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00:00:16Your headlines on Press TV, Iran's parliament speaker says, despite his
00:00:20apparent hegemony, the US is vulnerable to the horm straight
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00:00:27blowback. Yemen's top military official. was worn of
00:00:30a devastating response to Saudi blockade
00:00:32of the country that will target the regime strategic will target the
00:00:36regime strategic theps and interests. Drone attacks
00:00:40on Russia's main oil refinery and
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00:01:06live from the studios in live from the studios in
00:01:09Tehran. Thank you for joining us.
00:01:13Let's begin with our top story. Iran's parliament speaker has warned that despite
00:01:17the apparent strength, the US is quite vulnerable economic
00:01:21terms as
00:01:22of a result of this aggression on Iran and the closure
00:01:24of the street of Urmus. Mohammed baqir ghalibof made the remark
00:01:28in a social media post. He use the famous internet meme
00:01:31based on the shroadinga paradox to show how vulnerable the US
00:01:35is to the situation in the straight of hormos and the oil market
00:01:39crisis resulting from it. he said despite his apparent
00:01:42hegemony, the US weakness is now fully
00:01:46exposed
00:01:47of and it is clear that it is impossible for Washington to suffocate
00:01:51Iran economically without any blowback. ghalibof
00:01:55attached to his post
00:01:56a recent report by the American multinational banking institution,
00:02:00JP Morgan, the banking giant said, for
00:02:02the first
00:02:03of time since the started a US is ready aggression, it does not have
00:02:06a clear baseline view
00:02:09of of for oil markets. JP Morgan warned that global inventories
00:02:13of crude and refined products have fallen by around
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00:02:23a in in 555 million barrels. It caution that if west Asia oil supply disruptions persist, prices could
00:02:24a move higher later this year as inventories decline
00:02:28further. Human rights activist
00:02:32Farazan Najim says, contrary to the picture that Trump
00:02:35of has tried to portray, Iran has always been a garantour of peace
00:02:39and security in the region while the US has
00:02:41of jeopadized peace in west
00:02:43Asia.
00:02:47of The Islamic Republic of Iran has made it very clear that
00:02:51they will not withdraw from this battle, that they will continue this
00:02:55battle and they will secure their resources, they will secure
00:02:59their nation. they will secure the region as
00:03:03well because
00:03:04the the access of resistance obviously relies on the Islamic Republic of Islamic Republic of
00:03:08Iran has contributed lot and continues to contribute a lot to the
00:03:12Palestinian cause and the whole access of resistance um and
00:03:15in it's very clear that what Trump says and his declarations
00:03:19are have no credibility and he has lost his credibility in
00:03:22of the world uh because of his you his arrogance and
00:03:26his tyranical behavior in the region especially. to west
00:03:30Asia and it's also
00:03:33of sacrificing um you know the uh neighboring countries to the Islamic
00:03:36Republic of Iran that are most like most most
00:03:39of them are obviously puppet regimes but still he's also using their land
00:03:43as a platform to
00:03:45من attack and not respecting their
00:03:47على sovereignty whatsoever or there's no even consultation uh with the people
00:03:50that are
00:03:52you know ruling those countries supposedly ruling um
00:03:55and the repercussions are coming down on all these on
00:03:59on on all these countries,
00:04:02primarily the Islamic Republic of Iran is very precise its
00:04:06attacks, they're attacking the US bases, intelligence centers, things
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00:04:10in that, they're not killing any civilians in the neighboring
00:04:13countries, thankfully that's because
00:04:15of their
00:04:17advancement,
00:04:22the Iranian armed forces khatam central command has warned
00:04:26the US and regional countries that any mistake could make them...
