LIVE: US LAUNCHES NEW STRIKES ON IRAN!!! 7/7/2026

Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis and this is your breaking news. And indeed, there's a lot of very. important breaking news that we need to. discuss. Most notably, the United States. has announced that they are officially. revoking the general license, which. authorized the sale of Iranian oil. The. US announced that it would no longer be. allowing Iran to sell its oil and to. transport its oil for sale outside of.

the straight of Hormuz. Uh there's been. at least three ships that have been uh. struck by Iran in the straight of Hormuz. in the past 24 hours. that's reflected. in the underlying data, but it seems the. number is closer to around five ships. and that just the UK Maritime Authority. is only reporting on three of these. ships. To be very clear, all of the. ships that were struck by Iran were.

going through a route that the United. States tried to open up after theou was. entered into closer to Oman. And these. are ships that turned off their uh. satellite transponders, if you will, their AIS signals, which would signal. where they were going. And they tried to. in the kind of dark of night uh follow a. route that the US said that they should. be following. And Iran had previously.

struck ships doing just that. And after. theou was entered into, Iran had warned. all ships that pursuant to paragraph. five of the memorandum of understanding. that was entered into 20 days ago, if. you use the route that is not authorized. by the IRGC, you will be attacked by the. IRGC. They gave the warning. The US. tried to use theou. to accomplish things that the US was not.

able to do during the war. sad realization to see the levels of bad. faith engaged in by the United States. and the Trump regime after thisou was. entered into basically violating every. term right away from entering into. anotherou. with Lebanon and Israel which basically. permitted Israel to be or Netanyahu's.

regime in Israel to indefinitely be in. southern Lebanon and actually to take. new uh areas that they call pilot zones. in addition to so-called security zones. in Lebanon. That would be in violation. of article one of theou with Iran. When. Rubio took his trip to the Middle East, he noted that he wasn't even going to be. discussing giving Iran $300 billion in. development funds with the Middle East. countries, which the Trump regime said.

the Middle East countries would be. investing in Iran. That was a clear. violation of the memorandum of. understanding. Uh Donald Trump has. continued to threaten the sovereignty of. Iran more than the sovereignty. I mean, Trump has consistently been saying he's. going to kill all 91 million people in. Iran. I'm going to kill you. I'm going. to kill you, but I need people to. negotiate with. So, I could kill you in. the funeral. I can kill you over there. That's obviously a violation of article. one in article or paragraph one and. paragraph 13 of the memorandum of.

understanding. and. by trying to open up your own shipping. lane which you weren't able to do during. the war in the straight of Hormuz that. clearly is a violation of article 5. which talks about Iran working with the. Arab nations in order to uh open up new. lanes in the straight of Hormuz as well. and so and and it be governed and. controlled by the IRGC.

Um, so at every step of the way you have. the Trump regime violating theou. There. were incidents that we were talking. about uh recently where Iran would. strike tankers that would use the Oman. lane. We've been reporting on that. And. then the Trump regime would usually. attack some sort of surveillance. infrastructure or satellite. infrastructure in Kashm or Sir. And then. Donald Trump would usually do that after. the markets closed. And then when the.

markets were about to open, he would. have Barack Ravit at Axios, who's. basically his personal stenographer, make a post and say, "All right, we're. good now." Right as the markets were, you know, opening. I've been saying, you. guys got to look at the crack spreads. You got to look at the crack spreads, which are which is the delta or. difference between the price of crude. and the price that refineries are. selling oil to the gas stations that you. get at the pump. I've been saying one of.

the big red flags about what we're. seeing here is that it's obvious to me. that there is a concerted effort that. Treasury Secretary Bessant is running to. short the Brent and WTI markets. Another tell was when Donald Trump was. at that lunchon where he was saying he. was mocking people who short things and. that's always usually a tell that that. was on his mind. the idea of shorting.

things. He was attacking people who. short things. It's usually a tell that. he's shorting things as well because. that's how he kind of confesses through. projection. But if you looked at the. price of Brent and WTI, I've always said. this makes no sense. How are you telling. me that the price of crude is. significantly lower than what it was. under former President Biden in late. 2023, early 2024? like I it it literally. makes zero sense and and then the people.

who are not so-called knowledgeable. about the market, they'll say, well, you. know, there was a lot of geopolitical. risk under Biden because of Russia's. invasion of Ukraine. And so the market. priced into it a great deal of. unpredictability that never actually. happened. I go, "No, that. That's not what happened. What happened. was the oil companies, the gas companies. worked together in my opinion and they. colluded and they were price gouging and. they were like, "Look, if Biden is out.

there taxing us uh significantly more or. taxing us fairly, then we're going to. make sure that we jack up the prices. right now and we don't, you know, and. and we don't care." So that's obviously. one of the things that was going on. there in my opinion which you contrast. to what we're seeing, you know, right. now where they were like, "Okay, Donald. Trump will manipulate the market for us. We can lower the price a little bit. Um, but then we'll get the benefits and all. of these tax breaks and these uh various.

