talks, despite questioning economic sanctions from the west, the islamic republic has succeeded in developing its aerospace capabilities. iran has put a third homegrown in satellite into orbit, and that's a big deal. because sanctions have failed's advancement technologically, especially in the aerospace sector, not to mention any other sectors like the military. why is iran was successful in these advancements, why has the us maximum pressure campaign failed to stop iran despite decades of sanctions? just the questions will be asking in this edition of the spotlight. our guests for this program are usm joins us, she's a journal. and political analyst, also

join us shab ris, political commentator, well to you both, i'll first start with you, so we're looking at what's called the nur 3 and i'm looking at the description, an imaging satellite gone to orbit, successfully, placed into a 450 km orbit of the earth, with the iranian cassette satellite carrier, which means messenger, and this was year and a half after the nor 2 went into orbit. that altitude was 500 kilometers, and then uh you also had the new one back in april 20, which was the first military recony and satellite launched by iran. tell us why this is significant? the speed of the progress uh from new one uh three uh which is the most final successful edition of the the spy of satellite um is uh definitely a feet in itself. um the us played down the newer one lot and that was just only three years ago uh

and right now it's a fully capable um imaging satellite that's able to uh really have a full range of uh capturing all of the us's spy activities uh and bases in the re illegally put bases in the region um which is what has uh which is really putting the us its toes um it's uh effectively knock down the molsad in the us is um um monopoly on intelligence and on spiage and and imaging basically in the region now uh iran is merging as a western agent power that's having a home grown capability over intelligence and over satellite imagery um and you know iran was already really beating off the us's bases in iraq and and around region before the satellite what can uh this be capable what can uh the threats to us

occupation in the region, mulsad presence in the region reach now that uh that the new 3 is successful, this is really worrying the us occupation in israel uh for sure, so much that the us once again it's launching its military nuclear capability um pretext you know given as it's opposition to the newer three um but of course that's pretext to that to basic. hide the level of anxiety that uh the us occupation and its allies have in in losing its uh monopoly on intelligence gathering and technology in the region. yeah this that's a good point. mean if you want to take a look at this in terms of uh what the accomplishments really entals um this technology of satellite carriers is only available to 12 countries in fact there are uh even though there are countries that do satellites but because of this uh technology

the launcher itself um they uh don't have the full cycle of space technology uh it tell us uh of course what your thoughts are on that but when our guest there from beirout says the us monopoly i think the us wants to monopolize industries like the air space but probably their uh real interest is the military industry so that the countries in west asia uh as referred to by us uh become reliant on the us when it comes to things like military equipment, is is that a correct uh perspective on it or way of looking at it? thank you for having me, and yes, i believe that's a correct uh kind of perspective of having it, mean if you look at how the united states has handled pretty much any single technology, it can, it looks to monopolize uh this the technology or the field, it looks to dominate it and it looks to push other people out of the way and have complete control over it, now what iran has done, as you mentioned with you 11 other countries being 12th is it

can it's own tooth and say yes we can do this, that presents a very unique threat uh to the united, as you know the united states has always been trying to put a laws into the region um and now that it has you know a significant resistance not only in the form of you know resistance on the ground but now quite literally resistance in the sky, iran has effectively leveled the playing um and this is a concrete that iran is taking into kind of ensuring that the region itself is not reliant on uh the united states or the west uh in it entirety because you know iran is always willing to you now for its neighbors uh be key a real key regional player uh and unlike the united states which looks to kind of monopolize and exert control over it uh as you as we see here with iran joining for example bricks and the shanghai cooperation council iran is really looking for you know uh trade and trust based on mutual mutual growth mutual trust mutual respect between two nations and so what this

presents as a challenge to the united states is that iran can now partner up with these different uh these different nations these different states that are looking to you know increase their... capacity for for production, not rely so much on the united states and also establishing a key economic relationship that isn't predatory, that isn't linked to the imf that isn't linked to the world bank, but rather based off mutual trust and cooperation with iran and allied states. yeah, and and since you're in um beirout there, julie, in terms of uh, the way that the u.s. has prevented or tried to prevent uh the for example transfer of iranian oil to uh to lebanon, what's wrong with the... on transferring its aerospace technology to lebanon or its missile technology. i think maybe the us then is very concerned about that, because uh, obviously one of the things that stands out in this region is the israeli regime, and i think that's probably one of the driving factors that the us has when it comes to preventing iran from advancing. is

that is that right? yeah, by preventing iran from advancing, you're preventing the whole region from advancing. um, you know, aside from the fact that we have. limited capabilities uh in lebanon, limited military capacity on itself, as as a small country, um, the you, our country, lebanon has been structurally dependent on the west, economically and on the us, military, and this is specifically to ensure that there is no um independence, that's that's really uh reached a a military level, but also so that um we're always receiving the... end of old stock piles um you know terrible grade equipment uh to keep uh militarily subservience but also uh within the balance and control of the of the west um so that uh whatever we have is also ensures that there

