hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashiby, thanks so much for being with us, well as the israely terror campaign has failed to seiz, iran launched its operation true promise to last night, the target was the israeli regime, iran launched this operation in retaliation for the assassinations of the hamas leader ismail hania, the secretary general of hazbullah said hasan nasrulah and the iranian general.

we will be taking a look at the operation true promise to and its results so far on this spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. out of london, reset john vedad, the academic researcher and rider and out of belfast sab shath. author, commentator and west asia expert. thank you both for being with us. let's start it off in london with ra, your perspective, reza, uh, so far, once you saw the operation last night, true promise to, your overall perspective. so, i of think it's very important to clear uh, to kind of pinpoint certain uh, very important.

issues that have risen for us to be at this point, iran was attacked severely number of times, its allies were attacked, its irgc members were attacked and killed, and iran gave permission for the un, the security council to step in as it did in the april attack, however we saw that, not only did the un and the un security council did not step in, iran was condemned and as even though was the victim by uh for for being attacked, so iran had no choice after sayd to defend itself, and if you look between the time between um ismail han when he was marted and action taken, there was a big gap where the european union, the european countries and the us were asking iran requesting iran not to attack israel to retaliate against the uh strike. within tehran day after inauguration

of of the president of guest, special guest of the iranian government and iranian people, and so iran, the new iranian president, dr. peseshian, and his cabinet and his team kind of try to manage that situation, and when they, and when i think sayid hassan was martered, it was clear that this is a game that the us plays, this is the game that the europeans play to buy time so that israel can continue going around cause. his genocide and holocaust and all the destruction it causes and he had to act and it seems that it did with very powerful force. all right, well sab, your thoughts on operation true promised to, um, when you saw this uh operation and the effects, well let me ask you about what you think the effects, how did you feel when you see it, and now it's been over 24 hours, your overall thoughts about it. it's a it's a

confirmation of the new status in the in west asia, the iranian attack for me is emphasize that is the what the call the status quo is a change beyond recognition for the zirus entity and for the american and the west europeans players in the region since iran using its right. for self-determination for self-defense which is in shrined in article 51 of the united nations charter and striking the the zist entity who as by killing ismail hanh assassinating mr. gania in in tehran again is an act of aggression against the sovereignty of iran and the security of the iranian people and the dignity of the iranian people. as well as insult to the honor of the

ummah of the nation in iran that even the name uh call it the uh they promised to uh response promised to, which is in itself, it it means a lot, it means the we know the the the operation promise one when it's attacked the heart of the military bases that the design entity used in and the heart near enough to the negative of demona which is used to attack the the iranian embassy counsulat in in damascus as well as the other one which is used for planning and heights and the same thing when we seen what the iranian missiles targeted uh and you can see that is the the the image live on tv, you can see the military air base near netserim near

the middle of gaza was targeted and the people of gaza celebrated that for them that was an amazing to show there is a brothers in their helping given a helping hand and show they are not alone and there are some people supporting them and their resistance and you see as well around jerusalem and the west bank when the settlements of the west bank the airports and the military basis in the west bank and around jerusalem made all of these muslim people palestinian muslim peoples and christians celebrating there is there is revenge at least against the the the... ination and the killing or the assassination as well of the the sayid shuhada we call uh and the same when you see in the north in the middle in tel aviv after the operation which the the killed nearly

eight zionist entity people in there uh when gun men open fire on them and then this launch launching in them and seeing the videos of netanyahu as well. running in jerusalem into a bunker under the ground in jerusalem, all of that is is is not just a game changer, it's a psychological shock for them is to emphasize that the palestinian resistance who unleashed the flood of alaxa and and shock them and made their people run from the the settlers from their colonis around gaza run and the same thing from the 8th of october the lebanese resistance bushed this settlers out of their colonies in the north of palestine, these things yesterday when you show you see the whole country all together is goes into bunkers, never saw in my life or heard even in stories or novels, there is a country built before you built a

house you build a bunker underneath or a bunker beside it, everybody of them like robots knows exactly where is their location and what to do and this, you are not dealing with normal. states or normal countries, we know how it's founded, but for the europeans, for the rest of the world to see and analyze these videos to understand what is the mentality of this people, these people and why it's being created and why being organized in a military uniform, all of them anybody over 16 female, male is militarized mentally and trained. and ready to kill and to fight, when you see 78% of them today were with the genocide in gaza, 80% of them today with carrying on with genocide in libanon, you'll understand we are dealing with the satanic creation of the united states of

