again, we speak to professor science mohamad marandi from the university of tehran site. thanks very much for giving us your time this evening. iran is calling the attack an assassination. what indications are that this is the out or the possible motives well, 1st of all i should correct something that was said more than once before this particular interview. and that is that iran has never accepted back use asian that its nuclear program had a military wing, or that it had a military angle. let me, let me just clarify my right to bring up something we aren't. we are saying that that is what israel has concluded and are accusing iran of side. we just want to say that no, that's not what israel has concluded. that's israeli propaganda, we know this is really regime has manufactured a, a laptop that it used to claim that iran was building a nuclear weapon. we know that the israelis lied. so it's not something that they concluded, it's something that they fabricated in order to justify murder and terrorism. and of course, this assassination is illegal and it's an act of war.

university of tehran, i do hope there's a good connection for you can hear me. ok. iran is calling this an assassination and what indications are there for the out or indeed possible motives here? i think their government, their motivation, its nuclear program because you don't have the number of very good scientists who obviously was a good scientists. but many people, younger people who are active. and i think the real reason behind the nation is listen, it's diplomacy with iran. i think israelis are worried that biden administration may go back to the new c.b.s. agreement that the biden administration, they actually engage in diplomacy. and they want to engage in diplomacy. and they want to access and diplomacy. they want to make sure that the new administration in washington does not gauge diplomatically. and this is the basic basic reason that the warmongers in you are engaging in the type of terrorism. 'd just to expound on the around nuclear deal. how do you think it may be? in fact, just to give our viewers a reminder, donald trump states. no, joe biden look

let's cross live to professor sayyid mohammad marandi of the university of tehran now a thank you for joining us on the program on this big day professor donald trump says he was and will go to the supreme court to stop fraudulent counting won't do you make of that. i think many people in iran are the news about the situation in the united states and how divided the country is and the fact that the united states always presents itself as exceptional and above the rest of the world yet the country is so deeply divided the elites and the intellectuals and many of the high the educated despise trump immensely and trump supporters on the other hand despise them and it shows that this notion of the united states being a melting pot is absolute nonsense and misleading but i think if it were it's it remains to be seen what happens that many in iran actually do prefer ordinary people obviously despise trump because he's trying to starve the countries preventing medicine from getting into the country is trying to kill as many ordinary people as possible but many others do recall that these san

he's a professor of orientalism and chair of the american studies department at the university of tehran, joins us now by skype from there. good to have you with us. so 1st of all. why is the official narrative not very clear at this point about how fathers are there was assassinated? it's difficult to say there may be a host of different reasons for this are that it is just speculation by the media to get more clicks. part of it may be intentional by the government, but what is important is that this murder was carried out this assassination. this act of terror was carried out. we are an american green line. we can tell from trump's tweet or reach weeds, as well as the information provided by american officials to the york times that the united states supported and the israeli regime carried it out. and this would fit with what we had a decade ago when under obama, the united states helped israeli regime murder 4 other scientists in separate terrorist attacks. well, that this problem of murdering iranian scientists has been going on, as you mentioned, for a number of years. what options

let's bring in our body who's an international humanitarian law expert at the university of tehran. iran, he joins us live by skype from tehran, mysie a very 1st stop it. as we've just seen, these kind of incidents have happened before. tell us more about your reaction to what's happened. nice to be with you nic, best. actually, according to the international law, these assassination is considered while ation of international human rights law. irrespective of the targets, it sees an extra judicial killing and it is always condemned by the international community and international law. and mr. factory's other was a highly respected in gene you're and scientist, a university professor working with both civil and military industries. as many other scientists are doing the same around the world, so he's assassination or to so called targeted killing cannot be considered as a defensive action, as he did not hold any active operational military commands. therefore, it is an act of terror and it is condemned. obviously, the iranian foreign minister has pointed the finger at israel. he has n

a professor of put science at tehran university and the author of "surviving execution -- a miscarriage of justice and the fight to end the death penalty." welcome to you all. i would like to begin in tehran. you support the death penalty. why do you think it makes such a deterrent? guest: the first issue is we have to look at every country separately. i don't think we can have a general rule for the entire globe regarding capital punishment. the latest data on iran, the world values survey, which was conducted in 2020, so it is very recent, asked air radians what they thought of capital punishment. it was on a scale of one to 10 with one being never suitable and 10 being always suitable. over 80% of iranians chose a number of five or over. so a majority of iranians, including myself, support the capital punishment system and i think it does act as a deterrent for potential violent crime perpetrators. i don't think just because you have certain laws that other countries, they have to be enforced in countries such as iran. anchor: just because something is popular doesn't mean it's right

