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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu draft plans to launch another attack on Iran – as oil prices continue to rise once again. In this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the developments that have put a stranglehold on the US in the Persian Gulf and why Yemen has been bombing Saudi airports.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has managed to re-assert its dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, releasing footage demonstrating that it has mined the territory and is striking vessels that are violating its blockade at an unprecedented rate. Video evidence of a ship being struck by a mine has sent shockwaves through the oil market, as the US had previously claimed to have de-mined the strategic water way.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarallah-led government in Sana’a has been delivering enormous blows to Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure. A major international incident stole the headlines this weekend, when on October 10, a Yemeni missile inflicted a mass casualty event at Riyadh’s main international airport.

At least 13 people were killed in the Yemeni missile strike, which also injured a further 307. The attack on Terminal 3 of King Khalid International Airport drew condemnation from the UN and World Leaders around the globe. Officials in Riyadh then used the incident in order to lionise their ongoing war effort against Yemen and paint themselves as the victim.

In this Monday’s show, Inlakesh takes a critical look at the events as they unfolded and the inverted reality portrayed by the corporate media. The ceasefire between Saudi Arabia and Yemen was broken by Saudi Airstrikes on Sana’a International Airport, a key detail that has been left out of the discussion.

On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia began launching strikes against Yemen, one of the first targets struck was Sana’a Intl. Airport, the largest airport in the nation’s Capital City. The initial attack on the airport and neighbouring residential area resulted in over 30 civilian deaths. Over the next decade, Saudi fighter jets would go on to strike Yemeni airports over 227 times, none of which received wall-to-wall coverage like the latest event.

This edition of The Target looks at the history behind what is unfolding today, as well as the current context. Saudi Arabia decided to launch 1,000 strikes, using 100 aircraft, at the beginning of October, triggering the Yemeni Armed Forces to impose a no-fly zone over Saudi territory. The decision was a move to impose a counter aerial blockade, in response to closure of Yemeni airspace that has been forced upon the nation since 2015, even during a man made famine.

As this has all been happening, a group of Israeli students were on a hike near the border of occupied southern Lebanon. One of the Israelis picked up a cluster munition and placed it in their bag, before it exploded, killing at least one and injuring 24 others. Never letting a massacre go to waste, the Israeli media and leadership seized on the opportunity to blame Hezbollah for the event, instead of the decision of teachers to direct students to hike in a war zone.

Election season is in full effect, both in Israel and the United States, meaning that the rhetoric and tensions couldn’t possibly be higher, all as Iran and its allies wait with their fingers on the trigger.

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Robert Inlakesh: Iran, Yemen and the Regional Conflict

Transcript edited for readability Timestamps, nonverbal sounds, verbal fillers and accidental repetitions have been removed.

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Welcome to the [program title unclear] stream for MintPress News. I’m your host, Robert Inlakesh. Over 20 Israeli casualties have been inflicted along the Lebanese border. Yemen continues to pound Saudi targets as air strikes throughout Yemen territory also continue. This as the US and Israel prepare for a new round of strikes on Iran. And yes, gas prices are again shooting through the roof despite the Trump administration doing its best to prevent that. But before we begin and get into all of that and a lot more today, just wanted to bring your attention to an urgent call to action from all of us here at MintPress News.

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US-Israel-Iran tensions

With that being said, I’m sure everybody has been keeping up with what has been happening inside of Yemen, and we’ll get into that. But there’s been a lot of movement and signals that indicate the United States and Israel are preparing for another round against Iran. A lot of the same sort of propaganda we saw in both the leadup to the 12-day war in June of 2025 and also earlier prior to the February 28 joint attack by Israel and the United States on Iran is again surfacing.

We’re hearing about the disputes between both sides on what should be done and whether Israel should attack by itself. And while that is also happening, we’re seeing repeated aerial activity over Iraqi territory. We’re seeing drills constantly over its airspace. And on top of that, there has been a lot that’s been coming out of the Israeli Hebrew media speculating such an attack could be near and it could even lead to the delay of the Israeli elections which are scheduled for October 27. So that is something to keep in mind.

We’ll look at the reality as it’s unfolding on the ground and what is also being produced in terms of propaganda in the information war. So the US not too long ago said that it was preparing options to renew the Iran war and that this plan could include a three-day intense series of strikes. Now, the reason why I’m laughing here is because there is no way in the world that they can do as simply a three-day campaign. That’s not going to happen. At the very least, it’s going to be weeks before they would be able to secure anything that even looks like a temporary ceasefire again. Three days is just not going to cut it.

But we’re seeing lots of reports like these. And the reason why I’m highlighting it is this. We’re seeing lots of these reports, contradictory reports. Again, we’re hearing about potential disputes between the US government and the Israeli government which never exist. They are fully in lockstep. They are not beefing over this issue. Netanyahu and Trump have never had a feud that there has been any proof for. And in fact, the same thing happened during the Biden administration years when we heard that Joe Biden was hanging up phone calls and calling Netanyahu a bad effing guy and all of the rest of it and he was going to impose his red line all over Gaza.

And he did nothing. Nothing at all. He just kept supplying the bombs. The most he ever did is stop the supply of 2,000-pound bombs. As if that makes a considerable difference when Israel is indiscriminately bombing civilian areas.

The RAF Fairford incident

Well, with that being said, of course there’s more that’s emerged on the front of accusing Iran of the incident at RAF Fairford, so the US-run air base where initially we heard that five individuals had been arrested and then apparently they were allowed to go on strict bail conditions even though of course for an act of terrorism. This is quite unusual that they let them go so quickly. And then we later heard that there was no evidence of explosives and that the whole thing may have been blown out of proportion.

And that was of course until the UK prime minister decided to blame Iran for it and say that we’re looking into it still. And then they arrested an Iranian dual national. Now they’re accusing two Iranians of organizing it and they say that the IRGC is behind the attempted attack. Of what nature? We don’t know because there were no explosive devices found as per the evidence that we have so far. There’s nothing that has been publicly presented to substantiate these claims. But that of course now is what the UK government is running with.

And by the way, when it comes to incidents like this and whatever the truth may be behind such an incident, we have to keep in mind that this is just part of an overall narrative that they are trying to shape against Iran. So even incidents that might not necessarily be connected to Iran, they will accuse them of it and they want to make them out to be the bad guy, the boogeyman, right? And they’ve done similar things historically with every single government that they want to overthrow throughout the region and beyond the region of course.

So it’s always interesting to look at that angle of things. ## Conflict in Yemen

That being said, the Trump administration is in fact considering joining strikes on Yemen. We’ve heard that also the Israelis apparently have been requesting the approval to conduct new strikes on Yemen themselves. So we could possibly see the United States attack Yemen. I think this if they do it is a terrible idea because if they go ahead with such a campaign of strikes then not only has Yemen’s Ansar Allah government announced that it will target US assets throughout the region and we’ve seen with its missile attacks as of late and its drone attacks that it is very capable of hitting targets throughout Saudi Arabia and if we go back to 2022 they hit directly targets also in the United Arab Emirates.

