the road to war with iran is paved with good intentions and serious miscalculations. middle east institute write, 45 years after iran's february 1979 revolution and 71, since the us government overthrew prime minister muhammad musaddiq, american officials continue to struggle to understand this nation of almost 90 million. american policy toward iran has vacinated between maximum pressure and the threat of military force to accommodation, incentivization and by some standards appeasement. the trump and biden administrations, while adopting these antithetical approaches, did so while... seeking to further withdraw the us from the middle east, rather hopeless pursue so long as the world's economy depends on oil, and most of it moves through the region. iran takes a step closer to the middle east venture. the conflict between israel and hamas has extended into the broader middle east, escalating the likelihood of a confrontation between the regional power and the global power. modern diplomacy writes, the conflict between israel and hamas has extended into. broder middle east, escal

the road to war with iran is paved with good intentions and serious miscalculations. middle east institute write 45 years after iran's february 1979 revolution and 71 since the us government overthrew prime minister muhammad musaddig, american officials continue to struggle to understand this nation of almost 90 million. american policy toward iran has vacinated between maximum pressure and the threat of military force to accommodation, incentivization and by some standards appeasement. the trump and biden administrations, while adopting these antithetical approaches, did so while seeking to further withdraw the us from the middle east, rather hopeless pursue so long as the world's economy depends on oil and most of it moves through the region. iran takes a step. closer to the middle east venture. the conflict between israel and hamas has extended into the broader middle east, escalating the likelyhood of a confrontation between the regional power and the global power. modern diplomacy writes, the conflict between israel and hamas has extended into the broader middle east, escala

iran. arabs are one of the most sensitive parts, and the americans are from leader key influential people who are in the region. now the desire to separate east and west iran had reached a common intersection. there were also meetings between arya and the members of the terrorist group abdulmalek rigi. shkoweh irshadi, one of the hypocrites living in sweden , got in touch with arya and coordinated between him and the group of hypocrites. they are the trustees of the mojahedin organization. the hypocrites want at least 200 transfer conditions from arya. provide one of their members to the safe zone in pakistan and afghanistan to complete the military ring of the plan to divide the east and west of iran . arya, my help is also for the zionists it becomes attractive. aram moradi, an armed separatist in the west of iran, is assigned to communicate between him and the mossad spy service. he said yes , the israelis provide our budget and that's why you want to set up a base in afghanistan. we have penetrated it, but there is still an important link left in the communication network. arya should be connected with isis in afghanistan . i will deliver

the leadership of islamic countries to prevent the spread of war and insecurity in the middle east. iran's role-playing. it is of particular importance among other islamic countries. iran is the only islamic country that has built its policy and strategy on the basis of supporting oppressed countries. dr. mohammad habibollahzadeh, ambassador of the islamic republic of iran, explained the achievements of the islamic revolution of iran in the region and the world on the development of iran's relations with other countries of the world, especially its neighbors and turkey emphasized. he called the visit of the president of the islamic republic of iran to turkey a new step for the development of relations between the two neighbors in all fields. in this ceremony, a cake was cut to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the islamic revolution of iran. in the celebration of the 45th spring of the islamic revolution in turkey, representatives from 150 countries were present . this park was launched under the simorgh program. and the necessary infrastructure for the establishment of 25 scientific compa

overall in the middle east, iran supports several is proxy gr groups, but tehran's control over these groups varies. the closest ally is the hezbollah organization. that's based over here in lebanon. iran supports hamas in gaza and the houthis in yemen. as for how much control iran has over them, experts believe iran has the most influence with the broader hezbollah group in lebanon. those small er groups in iraq ad syria seem to operate a little more independently of iran. and the houthis in yemen are seen as a real wild card a group that iran has the least amount of control over and, in fact, iran's leadership reportedly been concerned in recent weeks over all the attacks that the houthis have launched on commercial shipping in the region and the red sea is here and elsewhere. >> yemen's iran-backed houthi rebels say their as in the red sea are in response to the military campaign in gaza. the crisis is putting pressure on china's economy. >> houthi rebel attacks continue to assault commercial shipping in the red sea and retaliatory strikes by the u.s. and the uk threaten to grow in

borders when we talk about two borders let's not compare this border with, for example, east tehran, east iran with west iran, or compare two borders that are close to each other . go to the industrial cities of a province and check to see which industrial cities are more developed in the free zones. how far are the industrial towns in the same province that are not in the free zones? what is one of the main reasons for the presence of investors in free zones? tax exemptions and customs exemptions regarding incentives, there are many points about the management of benefits that the islamic council of parliament is dealing with. free zones and if i really say this, it means that our investors have to be very careful to enter the free zones. i talked with many investors in the free zones, many of them are leaving the free zone, and many of them have court conflicts and this. many people regret their presence in the free zones. why are we in the free zone? our goal is to create a uniform administration in the free zones according to article 27 of the law on how to manage free zones and article 65

