Oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have again been struck by ballistic missiles and drones, while evidence has emerged that the US could be plotting raids into north-eastern Iranian territory. In the latest episode of The Target stream, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the incidents that are being used to justify a renewal of regional war.

This Thursday, US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran is likely involved in the controversial Flydubai flight incident, while on the same day the UK government arrested a British-Iranian dual-national in relation to the RAF Fairford incident. Both instances lack any publicly presented evidence to suggest Tehran had anything to do with them, and yet the accusations are already spreading like wildfire in the corporate media.

In the case of the Flydubai flight incident, no investigation has concluded a cause and the airliner initially put the emergency landing of the plane down to a fight breaking out between the two co-pilots. However, the Israeli media and government instantly jumped to the conclusion that what occurred was an attempted terrorist hijacking, carried out by an Omani national. On the stream we look into the implausibility of the claim that the Iranian government was somehow involved and what the results of that allegation could be.

On September 27, headlines were made around the world as UK counter-terrorism police detained five individuals near RAF Fairford, an airbase in the United Kingdom used by the United States Airforce. Initially the headlines indicated that a major terrorist plot was being foiled and that the threat of potential explosive devices in the area had led to the evacuation of dozens of families from their homes.

However, the five individuals who were arrested under the Terrorism Act were quickly granted bail, followed by reports that confirmed no explosives to have been found on the scene. Despite this, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham still decided to point the finger at Iran, a charge that officials in Tehran have vehemently denied. With no clear picture of what actually occurred at RAF Fairford and confirmation that no explosives existed on scene, then came the news that an Iranian national was detained in connection to the incident.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia also announced that the Yemeni Armed Forces had struck a power station located near the city of Madina. Although Sana’a denied it, the claims began emerging that the partially operational power station was supplying power to the Mosque of the Prophet Mohammed; considered by Muslims to be the Second Holiest Site in the world.

OSNIT reports also presented evidence for what appears to be a new US military buildup occurring in the Caspian Sea area. Signs that US combat search and rescue teams have been deployed on the Orurja Ada island, combined with reports of US special forces teams having set up positions elsewhere in Turkmenistan, appear to indicate a future possibility of attempted incursions into Iranian territory.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has also been asserting its dominance in the Persian Gulf and firing missiles towards US military bases, as one of Abu Dhabi’s largest on-shore oil facilities goes up in flames. A pumping station connected to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline was also struck, as Yemeni retaliatory strikes on the Saudi Capital of Riyadh have caused damage to military infrastructure.

On the stream, Robert Inlakesh also looks at the Saudi-Israeli alliance against Yemen and the concerted effort to stir sectarian tensions across the region.

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Opening

Robert Inlakesh:

Welcome to the [unclear] stream for MintPress News. I’m your host, Robert Inlakesh. Iran is now being accused of involvement in two major international incidents concerning an alleged attack on the UK’s RAF Fairford Air Base or an attempted attack and even the flydubai plane incident. Now, as Trump and Netanyahu threaten possible retaliation, meanwhile, Yemen’s armed forces are advancing onto the city of Taizz and oil infrastructure is being blown up more rapidly once again. Of course, with that, the price of oil is rising and much more. We’re going to get into it. Just as we have gone live, Saudi Arabia has started launching a series of air strikes on Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.

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Overview of global conflicts

With that being said, we have an enormous show today and as is in the thumbnail of this video, a lot of people are talking about potential false flag operations. So, I thought that we’d get into that what is actually happening now and what the evidence is for Iran’s involvement in these two major incidents. And also there is a third incident which also appears to be along the same lines but it is involving the war on Yemen. We’re going to look at that because right now as I did say Sana’a the capital of Yemen is currently under Saudi attack. And in case you weren’t aware Saudi Arabia is using Israeli intelligence.

It’s using an Israeli target bank in order to strike Yemen. So when you’re seeing all of the loss of civilian life, that’s something that we should al we should definitely keep in mind. So this story of course broke today. I’m sure many people are familiar

The UK RAF Fairford incident

with it. Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over the RAF Fairford incident, counterterror police say. So this follows the UK prime minister previously during an interview suggesting that there was some sort of connection between Iran and this alleged attack or attempted attack on the airfield which of course is used by the United States. The US places its strategic bombers in this airfield. So you could at least for this one see some sort of motivation for an Iranian attack. But that’s until you look into the details of what actually happened here. Because if we look just at what has gone down, the key pieces of information that have emerged.

Initially the incident of course made headlines because there were all these vans that were located. All these homes like 80 homes or something like that around the air base were evacuated. There was you know a bomb threat that we heard in the area. They arrested five individuals. Now under the terrorism act you can detain these people for quite some time without charge or any reason right but they decided to release these five individuals that they detained around the airfield almost immediately. Now they had strict bail conditions of course but it was very quick that they decided to release them on bail.

Then more information started coming out. In fact, there were no explosives discovered in the area after, you know, the headlines were potential explosives, you know, attacks, bomb attack. That is what everyone interpreted the story to be. But then there was no explosives discovered, no IEDs, no evidence of that whatsoever, which led people to think, okay, this is a bit of, you know, a nothing burger of a story. Perhaps you know it was a false alarm and they overreacted to this. It is an airfield. You know the US has its strategic bombers there. So we can understand why this has been you know this has become a big story.

But then the UK prime minister says that Iran could have a connection to the incident which at the start everyone was thinking okay you know maybe this is connected or they’re going to try and connect it to Iran. And of course that is exactly what they did. I think Iran actually denied this before they were officially accused by any UK official of any sort of involvement in this because they saw the developments online. They saw the claims that were already emerging without it being officially addressed by the UK prime minister and then of course they denied it again. But now we have the arrest of an Iranian national.

And the question here is the plot that we’re being told about involved no explosives. So what were they trying to do exactly? What was the agenda? We don’t know. These details have not been of course revealed. But in this case, you know, according to the information that we have so far. Now, there’s a number of different explanations, but of course, you could see an angle where someone would be able, well, Iran would have some kind of motivation to attack this site if it could, right? But then you get information coming forth such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu actually passing on intelligence previously to the UK that there was a suspected Iran linked plot. Like there was a plot that was being put together by the Iranians in the United Kingdom which is sus to say the least.

Why now is this all emerging and we’re hearing that oh well the Israelis had foreknowledge. Well, if the Israelis had foreknowledged and they passed it on to the United Kingdom and then also you put that together with the fact that the UK just stated that it is going to ban all trade with Israeli settlements and also the threats that came from the Israeli leadership following that as well. One could perhaps draw the conclusion that there is perhaps maybe Israeli involvement in such a plot. That of course is not confirmed. We don’t know any of the details at this point. So we can’t go out and say with any certainty who is in fact involved.

But it is suspicious that Israel claims to have had some sort of foreknowledge of an Iranian attack. Now, if you want to play the devil’s advocate, you could say perhaps that well, you know, Israel all the time passes on intelligence and tells everyone that Iran is going to attack them. So, you know, this is not all that out of the usual. So that’s that’s one element to this of course, but this happens on the exact same day

The Fly Dubai plane emergency

that we’re now hearing that there has been involvement by Iran in the emergency landing of a flydubai jetliner. So this civil civilian airliner which was heading from the United Arab Emirates from Dubai over to Ben Gurion airport suddenly this is according to the narrative had to make an emergency landing. It nosed dived down right and we’ve heard all different kinds of explanations as to what happened. Some said, well, initially we heard from the Israeli media that this is a terrorist hijacking. There was a massive security response. Apparently, fighter jets scrambled, all of that. But the airliner itself said that there was a physical dispute between the two pilots of the plane.

Then we got Trump’s explanation of what happened. And so before we get into the accusations of Iran’s potential involvement, here’s what Trump said and this is the narrative that was fed to him and you can draw your own conclusions as to what you think of the veracity of this story.

Donald Trump (clip):

An Israeli plumber never flew a plane, was rarely in planes, very rarely flew. An Israeli plumber saw what was happening and strong. You know when you lift pipe all day, you’re strong. And he saw what was going on. He heard the screaming. He was toward the front where you had security in the back. You know, you had security and you had another flight crew, but they didn’t have time. The plane was going sharply down at an unbelievable angle. So sharp that the rudder ripped off the back of the plane.

Donald Trump (clip continues):

The plane wasn’t designed—

Robert Inlakesh:

So, this is a key piece of information here because the video footage that then emerged of Israelis sort of rushing towards the front of the plane because of course we did get footage come out from the incident. The when you see the video footage, supposedly this plane is in a nose dive. Trump said the rudder on the back of the plane flew off, right? It broke off. And yet the Israelis seem to be walking around normally. It doesn’t appear that the masks had fallen, the oxygen masks had fallen at that time. It’s very weird. All of the footage, of course, there is footage from the incident.

It’s very strange and it doesn’t appear to match up with the story, at least as Donald Trump is telling it.

