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for 45 years after every internal event or presidential election, the west, its allies and agents in the region and beyond have bet on the future of the iranian islamic revolution, which has so far fied all internal and external calculations. this revolution has proven itself once again after the election of reformer as president, demonstrating its ideological and political maturity despite all the dates it has faced over the years. message sent by president elect to hisb secretary general addressing him first even before taking office aimed to show the entire world that the revolution remains steadfast and any hats against its principles are bound to fail now and always. president's second message to the head of hamas reaffirmed the unwavering sense of the
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iranian revolution in supporting the central cause for all arabs and muslims, which is of palestine. the focus between syrian president bashar al-assad, russian president putin and chinese president shin ping with president elect bezayan came to confirm the continuation of tehran's strategic approach in its relations with its allies. without them, iran would have been in a tougher situation, and without iran they would have also been in a difficult position. especially in at this stage, facing complex and serious regional and international challenges due to the situation in ukraine, the imperialist colonial zianist conspiracy against the palestinian people with their divine patience. as for western diplomatic circles, they expect even wish for president pesishion to open channels of dialogue with washington and western capitals as during the election campaign, aiming to return to the nuclear agreement. they suggest that washington will require pesishgan to show some luk in iran's
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relations with both beijing and moscow, forgetting that it was president trump who withdrew from the nuclear agreement, not tehran. it was tehran that faced hostility from washington because it resisted and forted the imperialist west's plans during the so-called arab spring years. if those plans had succeeded, iran would have also found itself in undesirable situation due to the conspiracies of the imperialist west and its allies in the region. regardless of the speculation about iran's future policies under its president, one thing remains. evident, imperialist, colonial and zist agendas persist in manipulating arab and islamic public opinion. these forces continue to sideline critical issues that have long been the primary source of suffering for the region's peoples. meanwhile, iran will continue to support the peoples of the region to attain full liberation from the fangs of imperialism and zionist colonialism. welcome to the mid stream, i'm osman.
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"the st and government in iran have proven that they operate within an institutional framework. what the regime strives for is a strong state with influence beyond its borders and the ability to adapt for its interests, but will president bring about radical changes? to discuss this issue with us from tehran is mr. sadiqi, political commentator and co-host of my told tales podcast. thank you very much for being us. now regional conflict and political upheaval, iran's political system has demonstrated stability by actually electing president pesishian, but the main question asked everywhere, especially on hostile western mainstream media is, are there any radical changes with iranian president pesishian taking power? thanks for having me, as you in mentioned, iran has been very stable in the stability during even "the the things that
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happened after the passing away of our president, our foreign minister and other officials, shows that iran has a strong political system that does not, you know, that that is not affected easily by the events in the not only in the region but also in the country. um, i think for any country that has a strongly established system does not with. this radical changes when the heads of the governments changed, because there is a framework, there is basis, a foundation, a strong foundation that the executive powers as well as the other branches of the power work within that frame and based on that foundation, so while certain things are going to be very different with regard to both foreign policy and domestic policy, we're not going to see radical changes because iran is... stable country with very well
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established political system and you know we had the snap election, we lost our president, our form minister, this was chaos enough for many countries to go... group for iran, we had very peaceful transition of power and which is still going on, and we had we held our elections for two of the rounds and the country elected their new president. well, mr. satari, we did see that mr. president reaffirming the strong stance of the islamic republic iran beside regional resistance factions, namely hizulah and hamas, really is the very big concern for the west right here, the... want to support both hamas and their fight against zionist israel and they want to stick to that uh support. did the iranian public ever doubt uh during this transitional period that this will be the case uh with the soon adopted uh forem policy that they will shift maybe or that they knew that their
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government will just stick to its foreign policy? well the majority of the people know uh that this is one of the main principles of iran's foreign policy the iran support for resistance. will never be weavered, it's going to continue no matter who becomes the president, because all these presidents believe on those principles that the country upholds, so i think the majority of people knew and were no doubts about it, but their concerns may be about how the new president is going to establish alliances and relations with other countries in the region that would a way affect. iran's support for the resistant groups, but whether or not, iran would continue to support the resistant groups was never a question, and that's that's a given fact that we all know about iran's foreign policy. i think the main was that president is a reformist, and we did see
