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00:01:41There has been over this weekend major exchange of missile
00:01:45fire by Iran in the US targeting
00:01:47of oil tankers and even a U.S.
00:01:51destroyer.
00:01:54of Uh, the new secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen
00:01:58Razay said
00:02:03of in a very recent interview that Iran didn't use ballistic missile for
00:02:04of that attack on the destroyer, but new
00:02:08weapon, but let's
00:02:10go to Iran's escalation ladder, which we've talked about
00:02:13before, this is a country that takes its time to send
00:02:16messages and only does so when necessary, and to
00:02:20serve a strategic objective, unlike the
00:02:23Americans. um, what is
00:02:26of of Iran's intent in this new round? you know, one
00:02:30seems obvious to me, which is to punch a hole in Trump's
00:02:33claims that tankers worth 9 billion dollars are getting
00:02:37a through hormos daily, and
00:02:40two, it seems to me that Iran is now looking
00:02:44to force an end to the US naval
00:02:48of blockade. Okay, let's start from the
00:02:51in beginning, a bit of background is necessary to get to your
00:02:55point, the
00:02:57of background is that all
00:02:59a along, what... Iranians were doing is since the war started on
00:03:03February 28, the primacy was given to
00:03:07the
00:03:08in diplomacy, that was the key thing, and as far as the military was
00:03:12concerned, it was responding it for that to
00:03:16whatever the Americans were doing in the region, so it was a
00:03:19proportionate response from the Iranian military
00:03:22(IRGC) now when we look at diplomacy, what
00:03:26they were trying to accomplish is create..."
00:03:31regional framework,
00:03:33of what that means is when we say
00:03:35a regional security framework, it means that
00:03:39all the issues concerning the region should be resolved
00:03:43by the countries
00:03:44of the region itself without any interference from
00:03:48of outside pass, that's
00:03:50of a regional framework and this is something entirely new,
00:03:54just to put it
00:03:54in a
00:03:55of context, this is the thinking
00:03:57of the new world order which has this support of
00:04:01two great powers Russia in China in the multipolar
00:04:04world, so what we saw was that
00:04:08Iran's foreign
00:04:09of minister Abbas Arakshi in the month of May and
00:04:13June, he traveled to Russia, he met up with
00:04:16President Putin for an hour and a half in Saint
00:04:19in Petersburg, after that early June he traveled
00:04:23to China, met up with his counterpart
00:04:27Wonghi, got the support for this. framework from
00:04:31both the countries and after that when he came back the
00:04:35Iranian leadership would have discussed this that look we've got the
00:04:38support and after that on the
00:04:41of 30 23rd of June Iranian
00:04:44president he did a state visit to
00:04:47Pakistan to get Pakistan on board the
00:04:51of Pakistan leadership because Pakistan is playing very
00:04:54important role in this re framework the
00:04:58idea of which is about is coming from Iran,
00:05:02but this is one
00:05:03of the key fundamentals
00:05:05of the new world order, as I pointed out.
00:05:08of As a consequence of that, what has happened is that on the
00:05:1131st. first of August two big events happened
00:05:15simultaneously on the same day. On
00:05:1931st of August in Islamabad in sorry in
00:05:22Istanbul in Turkey there was a
00:05:25announcement that there will be a
00:05:29formalized arrangement was made to be called Makka
00:05:33joint defense agreement. Where there are three
00:05:36countries which is Pakistan, Turkey and
00:05:40Saudi Arabia. The concept is of collective
00:05:43security, which is what this new world order fundamental
00:05:47thinking is about world order fundamental thinking is
00:05:50about, so on the same day,
00:05:5331st of August, the Isgistan, and in
00:05:57Kirgizan, when you look at the joint statement, there was
00:06:01total support given to Iran, support not
00:06:05only to Iran its territorial integrity and
00:06:08sovereinity, to the fact that there was aggression
00:06:12on run by America and Israel and that
00:06:16Iran should have or can have
00:06:19peaceful uses of nuclear energy under the
00:06:22NPT, so there was total support for Iran
00:06:26and the Iran thinking of regional framework. now
00:06:30once this was done on the 31st of August, this is
00:06:34when the Iranian leadership decided, now we need to
00:06:38give primacy to the military
00:06:40power and That is
00:06:43when the lead was taken by the
00:06:46secretary the supreme ner to tanker hits, now you see
00:06:50a tanker does not have any defensive means, but
00:06:54the key thing was what resided, he
00:06:58fired something unusual that the Iranians had not
00:07:02done before, and first thing to note is that the
00:07:05firing was not done by the IRGC
00:07:08navy, it was done by the IRGC
00:07:12space force and what was fired
00:07:16was a anti ship ballistic missile with
00:07:20a suppressed trajectory or depressed
00:07:23trajectory and this missile is being called Kasim
00:07:27Baseir. now this was basically fired as
00:07:31demonstration to tell the Americans that look
00:07:35all your fleet which is part the naval
00:07:39blockade that you have put there a naval blockade
00:07:43is an act of war, until now the Iranians
00:07:47were quiet about it, so this was clear
00:07:50indication about the vulnerability that the US military
00:07:54faces and sentcom acknowledged that yes
00:07:58this missile ballistic missile was fired, but our
00:08:02aircraft carrier obviously it was George Washington. now
00:08:06what happens is that whenever there is a aircraft
00:08:09carrier then there are lot of guided missile.
