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[00:00:39] The war confrontation in West Asia has reached a critical
[00:00:43] turning point after Tehran's formal rejection of the ceasefire
[00:00:47] proposal presented by Washington processed through the mediation of Iraqi
[00:00:50] Prime Minister Ali Al- Saidi, whose nation, Iraq,
[00:00:54] is suffering a severe deterioration in its relations due to recent
[00:00:57] Anglo-American and Saudi bombings against the popular
[00:01:01] mobilization forces and Iraqi infrastructure in
[00:01:04] Kerbala. At the same time, the armed forces of Yemen,
[00:01:07] under the Ansarullah movement, have reactivated their military
[00:01:11] operations with ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi oil
[00:01:14] infrastructure in Jizan and Yanbu, as a
[00:01:18] direct response to the siege and bombing of Saudi Arabia and the United
[00:01:22] States on the port of Hodeidah in
[00:01:25] Yemen. In the geopolitical sphere, analysts highlight
[00:01:28] the evident double standard of US
[00:01:31] diplomacy, because while Washington
[00:01:39] truth is that more than 40% aggression impacted bases of the strangles the Iranian economy under severe sanctions and inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency,
[00:01:41] it simultaneously accelerates with Saudi Arabia the 123
[00:01:45] agreement for 30 years of civil nuclear cooperation, and this
[00:01:49] pact will allow the processing of uranium on Saudi soil and
[00:01:52] respond to the interests of the Pentagon to continue
[00:01:55] destabilizing peace in the region. The asymmetric
[00:01:58] response of the axis of resistance
[00:02:00] set for the definitive has paralyzed passage through the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb,
[00:02:03] forcing the diversion of 12% of the world's maritime crude oil trade,
[00:02:26] according to regional media in West Asia.
[00:02:30] Exactly, the Saudi objective was to intercept and
[00:02:33] block the landing of a civil flight from
[00:02:37] Iran. Faced with this aggression, the Political Bureau of
[00:02:41] Ansarullah has condemned the attack on Sana'a International
[00:02:44] Airport, and at the same time called on the United
[00:02:49] 7:30 in the morning, Nations and the international community to fulfill their responsibility regarding
[00:02:52] the blockade that Yemen has suffered since 2015 by
[00:02:56] the Saudi Kingdom. Faced with the aggression of Saudi
[00:03:00] Arabia, the Yemeni army retaliated by
[00:03:03] firing several ballistic missiles towards the southern
[00:03:07] region of the Arab country, specifically
[00:03:10] against Abha airport. The President of the
[00:03:13] Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen,
[00:03:17] Mohamed Al-Houthi, stated that the bombing of
[00:03:20] Yemen and its siege by the American-
[00:03:24] Saudi aggressors over the years
[00:03:27] has not prevented our nation and our forces
[00:03:30] from defending themselves and advancing. The longer
[00:03:34] the battle lasts, the more our power
[00:03:37] will increase. On July 25, the
[00:03:40] armed forces of Yemen reported two major
[00:03:43] military operations targeting sensitive oil
[00:03:47] refineries in two Saudi cities located on
[00:03:51] the Red Sea, known as Jizan and Yanbu.
[00:03:54] The operations against the proliferating
[00:03:59] the absolute subordination installations were carried out with ballistic
[00:04:01] missiles and drones, a direct response to Saudi
[00:04:05] airstrikes on the strategic Yemeni
[00:04:08] port of Hodeidah. Following Saudi Arabia's
[00:04:11] recent escalation against the Yemeni nation
[00:04:14] on July 30, the leader of the Ansarullah
[00:04:18] that operate in the region, movement, Sayed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi,
[00:04:21] denounced that Riyadh defends the interests of
[00:04:24] Tel Aviv and Washington in the region.
