PRESSTV — broadcast 20260917 043000 UTC 424 transcript segments Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp) Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:15] of [00:00:22] of [00:00:33] of a of [00:00:37] a [00:00:46] For months, Saudi Arabia and its American patron have behaved as [00:00:50] though they had discovered the ultimate escape hatch from the consequences of [00:00:53] war. Iran closes the [00:00:57] of of straight of hormos, no problem. Saudi Arabia, we were told had the... east-west pipeline, [00:01:01] millions of barrels of crude oil per day could simply bypass the [00:01:05] Persian Gulf across the kingdom and sail out through [00:01:08] Yanboa on the Red Sea. A neat little [00:01:12] geopolitical work around, except apparently the work around has [00:01:15] now been shattered. Saudi Arabia has announced the shutdown [00:01:19] of its crucial east-west crew pipeline after multiple strikes [00:01:23] targeted the facility. The very infrastructure that was supposed to [00:01:27] give Muhammad bin Salman and Washington is... strategic alternative to [00:01:31] Hormus has suddenly become another [00:01:33] vulnerability, and the irony is almost too perfect. For [00:01:37] years, Riyad invested billions of dollars in projecting the image of [00:01:41] of modern, military protected, economically [00:01:45] indispensable powerhouse. The message was simple, Saudi [00:01:49] Arabia would always flow, Saudi infrastructure would [00:01:53] always be secure, and Saudi Arabia would [00:01:55] of always have an alternative, until it did [00:01:58] not. news is closed, the [00:02:01] of east-west pipeline is shut down, red sea exports are under [00:02:05] increasing pressure and saudi oil [00:02:07] a of production has plunched [00:02:09] of dramatically, so much for the great bypass, but perhaps the [00:02:13] most revealing part of this entire [00:02:15] of spectacle is what comes next, enter Benjamin [00:02:19] Netanyahu reportedly offering to step in and bomb Yemen and [00:02:22] Iraq to help Saudi Arabia, think about that for [00:02:25] moment, Muhammad bin [00:02:27] of of a Salman of who has spent years presenting himself as the architect of new [00:02:31] a Saudi Arabia, sovereign, powerful and independent is now watching [00:02:35] Netanyahu offer Israeli entity bombs as a rescue package for the [00:02:38] kingdom's collapsing oil routes. That is not [00:02:42] sovereignty, that is geopolitical humiliation wrapped in expensive [00:02:46] public relations, and the hypocrisy is [00:02:49] breathtaking. Saudi Arabia spent years bombing Yemen, [00:02:52] imposing devastating pressure on an already impoverished nation and [00:02:56] participating in policies that brought suffering to millions of Yemen. [00:03:00] now that Yemen has the capacity to impose a cost in return, [00:03:04] Riyad suddenly needs others to come and fight its battles, [00:03:08] first Washington, now perhaps Netanyahu, this is the [00:03:12] uncomfortable truth for Muhammad bin Salman, you cannot spend years participating [00:03:16] in the architecture of American aggression, bank role regional [00:03:19] wars, imagine that geography can permanently protect you from [00:03:23] consequences and then act shocked when the fire actually reaches your [00:03:27] own pipelines, [00:03:29] you now the straight over Moose was supposed to be bypassed. Instead, Saudi Arabia may [00:03:33] be learning that [00:03:34] in a regional war, there is no bypass [00:03:37] around [00:03:48] Saudi Arabia and its American allies believed that the east-west [00:03:51] pipeline gave the kingdom a strategic escape route, should the straight [00:03:55] of hormos ever become [00:03:58] a inaccessible, but that [00:03:59] of calculation is now... facing dramatic collapse, as hormos [00:04:02] remains under pressure, the alternative red sea route is [00:04:06] increasingly vulnerable, exposing how deeply Saudi Arabias [00:04:09] economic security depends on regional order it can no [00:04:21] Ali. now and I need to explain a bit to our viewers in the west [00:04:24] what this means actually, because maybe they do not [00:04:28] understand the strategic geography of what we're talking about, they [00:04:32] have fully understood by now what the straight of Hormus is, but [00:04:36] why is Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline uh considered [00:04:40] Washington and [00:04:41] of Riyad's of most a important [00:04:41] of alternative for keeping Saudi oil [00:04:45] flowing and most importantly now that the pipeline itself has been hit [00:04:49] and the oil flow has been interrupted uh maybe can