crisis, devastating wars, terrorism, the israeli lobby, crackdown, diplomacy, iran's retaliatory strikes.

"iran's islamic revolution guards core has announced the launching of strikes on terrorist positions in syria, in response to recent deadly attacks hitting two iranian cities. ballistic missiles also destroyed a headquarters of the israeli mosad in iraq's kurdistan region, and that in response to the israely recent assassination of commanders of the rgc and those of the resistant movements. the foreign ministry has also stress that iran does not hesitate to punish terrorists, and that's exactly what is done. welcome." to the spotlight, i'm your host berrus najafi, let's see who's joining us in this episode. a political commentator is uh going to be with us from tehran. joining us is also elijah magnier, journalists and political analysts out of brussels. welcome to the show, both gentlemen. now beginning with hamid raz, let's uh start with the... significance of

rgc's anti-terrorist operations at this sensitive juncture and also the message that it carries for both these will regime and the united states. thank you very much. the most important point about these recent attacks, the one last night and tonight uh was that he was signaling giving some signals to other players in the region, first of all the distance that one of the uh missile was more of the targets was attacked from about 1200 kilometers was a signal to the zin regime that the missiles can easily reach any points in the occupied lands and targeting these ridings and the second point was that it is very accurate and the accuracy of the targetings was so high that you could see the images and the footages you could be seeing

how accurately was done and how they just targeted the targets that they wanted. the second accuracy actually was about the the people and the terisk that they attacked and killed. it shows that iranian, the irgc and the army have very good information and intelligence about the situation in the whole region, so the those who are the terrorist groups themselves and those who are behind them, supporting them, either in the attack that we had in the bombing that we had in kerman, the other one in rosk in province and other attacks that we have seen in in our of country, these shows that they have very good information about them and they know when and how to respond to them and when necessary they can take good good actions for that, the recent "the last attack, which was tonight,

few hours ago, targeting another part in pakistan, is another signal as well that iran is very serious in attacking." anyone who wants to damage it security uh so targeting in different places, different areas, different distances, different targets is the main main signal for that. anywhere and anybody and anywhere they are to be more exact right? so elijah, iran says that it respects other countries territorial integrity, it respects others sovereignty, it's a principle, but when it comes to national... security, it does not hesitate to create deterrents and to take action. this is tehran's official, your take on that place. thank you for having me. sure. i think there is much more than that in the action that iran carried out today and yesterday against

jasl, against the isis link and against the musad in airb. it shows iran, growing confidence in its military capability and willingness to engage in any regional political development, and above all it is fulfilling a promise that said ali khamenei gave to the people of iran that it is committed to respond to any attack against his national security, which fit with your question, and iran is showing that it is a regional power capable of punishing its enemy in the same manner similar to other regional or global powers that was taking the punishment against his enemy only limited to

the us and its allies, and there are more significant messages that iran sent it the trajectory over several countries where there are... us bases, these missiles went not only fast but very precise, saying also in case of danger or declaration of war by the current president or any future president, as i interpreted, iran is ready to defend itself and knows where to target and can hit all the various us message bases that are close to iran that are within the reach of his capability. so it's a kind of a warning to these forces not to play with iran security and is also saying because we heard from the irgc launching these missiles from different places that is mobile capability missile

capability cannot be detered and cannot be hit because it has such a diversity and the last point that i would like to highlight is the war on gaza, the most significant part of this hit, it comes in a time when there is a war of on gaza, and is saying that i am not afraid to enlarge a conflict if this is what you are going to do by playing with my national security and kill iranian as you have done in kirman, therefore with the presence of the us navy, the british navy, the french and everybody in the red sea and in the middle east, 'iran is launching missile to the same distance to idlib and the same distance iran tel aviv with 1200 kilometers, but saying that the war on gaza, i am not afraid of being engaged if that is something that i need to do a certain. all

right, hamed, tehron considers as its legitimate right to deter threats against this national security, especially when multiple relevant warnings'. and and that happened on different occasions, they all fell on deaf ears, so what else could iran do when its people are hit, its scientists are hit by terrorist attacks? according to international law, iran has the right to respond to such attacks, so iran is not just targeting out of nowhere, it is the respond to something, it is retaliation, and this retaliatory measure is something allowed by the international law, because it is for the security, national security of the country, so it is because of that, and there is no illegitimate point about that, and if iran is is actually very serious is that, because he wants to deter further attacks, if iran is not serious in in responding to such attacks,

