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tv   Eye on Islam  PRESSTV  July 19, 2024 6:02pm-6:34pm IRST

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for 45 years after every internal event or presidential election, the west, its allies and agents in the region and beyond have bet on the future of the iranian islamic revolution, which has so far defied all internal and external calculations. this revolution has proven itself once again after the election of reformer masud pish. can as president, demonstrating its ideological and political maturity despite all the dangers it has faced over the years. the message sent to by president elect fezeshkan to hizballah secretary general addressing him first even before taking office and to show the entire world that the revolution remains steadfast and any bets against its principles are bound to fail now and always. president's second message to the head of hamas political bureau ismail hanyer reaffirmed the unwavering the
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iranian revolution in supporting the central cause for all arabs and muslims, which is palestine. the focus between syrian president bashar al-assad, russian president putin and chinese president shin ping with president elect bezayan, came to confirm the continuation of tehran strategic approach in its relations with its allies. without them, iran would have been in a tougher situation, and while iran, they would have also been in a difficult position, especially at this state. each facing complex and serious regional and international challenges due to the situation in ukraine, the imperialist colonial zionist conspiracy against the palestinian people with their divine patience. as for western diplomatic circles, they expect even wish for president pesishian to open channels of dialogue with washington and western capitals, as he promised during the election campaign, aiming to return to the nuclear agreement. they suggest that washington will require pesishian to show some look warmness. in iran's relations with
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beijing and moscow, forgetting that it was president trump who will withdrew from the nuclear agreement, not tehran. it was tehran that faced hostility from washington because it resisted and thorted the imperialist west's plans during the so-called arab spring years. if those plans had succeeded, iran would have also found itself in undesirable situation due to the conspiracies of the imperialist west and its allies in the region. regardless of the speculation about iran's future policies under its new president, one thing remains evident: imperialist, colonial and zionist agendas persist in manipulating arab and islamic public opinion. these forces continue to sideline critical issues that have long been the primary source of suffering for the region's peoples. meanwhile, iran will continue to support the peoples of the region to attain full liberation from the fangs of imperialism and zionist colonialism. welcome to the mid stream, i'm mar osman.
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the state and government in iran have proven that they operate within an institutional framework, what the regime strives for is a strong state with influence beyond its borders and the ability to adapt for its interests, but will president bezeshkan bring about radical changes. to discuss this issue with us from tehran is mr. teras sadiqi, political commentator and co-host of twice. podcast, thank you very much for being with us. miss satera, now amits regional conflict and political upheaval, iran's political system has demonstrated stability by actually electing president, but the main question asked everywhere, especially on hostine western mainstream media is, are there any radical changes with iranian presidentan making power? thanks for having me, as you mentioned, iran has been very... stable in
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the stability during even the the things that happened after the passing away of our president, our foreign minister and other officials shows that iran has a strong political system that does not, you know, that is not affected easily by the events and the not only in the region but also in country. um, i think for any country that has a... strongly established system does not witness radical changes when the heads of the of governments change, because there is a framework, there is basis, a foundation, a strong foundation that the executive powers as well as the other branches of the power work within that frame and based on that foundation, so while certain things are going to be very different with regards to book
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both foreign policy and domestic policy we're not going to see radical changes because iran is a stable country with very well of established political system and you know we had the snap. election, we lost our president, our form minister, this was chaos enough for many countries to go through, but for iran we had very peaceful transition of power and which is still going on, and we had, we held our elections for two rounds and the country elected their new president. well, mr. satari, we did see that mr. president reaffirming the strong stance of the islamic republic of iran beside regional... resistance uh factions, namely hisbullah and hamas, which really is the very big concern for the west right here, they want to support both hamas and hizbah in their fight against zionist israel and they want to stick to that uh support. did the iranian public ever doubt uh during this transitional period that this will be the
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case uh with uh the soon adopted uh foreign policy that they will shift maybe or that they knew that their government will just stick to its foreign policy? well the majority of the... people know that this is one of the main principles of iran's foreign policy and the the iran support for resistance will never be weavered, it's going to continue no matter who becomes the president, because all these presidents believe on those principles that the country upholds, so i think the majority of people knew and there were no doubts about it, but their concerns may be about how the new... president is going to establish alliances and relations with the other countries in the region that would in a way affect iran's support for the resistant groups, but whether or not, iran would continue to support the resistant groups was never a question, and
