very clear who's on the side of justice, who's on the side of the people, who's not going to target the defenseless as horrible as they might be, and who will try everything they can, who will give up everything they can to protect defenseless people, victims of an ongoing holocaust in gaza? yes, indeed, marry, some interesting points that you just made, viewers are looking at these uh live images there, coming out of birjan where people are actually um and have fireworks and of flags, different types of flags and the palestinian flag, iranian flag and also flags with various slogans, islamic slogans there on it, just very very happy uh tonight in watching this uh iranian retaliatory action that the iranian nation had been calling for

for a while, i think it's a very interesting points, interesting points that you were making, now there is a difference between um what those who are following uh islamic teines can do and can't do, there are red lines, there is humanity, it's actually what you were talking about, and that it would have been quite easy for iran easily... target various residential areas, although we have to admit that the majority majority of those people there, those zionist settlers, they are armed themselves, so they're not really um like civilians and other countries, but regardless, regardless, iran has continued to target military entities as hezbullah has done throughout this time. that

they have uh targeted very strategic places and we have seen this this strategy, this unbelievable patience of the resistance front, we look at hezbullah and from the very beginning if we recall going back to last of year we saw first of all hezbollah targeting of cameras, targeting various spying devices on the border um little by little increasing, uh the scope of its targets continually warning the zionist regime to stop its genocide in gaza as it continue to increase. we saw the yemenis uh get involved and they also um they started off with a limited goal and then increased their goals as the regime continued um with its brutality and genocide in gaza and of course. iran has been warning from the

very beginning to stop the genocide, to stop it, and they've been talking to the various supporters of the regime uh to make sure that they stop helping the regime, stop giving uh weapons to the regime, money to regime, and basically it's it was an american our western hegemonic front along with the israeli genocide, they have been warned, and now... "we see that iran has responded, it will be interesting, as always maria, when we monitor the mainstream media, as ali reesa was just saying a little bit ago, already, um, some of entities are asking for iran to show restraint, iran to show restraint, iran has always shown restraint, it continues to show restraint, but iran has also said that if they dare to retaliate, then they will see even greater attack." 'iran had not shown

restraint, there would have been nothing left of the occupied territories, of course iran shows restraint, you know, and um, you know, 400 hypersonic missiles in less than 10 minutes, imagine if it was more missiles, and i mean, of course the they would be paralyzed, so they could not respond for a long time, and it's such a small entity, you could wipe it out in a matter of minutes with iran's uh basically equipment, but what iran is saying is iran'. saying, "i only took revenge for said hassan, nasrallah, for ismail hannah, who they hit in, they dare to hit him on our soil, iranian soil. you know what, iranians are very proud people, they would not allow anyone to disrespect them in such manner, and they were boiling over with uh basically feory, and they were really pushing their authorities, and um, i honestly, i feel like the only reason that they they the people themselves..." practice

self-restraint and did not basically uh voice even more of an opposition take to the streets more to demand immediate action was that they trust their leader, they understand when their leader calls for strategic patience, it's time for patience, and when it's time to hit, there is no concern about hitting, and um, you see in western media, they're already trying to reduce the number of missiles iran has hit, bbc was saying 200 missiles and um, you know, they're not, they're not really talking about damage as much, and of course you know the israeli regime will try to undermine as much as it can, because you know when the zionists hit anywhere in in beirut, in yemen, in different places... they always have their own people inside filming and basically trying to show every every small place that they hit and every small damage they cause, mostly major damages only caused to civilian facilities because they won't dare otherwise, those are

the people that they can actually attack, but when when anything is head in tel aviv and haifa and all these targets, they're very good at censorship, so it remains to be seen how much of a... show and um i think for iran a big part of it is not so much a show of power to the world because i think by now the world knows where iran stands you know the world knew when iran's these small pockets of resistance such as hamas when these small pakis of resistance have been able to stand up to design this regime funded by the biggest uh military powers in the world by the biggest budgets in the world when people saw this and then they see that netanyahu with all of this funding basically started committing that genocide in gaza and still some 10 months later they were being hit from inside gaza, i mean they had carpet bomb the place, over 70% of the i think at least over

