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00:00:18a There has
00:00:21a been over this weekend a major exchange of missile fire by
00:00:24Iran in the US
00:00:26of targeting oil tankers and even a
00:00:30destroyer, the new
00:00:33secretary of
00:00:35in Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohen Razi said
00:00:38in a very recent interview that Iran didn't use
00:00:42ballistic missile for that attack on the
00:00:45destroyer,
00:00:46of but new weapon, but let's
00:00:49go to Iran's escalation ladder, which we've talked about before,
00:00:53this is
00:00:53of a country that takes its time to send messages and only does
00:00:57so when necessary and to... a strategic
00:01:01objective,
00:01:03of of unlike the Americans, what is Iran's intent in this new
00:01:07round? one seems obvious
00:01:10to me, which is to punch a hole in Trump's claims that
00:01:13tankers worth 9
00:01:15of billion dollars are getting through hormos
00:01:17daily, and two, it
00:01:20seems to me that Iran is now looking to force an end to the
00:01:25of US naval
00:01:26a blockade. Okay, start
00:01:30from the beginning, a bit of background is necessary to get to your
00:01:34point, the background is that all
00:01:37along, what the Iranians were doing
00:01:41in is since the war started on February 28th, the
00:01:45primacy was given to the diplomacy,
00:01:48a that was the key thing, and as far as the military was
00:01:51concerned, it was responding tit for that
00:01:55to whatever the Americans were doing in
00:01:57of the region, so it was a proportionate response. from the Iranian
00:02:01military (IRGC) now when we look at
00:02:04diplomacy, what they were trying
00:02:06of to accomplish is create
00:02:09a regional framework, what that
00:02:13means is when we say
00:02:15a regional security framework, it
00:02:17in means that all the issues concerning the region should
00:02:21be
00:02:22of resolved by the countries
00:02:23of the region itself without any interference from
00:02:27outside pass, that's
00:02:29a regional. work and this is something entirely
00:02:32new, just to put it
00:02:34in a context, this is the thinking
00:02:36of the new world order which has the
00:02:39of support of two great powers, russia in China in the
00:02:42multipolar world, so what we saw
00:02:46was that Iran's foreign minister Abbas
00:02:49Arakchi in the month of May and
00:02:52June, he traveled to Russia, he met up with
00:02:56President Putin for an hour and a half in
00:02:58of St.
00:02:58in of Petersburg, after that early June he
00:03:02traveled to
00:03:04of China met up with his counterpart Wonghi got the
00:03:08support for this framework from both the countries and after
00:03:12that when he came back the Iranian leadership would have
00:03:16discuss this that look we got the support and after that on the
00:03:2030 23rd of June Iranian
00:03:23president he did a state visit to
00:03:27Pakistan to get Pakistan on board. The Pakistan
00:03:30leadership, because Pakistan is playing very important
00:03:34role in this re framework. The idea of
00:03:38which is about is coming
00:03:41of of from Iran, but this is one
00:03:42of the key fundamentals
00:03:44of the new world order, as I pointed out. As a
00:03:47consequence of that, what has happened is
00:03:50of that on the 31st of August, two big events
00:03:54happened simultaneously on the same
00:03:57of day. On 31st of August in Islamabad in
00:04:01sorry in Istanbul in Turkey there was a
00:04:04announcement
00:04:06of that of there will be a formalized arrangement was made
00:04:10to be
00:04:11of called Macca joint defense agreement where there are
00:04:15three countries which is Pakistan, Turkey
00:04:19and Saudi Arabia, the concept is of collective
00:04:22security which is what this new world order fundamental
00:04:26thinking is about, so on the same day
00:04:31of 31st of August the SEO summit also
00:04:33of happened in Kirgizstan and in Kirgistan when you
00:04:37look at the joint statement, there was total support given
00:04:41to Iran, support not only to Iran its
00:04:45territorial integrity and sovereinity to
00:04:49the fact that there was aggression on Iran by America and
00:04:53Israel and that Iran should have
00:04:57or can have peaceful uses. of nuclear energy
00:05:01under the NPT, so there was total support for
00:05:05Iran
00:05:05of and the Iran thinking of
00:05:07a regional framework. now once this was done on the