00:08:13destroyers which provided basically the security
00:08:17which provide the defense and what these guided missile
00:08:21destroyers have what is called the ag
00:08:23system now in this
00:08:27edges combat system the interceptors are
00:08:31there and the interceptors on the American
00:08:34destroyers are of ratio company there are three
00:08:38types the sm2 which is standard missile 2
00:08:41standards missile three and standard missile 6. the long in
00:08:45short the story is that the missile that was
00:08:49fired antishiim ballistic missile with depressed
00:08:52trajectory, it basically means thatosphere, it
00:08:56stayed within theosphere, it stayed within the
00:09:00stratosphere on the higher reaches the atmosphere, so we
00:09:04are looking at altitude of about 60 to 80
00:09:08or 90 kilometers, it stayed there
00:09:11and it had a speed of close to
00:09:1510 mac and mac is the speed of sound
00:09:19and it it fired at by the IRGC
00:09:22aerospace force, it was fired a distance of
00:09:26around 1000 kilometers and with a
00:09:29warhead which has a weight of close to
00:09:331.3 ton. now this
00:09:36SM6, this is supposed to take a ballistic
00:09:40missile or hostile ballistic missile. within
00:09:44the atmosphere when it is in the descent phase, it is coming
00:09:48down, because ballistic missile follows a
00:09:51parabolic path, it is very clearly defined path,
00:09:55but the problem here is that this missile is coming at
00:09:59such a speed and the SM6
00:10:02interceptors the Americans, they have only been
00:10:05tested in a controlled environment, not in a
00:10:09operational environment, and when you have have this
00:10:13missile coming at such a speed, it does not give
00:10:17any reaction time to the SM6 and the radar
00:10:20the ages system, which is very good radar to
00:10:24b. ically identify the that yes there is hostile
00:10:28missile coming and to kill that missile, so the
00:10:32point making is as far as the Americans are concerned, they
00:10:36are totally defenseless against this missile and the Americans know
00:10:40it, and what this missile can do is
00:10:43because of its 1.3 or 1.2 ton
00:10:47warhead, it has explosive power and it has
00:10:50chiletic energy, so if it hits a
00:10:54ship. "it can actually go through the deck the
00:10:57ship, that is what it can do, so the point
00:11:01here is mozay has made it clear
00:11:05that this is the capability we have, and what is being told
00:11:09to the Americans is on the one hand
00:11:13that look, you lift your naval blockade that
00:11:17you have put in place, it was put two times, once on the
00:11:2113th of April and after that early July."
00:11:25I think it was early July after they signed the Mou on
00:11:2917th of June, so the point being made
00:11:32is that this is your vulnerability and we'l hit it,
00:11:36and already now the reports are saying that
00:11:39Centcom, they have moved their ship further
00:11:42back, and what Ri has further announced is that
00:11:46look, wherever the line the blockade now is
00:11:50the blockade, starting from there there
00:11:54will be a... restricted zone, restricted
00:11:58zone that covers the gulf of Oman, state of hermose and
00:12:01goes all along the Persian gulf to the north,
00:12:05we are talking about a length of
00:12:081500 kilometers, this will all be
00:12:12restricted zone, so the long and short is
00:12:15enormous capabilities they have in state of hormones, not to go in
00:12:19the details right now, I'm just trying to give you a
00:12:22broad b of what's happening, so
00:12:26what they are basically saying Iranians is that on the one
00:12:30hand, we are announcing very soon a restricted
00:12:34zone, because razi has said that this is not
00:12:38state of hermos, this is state of Iran's
00:12:41dignity, that is what they are calling it
00:12:44now, on the other hand, they have made the
00:12:47conditions for assumption of talk with Trump
00:12:51extremely harsh and extremely difficult.
