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tv   SPOTLIGHT  PRESSTV  July 31, 2024 10:02pm-10:31pm IRST

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"naturally he's going to be there, but why that is significant in terms of him siting over the prayers, i believe what you said, well leader of faran's islamic revolution, ayatollah ali khamenei is the highest uh official in iran, and of course um, although you would expect him to perform prayers, well obviously this is not something that is quite common uh, only uh recently this uh we saw this happen when ibrahim raisi and his companions were martered in the helicopter crash and that's when we saw the..." leader of farans islamic revolution performing the prayer on the bodies of the martters and that is a great honor uh so again this great honor goes to uh martter ismail hania and that is why it is so significant you know it's very rare for the leader to perform these prayers so the funeral procession will begin tomorrow at 8 it will be from tehran university uh the procession will continue uh until usad square and from then they will move towards the
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south. of course, let's not forget that this is a funeral procession that will take part in tehran because the body of ismaal hania will be flown to qatar and there will be a of another uh funeral ceremony on friday in doha and well of course his final resting place will be in doha. but tomorrow what we're expecting to happen is for uh people with the doors will be open from 7 am and people will be able to attend the funeral ceremony. it will officially be. again at 8 at 8:30 the leader will perform the prayers and of course from then uh the normal ceremony will continue and people will be uh marching down towards azad square to take part in that funeral procession uh very well let me now go to amal wahdan wahdan uh the mere fact that of you have uh this genocidal war still continuing in in the gaza strip do you have my voice amdan yeah yeah great um this
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"genocidal war is still continuing there in the gaza strip and uh we are still looking at the all-out support that the uh us is giving this really regime um there there is no uh rhyme or reason behind what has occurred in the past 48 hours but this comes after the israel prime minister benjamin netanyo visited the u.s. um do you believe that the us was involved not only in giving the green light to the israeli regime" carry out the assassinations, but also cooperated with it in terms of intelligence. uh, of course, of course, the us is given this israeli regime, of the fullest, um, support that it needs in intelligence, security, and arms, financial, moral support, diplomacy. support on every
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level, the us is supporting this criminal and genocidal entity, and these crimes, these assassinations in lebanon, in the capital of lebanon and in tehran wouldn't occur unless the musad had been in direct contacts and in in collaboration with the... cia and other of course other intelligence in the area, let's not forget that the intelligence in the in the area are working in in one operation room and they're giving the israeli criminal regime and the americans a great support, so the americans are leading the show, and let's remember that all these resistance, the axis of resistance act. actually and the
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multipolarization of the whole world in every mean geography in this world, two days ago the venezuelan elected, venezuelans elected maduro again, so they are facing problems globally, but they cannot admit that the only the only path to to this is to through negotiations, not... through more and more mass killings, genocides and atrocities to of different people in different areas, the people of this globe has been sick of this role that the us is playing against their own will, against their sovereinity, against their believes, against their existence, their... existence, so yes, the us is
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complicit in in all the crimes that the the israeli criminals are making to... to the palestinians and to the middle east where where we living and of course to other parts, to other people in other parts of this globe, global south is continuing to suffer from the us foreign policy and from their changing policy of regime change, remember that we had years of um sorry, years of terrorist attacks against syria, iraq, libya, libya is a failed country already, one third of syria is still occupied by the americans and its property
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powers, so what happening, what's happening in the whole world, do all these crimes, millions of people being killed, wanted or displaced. is at the hands of the americans, so the palestinian children, thousands of palestinian children's blood is at the hands the usa and at the hands of every congressmen, women who were clapbing to netanyahu, because netanyahu wouldn't have the guts to do anything that he has been doing in gaza since october 7, unless he has not only the green light, but unless he has the... full collaboration and full support from the us, thank you very much for your contribution, i'm all danther, political analyst from occupied romala, in the studio we have with us gisu mishal correspondent, so you told us about some of the ongoings today about what has happened, gisu, what's in your agenda tomorrow in terms of what you're going to be doing and uh where this is going to be
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going, we know that this - guess funeral is going to be held from there on what's was going to happen, well exactly - like i said ever since the news broke out the iranian public. actually is really concerned about uh this assassination, they want to get their voices heard, and that is why uh this afternoon there was a huge gathering in um downtown tehran in palestine square uh, which is usually where people gather uh, you know you see those grassroots um movements there um because of the name palestine, well that's where they usually come to show their support for palestinian people and for gaza uh ever since the war. broke out in gaza and the genocide started uh we uh have become actually quite used to seeing people gather in palestine square to voice our support and now today there was a huge crowd out there chanting slogans against the israeli regime and also demanding uh for revenge for ismail
