Yemen strikes blows to Saudi Arabia, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report on day 1,105 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 230 of Israel and the US's war of aggression on Iran. And it's been 43 days since Ansarullah and the Yemeni armed forces launched a lightning offensive that captured Yemen's Red Sea coast. I am reporting this live on the afternoon of October 15th. Let's start with the maps like we always do. These show the two things we're going to talk about today, the western coast of Yemen, the Bab el-Mandeb into the Red Sea. I think this map I like this map gives you a much more global feel of the areas that we're talking about, but on the right you see the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. And in between Saudi Arabia and Saudi's responsible for um a significant portion, more than 10% of the world's oil supply, and their occupation and siege of Yemen is a multi- national program as well. Let's take a look at the next map. I liked this one cuz it reminded me of a elementary school textbook, geography textbook, but this map's actually excellent to show what we're going to be talking about. You can see the mountain peaks, 3,000 m up in the capital there, and then if you look a little bit to the left towards the coast, that's the mountains that we're going to be talking about today, the Sarawat Mountains. Um all down the coast they run the spine all the way down to the Bab el-Mandeb at the at the bottom there. And then you can see the green coastal plain, which is a significant part of the battle as well, and it was one of the reasons why the lightning offensive was so successful was that moving down that coastal plain is very quick. Fighting in the mountains is slow, but that's what we're going to be watching today. And I just want to just underscore what we're talking about when we say that there's multiple arenas of this battle. The first arena is inside Yemen where Saudi-backed forces um Saudi-backed forces are attempting to overthrow the Ansarullah government, the many armed forces. Um and that battle is with largely Yemeni uh forces, but there's also mercenaries involved in that battle and we've seen uh hints of Saudi troops as well. We showed you last week on the show the uh overrunning of the strategic port of Mocha and inside that base uh where the commander from the national um the the national security forces, the most uh well-trained group uh fighting against Ansarullah. We saw uh Royal Saudi Land Forces vehicles, uh uniforms, patches uh in that base. So, uh Saudi-backed for sure, uh no question about that. Um but there was also uh Saudi participation, it appears. We will follow that up for more evidence on that, but also Yemen is striking inside Saudi Arabia. They're striking oil facilities and airports to try to end the siege and blockade on on Yemen from the Saudis. And then there's the international develop um dimension and the international um dimension is the one where um one in seven barrels of oil on the market is Saudi, the world's largest oil supplier, 11% of the supply each day going into the market. And have demonstrated the willingness and significant capacity, um long-range and precision strike capability, that they can touch all areas of Saudi infrastructure and are willing to do it. Um the BBC embedded uh with um anti-Ansarullah forces this week and they described this battle the they described the battle in Yemen as this battlefield has global implications. And that's true, um but it's only true if you believe that Saudi has the right to occupy, blockade, and besiege the country of Yemen. If If you believe that Yemen is a colony of Saudi Arabia. If you believe in sovereignty of countries, um this doesn't have to have global implications. Ansar Allah's not looking for global implications. Even when they took the Bab al-Mandab, they immediately said, "We're not targeting shipping except Saudi shipping." This is all in Saudi's hands. If they want to end this war, they can end it right now. Um all they have to do is stop, end the occupation, end supporting um the mercenaries that are fighting, um which are go are in the process of being rolled back in any case. Um so, it you you hear about these things from the BBC like it's a it the battlefield has global implications, and they just assume um that the war in Yemen uh is natural and has to go on rather than simply stopping the war. And if Yemen's If the Saudis stop the war, then their oil installations wouldn't be hit. Their airports wouldn't be hit, and Yemen would move on um from a decade of devastation that has been wrought by the Saudis supported by the Americans and the Brits, by the French and the Greek. Um so, this is something that is very much in Saudi hands, and framing it in in terms of a global battlefield is only a way to uh justify the imperial violence that's happening uh inside Yemen. Let's take a look at map number three. Again, this is not uh to show control. I'm going to show a couple of these Al Jazeera maps