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[00:00:00] Until 1951, Muhammad Mosadeg stood against
[00:00:04] threats, political pressure, and economic pressure, and
[00:00:07] declared, Iran's oil must belong to Iran. The
[00:00:10] oil industry was nationalized. Two years
[00:00:13] later, a coup backed directly by the United States and Britain
[00:00:17] overthrew his government. Mosadeg was removed from
[00:00:20] power and spent the remaining years of his life in imprisonment and house
[00:00:24] arrest, but one demand could no longer be erased: Iran's
[00:00:28] wealth must remain in Irani. in hands,
[00:00:31] land,
[00:00:33] is good, better than the water, oil, but now the issue is no longer only
[00:00:36] land, water, or oil, it is something greater than all of
[00:00:41] new wave of them, independence. the question of who has the right to
[00:00:43] decide Iran's future. In June 2025, the
[00:00:47] United States directly attacked Iran's nuclear
[00:00:50] facilities, and since February 2026, Iran has been
[00:00:54] engaged in direct military confrontation with the United States
[00:00:58] and Israel for months. Military and economic pressure has
[00:01:01] continued, but Iran has never been willing to trade its
[00:01:05] independence for temporary peace. Bows, arrows
[00:01:08] and horses have given way to launchers, missiles,
[00:01:12] tanks, drones and
[00:01:16] fighter jets. But the blood of Arash still
[00:01:19] runs through Iranian veins. And now, let us
[00:01:23] return to the same question. Where did Arasha's arrow land?
[00:01:26] The arrow flew more than a thous kilometers all the way. to the
[00:01:30] banks of the Axis River, Arash lost his
[00:01:33] life, but he did not allow the enemy to decide
[00:01:37] Iran's fate,
[00:01:39] and that legacy passed from one generation to the
[00:01:42] next, an Iranian may give his life for his
[00:01:46] homeland and independence, but he
[00:01:48] the the the issue of of will never surrender their fate to foreign
[00:01:50] power.
[00:02:08] now they are trying to triggered the media in
[00:02:20] Welcome to the Israel watch, the latest developments concerning both
[00:02:23] Iran and Yemen, as well as the controversy surrounding
[00:02:27] the the screening of a film documenting the J title
[00:02:30] crimes in the gaza strip were discussed in Israel media, we
[00:02:34] will take a closer look at them with Dr. Mohsin Saleh, president of
[00:02:38] International Association of Political Expert. Welcome, Dr.
[00:02:41] Mohsin, thank you. The Israeli Jewish holidays have
[00:02:45] been oversaturated by the ongoing
[00:02:49] great dimension of state of war, as Iran's strategy is dealing with economic pressure appears to be
[00:02:52] effective, while Israel seems constrained from carrying
[00:02:56] out a large scale escalation against the Islamic Republic.
[00:03:00] Right, first of all, on a personal
[00:03:02] "the real damage is what the members of note, I want to say, look how we're starting this edition and this
[00:03:06] discussion. Years ago, in an edition like this, it was
[00:03:10] really about the good troubles of traffic and shopping, how many people bought.
[00:03:13] You know that today, half a billion shekels were bought today alone. That's excellent, but
[00:03:17] right wing of we're going into this discussion of
[00:03:20] yamin of the of wars. Why? Because the fronts haven't closed. This is also about us, it's also about the Americans, about
[00:03:24] the Saudis who are doing a tenth of the work, not half the work. We're
[00:03:28] stuck with Hamas, and you talked about the...
