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00:00:31Welcome, dear viewers. The
00:00:34talk about Iranian support for the Houthi militia is no longer limited to weapons,
00:00:38assembled in funding, and training. The information announced by the Ministry of Interior reveals
00:00:42another level of intervention, which is the participation of experts from
00:00:46stage that you say is currently the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah of Lebanon in planning
00:00:49military operations, supervising them,
00:00:52and managing them. The ministry revealed the presence of
00:00:5521 foreign experts working with
00:00:58the Houthi militias, including 14 from the Revolutionary Guard
00:01:01and seven from Hezbollah, distributed in a number of
00:01:05governorates, and undertaking
00:01:10that you train, and they are elements from courses, they would say, "What are we doing in tasks that include command and control, missile development,
00:01:11the Houthi militias, especially those that have and drones, coordinating naval operations,
00:01:14clearly, without even needing ambiguity, and selecting targets for commercial ships. This
00:01:17information puts the nature of Iranian intervention in our country before
00:01:21questions that go beyond the size of military support to the reality of
00:01:24the entity that plans
00:01:27extremism based on operations, manages escalation
00:01:32the military arm in thought and violence on paths, and the extent of the link between the war waged by the Houthi militia
00:01:33and it also depends on and the agenda of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
00:01:34to control and Tehran's regional interests.
00:01:37you need experts in the So what is the nature of this role, and
00:01:39naval aspect, and in naval what do the details of the list of experts and their tasks reveal, and to
00:01:42what extent has this intervention become a threat to Yemen's sovereignty
00:01:46also many and the security of the region and international navigation? This is what
00:01:50we will discuss in this coverage, which comes as part of our coverage of Operation Dawn
00:01:55usually, it is not even usually, but always, trainers and return as trainers of Yemen. I am pleased and honored, dear viewers, to welcome my guest here in the studio, Major General Dr. Fayez
00:01:59Ghalab, Inspector General of the Ministry of Interior. I welcome you, Major
00:02:02General. Welcome.
00:02:05had been present before, would turn May God bless you. May God bless you, Doctor. Was it not expected that this Before we start the discussion, let us and the dear
00:02:08viewers watch this report. Viewers, we will watch the report and then start the discussion.
00:02:24Iranian intervention in Yemen is no longer limited to financial and military
00:02:28support, maintenance, and training provided by Tehran to the terrorist
00:02:31Houthi militia. Rather, it has moved to a more dangerous stage,
00:02:35represented by the direct presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guard
00:02:38experts and their participation in planning,
00:02:41supervising, and managing the militia's
00:02:43situation because of this military operations, which
00:02:46and control at the beginning
00:02:47war. What does this transition reveals the extent of the Houthi's reliance on the Iranian project and the transformation of Yemen into an advanced
00:02:52and training to direct participation in arena for implementing Tehran's expansionist agendas. The Minister of Interior, Major General Ibrahim
00:02:56Haydan, confirmed the presence of 21 foreigners
00:02:59working with the terrorist Houthi militia, supported by
00:03:02the Iranian regime, including 14 experts from the Iranian
00:03:06coast and was directly guided by
00:03:07Axes in the end, Revolutionary Guard and seven experts from Lebanese Hezbollah.
00:03:09He said that the nature of their tasks reveals the development
00:03:13of foreign intervention from funding, maintenance, and training to
00:03:16direct supervision and participation in planning and managing
00:03:20beginning, this problem operations and building the military it. But in capabilities of the Houthi the end, even in the
00:03:23militia, in parallel
00:03:23with this magnitude by with political,
00:03:27on Iran's proxies in organizational, social, and media
00:03:30activities aimed at consolidating long-term influence
00:03:32international corridors or navigation. But in and building structures and networks of loyalty
00:03:36to remove Yemen from its Arab environment.
