19mind, what we have to keep in mind is that the US
00:05:23is still a very powerful country, even though it's in decline, and last
00:05:27week they used a color revolution to overthrow,
00:05:31to remove the government of Vuchic in
00:05:34Serbia, last year with
00:05:38hardly firing a shot, they they
00:05:41overthrew. "the government of Mr. Maduro, president
00:05:45Maduro, and they cat kidnapped Maduro in from Venezuela
00:05:49with his wife, and they are now languishing in
00:05:53prison in the United States, so the US
00:05:56can has some tremendous
00:05:58advantages, and they've used them against
00:06:01Iran uh, and they've used them against Syria, for example, over the
00:06:0514 years of war that went on there a siege, which crushed the
00:06:09economy, um, and they're trying to do that,
00:06:13against Iran and another 60 countries the world,
00:06:17but uh, the important thing is
00:06:20that Iran uh is standing firm,
00:06:24it has powerful allies, it has a
00:06:28unified government, and it has the
00:06:32support the people in the street, and of course it has the support
00:06:36also of freedom loving people all around the world who
00:06:39hate what the United States does. in its foreign
00:06:43policy, its gun boat diplomacy around the world, and what we really
00:06:47need is no if it can change its spots, but no if it can change
00:06:51its spots, but we need a, the world is
00:06:54facing mental crisis and it would be much better, mental crisis and it
00:06:58would be much better if all the countries the world were
00:07:02cooperating together to deal with problems
00:07:05of health, environment, affordability
00:07:09and so on, instead of uh having to respond to
00:07:13the US and UK and other neocolonial powers who are
00:07:17trying once again to enslave the people the world. That's right, Mr.
00:07:21Sol, you also have to remind our view is that it wasn't just against the US, the
00:07:25war, supposedly the most powerful force that the world had
00:07:29ever seen. It was also Israel, some European countries,
00:07:33including UK, maybe France, Germany, and also the Arab
00:07:36allies in the in the Persian Gulf region, all helping out, and
00:07:40also, this... It seems that they hit a brick wall
00:07:44and as you said all of this indigenous or in-house prowice was
00:07:48built on the decades of sanctions, which was very surprising for
00:07:52many, because imagine if there was there weren't any
00:07:55sanctions, exactly, um, but as
00:07:59I say, as I have said, the US
00:08:03has the where with
00:08:06all to lay siege to the economic systems of
00:08:10countries, they for example, Scott Bessent,
00:08:14US secretary of commerce, boasted about how
00:08:18he destroyed the Iranian currency, I think it
00:08:22was December 25th of last year, they have this kind of
00:08:25power because it's an empire, and the country you're referring to in
00:08:29Europe and the countries uh the Gulf
00:08:33cooperation countries, these are
00:08:37all satropies or vassles the US
00:08:40empire, and they... are able to draw upon these in
00:08:44order to make war against countries
00:08:48such as Iran, which is only standing for
00:08:52its own culture, its own independence,
00:08:55its own sovereignty, and that's something that the
00:08:59US and its allies cannot stand, they
00:09:03cannot see, they cannot let a
00:09:06country stand which is not
00:09:09compliant with U.S. foreign policy, which will
00:09:13not, which will not kiss the boots the US empire, and
00:09:17so it's very encouraging to us to see
00:09:21that finally, the US has run up, as you say,
00:09:25against the brick wall, and hopefully they go home
00:09:29uh with a blackened eye, and they decide not to do it
00:09:32anymore. That's right, Mr. Stone, as you mentioned Scott Bessent, doesn't that
00:09:36show that the US couldn't defeat Iran militarily, so they
00:09:40opted back to the sanctions and sie. the so-called
00:09:43economic dday, that's another proof,
00:09:47yes, indeed, and this is how they brought down
00:09:51Venezuela, this is how they brought down Syria,
00:09:54this is also how they brought down Libya and many other countries
00:09:58that have dared to um,
00:10:02have an independent foreign policy, an independent
00:10:05economy, their own view the world and
00:10:08wanted to be their own, wanted to...
00:10:13have an independent a truly independent and
00:10:16sovereign country, so yes, the
00:10:19US will use, the the US will
00:10:23use all its economic
00:10:56the the statement was or the saying was, more
00:10:59fortresses are taken by treachery than frontal
00:11:02assault, and so
00:11:05the the people of Iran need to stay strong, united and
00:11:09determined against either a
00:11:12further US military attack or another
00:11:16continuation the last 47 years
00:11:19of siege on the country of Iran. That's why
00:11:23unity is very, very import. wasn't, they have a Mr. Kenstone, executive
00:11:27committee member at the Hamilton Coalition to stop the war, joining us from
00:11:31Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Stone, it's always a pleasure talking to you
00:11:35sir, thank you for your time.