[00:03:31] That's the problem, and that's what fuels the Iranians. This is the best
[00:03:35] situation that can arise for the Iranians, because they take us
[00:03:38] hostage every time. The manufacturers are hostages, whether it's Hormuz, whether it's Babel
[00:03:42] Mandab. When I'm stuck, right, when Hormuz opens a bit, I
[00:03:46] pull the strings. And this, by the way, happened in the days
[00:03:49] when the Saudi army and the official Yemeni army, they had
[00:03:53] the upper hand, and they advanced a bit and tried to limit the strings very much,
[00:03:57] and suddenly things change. There are rumors or even reports. About there being people
[00:04:01] of significance in the revolution in the Houthi area, and that's how they
[00:04:04] incite them, because
[00:04:07] wrote that we are in Iran, on the one hand, is against the wall due to the economic situation and due to the feeling
[00:04:10] of survival, that they are really on the regime's head, and therefore it
[00:04:13] uses all tools. The United States restricts itself, it restricts
[00:04:17] us too. We're not going there, not to this place of
[00:04:21] eliminating this threat once and for all, and therefore we remain with this
[00:04:24] problem.
[00:04:30] development on both the straight of hermous and babil mandab
[00:04:33] leaves Israel today? well, of course they
[00:04:36] live in a state of
[00:04:40] in a state of limbo, state of dilemma, they don't
[00:04:44] think that the the things that they thought they
[00:04:47] have achieved in Lebanon and in Gaza, they it will come
[00:04:51] through, especially what has happened in Babel
[00:04:55] Mandab, giving many
[00:04:57] dangerous problems in Saudi. economy
[00:05:01] and the international economy and already they have spent lot
[00:05:05] of shakels and many
[00:05:06] many
[00:05:09] many areas they were blocked.
[00:05:14] by the by the westerners, by the some of the
[00:05:18] arabus, by turks, I would say, and also
[00:05:21] especially the sanctions of the
[00:05:24] Europeans, so we are talking about a
[00:05:27] multiolar economy can't export
[00:05:31] every day from the east west
[00:05:34] line, and also the United States, they have
[00:05:38] now confess that more than
[00:05:41] 33 billion. and they have lost in in this war against
[00:05:44] Iran, so we are talking about an international problem,
[00:05:48] economic problem regarding the
[00:05:51] the the the aggressors especially the United States,
[00:05:55] Saudi Arabia, and also of course that will
[00:05:59] reflect itself on the Israeli situation, that's why there
[00:06:03] is a problem in the in the budget or that the
[00:06:06] Israelies cannot really exceed or
[00:06:09] can jump over in order to let things
[00:06:12] in the war, especially in the west bank and gaza, also and in
[00:06:16] Lebanon, that's why probably there are
[00:06:19] talks,
[00:06:21] they're talking about withdrawing from some parts of Lebanon because they
[00:06:25] don't have the enough, how critical the situation is, but how do you think
[00:06:29] Israel is perceiving the fact that the
[00:06:31] American has refused to support the Saudis with the
[00:06:35] Yemeni front to give more of an active support? well, of course we have to
[00:06:38] look at the power and the force of the...
[00:06:42] because the Americans they have tried before in
[00:06:46] 2025 and could
[00:06:48] not bring the Yemenis into their knees
[00:06:52] and also the Yemenis have
[00:06:56] control over Hudaida and over the some of the Red Sea
[00:06:59] and now they have more, they have more
[00:07:03] power there, they have more power there, what makes it not a
[00:07:06] good sign for the Israeli that the American is abandoning the
[00:07:10] Saudi Arabians, well that... That's true, but they think the
[00:07:14] Americans, they think that may that
[00:07:17] may get some new
[00:07:20] path towards new talks with Iran in
[00:07:23] order to not let the houties by talks,
[00:07:27] by political talks, negotiations under the
[00:07:30] table, through the Pakistanese, through the Turks, through
[00:07:34] probably the Egyptians or the Qataris, especially the
[00:07:36] Qataris, so we are talking about many
[00:07:39] many points here. about
[00:07:43] the the American and the Saudis, the Saudis of
[00:07:46] course they have lost, they have lost the battle and
[00:07:50] they have to come to terms with the his in order to find some
[00:07:54] solutions, especially most parties need to use the
[00:07:57] situation there, the situation is is going
[00:08:01] to be probably resolved. Iran
[00:08:04] appears willing to risk a major escalation today according to a
[00:08:08] former Israeli officials who also expressed their fears of Iran.