that um Al Jazeera is really slow to change the battle lines, but this is from a couple of weeks ago, but it gives you the main places that we're going to be talking about, particularly Taiz in the mountains there up from Mocha, which is the strategic port that was taken in September. Al Hudaydah is uh Ansar Allah territory and has been since 2014. And then you see the capital Sana'a and Sa'dah is where um the Ansarullah movement, the Houthi movement, began uh in the mountains of San- of Sa'dah. And they are mountain fighters. So, uh I want to show you that. Um Taiz, in the middle that you see there, is the third largest city in Yemen. So, it is a significant and it is in the process of being encircled. Uh we saw images yesterday of the eastern gate being approached to Taiz. Um but they're not shelling Taiz. They're not uh attacking the city. Um they have it encircled and are uh carrying out mediation. We'll get more to that in a moment. Let's look at number four because the mountains are obviously the key to this fight. And you can see Taiz is in uh behind, tucked in to a mountain range on all sides. Uh and it's very significant fighting to get over those mountains. And that's what we've been showing you on this program the last few weeks. We're going to show you again today. But just to understand the significance of that range around um uh around Taiz and the impact that it has on the battle. Let's look at number five cuz these are the particular mountains that we're going to watch be cleared today. Jabal Habashi, this this orange uh the yellow again is from Al Jazeera. It's from a map uh previous. Their graphics are are beautiful, but their uh battle lines are out of date uh when they make them because they're uh they're very shy to uh give Ansarullah credit for their movements. But at this point right now, Taiz has been uh encircled. So, what you're seeing there has been taken. And we're going to watch uh some of those clearing operations right now. Let's check it look at number six. This is the operations of clearing the Jabal Habashi. You see the fighters here moving into the mountains, preparing for the battle. Like previous ones, this is a 48-minute video that I have edited into a mixtape. Here's an anti-tank guided missile strike that you're seeing from mountain to mountain, direct hit. With that, they use Iranian-made Cornet anti-tank guided missiles. You see the fighters scaling literally scaling the mountains. And here you see them in retreat. Um It's an incredible fight what we're seeing. You're going to see a lot of this in the next two videos. The ability to scale these mountains, the mountain warfare, essentially fighting from one ridge to the next. You see the three fighters there on a ridge. Um the fighter here shows you the scope of the battle. The military media is definitely understands their assignment and it's done a great job of late, particularly of showing us the battle. Here they are overrunning these positions. So, the Saudi-backed forces take these positions on the hilltops. Um and then they're driven out. And here they are running away. You can literally see them running away down the street. We're going to hear some audio of the gunfight in a moment here coming up just so you get a sense of the battle. There you see them running down the road in retreat. And they're not being shot at in retreat. Just fighting along those ridgelines, it's incredible. I mean, some of those you have to pause the video to see where the fighters actually are. Here they are moving into the city and overrunning the bases. There we see the straight group Cougars that have been There's a captured Soviet tank. Um here you see some heavy mortars being uh captured as well, arming Ansar Allah for the next stage of the movement. And this is the end of the video. The military media fighter who has the camera, once they conquered these mountains, he gives us a 360° uh view of the mountains that they took. And I I wanted to put those maps in at the beginning just to give you a sense of this. Uh and but the fighters do a really good job of doing that as well. As you can see, really remarkable fighting, skilled uh infantry fighting up mountains uh without any extra equipment that you would normally associate with um high altitude fighting. Let's take a look at number seven cuz this is the map that shows um the encirclement. Again, we're using it as illustrated purposes. Uh for all intents and purposes, Taiz is completely surrounded and the road uh to Aden uh is being fought over. Uh but that will be the retreat line that will be granted by Ansar Allah for people who are Saudi-backed and want to leave Taiz. They can leave towards Aden down in the south. That's the key port. It has been a key port for hundreds of years. Um, but we're going to look now at the territory from uh the Bab al-Mandab, which is just sort of underneath that um that marking, the headline there by Al Jazeera. But right at the tip is the Bab al-Mandab there that you see. And this is uh fighting in the