00:11:38Now a senior Iranian army commander says the aggression against Ivan has shattered
00:11:42the image the United States power, proving that America's military
00:11:45superiority is no longer a certain advantage. The
00:11:49Iranian army's deputy chief for executive affairs said
00:11:53during the aggression military power failed to overcome the national
00:11:57will the Iranians who have a civilization spanning thousands
00:12:01of years. brigadier general al sheikh added that during
00:12:05the US war of aggression 17 American bases were
00:12:08damaged, 65% of his patriote interceptor
00:12:12missiles were used and the Pentagon suffered more than
00:12:1547 billion dollars in direct losses. the
00:12:19commander added that the greatest military setback for the US
00:12:23goes far beyond casualties and... losses and lies in
00:12:27the collapse the image of power is spend years and vast
00:12:30resources building. General Sheikh noted that the US launched his
00:12:34aggression against Iran to restore a superpower image and showed
00:12:38the world that it could impose this will through military
00:12:41force. However, the battlefield exposed the limits of his power,
00:12:45proving that military superiority does not guarantee
00:12:49political or strategic
00:12:51success.
00:12:55"the deputy secretary of Iran's supreme National Security Council says
00:12:59Tehran and Beijing both hold the US and the Israeli regime
00:13:03responsible for starting the war on
00:13:05Iran.
00:13:10A common understanding was reached that the United States and the Israeli regime
00:13:13were responsible for starting this war and are the definite parties responsible
00:13:17for the aggression. Another point concerned the grave crime of
00:13:21assassinating the great leader the Islamic Revolution and his family."
00:13:25members, the Chinese side also addressed this as very
00:13:29serious matter that cannot be easily overlooked, they
00:13:32condem the assassination and stressed that it was an unprecedented
00:13:36crime.
00:13:42made the remarks during his visit to china for talks with high level
00:13:45officials, regional security. the Chinese foreign
00:13:49minister for his part expressed support for Iran's sovereignty and
00:13:52security. is also visiting Beijing,
00:13:56according to Almayadin, trilateral talks involving Iran,
00:14:00oman and China are on the way focusing on Oman's renewed
00:14:04mediation between Tehran and Washington to be backed by Chinese
00:14:08economic and security guarantees. Meanwhile, Iran's
00:14:12top security official, Major General Mosen Razahi held a telephone
00:14:16conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin to
00:14:19discuss regional developments. The two also stress the need for
00:14:23strategic cooperation. based on mutually agreed road
00:14:27map.
00:14:32Authorann political commentator sab shah joined us earlier from
00:14:36Belfast to comment on or about Iran-china
00:14:40relations.
00:14:46China always voices the opposition to external military
00:14:49strikes against Iran and China affirmed
00:14:53support for Iran. sovereignty, security and
00:14:57territorial integrity, this is opposition, always the
00:15:01Chinese advocates for resolving dispute through political and
00:15:05diplomatic means, they don't like to be dragged into any
00:15:08conflict. China used its position in
00:15:12the UN and security council, breaks and Shanghai
00:15:16cooperation organization to provide Iran as
00:15:20well with political cover and to challenge
00:15:23US brusher. which is through wars or
00:15:27sanctions against Iran, this strategic
00:15:30relationship between in China and Iran
00:15:34always worked to reduce Iran international
00:15:38isolation and proved it support Iran
00:15:42in so many levels in to be
00:15:46members of of multilateral blocks as the
00:15:49bricks as the shanghai and that is
00:15:53is a part the way the Chinese and Iranian
00:15:57seeing how to reduce the American's hegemony in in in Asia
00:16:01and
00:16:01ageman
00:16:06the Yemen. Forces says Yemen has carried out retaliatory attacks
00:16:10on Saudi Arabia's Jizan and Dhammam over the past two
00:16:13days. Brigadier general Yahya Sari said two drone strikes
00:16:17targeted Dammam airport disrupting air traffic and another
00:16:21hit an early warning radar site in Jizan. He also
00:16:25said the military transport aircraft at Jizan airport was
00:16:28targeted. The spokesman added that Saudi fighter jests conducted
00:16:32109 attacks on Yemani provinces over the past
00:16:36day. This have left several civilians dead or
00:16:39wounded.
00:16:44Since the beginning the Saudi led aggression against Yemen in 2015, the
00:16:48country's media sector has suffered extensive human and material
00:16:52losses. Journalists and media workers have been amongst the victims of
00:16:56Saudi and Israeli attacks while media institutions and broadcasting
00:16:59facilities have also been targeted. On the international day to
00:17:03end impunity for crimes against journalists, the scale these.
