Of of w welcome to our studios here in the capital tehran. This is prest tv news. Thanks for joining us. In syria, multiple drones have targeted a crowd of military academy in the Central Province of hums, leaving dozens dead or injured. The attack targeted. Graduation ceremony held for cadets by syrias defense minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas and army brass. Seriousness Ministry Says a number of a civilians observing the ceremony and a group of cadets were among those killed. Media reports say the more than 100 lost their lives. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the terrorist attack, but the general command of the syrian army blamed armed terrorist organizations supported by International Parties for the quote unprecedented crime. The general command said that it will continue fighting. As terrorist organizations and will bring the masterminds and perpetrators to account. The syrian army is often targeted by terrorist groups including dash and algaade. Peterd is a former British Ambassador to syria who joins us from manchester to share with us his thoughts. Peterd, welcome to the program. Lots of unfortunate activities happening in syria today simultaneously, and one of them was resulted in the death of 100 cadets at this point from what we understand um you have the syrian side saying that uh these are the terrorist groups that are backed by uh some international um from what are called organizations or countries uh what are your thoughts on this and who may may they be referring to . Well this is a truly dreadful um event, the number of casualties seems extremely high um almost certainly the the people responsible were uh radical extremists based in idlib, the one province of syria, which the Syrian Government does not yet control, radicals, extremists who have been supported for more than decade now, particularly by turkey, but also supported by western countries like my own, britain, france, and above all. And this the international or the western support for those groups um continues to this day, um, i noticed that the the the attack was not totally unexpected, um, the Russian Military had said just two days ago that they expected some form of attack, but no one knew. Where of and that the choice of target is significant because a good number of the casualties are civilians. Now where are the condemnations from the western powers . Some arab countries have been quick to express condolences to syria, but the reaction from western powers is is deafining silence, normally. If such massacre was to take took place in idlib that could be attributed to the syrian uh army, the condemnations would be loud, but all were hearing from london, washington and paris is silence, when you take a look at what has happened in the past past month or so, in terms of the us involvement in the country, some are saying that theres a resurgence of that, that the us is trying to become more involved in uh creating acts of instability uh within syria uh first of all do you agree with that and uh what are the gains that the us has if that if you agree with that and if that report is indeed true um but more so the presence that they have on on syrian soil it its uh its almost as if they want to say were here in order to make sure that you remain um unstable mean im trying to understand many to understand what the purpose is of the us there of course syria has said that theyre violating the soventy and that they shouldnt be there uh well the us presence is quite simply to deny territory uh syrian territory to the Syrian Government and to prevent uh syria getting its hands its own oil, and this is major reason why the syrian economy and people are suffering so much, american effect control over syrious Natural Resources of oil and grain and minerals, and what weve seen today, this dreadful boming plays into the western narrative that syria is not stable, that the Syrian Government is not legitimate, that the Syrian Government is not in control the situation in syria, and weve heard more of this narrative just in recent weeks, as it has become clear that president assad is being welcomed around the world, and will soon be attending the big Climate Summit in abu dhabi, now his invitation. To this event has panicked the western powers, there is now crisendo of propaganda against syria, trying to put pressure on the on abu dhabi, on the emirates, to withdraw invitation, and to create an image of syria which is not compatible with with syria being invited to sit at the top table with other world. Leaders for the Climate Summit, so i think the the people responsible for this attack have at the very minimum been encouraged by the way the west continues to try to demonize and to destabilize syria, and they will have received the message from from washington that washington approves of any attempt to destabilize syria, b on. You said, you think that its not just the us, but also france and the uk that is involved in one way or another, or this corporately um or um behind the scenes in one way or another, behind the support that some of these groups are getting, these uh terrorist groups. Um, if that is the case, if what were looking at, i dont know, if you have seen some of the images, but you were pretty descriptive in terms of uh, the masker that has taken place, if i may use that word, um, what type of recourse can uh syria have on this, what can it do, we know the stance that this republic has where it wants uh the us out of there and it says its a source of instability, but uh, what um, what of course of action can be taken, if if you think that the us is indeed, and of course if theres any french or uk involvement for for that to start, well, britain and i think also france, see syria through