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00:00:17When the might of nations converged
00:00:19back deep into the capitals of upon Yemen, when the skies rained fire and the earth
00:00:23trembled, its people faced a stark choice:
00:00:27surrender or fight. They chose
00:00:30to fight.
00:00:33From the crucible of siege, from the ashes of
00:00:36bombardment, a seed of defiance grew. An
00:00:40warfare. Guerrilla warfare does not unlikely military force began to stir, determined to
00:00:43rewrite the balance of power, not just in the
00:00:47faced many region, but across vital enough to destroy entire global arteries. This is the story of a
00:00:51journey from zero to
00:00:53hypersonic.
00:00:57The secret of the Yemeni people's steadfastness in confronting aggression, from a
00:01:00military and economic standpoint, as well as in developing its
00:01:04missile capabilities, is that Yemen operates according to the
00:01:08free project, was able to create divine laws that were revealed in the
00:01:10and seizing Holy Quran, whether regarding
00:01:13ethical discipline in confronting all enemies, whether at the
00:01:17internal,
00:01:19weapons for themselves from regional, or international level, or in terms of
00:01:22making sacrifices, no matter
00:01:24how great they are. Therefore, the Yemeni people were able
00:01:28and the first nucleus was in through this
00:02:01Our story begins far from the centers of power, nestled
00:02:04in the remote highlands of northern Yemen, Saada
00:02:08province. Here, amidst ancient mountains, the genesis
00:02:12of a movement emerged.
00:02:16In the shadow of a global upheaval, beginning in
00:02:19late 2001, the voice of Sayyid Hussein
00:02:22Badreddine al-Houthi resonated through the
00:02:25valleys. His lectures blending religious discourse
00:02:29with sharp political critique found
00:02:31fertile ground. Sayyid Hussein channeled driving
00:02:35discontent, directing his sharpest criticisms towards
00:02:39American and Israeli influence in the region. His message spread
00:02:42like wildfire, alarming the ruling powers in Sana'a,
00:02:46particularly as the US embassy held significant sway over
00:02:51from an early time. It has capabilities in the government's direction. June 2004,
00:02:54his summons to Washington. President Ali Abdullah Saleh meets with
00:02:57US President George W. Bush. Just six days after his
00:03:01return, the storm broke. The regime
00:03:04unleashed the first of its brutal
00:03:07He ordered that all studies from wars on Saada, aiming to
00:03:08into, meaning it would not extinguish the nascent Ansarullah
00:03:10movement.
00:03:16of the state and state capabilities were harnessed for the Six times the regime,
00:03:18bolstered by Saudi resources and American
00:03:21encouragement, waged war against
00:03:23Saada. Six campaigns of overwhelming
00:03:27force, aircraft, missiles.
00:03:32heritage today, has become
00:03:39Of course, the previous regime's erroneous political,
00:03:42observed in social, and military estimates
00:03:44in its aggression against the Ansar Allah movement
00:03:48in its early stages and the launch of this project at the beginning
00:03:52many of the millennium were fundamentally based on American readings,
00:03:55because the aggression of the previous regime against
00:03:58confrontation with the martyr leader, Sayyid Hussein, may Allah be pleased with
00:04:02him, came four days after
00:04:05Ali Abdullah Saleh's return from his visit to America
00:04:09specifically. And after that, the first war was declared.
00:04:12The erroneous readings of the nature of society,
00:04:16the erroneous readings of its
00:04:17social,
00:04:20tribal, and also political and
00:04:24military composition are what
00:04:28led to the accumulated failure from the first
00:04:31war up to the second, and to the third and fourth, and up to the sixth war, in which
00:04:35Saudi Arabia participated.
00:04:38What happened to it in the sixth war, and at that stage, the Mujahideen
00:04:41had nothing worth mentioning except
00:04:45including those mentioned in the simple and few capabilities, but they were able to confront the regime's army
00:04:48and they were able to confront the Saudi army, and there were many
00:04:53in battles always prisoners, but the intervention of a third party
00:04:56overcome many of to mediate is what led to a solution
00:05:00and many of the Saudi prisoners who had become
00:05:05key player influencing one of in the hands of Ansar Allah
00:05:06at that time.