Reports came out today as well that apparently the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, is being transferred from bunker to bunker that he’s paranoid of an assassination attempt. So that is the conditions imposed upon Saudi Arabia again more attacks on US facilities throughout the region. And we saw what happened when the Trump administration went and launched its Operation Rough Rider on Yemen early on in his term completely for Israel. There was no benefit for the United States to launch this operation.

And we actually heard reports as late as last week which spoke about the disputes inside of the Pentagon about wasting munitions etc. When it came to the decision to engage in that operation. In the end they wasted billions in munitions. They sustained damage right and they extracted nothing from bombing Yemen. So why it would be different this time? It makes no sense. However, the key difference here is that the Ansar Allah government now its forces have control over Bab el-Mandeb. So that is something that is new in this equation because they have full control.

Before, they were further up here towards [location unclear], and so the US had more space to work and of course brought in its aircraft carrier. The Biden administration launched two different operations against Yemen when the Yemeni armed forces were firing ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza and locking down the Red Sea and imposing a blockade on Israel. They of course back then didn’t extract anything. Now they control Bab el-Mandeb here and that will make it significantly more difficult for the United States to pull off anything against the Yemeni armed forces.

And of course if they do engage in such an attack then closing down Bab el-Mandeb to the United States and whoever else wants to participate in this offensive action will mean that oil and gas prices are going to go up, right? It’s going to impact gas prices for the public here even more than it already has. I think Brent was at 107 today when I last checked. And just in case anyone was wondering, because Saudi Arabia and its proxy forces attempted a counter offensive in southern Yemen to try and take back Bab el-Mandeb.

Of course that was beaten back and now the Yemeni armed forces are closing in on this pocket here to [place name unclear] which is located along the coast where the arrow points there and are surrounding the Saudi-backed forces closing in on them. So they are doing away with their ability to even attempt to launch these offensives. Again, they’re dealing with that issue.

Propaganda and military reality

We’ll look more at Yemen in just a bit. But first, actually before we go to anything else, Saudi Arabia was publishing footage of supposedly what it’s saying here in this video. This is supposed to show the Yemen forces retreating from Bab el-Mandeb. And I mean I’ve watched this at least seven or eight times and I cannot tell what they’re trying to show here. There’s vehicles going in different directions, but this was supposed to be their proof that they had captured Bab el-Mandeb that they announced before.

And so everyone is aware, Saudi Arabia with its insane propaganda claimed that it recaptured Mokha, which is we’ll just show that on the map here just to show how ridiculous of a claim that was. So right here and it hasn’t got past the air base in Dhubab. That’s the furthest it ever got. This area right here. So, we’ve seen some ridiculous propaganda. And then later on, here’s, Al-Masirah channel, broadcast live, from Bab el-Mandeb to show that, of course, they were still there and it was just lies.

So, in case anyone was wondering, no, Saudi Arabia has not managed to take back that territory or the forces aligned with it. What’s known as the Presidential Leadership Council which I’ve explained before is in the corporate media referred to as the internationally recognized government of Yemen but of course is a force that was formed or a governing body, a leadership council that was formed in 2022 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Of course Saudi Arabia controls it. They try to pretend like it’s a legitimate government in exile. We’ve gone through that a number of times on the stream.

But yes, that’s the current predicament there. We’ll continue to look more and more at the Yemen issue.

Strait of Hormuz and IRGC

We’ll turn our attention to the Strait of Hormuz and what’s been happening there because the situation as we covered on past streams is that the Iranians or there appears to be evidence that the Iranians are allowing some ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. So it is true that between maybe 5–6 million barrels of oil per day are getting out but when this was investigated it actually turned out that Iran was charging up to 20% of the cargo in fees—a tax on getting those ships out of the Strait of Hormuz which if this information is accurate the Iranians are making about a billion dollars a week off of the tankers that are actually leaving the Strait of Hormuz.

So, this is not actually that bad of a situation if that information is true and there is a lot of evidence to indicate it. But with that being said, the United States is doing its best to smuggle oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz. And so, we have got more evidence. Now, this right here is footage that was published by the IRGC and this shows the result of a tanker that hit a mine and this certainly is the result of a mine. So the idea that was communicated by the Trump administration that mines of course the entire area was demined by the US military is sort of being proven a ridiculous lie.

This video was also released and this is all since our last live stream in the past few days that this footage has come out. This appears to be more likely an attack using a cruise missile. And according to a number of people that I consulted with, this is another tanker. They claim that all of these were struck by mines. But at least that last one according to sources that I have they say that it looks more like a cruise missile. But the first one was most certainly a mine.

Before we look at this—again, in terms of the US and its narrative about its control over the Strait of Hormuz—the US president wants to call it ‘Trump Strait’ and all of the rest of this ridiculousness. The fact that those mines are in there is a massive deterrent to these tankers and super tankers because if you run into a mine, what can happen is these the ship itself can split in half. And there’s no real way to ever repair a ship that gets hit bad by one of these mines opposed to like a cruise missile, a precision munition where perhaps that ship can be repaired.

It’s just simply too dangerous to ever allow a ship hit by a mine to go back into the water because at any moment it could break apart. So the fact that those mines are in there, that there’s evidence now that those ships have ran into mines, is something that can overcome the fact that captains of these ships are being offered like $850,000 per trip. This is something that of course this is life-threatening, right? It’s more threatening than simply cruise missiles. With that being said, when it comes to US control of the Strait of Hormuz, this is footage, broadcast on [broadcaster unclear], so Iranian state media, and their journalist here, of course, is there.

He’s got access to these sites. But the reason I’m showing this is because they filmed basically like these little documentaries where the correspondent is able to at day and night be toured around the Strait of Hormuz on the IRGC Navy’s boats to go and look at these ships that have been hit in the Strait of Hormuz which shows who is really dominant. Now, this is not to say that the United States cannot attack Iranian tankers, that it can’t impose a blockade, of course it can. But the idea that it is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, well, this footage really runs to the contrary of that.

Also, it appears like some Gen Z Iranians have been given command of producing the videos of their operations. So this is a one of the latest videos released also by the IRGC where it shows the different kinds of munitions both cruise missiles and more sophisticated Shahed drones which are used in order to strike targets in the Strait of Hormuz. Here you have the Shahed drones being fired and of course striking targets. As a disclaimer, we always give on this channel this is for educational purposes.

This is not an endorsement of this footage. And so that is that. So you see the different kinds of Shahed drones they get to use and then these cruise missiles that they’re using as well. And here we have the destruction, as it shows. And so again, this proves that the Iranians are using way more sophisticated munitions which are guided of course by the cameras that are attached to them as well as other technology which is available in these missiles which has led to the US withdrawing.