area uh up to the at the bottom of the mountains, from the bottom of the Sarawat Mountains uh down to the Bab al-Mandab. So that's where the fighting is taking place uh right now in this video. And you're going to start um the video starts with close-quarters fighting. You're going to see Ansar Allah fighters scaling cliffsides and engaging in essentially close-quarters combat from ridge to ridge, throwing grenades. Um, and it's pretty remarkable. We'll start with the audio in for number eight. >> They have taken over Then you see the spotter there. Um this is in al-Wazaiyah uh area. You could see there's we we've seen so many of these destroyed Streit Group vehicles. There's another one, Streit Group Cougar, that's uh supposed to be uh mine resistant uh ambush protected vehicle that didn't seem like it did too well in that engagement. There's the uh ZU-23 auto cannon, the it the AK-47 of anti-aircraft guns that have been for decades been used for ground warfare as well. And the the Ansar Allah uh technicals all run those uh ZU-23 mm uh twin auto cannons. But here you're just like watching face-to-face fighting. They're just fighting from one rock side to the other. And that's the only way to take these mountains. And we've watched them do this. I mean, this video, like I said, was about 48 minutes long of them doing it. Here [snorts] you see them fighting literally above the clouds. They're more than 2,000 uh meters above sea level. Some of the mountain ranges are up to 3,000 m as we saw in that schoolbook map. Um again, here's two of these light armored vehicles being overrun. That takes the toll. Uh we'll have to do a proper count, maybe go back and and do a an exact count, but dozens of these have been destroyed and dozens more have fallen into Ansar Allah hands. Um which will put them in good stead for the next stage of the battle. There you see the the the red is there Saudi backed fighter. And if you look in the foreground here, you're going to see the Ansar Allah fighter. So, it's it's really from one side of the rock to the other. There's the green the Ansar Allah fighter coming in. We have an angle on that. Just a face-to-face one man against one man battle. Um but of course there's Saudi air strikes as to will show those in a bit, but >> [snorts] >> uh essentially it's just a one-on-one fight to clear these mountains. They're doing it with several hundred fighters. Um but there you see uh Streit Group armored vehicle in the ditch upside down. Also didn't fare well during this battle. And then you're going to see another Streit Group Cougar here. That was the one that was involved in that exchange. Uh Streit Group born in Canada now operates out of the UAE for the most part. Um and so that's the the taking of the Waza'iyah uh Highlands and that happened just this week. Everything in this uh show is from the past week. Uh we the previous two shows we covered a month. Um but they're coming fast and furious now, so everything uh has been since you last saw me. Let's take a look at number nine cuz this is an interesting uh this is the general how the general amnesty functions. You're looking at uh Saudi backed Yemeni fighters. They're Yemenis. Um and they're just laying down their arms and they're not being uh arrested, tortured, beaten, or driven over with armored vehicles like we saw the Saudi backed forces do. Um they're turning in their weapons here and they're allowed to go back to their villages. In a lot of cases they're allowed to take their weapons back to the villages and ultimately they will be able to this being Yemen after all. They they're not going to take your uh your small arms away from you. In a lot of cases, in the early amnesties, they let they let the locals take their technicals away, like take their fighting vehicles away, as well. But, largely, it's about Can we run that just one more time? I want to just read what the field So, Field Marshal Mahdi Mashat, the President Mashat, the President of the Supreme Political Council of Ansar Allah and the Yemeni armed forces announced the continuation of the presidential pardon of those deceiving deceived into the ranks of the Saudi enemy. He directed the acting governor of Taiz to activate the presidential pardon mechanism as he has done in districts of the western coast. He stressed that the armed forces are committed to the safety of those who do not obstruct their mission to strike the Saudi enemies mobilization. Yemeni armed forces are providing amnesty under the presidential pardon to all those who were deceived and involved in the ranks of the Saudi enemy who have left the fighting and returned to their homes. The armed forces thank the wise and cooperative people who are making efforts to spare the city of Taiz from conspiracies of the Saudi enemy and commend the awareness of the people of Taiz regarding the conspiracies of the Saudi enemy that target the Yemeni peoples and disregard and their disregard for the voices of the agents emanating from hotels in Riyadh, which is, of course, where