we [00:04:53] know how fundamentally does this change the uh [00:04:56] strategic challenge for Saudi Arabia itself and [00:05:00] wider allies, if you will, [00:05:02] of a patrons of Saudi Arabia, first of all, we all know that the east-west pipeline [00:05:06] exists since the late 80s, [00:05:10] but the importance [00:05:12] of the... of this route has been [00:05:15] so important um after the events that [00:05:19] took place in hormostrate, the [00:05:23] saudis bragged about [00:05:25] the their capability to export more than six million barrels [00:05:29] of oil per day after [00:05:33] the the closure the hormos [00:05:36] straight, they were capable to do [00:05:39] this and the rest the Persian. Arab [00:05:42] states were unable to export their own [00:05:46] oil, so now the Americans have been [00:05:50] depending on the flow of those six or seven [00:05:53] million barrels per day through the western ports of [00:05:57] Saudi Arabia, through the Red Sea, through the zous [00:06:01] canal and the Babelmandab straight. Right now, [00:06:05] after the events in Yemen and the closure [00:06:08] the Babel Mandib straight in face. [00:06:12] the Saudi oil exports, it has [00:06:16] been vital for the Americans and the Saudis that the [00:06:20] flow remains through the zois canal [00:06:24] after the [00:06:27] the attacks on the the [00:06:30] main pipeline [00:06:34] station close to the Medina and [00:06:38] Saudi Arabia, Saudi Saudis [00:06:41] lost their... 6 million barrels per day [00:06:45] exports per so [00:06:48] it it's now as something devastating for the [00:06:52] oil exporting industry in Saudi Arabia and it means [00:06:55] that six million barrels per day are [00:06:59] not being exported into the [00:07:02] global uh energy market so this has [00:07:06] to affect the the price start California woke up [00:07:10] a 9.99 per gap. exactly, pretty first [00:07:14] in its in its history, but there's also something important because Saudi Arabia has spent [00:07:18] years investing heavily in the idea that its [00:07:22] oil infrastructure can actually be protected because it has this [00:07:26] powerful imperial power that helps it, the advanced [00:07:29] western weapons, the military bases that were struck during the war against the Islamic [00:07:33] Republic of Iran, and that they had the alternative route to what [00:07:37] seems the major 20% the global [00:07:41] export of oil that comes through. the straight of hormoos, yet we are now seeing this [00:07:45] pressure simultaneously on the Persian Gulf and the west-east [00:07:48] pipeline as well and the red sea shipping routes from the [00:07:52] Ansarullah movement in Yemen, taking retaking if you [00:07:56] will babel mantab rightly so as Yemanies that this does this [00:08:00] demonstrate that the traditional US Saudi uh [00:08:04] attempt to try and architecture uh this kind [00:08:07] of security is falling apart and maybe never returning [00:08:11] to what it want. was, well, I think that the [00:08:15] um, the events proved that the [00:08:19] Saudi American [00:08:21] security infrastructure [00:08:25] has collapsed since 2019, [00:08:29] if we recall, in September [00:08:31] 2019, the Yemenes [00:08:33] attacked and [00:08:36] Aramco, and they they were [00:08:40] capable of disrupting the... production and [00:08:44] the export of more than 6 million barrels per day [00:08:47] after the attack, by then the [00:08:50] Americans were like telling the saudis that we cannot [00:08:54] do anything for you. Donald Trump himself went [00:08:57] out and said, [00:08:58] we are waiting for our Saudi allies to specify where the [00:09:02] drones and the missiles originated [00:09:05] from. That's impossible that the US didn't know where they originated. [00:09:09] Yeah, I think there is similar stance. American [00:09:13] stance right now, Washington is is [00:09:16] expressing that they are incapable of doing [00:09:20] anything to the Saudis after the attack on the eastwest [00:09:23] pipeline. So I think that [00:09:27] Saudis now are um [00:09:30] getting how serious the Americans are in [00:09:34] providing security, they are incapable of providing [00:09:38] security to their own soldiers and bases in the region. [00:09:43] so they cannot do the same to the saudis, that's why i think [00:09:47] that's why we we see that saudis are going [00:09:50] to turkey and [00:09:52] pakistan and elsewhere to try to buy [00:09:55] security, but in the end take their infrastructure, someone else is [00:09:59] offering it though, ali someone else is offering because we read [00:10:03] the zionist israely media