Two US aircraft carriers to reach the region by the end of the week

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0:01 Hello. It is Friday, 26 Dey 1404, 16 January 2025. The black curtain that the bloodthirsty government of the Islamic Republic has drawn over the country, so that in the darkness it can kill and repress the people, is still in place. This killing and repression is rightly a case of crimes against humanity. A state of martial law has been reported in some cities such as Mashhad, in some neighborhoods of Tehran, and in several other cities. It is said that the government has asked for the country to be reopened, and the Islamic Republic's television is also trying to show scenes suggesting that

1:03 life has returned to normal. But everything is still disrupted, and the security and repressive apparatuses have not agreed to let normal conditions return. In some parts of the country, such as Kermanshah, clashes and confrontations are still being reported. A wave of protest has risen among veterans of the Islamic Republic and those outside it, the disabled veterans of the 8-year war, who say: we fought for 8 years, our friends were killed or we were wounded, so that foreigners would not come into our country and rape our families and our citizens

2:02 or kill them, and now, at Khamenei's hands, they have brought in foreigners to kill our people in the streets of Tehran, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz and other cities. As I said before, it is established that they have used both the Fatemiyoun and the Zeynabiyoun, the Afghan divisions, the Pakistani and Afghan fighters who had been employed in Syria, in the killings. And many media outlets, such as CNN, are also reporting that they have brought forces of the Hashd al-Shaabi from Iraq. This is another thing that, in fact, should never happen, because we fought Iraq for 8 years so that

2:55 it would not set foot on the pure soil of our homeland, and we drove it out, and now, at Khamenei's hands, they have brought Iraqis to kill people in the streets of the country. It is said that at least 16,000 people have been arrested in the recent events, if not more, and there is no information about their situation, possibly torture, possible executions, and so on. Although Mr. Trump today thanked Iran's leadership because they had supposedly been going to execute some 800 people and did not. It is not clear where this figure was given to Mr. Trump from. Why 800? Why not 700

3:49 or 900? How do we know the Islamic Republic did not simply fabricate it, and then say, "Well, we didn't execute them"? But in any case, this is Mr. Trump's statement. Despite this, today Mr. Ejei, the head of the judiciary, and a whole chain of Friday prayer leaders in Tehran and other cities called for the harshest treatment, executions and so on. Mr. Trump's zigzags continue. After emphasizing four times in writing that if the government wants to kill the people, America will stop it and take action, and then doing nothing while thousands of our compatriots were drenched in blood, it has now become clear that

4:51 he basically did not have the forces in the region for a military operation. The Al Udeid base in Qatar also does not permit America to carry out operations from there, and America has moved its forces out of Qatar. According to the press, two American aircraft carriers, which together may carry perhaps 200 to 300 aircraft or even more, are heading to the Persian Gulf region, and they will only reach the region on Wednesday or Friday at the end of the coming week, and only then will the forces be there. What America will do once the forces finally reach the region is still unclear. Will it pound the IRGC's centers? Will it disrupt the communications

5:49 of the machinery of repression? Will it kill Khamenei or not? Nothing is clear, assuming, of course, that Mr. Trump does not change his position as well. In any case, the reports that America's expert agencies have put on Mr. Trump's desk say that neither Mr. Pahlavi's camp and his friends nor the other forces outside the country are able to run the country, and that there is no alternative but a broad coalition of the opposition forces against the Islamic Republic, together with parts of the regime itself; this is unavoidable in order to be able to take over and

6:44 run the country. But as for these statements, what will America actually do in practice? What decision will Mr. Trump make? Can he do anything at all or not? Everything is shrouded in ambiguity, and we have to wait and see. But one thing is certain: one cannot rely on any foreign power, even though one can engage with all of them. On the other hand, Mr. Witkoff, who is perhaps Mr. Trump's main diplomatic figure, has said that this is a good time to extract concessions from the Islamic Republic on the three issues America has raised before,

7:42 namely the nuclear issue, missiles, and proxy forces. Mr. JD Vance, Mr. Trump's vice president, has said something similar. In fact, one can see that part of the White House and Mr. Trump's apparatus is pursuing friendship with the Islamic Republic and wants to use this opportunity, which has come at the cost of the blood of thousands of our compatriots, to extract concessions from the Islamic Republic. On the other hand, it was reported yesterday that Mr. Netanyahu told Mr. Trump that Israel is not ready for America to attack, because the Islamic Republic might attack Israel, and

8:36 Israel is not yet ready. This is something that, for example, Israel's Channel 14 and many experts deny, saying that Israel has perhaps been ready for two or three months, has built shelters for the people, and has put defenses around its nuclear facilities and other possible targets of the Islamic Republic. This statement by Mr. Netanyahu can mean only one of two things: either it is a deception plan, and he and Mr. Trump have made these arrangements together, and all of Mr. Trump's strange statements are also part of a deception plan, like in the 12-day war, and they will suddenly launch a military operation; or Mr. Trump, who is now under a great deal of pressure

9:30 both from inside America and from the people of Iran, since he had promised to do something and did not, and bears a moral responsibility, wants to use this statement by Netanyahu to shirk that responsibility and say that because Israel's security is a priority, he will not carry out any operation for now, since on this matter there is no disagreement among the various factions in America. Meanwhile, yesterday the UN Security Council held a session. In it, the representatives of China and Russia defended the Islamic Republic and attacked America, and the representatives of America and the Western countries

10:26 strongly attacked the Islamic Republic and condemned the killing of the people. A good thing the Americans did was to bring two of the Islamic Republic's opposition figures, Ms. Masih Alinejad and Mr. Ahmad Batebi, to the Security Council session. Ms. Masih Alinejad strongly attacked the UN Secretary-General, asking why he is afraid of Iran and says nothing, and she also condemned sitting around talking and doing nothing. Mr. Ahmad Batebi also gave an account of the torture he endured during the 9 years he was in prison, and how they pressure you to confess that you are an agent of Israel or an agent of America, and then they convict and execute you on the basis of those very confessions, something which he said we may witness again with the

11:24 recent arrests. Mr. Reza Pahlavi also held a press conference today, and in his remarks at this conference he asked the international community, along six axes, in six points, to come to the aid of the people of Iran. In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.