there would be further once, because there are a lot of enemies out there and they want to actually weaken iran by any means, so it needs to do that, and it is responsible actually to defend itself and as a regional power, iran is responsible to defend the security and stability of the region as well, so it's not just about iron or unian people, it is responsible. cibility of the islamic republic to protect the stability, the security and everything in this region, because this region needs that, and the economy, oil prices, i don't sil security, everything is depending on the security of the region and the lives of people, the economy of the region, everything, you can say economy of the world actually we can say depend on the security, and iran is actually working for the whole world. just about his people, which is its own responsibility, but it is also about the whole region and the the

whole world in in one way or the other. now elijah, the part of the rgc operation uh was actually a response to the isis or daesh terrorist attacks. so let's uh uh have a flashback and explore the scurge of terrorism in this part of the world, it's root causes, those who are harboring terrorism and using it as a lover to advance. their political agenda, then they accuse others of destabilizing the region? well, it's obvious that the americans are using the terrorist groups depending on their use circumstances and country. so the we have seen how the daesh in syria were transported to other places like in afghanistan by the americans who did not keep... everybody in jail, but they can use them eventually in other wars.

we've seen how, for example, at the time of barack obama as a president, general mike flyn informed him of the growing influence of daesh, and the president decided, according to general flynn, who was the head of the intelligence agencies decided not to do anything, so it is convenient for the americans to... keep the country busy with their national security and feel insecure and feel the need to respond to the us hegimony and control to be able to feel more stable in the country. this is something that iran went through since 1980, just one year after the revolution with the beginning of the sanctions on iran and the beginning of iran, iraq war, and we have seen throughout the years. "the riots, the manifestations supported by the west to destabilize iran,

and all these did not succeed, it doesn't mean it's going to end, on the contrary, the the more iran is showing his formidable force willing to conduct sophisticated military operation, the more it is positioned as key regional power, the more threat is going to be faced with, because the us is not..." is not uh ready to give up its dominance and agemony. the irgc's uh syria attack at daesh, you know foreign forces training center. daish khurasan to be more exact, the arabial attack in a kurdistan region hit a mosat center. you were collecting intelligence and they used it for instance specific instance to kill iranian scientists like dr. fakh another. attack, this the one that happened just an hour or so ago, hit asal at position in pakistan, almost 1500 kilometers away, so

does this not indicate that iran has been able to use its intelligence and accurate intelligence at the same time, enjoying cutting its technology to punish the criminals and threats coming its way, of course it does, the point is that iran uh is showing restraint. in its attacks, it would be very easily possible for iran to target the gime, for example, the israel is very easily, but or the the american targets, there are a lot of american targets actually in the region, the the the vessels, the airbases, the bases, everything that the americans have are very easy targets for such pinpointing missiles that iran has developed so far, but the point is that iran is showing restraint because it wants to show that that it is not the one who begins the war and it is not being played into a war uh with the

israelis or with americans iran is pursuing security and stability as it was mentioned and it's just uh warning the the the l regime and the others that if it's it is going to be continued if the situation would move toward tension it is ready to defend itself and it is ready to target anyone anywhere as it is necessary for its security, so if you remember four years ago when after the party of general money iran attacked. uh anlassad airbase in iraq and it was the american airbase and it was a signal that iran is ready to react uh and after that we saw that americans did not respond to anything and because they they realized and they did receive the message that if there is any federal attacks there would be a full pledge war which can actually engage all the region

and maybe the whole world actually and that was a signal at that time and we saw that how it stopped that, now it is again the same situation, if it there is going to be any any attacks or there is going to be any terror terroristic let's say missions or attacks against iran or its people or its facilities, there would be some response to that, and that response is very accurate, it is showing that we have enough good database of the targets which are very... the key points for the for example americans or for the israelis or for the others and terrorist groups that they are supporting and if we want is just very short notice decision to make to target those targets to to target them and destroy whatever which is necessary for the security