saying that netanyahu the reports that he's [00:10:07] offering to expand military action against both yemen and Iraq to [00:10:11] support Arabia and uh Monday morning there was report [00:10:15] from hom i'm not mistaken saying that it is Muhammad bin Salman who's [00:10:19] seeking Israeli aid in this uh matter now what [00:10:22] does this tell us about the [00:10:24] uh uh emerging, it's not emerging, it has been always there, but especially right now, [00:10:28] after what's been happening for the past three years, Gaza, Lebanon, [00:10:32] Iran, the entire region, what does this tell us about the alignment [00:10:35] between the uh Saudi American and Israeli entity, and what [00:10:39] about the leader the Muslim Ummah, Muhammad bin Salman, putting [00:10:43] his hand in the hands of a war criminal, an [00:10:45] actual prosecuted war criminal in at the [00:10:49] ICJ uh to help him rid [00:10:53] his. interests against the Yemeni people who have been [00:10:57] suffering under Saudi aggression and besiegement since [00:11:00] 2015, what does this tell us about what's happening in the region? well, [00:11:04] first of all, the Saudi leader knows well that [00:11:08] in case he went into the zionis and [00:11:12] ask for protection, it's going to be a big [00:11:16] scandal for him because he is promoting himself [00:11:20] and his father as the custodians the two holy [00:11:23] places in Mekka and and we all know [00:11:27] that the Yemenes during the alaqsa [00:11:31] flood operation after it, when they started [00:11:35] supporting the Palestinian people by shooting their [00:11:38] hypersonic missiles into the zionist regime, they [00:11:42] gained a very big [00:11:45] popular support from the [00:11:49] Yeminees and as well as the the whole arab [00:11:52] public, so and... such a [00:11:55] situation, if MBS goes into [00:11:59] the Netanyahu government and asks [00:12:01] for an official [00:12:05] support in the face the Yeminies, it's going to [00:12:08] be killer for him, I think, [00:12:11] because the legitimacy of what the Saudis [00:12:15] are are doing now is going to be reduced [00:12:19] in face the events, [00:12:21] because after all ' "the first [00:12:25] enemy the arab public is the zionist regime, so [00:12:29] you are going into the zinanis, the the enemy the palestinian [00:12:33] people and the enemy the whole region and ask for [00:12:36] support, this would erode what is left [00:12:40] of legitimacy for the saudi regime, so it's [00:12:44] a dangerous move that can be made by Muhammad [00:12:48] bin Salman and also tells gravely about the dire situation [00:12:52] that the Saudis are now facing exactly." when when they ch [00:12:56] when they were challenged by the ansarullah resistance major [00:13:00] problem, their major problem is that the Americans [00:13:03] themselves tried with the Yemenes and failed and failed, exactly, so [00:13:07] that tells us lot and we'll see what happens next, especially in the upcoming few days, [00:13:50] In the space of just one week, yemen's armed forces and ansarullah have [00:13:53] delivered developmentts whose significance extends far beyond the [00:13:57] battlefield, placing renewed pressure on the American Saudi [00:14:01] strategy across the Red Sea and the wider region. As Washington [00:14:05] attempts to maintain military and economic control from the Persian Gulf to [00:14:08] Babel Bandib, Yemen is demonstrating that the old assumption [00:14:12] of uncontested American and Saudi dominance may no longer [00:14:16] survive the realities emerging on the ground. More details in the following [00:14:20] report. In the [00:14:24] space. of just one week, Yemen's armed forces of Ansarullah have [00:14:28] delivered series of developments that are rapidly reshaping the [00:14:32] military and political map of West Asia. The significance the [00:14:36] advanced words and control over strategic areas surrounding the [00:14:39] port of Mokha goes beyond the battlefield itself. [00:14:43] Mokha sits at one the most strategically sensitive gateways to the Red [00:14:47] Sea and Babel Mandab, a maritime corridor connecting the [00:14:51] Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Control over this geography is [00:14:55] therefore not merely a Yemeny military achievement, it is message [00:14:58] directed at the entire American Saudi Axis. For [00:15:02] years, Saudi Arabia, backed by American military power, has attempted to [00:15:06] impose its political will on Yemen through air strikes, [00:15:10] blockades, proxies and economic pressure. Yet the latest [00:15:13] developments have once again