60% of gaza had been flattened and they were still being hit from inside gaza, so the world has already seen iran's power, the world does not need to uh basically... see the details of course, it would be fun to see the footage of the the damage caused to the mosad headquarters, to the basically um air base where so many genocides, so many crimes have been committed, it be, mean of course it would make lot of people happy, but the fact the matter is that iranians just needed thesignist regime and the us regime to to get message, this was a small message that is basically bring if you dare bring it on, because you know this was just a small, you know, this wasn't anything for iran, so if you really want to test our limits, if you want to really test our patience even more, you will see what will happen to designist regime, and to all of these basically the

arab regimes that have been facilitated the genocide of their arab muslim brothers, so it, i mean, basically that was the lesson iran wanted to... the target of the lesson was the zinest regime was the us regime, so let them censor, mean those who had to get the message will get the message, and if they're stupid enough to basically make any moves, they will see what what comes for them. viewers, you're looking at live images there throughout the islamic republic of iran, tehran, zanjan, hamadan, bushnud, and earlier images coming out of tel aviv, here in iran, people are just... taking to the streets, handing out suites and uh very, very happy after some very bitter moments and very difficult times of of seeing resistance leaders uh uh being targeted and terrorize and and the continued destruction and terror

taking place in gaza, in the west bank, lebanon, um, so it's a moment of happiness right, "now that people are celebrating throughout the country and i'm sure throughout many countries, many other countries to those who are standing citizens of whatever country that stand against oppression, i think that they are all happy tonight. maria, it's interesting because we have been talking earlier about the psychological war that has been taking place, there was so much being said. about the resistance being broken, the resistance being stopped, iran being afraid of the regime, um, afraid that the regime would hit it with nuclear bomb, so it dares not do anything, um, let's talk about the psychological

warfare and how the zionists usually use this to try to divide, it's the old british technique, and of course is the british who set up the regime to begin with. divide and conquer, they were trying to divide the peoples of the resistant countries against each other. well, they were saying, you know, um, basically, this is, this is... just really, i mean, it's just interesting how they constantly play both sides of the game, so for over 40 years they put all kinds of sanctions on the islamic republic, saying you have no right to basically support any resistance, and um, you know, they knew, they were, they knew that they're putting the pressure on people, it's very difficult for an up and coming islamic republic to basically deal with all of these major sanctions and not only from the us, any other country doing business with iran would... be sanctioned also by the us, so they put all this pressure on iran saying that you are

supporting the resistance and you have to stop supporting the resistance, they have warned us against supporting the resistance for over 40 years, and now when iran when following the assassination of sied hasan nasrullah, when iran did not immediately respond, they were saying, oh look, iran is no longer supporting the resistance, iranians sold sayid hassan in response for lifting of the sanctions and you know just propaganda. that because why would iran, especially, i mean, worry about the lifting the sanctions, now iran has been raised with the sanctions, iran has dealt with the sanctions, and iran has now so many allies in the world, iran is member of shanghai, bricks, iran has its brothers in the region, iran is not no longer afraid of the sanctions, so they were saying that and they were saying, oh look sayd hasan, they they're not going to respond, iran left the resistance, so for 40 years, for over 40 years we support and we are... paying heavy price for supporting the resistance and they themselves are constantly saying stop doing that and then for a couple

of days when we don't respond the're like that's it you iran left the resistance basically constantly finding some way to attack iran and that's what they're good at that's what they're good at they are masters of propaganda and let me tell you no country will ever reach them in being such masters of propaganda i mean bbc with what a century of experience. in propaganda, so all of these basically constantly trying to, as you said, divide and conquer, with giving these messages to people in lebanon, in palestine, and making them hopeless that iran, making them feel like iran, you know, the the brother that had supported them all these years, had left the scene and they were left on their own to be killed in thousands and millions and it just it, i mean people don't like to believe it and it's hard for people to believe it, but when... times are really hard when you are in the middle of a genocide, when you see your family members

being murdered every single day, it's really hard to basically you know uh hold your faith strong, but but our brothers in resistance they they kept our faith in us, um sayd hasan nasrullah peace be upon him, he had left the notes that if you want success in this world and the next, follow imam khamenei, so you know these... brothers, you know, going above and beyond the borders of basically nationality, all these different things that they try to make difference, divide and conquer, they try to be like, oh, they try to tell iranians, they are arabs, it's not your business, and then they tell arabs, oh, they are iranians, they're you know, they're missing with your countries, they're interfering in your affairs, they try to make it all about tribalism and sectarianism, and but what happened with hisb? "now i mean it's not just sunnis and shia muslims, it's the christians, it's the palestinian jews, it's