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that's that's a given fact that we all know about iran's foreign policy. i think the main issue was that president is a reformist. we did see many uh, he's the third reformist president if i'm not mistaken, we did see reformist presidents before him who continued to support, nonetheless even the support was greater at some point militarily, i speak, because it was during the years of the global war in syria, so in that particular case, is there public support for it, or some people would like to see less of that support? this is what's the majority of the people want, because it's not only that we're offering support for another count. you have or which is our friend, it's also a part of iran's national security, israel is not a threat only to those resistant groups and the countries of the region, but also a big threat to iran's national security, and i mean it tries to be at least, and we see that
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as a form of repelling the threats by israel, i mean israel has been trying to create chaos and attack and assassinate, and there's a a long... and record of hostility towards iran and iran's alliance with the regional countries and and support for resistant groups is just part of that that uh we the people wants to stay and that's a part of our national security that people want to see continued well uh with mr. masayan's presidency what do you think are the prospects and challenges of uh for the islamic republic of iran? potentially may be trying to return to the jcpo uh nuclear agreement, i mean how might this administration approach negotiations with the national community in the event trump again is to become a president and he's one who actually withdrew from the jcaa, jcpo to
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begin with, if he's back in the white house, what kind of strategy does president pesishian uh has to approach this negotiation? well uh when mr. pris was the member of parliament in a speech he at the parliament, he mentioned that we cannot expect the us to return and we cannot trust the us because it has once violated and reached its commitments to the deal, but during the campaigns and that's what iran has been doing, he mentioned that we need to uh find a way and work towards removing the sanctions in order to bring some economic ease to... because as that's the answer to your question with regards to what are the main challenges? one of the main challenges the islamic republic right now and the new president is solving the economic issues and problems that the country is going through and as a part of working towards that, mr.
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suggested that he's going to work towards removing getting the deal and returning to the jcpa and removing the sanctions, however we need to know that right now and for the past months is there is negotiating team by late president that has been working on confidential negotiations through oman to to see how or if it's possible for the us to return to the deal and they're working with the other european and with china and russia, the now uh formerly five plus one, but now four plus one group, they're working to see what are what is the mechanism, what are the procedures to revive the jcpi, but to be honest it looks like the us no intention is dragging its feet. so this is going to be a main challenge, reviving the jcpa without the
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us and and making sure that the european partners will actually uh stay or abide by their commitment because they also fail, i mean the us withdrew, but the european partners of the deal also failed to abide by their commitments, so this is going to be a main challenge on the foreign policy, especially that has been promised to the people that he's going to work towards that and that's going... to bring about some major changes in the economic situation of country. in one minute, if that doesn't work, what other plan does mr.kian have? well, i think by now, because we have the experience of trying to reach deal in the first place, and then seeing trump withdrawing from the us withdrawing from the deal, now the president has a more like he. is relying more on domestic capabilities and on forming alliances with other countries, that's also
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what he has mentioned that not going to focus on only forming alliances or reaching a deal with the west, he's going to work with eastern part partners and partners from the global south to see how it could help with developing iran's economy and bringing about more economic gees, well uh political commentator and co-host of twice told tales: podcast, thanks million for being with us to explain how things are going after the election of the new president mr. peseshiyan. ladies and gents, stay tuned because next we will be talking about the shattered zianist economy. 46 thousand israeli businesses have been
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forced to shot as a result of the ongoing war and it's devastating effect on the economy. hebrew newspaper mariv reported on 10th of july referring to zinus israel as a country in collapse. more details in the following report. since the genocidal war in gaza began, thousands of businesses have shut down in zionist israel intensifying the economic crisis in the occupation. sinus israeli cofast bdi, a company specializing in business information and credit risk management reports that since october 7, 4600 israeli entity businesses have closed their doors. yoel amir, ceo of kofas bdi explained to marive a signist daily newspaper that this high number spans many sectors. about 77% of these closures, roughly 3500 businesses are small enterprises with up to five employees. according to kofa. bdi is risk rating, widely used by companies in the israeli entity economy, including the banking system and
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international credit insurance companies, the construction industry and its ecosystem ceramics, air conditioning, aluminum and building materials are the most vulnerable. the report estimates that by the end of 2024, around 60,000 businesses in zinas israel may close. the create sector incompassing fashion, foodware, furniture, housewares and services like cafes, entertainment, please. and transportation has been hit hard. additionally, the tourism industry is suffering from almost no foreign visitors, worsened by declining national morale and tourist areas now resembling combat zones. the agriculture sector predominantly located in confetation areas in the south and north also faces manpower shortages. the economic damage is extensive. when companies shut down and fail to meet the financial obligations, the effects ripple out to impact customers, suppliers and others within their ecosystem. since the beginning of 2024, the israeli regime's budget has recorded cumulative deficit of 26 billion shagels, equivalent to
