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"welcome to spotlight, the mainstream western media has once again staged a propaganda campaign against iran, this time following incident, for a 16-year-old iranian female student a tehron subway station, army to garavan collapsed in a metro station on sunday, october the 1st, the antiran media outlets were quick to blame the iranian security forces for the incident, but uh credible testimonies and published. videos including the cctv footage suggests otherwise. 16-year-old armita geravan fainted while boarding a train a subway station in the iranian capital. immediately afterwards anti-iran tv channels and outlets embarked a media campaign blaming the incident on the subway police. they accused the police of pushing armita out of the train after noisy argument. leading to her fall. now the tehran

subway company has released all camera footage from the moment armita enters the station till she is taken to hospital. here is 6:52 a.m. october 1st. armita enters the station alone. after two minutes she passes the ticket control gate. at 6:54 she enters a grocery store in the station and after that she is. seen here heading to the platform where she catches up with her friends. it can be seen that the whole eight minutes of her presence in the station passes without a problem. armita and her friends wait to board the train, but they don't take the first one. it seems they are waiting for a friend. armita's arrival on the platform and her boarding take more than eight minutes. still no scene or any problem. and here is the in

moment armita and her friends board the train, but after just four seconds, as can be seen, she gets dizzy and falls down after armita's fall, people on the scene call the emergency services and try to revive her. خسته نباشید. یه قریب داره.

because parents say they have not seen any irregularities in the camera footage provided by the subway company or her medical report. they have called for people to pray for their daughter's health. metro radidam. i've seen the subway footage and i don't think what some people say is true. i've seen all the footage and followed it closely. nothing was wrong. last year, similar media tactics employed by the anti-iran news outlets incited violence through. the country, yet the misinformation campaign has only failed. well, joining us in our studios uh here in terron, our correspondent gisu misha ahmadi, would visited the medical center where armita is hospitalized, is here to give us more

details, gisu, it's great to have you with us, what details can you share with us and our viewers? well uh, before i tell you about the experience i had today going to the hospital to find out more about uh first i'd like to clarify that for anyone living in iran and in tehran, it is absolutely absurd to hear that there was some kind of um police or whatever uh security officer or whatever to confront someone uh for particularly uh the way they are dressed inside the metro station, this is something uh that has never happened, in the history of iran's metro, particularly because there are special wagons for women, and women are usually free to dress the way they want to, inside those wagons, so uh, you know, this particular um

detail is really disturbing for anyone who lives in tehran and who uses the metro, which i happen to be one of those people, and i use the metro very often, so putting that aside, i have the opportunity. opportunity to go to the hospital today, of course, bringing a camera inside any hospital um is obviously not easy because well there are people there who probably won't want to be filmed and uh it took us a couple of hours before i finally got the camera inside and i was allowed to go all the way upstairs to the intensive care unit where armita is um actually there. um, i was able to talk to her father, uh, her mother and her sister uh, just left for the city of mashad, the holy city of mashad, where imam riza's holy shrine is located, it is um traditional for iranians, whenever they

have any problems, they usually go there to pray and ask imam riza to help them and bless them and of course uh grant them their wishes, obviously um... because family are under lot of pressure right now uh and um what makes the ordeel even tougher bardia is the fact that they have to deal with all of these media reports and uh of course reporters who are calling them from here and there trying to figure out what's happening so um on the one hand they're already under lot of pressure uh because of their daughter who is now intensive care unit and like i said the mother is away with the sister uh in the holy city. mashad to pray uh for her to get well soon, and on the other hand, they have all of this commotion coming from anti-iran media outlets who have been once again able to create story out of thin air, and for anyone who watches the cctv uh

footage, it is quite obvious that nothing happened and it was uh just accident and whatever it was, it had to do with... armita's health herself, she was not pushed, she was not confronted by anyone, she was accompanied by her friends uh on her way to school as she would do every day, and um, of course, i will be talking to uh the medical staff tomorrow, and i will be giving you more details about that tomorrow uh where they will be explaining exactly what happened to her. all right, thanks lot, gisu press tv is. gisu mining us in our studios here in tehran also joining us on tonight spotlight we have journalist and political analyst elijah magnia joining us from brussels and also

