who wouldn't believe you who government's not only unpopular in chip body it's unpopular across libya because it does not represent the 99.9 percent of libya and only represents stratum the leats cross alleviate. other regions there is resistance a lot of repression this repression rid more resistance because. thirsty to invade and occupy were as of right now the supporting police and military have no control they've been kicked oh. so true meaning. that if you are seen use from moscow for now i'll be back to update you in just under half an hour from now. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy her but dig into the burning questions of this

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today we are joined by dr ali akbar velayati chief foreign policy adviser to the supreme leader of iran. mr valli r.t. we're happy to have you with us sir. thank you so much i'm happy to be a guest on your channel so let's start with the official visit of president rouhani to japan. and i'm sure you were the want to welcome him when he got back home. could you tell us about the importance of the visit to japan given the current situation in the region opening. your you know to the relations between iran and japan have deep historical realist diplomatic relations between the 2 countries or established about 90 years ago our relationship with the land of the rising sun has

always been good. we are both asian countries which means we have much in common historically our relations been based on political economic and cultural tie we've had positive cooperation across all 3 areas even when an impact was imposed on iranian oil during the leadership of mohammed morsi. at the time since an oil tanker to run and purchased oil in the face of sanctions introduced by the u.k. and other western nations without acts of support will always be remembered by the iranian people with us today we have no disagreement with but we are the proud someone if you wanted to american pressure on the question of developing economic cooperation with the wrong on the. lookout. for after returning to tehran. spoken by exchanging offers with japan on the lifting of the american blockade after japan suspended its oil imports from iran could you tell us about these proposals. i don't have any information on

that but i do know that the most recent round of talks in japan was not much different to the one before naturally each side of the negotiation process makes various proposals to the outside. right and ways to promote trade between the 2 countries as i said japan is under pressure from the us and has been ever since the end of world war 2 following their victory the us started to put pressure on japan which had already suffered greatly from america's nuclear bombing today iran and japan are anxious to step up a corporation despite the pressure and sanctions imposed by the us i don't have any detailed information about the course of the negotiating process and mutual proposals presented by president rouhani and prime minister are but it looks like the proposals put forward by the 2 sides serve the interests of both iran and japan the only difference between them being that japan is under american pressure we hope that the land of the rising sun that used to be more independent in its foreign policy and ceased being one of the u.s. satellites states japan has the strength to do china and russia have managed to

establish friendly relations with iran spite of pressure from america and the. presidents on. several american media outlets have written about secret negotiations between terror out of washington media to project our i'm on the. other news organizations talking about the possibility of a gradual sharing of sanction. iran works to recommit to j.c. is not true. with all the speculation is just hearsay spread by the mass media is based on expectations and does not reflect the real state of affairs currently there are no relations between iran and the way as the office of the americans unilaterally withdrew from p 5 plus one. the american side affects only violated the nuclear deal signed between iran and the p 5 plus one countries. iran's representatives on not negotiate with the americans until the us rejoins the p 5

plus one group. this is the only acceptable form of the multilateral negotiations. that involves the west and the talks have to focus on the j.c. . the publisher failed to agree to negotiations before the sanctions were lifted which. no of course not the islamic republic of iran has explicitly stated that we will not be holding any meetings all negotiations with us officials under existing conditions. the us with. the international atomic energy agency accuse iran of carrying out nuclear tests it's a facility known as the i.a.e.a. inter because of its iraq. as you have responded to the i.a.e.a. is inquiry on the matter why is the sort of us. we believe that the i.a.e.a. should resist us zionist propaganda these accusations of 1st voiced by benjamin

netanyahu and they are totally unfounded we have become used to this kind of rhetoric coming from mr netanyahu. now and again he passes the international community with his meaningless statement his words have been mocked by top level officials across the globe if the new i.a.e.a. secretary general wishes to take a decision against a wrong he needs to rely on solid facts and evidence instead of trusting bring. all those accusations of baseless. that are more different brigade in the u.s. pressure on iran which would cause economic problems for the people of iraq many people believe that the u.s. administration has succeeded in turning a rainy citizens against the governments of the islamic republic are not these sentiments could be seen at the mass protests that took place last month. do you think the trumpet ministration has succeeded in winning in. there i don't think so the fact that the americans are introducing sanctions against us is not new we've