The last time we saw any evidence of where the US had placed its aircraft carrier, it was like a thousand kilometers away from the Iranian coastline. And there’s a reason why it was pulled back so much. Either the Iranians did manage to hit it like they claimed or they sent the message to the United States that they can hit it and so they really withdrew it and pulled it back from real striking distance which is of course of great significance. ## Lebanon-Israel border conflict

Now, one of the major stories that emerged today was that a teen was killed and 24 were injured along the Lebanon border. Now, the Israelis are claiming and their media is claiming that it is a Hezbollah munition that was left behind from a rocket. It’s a cluster munition from a rocket. Now, I am not a weapons expert, but that doesn’t really look like it’s a submunition from any Hezbollah rocket. Again, as a non-weapons expert here, take what you may here. Anyway, the Israelis are having a big cry about this. But basically what happened is the Israelis and a bunch of teachers chose to allow students to go on a hike right along the border.

I think the area that they were in was 50 meters from the Lebanon border fence right or the demarcation zone. The fence sometimes of course has been placed inside Lebanese territory in violation of international law, but we won’t go into what the blue line looks like and how Israel has been violating that way before October 7, 2023. But the Israelis they decided to allow their students in some school to go on a I guess an excursion. They were hiking. Interesting place to be going hiking to bring children next to what is an active war zone 50 m away from the borderline where there’s all these unexploded munitions.

So what happened is one of these Israeli teenagers picked up this cluster munition and put it in their backpack. I think they even took a photo of it and then of course it detonated and it injured 24 of them, killed one. There’s a whole bunch in critical condition. And now they’re blaming Hezbollah for this. As if there is nothing of their own decision making here that is at fault. A similar thing happened when they sent an Israeli archaeologist earlier this year into southern Lebanon and then he strolled upon an unexploded munition and blew himself up.

And then they had a big cry about that and they said that Hezbollah has to be punished and all the rest. Number one, you’re inside of another country’s territory. Number two, why is a civilian being placed in that position in the first place? And when it comes to blame in this case, it’s sort of like someone was out and like imagine that there was a school excursion or something and they went to the beach and they had all of these warnings. Hey, this is like a shark-infested waters and they went out into shark-infested waters at peak feeding time and then there was like a massive bull shark attack and all of these people got killed.

It’s sort of, like sometimes you can’t blame the shark. You have in this case there’s decisions that get made. And why in the world would you make that decision? But of course, now this is, being used as if it’s a justification to bomb Lebanese territory again and kill more civilians in Lebanon. As it always is, everything is always a justification for more killing. That being said, there have been a number of cases of what Israel has called false alarms and then it went back on its claim and said, “Well, we’re going to investigate it further even though it was apparently a flock of birds and nothing to see here.” There have been a number of cases in fact recently two within a span of hours u of each other along the Lebanon border area where there have been sirens and air defense munitions fired.

We’ve been covering these events in past streams as well because there’s been other cases like this. And it’s very clear from the reporting that we have in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military and what they report in the Israeli media and what they report that Hezbollah has been using surveillance drones to watch the Israeli soldiers, troop movements, everything like that. And so the Israelis have even deployed air defense system systems inside Lebanese territory to try and catch these drones and of course they’ve put technology there so that they can detect them at the very least to warn their soldiers and it’s very clear that Hezbollah is currently monitoring the border area.

It’s monitoring around military sites and now this has happened. The Israelis, are screaming and kicking and crying about it. And then a lot of them seeking to use it as an excuse to attack Lebanon again. And of course this is to be expected. It’s not unexpected that the Israelis would use this situation in this case. Although they have absolutely no evidence that any intent here is to do this but yeah that’s just the way things go. Again with that being said it has been now 3 years since the war between Lebanon and Israel has been ongoing.

Just so everyone is aware in that first phase of the war along that border area because since we’re talking about the border area just put this up on screen here. Again this is not an endorsement of this footage. It is for educational purposes. But these are the sort of operations that were carried out along the Lebanese border. Now again, the reason why I’m showing this is what you’re seeing here is that Hezbollah in late 2023 from October 8 all the way to the end of the year and then 2024 managed to dismantle all of that surveillance and security infrastructure along the Lebanon border that Israel had built up.

This is billions and billions of dollars worth of surveillance equipment. Most of which can’t be fully replaced. And anytime they would try and put back up even cameras, Hezbollah would carry out sniper operations to shoot these cameras to take them out. So you’re seeing here a whole bunch of these operations and these would happen on a daily basis where they would be using their artillery rocket fire. They would be using their guided anti-tank missiles, drones, everything that you’re seeing here to take out all this technology along the border.

And they would of course in retaliation for Israel striking civilians in Lebanon would attack the settlement areas as well. But really here what’s important to focus on and what you’re watching is the dismantlement of that Israeli security infrastructure. So now the Israelis are ultra paranoid about the ability of Lebanese Hezbollah and also the Palestinian resistance factions that operate out of Lebanon to be able to approach that border area. So now that they are deployed in their occupying territory inside of southern Lebanon, this is something that they argued they needed to do and one of the reasons why they believed that they needed to do that.

That’s an Israeli drone being shot out the sky. So the importance of understanding this is that the Israelis believe that now they’re basically without eyes and ears. To a large extent they can’t see and monitor fighters in southern Lebanon, resistance fighters, even individuals that want to commit actions. We saw earlier in the year that individuals not affiliated with any group during the period where Israel was expanding and occupying Lebanese territory that one individual Lebanese managed to go and cross the Israeli border and clash with Israeli soldiers at a military site by himself.

He got on his motorbike. He informed his parents and family about it. He got a rifle and he managed to clash and injure a bunch of Israeli soldiers. We never heard if any of them ever died. Good luck getting an admission of that from the Israelis. They just really don’t admit what happens to those injuries later. But he was obviously killed. So the Israelis now a lot of that infrastructure along the border has been degraded massively. There is a reason again why they did that. They knew that it would be more difficult for the Israelis in the long run if they took out this equipment and these radars and technology that the Israelis were using.

And again, this is billions upon billions of dollars of equipment that were was destroyed in the leadup to September of 2024 when the situation dramatically changed. And you see as well the sort of weapons that Hezbollah were using there. They still have their stockpiles of these weapons that they’ve been using throughout this year as well. But there is of course moving on from briefly here from the Lebanese front

Airport attacks and context

there’s also been a lot of condemnation of Yemen’s Ansar Allah and that is for the attack on Riyadh airport. This is Al Jazeera’s report here and of course you have reports from many different corporate media outlets. They’re all in lockstep on this and the way that they’re presenting it, right? Trump denounced it and threatened to attack Yemen because of this. He claims that he’s in communication with Ansar Allah. But putting aside that the headlines are talking about the Houthis when the party that controls Sanaa, the capital city of Yemen and runs the government there is Ansar Allah, not the Houthis.

That’s a family name that is not the name of their party. They insist on using Houthis even though they don’t call themselves that even though that family is not the only people that are in the movement support the movement. It’s a party that runs a government. It had two-thirds of the armed forces behind it. And continues to have the armed forces behind it. Tribal forces which have allied with them. They also get called Shia. The majority of the Yemeni population are actually Sunni. And in these areas where Ansar Allah governs and people that are supportive of Ansar Allah, many of them are also Sunni.

