00:05What is your level of concern of a blockade of the Red Sea by the Houthi rebels, opening up another
00:12front of the war?
00:13Well, I'll just see what happens. So far, it hasn't happened. It might happen.
00:17But we take care of things. If something like that happens, we take care of it.
00:20You know, we've done that with the Houthis before, and we haven't heard from them in a while since we
00:27did what we did originally.
00:28That was about 45 days of very powerful action we took against the Houthis.
00:34And we've had no problem with the Houthis. They've had no problem with us for a long period of time,
00:40including during this conflict.
00:43I think that if there is something like that, we'll just have to take care of business.
00:49The Speaker, he spontaneously rejected the agreement between Lebanon and Israel and said that it's a sedition that's going to
00:56cause civil war.
00:57He's the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, and he speaks for Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a big brother.
01:02What do you have to say about that?
01:04Well, maybe I'll let you speak to that.
01:06Actually, the framework doesn't require the endorsement of the Parliament.
01:10Okay? It's part of our Constitution. It's a prerogative of the President.
01:14And we are committed to it.
01:15And I think the Speaker of the Parliament is really wants to see the end of this war.
01:23He's from the South, and he knows he did his best to rebuild the South, but unfortunately the South is
01:30being destroyed in front of his eyes.
01:31So he's actually supportive of what we are doing, but we need to be careful of his position as a
01:41Speaker.
01:42And as a leader of the Shia community, we have to understand how critical is his position.
01:47But I can tell you that Speaker Birri is a man of state.
01:50He's supportive of what we are doing, and he's supportive of ending the state of hostility, ending the war once
01:56for all.
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