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00:00:00TV the IRGC says to all tankers have caught
00:00:03of fire in the straight of Ormus after attempting to cross unauthorized routes
00:00:07and striking sea
00:00:08mines.
00:00:12US Republican Congressman Thomas Marsi has filed eight articles
00:00:15of impeachment against war secretary Pete
00:00:18Haxet.
00:00:23In France faces another day of nationwide strikes and protests
00:00:27as trade unions
00:00:28in mobilized walkers against. rising living cost and government
00:00:32austerity
00:00:33measures.
00:00:49hello and warm welcome, you've tuning to press tv world news live from tehran with me
00:00:52zakarier. thank you for joining
00:00:54us. Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard
00:00:58course says to hold. have caught fire in the straight of Ormus after
00:01:02attempting to cross unauthorized route and striking sea
00:01:05mines. In a statement the RGC said tog boat
00:01:09approaching one
00:01:10of the tankers to put out the fire also caught fire. The
00:01:14RGC accused United States of pressuring ships to use
00:01:17anouthorized mine leading routes in the street of
00:01:20of Urmus. He said this policy is imposing huge insurance cost on
00:01:24American taxpayers in Washington's regional allies.
00:01:28The RGC added that. Washington could have
00:01:31of avoided this cost by unfreezing Iran's blocked assets
00:01:34which are worth less than the
00:01:37of expenses incured so far. It also said the move could have
00:01:41spared the US president a humuliating electoral
00:01:44defeat. The RRGC won the attempt to violate
00:01:48regulations in the straight of Boos would only bring further financial
00:01:52losses and political sets back for
00:01:54Washington.
00:01:58in
00:02:00one was of United the States main renewed its threat to launch new
00:02:03aggression against Iran, prompting Tehran to one of
00:02:07stronger responses with no geographical
00:02:09limitation.
00:02:16reasons Iran behind The the war crushing on defeat
00:02:17of the Republicans in the US mid-term
00:02:20of elections. Following this major setback for President Donald Trump and his
00:02:24Republican Party, I think he may resort to
00:02:26a reckless move by carrying out a limited nuclear.
00:02:30Republic
00:02:31Such move would put all American interests
00:02:35of across a the region at risk. is
00:02:35The certainly Islamic prepared on security, logistical
00:02:39and military fronts. Statements by Iranian officials
00:02:42of and military commanders have made it clear that any attack would be met with a
00:02:46forceful response. Iran has a list of targets and
00:02:50under the directives of its leadership, numerous American interests and
00:02:54facilities across the region are identified as potential targets. If the
00:02:58United States makes the reck.
00:03:03of
00:03:09I believe
00:03:09a renewed us attack on Iran would be reckless and carry enormous risks
00:03:13affecting regions outside West Asia, it could open the door to the use of
00:03:17weapons of mass destruction elsewhere in the world and trigger a
00:03:21wider and more dangerous global arms race. This could push the world towards
00:03:25an unprecedented catastrophe. Trump's electoral setback could be one
00:03:29of the factors. decision to take such a step. I believe there is a
00:03:32possibility that Trump could pursue this course of action. He has demonstrated a
00:03:36highly confrontational approach, and pressure from Israeli prime minister
00:03:40Benjamin Netanyahu could also play a role in influencing such
00:03:44decision. I
00:03:48believe neighboring countries would be among the first to bear the consequences of another
00:03:52attack on Iran, with the Persian Gulf states particularly vulnerable
00:03:56to its fallout. For now, the scenario appears to revolve. around
00:04:00threats and the use of military pressure. However, I find it difficult
00:04:04to
00:04:04of imagine that Trump would go as far as authorizing nuclear strike, as such
00:04:08decision could have far reaching consequences for the United States and its
00:04:12position in the world. US
00:04:16Republican Congressman Thomas Massi has filed eight articles of
00:04:20impeachment against War Secretary Pit
00:04:23of Exit. Masi says
00:04:24of it plans to force house votes in to impeach the
00:04:27proceeding in the coming
00:04:29of days. The... comes as republicans seek to blame Hekset for their
00:04:32midterm election losses, some party members say he played a
00:04:36key role in convincing president Donald Trump to attack Iran
00:04:40without
00:04:40a clear exit strategy or plans to deal with the public
00:04:44fallout. Trump had repeatedly defended Hekset rejecting
00:04:48calls to replace him on
00:04:50a Wednesday and says that the war secretary is doing a great
00:04:53of job. Trump has also acknowledged
00:04:56of accepts role aim back in the war, describing him as the first member of his.