00:03:39This increasing Iranian military presence reflects a clear
00:03:42trend by Tehran to compensate
00:03:46and military directions, are locations, so this aspect for the decline in the influence of its proxies in a number of countries in the region by
00:03:49and the goal is to control intensifying its investment in
00:03:51The latter, whether they are in the Houthi militia, exploiting Yemen's strategic location
00:03:54and its oversight of one of the most important maritime passages in
00:03:58themselves. Yes. Okay, the continuation of this the world, which gives it additional leverage for pressure, blackmail,
00:04:02and threatening regional and international interests. The continued
00:04:06flow of Iranian experts, weapons, and technology to the Houthi
00:04:10militia and allowing it to transform from an armed group
00:04:13to an advanced
00:04:16ports. This is a type of platform for managing Iranian influence will double the cost
00:04:20ships of confronting this threat and prolong the suffering
00:04:22of Yemenis. This
00:04:26opening another front to relieve makes confronting Iranian intervention and exposing its direct roles a necessity
00:04:30to protect Yemen's sovereignty and the security of the region and international navigation.
00:04:36and many
00:04:44experts, and as I mentioned at
00:04:47Welcome back, dear viewers, and welcome
00:04:50in the calculations of the Iranian to my guest here in the studio, Major General Dr. Fayez
00:04:52exceptional circumstances, as happened at Ghalab, Inspector General of the Ministry of Interior. scale. Another type I welcome you again, Major General.
00:04:55May God bless you. May God bless you, Major General. Let's start with the statement
00:04:59that was issued by the Ministry of Interior
00:05:02and talked about the presence of 21 foreign experts in the ranks
00:05:06of the terrorist Houthi militia, including 14 experts from the Revolutionary Guard
00:05:10and seven from Lebanese Hezbollah. How do you interpret
00:05:13that? Yes, this statement
00:05:17issued by the Ministry of Interior and by the Minister
00:05:20of Interior is a statement
00:05:24that clarifies or indicates the extent of the presence
00:05:28of the Revolutionary Guard and the extent of the presence of Hezbollah
00:05:32and Iranian militias inside Yemen, and it does not mean
00:05:35that those present are
00:05:3821 in number. These 21 are the ones who manage
00:05:41operations in the joint staff and internal operations
00:05:44in the serious aspect.
00:05:47As for the reality of the presence, this presence will
00:05:51be much more than these numbers, and it is also
00:05:53not an immediate
00:05:58happening. It has developed from time to time, so you notice
00:06:02that the intervention began perhaps in the eighties,
00:06:06not even now, and it began to intervene during the visit of the Iranian
00:06:09ambassador to Saada governorate and his attendance
00:06:13of training courses and their special summer
00:06:17courses for more than one meeting and more than one visit. So the intervention
00:06:20was an early intervention, but it changed and developed
00:06:24with the development of the stage. In the formation stage, perhaps
00:06:27the ideological aspect was dominant, and the training aspect was to transform
00:06:31it into an armed group. Therefore,
00:06:33the emergence in Saada emerged as intellectual
00:06:37extremism or
00:06:41both sides from the first moment. So this
00:06:44development was not based on the presence of experts
00:06:48from day one, and it was also based
00:06:51on trips and scholarships
00:06:54that were available in Iran for huge numbers, and there were
00:06:58Houthi leaders who trained inside Iran and took courses, and some of
00:07:02them were also trained to be
00:07:06internally. So this recent appearance or statement symbolically expresses
00:07:10the numbers that operations find, and it may even be
00:07:13that the personalities who lead operations
00:07:17or the numbers are much more than this. This
00:07:21is only what the information has reached, but its management
00:07:24of operations is a state of its size and weight managing
00:07:27battles inside Yemen. We cannot even if we say that
00:07:31the Revolutionary Guard or Hezbollah, I think that the expression
00:07:34itself is at its minimum, but when
00:07:37we talk about it at its maximum, we say that it is a state
00:07:41with all its weight and all its capabilities managing
00:07:44a battle inside Yemen that is parallel to the battle
00:07:47they have in Iran. Yes.