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about 7 billion dollars. according to mariv, the monthly budget deficit in march alone reached 15 billion shakels, or about $4 billion us dollars, equating to 6.2% of the gdp. moreover, the war has pushed sinus israel's debt to record level since october 2023, reaching 43 billion us dollars by april 2024, figure that has double. according to the ministry of finance of the entity. according to the data released by the bank of israel in late april 2024, ziness israel's war on the gaza strip has cost the occupation at least $67 billion. so far, they discuss this issue with us from beirot is dr. hassan yunis, he is an expert in economy, specialized in international business management, education administration and educational leadership. thanks million for being with us. dr. yunis, now how does the closure of 46,00 businesses since the beginning of the war impact the long-term economic stability of zinast israel? yep,
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thanks lot for hosting me, dr. marwa, actually we talk about the genocidal israeli war on ghazza, we can... only take the aspect of uh what's happening in the battlefield or the military aspect, there is a war of narratives and the uh resistance movements are having the upper hand in the of narratives, the israel movements are having the upper hand in the military field and apparently the resistance movements are having the upper hand from economic perspective, so uh what's happening in israel is definitely an economic collapse, we have witnessed slow growth in the... economy in the not only uh there are 46 businesses uh closing, the number is expected to to grow to reach 60,00 businesses by the end of the year. this has a great impact on all the uh economic indications in the country, talking about inflation, recession, talking about the
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ability of the israeli regime to attract capital, we are witnessing capital flight because appetite of the international donors is decreasing, the credit worthiness of israel or the israeli entity is is diminishing to to a record level, so the ranking of of the israeli economy has an impact its credit worthiness, and the 46 businesses which are closing uh are mostly are from different sectors, from all the sectors that you can imagine, and mostly they are small and medium enterprises and these sme or small and enterprises uh, they are the backbone of any economy, so uh, entrepreneurs are not investing in in israel, and the big donors are not sending enough capital to israel, and if they are sending these gifts or donations, these gifts or donations are not invested in the right sectors, they are
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invested in in immediate relief and not in infrastructural projects which are highly needed in israel, and they are... only for expenditure purposes and not for reinvesting purposes. these indicators are very negative an economy, they are the indicators of developing countries rather than developed countries, and israel always claims to be developed country. so we're talking about business closures, we are talking about diversion of governmental uh spending, we are talking about decrease in the foreign investment, the hesitancy of the of of the developed countries to invest in in. israel definitely they are hesitant because because of this war. usually we talk about any organization and i perceive a country or an entity as an organization, we usually talk about the good will. israel is witnessing an unprecedented ill will. this ill will is due to the bad reputation, in addition to the military aspect, the bad reputation due to
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the war of narrative decreases the appetite of investment and decrease the propensity of... the major countries to invest or send money to there something quite interesting is that the substantial war expenditure has significantly increaseed sinus israel's debt reaching uh record levels with a 67 billion us dollar war expenditure so far, how do you think that that will be translated on signed israel's internal fiscal health and probably also international credit standing? yeah uh so uh the the impact of this number, the 67 billion dollars is not only the 67 billion dollars which is huge and which is unprecedented, the problem is in credit ranking or credit rating, israel will face difficulties in getting credits or getting gifts or getting donations in the in the future, and even if they want to borrow money, the propensity of the international organizations to lend israel money will decrease substantially due to this problem in
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credit rating, and this these economic problems in addition to the military problem. they are facing have an impact on on different levels, for instance around the the number of expected tourists to israel was supposed to be 1 million and they've received only 200 thousand tourists, so a substantial decrease in 80%, and usually such countries rely on the expenditures of tourists to to to to give injection to the to the economy, the... these in the contrary, these numbers, we're not witnessing them in lebanon, the number of tourists in lebanon and the number the lebanese, the diaspora, coming back to increasing substantial. increasing than the years before, it's increasing substantially, so when i when when i want to compare figures from the different aspects, military, economically, tourists wise, narratives wise,
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the the the uppand is is always being to the resistance movements as as you can see, well dr. unis, trade and tourism, as you were mentioning are essential for foreign exchange, for international relations, but could there a downturn? these two sectors, the downter of these sectors diminish signal's economic influence and maybe attractiveness as a destination for business, for tourism, or is it just just temporary setback and maybe after the war it will pick up again? to to pick up again, you you need to invest in the infrastructure, the damage, the damage is is is big, marwa, the the supply chains and and okay, when we talk about economy we can't talk about only one one sector, the different sectors are impacted, the supply chain, the chain which links the distributors, to the retailers, to the wholesalers, to the manufacturers, it's