the government that, if you listen to mainstream media, they tell you that the government the the proper government of Yemen they make it sound like it's the government in Yemen. It's not. It's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Always has been. Um [snorts] So, let's take a look at number 10 cuz they also showed us in these videos this week Saudi air strikes. So, you can see some of the the air strikes range from you know, several dozen a day into the hundreds. And here you see the fighters on the top of the hills um, spotting all of these different airstrikes. And the fighter here basically says, "This is this this is the Saudis and an American and jet dropping an American bomb." And Abdul Malik al-Houthi said last week something very similar. He said, "The bombs dropped in our country are American bombs, which the Saudis obtained from the Americans to kill our people and destroy our infrastructure." Um, so pretty straightforward there. Let's take a look at 11 because Yemen has their own bombers. These are the Rajum um, quad hexacopters um, that uh, have a grenade launching mechanism and they are wickedly precise with these from extremely high distances. We talked about this last week about how they were going to use them in the mountains. And we see right away next week, I mean, this was from just a couple of days after last week's show. And we see them using them over the mountains. And to come over the top of the mountain with a drone like this compared to the two videos that you watched before where the fighter has to go up and fight [snorts] basically face-to-face, um, this airpower is significant and the accuracy is just remarkable on these. Again, we don't know what percentage we're looking at. Maybe there's hundreds that they missed, but everything they're showing us on video is remarkable precision. That one dropped right into uh, a bunker. Here you see one dropping basically directly hits beside, but close enough to uh, to this uh, military vehicle. And I ran some calculations on these and based on the time it took to travel, um, we're basically looking at 2,000 ft these are being dropped from, which is pretty remarkable. Last week I said hundreds of feet, but it's in fact, in this case, there you see a 120 mm mortar. Uh, and you this is the one of the ones that I ran the test on. Uh, and you get pretty much 600 m uh, that these are being dropped from and to drop a 120 mm mortar is a significant mortar bomb as you can see in these operations. See, sometimes you can see that five there, they're speeding it up sometimes thinking that we don't have patience to watch it land. Um but the ones that didn't have that, I I I tested them for time to try to get the distance um and got a pretty pretty reasonable 2,000 ft for most of all of these strikes. And you just the the landscape is incredible. Like that's a base just in the middle of sand dunes and the ability for fighters to scale those sand dunes is that's difficult fighting. Um so they have these Rajum hexacopter drones and they are incredibly accurate with them. Um with the ones that we see. And we've seen them use multiple different mortars even just in these rounds. We've seen them use 60, 80, and 120 mm mortars. We also saw them use anti-personnel weapons. Number 12, these are the FPV drones, the Shu'aab. Uh same name as Qassam's uh EFP. You can see them here. Again, this is in Wazae'a. Hitting trucks, hitting military vehicles with their Shu'aab FPV drones. You can see the munition at the front. That's the uh the fuse that will kick and detonate. Here we're seeing FPV2 is an observation drone showing you FPV1's damage. Here we go, FPV3. You can see the burning tank from the previous operation. So again, like we saw with Hezbollah, we're seeing these uh be used in a multi-layered attack. Um you want to call it a swarm, but uh there's different definitions of a swarm. Like sometimes people when they're talking about a drone swarm they're talking about like synthesized set of drones that are operating directly in coordination. This is more like waves of drones where they use the previous ones. There it is again. So that was the previous shot that you saw. And they show the battle damage and up in the top you can see the previous strikes. So using observational drones to to mark the territory for the for the drones that are coming in from behind. And we saw Hezbollah do this too to great effect. Once you're deploying many of them into the the same combat space they're devastating weapon. You can see the fighters see it coming. And are able to escape. And the the targets are the vehicles. They're not chasing down the soldiers that flee from the vehicles. And again, these are being These are fiber optic cables, but they're running radio waves for the for the video. That's why the video quality is the way that you see it. But up in the mountains over the mountains controlling them from one side of a mountain to the other side of the mountain has to be fiber optic. There you see another