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many uh, he's the third reformist president if i'm not mistaken, and we did see reformers presidents before him who continued to support, nonetheless even the support was greater at some point. militarily i speak, because it was during the years of the global uh war in syria, so that particular case is their public support for it or some people would like to see less of that support? this is what the majority of the people want, because it's not only that we're offering support for another country of which is our friend, it's also a part of iran's national security, israel is not a threat only to those resistant groups and the countries of the region, but also a big threat. to iran's national security and i mean it tries to be at least and we see that as a form of repelling the threats by israel, i mean israel has been trying to create chaos and attack and assassinate and there's a a long
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list and record of hostility towards iran and iran's alliance with the original countries and and support for resistance is just part of that that uh we the people want. to stay and that's a part of our national security that people want to see continued, well with mr. masayan's presidency, what do you think are the prospects and challenges of uh for the uh public of iran in potential may be trying to return to the jcpoa nuclear agreement, i mean how might this administration approach negotiations with the international community in the event trump again is to come a president and he's the one who actually withdrew from the jcpaa, jcpo to begin with, if he's back in the white house, what kind of strategy this president pesishian has to approach this negotiation? well, when mr. pesishian was the member of parliament, in a speech he at the parliament,
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he mentioned that we cannot expect the us to return, and we cannot trust the us because it has one's related and breached its commitments to the deal, but during the campaigns and that's what iran has been doing, he mentioned that we need to find a way and work towards removing the sanctions in order to bring some economic ease to the country, because as that's the answer to question with regards to what are the main challenges, one of the main challenges of the republic right now and the new president is solving the economic issues and problems that the country is going through and as of working towards that, mr.kian suggested that he's going to work towards removing getting the deal and returning to to the jcpu and removing the sanctions, however we need to know that right now and for the past months is there is negotiating team by late
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president that has been working on confidential negotiations through oman to see how or possible for the us to return to the deal and they're working with the other european and with china and russia, the now uh formally five plus one, but now four plus one group are working to see what are the what is the mechanism, what are the procedures to revive the jcpa, but to be honest it looks like the us has no intention and is dragging its feet, so this is going to be a main challenge, reviving the jcpa without the us, and making sure that the european partners will actually uh stay or abide by their commitment because also failed, i mean the us withdrew, but the european partners of the deal also fails to abide eher commitments, so this is going to be a main challenge on the foreign policy, especially that has been promised to people
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that he is going to work towards that and that's going to bring about some major changes in the economic situation of the country. in one minute, if that doesn't work, what other plan does mr. position have? well, i think by now, because we have the experience of trying to reach deal in the first place, and then seeing trump withdrawing. from the us withdrawing from the deal, now the president elect has a more, he's relying more on domestic capabilities and on forming alliances with other countries, that's also what he has mentioned that he's not going to focus on only forming alliances or reaching a deal with the west, he's going to work with eastern part partners and partners from the global south to see how it could help with developing. iran's economy and bringing about more economic ease, well,
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political commentator and co-host of twice told tales podcast, thanks emilion for being with us to explain how things are going after the election of the new president, mr. peseshkin, it is stay tuned because next we will be talking about the shattered zianist economy. 46 thousand israeli businesses have been forced to shot as a result of the ongoing war and it's devastating effect on the economy. hebrew newspaper mariv reported on 10th of july referring to zinesisual as a country in collaps. more details in the following report. since the genocidal war in gaza. began, thousands of businesses have shut down in zionist israel, intensifying the economic crisis in the occupation entity. zianist
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israeli cofas bdi, a company specializing in business information and credit risk management, reports that since october 7, 46, israely entity businesses have closed their doors. yoel amir, ceo of cofas bdi explained to mariv, a siness daily newspaper that this high number spans many sectors. about 77% of these closures roughly. 5,000 businesses are small enterprises with up to five employees. according to cofast bdi's risk rating, widely used by companies in the israeli entity economy, including the banking system and international credit insurance companies, the construction industry and its ecosystem, ceramics, aircing, aluminum and building materials are the most vulnerable. the report estimates that by the end of 2024, around 60,000 businesses in zinus israel may close. the create sector incompassing fashion, food. where furniture, housewares and services like cafes, entertainment, leisure and transportation has been hit hard.
