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February 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Press TV has conducted an interview with Ali Masfari, political activist from London to further discuss the issue. The video also offers the views of two other guests.
Following is an approximate transcription of the interview:
Press TV: I want to ask you about what do you think is a legitimate election for the people? Now the fact that you have many people in the south, who did not join in this referendum if I may call it or election. Do you think that it is in any way legitimate for the time being?
Masfari: I think that the people of the south they have already made their decision to reject this election or so-called election. And they have shown yesterday one very significant fact that they are also happy to reject the election and [have] shown that they are also only going to restore their own state and to get their own dignity again and identity.
Secondly that also, the second fact has shown that there are two political and social milieus, in the south and in the north and this election does not also entrenched to the people of the south because the initiatives of the Persian Gulf states are not including their human and political rights also by what they are demanding since their uprising or peaceful revolution since 1994, when they were also put under the occupation of Yemeni regime.
That is why now the election has not given for the southern people any chance in order to show only their outrage against the regime and that also for them is still only new reproduction of the occupation regime of the north in the south again. That is all.
Press TV: Who do you think let this issue to here? Do you think that it was the regional states surrounding Yemen that this was actually a plan and the people somehow had to go forth with it, in order to just create some stability?
Masfari: For us the stability is by restoring the state in the south to get the political and security balance not only for the south itself, but also for the region even for the [Persian] Gulf states.
So, the people of the [Persian] Gulf States, they think that if they have to support the Yemeni regime in Sana’a, they think that they are going to also secure the initial security, but it is completely wrong.
Even the United States, they think very, very far away from the milieus there, from the political and security milieus in the south and also in the north.
And I do not think that as he, also the Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has said and mentioned last week that nothing has been done until now from the initiative of the [Persian] Gulf states.
That means even after the election now nothing will happen, only more violence, more also instability in the country and also more divided of the people and their opinion and confrontation and more also violent events and causalities as it was happened yesterday in different areas; not only in the south but also in different areas in Sana’a and surrounding Sana’a.
Press TV: Mr. Masfari do you agree with some of the people in Yemen saying that perhaps the main achievement for the protesters was to, for Mr. Abdullah Saleh to step down? This was a main achievement.
Masfari: No, no.The step-down of Ai Abdullah Saleh, means only just as a channel to get solution for all the issues. I mean the issue of the revolution there of change in Sana’a and the Arab Republic of Yemen and also the issue of Houthis as well.
But also the main achievement, I think for the southerners is how to gain their independence from the Arab Republic of Yemen.
This is the main significant point that they are demanding own, since they have started their uprising or peaceful revolution on the seventh of July 1994.
And then they have on the ground started peacefully their uprising on the seventh of July 2007. Since then they are sacrificing their independence with all these events have been also resulted in many martyrs, many people were killed or injured or detained by the Yemeni regime and it is for them now they are waiting how they can put more pressure, not I mean on the regional initiative but also on the international community.
Press TV: Mr. Masfari, do you think that since al-Qaeda is very active in the south, do you think that they are taking advantage of the situation in order to control more land?
Masfari: Yes, al-Qaeda is a result or a production of the Yemeni regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh himself. And during the last uprising events between the so-called traditional opposition in the north and also the regime itself, it was clearly identified that al-Qaeda was also reformed and instructed and also provided with weapons and financed by Ali Abdullah Saleh regime.
And that is why now they have only appointed them there in Abyan and Shabwah, parts of Shabwah in order to prevent the independence of the south.
This is the first fact. The second fact now, Ali Abdullah Saleh is gaining these results by confrontation in the south between the different components of the Herak movement.
He is also aiming that but unfortunately I think that the components of the Herak movement have strengthened their position now and that was reflected yesterday by rejecting all these so-called elections and all the …of the south, and this is the main fact now for us.
MY/AHK/JR
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