Where does the news of doctors' resignation come from?

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0:01 Hello. It is Monday, 11 Khordad 1405, June 1, 2026. First, let me apologize for not being with you on Friday. The ongoing saga of war and peace between Iran and America, with Israel of course behind it, continues. Let's start with the military events. In retaliation for the attack on Bandar Abbas airport, Iran targeted an American reconnaissance drone. In retaliation, America attacked the radar center and the command-and-control center for Iran's drones on the island of

0:56 Qeshm. In retaliation, Iran fired ballistic missiles at an American base in Kuwait. CENTCOM, the US Central Command for the Middle East, says it intercepted the two missiles and that they caused no damage. Meanwhile, America struck the engine room of an Iranian ship called the Lian Star, saying it was trying to break the naval blockade. And today, in retaliation, Iran attacked a container ship near Umm Qasr in Iraq with a cruise missile, saying it was American- and Israeli-owned, although the ship belongs to a large shipping company owned by an Italian family.

1:56 Meanwhile, Israel's attacks on Lebanon, both air and ground, as it tries to capture everything south of the Litani River, and even its strikes on Beirut and talk of attacking Nabatieh, Tyre, Sidon and so on, led the Islamic Republic to threaten to close the Bab el-Mandeb. Mr. Qaani, commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, threatened to close the Bab el-Mandeb through the Houthis. At the same time, various Iranian officials stated that if there is no ceasefire in Lebanon, they will halt the negotiations,

2:53 and Tasnim News Agency, for example, said the talks had been halted. But Mr. Trump announced today that he had spoken by phone with Mr. Netanyahu and, through an intermediary, with Lebanon's Hezbollah, and that both sides had agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon. According to Mr. Trump, Israel agreed not to attack Beirut, not to go in, and turned back halfway. Hezbollah, according to the Lebanese government, has said that if Israel stops its operations, it too will stop firing missiles, drones and the like. Mr. Trump also said that negotiations with Iran have not stopped, and as always, of course,

3:49 he said it will be finished next week, good news will come, and the deal will be done, because the Iranians want to negotiate. Mr. Baghaei, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, who is now also spokesman for the negotiating team, likewise said that despite distrust of America, the exchange of messages continues, and so the negotiations are ongoing. Also, on Friday Mr. Trump was supposed to attend a meeting of the US National Security Council, whose permanent members are the secretaries of state and defense, the national security adviser, the CIA director and the vice president, and which has to make decisions on foreign policy. Mr. Trump had said that on Friday,

4:52 after hearing their views, he would make his decision. According to Iranian and Pakistani officials, Iran had submitted its proposal; they even said it had been finalized, and it seemed very likely that America would accept it. But on Friday, despite having said he would decide, Mr. Trump announced that he would take a day or two to think it over, and he did not decide. Today, Monday, it was reported that he has added some points and that the proposal has been sent to Iran, so that Iran can respond to what Mr. Trump has added, or perhaps removed. So we can see that the question of peace and

5:50 negotiations, and the signing of this memorandum of understanding, which reportedly includes a 60-day window for negotiating the details, extendable, is still going back and forth and still has not been signed. In this situation, this state of neither war nor peace is doing the greatest damage to Iran's economy and to people's livelihoods, and activity in Iran has effectively become, one could say, paralyzed. Reconstruction, the normal flow of the economy, and especially investment, construction and so on, are all in a state of

6:49 limbo. More than anything else, this situation is damaging Iran's economy. The Central Bank has published figures, which are usually lower than the real figures, putting the inflation rate for Ordibehesht compared with Ordibehesht of last year at 70-some percent, which is higher than in Farvardin, meaning inflation has risen again. The same rate for food is 119 percent, again higher than in Farvardin, so the upward trend in prices continues. Furthermore, in just the first two months of this year alone,

7:45 healthcare and medical costs rose 40 percent. The misery index, which economists define as the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate, has been put at 61 percent on average nationwide, and that is just from adding up the government-announced inflation rate and the government's unemployment rate; the real figures are probably higher. When you look at it province by province, Kurdistan province has the highest misery index in the country, in the 70s, followed by Kermanshah at 75.

8:43 In any case, this pressure on the people, on jobs, unemployment and business, and on the other side, high prices, can all be seen clearly in the various indicators and in various dimensions, and that is what points to the danger of an economic tsunami. But yesterday, suddenly, it was widely reported that Mr. Pezeshkian had resigned. Then the government spokesman, his associates, and later he himself denied the news, and the question arose: where do these rumors come from?

9:35 Of course, this talk of his resignation is not without basis, because it is said that in a meeting he had a month ago with Mojtaba Khamenei, he argued that there must be negotiations, that the country cannot be run like this, and that this war must be brought to peace. And on the conditions for negotiation, when Mojtaba Khamenei said that the 400 kilograms of 60-percent enriched uranium should be kept out of the negotiations, Pezeshkian apparently said that this was not feasible and that if they insisted on it, they should put someone else in charge; in effect, he threatened to resign. So perhaps the source of this news is that conversation from a month ago, which has leaked out. But when you examine it,

10:34 you see that many of these rumors stem from the power struggles within the regime, specifically from the circle around Mojtaba Khamenei, especially people close to Jalili's faction and the Paydari Front. Most of these rumors originate there; they also have a foothold in IRGC Intelligence. These same people leak to media outside Iran, which then quote them, and in this way they stir up a rumor. That there is disagreement and factionalism within the regime, now over negotiating or not negotiating, hardline stances versus peace, backing down or standing firm, and so on,

11:27 is certainly true, and infighting on this front is nothing new. But in any case, attacks on Pezeshkian's government and on him personally by the pro-war, anti-negotiation factions usually intensify every so often. Meanwhile, the Kalameh website has reported that Mr. Mousavi is hospitalized. He is in his eighties and has been under house arrest for more than 16 years along with his wife, Zahra Rahnavard. After the war began and the Pasteur area was bombed, and the house where they were held on Akhtar Alley was damaged and destroyed, and they were reportedly slightly injured, they were apparently moved to another house,

12:29 whose location no one yet knows. But the Kalameh website has reported that Mr. Mousavi is hospitalized. Finally, in Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan and part of Markazi province, a locust infestation has struck more than 40,000 hectares of farmland. It is one of the worst agricultural pests, and it has a very damaging effect on farmers' crops and on the country's production. Here's to the victory of Iran and Iranians.