00:05:1031st of August, This is when the Iranian
00:05:14leadership decided, now we need to give
00:05:17primacy to the military power, and
00:05:21that is when the lead was taken
00:05:25by the secretary the supreme National Security Council Major
00:05:29General Masin Rizai, now he is a
00:05:33extremely important man, so after that there
00:05:36were tanker to tanker hits, now you see a tanker does not
00:05:40have any defensive means. but the key thing
00:05:44was what resided, he fired
00:05:48something unusual that the Iranians had not done
00:05:51before, and first thing to note is that the firing
00:05:55was not done by the IRGC navy,
00:05:59it was done by the IRGC aerospace
00:06:02force and what was fired was a
00:06:06antiship ballistic missile with a
00:06:09suppressed trajectory or a depress
00:06:12trajectory and this missile is being called Kasim
00:06:16Baseir. Now this was basically
00:06:20fired
00:06:20as demonstration to tell the Americans that
00:06:24look all your fleet which is part the naval
00:06:28blockade that you have put there, naval
00:06:31blockade is an act of war. Until now the
00:06:35Iranians were quiet about it, so this was
00:06:38clear indication about the vulnerability that the... us
00:06:42military faces and sentcom acknowledged
00:06:46that yes this missile ballistic missile was fired
00:06:50but our aircraft carrier obviously it was George
00:06:53Washington now what happens is that whenever there is a
00:06:57aircraft carrier then there are lot of guided
00:07:01missile destroyers which provided
00:07:04basically the security which provide the defense
00:07:08and what these guided missile destroyers have what is
00:07:12called the ag system now in this
00:07:16edges combat system the interceptors are
00:07:20there and the interceptors or the american
00:07:23destroyers are of ratio company there are three types the
00:07:27sm2 which is standard missile two, standard missile
00:07:31three and standard missile six. the long and short the
00:07:35story is that the missile that was fired
00:07:39anti ship ballistic missile with depressed trajectory.
00:07:42"it basically means that it it did not leave the
00:07:46atmosphere, it stayed within the stratosphere
00:07:50on the higher reaches the atmosphere, so we are looking at
00:07:54altitude of about 60 to 80 or 90
00:07:57kilometers, it stayed there and it had
00:08:01a speed of close to 10 mac and mac is
00:08:05the speed of sound and it it
00:08:09fired at by the IRGC aerospace for.
00:08:13it was fired a distance of around 1000
00:08:16kilometers and with a warhead which has a
00:08:20weight of close to 1.3 ton.
00:08:24now this SM6, this is supposed to take
00:08:28a ballistic missile or hostile ballistic
00:08:31missile within the atmosphere when it is
00:08:35in the descent phase, it is coming down because ballistic
00:08:38missile
00:08:39for follows a parabolic path, it is very... clearly defined
00:08:43path, but the problem here is that this missile
00:08:47is coming at such a speed and the SM6
00:08:51interceptors the Americans, they have only been tested
00:08:55in a controlled environment, not in operational
00:08:58environment, and when you have this missile
00:09:02coming at such a speed, it does not give any
00:09:06reaction time to the SM6 and the radar the
00:09:10ages system, which is very good radar. to
00:09:13basically identify the that yes there is hostile
00:09:17missile coming and to kill that missile, so the
00:09:21point I'm making is as far
00:09:23as the Americans are concerned, they are totally defenseless
00:09:27against this missile and the Americans know it,
00:09:30and what
00:09:30this missile can do is because of its
00:09:341.3 or 1.2
00:09:37ton war head, it has explosive power and it has kinetic
00:09:40energy so... if it hits the
00:09:43ship, it can actually go through the deck the
00:09:46ship, that is what it can do, so the point
00:09:50here is mosin razai has made it clear
00:09:54that this is the capability we have, and what is being told
00:09:58to the Americans is on the one hand
00:10:01that look, you lift your naval blockade that
00:10:05you have put in place, it was put two times, once on the
00:10:0913th of April and after that, Early
00:10:13July,
00:10:14you know, I think it was early July after they signed the mou
00:10:17on 17th of June, so the point being made
00:10:21is that this is your vulnerability and we'l hit it.
