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00:00:08Headlines, the IRGC Ground forces commander says armed forces are fully prepared
00:00:12to deliver decisive response to any hostile action
00:00:16following his visit to Iranian Persian Valf
00:00:19islands. France faces another day of nationwide
00:00:23of strikes and protests as trade unions mobilized workers against rising living costs and
00:00:27government austerity measures.
00:00:30of US Republican Congressman Thomas
00:00:33Massy has filed eight articles of impeachment against war
00:00:37Secretary Pete
00:00:38Hexen.
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00:00:58Hello and welcome everybody. It's two. 30 p.m. here in the Iranian capital tehron. you're
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00:01:04of our top story for this half hour, a senior commander
00:01:07of the Islamic Revolution Guard's course says Iran's armed forces are fully prepared
00:01:11to deliver decisive response to any hostile
00:01:14action. the commander
00:01:15of the IRGC's ground forces brigadier general Mohammed Academy made the remarks
00:01:19during visit to Persian Golf Islands and military units
00:01:23stationed there. he said Iran stands firm
00:01:27of against its adversaries and will not back. down, the
00:01:30senior
00:01:31of IRGC of commander also expressed confidence that Iran and the
00:01:35resistance front will prevail, his remarks come with renewed US threats of
00:01:39aggression against Iran, Iranian officials have warned that any attack could
00:01:42of trigger immediate and forceful response with no
00:01:46geographical
00:01:46limits.
00:01:54of France faces nationwide wave of strikes and
00:01:58protests as trade unions mobilize work. workers against rising living costs
00:02:01and government austerity measures. the demonstrations brought
00:02:05together workers, high school and university students who have been
00:02:09protesting deteriorating
00:02:10of school conditions, overcrowded classrooms and
00:02:13inadequate facilities. ahead
00:02:16of the strikes, France's four main rail unions condemned the government's
00:02:19proposed budget cuts warning they would deepen poverty,
00:02:23weaken uh social security and freeze public sector
00:02:26salaries. the latest mobilization comes as president
00:02:30a Emmanuel's government struggles to push an austerity budget through
00:02:34a divided parliament with public debt approaching
00:02:37120%
00:02:38of the country's economic
00:02:40output.
00:02:50Well, to further expand on that story, we have political
00:02:54activist Frau Hughes who's joining us from
00:02:57a Belfast, also we have
00:02:58of
00:02:58in of independent International Affairs Analist Gilbert.
00:03:25of
00:03:30not just within France but across the whole of western and
00:03:34of southern Europe, what we're witnessing is an
00:03:37ongoing outsourcing
00:03:40of of neoliberal austerity, I mean this happened in Britain and
00:03:43America under Factor and Reagan in the 1970s
00:03:47and the 1980s, we've had public services
00:03:50decimated, we've had the welfare structure decimated, we've had
00:03:54the schools and the hospitals and education,
00:03:58roads, trains, infrastructure, they've all been
00:04:02farmed out uh increasingly to private companies
00:04:06for private profit, so what called the social contract
00:04:10between the citizens of a country and its political uh
00:04:14leaders has been broken by the politicians and when you add
00:04:17in the illegal amoral war on Iran, the war
00:04:21proxy and gas 25% and petrol and
00:04:25diesel and you have feeling European
00:04:27economies with a ray in
00:04:30unemployment and the children and the students and the people going
00:04:34to university see no future, the price of
00:04:38houses and rent has literally gone through the roof, nopon
00:04:42intended, but people can't afford the rent,
00:04:44of they can't afford the hard energy prices, they can't afford to have
00:04:48food
00:04:49of prices, so the working class is increasingly being pushed in the
00:04:52poverty in Europe, and I would extrapolate that as far
00:04:56as North
00:04:57of America and Canada so... It's a
00:05:00failure of uh political
00:05:04contract with the people and while the're finding
00:05:07of uh tens of billions of not hundreds of billions of dollars and euros and
00:05:10pounds for war. in Ukraine for war against
00:05:14Iran, ordinary people are struggling, they've had enough and the fake
00:05:18back has become. now let's
00:05:21cross over to Mr. uh Doctor's with us from Brussels. Mr.