Donald Trump (clip resumes):

—to go at a speed anywhere near that. And so it was well beyond its limits. And he ripped with his G forces as they were, he ripped this guy out of the seat, threw him back, the crowd got him, the passengers got him, grabbed him, and having never flown a plane, he took the stick, lifted it up, and leveled out the plane before it crashed. Now, this is the story that I heard. I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s the story that I got from Bibi

Robert Inlakesh:

This guy is actually hilarious. He’s like, “I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s the story I got from Bibi.” It’s but I mean even to him it probably doesn’t sound very convincing but you know so far according to the official investigation of course the pilot in question is reportedly an Omani national. Some people have said that Omani nationals wouldn’t have been approved to fly a flight from the UAE over to occupied Palestine to Israel because of the situation with the relations between the two. There is no official relations between Oman and Israel. I don’t know how much bearing that has on this story, but you know and this man could potentially be a dual national that could explain that for example. But the story it in of itself is very strange to say the least.

I would say that perhaps we had to wait for additional information to come out. And then they landed the plane. It looked like from I saw the flight tracking, it looked like the flight was entering or over Jordanian airspace and then it suddenly went back into Saudi airspace. And then it landed in Tabuk in the airport there. And again, the Israelis made a big show out of this which was very strange. Netanyahu is suddenly sitting down speaking in English with the alleged plumber who flew the plane. But then there were two IDF pilots apparently that were on board that also were able to help.

But I don’t I don’t know how all of this works. You know, apparently the Omani pilot stabbed his Indian co-pilot. But the co-pilot managed to open the door to the cockpit and then all of these Israelis at the front of whom was this plumber came forward and as the plane is in a nose dive managed to pull with his I don’t know beyond human strength the pilot out of the seat. I don’t know exactly how this all works. It’s very weird. There’s different narratives that have emerged. The Israeli media of course has different narratives even. But in cases like this it is good to sort of wait for all of the information to come out before taking a position.

However, there’s something that we can definitely take a position on because it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever given how quickly this claim has come out. But

we’ll take a look at what Trump immediately started saying today.

Reporter (clip):

Has anybody briefed you about whether or not the guy the pilot of the flydubai plane is linked to Iran?

Donald Trump (clip):

We’re working on it right now. They’re being very open with us. I would say the answer based on what I’m hearing is yes, but we’re working on it right now.

Robert Inlakesh:

So he’s essentially saying, well, yeah, we think that it’s Iran that is behind this. So you would have to believe that in such a short period of time when there’s no official announcement from the Saudi side, there’s no conclusion from the airline or anything like that this was even a hijacking yet that suddenly Iran is implicated in it. So what are they exactly implicated in? You would have to believe that somehow Iran got an Omani citizen flying a plane to Dubai who managed to get, you know, a knife on board, to try and crash the plane and kill 180 roughly Israelis, something around that number, which is a very strange thing for a country like Iran to do.

They don’t have a track record of doing anything like this. And if they wanted to just kill a whole bunch of Israelis, I mean, this is if they wanted to do it, Israel has killed thousands of Iranians, thousands of their civilians, and they have never decided to lob their ballistic missiles into random residential buildings. They could do it. It could hit high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv with their ballistic missiles and they could kill hundreds of people at a single time. But they’ve never done that. They’ve never actually done that. So to believe that they got some Omani guy to in such a poor way as well, it failed to crash a plane full of Israelis and just kill.

I mean, what objective would that possibly serve other than to get Israel to respond by bombing you and killing your civilians? What do you achieve? Now, if there was somebody of importance on the plane there, you know, maybe there’s an argument for that, like an Israeli official or something like that implicated in a certain assassination or or something of this nature, that could make some sort of sense. But still taking out 180 people, I we’ve just never seen Iran do anything like this ever before. It’s so incredibly out of character. There’s no evidence for it whatsoever. And then all of the events surrounding this incident are strange, very strange to say the least. There might be answers to some of it.

Obviously, you know, this plane did you know, do an emergency landing, but the Israelis now as well, they have this they’re getting closer to Saudi Arabia because of this. And they’re hoping in their media, they’re talking about normalization coming quicker because of this event. And this represented the first ever flight commercial airliner to travel from Saudi Arabia openly that to Israel, right? And they’re celebrating this as an achievement. They’re talking about the heroism of, you know, the Israelis and this this plumber and all of the rest of it. And then it would also give them the excuse to attack Iran.

And another element to this is after this incident, Netanyahu, his coalition, right, they went up in the polls. Now the Israeli elections are coming, right? October 27. So we’re in election month for the Israelis. Now, the RAF airfield incident. You could make an argument that Iran there’s some sort of value in Iran attacking that target because you know the United States has its strategic bombers there. You can make a case for that. For this it doesn’t make any sense at all. And then to come out with it so quickly. Trump after that as well started making threats against the Iranians saying that he’ll hit them hard.

Right? There’s all of this stuff coming out. And of course, the United States and Iran’s talks, right, they fell through. There was an attempt to get negotiations going again. Earlier in the week, we heard reports from Axios citing Qatari officials that those talks now are, you know, dead in the water. There’s not going to be any talks. And as a result, today the United States has imposed more sanctions on Iranian [unclear: “rail”] and are going harder with their maximum pressure campaign against Iran. Right?

Ballistic missile analysis

So, this comes against the backdrop of all of that. Just so everyone knows, yesterday was the anniversary, the 2-year anniversary of Iran’s Operation True Promise 2. Here’s some footage, by the way, of what happened in that attack. This attack, by the way, on Israeli military facilities is the largest recorded ballistic missile attack in history. Right. So we’re going to take a look at that. This is some footage from that attack. Now, if the Iranians were in the business of taking out enormous amounts of Israeli civilians just for the hell of it, then you would think that perhaps a country capable of doing something like this against at the time, by the way, the Israeli air defenses were, you know, they had lots of interceptor munitions. They weren’t drained like they are now.

And you’re seeing how Iran is capable of hitting them right from this. This is in October actually no it was October 1st. So October 1st so it’s actually today is the anniversary not yesterday. October 1st of 2024 Iran carried out this operation True Promise 2. Now, the reason why I’m showing that footage is because it demonstrates what Iran could do if it decided to just rain down ballistic missiles on residential buildings in Tel Aviv in retaliation for the thousands of Iranian civilians that have been killed by the Israelis and strikes on Tehran. It could do so, but it’s choosing to target military sites, right?

And that’s what it’s repeatedly done. It’s not just gone after Israeli civilians because it doesn’t see military value in doing that. And so taking down an airliner with some Omani that you’ve employed to do it is rather ridiculous. Okay? Like it doesn’t make any sense at least according to any information that has been presented so far. If we combine that with and this is just so people are aware, right? The Israelis actually carried out a series

False flag precedents

of their own false flag operations, right? I’m pulling up my own story, yes, because I’m the only person that put this information together in English in this way. So, in February of 2025, so last year, there were suddenly this there was this string of explosions which blew up all of these Israeli buses in Tel Aviv. And this was a major story and it gave way to Israel being able to launch a large-scale military assault in the northern West Bank targeting specifically the Tulkarm area, Nur Shams refugee camp and going after fighters, okay, inside of the northern West Bank. So they did this massive military campaign that was justified on the back of this.

Also, what happened as a result of these explosions, these bombings of buses in Tel Aviv in early 2025 was that Netanyahu got to sort of point the finger at the head of the Israeli Shinbet, like the Internal Security Agency, which he didn’t particularly like, okay? And he was trying to push out. And at the time, just so you know, I’ll just go through some of this, right? So, we were told again, Israel and all of its miracles when it comes to its false flag attacks. And this, in my opinion, this was certainly a false flag attack that was carried out at the time.

But they, you know, they had their series of miracles like they always do with these incidents which explain away everything and all of the holes in their arguments. So they said that and this is the explanation that the Israeli authorities offered as to why all the bombs went off prematurely. They said that the timers at the time were incorrectly set. So, the conclusion was drawn within hours and communicated with the Hebrew media claiming that the intended time of the detonation was 9:00 a.m. On Friday, but instead they were programmed for 9:00 p.m. On Thursday night. Okay, that was what they were claiming and why nobody literally nobody died from these bombing attacks on buses in Tel Aviv, right?

One of their miracles. And yet the incident was first reported at 8:30 p.m. As noted above. Right? So, in this piece, which calls into question this explanation, the passenger who noticed the bomb on the third bus that was blown up, told the media that following the evacuation of the bus, as everyone was moving away, the explosion occurred. This has widely been accepted by Israelis as a miracle or was at the time. Another miracle was that the first two buses also happened to not only detonate when nobody was around, but both happened to be parked several meters away from other buses that were clearly lined up next to each other in the same area.

So, like at the time the footage showed that the buses that exploded just so happened to be away from all the other buses that are lined up right next to each other, right? A miracle. This made it so that no other buses were blown up and overall damage costs were kept to a minimum. The assailants who planted the bomb that was neutralized also happened to write a note in Arabic that left a possible motive. So, there was one bomb that didn’t go off and it was discovered on these buses. This IED was not only laced with a clue that would have disappeared had it exploded.