battle damage assessment of that of FPV 7. So this is a 10 FPV barrage I guess we could call it. This last cheat looks like he's already dead, but they're going to the truck I mean is dead. But you can see it detonate right when he puts the right when he puts the pin right when the pin is struck. It's a splitter and it detonates at that point. So those are Shawab FPV drone strikes. Now let's look at their mortar work cuz this is also This is in South of Marib province. This is east of the capital of Sanaa. And again, it's just expanse of desert. This is a column of reinforcements that are coming in to fight. And the are the mortar teams are are picking them off. Again, moving vehicles being picked off uh by 120 mm mortars is remarkable uh accuracy. Even if you see them missing by just a little bit, blows up in the desert and flips the vehicles as you're going to see on this one. Disarmed it. That's its uh auto cannon from the top being blown off from the turret. Uh just pretty amazing accuracy for this uh mortar units. Sometimes called grunt artillery. But they got another one there, and these are the again, the light armored vehicles that we've seen be captured, destroyed all through this battle. And every time we watch one of these videos, we're watching many more of them be destroyed in this desert, and you're going to see them retreat. There goes the retreat. So, but this probably in the media was told uh you were probably told that this was uh the counteroffensive, the much vaunted counteroffensive. Um this is what it looks like for the most part. I mean, the war could last the war could go on for a long time, but as it is right now, the counteroffensive is not rolling back in any uh significant way and Surovikin's um uh gains. There you can see the uh US Oshkosh M-ATV uh ATV, mine resistant ambush protected all-terrain vehicle. Didn't do very well, and you'll see another one uh as well that didn't do very well. Here. Oh, that's a straight group. I think that's another Cougar that they have captured. And again, the fighters always salute at the end. So, that is their mortar ops. And then, just as we were about to go on air, um this video 13b came up. This is a Eurofighter Typhoon that is going to be clipped by a surface-to-air missile that you're going to see in a moment here. It's clearly on lock. And there you see his wing clipped. Seems to be possibly some fuel spilling out of there that you're seeing. But, the fighter jet maintains the aircraft, and you're going to see that continue. It did not, as far as we know, did not crash. If it did crash, we would have seen the footage of Saudi farmers standing on it, like we always do. Uh there he's dumping flares to try in case there's a second round. But, you can see him trailing. He's trailing smoke there. His wing is clearly been hit. But, apparently still has the ability to carry out these uh evasive maneuvers. Those look like shafts that they just uh dumped there. we know that on September 16th, an F-15 Strike Eagle was shot down. We watched that on this show, and we watched uh Saudi um the Saudis deny it happened and claim it was a fake report. Which is the last refuge of the defeated uh aircraft to say it's fake. But, these are clearly not. But, you see the fighter jet still has the capacity to carry on and possibly land. Um we saw that in the Iran war, a number of uh US planes' wings were clipped, and they were still able to um to land in some way. Of course, we didn't see the landing. The landing was probably not a sweet landing, but uh Uh, nevertheless, we didn't see the crash footage from this, so we'll assume uh, that it landed until we hear otherwise. Uh, but again, this is uh, just the skill and uh, capabilities that Ansarullah has and they're demonstrating each of those and I just tried to demonstrate each different type of operations in that. Let's look at 14 because these are the strikes inside Saudi Arabia from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. And we remember this, I showed you this in July when um, when the Saudis bombed the Sana'a airport and that essentially tipped off to enforce the blockade. Uh, and that essentially tipped off this round of fighting um, when they did that. And so, right at the time the Yemenis warned all airports, they listed, they put out a video that showed each each port and each airport that would be targeted. Um, they've repeatedly warned that they will be targeted. Um, and that is what happened uh, this week. Let's take a look at 15 cuz they're also targeting oil infrastructure, so we're getting photos like these even though it's illegal to show these photos in the Saudi Kingdom. We've been seeing these. This is one uh, Aramco, their crown jewel of the of the state. Basically, the state is the company. Um, and you can see these installations being hit hard. Uh, we can go to 16. You can see this is the strike on King Khalid Airport that you heard about on Saturday. 