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hany there was a very huge picture of ismail hany right there and uh that is uh what will give you a gist of what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow we are. expecting these huge crowds to take part in the funeral procession, which will begin at 8 a.m. local time. iran did announce that there will be three days of public morning, so we are also expecting more events uh to happen during the course of the next three days. we still don't have a schedule, but considering the fact that it has been announced as a public uh morning period, we are expecting such a progress. thank you for that. let's um bring in um another guest, we have faras ali, poli political, okay, we don't have our guess that as of yes, i'm going to continue with you, so you just mentioned how we are getting somewhat used to this, which is uh pretty uh sad if you ask me in terms of uh having uh
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basically loss of lives in one form or another from the palestinians themselves and the genocide there to now officials uh where uh has been suffering from that with assassinations that they have uh experienced uh um time and again in the past uh 10 months or so, and what lies to the core of all of this is that if they were to stop this genocidal war, none of this, well as as as far as the resistance groups go, the sid if it stops including yemen and other countries, that we will stop our attacks also, um, what uh, what do iranians think about this in particular, i mean i have to ask you that since you're you're out there on the streets, of course, and i have been talking to people from all walks of life, it was very interesting to me for me to see call by that, so many young... younger people are now joining these demonstrations and are out there on the streets to voice their support for the palestinian cause and for the people in gaza and it's interesting to see how they uh analyze the situation and what their perception of is of everything that's going
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on, because this is new generation that has access to uh information, well internet you know on their cell phones, so basically their judgment can set the tone for what's going to happen in... the future, and it's interesting to see how aware they are of the situation. i talked to a group of younger people who were at palestine square today, and they said something very interesting, they said, "the israelies think that they will be able to defeat hamas if they uh carry out such assassinations on someone who's known to be the leader of hamas, but this is actually not a movement that is based on who leads it, but rather the thought and the ideology that uh resonates with so many people who may not only be part of hamas, but they feel close to that kind of ideology and they support that kind of ideology and..." "therefore they believe that all of these attacks are futile and they will not lead to the result that the
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israelies think they will. another interesting issue they pointed out is that these assassinations prove that the resistance is right, they are right to pick up weapons and fight for their rights, because the israelis have proven and practiced time and again that they don't want peace. indeed, that's obviously what it shows, in one respect, you're right about that, we have faras ali now who is..." political commentator who joins us from uh sweden, welcome to the program. um, a particular entry here in the social media uh really stands out, i like this, guess start out with this just to get it out of the way, where a particular viewer has said that in the last 48 hours alone israel has dropped bombs on palestine, lebanon, syria and iran, and you have the international community that has not said anything about this, you have the evidence there of the behavior. here that is uh just out of control when it comes to the israeli regime. what are your thoughts on
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this? you have one camp saying it shows how they're defeated in this genocidal war that they're executing. you you have another camp that says um they are just misguided and they're not thinking clearly as to the weight the consequences that's going to follow based on what they have done. it's obvious that the israelis are cornered in gaza because every... reaction they have outside palestine outside gaza is the is because of how the situation is on ground in gaza, the resistance in gaza are giving the israelies a hard match, 10 months now they have no success there, that's why the israelies want escalate the war and broaden it to include the western countries. when it comes to why western countries are silent or calls to restrains when israel attacks, it's because they are the backers and supporters. of israel, mean like after the israeli attack on beirut, the swedish foreign minister said
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that, we call every part to restrain and not escalate, where is the condemnation, if the lebanese had attacked israel, ter avib or haifa when the yemen is dead, the swedish government, european union, america, all of them who supports israel, they condemn the attack, this this shows us that the war in gaza, the war that israel are fighting against lebanon. against syria and so on, the occupation of israel is supported by the west, without the support of the west israel won't be able to fight one day of this war, they need the money, they need the political support and they need the weapons, that's why the western countries are hesitating and are even clear in their in their language when they speak about the israeli attacks and the israeli aggressions, they're very soft, that's for public theater the... want to say something, but they don't mean it, and they know that if israel will lose this war, it
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will be the end for what they call the western security domination of the world, that's why they are allowing israel to attack like beast to his cornered and attacking everywhere, they want to drag the western countries into the conflict, whether that will happen or not, this is will only hasten the demise of the israeli regime, they are acting like someone who is panicking in aagm, you faster move will make them sink in the quagmire even faster. um, when you talk about a quagmire, well, they are being supported by the us militarily, especially to keep this uh killing machine going. mean, there's no doubt about that. uh, so uh, the us is just as guilty when it comes to what is happening, and uh, based on who we have spoken to, almost across the board everyone says and agrees that the us is as complicit in this, and some actually say that the us may be directing what israel is doing. what uh should be done in order to stop the us from
