mohsan abbos and we're almost running out of time, so uh, mr. abbas, something quite interesting that happened in this friday prayers is that the leader decided to to address the muslim umma in arabic, that was quite significant. in what ways do you think that could have an impact? well, i think i first of all is paid to the lie that there is a sunni shia divide, this is a, this is narrative which the israeli hasbara and the the saudi wahabist fraternity etc. have been pushing very hard, the idea of shia cresent, how iran was going to use uh shiaism to take over uh the... world seems i'm being sarcastic but certainly to take over west asia, the truth is that um that has failed because by the hezbollah and the lebanese resistance is its own full commitment to the palestinians, all the hits the lebanese civilians are taking now is as much for them as it is for gaza, because from day one of the october 7th alexa storm, the lebanese people have been physically directly... involved, hezbollah have been fighting on behalf of the gazans pulling away israeli

so maria i'm bringing you back into this discussion and of course pointing to something that uh mohsan abbas mentioned which is uh what uh the israelis tried to do they started this whole uh mind game if you will trying to play uh iranian people against the government and this is something israelis have proven to be good at so we did see lots of posts on instagram or other social media outlets uh trying to sew this kind of division among iranians that uh separating in a way uh the public from the government and the islamic republic uh, how did the presence of people in the friday prayers defy all of that? i mean, the way we see is there there are different kinds of media, we're used to look at media like you know tv, social media and all of that, but there's also a different kind of media when you live a certain way of life that imam khamenei. when you guide people over the years through number of hurdles just like imam khamani has done and when you're always with people among them with everything that happens you yourself are media and that media it has shown to be much stronger than everyt

said, i'm sorry we're running out of time, i would have loved to continue this discussion, said mohsan abbas, journalist and political commentator joining. live from london and right here in the studios with us from the iran desk mariam ozarcher. thank you for joining us on this edition of spotlight. and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. october 7th, 2023, defining moment in the... history of the region a breaking point, the day gaza broke free from its prison, natural response to decades of occupation and oppression, meticulous operation, unmatched sophistication, it surprised israel, then shocked it, then rocked it, it brought to the foreground the plight of the forgotten, pipotal shift in the fight for freedom and dignity, it was in revenge for innocent blood, it was operation. first of the headlines: israel launches new air raids on the lebanese capital, targeting the southern outsists of beirot to several violent strikes. the palestinian resistance moment hamas condemns israel's latest strike a gaza mosk that killed over 20 civilians. this place people were taking