Transcript [00:00] It is time to check in on Iranian state [00:03] media. We're going to look at what [00:05] stories they are telling us today. What [00:08] angles are they pushing for? What are [00:10] they emphasizing? Which gives us a sense [00:12] of where they want things to go. So, [00:15] it's actually quite uh quite something [00:18] quite uh I wouldn't say entertaining. [00:20] That would be a little bit macab, but uh [00:22] we're going to take a look at at what [00:24] they're talking about. Here we go. So [00:26] the top story today in WANA uh that's [00:28] the English language uh Iranian state [00:31] media wana.com [00:34] I read it every day. The top story right [00:36] now is air strike on Thran damages [00:40] Golthan Palace a UNESCO world heritage [00:44] site. Oo that's interesting. Uh so [00:47] they're basically they want to be [00:49] accusing the United States and Israel of [00:50] war crimes. Now, before I read you the [00:52] details of that story, I want to frame [00:55] it with another story that was up on on [00:58] Wana's front page today. Right down near [01:00] the bottom, down near here, we have [01:02] Larijani, we will not engage in any [01:04] negotiations with the United States. But [01:06] what it actually when you open the [01:08] story, it says, "Larijani, Iran is [01:10] prepared for a prolonged war. Iran's [01:14] secretary of the Supreme National [01:15] Security Council, and this is Ali [01:17] Larani, so you should learn that name if [01:19] you don't know it already. He is really [01:22] the mo not president poses is not nearly [01:25] as powerful as Ali Larani. He was like [01:28] the number one adviser to Ali Kami to [01:30] the Ayatollah and he was the lead [01:32] negotiator. [01:34] He's the guy who it seems is really [01:35] running things. Look what he says here. [01:37] Iran Secretary of the Supreme National [01:39] Security Council emphasizing that Iran [01:42] did not initiate the war and that Iran's [01:44] brave armed forces have carried out no [01:46] attacks except in self-defense [01:49] really against Qatar and the UAE and [01:53] Bahrain and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. H [01:57] okay. Um, but they've carried out no [02:00] attacks in except in self-defense. Said [02:02] that Iran, unlike the United States, is [02:06] prepared for a long-term war. This goes [02:08] back to the buttons they're trying to [02:09] push when it comes to Trump. I've been [02:11] emphasizing this since before the war, [02:13] that Trump wants this thing to be over [02:14] quickly and prolonging the war, [02:17] escalating the war, causing US [02:19] casualties. These are the things that [02:21] the Iranians want to do. They don't need [02:22] to win, but they need to do these things [02:24] enough that the pressure ramps up on [02:26] Trump to end this. [02:29] Okay. So, they're signaling that here by [02:31] saying, "We're ready to fight for a [02:33] long-term war. We want this to to be [02:36] dragged out." Ali Larani wrote on his [02:38] exac account on Monday evening, that's [02:41] uh that's that's today. As in the past [02:44] 300 years, Iran has not been the [02:46] initiator of war, and our brave armed [02:48] forces have conducted no operations [02:50] except in defense. regardless of the [02:53] cost, we will resolutely defend [02:55] ourselves and our 6,000year-old [02:58] civilization. [03:01] He added that we will make our enemies [03:03] regret their miscalculation. Iran is is [03:06] prepared for a prolonged war unlike the [03:07] United States. Now, why is he talking [03:09] about the 6,000y year old civilization, [03:14] right? What what exactly is he referring [03:16] to? Well, he's Persian, right? He's he's [03:19] he's not speaking in Muslim terms, [03:21] right? Islam starts in the 7th century, [03:24] far less than 6,000 years ago. [03:27] So, he's signaling, he's trying to like [03:29] conjure up like Persian pride, like the [03:31] Persian people are being attacked. Our [03:34] 6,000-year-old civilization. You're a [03:36] Muslim. You you preach a a regime. You [03:40] you are part of a regime that is an [03:42] Islamic regime. You reject the [03:44] traditional Persian culture. But no, [03:47] it's the 6,000-year-old Persian [03:49] tradition. And I think that that's the [03:50] same signaling that we're seeing with [03:52] this top story that the top story that [03:56] the top story with everything else going [03:57] on in the war. The top story is that [04:00] there was an air strike [04:02] on Tehran that damaged the Golastan [04:05] Palace. Now notice it doesn't say there [04:06] was an air strike on the palace. And [04:07] that's what I noticed when I first saw [04:09] the headline. So when I opened up the [04:10] story, sure enough, look what it says [04:12] here. In a nighttime attack by the [04:14] United States and Israel on Arg Square [04:16] in central Thran, parts of the Golastan [04:19] Palace, the capital's only UNESCO World [04:22] Heritage site, were damaged. They were [04:25] damaged. Now, it doesn't say they were [04:26] destroyed. It doesn't say that it was an [04:28] attack on the palace. It was an attack [04:30] on something near the palace, and parts [04:32] of it were damaged. How bad was the [04:35] damage? Hard to say. The room doesn't [04:37] look that badly damaged. There's some [04:38] There's some items broken on the floor. [04:40] The walls and windows all seem pretty [04:42] much intact. Uh, not much of a picture [04:45] we have here. Golastan Palace is a [04:48] historic complex of buildings and [04:50] gardens whose construction dates back to [04:52] the reign of Sha Tamasp the first of the [04:55] Safavidid dynasty. During the Xan [04:58] period, the palace briefly served as the [05:00] residence of Karim Khan. And in the [05:02] Kajar era, it was extensively expanded [05:05] to accommodate the royal family of the [05:07] new capital. During the Palavi era, the [05:10] palace was used for official ceremonies [05:12] and to host presidents and distinguished [05:13] foreign guests. And it was inscribed as [05:15] a UNESCO World Heritage site in July [05:18] 2013. Now look it, I mean like the poles [05:20] and ropes are still up [05:23] and the walls. How damaged is this [05:25] place? Extent of the damage. The blast [05:28] waves from Sunday from the Sunday night [05:30] attack caused damage to sections of the [05:32] palace including the wooden doors, the [05:34] Orsi, traditional Persian windows and [05:36] parts of the mirror work. Sed Resa [05:39] Salahamiri, Minister of Cultural [05:40] Heritage, Tourism and Handiccrafts [05:43] confirmed the damages during his visit [05:44] on Monday, March 2nd, stating that a [05:47] report on the incident would be [05:48] submitted to UNESCO and as the attack [05:50] constitutes a violation of international [05:52] law. Museum artifacts from the Golastan [05:55] Palace, previously moved to secure [05:57] storage following the 12-day war and the [06:00] incidents in January 2026 were not [06:02] affected in the recent air strike and [06:04] remain in a safe location. Now, here is [06:07] what I believe is going on here. So, I [06:10] cannot stress this enough. [06:13] Iranian state media, war going on, [06:15] United States, Israel leaders getting [06:18] killed, [06:19] everything else that's happening. [06:22] This heritage site was damaged. And this [06:25] is the top story. There's many other [06:27] stories that seem much, much more [06:28] important. [06:30] This is the top story. Why are they [06:31] emphasizing this? For the same reason [06:34] that Larijani is talking about the [06:36] Persian cultural heritage of 6,000 [06:39] years. They're trying to signal Persian [06:42] pride to trying to conjure up the fact [06:44] that they're not enemies of the Persian [06:45] people. They're protectors of the [06:47] Persian people. They want people's per [06:49] they want the Persian national pride of [06:52] the Iranian people to turn against the [06:55] Americans. Now, it's not going to work. [06:57] This this ploy is not going to work. I'm [07:00] just telling you what they're this is [07:01] the narrative framing that they're [07:03] trying to give that Persia is under [07:06] attack, right? So they're emphasizing [07:08] their Persian identity, which they [07:09] basically done away with by uh, you [07:11] know, with their, you know, with this [07:13] with this whole Islamism thing. But [07:15] anyway, that's so that's an interesting [07:17] uh angle that they're that they're [07:19] emphasizing. Again, of all the of all [07:21] the big stories having to do with this [07:23] war, the top story was that something [07:25] nearby this site was bombed and it [07:28] caused some damage to the site. I mean, [07:31] even if you want the top story to be war [07:33] crimes by the Americans and the [07:35] Israelis, you're gonna you're going to [07:36] emphasize something else like civilian [07:38] casualties, which they talk about in [07:39] other in other articles in in other [07:42] stories, or you're going to emphasize uh [07:44] or or you're going to emphasize what I'm [07:46] going to show you now, some of the other [07:47] stories that seem to be more important [07:49] war stories. But again, this is [07:51] propaganda to to signal to their people [07:55] that they are Persians, that they're [07:57] proud Persians, just like you. Okay. Now [08:00] what else is WANA reporting? So the [08:02] another big story in Wana today is [08:05] Aragchi wrote a letter to international [08:07] organizations and foreign ministers [08:09] calling on them to condemn what the [08:11] United States is doing and that it's all [08:13] clear violations of international law [08:16] and that the attacks are war crimes. And [08:19] they and in this they talk about all of [08:21] the innocents who've been killed