other, you know, incentives as Donald. Trump pursues a socialism for the. billionaires and the decades." I. apologize. My dogs are like so loud. right now in the background. And during. a commercial break, I'm going to check. on them to see what is going on, but. they've never really barked this loud. during a live show before. But we will. see what's going on there in just uh in. just a moment when we take our first. break. But here's what we're learning. A. US official said the off this is what. Barack Rave, Trump's deenographer,

posted. A US official said the Office of. Foreign Asset Control is revoking the. general license which authorized the. sale of Iranian oil. As President Trump. and the administration have repeatedly. affirmed, theou in effect with Iran is. entirely performance-based. Iran will. only reap benefits if they exhibit good. behavior, the US official said. US. official says Iran's actions in the. Strait of Hermuz were wholly. unacceptable to the United States and. will be met with consequences. Our.

negotiators continue to work in good. faith towards a final deal. We we t take a step back for a second. The Trump regime is doing frankly what. what they did with the US versus. Belgium. They're they're they're doing. what Donald Trump does with his meme. coins and what Donald Trump does with. World Liberty Financial and all of the. kind of Trump scams out there.

The Trump regime wants to manipulate the. lay of the land and it always backfires. It always backfires in the long run for. everybody other than Donald Trump. Donald Trump makes millions or this case. billions and billions of dollars while. the American people suffer while his. shareholders and stakeholders suffer. while the note holders suffer while. everybody is uh suffering Donald Trump.

takes the bag and he doesn't care that. what with the memecoin wallet you had. you know losses of memecoin wallet. holders of anywhere between three. billion and $6 billion While Donald. Trump made billions of dollars and so. for Donald Trump and his insiders, they're making a huge amount of money. They're profiting significantly and. everybody else is absolutely getting. screwed. We we have to understand what. happened in this war. The United States.

lost this war. S the United States. should not have been involved in this. catastrophic and unlawful war against. Iran with Netanyahu to begin with. The. US engaged in numerous war crimes crimes. also aiding and embedding Netanyahu's. genocide in Gaza, genocide in Lebanon, but using those same tactics to. slaughter little girls in Manab and. killing thousands of civilians as well. in Iran. It was based on a completely.

fabricated and false pretense or pretext. by Netanyahu and Trump that the people. of Iran wanted to greet Trump and. Netanyahu as conquering heroes as though. they looked at what Netanyahu was doing. in Gaza with genocide in Lebanon and. said, "Please here. Please do that here. as well. Please, we want that here." And. Donald Trump and Netanyahu said that.

millions of people, tens of millions of. people would be on the streets of. Tyrron. They would be on the streets of. KQOM. They'd be on the streets in Bander Abas. They'd be on the streets of uh. everywhere. chanting Donald Trump and Netanyahu. Thank you. Thank you. And I think. especially this week as we've seen the. funeral procession for Ayatollah Kamina.

and not just Ayatollah Kamina for his. granddaughter. uh who was killed as well uh in and and. here's a photo of his granddaughter. right here. And I agree with this. account that says mainstream American. news outlets refused to share this. picture of Ayatollah Kum's. granddaughter. It's like 18 months. murdered by Donald Trump and Israel. It. wasn't like Ayatollah Kame was like. hiding in a bunker. No. When the Israeli.

jets and the United States jets killed. him, he was spending time at his home, with his granddaughter, with his. daughter, with his son-in-law, with his. son-in-law's brother, with his family, spending time, you know, with his, you. know, with with his family. That's what. he was doing when in the not just the. middle of the negotiation when a deal. was reached. You know, you're saying, "Well, why would the Ayatollah do that? Why why would you you know, why would.

you not be hiding in a bunker?" No. Well, I think number one, I think dying. as a martyr is something that um the. Ayatollah and people in Iran say dying. as a martyr is the you know, we have to. understand the culture. It it doesn't it. doesn't mean I'm being not patriotic or. being anti-American. I I'm doing the intelligence that our. intelligence community should have done. Dying a martyr is a high honor, perhaps. the highest honor, you know, in the.

tradition, especially, you know, when it. is defending your country against uh you. know, someone like a Netanyahu and a. Trump. And so the the to me the factors. of martyrdom combined with in late. February there was a deal that was. reached that night. The United States. reached a deal with Iran that a mediator. confirmed. There was a deal. You may. recall the foreign minister of Oman went. on CBS announced we did a deal. This.

deal is basically the JCPOA. with additional protections for the. United States. Right? This is an. enhanced and better version of the. JCPOA. That was the announcement by the. Oman foreign minister. And the Oman. foreign minister at that time was the. mediator. And that night, bam, Netanyahu. and Trump blow up the Ayatollah's home. when the Ayatollah is there with his. granddaughter. I think the. granddaughter's name is Zara. Um he's.