retaliation which is going on right now, overall in the middle east, iran supports several proxy groups but tehran's control over these groups varies. i read's closest ally is the daughter hezbollah organization based here in lebanon. iran supports hamas and gaza and the who these in human. as for how much control iran has over them, experts believe iran has the most influence with the broader hezbollah group in lebanon, the smaller groups in iraq and syria seem to operate a little more independently of iran and the houthis here and yumen are seen as a wildcard, a group that iran has the least amount of control over and in fact i ran's leadership has reportedly been concerned in recent weeks over all the attacks that the who these have launched an commercial shipping in the region, in the red sea here and elsewhere. >>> yumen's tyronn backed houthi rebels say their attacks from the red sea are in response to israel's military campaign in gaza. the crisis at the red sea is also putting pressure on china testing both its ambitions of becoming a power player in the middle east and its expo

iran's interest in removing american soldiers for iraq and syria. while they continue missions to target the extremist organizations on the ground in the middle east, e's been a lot of conversations in washington about possibly drawing down the u.s. presence as it exists today. so iran is trying to turn up the temperature in both the area where you saw the u.s. strikes last night but also along the boarders of israel knowing in is a key american ally in the region. it's part of the reason you saw the attack on october 7 from hamas and islamic jihad. those iran-backed groups inside the gaza strip and why you've seen thousands of attacks against northern israel from the iran-backed lebanese militant group hezbollah. it's not an isolate #-d incident, and there's a real risk on the table as we speak today about the region getting dragged into a broader war. each and every attack that's coming from these iran-backed groups, whether it be in lebanon, iraq, syria or places like yemen risks that broader conflict and unit has excellent missile defense systems around their bases in iraq and syria and destroyers in the red sea, and they have the ability to sho

overall in the middle east iran supports several proxy groups but tehran's proxy group really varies. iran's closest ally is the broader hezbollah group. that's based in lebanon. iran supports lebanon in gaza and the houthis in yemen. as for how much control iran has over them, experts believe iran has the most influchbs with the broader hezbollah group. the smaller groups in iraq and syria seem to operate more independently and the houthis in yemen are seen as a wild card, a group iran has the least amount of control over. in fact, iran's leadership has been concerned in recent weeks over the attacks the houthis have launched. >> thank you so much for breaking that down. the past few moments we have gotten this video in. this is from iraq. it is of some of the strikes that took place tonight. remember, as we've been reporting, there were seven facilities struck by u.s. air craft tonight between iraq and in syria. this is video of some of those strikes from iraq in retaliation for that drone strike that killed three u.s. service members on sunday. that's it from here. i'm done here in

position as the largest, most powerful country in the oil rich persian gulf, made iran a'. of us foreign policy in the middle eastبطه با آمریکا آمریکایی ها قطع رابطه کردن با ایران ما نگفتیم قطع رابطه به آمریکا بله ما زیر بار آمریکا نباید می رفتیم نرفتیم اما به جنگ. آمریکا هم نرفتیم ما قائل به مرادات بودیم خب بنابراین در اینجا ما باید مرابده کنیم برای اینکه بتونیم توسعه موقعیت بدیم در حوزه اقتصادی مگه میشه ما بدون مرابده با بلوک های قدرتمند اقتصادی دنیا به توسعه تجارت در این عرصه دست پیدا بکنیم امکان پذیر نیست مگه میشه شما یه بازار هایتکی در دنیا نداشته باشی بخوای در اینجا در این حوزه هی مرتب فعالیت بکنید نه ما بایستی تو باشگاه های شناخته شده دنیا تو بازارها حضور داشته باشیم بدون اینکه تحت سیطره اون ها به نوعی در بیایم الان هم اون بلوک های ایدئولوژیک دیگه نیستن که ما بگیم یک بلوک ایدئولوژیکی در شرق وجود داره یک کشوریست به نام مثلاً روسیه و حالا چینی و هندی و بقیه کشورها در آسیا مثلاً با اجازه اون ها می تونن در عرصه بین الملل با کسی ارتباط بگیرن مثل وضعیتی که در نظام دو قطبی ما شاهدش بودیم که محال بود یه کشوری در بلوک شرق بتونه با یک کشور ارتباط بگیره بدون اینکه اجازه شوروی را داشته باشه الان که اینطوری نیست الان د