exposed the limits of that strategy. Hundreds [00:15:17] of fighters aligned with the Saudi Led coalition reportedly [00:15:21] surrendered with little resistance, while the Yemeny side them. [00:15:25] strated that its objective is not endless internal [00:15:28] conflict, but the defeat of foreign sponsored military projects [00:15:32] inside Yemen. The larger picture is even more consequential [00:15:35] as Washington. its pressure of war against the Islamic Republic of [00:15:39] Iran and seeks to secure alternative energy and maritime [00:15:43] routes, Yemen is demonstrating that Babel Mandib cannot be treated [00:15:47] as an American controlled substitute for the straight of hormoz. [00:15:51] In other words, the United States cannot simply squeeze Iran and the Persian [00:15:55] Gulf while assuming that the Red Sea will remain permanently [00:15:59] open, secure and obedient. That strategic [00:16:02] illusion is collapsing. What we are witnessing increasingly [00:16:06] resembles region. remontada against decades of American [00:16:10] influence and military higem. From the Persian Gulf to [00:16:13] the Red Sea, Washington is discovering that its military bases, naval [00:16:17] deployments and regional alliances no longer automatically [00:16:21] translate into political control, and Saudi Arabia faces [00:16:25] equally uncomfortable reality. Riyad can either recognize that [00:16:29] the era of imposing its form policy through American protection [00:16:33] and military coersion is coming to an end, or continue escalating. [00:16:37] until it risks losing what remains of its influence across the [00:16:41] region. for Washington, the choices are becoming increasingly limited, [00:16:45] a wider confrontation risks transforming regional pressure into a global [00:16:49] economic crisis, yet retreat carries its own political [00:16:52] consequences, exposing the limits of American power before [00:16:56] allies and adversaries alike. Yemen's message therefore [00:17:00] is larger than one battlefield. The region is changing and [00:17:04] neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States of America. appears capable [00:17:08] of stopping that change its old [00:17:11] terms. [00:17:25] studio. now let us begin by looking at the broader strategic significance [00:17:28] of Ansarullah's recent military achievements, [00:17:32] particularly around Mokha and the approaches to Babel Mandib [00:17:36] straight to What extent has Yemen transformed from a country [00:17:40] that was expected to be military defeated by Saudi Arabia and its [00:17:43] allies into regional actor capable of [00:17:46] actually directing influence on international [00:17:50] shipping, energy security and the calculations the United States of [00:17:54] America [00:17:54] itself. [00:18:00] Greetings doctor and greetings to all our viewers. The Yemini Armed forces had [00:18:04] already become regional actor that every power had to take into account. long before [00:18:08] reaching babel mandab geographically. This was made possible by what may be [00:18:11] their most important weapon, boldness. The decision taken by Sana [00:18:15] to support the people of Ghazza. Sanah did not need a direct [00:18:19] geographical presence at Babelmandab to exert influence over it. It [00:18:23] already possessed the ability to project firepower from different parts of Yemeni [00:18:26] territory. The clearest evidence was the escalation of its support [00:18:30] operations, which eventually reached the point of effectively closing the port of [00:18:34] Ilat through missile and drone attacks. So... was [00:18:38] geographically far from babal manations as serious and consequential [00:18:41] actor. Even before any geographical move toward Babelmandab, [00:18:45] Yemen was already capable of imposing naval blockade and today, exerting [00:18:49] pressure on Saudi shipping. Reaching areas around Babel Mandab would therefore give [00:18:53] Sana greater leverage, greater control and greater visibility, but it [00:18:56] would fundamentally be an extension of capability it already possesses. At [00:19:00] the same time, Yemen has the sovereign right to exercise control over its own [00:19:04] territory. This should not automatically be portrayed as a threat to international [00:19:08] navigation. Sana is a state, not a criminal organization, and [00:19:12] its actions should be understood within the context of its declared strategic [00:19:15] objectives. The attempt to portray Yemen's presence around Babelmandab is some kind of [00:19:19] catastrophe overlooks a basic reality. This is Yemeni [00:19:22] geography, and Yemen has demonstrated that it can project power and [00:19:26] impose maritime pressure from virtually any part of its territory. [00:19:30] Well, the United States of America appears to be pursuing right now a wider [00:19:33] strategy of increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran. [00:19:37] while sammelt trying to just preserve alternative maritime [00:19:41] and energy security uh routes through the uh uh red sea and through [00:19:45] the babil mandab after losing the straight of hormoz, but now after these [00:19:49] developments, how interconnected are the battlefields really in [00:19:52] Yemen, uh, to the Red Sea, to the Persian Gulf and possibly to [00:19:56] South Lebanon to Gaza, I mean the [00:20:00] wider war of aggression now against the Islamic Republic of Iran [00:20:04] has taken a whole new level in the region. I think what do you [00:20:08] think? [00:20:14] yes, since the beginning the alaxa flood and the emergence the unity [00:20:18] the fronts, these developments have become increasingly significant because for [00:20:22] the first time, the concept of coordinated military fronts was being [00:20:26] translated into concrete action on the ground. Today, with Yemen [00:20:30] exercising practical and geographical control over the strategic maritime [00:20:33] passage, the battle takes a much greater dimension and carries major... [00:20:37] strategic significance. We have already seen the scale the impact when the eminy [00:20:41] armed forces imposed pressure on Saudi oil exports and maritime traffic. [00:20:45] The repercussions were felt across global markets. Saudi Arabia had been [00:20:49] relying [00:20:49] on it. see routs to export substantial quantities of oil and had also been [00:20:53] preparing to increase those exports in order to compensate for any disruption affecting the [00:20:57] flow of oil through the straight of hormos. Today, Saudi Arabia cannot [00:21:01] export either its usual volumes or the additional quantities that it [00:21:05] had intended to use as buffer. This is why the consequences are being felt [00:21:09] across the markets. The mistake is to look at what is happening in Iran, [00:21:13] Yemen and Lebanon as separate battles. They are one battle, even if [00:21:17] they take place across different geographies and carry different. headlines: the [00:21:21] United States needs to understand that the unity the fronts has created a broad [00:21:24] challenge to the Israelian-American project. This requires different [00:21:28] approach, not simply a military one. Further escalation around the straight [00:21:32] of Hormus or Babelmandap could ignite a much wilder fire, one that would [00:21:36] not be confined to Yemen, Iran or Lebanon. We have already seen prices [00:21:40] rise around the world. The United States itself is beginning to view this as losing [00:21:44] battle. The clearest evidence is the impact on ordinary Americans [00:21:47] pockets when people wake up in the morning. drive to work and see the price of fuel [00:21:51] at the gas station. That economic pressure will eventually be reflected at the ballot [00:21:55] box. If Trump and his party lose the mid-term elections, the American [00:21:59] voter may well see the attack on Iran as a major strategic [00:22:02] mistake. After all, when Washington and Tehran were sitting at the [00:22:06] negotiating table, there was no need for such a [00:22:09] confrontation. Instead, the decision to abandon [00:22:13] that path and escalate has produced negative consequences. Eventually, the [00:22:17] American public will respond through the ballot box. What we are witnessing [00:22:20] today is one interconnected battle. The United States and its allies [00:22:24] are moving to preserve their dominance while the opposing forces are moving to [00:22:28] reject that hegemony. The resistance front and its supporters have [00:22:32] demonstrated [00:22:32] their ability endure and remain steadfast because they have lived under intense [00:22:36] pressure for very long time. The real question is whether the other [00:22:39] side, particularly the Persian Gulf states and the west, can [00:22:43] withstand even more pressure. This is especially important as winter approaches [00:22:47] and Europe faces growing energy and heating needs. "the world therefore [00:22:51] needs to act, not simply to defend Yemen or Iran, but to defend [00:22:55] its own interests and the principles of international law. It should pressure Trump [00:22:59] to return to moral, rational course, rather than taking the United States [00:23:03] and the world with it