00:10:25and already now the reports are saying that
00:10:28sendcom they have moved their ship further
00:10:31back and what ri has further announced is that
00:10:35look wherever the line the blockade now is
00:10:39the blockade starting from there
00:10:43there will be restricted zone restricted
00:10:47zone that covers the gulf of Oman state of hermose and
00:10:50goes all along the Persian gulf to the north we are.
00:10:55talking about a length of 1500
00:10:58kilometers, this will all be restricted zone, so the
00:11:02log in short is enormous capabilities they have
00:11:06in state of hormos, not to go in the details right now, I'm
00:11:10just trying to give you a broad big of what's
00:11:13happening, so what they are basically saying
00:11:17Iranians is that on the one had, we are
00:11:20announcing very soon a restricted zone because
00:11:24re' has said that this is not state of hermose, this is
00:11:28state of Iran's dignity, that is what they are
00:11:32calling it now, on the other hand, they have made
00:11:36the conditions for assumption of talk with Trump
00:11:40extremely harsh and extremely difficult,
00:11:44and of all the conditions, if you ask me, I have to pick up a single
00:11:48one, I would say that they want the American
00:11:51forces out of West Asia, this is...
00:11:55very big thing in because you see what i earlier
00:11:58mentioned to you that they have created this
00:12:02regional framework, the physical manifestation of
00:12:06which is the macca joint defense agreement with
00:12:09headquarters in Saudi Arabia and the
00:12:13first secretary general to be from Pakistan, it's a
00:12:16very big thing and top of that already
00:12:20two countries Sergi Lavrov has said they are interested
00:12:24in joining this, you know, this Maka joint
00:12:28defense agreement and these countries are Egypt, that will
00:12:32be very big thing, because Egypt basically is a
00:12:36country which is transcontinental, the Sinai isn't
00:12:40part of west Asia, but all the Egypt is in North
00:12:43Africa, and then Algeria has been mentioned
00:12:47as another country, so this is what is being
00:12:51created is get the Americans out of West Asia.
00:12:56so let me just finish this broad overview by telling
00:13:00you that americans today have no military
00:13:03options at all given their vulnerability and what is their
00:13:07vulnerability? they have enormous military
00:13:10capabilities. they are one country which spend one
00:13:14trillion dollars on the pentagon on the defense
00:13:18budget, but unfortunately the capabilities
00:13:22they have, they are the 20th century war.
00:13:26big destroyer, big aircraft carrier or has
00:13:29changed, these are the vulnerabilities are now
00:13:33now, no longer the assets and I am not even talking
00:13:37about right now the enormous cyber
00:13:40capabilities that today the Iranians have, so
00:13:44Iranians are wise people who have gone step
00:13:47by step, there are far too many other vulnerability
00:13:51also which they can destroy and the Americans know it.
00:13:55so america, yeah, please, no, you've given us such a
00:13:59broad overview that you've almost hit my entire lot
00:14:03of questions, but so let's take deeper into some these
00:14:06points, moson riz of course announced
00:14:10that it said that Iran would announce
00:14:12shortly this new no go zone
00:14:16around hormos, which would extend to the US Navy's
00:14:20blockade line, we don't actually know where the
00:14:23blockade is, is um because
00:14:27the Americans don't announce where their their ships are
00:14:31based in in various waterways, but it sounds, you
00:14:35were talking about going to the north the Persian Gulf, it sounds that Iran is now
00:14:38expanding the military theater in
00:14:41waterways well into the Arabian sea and
00:14:45Indian ocean from where the US Navy
00:14:49ostensibly enforces its blockade, um,
00:14:53but here's the thing: "the US Navy
00:14:57is likely to strike Iranian ships in any waters,
00:15:00anywhere in the world, so it's not a blockade in the
00:15:04typical sense, where you prevent ships from moving within
00:15:08a defined -
00:15:11you know waterway geography, how do you see
00:15:15this develop? all right, first of all, first of
00:15:18all, there are reports and you have satellite
00:15:22pictures, because the..." Chinans are
00:15:25helped by the Chinese space capabilities which are way
00:15:29ahead that the Americans, which is why in
00:15:322019 President Trump in his first term in office
00:15:36he created the space force new surface.