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directing israel to do the things that it does and uh more importantly to stop the military support that is giving israel in this case? well when it comes to the united states of america, i'm also i also belong to the camp who believe that this war is an american war, the israelit are only acting as proxies like the saudis and the emirates did when they were fighting yemen. israel is only a proxy because they can't survive without the support of america, when it comes to america, history tells out that time is not on the american side. i mean, look at in afghanistan, the americans occupied the country and spend trillions of dollars on that. country yet in one week when they left the taliban uh took over the country again and the fire power that the taliban has that's nothing compared to what the resistant has that we don't know about we have seen some of the weapons that the resistance have used in the field but not all of it now everyone in america in israel they're waiting for the iranian response which will come and for the libanese response which will come and
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for the yemeni response as well what the resistance have shown during this 10 months is... that they are the part who is not asking for escalation, they are the part who want an end for the war in gaza, what they are doing is only to pressure israel and america indirectly to stop the war, but if they don't do that step by step the world will escalate to a situation when the americans can't control the situation, because we have to remember the american has lot of bases in the region, they have in iraq, they have in countries in the persian gulf and so on, those bases will be a target for the... instance if the american acts foolishly and involves directly in the war, the american didn't succeed to uh submit, put down the talibans to their needs, they won't even come close to that with the resistance, if the resistance would have wanted to end this war from day one, they would escalate far beyond the the limits and we have would have another situation, maybe a world war,
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but that's not the purpose of the resistance, we people have to understand that, that's why they call they are called resistance, they are resisting people who occupy their country, i mean look at the names of the israeli prime minister, security ministers and so on, most of them have eastern european names, they're not even native to the country, so the palestinian and those who support them, they want to put pressure these people out, send them back to their, they don't want to kill them, look at the resistance when they act, most attacks from the resistance, gaza, from lebanon and elsewhere, they're talking military, military points, when the yemanis sent the drones to tel aviv, the guy who... died was sniper in the israeli army, compare that to how the israelis are killing babies and civilians in gaza and lebanon and so on, then you see the clear picture which also the world are seeing, because that's also part of the calculation, the israelis are not only losing the war militarily in the field, they're also losing it economically because there's a
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blockade on umashrash which the israel call alat and on haifa now and ashkalon and so on and "there's also the media war that israel has lost, back in the days when they could pressure the media, we didn't have social media and so on, it was easy to change the view of people, but now people take to social media and see for themselves, they don't even need someone who comments what's happening, the picture is enough to see who is the aggressor and who is the oppressed, that's why the there is mobility in the world that changes and israel is losing their face in the world, which also explains why they are reacting." like this and by killing leaders, that's the thing with israel, they're so foolish from the beginning of their history until today, they keep killing leaders in the resistance or or those who oppose them, take hamas for example, they have killed sheikh ahmed yasin, they have killed dr. aziz abd ranti, they killed in dubai in tunisia and aruri now in january in beirot, how have that
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weakened hamas, they have even become stronger, the same foolish thing that the americans does with the resistance in iraq and iran. when they assassinated the general sulaymani, what happened? did iran get weaker? did they support stop supporting their resistance? no, that will as imam once upon a time said that by shedding our blood you give life to this people, to this nation, that's happening in palestine as well, this will only hen the demise of israel which will be closer than ever, as i've seen in social media even those are arab nationalists who doesn't believe in the islamic ideology of hamas and the resistance, they also... saying that israel won't last for long when back in 2018 said that soon to some sunni clerics from syria who were in visit in iran he told them soon we will pray in quds some people didn't believe that but now i think it's very difficult to find people who doesn't believe that the muslims will pray in quds inshallah when israel will demise and the nation goes
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back to the native palestinian who are jews muslims and christian who live harmoly as they did before yeah uh so gisu, you have been waiting patiently with us here, and one the statements there that our guess made about these uh zis officials is that they're not even uh israel is there, they have european background uh and that uh made me think about what happened in magical shamps in that soccer field where you had unfortunately 12 of these uh children who uh were were killed we we're still the circumstances from based on what isbala said was a some kind of a either malfunction or a missile from the um, guess the iron dome missile defense system, which uh may have experienced a techno fair failure, but the origin was there, and this really have come out and said "you know they uh um can't believe that uh hisballah they hold guilty attacked and killed these children. not only are these children not israelies, they had a
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week where they uh killed uh over 200 children in five massacers in a period of a week. isn't this something that stands out for example in your mind, probably amongst many other things that israel is guilty of? definitely, and that's not just me, but anyone who is watching this uh closely. anyone who is trying to get first hand information, not the distorted version that exists, but first hand information from what's coming out from gaza believes that cover, we have been witnessing over the course of the past 10 months, so many children from gaza that have lost their parents, they say that today in the streets of gaza there are so many children who don't have their parents with them and they are sick, they are hungry, they have no one to take care of them, uh, aren't they? considered children and that number is so high, we do know that it's over uh 39,000, the last i checked, it's very close to 40,000