00:07:51Okay, from support to managing operations, the Revolutionary Guard
00:07:55has now become leading the Houthi
00:07:59mean? The transition of the Iranian role from funding, arming,
00:08:04operations and military escalation by the Houthi militia.
00:08:08Yes, sometimes we talk as if
00:08:11we are talking about multiple axes. And when we get to the truth,
00:08:14we are talking about one axis. Umm.
00:08:19in the end, they mean they are brought together by a unified leadership.
00:08:23All axes, the Iranian axis, the militias in Iraq,
00:08:26the Houthis in Yemen, all of them are militias that directly
00:08:29follow the Revolutionary Guard, including Hezbollah.
00:08:33The Revolutionary Guard is considered to be primarily followed by everyone. They are just
00:08:36different divisions, and in the end, each of them has its tasks
00:08:40related to
00:08:42the land and also the existing environment. For example,
00:08:46in Yemen, they have
00:08:49the Bab al-Mandab Strait, they have the strategic water
00:08:52passages, they have other things, or we can say
00:08:55that they are strategic
00:08:58is managed through them. In Iraq, they manage the war in another
00:09:02way. In Hezbollah in Lebanon, it is managed in another way. So I say that
00:09:06it is not an entry based on us saying that it has become managing the battle
00:09:09or that it is one axis or one leadership
00:09:12that is distributed into axes, but in the end, it is subject to one
00:09:16leadership and cannot be deviated from. And proof
00:09:19of that is the recent battle that took place,
00:09:23and the battle, the battle that has just started in Bab
00:09:26al-Mandab and the control of the coast is
00:09:29nothing but a battle related to the battle of the Strait of
00:09:33Hormuz and the battle in Iran, meaning
00:09:38the front in Iran. Yes, and we will address
00:09:42the issue in the context of this coverage, Doctor. Okay, what is the nature
00:09:46of the tasks undertaken
00:09:49by these experts that the Ministry of Interior
00:09:51revealed?
00:09:53Of course, the tasks undertaken by these
00:09:57the beginning, the tasks are not limited to the tasks of the existing
00:10:00experts that the statement referred to. The statement referred to these
00:10:04experts as they were identified by their names
00:10:07and locations, and it is considered a part of perhaps
00:10:10unavailable information, but
00:10:13we mentioned that the battle is a big battle,
00:10:15and Iran, with all its weight, all its capabilities, and all
00:10:19its energy, is carrying out the process of waging war inside
00:10:23Yemen. So they are playing various roles. These roles,
00:10:27these people's roles may be leadership roles in managing
00:10:31the battle, in electronic warfare,
00:10:33given that they also specialize
00:10:37in this field and in manufacturing drones, in operating them, and in programming
00:10:40them. So they play a leadership
00:10:44role in this guidance process and play an operational
00:10:48role in carrying out military operations
00:10:50in their various forms, whether land, sea,
00:10:54or air, given that they have Iranian
00:10:58drones that are smuggled from time to time and are also
00:11:03Yemen. So they also play different roles. This is considered
00:11:07the primary role. There are other roles, such as the training
00:11:10process and so on. These are carried out by elements less experienced than them.
00:11:14As we mentioned, the process of creating trainers, the process of training
00:11:17the existing leaders inside Iran itself. And these
00:11:20returned in early periods, to the extent that there
00:11:23were some individuals who were proud
00:11:27that they trained in Iran. When they came to take military
00:11:32the military course? I'm taking an internal course in Iran." This
00:11:36is how,
00:11:39in the previous period, let alone now, in the recent periods
00:11:42that Yemen has gone through,
00:11:45and it entered into intermittent
00:11:48wars, starting first with these six wars, these were
00:11:52a preliminary process and a training process, and it was like a rehearsal for them
00:11:55to move to the bigger war or the comprehensive
00:11:59war. Of course, we also must not forget, in this regard, that the Revolutionary Guard and others
00:12:02and these existing problems were first and foremost due to
00:12:06our division as Yemenis, and we are the ones who allowed others
00:12:09to intervene in Yemen because of these divisions. But the
00:12:13intervention was present and has been present for a previous period, but
00:12:16we can say that it was able to get
00:12:19an accelerated development that was not also expected to be in this
00:12:23form and at this speed.
