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Iran has threatened to blockade the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a critical maritime chokepoint for global trade, if the US initiates ground operations on Kharg Island.
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00:01Good evening. Iran has threatened to open the second front against global shipping in case the U.S. puts boots
00:09on ground and threatens the jewel of Iran, the Kargah Island.
00:14It's a big threat from Iran to blockade the second choke point in global shipping and that is Bab al
00:20-Mandab.
00:20This is the most vital 29 kilometer wide maritime choke point between Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula.
00:28Now, look this entire situation right now. On the one side, you have this Bab al-Mandab.
00:36Bab al-Mandab is barely 29 kilometers wide. This choke point right next to Yemen and it can be dominated
00:43by Iran-supported Houthi rebels.
00:47And on the top, the other side, I want to show you that is the Strait of Hormuz that Iran
00:53has threatened to blockade in case America puts boots on ground.
00:58And it's already blockaded it to a very large extent except for friendly countries including India.
01:03So, for a moment, I want to talk about Bab al-Mandab.
01:06Now, this is a very critical choke point between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in Africa.
01:14Now, this route connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and we're showing you both the Red Sea
01:20and the Gulf of Aden.
01:22It's extremely crucial for global trade.
01:24This carries about 12% of all seaborne oil and over 20% of container traffic that's en route to
01:31the Suez Canal.
01:32Now, just as you go higher, you come to the Suez Canal.
01:35So, cargo worth around 1 trillion US dollars.
01:39That's about 95 lakh crore rupees passes through Bab al-Mandab every year.
01:44So, day 27 of this war, it's seen massive escalation on multiple fronts.
01:49The United States and Israeli forces, they've carried out precision strikes on Bandar Abbas.
01:54And I now want to show you the Strait of Hormuz separately.
01:58Now, a precision strike has been carried out on Bandar Abbas.
02:02They've neutralized top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Naval Commander of Iran, Rear Admiral Ari Reza Tangsiri.
02:11They've not only killed Tangsiri according to intelligence inputs that are coming in from Israel,
02:16but they've also killed his intelligence and operations chiefs on ground
02:20and a strike at an underground command and control structure.
02:23Iran hit back with launching drone strikes, rocket and missile strikes,
02:28not just targeting Israel, but GCC countries across the region.
02:31I'm Gaurav Savant.
02:32We'll get you all details over the next one hour,
02:35how this arc of battle is widening, this theater of war is widening.
02:39But first, let me quickly recap the day's top developments on day 27.
02:46US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that Iran is begging for a deal.
02:51But in the same breath, Trump warned Tehran against dragging its feet.
02:56Trump has said they need to get serious about a deal soon because if Iran delays this any further,
03:01it will be too late and then there'll be no turning back.
03:05Indications are ominous.
03:07Multiple reports suggest United States is planning to carry out operations on ground
03:11in the energy-rich Khark Island as Washington DC attempts to gain critical leverage over Tehran.
03:18Iran in response is increasing its defenses.
03:22It's deployed additional personnel on ground.
03:24It's deployed surface-to-air missiles, anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines
03:29and has threatened to mine that entire belt, sea mines, to prevent any amphibious assault.
03:35Iran has also warned the United States.
03:37It will close Bab al-Mandab's trade if Washington DC launches ground operations.
03:43Iran backed Houthis.
03:45They're dominant.
03:46They're the main force in Yemen.
03:48They've promised to support Tehran's pushback to block this trade.
03:51Now, 12% of global oil passes through this route.
03:56Iran has asserted the Strait of Hormuz is not completely shut and that's very significant.
04:01This key route remains open to friends.
04:05Tehran has announced it will not impose a blockade on vessels that belong to five countries
04:10including India, a friend, Russia and China.
04:15Israel claims it's eliminated.
04:17A top Israeli, Iranian commander, the IRGC naval commander,
04:22Rear Admiral Ari Reza Tangseeri in a strike at Bandar Abbas.
04:26Tangseeri was actually overseeing the blockade of Strait of Hormuz
04:30and headed the division that specializes in asymmetrical naval warfare.
04:36Iranian strikes on Gulf nations continue.
04:39Two people have been killed after a missile was intercepted by the UAE.
04:42Air defense forces in Abu Dhabi.
04:44Three others sustained injuries.
04:46These vehicles were also damaged as debris from the successful missile interception
04:50fell in a locality.
04:52You're looking at those images on your television screen.
04:55U.S. President Donald Trump has made yet another claim
04:58saying Iran proposed to make him the supreme leader,
05:03the supreme commander.
05:05But he said no to that offer.
05:07Staying with President Trump,
05:08the U.S. President has once again lashed out at his North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners,
05:14slamming them for not supporting Washington, D.C.'s war against Tehran.
05:19He insisted the United States will no longer need anything from NATO
05:23but will not forget the actions at this point of time.
05:27The government of India has dispelled rumors of any fuel crisis in the country.
05:32The Petroleum Ministry actually issued a statement insisting India has sufficient oil and gas
05:38supplies and reserves and can sustain for the next two months.
05:42The energy situation, government insists, remains in control.
05:46Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak to Chief Ministers across the country
05:51via video conferencing to review the ongoing war in West Asia and its impact on India.
05:58The meeting will focus on measures that are being undertaken by the central government,
06:03measures that need to be undertaken by the state government.
06:06So preparedness, supply chains, energy security and the safety of Indians overseas.
06:13But for the moment, I want to focus on Iran upping the ante.
06:20Iran has threatened to choke the world's energy and trade lifelines.
06:23Tehran has already restricted access through the Strait of Hormuz,
06:27permitting passage only to vessels from friendly countries including India.
06:31But the pressure tactics are being taken a notch higher.
06:34Iran has now signaled a potential move to target another very critical choke point,
06:38the Babal Mandab Strait.
06:40And this narrow stretch of water that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden
06:44is vital for global oil and trade flows between Asia, Europe and beyond.
06:51Bab al-Mandab.
06:53It actually means the Gate of Tears.
06:57It's a very vital but a narrow 29-kilometer-wide maritime choke point
07:02between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in Africa.
07:07So it connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Strait is located southwest of Yemen.
07:13It forms a very crucial corridor for ships, oil tankers that are headed to the Suez Canal.
07:20Bab al-Mandab may be a small choke point in the Red Sea but it outsizes influence on world's energy
07:26supplies.