00:05:00administration to support the aggression, democrats for their
00:05:03part of vow to investigate hks leadership at the
00:05:07pentagon, the inquiry could cover his handling
00:05:10of the war on Iran as well as his removal of senior military officials
00:05:13including the chairman the joint chiefs of
00:05:17staff.
00:05:35the US reports that vice president J.D. vans is seeking to build new
00:05:39political alliance with disaffected supporters of President Donald
00:05:43Trump, following Republicans humiliate and defeat in the
00:05:46midterms. According to sources, Vance wants to establish
00:05:50new rights a broad coalition of Republicans united
00:05:54around an American first agenda, including avoiding
00:05:58foreign conflict, tightening border control and making
00:06:01life more affordable for Americans. On Wednesday, Vans
00:06:05said, the war in Iran was the real reason Republicans suffered
00:06:09losses in the November 3rd election in what many.
00:06:12was widely interpreted as an effort to distance
00:06:16himself from Trump. He listted four steps to win
00:06:19back voters, one, and then the war in Iran, focusing on
00:06:23the cost of living and inflation, putting America first and
00:06:27changing the country's relationship with
00:06:30Israel. Both the Republicans lost the
00:06:34control of both houses of congress on Tuesday's election. The result have
00:06:38been described by some Republicans as a resection of
00:06:41Trump's press.
00:06:42presidency
00:06:48well to discuss these and more now we're joined by professor of
00:06:51journalism at Dafodil University in
00:06:54Dakar uh joined us from Bangladesh
00:06:57Dakar and also Kevin Barret editor
00:07:01at Andaluse tribune in Morocco thank you so much
00:07:05gentlemen for joining us welcome to the program I mean
00:07:08it's really interesting what we're witnessing uh in
00:07:12the... the state right now this uh this
00:07:16political debacco if you want to say it, but many of you i'm
00:07:20sure predicted this exactly would happen if the Iran
00:07:23war continued, so uh let's get right to it, let's
00:07:27start uh with Kevin In Moraco, um, did you see this coming, were you
00:07:31surprised by it or was it just
00:07:33usual? no, I i have to say I did see it
00:07:37coming, um, I wasn't sure that it would be
00:07:41as big as it... turned out to be, because there are all sorts of factors that
00:07:45can come into play in American elections, including rigged voting
00:07:49machines, and so one never knows for sure uh, how things are going to come
00:07:53out, but I did expect a serious
00:07:56rebuke uh to the Trump White House
00:08:00over this illegal, immoral
00:08:03and utterly catastrophic war on Iran,
00:08:07and that's precisely what happened, and it happened to such a
00:08:11degree, that it's impossible to ignore, and
00:08:15it was really interesting that we saw vice president J.D.
00:08:19Vance actually, put out a relatively
00:08:22sane and truthful analysis of what really
00:08:26happened, that it's, when a politician in the
00:08:30United States tells the truth, it's kind of
00:08:34what in journalism we call a man bites dog
00:08:37story, in other words, it's not news if dog bites a man, but it
00:08:41is big news. if a man bites dog, and so it's big news when a politician tells the
00:08:45truth, but it's even more of a man bites dog story, even bigger
00:08:49news when the politician tells the truth
00:08:52about the Israeli stranglehold on American
00:08:56politics and the fact that it's becoming increasingly unpopular,
00:09:00but that issue has now become so uh predominant
00:09:04that it's impossible for even the vice president to ignore if he wants
00:09:08to have a political future, so we we've seen a huge
00:09:12breakthrough. here and whether or not the
00:09:16this uh awakening the American people to the fact that their
00:09:19country has been crushed under the domination of a
00:09:22criminal zionist cartel which has done everything
00:09:26from murdering the Kennedes to uh rig doing the 9/11
00:09:30false flag operation, murdering Charlie Kirk and so much
00:09:34more uh and you if the American people fully awakened to all of
00:09:38this and understood just what this zionist crime cartel has done to their country.