00:05:25Doctor uh, going over the uh the core
00:05:29grievances here uh that we were just discussing with Mr.
00:05:32Hughes, um, is this just uh in your
00:05:35opinion um an affordability crisis uh
00:05:39and which also involves school conditions or is this an outr?
00:05:42rejection the Emmanuel Mcron
00:05:44government?
00:05:48Emmanuel Macron has a popularity rating of 10 to
00:05:5115% depending on which pole you're using, so the
00:05:55the man is despised when in his
00:05:57own own country. The question is, what is the political
00:06:01outcome from the demonstrations that we are witnessing now for several
00:06:04weeks? They are major, the very important, and the unique
00:06:08feature today, I think you highlighted in your opening remarks.
00:06:12that the various group and what remains the
00:06:16yellow jackets movement, they've all come together in
00:06:20what they expect peaceful protest, the
00:06:24real issue, the driving issue clearly
00:06:28is the economy and the which is very
00:06:31weak and the cost of living which is very high and
00:06:35rising all the time, and my fellow panelist called out some
00:06:39the reasons for that, like to prioritize among the...
00:06:42reasons in Europe, the single biggest issue
00:06:45today is the rise in
00:06:49petrol and diesel prices which are passed
00:06:52along to other key sectors the economy which are so
00:06:56dependent on diesel fuel, that is agriculture and
00:06:59logistics, so they they raised all prices to
00:07:03the consumer, and that is felt with
00:07:06great difficulty, the the heating
00:07:10costs have gone up. for reason that is
00:07:13unrelated to the Iran war, but is very much
00:07:16related to the sanctions that Europe has imposed on
00:07:20Russia
00:07:21and which Manuel Macron is one the cheer leaders for
00:07:24punishing Russia, for humiliating Russia and bringing it to its
00:07:28needs. now these issues relating to the war in
00:07:32Russia uh are not discussed at all in the
00:07:35demonstrations that we see, and I don't think that people are
00:07:39stupid, it is just not acceptable for demon traders
00:07:43to be directing attention to foreign policy,
00:07:46it is entirely acceptable for them to be directing attention
00:07:49economic quotes and that is why we hear so much about cost
00:07:53of living, why the cost of living is what it is is, as I
00:07:56say, the sanctions on Russia and the war in Iran,
00:08:00will this bring down the macron
00:08:04government? I don't believe so, well government, perhapsron, not
00:08:08at all, not just because Macron is
00:08:11stupid. stubborn and
00:08:14resisting all the pressures on himself, but
00:08:18because other factors including the
00:08:21CIA, are certainly resisting
00:08:23any departure of Macron from
00:08:26office, because it would be very inconvenient to have elections
00:08:30now when it is perfectly clear that the pen would
00:08:34win, that is to say the CIA, which has interfered in French
00:08:38elections for the last 20 years, would find it hasn't...
00:08:42had the time to prepare alternatives to
00:08:46to uh the the the the far right of
00:08:49Lepen who is headed for victory if
00:08:52he were headed now if elections were held
00:08:54now. frawues
00:08:58um back to this cohesion that we're seeing uh with
00:09:01these protests, how durable uh is this
00:09:05um this unison uh this nexus of uh
00:09:09of different sectors coming together in the... protests, university
00:09:13students, the trade unions, the yellow vests and even other civil
00:09:17society
00:09:18groups.
