with iran and also to support this jewish drag queen who claims to be the president of ukraine, in what is obviously an illegitimate attempt on the part of the united states and nato to continue a policy of naked aggression uh and encirclement of vladimir putin's russia uh when you add to this uh the potential for china to come into a conflict with the united states. over the taiwan issue, all of sudden uh these neo-conservatives and ziennists are going to discover that the united states cannot possibly militarily, politically and economically sustain major involvements in all of those theaters of action, and when american kids start dr dying in droves in various places in the world, and people start seeing how ineffective the united states military has really become. "although we

spend more money uh than any any nation on earth in in trying to create this empire military, it's not working, it hasn't been working, uh, the national debt of the united states continues to climb primarily because of its support of all of this nonsense, but when droves of american kids start dying uh, then what the american public has largely been ignoring in terms of the tragedy of palestine and gaza. and southern lebanon and syria in iraq and afghanistan, they've been ignoring the truth about how heinous uh this regime is in ukraine that the american cia illegitimately installed in that country in 2014 uh when americans really start paying in for this in terms of the death of loved ones and the destruction of their own economy then maybe we're going to see a change. i think that's the only hope we have. it's a terrible thing. for innocent people on all sides, but

we know where the axes of evil is, and it's not in tehran and it's not in moscow, and it's not in beijing, and that's just the way it is. much, i'm going to cross over to beirot now once again to talk to our correspondent mariam sal. mariam, have you got any recent updates on the latest developments, we can see that there has been, there have been 12 consecutive. and here tonight, yes, exactly, and there was now just recent warning issued by the israeli military, as we see they are sending them through social media mostly, issuing these warnings and sending map showing where they are going to strike, and of course, maybe five to 10 minutes later, so even if there are civilians in that building, it would not be enough time for. to be able to evacuate

and leave that area, but that is the same method that they try, they are using also in gaza, you know that one of the strikes struck a residential building near one of the big hospitals in the southern suburbs of beirot, the st. peters hospital was very close to the area which was targeted, and the israelis are saying, of course, calling on everyone to leave that area because they are close. to as they say, facility for hazbolah, and so here we, yes, we're talking about more than 12 strikes against the southern suburbs of beirot, we can expect also that the there will be another strike also very soon, and like i said, there there's probability that lot of those strikes are being conducted not by war planes, but by war ships, that is...

speculation made by some experts, although the latest strike that we had which was very massive um and perhaps even heavier than the strike which lets the murderdom, law secretary general, that was was done through a war plane, there were also targets now in the area of the bah in taraya as well as bahalibak and so these are some of the the the strikes that continue and it seems that the israelis are focusing on their launching and their aggression specifically on the southern s route mostly at night uh that seems to be the case in general but there were some several other strikes during the day uh which are sporadic perhaps and not in this manner we know that there were strikes in areas where there were no warnings given. of

beforehand for any civilians to be in that area, in addition to the fact that these strikes on the areas in the center of the capital beirot in bashura, as well as earlier in the... area of cola, they were not given any warnings of course to evacuate that area. we know that there were two strikes as well, that the israelies are saying they assassinated two members of hazballah that are considered military commanders and that area also has been evacuated by civilians, although it is of course area which is very close to the capital and prizes uh various diplomatic missions. now the objective behind such a strike, the heavy shelling and then saying that they this was assassination attempt is also perhaps part of the israeli attempt to play on the psychy of the lebanese

people. um, because we've had previously a shown through the media through our observations how the strikes were mostly conducted against residential. buildings and so in order to try to give pretext to that or to try to say that they have the legitimacy to target those areas, they are mentioning that they are targeting either facilities for hezballah or areas where there are assassinations, but it seems that the israelis are going into a systematic destruction of the southern sbeyt in addition to attempts to try to terrorize or displace people in areas which are deemed safe ' and that that is an old new tactic that is used by the israelis, but now even an extreme sense, it has been used before, the issue of assassinations has been used before, whether in palestine or in lebanon, but now we see it a manner that has really amplified and what