america to keep uh the west asia under its control, but it's now the the power which is the iranian revolutionary guard represented. in defending its own territory, the technology which the iranian showed, which is the hypersonic uh rockets which can reach within 10 to to 12 minutes and hits target with the failure of iron dome, the sling of david, the jericho arrows, the batriots, americans, the the thads, the americans, all of this system from even within arabic countries like jordan, the united states of america. the britain and maybe others trying to anticipate some of these missiles and they failed 90% of these missiles targeted military bases. what about that? reza, because as sap has just mentioned, it's not as if it was uh the iranians and then just

dealing with the israeli regime, it was the whole western hegemonic front and also um the arab regimes that are working in cohoots with the... united states at the same time um that iran had continued to say that for sure it would retaliate for the assassination of ismail hannah we saw that that the majority of missiles hit their targets of course when we look at mainstream media uh today they're saying that only 10% hit, irgc is saying that 90% of the missiles hit their targets. your thoughts? um, mean we we won't probably find out exactly how many rockets have hit, but from the videos that came out last night as the events were unfolding, it's very clear that many of them hit, a large proportion of them did hit. so there's no doubt about that one, however what's interesting is that um

the the the king of jordan, while he was in the un, he was berating israel and saying that the arab nation and the muslims have reached their hands out and have tried to normalize relations, and yet yesterday, last night his military was defending the same country that he was bating in the un, so unfortunately within the the arab nations, the count that surround israel, so you have egypt and jordan and these other countries, there is hypocrisy to a large extent, so they will say something verbally and they will show a kind of emotions and support in some way sometimes towards palestinians, but in reality they're doing everything they can to support the kind of colonial israelist project that exists, and there's no doubt that of course the uk, a country that i live in right? now and the us and all of these countries put everythingg every single support, military support, economic support

that they have to maintain israel, if the if the americans withdraw their support, israel as a country would collapse, it will have no economy, it will have no military, you most the military equipment they're using comes from the west, comes from the us, lot of it comes from the uk, they come from germany, and i see videos online where people are literally protesting. by holding palestinian flags and you see german police officers beating these protesters to the pulp, something that they barate and attack countries like iran and russia and china as dictatorships, however they do the worst, so there's no doubt that the the collective west has have tied the themselves and success or whatever you want to call it to the israeli project, and this project started over a... 100 years ago declaration and as the british empire declined the united states became the

empire, the policeman of the world as they used to you call them and they like to calling themselves and so they take on the mantle of supporting this colonial project that supports the political, military and economic plans for that region. if you think about it, if there's no israel, why would the uh if there's no israel in in in in in? part the world, if let's say palestines there and the jews and the christians and muslims are living together, and there's no emnity towards iran, what problem would saudi arabia have with with iran? there's literally no problem. iran has never threatened saudi arabia, iran has never threatened any of the muslim countries or any of the arab countries or any of the neighbors that it's around. however, when israel is there and it's instigating divisions, you the old mantra of divide and conquer that the british used to use very successfully to divide people of the world. 'if israel is not there, if israel disappears and the people, the jews and the christians and muslims are living together,

iran has no emnity with that part of the world, there's other country that it has imnity with, yes it has disagreements with other countries, but not to the extent where they need to be milked like a cow for hundreds of billions of dollars buying american military equipment that we saw yesterday didn't even work properly, how many missiles did we see go through all the levels of defense that saudi for example doesn't have, israel'. has three or four levels of defense, saudi may have one or two patriots, that's it, and so this idea of selling weapons to these uh persian gulf countries to cause division and then continue controlling the oil revenue and and the geopolitics is because israel there is israel isn't there, that that problem will be resolved, right, right, well, what about that sub, we saw as opposed to the arab regimes in the region, but we saw videos of people across the region and beyond. um absolutely elated um when they saw the iranian attack on the regime, your

thoughts on that, because obviously the people can easily be one and the majority of the people of course want to see the end to the genocide and the overall oppression by the israeli regime in the region, so let's talk about reaction um throughout the region last night regarding the iranian. retaliatory attacks, you see uh, when you look at the arabic region, uh, taking it including west asia, taking it to from morocco to oman. "you will see the masses, apart from some little thugs who are fanatic and poisoned by wahabism, kind of takfiri ideologies, which is developed to to be used as militants to destabilize the region and to serve the zionis and the imperialist agenda. apart from

these thugs, the whole region was celebrating yesterday, and you can see the..." the the feel the vibes of and prayers for the for the iranian and thanks lot of thanks for the iranian and what's touched me more than any of all the celebration the arab world gaza, the people of gaza, i was focusing yesterday to see the reaction in gaza and how they filming and jumping and all over the place, even they were attacked after the the barage which is landed in of rockets from iran the salvo of rockets landed near net sarem and this entity then launched a tank and f6 15 or f16 airplanes attacks with the drones and the result nearly killed 50 in the eastern of the city of xanyunis and the people before that they were celebrating is like revenge from