on the [08:23] first day of the aggression. The [08:24] deliberate and reckless destruction of [08:26] the elementary school in Minav, a small [08:29] city in Hosgan Province led to the [08:31] martyrdom of 165 innocent female [08:34] students. And then they go to how there [08:36] how there were attacks. There were [08:38] similar attacks in other cities. And [08:40] then they go down to accuse the [08:42] Americans and Israelis of attacking [08:43] hospitals. On March 1st 2026, the [08:46] buildings of the Red Crescent, Gandhi, [08:48] Mutar, Mutahari and Katam Alan Anbia [08:52] hospitals in Tehran, Abuzar Hospital in [08:55] Akaz and three emergency bases in Sarab, [08:58] Chabahar and Hamadan along with several [09:00] residential buildings in northern Thran [09:02] were targeted. Okay, so and that they [09:04] targeted uh they also targeted densely [09:06] populated residential areas. These are [09:08] all war crimes. Okay, so they're [09:10] accusing the Americans and the Israelis [09:12] of committing war crimes. So, there's [09:14] war crimes by by striking a world [09:17] heritage site, and there's war crimes [09:19] because they're attacking hospitals and [09:21] residential areas. Now, this is the most [09:24] two-faced thing in the world. The [09:25] Iranians literally with every single [09:28] missile they fire targets residential [09:30] areas. Yesterday, in my town here in [09:33] Beamesh, a few uh a few minutes walk [09:35] from my home, u there were nine people [09:38] killed and and dozens injured in a [09:41] direct strike of a ballistic missile. uh [09:43] an entire family was wiped out. Father, [09:45] mother, four children um you were killed [09:49] in the attack. They deliberately target [09:51] civilians. That's all they do. Uh [09:53] kamasbah, [09:55] their proxies. That's all they do is [09:57] target civilians. So, here they are [10:01] accusing the United States and Israel of [10:03] targeting civilians. Okay. [10:06] And then another story in Wana. We're [10:09] just going through what the headlines in [10:10] WA are. What what story is the is Iran [10:13] telling? Gross stretch stresses return [10:16] to diplomacy on Iran's nuclear issue. [10:18] So, this is reporting on a meeting of [10:21] the international [10:22] uh atomic energy agency that had a [10:26] special session about what's going on [10:28] today. And here's how they report it. [10:31] They reported that uh that the board of [10:33] governors met and they were very they [10:36] were concerned monitoring what's very [10:38] closely what's going on in the Middle [10:39] East. That's all true. [10:41] Speaking at the opening session on [10:42] Monday, Gross said the IAEA had [10:44] responded immediately in line with its [10:46] mandate, focusing in particular on the [10:48] risk of radiological emergencies, which [10:50] is true. That's what they're doing. [10:52] They're they want to monitor to make [10:53] sure that there's no uh you know, if [10:55] nuclear sites get hit then uh you know [10:58] that it could cause radiation in the [11:01] area could be very dangerous. So they're [11:03] reporting on this and what basically the [11:06] reason what their whole agenda in this [11:08] piece is to is to basically say you know [11:13] to wave a finger at the Americans saying [11:15] you know if you hit nuclear sight you [11:17] could cause a lot of uh radiation leaks [11:20] and you could cause uh you know you [11:22] could cause all sorts of all sorts of [11:24] dangers. Regarding Iran's nuclear [11:26] facilities, Grace said that as of now, [11:28] the agency has received no indications [11:30] of damage to or targeting of nuclear [11:33] installations. [11:35] Okay. It also said, "So far, no [11:37] radiation levels above normal have been [11:40] recorded in countries neighboring Iran. [11:42] So far, so good. you haven't caused the [11:44] type of damage that could that could [11:46] raise radiation levels, but basically [11:48] warning that they that the that the [11:50] Americans and Israelis shouldn't be [11:53] striking nuclear facilities. [11:56] Now, two interesting points in this [11:58] article. One is that it lists all the [12:01] other countries in the region that have [12:03] nuclear reactors. Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, [12:05] Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, right? It [12:09] says that they all have operational uh [12:11] research reactors. I don't know if [12:13] that's true. Maybe it is. [12:16] But the the other point, and this was [12:17] the most interesting part of this [12:20] article to me, is that, let me find it. [12:24] It says in here that they that the uh [12:29] the IEC, [12:34] Here we go. [12:37] He explained that the AY's instant and [12:39] emergency center has been activated and [12:41] that a dedicated team is gathering [12:44] information and assessing the situation. [12:47] The regional safety monitoring network [12:50] remains on alert and is in constant [12:53] contact with the agency. [12:56] Interesting. [12:58] It says so what's it saying here? that [13:03] that the IAEA is in constant contact [13:07] with [13:08] uh with the regional safety monitoring [13:11] network right now. I went over to the [13:15] IAEA website and found [13:19] uh GC's actual remarks. Now in his [13:22] remarks he says [13:25] efforts to contact the Iranian nuclear [13:28] regulatory authorities through the IEC [13:30] continue with no response so far. We [13:34] hope this indispensable channel of [13:36] communication can be reestablished as [13:38] soon as possible. [13:40] H [13:42] look at that [13:45] efforts to maintain contact and in the [13:47] in the wana piece look what it says. [13:49] Efforts to maintain contact with Iran's [13:51] nuclear regulatory authorities through [13:54] the incident and emergency center are [13:56] ongoing [14:00] just says that the efforts are ongoing. [14:03] So it's very deceptive language. It [14:05] makes it sound like the contacts are [14:08] ongoing. [14:10] It just says, you know, they're they're [14:14] checking things out and uh the efforts [14:16] to maintain contact are ongoing. It [14:18] doesn't say that the Iranians are [14:20] refusing that contact because here it [14:22] says efforts to contact the Iranian [14:24] nuclear regulatory authorities continue [14:26] with no response so far. This line was [14:31] left out of the report of GC's remarks [14:34] in the WAN story. In other words, what's [14:36] this all about? Let me back up. This [14:38] might be getting a little confusing. Let [14:40] me sum up this piece here. Why is this a [14:42] news item in WAN today? Okay, why is it [14:45] a news item? because the Iranians want [14:48] to signal that they're cooperating [14:51] with the IAEA, which they're not. Gross [14:54] said that he's trying to make contact, [14:57] his people are trying to make contact [14:58] with the regulators in Iran and they're [15:00] not successful. They're not getting a [15:01] response. Iran wants to warn the [15:05] Americans and Israelis against attacking [15:07] the nuclear. They want to highlight the [15:08] fact that Grossi is calling for a return [15:11] to diplomacy, which he did say at the [15:13] end of his remarks. [15:15] Okay. It wasn't the main purpose of his [15:17] remarks. The main purpose of his remarks [15:18] was to talk about was to give a report [15:21] on the situation on the ground with all [15:22] the nuclear uh assets in the area. But [15:27] he does call for a return to diplomacy. [15:29] So their headline is we want a return to [15:31] diplomacy because they want to [15:32] negotiate. They want a return to the [15:34] diplomatic table. They want to turn this [15:36] into a negotiation over the nuclear. [15:39] Okay? So they want to stress that, but [15:42] they can't run a a report on what Grossi [15:45] said if it criticizes them. So they so [15:48] they obfiscate the fact that they're not [15:50] actually cooperating with him. Got that? [15:53] Okay, one more. [15:56] Oh, or actually a couple more stories [15:58] that they uh in WA. Another story in [16:01] Wana today is that although the US has [16:04] said that three servicemen have been [16:05] killed and I think I think today SenCom [16:07] added a fourth [16:10] here they're saying that the Americans [16:12] might be lying and there might be a lot [16:13] more Americans dead. Their evidence for [16:15] this is that the three coffins were [16:19] transported [16:21] in a C5 galaxy which is a massive [16:24] aircraft a massive transport aircraft. [16:26] It's the largest military transport [16:28] aircraft operated by the United States [16:29] Air Force. And therefore, they say the [16:31] use of such a large aircraft to [16:33] transport only three bodies has been [16:35] viewed by some military analysts as [16:37] unusual. And they're saying that the [16:39] discrepancy between officially released [16:41] figures and the visual evidence [16:43] circulating publicly has prompted [16:45] renewed questions regarding the [16:46] transparency of information and the [16:48] actual scale of losses sustained by the [16:51] US forces. Questions that remain without [16:53] a clear official explanation. So this [16:55] the purpose of this story, this little [16:56] propaganda piece is just to say that [16:58] more Americans have been killed than [17:00] they're saying because hundreds have [17:01] been killed on the Iranian side and they [17:03] want to claim that the Americans are [17:05] hiding their casualty numbers. [17:08] Um and along the same lines, they want [17:10] to they want to show that America is [17:12] panicking or weak. So they have a [17:14] headline, US turns to UK for support [17:18] amid rising tensions with Iran. Now, [17:20] anyone following this would be laughing [17:22] because Kier Starmer is not someone that [17:23] the American that Trump would turn to [17:25] for help. But look what it says. In less [17:27] than 48 hours, the United States has [17:29] reached out to the United Kingdom for [17:31] assistance seeking to use British [17:33] military bases to counter Iran's missile [17:35] threat missile threats. Now, it's true [17:37] the United States Trump has said that [17:39] he's upset at the British for not um for [17:41] not allowing the United States to use [17:43] Diego Garcia to use their base. He's [17:46] he's annoyed at them and he wants to use [17:49] their their base, but they're framing [17:51] the story as though as though the [17:53] Americans are are uh you know are [17:57] seeking the help and under in under in [17:59] less than 48 hours the Americans still [18:01] you know suddenly need to turn to the [18:03] British to bail them out to help them. [18:05] That's the way they're you know that's [18:07] the way they're uh they're framing it. [18:08] And then the prime minister Kier Starmer [18:10] also said our partners in the Gulf have [18:12] asked us to take further measures to [18:15] protect them. Oh my gosh, the Americans [18:17] can't protect the Gulf States. So, the [18:19] Gulf States turned to the UK to ask for [18:21] their protection. The Iranians are [18:23] trying to signal with this story that [18:25] the Americans are panicking and weak and [18:28] can't protect uh the, you know, their [18:30] allies, you know, so they need the help [18:32] of the UK because everyone knows that [18:34] the UK is more favorable to Iran. Okay. [18:38] And finally, the final story I'm going [18:40] to mention that was on WA today is that [18:43] they're saying that they might have [18:44] killed Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is [18:46] complete nonsense. The fate of prime [18:48] minister of of the Israeli regime is [18:50] shrouded in uncertainty. The public [18:52] relations office of the IRGC announced [18:54] that the office of the prime minister of [18:56] the Israeli regime and the location of [18:58] the commander of the regime's air force [19:00] were targeted and severely struck by the [19:02] Islamic Republic's armed forces in the [19:05] 10th wave of coordinated and surprise [19:07] Kaibar missile attacks. The fate of the [19:10] prime minister of the Israeli regime [19:11] remains uncertain. Look at that. Iran's [19:15] successful missile strikes against the [19:16] occupied territories [19:18] focused on the government complex of the [19:20] Israeli regime and the results of the of [19:22] these attacks will be announced later. [19:25] So they're saying that it could be that [19:27] we've killed Netanyahu. All right. It's [19:30] absolute nonsense. But so from here you [19:32] see the different narratives they're [19:33] pushing. Just to sum up again, there's [19:35] this Persian angle that they're pushing [19:38] trying to present themselves as [19:39] defenders of the Persian people, which [19:41] is the exact opposite. It's it's it's [19:43] the Persian it it's the Persian identity [19:45] of the Iranian people that makes them [19:48] despise the regime. uh and they [19:50] emphasize that with this uh UNESCO site [19:54] and then you have Aragchi, you know, [19:56] trying to say that uh that the Americans [19:58] and the Israelis have been bombing [19:59] hospitals and schools and they're [20:01] committing all sorts of war crimes and [20:03] trying to emphasize uh that uh you know, [20:06] the Americans and Israelis could cause [20:07] some nuclear disaster in the area and [20:09] calling them back to the negotiating [20:11] table and also claiming that they're [20:13] cooperating with the IAEA [20:16] and uh yeah, and then these stories [20:18] about American weakness and Netanyahu [20:20] being killed. So, that's the uh that's [20:22] the story the Iranians are telling. Just [20:25] uh just a little check in on on them. [20:28] One speculation that's been on my mind, [20:30] I'll just throw it out there, maybe I'll [20:31] talk about it more in updates in the [20:32] coming days, is the Iranians entered [20:34] this conflict with reportedly about [20:36] about 2,000 ballistic missiles in their [20:39] in their arsenal. [20:41] The Israelis say that in the first day [20:42] and a half of this, we destroyed about [20:45] half of their missiles. We've we're also [20:47] destroying a lot of launchers and Iran [20:51] has been firing missiles not only at [20:52] Israel but as we've been talking about [20:54] ad nauseium at everyone else in the [20:56] region too. So the question is what [20:58] happens when Iran runs out of missiles, [21:00] runs out of the ability to fire [21:02] missiles. What happens then? Um and uh [21:05] that'll be an interesting turning point [21:06] in this war which I'm anticipating is [21:09] coming sooner than we think. Have a [21:11] happy PUM everyone. 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