00:12:27intervention, which
00:12:30into this action? It was not expected. It was
00:12:34planned and designed that it would reach this stage
00:12:38by them, by them, but it was not expected to reach it at this
00:12:41rapid stage. You reminded us that it came
00:12:44at certain times, and the political division that
00:12:47was present was a winning card for the Houthis,
00:12:51and they were able to invest and exploit it. The Houthis also
00:12:55benefited from Iranian political expertise and the Iranian
00:12:58experience. Therefore, they did not let them rush and moved through
00:13:02large stages, starting from the eighties, then they moved in 2004 to
00:13:06more than one war, some of which were as I mentioned, rehearsals
00:13:11of Saada. They did not expect it. They did not have
00:13:15expectations. Their expectations were that they would start by controlling certain governorates
00:13:18and nearby ones. They did not expect that they would control
00:13:22Yemen in this rapid and short time. They entered Aden and entered
00:13:26the southern governorate. All of this was due to divisions that occurred
00:13:29at a certain time and retaliations, each party retaliating against the other, and all
00:13:33Yemenis paid the price.
00:13:36Therefore, the original thing is for people to return to their origin
00:13:39and return to their unity. If they return to their unity,
00:13:43they will confront the Houthi tide and the Iranian tide, and they will have no
00:13:47time to overcome them. Yes. Okay, you also touched
00:13:52the region in general. To what extent
00:13:56is the escalation of Iranian intervention or its escalation in
00:14:00our country related to Tehran's
00:14:03attempt to compensate for the decline in its influence and proxies in countries
00:14:06of the region? Yes. Yemen is
00:14:09considered a more suitable environment than neighboring countries
00:14:12for Iran, more than Iraq, and more than Hezbollah in
00:14:16Lebanon, considering that it is in conflict zones
00:14:20and also collision zones and also zones where
00:14:23aircraft can move in a short time. Yemen, by its geographical
00:14:26nature, its passages,
00:14:29the water passages in it, the Bab
00:14:32al-Mandab Strait, we said also this is
00:14:35the difficult and rugged geographical environment in it. This
00:14:39represents a fertile environment for Iran to work from
00:14:42a distant place and at the same time
00:14:46be able to achieve more results than it achieves from militias
00:14:49and formations close to it, considering that it controls
00:14:53two passages. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and Yemen controls the Strait of
00:14:57Bab al-Mandab, and thus it closes two important water
00:15:00passages to international trade, not for Iran or
00:15:04yes, for the whole world. Yes. Okay, what
00:15:07makes Yemen, with its geographical
00:15:11and strategic location, important
00:15:15expansionist project in the region?
00:15:17Iran seeks expansion. Umm.
00:15:21And this is a big dream it has, and also
00:15:24from a long time ago, they have been seeking
00:15:27it, even in their perspective and in the perspective of Imamate
00:15:31or Vilayat-e Faqih, it is control and it has transformed from the environment
00:15:34they called the peaceful environment to what is called the Deputy of the Imam
00:15:38or with the Khomeini Revolution. When the Khomeini
00:15:41Revolution triumphed, it became an armed revolution, so
00:15:44it is concerned with controlling more than one country, and it is not just that
00:15:48It is in
00:15:52its ambition to control the whole region and control more. Therefore,
00:15:55even when at certain times Iranian officials
00:15:59come and declare that we now have four Arab capitals
00:16:03and more, and more such statements come that he is betting on
00:16:07Taiz, he is betting on entering Marib or he is betting on entering certain
00:16:10places, he is not betting on entering these places
00:16:14because he loves to enter them or because they represent a strategic aspect
00:16:17for him. The strategic aspect for him is the water passages,
00:16:21but controlling them represents controlling the water
00:16:25passages. Yes. Okay, Doctor,
00:16:29does Iran really seek to transform
00:16:32the Houthi militia into
00:16:35an advanced military arm? There are also observers who say that
00:16:39it wants to transform these
00:16:42militias into a second Iran. What is
00:16:45it? It's no longer "does it seek," it has already transformed it.