is that constant dependency. now what iran does in bringing over um military technology and oil goods that breaks uh that dependency and it um ensures that there is actually um some self-sufficiency and some uh level of sovereignty um with iranian allies in the region um that can effectively challenge the comparator dependent status that countries like lebanon have been in uh for decades president uh shabir has thanked there was space uh uh for doing what did this major achievements uh i'd like to get your thoughts however on how he has said once again this is shown that threats and sanctions have no effect on the determination of our dear young scientists for the progress and excellence of uh the islamic republic of iran. iran's leader has time it again that the west's main

worry in particular the us and what they're targeting is uh these um minds, the minds of the youth in particular uh and scientists for example. and how uh they are the ones that are progressing and advancing uh iran with it, and that's what they're what they're targeting. we can talk about the scientists and another question, but uh, just how uh, what you think, and whether you agree with what i wans leader has said terms of these young minds being targeted, and of course uh, in this case point in the aerospace industry. yeah, of course, no, i agree completely. i mean, i think it's very important to kind of assess exactly uh, what he means by targeting right? because the west has several different tactics that it deploys in order to ensure that progress is stifled, one of course it's a very obvious you know threat of actually murdering right, as we've seen time and time again in the past, you know, whether it's the cia or musad flat out assassinating nuclear

scientists, the west isn't afraid to not only conduct such horrific acts of cowardice, i would say, but also it flats it, it says very openly that yes we were responsible, yes that we we the um we killed xy scientists in order to stop progres in order for example uh fear monger the us public into saying these these scientists were developing weapons of mass destruction they were developing nuclear weapons. and then i think there's also the process of um using sanctions to target them as well right uh if you lock out of having a good uh financial life if you draw them into the west itself by promising them oh you'll get you know x y z you know degree will be able to give you nice paying job that's a process that we refer to as brain drain where you are taking the best that the that that a country has to offer pulling them out of the country stifling the country's progress and then integrating them into the... west and in the west as we were talking about uh just few moments ago, the west is laser focused on

creating weapons of murder, they pour billions and billions and billions of dollars as we see into their war machines uh and into into wars such as the ukraine war for example where we have luming government shutdown happening right now, but the the government has essentially said that we'll keep pouring money into weapons weapons of war for ukraine, and so again all this to say that those threats are... very real, the united states is constantly looking to sink its teeth into the scientists into these young minds and try to either pull them out of the country if they can and have them work for the united states for example or just flat out kill them if they can't. yeah, the fact that iranian nuclear scientists have been targeted jullie, i'm sure it's no, not new news for you, we know how musad has operated in that regards and we know how they have assassinated number of iranian uh scientists in the nuclear field in particular. now we know that he is not after nuclear weapons even, even not only israel's intel agencies, but also the us have uh confirmed that iran

is not after weaponization of his nuclear program, but israel has targeted uh iran scientist, what are they afraid of, why do they want, why do they want to get iranian scientists? well, this is back in homani's time he wrote about this, he wrote about how israel is afraid, zionists are afraid. west is afraid of uh an intellectual society, intellectual society that works for sovereignty um and intellectual society that can build the capability for economic sovereignty too. um as we as it's you know known as it's been proven um from years and years worth of international investigations into iran's nuclear program that it's a program of building uh alternative energy, it's a peaceful nuclear program um where iran can uh develop like a um a variety and

diverse um array of um energy capabilities um that could be the foundation for uh you know its future sovereign scientific development programs but again like um development that leads to uh political as well as economic sovereignty is uh angers the us in the west more than uh a military challenge um and and that is why scientists are are the target, that's why youth are the target through soft power, um, that's why in the latest siap, it focused lot, like all of the the siaps from the west do, they focus on um undermining iran's cultural and social values, especially targeting youth, targeting women, um, because iran's social uh, iran's social value. use as a country are the foundation for its development um and for encouraging

development as a uh major scientific player today. also uh iran's missile program has been uh obviously a subject that is not sitting well with the us and israel in turn uh shabir we know that that has been a thorn uh on the side of the us for quite some time and still is uh i'm trying to understand how it is that the us which was involved in the iran-iraq war in terms of providing weapons along with other western countries uh where uh missiles and bombs were raining down on iran can expect uh this country not to have its own missile program uh they blame iran for weanizing its missile program to carry nuclear warheads we just had the other day the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu uh placed a nuclear threat on an inter national stage by the name of the unga at the podium to the entire world saying there

should be nuclear threat against iran, shouldn't iran be equipped then with missiles, non-nuclear missiles? yeah, um, i think first, first, first and foremost, everything the west says about you know, a country not being able, a country shouldn't arm itself, uh, a country shouldn't have these defensive capabilities is pure hypocrisy, because the moment that you know a country would let its guard down, um the west is going to take whatever or create whatever boogie man it can in order to to invade it right for example the example i think of almost immediately is uh qaddafi's libya where gadafi kind of put down his arms and then immediately we saw a nato-back invasion uh that overthrew gaddafi and now libya is a slave state suffering from infrastructure collapse um and so i think it the the threat of nuclear war against iran um from netanyahu uh is one cowardice it's two it's fear

