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[00:00:00] reminder that even under the shadow of missils everyday
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[00:00:08] reality of a
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[00:00:12] of the Middle East. What surprised you most about this
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[00:00:19] of think of Tiran, and did anything here challenge that
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[00:01:15] a
[00:01:27] of of of
[00:01:32] a
[00:01:36] in of
[00:01:41] There has been over this weekend major exchange of missile
[00:01:45] fire by Iran in the US targeting
[00:01:47] of oil tankers and even a U.S.
[00:01:51] destroyer.
[00:01:54] of Uh, the new secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen
[00:01:58] Razay said
[00:02:03] of in a very recent interview that Iran didn't use ballistic missile for
[00:02:04] of that attack on the destroyer, but new
[00:02:08] weapon, but let's
[00:02:10] go to Iran's escalation ladder, which we've talked about
[00:02:13] before, this is a country that takes its time to send
[00:02:16] messages and only does so when necessary, and to
[00:02:20] serve a strategic objective, unlike the
[00:02:23] Americans. um, what is
[00:02:26] of of Iran's intent in this new round? you know, one
[00:02:30] seems obvious to me, which is to punch a hole in Trump's
[00:02:33] claims that tankers worth 9 billion dollars are getting
[00:02:37] a through hormos daily, and
[00:02:40] two, it seems to me that Iran is now looking
[00:02:44] to force an end to the US naval
[00:02:48] of blockade. Okay, let's start from the
[00:02:51] in beginning, a bit of background is necessary to get to your
[00:02:55] point, the
[00:02:57] of background is that all
[00:02:59] a along, what... Iranians were doing is since the war started on
[00:03:03] February 28, the primacy was given to
[00:03:07] the
[00:03:08] in diplomacy, that was the key thing, and as far as the military was
[00:03:12] concerned, it was responding it for that to
[00:03:16] whatever the Americans were doing in the region, so it was a
[00:03:19] proportionate response from the Iranian military
[00:03:22] (IRGC) now when we look at diplomacy, what
[00:03:26] they were trying to accomplish is create..."
[00:03:31] regional framework,
[00:03:33] of what that means is when we say
[00:03:35] a regional security framework, it means that
[00:03:39] all the issues concerning the region should be resolved
[00:03:43] by the countries
[00:03:44] of the region itself without any interference from
[00:03:48] of outside pass, that's
[00:03:50] of a regional framework and this is something entirely new,
[00:03:54] just to put it
[00:03:54] in a
[00:03:55] of context, this is the thinking
[00:03:57] of the new world order which has this support of
[00:04:01] two great powers Russia in China in the multipolar
[00:04:04] world, so what we saw was that
[00:04:08] Iran's foreign
[00:04:09] of minister Abbas Arakshi in the month of May and
[00:04:13] June, he traveled to Russia, he met up with
[00:04:16] President Putin for an hour and a half in Saint
[00:04:19] in Petersburg, after that early June he traveled
[00:04:23] to China, met up with his counterpart
[00:04:27] Wonghi, got the support for this. framework from
[00:04:31] both the countries and after that when he came back the
[00:04:35] Iranian leadership would have discussed this that look we've got the
[00:04:38] support and after that on the
[00:04:41] of 30 23rd of June Iranian
[00:04:44] president he did a state visit to
[00:04:47] Pakistan to get Pakistan on board the
[00:04:51] of Pakistan leadership because Pakistan is playing very
[00:04:54] important role in this re framework the
[00:04:58] idea of which is about is coming from Iran,
[00:05:02] but this is one
[00:05:03] of the key fundamentals
[00:05:05] of the new world order, as I pointed out.