joining us from uh pittsburgh pennsylvania human rights lawyer and peace activist daniel colvalic. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. magnia in brussels, sir, how do you view this recent incident uh, which has led to many western back media outlets to start their anti-iran narratives, what's the reason for such a rush to gehumanize uh iranian security forces in the first place? thank you for having me, it is obvious that iran is under the microscope, and on the first occasion, on the first small incident, you have immediately the mainstream media jumping on it and just transforming it, quoting, and that's not journalism really, quoting a kurdish source in norway, an active. in norway reporting about that's happening in a metro in tehran, when there

are the footage of cctv showing a man coming in the wagon just few second before after the armita went in and then just staying by the door to see how the girlfriend came out so there is no manipulation of the video, but on the other hand we understand that it'... took them a year in the mainstream media and those manipulators to found something to find something that they can blame iran and try to reproduce exactly the same story or similar to uh to to the story that came out year ago of mahamini and to accuse iran of violating human rights etc. and all these excuses that normally here in the west will love to accuse

iran of or any other country that is not submitted to the western hegemony, so i mean, i mean, i'm surprised it took a year to regain all the aggressive campaign against iran, and that has been going on since 1979 in different forms, but because the west has mastered the art of manipulation of the... media and the footage and the use of the social media and mainstream media to take advantage of it, so it shows how they are really waiting by the second, by the minute, by the hour to grab the first opportunity that can inspire them to create story out of it, and honestly it's always the same reason, iran is not submitted to the web. and iran is demonized for the last 43 years and will continue to be so, so i'm not surprised if we

see another story coming up in the next month depending what they find really. daniel, what do you make of this recent episode of anti-iran uh propaganda, and in addition to that, can you tell us who benefits in general uh from such anti-iran campaigns, what are the motives behind these? uh campaigns? well, first of all, my reaction is, you know, i live in the united states, uh, the police in the united states kill over a thousand people a year, we have incredibly violent streets uh, in new york city, it's not, you know, uncommon that someone will be, you know, pushed by someone into the subway and killed, the point is, i don't want to sound insensitive, but i i have to respond, i don't get it, like that people would be calling for

for action against iran for this is incredible, again, given what you could find in the u.s. any daily basis, that is hundred times worse than this. now who does this benefit? obviously it benefits people in the in the state department who want to overthrow the the iranian government, the us has wanted to overthrow the iranian government since 1979, it successfully overthrew the iranian government. in 1953 and installed the shaw and and then it's been upset ever since 1979 when the shaw was usted in a popular revolution, so there's many in washington that would like to find reasons to uh cause public unrest in iran. obviously there are people uh within iran and iranians outside iran who would like to engage in in in regime change, you have the... for example um that's been involved in regime change activities uh

for a long time so they might benefit from this uh but again these are the old fashion techniques used by um in particular us intelligence agencies like the cia to try to foment uh regime change like actually they use similar tactics against uh muhammad mozadec in 1953 um so it's not surprising, but again this this incident seems hardly the type of incident you could latch to to to create regime change, but i don't know, i'd be so. have been surprised by other things. elijah magnia, the united states and its allies, they constantly demonize iran. the continuation of these uh hostile and provocative policies against iran are believed to be trying to stoke iranophobia and promoting uh a propaganda campaign against the uh islamic republic. where does

this hostility from uh washington towards iran stem from? is it because uh of... maybe israel's interests or is it the fact that iran is an independent country in the region and that really irritates the us? what it all start from the iranian constitution where it is clearly cited that iran supports all the oppressed people around the world and the iranian cause is never forget the central cause that is the palestinian cause and the right of return to the... homeland and recover their occupied territory by saying by taking out these two point iran become the enemy because iran is the enemy of the israelis who occupy the palestinian land and iran is supporting all those who want to fight against the us and his allies

imperialism in in the middle east and anywhere else. iran has supported. the palestinian, the lebanese hezbollah in syria, iraq, in venezuela, and iran, part of the shanghai corporation will also be part of the bricks at the in january, so all this activity and iranian wealth in natural resources increases the appetite of the west to attack iran, demonize it and bring it to submission, particularly when iran is refusing that and its model is giving also an example to other countries like china, russia, latin america, africa who wants to stand against the usa, germany, and iran has been doing that for the last 43 years and still surviving and that pushed iran to depend its own in almost a lot of lot of lot

