hello, welcome to the debate, i'm in iran people have marked the... fourth assassination anniversary of the anti-terror commander lieutenant general qasim sulaymani and while this honorable event was taking place, horrible terrorist incident has occurred here in the islamic republic, claiming the lives of many iranians were paying omage to him. why did this terrorist incident take place at this time? was it to use iran's interior minister words detract iranians love and honor for the anti-terror icon? asm sulaymani. also, in terms of this incident, terrorist incident. was it to use

means to detract from the way that iranians were paying respect to him? this addition of the spotlight we will look at the legacy of this prominent figure in iran's history, which revitalized the axis of resistance in the region a basis for the courageous fight the resistance fighters are waiting against the israeli regime forces in the gaza strip, and this is while iran's president has said that the resistance groups will make israel pay heavy price for its terrorist act. first let me introduce our guests for this edition of the spotlight. say mohammed marandi, university professor and political analyst, joins us from tehran, also joining us in saint mustaphash, political analyst from tehran. welcome to you both, my condolences obviously go out on this uh sad occasion that was uh meant to uh uh honor the late lieutenant general suleimani, but uh obviously an analysis needs to be ' put into

the picture and if you could put things into context for us, first, i think it's worth remembering, and i'll start with you, sayid mohammed marandi, the reasoning that was given back when uh the targeted assassination took place by the us ontenant general sulaimani, the former secretary of state mike pompeo saying that uh there was an imminent attacks uh that he had planned uh which we understand obviously is false premise, maybe you can recount to us why that type of thinking went into play? as the basis for what was said at the time was the assassination? well, if an imminent attack was about to take place, the last place where he would be would be in baghdad, obviously that's nonsense, and we also recall that the iraqi prime minister at that time, he said very specifically that general came. iraq to

visit me, because he had received a letter from the saudi crown prince, and they wanted to discuss raproshma, so after midnight general sulaimani, when he arrived in baghdad from damascus, he was leaving the airport with his colleagues and with abu mahdial mahandis who was leading the fight against isis in iraq, the iraqi commander, and he was to meet the prime minister. uh at 8 a.m. if i'm not mistaken, in the morning, hours later, and that's when the americans killed him, and obviously the americans had information about the intention of general sonimani to meet the prime minister and to discuss the peace and raproachma with saudi arabia, because the americans are everywhere in iraq, and therefore that's that's all nonsense, the americans wanted revenge because... they had been humiliated by the

resistance whether in syria where the americans had supported extremist groups, they supported isis that supported al-qaed, one example is the email from february the 12th 2012 from jake sullivan to hillary clinton who was the secretary of state at that time and jake sullivan who is now the national national security advisor of ' biden in that email, and you can everyone can find this online, he said al-qaeda is on our side in syria, this is early 2012, and we know that later on isis, which was a part of al-qaeda, broke away from al-qaeda, so they were supporting these extremist groups, the in defeat of isis, the defeat of al-qaeda, was something that angered the united states, it angered trump, both their defeate here in iraq and... and the americans were angry that

it created a bond, a strong bond between the iranian people and the iraqi people, and they they got their revenge, but in my opinion, the americans mis'. calculated because it mobilized the iranian nation, millions of people came to the streets to commemorate in tehran alone to commemorate them the marture of general. now this is point that i like to take up with you sayid, the fact that you have, i believe one of our guests actually said this, which i'm going to ask you that this terrorist incident that has now taken place in the islamic. public um he said that the us and israel actually fear uh death even more now that he's dead than alive because the legacy that he left behind and what he stood for in terms of the anti-uh terror icon

is inspiration for for example resistance groups to continue this fight that they're having in terms of the imperialist powers like the us and therefore that aspect of it is what stands out right now, do you think that that is uh valid perspective and what what what this represents in this case? hello and thanks for having me, and hello to dr. marandi, well that's true actually, um, qasim sulaymani was a unique commander, when he before he they martived him, he had already told friends in course as well as in lebanon that he had planned of the future of the resistance uh against the americans and israelies for the next years to come, and that's true, it's no secret, everyone knows

that the general sulaimani, provided logistical backup and everything to the resistant groups including hamas and others all across the... region and i do believe not much, but all of the things that we see these days is the product of qassim suleimani, and he is even more frightening to the americans and israelies these days, even more than before, the kind of a strategy that he started over 20 years ago, some 20 something years ago, still continues, let's remember that back in 2001 the united states invaded. afghanistan later after a couple of years they invaded iraq and they were on both sides of iran 38 so original us bases uh they all incirculed iran threatening iran and it was then qasim sulaymani started his mobilization