[00:05:08] of As a consequence of that, what has happened is that on the
[00:05:11] 31st. first of August two big events happened
[00:05:15] simultaneously on the same day. On
[00:05:19] 31st of August in Islamabad in sorry in
[00:05:22] Istanbul in Turkey there was a
[00:05:25] announcement that there will be a
[00:05:29] formalized arrangement was made to be called Makka
[00:05:33] joint defense agreement. Where there are three
[00:05:36] countries which is Pakistan, Turkey and
[00:05:40] Saudi Arabia. The concept is of collective
[00:05:43] security, which is what this new world order fundamental
[00:05:47] thinking is about world order fundamental thinking is
[00:05:50] about, so on the same day,
[00:05:53] 31st of August, the Isgistan, and in
[00:05:57] Kirgizan, when you look at the joint statement, there was
[00:06:01] total support given to Iran, support not
[00:06:05] only to Iran its territorial integrity and
[00:06:08] sovereinity, to the fact that there was aggression
[00:06:12] on run by America and Israel and that
[00:06:16] Iran should have or can have
[00:06:19] peaceful uses of nuclear energy under the
[00:06:22] NPT, so there was total support for Iran
[00:06:26] and the Iran thinking of regional framework. now
[00:06:30] once this was done on the 31st of August, this is
[00:06:34] when the Iranian leadership decided, now we need to
[00:06:38] give primacy to the military
[00:06:40] power and That is
[00:06:43] when the lead was taken by the
[00:06:46] secretary the supreme ner to tanker hits, now you see
[00:06:50] a tanker does not have any defensive means, but
[00:06:54] the key thing was what resided, he
[00:06:58] fired something unusual that the Iranians had not
[00:07:02] done before, and first thing to note is that the
[00:07:05] firing was not done by the IRGC
[00:07:08] navy, it was done by the IRGC
[00:07:12] space force and what was fired
[00:07:16] was a anti ship ballistic missile with
[00:07:20] a suppressed trajectory or depressed
[00:07:23] trajectory and this missile is being called Kasim
[00:07:27] Baseir. now this was basically fired as
[00:07:31] demonstration to tell the Americans that look
[00:07:35] all your fleet which is part the naval
[00:07:39] blockade that you have put there a naval blockade
[00:07:43] is an act of war, until now the Iranians
[00:07:47] were quiet about it, so this was clear
[00:07:50] indication about the vulnerability that the US military
[00:07:54] faces and sentcom acknowledged that yes
[00:07:58] this missile ballistic missile was fired, but our
[00:08:02] aircraft carrier obviously it was George Washington. now
[00:08:06] what happens is that whenever there is a aircraft
[00:08:09] carrier then there are lot of guided missile.
[00:08:13] destroyers which provided basically the security
[00:08:17] which provide the defense and what these guided missile
[00:08:21] destroyers have what is called the ag
[00:08:23] system now in this
[00:08:27] edges combat system the interceptors are
[00:08:31] there and the interceptors on the American
[00:08:34] destroyers are of ratio company there are three
[00:08:38] types the sm2 which is standard missile 2
[00:08:41] standards missile three and standard missile 6. the long in
[00:08:45] short the story is that the missile that was
[00:08:49] fired antishiim ballistic missile with depressed
[00:08:52] trajectory, it basically means thatosphere, it
[00:08:56] stayed within theosphere, it stayed within the
[00:09:00] stratosphere on the higher reaches the atmosphere, so we
[00:09:04] are looking at altitude of about 60 to 80
[00:09:08] or 90 kilometers, it stayed there
[00:09:11] and it had a speed of close to
[00:09:15] 10 mac and mac is the speed of sound
[00:09:19] and it it fired at by the IRGC
[00:09:22] aerospace force, it was fired a distance of
[00:09:26] around 1000 kilometers and with a
[00:09:29] warhead which has a weight of close to
[00:09:33] 1.3 ton. now this
[00:09:36] SM6, this is supposed to take a ballistic
[00:09:40] missile or hostile ballistic missile. within
[00:09:44] the atmosphere when it is in the descent phase, it is coming
[00:09:48] down, because ballistic missile follows a
[00:09:51] parabolic path, it is very clearly defined path,
[00:09:55] but the problem here is that this missile is coming at
[00:09:59] such a speed and the SM6
[00:10:02] interceptors the Americans, they have only been
[00:10:05] tested in a controlled environment, not in a
[00:10:09] operational environment, and when you have have this
[00:10:13] missile coming at such a speed, it does not give
[00:10:17] any reaction time to the SM6 and the radar
[00:10:20] the ages system, which is very good radar to
[00:10:24] b. ically identify the that yes there is hostile
[00:10:28] missile coming and to kill that missile, so the
[00:10:32] point making is as far as the Americans are concerned, they
[00:10:36] are totally defenseless against this missile and the Americans know
[00:10:40] it, and what this missile can do is
[00:10:43] because of its 1.3 or 1.2 ton
[00:10:47] warhead, it has explosive power and it has
[00:10:50] chiletic energy, so if it hits a
[00:10:54] ship. "it can actually go through the deck the
[00:10:57] ship, that is what it can do, so the point
[00:11:01] here is mozay has made it clear
[00:11:05] that this is the capability we have, and what is being told
[00:11:09] to the Americans is on the one hand
[00:11:13] that look, you lift your naval blockade that
[00:11:17] you have put in place, it was put two times, once on the
[00:11:21] 13th of April and after that early July."