00:05:12the final blow. Yet each ending was merely a
00:05:16prelude. Every martyr's fall seemed to inspire a new
00:05:19fighter to rise. Every shattered village hardened the
00:05:23resolve, turning mountains into fortresses of the mind as
00:05:26much as of terrain. The regime failed to grasp a crucial
00:05:30reality: these wars, intended to crush, became
00:05:34a brutal, unforgiving military academy. Each
00:05:37battle honed nascent tactics, tested the
00:05:40resilience and for...
00:05:45The fighting style of Ansar Allah during that period
00:05:48was a style of fighting called guerrilla
00:05:52adhere
00:05:55to the conditions and principles of battle, but rather adheres to the circumstances
00:05:58of reality: mountains, plains, valleys, and what the other party possesses.
00:06:02Sana'a possessed strategic military power from aviation,
00:06:05naval forces, and all branches of the primary and main armed forces.
00:06:08Therefore, Ansar Allah used the fighting style as it was used
00:06:13during the wars with Afghanistan and the Russians. They used the tactic
00:06:16of resorting to mountains, cliffs, and caves
00:06:20for securing food
00:06:23weapons. This is what made Ansar Allah excel in fighting. They used
00:06:26new fighting methods starting from that period. The idea of producing
00:06:32mines and supplies. And this is what
00:06:35when the leadership, or when Ansar Allah took over the leadership, they began to think about military manufacturing,
00:06:41the wars, from the third war.
00:06:46The end of the sixth war brought no lasting peace,
00:06:49only a fractured state. As the old
00:06:52regime crumbled under popular pressure, Saada's
00:06:56transformed no longer just a province under
00:06:59siege, but a symbol of defiance, a launch
00:07:02pad for an unforeseen military
00:07:05future.
00:07:11September 24th.
00:07:42the enemy from a people, as a political will,
00:07:46as mountainous
00:07:48components,
00:07:50as well as a popular leadership and a political leadership. All these
00:07:54elements qualified the Yemeni for confrontation, because
00:07:58the enemy did not fight us only with a single weapon
00:08:04soft wars that are greater than hard wars. The Yemenis, through
00:08:07their awareness and culture, as well as through their heritage, the Yemeni has
00:08:11triumphed. The economic aspect is clear that the American
00:08:15was unable to achieve what he promised, that he would protect, he would turn the currency
00:08:20be worth the ink with which it was written. And so the Yemeni triumphed
00:08:23economically today, and praise be to Allah, the currency is stable. He also triumphed
00:08:27socially, as today societal cohesion is noticeable,
00:08:31and the strife sown by the enemy, sectarian, doctrinal,
00:08:35regional, many projects, were also overcome.
00:08:38Culturally, he triumphed, and it is clear today that the heritage today,
00:08:42meaning the popular
00:08:45circulated all over the world, such as
00:08:47the anthem, meaning Yemeni folklore and so on.
00:08:51All these are indicators that we have triumphed in all aspects.
00:08:54Yes, the Yemenis have triumphed, as well as, meaning, as a large
00:08:58popular presence, and they were able to defeat the enemy. If the enemy noticed
00:09:01a slackening in popular presence, meaning,
00:09:04its ambitions for a ground battle or something
00:09:07similar would expand.
00:09:12Ansarullah moved to fill the void, asserting
00:09:15control, aiming to safeguard the nation's institutions and
00:09:19resources from complete
00:09:20collapse.
00:09:30March 2015, the skies over Sana'a erupted.
00:09:34A coalition, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and
00:09:37numbering over a dozen nations, unleashes its
00:09:40fury. The White House confirms its support. Operation
00:09:44Decisive Storm begins a campaign
00:09:47of relentless bombardment coupled with a suffocating
00:09:51land, sea, and air blockade. The stated
00:09:54aim: crush Ansarullah, dismantle Yemen's nascent
00:09:57independence, and restore the old
00:10:00order.
00:10:03The coalition wielded a formidable arsenal, confident in its
00:10:06technological supremacy against the Yemeni military,
00:10:10deliberately weakened and fragmented.