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it's being impacted in many cases it's being destroyed, the recovery is not easy, it's it's it's it's on the long term, and it requires investments from the international community or from the developed countries, and the credit ranking, the... and the credit ranking would make this more difficult definitely, and the as i've mentioned, the ill will of the reputation, the bad reputation, the reputational damage of israel has decreased the appetite, the boycotting movements we've done also will decrease the appetat of the international brands of the major franchisers to give a franchising agreements to to to israel, so all these factors accompanied with the decreasease today is about the brain. and noble palestinian people and their absolute non-negotiable right to freedom from colonial control and violence. the court said this
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right must not, must no longer be denied or deferred. the court made clear that the palestinian people are the only sovereign in the occupied palestinian territory, including east jerusalem, that the international community. is under an obligation, not just to reaffirm the palestinian people's right to self-determination, but see to it that this right is implemented immediately. all states and the un are are now under obligation, not to recognize the legality of israel's presence in the occupied palestinian territory, and to do nothing to assist israel in maintaining this illegal situation. they are direct. by the court to bring israel's illegal occupation to an end, this means all states and the un must immediately review
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their bilateral relations with israel to ensure their policies do not aid in israel's continued aggression against the palestinian people, whether directly or indirectly. israel's continued occupation is aggression, entrenched by a part. policies, political and cultural persecution and war crimes and crimes against humanity that allowed the denial of the palestinian people's right to self determination for over 76 years. it is enabled and prolonged by impunity that has allowed israel to commit the unthinkable genocide, which is now unfolding before the world in gaza and across the occupied palestinian territory. the icj fulfilled its legal and moral duties with this historic ruling, all states must now uphold the clear
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obligations: no aid, no assistance, no complicity, no money, no arms, no trade, nothing, no actions of any kind of support, israel's illegal to support israel's illegal occupation, all you and member states are obliged by law, to end israel's presence on the territory of palestine, that is what inter international law requires, no more, no less. now i read the statement in arabic: so in continuation of our coverage of the icj ruling at the hague, delivering its advisor opinion on israel's occupation of the palestinian territories, the palestinian minister of of foreign affairs, molecu is also reiterating what was said at the icj hearing that the icj ruling also demonstrates the set fastness of the palestinian people uh and that all states must review and we
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consider their bilateral relations with the israeli occupying regime and also in his hing statements uh also uh he mentioned that countries uh that are offering assistance and aid to the israelies must uh cease uh their practices as well so we're going to keep you posted on uh the uh ramifications of the icj uh hearing on the uh occupation of palestinian territories by the israel regime here on press tv for now we're going to return to the... more course of programming, stay with us, events for medical professionals and companies who are working in this field to collaborate, showcase the products and introduce their products to the masses. stay tuned, times are listed below.
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in his hands for justice and for liberty he fought with might against the dark oppressive night they wrong him left his king to first in the cruelest son their pain was cursed baby's cry the freak from dar the sense broke the heart sayings are true covers every land and the sure are forever will. will stand, don't think it ended with husain's last breath, or his infants cry at the edge of death, whose saying spines are guiding life, injustice falls to endless night, from kabala to palestine, in every land we spirit. shines
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today in palestine infants fall to the goals - true las call with thirst and hunger oppressed they lie underneath a relentless sky, the spears that struck hussain back then other rockets raining down again, the stones once cast with cruel distin, bullets now causing endless. pain hussain lives on his path still clear a fight for justice without fear in this journey no side unchol for neutrality means the oppressers are embolden who saints find our guiding lines in just false to endless night from call our to
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palestine, in every land his spirit shines, it choose path in his noble way, with husain spirit we fight today for freedom, justice and humanity, we stand with him in solidarity. خب خوش آمدین این بچه که میبینی بچه بچه است ازدواجی که کردیم من به خانمم گفتم ببین من دوست دارم از ایران برم بیرون یه جا دیگه زندگی کنم اون زمین قبلی فکری که نسبت به مجاهدین داشتم تو این تبلیغاتها من جوون بودم فکر می کردم که حالا دیگه الان اینا دیگه میرن تهرانو بگیرن بزنم منم باهاشون باشم دیگه عقب نیفتم از غافله اینا س هواپما که شدیم رسیدیم به بغداد دیدم که اصلاً سازمان رنگش کلاً عوض
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شده این مجاهدین خلق اون گروه. نفاقی که بهش می بندن همون گروه نفاقه یعنی ظاهرشون یه چیزه باطنشون چیز دیگهست سمت راستی راضیه است اینم خواهرشه حدود بهمن ۶۶ که رفتیم توی عراق بعد از دو سال من برگشتم این هنوز اونجا هستش یعنی حدود ۲۵ سال اونجاست بابا به می گفت مامان مامانت میاد آره. it's obvious that we've come a long way to reach this point, for years, generation after generation, we've trying, and today we're on the verge of success, on the verge of
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achieving victory. our long weight is about to bear fruits. the last time when i visited the king of jordan,
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