Discussion on Military and Security Issues

Mr. Judiciary, or the security apparatus, step in, arrest them, detain them.

Seriously, don't you have anything else to do?

[ music] Sir,

all media protocols in the political, security,

and military spheres have gone up in smoke. Why? Because there is a war.

Before October 7, four years ago, for example,

the IRGC would take a cameraman by force inside these tunnels to film, saying,'

No one should find out which region this missile city is actually in.'

Now people look and see, they wake up at 8: 00 a.m. and see,

oh, the mountains behind their house, Israel came and bombed them.

Then they see, 15 minutes later, missiles are fired from those very mountains.

In the morning,

people see Israel coming to hit the Haft- e Azar missile base in Bidganeh,

hitting their tunnels, and they would fire from here.

Are these things supposed to be secret?

Or this Piroozi Hill, well, it's the IRGC headquarters, it has tunnels there.

The tunnel has meetings, it has commanders. They've bombed it 100 times.

We don't fire missiles from there. Why do they bomb it?

Because it's their safe haven, And they don't have the power to do anything.

Actually, we don't have any secret missile cities in Iran.

Everyone knows where the missile cities are,

where the tunnels are, Because we've traded blows.

Either it's getting hit or it's firing.

Israel announces news about all the tunnels they hit.

" I hit here with these coordinates, I wanted to hit the commanders' meeting,

I was successful here, successful there..." It's all out there.

What a simplistic view it is to think that, for example, the missile city is like a

sugar bowl, like we hid it somewhere and Israel or America doesn't know.

Now, just because some people don't know, they think," Oh,

this is classified information." No way, this is all out there.

Just search, it's all over the place.

During the war, we ourselves said everything that Israel had already said.

Meaning, you shouldn't say what the enemy doesn't know,

not something the enemy has already hit and announced himself.

Like this commanders' meeting, like the dinner meeting.

Well, why did you talk about the dinner meeting?

Well, state TV itself said it first. Why did you say it? It was fine.

They targeted the dinner meeting, and it was unsuccessful too.

The people involved, Mr. Ejei and others, later came and did interviews.

Now why do you say it?

Because if you don't, the enemy will.

Narrative in war is different from narrative in peace.

You must narrate so they cannot fabricate it.

Sir, at 9: 30 a.m., they targeted the Supreme Leader's office, the Defense

Council meeting, the meeting of

the Intelligence Ministry's Council of Deputies, they targeted all three at 9:

30 a.m. simultaneously.

They targeted the Intelligence Minister,

twice they targeted two IRGC intelligence commanders.

Within a few hours, they targeted the commanders and the Chief of Staff.

And now, for example,

the former foreign minister has come and said, " Sir, we have a security breach."

That's it, he didn't say anything more. "

No, sir, you shouldn't have said that." Well, what should we say?

Do people not understand, do they not get that, sir, at the same time,

these three meetings,

well, there must be something to it?

Or no, sir, you shouldn't say it. What should we say? Say a gas cylinder exploded?

But you can't narrate the war like this.

To keep people in the dark, without analysis,

and say," Sir, let's not say anything," and so on.

Besides, during war, I believe we shouldn't

criticize seriously at all the security apparatus or the military apparatus.

We shouldn't criticize seriously at all.

We are setting a point so that we can narrate it later.

And it's not even clear if these people we are interviewing,

we'll be able to interview them again.

Some of them get martyred— Zahedi, Shabani, Naeini…

Many of those we interviewed have actually been martyred.

Well, why shouldn't we have this narrative? Why are you stopping it?

Look, what I'm trying to say is that's not the issue at all.

The issue is they want to block the narrative and the story of the war. Why?

So that only one narrative gets out.

The state broadcaster's narrative,

with four permanent experts on state TV from their own party.

No other narrative should get out. People should only hear this.

That's what the fight is about. But why are you bothering us?

You have the airwaves, and you have the networks.

Now there's this one program on the internet, and not even on Instagram.

I mean, my Instagram has been shut down 10 times already.

I mean, just this Telegram and Bale, we don't have anything else.

They want to block this too. But why?

What harm are we doing to you?

It's narrating, so let others narrate too.

We aren't making things up;

we bring on the commanders and officials.

We were the first group to go to the Strait of Hormuz,

Six months ago, at the start of the war, when we said," Sir, this is in our hands."

We were the first group to go to Abu Musa Island.

We did research work on mines.

Well, if you're not going, should we not go either?

And people are looking at it this way. Why?

Because they really see that we aren't lying.

We are honest, we don't cover things up.

We talk about both getting hit and hitting back.

Meaning, we should also mention the weaknesses with some subtlety,

so that the enemy doesn't exploit these weaknesses.

I think I was the first person to say our skies are open.

At the time when people were watching during the 19- day war.

But I said," Look, our skies are open, and Israel's skies are open too.

Don't think theirs is closed."

Until then, state TV denied everything,

saying our planes weren't coming.

Come on, people can see it, why should we lie?

Well, people understand this, millions are watching. Now they want to shut it down.

They've given us a hard time, saying," Sir, I don't know, the MP..."

Mr. Judiciary, or the security apparatus, step in, arrest them, detain them.

Seriously, don't you have anything else to do?

Are you really thinking about these things in the middle of a war?

All of this is to silence us.

Meaning, to make sure this other narrative doesn't reach the people.

We also have flaws, who said we don't have flaws?

We must be careful with every single word we say.

With this very documentary,

as I said, I need to be more careful.

I shouldn't cite Trump; for example, I should cite the research we conducted.

And later, God willing, we will talk about it.

We must unpack this very January 8, 2020, After all, Mr. Khamenei said" coup."

What, has no research been done on this yet?

Let there be discussion, let there be dialogue.

If you want to silence everyone like this,

then only the narrative of me and my party on state TV must be heard,

and nothing else. No matter how hard they try,

we will not shut down these programs.