this against that i want to just elaborate a little bit about what your guest said about the arabic regimes and the equation which is i see as long as there is entity is in there there is these massiachism of the gulf states in there and jordan and some other length this we call them the arab zinanist okay not from nothing from the experience the palestinian even had with them from the revolution of 1936 when these regimes were already being established by the the british empire in there from arabia and they call it saudi in the name of the family and the hashhamite even called the east of balasan the kingdom of the hashamite, the hashamite came from saudi arabia, those guys are two tools used to dismantle the the military presence of the ottoman in there so the british can accupai and they help them in

establishing the zianist entity, the jordan is buffer zone there to protect the zianist entity from any arabic uh revolutionary movement, infiltration, we did see them in a black september 1970, what do you think with you, do you think that we we're in the middle of a transition with that uh because - of the people uh who live in these various regimes? excellent question, especially jordan have to watch and listen, because the jordan cousin was ruling the hashhamite kingdom of iraq and the iraqi people... in the in the 50s rose of the revolution against them and early 60s and they lenched the king and his prime minister, the jordanian have to watch what happened to them when they betrayed the iraqi people, the iraki people made revolutionary courts in the street for the regime and the regime dismantled and destroyed, the jordanian people, they are watching their king as a

part of the zionist occupation since they watching the the food coming from india. going through the emirates and saudi arabia and coming to jordan to and go to through to the zin entity to feed them when the our brothers in yemen stop them from being able to use it the use the red sea uh for the the at port and so the jordanian find an alternative while the palestinian people denied water denied medic denied anything they are slaughtering them so the jordanian people they see the regime in jordan involved. in supporting and protecting this entity and this participation and trying to down some of the iranian uh missiles have huge ramification in jordan, i can hear the chatters, i can hear the anger in jordan, and in the future i don't see this regime is lasting at all, even he cried like in the united nation and give false speech like he

cares about palestine, but the fact the fact is he knows this king of george. and his family, ruling family, their duty as they were took part of palestine and given to them is to defend the ziness entity, that's the contract between the empire and them, well what about that, i was talking about this people throughout the region, we're quite happy and do you think that we're in a transition that we're going to see more solidarity with the people and perhaps because we know that it's been uh 45, 4 years of propaganda basically talking about the islamic republic, that perhaps now people of the region and beyond will understand that... that that was uh basically tactic being used by the western hegemonic front and that iran is not saictarian and it's not trying to

cause any type of divisions but can work together with everyone in the region so this is very interesting because i've been speaking to various friends, i have a friend who is in the us, he's a film uh maker based in hollywood and interestingly enough he's comes to me and he tells me that he has noticed that it's the west, it's the us, it's israel that is acting erratic and violently and it's iran that is being restrained and acting maturely, and then i have another friend who's in iran, he's a filmmaker, and i said, would it be, what do you think about making a film about this this, this whole everything that's happening into a into a into into a dramatic film, and it goes, what film can i make that these videos of these missiles uh? can can be more powerful than these videos of these missiles, so i think the you're right, for the 45 years iran has been demonized, it's part of the oriental

mindset that exists within the west and how they see the east, and specifically after the iranian revolution, iran pulled itself away from the foreign police, foreign policy mantle of the west, as saudi arabia is part of it, now iran pulled itself apart, and so iran was demonized even more, it wasn't just orientalist, it was political demonization. "and all of these actions that iran has taken many over the last uh year since the uh september october the 7th has demonstrated that it's other countries that trying to instigate violence and regional war and uh destruction and countries like iran other countries are trying to prevent that and they act they're acting in in a sincere mature manner and so i think the people have noticed that you see so many supporters on social media you see so people the you know people i i don't i don't..." want to use the word sunni in a negative way, but at someone said to someone that i know that they said that i i'm a political shia, so what does that go to say? that goes to show that iran has demonstrated

that the last 45 years, the policies that it's build its ideology and everything on have been to try and prevent oppression which the us unfortunately and its allies are propagating through israel, so i think you're right, all of these actions that we've seen have impacted the masses and those that have been brainwashed. through media, but now they starting to see the reality through social media, social media, alternative news, news like press tv and even other alternative news from their own region. all right, well unfortunately we are out of time, but i appreciate both of you being with me on this spotlight. resejon vadadi, academic researcher and writer out of london, sabchath, author, commentator and west asia expert out of beltass and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight. and marzia hashimi, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye,

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headlines at press tv: iran's leader says uh... iran's leader ayatollah khamenei says american and european presence is the root cause of the ongoing conflicts in west asia. iran's ambassador to the united nations says this country's missile strikes on israel were fully justified under its legitimate right to self-defense. and in11 hezbollah fighters force israelly troops to retreat after they try to enter