of destruction is truly shocking buildings in ruins burned cars and rubble are on the ground mohammad marandi shared his experience of visiting the city with us. they all seem those who we spoke to them terribly step for they were all they all seem very pleased too for the city to have been retaken but they were saying that the american airstrikes were very devastating and very. hurtful to ordinary people and that many civilians were killed they also they more or less across iraq in the cities that i've been to i'm in baghdad right now people have been blaming the united states more than anyone else for this devastation. unfortunately the iraqi government to spend doesn't have the money to rebuild the city because it's still fighting the war it's trying to liberate the west of the country there is no way that any of these cities are going to be rebuilt any time soon and i think that many people will gradually leave the country and move towards europe because there's just no hope. we also actually the same group of people we visited aleppo right after a liberation as well and what it was very

right now to speak about what he saw welcome to the program professor mohammad marandi it's nice to have you here it's good to have someone who's been there why why first if you decide to go to visit the embattled city. well we were invited by iraqi counterparts mean a couple of colleagues and they offered to take us to. we we accepted the offer and we visited both sides of the city there was huge devastation and we also actually the same group of people we visited. a love poem right after a liberation as well and what it was very interesting or very unfortunate was that the devastation in. east aleppo which was occupied by al-qaeda in syria. was very similar to the devastation that we saw in west. and the the bombing by the americans basically destroyed so much of that part of the city the west side of the city yet the western media said almost nothing about it whereas when in syria russian and syrian iranians were trying to liberate the city from al qaeda forces what the western media was. talking about the russian air force and the syrian air force. bombing civilian targets and so on