[00:04:28] Thus, the role is for some systems,
[00:04:32] mainly among them Saudi
[00:04:34] the rigorous application Arabia, because with its capabilities it plays an
[00:04:39] America what it failed important role in the service of Zionism, in the service of the United States and Israel,
[00:04:42] on the one hand, and on the other hand, its role at the
[00:04:46] general level in the Islamic nation, because it seeks
[00:04:50] to present itself as someone concerned about the reality of the entire
[00:04:53] Islamic nation, but at this level of activity, interest
[00:04:57] and intervention in the affairs of these peoples. It does so under the
[00:05:00] American umbrella, Israeli, Zionist
[00:05:04] and in the American service, under direct American
[00:05:08] supervision. In this case, this rebound led to an aggressive
[00:05:11] and unfair approach for Saudi Arabia. The aggression that
[00:05:15] Riyadh has undertaken against Yemen, taking into account
[00:05:19] this characteristic, does not constitute an isolated event at all, but rather
[00:05:22] is linked to that history, so it is the desperate
[00:05:26] activation of a mechanism that is subordinated to that security
[00:05:30] architecture with Washington, that is, it is a
[00:05:33] mandate from the United
[00:05:34] States
[00:05:37] to attack Yemen and attack Iran and confront
[00:05:41] all those who represent the
[00:05:44] fight against oppression and against
[00:05:47] hegemonism, the Western invasion of that
[00:05:51] region. What the Saudi regime seeks is
[00:05:54] desperately to neutralize those
[00:05:57] emerging poles by mandate of the United
[00:05:59] States,
[00:06:03] that is the correlate of Zionism in the region,
[00:06:06] so it acts as a gendarme at the
[00:06:10] command of imperial interests. These are the reasons,
[00:06:14] no, and it is Yemen's asymmetric
[00:06:17] deterrence capability that has broken
[00:06:21] this hegemonic
[00:06:24] power. While Washington and the Saudi
[00:06:27] Arabian government formalize the 123 agreement for 30
[00:06:31] years of civil nuclear cooperation, allowing the processing
[00:06:33] of uranium on Saudi soil, without strict safeguards from the
[00:06:37] International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq
[00:06:40] enters maximum alert after a joint US and Saudi attack
[00:06:44] on its territory. This
[00:06:48] popular mobilization forces and a convoy of pilgrims in Kerbala,
[00:06:51] leaving dozens dead and wounded. In response, the Islamic
[00:06:55] resistance threatened inevitable retaliation against US
[00:06:59] targets on Saudi soil and gave an ultimatum
[00:07:02] to the Baghdad government until August 7 to demonstrate
[00:07:06] its ability to defend national sovereignty by the deadline
[00:07:09] of September 30
[00:07:13] withdrawal of foreign troops.
[00:07:16] After years of hostilities and interference with its
[00:07:19] territorial sovereignty, the Iraqi government categorically
[00:07:23] announced the establishment of the deadline set
[00:07:26] for the completion of the withdrawal of the international
[00:07:30] military delegation and US troops.
[00:07:33] Tensions escalated to their most critical level after
[00:07:37] air offensives endorsed by Washington
[00:07:40] impacted official facilities of the popular
[00:07:44] mobilization forces in provinces such as Baghdad,
[00:07:48] Wasit, Nineveh, Basra, Kirkuk,
[00:07:51] Diyala and Kerbala, even affecting pilgrims
[00:07:54] from the Holy City. In direct response to the
[00:07:57] aggression, the coordination framework and the National
[00:08:01] Security Council, in an emergency meeting chaired
[00:08:04] by Prime Minister Ali Al-Saidi, condemned
[00:08:08] any aggression and rejected turning
[00:08:11] Iraq into a scenario of regional conflicts,
[00:08:15] instructing the foreign ministry to take legal action
[00:08:18] before the United Nations organization in accordance
[00:08:22] with international law. Also, last Thursday,
[00:08:25] July 30, Iraqi military spokesman
[00:08:29] Sabah Al-Numan categorically denied
[00:08:32] that Iraqi territory had been used to
[00:08:36] carry out attacks against Saudi Arabia, stating
[00:08:39] that there is no evidence that attacks have been
[00:08:43] launched from Iraqi territory towards Saudi
[00:08:46] Arabia, and emphasizing that the government
[00:08:49] will not allow unilateral actions or weapons outside the control
[00:08:53] of the state. Now, look,
[00:08:57] this incursion and bombing
[00:09:00] perpetrated by Riyadh against Iraqi territory
[00:09:04] eh, evidences that symbiosis I'm telling you about,
[00:09:07] and it's
[00:09:11] of the Saudi monarchy to the agenda of the Pentagon's
[00:09:15] power. So, by striking Iraq,
[00:09:18] by striking Iraq,
[00:09:21] Saudi Arabia seeks to destabilize the
[00:09:24] deep, the logistical and operational depth
[00:09:27] of the resistance movements
[00:09:31] which, by the way, these resistance
[00:09:33] movements in Iraq have
[00:09:37] stood up
[00:09:39] to the Iraqi government and demanded,
[00:09:43] even giving it a deadline to respond, to eradicate
[00:09:46] US bases from there.