00:16:49The question was relevant in the past, but now it
00:16:52has transformed. It has transformed into an Iranian military arm. So it is now
00:16:56an Iranian military arm that comes at certain times when people are at
00:17:00peace, not at war, and it comes
00:17:03in light of the existing Iranian distress and the Strait of Hormuz.
00:17:06Iranian directives come to move
00:17:09Yemen
00:17:12the coast, and the goal is the Strait of Bab
00:17:15al-Mandab. So the arms were built in the previous period
00:17:19and the arms are now present. Of course, there
00:17:22were, you could say, other factors
00:17:26that helped this building, that Yemen was originally a state
00:17:29and also had
00:17:32military forces and capabilities and mechanisms.
00:17:36Therefore, even some of these capabilities in the field of missiles
00:17:39you find that they have been developed
00:17:43and the smart aspect has been introduced to them and they have been used. So there was
00:17:47also a quantity of military arsenal that was previously present and was controlled
00:17:50by the Houthi militias. Iranian interventions in the development
00:17:54of such weapons also, you find that they benefited from them
00:17:57and it was also a suitable
00:18:00environment for using them. Yes. Okay, what
00:18:03are the risks resulting from this military intervention by Tehran in our country,
00:18:07locally, regionally, and internationally as well?
00:18:11Uh, locally, Yemen
00:18:14is in a tragic situation. We no longer talk about it.
00:18:17Yemen has become in a tragic
00:18:21intervention. Yemen has transformed into
00:18:25being ruled by militias. It has transformed into having its economic
00:18:28situations in a tragic situation. The situations
00:18:32of citizens and their livelihoods have become in a situation
00:18:36that is sometimes difficult to mention or even
00:18:39we hesitate to mention what exists
00:18:42within Yemeni or popular circles. So this
00:18:46was a result of the interventions, and Yemen paid a very heavy price
00:18:49and is still paying
00:18:57was not looked at
00:19:01the international community, and it was seen as a problem that
00:19:04might be internal and that it would not affect
00:19:10the end, the region and the world became convinced
00:19:13that these militias are nothing but a proxy
00:19:17of Iran and that they were not created only to cause
00:19:21problems within Yemen, but the goal is much bigger than Yemen,
00:19:26the water passages, and the goal
00:19:29is to destabilize regional
00:19:32security and international peace and security
00:19:36Iranian intervention and the flow of Iranian experts into
00:19:39our country, does it double the cost of confrontation
00:19:42and, you know,
00:19:45increase the suffering of Yemenis? The continued flow of expertise,
00:19:49I mentioned that this expertise is part of a whole,
00:19:52there are large numbers of them present.
00:19:55This expertise present in its current numbers, we said
00:19:59there are those who fight, you even find those who fight at the platoon level, and
00:20:03at the battalion level, and at the brigade level, and at the level of forming
00:20:06groups. When the fighting militias
00:20:10were formed at the beginning, they were formed
00:20:12in formations similar to the Iranian model or the Hezbollah
00:20:16model at the beginning. So their formation was not an arbitrary formation, it was
00:20:20a formation according to these experts who carried out this
00:20:23formation. The experts are distributed according to the specialization
00:20:27that is needed. When you are
00:20:30even in a state in a situation of stability
00:20:33and you sometimes need experts in a certain field, you sometimes need
00:20:37to cooperate with certain countries to bring you the relevant experts,
00:20:41let alone when a state is managing a battle, and the battle is considered
00:20:45its main battle, and it considers the other party in the country
00:20:48to be a party used by it. So when it notices
00:20:52that it needs to be supplied with the relevant experts
00:20:56according to the development of the stage, in certain previous stages,
00:21:00we said they did not need electronic warfare or drones,
00:21:03they were confined within Saada, but in the next stage, they became
00:21:07in need of entering the field of war, so they became in need of
00:21:11electronic warfare, they became in need of developing missiles.
