and our leader of iran's islamic revolution ayatollah ali khamenei spoke today on the birth anniversary of the holy prophet of islam muhammad, he reiterated how important unity among muslims can be, and how far it can go to wipe out apartide in palestine, looting in north africa and hijemy and bullying in west asia, and on the flip side, iranian leader emphasized how far normalizing ties with the israeli regime and allowing the us into the region sets back and apart, today

we'll bring the iranian leaders comments under the spotlight. now joining us is saib shath author and west asia expert joining us out of belfast and mr. shabi rasvy, political analyst joining us from london. and gentlemen, i like to welcome you both to the... program uh, i guess we'll start there with you, mr. shaber rasvy, a political analyst joining us there out of london, now i to say said, normalizing ties with the israeli regime uh today is like betting a dead horse, what do you make of that assertion? thank you for the invitation, hello, good evening, look, i think the metaphor used by the leader of the islamic republic of iran is quite app, but you know, of

from uk, i would use another metaphor if you like, uh, you, israel is not losing wicket, it's a cricket game that's played in the uk, many of your listeners may not be aware of it, but losing wicket is when the team is likely not to win the game, and i think that's the situation at this moment, for the zionist entity, it is becoming abundantly clear over the last eight decades that the regime has been... in existence that progressively it is journing towards its own destruction, not by any sort of external forces as such, but there is huge amount of descension within the borders of the illegitimate entity that was created back way back in 1948, and the situation has become difficult for. survive and you've got to

really understand that, firstly it gets huge amount of support from the us and the collective west, not just sort of supporting it politically and diplomatically, but also financially, billions and billions of dollars are sent in aid to the zionist entity. secondly, many businesses also invest in in in this particular regime. your it sector has huge sort of whether it's google, microsoft, amazon, you name it, and the sort of new ai and and it security industies, they you invest hugely in in this particular sort of part of the world, therefore it gets support, and when people said that you know the zionist entity created a sort of garden out of... over desert, if they're getting this

kind of money in aid and support and also through sort of financial sectors, you can imagine what would happen if only a minuscule of that was given to the developing world in africa, in south america and other parts of the world, one would see poverty being reduced, in in in a couple of decades very easily, while israel, the zionist entity benefits from... all levels, but but people a the citizens of that nation, come from russia or ukraine or europe, this sort of designist entity as a to usa or because they realize the danger that they are facing a daily basis, although the israeli forces killed the palestinians, willilly nilly. but the

pressure on the citizens of this uh illegitimate regime is becoming acute daily. thank you, mr. rasv, mr. saib, thanks for your patience, welcome to the program sir, and now the... another thing the iranian uh leader said, he said that the the names, the days pardon of the israeli regime are numbered, and he said this on more than one occasion and he said it more on one more than one occasion today in his remarks and also mr rasby just said that it's taking steps toward its own destruction, is that too optimistic or do you agree with that? uh, let me put it this way, you don't, i see didn't put the external or factors. of this project and right maybe b, i see if we look at the z entity project, he was planned for it to have what the call the greater israel from nine, and this project, it was even after the great

success of 1967 war, which was led actually, and it's proved by american air strikes, tagged on it like the david start to look like it's a zen entity airplanes which defeated syria, jordan, palestine and and and egypt, i mean, but after that straight away after the war, in 1967 itself, the egyptian army destroyed the major ilat spying ship in there, which was they thought the z never ever egypt or syria will recover from such defeat, six... the egyptian started the rotation war against against israel and it took them up to 1973 when they waid along with syria a war which massively defeated design entity and if we look at the palestinian resistance itself in 1968 they

directed the plo a massive blow at inkerging israeli brigades in karama village in jordan and destroyed them, they acknowledge that in 2000, you look at lebanon, the lebanese resistant lead by hisballah, defeated them and pushed them out of lebanon, liberating the south, in 2006, the same they did, and the palestinian resistant in 2005, defeated them out of gaza and and chased them out with their settlers, so this project in a speedy reverse, it's retracting its own... massive empire which supposed to be created and it lives in there by support of the united states of america as your guest luded to and the west, west tax payers money and the united states of america who is ensuring that zinis entity existent since it is an

extension to new colonialism of the western imperialism and that project will be defeated, the palestinian uh resistance is getting strong, and if we look at the arab and islamic resistance take it from yemen, to iraq, to syria, to lebanon, to to palestine, they are strong, they they they couldn't defeat syria after this massive takfiri war which lead by the united states of of america, and syria still is standing, the same thing, if you look at yamen, yemen is is stopped the aggression, which is the soud is the face of it, but actually american aggression and stop from from the the us of controlling that strategic area so to dominate the whole region. i can go for more and more and more, but i want to give you and your guests more time. thank you, mr. saib

