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hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashemi, thanks so much for being with us. all 19 individuals of iran's president masoseshan's proposed cabinet was approved by the magics of parliament on wednesday, though of the majority of parliament members are princilist and the government is more reformist, all of the proposed ministers enough votes to be part of the 14th government. now the president has stressed the importance of national reconciliation and there is optimism that uh everyone will try

to work together to improve the country, this a very challenging time in the region and in the world. i'd like to welcome my guests to this program as we take a look at the 14th government of the islamic republic of iran. well, now maria and we have mariam aza chair press tv is iran desk here in tehran and sayid. shah, executive director, center for islamic law and human rights out of karachi. i'm going to start this off with mariam. mariam, your perspective, how significant is it that all 19 proposed cabinet members of the president were approved by the madulis, our parliament. well, thank you, marzy. now, if i'm not mistaken, this is but the second time that this has happened in some 46 years, so it's very significant. i mean, for all the... ministers to receive the vote of

confidence, and you have to, i mean pay attention to the fact that we have uh, our president, president, he is from the reformist party and the... representatives, the parliament is predominantly actually principlist and they have approved all of these candidates, now 15 out of the 19 um candidates for the for uh for the ministries actually received uh more than 200 votes, that is, you see the minimum for becoming a minister is 145 votes, but they have received 200 votes, like 15 have received 200 and over votes, so this actually very significant this way. okay, well, sad muaz, you know, iran has seen a lot of ups and downs, um, uh, especially looking at the the last three months, if we see like on may the 19th, of course, when the nation was shocked into

finding out that uh, president raisi was murdered in a helicopter crash, and of course, besides the funerals, for those who had been killed, the country had 50 days to hold elections and then had hold two elections and of course then the inauguration of dr. posestion, i mean your overall assessment of how the country has handled the sudden transition overall until today that the cabinet was approved. you know, thank you for having me, i think this is a really reflective moment of iran's solidarity and spirit of resistance, spirit of unity in times of difficult. ty and that's the spirit the iranian revolution that we're seeing and pulled before us, the iranian people coming together in difficult time, as you mentioned the the loss of their leader few months back and of course the recent attacks in tehran and what's going on in ghazza, all that

interconnected and facing this challenge of the united states and european union's support for israel, you know, and of course we know some of the eu countries have been... breaking ranks and and things are slowly eroding, but this shows the resilience of the iranian people coming together in in a tough time, and and it's not about those petty politics that we're seeing for example in israel unfolding right now, we see a country on the other side here coming together, people from all parts of the spectrum, as my colleague mentioned, this is a reformist party and getting this type of consent. of more than 200 parliamentarians is something unheard of, hasn't happened since 2001, i think that was the the last time something has happened like this, all the ministers have been approved, and this clearly shows the direction where this country, it is ready to take on challenges and there will be some

coming through the door, as we know what's going on with gazza and what's going on in southern lebanon, and also within the iran itself, particularly coming from the west, and perhaps we'll talk a little bit more about that later, yes, exactly. but we definitely will. um, well, let's get into some of uh the challenges, uh, mariam, when we we talk about the various challenges that this government may have. let's start from inside the country, because uh, uh, let's talk about what president possession um, has reiterated um, what is important to him and the main goals of this government? well, as you know, i mean, the challenge is stated by uh, presidential candidates in general, when they were uh running for presidency uh by dr. pesishian, by iran's leader of the islamic revolution imam khamenei is how important economy is, because i mean iran is very strong country in in many ways, you know its role in the access of resistance, you know that i mean despite all the threats that has

been on iran ever since the victory of the islamic revolution, iran has grown to be major power not only in the region but in the world, however there are certain issues, now as you know there are so many different things that that are going. on in terms of basically teachings in terms of family, in terms of housing, all of these issues that is happening to the uh basically ordinary people, and lot of governments are not very much focused on that, and they put it on, i mean, they they allow for so so much of a free market that there are not, there are rarely any government programs a lot of times, or they're very insufficient that in in terms of helping people with housing, now in iran for instance, it used to be, that there was a there was a very good focus on uh basically iranians being home owners right and now as there are more economic difficulties there has been a shift away from that and we are having fewer people um being home owners so these are actually some of the

major challenges inside the country is that the economy now it has to do with the job market it has to do with housing um it has to do with lot of different issues that we're facing uh partially because because of the sanctions of course two third of the world is sanctioned by the us, however, i don't think any country has been sanctioned to the same extent that iran has been sanctioned, and iran has been dealing with this for 46 years, but as the president said actually, he said that, you know what, i mean, with all these, of course, sanctions are huge burden, but the president himself said that we cannot blame the us for everything, because really iran is rich country, iran has very rich culture, iran has very rich history, iran could have done much better even with the sanctions, and as um the president said in one of his speeches that we very much have ourselves to blame and that basically what he's believes and what a lot of iranians believe actually is that we cannot have a system where we

