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00:00:00reach deep inside Saudi Arabia. In September
00:00:04of 2019, its drone strike on the
00:00:07ABC and Kurais oil facilities exposed the vulnerability of Saudi Aramco
00:00:11despite billions of dollars worth of American-made air defense
00:00:14systems. Now, the resistance movement warns that any new
00:00:18attack on Yemen's infrastructure could bring even more strategic
00:00:22targets
00:00:22of into range, including the vital oil
00:00:25of facilities at Yanbu. Today, more than 70%
00:00:29of Saudi
00:00:29of oil. ports bypass the straight of Hormus through pipelines to Yanbu on
00:00:33the Red Sea, but from there they must still pass through the
00:00:37Bob Almandab
00:00:38of straight. If that route is closed, Saudi Arabia's
00:00:41alternative export corridor disappears. Ansarula has
00:00:45already shown it can disrupt one
00:00:47of the world's busiest maritime choke points. Since the outbreak
00:00:51of the Gaza War in 2023, it has launched attacks
00:00:54a in the Red Sea, declaring that it would
00:00:56of target vessels linked to
00:00:58in Israel in support
00:00:59of the Palestinian. "the Red Sea operations
00:01:02have forced major shipping companies to re-root around Southern
00:01:06in Africa, in increased
00:01:07in global transport costs and pushed Israel's southern port of
00:01:10ilot, the brink of collapse. If both the straight of
00:01:14Hormus and Bob Almandab were closed at the same time, nearly
00:01:18a quarter
00:01:19of the world's oil and gas supply, and almost one-third of global
00:01:22container traffic could be affected. Oil prices could sore
00:01:26toward
00:01:28of of $200 per barrel while Europe's energy security." would face severe
00:01:31pressure. For Ansarula, Yemen is not
00:01:34merely another battlefield,
00:01:39of it is a a strategic front with the power to reshape the global economy. The axis
00:01:42of
00:01:43a resistance still
00:01:44of holds powerful strategic cards in reserve. Cards that
00:01:48once played could leave even America unable to respond
00:01:52despite all its military
00:01:53might.
00:02:14in of
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00:02:33Hello and welcome, this is unscripted with me kabi. His name is Khalam
00:02:37Mustafa, leutenant Gulam Mustafa from Pakistan, actually
00:02:40retired three star
00:02:42of general
00:02:42of the Pakistan's army and the former commander of a strategic forces
00:02:45command. Amongst his credentials, he is geopolitical and defense
00:02:48analyst. He has youtube channel called global lens officially where he
00:02:52of discusses politics with the focus on Asia and west
00:02:56Asia, and
00:02:57of he has said about Iran that has done something which was... imaginable before
00:03:00February 28, this
00:03:02of of of year, Iran dismantled U.S. Israel aura of power and in the
00:03:06process what it
00:03:07did to the
00:03:07of US. of Welcome to the programant Gulam
00:03:11Mustafa. Thank you for having me. Well,
00:03:15let's, I guess begin with what I just said at
00:03:17of the
00:03:17of end
00:03:18of the intro, and that is the fact that you said about
00:03:22Iran that has done something which is unimaginable that you want
00:03:25dismantled or of power. What do you mean
00:03:29exactly by? when it comes obviously to
00:03:31of the
00:03:31of situation we have at hand which is the illegal aggression
00:03:34of the us against
00:03:36of
00:03:37a Iran. I'm very clear begin with
00:03:41before 28th
00:03:43in February this
00:03:47in of year US was considered to be all mighty and all powerful at least in military
00:03:50of sense also in certain way economic sense
00:03:54and the people listen when you was talk people
00:03:58listen. Europe listen, at
00:04:01this time two things very strange, number
00:04:05in one, Europe stop listening to Trump, and
00:04:09number two, they plan that they had to begin with,
00:04:13I mean they keep changing gold post, Israel
00:04:16and America to run
00:04:20down Iran to an extent that Iran would submit
00:04:23totally, that they have failed,
00:04:27and that is where I feel the... the or of power that
00:04:31existed just before 28 february that is no more
00:04:34there now and
00:04:39of frankly of that's the reason I think Trump and Natin Yahu
00:04:43don't have enough ramp strategy they don't know how to
00:04:46get out of
00:04:47of it now or to continue if they wish to
00:04:52of continue where to go from here keep listening to Mr. Trump I just heard
00:04:56that he claimed that he can obliterate Iran
00:05:00program, I think you would have done that if you it was possible for
00:05:04him. Well, let me jump in here real quick, because
00:05:07I, I, when you when you say what you have said about the fact that
00:05:11Iran has... broken the myth so to speak that the invisibility, I