13 people were killed and um, some 300 were injured in this strike. There was no alarms, there was no warnings, uh, and this is something that the Saudis have said that they do, that there's no alarms during the strike to quote maintain a sense of normalcy. Um, The Economist, uh, the buttoned-up economist called it reckless that they were uh, not warning people of these strikes and um because of these strikes the airport, the main international airport in Riyadh has been closed now uh for four straight days. It's going to be closed basically for all of October. And it's at a time when the um when the Saudis are are doing a lot of international hosting. They're hosting a tennis tournament that was just canceled. Um Davos in the desert as it's called, the um uh the future investment initiative is taking place. The World Petroleum Congress was essentially a Zoom uh meeting because nobody could get to Riyadh. Um and uh yeah. The Economist pointed out, always sensitive to uh to the wrong side of the story for The Economist, they said that's it's Saudi under siege. So now people in Saudi kind of understand the siege and also the targeting of the airports which was a normal thing for the Saudis to do. And as soon as their airport was targeted, all of a sudden they were saying this is a war crime, this is civilian and articulating all of these cases that did not apply to Yemen. Uh for for the brutality of the war that the Saudis fought against uh Yemen. Let's take a look at the next slide cuz they warned um these were from yesterday. They're warning the three targets. They're sending them out um in this with each of them, if you can see that, you can't see it very well, but you can see that each has a GPS location on it so people know where we're talking about. This is um this is this is Aramco and the the Aramco headquarters was ultimately the two warnings were for the Riyadh airport uh and the Aramco site in Ri- in Riyadh and then the Aramco headquarters number 19. We can pull up 19. This is the headquarters um that was targeted and uh after the This is the warning, and then they were targeted. Uh they said that if the uh if the Saudis attack Yemeni oil infrastructure, uh that they will respond by attacking the headquarters of Aramco in Dhahran. And they Saudis did it. And so, within minutes after those strikes in Sana'a and Hodeidah in Yemen, the Yemenis targeted uh the Aramco uh headquarters. This is the headquarters of Aramco. And according to a report in Reuters uh yesterday, another source added that the top three floors of the building where the office offices of Aramco CEO Amin Nasser are located were severely damaged. Uh with part ca- part of the roof caved in and windows and doors blown out. So, a 1,400 km pinpoint strike on the CEO of Aramco. Um these are not warning shots. Uh they're warnings, uh but then these are direct hits. And the Washington Post kind of summarized the situation in Riyadh and and gave people anonymity as if they were uh so that they didn't go to jail for speaking about how many strikes there's been in Riyadh. So, the WaPo said The Washington Post said, "One American living in Riyadh who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of strict Saudi rules about sharing sensitive information said that she had woken up at some point for each of the past five nights because of sounds of explosions or interceptions. Information about the strikes is not announced to the public, and Saudi law prohibits taking pictures of impact sites." She said, "Then you go to work and pretend like nothing happened. It's almost worse because no one has any idea what is going on." So, they're lying to their people about the level and and the reasons for this war. Um [snorts] again, that is consistent. And just uh a peak at 19B, remind everybody that's uh Resistance Report followers that this is the missile they're firing, the Palestine 2. This is the missile that was fired at the ballistic missile that was fired at Ben Gurion Airport and also had a direct hit. Um, this is a Qiam 1 missile from uh a Yemeni build of a Qiam 1 missile, which is the missile we have watched destroy US bases across the Middle East uh during the Iran-US war. Um, so I just wanted to show you that. It's got the keffiyeh nose cone. Okay, let's take a look at Iran. So, the we have this uh NASA shot of the Persian Gulf. Um, of course, 20% of the world's oil comes from uh from that lake, essentially. Um, and a lot of other derivatives and products, uh fertilizers, and on and on come out of this area. You can see on the right the Strait of Hormuz. If we look at the next map, you can see the Strait of Hormuz uh more obviously. And you can see how significant a choke point it was. The Iranians have been calling the Strait of Hormuz um telling the Americans that it will be your Bay of Pigs, citing the uh the failed raid on Cuba in the 1960s, uh maybe late 1950s. In any case, uh hearkening back to uh spectacular American failures of imperialism. And the IRGC uh gave out a statement earlier this week or late last week that said, "We will defi- decisively confront ships that turn off