there with uh the grand with his. daughter, with the son-in-law, and they. all get killed. And the Trump regime and. Netanyahu told us that's exactly what. the Iranian people want. That's what. they're looking for. That's not what. they want. That's not what they're. looking for. And you know then people be. like, "Well, you're just you're just. spreading that Iranian propag." No, I I. we need to have an accurate data set. So.

we stop acting dumb and stupid. And. that's that's putting it nicely. Okay? We need to understand what is actually. happening in Iran. And you can say, "Oh, well, the Iranian regime is unpopular. and they, you know, oh, okay, you know, lots of regimes are unpopular." The. question is, is the population going to. cheer for regime change? And it's a. pretty basic no when you watch what's.

taken place in the past three days. And. they're about to bring Ayatollah Kame's. body to Iraq. That's where it's going. right now. Where the Shiite community. there is going to stand out. You have. foreign minister Aragchi posted, "Millions of proud Iranians rallied in. unity to honor Grand Ayatollah Kam and. his legacy. Neither them nor our braved. armed forces are moved by any threats. Paragraph 13 of theou is clear. Negotiations on a final deal will not.

commence if threats continue. Honor your. signature. The thing is, Donald Trump is. the worst person possible to honor your. signature. He's never been a dealmaker. He's always been a dealmaker, a deal. breaker. He's never been a builder. He's. always been a destroyer. If you actually. go and read the art of the deal, which. you should not, it's horrible. The art. of his deal is the art of fraud. It is. that a deal is never actually the deal.

It is the starting point to manipulate. the other side's good faith and to use. it to take advantage of the other side. letting their guard down because usually. in a deal each side has to give. something and make some sacrifices and. work in good faith. And Trump has always. viewed the deal as the perfect time to. sucker punch. Trump is the worst kind of. scumbag human. He's a sucker puncher.

He's the kind of person when your back. is turned, he punches you in the back of. your head and he's too chicken to. even stare you in the eyes and to say it. to your face. That's who he is his whole. life. He's it. You know, today at NATO, which he's made an utter fool of the. United States, he was asked a question. about Georgia Maloney, prime minister of. Italy. Okay, Donald keyboard warrior, you're out there. posting social media messages.

about Georgia Maloney saying restraining. order as though she is stalking you. because she's so attracted to you. You, a sexual predator found civily liable. for sexually assaulting a woman. You who. is on tape bragging about grabbing women. by their genitals because you're rich. and you get away with it. You who brags. about inspecting girls naked at your. beauty pageantss. First off, who the.

hell as a 45-year-old guy host beauty. pageantss for little girls, but then. brag about going into the changing rooms. to see them naked because when you're. rich, that's what you do is what you. said. So you call Georgia Maloney. uh that she's harassing you and say. restraining order restraining order and. that and by the way you all sure during. middle school knew that knew that scummy.

piece of 11year-old excuse my. language but that's what Donald Trump is. 11year-old 12 oh she's touching me she's. doing this she's this she's that look at. Or then like the loser in high school. who would harass the girls by saying, "Oh, she wants me. She I mean to have. the president of the United States. behave that way with a female world. leader of Italy, which should be a.

traditional ally of the United States. By the way, she's a far right-wing. politician whose politics I disagree. with. She should be a natural ally to. Donald Trump, but because she's a. powerful woman leader of a NATO country. who stands up to him, by the way, not. even all that firmly. If you go behind. the scenes, she's one of the people who. was actually encouraging some of the. other NATO members to give Donald Trump.

some patience and grace. And that's who. Donald Trump goes after and says. restraining order. So then when Donald. Trump was asked about it at NATO, he's. like, "Well, I actually like her. I. actually like her. I don't like that she. wouldn't allow us to use the bases for. the Iran, but I like her. I like. Georgia." You wouldn't like You just. said restraining order. You accused her. basically of sexually harassing and. stalking you. How else would you.

interpret what he meant by restraining. order and posting a photo of her looking. up to him as though she was like in awe. of his physical presence. So say it to. her face. And as she said before, he. won't say that to my face. But so you have Donald Trump now. claiming that America won this war. against Iran and it was great and Iran's. navy is destroyed and this is destroyed. and that's destroyed and you know we did.

regime change. It's just not true. It is. not true. And you know, part of the. frustration is putting it lightly that I. have right now is is does I mean. seriously and I I I say this with. genuine questions about just about the. world right now about this moment in. history which I'm glad that I can speak. to you. A little a little upset that the. I love my little doggies. They were.

barking through a lot of I had to power. through those first 18 minutes worth of. bark noise every but you know that's. that's what happens when you're. independent media. You don't have. massive budgets but okay you know we. power power through it all. But but my. point is does anything matter any like. like what does anything matter to kind. of corporate news in their coverage or. does it only matter when there's a. Democratic president where all of a. sudden the world is collapsing.