they are doing, we see that in what is happening in gaza is unprecedented and has been considered by major ' countries in in all over the world and lot of observers as being a genocidal war, and if this does continue in lebanon as well, this could also mean another genocidal war. however, there are a lot of stark differences of course between gazah and lebanon, especially with the issue of the resistance, and though despite that the resistance in palestine is able to strike the the israeli occupation forces and inflict heavy losses upon those forces, however here, "the lebanonese resistance has major advantages, first of all, it is much more muscular, is much more strength, prepared and mobilized as well as trained and armed much heavier than the israel, the palestinian resistance, it is

also able to maneuver in a manner which is uh easier for it to manever than the palestine resistance, however with the israeli attempts..." "they are attempting to make sure that they try to crush any area, which is considered a relief for hisballah, but hisbollah does, of course, still have the ability to maneuver seemingly on the ground, especially in the issues of face to face combat, and this is why many are saying that this is only israelies venting their anger, i'm fact that they are unsuccessful when it comes to ground forces and going for targeting civilian areas. mariam, news is now..." emerging on us media quoting israeli media that uh as you just also mentioned a meeting of hisbullah leaders including um hashim safia deen uh has been the target of these uh heinous attacks have you got any

report you any statement from hezbollah absolutely not we don't have any statement from hizballah yet uh and the strike just occurred so this usually with hazballah they do not issue any statement unless it is 100% accurate and this is why we needed to wait two hours at least until we had a statement on but let me just mention something which is significant the the after the strike of the southern s that led to the marterdom of israel said there were 20 officials meeting in that area later we learned that there were only four it was actually three members or hizballah meeting with two different other people only. and the fourth person was only the uh companion of say hasan masra and so these statements are similar to what we had before, saying that there is a meeting and so on, they have not been accurate before, you don't expect that they're accurate now, thank you, mariam, well um, i'm going to go back to

mark, mark, the israelis are trying seemed they seem to be trying to change the map of the middle east, you know, uh, street by street trying to... to take over beirot, which is extremely difficult for them because that's where hesbollah has the upper hand, how far do you think the extremist regime is going to go on? well, i feel... lot of comparisons between netanyahu and the israelis and the uh craziness of what the united states was pursuing in south vietnam in the 1960s and early 70s, the longer you look at the absolute disparity between the united states and north vietnam in regard of mil in regard to all manner of military strength, the united states still lost that war uh the turning point was when lindon johnson uh committed the 25th. infantry division uh to uh south vietnam and all of sudden you had an american ground presence in

that country of almost half million men right and even though you had half million men there and and just incredible air american air strikes over over hanoy over very protracted period of time thank you um thank you so much mark excuse me uh you are short in time uh we will talk to you later on mark called analyst from san antonio. i'm not joined over the phone by mohsen human rights activist from houston. mosson, what's your take on these latest developments? well, um, it's uh, this was expected, i don't think any of this comes as a shock. um, and i think the resistance faction is is prepared to... really take on the zinis regime head on and after operation true promise to, i think the

axis of resistance through its through the irgc and the islamic republic of iran have managed to maintain that same deterrance that was maintained on when operation was was took place by hamas, the the zionist. tried to use the assassination of shaheed sayd nasrullah to recover from the cychological warfare to recover from the deterrant that the axes had already set forth, but it only lasted few minutes, it only lasted a day or two. um, it is quite clear that hisbullah's leadership, whereby it is centralized, but their operations are highly decentralized. you can take even if you, even if you can target the entire top leadership of hizbullah, that does

not mean that hisbullah will stop functioning, and this also goes to show that they might gain a few meters after entering lebanon, but without a shadow of doubt lebanon will become their final graveyard, we've seen what happened in 2006, we've seen what happened in 2000, we've seen what's been happening since october, seventh, the zionist regime has failed to achieve any of its goals. the zionist, this regime has failed confronting the military of the axis of resistance, it has, it continuously has failed. the only thing that the zionist regime is good for is to attack innocent civilians. they have broken all laws of engagement, they have consistently. broken every single international law out there,