00:12:55and of all the condition, if you ask me, I have to pick up a single
00:12:59one, I would say that they want the American
00:13:02forces out of West Asia, this is
00:13:06very big thing in, because you see what I earlier
00:13:09mentioned to you that they have created this
00:13:13regional framework, the physical manifestation of
00:13:17which is the Makka joint defense agreement with
00:13:20headquarters in Saudi Arabia and the
00:13:24first security. to be from Pakistan, it's a
00:13:28very big thing and top of that, already
00:13:31two countries, Sergi Lavroff has said they are interested
00:13:35in joining this, you know this Maka joint
00:13:39defense agreement, and these countries are Egypt, that will
00:13:43be very big thing, because Egypt basically is a
00:13:47country which is transcontinental, the Sinai is in
00:13:51part of west Asia, but all the Egypt is in North Africa.
00:13:56and then Algeria has been mentioned as another
00:13:59country, so this is what is being created is
00:14:03get the Americans out of West Asia,
00:14:06so let me just finish this broad overview
00:14:10by telling you that Americans today have no
00:14:14military options at all given their vulnerability,
00:14:18and what is their vulnerability, they have enormous military
00:14:21capabilities, they are one country which... spend one
00:14:25trillion dollars on the pentagon on the defense
00:14:29budget, but unfortunately the capabilities
00:14:33they have, they are the 20th century warfare,
00:14:37big destroyers, big aircraft carrier or has
00:14:40changed, these are the vulnerabilities are now
00:14:44now, no longer the assets and I am not even talking
00:14:48about right now the enormous cyber
00:14:51capabilities that today the Iranians have so...
00:14:55Iranians are wise people who have gone step
00:14:58by step, there are far too many other vulnerability
00:15:02also which they can destroy and the Americans know
00:15:05it,
00:15:16no go zone around hormos, which would extend
00:15:19to the US navy's blockade line, we don't
00:15:23actually know where the block. cade is
00:15:27um, because the american their ships are based in in
00:15:31various, their ships are based in in various waterways,
00:15:35but it sounds, you were talking about going to the north? the Persian Gulf, it sounds
00:15:39that Iran is now expanding the military theater in
00:15:42waterways, well into the Arabian sea and
00:15:46Indian Ocean, from where the US Navy
00:15:50ostensibly enforces its blockade, um,
00:15:53but
00:15:54you know, here's the thing, the US Navy is
00:15:58likely to strike Iranian ships in any waters anywhere
00:16:02in the world, so it's not a blockade in the typical
00:16:06sense, where you prevent ships from moving within
00:16:09a defined uh,
00:16:12you know, waterway geography, how do you see
00:16:16this develop? all right, first of all, first of
00:16:19all, there are reports and you have satellite
00:16:23pictures, because the Iranians are
00:16:27helped by the Chinese space capabilities which are way
00:16:30ahead that the Americans, which is why in
00:16:332019 President Trump in his first term in office, he
00:16:37created the space force new service. now
00:16:41the point here to understand is that reports clearly
00:16:45say that the blockade is 300
00:16:49kilometers away from the Gulf of Oman and
00:16:53the Sentcom reports now are coming and saying they pulled back
00:16:56now another 100 kilometers, so we are talking about
00:17:00a 400 kilometer present line. now talking
00:17:04theater, what you said, Let's understand what
00:17:08is the war theater about for
00:17:11Iran. Today the Iranians have
00:17:14the missiles and the drones. Iranians have
00:17:18drones which are jet part, which are long
00:17:21range, which can fire with precision because the
00:17:25space capabilities provided by the Chinese, the
00:17:29bedu three constellation as well as the yagol
00:17:32augmentation satellite systems which are there in the
00:17:36lower orbat. which provide you a persistent
00:17:40stare the theater, the theater
00:17:43today, when you look at the north, it goes to
00:17:47the entire Mediterranean sea, and now you look at
00:17:51south in the Indian Ocean, we are talking
00:17:55about the capability of Iran to hit
00:17:58digoghasya, and digo ga today
00:18:01is one logistic base the Americans which is
00:18:05serving three commands. It is serving the Africa
00:18:09command, it is serving sidcom and it is service that
00:18:13they can anywhere in the state of hormos or around
00:18:16that disturb or
00:18:19disrupt the
00:18:21communications ship to ship communications
00:18:25the US Navy and ship to show communications and
00:18:29as far as Digo Garcier is concerned the
00:18:33entire logistic base the Americans which is huge
00:18:36base. is automated, so it is all
00:18:40digitized. now when you have all digitization, that
00:18:44means your missiles are a particular bunker, your fuel is