00:10:17The biggest mistake made by the coalition was, firstly, the use of
00:10:21terror tactics and media threats in the first hours.
00:10:25A military statement from Saudi Arabia, on behalf of the Saudi army spokesman, stated that
00:10:29all military capabilities had been destroyed and there was nothing
00:10:33to fear. And the
00:10:35constant signaling or announcement that the Saudi
00:10:38and Emirati flags would be raised in Sana'a.
00:10:41These phrases, these methods, and statements were indeed influential.
00:10:45Consequently, many Yemenis rejected
00:10:49these statements. Ansar Allah used a method that was
00:10:53considered one of the best fighting methods.
00:10:55Firstly, absorbing the shock. For more than 18 days, the force
00:10:59and Sana'a absorbed the shock with painful and agonizing strikes.
00:11:02All governorates were subjected to more than 250
00:11:06thousand airstrikes,
00:11:09countries. Sana'a lacked the most basic
00:11:12elements of confrontation. Air defenses, which were the first
00:11:15target, the targeting of all air defenses. The Yemeni army no longer had
00:11:19any defensive system with which to fight.
00:11:22Consequently, Ansar Allah began to take full control of the situation, and the
00:11:26Yemeni armed forces began to study the situation completely. Ansar Allah
00:11:30at that time, we considered them as a reserve
00:11:33force. When the two forces, the Yemeni armed forces and Ansar Allah, were integrated
00:11:36into the Yemeni army,
00:11:40Ansar Allah, or the popular force, the popular committees,
00:11:43were a reserve force for the state. This reserve
00:11:47force helped the armed forces rise again.
00:11:51God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.
00:11:55undeniable. But the calculations of war often
00:11:58ignore the human variable. What the coalition failed to factor
00:12:02was the deep wellspring of Yemeni pride and fierce
00:12:06rejection of foreign dictates.
00:12:092015 was not only the year the bombs began to
00:12:12fall, it was the year a quiet revolution began within
00:12:16Yemen, the birth of its military industrial
00:12:19capacity. Under the shadow of constant threat,
00:12:23under the weight of a crippling siege.
00:12:55everyone resorted to it in case of need in airports. In the bombing, we no longer
00:12:59had anything. We had to rely on ourselves, so the leader made
00:13:03a decision to rely on ourselves and our military
00:13:06infrastructure. Building began with heavy weapons, which are missile forces, so that
00:13:10we can always strike deep into the enemy. The weapons, if they are ground
00:13:13artillery, air force, and navy, carry out the mission of fire preparation
00:13:17to strike the enemy, but we had nothing. So the leader ordered
00:13:21attention to all military research. We had more
00:13:24than 5,000 scientific researches in the field of developing Yemeni weapons, especially air
00:13:28defenses, ballistic missiles, and navy.
00:13:32military academies be taken and be a matter of concern for the new military leadership,
00:13:35and all capabilities, all ministries,
00:13:38and all means
00:13:41military infrastructure. And this is what allowed the army
00:13:44to start a correct beginning. It began
00:13:47with drones, firstly with existing ballistic missiles, which are Scud,
00:13:51Tochka, Luna. These missiles came
00:13:54from Russia, and their use began in striking medium ranges at
00:13:58350-700 at the minimum, and these
00:14:01almost covered the internal front or the borders with the Saudi
00:14:04enemy in Najran, Jizan, and Asir. And development began. The enemy was surprised
00:14:08that we possessed missiles that developed from 1 kilometer to 1200.
00:14:11Diversity in missile use began, and this was the
00:14:15surprise. Cloning Scud, the same version, began. Development from
00:14:19Scud to cruise and winged missiles, which were difficult
00:14:21to develop, began. Military industry began.
00:14:34This was strategy, not just reaction. A long-term
00:14:38vision taking shape amidst the chaos. From refining
00:14:41small arms to engineering sophisticated systems.
00:14:45Mortars gave way to ballistic missiles. Simple
00:14:48reconnaissance drones evolved into potent defensive
00:14:51platforms. Weapon after weapon emerged.