00:17:08is brought into focus through the testimony of a survivor of one of
00:17:12those attacks. let's take a
00:17:13look. am mid the rable of
00:17:17buildings targeted by warblanes, journalist
00:17:21survived the bombing the september 26 the yemini media
00:17:24center, but he emerged from the ruins to face a scene he had
00:17:28never imagined witnessing. in those moments death and survival
00:17:31collided and he lost colleagues who had been by his
00:17:34side. speak with deep
00:17:38sorrow and pain. On that day, the magnificent garden and
00:17:42beautiful buildings were transformed within a matter of seconds into something
00:17:46resembling a volcano, a hurricane, or earthquake,
00:17:49measuring up to 10 on the richta scale. Everyone was busy with their
00:17:53work when the zionist enemy targeted the newspaper buildings with
00:17:57some the most powerful bombs known worldwide. The buildings
00:18:01were completely destroyed and I was the only survivor among 32
00:18:05journalists and media workers. but the rabil wasn't all that remained
00:18:09of those moments, the scattered remains of his colleagues for
00:18:13witness to a tragedy that extended beyond the newspaper staff to
00:18:16include a child no older than 10 who had come to visit his
00:18:20father and became one the victims the
00:18:23bombing. At that moment everything around
00:18:26me was blown apart, the glass, buildings, everything turned into
00:18:30flames. I threw myself to the ground, recited the shahada and
00:18:34waited for death. Each strike was more powerful. than the one before
00:18:38it, as I lay between those buildings, it was massacre and a war
00:18:42crime in every sense the word. parts of my body were burned and my
00:18:46body was filled with shrapnel. no one at that site survived, not even
00:18:50young child who had come with his father. that was where his life
00:18:53ended. Mansor
00:18:55al-Ans story is one of many incidents involving the targeting of media workers and
00:18:59institutions in Yemen, since the beginning of
00:19:02aggression, statistics have document the killing of between
00:19:06118. and 337 media workers and
00:19:09technicians, including 219 from War media, and
00:19:1347 from state media. At least 25 others have been
00:19:17injured, while more than 133 cases of
00:19:20direct violation against media workers have been
00:19:23recorded. Amid the ongoing
00:19:27criminal Saudi aggression, which has continued for 12 years,
00:19:31the losses in the media sector have been enormous, with more than
00:19:34300 journalists and media workers killed. This requires the
00:19:38international community to hold the Saudi enemy accountable for its crimes
00:19:42and the crimes committed by the Israeli enemy and to impose
00:19:45international sanctions without applying double standards. The ministry
00:19:49of information stated that 23 media facilities have been
00:19:53destroyed and 30 broadcasting and radio transmission towers
00:19:56targeted. Seven major media institution were also
00:20:00bombed, five of which were completely information building in
00:20:04financial lation building in S financial loses. have been
00:20:07estimated at around 134 billion yemani
00:20:11reals on the international day to end immunity for crimes against
00:20:14journalists, cool renowed for accountability, justice for victims
00:20:18and an end to immunity for crimes committed against
00:20:22journalists, pris tv,
00:20:26sanaah behind every casualty
00:20:30figure is a child whose life has been cut short, family left
00:20:33shattered and a future stolen in Gaza Israeli attacks con
00:20:37need to leave children dead, families devastated and survivors
00:20:41struggling with life altering injuries and trauma.
00:20:45Ibrahim has the
00:20:46details. The...
00:20:50flames have died down, but the devastation remains,
00:20:53what was supposed to be attent sheltering them from
00:20:56bombardment became death trap. two
00:21:00children were burned to death here after Israeli shrabneles
00:21:04parked fire inside their tent, turning a place of
00:21:07refuge into a scene of unimaginable
00:21:10loss. they couldn't
00:21:14extinguish the fire. the mother, hannah, rushed in
00:21:17panic through the flames, but it was too. and she sustained
00:21:21burns all over her face and body. they were children
00:21:25sleeping. what was their fault to be killed in this horrific
00:21:28way? in another old
00:21:31muhammad was killed. old
00:21:34muhammad was killed alongside his father in Gaza
00:21:37City. his mother survived the same Israeli
00:21:40strike, but lost both legs, leaving her to
00:21:44morn the loss of her husband and young son while coping
00:21:48with lively changing inj.
