this we're joined live by professor of political communication for it is obvious from the university of tehran now why do you think that the u.s. jets flew so close to that passenger plane. you know united states is a sponsor of a state terrorism and obviously the policy of maximum pressure campaign on your own is not working and resorting to this type of tactics terrorizing women and children on a civilian airliner. they are not supposed to be in this a bit and corridor air corridor so that it's illegal and should not be approaching a civilian airliner that's illegal and should not be in syria that city that the syrian government has asked the united states to leave its territories syria is an independent country so by engaging these type of activities they have violated the chicago convention they have while that syria's solvency and have demonstrated that their policy has failed and it's time for them to leave syria and leave the syrians and iranians and not the people in this part of the world and they're causing the huichol of the and they should the stuff when it's important to remember

we've been speaking with professor said mohammad marandi of the university of tehran thank you so much for joining us on the program today. tensions remain high in the u.s. city of portland over the deployment of armed federal forces there they were sent on earlier this week by president all trump to call anti-racism protests the white house claims the mayor of portland has lost control of the city over more than a dozen u.s. mayors most of them democrats have voiced alarm over the federal crackdown. meanwhile the ongoing protests have affected portland shop owners who stores in the area vandalized and looted one of the targets was a jewelry store that's been operating in the area for 30 years now and may looters broke into the premises and stole numerous items the owner says clients are afraid to go downtown because of the ongoing protests she spoke to r.t. about the situation. and not only ones many businesses in downtown portland are hurt it's not the portland we know it's not the city that we've been doing business in for over 30 years it's just boarded up streets. you know a lot o

is ongoing we discussed the situation up with a professor of political communication at the university of tehran. obviously the policy of maximum pressure campaign on your own is not working and resorting to this type of tactics terrorizing woman and children on a civilian airline they're. not supposed to be in this corridor air corridor so that it's illegal they should not be approaching a civilian airliner that they should not be in syria that the syrian government has asked the united states to leave it to syria as an independent country so by engaging in these type of activities they have violated the chicago convention they have syria's solvency. they did not do this before and this is. their line that has been going to lebanon for many many years this is the 1st time they have done that so this may be a policy decision to escalate these type of pressures against iran given the fact that the time for administration may be out of office in january. still the commie former istanbul museum hire sophia has held its 1st muslim prayers since becoming a mosque again. after this. join me every thur

account for this lawless behavior and criminal act we also professor of political science at university of tehran about whether the report will have any influence on the us. it's not going to have any actual influence on their behavior nevertheless we have to remember that under the trumpet ministration a us soft power in the world has been declining and by soft power we mean how popular the american way you like the american political and economic system is in the reason for that is because during the trump administration the americans have conducted a very controversial policies whether we dream from international organizations carrying out illegal strike such as the killing your boss and so on the money or even the trade wars that they started so under the trump and ministration us influence in the world has been declining in the long run this will have an impact on american power and standing in international relations. with almost half of angela merkel's cabinet headed by women germany's already one of the most progressive european countries when it comes to women in politics but the chancel

this loyalist behavior and criminal act but we asked a professor of political science at the university of tehran about whether the report will have any influence on the u.s. . it's not going to have any actual influence on their behavior nevertheless we have to remember that under the trumpet ministration the us soft power in the world has been declining and by soft power we mean how popular the american way of life the american political and economic system is and the reason for that is because during the trumpet ministration the americans have conducted a very controversial policies where there are we doing from international organisations carrying out illegal strike such as the killing of us and so they money or even the trade wars that they started so under the trump and ministration us influence in the world has been declining and i think in the long run this will have an effect on american power and standing in international relations still ahead this hour more than a 100 all those and academics to sign an open letter highlighting the dangers of so-called cancelled culture however the move

of contracting the virus to put that in context john hopkins university which is tracking the pandemic but so number of cases globally it just over 14000000 it's big not the same bus route because in tehran say 25000000 people infected in iran alone i mean that is huge whereas that number coming from. that's exactly right kim this is an alarming number this is almost too hard to believe and this is based on a report of president hassan rouhani his comments are based on a report by any internal research department of the health ministry let me read to exactly what he said it's going to repeat some of what you've already reported but what he said was that this is a direct quote based on a report provided by the research department of the health ministry there is an estimation that $25000000.00 iranians have been infected with the virus so far and another $30.00 to $35000000.00 are at risk of being infected in the next few months now such an alarming number especially considering that from day one of this outbreak there's been disputes internally among politicians among leaders in municipal and provincial and national government there's been a disclaimer about the methodology about the exac

johns hopkins university which is tracking the pandemic puts the number of cases globally in just over 14000000 and says iran has more than 271000 confirmed infections and nearly 14000 from tehran here's in basra view on what those numbers actually mean. we saw these numbers that he stated the 25000000 number during a meeting of his coronavirus task force this meeting comes on the day this alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to a lockdown situation here in the capital tehran after we've seen a record number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks now in the hours since this meeting took place in the hours since the president made this statement about 25000000 people potentially infected number that he said could turn into 30 or 35000000 in the next few months there was clarification from the secretary of the science committee on his taskforce and this gentleman put out a statement saying that the number that mr rouhani was talking about reflects those who were tested and showed signs of having antibodies and those were people that were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made

university corona virus tracker which is used globally as the source for the number of infections and deaths iran has more than 271000 confirmed infections and nearly 14000 deaths and go to same bus driver who's in tehran so there is a huge discrepancy in those numbers 25000000 the number we're now hearing of infections how did the ministry of health get to that number. well came just hours since that meeting this morning when president hassan rouhani came out with a number that seems hard to believe seems very alarming the latest daily figures came out for iran with far lower death and infection rates than one would presume from present on his comments and in the last hour or 2 we've seen clarification from the science committee of president hassan rouhani is national corona task force that committee has been trying to clarify the president's comments saying that the number that mr rouhani was referring to includes those people that tested positive it seems for antibodies of the coronavirus family and they said that their official actual figures for infection include those that have been hospitalized that of gotten positive tests for a swab tests not necessarily for antibody test so perhaps the better