Transcripts For CSPAN Iranian 20240705 : vimarsana.com

Targeting israeli c. Over 30 mi. Iran has used s is a gross violation of their sovereignty, both countries have protested, why are you doing we enjoy very good relations with both of the countries. We have talked and agreed for several times on the necessity of fighting terrorism and providing securities to very long shared borders, agreements between us, what happened yesterday actually two days back and the semiautonomous region ed agents of the Israeli Regime. We carried out they carried out operations inside iran, terrorist act attacks and israel took responsibility for especially there was one against one of our facilities and the republic iran, any kind of action that is carried out bethe region against oureo the republic of iran we will respond to it vigorously. We hit the base and region of iraq and we hit it with precision missiles. Does that mean we hit and targeted iraq . We targeted israel. That remains to be common eayney of both of us but on pakistan n [inaudible] they were given no none of this squares with the idea of good relations with iraq. This is a country that you have claimed to have friendly relations with. Its it seems towards friendly government. That is how iraq is reading it. We respectly do territorial integrity the and so much iraq and targeted in iraq. The intelligence is undisputable and there are elements and there was agents and those that had a hand in making iran and took responsibility for that. I repeat, retaliated and they were targeted by us and ourvue executive people are examining the matter, sharing information with the security advisers of iraq■ and our information confirmed that. This belonged to mossad and there was no mistake mad us and on pakistan, none of the about what happened in iraq, we had we have a Security Agreement between us and according to this, the government and the local people in iraq according to this are obligated to provide securityon, what was within the confines of this agreement, Security Agreement and what we have to defend ourselves and any kind of abuse of regime and taking advantage of the region against us on pakistan, none of the nationals of the friendly and broadly country of pakistan were targeted by the drones of iran. There is, this group which is an iranian terrorist group. And they are somehow they are somehow they have taken shelter in some of the province in pakistan. For several times we have talked to the a officials in pakistan and the Security Forces there. They carried out some operations in iran especially in the police station. They killed our security personnel. We responded accordingly. We only targeted iranian terrorists on the soil of pakistan before this i talked to my colleague, the honorable foreign minister of pakistan and i assured him that we do respect the sovereignty the and territory the and integrity of pakistan also those of iraq but we dont allow National Security to be played with and we have no reservation, no hesitations when it comes to our national in terrorist groups inside pakistan and those affiliated to Israeli Regime and region of iraq. What we did was actually in line with the security of pakistan, iraq and the whole region. When that the security of iraq and pakistan are the security of the republic of iran. Both disagree with what you said. Minister, let me ask you, you came on my program and my colleague interviewed you in october 29th and she asked you, do you want the war to spread and you said no, we do not wantt want escalation. Since then, hezbollah has launched attacks against israel, the houthis are attacking ships in the red sea. You have attacked iraq, you attacked pakistan. It certainly s that the actions of iran and its allies do not suggest that you are trying to keep this war from spreading. It seems as thoh you are encouraging an escalation. I agree with you in west of asia right now we are witnessing enlargement of the crisis and these tension thes are not rooted on what happened on seventh of octr and hamas is Liberation Group that has been fighting against occupation to liberate the occupied territoriesf palestine. They carried out an operation. Of course, we never agree with or approve of the killing of women and children anywhere in the world but i want to tell you that it is not rooted on what happened on the seventh is rooto when palestine was occupied by the Israeli Regime. From the very beginning from the israeli side of the war in gaza which followed the seventh of october operation we gave warnings that if they attack the war crimes and genocide against gaza and west bank do not stop, the war will spread out. It will become larger. It doesnt wanted it we want today play a large in this enlargement. No, it was because we had a proper understanding of the situation and the conditions in the region and as the result of this, some of those groups that you mentioned, they defend gaza and the United States made two strategic mistakes. The first one, they threw their weight behind the Israeli Regimes war and genocide. Supp. Its unrelenting and continued up to now. The second mistake was that they brought,onflict to the read sea and they started this by killing some of t yemeni boats. First they killed yemeni people in the boats and, you know, theres Maritime Security, something thats important to us and yemen also cares about this but the security and the red sea ied to the developmen mts in gaza. We would all be at lost, it would be to detriment if the killings and the attacks and again ride in gaza do not stop because if it happens then the crisis will persist. Explain to me that you felt iranad the right to respond to what you describe as terror attacks and terrorist groups that were attacking iran and you retaliated in iraq and in pakistan, why does israel not have the right to retaliate to the october 7th terrorist attack . What we did against most of the base and against terrorist group inside pakistan, they have