00:09:22across France, it's across Europe, it's Greece, it's Spain, it's Belgium, it's
00:09:26Portugal, and Ireland on the 12th of November, we are having a
00:09:30national strike upon the attempts by the Irish government
00:09:33to remove the triple ock for neutrality and Ireland where we could possibly
00:09:37end up joining an EU army and needle, which are talking
00:09:41about a con vergence between disparate and separate
00:09:45groups and have all come together to challenge the orthodoxy that's
00:09:49in place in France at the moment, how long can it
00:09:53last? you see, there won't be any political reforms
00:09:56outside of an election, there isn't the opportunity for people to
00:10:00show their dissatisfaction with the current
00:10:03government and policies that are being carried out without these mass
00:10:07demonstrations on the street. some the violence that we witnessed has been
00:10:11started by state we have seen undercover police,
00:10:15spooks, the security apparatus, breaking windows,
00:10:18starting some the violence, because the only way the state can
00:10:22react to a mass movement, the people on
00:10:26the streets is to encourage violence so that they
00:10:29distract the rest of society and say, this
00:10:33is violent protest, these people are criminals, they
00:10:37are not peaceful citizens seeking change,
00:10:41and then we have the interference from America, from Trump and others, you're
00:10:45claiming that the violence is orchestrated by migrants and
00:10:49not this replacement, displacement theory that they promote all
00:10:53the time is that immigrants. and asylumseekers in
00:10:57Europe are the ones who are causing the violence and causing
00:11:00the disturbances, so the political system isn't going to
00:11:04change, it is set up to uh replicate itself
00:11:08during every election cycle, so the only response the
00:11:12government has if it's not going to react
00:11:15by actually meeting the demands the
00:11:19students and the railway workers and the trade unionness
00:11:23who simply want an end to neoliberal austerity and
00:11:27end to the crushing their disposable income, they
00:11:31want a future for their children, they want safety at work, they want to be
00:11:35able to afford the rent and pay for food and pay for the
00:11:39utilities and gas and electricity, if the government will
00:11:42not come to some form of subsidy for those
00:11:46people and to uh fully address their
00:11:49concerns, they will simply use violence to
00:11:53beat the protesters. off the street to imprison people,
00:11:57to incarcerate people, to find people in order to
00:12:01end the protest, so it is a war of attrition
00:12:05between those who are demanding equal part and
00:12:08and st within society and those who want the
00:12:12money to continue to go to corporations, capitalists,
00:12:16politicians and billionaires at the expense
00:12:19the national soul
00:12:23and at the expense of... slaves and liberty of
00:12:26futures. Gilbert
00:12:30doctor uh, let's let's talk about the heavy hand of police
00:12:34tactics, the crackdown that we've seen over the
00:12:37past weeks against the protesters, the
00:12:40curfews uh that that have
00:12:43imposed uh nationwide, do you think that they they're
00:12:47actually worsening the situation, the the
00:12:51repression, let's also uh not forget the repression and the...
00:12:55of civil been seeing
00:12:55liberties from the french
00:13:01we've that government, well this is nothing new, the crackdown on the yellow jack is
00:13:04vicious, macron is not a nice
00:13:07guy, he is willing to do
00:13:10anything to hold to power, including
00:13:14actions against the public which are
00:13:17illegal or are excessive to
00:13:21the threats to public order, and so a way he is the violent.
00:13:25of police suppression of demonstrations has of
00:13:29course uh heightened popular
00:13:32anger and has reinforced determination
00:13:36to continue these these demonstrations for a good long
00:13:39time right and let's also address that
00:13:43same question to Mr. Froh Hues as well uh give us your
00:13:47perspective on the massive crackdown that we've been
00:13:50seeing from the security apparatus in France.
00:13:55we take this in the palestine right, because previous to lot
00:13:59these demonstrations and solidarity with the people
00:14:03of passions in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Gaza, the occupied
00:14:07territories, but I trued Iran and Iraq and Syria and
00:14:10Yemen and Lebanon, so there's been crackdowns against them, what we
00:14:14have are increasingly authoritarian states that are
00:14:18using violence, repression and incarceration in
00:14:21order to control the masses to prevent.
00:14:25people land revolution against the current
00:14:29political kind of status quo, so you'll see
00:14:33continued repression, I believe that will get worse, I believe
00:14:37that what will happen is the state a perfect example is
00:14:41in Italy, they sent 500 troops to
00:14:44Milan to uh help the police
00:14:48restore order in adverted comma, so they're going to use
00:14:52the army, they're going to use the police, they're going to... use the
00:14:55secret service and increasingly I might be concerned that they may
00:14:59begin to use the rate with counter demonstrations and with
00:15:02violents attacking people who are taking to the
00:15:06streets, because previously again we have witnessed the rise the right
00:15:10across Europe, that is being funded in may made, that
00:15:14is being directed and that is being uh given a
00:15:17political coverage by politicians in western Europe
00:15:21byisanism that wants to uh create a war between...