00:05:15guess, the image the US has been broken based on the way that Devon has
00:05:18retaliated against this illegal aggression. Many say, well that's just a
00:05:22bunch of lies that the US is the strongest military in the
00:05:26world, we know based on uh this latest round um
00:05:30that Iran has actually exceeded um any outlooks
00:05:34there were in terms the pinpint accuracy that it came in terms the bases, the
00:05:38US bases uh that were targeted, in particular actually Kuwait and
00:05:42Jordan. "um, if this is so, and combined with
00:05:46the fact that US is running low its munitions, then
00:05:49why is it that the US is actually continuing with this
00:05:53aggression, as we are saying, actually last night was the most
00:05:57number of areas that the US targeted in the Islamic
00:06:00Republic? I
00:06:02know, the reason, I'm
00:06:06frankly, I'm as surprised
00:06:09and a way shocked. the way the whole thing is
00:06:13going on, despite having the strongest air force in the world,
00:06:17strongest navy in the world and all the armada and all
00:06:21the weapon system that it had and the kind of
00:06:24defense system that it had created the the whole
00:06:28architecture starting from UAE to Qatar to Kuwait to
00:06:31Bahrain to Saudi Arabia back by Iran, back by
00:06:35Jordan and then of course three four layers of
00:06:39defenses that were provided to Israel, all they have been.
00:06:42penetrated, now they have actually nothing to go back to, they
00:06:46don't know how to go to the public and tell them, this is what they have
00:06:50achieved, because everybody is asking Trump and his
00:06:53team, what is it that they wanted, what is it that they wanted to
00:06:57do, what is it that they wanted to achieve,
00:07:01and I like to repeat Mr. Clinton's words, when he was
00:07:05commenting on this whole thing, he said that United States has
00:07:08overreached and under performed, the difference is so...
00:07:14the reach and the performance, the difference is so large, you just
00:07:17don't know how to cover it up, and that's the only way, I think they
00:07:21can, but they think is that if they continue doing what they have
00:07:25been doing previously, they will achieve the results, I mean this
00:07:29is some one the most, I
00:07:32mean poolish ideas that one can ever have,
00:07:36because you tried to do what you
00:07:40wanted to do and you couldn't achieve that. trying to you know build up on
00:07:44that again, mean repeating a blunder after
00:07:47blunder, that's is something that speaks for
00:07:51probably the total lack of strategic understanding the whole
00:07:55issue at in the US as also in
00:07:58Israel, well obviously the fact that you had the
00:08:02mou come about and that's thanks a large to
00:08:06a large degree to pakistan who did a terrific job in terms of being
00:08:10the mediator encouraging this two sides to get together, but one the
00:08:14driving forces was the fact that uh the US uh did see that
00:08:18militarily it was not going to achieve what it wanted in terms of different
00:08:21objectives uh that it had. At this point we're looking at an
00:08:25mou that is not on void, at least for the time
00:08:28being, there are indications that Iran is going to rely
00:08:32if it is going to reach decision to go back to
00:08:35negotiations that it will use Mou as the um the
00:08:39guide to be the um, I guess... go to
00:08:43document in terms the negotiation process, were that to
00:08:46happen? what is your outlook regarding that? do
00:08:49you think that there will be return back to negotiations
00:08:52and for the mou to be the basis for that to move forward
00:08:55in in terms the large scheme of things, which is the
00:08:59big, guess piece
00:09:03resolve that needs to be achieved between the
00:09:05two. i think that document
00:09:09is very good basis to begin to... to
00:09:12renegotiate if the whole thing has to be done and I also
00:09:16understand that Iran has approached Pakistan in this
00:09:20regard that they can have 10 days pause or so, maybe I'm
00:09:24wrong, but this is what was reported in our media,
00:09:28but if that is so,
00:09:29I think Iran is playing wisely, it's time to talk and it's the only
00:09:33way they can get out of it, I mean Iran
00:09:37is already suffering, but the only way
00:09:41America and is... can get out of
00:09:43it is the way they talk it out, they talk it out on the
00:09:46table, and I mean certain
00:09:50things that Iran needs to do, Iran is like state of
00:09:54hormos that already was decided, and that is where
00:09:57I think the problem restarted, if it was decided why the hell the
00:10:01Americans had to try and sneak through the Omani
00:10:05lane so to call, so therefore I think this a good basis
00:10:09and the if the talks began.