00:09:42"they would uh do lot more than just uh voting against Donald Trump.
00:09:46Okay, I'm going to cross over to Mr. Greg Simons. I'm like, I
00:09:50hasked my previous guest, and because you've been here repeatedly on
00:09:54Press TV, we know that you kind of predicted this as well, that this was
00:09:58going to be catastrophic for uh the Trump
00:10:01administration, but it's so quick, isn't it? they lost, and
00:10:05the way they lost was so uh wide spread
00:10:09that the vice president could only wait if you..." hours, less
00:10:13than 24 hours to come out and distance themselves from
00:10:16that uh catastrophe, so what are we going to be looking forward to
00:10:20now as we go forward in the next couple of weeks and
00:10:23months? Well, I, I think it
00:10:27even
00:10:28was distancing himself beforehand, because if
00:10:32we remember, Trump endorsed Netanyahu,
00:10:36whereas Vance refused to do so, because Vance
00:10:40understood what a toxic influence
00:10:43Netanyahu is. Trump was too stupid or
00:10:47too, too much of a slave to zionism
00:10:51to actually care, he just endorsed his a slave.
00:10:55was activated, okay, where do we
00:10:58go from here? well, they have two
00:11:00months before the new senators
00:11:04and congressmen are sworn in,
00:11:08so in this two months it can be very dangerous,
00:11:12because there is this window where Trump can
00:11:16lash out, and as I've said before, he's a narcissist,
00:11:19he's a, he's got this touch of megallania, and what's
00:11:23more, he's highly. addictive
00:11:26and he he can still uh
00:11:29create havoc in these two months uh
00:11:33because the new um representatives won't have been
00:11:37sworn in so this is what i predict that he's going
00:11:40to do something reckless even by Trump's
00:11:44low standards right Mr. Bennet Trump
00:11:48himself kind of gave us inclin into what he plans to do
00:11:52with that tweet where he posted veto. you know on the
00:11:56cff they usually say maga uh so he's saying that whatever they bring
00:12:00i'm going to stand uh uh in front them but how
00:12:04can trump now talk to his
00:12:07fan base right the maga base the american first
00:12:11base when it's very very obvious that standing with
00:12:15Israel as cost them so much mean um the maga
00:12:19bases yet to recover we haven't seen them really come out uh to start
00:12:22reacting to this uh result in american uh in in both
00:12:26houses? yes, Trump has has lost
00:12:30the uh important, the most important part of his mega
00:12:34base, which is the relatively aware and
00:12:38intelligent uh side of mega. now there are people who hate mega,
00:12:41who don't even, they they reject this idea that there's anybody in the mega
00:12:45movement that is uh sincere and intelligent and well-informed,
00:12:49but actually there are some uh to at least to a certain extent, and those
00:12:53are the very people... "who are also capable of changing their
00:12:57votes, and that's what they did in this election, that's what Vance explained
00:13:01in his tweet, said that the all their their polling
00:13:05and data showed that there was a huge turnout the mega voters who had
00:13:09put Trump in office. okay,
00:13:10then allow me to post a question, so is this vote against the Republicans then
00:13:14or is this vote against Trump's uh
00:13:17policies? uh, well, as Vance said, it was vote
00:13:21against this war on Iran for Israel, that's..."