[00:09:49] Simultaneously, US
[00:09:52] diplomacy has intensified
[00:09:55] its pressure on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to force
[00:09:58] its formal integration into the Abraham Accords,
[00:10:01] which include peace pacts to normalize diplomatic,
[00:10:05] commercial, and security relations.
[00:10:08] Saudi Arabia seeks the development of civil
[00:10:12] energy infrastructure, allowing the entry of
[00:10:15] commercial uranium with assistance and technology from
[00:10:19] North American companies. If
[00:10:22] you realize, with the agreement with Saudi Arabia,
[00:10:26] they give them all the facilities, that is to say,
[00:10:29] on the one hand, just so you see it's a tremendous
[00:10:33] power struggle, on the one hand, you demand
[00:10:36] denuclearization from Iran, very strong
[00:10:40] inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency,
[00:10:43] with that Argentine, Rafael Grossi, who is pro-Israel,
[00:10:46] and on the other hand, you have that the agreement
[00:10:50] with Saudi Arabia was very generous
[00:10:54] because it was a direct agreement with the United
[00:10:57] States that did not require either the non-proliferation
[00:11:01] treaty or the restrictions that other countries have,
[00:11:05] as is the case of Iran. So on the one hand,
[00:11:07] you demand denuclearization
[00:11:09] and on the other, you don't allow Iran things that
[00:11:13] you will allow Saudi Arabia, and you are nuclearizing
[00:11:16] also nuclearizing the Middle
[00:11:20] East, because I don't think Egypt will stand
[00:11:23] idly by, nor Turkey, when you already have
[00:11:27] a border with Iran like Pakistan, which does have 170 nuclear
[00:11:30] bombs. Parallel to this military escalation, US
[00:11:34] diplomacy intensifies its pressure on Saudi Arabia to
[00:11:37] force its integration into the Abraham Accords with Israel,
[00:11:41] granting it exceptional atomic concessions
[00:11:45] through the 123 agreement, without rigorous control from the
[00:11:49] International Atomic Energy Agency. Washington's double-standard policy
[00:11:53] is evident when contrasting the privileged treatment of
[00:11:56] Saudi Arabia compared to the situation of Iran, a nation
[00:12:00] it subjects to suffocating sanctions and constant military
[00:12:04] threats to prevent its nuclear development, despite
[00:12:07] being a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty and
[00:12:11] under continuous inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
[00:15:54] The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, Sayed
[00:15:58] Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, denounced that Saudi Arabia
[00:16:02] has prevented the development and production of oil in
[00:16:04] Jawf and Mahra provinces. Al-Houthi affirmed that as long
[00:16:08] as the country's economic resources remain under the control
[00:16:12] of the Saudi Arabian regime, the Yemeni population will remain
[00:16:15] mired in poverty, so he warned that he would
[00:16:18] continue to confront these acts of subjugation.
[00:16:21] As a retaliatory measure against the aerial and maritime
[00:16:25] siege imposed by the Saudi forces, the Yemeni army
[00:16:28] blocked the transit of Saudi oil and merchant ships in the
[00:16:32] Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Likewise, Yemen's Foreign
[00:16:35] Ministry denied rumors about a supposed attack
[00:16:39] on a ship in an Egyptian port, clarifying that its
[00:16:42] military actions respond exclusively to the blockade
[00:16:46] and aggression of the Saudi regime. On July 31,
[00:16:49] Yemen's Foreign Ministry made it clear that navigation
[00:16:53] in the Red Sea is safe and there is no justification
[00:16:57] for the fears that the Saudi regime is trying to sow
[00:17:01] in the region to get out of its difficult situation
[00:17:04] for supporting the interests of the White House.