00:10:12Again, Pakistan is already, as you said, done
00:10:16a great job, Pakistan is again ready to do it, because the
00:10:20peace in the region is what we need, and we don't need
00:10:24any... more blood shed going around, we don't need
00:10:27any more people to suffer, because if this
00:10:30continues, Iran is only one option to
00:10:34strike at the American basis and the accuracy with struck
00:10:38Jordan's basis, that should be an eye opener for Trump
00:10:42and have both, I think they will come around to
00:10:46talk. Okay, so you mentioned the fact that Ivan is doing the right
00:10:49thing, is retaliating, hitting American bases in the west Asia
00:10:53region, but one the things. that um is somewhat
00:10:57creating a friction um for lack of better
00:11:00word between perhaps and my question
00:11:04to you is this between Pakistan and Iran would be the fact that uh you
00:11:08have Saudi Arabia that from what we understand was targeted by Iran
00:11:12in terms of three areas that were hit now uh we know that
00:11:16Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have defense pact that was signed uh which uh
00:11:19basically puts each responsible for
00:11:23defending the other uh
00:11:25do you think that there is a worry there that Pakistan needs to make
00:11:28decision or puts Pakistan a a a
00:11:32situation where it may be compromised in terms of being that mediator
00:11:36or no, maybe it's more of a perhaps motivation for Pakistan
00:11:40to uh maybe up its uh efforts
00:11:44to bring about the two
00:11:46sides. I mean I'm sure you
00:11:49know that Pakistan has done a lot in this
00:11:53regard as well. trying to keep Saudi Arabia calm,
00:11:57Qatar calm and Kuwait and Bahrain calm.
00:12:01UAE of course is different story all together, but it would
00:12:05in Pakistan's interest frankly speaking that
00:12:09the war doesn't spread anymore and to be actually
00:12:13playing in the hands of all these people who are planned all this
00:12:16operation. If there were to be a war between the
00:12:20Muslim countries, if Saudi Arabia were to go to war against
00:12:24Iran. itself that would be a
00:12:27tragic happening because that's something that
00:12:31is what diction wanted, mean crisent
00:12:35of you know one sect against the christiant the other
00:12:38sect, mean that may be so, but that is how they think, but
00:12:42when it comes to Islam itself, i think
00:12:46that is where it is very very tragic that if this were to be happen,
00:12:50therefore Pakistan has motivation and
00:12:54pakistan is... trying and hopefully Saudi Arabia has played very well
00:12:58so far and they have been very calm and very calculated in their
00:13:02response and I'm sure they will continue to do so
00:13:06and I hope they do so because just now I got a
00:13:10news that Trump has tried to win away Saudi
00:13:13Arabia from everybody else by offering them the nuclear
00:13:16deal so therefore I think in
00:13:20the interest of our brothers in Iran as also in Pakistan and
00:13:24elsewhere. that the talks begin and we reach a
00:13:28conclusion which leads to peace. okay, it's interesting that you mentioned that,
00:13:32because that really caught many off guard and by surprise and I'm sure perhaps in some
00:13:36ways it did also catch you by surprise when you heard
00:13:39that the US administration directed by Trump obviously has granted
00:13:43Saudi Arabia uh the ability to enrich uranium and this is without
00:13:47from what I understand enacting international safeguards which obviously
00:13:51is intended to prevent nuclear weapons. I mean what type of message is that sending? It sounds
00:13:55to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, that that's a message actually going to the
00:13:58Israeli regime, which is very critical the fact that
00:14:02this should not happen in the first place, because obviously they don't want the
00:14:06balance of power to be tilted any shape or form, since even though they
00:14:10don't declare it, but they have nuclear weapons and maybe a sense to, as you said, pull
00:14:14Saudi Arabia away from Iran and send message to Iran at the same
00:14:18time to see, if you come to our side, we'll give you the chance
00:14:21to develop your nuclear civilian nuclear program which. has
00:14:25stated it's civilian
00:14:26anyways, i think that's the
00:14:30purpose, the second purpose probably could be that because china is already in the
00:14:34game, already offered this deal to Saudi
00:14:37Arabia, in was lot of money, so
00:14:41therefore probably Trump and his administration thought that if they
00:14:45can win this game, they will keep China out of
00:14:48it, obviously message directly to Israel
00:14:52that they are now ready to accept, Saudi Arabia as
00:14:56equal strategic partner so to speak,