[00:08:15] that there are three things that combine,
[00:08:18] that indicate where Iran is heading. One happens
[00:08:22] in the declarative field. Iran says, we are preparing for a major
[00:08:25] reconciliation. The second thing, they directly
[00:08:27] attack the American fleet's vessels,
[00:08:31] something they didn't do with such
[00:08:34] intensity and directly before. So that's the second thing, they attack
[00:08:38] American air force bases across the Middle
[00:08:41] East. And the third thing is, of course, the situation
[00:08:44] in which the Iranians feel that they are being economically choked,
[00:08:48] while the United States, at least for now, is not collapsing
[00:08:51] from its ability to maintain the siege. All these things
[00:08:54] mean that Iran is essentially on a path of betting
[00:08:58] everything. And therefore, the great fear is
[00:09:01] that Iran has indeed decided to run
[00:09:04] for the bomb, or at least to make all the preparations
[00:09:08] to do so by creating the infrastructure under that
[00:09:12] mountain. My only reservation about David Albright's
[00:09:15] statements is that Americans are in a council
[00:09:19] program to improve their ability
[00:09:22] to target their underground facilities
[00:09:26] in facilities like Mount.
[00:09:29] And also that even if you can't hit what's inside
[00:09:33] the mountain, you can definitely severely damage
[00:09:36] the entrances, mine them, uh, cause
[00:09:40] all sorts of shifts there...
[00:10:13] about shifting from the defense to the
[00:10:17] offense and this the
[00:10:20] time of the patience and the time of defending
[00:10:23] without. targeting many many American places
[00:10:27] in Jordan and in other places in Saudi Arabia and even in
[00:10:31] Oman and Qatar and especially Bahrain, so we are
[00:10:35] talking about new a new wave
[00:10:38] of new understanding of the
[00:10:41] political position of Iran, so Iran is
[00:10:44] trying to not only after they contain the
[00:10:47] internal political issues after the
[00:10:51] assassination of the great martter Imam Khamenei, they are...
[00:10:55] are moving towards a new a new way
[00:10:58] of thinking towards the American the American
[00:11:01] presence in the in the in the in the Gulf and they
[00:11:05] have warned the the the the states
[00:11:08] these states the Gulf states that they should cooperate in order to
[00:11:12] to let the Americans leave if they can
[00:11:16] convince them that's f otherwise the the Iranians they
[00:11:19] have and they the Americans confessed and acknowledged that
[00:11:23] they they have been... struck most of
[00:11:26] 12 or more than 12 American
[00:11:29] bases in Jordan or in the Gulf, they
[00:11:33] they they are struck heavily and they have
[00:11:37] lost, they have lost a lot of not
[00:11:40] only mechanical things and
[00:11:43] instruments and all these, they have also the
[00:11:47] the intelligence services also they they
[00:11:50] are they are struck indeed, but Dr. how do you
[00:11:54] interpret the rem? concerning Iran pursuing
[00:11:57] nuclear weapon, well I would say they this is the
[00:12:01] the bagabu, I would say that the the Israelis
[00:12:04] and some of the American, especially Trump, they are always trying to put the
[00:12:08] world to say before
[00:12:13] the nuclear bomb
[00:12:17] Trump days days later, he said
[00:12:21] that if we did not do so then the the Iranians
[00:12:24] would have... have produced nuclear bomb and they have killed the
[00:12:28] world and these are these are lies, these are lies,
[00:12:33] a way, but are they trying to drag the americans to war, the
[00:12:37] Israeli are they trying to drag the americans to war with? well
[00:12:40] now now after this scandal that the Iranians
[00:12:44] they don't have they don't have nuclear bomb otherwise they
[00:12:47] have at least some feature of this one
[00:12:51] would have appeared or manifested in the in the battle in
[00:12:54] the ground. but the irans they have the
[00:12:57] missiles, they have the the the
[00:13:00] insistance and they have the power and they have the will and they have the
[00:13:04] unity and they have the resilience to
[00:13:07] to face the United States and its allies, that's
[00:13:11] that's the that's the
[00:13:14] their power and their their will and their doctrine
[00:13:17] as well, so we are talking that they
[00:13:21] they the Americans and the Israel is trying to enlarge the...
