Our correspondent Belén de los Santos interviews Alizera Komeili, President of the Unified Ummah Movement of Iran, during the second day of the Anti-Fascist Youth & Students World Congress. teleSUR
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00:00In our news, as we stated, in Venezuela, the World Anti-Fascist Forum of Youth and Students
00:05continues.
00:06Let's go live with our special envoy in Caracas, Belén de los Santos, for the latest.
00:11Hello, Luis, exactly, we continue here in Caracas as the Youth Congress, this anti-fascist
00:22congress that has been summoned by Venezuela is underway.
00:25We are on the second day of debates, of discussions, of exchanges.
00:30This is the second day in which delegates from all over the world, from the youth generations,
00:36have come together to discuss, to exchange their experiences in the world fight against
00:43fascism.
00:44That is the premise of this congress, that is what the delegates are trying to achieve.
00:51A common agenda, a road map for the future, and there's a lot of exchange of different
00:57experiences and strategies and the knowledge of what is happening in every corner of the
01:03world and what can every territory learn from the struggles of the comrades from other parts
01:10of the world.
01:11Not only to implement them on the different territories, but also to develop a common
01:17agenda.
01:19The idea of thinking this necessarily as an international struggle, and in that sense
01:24we are joined now by Alireza, Alireza comes from Iran, he is the president of the Unified
01:30Huma Movement in Iran, and we would like first to welcome you to Tell Us Your English, and
01:37we are very grateful to have you here.
01:39Thank you for having me here, and thank you from Venezuela for this gathering.
01:45So let's start there, what are your first impressions, we are on the second day of the
01:50congress, how has your experience been yesterday, today, seeing the delegates from all over
01:56the world, also exchanging the experiences and bringing your voice from Iran, what has
02:04your experience been like?
02:06Yes, I'm from Iran, it's the head of calling the imperialism in the West Asia, it is near
02:15to 50 years that we are calling with them economically, culturally, lots of issues.
02:26So I hear lots of issues here these days, that it was very similar to our issues, we
02:34are thinking about changing this manipulation, interfering of imperialism in our countries,
02:43everywhere, and I found lots of youth here that are speaking about these issues at the
02:50same.
02:51So it is really an amazing experience for me.
02:55And it's of course amazing to see such an important Arab president in this congress.
03:02Of course, the eyes of the world are set on the Middle East right now, with the ongoing
03:08genocide, and this has been just a main topic, of course, of this congress, in the fight
03:15against fascism.
03:16We see people walking around with Palestinian flags, with kufillas, they are exchanging
03:22on their views and on international solidarity regarding that matter.
03:28What is your vision of what is happening there, and also the outcome of this international
03:35solidarity, what can be done after the congress to continue the fight to stop that genocide?
03:41Yes, that's true, that about this genocide, we are so near to what's happening there,
03:50maybe 3,000 kilometers away.
03:53The people, the almost youth people that came here, they are so far, but it was amazing
04:00for me that I found their solidarity with this issue.
04:06They have kufillas, they have some signs about the Palestine, they are speaking about the
04:15Palestine very hot.
04:18So I think from the collaborating and from the cooperating with the NGO, the movements
04:25and these people that came here, we can have more and more activities.
04:32We heard about what you are hearing every day, that they are killing people, and there
04:39is no rule, there is no rule in the world that every interfering of Americans in every
04:46world, place of the world, reach to the destroying there, to killing people, the innocent people,
04:56and to the genocide, as like as we see in Gaza.
05:00So it is very important that we can make cooperation with these young friends, inshallah.
05:06Excellent.
05:07I also believe that this solidarity that is expressed here today is one of the signs of
05:14our times, and a lot has been said, we have been hearing a lot about the different visions
05:20on what is happening in the Middle East, and really the perception, as you were saying,
05:26even from people who come from parts very, very far away from the world, they truly believe
05:34that what is happening in Palestine, in the Middle East as a whole, in the region as a
05:38whole, as a cause for humanity, instead of just thinking about a local issue.
05:47So in that sense, moving onwards from this Congress, what can we expect in terms of solidarity
05:55between, for example, Iran and the Latin American people?
05:59First of all, we found the youth people, everybody that makes good solidarity with us, because
06:07Iran is now in the front of the quarreling Americans in the West Asia, and they found
06:15that we get some martyrs, like Qasem Soleimani, like Hassan Nasrallah, most of them are, they
06:23quarreled, they were martyred in this way, that's against Americans, against American
06:29interfering in the region, against the genocide that is going on in Gaza.
06:34So we found lots of groups that we can make cooperation with them, we are coming from
06:44the Islamic parts, but our goal with the leftists and the communist friends here is the same.
06:53So I think two ways are going to anti-imperialism and fascism, we all, before 50 years, we changed
07:04the government there, and we have quarreled the fascism there, they make pressure, lots
07:12of pressure on us, they have made lots of problems for us, they made a war, eight-year
07:20war against us, 250,000 people are martyred from my country in this war by the Americans
07:28and the Western countries.
07:30So I hear about these things in every country, here, everywhere, Mexicans, they killed most
07:38of innocent people in every place of the world, so we found lots of issues that we can cooperate
07:45inshallah.
07:46Common grounds, and that is what a lot of this congress has to do, right, not only sharing
07:51the experiences, but finding those common experiences around which possibly the struggle
07:57will be stronger in that front.
08:00So thank you, Alireza, so much for joining us today.
08:04I want to thank you and thank the Venezuelan government for this.
08:08Thank you very much.
08:09As well.
08:10So that is, again, a little bit of what is happening here, and as we were saying, the
08:15possibilities of not only sharing the experiences, but really learning so much from the different
08:23experiences and also the struggles that are struggles of resistance, of great resilience
08:30around the world.
08:31We have so many examples we've heard from, of course, the Venezuelan experience, also
08:37from our comrades in this case in Iran, from our comrades in Russia, from our comrades in
08:43the different parts of the world that are giving their own version of the fight against
08:48fascism, and the endless possibilities of joining those struggles, understanding them
08:55in an international perspective, and then, of course, continuing those exchanges and
09:01continuing a common strategy and agenda on the years to come.
09:05So that is a little bit of what is happening here.
09:07We will continue to bring you more insights, more interviews, more perspective as this
09:13youth congress, the anti-fascist congress that has been summoned by Venezuela continues.
09:18Now we go back to you, Luis.