00:13:25Vance put it in his tweet, the four things that every one these
00:13:28voters said was the end the war number one
00:13:32uh focus on the cost of living in inflation, which is all driven by
00:13:36the war, put America first, meaning not Israel first, and
00:13:40finally change our relationship to Israel, so this whole
00:13:43thing was basically about people waking up on both the
00:13:47left and the right and saying,
00:13:49you know, we're tired of being run into the ground by the state of Israel, we're tired
00:13:53of having our government high... act by Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:13:57we're tired of doing these forever wars in west Asia for Israel, we've been
00:14:01doing this now for what since since the Israelis blew up the world trade center
00:14:05on September 11th, 2001, we've been fighting Israel's
00:14:08enemies because they hijacked our country, hijacked our military, and
00:14:12now uh we have these domestic consequences with inflation and so on,
00:14:16but we also have this really corrupt system where the epsteing
00:14:20class is using bribery and then threats of assassination, all these
00:14:23criminal means that this... hernastra is really supported organized
00:14:27crime network of oligarchs that runs the United States has been
00:14:31doing and they've been killing the country and Americans are waking up and saying we're done
00:14:35we don't want anymore of this right um Mr.
00:14:38Greg from the Iranian side uh and if you aware
00:14:42yes they was the day against global gegimony in
00:14:46Iran and we also had a message from the leader the Islamic
00:14:50Revolution that said that there is no difference between you know
00:14:53the American political. establishment uh, it's all owned by
00:14:57is they have a certain world view, and for us it it makes no
00:15:01difference. do you see a change happening
00:15:05either way, the for for the past two years,
00:15:08the democrats have been saying that we can't do much because both house are
00:15:12controlled by the united uh by the republicans and the are the
00:15:16it's it's the president, we see how um some the officials from the
00:15:19republicans party come out and defend you know the American
00:15:23president, but now... they don't have that excuse anymore, the
00:15:27democrats now control both houses, do you see them doing anything
00:15:31concrete other than going after Trump, of
00:15:32course? beyond going after Trump,
00:15:36I don't see... big difference because I mean some
00:15:40refer to the Republicans and the Democrats as been the Uni
00:15:44party, that is you got two political parties that pursue
00:15:48essentially the same policy and Iran
00:15:51is as Russia as is
00:15:54China, they have a consistent policy, it doesn't matter
00:15:58if it's democrat or whether it's republican,
00:16:01they will keep going, I mean look after
00:16:041979, it's been a...
00:16:07policy of
00:16:09aggression
00:16:11sub against Iran, it's been a war of
00:16:15subversion against not only the
00:16:18country but the people, it doesn't matter if it was the democrats
00:16:22or the republicans, so they're going to this is going
00:16:26to become personalized politics, yeah,
00:16:30same, same, but difference, okay, just less than a minute,
00:16:34we have Kevin Barret, just give us what you think. should be looking
00:16:38forward to in the next couple of weeks and next couple of months, will this
00:16:41change really have any impact uh for the American people? it's
00:16:45not just the economy, it's also social issues, it's the AI
00:16:49industry, it's the economy, it's everything. are we going to see any
00:16:53change really uh in the next couple of months or no? it's just going to
00:16:57be um democrats going after the republicans to punish
00:17:00them? well, it's still a dangerous period uh, if
00:17:04this blue wave had been a little bit smaller. "I think it would have
00:17:08been even more dangerous because uh the pressure on Trump from Netanyahu
00:17:12to go ahead and do the so-called limited nuclear strike on pickaxe mountain
00:17:16and go island hopping in the Gulf and so on uh would have been
00:17:19probably more likely to succeed, but it's still a real possibility
00:17:23that even this lame duck president who's been slapped down by the voters
00:17:27and by Iran, he you know might he's he's unstable
00:17:31and who knows what he might do, so that's still a possibility that we could end up
00:17:35in really a much worse uh circ'. stances than we are now,
00:17:39but uh, it's more likely that the they
00:17:42will manage to somehow muddle through, i can't, it's hard
00:17:46to imagine how they can end this war cleanly given
00:17:50that, but but but that's that's what we're all hoping and praying for.