00:15:00but I'm sure it's not going to go through, because it
00:15:02has yet to go to Congress and then when I said that there is
00:15:06China
00:15:06in the game, China won't letter stride that
00:15:09easily. taking a look at the relationship
00:15:12that Pakistan has with the US, I mean um,
00:15:16it's it's very interesting to see the way that it has juggled all the sides
00:15:20involved here, on the one side you have Iran, on
00:15:23the other side you have the US. I'm I'm curious as
00:15:27to why there is such praise coming from the
00:15:30Pakistani side when it comes to the US uh for example from uh Prime
00:15:34Minister Shabbaz Sharif who has even said that uh
00:15:39"you know the US president should uh actually get the Nobel Peace
00:15:43Prize. We had very critical statement that
00:15:46came from uh the defense minister uh
00:15:50Khawaj Assiv who said that the US used Pakistan then threw
00:15:54away threw it away like toilet paper after realigning with the
00:15:58US uh after the
00:16:001999
00:16:02uh um September 11th attacks and then the following relationship that ensued
00:16:06between the two countries." I mean that's
00:16:07a pretty strongly worded statement that came from
00:16:11the Hawajah, so what
00:16:14is the deal there in terms the outlook that Pakistan has in its relationship with the
00:16:18US? practically
00:16:22US is super power and everybody's neighbor, Pakistan
00:16:26can't afford to have bad relations with US,
00:16:30and at the same time Pakistan doesn't need to go to the
00:16:33extent the kind of relationship that we developed in.
00:16:37'ing September 11, so therefore I think there is
00:16:41somewhere in between that Pakistan is trying to balance it out, but
00:16:45otherwise Pakistan stated direction is very clear and Pakistan understands things very
00:16:49clearly, at least if I were to say I would never trust United States of
00:16:53America on anything about everything, interesting
00:16:57that you say that, so I I I couldn't help,
00:17:00but I'm sure you caught me talking about your YouTube channel,
00:17:04one the videos had the title ' Trump, angel
00:17:08or curse, I don't
00:17:09know if you recall that, where it said Pakistan's big gain in form of
00:17:13a question mark, uh, Trump's secret game, the real winner the Iran
00:17:16deal, Pakistan or America. I'm curious as to what you mean by that. In
00:17:20particular, we're looking a time now where we don't know whether there's going to be deal or
00:17:24not, whether they're going to go back to negotiations or not, but based on the way you put
00:17:28it, um, it it didn't really quite, it wasn't quite clear
00:17:31as to what uh would be gain for either,
00:17:35especially when you use the word curse. angel or curse in the way that you
00:17:39described Donald Trump? Frankly,
00:17:43what I meant was, like I said just
00:17:46now, I would never ever trust United States,
00:17:50much less Mr. Trump, because it's not
00:17:54just once, there is a history of betray, every
00:17:57time Pakistan needed support, American just with dou
00:18:01and instead they went to support others who actually were working against
00:18:05Pakistan.
00:18:07"therefore
00:18:10my view is very clear and I have never even shide away from
00:18:14stating it that Pakistan must never ever trust
00:18:17America and Trump, therefore
00:18:21having good relationship with Trump is not the
00:18:25angel, he is he is not the angel, he
00:18:28actually is going to be cursed for Pakistan, if Pakistan work
00:18:31to fall for what is trying to do, and I'm sure
00:18:35our people understand." far better than I do because
00:18:39the things that are happening elsewhere, indeed. Well,
00:18:43um, the U.S. is very hard to trust obviously, and who better
00:18:47to uh stand up for that than the Islamic Republic, which has been
00:18:50burnt so many times when it comes to negotiations specifically, but
00:18:54one the things that was very interesting was the precondition that the US president
00:18:58Donald Trump set out, this is going back about a month ago when uh the mou was
00:19:02going to be signed, where you had uh the US president say
00:19:06that uh Abraham of course needs to be one the
00:19:09preconditions uh membership of of of some countries uh
00:19:13which pointed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as countries that should
00:19:16immediately sign on. We also had Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and
00:19:20Jordan who were courted on this. Pakistan rejected that
00:19:24out right. Um, what do you think of this pritiontion
00:19:28that the US president set out at that time?
00:19:30Do you think that he's going to pursue that? And what are your thoughts about the fact that Pakistan actually
00:19:34rejected that? Pakistan had.