the lens of russia and whats going on in the world. In relation to russia and ukraine, they see syria as a client of russia, and therefore anything which is bad news for syria is bad news for russia, and plays into the narrative on ukraine, and the the british and french attempts to to demonize russia and to to try to weaken. Russia anywhere around the world, im afraid syria is in a sense paying the price for britains ondeclared war on russia. And uh, finally, do you for see syria lunging deeper into uh, this crisis that is, you know, by by all accounts was coming out from, especially when it comes to the reception, as you mentioned that the syrian president was uh was getting or are these uh out. Forces like the us, uk, france, or any other ones uh that you may think are going to continue trying to demonize assad and try to make sure that syria doesnt come back the fault so to speak, yes, thats exactly right, um, the the western powers are hysterical about assads attendance in in abu dhabi, theyll do anything they can to prevent it or to spoil it, just. Last night on one of the british channels we saw some invented propaganda about hospital used for being used for torture 10 years ago, why bring this up now . Uh these these these false allegations about something that uh allegedly happened 10 years ago, why . Because of the timing, because of abu dhabi and the big climate meeting with the world summit that they dont want assad to attend or they want to present an image of syria in in chaos. Right, thank you so much for that. Uh peter ford, we appreciate former British Ambassador there to syria talking to us from manchester, thank you. Its just horrific, as you can see 100 been killed at this point based on the latest deathdult that we have. All right, moving on part of a thermal power plant in syrias Northern City of aleppa, good news in syria is back into operation with the help of rining companies. Today witnessed the launch of the first units thermal power plant with capacity 200. At megawatts, its an important achievement since power has been a big issue here, especially after us forces occupied parts of sear that produced the gas needed to run the power plants, americans smuggle syrian gas and all to other countries. The launch was also attended by syrian Prime Minister hossain arnes. The minister underscored serious strategic relations with Islamic Republic, which he said were to the interest of both nations. Project to revive the plant is part of an agreement between damascus and. To involve Iranian Companies in the reconstruction of basic infrastructure in syria. Iranian companies also helped prepare the fifth unit of the plant, bringing over 200 megw back to aleppos power grid. The plant, which is five units produced more than 1,00 megw before being destroyed in the foreign sponsored conflict. The passing out of a girl in a tehan subway station has triggered Misinformation Campaign by antiran media. So please, heres the report. 16yearold armitavant fainted while boarding a train a subway station in the iranian capital. Immediately afterwards, antiiran tv channels and outlets embarked a Media Campaign blaming the incident on the subway police. They accused the police of pushing armita out of the train after noisy argument leading to her fall. Now the tehran way company has released all camera footage from the moment armita enters the station till she is taken to hospital. Here is 6 52 a. M. October 1st. Armita enters the station alone. After two minutes she passes the ticket control gate. At 6 54 she enters a Grocery Store in the station and after that she is seen here heading to the platform where she catches up. With her friends. It can be seen that the whole eight minutes of her presence in the station passes without a problem. Armita and her friends wait to board the train, but they dont take the first one. It seems they are waiting for a friend. Armitas arrival on the platform and her boarding take more than eight minutes. Still no scene or any problem. And here is the moment armita and her friends. Incident, medical teams arrive and shes transported to the nearest hospital. Armitas Close Friends say there was no quar and it was simply normal day to school. Her head hit the ground. I tried to pull her to safety with the help of others. When my hand touched her head, there was blood. We brought her out. Let me say this, Nothing Happened on the train. No one pushed her, no one quarled with her, nothing. The moment she got on the train, blood pressure. Armitas parents say they have not seen any irregularities in the camera footage provided by the Subway Company or her medical report. They have called for people to pray for their daughters health. Metroradam. Ive seen the subway footage and i dont think what some people say is true. Ive seen all the footage and followed it closely. Nothing was wrong. Last year, similar media tactics employed by the antiran news outlets incited violence throughout the country, yet the Misinformation Campaign. Has only failed, lets bring in someone is familiar with the media to talk about this, ali salam is the editor and chief at basir press to joins us, ali salam, welcome, so you have the battle of the media in terms of the disinformation thats being related by uh terrorist channels like Iran International versus what the truth is the Islamic Republic through press tv at this point what the footage that you saw the report if you heard uh shows that not only uh the uh was in the hospitals, the the mother uh saying that she didnt see any fault play, but also uh the footage that showed that this was something due to a physical condition, which somewhat mirrors what happened with the four unfortunate passing away of masamini, um, so what are we looking at, are do you think