00:15:04Through diligent work and understanding the enemy, the people were able
00:15:06to take all measures,
00:15:10Quran, such as preparation. Prepare the people for confrontation,
00:15:13not to mention that continuous experiences and expertise
00:15:18enabled the people to
00:15:21their shortcomings. For example, we
00:15:25had a situation where, in the event of targeting some aircraft like the MQ-9
00:15:29and others, the enemy could
00:15:32track the platforms from which they were targeted.
00:15:35But with the continuation of the battle, the people reached
00:15:39a technology to launch, meaning, to shoot down these
00:15:42aircraft with greater capabilities. The arc of
00:15:46defined short-range missiles stretched to medium then long-
00:15:49range capabilities. The war, once confined to Yemen's
00:15:53borders, began striking
00:15:57the aggressive states.
00:15:58Riyadh.
00:16:07It had a great impact. The Saudi regime downplayed the missile strikes
00:16:11and said that they were just pipes and
00:16:14water hoses and
00:16:17filled with gunpowder falling at the beginning of
00:16:20Najran and the beginning of the borders, and the air defenses were receiving them, or
00:16:24the Saudi air force. But
00:16:27when the impact reached King Khalid Airport
00:16:30and Aramco and sensitive places and oil tanks
00:16:34in Abqaiq and Khurais, the delegate,
00:16:37Al-Mouallimi, cried out in the halls of the United Nations and said that
00:16:41we are using Iranian missiles, and therefore,
00:16:44the recent strikes on Jeddah's tanks and on reserve
00:16:47tanks had a great and final impact, and
00:16:50Saudi Arabia admitted the force, and there was a concealed
00:16:54media, and photography was forbidden for Saudis, even with
00:16:57mobile phones. July 7th,
00:17:012019,
00:17:07military exhibition, it signals not an end, but the
00:17:11beginning of a series of strategic
00:17:13surprises.
00:17:16The confines of the exhibition hall soon proved insufficient.
00:17:20The scale of Yemen's indigenous production demanded a grander
00:17:23stage. Open plazas where missiles stood as towering symbols
00:17:27of newfound
00:17:28strength.
00:17:332022, 2023, two
00:17:36monumental parades stunned observers. Yemen
00:17:40displayed a diverse and potent array of strategic deterrent
00:17:43weapons, a testament to years of clandestine
00:17:46development. Ballistic and winged missiles, attack and
00:17:50reconnaissance drones, evolving air defense systems, naval
00:17:53power projection, all crafted under
00:17:56siege. From the first harrowing days of
00:18:00bombardment to these displays of strategic might, a
00:18:04journey measured in years of hardship, innovation,
00:18:07unrelenting pressure. From a force struggling merely to
00:18:11survive, Yemen had cultivated one capable
00:18:15of asserting its
00:18:16will.
00:18:22November 2023. As the world watched and shuddered at the unfolding
00:18:26tragedy in Gaza, as condemnations rang
00:18:29hollow, a declaration of support arose from
00:18:32an unexpected quarter, from the southwestern edge of the Arabian
00:18:36Peninsula.
00:18:44Of course, the decision to stand by our brothers in
00:18:47Gaza is a leadership decision and also a
00:18:51popular decision, because the Yemeni people were
00:18:54eager to engage in this battle, and they are armed
00:18:57with this jihadi culture. This is one aspect. From another
00:19:01aspect, everyone knows the nature of the Yemeni
00:19:04people and that they are natural fighters, especially
00:19:08when it comes to their dignity
00:19:11and pride, and also the dignity and pride of
00:19:14their brothers. And this is what everyone
00:19:19the previous stages, that the sons of the Yemeni people were
00:19:23always moving to
00:19:25go to Palestine and to Lebanon and to
00:19:29Arab and Islamic countries
00:19:33to participate in any
00:19:35the occupation.
00:19:39The Yemeni Armed Forces initiated a two-point
00:19:42strategy: first, direct strikes against military and
00:19:46strategic targets within Israeli-occupied
00:19:49territory; second, disrupting Israeli-linked maritime
00:19:52traffic in the vital Red Sea
00:19:56corridor, effectively imposing a selective naval blockade
00:19:59in support of Yemen framed its military
00:20:02intervention not as rogue action, but as a principled
00:20:06stand and invoked principles of international law and
00:20:09collective self-defense in response to perceived crimes against
00:20:13humanity in Gaza, referencing statutes like Article 8 of the
00:20:17Rome Statute concerning war
00:20:19crimes.