Okay, so I don’t know why you would write, you know, your clue on a bomb and then blow the bomb up because then your clue and your justification is then gone. But another miracle, the Israelis discovered it and the clue before it destroyed itself. But is indicative of someone who wanted their work to be known. Yet no group actually claimed any responsibility, right? And then obviously it goes from there the story that they you know wanted to attack the northern West Bank. And so Israel does stuff like this. And you know people will pull up examples from the past. That is a recent example of a case where the Israelis never did some public announcement that they caught these people and you know put them on trial and all of that. And there was like little follow-up that we heard from this incident and nobody claimed the incident.

And when a group, especially from the West Bank, attacks Israelis in any sort of way, they like to claim responsibility for it. Normally, they like to claim their work. Okay? And none of them are ashamed of that. If they attack the Israelis, they attack the Israeli occupying forces, they’re they’re not ashamed. They will proudly claim any attack that they carry out normally. So that’s just an example of something that happened last year that also had these weird circumstances and a series of miracles that were involved in it and just so happened to benefit Netanyahu both politically and enable a military campaign as well.

So that’s something to keep in mind here when we’re looking at that. That being said, there’s an enormous amount that has been ongoing with Iran. They’ve just

Regional oil and strategic tension

attacked more tankers. Another interesting development actually came yesterday. So this is the [unclear] Bu Hasa oil facility in the United Arab Emirates. What you’re looking at here are the heat signatures from NASA FIRMS which picked up fires in the area. And there’s more. There’s another indication of where that happened, with satellite imagery. Okay, that followed an Iranian ballistic missile launch yesterday. Iran didn’t officially announce this, but it appears as if this site was struck, whether it was by Iran or by somebody else in the UAE, as a warning. This is one of the largest onshore oil facilities in the UAE and located in Abu Dhabi.

Okay, that just happened. Iran, as we’ve been covering in previous episodes, has been launching ballistic missile attacks on bases in Jordan and of course even US warships and tankers, you know, multiple tankers a day. And this has been happening without even a comment from CENTCOM, a response by the United States. There’s just no acknowledgement that this is even happening. You will hear reports of sirens in Jordan near the [unclear air base name] air base. This was a few days ago now and there is no follow-up reports. Nobody says anything. Occasionally Iran has announced these attacks, announced these strikes as preemptive strikes on US targets, but this is continuing to happen.

So that’s sort of an important development. Another thing is that there has been some indication by the way that there is some sort of US military buildup in the Caspian Sea area. Now, we’ve covered this before. Let’s pull this up on a map here. So, we’ve covered this before. A lot of people, of course, when they’re looking at Iran are concerned with a potential offensive against islands in the Persian Gulf. Many people suspecting and there has been a lot of threats about Kharg Island here and obviously that is not going to open up the Strait of Hormuz. So then other analysts, I was one of the people that was arguing this early on, argued that they’d probably go for different kinds of islands.

Some people have said Qeshm Island here, but that would be a rather difficult endeavor. I’ve argued that Abu Musa and the greater and lesser Tunb Islands are probably more likely. The UAE, by the way, over the past few days has been urging and releasing statements urging Iran to leave these islands. Okay. And these islands, by the way, are integral to Iran being able to secure the Strait of Hormuz right here. Okay. They’re very close to it and there have been a lot of comments made by IRGC commanders about the importance specifically of Abu Musa here, this island, okay, in the Strait of Hormuz.

So there is indication once again that the United Arab Emirates is encouraging some sort of action to take place in the Strait of Hormuz, some sort of ground activity and there’s been those threats that have emerged. But as we’ve covered here on the show, it has been a while.

Military buildup and threats

There’s another potential threat that could be posed and that is from neighboring Turkmenistan. So the United States in the buildup to the war in February, there are a number of reports that US special forces teams were landing in undisclosed locations and bases inside of Turkmenistan and that they could possibly try and carry out some kind of raids into Iran. This area is easier to penetrate than the west side of the country. My argument is not that they’d do a full-scale invasion from Turkmenistan, but instead special forces operations, specifically targeting Mashhad, right? Maybe they’d be able to take out officials there, military facilities that they could try and penetrate, right?

That’s one of the possible goals of deploying forces to Turkmenistan. There was evidence that they did deploy at least in back in February they were deploying special forces teams into Turkmenistan. Now Turkmenistan officially for a long time has held the position that it is neutral. It even did that through the early 2000s in war on terror. But more recently, it has bought large quantities of US weapons, of Israeli weapons, including drones. In 2023, the Israelis actually put a embassy here in the country’s capital in Ashgabat, which as you can see is located right next to the Iranian border. So Turkmenistan although historically considered neutral as a country is also potentially posing some kind of strategic threat.

Now the update is that there have been signs of deployment of US combat search and rescue teams on the [unclear island name] island. I am probably butchering that. So people from the region feel free to correct my pronunciation of this. And again if they are in fact deploying to this island here belonging to Turkmenistan and carrying out these joint military maneuvers. If they are deploying here, this could in fact indicate that the United States are considering doing special forces operations and that they will potentially need those search and rescue teams. There’s helicopter landing strips that are there on this island. And it could be utilized.

Okay. So this is potentially another way that the United States could try to penetrate Iran. Again, when we say invade Iranian territory, that’s that’s what we mean. Sometimes when I say invade Iran, people think a full-scale ground invasion with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops coming across the border. In this case, I don’t believe that to be the case. I think this will most likely be special forces operations that could be carried out and that is a real threat there from Turkmenistan. Okay. Turkmenistan also closed its airports in compliance with the sanctions which Iraq started doing but then sort of backed down not for their international airport in Baghdad but in Najaf and other areas u of the country. They sort of backed down after threats were made to occupy the airports by Iraqi citizens who were angry that they were abiding by these US sanctions. And there was an attempt to have Iraq cut off its border its its border to Iran as well to close the border entirely.

They temporarily did that actually recently following an alleged attack from inside Iraqi territory. Another thing that’s interesting here that’s been happening in the region has been a number of attacks that have been carried out against Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Now, one of them in fact attacked a pumping station which is integral to the east west pipeline which obviously leads out here to the Red Sea and enables Saudi Arabia to still get some of its oil out and to do oil exports. There’s also in Riyadh itself, this is some footage that emerged that people filmed and there’s a lot of videos that have emerged of citizens filming smoke rising from the Saudi capital, but Saudi Arabia is heavily censoring attacks on their capital and targets around their capital at this point.

So, we don’t get the same kind of updates. They don’t even ring the sirens most of the time, especially for these targeted attacks which go after oil infrastructure or air bases near Riyadh. They don’t want to cause that disruption inside the capital city itself. And so they are not actually signing they’re not actually sounding those sirens. But this attack that just took place, by the way, which some people are indicating could have actually come from the Iraqi groups, also damages the ability of Saudi Arabia to get its East West pipeline fully back and operational, which affects the oil market. So now what we’re seeing is that the United States in the region, it’s of course aggressing.

It’s not able to get an agreement. We hear threats from Trump about obliterating Iran and destroying them entirely, but the only option is a full-scale a full-scale operation, an air operation against Iran. Possibly they could try and do these ground incursions, try to seize these smaller islands here in the Persian Gulf, but ultimately any sort of small-scale low-intensity warfare, they’re not even bothering to engage in it. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is getting smacked. And what we’ve just seen happen

Yemen’s advance on Taizz

today, which is of a lot of importance, is that Yemen’s armed forces have managed to seize a considerable amount of territory in towards the city of Taizz. So it seems that just so everyone again is aware, we’re talking about Yemen, we’re talking about the Ansar Allah-led government based in Sana’a, the capital city here. They are also referred to in the Gulf media and western corporate media as the Houthis which is a family name for a group that comes from here Saada in the north of the country. And they are not a rebel group that is running the country or holds territory.

They are a political party known as Ansar Allah and they lead the government in the capital city of the country and now they’ve taken back their entire coast recently in their latest offensive and their next major move is to surround this strategic city here which they’ve managed to do. So they’ve fully surrounded it. They’ve cut off all supply routes. That’s happened today. They’ve officially surrounded the city and it looks like they’re bringing in heavy equipment. They’re bringing in their tanks to seize the city. So this could happen rapidly within the next few days that they will take the city of Taizz.

Now the reason why that is so incredibly important to all of this is once they seize Taizz then the next major target is Aden. Now they might try and seize other cities for example up here like Marib it’s also you know strategically important and most certainly they’ll try and seize Marib at some point but if they take Taizz here, this city then Aden is the next stop and then they win then Yemen is liberated fully from any Saudi influence. So that is the significance of what we’re seeing now. And as we saw and reminiscent of what we saw along the coast not too long ago, the Saudi-backed forces, Saudi proxy forces were filmed running away from their positions.

So the Yemeni armed forces managed to launch a number of offensives in different areas from the west to the east in the southeast of Taizz city and kill a leading commander of the Saudi-backed forces. This then led to this massive retreat and you’re seeing them here withdraw their vehicles from their defensive positions and they’re heading towards the city of Taizz to try and hold it and fight for it. So their positions rapidly collapsing and they are filmed running away from their positions. Also this was the most significant development from today.