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people, mostly women and children, and these are ordinary people, they're civilians, they're obviously not uh people who would take weapons and fight, they're ordinary people and their innocent children who are being attacked by the israelies, and this is definitely something that has mobilized a lot of people, definitely in iran, this is... something that uh i have seen when i talk to people and i'm reporting on gaza, this is what they show me, they show me on their cell phones pictures of uh fathers that are holding uh their the dead bodies of their children, they show me pictures of children who are sick or who are hungry and they're standing in line to get some food, but they're too short or too tiny to reach you this that place where uh they're um distributing the food for them and of course they need - other people to help them, and these are really heartbreaking scenes coming out from gaza, indeed. uh, firstly, i like to ask you uh, this whole notion of israel uh,
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to have the right to defend for itself, that the us uh, always puts out there, i'm not too sure i follow that, if you can maybe explain it to us, when you have this regime assassinate, for example, this uh, high ranking hisbollah commander in beirot, and then come and do the same in the islamic republic with the high ranking um official from hamas and then for the us to come out and say well israel has a right to defend itself. i mean, do they do they not think the the fact that there's going to be a counter attack uh based on these two scenarios that i just said uh and isn't that usually code uh for uh the israeli regime that it should actually attack and the us will have its back? of course it is, when it comes for the wordings, we have to remember that western officials, mostly of them, they are not
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talking directly without pr concentration and so on, they have people, media people who works and writes their speeches and as you mentioned, they use certain words like self-defense, like proportionality and so to some some somehow give it better picture. the what what's happening, but in in reality that's mean israel has the right to kill people, not only attack, because this is what israel doing, mean they can't food the the world, if israel has a position to kill certain people in southern suburbs of beirut like they did with the hizbullah commander in tehran and in damascus, how come they kill so many people without position in gaza, for me i think that's a... very obvious that that's intentionally, they want to kill people, they want to send message to the palestinians and the people in the region, if you rise against us, if you resist, this is what we will do
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with you, and this is nothing new, the the the pictures that we see today in media that make people feel bad is because we have satellites, we have social media and we have mobile phones that record everything, but when this state of israel was created, back in 1948 massacers like that happened back then as well, some of the israeli soldiers who survived and participated on those massacers, they have been on israeli tv laughing and telling about how they raped arab woman, how they killed them and so on like the massacker and yasin and so on, so what israel is doing now, this is nothing new, it's in the dna of the regime, they have to kill to survive, because this is natural law, it doesn't have anything to do with muslims or christians or jews, some of the those who do resist israel or even christians, palestinian christians, this shows us that the thing of resistance is
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something that's natural to every people. "and the westerners know that, that's what they use when they want to excuse the ukraine response and support for ukraine in their war against russia, but when it comes to palestine, they put that aside because they want this israeli western outpost, it's a outpost for the western countries, that's why they're trying to give it better picture, but without a doubt what happened in beirot in damascus and in tehran these days came." directly after netanyahu came back from uh america where he certainly got a green light, as i mentioned before, israel would never do anything without the american green light and the majd shams massacker with the syrian children is just a pretext for them, i mean israel has been bombing syria for more than 10 years, sometimes once in a week, they're killing civilians, children, woman, man with no reaction for them, and now we have they
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want to us to... believe that the israelis are going to defend civilian syrians, the golden heights is occupied by israel, so those who were killed, the drews there in golden heights, they are syrian citizens, even according to the israelis, some of them has been uh, some of them has been been given israeli citizenship, but they said, no, we don't want that, you are occupying our country, and you can see that in the names of the children who died unfortunately that... "these are arab kids, they have nothing to do with israel, and when netanyahu, smutrich and other tried to visit the place, they were chased from there, so the thing in mashed shams is only a pretext, the israelits want to broaden the war, they're stopping the quagm in gaza, so they needs a pretext, just like with the americans lied to the world about saddam hussein having weapons of mass destructions and so on, they need that, and they did it in 91 as well, they need that to
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have a pretext." so they can wage the war without uh hard reactions from their from public opinion, but when you go back even to un charters who most of the western countries accept, even there an occupier has no right for self-defense, so what's happening in gaza, there is no self-defense for israel, what's happening in west bank and in israel as a whole for us who believe that all of palestine is occupied, israel has no right to self-defense, that's something is that's... that is something they can't change whatever they do, the israelit will always be resisted in palestine as as long as they are occupies cuuse because before the zinos came to the region the people in the region didn't have problem regardless if you were jew, muslim or christian living there, the problem in palestine is with the zionist ideology who is exported to the region from european union, it's not thing '