The early hours of voting, saying that huge turnout will disappoint the enemies of the nation, and the un rights chief warns israels Ground Invasion of the Southern Gaza of city of rafa will incur potentially massive loss of life of people sheltering there. Hello everyone, its 9 30 a. M. In the iranian capital, youre watching press tv, world news. Its election day here in iran, and people are heading to polls to cast their ballots for parliament and assembly of experts. Voters are taking part in parliamentary elections to choose 290 members of the legislative body from over 15,000 candidates. Elected members will serve a term of four years in parliament and another election being held simple. Taniously, participants are voting for 88 members of the assembly of experts. The leader of irans Islamic Revolution casted his ballot for both elections and the early minutes after polling stations opened nationwide. Said ali khamenei urged iranian nation to go to the polls as soon as possible, saying peoples participation will disappoint the countrys ill wishers. More than 61 Million People are eligible to vote. And now joining us is press Tv Correspondent mahti abbasan and farding and press Tv Correspondent both joining us from the iranian capital were going to start with matty the latest if you can the polling station you are at my friend what can you tell us well daniel im currently in uh one of the mosques in central tehran uh which is a polling station since the early hours of the beginning of the uh election. In elections uh people showed up at this place as well as other polling stations across the city to cast their ballots uh what we have we can see here on the ground is the presence of both men women young and old uh to to uh participate in in a key elections in key elections that will determine the future of iranians uh as you said the 12th term of the Iranian Parliament as well as the sixth term of the assembly of experts are the elections that people are here today to cast their ballots. The thing i have to mention that uh today is friday and despite the very cold weather in tehran uh still people have showed up to cast their votes uh in the early hours of the day. The voting process will continue for 10 hours and and um then we will see if the uh there is a possibility that this time be, you know, they they just uh give it more time and renew um the time for the voting. Now among the people who have showed up here today were uh iranian politicians and highranking uh officials including the economy minister who just arrived here uh minutes ago uh to cast his vote and thats it right and as your uh as doors open uh matty um how how are the hows the crowd control so far is it fairly uh crowded or are the people still trickling in the early hours there . Of well um i told you because its friday and its a day off uh and the cold weather um the people just you know uh plan to be here on time after the polls were open the presence of people since the early hours 8 a. M. That the local time that the voting process began uh was noticeable, there were lots of people here uh at the place that im uh located in and and um this continues the crow the uh you know the voters come in and leave and um so far the presence was good and um its expected that this will continue for several hours until the end of the Election Monitor things closely and check in with you uh frequently there matty thanks and im going to swing now over to powerson our press tv corresponding to is uh kind of drifting of between polling station to polling station hello fason were are you at now . I believe you have changed uh your location. What can you tell us . Uh, daddy, im still here in shad and i can see that the number of the voters is uh significantly actually rising and uh people are the crowd actually is getting uh more and more and uh and what i witness actually here and what uh took my. Mention here about the voters uh is the young generation uh and the families that have brought their children to see that they are voting and one of actually uh the uh fathers that were here to cast his vote and uh i heard him talking and uh expressing his thoughts he said that uh hes doing uh this and hes actually using his this right uh uh while bringing his child to the polling station to actually show his child that it is important to uh be a participant in the actually uh the countrys future and of course people from all walks of life from different views are here to cast their vote and the young generation as i mentioned i talked to them and asked them that to actually express their thoughts and feelings and theyre said that it is important for them to uh be here and participate in the voting in order to actually choose the representatives of both for the parliament and the assembly of experts we know that uh actually uh along with the different political views different actually five uh religious minorities also are uh actually have the right to participate and run for the election including the uh zora streams and the uh jews and i can see here that people are just the crowd is getting more and more uh people have a list of uh their uh actually uh candidates, theyre writing their names, of course there are lists here that people can choose from different political spectrs, different political uh views and different medias also here to broadcast this important day where the