Officially, the Yemeni armed forces took over what’s known as the [junction name unclear in captions], which fully cuts off the city of Taizz from Aden. Now, Aden is the strategically important port city that the British occupied inside of Yemen and served as what was the capital of South Yemen in the past because the country had been broken up since British occupation into North Yemen and South Yemen, right? And there were different governments which took charge of the country during this era until it was later united. But Aden served as the capital of South Yemen and was where the British were of course primarily positioned.

So it’s very important and this is where the Saudi-backed forces they have a parliament an alternate parliament that is there that used to be composed of Saudi proxies and UAE proxies from the Southern Transitional Council. They were then driven out after the Emiratis tried to push the Saudi proxies out earlier in the year because there was a war of proxies in Yemen that occurred. And so if they take Aden then the conflict is in essence over. They can either do that by some sort of an agreement, a surrender agreement by the Saudi-backed forces or they can do that via a massive battle that they will have to fight in order to take it.

But it looks increasingly likely that the Yemeni armed forces are going to take back their country. Now, one of the reasons that this is so incredibly important, of course, is that the Israelis now they’ve lost access. They had positions here that the Emirati-backed forces built on Mayun Island. We looked at the runway that Ansar Allah’s forces seized on our last episode here and the Israelis of course have tried to set up a stronghold in the breakaway Somaliland separatist state located inside Somalia as well which Yemen has directly threatened to strike in retaliation for the deployment of Israeli forces here in Somaliland.

Also, the last sort of stronghold for the Israelis and Emiratis is on Socotra Island where they set up military positions. They have radars and they’re able to sort of assert their dominance here from this position. But of course, that’s not the priority for the Yemeni armed forces. What has happened here is that the Saudis and the Israelis together are now in a very weak position in the Red Sea. Israel knows that they can be effectively blockaded by Yemen. The stronger the Yemeni armed forces are, the more of a threat they become to the Israelis. They’ve already demonstrated that they can hit Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles and with drones.

They have already demonstrated that they can bankrupt the Israeli sovereign port of Eilat, which no longer exists, by the way, because Yemen, its armed forces, declared a blockade on Israel in the Red Sea in response to the genocide in Gaza and only ended that blockade after the Israelis agreed to a ceasefire or a so-called ceasefire in Gaza. Of course, they’re still slaughtering civilians in the Gaza Strip as you watch this program. They’re still bombing Gaza, injuring people and killing people. But the port of Eilat here, which is very important, especially for the southern Israeli economy, no longer exists. Countless businesses went bust.

There was a massive blow that was dealt to the southern Israeli economy by Yemen. And now Saudi Arabia that has been imposing a blockade on Yemen since the war began which includes an aerial blockade. We’ll get into that in a little bit. Is now itself blockaded in the Red Sea by Yemen. So there is a strategic threat presented to the regime in Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime as well. And that’s why they want to take out the government in Sana’a. They had a joint intelligence operation last year where they tried to commit a string of assassinations and do regime change from within. But that ended up failing.

It was foiled quite quickly and cracked down upon by the Yemeni armed forces and intelligence in Sana’a. And of course Saudi Arabia now as we’re talking about with the flydubai incident, the commercial airliner landing in northern Saudi Arabia and

Saudi-Israeli cooperation

being treated and of course as well Israeli officials were were celebrating the work done by the Saudis and that Saudi Arabia treated Israeli citizens on this flight and that they cared to them. They provided them medical attention and they allowed for the jet. They allowed for the commercial airliner to take off from their airport and head to Ben Gurion airport. Now, why is that so controversial? Well, number one, it’s the first ever flight between Saudi Arabia than and Israel. Okay. But it’s controversial because while Saudi Arabia provides medical attention to Israelis that are on civilian airliners, Saudi Arabia has imposed an aerial blockade on Yemen which actually restarted the war in Yemen.

In July, an Iranian civilian airliner attempted to land in Sana’a International Airport inside of Yemen. And Saudi Arabia responded by bombing the international airport in Yemen’s capital city in response for them operating a civilian airliner over Yemen airspace, landing in a Yemen airport. Okay. So, Israelis will get medical attention. They can land in Saudi Arabia, right? They will help them. They will provide them with attention. Habibi, what can I do for you? What can I do? We’re going to help you with medical attention. But the Yemen, no. No. We’re going to close our airspace. We’re going to block food supplies from coming into their country for years and starve them. Stop the introduction of medicine, essential medicines to the country so people die of preventable diseases.

And we’re going to stop and threaten to shoot down any civilian airliner, not o over Saudi airspace, but over Yemen airspace and bomb Yemen’s international airport. That’s Saudi Arabia’s double standard. For Israel, yeah, we’re going to help you. For Yemen, no, we’re going to bomb you. That’s Saudi Arabia’s double standard. But Saudi Arabia, of course, and Israel have been teaming up. We showed you on the last episode, Israeli Channel 14 News revealed that Netanyahu paid a visit to the United Arab Emirates and he was in Abu Dhabi. But he didn’t just meet with the Emirati leader, Mohammed bin Zayed. He also met with a delegate from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries as well that came to meet with Netanyahu.

A Saudi official according to Israeli media met with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. Okay, that’s what they’ve been doing. The Israelis are openly sharing intelligence with the Saudis, allowing them to fill their target bank, which by the way appears to be a lot of civilian targets that Saudi Arabia is hitting. Not that they didn’t hit Saudi hit civilian targets before, but they’re hitting a lot of civilian targets with Israeli intelligence. That’s what they’re bombing. And then what’s the Saudi response? And this is another thing actually that this was a scoop that was published by Axios, right? Where they found out that there was a military retreat, okay, a private retreat that was organized by CENTCOM which brought together Israeli and Saudi military officials, right?

Military chiefs. The military chiefs of Israel and Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and Egypt, according to this report, all went to a private retreat together in Germany where they held meetings directly about developments in the region, including Iran and Yemen. Okay. So while the Saudis are bombing a Yemeni airport if civilian airliners dare to use Yemen airspace and land in a Yemeni airport and then aiding Israeli citizens, right? That’s their double standard. Aiding Israeli citizens, giving them medical attention and then sending the flight off over to the Israelis. It’s also its officials are sitting around in private military retreats in Germany with Israeli officials.

According to Israeli media, Netanyahu met with a Saudi official. They’re using Israeli intelligence to bomb a neighboring Muslim country. They blockade that country and then when that country puts a counter blockade on them, oh look, they’re blockading us. They’re blockading the Muslims. Okay, that’s their excuse. The excuse that they provide. This is what Saudi Arabia has produced in its defense. And of course, that’s not the only thing that Saudi Arabia has been doing lately to try and feign innocence. It’s also been trying to whip up sectarian tensions. So we covered before the claims by Saudi Arabia that Yemen’s Ansar Allah they attacked

Sectarian propaganda analysis

Mecca right which there was never any evidence presented for there’s no evidence presented that Yemen’s armed forces carried out missile and drone attacks on Mecca that they were targeting Mecca right the holiest site the Kaaba in Saudi Arabia, the holiest site for Muslims. There’s no evidence of that, but that’s what they were pushing. Now they’re pushing that the Houthis, the Houthis, because the Saudis may as well use the exact same way of talking as the Israelis at this point. The Houthis attacked a power station in Medina. Okay, that’s what they’re claiming. Now the power station which according to reports is partially operational is nowhere near for example the prophet’s mosque.

Okay. This is the second most important mosque in the Islamic faith. The second holiest site. Okay. Now it’s nowhere near that. Number one. Number two Yemen denied it. And there’s no evidence as well that the munition came from Yemen’s side. And even if you are to believe, they went out of their way to hit a partially functioning power station near Medina that supplies electricity to the prophet’s mosque. Even if you were to believe that like how can you determine that was done even purposefully by them but like what purpose does that possibly provide targeting Mecca and Medina for Yemen’s Ansar Allah now if you ask Saudis grand mufti right if you ask there’s some Pakistani sectarian who is infamous for praising Osama bin Laden who is also talking about how the Ansar Allah or the Houthis are not Muslims.

They’re not Muslims. They have nothing to do with Islam, right? Their explanation is a sectarian one. They say that the Yemeni population, okay, they are or the Houthis specifically that family who are Zaidi Shia Muslims, they’re not Muslims. They’re the cursers of the companions of the prophet which is not true by the way which is not true of the Zaidis. Okay. It’s not even true of the Twelvers. There’s fatwas religious rulings against cursing the companions of the prophet. Right? This is there’s historical disputes between Sunni and Shia. But this is the sort of stuff they say right?

