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[00:00:23] a multipolar world. The new era of this broadcast of Telesur news. To you, thank you for joining us.
[00:00:26] It will be until next time, happy day.
[00:01:26] The war in Western Asia has reached a critical turning
[00:01:30] point after Tehran's formal rejection of the Ceasefire proposal presented by Washington
[00:01:33] and processed through the mediation of Iraqi
[00:01:37] Prime Minister Ali Al- Saidi, whose nation, Iraq,
[00:01:41] suffers a severe deterioration in its relations due to recent
[00:01:44] Anglo-American and Saudi bombings against the
[00:01:47] Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraqi infrastructure in
[00:01:51] Karbala. At the same time, the armed forces of Yemen
[00:01:54] under the Ansarullah movement have reactivated their
[00:01:58] military operations with missiles, ballistic missiles and drones against
[00:02:01] Saudi oil infrastructure in Jizan and Yanbu, as a
[00:02:05] direct response to the siege and bombing of Saudi Arabia and the United
[00:02:09] States on the port of Hodeidah in
[00:02:12] Yemen. In the geopolitical sphere, analysts highlight
[00:02:15] the evident double standard of US
[00:02:18] diplomacy, because while Washington
[00:02:21] strangles the Iranian economy
[00:02:24] set for the definitive withdrawal of under severe sanctions and inspections by the International Atomic
[00:02:27] Energy Agency, it simultaneously accelerates
[00:02:30] with Saudi Arabia the 123 agreement for civil
[00:02:33] nuclear cooperation for 30 years, and this pact will allow the processing of
[00:02:37] uranium on Saudi soil and respond to the interests of the
[00:02:40] Pentagon to continue destabilizing peace in the
[00:02:43] region. The asymmetric response of the axis of
[00:02:46] resistance has paralyzed passage through the Bab al-Mandab Strait,
[00:02:49] forcing the diversion of 12% of global
[00:02:53] crude oil maritime trade, so that Saudi Arabia opens a
[00:02:57] new war front in Western
[00:02:59] the axis of Asia. And for that and more, let's put the point on
[00:03:02] the
[00:03:09] the rigorous application of law.
[00:03:20] action before the United
[00:03:26] The war of Saudi Arabia against Yemen
[00:03:30] began last Monday, July 13, when the Saudi
[00:03:33] Air Force bombed the runway of Sana'a International Airport
[00:03:37] do in Latin America what in the Yemeni capital. According to regional media in Western
[00:03:41] Asia, allegedly, the Saudi objective was
[00:03:45] to intercept and block the landing of a
[00:03:48] civilian flight from Iran. In the face of this
[00:03:51] aggression, the Political Bureau of Ansarullah has condemned the
[00:03:56] will remain immersed in poverty, so attack on Sana'a International Airport and
[00:03:58] at the same time made an appeal to the United Nations
[00:04:02] and the international community to fulfill their
[00:04:05] responsibility regarding the blockade that Yemen has
[00:04:09] suffered since 2015 by the Saudi Kingdom.
[00:04:12] Faced with Saudi Arabia's aggression, the Yemeni
[00:04:16] Army, in retaliation, fired several ballistic
[00:04:19] missiles towards the southern region of the Arab country,
[00:04:23] specifically against Abha airport. The president
[00:04:26] of the Supreme Committee
[00:04:30] for the Yemeni Revolution, Mohamed Al-Houthi,
[00:04:33] stated that the bombing of Yemen and its siege by
[00:04:36] the American aggressors.