00:20:26This was more than symbolic support. It marked Yemen's
00:20:29dramatic entrance onto the stage of global maritime
00:20:32security. By virtue of geography, and now
00:20:35demonstrated capability and political will, Sana'a
00:20:38asserted its role as a
00:20:42the world's most critical
00:20:44waterways.
00:20:48January 12th, 2024.
00:20:50The response from the West was swift. The United States
00:20:54and Britain launched coordinated military assaults against
00:20:58targets across Yemen, ostensibly to protect
00:21:01international shipping. Yet for Sana'a, this new phase of
00:21:04direct confrontation with Western powers paradoxically
00:21:08became a catalyst, accelerating the development and
00:21:11testing of its evolving military arsenal under combat
00:21:15conditions.
00:21:20Instead of being a threat, it turned into an opportunity to develop capabilities, and this is what
00:21:24actually happened through the Saudi-Emirati aggression against Yemen, or
00:21:28rather, the American-British aggression against Yemen,
00:21:31considering that in the first wave of attack, Yemeni capabilities
00:21:37challenges and obstacles regarding the capabilities of aircraft carriers or other warships.
00:21:41And that posed a great challenge,
00:21:44considering that the stage required effective and influential support in confronting
00:21:48those advanced warships.
00:21:50And here, the Yemeni experience, through accumulating experience and with the presence
00:21:54of will and with the presence of the
00:21:58something out of nothing, and thus we were able to break many barriers, and Yemeni capabilities
00:22:02developed within three months more than three
00:22:05times what they were during all the previous years of
00:22:08confrontation. This means that the Yemeni support operation
00:22:12and the confrontation with the Americans and British created an opportunity instead of being
00:22:16a threat. It created an opportunity to develop capabilities because it dealt with advanced capabilities.
00:22:27Hundreds of airstrikes rained down, inflicted
00:22:31by American, British, and Israeli air power. The
00:22:34human cost mounted, yet the
00:22:37operations in support of Palestine did not cease.
00:22:41Instead, they expanded. Yemen's
00:22:44target list broadened to include the very symbols of
00:22:48Western naval power. Aircraft carriers and their
00:22:51escorts now found themselves in the crosshairs.
00:22:55airs.
00:22:58June 2024. Amidst ongoing
00:23:01bombardment, the Yemeni forces unveiled another
00:23:04surprise: the "Thofan al-Mudam," the
00:23:07"Devastating Flood," a domestically produced unmanned
00:23:11attack boat, reportedly equipped with advanced technology
00:23:15and significant destructive power,
00:23:18designed specifically for maritime denial
00:23:21operations. The steady emergence of
00:23:25new, sophisticated Yemeni weaponry under direct
00:23:29Western military pressure sent shockwaves through
00:23:32Washington and its allies. Unable to halt
00:23:35the advancements and perhaps unwilling to
00:23:38acknowledge indigenous capability, the narrative
00:23:41shifted towards blaming external powers.
00:23:45Fingers pointed at Iran, Russia,
00:23:48and China.
00:23:51Behind closed doors, the question echoed: How to contain?
00:23:55How to degrade? How to break the Houthis? While Western
00:23:58strategists grappled for answers, Yemen's military
00:24:01engineers were preparing a surprise engineered to
00:24:04redefine the strategic
00:24:06landscape.
00:24:10September 16th, 2024,
00:24:13a date etched into the region's military history.
00:24:17Yemen unveils the Palestine 2, its
00:24:20first hypersonic missile. A weapon
00:24:23capable of breaching conventional defenses,
00:24:26developed and produced entirely domestically,
00:24:30making Yemen the first Arab nation to publicly
00:24:34declare such indigenous capability.
00:24:38With each new Yemeni advancement, the anxieties in Tel
00:24:41Aviv deepened, mirrored by growing frustration and
00:24:44strategic recalculations in Washington. The regional
00:24:47military equation was being forcefully rewritten.