been living under your sanctions for 40 years now from time to time they would ease the sanctions then crack them up again however. has learned to adopt to get around the sanctions you'll need more than just sanctions to do such a big and powerful nation as a wrong. because i have my country has a large territory it has sea and land borders with a total length more than 8000 kilometers and it borders on 15 countries we have already experienced all kinds of sanctions before through fall and after the war with iraq. and how we know how to run our country despite any american sanctions. there more than i'd like to ask you about the special make use of financial transactions here instead do you still have hopes it will all europe has given us nothing except promises on paper from our european colleagues we heard encouraging rhetoric but no practical steps to fulfill their obligations for. they only made

statements and wasted time they haven't actually done anything except express their solidarity with iran as for the nuclear program european countries specifically germany france and u.k. the line of us policy doing whatever washington tells them to do they've shown no independent in their decision making and yes instead is the proposed mechanism for financial transactions however no practical steps it can mate. and nothing is being done at this time. what message are you now trying to convey to the europeans. we urge them to renounce their policy of subordination to the united states they have to be independent europe is an independent entity and a political act it doesn't befit europe with its status especially countries such as germany france and the u.k. to quietly follow the policy imposed by the us and to washington's bidding. if europe wants to command respect and care role in the region if it wants to have

good relations with iran and iran's allies it has to pursue its own independent policy. and if europe decides to follow america's lead then it will undoubtedly lead us. if you're opposed to fulfill its obligations before you make the 5th step of scaling back a commitment sort of a nuclear deal what will iran do. we will continue on the path we have chosen. if a european counterparts do not on other obligations under the nuclear deal we will have no reason to on are. doing so as decided iran will keep scaling back its obligations under the nuclear deal. of the u.s. house of representatives has initiated an impeachment inquiry against president donald trump is what's your take on that you think the u.s. senate will uphold the impeachment. what do we find it baffling that the american people and politicians can even tolerate someone like drama it doesn't stand by what he said no one need to friends not enemies of us can predict how trump stance

will shift the next day he does not respect the commitments that his country's undertaken and he does not respect other countries all of this is put even american diplomats across the world in a difficult position they should have challenged him a long time ago the u.s. senate is now of course run by a republican majority so the process against it might not produce the desired result but the very fact that impeachment proceedings were launched in the house of representatives signifies that public sentiment held by the majority of american people. they were elected representatives is that trump is on fit to be u.s. presidents and the since he was sworn into office he has done nothing good for america the only thing he has achieved is creating profound distrust of us in the international arena. let's talk about the developments in lebanon and it's been 2 months since the protests erupted across the country now has and they have has been asked by the president to form a new government and. what do you think about is

a point of view when you go. home as we expected the lebanese people have shown themselves to be open why is and level headed the lebanese have managed to solve their problems fast they were of course in provocations from the enemies of lebanon but the lebanese people in their representatives who managed to bring the anti lebanese project crashing down and fold plot hatched against their country their victory took the form of a new prime minister coming to power and is now to form a government with a new prime minister was supported by 69 lebanese members of parliament and now the country will have a new prime minister who can calmly and amicably work together with parliament speaker not to bury the lebanese president michel i will lebanon will continue moving forward free of any obstacles mr saad hariri did not security officer prime minister and now lebanon has a new prime minister with a new start mr has santiago is a university professor and wise man we hope that with god's will he will form

a government and carry out the will of the lebanese people who do support us and they have as the new head of the lebanese government. yes of course we welcome has sunday absent point we respect any choice made by the lebanese people or the public decision and the will of lebanon's representatives fully respected by a wrong it makes no difference to watch who will become prime minister of lebanon or speaker of parliament or any member of parliament of the islamic republic of iran will respect the will of the lebanese people or the way and some believe that our side of the obvious iran's appointee in lebanon an agent of hezbollah an ally of tehran and a person close to the lebanese troops or forces friendly to iran is not true the. guwahati came but you know let's look at it this way mr has some good times the lebanese ruling iran is also in good times and the lebanese release so here is the mr has done is close to wrong because iran has good relations with lebanon in the