[00:04:40] Last July 25, the Yemeni armed forces
[00:04:43] reported on two major military
[00:04:47] operations aimed at sensitive oil refineries
[00:04:52] hostilities, the head of in two Saudi cities located on the Red Sea, known as
[00:04:55] Jizan and Yanbu. The operations against
[00:04:59] the oil facilities were
[00:05:01] carried out with ballistic missiles and drones, a
[00:05:05] direct response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic
[00:05:09] Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
[00:05:12] Following the recent escalation of Saudi Arabia against
[00:05:16] the Yemeni nation, on July 30, the leader of the
[00:05:19] Ansarullah movement, Sayed Abdul Malik
[00:05:22] Al-Houthi, denounced that Riyadh defends the
[00:05:26] interests of Tel Aviv and Washington in the
[00:05:29] region. Thus, the United States and
[00:05:32] Israel on one hand, and on the other hand, their general
[00:05:36] role in the Islamic nation, because it seeks
[00:05:38] to present itself as someone concerned about the reality of every Islamic nation.
[00:05:43] But at this level of activity, interest and intervention in the
[00:05:47] affairs of these peoples, it does so under the umbrella of the United
[00:05:50] States, Israeli, Zionist and in the service
[00:05:54] of the United States. Under direct US
[00:05:56] supervision, this rebound case led to an aggressive
[00:06:00] and unjust approach for Saudi Arabia. The aggression that
[00:06:04] Riyadh has undertaken against Yemen, taking into account this
[00:06:07] characteristic, does not constitute an isolated event at all, but
[00:06:11] rather it is concatenated. That story, then, is the
[00:06:14] desperate activation of a mechanism that is subordinate to that
[00:06:18] security architecture with Washington, that
[00:06:21] is, it is a mandate of the United States
[00:06:24] to attack Yemen and attack
[00:06:28] Iran and confront all those bastions that
[00:06:32] represent the fight against oppression and against
[00:06:36] hegemonism, the Western invasion
[00:06:39] of that region, the Saudi regime. What it seeks is
[00:06:43] desperately to neutralize those
[00:06:46] emerging poles under the mandate of the United States,
[00:06:49] no, uh, that is the
[00:06:52] correlate of Zionism in the region,
[00:06:55] so the real act as a gendarme that
[00:06:58] has broken this
[00:07:01] hegemonic power, enters
[00:07:04] maximum alert after joint US and Saudi attack on its
[00:07:08] territory. This aggression impacted headquarters of the
[00:07:12] Popular Mobilization Forces and a convoy of pilgrims in
[00:07:15] Karbala, leaving dozens dead and wounded, and in response, the
[00:07:19] Islamic resistance threatened with inevitable reprisals
[00:07:22] against US targets on Saudi soil and gave an
[00:07:26] ultimatum to the Baghdad government until August 7 to demonstrate
[00:07:29] its ability to defend national sovereignty, ahead of the
[00:07:33] September 30 deadline
[00:07:37] foreign troops.
[00:07:39] After years of hostilities and interference
[00:07:43] over its territorial sovereignty, the government of
[00:07:47] Iraq categorically announced the establishment of the
[00:07:50] deadline set to complete the withdrawal of the
[00:07:53] international military delegation and US
[00:07:57] troops. The tension reached its most
[00:08:00] critical level after the air offensives
[00:08:04] backed by Washington and pilgrims from the Holy
[00:08:07] City. In direct response to the aggression, the
[00:08:11] coordination framework and the National
[00:08:14] Security Council in an emergency meeting presided over by
[00:08:18] Prime Minister Ali Al-Saidi condemned
[00:08:21] any transgression and rejected turning Iraq
[00:08:24] into a scenario of regional conflicts,
[00:08:27] instructing the foreign ministry to take legal
[00:08:33] Nations Organization in accordance with international
[00:08:35] law. Likewise, last
[00:08:38] Thursday, July 30, the military spokesman for Iraq,
[00:08:42] Sabah Al-Numan, categorically denied that Iraqi
[00:08:45] territory had been used to carry
[00:08:49] out attacks against Saudi Arabia, stating