[00:13:25] of nuclear to to to give themselves a
[00:13:29] pretext to to hit Iran or to continue
[00:13:32] this and also the
[00:13:34] republicans in the united states and also
[00:13:37] the the the
[00:13:42] the
[00:13:45] the Israelis of the zionists indeed Israeli experts
[00:13:49] emphasized that the closure of babel mandab would be major
[00:13:53] development. the Middle East,
[00:13:56] both Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, once she does that, she has
[00:13:59] leverage. And the question here is how will the
[00:14:03] world react? I purposely say the world because it's not a Saudi problem, it's not
[00:14:06] an Egyptian problem, it's a world problem. Why? Because we're talking about
[00:14:10] two straits that are waterways that are not
[00:14:13] under the control of states, but there should be free movement there according to the
[00:14:17] law of the sea. And the world played a game with
[00:14:21] Hormuz, preferring to let America deal with it.
[00:14:23] And we see how it ended by force.
[00:14:27] The moment Bab el-Mandeb is also closed, we,
[00:14:30] in my opinion, need to renew the issue of the coalition here.
[00:14:34] This is a completely international
[00:14:35] watershed.
[00:14:38] It's a waterway, but it's a watershed. In my assessment, again, this is
[00:14:40] my assessment, I don't know if it
[00:14:43] will happen, an international coalition will need to be formed
[00:14:46] here simply to preserve international
[00:14:49] law.
[00:14:55] losing pendab and if it is to happen
[00:14:58] would an international alliance or coalition happen
[00:15:02] like or form against the yemenis? well i should first
[00:15:06] congratulate the yemenis, i forgot to congratulate the
[00:15:10] yemenis for their victories in babil mandib and in
[00:15:13] the western shore of of
[00:15:16] yeman and they have kicked out all
[00:15:20] these puppets and proxies of the saudis and the
[00:15:23] Americans in
[00:15:26] in Babel Mandib and the Yemenis, they might not think of
[00:15:29] closing the Babel Mandib, they might allow or they will
[00:15:33] allow and they declared that also they allow the
[00:15:37] the... the ships, the international ships only for
[00:15:40] the Saudis, they will prevent the Saudis, the Israelis and the
[00:15:43] Americans, these are these
[00:15:46] are the enemies of the Yemenis actually, and they they talk
[00:15:50] about that, and they are not shy from saying this,
[00:15:54] so we are talking about new victory for the hootis,
[00:15:57] that the the the sanctions by the sanctions
[00:16:01] or the blockade by blockade, so we are talking
[00:16:04] about new equation and the uh in the in the
[00:16:08] yemani soil and also it meets or
[00:16:11] complements the what's happening in state of
[00:16:14] hormos, so we are talking about
[00:16:19] the access of resistance in Yemen, and they
[00:16:22] have won the the the the war and the battle against
[00:16:26] Saudi Arabia, and that's why the Saudis now they are
[00:16:29] uncertain of their future even, so we are talking about
[00:16:33] a dangerous step for them that they have one.
[00:16:37] into a very wrong way,
[00:16:40] wrong road with the with the Yemanis,
[00:16:44] they have, they have to
[00:16:47] have respect and allow the
[00:16:50] Yemenis to work, to leave and to go
[00:16:53] through their lives according to their way of
[00:16:57] thinking towards Zionism, towards the Americans, if they
[00:17:01] want to be enslaved by the United States, the Yemanis would refuse
[00:17:04] such such behavior and they will fight. and they have been
[00:17:08] fighting for for what's well let's to say
[00:17:11] from 2015 and now
[00:17:15] it's 26 so we are talking about
[00:17:18] 11 years
[00:17:21] they are fighting, they are struggling against this
[00:17:25] besege. the territorial
[00:17:27] advances made by ansar allah in Yemen have
[00:17:31] dramatic reprecutions on global energy and trade, which
[00:17:34] could even outweight the reprecussions in this?
