Video Clip from 24 January:

On 24 January Iranian state TV (IRINN) broacast this video collage along with the following announcer commentary about George Bush's state of the union speech yesterday:

"Bush's annual speech to Congress contained various points about problems related to US foreign policy as well as this nation's domestic problems. Even so, in this speech Bush tried to concentrate mostly on his government's policies in Iraq and the Middle East and to justify his government's current programs.

"Bush's concentration on the complex problems in Iraq and his portrayal of Iran as the cause of the clashes in this country appear to be an effort to compensate for the failure of Western nations to get any result from putting pressure on Iran regarding its peaceful nuclear activities, by accusing Tehran with respect to Iraq's problems.

"Another point that stands out in Bush's remarks is his anxiety about the failure of his government's policies and programs in Iraq and the Middle East, in such a way that for peace of mind he asked the US Congress to agree to the sending of additional troops to this nation and the full implementation of his new program there.

"Yet in the last three days most of the Democrats and Republicans in this nation's Senate and House of Representatives, along with the experts and US allies, emphasizing the ineffectiveness of the Bush policies in Iraq, have opposed sending additional troops and increasing the costs and casualties of the war.

"It is interesting that in this speech Bush acknowledged clearly for the first time that he thinks carefully about the fact that most Americans are opposed to his program. Bush implicity acknowledged that in polls 67 percent of the American people are opposed to the continuation of his policies in Iraq and the Middle East."