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traditionally, the tourism industry is suffering from almost no foreign visitors, worsened by decline national rile and tourist areas now resembling combat zones. the agriculture sector predominantly located in confetation areas in the south and north also faces manpower shortages. the economic damage is extensive. when companies shut down and fail to meet their financial obligations, the effects riple out to impact. customers, suppliers and others within their ecosystem. since the beginning of 2024, the israel's budget has recorded cumulative deficit of 26 billion shakels, equivalent to about $7 billion dollars. according to marie, the monthly budget deficit in march alone reached 15 billion checkles or about 4 billion us dollars equating to 6.2% of the gdp. moreover, the war has pushed sinus israel's debt to record level since october 2023, reaching 43 billion us dollars by april 2020. figure that has doubled according to the ministry of finance of the entity, according
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to the data released by the bank of israel in late april 224, zinist israel's war on the gaza strip has cost the occupation at least 67 billion dollars so far. discuss this issue with us from beirot is dr. hassan yunis, he is an expert in economy, specialized in international business management, educational administration and education leadership, thanks emillion for being with us. dr. yunis, now how does the closure of four? businesses since the beginning of the war impact the long-term economic stability of israel, yep, thanks lot for hosting me dr. actually we talk about the genocide israeli war on gaz. "we can't only take the aspect of what's happening in the battlefield or the military aspect, there is a over of narratives and the resistance movements are having the upper hand in the war of narratives, the israeli movements are having the upper hand in the military field, and apparently the resistance movements are having the upper hand from economic perspective, so uh what's happening in israel
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is definitely economic collapse, we have witnessed slow growth in the economy. in the not only uh there are 46 businesses uh closing, the number is expected to to grow to reach 60,00 businesses by the end of the year. this has a great impact on all the economic indications in the country, talking about inflation, recession, talking about the ability of the israel regime to attract capital, we are witnessing capital flight because the appetite of international donors. is decreasing, the credit worthiness of israel or the israeli entity is is diminishing to to a record level, so the ranking of the israeli economy has an impact its credit worthiness, and 46 businesses which are closing uh are mostly are from different sectors from all the sectors that you can imagine, and mostly they are small
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and medium enterprises and these smes or small and medium enterprises uh they are the backbone. of any economy, so entrepreneurs are not investing in in israel, and the big donors are not sending enough capital to israel, and if they are sending these gifts or donations, these gifts or donations are not invested in the right sectors, they are invested in in immediate relief and not in infrastructural projects which are highly needed in israel, and they are only for expenditure purposes and not for re. testing purposes, these indicators are very negative an economy, they are the indicators of developing countries rather than developed countries, and israel always claims to be developed country, so we're talking about business closures, we are talking about diversion of governmental spending, we are talking about decrease in the foreign investment, the hesitancy of the of of the
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developed countries to invest in in israel, definitely are hesitant because because of this usually we talk about any organization and i perceive a country or an entity as an organization, we usually talk about the good will. israel is witnessing an unprecedented ill will, this ill will is due to the bad reputation, in addition to the military aspect, the bad reputation due to the war of narratives decreases the appetite of investment and decreases the propensity of the major countries to invest or send money to something quite interesting is that the substantial more expenditure has significantly increased siness israel's debt reaching record levels with a 67 billion us dollar war expenditure so far, how do you think that that will be translated on signed israel's internal fiscal health and probably also international credit sanding? yeah, so uh the the impact of this number, the 67 billion dollars is not only the 67 billion