[00:17:39] Yes, Alma, listen, we are talking about one of the most important traffic routes
[00:17:43] for both energy and trade in the world,
[00:17:47] certainly after the damage or closure of the Strait of
[00:17:50] Hormuz, when an Israeli official today really talks about
[00:17:54] the Houthi conquests and says, "This is worse than Hormuz, they
[00:17:58] can fire on ships with drones alone." And these are definitely
[00:18:02] not good tidings, not for Israel, but in fact not for all
[00:18:05] oil and energy
[00:18:08] traffic in the world. We are talking about the fact that through these straits, 20%
[00:18:12] of the world's container traffic passes. This is truly a very
[00:18:16] vital chain in everything related to the passage of supplies
[00:18:19] and goods from Asia
[00:18:22] towards Europe, when in fact we are also talking about
[00:18:25] oil traffic (six million barrels, mainly Saudi)
[00:18:29] passing through this strait, and after a large part
[00:18:32] of Hormuz was actually closed, this has dramatic significance. The Houthis
[00:18:36] are trying to feel. Yesterday we hear them thus communicating to the world,
[00:18:40] saying everything is fine, we have no intention of closing the Bab el-Mandeb
[00:18:43] strait. With all due respect, it's very difficult to believe the Houthis, certainly
[00:18:46] and certainly when we understand that those who operate them are the Iranians, with those
[00:18:50] interesting reports that talk about the Revolutionary Guards being the ones
[00:18:54] who actually incited the Houthis to embark on that campaign
[00:18:57] of conquests, to conquer that area leading to Bab el-Mandeb
[00:19:00] and essentially threaten the traffic of goods
[00:19:03] and energy passing through there. Dr.
[00:19:06] Mohsen, is the situation in Babel Mendib more
[00:19:09] critical than the one in Straight of Hermus? Well, they complete
[00:19:13] each other, I would say this, it's more critical
[00:19:16] strategic,
[00:19:20] strategic path for the for the oil,
[00:19:23] and of course who who controls be might
[00:19:26] control the whole world in terms of the
[00:19:30] economy wise, but it's
[00:19:33] undoubtedly that the hoothies and the Ansarullah
[00:19:37] and the the army in
[00:19:41] in Yemen, they have created an
[00:19:43] unprecedented event in Babil Mandib,
[00:19:47] well in the in the in the modern
[00:19:51] history, but also they have this
[00:19:54] strong hand over the Bible, and
[00:19:57] now they have this
[00:20:00] self sufficient, I would say the
[00:20:03] resilience is is really ready to...
[00:20:08] fight to continue fighting against the saudis and the saudis
[00:20:12] and
[00:20:15] in in south yeman in ad so now we are talking
[00:20:18] about a world that needs urgent need for
[00:20:22] b a time when
[00:20:24] m
[00:20:27] is is not is not open and the Iranians they are saying
[00:20:30] that we we cannot open the straight of
[00:20:34] unless we we earn we gain our
[00:20:38] rights, not demands, i would say, while some they say
[00:20:41] demands or conditions, preconditions, but
[00:20:45] they have this, their right to be there, they have the
[00:20:49] authority.
[00:21:36] that are engaged in wartime propaganda for the enemy, all
[00:21:40] this group clapped there, this is because there are Israelis,
[00:21:43] Jews, the general campaign, there are Israeli Jews who are taking part
[00:21:47] in this matter, and the Israeli public.
[00:21:58] and how significant the film is that it has been produced by an
[00:22:01] Israeli? well this film is
[00:22:04] mirror for what has happened in gaza
[00:22:07] and happened in in palestine and
[00:22:11] guess they this what
[00:22:14] they say demonization well do the
[00:22:18] israel well under
[00:22:21] Netanyahu's cabinet leave
[00:22:24] any moment but to blacken to black
[00:22:28] in the image of Israel in the west in the United States in the
[00:22:31] Arab world and all the world they have committed
[00:22:34] massacers they have killed the Palestinians they have
[00:22:38] raped the woman they have damaged
[00:22:41] destroyed the the universities the
[00:22:44] masks the churches everything
[00:22:48] everything that moves.