07:26Like we just mentioned, cargo worth 1 trillion US dollars passes through Bab al-Mandab every year.
07:32However, the Strait historically was not only crucial, why is it called the Gateway of Tears?
07:41It's because it has a history of shipwrecks in the earlier times.
07:45Hence, the Gateway of Tears.
07:47It serves as a vital gateway for vessels that are transiting between Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia and then East
07:55Asia.
07:564.5 million barrels of oil transit the Strait every day.
08:01Previously, the Bab al-Mandab wasn't a preferred route for trade for large vessels.
08:07Why? Because it's a very narrow waterway.
08:09The Gate of Tears gained prominence incidentally after 1869.
08:14And why 1869?
08:15Because that's the time the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
08:20And the canal joins the Gulf of Suez in the northwest to the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean Sea.
08:25And that led to a spurt in maritime traffic.
08:28So, you no longer had to travel via the Cape of Good Hope.
08:32This is very, very critical.
08:34And this is how the Strait became the preferred shipping route between Europe and Asia.
08:40Will the closure of both the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab become Iran's ultimate trump card?
08:48They're Brahmastra.
08:50Together, these two choke points account for roughly one-third of global seaborn oil trade.
08:56Nearly 33% of the world's supply moves through just these two narrow passages.
09:01In simple terms, one out of every three barrels of oil depend on these routes remaining open.
09:09Now, imagine this being disrupted and both being disrupted at the same time.
09:15And that's a real possibility should America put boots on ground.
09:19Oil-producing nations in the Gulf region, they would then struggle to send crude out.
09:25Even if shipments leave, they will not reach either Europe or Asia efficiently without the Bab al-Mandab being open.
09:34Now, that's the kind of shock that Iran can send across the world.
09:39And imagine what this will do to global oil prices.
09:42They'll just skyrocket within days.
09:44It'll trigger fuel price rise, inflation, shipping kiosks, economic ripples that will be felt across the world.
09:52And that's why the world is desperately hoping there would be an off-ramp.
09:58Will there be one?
09:59If Iran does decide to choke the Bab al-Mandab straight, it will begin a new battle.
10:04And a new battle will be clearly from a position of advantage if America puts boots on ground.
10:10That's what Iran is warning.
10:11If America puts boots on ground, they will close Bab al-Mandab.
10:15Tehran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
10:17They're positioned right along the Red Sea coast.
10:20They're prepared to join the fight.
10:21Unless America can carry out precision strike, wave after wave after wave of precision strikes,
10:27both at the mouth of Strait of Hormuz and neutralize the Houthi forces here.
10:32But then, that does not guarantee that no undersea drone or no drones will strike sea lanes of communication.
10:38This proximity permits Iran to exert pressure without direct deployment in Bab al-Mandab.
10:44And this is what turns Bab al-Mandab into a proxy-controlled choke point.
10:49Then comes the geography, which works very strongly in Iran's favour.
10:54At the narrowest, like you just see there, it's just 29 kilometers wide,
10:58making it highly vulnerable to disruption.
11:00Even limited attack or credible threat of attack will choke sea lanes of communication.
11:05And Tehran could replicate this playbook that it's already used in the state of Hormuz.
11:10The Houthis backed by Iran have access to anti-ship mines.
11:13They have access to drones.
11:15They have access to sea mines.
11:18And they have these small, fast attack crafts.
11:23They've carried out piracy in these waters,
11:25but they also have access to those fast attack crafts with bombs fitted.
11:29It's almost like an improvised explosive device that can ram into the hull of a ship and take the ship
11:36down.
11:36Finally, this challenge of asymmetric warfare.
11:39Cheap drones, mobile missile launchers, difficult to detect, harder to neutralise.
11:45Every low-cost attack, the US will be forced to deploy.
11:48Far more expensive systems or ships or aircraft carriers, strike groups in these waters.
11:53Again, costly, complex and very difficult to sustain for long.
11:59Now, let me take you to that jewel of Iran.
12:03The jewel of Iran that is being eyed by the United States of America.
12:07That's the Kharg Island.
12:10Kharg Island is the jewel in Tehran's crown.
12:15At the peak of the conflict, March 13, Washington carried out precision strikes.
12:19We'll talk about that in detail, but let's cut across and listen to US President Donald Trump.
12:23What they're fighting about, that's really what they're fighting.
12:25They don't talk about that, but that's what they're fighting about.
12:27They want to protect criminals.
12:29In many cases, 11,888 murders.
12:33Many of them, I will say, are gone now because of us.
12:36We got them out, but still have some left.
12:39Should have never happened.
12:40Should have never been allowed to come into our country.
12:43But we're not going to let it happen.
12:45We're not going to let the Democrats get away with this stuff.
12:48And people are wise to them, so they need to end the shutdown immediately or we'll have
12:53to take some very drastic measures.
12:56This morning, I want to give an update on the Operation Epic Fury, which is an appropriate
13:03name because we are absolutely obliterating them.
13:07Over the past three weeks, we've been hitting Iran's military capabilities at a level that
13:13few people have ever seen before.
13:15People never knew there was such a capability.
13:18We have the strongest military anywhere in the world by far.
13:21I built it during my first administration and I used it during my second administration.
13:28Unfortunately, because I'd rather not have to use it.
13:31But it's a display of force and precision and skill like nothing the world has really witnessed,
13:37although you get a pretty good witnessing of it in Venezuela also.
13:40And that was a smaller version of what we're doing now.
13:45We're crushing their missiles and drone stockpiles, destroying their defense industrial base.
13:50We've wiped out their Navy completely, their air force completely.
13:55We've wiped out a large percentage of their missiles.
13:59And the missile launchers, without the launchers, you can't, the missiles don't do any good.
14:06And we've knocked out probably close to 90 percent of the launchers, probably more than 90 percent of the missiles
14:14themselves.
14:15Between some they fired and more than they fired, we knocked out.
14:19We've also destroyed a lot of the factories.
14:23We're continuing to do that.
14:25But a lot of the factories where they manufacture the drones and the missiles, the drones, too, are way down.
14:30But the reason they're down is they go one way, they don't come back.
14:35Because for the most part, we're shooting them down.
14:37But we also are able to, we've really done tremendous damage to the places where they make them.