because there was an issue with. liquidity of regional banks which led to. a run on regional banks. Do you remember. that when when Biden was in office and. like it seemed like the media and all of. the right-wing people and oligarchs were. cheerleading. uh liquidity issues with regional banks? I'm like under Trump liquidity issues. with regional banks. That's not even a. story that registers. That's one of.

those things that like squawk box or. whatever the hell they call it is like a. blip in 50 stories before 9:00 a.m. And there is and I'm I'm not trying to. scare us with my assessment and. analysis. I think I've been spot on with. what's going on in these straight of. Hormuz, what's going on with these. strategic petroleum reserves, what's. going on in Cushing, Oklahoma, what's. going on generally because.

when the United States just. very precipitously, very quickly pulled. the general license. I know it sounds. technical, but the United States. revoking the general license for Iran to. sell its oil is kind of the major thing. that's in thisou. So, what's Iran going to do? I feel like. this is drunken history in real time or.

dumb history in real time with Donald. Trump, but it's very dangerous. It's. obvious what's going to happen. Iran's going to shut down the straight. of Hormuz. By the way, depending on when. you're watching this, it probably is. already shut down. What do you think is. going to happen? What do you think is. going to happen right now? So then. that's going to happen and then Donald. Trump's going to strike Iran and Donald. Trump's going to, you know, do his.

little I'm gonna hit the little radar. facility at Keshum. I'm going to do Are. we good now? Are we good now? Are we. good? And then Iran's going to be like, do you see do you see the 12 15 million. people that are out there across Iran. right now for the Ayatollah that are. there in comm that are out there in. Shereek that are out there across the. country? Do you see the crowds? Iran.

right now is more emboldened than ever. Iran has utilized theou to get out 50 to. 75 million barrels probably of oil. They. had all their ships ready to go. So you. know how Donald Trump would say my big. beautiful blockade during the war was so. perfect was so perfect. Iran knew that. Donald Trump was going to violate theou. They may be surprised that it took 20. days for the general license to be.

revoked. But let's face it, Donald Trump. started violating theou on day two. It. was really in breach. Remember, by the. time they went to Switzerland uh when JD. Van showed up, that was already after. kind of multiple violations by the. United States had taken place. Iran. planned for that. They had their VLCC's, their tankers ready to go. They got out. 20, 30 million barrels right away. And. they got out. So Iran right now is able.

to withstand. at probably 18 months of a blockade. right now based on being able to get. that oil out. And Iran's in a posture of. you see ALL THESE PEOPLE HERE, you want. to do a ground invasion right now. You. think that you're going to farewell in. Iran? Iran knows that if Donald Trump. and Netanyahu's plan was to rally the. Iranians around Trump and Netanyahu,

which is the dumbest concept to begin. with, we can say for certainty that that. has backfired right now. And the Iranian. people are out there mourning, showing. support, and demanding vengeance right. now. The hardliners in Iran feel more. entrenched and more confident than ever. Aragchi and Galabaf see what's going on. in the streets right now of Iran. And. then Donald Trump has already given away.

the game. And I'm not just talking about. the Belgium United States game where. Donald Trump put his finger on the scale. and the US still lost 4 to one. And. frankly, even going into the game, the. US looked deflated. But Trump gave away. the game by telling the world we are out. of our strategic reserves and that I. needed to do thisou to avoid a great. depression because we were so close and. I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. because guess what? Our strategic.

reserves continue to go down every damn. day. Every day the strategic reserves. continue to be tapped into. I think. we're at 375 million barrels left into. it. We're basically at functional tank. bottom right now. And the market for Brent and crude just. responded to what happened in the. straight. and you saw the price of oil right now. The price of oil is going back up up up.

and wait till you see when it's obvious. that Iran will shut down the straight of. Bermoose. All right, we're going to take. our first quick break of the show. I'm. telling you, it feels like what's that. what's that what's that show where they. have to go through all the obstacle. courses? Um, not not the one as a kid, but the show. where you have to like jump through the. things and you climb up the the ladder. and you have to ring the bell at the. end. I forget what the show is called. Not Wipe Out. I It was I forget what it. was. Ninja Warrior. I felt like I feel. like doing this was like Ninja Warrior.