[00:22:52] in in in Gaza, so we are talking about a film
[00:22:54] that pictures their life, the
[00:22:58] way they have behaved, the way they have killed, the way they
[00:23:02] have actually deal with the children,
[00:23:05] while they they do that in the battlefield, the
[00:23:08] soldiers, the soldiers, they picture the how they
[00:23:12] kill and how they destroy, how they rape,
[00:23:16] how they do all these bad things, diabolical
[00:23:19] things, so are talking about issue
[00:23:22] that's becoming well known and it's showing
[00:23:25] real it's transparent and covered
[00:23:29] for all the world NASA also attracted
[00:23:32] attention on Israeli social media as we will
[00:23:35] see
[00:23:38] the film is painful and it is natural that we become
[00:23:41] angry when israel speak badly about our soldiers
[00:23:45] from platforms during days of blood and
[00:23:48] fire gali
[00:23:52] the government caused through their statements about the extermination
[00:23:56] of gazza. this is not temporary damage, but rather
[00:23:59] deliberate and openly declared damage by these
[00:24:02] ministers. ransgev: there was an incident
[00:24:06] in which three hostages who were waving a white flag in the
[00:24:10] guza strip after escaping from hamas were killed. were
[00:24:14] they killed by Israeli soldiers?
[00:24:17] dr. mohsin, do you think such projects could actually..." create
[00:24:20] more internal Israeli um
[00:24:22] divisions? well, there are many
[00:24:26] pieces of literature
[00:24:30] and and
[00:24:31] political well
[00:24:35] signatures inside this
[00:24:38] entity that would indicate to
[00:24:41] to new way of thinking in terms of the what so
[00:24:45] called what so callalled leftist
[00:24:48] elite how they are? thinking about their future, how their
[00:24:52] army is behaving and also how while somebody
[00:24:57] a abis, an abis in hell,
[00:25:01] well led by Netanyahu, so Netanyahu is
[00:25:04] taking Israel to be ruined to be
[00:25:07] destroyed, and also this army is
[00:25:10] immoral and also the the cabinet led
[00:25:14] by benig and also
[00:25:17] smotric, they are killing with a called... blood
[00:25:21] and they they don't respect humanity and
[00:25:24] their statements about the the the humans
[00:25:28] and his administration has indeed
[00:25:31] ruined israel reputation ruined everything and
[00:25:34] also well that's what Donald Trump said
[00:25:38] to Netanyahu so Israel has no place in in the United
[00:25:42] States it's in the elites I mean in the congress
[00:25:45] and now they are losing we are losing the battle in inside the
[00:25:49] United States. Well, thank you Dr. Muhsin for joining us today, thank
[00:25:52] you, thank you everyone for watching and
[00:25:54] goodbye.
[00:26:21] This is a very, very, very cruel war. Very cruel.
[00:26:23] Girls, the Arab countries see us and leave us.
[00:26:27] This is not the life we are living. It has become
[00:26:30] even more difficult for us, and this life in tents is not working. They tell you the tent
[00:26:35] tent. The Qatari tent
[00:26:38] is the opposite. The Qatari tents and the awnings are all useless. No one
[00:26:42] wants anything but
[00:26:43] their home.
[00:26:47] constant she's calling out to them come and see our lives you
[00:26:51] know come and save us of course these arabs are not going to do anything they
[00:26:54] are complicit aren't they think they put themselves in a situation
[00:26:58] where that the whole of their economy is based on rich people coming and living there and that
[00:27:02] and their countries, so once you've got that situation that
[00:27:05] even though they have defense, but they're not a military country, so really they
[00:27:09] they just want to keep the status quo for themselves, whatever's going on around them.
[00:29:22] The Palestinian journalist Syndicate condemns Israel's
[00:29:25] abduction of Press TV's reporter Nakahmed warning about her
[00:29:29] health conditions in the regime's presence.