14:44And just so we set the record straight, because I've been watching the Wall Street Journal's fake news and all
14:49these stories that get printed like, oh, I want to make a deal.
14:52They are begging to make a deal, not me.
14:55They're begging to make a deal.
14:57And anybody that saw what was happening over there would understand why they want to make a deal.
15:03But they say, oh, we're not talking to them.
15:05Anybody would know they're talking.
15:06And only a total, and they're not fools.
15:09They're very smart, actually, in a certain way.
15:12And they're great negotiators.
15:13I say they're lousy fighters, but they're great negotiators.
15:18And they are begging to work out a deal.
15:22I don't know if we'll be able to do that.
15:24I don't know if we're willing to do that.
15:26They should have done that four weeks ago.
15:28They should have done it two years ago.
15:31Or they should have done it when we first came into office, because two years ago they had free reign
15:37under Biden.
15:37Sleepy Joe, worst president in the history of our country, when he allowed it to happen to our country at
15:43the borders, and even with a thing like this.
15:46But not just him.
15:48Every president for 47 years, every president should have done this.
15:51They should have done it a long time ago, because you cannot give lunatics a nuclear weapon.
15:56And they would have had a big one.
15:59It stopped, really, when we did the B-2.
16:02But even before that, the Barack Hussein Obama, what he did where he gave them the Iran nuclear deal, gave
16:09them free will toward a nuclear weapon.
16:12Basically, he chose Iran over Israel and others that didn't want him to do it.
16:20But I terminated that deal.
16:21Had I not terminated that deal, you would have had a nuclear weapon years ago, and it would have been
16:25used, guaranteed.
16:28And one of the reasons you know about the guarantee is because their neighbors were sort of like bystanders.
16:35Because they weren't involved very much, they didn't choose heavy sides, they didn't want to, because people were concerned with
16:42Iran, there was a big black cloud over the Middle East.
16:46They were concerned, but all of a sudden, the war starts, and they start shooting at these five, in particular,
16:52five countries.
16:53They start shooting at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman.
17:00They start shooting at them, and they were, they were, everybody was shocked, including us.
17:06You know why?
17:07Because they're sick, and they had a plan to take over the Middle East.
17:11And some of those missiles that were shot at them were locked long before we even started this process.
17:18They were locked and loaded and aimed at those countries.
17:21They wanted to take over the Middle East.
17:23But we happened to come along, so it wasn't so easy.
17:26So right now, their navy is sunk in the largest elimination of a foreign navy that has taken place, maybe
17:35ever, but certainly since World War II.
17:38Their air force is gone.
17:40Their anti-aircraft and communications capabilities are totally dismantled.
17:45And one of the problems they do have when they deal with us is we deal with people, and the
17:50people aren't able to communicate with anybody else, you know, because all of their leadership has been gone.
17:56The first level is gone, and they met to pick a new level, and they're gone.
18:01They're all gone because they didn't make a deal and because they're sick people.
18:06They're really sick.
18:07They're really sinister sick people.
18:10And if anybody thinks it was okay to have a group of people like this to have nuclear capability, nuclear
18:17weapons, and if we didn't attack with the B-2 bombers, they would have had a nuclear weapon within two
18:23weeks of that, maybe four weeks.
18:26But between two and four weeks, they were planning to have a nuclear weapon if we didn't hit them at
18:30that time with the B-2 bombers.
18:32And one of the great air raids in history, maybe the greatest, dark at night, no moon, no light, every
18:42single bomb hit its mark and just obliterated that place.
18:47So it's now buried deep under Earth.
18:50And it was an amazing thing.
18:52But they would have a nuclear, and they would have used it without question.
18:55And you know that because why did they shoot all these countries that weren't even really involved with them?
18:59They weren't involved.
19:00They had no big problems because they're sick, because they want to take over the Middle East, not just Israel.
19:08Certainly, Israel would have been the first on their list.
19:10They would have used nuclear weapons, a nuclear.
19:13You don't need too many of them.
19:14But they would have used a nuclear weapon on Israel, and they would have used it on the other neighbors.
19:19And then they would have come after us.
19:22And if we had a weak president, they would have done great damage.
19:25But fortunately, you don't have a weak president.
19:27I knew what was happening.
19:30And I think we've been proven right.
19:31You know, they took one missile.
19:33It went 2,500 miles.
19:35They supposedly didn't have a missile like that.
19:37They had no missile with that capability.
19:39But they shot the now-famous Ireland, the island that the U.K. was very afraid to give us, because
19:50they didn't want to get dragged in.
19:52But we don't want to get dragged into their wars either.
19:55One thing, we're very disappointed, and I'll say it publicly, we're very disappointed with NATO, because NATO has done absolutely
20:01nothing.
20:03And I've always said, 25 years ago, I mean, I was somebody that wasn't a politician, but I was always
20:08involved in politics, and I understood politics.
20:11I said 25 years ago that NATO's a paper tiger, but more importantly, that we'll come to their rescue, but
20:18they will never come to ours.
20:20And I want you to remember that we said this.
20:23They didn't come to our rescue.
20:24Now they all want to help when they're annihilated.
20:28The other side is annihilated.
20:29They said, we'd love to send ships.
20:32They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved when the war is over.
20:37No, it's supposed to get involved when the war is beginning, or even before it begins.
20:42We had the UK say that we'll send, this is three weeks ago, we'll send our aircraft carriers, which aren't
20:49the best aircraft carriers, by the way.
20:51They're toys compared to what we have.
20:53But we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war is over.
20:58I said, oh, that's wonderful.
20:59Thank you very much.
21:00Don't bother.
21:02We don't need it.
21:03And we don't need it, and we don't need them.
21:06We estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission.
21:11And we're way ahead of schedule.
21:14If you look at what we've done in terms of the destruction of that country, I mean, we're way ahead.
21:20Think of it.
21:21They have no navy.
21:22And they had good ships.
21:24154 ships have been shot there and are resting very nicely at the bottom of the sea.
21:30And we did that in a matter of less than a week.
21:34Because we have the greatest military in the world by far.
21:37Nobody even close.
21:39So we estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission.
21:4426 days in, we're extremely, really, a lot ahead of schedule.
21:51The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated.
21:57They're saying to people, this is a disaster.
22:01They know.
22:01That's why they're talking to us.