shat. now mr. rasby, mr. shop on this and i want you to if you could elaborate on it because i also said that the regime. just doesn't have animosity towards uh iran, but all of its neighbors and i want to go one step further and say possibly every muslim country in the region. does the regime in tel aviv care or have not have disdain for any islamic country your point of view? look, that obviously is is one of the key aspects, but a colonial power, an imperial power, racist power and a partide regime does not really... care for whether they are muslims or non-muslims, as you can see when sort of people are killed, murders and assassinated, it's not only muslims, but also christians living in the occupied territories, as we saw

with the al-jazera journalist who was reporting while she was finding her report was assassinated. by the israeli offensive force, i call it israeli offensive force rather than idf, because that's what they are, they're not there for defending the nation, but for being offensive. and for killing, so and also we saw that at her burial, the sort of sort of shinanigans, the of israel forces at that time creating a commotion at funeral of of this al-jazera journalist, and a daily basis, the christians are also being killed, and we have seen historically that it's not only muslims who have been at the fourth. front to fight the zionist entity, but they have been christians, they have been sort of orthodox

christians, historically there was one sort of patriarch, i his his name sort of escapes my mind at this moment, but 30 years ago he was sort of intermediary to bring arms from lebanon to to the occupied territories, so this particular entity doesn't care whether the... muslims or followers of any other faith, they just want to be there to occupy a part of west asia so that the colonial regime that was created by the balfer act in uk and supported by the us and the collective west wants to continuously control west asia and the muslim countries and through that the wider region. if you like, and that's ironic, mr. saib shath, because um, just like mr.

rasby, the iranian uh leader ali khamenei also spoke a lot about unity and said that the colonial western uh powers, the engineer, their policies for west asia to keep this discord, to keep this disunity among muslims, could you imagine a united front that could be a tool against apartide in palestine, against looting of natural resources, north africa against uh syria having its oil taken right in broad daylight from it and taken over to iraq and then uh sent to wherever knows where in the world could you imagine how many problems in the region and north africa among muslim countries and other arab leaders could be resolved if there is some unity uh of course i want to uh just say the name uh that for which is my friend trying to say that archbishop kapucci who was. to the the what call the founder of the zenis entity

bengorion have doctor and that doctrine which is most of the zionist leadership and today and the army adheres to, and it's centered round creating fictions in the region, creating states fighting each other, and this unity and putting the whole area in this array through intelligence, this information. using the western media and using all the tools available plus using their army to be able to fight in in double or triple fronts, this is their their doctrine how to and of course the the the reason for creating such an entity in the region was first of all located in palestine, palestine is means separating the the north african side from the arabic islamic world. and the asian one, it's like a widge in the heart of the arab

islamic world, and then it's to go there to to be the thug who guarantees the transportation, the strategic waterways and the the the energy and all the resources in the area, because western empires learn historically, if you don't control, especially the levant plus side of egypt in there, you cannot control. or hegemonize the whole world, and this is where the western always focus in controlling that area, and plus they think there is after the islamic revolution of iran 1979, they lost their milking cow from and they wanted back, that's why they are always active in trying to create dis order to send their spice, destabilize the regime in there and do a regime change as the... the trying all this so they can bring in iran under auspices of

what they call it united nation or democracies a kind of regime which will serve serve as their own milking cow and the same thing goes for the saudis and the same thing goes for the gulf states all these states especially in the gulf saudis and united arab emirates and the rest of them were engineered before they. speaku even plans appeared to be as part of the whole area which is they designed so they know once they created israel they created so many site to this zionist entity in there, they call it the arab zionist as well, they wanted to engineer regimes to adhere to the design policies so they can protect this zist entity, when it was in its empty at the start, now the zist entity have to pay in protecting these area

and these regimes and here we can see why the bush of the was the united states of america during trump and after and even before in what they call it normalizing relationship with the z there was never been a relationship with them to normalize to start with which mean the acknowledgement of these states of the defacto zionist control of that area and they want to make sure it's legitimate but that can fly in the fe of saudi arabia, saudi arabia started, you know, didn't mind the emirates or bahrain, which they actually obey to the soul disorder to normalize relationship with the zen entity, didn't mind morocco or or georden as well, so they want to do a farther step now to say themselves to normalize maybe relationship,

but with the sign entity, because this is the american brushes on them, so it is trying to tell us in a way, they're doing this just to to avoid some of the pressures from biden's administration till the election just go away and then they are not gonna be normalizing relationship, but i think this is shruder than that, they they are going toward the normalization and their project in the controlling the regions, i think it's part of the american and israeli control. thank you, mr. said. mr. rasy, thanks for your uh patient, and now back to you, mr. rasby, why is it that some arab leaders simply do not see the benefits of uniting with other muslim leaders to stand against uh, western, especially us higemany in the region? well, look, sometimes some leaders and individuals act in manner, very short term, thinking that