all of these people together, and it was all their resistance together that made this all possible. i mean, of course, iran was the godfather basically of the resistance, because it it all happened following the foundation of the islamic republic, peace be upon imam khamaini for basically making the resistance possible, from the beginning he said there..." is a third option, you don't have to either be an oppressor or you be an oppressed, you can choose a third option that you neither oppress, nor you allow for others to oppress you, and now we see that these are the fruits of resistance, that that the we finally are on the path to peace, and the path to peace is paved with resistance. all right, well thank you so much, mariam az for that, we have reports from the iranian media ' as you can see the bottom of your screen that uh irgc um use hypersonic fatah missiles

to destroy radar of airal anti-missile systems, and there uh you're looking at images there from occupy palestinian uh territories and i think that was the west bank uh and we saw earlier images coming out of gaza as people were celebrating and watching those uh missiles uh crossover and and just filled with uh hope that uh they haven't been filled with for a while those images right there are coming from the oc pied west bank and we saw similar images of course also out of gaza, if you're just joining us again, the islamic republic of iran has retaliated with 400 ballistic missiles and and you can see the bottom of your screen the're saying they were hypersonic fatal missiles um and uh it

destroyed, it also destroyed the radar of the anti-missile system that the regime... had set up, we also had reports of at least 80% the missiles hitting their targets that uh we have seen uh basically that uh the iron dome uh definitely did not work nor david sling of course uh both that were set up um to protect the israely regime and we have also been looking at images uh from throughout iran as people have taken the streets and celebrate and here this is gaza, gaza people are celebrating, of course we know that there's no electricity in gaza that has been cut off from the beginning of course of the genocide, nevertheless people have taken to the streets and celebrating, i'm joined with by zainab

zakaria here with me in the studios in tehran, well zenab, i have to say that it's just so nice to see the... people of gaza smile um after so much suffering and of course uh uh nothing can ever replace of what they have gone through, but at least um a breather uh a reason to smile tonight, your thoughts, zainab, and seeing those images and in general about these retaliatory strikes that have taken place tonight. hello mari and thanks for having me, um, the joy is not just for garzons, the joy for every single human being across the world whose heart has become blooded because of what they saw in gaza and what they are witnessing also in lebanon and the disregard um from the global western government and the ineffectiveness of the international so-called international community or the ineffectiveness of the

so-called international organization that their sol purpose was to stop um you know genocide across the... world or stop injustices and we see that nothing was done, so this is not a joy only for gazons, this is a joy for every single human being across the world who loves um justice and and and and for the past 11 months, almost 12 year 12 months, one year they've been looking at images on your phone that's the lacks word that human being is unable to describe um guess um ultimately one of the things that two iran has done two things um not only as it silenced you know many of the critics who who said why was iran so quiet when is my year was assassinated in inside iran and many of those who claim that the resistance that iran has abandoned the resistance iran has betrayed the resistance and all of that but another thing that the islamic republic has been able to demonstrate is um you know when

you have power you also have responsibility and the responsibility that the iranian government and the iranian um you know um system as demonstrated is that we do not act irrationally, we act based on international um laws and international norms even if those we are you know opposing are the the furthest from that part even if those we are opposing those we are standing against are not so iran made sure it exhausted every single logical you know option it had um within its capacity before it went for this um this attack on israel and it's a long time coming, let me tell you we we've had almost a month or more than a month um you know after the assassination of um ismail and also the the the undescribable pain that people who support the resistance, people who support gaza felt when we heard of the martterdom of

sayed aassanlah so the scene we are seeing tonight of those you know missiles over tel aviv'. and not just over tel aviv, just hitting their intended targets and seeing the you know those were dancing just few days ago marking you know um sending pager um memes to to resistance pages, it's it's it's it's feels like bomb over the um you know the the the the the heart heart of you know um people who love the resistance and and and the supporters of palestine and the supporters of lebanon and the global audience um in general, all right, viewers, you're looking at these live images continuing to stream out of various cities inside the islamic republic of iran, as people are celebration rating throughout the country after these retaliatory attacks have taken place uh tonight we saw uh missiles taking off well

actually um headed towards the uh israeli regime and reports that we have is that uh at least 80% of the missiles uh have hit their targets and again the people in iran and i think people throughout the uh countries of the resistance fronts have been waiting for these strikes to take place by the islamic republic of iran, and of course the when the irgc released its message, it said this is in retaliation for the assassination of ismaal hania and also the assassination of sayid hassan nasrulah and the assassination of uh an iranian general near furushan that has taken place. i mean, um, iran has shown strategic patience in dealing with the uh