they have violated the geneva convention, but because they are the the spoiled brats of the us empire, naturally these wars against humanity are ignored, this uh this war criminal, netan yahu, bengavir, ganz, they have, they basically have the ultimate ' green card from the west, they can go, murder, commit genocide, and no one will question them, the un has failed, international law has failed to maintain any kind of justice, and this war, this war has now is now on the verge of escalation, and just to remind your viewers and i'm sure they're already aware of this, but is very important, to understand that the axes of resistance and the islamic republic of iran

from the very first day have been trying to deescalate this, they've been trying to ensure that even if they are retaliations, those those retaliations are within the ambit of international law, and that the responses are contained responses, the responses should never be interpreted. as escalations and an example of that is that in in operation true promise one and also in operation true promise two the "the islamic republic of iran has the capability to target civilians, it has the capability to target civilians, yet it has chosen to target military sites. they have used ballistic missiles, but their response and their retaliation was within limits to avoid escadation, but as we all

know that gants, netan yahu, bengavir. "these these war mongers know no limits, and the world needs to understand that if there is an all-out war in this region, if there is escalation, it will be on part of the zionist regime, and more than the zionist regime, the us empire will be to will be to blame, so if there is further destruction and there is so much destruction that has already happened, resistance fighters have lost their loved ones, they have lost..." their their leader, their master, so has been has been martered. well, m, so yes, mosan, you're a human rights activist yourself, we've had rally in berlin calling for a stop to the arms exports from germany to uh, israel, how effective do you think such gatherings is going to be in

convincing governments to follow their own people? well, i think it's important to protest, it's important to exert pressure on on governments, on western governments to impose an arms embargo on the zinest regime, but i feel like there have been so many protests, we've seen, we've seen multiple protests happening all over the world, it has served as a means of building narrative, but in terms of actual results. we've seen some results coming out of the palestine action committee, the work that the palestine action committee has done in the uk where they have been able to shut down factories, but does that mean like for instance, they've shut down um, they've shut down elevate systems in the uk, they have shut down other weapons companies in the uk by disrupting them, but

does that mean that that they have stopped their manufacturing? of course not, that the only role that that that plays or these actions play is it builds narrative, it forces mainstream media to cover the genocide, but as far as imposing pressure is concerned, i think there is still a lot of work that needs to be done by people of conscience, lot of work needs to be done by by human rights activists, and lot of work is being done, but the lack... the the the lack of effectiveness goes to show that the west uses democracy to cover its crimes. it is quite clear and imam khamnai has consistently said this that the resistance of the students in the west is new front for the resistance,

but we see how blatantly the us empire and the west in general ignores the demands. of a clear majority here in in the west, they ignore the demands of of people who live here in the us, economically, um, the the livelihood of average american has deteriorated to an extent that we have that we are yet to see, expenses are at an all-time high, unemployment is at yet has built. to fund the crimes of the zionist regime, they have billions of dollars to export, to donate weaponry to the zinast regime, as we know that the the rocket, the bunker rocket that that was used to assassinlah was provided by the us empire. thank you, mohsen, please stay with us right

now, we are going to be joined by christopher hilali, research and political analyst from where christ you have been following the news while you're watching and of you is also watching uh footage of the earlier 11 consecutive strikes by the israeli four fighter jets on uh dahya neighborhood south of beirot uh which has been claimed by the israely media that uh targeted a leader's uh gathering including hashim safiaddin a head the executive council of hisbollah. uh, we do not know about the outcomes, no confirmation uh or no statement from hezbol has been issued, and we're waiting for uh later developments on the matter, you are. following the news, what do you think these escalations are going to lead to? when is this going to stop? i think first and foremost that this is a clear indication that