00:04:30the country's painful attacks. The central command said Ivan has
00:04:34information that the US is planning to resume hostilities against the
00:04:37country
00:04:38of on the green light of
00:04:39in some regional countries. The top military body said any
00:04:43of such move by the US will expose its entire interests and
00:04:47bases in the region to effective back-to-back and painful attacks
00:04:51by Iran. The central command warned that Iran will not think
00:04:54twice about the also worn regional
00:04:57of countries, the also worn regional countries. against adhering to the
00:05:01hypocritical approach towards Iran by supporting the
00:05:04of US of aggression, the central command said anyone complicit and
00:05:08vicious acts
00:05:09of the US should not expect restraint, from
00:05:13Iran. We were
00:05:17earlier joined by military and Strategic Affairs analyst Ali Hamiah from
00:05:21Southern Lebanon. He gave us his take on the latest warning issued by
00:05:24Iran's central military headquarters to the regional countries.
00:05:28Let's say
00:05:31listen. Let me describe the military American military situation in the
00:05:35region. We can tell that as we
00:05:39received and so uh on CNN. that
00:05:42more than 17 American military bases
00:05:46either damaged or destroyed or
00:05:49demolished, flatten and so
00:05:52many equipment been destroyed, it
00:05:56obligates united state to regroup its troops
00:06:00in the sea or
00:06:04in in Jordan, it was the straight of
00:06:07hormos and the war against Iran
00:06:10supported the American. still
00:06:13support supported by the GCC
00:06:17countries uh by money, we don't forget
00:06:205,200 billion
00:06:23dollar or five trillion, 5.2 trillion
00:06:27dollars been paid to united state in order
00:06:30to to be the biggest
00:06:34dominator the region, the Iranian are telling the
00:06:37countries in the region, up to now we can
00:06:41see your full support. by uh giving the
00:06:44bases to the American, by letting them
00:06:48using your airspace, if you move little
00:06:51bit further than this, up to now we
00:06:54are attacking and retaliating
00:06:58against the American bases in your country, that if you
00:07:02move from supporting to participating in such war,
00:07:06it will be directly against you, it's a warning,
00:07:10it's a warning. The
00:07:14US president says the options before Washington against Iran are
00:07:17limited to what he calls obliterating Iran letting his
00:07:21economy collapse or reaching a deal. In an interview with Fox
00:07:25News about the ongoing war against Iran, Donald Trump said
00:07:29he is a deciding mode, adding that very big things will
00:07:32unfold a near future. Despite US travel warnings
00:07:36issued across the region, Trump said this week is no different from any
00:07:40other week. He also said he would... probably be open to meeting
00:07:44with Iranian president masosishion on the sidelines the UN
00:07:48general assembly in New
00:07:50York.
00:07:54Press TV Zana Villani joined us earlier in the studios to
00:07:58give us her take on the recent claims made by US president
00:08:02Donald Trump. Let see
00:08:03listen. If Trump has
00:08:07been consistent in something, it has been in
00:08:10making false claims and the... options also that they have presented the
00:08:14three options is wiping Iran out right the
00:08:18night before the seasfire was announced he said that he was going to
00:08:22wipe out an entire civilization it
00:08:24ended in sease fire and then he is talking about another option
00:08:28which is to let Iran wrot economically well
00:08:32the sanctions that they have imposed their economic the so-called economic dday
00:08:36operation it's not something new Iran has been facing sanctions for the past
00:08:4047 years Iran has not rotted economical. but it has indeed
00:08:43flourished and by the way, none these sanctions, new sanctions that
00:08:47they have imposed on Iran, Russia and China rejected
00:08:50those out right, because US credibility does not exist anymore,
00:08:54and then another one is making a deal with Iran. Iran has presented its
00:08:58options and its conditions that if you want to make deal, these are
00:09:02conditions, if you accept it then great, if you don't then there is not going to be
00:09:06deal, so this is the dual track strategy that the US has
00:09:09employed for the past several. It's not just
00:09:13Trump, several administrations have tried the
00:09:16strategy of on the one hand, they give the option of talks and
00:09:20negotiation, but of course Washington style, which is imposing
00:09:24their conditions on the other party, and if you don't then of course they
00:09:28have the other option which is sanctions and
00:09:31threats and pressure, but it has not worked in the past and it is
00:09:35not going to work in the future either, because Tehran has made it stance very clear in
00:09:39the past several decades that Iran does not respond
00:09:43to threats. a three-day
00:09:47convention has been held in Islamabad to pay tribute to the martied leader
00:09:51the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayid Ali Khamenei and other
00:09:55marties the axis of resistance. large number of
00:09:58students, religious scholars and political figures attended the gathering and
00:10:02condemned the US Israel and condemned
00:10:05the US Israel aggression against Muslim countries in the region. Press
00:10:09TV's Nasarcas.
