risby, welcome to press tv. now, mr. risby, first of all, your thoughts on the islamic republic's support for the palestinians and the palestinian cause, and why do you think since the 1979 islamic revolution, iran continues to support the palestinian course, despite the numerous sanctions slapped on the nation. we know that it isn't uh the... reason for the sanctions, but is part of it as it goes against the west policy and most importantly zionism. yes, thank you for having me. the first day of the of the islamic revolution in 1979, khomini promised that iran would would step up for palestine and would have full solidarity with the palestinian cause. this was actually even reflected on by the leaders of the of the pij back then. i believe they came out with the booklet called the islamic solution and the alternative where they praised the islamic revolution in iran and saw this as as as a light an an otherwise dark world for the palestinian cause that they now had had vehiment ally behind them in order to fight the zio

risby, i mean, i'm not trying to um, elevate the status of fuzar as a professor at the university of tehran, but the discussion and the content and what he said are all up uh exercising democracy within the realm of what he was describing, and that just shows again what my first question was, which which is the notion of democracy, and i'd like to find out why it is that countries like the us and other western countries or any country that tries to undermine the democratic system in iran, um is trying so hard to do that and trying to dissuade people from going to the uh polling stations, what what types of motivations do you think they have? yes, western countries will always try to utilize another country in order to paint itself in a better image, because they know, western countries rather, they know that they do not function for the sake of people, they don't function for the sake of masses, they function for the sake of very select elite few, the billionaires. the ruling class and these are the representatives of the ruling class and so when you have other countries, other gover

earlier we joined by political commentator shabir risby who gave us some insight into israel's genocidal war in gaza. he said that peace is impossible to achieve in west asia as long as the israeli regime exists in the... region in order for the region to be stabilized in order for the region to see peace, israel must be removed uh, it it's it's as clear as day, as long as this illegitimate regime is allowed to stay in any sort of way, whether whether it's a two-state solution or what have you, um, it poses a direct threat to the region, the only way for the region to see any peace is the dissolution of israel, is the overthrow of israel and iran, correctly sees that and correctly backs that as you saw throughout years um specifically with general sulaimani who worked on the battlefront with leaders of the of the islamic resistance and also hamas of pij and also the pflp who all praise iran who all praised general sulaymani six months later and the they're unable to stop the palestinian resistance to the point where the palestinian resistance even from the north is... able to send rocket

activist eve angler joining us from montreal, and from chicago we have political commentator shabir risby. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with m strangler in montreal uh now attacking hospitals and shelters uh, it's been a hallmark of the israeli regime's conduct throughout its genocidal assault, now al-shifa hospital where 30,000 palestinians are taking shelter, has been under attack and under siege for almost a week now, some of the details of what's going on there, israeli forces have cut off water and electricity uh to the uh medical facility, has the impunity of the israelis completely in line within uh the inaction of international community reach this point where they can push the boundaries of monstrosity and act in complete contravention of all international conventions and rules of armed conflict. unfortunately it has, mean it's war crime after war crime after war crime after war crime, they boast about it is really you know soldiers boast about it online and it looks like the us is going to be vedoing another un resolution uh, they they uh, i mean the israel