22:02They're not only, they wouldn't talk otherwise.
22:05But they're talking to us because they've got a disaster on their hands.
22:09They're defeated.
22:11They can't make a comeback.
22:13We're free to roam over there.
22:16Cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they're building.
22:23Oh, we're doing that.
22:24They now have a chance to make a deal.
22:27But that's up to them.
22:29And they'll tell you, we're not negotiating.
22:31We will not negotiate.
22:32Of course they're negotiating.
22:33They've been obliterated.
22:35Who wouldn't negotiate?
22:36They are begging to make a deal.
22:39We'll see if we can make the right deal.
22:42And if they make the right deal, then the straight will open up.
22:46Hormuz straight will open up.
22:48And even now, we don't know if there are any mines.
22:51You know, they have 22 mine, they call them mine droppers.
22:55Think of it.
22:56Who would have 22 mine droppers?
22:57It's a boat that drops mines.
22:59Who has 22 mine droppers?
23:02Except for people with very evil intention.
23:06So every one of those mine droppers has been struck with the same weapon we use to stop drugs from
23:15coming into the United States.
23:17In the United States of America, when we hit those boats, it's the exact same weapon.
23:22Extremely effective.
23:23We have unlimited supplies.
23:25And extremely...
23:26But they have no more mine droppers.
23:29By the way, speaking of drugs, we're 98% down drugs coming in by water, by the ocean, by the
23:37sea.
23:3998%.
23:40And we're trying to find out who are the 2% because we think they're the bravest men anywhere in
23:45the world.
23:46Maybe women.
23:48But whoever's on those boats is very brave or doesn't watch television.
23:52But where drugs coming in by sea, coming in by water, are 98% down.
23:59And now we'll stop the drugs coming in by land.
24:01The land is the easy one.
24:03You had to stop the water.
24:04A lot of it came in through the water.
24:05Now it's all pinched.
24:07And these people are trying to come in by land.
24:11And we will...
24:12That's it.
24:12That's the easy one.
24:14But we had to take care of the water first.
24:15Nobody's coming in.
24:17Virtually nothing is coming in anymore.
24:20It was hundreds of millions of dollars a week were coming in by water.
24:26But they now have the chance, that is, Iran, to permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions and to chart a new
24:35path forward.
24:36We'll see if they want to do it.
24:37If they don't, we're their worst nightmare.
24:40In the meantime, we'll just keep blowing them away, unimpeded, unstopped.
24:48There's not a thing they can do about it.
24:49They can't do anything about it, you know.
24:51I'll tell you if they could.
24:52If they could, you'd be hearing about it.
24:54You'd be hearing about it.
24:55You don't hear anything about it.
24:57They can't shoot our jets.
24:59We have the best military equipment in the world.
25:02Not even a contest.
25:04You see that with Venezuela.
25:06They had other equipment.
25:08They didn't have ours.
25:08It didn't work.
25:10It didn't work.
25:10Think of it.
25:11We did a situation in Venezuela.
25:13It was a great military operation, getting a very, very dangerous man who's killed a lot of people, forced people
25:20into our country.
25:22Incredible.
25:23He emptied his prisons in Venezuela, emptied his prisons into our country, and I hope that charge will be brought
25:31at some point, because that was a big charge that hasn't been brought.
25:35It should be brought.
25:37He emptied his prisons into our country and was a major purveyor of drugs coming into our country, and he's
25:46now been captured.
25:48And, you know, I guess be given a fair trial.
25:53But I would imagine there are other trials coming, because they have just, they've really sued him just in a
25:59fraction of the kind of things that he's done.
26:02Other cases are going to be brought, as you probably know.
26:05In the meantime, with Iran, we're going to keep doing what we've been doing.
26:09And nobody's a match for the United States, but they're not a match for the United States.
26:15It's small potatoes.
26:16That's why I'm so disappointed in NATO, because this was a test for NATO.
26:21This was a test.
26:22You can help us.
26:23You don't have to.
26:24But if you don't have, you know, if you don't do that, we're going to remember.
26:28Just remember.
26:29Remember this in a number of months from now.
26:32Remember my statements.
26:35They have an expression, a great expression, never forget, you can never forget.
26:42So as we end threats to America abroad, we're focused here, at home, on building the greatest economy in the
26:50history of the world.
26:50Now, before this started, the Dow hit 50,000.
26:53The S&P hit 7,000.
26:56Both of those achievements were not achievable.
27:02Every one of you, most of you, I guess, said, you'll never hit 50,000 during a four-year period
27:09because it was too high a number.
27:11Well, we hit it in our first year.
27:14And I said, well, now we have to take an excursion to Iran and we have to stop this maniac
27:19who's no longer with us.
27:22The Supreme Leader wasn't so supreme, no longer with us.
27:26It's very sad.
27:27But we have to stop him from blowing up the world, blowing up the Middle East and blowing up our
27:33country.
27:33And we did that.
27:36And I thought, frankly, I thought the oil prices would go up more and I thought the stock market would
27:42go down more.
27:43Hasn't been nearly as severe as I thought.
27:46But I think they have confidence in maybe the American president and maybe the people sitting around this table.
27:52But Americans filing their taxes this year are receiving record-setting refunds.
27:57It's been a very big story.
27:58Well, it should be a big story.
27:59I don't think you write about it that much.
28:01But I speak about it.
28:03You know, I speak about it.
28:05Because if I speak about it, at least people here, you don't write about it.
28:09You don't write about the drug prices going down.
28:13It'll be going down 30, 40, 50, 60 percent, 70 percent.
28:18Favored nations.
28:19Call most favored nations.
28:21We're going to be paying the lowest price anywhere in the world before we paid the highest price in the
28:25world.
28:26So that's U.S. President Donald Trump.
28:28Big statement.
28:29He says we will continue to do what we are doing.
28:33Iran is no match.
28:36Iran's powers are obliterated.
28:39We are crushing them.
28:41Their missiles, their launchers, their drones.
28:4390 percent launchers gone.
28:4590 percent plus missiles destroyed.
28:48A lot of their missile manufacturing capabilities and drones destroyed.
28:52Let me quickly cut across and bring in our guest.
28:54Ray Loka, author, security expert, joins us from the United States.
28:58General DP Pandey is a senior defense analyst.
29:02Former Kashmir core commander joins us.