[00:11:25] I think it was early July after they signed the Mou on
[00:11:29] 17th of June, so the point being made
[00:11:32] is that this is your vulnerability and we'l hit it,
[00:11:36] and already now the reports are saying that
[00:11:39] Centcom, they have moved their ship further
[00:11:42] back, and what Ri has further announced is that
[00:11:46] look, wherever the line the blockade now is
[00:11:50] the blockade, starting from there there
[00:11:54] will be a... restricted zone, restricted
[00:11:58] zone that covers the gulf of Oman, state of hermose and
[00:12:01] goes all along the Persian gulf to the north,
[00:12:05] we are talking about a length of
[00:12:08] 1500 kilometers, this will all be
[00:12:12] restricted zone, so the long and short is
[00:12:15] enormous capabilities they have in state of hormones, not to go in
[00:12:19] the details right now, I'm just trying to give you a
[00:12:22] broad b of what's happening, so
[00:12:26] what they are basically saying Iranians is that on the one
[00:12:30] hand, we are announcing very soon a restricted
[00:12:34] zone, because razi has said that this is not
[00:12:38] state of hermos, this is state of Iran's
[00:12:41] dignity, that is what they are calling it
[00:12:44] now, on the other hand, they have made the
[00:12:47] conditions for assumption of talk with Trump
[00:12:51] extremely harsh and extremely difficult.
[00:12:55] and of all the condition, if you ask me, I have to pick up a single
[00:12:59] one, I would say that they want the American
[00:13:02] forces out of West Asia, this is
[00:13:06] very big thing in, because you see what I earlier
[00:13:09] mentioned to you that they have created this
[00:13:13] regional framework, the physical manifestation of
[00:13:17] which is the Makka joint defense agreement with
[00:13:20] headquarters in Saudi Arabia and the
[00:13:24] first security. to be from Pakistan, it's a
[00:13:28] very big thing and top of that, already
[00:13:31] two countries, Sergi Lavroff has said they are interested
[00:13:35] in joining this, you know this Maka joint
[00:13:39] defense agreement, and these countries are Egypt, that will
[00:13:43] be very big thing, because Egypt basically is a
[00:13:47] country which is transcontinental, the Sinai is in
[00:13:51] part of west Asia, but all the Egypt is in North Africa.
[00:13:56] and then Algeria has been mentioned as another
[00:13:59] country, so this is what is being created is
[00:14:03] get the Americans out of West Asia,
[00:14:06] so let me just finish this broad overview
[00:14:10] by telling you that Americans today have no
[00:14:14] military options at all given their vulnerability,
[00:14:18] and what is their vulnerability, they have enormous military
[00:14:21] capabilities, they are one country which... spend one
[00:14:25] trillion dollars on the pentagon on the defense
[00:14:29] budget, but unfortunately the capabilities
[00:14:33] they have, they are the 20th century warfare,
[00:14:37] big destroyers, big aircraft carrier or has
[00:14:40] changed, these are the vulnerabilities are now
[00:14:44] now, no longer the assets and I am not even talking
[00:14:48] about right now the enormous cyber
[00:14:51] capabilities that today the Iranians have so...