They oh they’re attacking Mecca. That are attacking Medina. They their enemies. They’re not actually Muslims. That’s why we can side with the Israelis, the Jews, the people of the book. That’s their their ideology. Were siding with the people of the book against the horrible kafir, the horrible the kufur in Yemen, the Shia, the Rafida, the ones that are trying to take over the entire region, not understanding anything about what the Zaidis believe, which is separate to the Shia of Iran and Iraq and Lebanon, for example, who followed Twelver Shia doctrine. Okay, very different from the Zaidis. And the Zaidis are closer in many many ways to the Sunnis.

Okay, none of this matters in Saudi and Gulf propaganda. They again all of the media all call them the Houthis. They don’t call them Ansar Allah. And as we covered in the last episode, now we’re hearing the Houthi-run health ministry in Yemen. The Houthi-run. Where does that remind you of the Houthi-run health ministry, the Hamas-run health ministry? Except in Yemen, it’s not even partially accurate. You know, the rhetorical gymnastics that they perform with Hamas in Gaza. Okay. In order to claim that there’s some accuracy to stating that the Gaza Health Ministry is run by Hamas, right?

And therefore, you know, it’s justified as saying Hamas-run. But it would be like saying Likud-run Israeli or Netanyahu-run health ministry. Okay, that’s the technically yes, technically you could make that argument. In Yemen, you can’t make the argument. In Gaza, Hamas is actually the political party. It’s the name of the political party which runs the Gaza Strip. Okay? It’s the governing party. Houthis, that’s a family name. That’s not a party. There’s no party, political party or political entity called the Houthis. It doesn’t exist. But they say Houthi-run health ministry, the Houthi rebels, the Iranian proxies. The party that leads the government in Yemen is called Ansar Allah.

On its side is the is two-thirds from the beginning. Twothirds of the Yemeni armed forces sided with them. They run the majority of the country for the country’s population. They command over the majority of the country’s population. And yet we hear Houthi-run health ministry which is just like saying the Sinwar run health ministry in Gaza. That is literally how accurate that is. Not at all. Okay. It’s just it’s so incredibly ridiculous. But that’s the framing of all of this that we hear the Houthis claim this Houthi blah blah blah all of this sectarian nonsense that is being pushed. And while we’re on sectarian non nonsense, by the way, there’s a leading Saudi scholar, okay, Dr.

[name unclear in captions]. And let’s just take a listen. It’s translated here, into English, what he had to say about Yemen versus Gaza. Okay. [Unclear fragment: “Islam.”]

[Played clip: speech not transcribed in the supplied captions.]

Robert Inlakesh:

So that’s what his stance on Yemen is. It’s a Sunni war. Our Sunni brothers are fighting against the Shia. Basically, that’s the argument, right? The cursors of the com companions, which is completely for a scholar, a Saudi scholar should know that the Zaidis don’t do that. And the Zaidis don’t have the same views as Twelver Shia. But of course, this guy lumps them in. But you’re a scholar. You’re supposed to know this. You’re a scholar of Islam. Your ballpark is supposed to be theology. So, how do you not know the difference between Twelver Shia and their doctrine and the Zaidi Shia?

Well, the reality is he does know. I guarantee he does know. But he’s still encouraging people. This is a war for the Sunnis inside of Yemen. A war for the Sunnis. All the Sunnis should go and fight sectarianism, breaking up everything. Meanwhile, their leaders are hand in glove with the Israelis. Hand in glove taking their intelligence to bomb civilian targets in a Muslim country and bomb Sunni civilians by the way in these areas where these massacres have been committed. Sunnis live there that they are killing with their air strikes. Not that matters to these people, but that’s his standard for Yemen.

When Saudi Arabia fights Yemen, oh, it’s a war for Islam and religion. Okay, here’s what he says on Gaza.

[Played clip: speech not transcribed in the supplied captions.]

Robert Inlakesh:

So zakat means charity. Okay. So pray for them and do charity. But they shouldn’t fight. You shouldn’t fight because they’re weak. They’re weak. Who’s weak now in Yemen? By the way, if we’re going to analyze this sort of analysis, who’s the weak one in Yemen? It looks like Saudi Arabia is the weak one in Yemen. It looks like Saudi Arabia’s proxy forces are the weak ones in Yemen. The proxy forces that have to bring people from Sudan over to fight their own war because their own cowardly military won’t do it themselves. It looks like they’re weak. Maybe maybe what Saudi Arabia should do is they should just pray and give zakat.

They should give charity to Yemen. Maybe that’s what they should do. Maybe they should just start praying and giving charity to their friends in Yemen. Maybe that’s a good piece of advice that they should start doing there because they’re weak. They can’t fight. They can’t win. They don’t have the capabilities to win. Right? But that’s what he says about Gaza. Don’t fight. Don’t fight in Gaza. And that’s the sort of rhetoric you hear from these Saudis. And I’ve spoken about this on a number of streams now about how Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and others, these Gulf states, these Gulf monarchies use religious officials, right, and religious authorities in order to stir sectarianism by lying.

Lying or they’re so incredibly ignorant. But I don’t give the benefit of the doubt here with this guy that he’s that he’s fully ignorant of this. This is ridiculous propaganda. You even heard from some of these sheikhs during the Gaza genocide. You can’t boycott McDonald’s and you can’t boycott Starbucks because it’s haram. Maybe Muslims who are working there are going to be harmed. Right? You can’t boycott. Boycotting is haram. That’s what they’re saying. But then when it comes to Muslims in Muslim countries in Syria, go and fight. Even if there’s civilians there, God will will reward them if they’re killed in the midst of you bombing a civilian area with you and your suicide belt.

When it comes to Yemen, they’re all cursers of the companions. Fight against them for the Sunnis. Walk in the path of martyrdom. So against Muslims, walk in the path of martyrdom. In terms of the Israelis, no. No. All you can do is you can make dua, you can pray for them, you can give charity. That’s all you can do. Nothing else. Saudi Arabia has been launching its war and has launched its war on Yemen since 2015. It has access to modern American weapons. If it wanted to, because we’re talking about Gaza is too weak to fight. If it wanted to, why does Saudi Arabia not fight?

It has the weapons. It has precision weapons. Why does Saudi Arabia not fight Israel? Oh, that’s right. They’re they’re too busy. The Saudi military officials are too busy on their private retreats chilling around with Israeli military officials and discussing how bad Iran and the Yemenes are. And in the meantime, they promote to the entire Muslim world that they’re fighting the these evil Shia, right? And in the rest of the world, right, they try and divide people along these lines who are in an anti-war movement or whatever. And it has succeeded, by the way. It has succeeded because the same way in the Middle East they use religion, they use identity politics and all of this, right?

In order to divide populations, they do the exact same thing in the United States, in the UK, across Europe, the same exact exact tactics for division, okay? And they get everyone arguing with each other, right? You have to fight other other everyone else but Israel. Distract you, distract you, distract you. They never point the finger at the one who is responsible for all of the region’s chaos. But it’s not surprising because Riyadh and all the Gulf states facilitated the US invasion of Iraq. They funded they bankrolled all of the Takfiri groups inside of Syria too. All the worst ones were bankrolled by the Gulf.

Why is that? They facilitate the destruction of every single resistance movement. They’re all opposed to resistance. But resistance to other Arab and Muslim movements and resistance to Arab rulers that are not in the good books of the United States. Suddenly that’s resistance that they’ll they’ll back. But resistance to Israel and the United States, no, that’s something they have to oppose. That’s that’s then they start having to bomb and they start having to kill, right? And they stop making dua and zakat, right? That argument goes away. It’s no longer haram to boycott. This is this is their argument. Anyway, we have some footage from on the ground inside of Yemen.

We’re going to

Battlefield footage and analysis

play it. This is heavily edited because it’s sniper footage. So, today the Yemeni armed forces published footage of their sniper operations. So, we’ve got some of the video here. If you want to see the full clip, that is on our Telegram and our ex accounts. So you can watch the results of these operations if you don’t believe me that these are kill shots that are being fired here. We just got a few samples. One of the reasons as well I wanted to bring this up is that they explicitly mention here that this target here that they shoot is a mercenary from Sudan.

Okay. So Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of course were involved in Sudan heavily and they had relationship with the rapid support forces in Sudan. And what they managed to do is they brought over all of these Sudanese fighters to fight their war for them on the ground in Yemen. And so lots of Sudanese fighters are there as Saudi proxies fighting the Yemeni armed forces. And as you saw here, some of those sniper operations took some Sudanese forces, Sudanese mercenaries out. So this is a war where they go having backed and stirred up a genocide. And of course, Saudi Arabia wants to wash its hands of what’s happened in side of Sudan.

But Saudi Arabia also played a role. Not like the United Arab Emirates, not to the extent of the United Arab Emirates of course, which is directly responsible for backing up the rapid support forces who were committing genocide inside of Sudan the entire time. They’ve been their number one sponsor. But they’ve also brought over forces, poor people from Sudan to fight their war for them. The same way they bring poor people in from Pakistan and from India and from over in Philippines and they bring all these people over the Filipinos and the Pakistanis and everybody to build up all their infrastructure, okay?