that people are going to be fooled by some of the uh false claims that are being made . Hope that people arent fooled by this, because the evidence is very clear, although those who have agenda, they dont care about the truth and they will manipulate it. Anyways, as has been done, and we saw, as you mentioned last year, very similar incident, young woman with health complication, very Serious Health complication, unfortunately led to her untimely death, and very quickly the Fake News Media uh jumped on it and spin on the story, unfortunately, this involved a um inside infiltrator within iran who after the riots and everything began, it was investigated by the iranian authorities that she was being handled by various cia agents when she attended some ngo training conferences outside the country, im referring of course to nelofar hamedi, and she worked for some of the liberal leaning prowestern newspapers with iran, and she published this story without any evidence, barely spending any time in the hospital, not waiting for cause or not waiting for sufficient evidence to publish a report, and unfortunately this fake news, was propagated by many of the foreign funded uh uh news Media Outlets that you mentioned, which uh have the agendas of the hostile foreign backers that fund them, and so it led to a large outport, so but after one year it seems like the truth has come out, people have seen that what these rioters of what they are for, especially the the leaders among them, not the not the maybe the ignorant people who are swept up in the emotionalism, the leaders who are formed back to who uh kill people and blame it on the police or just kill innocents and Police Officers and actually justify it, um, attack ambulances and actually uh justify their violence, so theyre trying to do a repeat of this now, but the i think the evidence is is almost um, indisputably clear how that this uh young girl may allah grant her swift healing um she she collapsed very quick, this whole thing happened very quickly, and i ride, i ride the tehran metro often myself, and the doors. Pretty fast um so its hard for an argument to happen and then the doors to not close for example also there are no uh police on the i have not in my entire time being i have never seen a Police Officer in my life thats number one and number two of course the the morality polices they refer to in the west they dont use violence they use kind words of advice to try to convince the person to uh guard their modesty uh nicely for their human value to not reduce themselves to uh to sexual. Sectification uh but they never use uh they never use uh violence and quickly if you can uh the fact that you had this anniversary come up and of course these uh socalled western media if you want to call them Media Outlets uh try to really stir that up in order to uh people out for the anniversary but they failed so miserably in doing that isnt that a sign that people uh have actually lost faith because they have pretty much they read between the lines of the facts and were able to distinguish fact from uh lies based on what they were promoting, realizing that they obviously have an agenda . Absolutely, i think maybe in in the in the heat of the moment, many people got foled by it, the the kind of emotionalism took over, but after a while, especially after medical reports released, and even now the one of the doctors and medical advisors to uh resivi who claims to be now the king of iran after his tyrannical father was deposed by the islamic revolution. Um, even his doctors saying that all the ct scans show that mini died of a medical condition and she was not beaten by the police, not even one bit, so i think the the facts have shown themselves and that theyre trying to do the same card, play the same card again, is very desperate on their part, and its not going to work this time, especially as the the footage and the evidence is much more clear. And i think that seeing all these foreign backed riots kill very innocent innocent people, not just Police Officers but civilians as well, and also that theyre theyre insulting a various Sacred Symbols like the burn flags of imam hussein and during the muharram and time period, safar period, show the true face of these people, and the Iranian Opposition has no unity, theyre falling apart, theyre arguing with each other, and i would just like to say that the just because the system is of secular liberal flavor doesnt mean it a dictatorship, and i think the irani people have a right to choose their system, and they dont need to be liberated by the western values. Uh that um have caused the western society to decline itself. All right, thank you so much for that. Salam there, editor and chief at basira press. Thank you. Moving on, armenia and azerbaijan have created accusations over crossborder fire on thursday, feeling the already ten circumstances. The Armenian DefenseMinistry Said azerbaijan troops open fire a vehicle, transporting provisions for personnel stationed at Armenian Military outposts. Azerbaijans Defense Ministry meanwile said Armenian Forces fired on position. A district, both sides said that there were no casualties, tensions are high in the caucasus, azerbaijan has ceased control of the nagorobak from the armenian separatists. Virtually, all the Ethnic Armenian population the region have fled to armenia. Relations between the neighbors are poisoned by ethnic hatred resulting from two wars over nagornokarabakh in three decades. Russias president Vladimir Putin says any attempt to establish a monopoly in the world is doomed to fail. The us and its satellites are firmly committed to hegemony, militarily, politically, economically, culturally, and even morally and ethically. From the very beginning, it was clear tha