of guests all joining us on skype in melbourne. stephanie mcclellan, a senior manager, asia, and initiatives for human rights watch and tehran, hamad and professor of political science at tehran, university, and import rush, northern ireland, inwards author of surviving execution, a miscarriage of justice, and the fight to end the death penalty. a welcome to you all, i'd like to begin in tehran with a 100 or so if you actually support the death penalty. why do you think it makes such a terror? and well, i think the 1st issue here is we have to look at every country separately. i don't think we can have a general rule for the entire globe regarding capital punishment. the latest data on iran, the world values survey which was actually conducted in 2020. so. 'd it's very recent, ask the iranians, what they thought of capital punishment would. it was on a scale of $1.00 to $10.00 with one to be never suitable, and 10 being always suitable over 80 percent of iranians actually chose a number of 5 or over. so a majority of iranians, including myself, support the capital punishment system, and i think it does act as a deterrent for potential violent crime perpetrators in i don't think just beca

tehran, i said break. let's now move on to mohammad marandi, who's a professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of toronto, joins us live by skype from tehran. as i say, very much a developing story at this point in time. what more do you know? what's your reaction to this news? well, 1st of all, at the beginning of europe, europe ort, you stated that this was a part of iran's controversial nuclear program. iran's nuclear program is not controversial. it's only controversial in the eyes of the united states and its allies, which want up a monopoly over technology and over the region as a whole. he is not the 1st scientists to be murdered. and it is interesting that every time that you run arrests, western spies, the western media, including unfortunately non-western, english media. they mimic western claims that these are all passages, they're all innocent as if you run arrest, no one but innocent people. but it's the cumulation intelligence that these very spies gather that needs to murder, assassination, and terrorism. and then suddenly the western media, the western media as they cloaked abo

university of oklahoma, pleasure cric recapping of what we've just been speaking about are our main and only story today. as scientists labeled, the father of the iranian nuclear program has been killed in tehran. his car was reportedly targeted by a bomb on friday. before coming are they really in defense ministry has called it a terror attack. while tehran's top diplomat has said he believes israel was behind it, there's been no response yet from israel and no one's claimed responsibility. yet iran's foreign ministry called on the international community to condemn the killing. broadcasting live from moscow. this is r.t. international council, latest updates with me at the top of the hour. hope this human, you know, millions of years to build up. an emotional one. communication happens with 10000000 syrians inside because it's 60 milliseconds just now when you get to the same room, you know, this emotional bond between us is a very different breed, is joining me every day on the alex salmond. and i'll be speaking to the world of politics, or i'm show business by recommending what i call go out. or yours will pull you out of bed and him out the museum. what about and i didn't do? it will alwa

of infections. non-essential businesses will close in the capital, tehran and 160 are the high risk towns and cities. and a large scale study at oxford university shows that people infected with the virus on likely to catch it again for at least 6 months. for italy was the 1st western country to be hit by the corona virus. and now it's struggling to deal with the 2nd wife of infections. on friday authorities there registered more than $37000.00 new cases and almost 700 deaths. d.w. travelled to the south and city of naples where hospitals are overwhelmed. only a few days ago, you have to lost her father to cope with 19. she says it is still too hard for her to look at this photo. and it's not only her who's mourning, but the whole sunday town neighborhood in naples, francesco, to a total, was well known here, a political activist who left his mark all over senator. just as many here will remember him as a fighter for better health care. this fight became the symbol of his death. my father died because of mismanagement of the health care system. one kilometer behind his house, the hospital was partly closed. so he fought for it to be operative a

university professor of physics, a senior scientist at the iranian ministry of defense. western and israeli intelligence claim he was in charge of iran's attempt to build a nuclear bomb, but tehran denies ever trying to build a nuclear weapon. every landmark report by the iaea said he played a key role in developing nuclear technology. he is believed to have links to iran's revolutionary guards. mohsen fakhrizadeh was subject to an asset freeze because iran refused to make him available for an interview with the iaea. let's speak with mark fitzpatrick, previously a u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state. he joins us from washington. i know no one has determined if a state actor was involved, but to assassinate someone with this standing, can you walk us through the strategic calculus? mark: two different levels, the supposed level was that fakhrizadeh was critical to the past development of iran's nuclear weapons program, a program that has largely been on hold for the last 15 years. he has been maintaining the personnel and organizational apparatus to get it going again shouldn't order,, and the purpose of the assassination, a stencil believe is -- ostensibly is to impede ira

of current virus infections. non-essential businesses will close in the capital, tehran and 160 other high risk towns and cities. and a large scale study at oxford university shows that people infected with the virus is unlikely to catch it again for at least 6 months. well, it's been 75 years now since the nuremberg trials brought nazi leaders to justice in what's been called the birth of international law. 24 high ranking representatives of the nazi regime were indicted for war crimes in the southern german city of nuremberg. it was the 1st tribunals of its kind and the 1st time any of the country's leaders had stood before an international court. a year later guilty verdicts lead to prison sentences and 12 death penalties. and the trial paved the way for the creation of the international criminal court in the hague. would you're in commemorations today at nuremberg palace of justice, where those trials took place. 75 years ago german president found my emphasize this significant fix. the nuremberg trials of the main war criminals were revolutionary, and they didn't just make legal history. they made world history. but most of the known for the nurnberg