And use them essentially as slaves. That’s what they’re responsible for. But then you hear like the arguments that they give or the sectarian arguments they give as if they’re on their high horse as if they are somehow superior. Okay. Also from the battlefield today inside of Yemen. This was quite interesting. Just play a bit of it. But basically what they have here. So I’ll just mute that there. What they start calling out is they say, “Oh, sons of Muhammad bin Salman. Oh sons of Netanyahu, surrender. You’re surrounded.” Right? That’s what they’re yelling out at them. That’s they’re telling them to surrender.

They’re telling them you’re surrounded. And they call them the sons of Netanyahu. That’s one of the insults that they’re hurling at them. So, obviously, you can’t really see what’s going on exactly. You could hear some of those shots being fired there. But they took over this area and this is on the way to locking off all the supply routes and major roads connecting the city of Aden to Taizz the city of Taizz which they are currently on the way to seizing inside of Yemen. Okay, I just thought I’d show that also once they captured the strategic [junction name unclear in captions] which we showed earlier, cutting off that road from Taizz to Aden. There’s some footage here of the Yemeni armed forces dancing on the road there celebrating having captured it.

And again to reiterate, according to that Saudi scholar that we just listened to, because they’re so weak, they shouldn’t fight back, you know. So everyone that feels compelled to back Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, you should just pray and give charity. Okay, that’s what you probably should do according to that right. So,

The situation in Syria

this is an issue, of course, that we’ve been moving on a little bit here. We’ll go back to the Iran issue, in a little bit. One of the, this has been a theme across shows here, that we’ve done covering Syria. We’ve done many different dives into what’s been happening in Syria. The arguments that are given by people who are defenders of the regime change operation and the current leadership inside of the country. But today I heard people claiming that there were no agreements struck between the Israelis and the government of Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria. This is something that I’ve heard people claim and it is of course completely incorrect.

So, we’re going to go through just some of the evidence here of what’s been happening in Syria. Okay? And this is important. Ahmed al-Sharaa is actually responsible for getting close to the Israelis and signing onto an agreement with them. Okay. People go, “There’s no agreement. He never signed an agreement. He would never sign an agreement.” Actually, the Syrian government right now is part of a Turkish Sunni axis. And this Turkish Sunni axis is going to defeat Israel. It’s no scary thing to Israel. Okay. So, this resistance axis, the Sunni resistance axis that we’re hearing about forming with Syria being the center of the resistance.

Okay. This is the joint fusion mechanism that was signed on to directly by the Syrian authorities. Okay. And the United States mediated this and this is through direct talks that took place between the Syrians, the Syrian government and the Israelis. Okay, now it’s important to understand what this actually is. Okay, so many people are like, “Oh, but it’s just just so that they can deescalate and all the rest of it.” Like I’ve heard people try and justify it that way. That’s not the case. Okay. So, it says here and this is from again US government website. The US state department released this.

Okay. This is a joint statement by the Syrians, Israelis and the United States. Right. Both sides have decided to establish a joint fusion mechanism, a dedicated communication cell to facilitate immediate and ongoing coordination on their intelligence sharing, military deescalation, diplomatic engagement. Okay, key here, diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities under the supervision of the United States. This mechanism will serve as a platform to address any disputes promptly and work to prevent misunderstandings. The United States commends these positive steps and remains committed to supporting the implementation of these understandings as part of broader efforts to achieve enduring peace in the Middle East.

When sovereign nations cooperate in a respectful and productive way, prosperity will be unleashed. Okay, like that’s the statement. Key here is diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities. This is something that this is an agreement that would that came of meetings between the Syrians, the Israelis and the United States. That’s the outcome, right? And they have committed to a joint fusion mechanism for diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities. But no, they would never normalize anything whatsoever. What this is like the Lebanese side. Okay? And let’s be clear, the Lebanese government recently signed with the Israelis agreement, right, a memorandum of understanding with the Israelis that directly recognized Israel very explicitly, but they did not pledge coordination for joint economic projects.

That’s not something there is no commercial agreement there between the two. All right. So this agreement is actually helping to facilitate commercial opportunities. That’s what they’re they’re seeking to do with this diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities which in other words is soft normalization. Just like for example that a Saudi official can meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi military officials can meet and go to a private retreat in Germany with Israeli military officials. The Israelis can share intelligence information with Saudi Arabia to directly bomb aid them militarily militarily aid Saudi Arabia and they haven’t officially normalized ties. It’s a kind of soft normalization.

That’s what it is. Okay, that’s what has happened with the Syrians. But people will go, “Oh, you know, maybe they didn’t implement that and all the rest.” Okay, I’ll give it to you. Sure, fine. All right. Maybe they didn’t implement it. So, let’s look at some of the other things that the new Syrian authorities have been doing. Okay. Syrians interim authorities. This is funny. At the time, this is a foundation for defense of democracies, right? And the you know the FDD and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, these Zionist think tanks which are a part of that they’re basically the think tank wing of the Israel lobby in Washington, right? These think tanks, these pro-war think tanks that helped push the United States towards war in Iraq, which are the, you know, the most hawkish, especially Foundation for Defense, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is extremely hawkish.

Okay, but it’s got good things to say about Ahmed, the biggest threat, the Sunni alliance that is threatening Israel and the United States. So the Syrian authorities arrested two leaders of Islamic Jihad. They since arrested more than this. Of course they cracked down on Palestinian groups. Okay, it’s one of the things they did. Here’s another thing. The Syri, this is exclusive from Reuters. Syrian leadership approved return of dead spy archive to Israel. Now the reason why this is so controversial is they released the belongings of Eli Cohen. For those who do not know, Eli Cohen was an infamous Israeli spy who penetrated the Syrian government previously, right? And rose up in ranks inside of the Syrian government, got exclusive top secret information about military positions and all sorts of stuff that he fed to the Israeli military and the Israeli intelligence.

Okay, he was an operative and then he was eventually discovered and he was hung publicly in Damascus. His belongings were released by the current Syrian administration to Israel. They released Eli Cohen’s belongings, the most infamous Israeli spy. And one of the first things that they can think to do is go, “Here you go, Israel. Here’s all all of his stuff, all of his belongings.” Okay, but of course that’s not where this story ends, right? Okay. We have for instance Ahmed al-Sharaa openly saying that with Israel we have common enemies right and that at that time when this story is published he said that there wasn’t any impending normalization but he did not rule out further discussions regarding it right they’re talking about how he at that time gave his first interview to a Jewish media outlet in Damascus last month that’s what they’re saying back then Okay.

Then we have this. Okay. The Syrian foreign minister, right, Asaad al-Shaibani met with the director of the Israeli Mossad in Jordan. And he’s actually met with him on a number of occasions. Okay. While again, this is in of itself a controversy or should be not not to people that are supporters of the current Syrian regime, but because of course the resistance meets with the Mossad. The resistance thing joint signs a joint fusion mechanism with Israel so that it can you know have commercial ties to the Israelis and improve diplomatic relations a resistance to Israel of course also says that it has shared enemies with Israel and it doesn’t want to go to war with Israel all right that’s that’s a resistance that’s that’s the resistance the resistance disarms the Palestinian groups It seizes the weapons of fighters in the south of the country who are attempting to resist illegal Israeli occupation in South Syria.

Okay, that’s what a resistance government does. That’s that’s a real threat. That’s a strategic threat. But right after that meeting between al-Shaibani and the head of the Mossad, the Israeli Mossad chief, suddenly Syria started arresting all of these former members of the country’s now non-existing air defense like the air defense units. They cracked down on them. They started arresting them. Now, the reason why they would do something like that is because Israel had just decided before and there was a more recent meeting between the two that happened. The Israelis this is the more recent meeting that occurred, right? The Israelis had decided to bomb positions inside of Syria because they were scared that Turkey was going to transport air defense equipment and tried to give Syria an air force to rebuild their air force because all the Syrian air defenses were destroyed by the Israelis when the regime change happened. All their strategic weapons, their navy, everything was destroyed and their air force was taken out.

So, Israel will not allow Syria to actually rebuild itself militarily and ended up striking targets inside of Syria. Then we have al-Shaibani. He goes and he meets with the head of the Israeli Mossad. He comes back and then they’re arresting all of these members of the former Syrian air defense. Now, again, why would they do that? They would do that because you can’t just buy an air defense system and then just get random people to operate it. You need people to be trained and it and that takes years often of training on certain systems for you to get used to it and be able to operate these systems properly.

You can’t just come in and operate a sophisticated modern air defense system. That’s not how that works. So they were perhaps scared that these old air defense operators would be used by the new Syrian administration to operate air defenses or help with that. That could be a thing in the even if it could just be a thing in the future that these people would help with the air defenses. Okay? Even if it’s not under the current government in Syria, a new one comes in. They want those people cracked down upon. They want those people dead because they don’t want Syria ever to have air defenses.