two uh key the elections for both the parliament and the assembly of experts is underway and actually uh of course the i saw here mr uh nuri was here an hour ago, he also casted his vote, hes a uh uh important political figure of the country and of course uh the candidates were here, one of the candidates from the assembly of experts was here and he casted his vote along with his uh family um and yeah thats it, back to you. Thank you f, and lot of parents do that, they bring their young out to teach them of civic duty and a Civic Responsibility on this day of voting, and for our viewers, these are live images from polling stations, thats one uh, thats san dadge uh there, and um, the uh western uh part of the uh iranian of iran of the country there, we showed you images earlier of the city of affas and bandarabas as well as the iranian capital over. 59,000 voting stations are operational right now as we speak throughout the country, just 5,000 alone in the iranian capital, um weve over 61. 2 million iranians are eligible to cast their ballots and earlier leader of the Islamic Revolution of cast his ballots, sayid encourage people to get out and vote as soon as possible and not to play into the enemies. Hands as illwishers would like to see a low turnout and uh hes called it all week one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic and one the pillars of democracy is the vote, its a power in the peoples hands, use it, dont uh let it the squander this uh opportunity to be part of the um Political Landscape of the country and its future, well be falling these uh these elections very closely throughout the morning here on press tv, its 9 40 a. M. Tehran time uh polls opened at 8 a. M. And they will run for at least 10 hours legally, but as we have seen in the past, theres always been um an extension. Sometimes to midnight and beyond, as sometimes there are people that even as it is a friday and an off day here in the iranian um the nation, there are still people that dont have the opportunity opportunity that is granted to them to vote throughout the day, theyre held up or working like many of us as myself here now and have to uh get out and vote later in the day, sometimes we see long lines uh into the late hours of the evening, so um it could run 10 hours. Possibly more throughout the country people are voting for 209 seats in parliament and 88 seats in the assembly of experts for terms that run four years and eight years respectively. If youre joining us these are live images of mul voting stations, you can see on the upper left hand screen, thats the irany city of kermon, as bandara bus, the port city to the south of the country and to the west, the city of san andrej, and each city has multiple hundreds of polling stations, set up some of the bigger cities, thousands, as are nearly 60,000 operational stations where people can cast their ballots, the interior Ministry Said that this dispatch over 250,000 Security Forces to help Law Enforcement make sure that voting goes as smooth as possible and without any glitches and peoples uh uh safety and their accessibility to polling stations should be nice and easy and uh voting should go as smoothly as the authorities have planned them um all month long now voting kicked off with a early initial vote of leader of the Islamic Revolution ali khamenei cast his ballot at about eight um 04 local time and since then polls have opened and people are out you can see two boxes there one for the assembly of experts 88 usually clergymen who uh decide on uh they have the power to actually accept or reject the iranian leader very powerful. Body um highly vetted individuals that also have a say in the constitutionality of many new laws if they are to pass or not, so very important body, the assembly of experts and its uh, you can hear it in the name, the assembly of experts and then you have parliament 290 uh seats up for grabs, also thats in iran referred to as the majlist. Another just is very powerful and um very imperative uh body to get new legislation out for the people and decide the direction the country is to head in in the next four years. Well be following uh the voting very closely here throughout the morning here on press tv, we have multiple correspondents in the field, mostly in the iranian uh capital reporting back to us on um how election day is transpiring. Meanwile and now to occupy palestine where israel continues to massacre palestinians in the besieg gazo strip. In the latest attack Regime Forces shot its starving people while theyre waiting for food in northern gaza. At least 112 palestinians were killed and more than 700 injured. And we discussed the latest developments with our guests earlier in our news review program. The scenes of horrific killing of palestinians have become common ever since the Israeli Regime launched his genocidal war on the gaza strip. The Regime Forces have massacred scores more gazans who were waiting for humanitarian aid in gaza city. According to the Palestinian Health ministry, 112 people were killed after israeli snipers shot directly at a crowd waiting for aid in the early morning. Hundreds more. Sustained injuries, the dead and wounded have been taken to alsifa and kamal adwan hospitals. Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the attack saying that it was a cold blooded massacre. Palestinian resistance moved hamas and the Islamic Jihad have also the massacre of gazans. Palestinians are already struggling with shortages of food as the Israeli Regime is using starvation as a weapon against them. Shortages of caused a surge and malnutrition among children with the un warning of a looming famon. This genocide has so far killed over 30,100 gazons. Rick sterling is investigative journalist joining us from walnut creek in california. We also have Kevin Barrett editor veterans today joining us from saidia over morocco. Welcome to you both rick sterling, ill start with you. Um, theres a couple um real shocking, not that before we didnt hear shocking news coming out of the gaza strip. One of them is the fact that you have people uh in one particular incident thats uh now been broadcast that are eating cactus for food. The other is the massacker that took place where the military eight convoy comes uh, not the military but eight convoy comes, palestinians line up for food and then they get shot at by the Regime Forces and they killed over hundred uh. These are gross uh violations, this particular one, the massacer uh thats a genocide thats taking place and its a war crime, were still were still looking at this happening, what do you make the fact that this is still continuing by the Israeli Regime . Yeah, well i think israel is spitting the in the face of the International Court of justice which uh ruled at the end of at the end of january that uh israel should should stop this and theyre just continuing um as before, they uh, theyve prevented food and and Drinking Water and medications to come into gaza, theyve severely restricted it, they tried to get all of the people out of northern gaza to flush them into into Southern Gaza and rafa, they bombed the israel, israel has bombed the bakeries, and now when the starving people are are congregating trying to get food, the israel the tanks and soldiers have fired on the on the civilians lining up to try to try to get food, so its uh, its just another continuation of the genocide. Taking a look at the way that this genocide has continued Kevin Barrett, it would not happen were it not for the us support militarily to the israel regime. We had at one point where pentagon Spokes Person has said that uh israel has unfederate access to uh to military. Equipment of all kinds, bombs, you name it uh, thats happening almost a daily basis if not a daily basis uh, so doesnt that make the us uh complicit in this and as guilty . Yes, the us is 100 complicit, and american leaders ought to be right up there on the uh defendants stand in the world court along with the israeli leaders and they all need to be tried, convicted and sentenced and in many cases executed, these. These are among the worst war criminals in in history, theres no reason that this has to happen, there are there are wars that are driven by actual uh necessity, this is is not, this is basically an act of pure aggression by these zionist genocidal maniacs who have uh a crazy fundamentalist religious view, its actually not even an authentic traditional religious view. But its its a satanic spinoff of millenarian messianic kind of lunacy thats been percolating in that community for hundreds of years now and its turned in to uh to sheer genocide driven by utter madness. Theres no military purpose to luring people to starving them until they show up in the thousands to try to get sack of flower. And then firing into the crowd with tanks, which is what just happened, uh, killing over hundred people and and wounding many, many hundreds more. Let me thank sterling investigative journalists there from walnot creek, california, and also Kevin Barrett, editor at veterans today spoke to us from saidia over in morocco. Thank you to you both. With that we come to an end for this news review. Condiminations continue puring in from throughout the world following the israely massacre of over 100 palestinians waiting for life saving aid in northern gaza. Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman described the attack on defenseless civilians as barbaric. Said shame of supporting and remaining silent towards israely genocide will remain with the false champions of human rights in the United States and europe. Meanwhile, the unaid chief expressed shock at the incident. Martin griffith said he was appalled at the killing of hundreds of people during the transfer of aid in gaza. Un secretary generals, Antonio Gutieres also denounced the deadly attack. The secretary general condemns the incident today in northern gaza in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed or injured while seeking life saving aid. The desperate civilians in gaza, the Palestinian Ambassador to the un urged Security Council to condemn the massacre, riyad mansur said as long as the council is paralyzed and palestinians will continue to lose their lives. Turkey said massacre proves. Israel is consciously and collectively destroying the palestinian people. Colombias president Gustavo Petro described the attack as genocide, saying his country has now suspended all purchases of weapons from israel. Canadas foreign minister called israels killing palestinians in gaza, nightmare. Spain slammed gaza massacre as unacceptable, while france called it unjustified. A draft proposal has been. Released as a result of extensive talks in paris over potential cease fire in gaza and where the conditions