[00:14:55] Iranians are wise people who have gone step
[00:14:58] by step, there are far too many other vulnerability
[00:15:02] also which they can destroy and the Americans know
[00:15:05] it,
[00:15:16] no go zone around hormos, which would extend
[00:15:19] to the US navy's blockade line, we don't
[00:15:23] actually know where the block. cade is
[00:15:27] um, because the american their ships are based in in
[00:15:31] various, their ships are based in in various waterways,
[00:15:35] but it sounds, you were talking about going to the north? the Persian Gulf, it sounds
[00:15:39] that Iran is now expanding the military theater in
[00:15:42] waterways, well into the Arabian sea and
[00:15:46] Indian Ocean, from where the US Navy
[00:15:50] ostensibly enforces its blockade, um,
[00:15:53] but
[00:15:54] you know, here's the thing, the US Navy is
[00:15:58] likely to strike Iranian ships in any waters anywhere
[00:16:02] in the world, so it's not a blockade in the typical
[00:16:06] sense, where you prevent ships from moving within
[00:16:09] a defined uh,
[00:16:12] you know, waterway geography, how do you see
[00:16:16] this develop? all right, first of all, first of
[00:16:19] all, there are reports and you have satellite
[00:16:23] pictures, because the Iranians are
[00:16:27] helped by the Chinese space capabilities which are way
[00:16:30] ahead that the Americans, which is why in
[00:16:33] 2019 President Trump in his first term in office, he
[00:16:37] created the space force new service. now
[00:16:41] the point here to understand is that reports clearly
[00:16:45] say that the blockade is 300
[00:16:49] kilometers away from the Gulf of Oman and
[00:16:53] the Sentcom reports now are coming and saying they pulled back
[00:16:56] now another 100 kilometers, so we are talking about
[00:17:00] a 400 kilometer present line. now talking
[00:17:04] theater, what you said, Let's understand what
[00:17:08] is the war theater about for
[00:17:11] Iran. Today the Iranians have
[00:17:14] the missiles and the drones. Iranians have
[00:17:18] drones which are jet part, which are long
[00:17:21] range, which can fire with precision because the
[00:17:25] space capabilities provided by the Chinese, the
[00:17:29] bedu three constellation as well as the yagol
[00:17:32] augmentation satellite systems which are there in the
[00:17:36] lower orbat. which provide you a persistent
[00:17:40] stare the theater, the theater
[00:17:43] today, when you look at the north, it goes to
[00:17:47] the entire Mediterranean sea, and now you look at
[00:17:51] south in the Indian Ocean, we are talking
[00:17:55] about the capability of Iran to hit
[00:17:58] digoghasya, and digo ga today
[00:18:01] is one logistic base the Americans which is
[00:18:05] serving three commands. It is serving the Africa
[00:18:09] command, it is serving sidcom and it is service that
[00:18:13] they can anywhere in the state of hormos or around
[00:18:16] that disturb or
[00:18:19] disrupt the
[00:18:21] communications ship to ship communications
[00:18:25] the US Navy and ship to show communications and
[00:18:29] as far as Digo Garcier is concerned the
[00:18:33] entire logistic base the Americans which is huge
[00:18:36] base. is automated, so it is all
[00:18:40] digitized. now when you have all digitization, that
[00:18:44] means your missiles are a particular bunker, your fuel is
[00:18:48] somewhere else, then your loading sites are somewhere else, then
[00:18:52] they have massive runways for their stealth bombers,
[00:18:55] everything is there digitized, and the brain of a
[00:18:59] digitization is what is called the PLC,
[00:19:03] programmable logic controllers and today
[00:19:07] the Iranians have come very long way from
[00:19:10] 2010, please recall in
[00:19:13] 2010 the Americans and the
[00:19:16] Israelis, they had done their
[00:19:19] stuckness, you
[00:19:21] know
[00:19:24] sabotage their
[00:19:26] centrifuges, and what they did
[00:19:30] with was the
[00:19:31] that that the centrifuges nasan
[00:19:34] facility, nuclear facilities, they were disrupted.