[00:08:53] that there is no evidence that attacks have been launched
[00:08:56] from Iraqi territory towards
[00:08:59] Saudi Arabia, and emphasizing that the government will not allow
[00:09:03] unilateral actions or weapons outside the control of the
[00:09:07] state. The government will not allow unilateral
[00:09:10] actions or weapons outside the control of the state,
[00:09:13] provoked by Riyadh against Iraqi
[00:09:16] territory, eh, demonstrates that symbiosis that I'm telling
[00:09:19] you about and it is the absolute subservience of the
[00:09:23] Saudi monarchy to the agenda of the Pentagon's
[00:09:26] power, so eh, striking
[00:09:29] Iraq, striking Iraq,
[00:09:33] Saudi Arabia seeks to destabilize the
[00:09:36] deep logistics and operational depth of
[00:09:39] the resistance movements operating in the region,
[00:09:42] which, by the way, these resistance movements
[00:09:45] in Iraq have
[00:09:48] stood up to
[00:09:51] the Iraqi government, demanding,
[00:09:54] even giving it a deadline to respond,
[00:09:57] to eradicate US
[00:10:00] bases from there. Simultaneously,
[00:10:04] US diplomacy has
[00:10:06] intensified its pressure on the Kingdom of Saudi
[00:10:09] Arabia to force its formal integration into
[00:10:13] the Abraham Accords, which indicate peace
[00:10:17] pacts to normalize diplomatic, commercial
[00:10:20] and security relations between the occupying state of
[00:10:23] Israel, the United Arab Emirates
[00:10:26] and Bahrain, signed in 2020 with the mediation
[00:10:30] of the United States. However, the formalization
[00:10:34] of the atomic pact with the Saudi Kingdom seeks the
[00:10:37] development of civil energy infrastructure,
[00:10:40] allowing the entry of commercial uranium with
[00:10:43] assistance and technology from American
[00:10:46] companies. If you realize the agreement with Saudi
[00:10:50] Arabia, they give them all the facilities, that is,
[00:10:52] on the one hand,
[00:10:55] eh, so you can see that it's a tremendous power struggle,
[00:10:59] on the one hand, you demand
[00:11:02] denuclearization from Iran, very strong inspection
[00:11:06] by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with that
[00:11:09] Argentinian Rafael Grossi, who is pro-
[00:11:12] Israel, eh, and on the other hand, you have that the
[00:11:16] agreement that was made with Saudi Arabia was very generous,
[00:11:19] because it was a direct agreement with the United States that did not require
[00:11:23] either the non-proliferation treaty or the
[00:11:27] issue of restrictions that other countries have, such as
[00:11:30] Iran, so on the one hand, you demand
[00:11:33] denuclearization
[00:11:35] and on the other hand, you don't allow Iran things that you will allow
[00:11:39] Saudi Arabia and you are nuclearizing Saudi
[00:11:42] Arabia, but you are also nuclearizing the Middle East,
[00:11:45] because I don't think Egypt will stand idly by,
[00:11:48] nor Turkey, when they are already with
[00:11:52] Israel granting exceptional atomic
[00:11:55] concessions through the 123 agreement, without the
[00:11:59] rigorous control of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the
[00:12:03] policy of double standards by Washington that is evident
[00:12:06] when contrasting the privileged treatment of Saudi Arabia compared to the
[00:12:10] situation of Iran, a nation that it subjects to suffocating sanctions
[00:12:14] and constant military threats to prevent its nuclear
[00:12:17] development, despite being a signatory to the non-proliferation
[00:12:20] treaty and under continuous inspection by the international
[00:12:24] Atomic Energy Agency.
[00:13:01] In the midst of World War II, the United States
[00:13:04] dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima,
[00:13:07] Japan, causing massive destruction and the death of
[00:13:11] thousands. This event not only accelerated the Japanese
[00:13:14] surrender, but also marked the beginning of the nuclear era,
[00:13:17] forever transforming the course of world
[00:13:20] history. August 6, 1945,
[00:13:22] 1945,
[00:13:25] the United States bombs Hiroshima.