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Welcome back to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Meelis. This is your breaking. news. So, Donald Trump is in Ankura, Turkey. today for the NATO summit. Uh, by the. way, did you see how sickly he looked. when he was uh arriving there? President. Erdogan had to literally hold him up. Again, I'm not trying to be hyp. I'm. just trying to describe what was going. down. The these are real photos. This. isn't an AI photo. This is really Erdan.

trying to lead Donald Trump in the right. direction. Trump was um, you know, going. backwards and he just he just looked. like completely out of it. He's making. weird faces. Um, and one of the things. uh that Donald Trump announced, and I'll. show you Rubio's face. I think we have a. group shot of these Trump regime people. And Rubio is like uh deer in headlights. over here. Um, because Trump announced. that he was removing all sanctions. against Turkey. Uh, and the sanctions.

that were put on Turkey relate to Turkey. buying Russian defense systems. That's. what the sanctions relate to. There's a. 2017. congressional well there's a law that. was passed by Congress and signed by the. way Trump was the one who impose the. sanctions on Turkey in 2019 2020. Why did Trump impose the sanctions?

because Turkey was procuring S400 air. defense systems from Russia and the law. says that if any country does that they. get sanctioned. What were the sanctions? Well, there was a few aspects of the. sanctions. The most notable was you. can't sell a country that is sanctioned. under something called Katza, CATSA. section 231. You can't sell them F-35s. So, Turkey made the decision. they were.

going to buy Russian uh S400 defense. systems. So, automatically the law says. they have to be sanctioned. That's the. consequence. They chose to do that. That's the consequence. And Trump was. the one who sanctioned them. uh other. sanctions in addition to restricting. F-35 sales, ban on US export licenses. and authorizations for any goods, technology, asset freezes and visa. restrictions on designated individuals, prohibition on US financial institutions.

providing loans credits over $10 million. in a 12-month period. And you may recall. when Marco Rubio was testifying in. Congress on June 3rd, he was asked about. that. and Marco Rubio testified, "We. can't remove those sanctions against. Turkey because of the law by Congress.". It's actually Rubio under oath. It's. what he said. And then Donald Trump.

right there and he was with Erdogan and. Trump says, "I hereby decree I am. removing the sanctions. They're our. friend.". Now I think that there can be. discussions, intelligent ones about Turkeykey's role. in NATO. There could be intelligent discussions. about Turkeykey's role visav European. Union.

relations with the United States. I think that those conversations. should be done in a you know call me. crazy in a congressionally authorized. way and so that if sanctions are going. to be removed. we need to understand well what what's. happening here. uh is Turkey going to stop. procuring the Russian systems. are they still going to be allied with.

Russia. How does that impact US? What is the US. policy other than Donald Trump taunts. NATO like a like a kindergarter who's. not behaving well? Like what what what. what is. what is the policy? It just seems to. threaten and harass and taunt NATO. allies, pick fights with NATO allies, get involved in catastrophic wars with.

Netanyahu in Iran, maliciously withhold. Ukraine, uh, Patriot interceptors that are needed. in order to stop Russia's ballistic. missiles. You know, Ukraine is able to. shoot down Russian drone swarms, Russian. Shahed, which are made by Iran, cruise. missiles. What Ukraine isn't able to do. is shoot down the Russian ballistics. They go really fast. And you need a very.

specific Patriot interceptor to stop a. Russian ballistic. It's how it works. And the United States now claims, well, we don't have it because of the war in. Iran that we depleted our. um inventory. Okay. So, Zalinsky says, "Okay, maybe. that's not what Hexa testified to under. oath, but okay. Give us the license.

The technology will build it here." No. No. Okay. So, you're not going to help. us with the interceptors. You're not going to give us a license so. we can make the interceptors. You're blocking the license. So, you clearly want, let's be logical, you clearly want. Russia to strike a defenseless Keith. And that's what's happening. If you. analyze and study what is taking place,

Russia used to use a lot more drone. swarms in the various Ukrainian cities. And now we're seeing Russia use more. ballistics. Why? Because they know that. Ukraine is out. Now Ukraine has shown an. incredible degree of ingenuity as it. relates to producing its drones. It's. got FP1s, these are the drones, the.

FP5s, which are sometimes called. flamingos. The FP1, those are long range. drones that are hitting locations like. as well as, and you see right here what. that facility looks like. And the. Russia's largest oil refinery was. destroyed by a Ukrainian FP1. the drones. about 2700 km 2,800 kilometers away. The. FP1 has a range of 3,500 km. It's a big.

distance that it can travel. Also, Russian oil refineries are being hit. Um, Belgar, which is closer to the west, closer to the front, is also being hit. uh by Zalinski. And Zalinski is like, "Look, look what. we're doing. We're taking the initiative. here. We just need these interceptors. So, we want to make it. Just allow us to. make it and we'll make it ourselves. And. instead, Donald Trump is taunting and. taunting and taunting.

uh NATO. And today, he was going on. about we want to take over Greenland and. NATO's unfair and I don't like them and. they're mean to me. But Erdogan, he goes, is very strong. Who would ever sanction Erdogan? You you. did it. You were the one who sanctioned. him. That was your policy because that. conformed to what the law called Katza.

