00:00And now, to expand on this topic, we welcome internationalist Jean-Paul Mertz, who is in Caracas, Venezuela, and will
00:09help us analyze better the joint attacks on Iran made by the United States and Israel.
00:15Hello, Jean-Paul. Thank you for joining us.
00:19Yes, yes. Everything is connected by the recent actions, hostile actions of the American government against Venezuela and take their
00:32oil reserves, try to seize it before attacking Iran and the Middle East.
00:39Because now, with that reserves in the hands, they could risk a rise of the price of oil to try
00:50to make some profits with using a war in the Middle East.
00:58Because they take already a lot of oil to try to sell it to another country like China with very
01:14elevated prices.
01:16So, it's a very, very bad strategy of marketing strategy.
01:26But the problem is they don't analyze the consequences for the men, their bases, their military bases, their losses they
01:40can face when Iran deepens their retaliation attacks against the Americans and Zionists who attack it in the first time.
01:55But that's the problem of that kind of wars.
02:00You can start a war, but if it escalates quickly, you don't know what will happen at the end.
02:10We got our first question for you.
02:12After this attack, is there any trust left for negotiations with the United States?
02:20That's the problem.
02:22That's the problem.
02:23The Trump administration is basically, he wants to manage it like it's a private corporation and not a country.
02:33So, he doesn't trust in international law and when a country is not based in international law and tries to
02:43base their policies only in their...
02:54You lack of responsibility and you can face a lot of things that can also affect the American people instead.
03:05There is a lot of American people who reject those kind of situations and who the Trump administration impulsed with
03:15a really, really lack of any responsibility and a lack of respect and use the negotiations only to try to
03:26hide their intention of an attack.
03:29So, what could be the consequences of a prolonged war in the Middle East?
03:37Yeah, the first is the rise of oil, oil prices.
03:42The close of the Hormuz Strait, who held more than 20% of the oil exported in the world, it's
03:54really, really, it could be raised all the oil prices to a level so high that it's...
04:03All the war can suffer about the rise of those prices.
04:11Another thing is when the international law, as already violated by the Americans, when they made an airstrike against Venezuela,
04:23now they repeat there again another threat of war to try to have a regime change in Iran.
04:34So, now the immediate consequences is Iran targeting the Zionist entity, Israel, with their response airstrikes and also all military
04:52bases of the Americans in the Middle East are on their threat now.
04:56So, now the Americans started to put in a really danger all their positions and their advances in the Middle
05:10East and their lack of responsibility is almost like the one who the Nazis showed before the Second World War.
05:21So, this is a very, very high risk of global escalation if this cannot be stopped by now.
05:32And we are sure in Venezuela that the diplomacy is the only way to try to avoid more escalation of
05:43the conflict that could risk all the war.
05:48So, our last question is what's the role of international community in halting this ongoing violation of international norms?
06:01Yes, the international community needs to force the American government and Israeli government to try to respect the international law,
06:13to show more respect to international law.
06:15So, maybe the threat of an escalation will be enough of some response in response by military of Iran and
06:30its allies who show the Americans how risky it is for them to try to initiate another war in the
06:41Middle East.
06:42It can be spread all over the region and it will be dangerous for all people.
06:51So, now all the countries that don't want to raise this escalation need to have all the diplomatic efforts they
07:05could to try to again seat the Americans and Iran in another situation can get out of their hands.
07:18We'll get a couple of hours.
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