But of course, there is a large contingent base of Zaydi Shia Muslims who are part of this. And again, we have to mention this because of all the sectarian nonsense that gets passed around when trying to cover this topic. Now the attack which took place recently which caught the entire world’s attention concerning the attack the ballistic missile attack on the terminal 3 of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. A lot of people have said how can this be this must be condemned?

Do you condemn the attack? All of this. And of course, this is not something that when it comes in an international airport, this needs to be made clear before anything else is said here. Attacks on international airports and civilians are not something that we’re going to work to support. But it comes back to what the context is behind this attack having taken place. Now, of course, these were all civilians killed. And of course that is horrible. Nobody wants to see civilians killed. Again, this is to preface what is about to be said.

However, a lot of people have taken this now in order to paint a picture of Saudi Arabia are the good guys. They’re under attack and civilians are being killed. And how could you ever attack an airport? The Saudi authorities have said that attacking an international airport is a violation of international law. It’s a war crime. How could they do this? How could they attack our international airport? And so here is let’s break this down into different parts. Number one, okay, and all of these parts are important and together, but number one, they didn’t just simply attack the terminal 3 of the King Khalid airport, international airport in Riyadh.

Out of nowhere, there was a Saudi air campaign which was composed of over a hundred fighter jets being used to carry out more than a thousand air strikes on Yemen at the start of this month. Right. And in Yemen, there has been a lot of civilian casualties. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands of others have been injured. So Yemen after this attack, the thousand air strikes carried out in a single wave by Saudi Arabia against them, Yemen announced that it would be imposing a no-fly zone over Saudi Arabia.

And so then it stated, it warned that civilian airliners are not allowed, unless it’s a humanitarian flight, are not allowed to fly over any Saudi Arab to any Saudi airports other than those in Mecca and Medina. That’s it. Okay, they were made that very clear. Now, Saudi Arabia ignored this and continued attacking. Yemen’s armed forces then fired missiles in the vicinity of Riyadh International and other airports in Jeddah and different places inside of the country. They were disrupting the landing of jets and they were stating again and they warned Saudi Arabia once again that they were imposing a no-fly zone.

Saudi Arabia ignored this. So they escalated and they blew up at least one was completely destroyed and two others were partially destroyed jets on the tarmac in Riyadh International Airport. They directly hit them. The Saudis decided after this that they would continue despite the threats, despite the possibility and the repeated statements that they would that Yemen was going to hit their airports if they did not stop all flights, that they were imposing this no-fly zone. They still continued allowing flights through King Khalid International Airport. So then we have the big mass casualty event when a ballistic missile impacted the terminal 3 in that airport which killed at least 12 people and injured 307 others.

Now at that point there the actions of the Saudi authorities were rather reckless. Of course this was an attack on an international airport. And under international law, this is not a valid target to go after a terminal in an airport. And to make that clear, but with that being said, Saudi Arabia has a responsibility to the safety of the people who are passing through its airports. After that attack happened, Saudi Arabia wanted to reopen the airport and did. And then another missile was fired into Terminal 4.

Earlier we used the example of sometimes when someone is eaten by a shark. It’s horrible, but do we just say, ‘Condemn the shark, kill the shark—bad’? Is there also some level of—if you’re constantly warned, ‘Don’t go into shark-infested waters, this is feeding time for the sharks,’ and you just insist on going out? There is also something of recklessness that comes into this. Okay, that is one point. That’s point number one. Point number two, this conflict, right, the end of the ceasefire between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, how did the ceasefire deteriorate?

A lot of people, again, we start history whenever the media points out something about the side they don’t like. So the conflict restarted—the ceasefire collapsed—not after Yemen’s Ansar Allah fired missiles. If you are going to look at the corporate media, then that’s what you’re going to get, right? So here’s Reuters: ‘Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia, breaking years of calm.’ This is the footage which they play alongside it. Okay, what’s happening here? Now, the reason why Yemen fired ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia back in July:

This is July 13 when the attack first took place on Sanaa International Airport. The conflict restarted literally because Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport, the biggest international airport in Yemen, in the Yemeni capital. Saudi Arabia bombed it. That’s how this conflict restarted. Not only that, Saudi Arabia has bombed Yemen’s airports since 2015. And this is point number three. They’ve bombed Yemen’s airports since 2015, imposing a no-fly zone over Yemen, imposing a land, air, and sea blockade on Yemen. So they have struck Yemen airports over 250 times themselves, killing civilians.

This attack didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s very easy to just pick at one story which goes viral on the corporate media and then ignore the fact that Saudi Arabia has been doing the very same thing to Yemen since 2015. The difference now is Yemen has precision munitions which are capable of doing the same thing back to them. That’s the difference now. And again, the reason why this war restarted in July is because Saudi Arabia bombed Sanaa International Airport to stop an Iranian civilian airliner from landing in the airport, upholding their blockade on Yemen, their no-fly zone over Yemen.

Why is Saudi Arabia for over a decade get to impose a no-fly zone, get to strike Yemen airports hundreds of times? No one bats an eye. No one talks about it. No one condemns it. Nobody even knows that this is the case. There’s no big media headlines about it. They were using cluster munitions on civilian populations. They bombed schools. They bombed hospitals. They bombed mosques. They bombed weddings. They bombed funerals. They bombed the first responders to massacres that they had committed. And they continue to commit civilian massacres inside of Yemen.

They continue to bomb civilian areas indiscriminately inside of Yemen. And I bet nobody knows that around 200 [figure unclear in the supplied transcript] civilians in Yemen, 60% of them women and children, have been killed in the war. So when we look at what Yemen is doing, yes, under international law, this is a violation of international law for sure, any attack on any airport. But now Saudi Arabia gets to stand up and moan and cry and whine about an international airport being struck after that’s what it’s been doing since 2015. It makes no sense.

And so you see these people now that they’re they talk about Yemen and now they’re using this event in order to try and claim that, Saudi Arabia is the moral side. Yes, Saudi Arabia that is bombing civilians across Yemen and has continued to do it, but this time in specific with Israeli intelligence behind it, with Israeli intelligence aiding its air strikes across Yemen. And it’s fighting the party. All of its missiles and its drones are basically named after Palestine. Okay? It is the only country, the only government that ordered a blockade on Israel, that ordered missile and drone strikes on Israel in retaliation for the Gaza genocide.

The only one. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, allowed for the Israelis to circumvent that blockade and get goods into the country using their territory. And then through Jordan while the genocide was ongoing, it had parties and it had Shakira and all of these different people performing pretty close to Mecca, by the way, as well. And they had all these performances and these sporting events and all of that. And then the Saudi scholars were all up there condemning and some of them even mocking Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades openly mocking Hamas, mocking the Palestinians in Gaza, calling the Palestinians and calling Hamas kuffar, grave worshippers, all of this, saying that boycotting is haram.