paradigm or or formula based on what we had already experienced during the war iraq in posted war on iran uh in the 1980s and then he embraced success everywhere that he went after this paradigm and formula in afghanistan, iraq and all across the region. now after 20 years, where are the americans uh on those days they were incirculing us and we were inside the borders, now our influence and regional uh might and power has admedly expanded to the mediterranean, but where are the americans? they are... they have been fading away in this region now they have threatened even one of the iranian alliesbullah to step back from engaging in the war in uh the israeli war against gaza but they stayed unintimidated and they uh you know uh uh started attacks on uh israel they

also sent their warships to the red sea to threaten the yemeni nation. and yemen's army uh, but so they failed and as you can see yemen continues attacks on on you know israely bound ships and they have stayed on the terror so as you can see these are the products these these groups and allies they they are products of the efforts made by haj qasim saley money the the respectable market and market general and also uh in response to your question uh, yes uh we could still see uh haj qasim sulaymani uh in on the scene pretty well and very much clearly. okay, let's look at what has occurred today in terms of the terrorist incidents uh um muhammad marandi, if you were to take a look

at the three incidents that uh have taken place, sayid razi, musawi uh the irani military advisor in syria and then you have what happened in beirot um in terms of uh senior. leader uh salah aruri and then you have what's happened today in the islamic republic, why do you think this uh occurred? of course, no matter who uh has analyzed this as pointed the finger at israel being behind it. but what do you think in terms of the timing of it uh today and after these two uh targeted assassinations? i'm sorry, we don't have your audio, sorry about that, okay, now we have you, go ahead, the fact that this terror attack today occurred immediately after the terror attack in beirot and the... terror attack in damascus before it makes people think that it was probably the

israelis that carried out this operation either alone or with ally like isis because the israelis and isis cooperated in the dirty war in syria isis was they had bases alongside the golan heights for years their injured militants were treated in israeli hospitals. whenever the syrian army would try to attack isis, israeli air force and artillery would support isis, so there is a strong relationship between the two, they try to bring down the syrian government along with nato regimes and regional allies of nato to break the resistance and create gap between iran and its friends in gaza, the west bank and lebanon. "and they failed, so it is quite possible that the israeli regime

was behind this, and the reason obviously would be that the israelis are angry, they've lost the war in gaza, they've lost the military war in gaza, they've lost the intelligence war in gaza, and they've destroyed their credibility across the world, and they've destroyed the credibility of the collective west by through this genocide, through this holocaust, so..." "this has been a catastrophic defeat for the regime, so they are angry, but on the other hand, netanyahu wants to expand the war, because if the war and he wants to continue the war, because if the war ends, he will be put on trial and he will probably go to jail, so the longer the war, the better it is for netanyahu, the longer the genocide continues, the better it is for netanyahu's allies as well, so he has incentive to..." continue the war and also to spread the war because he's losing and that is how he can he can he hopes that the

americans could be brought into the battlefield, which i think is obviously very detrimental to the interest of the united states, because this is not libya, we're not talking about iraq, a broken iraq under saddam hussein to sanctioned iraq, we're talking about a network of resistance that goes from the red sea. to the mediterranean to uh the hindu kush, it is an enormous uh alliance and the resistance block or the resistance axis, and if there's confrontation obviously with iran, it's not a battle that the americans can win because iran could destroy all the facilities in the persian gulf, those countries, if the americans attack iran, all those countries that have military bases... american military basis would be hostile, would be considered as hostile, so their oil and gas installations

would be fair gain, and in addition to that, the that that would create a global economic meltdown, sure, and that would be enormous loss to the united states, so i don't think that the americans, i have no doubt that the americans don't want the war to be to expand, but netanyahu has vested interest in expanding the conflict. all right, well since you mentioned. the vast area that the resistance groups cover, i i think it's only appropriate that i ask you um about what iran's leader has said you can expand on this further for us how uhmani was instrumental reviving the resistance front in the region in the areas that i guess they just mentioned how did was he able to do that as i said earlier um when americans attacked afghanistan and iraq um, the resistance actually moved to second stage when you know

qasim sulaymani started mobilizing groups and all across the uh region uh especially in and a region when we were uh under threat by the united states actually and uh the other muslim nations were also under threat, they were being... weapon they were invaded by the united states and it was clear that the us wanted to uh you know push uh seven countries all across the region into chaos. in compliance with its greater middle east plan, so this mobilization that was you know modeled on iran's mobilization during the iraqian post war started and it expanded and it could uh you know reak havock on americans everywhere now it's doing the same to the

israelis and americans everywhere and as dr. marandi said they know the dire costs of any kind for hostile action against iran, they realized in washington, but though netanyahu is very much desperate to keep himself in power because he knows the aftermates uh if the war goes on and without expansion uh even if we don't see a cease fire many believe now that in about four five months even if the goza war continues netanhu will be you know brought down. from power and that would be the end of his career, not just that, but also he will be putting put behind bars because of his corruption cases and his failure, you all his greatest sin, not not his sin, but guilt uh and flaw of the israeli army and security apparatus as well as netanyahu's you know guilt and and