section 231 required. It's like when. Donald Trump rails against Kousma, the. Canadian US Mexico agree. What a. horrible. You did it. That was also your. deal in the first term. Now, taking this. full circle to what I said about the art. of the deal, Trump views the art of the. deal as fraud. That he doesn't follow. the deal. That the deal is never real. It's always a losery. The other side.

should give give and you take take and. then you don't deliver and then you try. to renegotiate it or redo it, but the. deal is never actually a deal. It's. never something that involves good. faith. So, Koozma, screw it. We don't. like it anymore because he can't do a. deal. JCPOA actually does things. We'll. just mock it. Let's just mock a deal. that actually worked. Okay. Your own.

situation where you imposed. sanctions on Turkey. Now you're saying. that's the stupidest that you did it. So, how can anybody. trust anything? you say of and and the. answer is nobody can you know and the. the big problem that I see frankly and I. I get why Mark Route is doing it the. secretary general of NATO because he. thinks let me drag this along drag this. along drag this along maybe we can delay.

keep the United States in NATO. and then we'll get a new president and. you know we'll survive this let's just. let's just try to survive. And so I'm. going to show up. I'm going to do these. charts in the Oval Office and I'll. applaud Donald Trump. I'll try to buy. time for NATO countries to rearm. I'll. buy time for Europe to become more. independent so that it's not an abrupt.

kind of I think that's behind the scenes. what Amar Rut will say what his strategy. is. But I think over and over and over. again, the only lesson that you can. extrapolate from anything is that the. only thing that Donald Trump appreciates. is strength. and telling him no and being forceful. and kicking him out and banning him and. saying and saying no. I think Iran. recognizes.

that. I think they they they see it. They see that. Let's not forget the. original ceasefire that happened before. theou was Donald Trump saying, "I am. going to blow up your bridges and wipe. your civilization into the stone age.". And Iran said, "Do it. Do it. We're not. scared. Do it. Do it. Let's see what. happens. We're ready to go. Do it. We. dare you.". And what did Donald Trump do on his own.

arbitrary self-imposed deadline? Donald. Trump said, "Ceasefire. We're doing a. deal. We've agreed to a ceasefire." And. Iran said, "Okay, well, we didn't agree. to any of this, but if you want to stop, okay, you can stop, but we're not going. to give up control over these straight. of Hormuz." So then you had that world. right there until 20 days ago when theou.

was entered into. And then since theou. was entered into like the predator that. Donald Trump is, he didn't view it as a. deal. He didn't view it as good faith. He didn't view it as respecting Iran. You may say, "But Ben, he should respect. Iran. We should act in good faith to. Iran. Why would we do that?" Look, then. don't do the deal with them. Don't enter. into an agreement with them if you're. not intending to exercise good faith in.

the deal. If you're going to do a deal. and then violate all of its terms and. then do a conflicting. between Lebanon and Netanyahu a few days. later, then don't do the deal with Iran. And you think Iran doesn't realize what. you're doing? No offense to me. If I. realize what you're doing, I promise you. Iran recognizes what you're doing and. they prepared for it. They are ready to. go. They knew. I'm sure they're. surprised that it actually was 20 days.

before you revoked their license. I They. knew that you were a deal breakaker. They've studied his pathology. They know. what's going on, you know. And. ultimately, I I think I've seen some. people go, "Oh, there's a lot of trolls. in the chat today. A lot of trolls in. the chat.". Look, let let let let let them hear it. because. I don't think that there's a single. thing that I've said today. that's like pro the Democratic party.

Have you heard me say anything in my. analysis that actually criticizes. Republicans, praises Democrats, reflects on independents, that talks. about this candidate over that? Have you. heard me say anything this whole. episode? No. Do you know why? Because. what's more significant to me than the. day-to-day horse race is the truth and.

the facts. Let the politicians chase us. But we need to get out the truth about. what is actually happening out there. That to me is paramount. This isn't a oh, you hate Trump, so da. da da da da. If Trump did a good thing. in Iran, if Trump signed the housing. affordability bill, I would have praised. it. It was a good bill. He was against a. bipartisan bill. that I thought he was going to sign.

If ultimately he really, by the way, I. think the war is catastrophic and. unlawful from the outset. But if the. dynamic was somehow different and if I. saw millions of people, millions of. people in Iran. that were not mourning the Ayatollah, but were mourning the fact that the. Iranian regime is in control, I'd say, "Oh, wow. That's what that's that's what. we've got here." I could extrapolate the. data to tell us the truth. And why this.

should matter to you if you're a Trump. supporter is you're getting screwed. You realize I mean your all of this that. I've mentioned it comes back to screw. you. Why? Because gas prices are not. going down. They're not. Are you a short. trader of Brent crude? Is that what you do for a living? Did. you short Brent crude or are you living.