[00:14:01] The leader of the Yemen movement, Sayed Abdul
[00:14:04] Malik Al-Houthi, denounced that Saudi Arabia has prevented the development
[00:14:08] and production of oil in the provinces of Jawf and Mahra.
[00:14:12] Al-Houthi affirmed that as long as the country's economic resources remain under
[00:14:16] the control of the Saudi Arabian regime, the Yemeni population
[00:14:21] he warned that he will continue to confront these actions of submission.
[00:14:26] As a retaliatory measure against the air and maritime siege imposed by the Saudi
[00:14:29] forces, the Yemeni army blocked the transit of Saudi
[00:14:33] oil tankers and merchant ships in the Bab al-Mandab
[00:14:36] Strait. Likewise, the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[00:14:40] denied rumors about an alleged attack on a ship in an
[00:14:44] Egyptian port, clarifying that its military actions respond
[00:14:47] exclusively to the blockade and aggression of the Saudi
[00:14:50] regime.
[00:14:53] On July 31st, the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign
[00:14:57] Affairs made it clear that navigation in the Red
[00:15:00] Sea is safe and there is no justification for the fears
[00:15:04] that the Saudi regime is trying to sow in the
[00:15:08] region to get out of its difficult situation caused by supporting
[00:15:11] the interests of the White House. In the midst of the
[00:15:17] the Sana'a negotiating delegation, Mohammed
[00:15:20] Abdul Salam, announced that Saudi
[00:15:23] Arabia must understand that the safest
[00:15:26] way to achieve security is to end
[00:15:30] the aggression and lift the blockade. The Saudi
[00:15:33] regime must assume full responsibility for
[00:15:37] the... and the blockade it has imposed. In
[00:15:40] line with Mohamed, the leader of the Ansarullah
[00:15:43] movement, Sayed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi,
[00:15:47] denounced the siege of Saudi Arabia and Yemen
[00:15:52] Saudi ships in the Red
[00:15:55] Sea. This is how the Saudis are behaving
[00:15:58] these days. He says he is not besieging the Yemeni
[00:16:01] people. So why was Sana'a airport
[00:16:05] bombed with missiles?
[00:16:08] with American aircraft and under American supervision,
[00:16:11] why did they do that? It was not
[00:16:15] in the context of the siege, yes, the matter
[00:16:17] is clear, the Saudis seek to intensify the
[00:16:20] siege, therefore our direction as the Yemeni
[00:16:24] people was expressed by our people and demonstrated to the
[00:16:27] whole world in their warning meeting. The call
[00:16:31] to arms is a guideline that falls within the
[00:16:34] correct, necessary, inevitable and
[00:16:38] inescapable stance, no matter how much we keep silent, Saudi
[00:16:42] Arabia will not change its stance for humanitarian or
[00:16:45] inhuman reasons, they enjoy the suffering of our
[00:16:48] people, when they see the suffering, when they see
[00:16:52] cancer, when they see that they are dying because they cannot receive
[00:16:55] treatment because of them, because the flights
[00:16:58] are suspended and prohibited, the airports
[00:17:01] are closed because Saudi Arabia has control,
[00:17:04] it is the Saudi who is...
[00:17:08] it is the one who besieges. When our dear people
[00:17:11] turned the position initially, who
[00:17:14] assisted maritime navigation in Saudi Arabia and
[00:17:17] anchored. To equate one siege with another siege
[00:17:21] is a necessary stance.