managed to fill the value vacuum which really is across the middle east. iranis mainly shiite country but has managed. iran has been able to tap into the dissent. the disgruntled communities in lebanon, iraq, libya and yemen and build a network of allies, it's truly astonishing. >> it really is. and we heard from iran's president saying iran will not start a war but will respond to what it calls a bully. we know that iran is a country that jails people that oppose it. what could the response be from iran? >> its can unleash its own militias or attack forces like it did after the death of a leader that was responsible for foreign operations. iran has some options. the irony or tragedy perhaps here is that i think neither the united states nor iran wants a war. both sides have said, public lip, that they want to avoid a conflict. the problem is there is such momentum in the 10 different conflicts that have flaired across the middle east in recent years. how they've converged into one. it's very hard to see how either u.s. military force or american diplomacy can

iran response able and have signaled that they are preparing for retaliatory strikes in the middle east. iran threatened today to decisively respond to any u.s. attack in the coming days. >> in nevada, the culinary union has reached a tentative contract agreement for workers at the plaza hotel in las vegas, two days ahead of a strike deadline. the union says it struck a five year deal with the property, which will cover about 250 hospitality workers. the announcement came just hours after the union announced a tentative deal for around 1000 workers at treasure island hotel and casino. the union has set a strike deadline of friday morning for 13 remaining properties in vegas, and you can hear about the west coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. west coast rap with the alex savage airs at 7:00 monday morning. or excuse me seven in the evening, monday through friday, or around the clock coverage at west coast rap.com. >> new at 11. governor newsom is designating seven more california communities as pro housing this means they are showing an active commitment to building more housin

is fueling the conflict in the middle east. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. let's go first to cnn's ben wedeman in jordan. iran's defense force is denying any in involvement in the strikes but we're learning there was some cooperation. what more are you learning? >> reporter: the statement that was given to cnn by a u.s. official was that there was jordanian participation. now, what that participation might be is not clear. now, petro, which is the jordanian official news agency came out with a statement saying the jordanian air force categorically denies any of them were involved in air strikes along with the americans on iraq, however, it does not mention syria, so it's not clear if perhaps they were involved there. but at this point there's been no comment from jordanian officials. now, back during the war against i.s.i.s., jordan was a member of the u.s. led anti-led i.s.i.s. coalition and jordanian warplanes did participate in those strikes at the time, but clearly we're still trying to ge

what became his bulla, the party of god >> iran exploited the chaos during times of crisis and conflict and built an empire of proxy forces across the middle eastike hezbollah, the crown jewel of iran's forward defense policy in gaza, hamas and islamic jihad, largely responsible for the october 7 attack on israel in yemen, the houthis who have conducted missile strikes to disrupt shipping lanes and global trade in syria, a paramilitary group called shubi, organized by president bashar al-assad. and in iraq and syria, shia militias, they all act as a conduit and an enforcer to convey runs message to the world >> iran would recruit, train organized these militia groups who had their strategic and tactical relationship with iran. >> java >> will receive funding for military weaponry and they would also be integrated into a command and control structure. sure, >> of the boats force quds force is the most elite part of iran's revolutionary guard responsible for growing in the axis of resistance. that task fell on the broad shoulders of notorious quds force commander qasem soleimani, who took great offense at bushes axis of evil label. >> here was a

position as the largest, most powerful country in the oil-rich persian gulf made iran a pillar of us foreign policy in the middle east تجارت در این عرصه دست پیدا بکنه. امکان پذیر نیست مگه میشه شما یه بازار هایتکی در دنیا نداشته باشی بخوای در اینجا در این حوزه هی مرتب فعالیت بکنید نه ما بایستی تو باشگاه های شناخته شده دنیا تو بازارها حضور داشته باشیم بدون اینکه تحت سیطره اونها به نوعی در بیایم الان هم اون بلوک های ایدئولوژیک دیگه نیستن که ما بگیم یک بلوک ایدئولوژی در شرق وجود داره یک کشوری ست به نام مثلاً روسیه و حالا چینی. و هندی و بقیه کشورها در آسیا مثلاً با اجازه اونها می تونن در عرصه بین الملل با کسی ارتباط بگیرن مثل وضعیتی که در نظام دو قطبی ما شاهدش بودیم که محال بود یه کشوری در بلوک شرق بتونه با یه کشور ارتباط بگیره بدون اینکه اجازه شوروی را داشته باشه الان که اینطوری نیست الان دنیای شرق در واقع یک دنیای متشکل م از اینکه یک قدرتی در بالا سر داشته باشه که نیست یه کشورهای مختلفین گاهی هم در یه باشگاه هایی در موضوعات خاصی مثل همین به اصطلاح بلوکی که در اینجا مطرحه در حوزه اقتصادی دور هم جمع میشن خب ایرانم میشه یکی از اون کشورها و از این صحنه استفاده میکنه کما اینکه بریکس هم همینه از ظرفیت های تعاملاتی بریکس در گس

