hello everyone and welcome to new edition of face to face on the press tv. today we're having the minister of foreign affairs in the yemini government, mr. hisham sharaf. welcome mr. hisham and thank you so much for your time. thank you. "the events of the october 7th which took the israeli regime and its western sponsors by complete surprise marked watershed moment in the palestinian struggle for the eliberation of occupied territories, how did marter qasim sulaymani contribute to it? if everyone uh follows up on the sequence of events in the occupied territories, you will find that martial sulaimani was the..."

one who used to go around to different places, supporting all those forces in the access of resistance, so when it comes to the occupied territories, martial sulaymani, i think was the main supporter of these forces in palestine, either by training or by supplying with weapons and all kind of supports, you can say that after... so many years of support, the palestinians were ready to take such kind of event which marked the peak of their achievements in palestine. palestinian resistance leaders, including hamas chief ismail han have described marty sulaimani as the martter of quds, are we close to the moment when his dream of the liberation of al quds will be realized? yes, i think we are close - not for that big

support in terms of moral support, in terms of financial support, in terms of also the weapons supplied to the resistance in palestine, we could not achieve such kind of a step onward, so i think we are closed to such events and god helps us in doing so, what role did marter sulaimani play in yemen? specially in helping the people here and the resistance of the arab country overcome the foreign occupation and aggression. i go back to the same question on the beginning of this interview. martian sulaimani also was looking very carefully to yemen and he did a lot for yemen to be ready to let's say retaliate against the uh forces who... who led the

aggression on our country, i think the red sea witnessed such kind of support that martial sulaymani gave to yemen, and you will see what will happen soon in that area and also what happened in terms of controlling the red sea. this week marked the second anniversary of the passing of hassan ello, iran's former ambassador in yemen, a closed raid and confident of martin sulaymani. tell us something about him and his contribution to your struggle against the saudi emirati american israeli access. when the aggression happened on yemen, everyone went away, except the islamic republic of iran, which actually was the only supporter of yemeni people and yemeni forces fighting against the aggression. the presence of them. ambassador

of iran in yemen, mean marker also, marter hassan erlo presented a big support to us, he us, he used to go everywhere in yemen, he used to go to our celebrations, he used to go to our meetings, he used to meet us here at the ministry of foreign affairs a lot, so his presence actually gave us this moral support and he gave us this feeling that we are not alone, yes in our uh defense. against the access of aggression and i think if not for hassan aerlo, you will not see the news coming from sana to different countries in the world. iran used to help us in getting our news all over the world through the media. iran has, we don't have such media, but they do and they helped us lot in letting the whole world know we are defending our country. mr. hisham, how would you define the life and live? legacy of mr. sulaimani and

his contribution to the access of resistance from palestine to syria to lebanon to yemen and elsewhere from the literature i used to read and also from the different stories we used to receive through the media, martter qasim sulaymani was very active, not sitting in one place and trying to watch what is happening at the excess of resistance, no, he is to travel all over these countries either officially, mean known that he is here or there or unofficially, and i think his presence in these uh countries gave the resistance, the real feeling that we are not alone in the access of resistance, we had someone who represented a simple of our fight against these uh aggression forces and i can

say that he is really he was the main drive of our resistance against these countries when they attacked us. "iran has been an all-weather allie and supporter of him and what is the status of relation between the two countries uh and how much do you value ties with iran? mr. hisham. first of all, i would like to say that iran was not supporting yemen only during this period of aggression against against our country. uh, iran had a good cooperation history with us. and when the war, when the aggression war happened against our country, iran was the only country that came in front of the whole world and said that i am with yemen, i am with yemani people, and also they used to give support in terms of medications, in

terms of other type of supports in the universities, health sector and other places, if not for the iranian support for yemen, officially in front of the whole world, no one will hear the stories coming from yemen, so we do appreciate what has been given to our country, and we hope also this cooperation will continue when this aggression is over, we would give iran the first place in the form of rebuilding our country through different sectors that yemen needs and mainly reconstructing the country. which was ruined by the aggression, turning to gaza and the events now, a time when many our countries have chosen to be mute spectators to the genocide unfolding there, yemen has shown what true solidarity means, why is palestine so important for yemen, for

you uh, i can say that it's so important to us, because we put palestine as the central and core uh... issue that we are fighting for, of course we as yemenis are fighting for our country, but again looking to this long-term history of aggression, of really abuse of our brothers in palestine, who would stand by them? we used when we when we were kids to hear a lot about arab countries with palestine with palestinian people, but no one really... showed a real move towards fighting for them, i think we found in this issue, the issue of our brothers in palestine, the real issue that we can fight for, if we don't stand by them at this critical moment, doing something the world will listen to, no one

would, so we have stood beside them either by getting all these kind of demonstrations or putting all our media serving their case or at the same time putting our uh capabilities in terms of the military, in terms of other sectors, no one will do, so we have taken that very their step towards supporting our brothers in palestine, so you feel like it's your responsibility as muslims to liberate the occupy territories, not liberate, mean let's say we will contribute contribute to the liberation to the liberation of. palestine and we give some kind of an example to our brothers in other countries, they can do the same, we have done it and we are poor, we don't have too much capability in terms of moving to palestine, but looking to yemen, as yemen and looking to other countries who have

more than us, we give them an example of what they can do in the near future, do you believe that there will be other countries, i mean arab countries will join you in what you're doing to... the palestinian people, yes, i do believe so in the people of those countries, sometimes maybe when you speak about the ruling, let's say groups or the... families or the governments that govern these countries, you can tell what will happen because of their interests, but in terms of the people of the arab countries, i am sure they will move one day or another. there have been a string of attacks on israeli linked vessels in the red sea in recent weeks which has rattled the zionist entity and its western backers, humany officials say these attacks will continue until food and medicine or made available to people in gaza, is it just about food and medicine or also about

the end of the military occupation and palestine? i can say that it's really a show of solidarity at the beginning, when you want to show the world that there is someone who keeps standing beside the palestinian people in their miseries, yemen is the one, so it's a show of solidarity, number one, number two, also it's a beginning of... different steps towards the liberation that you mentioned, yemen with its limited resources, did something that we think it's our duty, so what we are doing now gives an example to other countries that they can do the same, the much tived alliance announced by the united states to bully the yemen military has failed to take off so far, we heard the mni defense minister saying that the red se would be turned into a graveyard for the us lid alliance of the yemeni territorial integrity

is violated, what should we expect? first of all, i can't say that this is our sea, the red sea is and the also the arabian sea, it's our sea, so those who came to that area, they don't know what the hell is going there, they're talking about the freedom of marine. transport, they are talking about uh the respect of the international law, we know what the international says, we defend our territories, and when we have declared that position against israeli flagged ships or ships discharging at israeli ports, it's our duty to ask the whole world to look to what's going on, we want the siege to be over, "we want also all kind of necessities to go to the occupied land and at the same time we

would like them to know that we can contribute to stopping their movement at that sea attacking our brothers, so probably it will be the first step towards building an alliance to start the liberation of palestine. americans have accused the islamic republic of iran of being deep." ple involved in the attacks carried out by the emini military against israel linked vessels in the red sea, how would you respond to that? is really iran involved in these attacks and the americans always accuse iran of many things, not only about yemen, anything that happens in the gulf or in the red sea or somewhere else in areas close to iran, they say iran is behind it, this step was taken by, i mean this step of closing by and at the same time threatening all flag or israel