29:03As does Sandeep Unnitan, my colleague and senior journalist.
29:06Ray Loka, you heard the American president.
29:10He says 90 percent of Iran's power has been obliterated.
29:15Americans, if they want, they can just go in and get the nuclear material.
29:19Iran is no longer a military power.
29:22Do you agree with that understanding?
29:23Because 27 days into this conflict, Iran is actually threatening to block Bab al-Mandab should America put boots on
29:31ground?
29:33Well, we can fly over Iran pretty much with impunity.
29:37That's never really been an issue, right?
29:39But can we go in and get their nuclear material?
29:42I seriously doubt it.
29:44We don't really know where it is, how to get in there.
29:47That would require thousands of people to go in there and get into facilities that are very hard to enter.
29:55Look, Trump is doing what he always does.
29:57He makes stuff up.
29:58You know, we thought the stock market would be hurt even more than it has been.
30:03He's never said that.
30:04He thought, you know, that the oil prices would be worse than they are now.
30:08He never said that either.
30:09He never prepared the American people for any of the things that have happened so far.
30:14So, yes, some of what he says is true.
30:17We can fly over Iran at will.
30:19We can zap them with whatever kind of missiles we want.
30:23But going on the ground is a totally different story.
30:26It's asymmetric warfare.
30:28We saw that in Iraq.
30:29We saw that in Afghanistan.
30:31You can have the best weapons in the world.
30:34But if you don't know where your attackers are coming from,
30:37if you're walking down a city street somewhere in an unforgiving territory,
30:42it's a totally different equation.
30:45And right now, Iran's talking about putting anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines.
30:52Reports say Persian Gulf could be mined if U.S. attempts either an amphibious assault
30:56or sends in elements of the 82nd Airborne to the Khark Island.
31:01Whatever you've been hearing in the United States,
31:04is the U.S. preparing to put boots on ground either at Khark Island or to open the Strait of
31:10Hormuz?
31:10Well, there was a briefing yesterday with members of Congress
31:14in which some defense officials outlined some of their thoughts or plans
31:18that include boots on the ground in Khark Island and other places.
31:22And there was bipartisan pushback, including from members of Congress
31:26like Nancy Mays of South Carolina, a Republican, a graduate of the military school, the Citadel.
31:31She said, no way would I support boots on the ground in Khark Island.
31:35And what I heard was very alarming.
31:38And so, I mean, that's what they're talking about.
31:42Whether it actually happens remains to be seen.
31:44If it does happen, it's going to be a very difficult situation for troops on the ground.
31:50I think we'd see some probably initial reports of success that often happens.
31:56But these things bog down very quickly.
31:59That's an interesting point to make, General Pandey.
32:01As an infantry officer, I want to understand your take on this.
32:08Can an amphibious, can an airborne operation or an amphibious assault,
32:12either putting in, you know, parachutes, 82nd airborne coming down on parachutes,
32:17or an amphibious assault, a sea-based assault,
32:19can that happen without massive casualties on the American side?
32:22Or is there an apprehension that the Iranians could draw them in,
32:26get them in the kill zone, and then neutralize them?
32:30Yes, it's a very big question which you've asked.
32:33Unfortunately, the way we operate along the Indian borders
32:37and the way the Americans operate are two distinct systems in which they operate.
32:43And if you're well aware how their CIA and Special Forces guys operate behind the lines,
32:50they've got a totally different concept.
32:52So while one will appreciate that the American president is not going out
32:57and telling everything through their people and population,
33:00because there is something which will be always a learn of the strategic planning,
33:04and there will be always something which will not be overtly discussed.
33:08But I think, given the current scenario, firstly, is the statement,
33:14I'll just broadly say, the statement of Trump is quite indicative
33:17that he doesn't want to finish the war or the operation which he's conducting,
33:22because he's not calling it war.
33:23For war, he has to take a congressional acceptance or approval,
33:30which he has not done.
33:31And when you look at the forces which he has applied till now,
33:34it is only a fraction out of 11 nuclear-based aircraft carriers,
33:40only two have been deployed.
33:42Virtually a fraction is there.
33:44So coming on to this issue which you're talking about,
33:47launching an amphibious operation,
33:49the classic amphibious operation may not be launched towards Gharg Island
33:52or whichever place he has to launch.
33:55They have a different system.
33:56They've got the heli-borne systems will carry out landing.
33:59They'll link up with people.
34:01But most important, before going inside,
34:05they would have prepared enough acceptability
34:08wherever they are going to land and carry out those operations
34:11from the population or the elements of IRGC or somebody,
34:17which will actually emerge.
34:19You have to see in past couple of conflicts,
34:23Americans have not taken too many hits
34:26when they have deployed boots on ground.
34:27So the classic boots on ground is not an infantry-based operation
34:31where they will go in a frontal kind of a thing.
34:34They would have prepared enough reception parties
34:38to operate in small groups.
34:41And that is where the expertise of 82 seconds comes about.
34:46And more importantly, the special operations
34:50or special forces which are being deployed,
34:52they're experts.
34:53One of the establishments which is moving in
34:56is trained to take over control of nuclear material,
35:00nuclear assets.
35:01They have been training for Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.
35:05That is the standard training module.
35:07So they have specialized systems to carry out these operations.
35:11They do not carry classical infantry operations.
35:15Let me quickly bring in Sandeep Unnithan into this conversation.
35:18Sandeep, Iran's defenses as of now appear to be stronger
35:21than what was initially reported, anticipated, or even expected
35:25by war planners.
35:27As General Pandey indicated, they'll flatten the ground
35:32by massive aerial bombardment, put in reception parties,
35:36sneak behind enemy lines.
35:37They've started neutralizing generals already,
35:40including one IRGC general this evening
35:44before putting boots on ground.
35:46Yeah, absolutely, Gaurav.
35:47This has been on for 27 days.
35:49And, you know, the U.S. is, as our expert was saying from the U.S.,
35:53they have untrammeled airspace superiority.
35:58They can fly at will.
35:59They can do what they want, drop bombs wherever.
36:01They will not be opposed by the Iranian forces.
36:04Now, where the Iran has actually changed the game
36:08is by expanding the conflict into the other GCC countries,
36:12of course, closing the Strait of Hormuz,
36:15mining it, using very low technology.