00:22:20awakens, these killings are
00:22:24part of much wider tragedy, according to the euro
00:22:27meditaran human rights monitor, Israeli forces killed
00:22:3119 Palestinian children in October, 19 Palestinian
00:22:35children in October alone, average of one
00:22:38child every 35
00:22:40hours. These
00:22:44figures must stand as a stark warning to the Israeli policy of targeting
00:22:48children in particular. Israel tarian laws and human rights that
00:22:52appears in the indiscriminate killing of civilians and children, by
00:22:55demonizing and dehumanizing Gaza children, Israel seeks to
00:22:59normalize their killings. This is a continuing crime that requires immediate
00:23:03intervention from the international community. The
00:23:07figures represent far more than a monthly death
00:23:10tool. They reflect not only the loss of life, but
00:23:14also physical injuries, deep psychologically
00:23:18trauma and the lasting. burden a generation
00:23:22growing abomed repeated displacement,
00:23:25fear and insecurity. 19 children in
00:23:29just one month, each had a name, family and
00:23:33dreams that deserve the chance to come true, and for the
00:23:36families left behind, the silence of a child's
00:23:40absence is a loss that nose fire or a
00:23:44passing month can erase. add brahim for press tv,
00:23:48gaza city, palestine.
00:23:52and with that we come to the end of this bulleton, thank you for being with us, take care and
00:23:56stay
00:23:56safe
00:24:19for. Kids Iran has stated that the distinction between United States
00:24:23and Israel is often more political than practical, many
00:24:27dismiss that claim as rhetoric, but the numbers tell
00:24:30a story worth examining. Since the end the second
00:24:34world war, Israel has become the largest cumulative recipient of
00:24:38US military aid receiving 240 billion
00:24:41dollars. Can you imagine 240 billion
00:24:45dollars? Today that relationship is anchored by a 10 year
00:24:49memorandum of. understanding guaranteing at least 3.8
00:24:53billion dollar in military aid annually, a
00:24:56commitment unprecedented in modern American foreign policy.
00:25:00wait, it has surpassed even this amount, watch till the
00:25:03end. first, this is not merely story about aid. much of funding is
00:25:07designed to be spent on American weapons, leaking Israel's
00:25:11military capabilities directly to US weapons production. the result
00:25:15is a system in which a continuous pipeline of American
00:25:18financing technology, spare parts,
00:25:22munitions and political backing sustains Israeli
00:25:25military power. the clearest example is a f35 stel
00:25:29fighter. the jet is manufactured in the United States, controlled by the
00:25:33United States and supplied only to countries approved by
00:25:36Washington. Israel was the first to acquire the world's most
00:25:40advanced combat aircraft. for your information, Iran down
00:25:44F-35 as well, so how advanced it is, let's leave that
00:25:47for another time. anyways, F-35A cost
00:25:52average of 82.5 million dollars. Overall, the
00:25:55F-35 program has cost more than two trillion
00:25:59dollars. Israel's customized F-35 fleet has since been deployed
00:26:03across multiple regional theaters from Lebanon and Syria to
00:26:06Iran and Gaza, killing thousands of people. The depth of US
00:26:10involvement became particularly visible during the June 2025 war
00:26:14against Iran. Washington authorized modifications to
00:26:18Israel's F-35 elite, enabling the fighters to carry
00:26:22external fuel tanks and dramatically increase their
00:26:25range. The result was capability to fly direct round
00:26:29trip missions to Iran without refueling, bypass.
00:26:32regional air bases and avoiding dependence on governments that might have
00:26:36refused to support such operations. Israel's missile defense
00:26:40architecture from iron dome to david sling and arrow has
00:26:44likewise benefited from extensive American funding running in
00:26:47billions of dollars since October 2023 that dependence
00:26:51has become even more visible. Washington has approved billions in additional
00:26:55military assistance, accelerated weapons, transfer, replenished stock piles
00:26:59and provided support a scale. unmashed
00:27:03anywhere else in the world for Israel to continue Gaza
00:27:06genocide and also carry on aggression against other countries in the
00:27:10region. researchers estimate that US military aid linked to
00:27:14the Gaza genocide reached record levels. Iranian officials
00:27:18have long maintained that Israel cannot sustain prolonged regional
00:27:21military aggression without American financial, technological,
00:27:25diplomatic and logistical support. even if you want to
00:27:29disagree after all the figures presented, this strategic
00:27:33reality won't let you when the US supplies the funding, the
00:27:36aircraft, the missile defenses, the ammunition and offers
00:27:40diplomatic cover, Israel doesn't just remain an ally
00:27:44but an extension of American power, advancing interest that
00:27:47Washington offer prefers to keep at arms length, what
00:27:51German chancellor Friedrich Murs described as
00:27:55dirty work being done on behalf the
00:27:58west.
00:28:10shops, window smashed, law enforcement officers attacked.
00:28:14These are unacceptable scenes that no one should think of downplaying or
00:28:17justifying.
00:28:23Nobody tried to care seriously about the
00:28:26problems.
00:29:24after months of war, the people of southern lebanon return
00:29:27home بس هذا اطرنا بالحياه اطرنا نحن نظلنا هون شو ما يكون
00:29:31ما نضحي فيه.
00:30:11This is for palestine the mala.