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leader of the islamic revolution and ali khamenei, in his new year address congratulated the iranian nation on the occasion of noruz, renewing emphasis on productivity and the people's participation in enhancing productivity. he noted how the enemy has failed in pursuing a policy of economically defeat the iranian nation, just like how it will fail when it comes to the issue of palestine and the genocidal war that the us and israeling. in this edition of the program we will break down the speech by iran's. look at some of the different ways that iran's enemies have failed in trying to break the will of the islamic republic. first let me introduce our guests. also joining us is said abbas, journalist and political commentator from london. welcome to you both. i'd like to start with you. by the way, let's of

look at the slogan that iran's leader has introduced, and that is year of search in production through people's participation, and let me get a reaction from you on that. first of all, i like to wish yourself and all the viewers, happy new rules, but the fact of the matter is that ever beginning of the islamic revolution, the west and was was totally committed. to undermine and indeed bring a regime change i remember it very very very clearly that year by year, month by month they were saying that islamic revolution is not gonna last any more than a month, more than year, and this went on and on and on, and now the islamic revolution is so established that that is unbelievable, despite all the efforts and that has be made

all the sanction, all the sort of political maneuvering, financial restrictions, and on and on and on, iran is going from a streng to a strength, it's iran at the time of revolution, indeed just after revolution, did not have was not able to get enough bwire to defend itself against the saddam hussein and all help. saddam hussein, it does not forget it was west, it was the east, it was the sort of all the neighbors, arab nations and so forth and so on, despite all that, iran has survived and has gone from a strength to strength, now iran is actually military power, iran has shown that sanctions is not going to affect it, it will and it has put pressure, but iran is going from a strength to strength and this speech. today was

actually highlighting that and actually saying that we need to build up on that, and the way that needs to be done, the way to do it is through the empowerment of people, it needs to come by by the people, for the people, and there is no other way for it, and we need to mobilize the empowerment of of the... iranians right across the nation to go even further than what they have done already. indeed, well the speech that was made today some abbas was uh pretty forthride and um iran's leader actually not only talks about iran's strengths as our guest mentioned, but also about iran's challenges when it comes to uh what it has to do, and one of the ones obviously has been this economic challenge uh of which uh we will get into the pressure from the west, ie the us in particular, but he said the key to solving...

economic problems are domestic and national production, but with the participation of the people. tell us what your take is on on that uh, in particular the fact that he has uh somewhat underlined people's participate. participation in its slogan overall? uh, well, i think what, the the technical term for this is uh, the the uh, the the growing strength of a resistance economy, because that's what the islamic republic of iran has opted for, it's selected for that, but it's also been rather forced into that, because uh, the kind of sanctions that iran has been uh, you know, terrorized with over over the years have just grown exponentially, and they're a level which is almost conceivable, especially for you, the the nation in the condition it was from 79, the condition that shah had left it in, and then of course all the constant psychological operations, the constant cultural revolutionary operations that the west has been engaged in, the

military operations, you eight year war imposed on the nation, and of course that has to be taken into account all of this uh absolutely uh trillion dollar effort to bring iran has failed, i mean if you were just to look at the the american investment in in the media, soft power exercise in trying to brainwash or indoctrinate iranians living in iran uh about how bad their government is, well you'd be shocked because there are hundreds and hundreds of these media agen which are backed and journalists etc. and it's that soft power cover which actually has hinted at far more dangerous than any... military uh threat that america now has against iran, because that's been negated with uh the fantastic scientific and military development and the technological developments of the irgc and all the other agencies that have been involved to get iran up to speed in being able to defend itself, well we know that we can see in all the