paycheck to paycheck right now wondering. how you can afford things and you're. wondering man the price I'm paying for. gas really isn't going down that. significantly but everybody's telling me. that Brent crude and WTI prices are $69. about well they're not right now it's. about to go back up to 90 I told you it. was going to be to 90 because I hate. Donald Trump although I do hate him and. I don't hate him because he's just some. random guy. I hate him because he hates.

you. He hates this country. He's really. inflicted misery on this country. If he. did nothing and let Biden's economy just. run, objectively, you would have had. three to four interest rate cuts. It. could have opened up a lot more. opportunity for people to buy houses. By. the way, for people who will care about. the stock market, which isn't the metric. that you should care about, those rate. cuts would have led to some of the. biggest booms and gains in the market as. well. And and far higher than what it.

actually is right now, right? And a lot. of why there were gains in the first. place and why the market was on a. trajectory, it wasn't random. It was. because of Biden chips act where he. invested in a lot of these semiconductor. companies and AI companies that. previously were all based in Taiwan and. he brought that here and look at those. companies their market caps are the ones. that went from 60 billion to 1.5. trillion like micron and Donald Trump. instead brags about gimmicks of Micron.

giving $250 million in. philanthropic monies in philanthropic. monies to Trump accounts that they can. write off. And now folks, we are hearing that there. are new US. This is so predictable. I. mean, it's so predictable. New US air. strikes on Iran. Where do you think this. is heading now? We're learning about new. US air strikes in Iran.

It is. sadly, as I said, drunk history, dumb. history, but very dangerous history in. real time right now where we are all the. victims of this Trump regime's behavior. Behavior. Okay, US strikes Iran. Guess. what they're going to do? They're going. to strike US air bases. And guess what? They see that they have the support of. tens of millions of Iranian people. I. can assure you that their response.

strikes. are not going to be small blips. They. are ready for war. And Donald Trump has. said, "We're not going to do ground. invasions. We're not going to do this. We're about to have a great depression. We're about to hit tank bottom." Trump. showed his cards. He didn't have to show them. We know how. weak those cards are. And I can tell you. what's going to happen right now. And. it's exactly what I've been warning. I I. I I hope.

I I take no pride in it. It's precisely. what we said. Precisely basically to the. day what we said was going to happen, how it was happening, what I was. alerting about. And boom, here it is. And it's about to get way worse. It's. about to get way worse right now. because this is the worst time for all. of Iran's not going to be like, "Okay, Donald, we'll do more fake." Why would. they do that right now? They're geared.

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code midas. That's gets soul.com promo. code midas for 30% off. Welcome back. This is breaking news. Sentcom just announced the US is. launching strikes on Iran. War is. officially back. The United States. revoked Iran's general license, banning. Iran from selling its crude on the open. markets and on any markets. Then the. United States has now launched a massive.

military strike on Iran during Ayatollah. Kam's funeral processions that we are. seeing. Surely Iran is going to respond. with force. I think that we will soon be. seeing Iran strikes in Qatar even, but. definitely Bahrain, definitely in. Kuwait, but I think they're going to. also send a message perhaps in Qatar. I. do not think that Iran is going to hold.

back and I certainly expect the straight. of Hormuz to be closed officially any. moment right now. Here's the message. that we just got from Sentcom moments. ago. US Central Command forces have. begun launching a series of powerful. strikes against Iran to impose heavy. costs for targeting and attacking. commercial shipping crude by innocent. civilians in an international waterway. The US strikes are in response to. Iranian attacks on three commercial.

vessels that were transiting the strait. of Hormuz. Iran's demonstrated. aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire. actually wasn't a violation of the. ceasefire. The United States was in. violation of the ceasefire paragraph. five by immediately after entering the. memorandum of understanding trying to. open up a shipping lane that was not. controlled by Iran when the memorandum. of understanding paragraph 5 whether you. like it or not is beside the point. The.

document is the document when Donald. Trump held it up in Versailles. It. clearly says in paragraph five that Iran. is the one who administers the straight. of Hormuz free for the first 60 days. thereafter. Iran would coordinate with. the other Arab nations. The Trump regime. said, "You know what? We're going to do. what we couldn't do during the war. So. we'll say, haha, we got you and we'll. try to open up our lane." That's not the.

IRGC. We'll tell ships, turn off your. transponders right now, everybody, turn. off your AIS and then just sneak. through. We got you. And Iran's like, you know how you say we don't have a. navy? We do have a navy, okay? And we. have lots of fastboats and drones and. ballistics and we will stop those ships. So Iran announced over the radio. frequencies, if you use those routes and.

not the IRGC routes, we will shoot your. ship. We will shoot your ship. VHF. channel 16 IRGC Navy. Sapa Navy Captain, we have bombed your vessel. You shall. only use routes as approved by the. Persian Gulf Strait Authority. Any other. routes are considered unsafe. All. vessels in your vicinity must turn. around immediately or face imminent. danger. And Iran made it clear before.

