00:14In a world of turmoil and we've been having a conversation for the past two days on what's
00:21happening in West Asia, is there an end game in sight and what happens when the Strait of Hormuz
00:29does not open for a longer period of time? Because everybody here, not just in India, but across
00:37the world now, we're feeling the pinch and the pain of shortage in oil supply. But we
00:44have a stakeholder in this war joining us today, Ambassador of Iran to India, Ambassador
00:52Mohamed Fatali. Thank you so much for joining us. Yes, it's absolutely for you.
00:59Ambassador Fatali, let me begin with the conversations that have taken place. It took
01:05a while for the Indian Premier to make that call finally and have that conversation with
01:12President Pazeshkian. How was it received firstly in Iran and how have you managed the tough times
01:22of the responses from New Delhi when it comes to the attack, the responses from New Delhi when
01:29it comes to an Iranian ship having been sunk by America off the coast of Gaul in the Indian
01:36ocean in India's backyard?
01:41First of all, with your permission, I want to thank you for providing me this opportunity
01:48and thanks to the organizers. And you know that we are in the time that we have lost our great
02:00figure and great leader. And I want to say that great father. And you know that those my generation
02:12lived lived more than four decades for his eminence and we have seen how his eminence guide the Iranian
02:28Iranian people through the crisis with dignity and coverage. And you know that I want to say something
02:41before by starting my answer to your question. His eminence always advises us, try your best to stand on the
02:57right side of history. And I believe that his eminence stood on the right side of history and received his
03:10reward. Because we believe that the martyrdom is not granted to everybody. It's selected by Almighty Allah.
03:19And so you know that his eminence guide us and bring our country to high level of technology and science
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03:34virtual space. And now we believe that the Iranian people and all the free nation are deeply sudden for this
03:52martyrdom.
04:09In regard to your question that you raised in this event, His Excellency PM Moody, they had a telephone conversation
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04:32My opinion is this that we have to boost and enhance the relation between Iran and India.
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04:48I, as ambassador of Iran, it was my duty to organize this telephone conversation. I did it.
04:59I believe that Iran and India have a common interest. I believe that both countries have the same fate.
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05:17I believe that if there is any rift or any gap between these two countries, the enemies will actually use
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06:04conversation but after I mean during the after some days we could establish
06:09connection between the Iranian and India using that there was a problem in
06:14connecting there was a problem in connecting with Tehran and that's why
06:18there was a delay in conversation. There was a little problem but we could
06:26manage it. After hours we could manage and to establish the
06:35connection. We are now supporting each other because we believe that the pain
06:47the Iranian are suffering the same that Indian feel and the same pain if there
06:52would be for the Indian it is ours and you have read the news about it.
07:00No need I tell you again. Right Ambassador there were also conversations
07:05between Foreign Minister Araki and External Affairs Minister Dr. Jaishankar
07:10after which has the decision been made that there will be the vessels Indian
07:15vessels will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. How many ships for
07:20how many days because India would require continued supply of LPG which we are
07:25really shorter? If you allow me there are some details if you allow me not to tell
07:40because it is not good because maybe it would be some other abuse of these issues.
07:45But do you have allowed ships to pass through? Yes we have allowed but let me not to tell you
07:53how many.
07:58Because Iran and India have the historical relations.
08:06Iran and India are the both country that they can have a very effective actually on the region.
08:21I as ambassador I did my best of course there was some delay but it happened.
08:28Okay but moving on to the bigger picture over here we will talk about the ship and the vessels again
08:35but there has been a massive attack that Iran came that Iran has faced and you've lost your supreme leader.
08:44Was Iran prepared for this because we were there just a few days before the attack.
08:50We interviewed Foreign Minister Araqchi and a few hours after we left Iran came under attack.
08:58Were you prepared? Did you know that Iran was going to come under attack?
09:09From this view point that we were ready this is a real matter.
09:17I will tell this to the dear audiences and that I tell you the one point.
09:24We have to tell you the one point.
09:28Excuse me. We announced several times that be aware and the opposite side.
09:37Be aware Iran ready for negotiation and the war.
09:44We are not like, but we prefer negotiation.
09:50We know that we reinterred in the negotiation table.
09:54We reinterred despite of, we announced very well their intention.
10:01But we want to take away any excuse and any pretext.
10:09That's right.
10:10Yeah?
10:11And what also we announced several times.
10:16Be aware.
10:19You were ready, Ambassador, but were you ready
10:21or did you know that they will actually assassinate a superior?
10:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:25We are ready also to do war.
10:28But be aware.
10:30You can start and you cannot finish.
10:34And you know that our leader lived in his house
10:39because Eminence believed that if you prepare shelter for the 90 million people,
10:50after that we go on the shelter.
10:53A lot of people actually had this question, including our chairperson, Arun Puri.
10:58He actually asked me, why was the Supreme Leader there if there was a threat?
11:04Why was he there?
11:05Why was his family in the same compound when you knew that the missiles were coming flying?
11:13This is the right issue that you are mentioning.
11:27You witnessed that there were a lot of actual information and news that the Iranian great leader,
11:33he was in the shelter or he moved away from the country to another country.
11:37But this when happened, it showed that all of them there were false and he was in his house.
11:42And if I want to say some examples of their personality,
11:59Let me say some words about his character because those things that you hear from the mass media, which is
12:07mostly the Westerners, which they don't actually say the true faces of the story.