[00:17:07] Amidst the hostilities, the head of Sana'a's
[00:17:11] negotiating delegation, Mohamed Abdul
[00:17:14] Salam, announced that Saudi Arabia
[00:17:18] must understand that the safest way to achieve
[00:17:21] security is to end the aggression and lift the
[00:17:25] blockade. The Saudi regime must assume
[00:17:28] full responsibility for the aggression and the blockade
[00:17:32] it has imposed. In line with Mohamed,
[00:17:36] the leader of the movement
[00:17:41] denounced Saudi Arabia's siege of Yemen and took
[00:17:44] retaliation by blocking Saudi vessels in
[00:17:47] the Red Sea. This is
[00:17:50] how the Saudis behave these days. They say they
[00:17:54] are not besieging the Yemeni people. So, why
[00:17:57] was Sana'a airport bombed with American
[00:18:00] missiles, by American aircraft, and under
[00:18:03] American supervision? Why did they do
[00:18:06] that? Was it not in the context of the
[00:18:09] siege? Yes, the matter is clear, the Saudis
[00:18:13] seek to intensify the siege, therefore, our
[00:18:16] direction as the Yemeni people was expressed by our
[00:18:19] people and demonstrated to the whole world in their warning
[00:18:22] meeting. The call to arms is a directive
[00:18:26] that is framed within the correct posture, the necessary,
[00:18:30] inevitable and unavoidable posture, no matter how
[00:18:33] much we remain silent, Saudi Arabia will not change
[00:18:37] its posture for humanitarian or inhumane reasons,
[00:18:40] they enjoy the suffering of our people, when they see
[00:18:43] the suffering, when they see the cancer, when they see
[00:18:47] that they are dying because they cannot receive treatment
[00:18:50] because of them, because flights are suspended and
[00:18:53] prohibited, airports are closed because Saudi
[00:18:57] Arabia is in control, it is the Saudi who
[00:19:00] prevents it, it is the one who besieges.
[00:19:03] When our beloved people initially turned their position,
[00:19:07] whoever assisted maritime navigation of oil tankers linked
[00:19:11] to Riyadh through the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb
[00:19:15] by diverting Saudi exports through Egypt
[00:19:19] and the Suez Canal, passing by the Cape
[00:19:22] of Good Hope off the coast of Africa and continuing
[00:19:26] to the Indian Ocean towards Asian countries,
[00:19:29] would take about 54 days, which implies
[00:19:33] a significant increase in shipping costs, estimated
[00:19:36] at approximately 2 million
[00:19:40] dollars per cargo, while if the route
[00:19:43] through the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb is used,
[00:19:47] it would only take 24 days to destinations
[00:19:50] such as South Korea at a lower cost. This sovereign
[00:19:54] practice of Yemen in blocking the Strait of
[00:19:56] Bab al-Mandeb and striking the neuralgic
[00:20:00] interactions of the Aramco company, which, by the way,
[00:20:03] was born, as I already said, in 1945, that is a
[00:20:07] corporation. This shows, then,
[00:20:12] of that doctrine I have been mentioning,
[00:20:15] which is asymmetric deterrence and strategic
[00:20:18] self-defense. So you can imagine
[00:20:22] that by blocking that 12% plus, they
[00:20:26] put in check the
[00:20:30] US power and hit it where it
[00:20:34] hurts the most. As we have said,
[00:20:37] the operational blockade in the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb
[00:20:41] has forced the diversion of more than 12% of the world's
[00:20:44] crude oil trade, pushing the price of Brent crude
[00:20:48] above $87 per barrel, with a cumulative
[00:20:51] increase of more than 15%. At the same time, liquefied
[00:20:55] natural gas in Europe rose 20%, an energy escalation
[00:20:59] that directly impacts the cost of food, electricity,
[00:21:03] and the basic basket, so the World Bank projects
[00:21:06] a 0.4 point cut in global GDP growth
[00:21:09] due to inflation. Amidst this scenario, the
[00:21:12] Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center in Sana'a, Yemen,
[00:21:16] denied rumors about charging maritime tolls in the area,
[00:21:19] confirming that transit through the Bab al-Mandeb
[00:21:22] Strait remains free and there are no plans to impose
[00:21:24] future fees. According to reports from
[00:21:28] Bloomberg and the Financial Times, the logistical
[00:21:31] paralysis in the Red Sea keeps global
[00:21:35] energy supply chains under strong tension,
[00:21:38] affecting the usual transit of 8.8.
[00:21:41] The situation was categorized as a critical distribution
[00:21:44] failure, generating a 12% jump in
[00:21:47] maritime freight rates. This increase
[00:21:50] is due to the forced diversion of oil tankers
[00:21:54] around the Cape of Good Hope, which adds thousands
[00:21:58] of nautical miles to each trip and saturates
[00:22:01] the operational capacity of hydrocarbon transportation.
[00:22:05] All these cuts, in addition to affecting
[00:22:08] oil, are affecting the fertilizer market.
[00:22:12] Uh, a large amount of fertilizer is produced
[00:22:16] in the region, which is a gas derivative, urea in particular.
[00:22:20] The thing is that if 20% of the world's oil and
[00:22:24] another 14% pass through these two straits, the
[00:22:29] of the world's urea passes through these areas.