00:10:14Anti US and anti-Israeli slogans accored through the venue
00:10:17as participants condemned aggression against Iran
00:10:21and other Muslim countries. A three-day gathering. dubbed the
00:10:25leader the uma convention, brought together political
00:10:29leaders, religious scholars, academics,
00:10:32intellectuals, educationists and civil society
00:10:35representatives to honor the leader the islamic revolution, ayatullah
00:10:39sayyad ali khannai and other resistance marters who lost
00:10:43their lives in us israeli aggression, after
00:10:46the assassination and the marturdum of those great leaders, this is
00:10:50the first ever event going on in pakistan by imami student organization, pakistan by
00:10:54imam student organization Pakistan, so the students
00:10:58and the people gathered alligence
00:11:01to to the path that was adopted by ayatullah and their
00:11:05follower in the region, they are the opinion that we are not going to
00:11:09leave Palestine alone, we are not going to leave the cause the palestine and the
00:11:12resistance and we will resist American designs in the
00:11:15region. Speakers paid tribute to ayatullah sayid Ali
00:11:19Khamnai and other figures the resistance front highlighting
00:11:23their sacrifices in. fronting oppression and foreign
00:11:27aggression, the young people and young students
00:11:30from all over Pakistan, they gathered here just to have a
00:11:34convention on name, they named it as leaders
00:11:37convention, that means they want
00:11:41to show their conviction and their
00:11:44support for the leader of
00:11:48Islamic Revolution, sayyad Mustaba Khamenei and they want
00:11:52to condemn US and Israel. "who have
00:11:55attacked Iran without any reason
00:11:59and Iranian nation, because this Iranian
00:12:02nation, because they stood against them,
00:12:05even their leader was multied and then they
00:12:09gathered here just to pay tribute to the leader the
00:12:13Islamic Revolution. The gathering provided a platform for
00:12:16Pakistan Shia youth to discuss developments across the region,
00:12:20including Iran, Palestine and Lebanon as well as Muslim
00:12:24Unit. and the role of young people national and
00:12:28regional affairs Iran has demonstrated through its
00:12:32steadfastness that Muslim countries can stand together in unity and
00:12:36defend their collective interests. If the Muslim Umma be more united, it could
00:12:40strengthen its position and challenge the dominance the United States and
00:12:44Israel. The Muslim world must also recognize that the old unipolar order is
00:12:47changing and that the world is moving toward a multiolar system. At
00:12:51the event, Stals displayed books documenting the... lives and
00:12:55struggles of resistance leaders and artistic graveyard and
00:12:59martter photographs were also featured along with images of
00:13:03Minab school children, highlighting the human cost the recent
00:13:07attacks on Iran. The convention concluded with
00:13:10participants paying tribute to marters the resistance,
00:13:13reaffirming calls for Muslim unity and expressing solidarity with
00:13:17those facing us Israeli aggression.
00:13:21Nasir Kazmi reporting for Press TV. In.
00:13:25Islamabad: Yemen stop military
00:13:29officials have issued a stark warning stressing that the continuation
00:13:33of Saudi Arabia's aggression against the country will be met with
00:13:37decisive and devastating response. The warning came a joint
00:13:41statement by the Yemani Minister of Defense Major General Muhammad
00:13:45Nasir Atafi and the chief the general staff
00:13:49Major General Yusuf al madani. They stress that
00:13:52Yemen will respond to Saudi Arabia. continued blockade
00:13:56with blockade while any escalation will be met with heavy
00:14:00response that would target Saudi Arabia's strategic
00:14:03depth and interests. the two generals noted that the Yemeni
00:14:07naval forces have guaranteed security of navigation for all
00:14:11ships in the Red and Arabian seas except for Saudi
00:14:14vessels which will find nothing but fire in Yemen's
00:14:18waters. As waters.