israel is continuing to spread its genocidal war and now not only targeting palestinians, but now targeting the people of lebanon, and we must be clear about what is happening, what we are seeing is not a country that... is quote oncot democratic, that is quote on quote western, we are seeing the most rogue nation, the most barbaric nation now going after all of its neighbors, and we have heard reports of multiple bombings in damascus in beirot and in other places around the region, and so for me, i believe that the end game for the zionist regime is a state of permanent war and chaos in the region. "there is no indication that there is any olive branch being extended for peace, while now negotiators continue to try uh on the side of

hamas, on the side of hazbullah before, we're trying to reach a cease fire agreement, the zionists are clear that they want no cease fire, but they want escalation not only in their direct vicinity, but all over the region, and so ultimately the only way that they can't can be challenged and that they can be stopped in this situation is by military power and that can only come from iran and it can only come from more powerful nations geographically speaking in your asia that can eventually push the zionis into submission and into accepting whatever cease fire or peace agreement will come after this, but the more that they kill, the more they destroy, the more difficult and unjust that peace will be for people who have lost. loved ones and continue to lose loved ones throughout this year long campaign. well, christopher, you know, earlier, we've had the news that iran has sent a message, um,

indirect message to the us, mentioning that the uh, time for unilateral self-restraint was over, is has come to an end, so any response, any sort of response from the israeli party is going to be met with much heavier. robust reaction uh, how deterrant do you think this is going to be as message and what will be the reaction from the collective best to that? it's of course my hope as an iranian that uh the zionist take that into full consideration and recognize that they are much smaller and weaker compared to iran. iran is not like iraq under saddam hussein or the 2001 taliban in afghanistan. iran is a... country with over 80 million people with a revolution deep within the country uh after 40 plus years and so of course there is no

doubt in my mind that the zinanis will only be able to achieve their aims uh by not going to that level uh by not escalating and attacking iran again. of course we've heard reports today that uh the zionists are speaking with the us administration for the possibility of attacking iran's oil facilities and refineries, these are unconfirmed, but if they are true, this is very provocative act, and of course iran has been the most restrained, not only in these past 12 months, but let's be honest that it has been very restrained for years when the united states promised sanctions relief and did not deliver when the united states promised through the jcpo that there would be various peace agreements signed, different facilities opened, different exchange possible a warming of relations, it didn't

happen, it was pack of lies, and so now iran has said, we have waited long enough with many years of broken and empty promises, now iran must defend its national security, its sovereignty just like other countries in the region do, and so now it is: and the message is, if you attack us, we will strike back even harder, and if the zionists are prepared to go to war toe to toe with the iranians, they ultimately will lose, and that's just that's just the fact that they have to consider when making that calculus in that decision, although i think netanyahu and some of his administration in the zionist regime are crazy enough to do it, because they have some messianic or apocalyptic fantasies that they believe that god is on the... side, but i do not believe that, god is on the side of the oppressed and of those are seeing injustice in this world, and of course is not

on the side of those who are. committing barbarity and injustice towards those who are much weaker. right, christopher, let me go back to movi um in houston. mon, you know, we are we seeing and witnessing these images of escalation by israelis in beirut, um, and also at the same time we are seeing escalation in gaza. you know, um, how is it is fighting in all of these different fronts ' in damascus we've had attacks by israel is killing civilians of course, women and children, how is this going to weaken israely each one of these fronts? are we witnessing something like that? no, the reason why this will weaken the the zinus is that we need to understand, and this comes from the teachings ofrullah and the resistance in... general and

from shaheed sulaymani as well that when you see the the enemy, the zenast entity using force on civilians, they're doing it with the understanding that they are losing the war of narrative, that they are losing the soft war, so the reason why they're doing this is because they are desperate, because right after operation to... to they have to maintain that deterrence that they that they tried to impose when they mardered sayid nasrullah so this is an act of desperation this genocide that they continue and it's almost been a year in gaz this genocide that now they are imposing upon lebanon the only the only thing that they're doing