us and they want to need this closeness is not limited to ron we wish the lebanese people and the lebanese government all the best mr diablo's managed to secure the support of the majority of the lebanese parliament and it didn't lead to tensions or protests in the streets. where we were spec that decision made by the lebanese parliament was our relations with lebanon our comprehensive and based on the principles that we need to respect for the quality and noninterference in respect to mr bush we will treat any elected lebanese leader with respect for the. over the although has and the it has been elected on interested with forming a new lebanese government protests have continued 11 and us and its supporters of saad hariri are still blocking the roads of lebanese cities. it is important to meet the legitimate demands of the lebanese people actually and as long as lebanon has freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly wichita's its people should be given the right to freely express their opinion however since

mr. some process is connected to a number of other countries especially exciting rabia in israel have been pushing the lebanese to take to the street this. but the numbers will start to gradually to end and the true lebanese who care for their country will gradually get back to their daily lives the special once the new government is in place to that in the land god willing they will see their demands met. in the. skies or financial survival. when customers go by your supplies. then else well reducing lower. that's undercutting but what's good for markets this market for the global economy. same camera can use to snare someone's head is the same hammer i can use to build them a home but that's

a human choosing what to do with that that's me expressing my values for the tool and that's what we need to do with artificial intelligence as well. but others see. the light of. my limited role more than i was. in prison by the explosion of my life. case to grab some media attention and it's a shooting in a 16 year old's 16th birthday party. so i think the police tell a lot of pressure to. close the case. corneas well you just don't think it's like our company though. you know so far they are all for the shorter ones basically with the $30.00 sure

because i was there right next. to me for this because you go you know. what they're doing 1617 years old so. you could lose one. while you're just looking. for more there's a drawer to go through. there of how protests continued in iraq as well think you can and do you believe the iraqis have legitimate demands that should be met. do you think that process in iraq are being driven by the u.s. and israel persist for somebody close to him call him yes exactly who have always supported iraq's peaceful protestors who aren't breaking the country's laws supporting is the sheer spiritual leader ayatollah sistani says the iraqi people

have a natural right to peaceful nonviolent assembly. they've been through a lot in recent decades but during saddam hussein's reign and often times. and now they've got their freedom it's only natural that they have some adjustment to moderates. any newly appointed iraqi government should be meeting the demands of the iraqi people who have been working on resolving their issues with us. where they are into cations that iraq's parliament has candidates for prime minister mr mohammed al sistani seems to be one of them we don't know yet whether he'll win a vote of confidence in parliament delete the government however there is evidence that now it's a monster the iraqi people will finally be respected. this will happen once a rock has a new government is wise in which. a government that focuses in iraq's national interests acts according to people's expectations and responds to their legitimate demands. you do that it was only supposed to run support. you just mentioned.

this well we don't support any candidates for prime minister in iraq we will only support. we don't have a particular opinion regarding any of the existing candidate was the iraqi people have the right to choose their government if iraqi lawmakers give their majority vote to any count whether it's mr mohammed al saddam anything or anyone else they are on the respect their decision and. we believe that iraq's parliament should focus on the needs of its people if you want stale legs and your prime minister on their way. to give you a rainy iraqi officials discuss the recent developments in iraq that if they don't have the iranian officials visited iraq recently in view of the reported visit go it's a rather. iranians and iraq have been enjoying unrestricted access to each other's countries ordinary citizens and officials they frequently travel across the border in holidays such as commemorating the most of

them saying. you don't often see that happen between countries considering how strong our ties have been such meter visits and nothing out of the ordinary however we aren't taking any steps to impose iran's opinion on iraqi officials for us it is the utmost importance the rockies get their demands met in a peaceful manner. a u.s. military base in iraq was recently hit by a rocket attack. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei accused iran of pushing its iraqi allies to strike american targets in the country because we really behind those incidents because the president. the u.s. secretary of state as well as president trump making a groundless accusations here mr pompei doesn't even bother backing up his words with any other of the he insists that we make u.s. interests and military bases in iraq are targets this is not true we respect every decision of the iraqi people aim to gain the american troops in iraq the u.s.