firestorm of violence and vitriol for you, stoking anti-american sentiment throughout the middle east, iran sees itself as a part of the axis of evil. so it begins to feel that it has to create a defensive policy against a potential attack. >> iran shifted to its axis of resistance a forward defense policy that has been its protector for more than 40 years. iran became a major presence in iraq army shiite militias that viciously attacked american soldiers when almost all us troops withdrew in 2011, those militias became an integral part of it. iraq's army, one of the things which the islamic republic has managed to do is to mobilize proxy forces. >> iran was a portion shiite islamic nation facing a seal the sunni islamic arab states, backed by america. so it cobbled together a coalition of allies many of them non sunni throughout the region egypt >> the best example of that was the advent of lebanese hezbollah byproduct of israel's 1982 invasion of lebanon on the whole idea was to mobilize some shiites and create a militia so the iranian revolutionary guards created the embryo of what becam

east? that is of course a risk. the history of iran _ east? that is of course a risk. an tells us since the revolution in 1979 that if you run is threatened with an accidental threat, if there is real pain felt any run like when we sang cover then navy in the 1980s, if there is a real strike that inflicts pain, they backed down. when you think about the supreme leader, his primary impulse is survival. he was the president and stayed in power as the ayatollah. he has been there for almost a0 years. he has done it in the most volatile country, in the most volatile region in the world by being a pragmatist. he wants a survival and that is why he has the forces him keeping him in power. fist forces him keeping him in ower. �* forces him keeping him in ower. ~ , ., power. at the same time it is a particularly _ power. at the same time it is a particularly volatile _ power. at the same time it is a particularly volatile situation i particularly volatile situation in the middle east at the moment we have israel gaza war and i want to ask you as well about the secretary of state

of time before they reup, rearm, and continue to work against american influence in the middle east. iran wants the united states out of syria and iraq and they're prepared to fight israel and the u.s. to the last jehouthi, the last member of hezbollah, certainly to the last pro iranian, iraqi and syrian. so this is a problem i'm afraid without a solution. at the same time, we have to have come accountability on killing americans with impunity and we also have to toughen up our own defenses to make, at least to raise the odds, fred, that when they strike, americans will not be killed. >> 85 targets in iraq and syria hit by the u.s. can retaliation, you know, go too far? and then you have a larger conflict to follow? because we've heard it from the defense department. more is coming. >> i mean, fear of escalation is real. what you don't want and i understand people argue we have a regional war. we really doen't. we don't have a major confrontation. we don't have direct strikes by israel. we don't have iranian using ballistic missiles against the gulf, against american forces in the middle

is fueling the conflict in the middle east. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake. cnn has teams around the globe following these developments. let's go to orrin leanman. >> four locations in syria. three locations in iraq. according to officials who briefed the media following the strikes. in terms the number of targets, you point out more than 85 targets in these locations. more than would not 25 precision wps used in carrying out these strikes. that's an order of magnitude if not greater more than the strikes we've seen carried out in iraq and syria by the u.s. over the course of the last several months. it is worth noting this is the first time we've seen the u.s. attack both iraq and syria and targets there in. normally it is iraq or syria. here it is both. a measure of essentially what the u.s. is trying to show here. the capability to carry out something like this. these pictures from iraq, a location the u.s. has struck before, although the u.s. not saying its specific locations in this set of attacks on iran's islamicic revolutionary guard corps and iranian

to push biden around and see what he's capable of doing and that's just understanding the middle east. iranxies and keep picking away at the u.s. military spread throughout syria and iraq but unless you really but she's on a counterattack and really make it feel like it's a real hit, is not going to be a deterrent, it's a waste of time so iran will keep twice what the u.s. and that's what you are seeing. >> that's right here i don't want to diminish the might of the u.s. military but you wond wonder, i would have liked if you cracked back down on economic energy sanctions which bankrupted for five or six years ago or if you have military approach to after oil facilit facilities, i'm just not sure, i'm not saying what we did was nothing, i'm just worried as aaron suggested, we didn't get the job done. as a former state department official, what do you think? >> it sure doesn't look like iran got the message or maybe to put it differently, the message iran has been getting sick and still push the biden administration around. today we got word advanced terrace proxy groups were back to the old