have, mean not like the us where like there's always you know the are the the main two parties that every party is trying to basically um downgrade the other party and they're not they're not cooperating and of course they have the deep state and that's a whole other story but what the president has been talking about is that we can actually solve the issues inside the country regardless of what the us might might do if we all only have unity if we have national consensus, and he's very right in that, i think a lot of iranians heard that and they felt that and they they said that this is what we have to do, and i think that i mean that this this powerful speech was also part the reason that buse as as i told you we already had that we had um the predominantly principalist uh parliament voting in every single minister suggested by a reformist president, of course he's everyone. president now, but let's remember he is from the reformist party, so they have put these differences aside, they're saying, let's work

together, yeah, very significant, what about that said was uh, what uh, mari has said, i mean when we look at, because we've always heard, especially if you look at very ententies outside of the country and talking about the divide, but what the president has continued to stress um, since he's taken office and even prior to that, was the importance of unity working together and what we saw today um actually uh seems to indicate that the parliament, the uh majlis is also on board with that. the question for you said moas how significant and important is that right now when we look at the situation that is taking place in the region and globally. you mentioned earlier about of course palestine and the genocide and of course the pressures from the various supporters. the zionist entity, i mean, your take on that side of things. well, i, i think that's a

that's a very important point, because in his speech he made it very clear where the foreign policy was going to be focused, and he basically went down and said basically far east asia, china, africa, latin america, pretty much the whole world, aside from europe and the united states and northern america, and i think that was very kind of interesting um... kind of pivot that was very important because he was bold about this is where our priority regions, these are the regions where we will be kind of building relationships with again goes into that global shift that's been going on for quite a bit that where we have this china, russia challenges this us hajamanonic 50 years of would you can say even post cold war scenario where it's just been one-sided and i think that dynamic is is is is definitely going to be in that direction, so foreign policy wise, i don't see any major changes. i must give

caviot for this, because one of the selections of the ministers that was somewhat criticized was abbas arachi, and he was one the negotiators for the iran, iranian deal, and there was some questions around that, but i still feel that, if you remember, donald trump was the one in 2020 that unilatery pulled out of that, so i think this also sends a message internationally, because we know... "the the the us is is kind of even at times abandoning israel, and we know lot of european states have broken ranks and so this is actually kind of an interesting play here that iran is basically saying, look, those who want to talk on principle, we're opening the doors for you on that. one of the major things i must also make a mention here of another minister that is very important is farzana sadik, and the reason why is you know recently there was a lot of criticism about iran and the treatment of women, it's in this mantra of the west, and we already know..." "that's the kind of propaganda that they put out to try to build some anti- iranian sentiment in their circles. uh, that was

actually quite uh important as well, because it's showing again that these rumors and this idea that women are secondary citizens and the islamic republic iran is far from the truth uh, so i think that was also very important move. i think iran is positioning itself very strategically on the international fronts when it comes to diplomatic means and i think some of the people that are..." that are brought forth create that atmosphere where those who want to break rank from this ridiculous behavior that israel has turned to bombing schools, hospitals, just horrendous things, there's nothing they could stand for, so if iran is showing a window opportunity to engage, i think this is going to behind united states and israel, and i think this is the real win, and we have to wait to see how this will play out, but i think this is this is as important as the military front of course, and that of course the revolutionary support, he

reiterated these elements of the resistance, but i think also you know this there's some things that can be won from the pen, and i think we're going to start. see some of that in this new new cabinet that he's put together. okay, well - mariam, sayid muaz talked about um, the mantra uh coming out of the west, and i mean looking at the the whole the run up to this election and that if we look at foreign media and how they talked about it, that um, either it doesn't make a difference who will be um elected because actually more of a selection, it's the leader who decides everything. i mean, your thoughts and even up until today of how that coverage has been? well now you know better than i do, i mean there there's of course we have to cover it for the audiences and i think the audience already knows, i mean first of all look at who is talking about this, i mean i was just reading bbc articles accusing iran of you know just focusing on basically just

you just just it's all about the ideology, it's not about basically expertise and i'm like you guys have a king for. goodness like it's the 21st century, mean he get to he gets to pick the prime minister, lot of your taxes go to paying him the royal family, the house of lord, so it's all, mean, you know, so one one aspect of it is to first of all take a look at who's doing this, mean only three days ago was the anniversary of the kudhata in iran, now this is this is prior to the islamic revolution, now when iran had a prime minister that was trying to nationalize iran's oil, what did the brits and the us? did, what they did was they started a coup and they overthrew iran's democratically elected prime minister, so it's really, it's really not about democracy, i mean if they had access now to iran's oil, if i mean like if if they had managed to uh basically keep plundering iran's oil, you would not be hearing anything about the from them

regarding iran's democracy, i mean now you see how they're treating libya right, so after khadafi and of course... was all about democracy, it was all about treating women, how they treat women, and so so first of all let's take a look at who's saying that, that's very important, and i feel like generally it's not only about what is said, but who is saying that, that's very important for our audiences, i think, and i think they have very much understood, especially with the genocide, with the ongoing genocide, they see the people, the they see the the entities, they see the regimes alway that are always talking about democracy are now supporting agen side that people are seeing like basically every day a daily basis and like why isn't anybody doing anything about this, why isn't the um basically uh international institutions doing anything about this because they were not made to do anything about this because so mean we have this on one hand and when actually when when you come back i actually want to get a little more into detail with actually how iron