[00:19:38] so today the Iranians have come a long way and they can
[00:19:42] disrupt the PLCs which are there in Digogarsia
[00:19:46] in other words create disturbance create complete
[00:19:50] cross at Digogarsia so what theater are we talking
[00:19:54] of what capabilities are we talking of so they
[00:19:58] cover everything their drones and missile
[00:20:01] capabilities and everything what they have is
[00:20:04] underground the Iranians this is work done over
[00:20:08] decades, what they have done, over decades they have
[00:20:12] studied the Americans, the military capabilities of
[00:20:16] Americans and the strategy the
[00:20:19] Israelis and of course
[00:20:23] the America, the US Navy has retreated to Diego Garcia
[00:20:27] because they've lost access to the fifth
[00:20:30] fleet headquarters in
[00:20:32] Bahrain, um,
[00:20:35] correct? That's right, so they have
[00:20:39] lost basically the fifth fleet in Bahrain, the
[00:20:43] infrastructure has been destroyed there, so now the
[00:20:46] logistics for the ships it is coming. from
[00:20:50] digo garsia and because peet Hekset kept
[00:20:54] this, he did not disclose this, perhaps even to his commander in
[00:20:57] chief, the destruction which was done so early by
[00:21:01] the Iranians in Bahrain to the logistics
[00:21:05] center, that we we then now we have the
[00:21:08] reports the problems that Abraham
[00:21:12] lincoln are faced, it was all
[00:21:15] because of not telling publically as to
[00:21:19] what has happened on Abraham Lincoln, so
[00:21:23] Abraham Lincoln now, I think is somewhere in Thailand,
[00:21:26] Thailand, why would they go all the way to Thailand and not to
[00:21:30] Diego Garcia? No, Diego Garcia basically
[00:21:34] is a port for the refilling, it is
[00:21:36] logistic, but for the repairs and everything they have to
[00:21:40] go to Thailand, because now east Asia they have
[00:21:44] basically three allies, Thailand is one allies,
[00:21:48] South Korea is another. and Japan is another and then of course they
[00:21:52] have Australia, this is what they have. now as far as
[00:21:56] pacific command is concerned, there they have massive
[00:22:00] shortages of interceptors and
[00:22:03] munitions, and all these interceptors, they
[00:22:06] take years to build, not that,
[00:22:10] you see America's industrial, military industrial
[00:22:14] capabilities, they are very frugal right
[00:22:18] now to build the... up to a war surge
[00:22:21] level that will take few years,
[00:22:25] nothing happen a hurry, so the point is that when you
[00:22:29] talk of a theater, the theaters are under the
[00:22:32] command of and the not command really, they are under the
[00:22:36] observation, total observation, 24
[00:22:40] into seven, what is what we call persistent
[00:22:43] stair the Iranians? i also think the
[00:22:47] war with Iran is um... uh
[00:22:50] offering opportunities to break all
[00:22:54] the US dominated global networks from insurance to
[00:22:58] shipping even um AI data
[00:23:02] centers right uh these are all potentially
[00:23:05] targets on Iran's escalation ladder if the US
[00:23:09] persists at this ridiculous war, but you you made a
[00:23:13] really important point about the US fighting a 20th
[00:23:16] century war in the 21st century, it is
[00:23:20] "it is outcassed, as we have
[00:23:23] seen, um, but but so
[00:23:27] then are its allies, because they
[00:23:30] operate under those same paradigms, right,
[00:23:34] militarily, um, and that means Israel is
[00:23:38] included in this, Israel will be outclassed
[00:23:41] a direct Iran Israel confrontation,
[00:23:45] but I want to ask you from where you sit is, return
[00:23:49] is to direct war between Iran and Israel inevitable, is
[00:23:53] Iran waiting for the US to retreat entirely before that kicks
[00:23:56] off? as you know, I'm sitting in Beirot right now, the situation
[00:24:00] southern Lebanon has become untenable, Israel is blowing up
[00:24:04] entire villages and towns every single day in the south, and
[00:24:08] as we know, it was Iran's number one demand in the failed
[00:24:11] mou from last June a withdrawal of all Israeli forces
[00:24:15] from Lebanon, all regional states, does this war
[00:24:18] end? whether today or next year or three years
[00:24:22] down the road with an inevitable Iran
[00:24:25] Israel final showdown. See, first of all,
[00:24:29] let me start by telling you that
[00:24:32] Israel is not a military power.