[00:22:33] If fertilizers cannot reach the markets, food security
[00:22:37] will be seriously affected. International
[00:22:39] agencies confirm that the structural delay of
[00:22:43] ships pressures the operating costs of heavy
[00:22:46] industry and electricity generation in Europe
[00:22:50] and Asia, threatening to freeze activity
[00:22:53] in manufacturing sectors dependent on gas.
[00:22:57] At the macroeconomic level, the prolongation of routes
[00:23:00] has triggered logistics consumption, demanding
[00:23:04] an additional 350,000 barrels of diesel per
[00:23:08] day for bunkers. This operational overload
[00:23:12] pressures general inflation, threatening to keep consumer
[00:23:15] price indices above the 2% annual
[00:23:19] target set by the main monetary
[00:23:21] authorities. In the retail market, gasoline in
[00:23:25] the United States climbed to an average of
[00:23:28] $4.10 per gallon, with projected
[00:23:31] ceilings of $4.55. Firms like Goldman
[00:23:33] Sachs
[00:23:36] warn that if the vulnerability in the area
[00:23:39] persists in the last quarter, the risk
[00:23:42] premium could set Brent between $120
[00:23:46] and $150 per barrel, pushing
[00:23:50] importing countries towards a technical
[00:23:53] recession. This blockade, uh,
[00:23:56] well, you see,
[00:23:59] it's a tool,
[00:24:03] this artery, this Yemeni
[00:24:06] maritime artery, when it is drastically
[00:24:09] interrupted, the supertankers, well, those container
[00:24:12] ships, those ships have to, as I said,
[00:24:15] go around and lose
[00:24:18] a lot of money in
[00:24:21] that going
[00:24:24] around Africa to get there.
[00:24:27] So that creates an inflationary spiral, a
[00:24:31] structural crisis in the West.
[00:24:34] This, this, this creates an excessive
[00:24:37] increase in freight costs, in maritime insurance,
[00:24:41] in energy, it inevitably translates
[00:24:44] into acute inflationary pressures for all Western
[00:24:48] consumers, and I think that is the most powerful
[00:24:52] weapon that the axis of resistance, Iran, Yemen,
[00:24:55] Iraq, etc., has. Well, evidencing
[00:24:58] the unviability of an imperial economic model that can no longer
[00:25:01] guarantee global stability through coercion
[00:25:04] or military coercion or colonial plunder.
[00:25:08] So we are witnessing the defeat,
[00:25:10] a historical defeat of
[00:25:13] imperialism, an imperialism that will come
[00:25:16] from West Asia with its tail between its
[00:25:19] legs to want to do in what
[00:25:22] it considers its backyard, Latin America and the Caribbean,
[00:25:25] to try to do in Latin
[00:25:29] to do and where it was totally defeated in West
[00:25:32] Asia. Consumer countries are evaluating
[00:25:35] releasing up to 400 million barrels of strategic
[00:25:39] reserves. However, the specialized firm Restat
[00:25:42] Energy points out that the central problem does not lie
[00:25:46] in production, but in logistical distribution capacity.
[00:25:50] BloombergNEF data shows that global investments in
[00:25:54] exploration and refining fell 0.5% in
[00:25:57] 2026, limiting immediate alternatives to replace
[00:26:01] cargoes trapped or delayed in the Red Sea passage.
[00:26:04] Tehran's refusal to accept a US-brokered ceasefire,
[00:26:08] coupled with the military response of the axis of resistance
[00:26:11] in Iraq and Yemen, confirm that the crisis
[00:26:15] in West Asia has ceased to be a localized conflict
[00:26:18] and has become a geopolitical fracture of global scope.
[00:26:21] The Anglo-American and Saudi strategy of subjugating
[00:26:25] the region through blockades, bombings, and unilateral
[00:26:29] interventions has clashed head-on with asymmetric
[00:26:32] of organized peoples, far from achieving the neutralization of emerging
[00:26:36] poles, the interference of the White House and the Saudi
[00:26:39] monarchy have accelerated the destabilization in neuralgic
[00:26:43] points, dynamiting the traditional security architecture and
[00:26:47] reconfiguring defensive alliances throughout the global
[00:28:56] Good evening, welcome to a new installment of Telesur
[00:29:00] Noticias, an informative tour of what is happening in Latin America and the
[00:29:03] world, let's look at our
[00:29:05] headlines.
[00:29:08] With the aim of strengthening resistance against imperialist
[00:29:12] aggressions in the Global South, delegates from all over Latin America and the
[00:29:16] Caribbean are meeting in
[00:29:17] Cuba.
[00:29:24] During a working day, the National Executive reviewed.