tv Documentary Iranian Dream 1 PRESSTV February 25, 2024 3:02pm-3:31pm IRST
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of so an email has recently come to light, an exchange between jeffrey leads and former secretary of state colin powel in which he acknowledges that israel has quote has he says 200 nuclear. weapons um and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty has not been signed by israel um - under us law the united states should cut off support to israel because it's a nuclear power that has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty according to colin pow correct? shouldn't you ask colin pal that? i i'm not going to speak to this particular traffic and i'm certainly does have nuclear weapons i'm certainly not going to discuss matters of intelligence from the from the podium and i'm not. who is it who is
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assaulting and taking food out of the mouths of the children of public workers in this state right now? is it the occupy wall street activists? no, no, the occupy wall street movement is movement about stopping the grinding wheels of repression right now and stopping this attack on all working people in this country. every human being has a dream and every dream has fate. some dreams accompany one till death and some only for moments that just tickle him, but he will soon forget. our dreams sometimes are like others have, but they may hate it or at least be indifferent towards it. sometimes it is like something that we own and we are not aware of, and sometimes it does not exist, and we have just thought that others have.
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every day, millions and millions of letters are written and sent around the world. some of the letters are written just for you, and some are open. open or public letters are usually forgotten, because after a while you say to yourself, i am one of the thousands of people who will read it. what's written in it for me?
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but some of these open letters seem to be written for you yourself only, for every one these people that have been addressed, for their own selves. these letters are not human, and we will never learn a letter for you. how are you? i'm good, good to see you, thanks. oh, thank you. mr. carl buffing, thanks again for coming to our news agency.
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uh, may i ask you to introduce yourself? well, my name is caleb moffin. uh, i live in new york city, i'm originally from ohio. very good. why have you come to iran? should we be? for another news about an american aspying on iran. i don't think they would let me work for the cia even if i wanted to, even if i volunteered, they would probably not allow me to, and i understand why you would be concerned about that based on what's been happening lately uh with the us, based on these criminal sanctions and all that. i can understand your concern. right, so i guess after the agreement made between iran and the p5 plus one in switzerland, you've come to iran to make some investments or sign some oil contract, right? well, i'm certainly not a businessman. and i don't have any financial interest in things uh, i'm not here to make any money. is this for the tourist spots in iraq? well, i mean, you have very, very beautiful city here. i mean, there's a lot of things to see, uh, lot of very beautiful sites, public gardens, parks, i mean, very amazing, but i, i wouldn't say i came here as
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tourist, that wasn't the primary. to some of the people, i was a stupid idler who had left the cradle of civilization behind and wasted my life, or maybe it was just to get famous. it did not matter what image was created for my presence in iran. the only thing that was important to me was that i kept my headline.
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somewhat difficult for me to to understand. and that uh that you know everything is matter of negotiation and and i'm not used to that, i'm not used to that uh, and the us, the way we talk about money is very clear, like when you go to a store, there's no hagggling, you don't negotiate about the price, it has this price and you buy it, uh, when someone's to be paid, they're paid this amount, and that's that, uh, but i noticed in iran there's a lot more negotiation and back and forth and things are much more um, i don't know what the word is, but there's much more of a um... bargaining process, i guess you could say uh, when it comes to, especially things related to money, whether you're buying something, whether you're doing something, it was interesting to see how passionate people were about politics and how
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willing they were to talk to me about it, because people were more than happy to give me their view, everyone in iran has an opinion uh, from the littlest child to the oldest man, they all have an opinion about politics? one day we were in the bazar, there were a couple iranians who were giving me their opinion about politics and i think they assumed that because i was the from the united states that i had a pro-us government perspective, um, i think they assumed that i was like supporting uh the government of the us, and so when they were telling me about politics they became very angry and very fired up at me and they were kind of yelling at me as if they were yelling at the government.
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that i'm someone who opposes those policies, so i remember that, that was kind of an uncomfortable situation. i was told by um, one of my friends when i came here that they told me to be very careful how i acted, because they said, if i broke any of the islamic laws here in iran that i would be stoned to death. uh, we hear that in iran, if it's illegal to wear blue jeans, but if you wear jeans in iran, you're around arrested and and put in.
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i recently read uh the letter of the supreme leader of the islamic republic of iran, the letter he wrote to the youth of europe and north america, it was very poetically worded and it made me think many things and it made me want to learn more about the islamic republic of iran and and learn more about your country, your revolution, uh, your beliefs and and what the truth really is, because the letter pointed out that we really shouldn't trust us media, so uh, it was, it was, it was important to me to come to the islamic republic of iran and and try to find out more about your country. well, all across the internet, there are millions of...