00:17:53okay, 30 second as well, greg, well
00:17:57trump made the election about himself as narcissist and chief, it
00:18:01failed, so now he's got two months to recovoc
00:18:05before of a police. witch hunt, which
00:18:08is deserved, so these next two months are going to be
00:18:12the telling, this is the dangerous window of opportunity for
00:18:16travel. okay, very dangerous window of opportunity, we're going to leave
00:18:20it there, thanks to both of you, Mr. Greg Siman, professor of
00:18:24journalism at Staffford International University in Dakar,
00:18:27joining us from back Bangladesh, and also Mr. Kevin Barret,
00:18:31editor at al-andalus tribu
00:18:34tribune uh joining us from Morocco, thanks. to both of you and
00:18:38thanks to you our viewers for joining us on this edition of news
00:18:42review,
00:18:58for decades he topped the most wanted
00:19:00list, no
00:19:04public appearances, no voice, only a shadow. that
00:19:07reshaped the
00:19:08battlefield,
00:19:14the dust to refugee camps to the underground labyrinth of
00:19:17Gaza, Muhammad Deif evolved from a street fighter into
00:19:21the mastermind of asymmetric
00:19:23warfare. Surviving repeated
00:19:26assassinations, his silence became a weapon and his name
00:19:30enduring legend after his
00:19:32marcherdom.
00:19:44Welcome back, France faces nationwide wave of strikes and protests
00:19:48a trade union mobilized workers against rise and leaving cost
00:19:52and government austerity measures. The demonstrations brought
00:19:56together workers, high school and university students who have been
00:19:59protesting deteriorating school conditions, overcrowded classrooms
00:20:03and inadequate facilities ahead the strike.
00:20:07France's four main real Unions condem the government's proposed
00:20:11budget cuts warning they would deepen poverty, weaken
00:20:15social security and freeze public sector
00:20:18salaries. the latest mobilization comes is president
00:20:22Immanuel Macron's government struggles to push an
00:20:25austerity budget through divided parliament with
00:20:29public debt approaching 120%
00:20:33the country's economic output.
00:20:41and live images of that protest coming to you from
00:20:45Paris as you see in there uh various parts of
00:20:48Paris uh with thousands of hundreds of thousands of
00:20:51people are expected to come in because of
00:20:55how wide spread this protest is going to
00:20:59be, which is from different unions as
00:21:02well.
00:21:20Siamo tutti
00:21:21antifascisti,
00:21:24siamo tutti
00:21:26antifascisti,
00:21:29siamo tutti
00:21:30antifascisti,
00:21:34siamo tutti
00:21:35antifascisti,
00:21:44nous ce qu'on veut, c'est la guerre générale, nous
00:21:48ce qu'on veut c'est la... so live images once again
00:21:51coming out of Paris, this let's remind our viewers that this protest
00:21:55especially in Europe has been going on now for the
00:21:59past three four months, at least and in Paris over the past
00:22:03two months is started with student protesting over the
00:22:06deterioration in the education sector, especially in the
00:22:10buildings the schools and lack of teachers and overcrowding in the
00:22:14classrooms and then other it turned violent when the
00:22:18government turned on the student. uh and many them were injured
00:22:22and thousands of people were arrested, that protest
00:22:25later emerged into a wider
00:22:29protest against the economic situation and the social
00:22:32political issues that France is facing, and now it has
00:22:36turned completely into the austerity measures that the government has been
00:22:40taking over the last uh 10 years, and this is
00:22:44also a wider contest of protest across many
00:22:48European countries, especially as the prices of diesel
00:22:52and gasoline continue to uh increase
00:22:56live image there, someone was just attacked, guess and being
00:22:59dragged away by the police, as you're watching live images
00:23:03coming out of Paris, let's remind our viewers this,
00:23:07thousands of people have been arrested, many them are
00:23:11less than 18 years old because this was movement initially
00:23:15started by high school
00:23:17students.