All right? And people who argue, look, they’re under the Turkish sphere of influence, the Syrian government is. Okay. If they’re under the Turkish sphere of influence, I’m sure Turkey would love to have air defenses inside the country. They’d love to have military assets throughout the country. Why aren’t they bringing them in? Because every time they try to, they get bombed and then they back off. And if the US says something inside the country, that’s the way it’s going to go. Turkey does not have the say over the United States inside of Syria. There’s just zero evidence of that whatsoever. Okay?

And even for the Turkish in under the Turkish perspective and their plan, they want to exert exert dominance throughout the region. Okay. They want to have a strategic foothold inside of Syria that works in their favor from their in their line of thinking. Not to the extent that they want to go to war with the Israelis, but the Israelis of course don’t have a problem bombing them. But you know, Turkey at this point has not even broken off all trade relations despite the fact that the Israelis have formed a strategic alliance with Cyprus and Greece and is aggressing against them, right?

And threatening them and striking at their assets and threatening and before in 2025, I believe they killed Turkish soldiers inside of Syria. When you carry out a regime change operation and you’re in the United States and Israel, okay, and these Western countries and all of their Gulf allies, when you pour hundreds of billions of dollars, probably trillions, let’s be honest, in a 13-year war to oust a government in the region, when you pour that many resources into something like this, you don’t do it so that then suddenly another leadership will emerge and that leadership who is allied with you is going to build up a massive military force and then suddenly turn against you.

Like, do you like do we seriously think the Israelis are that stupid? That the Americans are that stupid that they just are like, you know, oh, like we’re going to back up the Syrian government and like, yeah, let’s give them strategic weapons and allow them to rebuild their country and allow them to be wealthy again, right? Allow their GDP to actually increase to a level that is on, you know, which represents real growth inside of the country. For them to be able to feed their people. Let’s allow Syria to flourish. Look how they let Iraq flourish. Wasn’t it so flourishing in Iraq after they literally physically went in themselves and removed the government and purged everyone, even the educators inside of Iraq.

Now, what are they doing in Syria? The exact same thing. They destroyed the military. Okay? They purge everyone from the old system, the people that can make it run. And then it’s a neoliberal economy. They want to get them in debt. They don’t care what happens to the people there. And they fully control them at every single turn. And while we’re on the evidence of what the current Syrian the resistance administration in Syria did, they helped with the return of an Israeli soldier, the body of an Israeli soldier that was missing according to the Israelis for 43 years. Okay. Now the Israelis it initially they claimed even with the Eli Cohen stuff that it was a Mossad operation all that and then it emerged later that the Syrians just handed it all over to them right but they love like the hero story and the miracles and you know I believe in miracles that’s that’s the Israeli anthem you know they really do believe in miracles miracles on planes miracles on buses and miracles throughout Syria as well. They went into the heart of Syria, right, which is not a hard thing to do for them at this point.

An Israeli journalist, an Israeli journalist went into Damascus and was toured around by members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is the leading party in Syria now, toured around military sites, an Israeli journalist who then made a documentary about going to Damascus. Okay. I don’t know how more obvious this can get and it’s almost like beating a dead horse at this point, but yeah, they returned this body and I guess how they got the intelligence for where the body was located by the way, right? The body of this soldier that was missing since 1982. They got the intelligence for where this Israeli soldier’s body was located in the Yarmouk refugee camp, the Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

They got the intelligence because the Syrian authorities arrested the head of the PFLP General Command, okay, which has always been aligned with the former Syrian government. They arrested the head of the PFLP-GC. And they got that information out of him. Okay, that’s how they did that. That’s how they located this the body. Okay. So yeah. This is this is the Syrian administration. This is what it’s sort of responsible for. And unfortunately people who don’t really know a lot get very invested very quickly because it’s an emotional thing for them. And it’s the exact same thing that you’ll see, for example, people who have like this obsession with hating Saddam Hussein.

I’ve met many Libyans, they hated Gaddafi. And no matter what argument you give to them for why regime change happens in their country, why it was not a good thing, why it’s resulting in all of these hardships, right? No matter what argument you give them, they will never back down on it. You know why? Because it’s an emotional thing. It’s not a logical thing for them. People who opposed regime change inside of Syria, opposed regime change in Iraq, opposed regime change in Libya, okay, have all been vindicated. It’s over. The argument is done. They’ve all been vindicated, okay? And their argument against regime change operations and foreign interference in those countries.

None of those regime change looks regime changes looked exactly the same. By the way, they all look different. They didn’t do the same thing in Libya as they did in Iraq and they didn’t do the same thing in Syria. They used different methods, right? They had different tools at their disposal. Okay? None of those regime changes are about Sunni or about Shia, right? They’re not even about Arabs, right? They want to do regime change in Iran. They don’t care about Arabs, Sunni, Shia, any of that stuff. They care about removing leaderships that have any independence and any ability to act on their principles.

That’s it. If you have a strong military like Iran does now, like even Saddam Hussein didn’t have capabilities of course to combat the United States in the US invasion, but it had considerable military abilities, right, for the region, for the surrounding region. Like if he wanted to, he could strike Tel Aviv. He did strike Israel. Saddam Hussein did that. Okay, they don’t want somebody like that. They don’t want the chance that somebody could be like that. Now, the CIA helped Saddam Hussein get into power in Iraq. As we went through in the last episode here, Saddam Hussein killed, according to the historical record, there’s a debate, between 250 to 500,000 people of his own people, right?

Not including all the other wars of his own people. Okay? The worst campaign that he carried out in terms of numbers was in 1988 targeting the Kurds where he used chemical weapons for example. And that campaign alone killed between 50,000 to 183,000 people. Okay, those are the estimates, the range for those numbers. Okay, objectively speaking, he did horrible things. He was also he went to war with Iran at the request of the United States even when Saddam Hussein by the way invaded Kuwait. The US gave him a green light to do it then turned on him afterwards. Okay? And then they used the war the first Gulf War as an excuse to embed themselves and build up all their military presence throughout the Persian Gulf.

Okay. And then from the Persian from those Gulf Arab states from the Arabian Peninsula, they launched their assault on Iraq in 2003 to take out Saddam Hussein. If they went to that extent to remove Saddam Hussein, a leader that went to war against Iran for them, a leader that they supplied with chemical weapons and watched him use those chemical weapons against them, right? Commit all sorts of atrocities. A leader who they put in power in the first place. They helped get in power and who demonstrated to them by taking out a list of US opponents and just assassinating them, killing them all, rounding up them up and killing them all at the start of his rule.

If a guy like that, the United States did a whole regime change operation and they have just withdrawn right now literally yesterday from Iraq or announced their withdrawal from Iraq of their forces after their invasion in 2003. If they went through all of that fighting that forever war, they were there for over two decades in Iraq after overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Do you think it is plausible that their regime change where they have now allowed for Ahmed al-Sharaat to come into power in Damascus, do you think it’s plausible that the United States would allow for Ahmed al-Sharaa to become like Saddam Hussein to become powerful enough to do anything in the region at all?

Assert dominance? Do you think that’s plausible? How does that make any sense whatsoever? It doesn’t. That’s why like it doesn’t. And all of these things that the Syrian the current Syrian administration has done and has been doing, right? Meeting with the Israeli Mossad and all of this. This is not these are not signs of an independent administration. Okay? They’re not an administration that’s going to fight to liberate their occupied territories. Now, inside of Syria, are there groups that could end up clashing with the Israelis? Absolutely, there could be. There absolutely could be. There are groups there that I believe would and could clash with the Israelis.

Even some of those who were supporting the current administration. I don’t believe that to be outside the realm of possibility at all. And I think Israel, this could have backfired massively, this decision to throw their weight in at the time that they did from 2013 when they started backing up 12 different Syrian opposition groups to help commit regime change. And they provided medical support in the Golan Heights to the fighters of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, now Ahmed al-Sharaa, right? When they for this could backfire. The regime change could backfire, but it’s not going to backfire as long as this administration is operating in the way that it is now. It will backfire in one of two ways.

If Israel is dumb enough to invade Damascus, to go into act to actually go into Damascus and get itself wound up in some kind of u direct battle on the ground, which will draw in a number of different militia groups. That could be that could backfire that way. It’s currently in the Damascus countryside, just some people point out, oh, they’re already in Damas they’re not in Damascus proper, right? They’re in the countryside. If they do something like that, they overcommit to Syria, it could backfire. And it could backfire if the current leadership in Syria is taken out, right? If Ahmed dies and someone else comes over or there’s a massive power struggle, then it could massively backfire.

But the Israelis, if they wanted to, if they truly wanted to, could occupy Dam Damascus. If they saw Ahmed al-Sharaa as any threat, they would kill him immediately. They can kill him at any time. You think they don’t know where he is all the time at every moment of the day. They bombed right next to the presidential palace twice. The reason why they did that is to warn him. Don’t mess with our project in the south with the Druze. The Syrian government had a project. We’re going to take control of the whole country. They did an agreement because the US pressured the Kurdish groups to do an agreement.