[00:24:36] We Israel's military capabilities are
[00:24:39] overblower. Israel basically is a state which
[00:24:43] does terrorism. Israel's unique thing is
[00:24:47] musad, that is what they do. Now
[00:25:01] that the Iranians are very clear that they have to also
[00:25:04] clear the security zone that they have captured in southern
[00:25:08] Lebanon, and any case Beirot is the is their red
[00:25:12] line where you are sitting, you see now, but
[00:25:15] coming back to Israel, please remember when this war
[00:25:19] started, in just a couple of weeks the
[00:25:22] Israeli chief of army he publically made the
[00:25:26] statement that the IDF is
[00:25:29] overersched because they are
[00:25:33] everywhere, they are fighting a war
[00:25:36] with, they
[00:25:36] are with southern you know in southern Lebanon, they are in
[00:25:40] Syria, they are with
[00:25:42] the yemenis, so they are all over and they
[00:25:45] are fatigued, so the point I'm making is a showdown that
[00:25:49] you are talking. about between Iran and
[00:25:53] Israel after the American leaves, I don't think it
[00:25:56] makes any sense, because yes of course
[00:26:00] Israel will have the capable. abilities of St.
[00:26:03] Cob, there is no doubt about it because the
[00:26:07] strong lobby in Washington and in the US congress,
[00:26:11] but the point the matter is that once
[00:26:14] the once the American forces leave
[00:26:18] and in that time frame even this Macca joint
[00:26:22] agreement would also have further
[00:26:25] expanded and one the things the
[00:26:29] is, so even today if the Israelis have to...
[00:26:32] attack Turkey, if they have to fight with Turkey, Turkey has no interest
[00:26:36] in fighting with the Israelies, but if
[00:26:40] they fight, then they have to duftail this in
[00:26:44] their war scheming that there are three
[00:26:47] countries, now whether one will fight or how
[00:26:51] many will fight, what sort of capabilities will be provided by the other two
[00:26:55] countries to Turkey, Israelis have to keep that in
[00:26:58] mind, and as this agreement
[00:27:02] more and more countries join, Iran, Iran's hand
[00:27:06] will be strengthened, not weakened. We are looking
[00:27:10] a situation, perhaps even, you know, by next
[00:27:14] year, the entire situation will change, and
[00:27:17] change to the detriment of Israel, not to the
[00:27:21] benefit of
[00:27:22] Israel.
[00:27:51] This is for Palestine. In today's show, we'll be revisiting the
[00:27:54] genocide in South Lebanon, which is continuing to
[00:27:57] see killings, displacement, and the destruction of homes
[00:28:01] unfolding every day. he spite a supposed cease fire,
[00:28:05] well the scale of destruction in south
[00:28:08] Lebanon is almost unimaginable for
[00:28:12] most of us, this is area that
[00:28:15] is 10, 20 times the size of
[00:28:19] Gaza that is occupied by the Israelis and they have
[00:28:23] been uh conducting uh
[00:28:26] total ethnic cleansing campaign, you don't make an
[00:28:30] agreement with the zinish entity and expect that the... so keep to it, they
[00:28:33] violate every cease fire, every treaty, every agreement, usually
[00:28:37] before it's even come into effect, and of course that was the same
[00:28:41] uh in lebanon from June
[00:28:43] onwards.
[00:29:44] Tops sorry on press CB, the Islamic Revolution Guard course has a shot down
[00:29:48] and destroyed another American MQ1 drone over the straight of
[00:29:51] hormos,
[00:29:57] and these three civilians are killed in the fresh air strikes on Yemen's the southwestern
[00:30:01] province of.