Khamenei calls on allies for support against Israel
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader told a crowd of thousands that Iran’s allies must ‘fasten the seatbelt of resistance from Iran to Afghanistan’. Israel has continued to intensify its strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Also on the programme: we speak to the widow of the man who was killed during July’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump; and Brazil is hit by its worst wildfires in two decades.
(Picture: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking during the Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran, 04 October 2024 Credit: IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live |
| 0:06.7 | from London I'm James Kimara Sami. Later on in the program I see it every time |
| 0:12.0 | I close my eyes those are the words of the widow of the man |
| 0:15.6 | who has killed during July's assassination attempt against Donald Trump. She's been speaking to |
| 0:21.5 | the BBC. We'll have that interview later on, but we'll be devoting |
| 0:25.6 | a sizable part of the programme to developments in the Middle East. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll be hearing about the latest situation in Lebanon, also from Northern Israel, and we have a rare interview with a |
| 0:35.0 | senior figure from Hamas. We're going to begin our coverage though in Iran, where days |
| 0:39.6 | after he ordered a large-scale ballistic missile attack on Israel. |
| 0:44.0 | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been leading Friday prayers in Tehran. |
| 0:49.2 | It is the first time he has performed that role in five years, and it comes as Iranians are bracing |
| 0:54.0 | themselves for the promised Israeli response to Tuesday's attack part of a |
| 0:58.2 | cycle of retaliation following the recent killing of senior figures from the |
| 1:02.4 | Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, |
| 1:05.0 | including its leader Hassan Nasrallah. |
| 1:07.6 | The Aytala told a huge crowd at the Grand Masala mosque that Iran and its allies must roll up their sleeves and prepare for action. |
| 1:15.0 | We have not opened our eyes to this reality and we've seen the result. |
| 1:20.0 | We should open our eyes today. We should be awakened. We should be |
| 1:26.5 | We should be |
| 1:27.5 | We should |
| 1:29.8 | passing the seat built of resistance from Iran to Afghanistan, from Gaza to Lebanon. |
| 1:38.0 | In every Islamic countries, we should fasten the seatbelt of resistance. |
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