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00:00:41Hello and good evening, welcome to this short
00:00:44news segment. Saudi Arabia has warned that it will respond
00:00:48decisively to yesterday's attacks by Yemen's Houthis.
00:00:51The Houthis say that Saudi Arabia targeted about 50 locations
00:00:55in Yemeni territory with air strikes
00:00:58last night. In this. Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown
00:01:02Prince of Saudi Arabia, is scheduled to meet with Abdel Fattah
00:01:05el-Sisi, the President of Egypt, in Cairo today. Saudi
00:01:09Arabia recently asked the US and Britain
00:01:12for more support in the fight against the Houthis.
00:01:15The Houthis' access to a port and an island
00:01:19overlooking Bab-el-Mandeb
00:01:22has created more problems for Saudi
00:01:26Arabia's oil exports. Global energy prices are under pressure.
00:01:30The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb
00:01:33is escalating. For further analysis of the latest
00:01:37developments, my colleague Omid Parsanejad is here in
00:01:41the studio with us. Omid, just a moment ago, there was news
00:01:44that another ship in the Strait of
00:01:48Hormuz may have been targeted. A British company that monitors
00:01:51maritime traffic, especially in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:01:55is talking about another ship being targeted.
00:01:59All of this, what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz
00:02:02and in Bab-el-Mandeb and the Red Sea,
00:02:06seems to be causing the price of energy, oil,
00:02:10gasoline, and diesel to rise
00:02:13sharply, which is what Iran wanted, isn't it?
00:02:17This is essentially Iran's attempt to maintain
00:02:20pressure on the energy market, hoping that
00:02:24the Americans will eventually run out of patience
00:02:27and the political cost they pay domestically will reach a point
00:02:31where they show flexibility. Regarding the ship you mentioned,
00:02:35the IRGC Navy Command issued a statement
00:02:38saying that it was a supertanker
00:02:42that intended to pass through the southern
00:02:46Strait of Hormuz, which Iran considers a prohibited zone, and that it
00:02:49hit a mine and caught fire. They reiterated
00:02:53that "the Strait of Hormuz
00:02:56is still closed from our perspective, and we have intelligent control over the Strait
00:02:59of Hormuz." This means that only ships and vessels that coordinate
00:03:03with us and obtain passage permission will be allowed to pass.
00:03:07In any case, this situation has caused oil prices to rise significantly.
00:03:10The shortage
00:03:13of liquefied natural gas, for example, in China and India,
00:03:17means they can no longer buy the liquefied gas they usually
00:03:20bought from Persian Gulf countries,
00:03:23and it has brought the energy crisis to an international level
00:03:27that has created concern for almost all countries
00:03:31that the world economy could enter a new crisis.
00:03:35Tomorrow, Mr. Araqchi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, is scheduled
00:03:38to travel to China and meet with the Chinese Foreign
00:03:42Minister there, and it is predicted that discussions on this topic
00:03:46will likely take place between the two sides regarding oil and
00:03:49the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb, where
00:03:53the Houthis' pressure on Bab-el-Mandeb is largely seen
00:03:57within the framework of the tension between Iran, the US,
00:04:01and their allies. And as you said,
00:04:04Mr. Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is also going to Egypt today, and it is expected
00:04:08that he will ask the Egyptians for more help in the war
00:04:11against the Houthis. The US
00:04:15sanctioned a Russian bank because of its ties to
00:04:19Iran. It's a bank that has been accused of having a branch
00:04:23in Iran and helping Iran with international transactions
00:04:26and purchasing items
00:04:30and goods outside Iran.
00:04:33And American officials said that they
00:04:37will be in contact with a large number of financial
00:04:41institutions this week, and they will send experts to warn
00:04:44them, both to make them aware not to knowingly cooperate
00:04:47with Iran and help Iran bypass
00:04:51sanctions, and also to warn
00:04:54them about the tactics that Iranians use, which
00:04:57might cause some institutions
00:05:03to help them. They want to give them more awareness about these things. They want to maintain pressure on Iran's economy
00:05:07along with the naval blockade they have established, which is
00:05:11truly crushing pressure on people's livelihoods
00:05:14right now, and they hope that this will lead to changes
00:05:18in Iran regarding the decisions they make.
00:05:22Omid, thank you very much, Omid
00:05:24Parsanejad, my colleague here in the studio with us. We have reached
00:05:28the end of this news segment. Thank you for joining us.