00:15:25christianity and Islam and they are promoting
00:15:28anti-Muslim anti-immigration protest across Europe,
00:15:32but the interesting thing that we're witnessing is the people on the streets aren't
00:15:36blaming. even if Donald Trump is trying to
00:15:40to play that card, they're blaming the government, they're blaming the policies, they're
00:15:44demanding change, these governments will not bring about
00:15:48change, they will bring about further repression and violence, and they
00:15:52will try to beat people off the streets and they will try and encarcer it enough
00:15:56people that they will cadule and frighten
00:16:00and intimidate people the streets, but things might have gone too
00:16:03far, revolution start and parents can't put bread and... on
00:16:07the table for their children and we're possibly heading in that
00:16:11direction with these uh neoliberal fiscal policies
00:16:15where there are hundreds of billions of euros for the
00:16:19proxy war in Ukraine, as our comrad
00:16:22said there are sanctions against Russia which is destroying the
00:16:26economic uh beast within Europe, especially within
00:16:29Germany and we're paying twice the price for
00:16:33natural gas and oil coming from North America and
00:16:37we were. from Russia and possibly from Iran,
00:16:41so these conditions are going to change in the short term, I expect
00:16:44potentially the protests to become larger
00:16:48and possibly then even more
00:16:51repression, so we could end up with civil violence, civil
00:16:55disturbance all over sectors of France and Italy and
00:16:59Spain and Portugal and Greece and continuing in Albania and possibly in
00:17:03Belgium simply because the more the state represses people, the more
00:17:07people... resist. Mr.
00:17:10Doctor. Let's talk
00:17:14about
00:17:14uh the uh uh end game scenarios here. What are the most plausible
00:17:18outcomes uh that you see over the next few months heading into
00:17:222027? We know with the upcoming uh presidential election in
00:17:26April, will there be negotiated concessions or are we looking a prolonged
00:17:29staale? I think it's the latter
00:17:33scenario, prolonged state. This is the
00:17:36last lap. the Macron regime,
00:17:40and he will not make concession, he has no need to, he'll be leaving
00:17:44office, why, why should he give in
00:17:48and appear weak? he won't, as I said, he
00:17:52is prevented from resigning, which is what a normal
00:17:55political leader would do, given the the depth of his
00:17:59unpopularity and the demonstrations that are disrupting the political
00:18:03border today, he is not allowed to resign because the...
00:18:07"the opposition will win if
00:18:11they have elections now, and the CIA and the
00:18:15other forces that are controlling your French
00:18:18politics for last 20 years, will not allow that to happen, so it's
00:18:22not just the stubberness of Mr. McGrum, it is the
00:18:26entrenched deep state which
00:18:29is monitored or controlled by the
00:18:32CIA that prevents resolution the conflict that
00:18:36we see today." by some compromise
00:18:40um and by early departure of Mr. Macron, neither will
00:18:43happen. Fraw Huves, your thoughts on on
00:18:47the same issue as well, Mr. Doctor believes that there are foreign
00:18:50players at hand here as well, but uh, parallel
00:18:54to that, given the fiscal constraints and France's debt and
00:18:58deficit pressure, uh, we already know the public debt is approaching
00:19:01120% the country's economic output, what realistic
00:19:05concessions can the government even make consider? this budget
00:19:08impass? well, firstly, I agree with Dr.