36:17I mean, mines have been around for hundreds of years,
36:20right from the First World War.
36:21And it's a similar, you know,
36:25mines of a similar antiquity are being used here
36:27to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
36:30And that, the Bab el-Mandab is being looked at
36:32as another escalatory thing that Iran retains
36:36to completely block the entire Arabian Peninsula from shipping.
36:42So, there are seven choke points in the world, Gaurav,
36:46in various parts of the world, in the Baltics,
36:48in the Turkish Straits, in the Panama Canal.
36:51Three of them happen to be in the Arabian Peninsula.
36:54Suez, the Bab el-Mandab, and the Strait of Hormuz.
36:56Iran controls two of them.
36:58One directly, one through its proxies.
37:00So, that is the huge leverage that they have,
37:02which the United States has been unable to break
37:06despite 27 days of air bombardment.
37:08And let me bring in Ray Lokar on this point.
37:11The second choke point, Bab el-Mandab,
37:13when we explained that through images and maps
37:17just a short while back, Ray Lokar,
37:19Iran willing to escalate, block the Bab el-Mandab route.
37:22With Iran dominating two of these choke points,
37:26and President Trump, you just heard him,
37:27how he criticized the North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners,
37:31how he called the British aircraft carrier a toy.
37:34Do you think he will need NATO assistance?
37:37Or can the 11 aircraft carrier battle group
37:39strong U.S. armed forces do it on their own?
37:43Well, he's not going to get NATO assistance.
37:46NATO is a defensive organization.
37:48Its member nations support each other
37:50when one of them is attacked.
37:53It's not a requirement for a NATO nation
37:55to support the United States or another nation,
37:58a member nation, if it decides to go off on its own
38:02and attacks another country.
38:04And so, like, we don't...
38:06There's no legitimate expectation for the United States
38:09to think that NATO is going to come in
38:11and support what we're doing in Iran.
38:14Because NATO countries look at this as a disaster.
38:17And I think they're right in that score.
38:20And it does, prima facie,
38:2227 days into this conflict,
38:24appear to be a disaster.
38:26General Pandey,
38:27if you were looking at the battle scene right now,
38:30and you hear,
38:32if America puts boots on ground,
38:34whether at the mouth of Strait of Hormuz
38:36or at Kharka Island or Keshem Island
38:39or any of the other places,
38:41Iran will block the Babal Mandab.
38:44Would you still go ahead with an amphibus assault
38:48or a heli-borne assault
38:49or an airborne assault?
38:51Or would you hold back putting boots on ground?
38:54You know, so let me just say one thing about NATO joining.
38:57I just want to add my perception.
39:00NATO is truly a toothless organization.
39:02It's not even a defensive organization.
39:03Because virtually,
39:05if you ask the Britishers to put an aircraft carrier on to sea,
39:09there's a very scathing article.
39:10They got too many admirals,
39:11but hardly any teeth.
39:13So, you please look at the experience
39:15of the European countries
39:16in the last couple of decades.
39:18There is none on to actually war fighting.
39:20So, while they may write reams of papers about,
39:23they say,
39:24they have been not even,
39:25these countries have not been the second or third layer.
39:28They have been outliers in all operations
39:30in which U.S. has gone.
39:32U.S. has done very, very heavy.
39:34I'm not fond of Americans.
39:35Please don't understand.
39:36But I'm looking only at
39:38at a experience which I have been watching.
39:40They have been doing the heavy lifting.
39:42Everybody else is a sidekick, side show.
39:46So, let's rest at that.
39:48And today,
39:48the dynamic is this,
39:50that they don't even have money to fight anything.
39:52Not do they have.
39:53Forces all around to actually join hand.
39:55And therefore,
39:56possibly this whole stuff.
39:58The second is about
40:01this issue of
40:02Bob L. Mandap.
40:03You know,
40:04we have been talking about the Houthis.
40:06And I think previously also on your show,
40:08I must have told you,
40:09you know,
40:10Yemen is not such an easy cut and dry
40:12zero and one game
40:13that Houthis are going to come about
40:15as a proxy.
40:16They're saying,
40:17there is something which has happened
40:19which I have not been able to put my finger to
40:22that why have Houthis
40:24in last about eight,
40:25nine months not done
40:26anything silly out there?
40:29Is it the Saudis have controlled?
40:31Is it the proxies of Saudis have controlled?
40:33Is it the Americans who have bought them off?
40:35Is there something much more at stake
40:37beyond religious orientation with Iran
40:41or something else is playing up?
40:43Yes,
40:44I will totally get surprised
40:45when actually
40:48Houthis will step up
40:49and support Iran
40:50and carrying out some degree
40:51of physical activity
40:52onto the ground.
40:54The third,
40:54very quick point.
40:55Please understand that
40:57is it in the interest of
40:58US to finish the war
41:00at this stage
41:01or the Gulf?
41:02I don't think so.
41:03That is why the exhortations
41:05which Trump is doing
41:06in the morning
41:07at six o'clock
41:08or thereafter
41:09is to actually push
41:11the pride of Iranian leadership
41:14that if you come to the table,
41:17I am going to actually
41:18make you roll over in the mud
41:19and therefore
41:20when the pride takes place
41:22and there is a civilizational pride
41:23to the Persian people
41:24who are there,
41:25that they are not going to take this
41:26lying down
41:27the way he is talking.
41:28So, yes,
41:30the Iranians are going to play
41:31to their strength
41:32by using a symmetric power
41:33but please understand
41:35that a symmetric power
41:36when it moves
41:37from the Iranian shores
41:38to Hormuz
41:41is acceptable
41:42but when it starts moving
41:44to Babar Mandab
41:45it is a challenge.
41:46Right?
41:47The UAE was also seen
41:48as very active
41:50along the Yemen coast.
41:51Sandeep,
41:52perhaps,
41:53you know,
41:53there are other games
41:54that are also at play
41:56but Sandeep
41:57when you look at
41:59the United Kingdom
42:00or General Pandey
42:02saying
42:02NATO is no longer
42:04a military force
42:05even defensive military force.
42:07There was a report
42:08sometime back
42:08which said
42:09the British
42:10have an aircraft carrier
42:11but they don't have
42:13destroyers
42:13to protect the aircraft carrier.
42:15They don't have
42:16a battle group
42:17in place
42:18and they were looking
42:18for some destroyers
42:19before they can send
42:20the aircraft carrier.