00:19:37because this by itself is something
00:19:41that smells not smells actually very clear that what
00:19:45is he trying to do in the region and pakistan just
00:19:49can't afford similarly i'm sure turkey and other
00:19:52countries ab died way
00:19:56back
00:19:57i have no doubts about it and i don't think so other than just trying
00:20:00to throw kind of spanner in the game trump had trump
00:20:04is also very clear that abraham accord is dead
00:20:08and buried, the notion of ground
00:20:12incursion has been thrown about again, we knew that in the beginning the
00:20:16first phase the war that that was something that was
00:20:18under the microscope in terms of not only the news, but
00:20:22also in terms of what was coming out, the veter coming out the US, we're looking at the southern
00:20:26part of Iran at this point that have been pinpointed in terms the
00:20:30targets uh with the some reports indicating that there is still that
00:20:33possibility of a ground incursion, again one scenario uh be going...
00:20:37through a ground incursion based on your military
00:20:41background, i think it should
00:20:44be - bigger fall than what they have already
00:20:47done is america. is not ready to go
00:20:51into this kind of putting boots on ground kind of operation right
00:20:55now, going against island that again would be
00:20:59a blunder, because what is going to gain i'm sure is not going to
00:21:03let that whole infrastructure stay as it
00:21:06is, there are ways of putting it out of action
00:21:10and Iran has also indicated that
00:21:14if that were to be a step taken by
00:21:17America and its allies, Iran has other options to respond
00:21:21to it and that is going to strike on
00:21:24UAE, can America for doing, can America
00:21:28have UAE being stuck that way, I don't think so is going to
00:21:31happen and also feel that they don't understand Iran's
00:21:35geography as much as they should,
00:21:38because the thing is like Iraq, no, Iran is different
00:21:42geography, and Iranian is different people and they are
00:21:45prepared and they, I think they are prepared and they should
00:21:48be, their place I would be prepared for it and the way they responded
00:21:52so far, I'm sure they are ready for it, and that way the kind
00:21:56of guities, the kind of body bags which will
00:22:00go back to United States, Trump and his administration can't afford
00:22:04that, yeah, it's hard to understand the type of thinking or
00:22:08lack of it when it comes to the military moves that the US is making,
00:22:12but not that we had enough problems existing in
00:22:15this region, we now have another phase the war which I think
00:22:19the... has been opened on and that is the country of
00:22:23Yemen, we're looking at the Ansera movement that actually announced a naval
00:22:27plade specifically against Saudi Arabia, are we looking
00:22:31at things heating up there, are we looking at return the war
00:22:35there with the US participation behind Saudi Arabia in terms of
00:22:39targeting the Ana movements uh or
00:22:41not? I
00:22:44think if I were to offer one
00:22:48advice to Saudi Arabia would be to stay. out of
00:22:50it, they already in yeman in one form or the
00:22:54other, and they have tried and they couldn't achieve
00:22:58the objective that they wanted to. on the other hand,
00:23:02if you bring yeman again, yeman is already a state of
00:23:05war, if the things heat up in yemen, you will have babal mander
00:23:09closed up, and that is something that Europe and Israel can't
00:23:12afford, that will actually disturb the entire splice chain of
00:23:16everybody, most probably, most likely and most...