. >>> the united states has carried out more strikes in the middle east iran the houthis. the u.s. said that it destroyed an anti ship missile that was prepared to launch. earlier saturday american and british forces struck 36 targets in yemen at 13 locations. faa jets and a pair of sdroirs hit what the u.s. says were facilities involved in attacks on international shipping. the strikes in yemen come one day after airstrikes in iraq and syria. the u.s. said those were retaliation for a drone strike that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan earlier in the week. paula hancocks is joining us now. what has been the reaction in the region? >> reporter: we've heard from iran for example, of course these are iranian backed groups and iranian militias that have been targeted over the weekend on both those occasions. iran's foreign minister saying that what the u.s. is doing at this point is making it very difficult to be able to get some kind of peace deal together, also pointing out that the u.s. is showing aggressive policy in the middle east. u.s. officials saying this is not an escalat

this is "first of all" and today we're starting in the middle east. irancondemning airstrikes by the usa military in syria and iraq. the strikes are in retaliation for the deaths of three american soldiers killed in a drone attack in jordan almost a week ago. president biden says this is only the start. cnn's katie bolillis is in washington. let's start with you and tell us about the targets. >> reporter: the u.s. military striking 85 targets associated with both iranian-backed militia as well as also used by iran's own forces. these targets included everything from intelligence centers to rockets and missiles and other munitions facilities, to command and control hubs to logistics facilities. now, at this point in the coming hours and days the u.s. military will be doing what is known as a battle damage assessment, to lean on u.s. intelligence to try to independently verify the toll these strikes took, both the damage that they caused to the militia's capabilities as well as the potential casualties both amongst militia members as well as potential civili

well, first of all, because joe biden is not a suicidal candidate. attacking iran, it means declaring a war in the middle east, and iran certainly will not be its own. secondly, iran just few weeks ago launched missiles against jihadis and takfiry target in syria, and these precision missiles went above kuwait, iraq and syria in three countries, where there are united states military bases, third, iran had the... fubility as the world has seen in 2020 when donald trump assassinated general sulaimani and abdi mundis the possibility to target any us military base in the area in the whole middle east, so we're talking about dozens of military bases that are sitting duck for the iranian precision missiles that we not talking about the... and the advanced military capability that iran demonstrated that it has in the last few years, so that from the military approach. secondly, the targeting of the different objective that iran launch, it has launched from different places in iran, showing the capability to have mobile missiles, not only statistic static missile. in one location that can be bombed and destroyed by

well, first of all, because joe biden is not a suicidal candy. attacking iran, it means declaring a war in the middle east and iran certainly will not be its own. secondly, iran just few weeks ago launched missiles against jihadis and takfiri target in syria, and these precision missiles went above kuwait, iraq and syria in three countries where there are united states military bases, third iran. had the capability as the world has seen in 2020 when donald trump assassinated general sulaymani and abdi mundis. the possibility to target any us military base in the area in the whole middle east, so we talking about dozens of military bases that are sitting duck for the iranian precision missiles, that we not talking about the drones and the advanced military capability that iran demonstrated that it has in the last few years, so that from the military... approach, secondly, the targeting of the different objective that iran launch, it has launched from different places in iran, showing the capability to have mobile missiles, not only statistic static missiles in one location that can be bombed and destroyed

iran will acquire nuclear weapons within the next 60 days. vasily yurievich, what will all this lead to? the middle easttly already have nuclear weapons, but iran is a balanced, serious state, just so... iran, of course , will not use nuclear weapons, but if america, i mean the united states, led by joe biden , continues this, i would say, ridiculous, very dangerous policy, then mr. trump is absolutely right. this is a direct step towards the development of the third world war, already fully into its, so to speak, nuclear component. this is scary, this is very scary, but for some reason biden doesn’t think about it at all. he thinks that history will write everything off for him, or he acts on the principle: grandfather is old, he doesn’t care, but we live here, uh, we must all together as a whole world somehow stop it, because trump is right, and there may no longer be elections in america, because they have their own internal problems, colossal ones, they already have state national guards, they are on the brink of civil war with federal, i heard you correctly that before the election, well, before th