shortcoming is that they uh the the the israeli defense doctrine was shattered in the first six hours that hammas went to went on attacking them and they lost all the principles of their military doctrine and they found themselves surprised and shattered so these are all the products mean what hamas did what isbullah is doing what themen's army is doing these are all the products of the model of the move that that that that was started by martin suleimani and his efforts and paradigm. okay um so still trying to figure out the uh reasoning that is given when it comes to the genocidal war itself marandi are we looking at israel uh seeing

this as an existential threat if they don't succeed there in the gaza strip uh or is it because they're losing there that realize it and therefore they are trying to open up the war in different fronts, like i mentioned about the assassination of uh, the seniormas leader and sayid razi musabi and of course now what has happened to the islamic republic? i think there are two layers here, one is sheer anger and emotions. the israelis are very upset, very angry, they're openly talking. about genocide, and they are repeating it day after day, you see mps speaking about genocide, major military commanders speaking about genocide, government ministers, the israeli president spoke of genocide, the prime minister, the defense minister, this is the genocidal intend is usually something that even the

most evil of regimes hide from the internet. community, but in the case of israel, out of sheer despir and anger, they've been saying it day after day, and this is highly detrimental because they're admitting to the world what they're doing, but and they are extremely angry towards the iranians, because the capabilities of hamas in gaza, the tunnels, the what hamas and its allies, the islamic jihad and others have, have have been able to help them defeat. the israeli regime, so there is an emotional component to this in their terror attacks, whether it's against hamas, officials in lebanon or the iranian general in syria, or potentially that if the israelies were indeed behind it, the terror attack in kerman. the second layer is, as you

pointed out israels have lost the war, and this the are... of israeli invincibility is gone, it it took its first blow in 2000 when it retreated from lebanon, then the defeat in 2006 was second blow, but this was decisive blow, especially since ansarullah, the yemen armed forces blocked israeli ports in the south, drew half of its army to the north, and hamas and its allies were hammering the israeli armed forces and and the israeli regime out of sheer anger and racism and rage was constantly massacring ordinary people, so israel has destroyed its credibility across the globe, it's shown itself to be genocidal both in language and words, but in also in action, so the israelis are in a very bad situation, they're in a very painful and

difficult situation, and they need, or at least netanyahu, both for his, okay, selfish interest, as mr khush brightly pointed out, but also they need the americans to come in to save the day, and that is not going to help the israelis and this proves. that the israeli regime, not only is it detrimental to the interest of the west, it's very existence, but also it shows that the israeli regime is willing sacrifice its western allies for its own selfish interest, that's the key question here, then so what do you think, when is that red line going to be crossed? we're looking at three different incidents now, almost back to back, if israel is to continue down this path, are we looking a massive retaliation, what are we looking at? all the res fronts, some iran to be included or not, how do you see this? we're israel to continue down the path that it is. how much time are you going to give me about

that? just keep it short, i'm sorry, we're almost reaching the end of the program. okay, so let let me let me put it in a not show. um, okay, first of all, let me add something to my earlier response that general sulaymani when he did this mobilization program and planning, for the muslim world, for the muslim, the oppressed muslim nations, um, he had, you know, very good principle that he established, he, we in iran, we never look at these allies as proxiposis, that's our difference with others, with the americans and israelies, because they use them as you know, some proxy forces, some terrorists that they hire, but we in iran look at these groups as well. the states like iraq and syria as our allies, the difference comes in this that uh we do not try to feed them with fish, but we teach them to catch fish, this

is a difference, different, because we look at them as allies, equal allies on equal footing. now uh, in response to your questions, definitely i agree with dr. marandi that this is you know somehow uh uh masterminded by israel or conducted by israel and this could have been israel or this could have been some uh terrorist group like uh uh or isis um who have been a master i mean the plot has been masterminded and done by the israelis definitely there is no doubt about that and and i do agree that netanyahu because of his failures and this war, he wants escalate the tensions to the region, he wants to bring in the us, and he wants to bring the nato and, but definitely they will

receive a response. iran is shown on multiple cases, according to the israelis, whenever they have done something wrong like assassinating, the jerusalem post reported that the father of their aerospace program, avihar even was killed at the heart of israel few months. later when they uh conduct a sabotage attack at nathan's two times, their main ballistic missile factory offer went into the air and experienced explosion, when they started attacking uh iranian ships, they said that their own ships more than the number, mean greater number became under attack, so there are different ways that iran will definitely provide a response uh itself and through its allies, definitely this is... to happen, okay, i'm sorry, we just first out of time, i do apologize, i do apologize for that, say political analyst, sorry, uh, we're just fresh out of time, samed marandi, thank

you, university professor and political analyst, both from tehran, with that we come to the end for this edition of the spotlight, from the team, it's goodbye.

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