theaters that iran has has launched itself, it's been more than uh adequate in pushing back the americans in holding them down and actually making them now think about uh leaving the... region, it's the soft power which is far more dangerous, the the cultural indoctrinations, the film, the films, the more, the depretion of morale, trying to make the iranian people think that they're failing, but you see, khumini said one thing, he said no east, no west, that there is islam at the heart of what you're going to do, and the iranians really have to have to remember this fully and totally adopt it, because you know this is the third way, there is the socialist system. have failed, the neoliberal west is struggling with its hypercapitalist systems here as well, the only real option that gives poor ordinary people a chance at having a real genuine government and genuine movement which is for the oppressed and for the downtrodden it is the vali system of

iran. i have great belief in that uh the question is really will uh will the rest of the the people who have earthwile been supporters of this recognize the power and the necessity. and the absolute strength of the system, that i think is what what has been referring to when he talks about hope and faith being two primary factors driving iran's national interests and the future, they got to have both, indeed, well when we talk about iran um in terms of the pressure that comes from the west in particular the us uh we're talking about the economic pressure with the goal of uh many understand that to be regime change really uh trying to make discontent uh and i think iran obviously not only realizes that but this 13th administration uh headed by rc is completely aware of that and we can see that in the its presence in different trade pacts uh that it has signed with different blocks like the seo like being a member of the bricks uh

organization now uh iran's leader acknowledged that that is a good thing at the same time he said that we need those mous that have been signed to turn into action basically and that therein is uh that's pretty significant for him to say that pretty much in in one breath, tell us what you think about that and how important that plays the acknowledgement by iran's leader on that issue and that it needs to translate into action. absolutely, i i think there are those who are saying that if there wasn't this western opposition, these sanctions, these sort of cold war and economical war against iran, iran would have been turned... into heaven, it would have flourished so much. i would say that you know, actually some of these sanctions have forced iran to become more independent, and in some ways, when you look at, as i said, the sort of beginning of

the revolution, iran couldn't even defend itself fully, now is being accused of being a power not just in the region, but in ukraine and is... helping russia and so there are victories, there are empowerment, there are actually the the fact that iran is becoming not just a regional... power but a world power, but i think in in same time we need to understand that we could have done much better, and indeed the speech of khamene was focusing on that, that we are going the right direction, but we could do much better by the participation of of masses, and i think this is really so true and so factual that the only... forward is more people getting involved and realizing that unless masses

will get fully engaged, we are not going to see the result that we desire, and this encouragement and this empowerment of the ordinary people, reliance on the ordinary people as a way of addressing all these issues in much better way than we have done in past, i think it's it was the... a main aspect of the message today, taking a look at the way that uh he described to the highlights of uh this past year, he talked about the epic participation of the people on goods day say mosan abbas, he also talked about the 22nd of uh bahman rallies, a couple the highlights which involved obviously masses of iranians that came out in the millions. um, you know, when you see that obviously there's support for the islamic establishment uh to the fullest degree uh, but yet the u.s. and western some western uh countries uh are pushing for the disillusionments of iranians, well while they

should be the one that should be disillusioned now when they see so many people coming out, why do they keep pursuing a policy, anti-iranian policy then? because they know they're going to fail with hard power, they know there is no way that they can bring down the islamic republic's leadership, it's government, it's it's political purpose and direction, its system uh without using that deadly. soft power and the propaganda, you see they've they have the the the most sophisticated dark arts when it comes to brainwashing people, indoctrinating them, in culturally uh almost preparing them, and hollywood is part of this, you know, you look at hollywood, you look at all th kind of media outputs that they give, all of it is geared towards othering muslims or is geared towards demonizing iran, creating iranophobia subtly or or very overtly, so on the one hand you've got the cultural uh attack that's going on on the iranians, but of course you

the the hard news itself, if you listen just to the output of the likes of the bbc and and others, they are viciously against iran in every way shape and form and they are are grooming their people to be that way, yet still not fully worked, i mean it's uh, it's difficult at the best of times for getting western people to really take foreign policy seriously, you can see that with the kind of uh lethergy among. many still around gaza, even a genocide doesn't motivate some people to literally uh take on these kind of heinous, oppressive tyrannical governments, they're not, they're not democratic governments and they're not, it's not a democratic system we have here, we have an oligarchy, in the background, this oligarchy has a huge apparatus, a machinery, it's dominated by zionists, it has hate campaign for iran, it fears iran because iran offers the only viable. alternative which exposes their lies and their fake democracy, so iran