00:14:22Their remarks followed earlier comments by President of Yeman. supreme political
00:14:25camp slammed the Saudi blockade, adding that the situation has
00:14:29reached a stage that can no longer be tolerated.
00:14:33Masat noted that the Yemani army and people have taken action
00:14:37to end the blockade warning of further escalation if their
00:14:40demands were not
00:14:41addressed.
00:14:46Now to talk more on this, we have Mr. Robert Fantino with us, author and
00:14:49journalist joining us from Kishna, Ontario, Canada. Mr.
00:14:53Fantina, good to have you. with us again on Press TV. Mr. Fontina, your
00:14:57thoughts on the Yemani people saying enough is
00:15:00enough, no more blockade or the Saudis will pay
00:15:04heavy price. So all Yemen is asking is to
00:15:08lift the illegal and inhumane blockade and that's it,
00:15:12but it seems that uh the Saudis are not getting the
00:15:15message. Yes, but they are going to get the message. What
00:15:19the uh people of Yemen are asking for, as you said, an end the
00:15:22blockades they can go on living their lives. without uh
00:15:26this this war that has been raging uh for for many
00:15:30years, it was low key for a couple of years, but now it's escalated
00:15:33again uh, and the uh the uh hoothi...
00:15:38uh leadership has said clearly that unless their demands are
00:15:41met, the Saudi uh Saudi Arabia will be hit very
00:15:45hard, so as I mentioned, if they don't get have the message yet,
00:15:49they will very soon, because the Hithis have grown
00:15:53in strength, military strength greatly over the last several years
00:15:57and are definitely a forced to contend with, as Saudi
00:16:01Arabia now knows, if Saudi Arabia does not want
00:16:04to uh to suffer more uh more
00:16:08more uh repris reprisals from
00:16:12uh the Huthis and from Yemen, they will have to make some changes. It's
00:16:15also telling that the United States, which
00:16:18backed Saudi Arabia for years, no longer is doing so. Donald
00:16:22Trump has said that as long as US ships aren't being bombed, he won't
00:16:26intervene. Of course, he's very erratic, he could change his mind
00:16:30in the next hour, but at this point, Saudi Arabia is its
00:16:34own, and this is not where it wants to be. but it's going to be
00:16:38there unless it makes uh major concessions uh to
00:16:41Yemen. That's right, Mr. Fontina. Mr. Fontina, we have to remind the
00:16:45viewers that the Yemani armed forces have reiterated on many times that the Bauble
00:16:49Mendeb is fully open uh, but just not to the
00:16:52Saudis. Uh, as we mentioned, blockade for blockade,
00:16:56and that's been the blockade, I think is standing for about
00:17:0010 to 12 years now, more than decade. I'm Mr.
00:17:03Fantina, the east-west pipeline has been put out of fun.
00:17:08"the yambu port could be very well put out of order as
00:17:11well, that's been attacked as well, even the capital Riyadh was
00:17:15under attack uh, which could be a warning to the NBS, mhammed bin
00:17:19Salman as he could be targeted as well, and now the west
00:17:23coast of Yemen is under the Yemeni control, so it's not looking good for the
00:17:26Saudis, no it's not, and it's due to their own
00:17:30aggression, their desire to prop up a
00:17:34government that does not have the support of its people and..."