regime, despite all of the uh pressure, um, and uh, as we were talking about, i was talking earlier, zainab, about the psychological warfare that we had been witnessing, um, against iran and against the resistance front saying how iran has uh left the resistance front or saying how iran didn't have the the courage to do it, they were not capable of doing it. um, when this is a country that from from from the very beginning of after the victory of the rev 1879, we saw that that was one of the main things that imam khumaini has said that it was our responsibility to support the palestinian cause and that the israeli regime is a... cancer is a cancer that must be stopped or that cancer would spread, and we have seen the spreading of that cancer, not just in this region, but uh all around the

world of how the zionist regime controlling so many areas of the world. mean, your thoughts on that? um, you know, let's not forget that our enemies do not share the same values that we have, for them everything is about this very temporary world, and so when you your focus on the temporary world, your power is physical, um, you know, you build um big uh military and you you you try to control um, you know economy, information and all of that, but we've seen practically speaking that all israel have is this idea, because israel itself, let's not forget is an idea, it was created a lie, it was created on genocide of people and the ethnic cleansing of people, it was maintained with lies, and the ethnic cleansing of people, so when it is confronted with the truth, it has to crumble, and they have no, you know, um, candid um

military um victory that they can claim that they have, all they've shown the world is how brutal, barbaric and inhumane they are with the amount of people they've killed in less than one year, the amount of children they've killed in less than one year, the amount of destruction they have um you know brought upon not to gaza but also in the west bank, imagine just within less than year, israel has arrested more than 700 palestinians, nowhere on this planet have we heard any entity or country other than terrorist carry out this, the only um you know um other entity that comes to mind is isis when they took over syria and some parts of iraq as well and when they you know uh gathered people together and and imprison some of them to... some of them, turn turned some of them to become fighters like them and killed hundreds of thousands of people, so the only parallel we can compare israel to in our recent in our recent time is the is the

united state, al-qaeda, and so we see from the from the very outset that we are dealing with a regime that is not humane, however the resistance as shown incredible, incredible patience, incredible you know logic and planning, incredible amount of restraint that baffles the mind that even those who support the resistance were beginning to doubt that when is this retaliation coming because people do know that in as much as the resistance is not on the same level um militarily speaking with israel, it is still a formidable force, it is a formidable force that was build over years with tenacity and blood and sacrifice, whatever people are looking at right now when you see the iranian missiles flying, know that many people lost your lives in order for that um for you to be able to see this, iran, you know, painstakingly, brutally, slowly um you know

um build its own um uh um indigenous um um weapons and weapons system because it is on under one of the most brutal sanctions in the world for what? every time you know the united states and the west will come and say iran is uh um is destabilizing the region it wasn't iran who massacred more than 12,00 children, more than 12,00 children in less... than year, it wasn't iran that stavved a population of more than 1 million, it's not people from the from within the iranian cabinet that said that starving people is legal and it is justified, it is not the iranians who supplied a genocidal regime with with hundreds of billions of weapons to carry out you know massacer, while at the same time telling the world we're working on peace, we're working on a cysfire, while buying

time. you know for the regime, it wasn't iran that issued um you know an order for a political leader of another country to be murdered in this country at the un, so we see that consistently whenever international rules are broken, international rules that we've been you know that have been drilled into us must be protected, whenever we see them broken, it has never been from iran, it has never been from the resistance, it has always been from the united states and the allies of... united state and and regime like anyone who america supports in essence so um you know like israel and and and you know again the what they say is different from what their action um you know their action is very very different from their words and they have remain consistent with that double standard they have remain consistent with that double speak and they've remained consistent with that blatant lies and one of the things that is been circulated right now

on western media is the um um you know galant or one of the israeli um you know um minister or cabinet member is injured when iran made its target it targeted military bases and which is why you know on on the internet one the phrases that has gone viral in in regards to israel is saying that every israeli accusation is a confession they claim that the resistance have been using human shield and now we see that everywhere there is an israeli um victory garrison it is surrounded by civilian infrastructure, it is surrounded you know by so-called civilians and we need to remind our viewers there there are really according to international standard there are no civilians in israel because um you know a large percentage of them more than 70% are have served in the army are serving in the army or will serve in the army so we we saw and we also saw