mongering right um we all know that israel is a very desperate situation right now it's it's entering it's almost its 40th straight week of internal protests uh the netanyahu government is not very popular at all, in fact on the global stage, no matter which government uh it is that's running uh the occupation um the occupation itself is losing any credibility any credibility it had and it already had very little credibility to start off with and so all this to say i think iran should 100% um have the defensive capabilities it it thinks it needs in order to protect itself because the moment i believe that a country lets this guard down, especially against the west, the west will always, always, always look into penetrating other countries into sewing chaos, into ensuring that the western influence is the dominant influence in, and we see this now more than ever as the west is willing to actually engage in not only war against russia, but silly creeping towards war against china, completely willing to fight a

multifront war, and if countries think for one second that the west would hesitate, take advantage of a situation. where it's guards where it's guard down um there would be in for some for root awakening because the west would 100% exploit any situation it can in order to take over and control any other region uh it possibly can. well evan has not actually swayed from his missile program or limited in any shape or form actually uh has advanced it to the point where it is now from what i'm reading over here um to have the largest uh missile uh stock pile uh in west asia and it's the only country to have one that has range of 2,00 kilometers, which obviously which is israel. julie, my question to you is, there was a case where uh, you had the arter general, lieutenant general sulaymani that was assassinated by the us, and uh, iran retaliated, and it retaliated by using the fatih 110 family of solid fuel

missiles to the uh us base, the anlassad. face uh to show not only its strength but give us a little um rattling of the cage um there could be other instances where iran needs to be equipped and therefore needs these types of weapons for its defensive posture aside from israel threatening iran time and again you also have the us that has that famous saying options options are on the table so on has obviously a reason to have these missiles correct absolutely justification and reason. but um oh did you want to say something? no, no, i thought you, i thought you had ended your sentence, go ahead. no, no, no, no, go, i'm just going to continue on the answer. um, yeah, so it has the justification has reason as the historical precedent. um, any country in iran's position or any country in west asia's

position um, not only has the right and to develop itself, but any other option. is uh suicide um for it, especially um put up against uh how iran is probably one of the most targeted countries by the us uh in the world um and uh after the assassination of uh haj qasim sulaymani this was uh to send you know iran was sending message that um not only should you really think about continuing to attack iran in such cowardly ways but also um all options are on the table regionally across the region um this last week uh you know a couple days ago not even last week yemen was celebrating its anniversary of its revolution where it transformed into a sovereign uh resistance government and administration from the its comparador uh

government in 2014 um they held a military parade also showcasing very advanced weaponry. that nobody thought um just a couple, you know, just dozen of years ago um that yemen would be in possession of such advanced missiles and weapons and you know the same across is across the board with iran's allies in the region, iran's strength and justification for defending itself it goes to all of its allies and all of its countries in the position of uh being in the cross airs of ocupa. and imperialist assault, and we can expect that capability to grow across the board, israel already knows it can't challenge. minitarily uh and lot of us allies in the region that have gone for years head to head with resistance access countries are uh finding that out that uh their

capability and their morale is um being diminished day after day um so um dr is clearly uh sizing up in this uh in this equation and um it's all you know due to uh just uh you know the the will of breaking the sanctions that have been put on it since the revolution in 1979 um and i think uh those sanctions have as he has said many times facilitated the opportunity to develop a truly sovereign defense program that our region should look to as a model. final question based on follow up on what julie said there shabir why does the us continue down a failed uh road of maximum pressure? campaign, it can't suppress iran's uh technological advancements and advancements in many other fields, why try to engage? nobody says they're going to call each other and their merry christmas or happy nors,

nobody wants that, but at the same time engagement, if they were to have that they maybe the world wouldn't be where it's at now, weran saudi arabia, the region itself is united, there's bricks, there's seo that you want is part of, and the lack of engagement is actually and maximum pressure campaign shot themselves in the foot, uh, does the us continue in this path, in under a minute please. yeah, under a minute, okay, so under a minute, okay, that's a lot that i'm going to try to crush in here, but essentially the ideological position of the united states is full, hajomany over the world, it it likes it's unipolar world and it's willing to fight for it, it's willing to fight dirty for it, as we've seen with assassinations with maximum pressure campaigns, with pulling out the gcpoa, and now as we're emerging into this new multipolar world that's you know multilateral and and power spears, um, the united states is not going to want to engage, it knows that if it goes down the... this route it will lose all influence in in the regions currently has control over and so any pivot to that sort of thinking is going to endanger the defense ministry that reaks in

billions of dollars, any pivot to peace from the united states is going to shut down every single military base um all 700 plus of them and and so the the bricks will come falling down lasting the state um you can't have peace with the united states in its current form because it is a government of warmonks. should we to be the political commentator from chicago? thank you. julie casam journal and political analyst for pleasure. with that we come to for this edition of the new review, i'm sorry of the spotlight. thanks for tuning is, bye-bye for now.

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