it would be in their interest, but they have to really understand. that the source of destruction in that region and globally is zionism, the found of terrorism is zionism, humanity really ceas to exist when israel was established, history's stain will be removed when zionism is abolished, what i think the leadership in that part of the world is thinking that having a detoned a relationship with the zionist entity may sort of secure. their own positions for many, many, many decades to come, but what we have seen in the recent past is that even a leader like saddam who was supported by the west to inflicte a eight year war on the islamic republic of iran and to sort of eliminate the islamic

republic from from the world in this early stages when time came. even he was abandoned and we've seen that on and on and on in many many parts of the world that those leaders who have felt that having the support of the us and to sort of have relationship by force with israel, america is not really a best partner for them to have, it's not a partner that is liable, it's not a partner that will support them when the chips are down, it will actually abandon them, so i think they evaluate their own positions, as iran has quite often said that that region security should be managed by the nations of that particular region, not by washington, paris

or london using the zionist entity to sell the concept that their security is dependent on having a so-called normalization of relationship with tel aviv. i think, as i said, it's a very short term approach that the leaders are taking, if they evaluate with cool minds, they will realize that it is not in their interest to go on that route. the journey for establishing or normalization of relationship with the science entity. could actually prove to be destructive for themselves. okay, we don't have much time left and i actually want to change gears for the last couple minutes and put this question to both of you, um, out of mr. mr. saipe shot out of belfast, the iranian leader also said, don't be so naive to think that recent acts of desecration of the holy quran are isolated incidents, we saw it in the netherlands, we

saw it in sweden, we saw it in denmark over just very short period, few months apart, yet and and they're all supported by authorities and security services for to be carried out. the irani leader says these are not isolated incidents, there are people planning behind the scenes for this exact thing to happen, it's not going to compromise the... value the holy book, but we have to be weary of who is doing it and why? uh, this is very good question, if you, i want to link it from this angle, if you look when the americans accupied iraq 2003, the population of the christians in iraq shrank to less than 10% what it used to be, very few christians left in the north of iraq today, and the same thing in syria when they attack the... town of malula, which is the holy site of the christianity after b lahim in the middle east as well, syrian in christians being pushed and all of that by takfiri forces as well, if

you look in the arab world christians being pushed away from their natural homeland, which is in palestine, there is few christians left and the zinus entity do its best to encourage their immigration out of palestine. i believe myself as well, you can see the targeting of islam and islamophobia and targeting of the islamic values all over and they want to make it look like it's reactionary, while islam is the most progressive religion, they want to make the women who want to wear aaba or hijab as woman who been dictated to or enslaved, while islam came to liberate such woman, they ignore all these facts, but in the arab world. and in in in south asia they want to make sure there is no christians left and only divide between shia muslim and sunni muslim fight each other and in the future if they attack any any

country they can tell the west and we are attacking these thugs muslims there is no christians in there so they cannot have backglash from their own population we have we have about one minute left uh mr rasy i really want to put this to you desecration who's behind it and why? well look, it's a long topic and i'll try to sort of give you some bullet points, at the end of the day, as our colleague from belfast was saying that there's a whole islamophobia industry that is active through the so-called think tanks, but i call them junk tanks really, because at the end of the day the whole purpose is to ignite fear in the population of the indigenous population living in the west. but the reality is that as this is the week of unity as designated by imam khumaini and it has of founder of the islamic republic of iran that

this is the week in which we celebrate the anniversary of the most incredible individual that was sent to mankind as a mercy and that mercy if that message because what happens in the west is the more there is propaganda against islam and the prophet of islam, people want to know what this particular religion is. we saw that soon after the twin towers incident and other issues, whenever islam is targeted, people want to read more about it, and there are more people who become muslim, because by default, what is happening is that the more anti islam and anti-muslim propaganda is perpetrated on the... nation, the thinking people want to really understand what this particular religion is, and they come to the religion themselves, so what i say that, bring on more

islamophobia, that gives an opportunity for islam to really shine, because this is the message of the almighty who has given it to the world as the message of peace and benediction. thank you both for joining us on the program, joining us from belfast. and sir shabby rasby joining us there from london, and viewers, this brings us to the conclusion of this segment of your press tv spotlight. thank you for tuning in and goodbye for now. aleppo, a city raised to the ground. destructed by war, but beyond the rubble and a half destroyed house, life still continues.

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