with its religious democracy, spiritual democracy, call it what you like, with that system that exists iran, it poses an existential threat to the the the western fake neoliberal pseudo democracies here, and it's already showing the people in west asia that actually they to succeed, because iran has it bites mere survival uh with the resistance economy and its advancements in uh economic self-sufficiency with its advancements in building up h industries is showing the rest of the arab world, the western asia that you don't have to be puppet and a slave of american dollars in order to to succeed as nation. well the issue of double standards comes at play here, my question to you master shajar when we talk about uh the very sad uh issue of palestine, mean it's really sad what is happening there, we all acknowledge that uh iran's leader on um both occasions that he's spoke today uh obviously reference to the issue of palestine and showed the double standards that the west

plays, particular the us being complicit in this. um, when it comes to the issue of uh palestine, uh, he said that the us and israel are both stuck, they're in a quagmire now, whether they uh pull out or whatever they do, uh, they can't escape what has occurred. what's your impression of what he has said there? well, and i will go even further and say that, it exposed the whole of... institutions that have been set up under so-called liberal democracy and to address the aspiration of the world community, everybody now sees it that not just united states and europe and the western so-called allies are failing illusions that they have created that they're standing for democracy, human right and justice and supporting apartite genocide, but also the institutions like un and international courts are failing

to address and try to do anything to stop this... genocide taking place, you know, the action of the whole of the institutions have not even stopped the killing of one child up to today in the last few months, what has made a difference is the resistance which in lebanon, in yemen and in iraq and elsewhere and and resistance from palestine itself, which everybody knows that ' the support of setting up such a access of resistance, it it goes back to vision of chamene and indeed the vision of knowing that nothing else is going to happen if communities will not stand up to stand against this genocide, everyone,

everyone around the world, be it the acknowledge or not, they are seeing that the only thing which is a... or slowing down the genocidal act of signist stay which is been supported by us and ally allies is the resistance and who set up that resistance who encourage that resistance who is sort of mature plan for that resistance to be fit for purpose is very clear so that is very obvious now and that the aspirations for justice which is being seeked by masses in europe and elsewhere, ordinary people cannot be addressed by these institutions and is only being addressed by actions of resistance. yeah, these institutions have ended failed when it comes to the issue of palestine, but it's really telling uh saying abbas when you have the un come out with this um report, the

so-called fact finding mission uh criticizing iran uh for the handling of the riot. that occurred uh on late 2022 and the iranian foreign minister month ago almost uh accusing the un of double standges criticizing it for basically setting up this fact finding mission but yet not taking any serious action when it comes to israel's uh genocide and the killing of civilians in the gaza strip that's a failure on the institution isn't it? well double standards hypocracy lies don't just they're not just isolated within the political apparatus of the... empire, nor are they just within the media, they exist also within these international institutions because they are an extension of that power, the the funding that the un gets from america, the funding that for instance the hugo gets from people like bill gates and the transnational corporations which are also linked to these guys, you you've got also uh the the atomic agencies which on the one hand

will pressure iran to to to try to admit that it has nuclear weapon. or capacity when it doesn't, yet with the israel you'll see they'll completely ignore anything that they they know perfectly well uh they have in terms of nuclear weapons everybody knows open secret of 400 plus nuclear weapons that israel has uh its disposal they uh they the way they dealt with ukraine and the way the whole of the the so-called uh international community which usually is a it's a euphemism basically for all the american allies they all turned around and wanted all sorts of cotting of russia so etc. and the shutting down of everything, they haven't done any of that with israel, not one little thing has been done to harm israel's connections diplomatically, politically, culturally or otherwise, yet you can see the hypocrisy when they come to iran or russia, so expect nothing from these institutions, they were created after the second world war to serve the interests of the global elitists, they