years, there is no doubt that was successful in extending his influence of the whole middle east, and not just iran. as an iranian religious scholar and political leader, he managed to make his country, the world's first islamic republic. being an outspoken critic of the regime, ayatollah komeini used to denounce the shar's programs. in a proclamation issued by him and undersigned by eight senior islamic scholars, the ayatollah specified the shar's violations of the iranian constitution and condemned him for corrupting public. on the dawn of november 4th, 1964, the shah's commandos surrounded. they arrested him and took him directly to mehrabad airport in tehran. soon after he was flown out of iran to turkey, out of sight, out of mind, that was the rational behind his exile. the stay in turkey was not. genial, for turkish law didn't allow ayat komeini to wear the cloak and turbin of the muslim scholar. on september 5th, 1965, he left turkey for najaf in iraq, where he would stay for 13 years. on october 23rd, 1977, mustafa komeini, the ayatullah's son, passed away in najaf, defending. national inde

talking about two borders close to the same one, not this border with, for example , east of tehran, east of iran. with. compare two borders that are close to each other, not iran. go and check the industrial cities of a province look at the industrial cities that are more developed in the free zones or the industrial cities that are not in the free zones in the same province . how much is their cost? well, of course, in the free zones, but no one sees this at all, he says , "no, sir, the free zones are not developed at all . it is good at all." if not, then how come i have so much trouble? there are economically active people in free zones, free zones, we must seek to strengthen free zones , if we expect free zones to be able to solve a problem in the country, we should pass a law for free zones every day. let's take any restrictive law , let's say free zones, well, it's not like this , we can't continue this, mr. karim , yes, see, sir, one of the main reasons for the presence of sir. what are investors in free zones? what are tax exemptions and customs exemptions regarding the incentives ? ther

in the middle east, including striking iran. i know you touched on it a little bit. how dangerous would that move be when the u.s. and iran are clearly both trying to avoid another war. but just along those lines of thinking, what would a more forceful response look like before getting, of course, to an actual direct strike on iran? >> yeah, what lindsey graham is proposing and frankly has been proposing off and on for years now is something much more direct on iran. and it's important to understand how provocative this would be because this would be an attack, an invasion, if you will, of iran. iran has not attacked the united states. this drone did not come from iran. it came from a militia that's based in iraq and syria. so, it would be, in that sense, a escalation by the united states, in a sense unprovoked if you think about the origin of the missile. and part of the problem here is that you're dealing with these militias. and it's very unclear how you deter them. they live for this kind of battle. the houthis, for example, endured ten years of saudi aerial bomb

this year , you will see a film at the festival, which is in a location in a film, from the south-east of iran , to the north-west of iran, and this very interesting film was shown an hour ago. he was in khuzestan and now he is going to the show it is given that sistan baluchistan is correct, mr. ilbegeh, you agree . please also mention about the issuing of licenses in the provinces. it seems that this is a significant move, which is the same . in any case, we want to know who our filmmakers are in the whole country. they are working on some topics that we can do the right talent search. of course, in order for the filmmakers to be able to easily apply in their own city in their own city without the need to study at the center , the members of the council who happen to know that culture and those cinematographers will receive it in their own city. license from last year. all countries are connected to the system for issuing film production licenses of the cinema organization and now they can easily apply. through our system , we can have complete nobility in the headquarters of the cinema orga

iran-backed groups. when you look at the list of countries that blinken is going to be visiting for his fist trip to the middle east, you are seeing a lot of different countries that are both allies of the united states, heavily critical of the united states's support for israel during its assault on the gaza strip, and inimical to iran. these are sunni nations that see themselves as essentially groups that are threatened by iran, they see iran as enemy number one, perhaps even more so than they may have seen israel in the past. that has been a subtle and gradual shift in the posture of all these countries throughout the middle east throughout the past decade, it is so much more important now and so much more central to the identity of all these different actors. when we talk about anthony blinken stream we can talk about the negotiations of the hostages, but really looming all of this is going to be those strikes against those iran-backed groups. we heard senior government official speaking recently, and here's what he said. >> it began with the strikes on friday night but that's not the end of it. we intend to ta

if i could be blunt and a small question on iran and the middle east. what do you believe iran new operationally about the attack in jordan and how important is that when it comes to the u.s. response? >> so when the diagnosis was made, the doctor highlighted that you have a finite window of time to actually get this done. if you go beyond that window, then you will have a problem. christmas holiday was coming up. for me to be as little impact on what we're doing in the department, christmas was a time for me to take a look at getting that done. it was a tough decision for me. i did not decide until very close to when the procedure was done to actually do the procedure. in terms of informing the president, again i admit that was a mistake to not talk to him about that early on. the president of the united states, you have a lot of things on your plate and so putting my personal issue on -- adding to his -- all the things he has on his plate, i didn't feel it was a thing that i should do at the time but again, i recognize that was a mistake and i should h