00:23:50heavy police presence there that you're also seeing, we'll be bringing you more in our later
00:23:54bulletin on what happens because that protest has just
00:23:58started. thank you so much for joining us, goodbye for
00:24:00now.
00:24:59For decades, Iran has stated that the distinction between United
00:25:03States and Israel is often more political than practical. Many
00:25:07dismiss
00:25:07that claim is rhetoric, but the numbers tell a story
00:25:11worth examining. Since the end the second world war, Israel
00:25:15has become the largest cumulative recipient of US military
00:25:18aid receiving. 240 billion dollars, can
00:25:22you imagine 240 billion dollars?
00:25:26today that relationship is anchored by a 10 year memorandum of
00:25:29understanding guaranteing at least 3.8 billion
00:25:33dollar in military aid annually, a commitment
00:25:37unprecedented in modern american foreign policy. wait,
00:25:40it has surpassed even this amount, watch till the end. first, this is not
00:25:44marely story about aid. much of funding is designed to be spent on
00:25:48American weapons. linking Israel's military capabilities
00:25:52directly to US weapons production, the result is a system in
00:25:56which a continuous pipeline of American financing,
00:25:59technology, spare parts, munitions, and political
00:26:03backing sustains Israeli military power. The clearest
00:26:07example is the F-35 stel fighter. The jet is manufactured in
00:26:11the United States, controlled by the United States and supplied only to
00:26:15countries approved by Washington. Israel was the first to
00:26:18acquire the world's most advanced combat aircraft. For your
00:26:21information, Iran down F35 as well. So how
00:26:25advanced it is? Let's leave that for another time. Anyways,
00:26:29one F-35A cost average of
00:26:3282.5 million dollars. Overall, the F-35
00:26:36program has cost more than two trillion dollars. Israel's
00:26:40customized F-35 fleet has since been deployed across multiple
00:26:43regional theaters from Lebanon and Syria to Iran and
00:26:47Gaza, killing thousands of people. The depth of US involvement
00:26:51became particularly visible during the June 2025 war against
00:26:54Iran. Washington authorized modifications to Israel's
00:26:58F-35 Felite, enabling the fighters to carry external.
00:27:02tanks and dramatically increase their range, the result was
00:27:06capability to fly direct round trip missions to Iran without
00:27:10refueling, bypassing regional air bases and avoiding
00:27:14dependence on governments that might have refused to support such
00:27:17operations. Israel's missile defense architecture from iron
00:27:21dome to david sling and arrow has likewise benefited from
00:27:25extensive American funding running in billions of dollars since
00:27:29October 2023 that dependence has become even more
00:27:32visible. Washington has approved billions in additional military assistance,
00:27:36accelerated weapons, transfer, replenished stock piles and
00:27:40provided support a scale unmashed anywhere else in the
00:27:44world for Israel to continue Gaza genocide and also carry on
00:27:48aggression against other countries in the region. Researchers estimate
00:27:52that US military aid linked to the Gaza genocide reached
00:27:55record levels. Iranian officials have long maintained that
00:27:59Israel cannot sustain prolonged regional military aggression.
00:28:03without American financial, technological, diplomatic and
00:28:06logistical support. Even if you want to disagree after all
00:28:10the figures presented, the strategic reality won't let you. When
00:28:14the US supplies the funding, the aircraft, the missile
00:28:17defenses, the ammunition and offers diplomatic
00:28:20cover, Israel doesn't just remain an ally, but an
00:28:24extension of American power, advancing interest that
00:28:27Washington offer prefers to keep at arms length, what
00:28:31German chance. Friedrich mus described as
00:28:35dirty work being done on behalf the
00:28:38west.
00:28:50War does not end when the bombs stop
00:28:53falling.
00:29:02soil follows scientists and researchers into the
00:29:06scarred landscapes of Lebanon to uncover the
00:29:10invisible legacy of conflict, contaminated
00:29:14earth, toxic remnants and the
00:29:17lasting impact of war on human health, the
00:29:21environment and future
00:29:23generations.