They started doing all these agreements to take control of the whole territory except down in Suwayda with the Druze. Don’t mess with them. Disarm yourself in the south and if you step out of line, Israel is going to bomb you. And they bomb next to the presidential palace, I believe, to show Ahmed al-Sharaa, if you dare do anything, not forget resistance and firing missiles at Tel Aviv and the Golan Heights and Syrian soldiers coming down to liberate all of the people living under occupation, taking their land back and pushing them out from the Golan Heights, taking their water resources and the strategic mountain ranges back and all.

Forget that. One step out of line and Israel will bomb. One step out of line and they might even kill Ahmed if they see it as worth doing. That is the position that the Israelis are in. He can’t hide. He’s surrounded by people of all these different Western intelligence agents agencies all the time. They know where he is. They know everything he does in the middle of the night when he wakes up, right? And he has and he coughs. They know that he woke up and someone’s taking a note that he coughed in the middle of the night. They know everything.

That’s the situation inside of Syria. But unfortunately, there is now this sectarian debate that is ongoing keeps going on online. It’s going on in the Arab world as well. And it’s over Yemen. It’s over Syria, the Iranians and the Sunni and the Shia and all of this stuff. And the reality is like it’s just irrelevant. It’s a distraction. You know, the Syria thing’s done. It’s over, right? It’s over. They that they did regime change in Syria. There’s no debate to be had right now. We can just look at the results of the regime change right now and where things are heading inside of the country.

That’s it. These debates over all of the rest of it are irrelevant now. But people pretending like things are great in Syria, you know, this is delusional. Now, maybe in the major cities, especially if you come from the west with your money and you go to Damascus, I’m sure you’ll have a great time in Damascus, right? You’ll be able to, you know, smoke your [unclear], you know, you go out and you see some family members and stuff and you’re going to, you know, have wonderful, you know, shawarma, you know, you’re going to have a great time. But if you go to the majority of the people of the country, right, if you go to all of try going to [place name unclear], try and go along the coast, you know, and see how all of these communities are living.

And a lot of people don’t have access to basic goods. They can’t pay for electricity. The people don’t have jobs, you know, and if they do have jobs, everything’s so damn expensive. People, some people can’t even afford to properly feed themselves. They miss meals, right? That’s this predicament. And people pretending like that doesn’t exist are just propagandists. Because if you actually, okay, if you’re somebody that cares about a country and you care about the people in that country, then you should actually be advocating for the poorest in that population. If you actually have, you know, a humanitarian bone in your body, you should actually be advocating for the poorest people and you should be doing what you can to fight for them and fight for their rights.

Okay? That’s what you should be doing. But if you’re defending the fact that like there’s people starving inside the country and there’s all of these horrible decisions that are being made even when it comes to the area of reconstruction, the nepotism, the corruption, all of these things. Denying extrajudicial executions, denying sectarian violence is even happening. That’s not someone that actually cares about a country and its people. That’s somebody that has some sort of in this case sometimes it’s like this Sunni nationalist thing that people have from the outside that are not Syrian. But in other cases, you’re you’re ideologically driven and there’s not much difference between those people and the most ardent supporter of Bashar al-Assad or Hafez al-Assad or any other Syrian leader, okay, in history that will just defend them at any cost and deny anything that is ever bad attributed to them.

If you actually care about a country, if you care about a people, then you should be able to utter words of criticism, especially if you’re overseas and you’re not going to get captured by the intelligence agency, right? And get thrown in a dungeon and tortured.

Conclusion and wrap-up

But that’s the Syria issue. To sort of wrap this up, the Iran front is of course on the verge. Again, one thing to look out for is the Israeli elections are coming up on the 27th of October. So, we’re in election month. So expect more. Expect more chaos. Expect more in terms of these psychological operations. Everything you can imagine because Benjamin Netanyahu is a political survivor. And I’ll be quite honest with you, you know, his oppos opposition are sort of pathetic. Like when you see like Naftali Bennett get on and whine on the television, he’s not a strong man. You know, he’s he’s sort of he’s quite weak, right? And then you’ve got Yair Lapid, who is a former talk show host.

That doesn’t go down well with Israelis who are bloodthirsty and love military commanders and stuff. Benny Gantz more so appeals to these, you know, this population. You know and when these in instances which now Trump is blaming on Iran like the Dubai flydubai airliner incident happens, it just makes that Israeli society shift more towards Netanyahu and then security and all of that. But with the Iran front, if they see it as a good opportunity now to attack them, they could well use these excuses in order to help in the lead-up to a renewed bombing campaign. And the reality is they’re going to have to escalate at some point.

They’re going to have to escalate. They won’t have any other way out of it because they won’t sign an agreement. That’s not possible because again the United States is owned by Israel. That’s that’s the US government. Anyway, the current US government is not capable of making its own decisions in West Asia. U and people have come on, by the way, just to address this point. People have come on here before and they said, “Hey, stop, you know, saying Israel owns the United States government and that’s, you know, what you’re doing is you’re transferring guilt to the Israelis.” To that, I would say no.

Like the United States military carried out the attack on the school in Minab, right, in Iran and killed all of those children. So the United States military is responsible but also you have to factor in the reality here. Okay. Also responsible for that strike or those AI systems and the owners of that technology. Those people that develop that technology and sign contracts with the US military. Also responsible are the weapons manufacturers. Okay? Not just the Trump administration, the weapons manufacturers, the tech firms, these billionaire, these big tech billionaires, they’re also responsible and they also bear responsibility in this. But the Israelis, this war is not fought for US strategic interests.

There’s nothing they can gain. The US gains nothing from this war at all. Nothing. Nil. Zilch.. And so it’s not accurate to say that this is a war for the US. I think you can argue that in the case of what they did in Syria, you can argue that the US wanted to assert dominance. They wanted to control the government in Syria and so they funded a regime change operation and they worked together with their allies and it worked. They achieved their goals. Okay. In Iraq, you could argue they wanted to take out Saddam Hussein. Didn’t like, you know, unpredictability and, you know, the threat that he could possibly pose to some of their interests and so they took him out.

You could make those arguments in that case that there was value to those things in Libya. You can argue value, okay, that the US was seeking to gain, that it benefited US hegemony overall and the goals of empire. You can argue that. I believe that you can argue that. I don’t believe you have that argument here against Iran. It makes no sense. What have they gained? Can you name me one thing? Nothing. And you can’t I don’t buy the argument because I’ve heard this argument made by I won’t name him out of respect. But I’ve heard the argument made, oh, I’m not convinced by the idea that you know, Trump was was lied into this war by Netanyahu and he was bullied into this war by Netanyahu. No, you can’t tell Trump what to do.

I think, look, if you’re making that argument of Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and stuff, like, okay, they’re strong independent politicians. I believe they have backers, but they’re, you know, they’re competent at the very least. Okay? You know, they’re competent war criminals. Maybe you can make that argument here. K with Trump because Trump, okay, he was just convinced that the intelligence was there and he wanted to go to war for US interests and he thought that Iran would collapse immediately. I don’t buy that argument that he thought that it would be like Venezuela and he thought that, you know, the US would benefit from this.

And the reason why I don’t buy that is because since the war has happened, he has not changed his position one bit. He lies about it every single time that he talks about the war in Iran. He lies about them not having air defenses, not having a navy, not having a military, being militarily defeated. When he bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities in June of 2025, he said that he eliminated them all. But now suddenly this year there was a nuclear threat again. Everything he says is a lie about this. His numbers on the Iranian the 20 billion Iranian protesters killed in 15 milliseconds, right? Those numbers they went up from like 20,000 30 something thousand then they went back down a little bit and now they’re up at 50 and then they went to 53 right? Like, he lies constantly about it he’s seen the images it’s confirmed he’s seen the images of tens of millions of Iranians mourning [name incomplete in captions] coming to the streets mourning so he knows. He understands. I don’t buy the like he has been pressured into this He didn’t.

There’s no way right now he can think it’s a good idea to continue this war for US interests. There’s no way. He knows he’s going to get smashed at the midterms because of this. He knows that this is not a good thing for him and that Iran is not suddenly going to collapse in 5 seconds. So, that’s what I would say on that. We’ve been on here for a little bit now. We’ll continue to cover all of the developments and as they come in and we will be back same place, same time on Monday. That’s 4:00 p.m. CST. If you have been watching this whole time, you got this far, please do hit that like button. Add a comment below.

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Opening

Fundraising appeal

Overview of global conflicts

The UK RAF Fairford incident

The Fly Dubai plane emergency

Ballistic missile analysis

False flag precedents

Regional oil and strategic tension

Military buildup and threats

Yemen’s advance on Taizz

Saudi-Israeli cooperation

Sectarian propaganda analysis

Battlefield footage and analysis

The situation in Syria

Conclusion and wrap-up

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Opening

Fundraising appeal

Overview of global conflicts

The UK RAF Fairford incident

The Fly Dubai plane emergency

Ballistic missile analysis

False flag precedents

Regional oil and strategic tension

Military buildup and threats

Yemen’s advance on Taizz

Saudi-Israeli cooperation

Sectarian propaganda analysis

Battlefield footage and analysis

The situation in Syria

Conclusion and wrap-up

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