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dollars which is huge and which is unprecedented, the problem is in the credit ranking or credit rating, israel face difficulties in getting credits or getting gifts or getting donations in the in the future and even if they want to borrow money, the propensity of the international organizations to land israel money will decrease substantially due to this problem in credit rating and these economic problems uh addition to the military problems they are facing have an impact uh on on different levels for instance uh around the the number of expected tourists to israel was supposed to be 1 million and they've received only 200 thousand tourists uh so a substantial decrease in 8% and usually such countries rely on the expenditures of tourists to to to to give injection to the to the economy these
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in the contrary these numbers uh we're not witnessing them in lebanon the number of tourists in lebanon and number of the lebanese, the diaspora, coming back to leban substantial, it's increasing than the years off, it's increasing substantially, so when i when when i want to compare figures from the different aspects, military, economically, tourists wise, narratives wise, the the the upper hand is is always being to the resistance movements as as you can see, well dr. trade and tourism, as you were mentioned are essential for. exchange for international relations, but could there a downturn, these two sectors, the downturn of these sectors diminish sinus israel's economic influence and maybe attractiveness as a destination for business. for tourism or is it just just temporary setback and maybe after the war it will pick up again? to to pick up again you you need to invest in the infrastructure
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damage the damage is is is big marwa the the supply chains and and okay when we talk about economy we can't talk about only one one sector different sectors are impacted the supply chain the chain which linked the distributors to the retailers to the wholesalers. to manufacturers, it's it's being impacted in many cases it's being destroyed, the recovery is not easy, it's it's it's on the long term and it requires investments from the international community or from the developed countries and the credit ranking, the dimension the credit ranking would make this more difficult definitely and the as i mentioned the ill will of the reputation, the bad reputation, the reputational damage of... israel has decreased the appetite, the boting movements which we've done also will decrease appetite the national brands of the major franchisers to give franchising agreements to to to
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israel, so all these factors accompanied with the with the decrease in tourism, with the lack of the injection of these foreign uh foreign funds and foreign currencies in in israel uh will also decrease the chances of recovery or at at least slow it, slow it down at an unprecedented figures, well we think that this might be one of the consequences of starting a genocide, but that just me saying i want to thank you very much dr. hassan, expert in academic specialized in international business management, education administration and education leadership, it's always a pleasure seeing you and talking to you, hopefully we talk when liberation happens and we start talking about how the economy of palestine will up inshallah, thanks emilia for being with us thank you for watching, please do stay tuned on press tv's the media stream next week for more updates to follow us on telegram and on x and for the
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calamity that befell on the family of the prophet for them of imam hussein in karbala. global elections, what impact will they make on gaza? presidential elections in iran and in the united states, parliamentary elections in france and in the united kingdom, will they recognize the state or palestine? and what difference will it make if they do? watch, have it with gallion. today's show
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we'll be discussing the increasingly desperate measures being taken by the designist entity via its assets to counter the growing support for the palestinian cause around the world. new zionist troll form that was established last year is one such example interested to hear her. talked about stopsynosty and the the massive contrast and distinction there is between its activities and the work of shirin collective, which of course is actually in you, not only offering money on on people's heads effectively, but also actually encouraging violence. once you know my identity exposed, that you know niceness was not reciprocated in any way by these accounts, mean these accounts like the sherian collective were completely ruthless, they made up things, they said i was wanted by the fbi which i obviously wasn't, they said uh... they put bounty on my head, i've received, countless death threats.
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the us security genocidal warang gaza is in its 284th day, the death dolls nearring 38,700. also in the atline is ready forces conduct fresh violent rates across the west.
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