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talk to you about islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as islam. receive knowledge of islam from its primary and original sources, gain information about islam through the quran and the life of its prophet. i would like to ask you whether you have directly read the quran of the muslims. have you studied the teachings of the prophet of islam and his humane ethical doctrines? have you ever asked yourself how? how and on the basis of which values has islam established the greatest scientific and intellectual civilization of the world and raised the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals throughout several centuries. i would like you not to allow the derogatory and offensive image buildings to create an emotional gulf between you and the reality, taking away the possibility of an impartial judgment from you. today the communication media have removed the geographical borders, hence don't allow them to be sieging with fabricated and mental borders.
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"i think it's a very great idea, because unfortunately there's a lot of misconceptions about islam, and i think the reason why so many are being prejudiced." it's not because they're bad people, it's just the very ignorant about what islam is really about, yeah, so i think what the work you do here is very great if i want to learn about islam, i think the best way is to go um to read literature that is from islam.
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right-wing literature, islamic literature, christian literature, there was a wide variety of um of religious. and political views that you could find very easily at these bookstores, these republic bookstores, any iranian could walk into these bookstores and purchase any book that they had there in stock. wow, children's books, very cute. oh, classics from the us. so i saw they had a lot of iranian literature, but they also have some literature from the us. this is uncle tom's cabin, novel about the struggle to abolish slavery, is very famous, played a very... important role in us history, now it's interesting, they tell us in the us, i've heard so many times in the us that in iran uh reading the writings of carl marks is illegal, but when i walked into the store, i see them, not only are they not illegal, but they're very, very accessible, here they've got uh, marks, you have some books about marks, second book, third book and fourth
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book, wow, this is series about marks, capital of marks, oh capital, yeah, yeah, read capital, yes, hitler, yeah, hitler, yeah, and the america history, the america history, oh really, now, what book is this uh, this american history, yes, yes, howard zin, oh, howard zin, the people's history of the united states, yeah, i, i've read that book in the us, very popular book, the people's history of the united states, oh, i got to remember, how you guys do the books, it's so different than than we do, yeah, you know why people in the us like that book so much, is because it's so opposite of what we're told in the schools and the university. the they don't teach us that, what we learn in the schools and universities, that's not what's in this book, this book is kind of the uh the untold story of the us, it's very well loved. now one thing you might be able to help me with, i don't know, mean i think you have mainly books that are in in pharisey persian here, but before i leave, i really would like to get a copy of the writings of imam khomini in english, i'm trying to come
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to understand iranian society and and the revolution and and the educational system. yeah, yeah, this is about oh, and that's in english, the islamic revolution of iran, and it's by imam komani, no, no, no, no, i don't have any books, okay, translated, translated in english by monconi, the role of muslim woman in development of societies, very interesting, i think that i want to buy this book. okay, so how many, can i buy it in dollars? no, no, in real, only in real. okay, all right, i think i'll buy this, i want to learn about the islamic revolution of iran. okay, 53,000. okay, so i don't know what that exactly is, so i have, this is the iranian money i have. okay, can you tell me if it's enough, can you just for you? okay, okay. all
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right, thank you very much, and i, i wish you the best of luck and your continued work at this lovely bookstore, thank great, and thank you for the book, thank you, thank you sir, thank you, goodbye, and goodbye to you, and thanks, have nice time, i will, i will, thanks, there are a lot of iranian young people who are very, very interested in ideas, philosophy, and uh, you know, this, this... is something we don't, we're not told in the us, and the us they tell us for example that music is illegal in iran, well it's not illegal to listen to music in iran, there's music everywhere.
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بیل کنمش جایقامه درویست مکان سالب زبفینه به باها این مایافت از کشت سطان کشت ستان است. iran's largest religious festival coincided with the days of my presence in iran. i just wanted to use this opportunity to have a little talk with people about the supreme leader of iran and his letter, but everything does not always happen the way we expect. that night happened to me. and it was not what i expected at all, it's very difficult
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for me to really describe it. i don't think you can really, really understand what went on in that room until you're there. you have to be there to understand it. um, i was not expecting what i saw. in that room, and i don't think i could ever really explain it to anyone. we're here in a very, very sacred place. this is imam zodi ali akbar. um, and there are celebrations going on, they haven't actually started yet, celebrations for imam makti, uh, he's the 12th imam in shia islam, and he has has left, but it is believed that he will return at the end of time along with christ. overcome, we shall overcome so
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they in my heart, i know that do be, oh we shall over. some we walk hand in hand, we walk hand, this is my land and my country, it is not only the 1948 or 1967 borders from the sea to the river, i am not ready to let go of a centimeter. israel is here like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states, that's why the sabarit,
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on the 142nd day of the us israelity genocide in gaza, fresh air rates by the regime hit a residential area resulting in the loss of palestinin lives. more is really soldiers. are killed on the gaza strip as palestine resistance fighters continue to battle occupation forces. the amani army says it's targeted american vessels in the red sea in the gulf of adian as the us and the uk conduct fresh strikes on the country.
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