42:21Does that actually show
42:22how NATO
42:24is not a potent force
42:26to be used
42:26in this conflict?
42:28Well,
42:28you know,
42:28Gaurab,
42:29NATO,
42:30as experts have said,
42:31NATO has always been
42:32a sideshow
42:32to the United States.
42:33Let's not forget
42:34that the US
42:35is the dominant
42:36superpower in the world.
42:37It has the most
42:37powerful military
42:38in the history
42:39of the world
42:40and it has been
42:41doing most
42:42of the heavy lifting
42:43in all conflicts
42:44right from the end
42:45of the Second World War.
42:46So,
42:46you know,
42:47all the other countries
42:48have,
42:48you know,
42:49they have one or two
42:50aircraft carriers.
42:50These are all showpieces.
42:52They have one or two
42:53aircraft carriers.
42:54They don't have
42:54strike groups
42:55to protect
42:56those aircraft carriers.
42:57They don't have
42:57destroyers,
42:58screens,
42:58no escorts.
42:59They have submarines.
43:00They don't have crew.
43:01These are the kind
43:02of problems
43:02that,
43:02you know,
43:03NATO members
43:04have been,
43:04you know,
43:05wrestling with.
43:05And that has been
43:06one of the key issues
43:08that Trump has had
43:09with NATO
43:10that you spend
43:10so little on defense.
43:12Your entire defense
43:13has been taken care of
43:14by the United States.
43:15And,
43:16you know,
43:16you bask in our,
43:17you know,
43:18security umbrella
43:19and you don't,
43:20you know,
43:21step up and take
43:22more responsibility
43:23for your,
43:23you know,
43:24wars and stuff.
43:25So,
43:25this has been the
43:26running issue
43:27of the Trump administration
43:28versus NATO
43:29and Europe,
43:30Gaurav.
43:30Okay.
43:31Let me bring in
43:31Ray Locker once again
43:33into this conversation.
43:34Ray Locker,
43:35do you anticipate
43:36further escalation,
43:38whether US puts
43:40boots on ground
43:41or uses them
43:41as coercive,
43:42you know,
43:44forces or a threat
43:45because I believe
43:46one of the two
43:47marine expeditionary units
43:49is likely to reach
43:50the ex-Okinawa unit.
43:52I think that's the 35th
43:53is likely to reach there
43:54by tomorrow
43:56and the 11th
43:56is likely to reach there
43:57in a week
43:58plus the 82nd airborne
43:59has been put on stand too.
44:01Do you think that
44:02this is coercive
44:03diplomacy
44:04or tactics
44:05or will they put
44:06boots on ground?
44:08Well,
44:09I think they're moving
44:09the people
44:10into position
44:11for that to happen.
44:13You know,
44:14I didn't think
44:15that Trump would attack
44:16Iran in the first place,
44:17so I hesitate
44:19to make a guess
44:20on what he's actually
44:21going to do
44:21right now.
44:22I think he wants
44:23to have them there
44:24so he can continue
44:26beating his chest
44:28and banging the war drums
44:29to try to intimidate Iran.
44:31But, I mean,
44:32there's still a lot
44:33of unanswered questions.
44:35Who is there
44:36to talk to in Iran?
44:37Who has the authority
44:38to make any kind
44:39of deal?
44:40Really,
44:41it's up to Trump
44:42to decide whether
44:43he wants to stop this
44:44or not
44:45in conjunction
44:46with the Israelis.
44:47So, you know,
44:48let me take another question.
44:50When we put that question
44:51to the Iranians,
44:53they say
44:53President Masood
44:55Pazishkian
44:55is there.
44:56Foreign Minister
44:57Araki
44:58is there.
44:59You know,
44:59the United States
45:00was talking to
45:01Foreign Minister Araki
45:02until the 27th of February.
45:05Interlocutors
45:05are always
45:06in touch
45:07with elements
45:08close to
45:09Mustafa Khamenei.
45:10So,
45:10why do the Americans
45:13still say that?
45:14Who do we speak to?
45:16Well,
45:17because I think
45:18there's a definite
45:19intelligence gap
45:21on the U.S. side.
45:22They don't really know
45:22who they're talking to.
45:24And I don't know
45:25how sincerely
45:26they are
45:26reaching out
45:27to the Iranians
45:29through whatever
45:29kind of
45:31conduit they have.
45:32I mean,
45:33we just don't really
45:34have a lot of
45:36intelligence coming
45:36from our president,
45:38unfortunately.
45:39He never prepared us
45:40for this war.
45:41And basically,
45:42half of what he says
45:43is a lie.
45:44The other half,
45:45you just don't know.
45:46So,
45:47there's definitely
45:48a lot of
45:48confusion over here
45:50in terms of
45:50what's happening.
45:52Stay with me
45:52for a moment.
45:53There's more
45:53breaking news coming in.
45:54We're getting a reaction
45:55from Israel's
45:56Prime Minister
45:57Benjamin Netanyahu.
45:58So,
45:59Benjamin Netanyahu
45:59says
46:00the commander
46:02of Iran's
46:03elite naval forces,
46:04Commodore Ali Reza
46:05Tangsiri,
46:07has been killed
46:07in a strike
46:08in southern Iran.
46:10This is the latest
46:11high-profile casualty
46:12in the war
46:13that's now
46:14in its fourth week.
46:15Commodore Tangsiri,
46:16you know,
46:17initial information
46:18seemed to indicate
46:19that it was
46:19Rear Admiral Tangsiri,
46:21but the Israeli side
46:22says it's
46:23Commodore Tangsiri
46:24who led the naval
46:25wing of Iran's
46:26very powerful
46:27revolutionary guard,
46:28was killed
46:29in an airstrike
46:31or a missile strike
46:32in the port city
46:33of Bandar Abbas.
46:34Officials in Israel
46:36are saying
46:36Commodore Tangsiri
46:37was the person
46:39who was responsible
46:40for overseeing
46:41the closure
46:41of the Strait of Hormuz,
46:43Iran's chokehold
46:44on this very crucial
46:45waterway.
46:46Now,
46:47that would be
46:48weakened
46:49as the appreciation
46:51Israel's Prime Minister
46:52has confirmed
46:52the killing
46:53in a video statement
46:54saying Israeli forces
46:55would continue
46:56to target
46:57whatever remains
46:58of the Iranian regime
47:00or words to that effect.