systems work right well - uh said was you heard what mari said about uh watching who says what and who's doing what? when we look at the time of what is happening right now in the world and as she said, especially during this ongoing genocide, more and more people are becoming aware of the reality. on the other side of the coin, do you think more and more people are becoming aware of iran, iran's world uh, iran's role as for as being the leader um of the resistance front and the importance of it, i mean do you see this? assessment uh being changed globally as more reality is setting in for people or not? oh absolutely, and i think this is not just true for the islamic world, this is true for even beyond the islamic world and non-muslim jurisdictions who clearly see iran as a true champion of peace and human rights and the

palestinian people, and i'm not saying that just to be saying that, the reality is what is israel has done is not only childish behavior, it's completely behavior that violates every norm, international law, basic ethics and iran is the only state, officially speaking aside from of course groups and i should say even in yemen to some extent, who have been standing with the palestinian people and doing something about it, and this is i think very important because it symbolizes that this is the actors, these these countries are the actors. actually doing something for the palestinians and there is no doubt in my mind that if we pick up anybody, nine out of 10 people across the world are supporting the palestinian people, are sympathetic to the palestinian people. and they see iran in this positive light and all those little critiques that i mentioned about earlier, like for example uh what my colleague also mentioned here uh is the how

the anti-women perspective, they're addressing these things to possibly the minister, you have people who saying oh they don't want to negotiate, then they're bringing in these uh reformists that have in a sense they're more welcoming you can say because people say oh the others were a little bit more hard line um this is creating a more diplomatic environment then i think this cannot be better moment right now for iran to make this move and and have these people in these positions because even those people who are on the sidelines with iran and they had sympathy with the palestinians now are like listen these guys um this current cabinet is someone that we can really approach and i feel that iran is like i said earlier you know it's one thing to get things done militarily it's another to get things done diplomatically and i think we're going to see lot more of that happening with this new cabinet. diplomatic front to end uh what's going on with in in israel and beyond that the the injusticces that of course the hejamonic front as you always say carries on and i think iran has identified before the

world's eyes before the people of the world that they are the nation that stands up against this aggression okay well mariam i mean your thoughts when we look at the situation we're talking about in the world and uh and also looking at what uh uh these the hegemonic front has saying about iran even with this election, and now that mr. pesesian has taken over, trying to say that there is a difference, iran is going to be somewhat different in how they deal, for example with the palestinian situation or in general, i mean your assessment of that, well this is very old technique that they've always been doing that, they have always labeled certain people with a different culture as the other, right, so we have the reforms, we have the principlist and they generally called the principlist hardliners or ultra conservatives. you now just crazies basically, so this is how they have always portrayed, mean and we have these different parties, of course here's something to have in mind, iran has very different culture,

iran is a muslim majority country, iran is a shia majority country, you know even in iran even, i mean people come and they're amazed by i mean the the variety of of people and their opinions, but so so in all their different walks of life, iranians are anti anti- imperialism right, so but what the imperialist have been trying to do, they've been trying to say that, oh, in the beginning they say, oh, the reformist candidate is not going to win presidency, then he does, because i mean, and as you know, most of our governments have been reformist governments, then they say they're not going to let him pick his ministers, then he does, then they say the principles are not going to vote in the ministers, and then he does, and then they're like, well, they were all picked by the leader anyways, well, you know what, our leader is running the access of... resistance and the american president cannot run up two stairs, so obviously people have respect for our leader as you know, as others don't have for there, so okay, we'll say it was, i mean,

looking at of course this very sensitive time, and of course iran has said that it's going to respond to the ismail hany assassination that took place inside of this country, i mean, do you see that as a challenge, do you think that this government would handle it different, or do you see this as a continue? ation the same line even if president was in power or now that mr. pasesian is in power, that that the line of actually resistance and standing up against hegemonic powers is still the criteria. let there be no doubt that is the same stance and principle that will remain, because the islamic republic of iran is here to stay, and i think that's the point that people need to realize and... my colleague was mentioning is exactly those things is they don't realize that in principle iran, the islamic revolution of iran is here to stay. now if you want to come to the table and negotiate

and talk and give principled ethics in that discussion, more than welcome, and you know what, there might be a different strategy, as i said, maybe not so much as a military one, as as a diplomatic one, but not to say that they're going to not exercise the military options, of course they will, but the... also use diplomatic weapons uh in a way that i think that's different, so this is one thing that's different, but in principle, they are not going to change that stance, and let that be very clear for people who think otherwise. all right, and on that note, i think both of you for being with me on this spotlight, marives iran desk, said moaz shah, executive director, center for islamic law and human rights out of karachi, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimi. hoping to see you right here next time, goodbye.

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