00:18:48somewhere else, then your loading sites are somewhere else, then
00:18:52they have massive runways for their stealth bombers,
00:18:55everything is there digitized, and the brain of a
00:18:59digitization is what is called the PLC,
00:19:03programmable logic controllers and today
00:19:07the Iranians have come very long way from
00:19:102010, please recall in
00:19:132010 the Americans and the
00:19:16Israelis, they had done their
00:19:19stuckness, you
00:19:21know
00:19:24sabotage their
00:19:26centrifuges, and what they did
00:19:30with was the
00:19:31that that the centrifuges nasan
00:19:34facility, nuclear facilities, they were disrupted.
00:19:38so today the Iranians have come a long way and they can
00:19:42disrupt the PLCs which are there in Digogarsia
00:19:46in other words create disturbance create complete
00:19:50cross at Digogarsia so what theater are we talking
00:19:54of what capabilities are we talking of so they
00:19:58cover everything their drones and missile
00:20:01capabilities and everything what they have is
00:20:04underground the Iranians this is work done over
00:20:08decades, what they have done, over decades they have
00:20:12studied the Americans, the military capabilities of
00:20:16Americans and the strategy the
00:20:19Israelis and of course
00:20:23the America, the US Navy has retreated to Diego Garcia
00:20:27because they've lost access to the fifth
00:20:30fleet headquarters in
00:20:32Bahrain, um,
00:20:35correct? That's right, so they have
00:20:39lost basically the fifth fleet in Bahrain, the
00:20:43infrastructure has been destroyed there, so now the
00:20:46logistics for the ships it is coming. from
00:20:50digo garsia and because peet Hekset kept
00:20:54this, he did not disclose this, perhaps even to his commander in
00:20:57chief, the destruction which was done so early by
00:21:01the Iranians in Bahrain to the logistics
00:21:05center, that we we then now we have the
00:21:08reports the problems that Abraham
00:21:12lincoln are faced, it was all
00:21:15because of not telling publically as to
00:21:19what has happened on Abraham Lincoln, so
00:21:23Abraham Lincoln now, I think is somewhere in Thailand,
00:21:26Thailand, why would they go all the way to Thailand and not to
00:21:30Diego Garcia? No, Diego Garcia basically
00:21:34is a port for the refilling, it is
00:21:36logistic, but for the repairs and everything they have to
00:21:40go to Thailand, because now east Asia they have
00:21:44basically three allies, Thailand is one allies,
00:21:48South Korea is another. and Japan is another and then of course they
00:21:52have Australia, this is what they have. now as far as
00:21:56pacific command is concerned, there they have massive
00:22:00shortages of interceptors and
00:22:03munitions, and all these interceptors, they
00:22:06take years to build, not that,
00:22:10you see America's industrial, military industrial
00:22:14capabilities, they are very frugal right
00:22:18now to build the... up to a war surge
00:22:21level that will take few years,
00:22:25nothing happen a hurry, so the point is that when you
00:22:29talk of a theater, the theaters are under the
00:22:32command of and the not command really, they are under the
00:22:36observation, total observation, 24
00:22:40into seven, what is what we call persistent
00:22:43stair the Iranians? i also think the
00:22:47war with Iran is um... uh
00:22:50offering opportunities to break all
00:22:54the US dominated global networks from insurance to
00:22:58shipping even um AI data
00:23:02centers right uh these are all potentially
00:23:05targets on Iran's escalation ladder if the US
00:23:09persists at this ridiculous war, but you you made a
00:23:13really important point about the US fighting a 20th
00:23:16century war in the 21st century, it is
00:23:20"it is outcassed, as we have
00:23:23seen, um, but but so
00:23:27then are its allies, because they
00:23:30operate under those same paradigms, right,
00:23:34militarily, um, and that means Israel is
00:23:38included in this, Israel will be outclassed
00:23:41a direct Iran Israel confrontation,
00:23:45but I want to ask you from where you sit is, return
00:23:49is to direct war between Iran and Israel inevitable, is
00:23:53Iran waiting for the US to retreat entirely before that kicks
00:23:56off? as you know, I'm sitting in Beirot right now, the situation
00:24:00southern Lebanon has become untenable, Israel is blowing up
00:24:04entire villages and towns every single day in the south, and
00:24:08as we know, it was Iran's number one demand in the failed
00:24:11mou from last June a withdrawal of all Israeli forces
00:24:15from Lebanon, all regional states, does this war
00:24:18end? whether today or next year or three years
00:24:22down the road with an inevitable Iran
00:24:25Israel final showdown. See, first of all,
00:24:29let me start by telling you that
00:24:32Israel is not a military power.