push biden around to see what he is capable of doing and larry, let's just understand the middle east. iraned states military, spread out throughout syria and iraq. but the fact unless you really put some teeth on some kind of counterattack and really make it feel like it is a real hit. it will not be a deterrent. it will be a waste of time. iran is toying with the u.s. that is what is happening now. larry: nathan that is what i hear. i don't want to diminish the might of the u.s. military, heaven forbid, you just kind of wonder, i would have liked it, for example, if you're going to crack back down on the economic and energy sanctions which bankrupted iran, four, five, six years ago, when they were put into place, or, if you're going to have a military approach, go after some of their oil facilities. i'm just not sure, i'm not saying that what we did was nothing. i'm just worried that as, as aaron suggested we didn't get the job done. i mean what is your, as a former state department official, what do you think? >> well, it sure doesn't look like iran got the message larry or maybe to put

iran responsive and have signaled that they are preparing for retaliatory strikes in the middle east. iranatened today to decisively respond to any us attack in the days ahead. >> we take a wide range of considerations into account to prevent the situation in israel and gaza from, uh, you know, expanding into a broader conflict in addition to the possible military action, president biden also pushing for new economic sanctions on iran. >> coming up on ktvu news at 630. high winds and possible power outages. we take a look at how fire officials are preparing for the storm in the north bay. >> and another restaurant closing up shop in oakland, all due to crime in the area. what customers tonight are saying about another business leaving town, plus what makes brock purdy special? >> well, jason appelbaum gets the answer from a 49ers insider. that's later in sports you may know adam schiff's work to protect the rule of law, or to build affordable housing, or write california's patients bill of rights. but i know adam through the big brother program. we've been brothers since i was seven. he st

talking about two borders close to the same, not this border with, for example, east of tehran, east of iran with west of iran, not two borders close to compare each other and see, don't give up at all . go to the industrial cities of a province and check them. look at the industrial towns that are more developed in the free zones or the industrial towns that are not in the free zones in the same province. free zone, but no one sees this at all, they say no, sir, free zones are not developed at all, they are not good at all, no, so how can i be of service to you, there are economic activists in free zones, we must seek to strengthen free zones , if we expect free zones to succeed solve a problem of the country, that we come to approve a law for free zones every day and take every restrictive law, picture it and say, and free zones, well, it's not like this, we can't continue this, yes, gentlemen, one of the the main reasons for the presence of capital what are investors in free zones? tax exemptions and customs exemptions regarding the problem. there are so many points about the management o

the united states is planning new strikes in the middle east against iran-backed groups in response tos on american troops in the region. this was announced the day before by us national security adviser jake sullivan. over the past three days, the us has struck more than 100 targets in iraq, syria and yemen. will these airstrikes lead to an escalation of tensions in the middle east, let's talk with iryna shinkarenko. irina, hello, please tell me how the necessity of these strikes was explained in the usa? on near east and what targets were hit? greetings, maria, so in the last few days, starting on friday, the us has launched several large-scale strikes on the territory of iraq, syria and yemen, and all of them, as noted in washington, are related to targets that associated with iran, and the reason for these strikes were various events, in particular, on saturday evening, the united states, together with great britain, carried out a series of airstrikes against the facilities of the houthis of oyema. and this is already the third case of joint strikes of these countries on the territ

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in the central plateau and by the way, in the east of iran, you see, god has not collected all his blessings in one place. we can activate these mines by transferring water and instead of collecting them. if it has an infrastructure, it is my infrastructure there is water, which means you can't do without water . many of the permits for the exploration and exploitation of the civil industry have been stopped due to the lack of water . go to the authority's order. how much potential can be created for the mining infrastructure? supreme leader, but this did not happen, i am asking that this is attributed to the governments. governments, this is the system's demand emphasized by the supreme leader, and i said recently that it started at the end of the 10th government, in the 11th and 12th governments, it progressed very slowly and reached the end, that is, the first line of 99, but the end the government, in fact, mr. rouhani, who actually brought up these things, well, mr. president , i see a problem in visiting wherever he is actually visiting on a provincial trip. first of all, your water is