That’s what we heard from these Khaleeji scholars. Not all of them, of course, but a decent portion. No, you can’t fight against Israel because Israel is too powerful. Well, guess what? The tables have turned. Guess who’s not powerful enough to fight anymore when it comes to Yemen? Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is not powerful enough. ## Saudi-Israel collaboration

A friend of mine was begging me to play this. Again, with the Gen Z stuff, this is a summary of sort of what’s been happening over the past few weeks when it comes to Saudi Arabia versus Yemen. Okay, that’s the spokesperson for the Yemeni armed forces that in this video slapped Mohammed bin Salman. Okay. So, there’s that. And the reason why I’m playing that, I’ll couple it with this. This is new footage that emerged today actually from the King Khalid airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. So that’s new footage. This is from days ago when they hit those airliners.

But this has just emerged and they’ve actually been arresting US citizens. Saudi Arabia has been in order to try and punish them and stop people from filming the results of the Yemen ballistic missiles and drones and cruise missiles that have been fired at their targets. So this is new footage. This is the [oil-field name unclear] oil fields. Those oil fields supply Saudi Arabia with 30% of its oil. And then this is also footage here from Jeddah and Aramco facility there.

And what the Yemeni armed forces are vowing to do here is to destroy all Saudi infrastructure. So what has happened is and so many people are aware in terms of why the conflict has changed so much and why this hadn’t happened recently. Back in 2015, Yemen didn’t have these ballistic missile and drone capabilities that it has now. It started advancing more its drones and its missiles in 2020 and building up large stockpiles of these munitions and making them better as time went on. As we saw, they were able to fire some of these at Israel during the Gaza genocide.

And so back during in 2015 and when Saudi Arabia imposed its blockade, its air naval and land blockade on Yemen, which at one point Saudi Arabia had manufactured a famine inside of Yemen, not allowed even basic goods to get in from medicines to get into the people of Yemen. So people were starving and it was at such a point that even the spokesperson for Ansar Allah [as described in the source], the Houthis according to the mainstream media, but his last name is actually Houthi, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, he visibly lost a lot of weight and it looked like he was turning into skin and bones because there was a famine, a man-made famine imposed upon the people of Yemen.

All up, around 400,000 people have died in Yemen because of this war. And that situation went on until about 2022 when Saudi Arabia, not the so-called internationally recognized government because there’s no such thing. It’s a Saudi proxy and a bunch of militias that are proxies of Saudi Arabia that are fighting against the Ansar Allah government. Okay. Inside the country, that’s what it is. That’s the situation. Sorry to break it to you, but that’s the situation. There’s no internationally recognized government. Now they recognize it, but they recognized it like they recognized Juan Guaidó in Venezuela.

Although this is a different level of ridiculous, they claim you’ll see it. Al Jazeera at one point said the Yemeni air force bombed Sanaa, the Yemeni Air Force, the air force of the legitimate government of Yemen. They don’t have an air force. This is Saudi Arabia’s air force. Okay. But the situation was for the longest time Yemen civilians were getting massacred with cluster of munitions, indiscriminate strikes all over the country. Saudi Arabia were getting more and more desperate because they couldn’t defeat Ansar Allah and the Yemeni armed forces and the tribal forces that allied with them.

They couldn’t defeat them. And so they were killing more and more civilians. They imposed this medieval blockade. And do you know what? Their situation mirrors what we saw in Gaza. The Israelis did the same thing. The Israelis went in when they invaded Gaza and they got resistance and they got hit right hard with Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. The Israelis went in and then they went and bombed all the civilian areas and killed civilians. Now, of course, the Israeli genocide is much more intense than what we saw in Yemen, but it’s virtually the same story.

And then when they got desperate and they had no military options and they weren’t able to achieve their goals, for Israel, it was ethnically cleansing the population and thus causing a collapse of the resistance groups in the process. For the Saudis, it was regime change and destroying Ansar Allah as a party. When they couldn’t do that, they starved the population. They starved them, including children who would starve to death. And the Saudi leaders watched as the United Nations and all these international organizations, right, screamed from the rooftops about the famine in Yemen, which was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world for years.

And do you know what Saudi Arabia did? Nah, it’s okay. Don’t worry. So Yemen, that population in Yemen has suffered tremendously over the years. They’ve suffered an enormous amount. And so when they’re firing these missiles and they hit [airport name unclear in the supplied transcript], do you know why you’ll see some people celebrate that? Even though, of course, it’s all civilians that were killed. It’s not Saudi soldiers or anything like that. And of course, under international law, this is illegal to do this. Do you know why people will support it with this feeling of righteous indignation? Because in Yemen, the Saudi war against them that has slaughtered their people and starved them en masse has been ongoing for over a decade.

And nobody cared. Nobody batted an eye. And when people are coming out and the whole world is rallying to condemn the terrorist Houthis or the Houthis as Israel calls them, okay? And they’re siding with Saudi Arabia that is allied with Israel in this fight and that’s the case. Now, there’s no formal normalization between them, but again, we’ve pulled this up on the show. Axios News revealed that this and there’s the Israeli media that revealed the rest of this information. Number one, first point is Israel is supplying intelligence information for the Saudis to bomb targets inside of Yemen.

Israel is directly militarily backing up Saudi Arabia against Yemen. That same Yemeni armed forces that were the only Arab force to back up the Palestinians in Gaza to fire missiles at Israel to blockade Israel and to put it all on the line. And then by the way, Israel bombed Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. There was no international condemnation of that. Israel assassinated senior figures in the Yemeni government. Nobody cared. Israel bombed the port of Hodeidah where the majority of goods including international aid and all of that everything comes through to the Yemen population.

Okay. Point number two is that Axios News revealed that there was a private military retreat in Germany where top Saudi officials and Israeli officials met with each other in a private military retreat in mid-September to discuss Yemen and Iran together. Okay. Number three, when Netanyahu went to Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates to meet with Mohammed bin Zayed MBZ, he also met with a delegate from Saudi Arabia. A Saudi Arabian official directly met with Netanyahu. And then as it’s been reported time and time again, there has been this joint cooperation proposed by CENTCOM, U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, right, where an Arab-Israeli air defense coordination alliance is building a regional security shield, okay, against Iran and what they call the Houthis, Ansar Allah. Okay, this is something that we’ve seen emerge over this period. So for those people that so ignorantly use what happened at Riyadh International Airport or King Khalid International Airport in order to say here’s the good side and here’s the bad side and here’s where I stand. These are propagandists. Either propagandists or people who are totally ignorant of this conflict, the history behind it, and what has happened.

Because these are the same people that use the Israeli logic of history started on October 7. No, it didn’t start on October 7. And this war did not start with the bombing of Riyadh’s international airport. No, what is happening now is Yemen has the capabilities.

Ideology and proxy wars The Yemeni armed forces now have the capabilities to target in Saudi Arabia what was targeted in Yemen. All of Yemen’s infrastructure has been wiped out because of Saudi Arabia because of their air strikes. And historically, Saudi Arabia has worked alongside Israel in this conflict. It’s not just recent that the Israeli ties, Israeli security firms have been working inside of Yemen to carry out assassinations that they’ve been training militia forces that are deployed from the UAE in inside UAE territory. And even Oman, I think there was a report that they trained fighters and pushed them through the Omani border.