still serve those global elites and the anglo-zionist empires boots on the ground in terms of the israel uh occupation or whether it's the us american military uh occupations of those regions, that's just their boots on the ground to carry out the orders, so iran stands at the nexus of the resistance, they are not uh coordinating that resistance, the resistance does what it wants, i said it again today, hezbulah and the factions in iraq and the the the factions that exist in yemen who are putting up the resistance have their own independent strategies and policies, but - supports them, it makes no bones about that, israel, as a result of this very brave policy by the islamic republic of iran has been brought to its needs, the economy is is stagnating, the... "the number of people that have had to evacuate the the northern occupied territories of palestine is incredible. hundreds of thousands have had to leave their settlements because the resistance has made it impossible for them to

stay there. you've got of course in gaza itself, you've seen the israel is being forced to reveal who they really are. you know, the emperor has no clothes now, you can see what israel and zionism is, whereas the hasubara prior to that 70 years they built up and nurtured this image of being the victims and the ones who were who were..." actually being attacked, everybody knows that's a lie, the the american reputation lies tatas, israel's reputation lies tatas, their economies are struggling, unemployment is rising, they've got internal strife within israel where people like benny gants and all the others are now fighting because they know they've not achieved any of their targets, they've not been able to destroy hamas, they've not been able to get rid of the get back the hostages and norther they been able to clear ethnically cleanse the region in the way they wanted, but when our guest there talks about resistance groups in the region um the us has been very quick to uh accuse iran for the fact that it interests are being uh targeted within the region, but uh that

really is a failure of the us policy because of uh it's the way that it is uh its presence in the region is in in many cases even illegal when it comes to case like syria um but iran's leader has praised the resistance groups uh for what they have done and blaming and accusing the us of uh using iran as a scapecoat, is the us using iran as a scape coat? absolutely, but it goes far beyond that. i think we need to get rid of the illusion and that the west has got some good intention and indeed the some of the institutions like un, and oic and others, all them put together have got a good... intention was not able to do anything. the fact of the matter is they weren't, they weren't meant to do anything, they have been set up to be the tools of colonialism and

implement colonial powers, interest, and and and so really right now the only thing which is the slowing down this genocide and has actually managed to stop it being total genocide and ethnic cleansing is been a resistance and the resistance would not have been there if it wasn't because of the islamic revolution and is a structured because of ideologically and supportive. i think it's very important, many observers, including many jewish observers are saying very openly and publicly that they wish, they wish that at the time of the holocausts of nazis there was some some country like yeman who will stand up and and and defend the right of of of the jewish community and

trying to stop that genocide, none of the europeans did in reality, the level of antisemitism was so right all across europe and in the west, so really what we need to understand is that what is yemen is doing, what are the other? are doing by doing their outmost to slow down and to stop this genocide taking place is the only the only activity which is going honestly and sincerely to stop this and to slow it down and and for that we need to sort of praise the the the the whole community of resistance and those who had the hindsight to set up and strengthen it so it could do the job that he's doing now. thank you very much. we're fresh out of time. shajar, chairman of the islamic human rights commission from brussels. thank you so much. san abbas,

journalist and political commentator from london. thank you. with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight from the team. it's goodbye. يعني ايران بالنسبه لنا كشيعه عايشين برا بالخارج يعني تحس اكو فرد اتصال روحي بينك وبين

هالبلد هذا. ready to marsh let's start slowly but strongly and solidarity with. israel is one the worst things that has happened or zionism is one of the worst things that has happened to the jewish people. the my experience it really really wasn't until the 80s that was able to open my heart enough to see truly

what israel and zionism had done and was doing and continued to do. i did not grow up as an anti-zionist, which is what i am today. i grew up as a zionist in a very zionist family that identified judaism with zionism.

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