is the introduction of sesami's synchrotron light source, the source of light in the middle east, where iran is one of the member countries and active member countries in this project. in this too. we introduce the narrowness of different lines and its application , we introduce the use of these narrowness of light in the industry , and finally we have educational workshops for the so-called familiarization of iranian scientists and graduate students, among the participants in this scientific conference there were people who had a history of attending sesami's scientific opportunity the topics that we had in the proposal were very well cooperated by the scientists who were in the collection with our research team, and we also conducted additional experiments . we are currently analyzing the data . i went to sarzami twice. but the next time will be 4 days, according to the announcement of the officials of this scientific conference, presence in the only source of light in the region will provide the basis for the cooperation of iranian researchers in international projects and the publication

we have central and by the way east of iran, you see, god has not gathered all his blessings in one place, we can activate these mines by transferring water and instead of pushing the population towards the sea, we can stabilize the population, especially for the east of the country, you cannot force the people say , leave your house, go to the water, take the mine to the water, all these mines that can have infrastructure , my infrastructure is water, that means you can't live without water. a lot of cases of butterflies in fact the exploration and exploitation of the civil industry is stopped due to the lack of water, go and see how much potential can be created for the infrastructure of the mines . do not appoint him, governments at all, this is the demand of the supreme leader. yes, and i said late that it started at the end of the 10th government, in the 11th and 12th governments, it progressed very slowly and reached the end, that is, the first line of 99, but the end of the government , in fact, mr. rouhani, who actually brought up these things well, mr. raisi, wherever you go on a

iran has been a challenge to the united states in the middle east over the past 40 years. it continues to provide support to these militia groups in these ungoverned areas, eastern syria and western auto iraq have the governments have no control over. iran has cultivated ties with legal groups, mostly shia but sunni as well. they have done it yemen and with hezbollah. they see it as an opportunity to flex their muscles in the region and something against u.s. and the interest of countries in the region as far as having some security stability in the region. will this deter the iranian? i don't think it will. the intention of the strikes is to seriously degrade the ability of the qods force to work with these proxy force and degrade the possibility of these little lish has. >> if it's about degrading capabilities help me understand what the success, how success is defined in a mission like this. >> taking out large weapons depots the command and control centers and taking out the various training camps, others, taking out the operatives, trainers, again, all the capabilities

started, there have been fears it could escalate into a regional war, likely sparked by iran's proxies in the middle east. but when we interviewed iran's foreign minister in november, he denied that his country was behind the uptick in violence. >> it sounds like you're saying that iran backs these groups around the middle east, but you bear no responsibility for what they do. "these groups in iraq and syria that are attacking u.s. interests have made their own decisions," he told us. secretary blinken will push for a pause in fighting in the israel-hamas war during his visit. the u.s. does not want that conflict to widen, but nor does it want attacks by iranian-backed groups to go unanswered. unanswered. nora when your gut is out of balance, your body gives you signs. so if you're frustrated with occasional bloating... ♪♪ [stomach noises] gas... or abdominal discomfort... help stop the frustration and start taking align every day. align probiotic was specifically designed by gastroenterologists to help relieve your occasional digestive upsets. so you can enjoy life. when you feel the signs, it's time to

we must insure that we stop iran, we to not allow that to happen. and overall the middle eastsction. i mean, saudi arabia was in line of having a peace if agreement with israel. iran did not want that to happen. so we need to get all that back on the table. but we must push back with strength any iranian moves in the future. eric: do you think that week delay, for example, gave the iranian proxies a chance to protect their weapons and their ammunition? and do you think that tehran looked at that and said, okay, the proxies will get hit, but we won't, we're fine? >> it may have, but it also a gave us the opportunity to really get our intel collection assets focused on certain targets in the area. so the iranian irgc commanders, you know, may have moved to iran, but they can't hide forever. so our assets are now much more focused on that. so that doesn't really bother me. what bothers me is the target selections. it's got to be more than just the proxies. eric: so when you say the proxies, israel has taken out hezbollah and hamas leaders. is it time for the u.s. again to assassin

to mining with this mining potential that we have in the central plateau and by the way in the east of iran. and you see, god has not gathered all his blessings in one place. we can activate these mines by transferring water and instead of pushing the population towards the sea, we can stabilize the population. for the east of the country , you cannot tell the people to leave their homes , go to the water and take the mines to the water, all these mines that can have infrastructure. my infrastructure is water, which means that without water, you can't do many of the exploration and exploitation permits in civil industry because of the lack of water . now, go and see how much potential can be created for the infrastructure of mines . the statement of the supreme leader, but this did not happen , i am asking you not to attribute it to the governments , the governments at all, this is the system's demand, the emphasis of the supreme leader, and i said recently , it started at the end of the 10th government, in the 11th and 12th governments, at a very fast pace. he went and reached the end, tha