00:17:37and as you mentioned, the the bombing the capital,
00:17:41the bombing of oil facilities, oil pipelines, the hoothies
00:17:45have shown what they can do, and that's only
00:17:48i think a precurse of what they will do in the future if there isn't
00:17:52a reasonable uh end to this to
00:17:56to to the to the blockade and other aggressive actions by Saudi
00:17:59Arabia, there needs to be diplomatic solution, the
00:18:03military uh continued military aggression uh
00:18:06by Saudi Arabia and reprises by the hoothis will not
00:18:10bring about peace, is will not bring about peace,
00:18:14but the uh, I think the huties know that, but they're doing what they need to do,
00:18:18needs to learn that it has to be open to diplomatic solutions, it will
00:18:22have to make concessions in order to end this and to bring
00:18:25about peace uh through their between the two countries
00:18:29and to allow shipping to go through uh the boble mandab straight
00:18:33again, without that it's going to be continued aggression, loss
00:18:37of... life, economic consequences and just
00:18:41suffering all around. that's Mr. Fontiny, you talked about peace, uh,
00:18:45I believe NBS turn to Egypt uh, and the reply was,
00:18:48diplomacy is the only way. uh, my question
00:18:52would be, can the soudis handle the Yemenis on their own, which I
00:18:55believe you, your answer is, no, definitely not, uh, but the
00:18:59next question is, why hasuh the US been reluctant to help the
00:19:03Saudis and also the and Pakistan and Turkey with
00:19:07the... pact: well, for the US, first of
00:19:11all, the US has expended a great
00:19:15amount of its weaponry in its foolish and
00:19:18misguided and completely illegal and unjust aggression against
00:19:22Iran. the military leaders in the United States have warned the
00:19:26president that this cannot continue, that their munitions are
00:19:29dangerously low and will take years to replenish them, so therefore the United States
00:19:33is not anxious to get involved in another military misadventure because...
00:19:37it simply doesn't have the capacity to do so. as far as the other countries you mentioned and
00:19:41the recent agreement that was was uh signed between
00:19:45them and Saudi Arabia, this is this puts them a difficult
00:19:49position. when the agreement was signed, this new
00:19:53escalation between Saudi Arabia and the
00:19:56Hutis was not anticipated, so each country
00:20:00felt that it was uh, it was possibly making an
00:20:04agreement that might at some future time have to come into. but
00:20:07it was mainly a political move, now it's moving beyond political to
00:20:11real, and these countries do not want to be involved in
00:20:14it. we know from the United States of course, that treaties are
00:20:18meaningless by the the countries that sign them, they can withdraw
00:20:22from them any time as the United States do with the JCPO, it's
00:20:26unfair and unjust and violation of international law, but they do it anyway,
00:20:29but these other countries, Turkey and I, I don't remember now, the other
00:20:33two or three that are involved, do not want to send their troops to...
00:20:37fight uh Saudi Arabia, there many the
00:20:39are defend Saudi Arabia, there are many their soldiers already in Saudi
00:20:43Arabia, but they don't want them going into battle, so this puts everyone
00:20:46each those countries an awkward position, they've signed the...
00:20:50agreement, Saudi Arabia may ask for their assistance and they're going to be
00:20:54very unwilling to provide that assistance.
00:20:58That's right, Mr. Fontina, some sensitive times right now, blockade
00:21:01top of a blockade with the Persian Gulf and blockade for blockade
00:21:05with the ballman dep. Robert Fantina author and journalist joining us from
00:21:09Kishna Canada. Mr. Fantina, as always, thank you for your time and
00:21:13your analysis. Now the death toll
00:21:17from Ukraine's attack on Russia's main oil. banary and residential
00:21:21building in the Moscow region has risen to three. The
00:21:24strikes also left nearly 20 people injured. Ukraine used
00:21:28hundreds of drones in the attack. President Vladimir
00:21:32Zelinski says the strike targeted the key Russian oil facility and
00:21:36logistic site. The site supplies more than a third the Moscow
00:21:40region's fuel. Russian officials have described the attack as a
00:21:43largest drone strike in recent years. Both Russia and Ukraine have
00:21:47escalated long-range strikes against each other. in recent
00:21:50months, that's while
00:21:54activist and commentator don the bar was with us earlier with his