exclusively prevents displaced men of military age from returning to their homes in northern gaza. Our correspondent ti abu musabi has spoken to some of the palestinians and deir abala about the cease fire conditions. This proposal is null and meaningless to me. Im married and have kids. I cant let them go back to gaza while i am still here. We prefer to die here rather than accepting this proposal. We demand a permanent cease fire that guarantees our full return to our residential areas in gaza. Undoubtedly, its another pressure exerted on the palestinian resistance. This is another pressure practice against us. They know that the displaced families are not going to accept it. No one accepts to abandon the rest of his family and go back without. Them, they propose it just to blackmail us. I wont accept going back to gaza without my husband, and my mother wont accept that return without my brothers. We fled our homes in gaza together, and we will return together. Its impossible to accept such thing. Our men raise our kids day by day until they grow up. We spent these horrific days worrying about our children and young men. We escaped the killing in gaza to protect them. We cant. Leave them and get back, we leave together or we die together, no one would accept it, its unnegotiable, we are still steadfast until we go back in dignity, its definitely rejected, we have been displaced from gaza for the sake of our children safety, they killed thousands of our children and our men and they destroyed our homes and buildings, but now they propose us to go back without our sons and men, no rational human being would agree on this, this proposal means that israel is procrastinating and it dogs having a real deal. Netanyahu is a war criminal and he wants to prolong this war against us. Firstly, this proposal is completely rejected. Its a continuation of the expulsion that took place at the beginning of this war in gaza. They want to separate the families and increase their suffering. They want the women and children to go to gaza while keeping them men here so they can target them any moment under any pretext. This is another way that israel. Occupation progressing, its putting the seasfire deal in place in order to continue its genocide in gaza. The un human rights chief once again issues a stark warning against israels planned ground assault of the Southern Gaza city of raffa. A ground assault would incur potentially massive loss of life, additional risk of a. Atrocity crimes, new displacement to another unsafe location distribution, and sign death warrant for any hope of effective humanitarian aid. For my part, i failed to see how such an operation could be consistent with the priending provisional measures that were issued by the International Court of justice. Turk told the un human rights council, attack on rafa will take nightmare that is being inflicted on gozans. To new dimension, islam regimess attacks and killings in gaza as examples of israels brutality and carnage. Turk stress, there are no words to capture the horrors that are unfolding in gaza. Rafa is the territorys most populated area, over 1. 5 Million People are sheltering, they have nowhere safe to go, and many of them have already been displaced multiple times. And. For your latest here on press tv, everyone, thanks for tuning in and byebye for now. This week on expose, western broadcast media inactively assert that zionist world planes targeted hisballah weapons depots in southern lebanon, whereas they actually struck residential areas. Zianist Mainstream Media misleadingly report that iran warned hezbulah against provoking a fullscale war with zinus israel, as the truth is, us media openly disclosed that a widespread israeli entity campaign against hisbullah is currently undesirable for the us, and a recent survey indicated that 90 of lebanese citizens squarely place the blame on the United States of america for zianis israels ongoing assaults on lebanon and the gaza strip. Expose, the truth is just the revelation away. The economy in israel was very bad before the events of october the 7th. I dont see a way back, i think their economy is destroyed beyond recognition. I think the main problem in the battlefield will be military. Palestine has risen from the ashes, the nation has gone a long way in its struggle against the occupation regime of israel, from throwing stone. To flying drones, but who can deny irans decades long support in this arduous journey . главное подъём, конtакt подъёма, двигаtели ценtрального и боковых блоков пошли на режим команды, 10 секунд, парамеtры сисtемы управления. 30 секунд, парамеtры консtрукции ракеtы носиtеля в норме. Tonight on expose. Western and israeli entity broadcast media falsely claim that zionist israeli warplanes targeted weapon day post belonging to hizbullah in South Lebanon when in reality they targeted residential areas. Now zianist Mainstream Media deceitfully claim that the Islamic Republic of iran cautioned hezbullah not to spark fullscale war with zionist israel, when in reality us media openly reported that a large scale israeli entity campaign against hezbulah is the last thing the us wants right now, and an opinion poll revealed that 90 of the lebanese hold the United States of america fully accountable for zinist israels continued attacks on lebanon and the gaza strip. 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