their navigation systems. All ships within the Strait of Hormuz that turn off their navigation and identification systems, their AIS, will be considered hostile and be dealt with severely and decisively." Um, and according to uh a report in The Wall Street Journal that uh, recorded the the radio messages that come out to the ships that are trying to cross, um, the Iranian uh, Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said, "Don't trust the US Navy and don't use the southern corridor at all and don't put your life in danger." Um, so that was the the trying to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz, which is under memorandum of understanding number five of the treaty signed uh, by Trump in Versailles, uh, this is under it Iranian management, the Strait of Hormuz will be under Iranian management and it will be that way forever according to Iran. Um, let's take a look at 22 because this week marked late last week marked the first time that Iran has expanded its operations out targeting ships not strictly in the Strait of Hormuz, but expanding those. And if that this appeared to be a warning shot, um, because if this did happen, there is massive anchorages on both sides of the the strait. And those anchorages have ships just sitting there. And there's also ship-to-ship transfers that are happening out in the uh, Gulf of Oman. So those ships take hours to um, days to offload their ship-to-ship transfers. So they're having ships that are going back and forth through the strait. A lot of ships that aren't going through the strait, the ships that are take their um, take their oil load, give it to another ship in the ship-to-ship transfer and they go. And that's one of the ways that they've been getting the numbers up. But those ships haven't previously been targeted and those anchorages haven't been targeted. So there's a really a lot of discipline happening from the Iranians and very careful escalation ladder uh, calculations that they are making in this equation. Let's look at 23 uh because this week um this this was just in a single day on October the 11th, they announced uh this is the UKMTO. This is the UK uh and coalition navies uh doing this monitoring. And so normally you see one of these in a day, this was six in a single day and there's been more than 24 uh UKMTO confirmed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz just in uh October alone. Uh let's take a look at 24 because this is the videos that the IRGC released uh showing burning tankers. And this was their message, "A rogue supertanker collided with a sea mine this afternoon in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz resulting in an explosion and a fire in the engine room. This ship carrying crude oil and intending to exit the Strait of Hormuz had turned off all navigation systems and violated the regulations of the Strait. As a result of deviating from the authorized route, it suffered this accident." The third rogue tanker This is the third rogue tanker since yesterday, this is from uh several days ago, collided with sea mines while traveling in the unauthorized route of the Strait of Hormuz. Not clear that these were all hitting uh sea mines, although the Iranians want um to have the understanding that the uh the Strait is mined, but some of the damage on these two ships don't necessarily match with sea mines. Uh but in any case, those ships are the ships and they were burning. Um let's take a look at number 25 because the USS uh Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, the carrier strike group, the aircraft carrier that had the record longest deployment uh I reported on this a bunch of times, a bunch of sailors tried to jump off. Um they were sick of the deployment. It lasted 321 days. And just to give you a sense of like how little planning went into this war, um this ship had to stay um for this record because there was no planning to launch this war in in February. It was very short lead up time. Um and so the they didn't have proper carrier uh coverage except for having this carrier be at sea for the longest any US aircraft carrier ever has been. Um here it is arriving at pier in San Diego. And let's take a look on board because they made a big thing about this. This is Well, first of all, let me just add that the um the USS Lincoln is the place you may recognize that 72 is the place where George uh W. Bush uh gave the mission accomplished speech in May of 2003. Um basically right at the beginning of the Iraq war when he said that major combat operations had ended and he gave he he came he landed on uh on the Lincoln in a flight suit. He came out Bush came out in a flight suit and gave his speech in a flight suit. It was a ridiculous uh era of American imperialism. Um and the mission accomplished, of course, hung over that entire Iraq war that went on for uh like in a lot of ways that just left a couple of weeks ago. Um so, that's the same ship. But what you see there under Operation Epic Fury is a mural. The the the sailors have painted a