End of the meeting between Xi and Trump, without a joint decision regarding Iran

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0:01 Hello. It is Friday, 3 Mehr 1405, 25 September 2026. The meeting between Mr. Xi, the President of China, and Mr. Trump, the President of the United States, has come to an end. Naturally, a meeting between the world's two leading economic, and even military, powers drew everyone's attention. For us Iranians, the Iran part mattered too. From what I have followed of the news coming out of these meetings, the dinner and so on, it can be summed up in three words: at this meeting there was no reconciliation, nor did any new confrontation take shape. It is better described as managing

1:04 the disputes and putting them on hold. That means the trade truce the two countries established last Ordibehesht has been extended until 10 January. So tariffs are not going to be raised or lowered. China, which has the upper hand in the world in the technology, processing and supply of the 17 rare earth elements, and practically holds a monopoly on some of them, for example up to 94 percent of the production of the materials used in making permanent magnets,

1:57 will take no action on these. These rare elements are used heavily in all kinds of industries and technologies. In return, the US will not impose new restrictions on artificial intelligence and on Nvidia's chips, the company that, so to speak, owns the wafers it makes, and so on, beyond what it already has; it will continue as is. In effect, the current status quo on these two important levers of the two countries will be preserved. China repeated that it wants the US to oppose Taiwan's independence,

2:50 but naturally the US took no new position and made no change, especially since, apart from Taiwan's geopolitical issues, Taiwan is now an important link in the production of the very chips used in artificial intelligence. In practice, a significant part of the hardware needed for this great American lever, this new technology that is conquering the world, is in Taiwan, so Taiwan has gained added value as well. As for Iran, even though the American ambassador to China had said that Trump had expressed his displeasure with the assistance

3:42 China gives Iran, for example, it is said China has provided Iran with high-resolution satellite images, with high visual clarity, on the basis of which Iran attacked, for instance, the American base in Jordan, and the US is pressuring China to cut off its support for Iran, its economic cooperation and so on, on this issue too things did not go beyond words and nothing in particular happened. Although some senators, both Democrats and Republicans, pressured Mr. Trump and said publicly that you must be tough on Iran, that you must be tough on China

4:37 to restrict Iran and so on, the news that has come out does not indicate that; here too nothing in particular happened. And China's official position, as Mr. Xi announced, was that China still believes this Persian Gulf war must stop and be resolved through negotiations between Iran and America, and that the solution is a return to the 14-point Islamabad memorandum of understanding. In addition, regarding the US sanctions, which have intensified in transportation, air transport, shipping and so on, China has repeatedly declared that it does not accept these

5:34 unilateral sanctions, pays no attention to them and does not comply with them. That is why, for example, in the current situation, in which, since the first of Mehr and under American pressure, airports in various countries are being closed to Iranian flights, the latest being in Iraq, where besides Baghdad airport, Najaf airport too, which was mostly built and financed by Iran after the fall of Saddam, has been closed to Iranian flights, and an Iranian plane that had flown there had to return without passengers, and passengers who even had tickets have to return overland; and in the Kurdistan Region too, the flights that existed have been suspended,

6:34 China, however, has announced that Mahan Air's flights, twice a week to Beijing and likewise to two other cities, Shanghai and Guangzhou, every week, remain in place and that it has no intention of reducing or restricting them. In addition, a Chinese airline also has ten flights a week to Iran. So we can see that, in fact, America and China, on Iran as on the Taiwan issue, are for now not stepping on each other's toes, and things are not going beyond words. Now, Mr. Netanyahu also had his turn at the United Nations yesterday and spoke, and although a fairly large number of

7:38 delegations walked out of the hall, which angered Mr. Netanyahu, and he addressed them harshly with something like "unprincipled cowards," the notable point in his remarks, setting aside the ones that are repetitive and the same as before, was that important events will soon happen in Iran. Either he said this in his usual manner, that the people of Iran will soon rise up and revolt and this regime will be finished, in which case "soon" has no specific timeframe, or it does, as some rumors have it, that in the month of Mehr, before the Israeli

8:36 elections, which take place in early Aban by our calendar, Israel may either attack Iran to target Iran's infrastructure, although if it wanted to do that, America has so far opposed it, unless Israel is attacked by Iran, as it has said explicitly; and it is not unlikely that, with these hardliners, among whom it is not clear Israel has no influence, such a pretext might suddenly be handed to Israel. But another possibility being raised is that Israel is seeking, once again, for example through a call by someone like Mr. Reza Pahlavi,

9:31 who has close relations with Israel, to have people come out into the streets and hold widespread protests like in Dey, and whether they would be suppressed or not, succeed or not, attack government centers and so on, we do not know. But these speculations surround Mr. Netanyahu's remark. Interestingly, Mr. Reza Pahlavi also said on Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News, that America does not need to put boots on the ground and send American soldiers; the boots on the ground are the Iranian people themselves; we just need to put weapons in their hands so that

10:27 they can fight the regime. The solution he offered was that America should take from Iran's blocked, frozen funds in banks and give it to the opposition to send weapons, so that people could go and fight. His argument is that civil resistance is useless, the regime suppresses it, so there must be weapons to fight with. Now, regarding the blocked money: America can threaten banks with cutting their dollar access or banning them from operating in the US, fine them, and demand that they block or freeze Iran's money, but it cannot take the money. The account holder is not America; it is Iran,

11:21 and the banks will not do such a thing either. But setting the money issue aside, the point is that this approach, which seems to reflect his view and that of some of his supporters and many people, is that civil resistance means street protest, and since street protest gets suppressed, civil resistance is useless, so we must move, for example, toward violent struggle. This is one of those very bad mistakes, because street protest in the form of mass demonstrations is one of the 346 methods compiled so far in civil resistance, tactics that have been put into practice, and

12:18 in fact this is precisely the tactic that should not be used against this regime, which is fully prepared for street suppression. There are dozens of other protest methods. There are dozens of methods for paralyzing the regime, plus the third pillar, meaning methods of causing defections from the regime, and all of these together must work. In fact, street protest should, for now, be off the agenda in every form. Anyway, interestingly, Mrs. Farah Pahlavi, Mr. Reza Pahlavi's mother, said in an interview with the French magazine Point de Vue, conducted in Paris and apparently featured on the magazine's cover, that she was and still is opposed to the attack on Iran, whereas

13:14 her son, Mr. Reza Pahlavi, has in practice supported this war and has explicitly opposed any negotiation or compromise. And now he is talking about armed struggle. Another point: it seems that following an understanding reached in Tehran between the two main factions of the regime over the theme of Mr. Pezeshkian's speech and also the seven-point proposal to America, which is reflected in the statements of figures from both factions that we discussed in the previous program, yesterday Mr. Araghchi, at a press conference in New York, went one

14:10 step further and said that if America accepts Iran's seven conditions, we will open the Strait of Hormuz within 7 days. In explaining this, he laid out some of these seven conditions, including that America lift the naval blockade, release 12 billion dollars, half of the so-called 24 billion dollars Iran talks about, and grant a sanctions waiver for the sale of Iranian oil; never mind the other sanctions, but Iran should be able to sell oil, and then we would sit at the negotiating table and deal with the nuclear issue. So far, no response has been given to these remarks from the American side.

15:05 Meanwhile, the dollar today even reached 237,000 tomans at one point, but settled at 235,000 tomans. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.