47:01Listen in.
47:04We continue to vigorously
47:05attack the targets
47:06of the Iranian
47:07terrorist regime.
47:08Last night,
47:08we eliminated
47:09the commander
47:09of the Revolutionary
47:10Guard's navy.
47:11This is another example
47:12of the cooperation
47:13between us
47:14and our friend,
47:15the United States.
47:19We continue
47:20to vigorously
47:21attack the targets
47:21of the Iranian
47:22terrorist regime.
47:23Last night,
47:24we eliminated
47:24the commander
47:25of the Revolutionary
47:26Guard's navy.
47:27This is another example
47:28of the cooperation
47:28between us
47:29and our friend,
47:30the United States.
47:35Sandeep, Israel and the United States seem to believe that once this decapitation continues
47:41to take place, the regime is weakened, Iran continues to say, the moment you kill one,
47:46there's already somebody there to take his position.
47:50Of the two, who is closer to the truth?
47:54Because if I may, once you start eliminating the top leadership, the younger ones who are
48:00promoted may not have the experience, may not have access to the bigger picture, may
48:05lead to reckless decisions being taken.
48:07Absolutely, Gaurav.
48:08You know, and that's the strategy here, the war strategy that the United States and Israel
48:12have put in place right from the first day of the conflict, which is to start decapitating
48:16the leadership, you know, eliminate several generals to a point when Iran literally runs
48:22out of, you know, commanders to carry out their battle operations.
48:27Now, this is, you know, a point that needs to be debated, whether Iran has actually reached
48:33that point, because clearly the indications are that Iran has not just stockpiled weapons
48:38and munitions, but it's also stockpiled leaders.
48:41And this is the kind of, you know, depth that they have planned to, they have gone down four,
48:46five levels of leadership for all, most of their organizations.
48:49The Mosaic strategy is part of that, you know, strategy that they've put into place to try
48:54and counter this decapitation from the air strategy.
48:58But...
48:58Ray Locker, is this strategy working?
49:00Decapitation strategy?
49:01That will weaken Iran considerably?
49:04And that's the time people will rise from the streets and overthrow the regime?
49:16Ray Locker, can you hear me?
49:17Yeah, I can hear you.
49:20Well, look, you kill enough top people and it weakens their leadership.
49:26Well, look, we saw what happened in Iraq, right?
49:28We took out Saddam Hussein, all the top members of the Ba'ath Party, and we were still mired in
49:34an insurgency there for years because people don't need some general to tell them to go
49:41kill Americans who are on their soil.
49:43So that's always going to be a problem.
49:46Yes, if you kill enough of their top leadership now, you have some kind of gains.
49:51But if you put troops on the ground, that just leads to a whole new set of problems.
49:57The last 30 seconds I have on this part of the show, General Pandey, the 2003 Iraq strategy,
50:02Iran learned from it and that is why it decentralised its decision making.
50:07So is America making the same mistake it made in 2003, in 2026?
50:13No, I don't think so, right?
50:15They are going as per some plan.
50:17It may look very awkward to us because everything can't be diverged with the same plane.
50:22It's just not an open war game or scenario which everything will be told either by Iranians
50:28or by the Israelis and Americans, right?
50:30So a lot of times people are saying that, you know, the allies were not taken into consideration.
50:35You know, you tell the allies or NATO members, the words goes out.
50:40So I think let's keep at that one point.
50:42The second is there's a scorched earth policy which is happening in terms of killing the leadership.
50:48There are two sets of leadership.
50:50One is a strategic leadership.
50:51And the second is a tactical.
50:53The mosaic defence strategy which has been put is a tactical game play which is out.
50:58But when you kill and kill, you know, to say that the layers of leadership is ready to take on.
51:05Please understand, even to run a small media channel, when you take out the top,
51:09you may have number of players prepared.
51:11There is a problem in managing it.
51:13So, Israel and Saudis and UAE and Americans are not in a rush to finish it.
51:21They are in a rush to finish Iranians as a problem statement forever.
51:27That's a very significant point you make, sir.
51:29That is all I have time for.
51:31I need to move on.
51:32I want to thank all our guests.
51:33But day 27, what's happening on ground?
51:36Tensions are rapidly escalating across the region.
51:38India Today's Ashraf Vani and Pranayopadhyay are on ground zero in Lebanon.
51:43And in Israel, we get you this report.
51:55The West Asia war is into day 27.
51:57The war is being fought on several fronts.
52:00One of them is South Lebanon.
52:02Now almost cut off from the rest of the country
52:04after Israel blew up several bridges on the river Litany.
52:15The region is facing relentless bombing by the Israeli defense forces
52:18targeting alleged Hezbollah positions.
52:21But ordinary citizens are getting caught in the crossfire
52:24as India today found out at the Basaria village.
52:27A family of four was killed in aerial bombings by the IDF.
52:32During the last 24 hours, near about 60 aerial strikes on 60 structures
52:40which were allegedly called by IDF as the Hezbollah premises had been bombed.
52:47And here we can see the devastation.
52:50This full-fledged house in this remote village had been blasted and brought to ground.
52:55And four people from this house got killed in that aerial strike.
53:04In the entire city, many fuel-filling stations were targeted by the IDF.
53:10This is the gas station under the name of Ammana
53:13which is being alleged that these gas stations belong to the Hezbollah.
53:18That is why the IDF is targeting each and every gas station
53:22and the petrol stations of the South Lebanon
53:25so that the Hezbollah fighters could not get any kind of fuel
53:29for their vehicles in the South Lebanon.
53:33Israel is facing counter-attacks from both Iran and Hezbollah.
53:39This is one of the impact sites of a recent missile hit of Iran
53:44and you can see the kind of damage this missile has caused
53:47and this is not the exact missile impact site
53:50but rather a piece or a potion or a splinter of a missile hit this house
53:54and you can very well imagine that what kind of damage it is causing
53:58especially the cluster ammunition has become a big damage-causing factor
54:04in this war zone.
54:06As the conflict deepens and spreads across borders
54:09the human cost rises with each passing day.
54:12With Prana Upatia in Tel Aviv
54:14and Ashraf Ani in Tyre in Lebanon
54:15Bureau Report, India Today.
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