[00:17:24] The Yemeni military reprisals in the Red
[00:17:27] Sea have caused a reduction in the flow of oil
[00:17:31] tankers linked to Riyadh through the Bab
[00:17:34] al-Mandab Strait. Analysts
[00:17:38] point out that these Yemeni actions have forced
[00:17:41] Saudi Arabia to redirect its
[00:17:44] exports through Egyptian ports,
[00:17:48] according to Western agencies,
[00:17:50] diverting Saudi exports through
[00:17:53] Egypt and the Suez Canal, passing through the Cape of
[00:17:57] Good Hope off the coast of Africa and continuing
[00:18:01] to the Indian Ocean towards Asian countries
[00:18:05] would take about 54 days, which implies a
[00:18:08] significant increase in shipping costs, estimated at approximately
[00:18:12] 2 million dollars
[00:18:15] per cargo, while if the Bab al-Mandab
[00:18:19] Strait route is used, it would only take 24 days
[00:18:22] to destinations like South Korea at a lower
[00:18:25] cost. This sovereign practice of Yemen in blocking the
[00:18:29] Bab al-Mandab
[00:18:32] Strait and striking the neuralgic interactions
[00:18:35] of the Aramco company, which is that company.
[00:18:37] This was born, as I said, in 1945, that is an American
[00:18:41] corporation, it responds then to
[00:18:46] that doctrine that I have been mentioning,
[00:18:50] which is asymmetric deterrence and
[00:18:53] strategic self-defense, so you can imagine
[00:18:56] that by blocking that 12%
[00:18:59] plus the 20% that crosses the
[00:19:03] Strait of Hormuz, these two, these two
[00:19:06] sea lanes. Strategic victims are coordinated
[00:19:10] between Iran and Yemen and put in check
[00:19:13] the
[00:19:16] US power
[00:19:19] and hit them where it hurts most. As
[00:19:22] we have said, the operational blockade in the Bab al-Mandab Strait
[00:19:26] has forced the diversion of more than 12% of global
[00:19:29] crude oil maritime trade, pushing the price of Brent crude above
[00:19:32] $87 per barrel, with a cumulative increase greater than
[00:19:36] 15%. At the same time, liquefied natural gas in Europe rose
[00:19:40] 20%, an energy escalation that directly
[00:19:43] impacts the cost of food, electricity and the
[00:19:46] basic basket, so the World Bank projects a 0.4
[00:19:50] point cut in global gross domestic product
[00:19:53] growth, due to inflation. In the midst of this
[00:19:56] scenario, the humanitarian operations coordination center in
[00:19:59] Sana'a, Yemen, denied rumors about the collection of
[00:20:02] maritime tolls in the area, confirming that the transit
[00:20:06] of ships through the
[00:20:08] Bab al-Mandab Strait remains free and with no plans to
[00:20:11] impose future According to reports from
[00:20:15] Bloomberg and Financial Times, the logistical
[00:20:18] paralysis in the Red Sea keeps global
[00:20:21] energy supply chains under strong tension,
[00:20:24] affecting the usual transit of 8.8
[00:20:27] million barrels per day of oil and derivatives
[00:20:31] and forcing shipping companies to emergency reorganize
[00:20:34] their global maritime routes. The International
[00:20:38] Energy Agency categorized
[00:20:41] the situation as a critical distribution
[00:20:44] failure, generating a 12% jump in
[00:20:47] maritime freight rates. This increase responds to
[00:20:51] the forced diversion of oil tankers around the
[00:20:54] Cape of Good Hope, which adds thousands of nautical
[00:20:58] miles to each voyage and saturates the operational
[00:21:01] capacity of hydrocarbon transport. All
[00:21:05] these cuts, in addition to affecting oil, are
[00:21:08] affecting the fertilizer
[00:21:11] market. Eh, a large quantity of
[00:21:14] fertilizer is produced in the region, which is a derivative of gas, urea in
[00:21:17] particular, which was being shipped. While
[00:21:20] 20% of the world's oil and another 14% pass through
[00:21:24] these two straits, the truth is that more than
[00:21:27] 40% of the world's water passes through these areas. By not being able
[00:21:31] to deliver fertilizers to the markets, food
[00:21:34] security will be seriously affected. International
[00:21:38] agencies confirm that the structural delay of ships
[00:21:41] puts pressure on the operating costs of heavy
[00:21:45] industry and electricity generation in Europe and
[00:21:49] Asia, threatening to freeze activity in
[00:21:52] manufacturing sectors dependent on gas.