Okay. The Israelis were building up intelligence and military infrastructure on Mayun Island. Right. So, we’ll pull this up. This is from the earlier offensive, but there that island on the side here, Mayun, the Israelis along with the UAE backed forces, their proxy forces that controlled that island and then they dissolved into the greater Saudi-led coalition when the UAE got a little bit too little bit it punched above its weight a little bit against Saudi Arabia and then got knocked out of being a main player in Yemen.

And so all of the UAE’s proxies ran into the hands of Saudi Arabia. But in 2025, it was revealed that there was an airstrip suddenly built on Mayun Island and that the Israelis are also forming of course this strategy whereby on Mayun Island and these islands up here as well in the Red Sea coast in Somaliland which only Israel and the UAE have recognized the breakaway separatist state and in Socotra the Israelis were building military positions in all of these entrenching themselves, sending their fighters into sending IDF people into Somaliland, right?

They were building all of this surveillance and security infrastructure, military bases and to surround Yemen and secure control of the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb here and exert pressure and control over the Horn of Africa. By the Yemen armed forces capturing Bab el-Mandeb in Mayun Island. They are crushing the Israeli project which to control the Red Sea has been something since David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli prime minister has been fixated on controlling this region. Okay, this has been a long-term goal of the Israelis. The Yemeni armed forces of the Ansar Allah-led government in Sanaa collapsed an Israeli strategy to dominate the Red Sea, dominate the Horn of Africa, and have considerable control over the Arabian Peninsula.

That’s what they did with this offensive. That’s one of the reasons why it’s so incredibly significant. Okay? And that’s why it’s something that we have to keep in mind what’s actually happening here. These people that come in with these ridiculous, uneducated, ignorant comments, sectarian nonsense, right, have no legs to stand on when talking about Yemen because quite frankly, they don’t know anything about the history of Yemen. They don’t know anything about the forces inside of Yemen. They don’t know anything even about the conflict since 2015, let alone anything else before that.

Yet these people love to bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark with their stupid opinions. Now, everyone can make up their own mind on what they think of the forces inside of Yemen, the political party, Ansar Allah, whether they like it or not. This is not whether you like a political party or not, and whether you want to support a political party. That’s not what I’m into doing here, advertising a political party or whatever you want to think about said given force. There are clear-cut facts that have to be established when talking about the subject.

The same way there has to be clear-cut facts when talking about Palestine. You can’t just start history whenever you want to, when it’s convenient to point whatever out. And by the way, the forces that are currently fighting, this is something I’m going to pull up here because of course when it comes to Gaza, okay, we’re talking about the similarities between Yemen and Gaza. Okay, so here’s the Jerusalem Post, the rag that is the Jerusalem Post. Hamas facing internal unrest as Israel detects plans for renewed attacks, right?

They’re talking about all of this stuff. They do note that they don’t think any escalation is going to happen before the October elections. Well, if they’re preparing for an attack, it might actually be strategically viable for them to attack you before the elections. That’s because, of course, they don’t want to actually attack you like that. They’re preparing defensively because you have a genocidal leadership, genocidal society, and a genocidal military which is constantly taking more territory and never relenting with its pressure and its murder of civilians.

Okay. But with that being said, the Israelis, they’re talking about, oh, now the only possible long-term strategy to implement Trump’s 20-point plan, okay? As if that matters or exists from the so-called ceasefire that exists or doesn’t exist in Gaza where the Palestinian side ceases fire and the Israelis just fire whenever they want and do whatever, right? The Israeli this is an Israeli think tank here based in Tel Aviv, right? And they’re talking about possible directions for breaking the stalemate in Gaza. And in this they talk about the militant factions which they call the, the tribes in Gaza, the anti-Hamas tribes in Gaza.

The reason why I pulled this up because the Israelis are proposing, well, we’re the only ones that can deal with this. Our proxy forces in Gaza aren’t doing too well, which then they don’t call them proxy forces. They call them the anti-Hamas forces and that they’re heroes fighting the terrorists. And of course, again, the reason why I’m bringing this up is because inside of Yemen, the people that are fighting and waging the most capable faction inside of Yemen are called the Southern Giants Brigades. And who are the Southern Giants Brigades?

Their strongest fighters and their officers, right? The most competent ones are people who have this takfiri view and a Wahhabi mentality. They are ex-al-Qaeda fighters, ex-Daesh fighters which form up this group and al-Qaeda openly aligns with the internationally recognized government on the ground to fight the Yemeni armed forces of the Ansar Allah government. In Gaza, these tribes that are fighting, right, their fighters are all thugs. People that Israel bombed all of the prisons to let these people out, right, at the start of the war and then started paying them to steal food and aid, international aid under Israeli supervision.

The Israeli drone drones would be flying over above and these gangs would then ambush humanitarian aid convoys and steal the aid and hoard it and then leak some of it, drip feed it to the black market. But these are hardened criminals, drug dealers, thugs, people that were on death row for murdering people inside of Gaza and al-Qaeda people, people that were former members of al-Qaeda groups or Daesh, ISIS. That’s who they are. And when you hear them, these so-called Gaza opposition to Hamas groups that Israel founded and arms and trains and backs that operate freely in the territory that Israel illegally occupies in Gaza, when you hear them speak, what do they say?

They say Hamas are not Muslims. They’re kuffar. Right? And see this propaganda doesn’t work as much especially when it comes to Gaza right with the Sunni Muslim population of Gaza but this is their ideology and they have the exact same ideology as those militants that are fighting on the ground against the Yemen armed forces. The same ideology as the people that the CIA and the Mossad and the MI6 were backing up and giving support to in Syria in Iraq that suddenly as soon as the Iraqi government was collapsed when the US invaded Iraq through the Gulf through Saudi Arabia that’s how they got there that’s how they invaded Iraq the Sunni leader that they removed is a Baathist Right?

So the Baath Party is a secular nationalist party, but this is the way these people think. So that leadership was removed. Then all of these—we call them [term missing in the supplied transcript], which means to say that people are not Muslim, right? They’re disbelievers; they left the religion, so you can kill them. That’s their ideology. These people just flood into Iraq. Then these people just pop out of nowhere and get all this funding from Western intelligence agencies inside of Syria. Oh, and then they pop up inside of Lebanon and they’re going after the Shia there and the Christians and all the people that happen to support [sentence incomplete in the supplied transcript].

Okay. Oh, and then now these guys, which by the way, Hamas in Gaza, these Wahhabis, Hamas fought wars against the Wahhabis inside of Gaza, right? Or battles where it cracked down on all of these al-Qaeda linked groups. There was a splinter group of Daesh or ISIS which formed inside of Gaza which Hamas smashed crack down on immediately. And these groups would do things like carry out suicide bombings against civilians in Gaza. Okay. These forces and these people that are being used when we hear people talk about terrorists and all of this and which side and whose side they’re on.