00:24:36We Israel's military capabilities are
00:24:39overblower. Israel basically is a state which
00:24:43does terrorism. Israel's unique thing is
00:24:47musad, that is what they do. Now
00:25:01that the Iranians are very clear that they have to also
00:25:04clear the security zone that they have captured in southern
00:25:08Lebanon, and any case Beirot is the is their red
00:25:12line where you are sitting, you see now, but
00:25:15coming back to Israel, please remember when this war
00:25:19started, in just a couple of weeks the
00:25:22Israeli chief of army he publically made the
00:25:26statement that the IDF is
00:25:29overersched because they are
00:25:33everywhere, they are fighting a war
00:25:36with, they
00:25:36are with southern you know in southern Lebanon, they are in
00:25:40Syria, they are with
00:25:42the yemenis, so they are all over and they
00:25:45are fatigued, so the point I'm making is a showdown that
00:25:49you are talking. about between Iran and
00:25:53Israel after the American leaves, I don't think it
00:25:56makes any sense, because yes of course
00:26:00Israel will have the capable. abilities of St.
00:26:03Cob, there is no doubt about it because the
00:26:07strong lobby in Washington and in the US congress,
00:26:11but the point the matter is that once
00:26:14the once the American forces leave
00:26:18and in that time frame even this Macca joint
00:26:22agreement would also have further
00:26:25expanded and one the things the
00:26:29is, so even today if the Israelis have to...
00:26:32attack Turkey, if they have to fight with Turkey, Turkey has no interest
00:26:36in fighting with the Israelies, but if
00:26:40they fight, then they have to duftail this in
00:26:44their war scheming that there are three
00:26:47countries, now whether one will fight or how
00:26:51many will fight, what sort of capabilities will be provided by the other two
00:26:55countries to Turkey, Israelis have to keep that in
00:26:58mind, and as this agreement
00:27:02more and more countries join, Iran, Iran's hand
00:27:06will be strengthened, not weakened. We are looking
00:27:10a situation, perhaps even, you know, by next
00:27:14year, the entire situation will change, and
00:27:17change to the detriment of Israel, not to the
00:27:21benefit of
00:27:22Israel.
00:27:51This is for Palestine. In today's show, we'll be revisiting the
00:27:54genocide in South Lebanon, which is continuing to
00:27:57see killings, displacement, and the destruction of homes
00:28:01unfolding every day. he spite a supposed cease fire,
00:28:05well the scale of destruction in south
00:28:08Lebanon is almost unimaginable for
00:28:12most of us, this is area that
00:28:15is 10, 20 times the size of
00:28:19Gaza that is occupied by the Israelis and they have
00:28:23been uh conducting uh
00:28:26total ethnic cleansing campaign, you don't make an
00:28:30agreement with the zinish entity and expect that the... so keep to it, they
00:28:33violate every cease fire, every treaty, every agreement, usually
00:28:37before it's even come into effect, and of course that was the same
00:28:41uh in lebanon from June
00:28:43onwards.
00:29:44Tops sorry on press CB, the Islamic Revolution Guard course has a shot down
00:29:48and destroyed another American MQ1 drone over the straight of
00:29:51hormos,
00:29:57and these three civilians are killed in the fresh air strikes on Yemen's the southwestern
00:30:01province of.