00:21:58take on the latest spike intentions between Russia and Ukraine, let's
00:22:02take
00:22:06desperation is uh, it seems that's what's going on
00:22:10in Kiev, um, the
00:22:14oround Zelensky there have been all kinds of abdications,
00:22:17abandonments, people running out, selling their story about
00:22:21how crazy and chaotic it is and that he doesn't even
00:22:25speak Ukrainian uh very
00:22:27well um and in the capitals in Europe
00:22:31though in Bowen sorry in Berlin and uh
00:22:34and London and Paris in particular uh they're
00:22:38ramping up everything that they can dump into Ukraine
00:22:42that can be fired into Russia uh while Russia says you
00:22:46know look we're going to put a stop to this there was
00:22:50the report of whether it was true or not uh a
00:22:54warning certainly was sold as one where uh
00:22:57the rail lines, one the rail lines uh running between uh
00:23:01Poland and Ukraine that has been used for supplying the
00:23:05Ukrainian troops uh was bombed and they took out the
00:23:09uh the trains that run on it too, they're trying to get the Germans to
00:23:13sell them trains but they won't fit the gauge of track
00:23:16that's goes into Ukraine um and this
00:23:20hit was right after uh Boris Johnson and a couple
00:23:24of other knuckle heads from from western Europe
00:23:27had visited Ukraine and
00:23:29left um the
00:23:33fact that the British and the Germans and the
00:23:37French are conducting
00:23:40on the open now a war against Russia means that there is a
00:23:44war between uh Western Europe and
00:23:46Russia. And
00:23:50with that we come to the end of this bulletin. Thank you for being with us, take care and
00:23:54stay
00:23:54safe.
00:26:3213th, 2025, war came to Dr. Ali Fuladman's home
00:26:36and Israely strike killed his wife and left the Iranian scientist
00:26:39seriously wounded. It was not the last attempt on his life. Less than
00:26:43year later, during the 2026 war, Fuladman was
00:26:47targeted again
00:26:47this time, he was martered. Fuladman was not a
00:26:51politician, he was not a military commander, he was
00:26:54scientist, a senior researcher who spent years
00:26:57working on strategic technologies and national defense
00:27:01projects. He served at Iran's Organization of
00:27:05Defensive Innovation and Research, known as SPND, eventually
00:27:09becoming his head of research. His work had already made him
00:27:13a target of American pressure. On October 1st, 2025, the
00:27:17U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned him, but Fuladwan's
00:27:20most important contribution could never be captured in a
00:27:24sanction list or an official title. He
00:27:28taught, he trained young researchers, shared what he had learned and
00:27:32helped prepare new generation to work in some of Iran's
00:27:36most advanced fields of science and technology, for him, scientific
00:27:39power was not simply about what one scientist could achieve, it was
00:27:43about what could be passed on from one generation to the next, and
00:27:47what may explain why scientists like Fulad Vand can become
00:27:51targets, eliminating scientist may silence one voice, but
00:27:55it cannot erase the knowledge of that voice has already passed to
00:27:59others. Just days after his martterdom, the prestigious journal.
00:28:02Science in its April 6, 2026 issue reported on the growing
00:28:06Israeli campaign targeting Iranian scientists and universities, full
00:28:10advance death had become part of a larger story, a
00:28:14war in which those capable of advancing Iran scientific
00:28:18and technological future were themselves being targeted, but
00:28:22there is limit to what an attack can destroy a
00:28:25laboratory can be hit, reserger can be killed, a generation
00:28:29can lose one of its teachers, but knowledge survives lives, it is
00:28:33carried by the students they trained, the researchers they inspired, and the people
00:28:37who continue the work after they are gone, that was full
00:28:41advance other legacy, one no missile could
00:28:44eliminate,
00:28:55anyone seeking to defend themselves from cyber
00:28:57attack, we're being
00:29:01controlled from above.
00:29:38امام انسانيه
00:29:38هاول قتل اعمى عم
00:29:41بتشوفيه
00:29:45وهل نملك يجعلون سلاحا اصابعهم
00:29:46اخر في
00:29:47جريمه اذانهم الصواعق حذر الله انا العهد يا نصر
00:29:51الله
00:30:23There has been over this weekend a major exchange of missile
00:30:27fire by Iran in the US targeting oil tankers
00:30:31and even a US
00:30:33destroyer, uh, the new
00:30:36secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
00:30:40Council Mahsen Razi said a very recent
00:30:43interview that Iran didn't use ballistic missile from