00:15:40now the point here to understand is that reports
00:15:44clearly say that the blockade is 300
00:15:48kilometers away from the Gulf of Oman and
00:15:51the Sentcom reports now are coming and saying they pulled back
00:15:55now another 100 kilometers so we are talking about
00:15:59a 400 km present line. now talking
00:16:03theater what you said let's understand what is
00:16:07the war theater about for
00:16:09Iran? today the Iranians have
00:16:13the missiles and the drones. Iranians have drones
00:16:17which are jet part, which are long range,
00:16:21which can fire with precision because the space
00:16:25capabilities provided by the Chinese, their bedu three
00:16:28constellation as well as the yagon augumentation
00:16:32satellite systems which are there in the lower orbat
00:16:36which provide. you a persistent stare the
00:16:40theater, the theater today,
00:16:43when you look at the north, it goes to the entire Mediterranean
00:16:47sea, and now you look at south, in the Indian
00:16:51Ocean, we are talking about the
00:16:54capability of Iran to hit
00:16:56Digogasia, and digo ga today
00:17:00is one logistic base the Americans which is
00:17:04serving three commands, it is serving the africa
00:17:08command, it is serving sidcom and it is serving pacific
00:17:11command, and given the cyber capabilities that
00:17:15today the Iranians have, first of all,
00:17:19the cyber capabilities are such that they can
00:17:23anywhere in the state of hermose or around that,
00:17:27disturb or disrupt the
00:17:31communications, ship to ship communications
00:17:34the US navy and ship to show communication nations
00:17:38and as far as degogar is concerned, the
00:17:42entire logistic base the Americans, which is the
00:17:45huge base is automated, so it is all
00:17:49digitized. now when you have all digitalization, that
00:17:53means your missiles are a particular bunker, your fuel is
00:17:57somewhere else, then your loading sites are somewhere else, then
00:18:01they have massive runways for their stealth bombers,
00:18:05everything is there digitized and the brain of a
00:18:08digitalization is what is called the PLC,
00:18:12programmable logic controllers and today the
00:18:16Iranians have come very long way from
00:18:192010, please recall in
00:18:222010, the Americans and the
00:18:25Israelis, they had done their
00:18:28stuckness you
00:18:30know
00:18:34sabotage their centrifuges.
00:18:37where and what they did with that was that the
00:18:40centrifuks the naissan facility nuclear
00:18:44facilities they were disrupted so today
00:18:48the Iranians have come a long way and they can disrupt the
00:18:52PLCs which are there in degogarsia in other
00:18:56words create disturbance create complete chaos at
00:19:00digogarsia so what theater are we talking of what
00:19:04capabilities are we talking of so they come are
00:19:07everything, their drones and missile capabilities
00:19:11and everything what they have is underground, the
00:19:15Iranians, this is the work done over decades, what
00:19:19they have done, over decades they have studied the
00:19:22Americans, the military capabilities of Americas
00:19:25and the strategy the Israelis
00:19:29and of course the American, the
00:19:33US Navy has retreated to Diego Garcia because they've lost..."
00:19:38access to the fifth fleet headquarters in
00:19:42Bahrain,
00:19:45correct? for the ships it is
00:19:48coming from digo garsia and because p thecset
00:19:52kept this, he did not disclose this, perhaps even to his commander
00:19:56in chief, the destruction which was done so early
00:20:00by the Iranions in Bahrain to the logistics
00:20:04center that we we then now we have the
00:20:07reports the problems that Abraham
00:20:11lincoln the area faced, it was all
00:20:14because of not telling publicly as to
00:20:18what all has happened on Abraham Lincoln, so
00:20:22Abraham Lincoln now, I think is somewhere in Thailand, Thailand,
00:20:26yeah, why would they go all the way to Thailand and not to Diego
00:20:29Garcia? no, Diego Gasha basically is
00:20:33a port for the refilling, it is logistic.