12:28This is one of the reasons that all of the people in Iran, no matter which religion or which race
12:32they are or ethnicity they actually are belonging to, because of this, he is the simplicity of their life.
12:41A very simple life, understanding precisely what is happening,
12:55how to lead Iran from this very critical crisis that we are facing.
13:11If I want to talk about this crisis that we have actually passed through, it may take some hours, but
13:17I will just mention some of them.
13:24I request you to go to see the American statement after the 11th September 2000.
13:33We could pass those crises very carefully.
13:42Please check the Afghanistan crisis.
13:50Yes.
13:50We tried our best how to pass this crisis as well.
13:57And you will see the war of Iraq, ICS, Daesh.
14:12And the people are having the belief in him that he could manage all of these crises and not go
14:18to any war.
14:19But, excuse me, despite all the sanctions and limitations,
14:38despite all of these problems that we are facing, I request you to go and see the Iran's rank in
14:44science, biotechnology, nanotechnology in the region and in the world as well.
14:48I request you to go to one sentence.
14:50I request you to go and see, from the beginning of the revolution,
14:54we have several different sanctions.
14:57And please just go and see that from the beginning of the revolution,
15:02that how many sanctions we are under, actually have been put under these kinds of sanctions.
15:30Well, Ambassador, we know, you're delving into the past, you're talking about countries and their experience,
15:36but right now Iran is under direct attack, unprecedented by Israel and US.
15:42You're saying that we are showing them their place and that it's a resilient Iran.
15:49But Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that their job is not over till Iran is over.
15:55The Americans are standing by Israel.
15:59In such a scenario, how do you see and where do you see the end game?
16:03Yeah.
16:03Because you have bombs coming in irrespective of what you're saying right now.
16:09That's right.
16:32That's right.
16:33From the beginning, the time, the scope, geography, and the end of the war, it is in our hand.
16:45And we have announced this one to all of the countries, including our neighbors.
16:53We had and we have a very good relation with our neighbors.
16:59But you're attacking them.
17:01But you're attacking them.
17:02Yes, I know.
17:03I will explain for you.
17:05We have announced them that you will not be actually touched your assets, whatever you have inside your country.
17:20But we have asked them what we should do.
17:32And what we should do when one of my schools, including the children, were heated by the Tom Hawk missiles
17:40of Americans.
17:48And 165 girls between the age of the 8 to 12 years old were killed.
18:01Let me, I will go back to that 12 days war in June.
18:04The same happened in that war also.
18:08But we ignored.
18:15But this time we warned them seriously, this time that if happens, there would be consequences for them.
18:22What consequences?
18:24We respect them completely.
18:28But we will target the American bases, definitely we will need them.
18:35I have a question of you.
18:43Why the Americans actually acknowledged that the three F-15 were actually down.
18:51Definitely they were not for transporting the passengers.
19:01Yesterday they announced five refueling planes were hit.
19:06Why they are here?
19:08For what?
19:13And we are witnessing that our Shiraz, one of the city of Iran, were targeted by one of the bases
19:19in one of the neighboring countries.
19:27But it is very bad that we witnessed that these schools were hit by one of the bases from one
19:34of the neighboring countries.
19:36Yes.
19:37You are saying that the Menard School was hit not from the aircraft carriers but from one of the countries.
19:43Yes.
19:44In West Asia, which country?
19:47Where did the Tomahawk come from?
19:49No, please.
19:51Let me not announce it today.
19:54Why?
20:04Because we believe that our relation with our neighbors should be in the highest level.
20:19We believe there are the neighbors.
20:21They have to live peacefully together and consider the other sovereignty.
20:3037 of our commanders were martyred.
20:35What do you think that they came from?
20:38They came from these bases in the army.
20:40They've actually shown me do you need chantopayga that at all of Iran has?
20:43Do you know how many bases are around us?
20:45How many?
20:47How many?
20:48Do you know or not?
20:49Do you know?
20:51Really?
20:52Yeah, how many bases?
20:53Really?
20:54No, how many bases where?
20:56Do you know or not?
20:57Why the Mrs. Mahan knows the...
21:00What?
21:01What are you asking?
21:02He doesn't know how many bases are around Iran.
21:06Oh, how many bases are around Iran?
21:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:09How many bases are around Iran?
21:12They said, they announced that 19 bases.
21:1719 bases.
21:18For what?
21:19Pes maa imkanat ro darim.
21:22We have the equipment and we have the facilities.
21:25Maa to aen jang az heech kasi darchast kumak nakhadim.
21:29In this war, we did not ask anybody, any country, to help us.
21:38You know that how could we produce or make these missiles on which conditions?
21:44And I know he wants to say that.
21:46Okay.
21:49The...
21:50Our enemies suffered strategy failure.
21:56You're calling Iran, Israel and America's...
21:59Yeah, yeah.
22:00United States...
22:01Attack a strategic failure.
22:01United States and...
22:02United States of America, United States of USA and the Zionist regime.
22:08We suffered the strategic failure in the three key components.
22:15Okay.
22:15One, people, our people.
22:19Two, our army.
22:23And three, our leader.
22:26Thank you so much, Ambassador.
22:27Thank you so much.
22:27Thank you so much.
22:30Thank you, Ambassador.
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