of things and lot of needs and particularly in the military. so because of that iran will always be diminized, iran will always be attacked, the iranian progres in the nuclear program, and the peaceful nuclear program is creating even more havoc in the west, how iran can reach such level of scientific knowledge and advanced in technology, advanced in weaponry, and having more than 3,500 sanctions on it for the last decades. so all that is really putting the west in a position where other countries can follow the same model or can find other alternative to rely on other allies rather than the us and because of that and because of iran is really putting obstacles in front of the american

plans and planning in the in the middle east and in particularly in palestine. syria, iraq, because of that, it is costing the americans lot to try and keep their position and not to look like a fool or incompetent or not strong as they want to look like, and top of that, iran is the only country just after the second world war that that to bomb the us assad military base and bar in. following the assassination of general casimmani, because of that, it's enough excuses to demonize iran all the time. daniel coval, let's talk a little bit about the media hypocrisy. uh, media outlets, uh, social media networks, which often caution against jumping the gun on spreading news too soon, or without

decisive evidence, they seem to act the opposite when it comes to iran. why is that? no, i think that's. iran is is guilty till proven innocent and again because there is this demonization that's been happening with iran again since the islamic revolution in 1979 um iran has just been portrayed incessently and relentlessly in the us press as some sort of insane dictatorial nation uh when in fact you know uh in the region it's it's frankly one of the more enlightened. countries, i i've been there, and i was there in 2017, was very impressed by it, by the culture, by the intellectual milieu of of the country, uh, but that's not. you learn about in the united states, it's been vilified, the leaders have been vilified, and so um, uh, they're very quick to blame iran for for

anything, and again, that's also because they're paroding the views that are being pushed by uh, washington in their effort to overthrow uh the government, you know, and sometimes is successful these types of villication campaigns, i mean what, what comes to mind is libya, you know, since... i was a child, momar khadafi was portrayed as this crazy man, this mad dog, i think that's what reagan referred to him that needed to be overthrown, and he ultimately was, you know, and look at what that country is now, it's it's been torn asunder, it's now three separate countries essence now, and slaves being sold on the streets and i guess if the us had its way, that's what would happen with iran, and um, you know, so it's very dangerous uh this type of villification campaign. that the press is engaged in, sure uh elijah magnia, same question to you, talking about this hypocrisy um in the media,

this uh demonization, it's been proven through and through against uh iran. press tv, our very own channel has paid the price for challenging the global media dominance of western news outlets, as the us seized the website domain of press tv in the past, we've faced growing restrictions on our platforms. "we were removed from broadcasting satellites, what's your reaction here? well, if we take the example of press tv, we take the example of julianne assange, anyone who's writing about the truth is no longer accepted, we've seen that in the war in syria, and how the mainstream media reacted unprofessionally, and we thought that journalism has some values and some respect to the profession." to be really taking the news and the truth as it is, and to give it to the reader. unfortunately, this is continuing throughout the years, we've seen

also how they covered the war in iraq, they cover the war in libya, they covered the war in syria, and they're covering the palestinian um, saga and cause, so all that is the double standard doesn't come only from the media, it comes from the... european leaders and western leaders who have double standard and have very high level of hypocrisy in any matter they are dealing with, so they turn things to their advantage, things that are accepted for one country, they not accepted for another country, so there is no more professionalism in our profession, today anyone can write anything, quote, any source like in case of armita quoting someone in human activist. in norway, a kurdish human activist in norway, we don't have the name, we don't know how he can testify and be testimony, so even roiters

quoting only two sources, unnamed sources, so everybody jumped on the story in a very unpreficient and professional way, and that is something that we've been suffering from for the last years and is not something new really, it's going to continue, unfortunately people are looking for alternative news and looking for... social media looking trying to find the news between the lines and spending an awful long time to look for the truth, well unfortunately not many people have the time to do so, all right, i'm afraid that's all the time we have for tonight, so shall, allow me to thank my guests, mr. elijah, magne jornalson, political analist joining us from brussels, also thanks to human rights lawyer and peace activist, stania covallet joining us from pitsburg, and a special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight's spotnight, it's good night for now. see you next time.

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