00:20:37but for the repairs and everything they have to go to Thailand, because now
00:20:41east Asia they have basically three
00:20:44allies, Thailand is one allies, South Korea is
00:20:48another and Japan is another. and then of course they have
00:20:51Australia, this is what they have, now as far as pacific
00:20:55command is concerned, there they have massive shortages
00:20:59of interceptors and
00:21:02munitions, and all these interceptors they take
00:21:06years to build, not that, you
00:21:09see America's industrial, military industrial
00:21:13capabilities, they are very frugal right
00:21:17now, to build them up to a... or surge
00:21:20level that will take few years and nothing
00:21:24happen a hurry, so the point is that when you talk of a
00:21:28theater, the theater are under the command
00:21:32of and the not command really, they are under the
00:21:35observation, total observation, 24
00:21:39into 7, what is what we call persistent
00:21:42stare the Iranians? i also think the
00:21:46war with Iran is um offering
00:21:50opportunities to break all the US d
00:21:54targets on Iran's escalation ladder, if the US
00:21:58persists at this ridiculous war, but
00:22:01you you made a really important point about the US fighting a
00:22:0520th century war in the 21st century,
00:22:08it is, it is outcassed as we
00:22:12have seen, but but
00:22:16so then are its allies because they...
00:22:20operate under those same paradigms right,
00:22:23militarily, um, and that means Israel
00:22:27is included in this. Israel will be outclassed
00:22:31a direct Iran Israel confrontation,
00:22:34but I want to ask you from where you sit, is
00:22:38return to direct war between Iran and Israel inevitable,
00:22:42is Iran waiting for the US to retreat entirely before that kicks
00:22:45off, as you know, I'm sitting in Beirot right now, the situation
00:22:49south. Lebanon has become untenable, Israel is blowing up
00:22:53entire villages and towns every single day in the south, and
00:22:57as we know, it was Iran's number one demand in the failed
00:23:00mou from last June, a withdrawal of all Israeli
00:23:04forces from Lebanon, all regional states. Does this war
00:23:07end, whether today or next year or three years down
00:23:11the road with an inevitable Iran,
00:23:14Israel final showdown? See, first of all,
00:23:18let me start by telling... you that
00:23:21Israel is not a military power,
00:23:25we Israel's military capabilities are
00:23:28overblowed, Israel basically is a state which
00:23:32does terrorism, israel's unique thing is
00:23:36Musad, that is what they do, now as
00:23:40far as lebanon, southern Lebanon is concerned, you now
00:23:44it's a story zone that they have captured in southern
00:23:46Lebanon, and any case Beirot is their... is their red
00:23:50line where you are sitting, you see now, but
00:23:54coming back to Israel, please remember when this war started
00:23:58in just a couple of weeks, the
00:24:01Israeli chief of army, he publicly made the
00:24:05statement that the IDF is over
00:24:08stretched because they are
00:24:11everywhere, they are fighting war with, they are with
00:24:15southern southern Lebanon, they are in Syria, they
00:24:19are with Yemenis, so they are all over and they are
00:24:23fatigued, so the point I'm making is a
00:24:27showdown that you are talking about between Iran
00:24:31and Israel after the American leaves, I
00:24:34don't think it makes any sense, because yes
00:24:38of course Israel will have the capabilities of sent
00:24:42com, there is once the American forces
00:24:46leave and in that time frame even the...
00:24:50Makka joint agreement would also have further
00:24:53expanded and one the things the Maka difference
00:24:57agreement is the concept of collective
00:25:00deterrence. there are two key concepts, one
00:25:04is collective security, the other is collective detaire, so
00:25:08even today if the Israelis have to attack
00:25:12turkey, if they have to fight with Turkey, Turkey has no interest in
00:25:15fighting with these Israelies, but if they
00:25:19fight, then they have to dftail this in their
00:25:23war scheming that there are three
00:25:26countries, now whether one will fight or
00:25:30how many will fight, what sort of capabilities will be provided by the other two
00:25:34countries to turkey, israelis have to keep that in
00:25:37mind, and as this agreement
00:25:41you know more and more countries joined, Iran, Iran's
00:25:45hand will be strengthened, not weakened, we are
00:25:49looking a situation, perhaps even, you
00:25:52know, by next year, the entire situation
00:25:54will change,
00:25:58and change to the decrement of Israel, not to
00:26:01the
00:26:02benefit of Israel.
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00:27:30Saudi Arabia thought it could bypass. asked hormos, it thought its
00:27:34pipelines, its American weapons and its strategic partnerships could keep
00:27:38the oil flowing and the kingdom insulated from the consequences of
00:27:42regional war, but that carefully constructed illusion is now
00:27:46cracking. this week we examine how strikes have forced the shutdown
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