Where do you think this ideology came from that these people have that fight against that just so happen to be the guys fighting on the ground every time they’re the guys fighting on the ground for regime change in whatever country the US wants to remove the government in whether that be in Libya whether that be Syria whether that be Iraq whether that be Iran right now there’s [group description unclear] groups in Iran that are being funded by the CIA and okay right? They just so happen to be all over the place fighting everyone that fights the United States or is opposed by the United States and Israel and they never fire any bullets and if they do they may, it’s a big mistake.

They’re never doing attacks against Israel. They’re never declaring jihad. And the scholars, right, the Gulf scholars are never calling people to join in on the great jihad against the Israelis. It’s always against other Muslims. It’s always against Muslim states. And those Muslims are never proper Muslims in any of these countries because of X, Y, Z reason that they have to be overthrown because they’re not the right kind of Muslim. And all of this goes back to the Wahhabi ideology which underpins Saudi Arabia. ## Historical context and summary

And while we’re at it, by the way, Abdul Aziz, the founding father of Saudi Arabia: the forces loyal to him, when we’re talking about specifically Yemen here, the forces loyal to him committed a massacre in 1922. This is before even like the formation happened in 1922 against Yemen pilgrims heading to Hajj to do Hajj right and killed up to 3,400 between 2,600 and 3,400 something like that a huge massacre against Yemen pilgrims. Okay, this is why there is such animosity historically even speaking against the Saudi royal family. That’s why they don’t like them very much in Yemen.

And of course, historically speaking, Saudi Arabia has always been on the side of Israel in Yemen. That’s just been the case even when Yemen wasn’t unified yet. There was a war in North Yemen and Egypt where involved Saudis on the other side and Saudi is getting covertly backed by Israel. Okay. But Saudi Arabia itself and the way it formed and the way it worked, okay, used this ideology of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and I’ve spoken about this a number of times on the show, but this ideology was created by this man who lived in the 1700s and then the ideology really would pick up the way that they used it in the 1800s.

And he basically taught that the Ottomans that controlled the Muslim lands there in the Arabian Peninsula at the time that the Ottomans were non-Muslims. And his excuse for this was that they do things that would be referred to as grave worship. I’m not going to get into the theological side of it of course but they said that because they do this is something that is so condemnable their practice of basically that they would do things like going to the grave of the prophet and asking for something right in prayer.

Okay. So this was so condemnable that this made the Ottomans and all of the what’s known as the ulema, the scholars the clerics and everyone in Mecca and in Medina, these areas they went through and they the Saudis were able to this royal family using that ideology of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to say that they’re non-Muslims to kill all the scholars to kill anyone they want that opposed them and to seize territory violently from people by just calling them non-Muslims and saying that they don’t understand what monotheism is.

Okay. So they took from him this excuse right this religiously oriented excuse to go after and kill Muslims and take their land. And then later on the mental gymnastics of it all is allying with the British was fine to attack the Ottomans who of course identify as Muslim because the Ottomans are not Muslims. They’re not the right kind of Muslim because of their practices. Does this start to sound familiar in the reasoning and the logic and the justifications here? Okay. And they side with the British because the British are the people of the book and the British are strong.

So you have to side with the strong as well. And then what do they do? They help them take over all of this territory across the region. And then France and Britain open season to create the Sykes-Picot agreement to create these artificial borders throughout the region with the help of people like the Saudis who would form what is now Saudi Arabia in the Arabian Peninsula. So whenever it’s convenient, they use this justification against people they don’t like. And it’s nothing actually to do with the religion itself.

It’s just a cheap trick that is used to convince people to hate each other, to divide populations, and then to justify military aggression and expansionism or whatever they want in order to seize more territory and to cut up the region. Now, of course, the Saudis have historically been allied with the United States. They have very close ties with them. And after the first Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, which the US gave him permission to do, it’s interesting, isn’t it? Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with US permission, but then the US for some reason got really angry about it and then created the fake babies in incubator story and all of the rest of it.

And then the US just so happens as a result of the first Gulf War, not only does it, kill like a hundred thousand people and all the rest of it, right? And then get to oppose Saddam Hussein and cut him back to size and then eventually overthrow him by invading the country, but it gets one thing that’s very key in the region out of that equation. It gets to embed itself militarily so heavily in these Persian Gulf Arab states in Saudi Arabia and the rest of it.

And a lot of people going back to the plane situation here with the airport situation of King Khalid international airport. A lot of people are saying why can’t Saudi Arabia shoot down the Yemeni missiles? Well, it’s very clear the United States, number one, they’re operating a whole bunch of these air defense systems that Saudis bought. Number two, and so that means that they’re going to defend their own assets over Saudi Arabia. Number two, munition stockpiles are low and also it’s a big amount of territory to cover.

It’s not as easy to shoot them down as, for instance, the Israelis, which have a smaller amount of territory. And also the US prioritizes the Israelis. That’s quite frankly this just the truth. They’re racist against Arabs. So it doesn’t matter how much the Arab states, these Gulf monarchies give in terms of investment and how far they go to demonstrate that they’re the good moderate type of Muslims when they need to be. And then they’ll put all of their, al-Qaeda people and all of that stuff and push all that stuff where they need to favor you, the US, right?

But we’re going to do everything to please you, right? We’ll go to every war. We’ll help Israel with air defense. We’ll collaborate with the Israelis, the UAE, and Bahrain. We’ll open up ties with Israel. You know what? At the end of the day, they’re still Arabs. And they’re not going to protect them like they protect Israel. They protect Israel over their own soldiers, right? There’s a hierarchy. There’s like, an ethnic hierarchy here that they employ. And they don’t like Arabs. Arabs are at the bottom of that, right?

So, it doesn’t matter. They think that they’re wonderful because, they have so much money. All right? They have so much money and they can buy like 1,500 parrots and put them on a private jet and get into the Guinness Book of World Records. And they can put, a car up at a very high place and build the tallest building and the deepest pool and all of that. And they think that makes them special in the eyes of the United States. No, it doesn’t. Just makes them a convenient cash cow.

And they just so happen to have embedded their militaries in these Gulf States. How’s that serving them right now? Because were any of these Gulf states consulted about the war on Iran, whether they would want this or not and the destruction of their infrastructure? When it comes to Israel and the United States plotting to attack Iran again and go after Iranian civilian infrastructure, is it really the biggest consideration in the world of what happens to the Gulf? Not really. Not really, because they just don’t value them like that.

Now, they have it in their heads, these elites, these monarchies that they’re so special and they’re so important, but the United States, Trump said it himself during the Iran war, during the 40-day war period. Trump said it himself. Mohammed bin Salman was kissing my ass. He openly said that. Okay, that’s what they think of them. And so now in Yemen, they’re scared. They’re scared with what’s going on in Yemen. And they’re scared with the regional axis as well because Iran has not lost. There hasn’t been regime change.

Iran is currently right now still, I believe, at this moment doing all of its military exercises in preparation and testing new munitions and demonstrating its power. That’s pretty scary. Okay. Looks like now there’s back and forth bombing that’s ongoing. Just to get a summary of what’s happening right at this moment, Sanaa and Riyadh are both getting bombed. The [place name unclear] area as well in Saudi Arabia is also getting bombed, right? But they’re incredibly scared, these Gulf monarchies, because they understand number one, this war could result in their total destruction.