00:19:12Doctor in that Macron's not going to go anywhere. see,
00:19:16it's not just the running the French government within the French
00:19:19political fiscal system. this is about the EU. this is
00:19:23about needle, this is about being vassle of American
00:19:27hijemany within western Europe. so there are
00:19:30possibly hidden hands behind the throne and
00:19:34hidden voices that are telling him what to do. for the
00:19:38wider European project and for NATO and what the
00:19:41Americans want to see play out over the next six months, the
00:19:45easiest uh route or
00:19:48off-romp as people might describe it, if it was me, I
00:19:52would call elections, I would have the elections so that the
00:19:56opposition would win, I would have the opposition tell the people in
00:20:00the country, we have heard you, we are going to make
00:20:03changes, give us time, give us six months. give
00:20:07us year, give us 18 months to turn the economy round, to
00:20:11get the schools repaired, to put more teachers in place, and
00:20:15then simply do what they all do, these populist
00:20:19governments and politicians will make those
00:20:22promises, that they will address the
00:20:25concerns the masses and the people in distress and the
00:20:29people falling further in the poverty, and then they will do absolutely
00:20:33nothing about it, and we will be back in the same position in three years.
00:20:37but I don't think they have the nerve or the courage or the vision to
00:20:41do that, but if you want to stop these continued uh
00:20:45mass protest, then you must throw the dog bone, you
00:20:49must tell the... that we've heard your concerns, we will do something
00:20:53about it, please give us time, but they won't give the present administration
00:20:57time because they have feel them, so they have to have elections
00:21:00and in through those elections uh they will just continue
00:21:04to deceive and to distract the
00:21:07population, so elections will get people off the
00:21:10streets, ultimately there'll be no change, for art
00:21:14elections the uh mass protests will
00:21:17continue and repression and balance from the state
00:21:21will become greater. Gilbert Doctor, I want to turn
00:21:25our attention to the European spill over, what are the
00:21:28similarities that we can see in the protests unraveling
00:21:32across other European countries, and do you think that there's a common
00:21:36cause behind them? No, the commonality is what I highlighted is
00:21:40the driving force in the French French crisis.
00:21:43That is the the sanctions against Russia,
00:21:47which took out cheap energy. is of prime
00:21:50importance in the investment atmosphere, in the
00:21:54industrial atmosphere, jobs
00:21:56and in GDP
00:22:00growth, the Europe across the board is
00:22:04suffering severely from the loss of
00:22:07Russian raw materials, particularly energy
00:22:10materials, and the Iran war
00:22:14of course compounded these
00:22:15difficulties in specific areas -
00:22:20"diesel being one them, so um, the that
00:22:24there would be disturbances in various countries that are all
00:22:28coming from the same common source, cost of living was out of
00:22:31control, and going back to these two, these two driving
00:22:35forces that I just mentioned, the Russia Ukraine war and the Iran
00:22:39war, um, not to mention
00:22:42the the draining away of
00:22:46available tax payer money to support."
00:22:50unsupportable war in Ukraine. Okay, gentlemen, we're going to have to leave it
00:22:54there. Thanks to my guess political active joining us from
00:22:58Belfast and thanks to Independent International Affairs analyst Gilbert Doctor
00:23:01joining us from
00:23:02Brussels. And
00:23:06lastly proceedings in the coming days. The move comes as Republicans
00:23:10seek to blame Hegseth for their midterm election losses. Some
00:23:14party members say he played a key role in convincing President
00:23:18Donald Trump to attack. without clear strategy or
00:23:22plans to deal with the political fallout, Trump has repeatedly defended
00:23:25Hexset rejecting calls to replace him on Wednesday and saying
00:23:29the war secretary is doing a good job. Trump has also acknowledged
00:23:33Hegset his role in backing the war describing him as the
00:23:37first member of his administration to support the aggression.
00:23:40Democrats for their part have vowed to investigate hex that his leadership at the
00:23:44Pentagon, the inquiry could cover his handling the
00:23:47war, and that's... For now, thanks for watching, press
00:23:51tv's world news and see you
00:23:52soon.
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00:26:36نرجع.
00:26:49Even dictators are armed with American intelligence and lethal weapons
00:26:53to strike independent
00:26:54neighbors.
00:26:58Yet history has proven that in the corridors of power, loyalty. has
00:27:02an expiration date from deceptive green lights prior to the
00:27:06invasion of Kuwait and missile barges against ancient
00:27:09civilization to the assassination of comrads in
00:27:13arms.
00:27:18Once the mission is complete under any pretext, from weapons of
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00:27:32Read dawn, the chronicle the rise, madness and fall of
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00:27:36Hussein.
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