so yes it is possible and has the accuracy of and the capability of defending itself and the whole region and it is showing that how good it is doing that, so we have seen how iranian misan is working, we are seeing how the drones are working accurately, the what we can see is that in the past, let's just remember the the syrian war and how iran get involved in syria against the terrorist group of isis in iraq and syria on how iran could help them on the ground to uh actually this... destroy a terrorist group and its rural d and now we are seeing how iran is actually showing strengths in air, so it was in the on the land in the past iran has shown good strength in the sea with its vessels and the situation that it has in its navy, and

now we are seeing how practical and let's say strong its air defense and air capability. is, so iran now is showing all its power in land, air and sea. all right, alegia, let's take a look at the us performance in this as it uh is related to terrorism. washington actually backed isis and al-qaed at the same time, and they publicly announced this, uh, you remember that, i'm sure, and then it started, you know, uh, a later time uh, helping loot syrian oil. syrian oil was being just removed out of its borders. under protection of us forces and then uh they talked about uh you know dividing the terrorists into good terrorists and bad terrorists and all the jazzs and there's a history of you know a whole range of activities by washington in line with thor intendem with terrorist operations so you see that washington tel aviv they pretend to fight you know terrorists and terrorist

groups but in practice to take advantage of them for their own sinister's goals and objectives don't they? well we have seen during the war in syria for example how moshe yalon the former defense minister said that he prefers to have isis on his borders than iran and its allies, and we have seen how hillary clinton, the former secretary of state saying that the kaida we are fighting are the same people we have funded, and then jack. even the national security advisor saying al-qaeda is on our side, so there is a long history between the the relationship between the terrorist groups, the real terrorist groups, because there is a definition of terrorism that is exclusive to the americans against those who refuse to

submit to the american will, and the american activity in the middle east, "this is something that the whole world is aware of, is nothing new really, and we have seen how the problem of the americans was not the use these terrorist group, but the failure of these terrorist groups to achieve the objectives. one of the objective was to occupy iraq, to occupy syria, and then as general westley clark said, we the americans were about to occupy seven countries. in five years, using the pretext of combatting terrorism, so under this title, the americans can't see the terrorism of a state that israel is... is exerting over the palestinians in gaza and the crime, the crime against humanity and the intent of genocide, but anyone who stands against the americans

is considered as a terrorist as long as it is not fulfilling the americans objective, for that it's is not going to stop, because the americans will continue defending their position, will not stand down and will continue thinking that it can st still imposes control over the middle east and the rest of the world, but there is a reaction that started with 1980, the sanctions on iran, and after more than 43 years, 44 years of sanctions, iran stood high against these sanctions, other countries are following, russia, china, the brit, shanghai corporation, are forming a unity to stand against this germany and get rid of the bullying and terrorism that the americans are exerting over other countries. all right, now hameid ra, iran is adamant, it has announced it that iran wants to keep fighting

terrorism, and it's announced it's prepared to cooperate at the regional and international level to that end, like it did in iraq and syria, you remember in the course of which it lost its anti-terror icon, general sulaimani, so let's talk about such efforts and what it takes to tackle the issue of terrorism once and for all, in this part of world where we have us and israely uh intervention interferences and destabilizing moves? it's enough to look at the let's let's say the last decade and the wars that we had uh in the region uh what you can see is that iran is supporting the countries in the region uh believing that if the countries themselves work for the security the security would be in place unlike. iran, americans want the countries for the sake of the american interests, iran wants the countries for the sake of their own interests, so iran is helping iraq for security of iraq and for

the sake of the people of iraq, iran is helping syria for the sake of people of syria and for the sake of security of syria. iran is believe it believes that actually if this each country is working for itself and is working independently without uh players for outside. there outside players like americans, then the security, the real security would occur and the true stability and security actually happens and there would be no war and no insecurity, because the countries are the most important players in our region, it's just enough to give them their own power, it's just enough to have them capable to increase their capability and empower them to defend themselves, so iron is talking is a... swiing such agenda, such agenda to help them to defend themselves and it is how it is working with different countries, so it is working with syria with

the help of the syrian government, with iraq, and even we can see that it could be analytically discussed that, we had mr. kazemi just recently in pakistan, it seems that even the today attack was something that was discussed with the pakistani government, i'm sorry for jumping get. my guest in tehran, elijah magner in brussels and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight up in your host b see you next time.

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