[00:21:55] At the macroeconomic level, the lengthening of routes
[00:21:59] has triggered logistical consumption, demanding about
[00:22:03] 350,000 additional
[00:22:06] barrels of diesel for bunker. This operational
[00:22:09] overload pressures general inflation, threatening
[00:22:12] to keep consumer price indices above the
[00:22:15] 2% annual target established by the
[00:22:19] main monetary
[00:22:22] authorities. In the retail market, gasoline in
[00:22:25] the United States climbed to an average of
[00:22:28] $4.10 per gallon, with projected peaks of
[00:22:32] $4.55.
[00:22:34] Firms like Goldman Sachs warn that if vulnerability
[00:22:38] in the area persists
[00:22:41] in the last quarter, the risk premium could fix
[00:22:44] Brent between $120 and $150 per
[00:22:48] barrel, pushing importing countries towards a
[00:22:52] technical recession. This blockade,
[00:22:54] eh, well, look, it's
[00:22:58] a it's a tool, this
[00:23:02] artery, this Yemeni artery, this maritime
[00:23:04] artery, when drastically interrupted,
[00:23:07] supertankers, those
[00:23:10] container ships, those ships have to, as
[00:23:13] I said, make that detour and
[00:23:16] lose a lot of money in that
[00:23:20] making that detour around
[00:23:24] Africa to get there, so that creates an inflationary
[00:23:28] spiral, a structural crisis in
[00:23:30] the West, this, this, this creates an excessive
[00:23:34] increase in freight costs, in maritime insurance, in energy,
[00:23:38] it inevitably translates into sharp
[00:23:41] inflationary pressures for all Western consumers, and I think
[00:23:45] that is the most powerful weapon that
[00:23:49] resistance has, Iran, Yemen, Iraq,
[00:23:52] etc., eh, well, eh,
[00:23:55] evidencing the unsustainability of an imperial economic model that can no longer
[00:23:58] guarantee global stability through
[00:24:01] coercion, nor military coercion, nor colonial
[00:24:05] plunder, so we are witnessing the defeat, a historic
[00:24:09] defeat of
[00:24:12] imperialism, an imperialism that will
[00:24:14] come from Western Asia with its tail between its
[00:24:18] legs to want eh, in what it considers its
[00:24:21] backyard, Latin America and the Caribbean, to try to
[00:24:27] it failed to do and from where it was completely
[00:24:31] defeated in Western Asia. Consumer
[00:24:34] countries are evaluating releasing up to 400 million barrels of
[00:24:37] strategic reserves. However, the specialized firm
[00:24:41] Rystad Energy points out that the central problem does not lie in
[00:24:44] production, but in the logistical capacity for distribution.
[00:24:48] For its part, Bloomberg data
[00:24:50] shows that global investments in exploration and refining
[00:24:54] fell 0.5% in 2026, limiting immediate
[00:24:57] alternatives to substitute trapped or delayed
[00:25:00] shipments in the Red Sea. Tehran's refusal to
[00:25:04] accept a US-supervised ceasefire, coupled with the
[00:25:08] military response of the axis of resistance in Iraq and Yemen,
[00:25:11] confirm that the crisis in Western Asia has ceased to be a
[00:25:14] localized conflict to become a geopolitical
[00:25:17] fracture of global reach. The Anglo-American
[00:25:20] and Saudi strategy of subjugating the region through
[00:25:23] blockades, bombings and unilateral interventions
[00:25:27] has clashed head-on with the asymmetric deterrence capability of organized
[00:25:31] peoples. Far from achieving the neutralization of emerging
[00:25:35] poles, the interference of the White House and the Saudi
[00:25:38] monarchy have accelerated destabilization in neuralgic
[00:25:41] points, dynamiting the traditional security architecture
[00:25:45] and reconfiguring defensive alliances across the global
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