welcome to the program, let's start off with uh miss sali bedia in tehran, a record number of candidates, around 15,00 have been approved to run in the parliamentary elections this year, that's a record of. as we know it since the 1979 islamic revolution, what does this say about this year's elections? yes, this year's election is a historic one because of the very different era that we are actually witnessing the election to take and to actually happen, it is we are experiencing this election in time when the world is is experiencing very, very important developments in terms of what is happening in west asia, what is happening around the world, in terms of order, in terms of the decline of the american front, and of course in terms of iran internally, because of the coming together of the iranian people, again against all the different challenges that the iranian people have had over the past 45 years, but but especially over the past few years because of the hybrid warfare that the iranians have experienced from the american front and especially in terms of the propaganda warfare that