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[00:00:41] Hello and good evening, welcome to this short
[00:00:44] news segment. Saudi Arabia has warned that it will respond
[00:00:48] decisively to yesterday's attacks by Yemen's Houthis.
[00:00:51] The Houthis say that Saudi Arabia targeted about 50 locations
[00:00:55] in Yemeni territory with air strikes
[00:00:58] last night. In this. Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown
[00:01:02] Prince of Saudi Arabia, is scheduled to meet with Abdel Fattah
[00:01:05] el-Sisi, the President of Egypt, in Cairo today. Saudi
[00:01:09] Arabia recently asked the US and Britain
[00:01:12] for more support in the fight against the Houthis.
[00:01:15] The Houthis' access to a port and an island
[00:01:19] overlooking Bab-el-Mandeb
[00:01:22] has created more problems for Saudi
[00:01:26] Arabia's oil exports. Global energy prices are under pressure.
[00:01:30] The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb
[00:01:33] is escalating. For further analysis of the latest
[00:01:37] developments, my colleague Omid Parsanejad is here in
[00:01:41] the studio with us. Omid, just a moment ago, there was news
[00:01:44] that another ship in the Strait of
[00:01:48] Hormuz may have been targeted. A British company that monitors
[00:01:51] maritime traffic, especially in the Strait of Hormuz,
[00:01:55] is talking about another ship being targeted.
[00:01:59] All of this, what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz
[00:02:02] and in Bab-el-Mandeb and the Red Sea,
[00:02:06] seems to be causing the price of energy, oil,
[00:02:10] gasoline, and diesel to rise
[00:02:13] sharply, which is what Iran wanted, isn't it?
[00:02:17] This is essentially Iran's attempt to maintain
[00:02:20] pressure on the energy market, hoping that
[00:02:24] the Americans will eventually run out of patience
[00:02:27] and the political cost they pay domestically will reach a point
[00:02:31] where they show flexibility. Regarding the ship you mentioned,
[00:02:35] the IRGC Navy Command issued a statement
[00:02:38] saying that it was a supertanker
[00:02:42] that intended to pass through the southern
[00:02:46] Strait of Hormuz, which Iran considers a prohibited zone, and that it
[00:02:49] hit a mine and caught fire. They reiterated
[00:02:53] that "the Strait of Hormuz
[00:02:56] is still closed from our perspective, and we have intelligent control over the Strait
[00:02:59] of Hormuz." This means that only ships and vessels that coordinate
[00:03:03] with us and obtain passage permission will be allowed to pass.
[00:03:07] In any case, this situation has caused oil prices to rise significantly.
[00:03:10] The shortage
[00:03:13] of liquefied natural gas, for example, in China and India,
[00:03:17] means they can no longer buy the liquefied gas they usually
[00:03:20] bought from Persian Gulf countries,
[00:03:23] and it has brought the energy crisis to an international level
[00:03:27] that has created concern for almost all countries
[00:03:31] that the world economy could enter a new crisis.
[00:03:35] Tomorrow, Mr. Araqchi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, is scheduled
[00:03:38] to travel to China and meet with the Chinese Foreign
[00:03:42] Minister there, and it is predicted that discussions on this topic
[00:03:46] will likely take place between the two sides regarding oil and
[00:03:49] the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb, where
[00:03:53] the Houthis' pressure on Bab-el-Mandeb is largely seen
[00:03:57] within the framework of the tension between Iran, the US,
[00:04:01] and their allies. And as you said,
[00:04:04] Mr. Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is also going to Egypt today, and it is expected
[00:04:08] that he will ask the Egyptians for more help in the war
[00:04:11] against the Houthis. The US
[00:04:15] sanctioned a Russian bank because of its ties to
[00:04:19] Iran. It's a bank that has been accused of having a branch
[00:04:23] in Iran and helping Iran with international transactions
[00:04:26] and purchasing items
[00:04:30] and goods outside Iran.
[00:04:33] And American officials said that they
[00:04:37] will be in contact with a large number of financial
[00:04:41] institutions this week, and they will send experts to warn
[00:04:44] them, both to make them aware not to knowingly cooperate
[00:04:47] with Iran and help Iran bypass
[00:04:51] sanctions, and also to warn
[00:04:54] them about the tactics that Iranians use, which
[00:04:57] might cause some institutions
[00:05:03] to help them. They want to give them more awareness about these things. They want to maintain pressure on Iran's economy
[00:05:07] along with the naval blockade they have established, which is
[00:05:11] truly crushing pressure on people's livelihoods
[00:05:14] right now, and they hope that this will lead to changes
[00:05:18] in Iran regarding the decisions they make.
[00:05:22] Omid, thank you very much, Omid
[00:05:24] Parsanejad, my colleague here in the studio with us. We have reached
[00:05:28] the end of this news segment. Thank you for joining us.