00:23:21"the most affected would be China and the people in the far
00:23:24east, so I think it will be wise on Saudi
00:23:28Arabia's part and also I would advise my brothers in iran to
00:23:31keep hooutis and control because that is something
00:23:35that will think heat up things and that is something that could
00:23:38ignite what they have been trying to do, like I said earlier,
00:23:42Muslim country is going against each other, each other's throat,
00:23:46Muslims money being used." against each other,
00:23:50that I think is something that
00:23:54must be avoided or cost. one the
00:23:58entities that we have not mentioned in this conversation is the Israeli
00:24:01regime. now we know that in the past days there
00:24:05has been accumulation these refueling jets that the US
00:24:09has sent to the occupied territories. many
00:24:13are concluding that that may be a sign that the US
00:24:17is preparing obviously for '
00:24:20enhancing and advancing a larger military
00:24:23operation than what it is executing right now uh we know
00:24:27that uh there is then the possibility of Iran
00:24:31targeting the occupied territories which is my question to you
00:24:34how big a possibility is that because at this point
00:24:38Israel has the Israel regime has stayed out the war game, it
00:24:42has uh not made many statements except that if we are attacked we're going
00:24:46to we're going to retaliate do you think that uh that is now
00:24:50closer to reality given the fact that you're seeing these refueling jets
00:24:53and fighter jets perhaps addition uh being i
00:24:57guess compiled there in the occupied territories
00:25:01there is a possibility can't be ruled
00:25:03out the reports that are coming in is
00:25:07of american increasing their air presence in the
00:25:11region sending in their refuling aircraft and the
00:25:14other surveillance aircraft in the region so far they
00:25:18haven't come to come in the
00:25:22battlefield so to say, they're keeping them in the background somewhere,
00:25:26Jordan and Israel, but if they were to be, if they were to be
00:25:30uping the ante, I don't what for what
00:25:33purpose, unless it is only aimed at
00:25:36creating that kind of situation where the Muslim
00:25:40countries go against each other, if that is the
00:25:43objective, and I have been saying from day
00:25:46one that Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
00:25:50way, they must ask Americans to leave, because so long as Americans are
00:25:54in the region, there is never going to be peace in the region,
00:25:58and frankly speaking, maybe I am exceeding
00:26:02my... limits, but I don't find any reason for Israel to exist
00:26:06other than providing a reason for United
00:26:09States to create the kind of problem
00:26:13that
00:26:13it is already created in the region. No, you obviously are expressing your thoughts
00:26:17and your opinion and that's what matters here, that is why we're having this discussion that we're
00:26:20having. And my final question to you is this. We're taking a look
00:26:24at the fact that whether there's right now
00:26:28this discussion and conversation about whether there's going to be return
00:26:31to the... MOU or not, whether it's going to be return to the
00:26:34negotiations, but the uh the ones who
00:26:38are opposed to that are saying Iran needs to
00:26:41advance its missile targets
00:26:44more so that the US takes a such beating
00:26:48that it will then be exhausted and realized that it needs to go
00:26:52back to the negotiating table. Do you think that we have reached that point right
00:26:55now, or should Iran continue targeting the US bases in
00:26:59the west Asian countries so that the US will then realize? Enough is enough, we need to
00:27:03go back to the negotiations. I think the
00:27:07time is already right for the
00:27:11negotiations to restart, going any
00:27:14further is going to damage
00:27:18both countries, Iran as well as
00:27:20our other brothers countries, so Iran I think has done
00:27:24a wise step, taken a wise step and offering to restart the
00:27:28negotiations and I hope Trump listen.
00:27:33and I'm sure he will listen because he needs an off ramp as badly
00:27:36as anybody else, therefore he also
00:27:40needs for to say something to his own people,
00:27:44this is what he has achieved in the restarting this whole game that
00:27:48he did, and that is something, I don't know what
00:27:52is that going to be that point and
00:27:55that claim that he would like to make to his
00:27:58people, but at some point in time, there
00:28:02has to be given take and therefore i think
00:28:06usations have to begin and as soon as
00:28:10possible going any further of course Iran
00:28:14can hit the targets and destroy some more aircraft and some
00:28:17more inflict more casualties, but Iran
00:28:21is not going to gain that much as it is already gained. I
00:28:25mean there is point that wish Iran must also understand
00:28:29that it's time to negotiate.
00:28:32and time to get things settled and going beyond
00:28:36that point is going to be useless for everybody, it's going to pointless and go be only
00:28:40disastrous. okay, very well, thank you very much, we do appreciate you
00:28:44appearing on our show gulam mustafa, leutenant gulam mustafa who's retired, thank
00:28:48you so much for joining us, thank you for having me, it was a pleasure
00:28:52to have you, god bless, that does it with this edition the program, you heard the words
00:28:56there
00:28:56of leutenan mustafa retired general, but obviously his outlook in terms the military background that he
00:29:00has is worth the... put that he gave uh some the points that he
00:29:04made is is definitely worth going back to do log to our website for repeat the
00:29:08program to catch all of that all the wspressv.ir
00:29:11from
00:29:12the team here at unscripted it's
00:29:14goodbye.
00:30:25press tv headlines irans i aea nvoice slams the
00:30:29international atomic energy agency for referring Iran's nuclear. the file
00:30:33to the security council saying the move has no legal
00:30:36basis. the yemen armed forces say they have
00:30:40conducted a large scale military operation against the key saudi air
00:30:43base in the country southwestern city of Hames
00:30:47Mushed. and oil
00:30:51prices jump by more than $3 a barrel as growing concerns of a
00:30:54global supplies and the continued closure.
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