00:24:51The Palestine missile wasn't just aimed at Israeli territory, it
00:24:55struck at the long-held myth of untouchable Western
00:24:58technological dominance. It redrew the map of deterrence,
00:25:01demonstrating power previously
00:25:04unimaginable, emanating from the besieged
00:25:06nation.
00:25:13The shock resonated. The Yemeni armed forces
00:25:16achieved another unprecedented feat, becoming the
00:25:20first organized military force to directly
00:25:23and repeatedly engage US aircraft carriers and
00:25:27their strike groups since World War II,
00:25:30challenging the aura of invincibility surrounding
00:25:34these behemoths of naval power. Added to this
00:25:37defiance was the downing of numerous advanced American
00:25:41MQ-9 Reaper drones, further
00:25:43puncturing the narrative of aerial
00:25:46supremacy.
00:25:50First, many agreements for MQ aircraft were canceled.
00:25:53More than 22 aircraft were shot down in
00:25:57the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. Consequently,
00:26:00many companies canceled their agreements.
00:26:03The F-18 aircraft, three aircraft were shot down, and consequently, the contracts concluded with
00:26:07other countries to buy certain types of aircraft are no longer valid. Many are now
00:26:11questioning American industries, saying they are failures and that
00:26:14Yemen was actually able to make a breakthrough in American industries.
00:26:17Aircraft carriers, America boasted about them
00:26:20for more than 100 years or almost 70 years, and it
00:26:24boasted about possessing these aircraft and these types of military capabilities.
00:26:28Yemen failed the theory
00:26:31that military manufacturing is only for America and superpowers and Russia.
00:26:35No, today Yemen has started to manufacture for itself and produce for itself, and we do not need
00:26:38another country. And this is what days have proven, and it has proven that we use weapons
00:26:42for ourselves.
00:26:47From the depths of suffering, resilience is born. From the
00:26:50heart of a nation targeted for subjugation arose a
00:26:54force that refused to yield, a voice that
00:26:57bowed to none and backed its defiance with
00:27:00ingenuity and fire.
00:27:03This is not merely a history of weaponry, it is the
00:27:07saga of a people who transformed siege into innovation,
00:27:11aggression into advancement. A nation that refused to be
00:27:14defined by its victimhood. In an era
00:27:17marked by compromise and deference to external powers,
00:27:20Yemen chose a different path, forging its own
00:27:23strength, its own terms. Not for parade,
00:27:27but for parity. Not for aggression, but to demand a
00:27:30place at the table, reshaping the equations of power in the region and
00:27:34the world. A stand against hegemony, striving for a
00:27:38future rooted in justice, echoing the timeless
00:27:41principle: Yemen, from zero to hypersonic.
00:28:51The bombs may have passed, but don't mistake that for
00:28:54peace. This week on The MidEast Stream, we uncover the dangerous
00:28:58illusion behind Washington's diplomacy as Donald Trump
00:29:01talks negotiation with Iran while reportedly preparing for even
00:29:05bigger military strikes. Is the Omani
00:29:08mediation buying peace or merely buying time before the
00:29:12next explosion? Then we shift south where Saudi Arabia's return
00:29:16to war against Yemen has ignited a new front with
00:29:19devastating consequences. From the burning Aramco complex
00:29:23in Jizan to mounting threats against one of the world's most
00:29:27vital shipping lanes, we'll examine how
00:29:30one reckless decision could turn an already fragile global
00:29:34economy into a full-scale
00:29:36maritime crisis. The road to wider war this
00:29:40week on The MidEast Stream.
00:30:10This hour's top headlines: The Yemeni armed forces say they have
00:30:14carried out strikes on Saudi-backed troops in the Maraba
00:30:17province of
00:30:18Yemen.
00:30:23Yemen's foreign ministry says no coalition can deny the
00:30:27Yemeni people their legitimate rights following a Saudi Turkish
00:30:30Pakistani Defense Pact. signed in
00:30:33Mecca,
00:30:36and finally Iran's four ministry spokesperson has hit back at
00:30:39Trump's claim of taking Iran oil, saying before you claim
00:30:43the spoils of war, you have to win the war,
00:30:59hello and...