nothing to do with the situation in gaza but the yemeni front and the israeli say they are retaliating against terror attack on them. We dont consider hamas a terrorist group. Hamas is Liberation Movement that has been formed against the israeli occupation. We cannot erase history. For 75 years we have had the occupation of palestine. This is a reality. What autf the palestines . On innocent women, elderly people, civilians, raped, use rape as instrument of war, you say you condemn all of this presumably because it is terrorist activity. Doesnt israel have to right to respond . What about palestinians, are they not human beings . What tbo rights . You know, Israeli Regime doesnt accept the un resolutions about the restoration of the rights of the palestinians and the form thation of the palestinian state. They all have been ignored by the Israeli Regime. According to International Law when a war breaks out, there shou two things, one is differentiation and proportionality. The officials of the israelirege seventh of october, 1,200 israelis were killed, okay. So there has been this retaliation. You know, they did not differentiate between the civilians and the military. The war has seen that. More than 16,000 children he infants, the women up to now more than 24,000 palestinians have been killed. Proportionality. They have not been observing it. So do you think 24,000, this is ten times more than the number. Israeli is occupying regime but hamas is the Liberation Movement. I repeat, we dont we dont welcome the killing ofen world, but the solution is not a military one. They have to respect the rights of the palestinians. The red sea and the ships, is there a situation in which iran would get blocking the shipment of blocking ships in the straight of hurmus . First off, we do care about the Maritime Security and the shipping safety. Our experts exports, exports are done by the sea so the security of the redn gulf are vy important to us. We benefit from it otherwise we wouldnt be able to export■ oil. Secondly, we have information that these days the yemenis and the sooties are nearing a real peace agreement. We believe that when the u. S. Got involved in it and this is not going to be good new for this agreement, we will audiotape benefit from Maritime Security and the yemenis also believe that. What happens . It has to do with the genocide of the war of the Israeli Regime the yemenis defending the palestinians. The genocide in gaza stops, then it will lead■ o to the end of other crisis and attacks in the region. You didnt ask w iran start involve itself in blocking any ships. I think your answer is no . Wee Positive Side of the developments in the region. You should not forget that in the past years and in order to■z fight against isis in iraq and syria and in the region, some of our best military were and murdered. The security of the region is our own security. Do you do you believe that hezbollah is going to get more involved in a more attacks or counterattacks in israel . Hundred days i held talks twice with mr. Honorable general of hezbollah. 48 hours before the humanitariaz ceasefire. The humanitarian in gaza in a meeting with i asked him. We got involved in thi to defene people of palestine and the whole world witnessed that in six days when there was this there was not even one bullet that was fired at its real and they were committed, committed to ceasefire but the last few days something new happened. Since 2006 there was this agreement that the capitals in beirut and tel aviv were not targeted, they were not targeted each other. Israel and gaza have no achievement by killing women and children but israel brought they assassinated one of the leaders of hamas not in gaza but in beirut. So this has created a new situation but definitely if the genocide war of the Israeli Regime comes to the a halt, the it can lead to utter crisis in other parts of the region against israel but we should not forget that today lebanon is somehow involved in the war in the red sea also and today we see that people in gaza are under attacks and they are starving in gaza and the west bank. This means that the war will go on. So at any moment it is possible that the severity and intensity of the war will rise. We should understand that war is not the solution and they are not going to destroy hamas by continuing the war and israelis prisoners will not be released if they continue the wars, the solution is very clear. Opening up the humanitarian corridors and stopping the displacements of palestinians towards sinai egypt. Today the United States is more concerned about how they are going to run gaza after the war. The post war but in our talks with the different and various palestinian leaders, some ideas there,t democratic one is that all of the palestinian leaders with older viewpoints an differences of opinion and having the referendum participated by the palestinians in both gaza and west bank and naturally the resistance against occupation according to what we have heard from the palestinians will continue their activities but the institution of the rise of the■k palestinians it can be doe in a democratic way that is election under supervision of the United Nations but still the solution lies in the war and continuing it and they are, of course, relying upon states. All the leaders in our region believe that if the war stops today. We believe that the÷x polethingy attention to and we never believe that the war is the solution. About a year ago there were reports that iran and the United States were maybe getting to the a point of some kind of revival of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That is completely closed. I wondered whether you had■g■ny comment on that. Why was it not possible to revive the Iran Nuclear Deal from your point of view . We started talks with the European Countries and some indirect talks with the united stat and ultimately these were met with the initiative that was set forth by the kingdom