of recently come to light, an exchange between jeffrey leeds and former secretary of state colin powell, 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, uh, 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 powel, correct? shouldn't you ask colin powel that? i, i, i... i'm not

going to speak to this particular traffic and i'm certainly not doesn't have nuclear weapons, i'm certainly not going to discuss matters of intelligence from the from the podium, who is it who is 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. we're condemned to our mother's nationality, condemned to where we live, to live life that we spent and the footprints behind us. but i know one thing, we're free to have any hope, however far from the minds of others.

jesus the people i saw during this time had dreams of things that i already have, on the of contrary, i wish i had the things that they have, but in fact they didn't have. every person has a dream and i, the iranian dream.

of 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? but some of these open letters seem to be written for you yourself only, for every one these people that have been. rest for their own cells, 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. thank you. mr. carl puffing, thanks again for coming to our news agency. uh, may i ask you to... into this to yourself? well, my name is caleb mappin. uh, i live in new york city, i'm originally from ohio. very good. why have you come to iran? should we be waiting for another news about an american spying 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. so i guess after the agreement made between iran and the pfa. 5 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, 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 iran? 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 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.

somewhat difficult for me to to understand that uh that you know everything is matter of negotiation and and i'm not used to that, i'm not used to that. in the us, the way we talk about money is very clear, like when you go to a store there's no haggling, 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... 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, from the little 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, i think they assumed that i was like supporting the government of the us, and so when they were telling me

اون درآمدی که ملت شما داره ملت آمریکا داره از خون و خونریزیه اون درآمدی که ملت شما داره دقت کن کتاب بخون تاریخ. couldn't really understand 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 um 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 jail. so behind me are a group of students who are graduating from tairon university, they're very happy, they're taking pictures, they're celebrating because they just graduated from the university here in iran.

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 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...

in the united states, it is very hard to get information about the supreme leader. i read his letter to the youth of north america. "i'm addressing you, the youth, not because i overlook your parents, but rather because the

future of your nations and your country will soon be in your hands, and i also find that the sense of quest for truth is more rigorous and attentive in your hearts. i would like to 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 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 jog. and from you today, the communication media have removed the geographical borders, hence don't allow them to be seaging with

fabrigated and mental borders. 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, 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. please visit letterfore. i went to the bookstores in teyron, near tairan university, and one thing i was really happy to see was

there was such a variety of different books with different perspectives. we had the far left uh marxist literature. you had uh 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 were public 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. it's 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, 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, we have some books about marks. second book, third book and fourth book, wow, this is series about marx, capital of marx, oh capital, yeah, yeah, i've read that in english capital, yes, hitler, hitler, yeah, and america history, the america history, oh really, now who, 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'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 is so different than than we do, but 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 universities, they 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 the us, it's very well loved, now one thing you might be able to help me with, i don't, mean i think you have mainly books that are

in in farasey persian here, but before i leave i really would like to get a copy of the writings of imam khomaniini in english you "i'm trying to come to understand iranian society and and the revolution and and me the educational system yeah yeah this is about oh and that's in english the islamic revolution of iran and it's by imam komeni no no okay i don't have a books okay translated translated in english by the role of muslim" and woman in development of societies, very interesting. i think that i want to buy this book. okay, so how many? can buy it in dollars? no, not in real, only in real. okay, all right, think i'll buy this. i want to learn about the islamic revolution of iran. okay, 53,000 tomas. 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, all right, thank you very much, good call and i wish you the best of luck in your continued work at this lovely book store, thank you 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, 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.

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 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 makdi, 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. he shall overcome, he shall overcome,

so deep in my heart, i know that. what i do, oh we shall, we'll walk hand in hand, well my name is david miller, sociologist who specializes in the analysis of power and propaganda, so i i come from glasgow in scotland. i'm sorry, did you say that was english? i'm not english. the only way for liberation is for the decolonization the mind. this is your first time here. how

long have you been here now? how many days? two days? answer me about bristol university, russia's and ukraine, war. iran's foreign policy. the americans are opposed to the islamic republic of iran, whatever it does. we marched when harlad jill was uh bombed with chemical weapons and so here we are in the the famous bobby sands. named after bobby sans, the officer commanding the ira prisoners. if we stand together, we can help to stop the spread of zionist extremism and to combat islamophobia. what has interested you with regard to iran? 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... 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 they separate the land, but i was at the babel shams protest last week, and i myself had a my head banged against a bus by soldier. illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us the palestine, this is historical palestine, either you're with us or you're with the enemy, there's no in between, and that

doctrine still. لو وافق صدام على كل قرارات الامم المتحده وعلى كل ما تريده الولايات المتحده لكان قد اطيح به كان المفروض عندما يسقطون النظام يسلمون الدوله للمعارضه هم اسقطوا النظام والدوله معا وسلموا المعارضه صراع على السلطه اول من وجه ضربه للامريكان في العراق هي الفصائل الشيعيه

your headlines on press tv fresh israely strikes on the gaza strip leaves nearly 100 palestinians dead as death told from the on slaught is fast approaching 30,000. figures show israel has intensified had the demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied al-quds since the onset of the aggression in the besieg gaza strip. and iran says the us and the uk are escalating tensions and crises in the region by launching air strikes on yemen.