00:21:14Therefore, capabilities were built that were not expected to be built
00:21:17at this time or in these short
00:21:20periods. Sometimes, technological building
00:21:23by advanced countries, when
00:21:27you offer them to export their technology, all countries refuse
00:21:30to export technology, especially military technology, let alone civilian
00:21:33technology. And when this rapid and continuous
00:21:37development comes in short periods in the process of launching
00:21:40missiles and hypersonic and aircraft and all
00:21:43this is a result of bringing in experts and also a result of smuggling
00:21:46these, smuggling these weapons and also smuggling
00:21:50the tools and materials for this technology. So technology requires
00:21:54expertise, and expertise is of two types: there is expertise
00:22:00within and are trained abroad, and this is what you find from time to time,
00:22:04going back and forth, and there are experts you need, and the internal expert
00:22:07who was trained cannot do the work himself, so
00:22:11the required expert comes to use
00:22:15a type of weapon or to develop it. Yes.
00:22:18So the stage depends, and with the difference of each stage,
00:22:23the specialization itself. When you need experts in electronic warfare,
00:22:29weapons, and in submarines, you need experts and programmers in the field
00:22:33of drones. Each field needs a type of expert. You also
00:22:36need leaders to manage the battle according to modern
00:22:40methods, means, and technology. All of these
00:22:43have been relied upon, and you find that, as
00:22:46I mentioned, this number in the statement may be a number
00:22:50that represents only a symbolic aspect and represents the
00:22:52leadership aspect that manages the battle. Yes. In return,
00:22:56Doctor, does the Ministry of Interior,
00:23:00does the Ministry of Interior
00:23:03have experts trained in what you mentioned, these skills
00:23:06and technological development?
00:23:09These skills are originally military skills more than they are security
00:23:13skills. They do, of course, fall within the scope of security skills,
00:23:16but when we have a process of security stability
00:23:19and we need to operate these different aspects, because in our security
00:23:22work, our security work uses technology related to
00:23:25the security work and achieving security and stability.
00:23:29It is even used at the drone level, but in the security
00:23:32specialization and field. But what we are talking about today is originally in the military
00:23:36aspect, and it is even originally for specialists in the military
00:23:40aspect to talk about it. Okay, Doctor, let me
00:23:43refer to a report published by Reuters on September
00:23:4711, 2026. It talked
00:23:51about the escalation that occurred on the western
00:23:56the Revolutionary Guard. They said that they traveled to Yemen
00:23:59to supervise and support the Houthi militia's attacks on the western
00:24:03coast. And the Minister of Interior also said that the decision is made in Tehran
00:24:06and announced in Sana'a. What does this development
00:24:09mean militarily and politically? Uh,
00:24:13as we have already mentioned,
00:24:16it
00:24:18is about multiple axes. And the multiple formations of the militias are
00:24:22a copy. We said it was a copy, it is not a copy, it is
00:24:26a follower. And therefore, all decisions,
00:24:29all leadership directives, and all
00:24:32general directions, even political
00:24:36mostly from Iran.
00:24:41Yemen or even in Iraq, or even they are nothing but tools.
00:24:44Yes. Okay, Doctor, from
00:24:48where do these
00:24:50experts enter?
00:24:53The means of entry are multiple, but in recent
00:24:56periods or periods when the official
00:24:59crossings are closed, you find that this
00:25:03smuggling is a problem in
00:25:06itself. Experts usually come through smuggling.