of oman and there were indirect talks with the United States and there were efforts made by the king of oman and the they all wanted to bring together and closer everybody that is a p to the nuclear deal. 3 there are efforts made between iran and the United States. Therefore we we believe that in f the american side have will and required will, then we can achieve the deal. So you are involved with the ukraine war, you are supplying russia with weapons . Very important point you made and touched upon. On ukraine, we have never ever provided any drone, any missile to the russia to be used against ukraine. Less than 11 months ago i had an agreement with my counterpart the Ukrainian Foreign minister. I told him if you claim that iranian made drones or weapons against you, please, give us pieces of evidence so we agreed that there would be a team comprised to meet in the city of oman. They discussed the issue for hours. They say they will go back to kyiv andprove evidence and we we back in the next round of the meeting but they didnt give us, they didnt show any kind of proof that the iranian made drones and weapons were used against them. Nnl8 i dont think its a d iranian drones to Different Countries in the region within the framework of our defense cooperation. You know, it is not difficult for any country to copy our drones, we not responsible for that. Even for that, the ukrainians have not given us any piece of evidence my dear colleague, just we are sensitive the ant the killing of people, women in gaza, syria, yemen. We have always condemned these killings and we believe that killing of civilians, we condemn that too and the solution is never war and fighting than, you know, russia we have strong relations antis with russia. We have asked them several times have you ever used iranian made weapons against ukrainians . Up to now, ukraines are claiming that iranian drones are being used against them but they have not given us not one piece of evidence. For more than 3 times i asked joseph barrel connections and uo supply them to us but they have not. This is the basis allegation. When i look at the data it seems to me that iran has been able to export more and more oil. Are the sanctions against iran in place, are you able to export as much oil as you want . The sanctions imposed on iran are unilateral illegal. We consider it our natural righd the United States is not the master o the world to the decide about otheres. Those days are over and we defend our rights and within the framework of the International Law we will continue to■ do so. The event in gaza, many people predicted that the arab countries that have normalized relations with u. S. Israel, that has not happened. Saudi arabia has talked about or at least reports talked about continuing objective to normalize relations with israel. This seems to the leave iran more and more isolated in the region. Have not recognized that israel. We believe its just occupying powers, 75 years of occupation. This does not create right for israel to exist mr. Zararia, algeria was occupied by another country. The listening occupation of algeria came to an end, right . So the countries of the region enter foreign interactions and decisions, whatever decision they come up with is their own business and their own foreign policy. Isote countries are recognizing. But we are witnessing that during the time of trump and under the pressure from him they normalize with israel. They have not benefited from this the and they are not facing more problems. Isolated. Ael is the one that is its the positive part of the developments in the region because its our region and it is very important to us, tegione progress in the region. In our administration, we have put very high on our agenda the policy of interacting and cooperating, collaborating with our neighboring countries, with all of the countries of the world, dialogue and the progress with all the parties including the western countries. This is something that has come to the attention of the administration. Do you want the see an end to the hostity and conflict with the United States . Your still part of the encouragt death to america and calls america the great satan and you say you want better relations andeturn to t how are these things how can both be true . Theres so much state propaganda designedo■ maintain the hostility and the rage against the ud firstly, anything that we see that is based on Mutual Respect by the American Administration will be welcomed by us. Mutual respect. Respect them. T secondly, the problem that is there is that i we reached a deal with the United States, jcpoa, the nuclear deal, it commitments and obligations to all the parties. That deal was turned into official the and recognized resolution in the Un Security Council but it was t states that broke broke the deal, broke the promise for us. Theres no difference between a. You guys were still which parting death to america, you still had the trampling on american flag, y the great satan as the slogan, that better relations. The desire for you know, Nuclear Agreement was finalized they kept violating it from administration of obama and the worst mistake, the worst decision was made by trump but in our government we said that we will be ready, we waited for them the. We stay committed to it for long time but the United States kept violating the deal. They were still breaking theirp. There were temporary ones that it seems that it has become a part of the■ dna of the americn foreign policy. It doesnt make the difference what administration is in power. We want the United States if they are committed to the we will also be commit today the deal. Mutual respect. Anything unconstructive, you can friendly, the behaviors of the United States, we will retaliate to them. It would be in the favor of the peace and security o if the United States would become less hostile would becomf confrontational. Thank you very much. Youve been frank as always. I appreciate