further down a path toward [00:23:05] disaster. Well, you know, the kingdom of Saudi [00:23:09] Arabia has spent billions of dollars on weaponizing the [00:23:13] kingdom against the people the region instead of actually [00:23:17] protecting the people the region, but what's happening?" now is [00:23:20] something that I called regional remontada by the Yemeni [00:23:24] revolutionary resistance fighters, [00:23:27] can this actually force eventually the kingdom of Saudi Arabia [00:23:31] into changing its foreign policy, especially with [00:23:35] Yemen, and maybe push it towards dependence from [00:23:38] Washington and its allies, or maybe push it towards [00:23:42] the uh literal lap of [00:23:45] zionus. [00:23:50] First of all, we should actually thank Saudi Arabia for helping to arm the Yemeny [00:23:54] armed forces, albeit unintentionally. Even if Yemen had [00:23:58] possessed vast financial resources and the ability to purchase [00:24:01] weapons. There were certain systems that could not simply be supplied to Yemen, [00:24:05] because the United States and western arms companies reserve particular weapons for their [00:24:09] regional allies and partners. In that sense, Saudi Arabia ended up [00:24:13] arming Yemen without realizing it. Through its aggression against Yemen, Saudi [00:24:16] Arabia also strengthened Yemen in ways it never intended. The war. created a [00:24:20] powerful sense of national resolve among Yemenis who refused to become anyone's [00:24:24] instrument or accept aggression against their country. That aggression brought out the [00:24:27] strongest quantities of Yemeni society, its resilience, determination, [00:24:31] and ability to manufacture and develop weapons. Today, Yemen has acquired a [00:24:35] formidable strategic Arsenal, developed its capabilities on the ground and [00:24:39] reached the Babel Mandup. We are not threatening anyone, we are asserting [00:24:43] sovereignty over geographical area that falls within Yemen's sovereign [00:24:46] domain. Saudi Arabia, like the rest the world, ' needs to [00:24:50] recognize the changes that have taken place. Yemen was once treated as a [00:24:54] secondary front and a marginal state. Today the entire world has to [00:24:57] factor Yemen into its calculations. The question is whether Saudi Arabia is [00:25:01] doing the same. Every time San has called on the odd to return to the road [00:25:05] map, it is essentially offered the least costly option, return to [00:25:09] good neighborly relations and a political solution based on equality and mutual [00:25:13] respect. Instead of choosing solution that costs virtually nothing, [00:25:16] Saudi Arabia has pursued alliances, agreements and greater. reliance on [00:25:20] American protection, perhaps it should consider the alternative, yemeny [00:25:24] security a cost of zer, whenever calls for [00:25:28] return to the right path, good neighborly relations and solutions based on [00:25:32] mutual respect, Saudi Arabia seems to interpret that position as a [00:25:36] sign that is its weakest. The evidence suggests [00:25:39] otherwise, Riad has repeatedly miscalculated, it made [00:25:43] the right move in 2022 when it agreed with san to reduce tensions. [00:25:47] Negotiations continued for years and eventually used a road [00:25:50] map, but Saudi Arabia made what we consider a grave strategic [00:25:54] mistake when it returned to escalation. It should have understood that was [00:25:58] preparing precisely for this possibility during the period surrounding. [00:26:02] a flood, while Saudi Arabia was underestimating Yemen, Sant was [00:26:06] preparing and building its capabilities. Today, Saudi Arabia has entered [00:26:10] extremely dangerous territory, and in our view, will pay very heavy [00:26:14] price. Sana considers this an opportunity to force Saudi Arabia to [00:26:18] reconsider its calculations, and that opportunity, once [00:26:21] presented, cannot simply be ignored. Definitely, and [00:26:25] it's going to be very interesting to see how the leaders in the Kingdom of Saudi [00:26:29] Arabia will take that approach, maybe they will be losing. They [00:26:32] occupied like Jizan and Najran, no one [00:27:02] The media stream. [00:29:55] Headlines on press tv, the palestinian journalist syndicate [00:29:58] condemns Israel's subduction of press TV's reporter. [00:30:02] Ahmed warning about health condition in the regime's [00:30:05] prisons. Iran [00:30:09] strongly slammed German chancellor's accusations against Tehran as a [00:30:13] big lie saying his narrative of US Israel aggression [00:30:17] is knowingly [00:30:18] distorted.