00:25:09At times, the port of Hodeidah was open, and this
00:25:13smuggling is one of the problems
00:25:15that obstructs even international aspects and the countries that
00:25:22smuggling occurs in various forms, and we also have a large
00:25:26water area and long coastlines
00:25:29extending for thousands of kilometers. Therefore,
00:25:32their entry is mostly through smuggling. It may also occur through
00:25:36through you could say
00:25:42the beginning, when they had planned for seven Iranian
00:25:46flights to Sana'a, and this started
00:25:49at the beginning, before the beginning of the crisis or the problem. There are also
00:25:53flights that come from time to time, they may come as, but I
00:25:57don't know, this needs confirmation from an information
00:26:01point of view. They come
00:26:04as state aspects, or they come as assistants or
00:26:07doctors or in this form of infiltrators
00:26:11who work in UN or international organizations,
00:26:14so they come in different forms. The last plane that landed in Hodeidah may also
00:26:18have had experts on it, and it was said that there were
00:26:21experts among the employees present. When we say how
00:26:25they are smuggled, if the ambassador was smuggled,
00:26:28how can we talk about smuggling others? The ambassador
00:26:31and the embassy staff of the Iranian embassy. The ambassador
00:26:35does not represent the diplomatic side; he is an ambassador
00:26:39representing only the military side. He is the one who leads military operations
00:26:43and is considered the first official in charge of leading military operations. Yes.
00:26:46Okay, Doctor, are there, for example, friendly
00:26:50countries and sisterly
00:26:53countries, for example, cooperating with the Revolutionary Guard,
00:26:57cooperating with Iran, despite the fact that there are
00:27:00countries that have classified the Houthi militia as a terrorist
00:27:03organization and are still in this context, other
00:27:06countries are seeking to classify them as terrorist organizations, but these
00:27:10countries are still cooperating with
00:27:14contact with these militias on flights,
00:27:16and have you presented these evidences to the Ministry of
00:27:20The Ministry of Interior or the Yemeni government not to cooperate with
00:27:24the Houthi militias in smuggling these experts
00:27:27who belong to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard after
00:27:30this information that you obtained.
00:27:34Yes, for me as a person who represents a security
00:27:36entity, I may not address
00:27:39such
00:27:42a discussion because such a discussion is now decided by a political
00:27:45leadership. So, according to the available information provided
00:27:49by the Ministry of Interior and provided by the State Security Service,
00:27:52the original is done, and it is
00:27:57the political leadership reviews it.
00:28:01Therefore, in such matters, if information appears
00:28:05about cooperation between some countries or operations,
00:28:08then this originally has a political
00:28:11direction and a state direction. Yes, okay, let's
00:28:15go to this break and then we will complete the rest of the topics of this episode.
00:28:18Doctor, dear viewers, a break and we will continue.
00:29:49We are back, dear viewers, and we welcome you again. I also welcome my guest here in the studio,
00:29:53Dr. Faiez Ghalab. Dr. Faiez,
00:29:56we talked about smuggling, smuggling of experts
00:30:00and weapons into our country. How can this smuggling be curbed?
00:30:04Yes, first, the methods of smuggling and how smuggling is carried out,
00:30:08this is a problem in itself. Of course, we also mentioned that
00:30:12smuggling is carried out in the usual way of smuggling, not
00:30:16through official
00:30:18smuggling, and it is considered the most common type of smuggling, and many
00:30:22and boats were also seized, including the ship
00:30:26that was seized on the coast and was carrying what you call strategic
00:30:29weapons and long-range missiles and smart
00:30:33technical weapons, and this was one
00:30:36of them, one of the seized items,
00:30:38ships and boats were seized in the open sea. This is smuggled,
00:30:42and it is now smuggled through large ships and then unloaded into
00:30:46small boats and then smuggled into
00:30:49the interior. So, smuggling by sea is done on a large
00:30:54of smuggling is also done through official ports
00:30:57and sometimes through ports.
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