Number two, the Yemen thing scares them. It scares them a lot because if Yemen comes out independent of all of this, well, Yemen was the only one that stood up for Gaza in the entire Arab world. No one other the others that did were Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance in Iraq. Okay? And they their role was much lesser, the Iraqi role. But Hezbollah and then the Yemeni armed forces that’s it. They were the only ones. So if Yemen becomes free and independent, then that threatens all those monarchies because if they see that as a result of the Arab Spring in 2011 when the people in Yemen rose up to overthrow their dictator who’ve been in power for over three decades, who was aligned with the United States in the so-called war on terror, who was cracking down on all dissent, who helped introduce even further the Wahhabi ideology.

Okay? Because that was something all the way back in the 80s and the ’90s the Saudis were really pushing Wahhabi ideology inside of Yemen. If the people rose up, they overthrew their government, and of course, it’s taken a long time, but they have an independent movement that opposes US imperialism, that doesn’t allow the United States to have any influence inside their territory. They can purge these groups like Al-Qaeda and all of these others, right? And they can fight for Palestine and they can support the Palestinian resistance and they openly fire on Israel and they start actually becoming a bit more wealthy.

They get the [word unclear] dropped and life gets better for them. This poses a threat to all those monarchies because there’s an alternate route now. You can do something else. You don’t have to submit. You don’t have to be a slave by choice. You don’t have to do that. So that threatens them. They don’t like that very much. So that’s why they’re so scared. That’s why they’ve got all their propaganda being pushed. That’s why they try and divide people. Quite frankly, if you’re in favor, like this is just quite just being very blunt here.

If you’re in favor of Saudi Arabia and allied with Israel against Yemen and you’re in favor of the Iranian government falling, then you’re in favor of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. You’re in favor of the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. You’re in favor of the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Now you might think that’s hyperbolic. No, because that’s what it leads to. That’s what it leads to. If there’s no resistance, then what is going to stop that? And who is the other resistance? The Sunni resistance.

The so-called Sunni resistance. You know where the Sunni resistance is? It’s in Palestine. It’s in Palestine. There is a Sunni resistance. And they are in Palestine. They exist. Okay. But the sectarian nonsense that tries to cover up all of this, okay, these historic links and the trajectory of the resistance and all the rest of it makes a lot of sense if you understand the region and it’s organic and it’s from the people and you don’t have to like all of the movements and what they do and all of the rest of it.

You don’t have to like them all and their ideologies and all of that, but sometimes you have to acknowledge reality for what it is. That being said, there is some more footage that we have from Yemen. So, this footage here is from when the PLC Saudi proxy forces attempted to advance in the Marib area. And as you’re seeing, they just tried to advance across a desert area. Not a very good idea, really. So this is sped up and we’ve cut out a bunch of the footage here.

That’s an attack on an armored vehicle using a guided anti-tank weapon. So that was a hit and then you saw, I believe, a gun that flew off of it there. Here’s another one attacked here. So that’s some footage of what happened to the attempted offensive in Marib inside of Yemen. So what the Saudi proxies tried to do is take more territory and push the Yemeni armed forces of the Ansar Allah government back. And yeah, it was, militarily speaking, a very stupid move to just, full throttle ahead across an open desert plain when the positions are guarded with people who have precision munitions.

Not a very smart idea. This great offensive that we’re hearing was supposed to have taken place. Talking about the great offensives. Here’s some more FPV drone footage. These are again Saudi proxy forces inside of Yemen that are getting hunted down. There’s two of them there by a FPV, first-person-view drone. So, this is more footage. Again, we’ve sped up the footage here and also edited it down. If you want to see the full video including the first one of the Marib failed offensive from the Saudi backed forces and the destruction of their vehicles and seizure of other vehicles the full video is on MintPress News’s X and Telegram.

Similarly with this video footage that you’re seeing here of the FPV drones. So you see, again they’re monitoring their own attacks. So they’re being able to provide you footage from another angle to confirm their effectiveness. In this case again another one of those vehicles and this is what’s being made really of the Saudi-backed forces offensives. They’re getting caught with these FPV drones and they’re being used very effectively. Like I mentioned during the last stream, the Yemeni armed forces don’t have to use the FPV drones with the fiber optic cables attached to them because they don’t have to worry about the jamming capabilities in Yemen like Hezbollah has to worry about when it comes to fighting the Israelis.

So that means that they can of course maneuver over a lot larger territory, right? They can cover a lot more ground. Be fired from further out than the drones that are typically being used by Hezbollah against the Israelis inside of Lebanese territory and of course across the Lebanon border as well into occupied Palestine. But again, this footage is constantly emerging of what’s happening on the battlefield. We’re also getting a lot of reports coming in about the use of short-range ballistic missiles to target the positions of the Saudi-backed forces by the Yemeni armed forces.

So there again you see more footage and the full video is available on our social media but it’s important to cover that as it’s coming out. The corporate media doesn’t show you what’s going on the battlefield. In fact, they just don’t have even the terminology down for what’s happening, let alone the history or anything like that, right? Because again, they live in their presentation of the world is, people in the independent media who are covering this and quite frankly, there’s few and far between who are even actually paying attention to this here.

But there’s that coverage in the independent media which is presenting this for what it is and then there’s open the wardrobe and step into the wardrobe and there’s Narnia and Narnia is what you will read in the corporate media or the Gulf-owned media right those Persian Gulf monarchies their media that they own and the media the corporate media in the United States or UK or whatever you’re reading Narnia now. It’s a wonderful story. It’s a really great story to follow. It’s very convincing, okay, if you stay in the little bubble.

And sometimes I like reading fiction too. I like the narratives, it is entertaining, but the real world is not Narnia. So, yeah, best not to listen to their nonsense. With all that being said, we’ll continue to monitor everything that’s been going on. If you made it this far into the video, please do hit that like button. Add a comment below. Tell us what you think of these videos, any comments that you have, and also maybe different things that you would like to be covered here that you aren’t hearing covered properly from the corporate media or things that you would just like to have broken down.

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And add context to things that they quite frankly don’t want you to have the context on. Because at the end of the day, the wars are actually built on the back of media campaigns and lies and propaganda. And when you can sort of zoom out and see the bigger picture and when you’re able to see the details you become less angry, and it actually ends up preventing conflicts and making you opposed to killing innocent people because of nonsense that is being repeated about those people. And so with that all being said, we’ll be back on the same place, same time, 4:00 p.m. CST on Thursday for another episode, and we’ll be covering everything that emerges until then. Right now, like I said before, there are ongoing strikes between Sanaa in Yemen. It’s getting bombed by the Saudi Air Force and ballistic missiles are flying at infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. So that’s sort of what we’ll end the show on. And also, hey, Iran blew up four tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, which is supposedly under the control of the US president. So, we’ll leave it at that until next time and I hope everyone takes care until our next