mural uh describing what we were told uh wasn't happening throughout the entire war. And I reported a number of times when Iranians fired on ships. Um and you know, you you'd get people saying it's not true. They're not firing on the ships. They can't fire on the ships. And then every time this happened with the battle in the Red Sea as well. They come home and they tell us how many times they were targeted. So, if you look on the left there uh on the left of the screen under the O of operation, uh those are anti-ship cruise missiles fired at uh fired at the ship. Those are the ships that it sunk. Probably a lot of them are small boats. The other ones were vessels tied up at the dock that they made a big thing about how they destroyed uh the IRGC navy, which they didn't because the IRGC navy is effectively a fleet of fast boats that were not destroyed and those are the ones that are uh the bigger risk to the Americans than these ships, but they uh like shot, you know, fish in a barrel to sink those. But then, if you look under the uh operation the end of operation and epic into the fury, there you see the Shahed drones that they uh that they had fired at them. And it's more than 103 of them painted on there. Um and then the submarines on the side are the unmanned uh unmanned underwater vehicles. They're like basically sea drones. And then at the bottom of the seven, if you follow the the seven all the way down and look left, you'll see um a Mark series bomb. The kind of bombs that uh were dropped on Gaza. And it says there 1,463 dropped from that uh carrier strike group alone. So, they tell us that they're not being fired at when they're out at sea. They say it's all a lie. They say uh it didn't happen. And then they arrive on shore and actually painted for weeks uh all these murals. It's not even the only one. There's actually three. Let's look at the next slide. There's uh there's there's three murals. One in the hangar bay, one in the mess deck, and one on the island that you saw there. So, here's another scoreboard again showing how many bombs they dropped, 1.5 uh million tons of ordnance. Um just really taking credit for these uh operations that by and large were launching um you know they make it look like it was a steel bomb being dropped but by and large the fighter jets were launching standoff weapons. They weren't flying over Iran. They were launching air launched cruise missiles that travel a significant distance so the fighter jets never had to have any risk. It didn't matter. There were still many shot down as we've covered multiple times on this show but just to see the the truth from the soldiers from the sailors from the airmen that are on this ship >> just telling you the truth of what you were told was a lie for months and it's the same exact same thing that happened in the Red Sea. They're going to go to now that they're home they're going to go speak at conferences and they're going to tell how they you know almost missed and how there was almost sunk their ship and they had to take evasive maneuvers but while they're out at sea they just say everything's a lie. Let's take a look at 28 cuz they're also they also do this on their fighter jets as well. If you look at the nose of that fighter jet you can see kill marks which would normally these were uh first came about mostly from dog fighting when in World War when fighter pilots were dog fighting one-on-one and they shot down a plane you know they would mark a plane that they had shot down but in these wars of you know bombing civilians as its principal aim they're not fighting other fighter jets in the air except those Kuwaiti ones that shot down three of their F-15s but making him an ace an accidental ace but yeah they just mark these on their fighter aircraft so this is a photo from Jeffrey Rojas who's plane photographer Uh, and it shows what's on the uh the number of strikes and you can see uh the number of drones that it has shot down and the number of bombs that it has dropped. You can see in the next one, 29. This is from an F- from a Navy F-35 and you can see on the right-hand side there, you can see it has targeted ships, drones. Um, it looks like it's got a number of missiles that it has uh shot down. Um, anti-ship cruise missiles presumably is what you're looking at there. But also at the bottom you can see uh a mobile launcher. So he comes back uh and he marks that he shot down a single mobile launcher and paints it on his fighter jet. If you look closer at the next one zoomed in, uh there you can see the different munitions that it dropped. Um, and so something that used to be an honor of fighting uh in the sky one-on-one has become sort of a way of marking the number of bombs that you dropped, uh which I think is uh gets a little bit away from what the uh stated intention of those decals are. In any case, Americans bringing back uh the truth that we were told was a lie uh all all through this Iran war. Um, so you have been listening uh and watching the Resistance Report on day 1,105.