built its military bases there without considering the opinion of the iraqi people we hope to see the day when the americans leave and stop meddling in its internal affairs with. as for the strikes on the u.s. military bases in iraq these incidents reflect the people's opinion towards the u.s. presence in the country rocket attacks on the u.s. military bases and nothing out of the citizens are not happy with the american military bases in the region which is to be expected since the presence of u.s. troops is a negative things here so what does the u.s. expect is why they building their military bases they don't have the right to do that what about so it is absolutely normal that the iraqis respond by launching rockets this has nothing to do with iraq. that the u.s. forces have been deployed in syria's over. varistors what is your take on. this stealing the oil that they are feeling they're no different to thieves break into a house to steal property that is trumps where he is a loser

a feature of international standing he's stealing syrian oil against the will of the syrian people we hope that the illegal presence of the us forces in syria will soon be over the syrian people will speak and put an end to the situation. here on the iran help syria get rid of us trickle. waster. iran has been supportive of the syrian people from the very start of this conflict and that hasn't changed we've been providing a large amount of aid to syria and the syrian government has been able to restore its positions with the help that we are ready to do all we can to help drive u.s. forces out of the country whenever this year and government decides to ask for help . on monday israel conducted a late night show me right in syria as they have done many times before me how. are they trying to target iranian troops.

and i can say from experience that all of these bombings and milledge crimes committed by israel on syrian soil will not remain on the punished. people if syria and lebanon will strike back. people's a very patient benchley israel will have to pay for its crimes. and we hope that the resistance will survive all these american and israeli bombings. i'm sure that the resistance fighters will make israel grettir's action that. israel has experienced retribution in the past when lebanon struck back every time israel conducted an offense. this will not change. israel cannot keep terrorizing the region forever with impunity. the nations of the region have matured i can now withstand israel's aggression that we believe that syria and lebanon will be able to resist and strike back.

to some israeli generals made open threats to run out its troops in syria. to have been heard saying that they would turn syria into a vietnam for iranian military. how would you comment. on. these empty threats they went to are iran is a powerful state in israel does not dare attack iran they dare not attack has. if they attack lebanon hezbollah will burn israel to the ground imagine what would happen if they attacked a wrong israel is not capable of going through with this all these statements and nothing but propaganda. a military operation has been launched in the northern syrian province of do you support. the regional plan was for the syrian government to liberate and make it free of terrorists. over the past few years syrian troops that cleared most of syria's territory from terrorists and they were. they will do the same. this area of strategic importance will be cleared of

terrorism just like aleppo not the syrian cities before. let's not talk about iran's relations with saudi arabia and the gulf cooperation council can. i months foreign minister yourself you know are we in a to visit to say our mission. is excellent in the law we has been foreign minister of amman for over 30 years now throughout this time relations between iran and amman have been developing consistently our countries enjoy a long history of friendly relations as to saudi arabia and other countries in the region as if they wish to build their relations with iran within the framework of international law and we welcome that if saudi arabia wishes to build friendly relations we will reciprocate we would advise saudi arabia to pay attention to the lessons as there are precedents from states in the region take into account well the subtle issues we're dealing with iran if saudi arabia decides to pursue an

aggressive policy towards iran and its allies this will backfire however we would like to emphasize that friendly relations is our priority as long as saudi arabia or friends are crossing the line however should saudi arabia prefer it's going to new its aggressive policies in iraq lebanon syria and yemen it will have to face the resistance of iran and its allies. some requests from saudi arabia and the united states have recently repeated iraq is a show of hope blaming iran for bombing the facilities could you comment on this. this is a lie yemen has claimed responsibility for this attack yemen has been in a state of war for a long time. and if saudi arabia bombs yemen it is only natural for yemen to strike back and say these are baseless allegations and recently the u.n. secretary general made a statement that there is no evidence of iran's involvement in this incident given this point. what's your assessment of iran russia relations given all this

background. countries enjoy very good relationships russia is a strategic partner this is confirmed both by the supreme leader and president rouhani in iran and by president putin. our relations are very dynamic and developing is a bilateral regional and international partnership. with this kind of relationship between 2 countries is rare and should be treasured. by the senior adviser to the supreme leader in its national affairs dr valley and sequel thank you very much for talking to us today. i'd also like to thank our viewers if you have been back then as you come.

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a train. full food really. for more than just close to during the goldstone now the truth. of the day there are good tennis and bad deadens the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good those who work in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military windows funding and arming death squads there's no phones any more because there's always a small truck or a really good. profit. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the

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