That's why it struck numerous ships. before. And then the United States would. respond by striking areas in Keshum and. Sir and other areas. And then Iran would. respond by striking military bases in. Bahrain and Kuwait. And then Donald Trump before the July. 4th said, "All right, we're not going to. do anything right now. we're not going. to do anything right now. But then he. tried to get ships out through what's. been referred to as the Oman lane and. Iran said, "No, we're not going to let. you do that. We're not going to let you. do that." And Iran struck that mentioned.

three ships, but we believe it's. actually been five ships that have been. uh hit. And so, US Sentcom launching. these strikes. We've got a map of where. they're taking place in Keshum and Sir. uh in the Horns region in Iran. Uh, and. I believe Iran's going to respond very. powerfully to this as well. You have the. United States revoking the general. license from Iran as well. And I think. Iran's going to say, "Okay, straight of.

Hormuz is shut down." So, you know how. Donald Trump was bragging about the. price of oil. He's talking about the. price of crude, not the price that. you're paying at the pump, which by the. way has not gone down to any significant. degree. But guess what's about to. happen? What's about to happen is the. price is about to shoot up. And guess. what also is about to happen? America is. so close to hitting tank bottom in. Cushing, Oklahoma, where we keep our. strategic reserves. We keep drawing down. those strategic reserves. Iran.

recognizes that right now. What this is. going to do is going to have a massive. hit on our economy right now and things. are going to get way worse than before. And I think Iran's been emboldened by. what they've seen at Ayatollah Kam's. funeral and the funeral for the. Ayatollah's granddaughter, daughter, son-in-law, and others. That's the. Ayatollah's granddaughter as well who.

was killed by Trump and Netanyahu when. they blew up the Ayatollah's home when a. deal was reached reached with Iran in. late February as well. So now we will. wait to assess the damage that is taking. place in Iran after these strikes by the. United States. I can surely predict the. straight of her will soon be shut down. Not exactly Notraamis predicting that. And then Iran will launch a massive. attack clearly at Bahrain, clearly at.

Kuwait. I think also in Ludid, in Qatar. as well, I think even potentially at the. United States air base in Saudi Arabia. I think in the United Arab Emirates as. well. I think you see a lot of these. Arab nations also trying to work with. the US to build these pipelines to get. around the straight of Hermoose. I. expect Iran to target those as well. Right now, we're already seeing the. price of oil shoot up massively right. now. I expect that to go up more. And.

then I want to remind you yesterday from. the Oval Office when Donald Trump said. that he didn't even know where the. straight of Hermuz is. The most famous. straight of Hermuz, but nobody has ever. heard of it. Donald Trump, nobody's. heard of it. We all heard of it. We all. heard of it. You know who also heard of. it? uh the the family members of people who. were aboard Iran Flight 655 in 1988 when. American tankers shot down a commercial.

plane from Iran and killed over 290. innocent people during the Iran Iraq war. and never took accountability for it. The deeper you actually go into the. history of what's been taking place. here, not just even right now, but. arguably right now, it's just Donald. Trump blurting all the quiet parts out. loud and saying, "I'm going to kill your. civilization. I'm going to take down. your civilization." Well, all you've. done, Donald, is unite the Iranians. around the Ayatollah. If the plan was to.

do the opposite, if your plan was for. regime change or to break the spirit of. the Iranian people, it's clear to. anybody with common freaking sense that. you just did the opposite. And when I. see what's taking place in Tran and K, when I look at these mosques filled up. with hundreds of thousands of people, when overall the processions that are. taking place in Iran have broken the. record for the most people to ever. attend a funeral in humankind.

Spare me the Ben, you're being a. propagandist for what? I'm just telling. you what the hell is actually happening. right now. And this is the place that. you're attacking right now. This is the. place that you think you're going to. shoot some missiles into areas in the. straight of Hermuz and break their. spirit. You think you're going to break. those people's spirit right now? I. [laughter] I I I have news for you. I. have news for you that this is the. single greatest American foreign policy.

catastrophe in history. In history. And. perhaps not measured by loss of life. Thankfully, yet in terms of US. casualties, US casualties, but the escalation trap that Donald. Trump so easily walks into and frankly. creates. and just kind of putters around like the. idiot that he is while these. consequences impact your lives and.

people's lives around the world. And to. do this during the NATO summit as well, during the Ayatollah's funeral as well, that war returns then. No one wants this war right now in the. United. WE DON'T WANT TO be an unlawful. and cat catastrophic Netanyahu genocidal. war. We don't want to be in any of this. I don't want my taxpayer dollars to go. to any of this Are you kidding me?

This is not where I want to be spending, you know, the when we work the is I. wanted to be going to health care for. everybody and education for everybody, not to slaughter little girls in an. elementary school. What the hell is even. happening right here? And SenCom goes, "Oh, do you realize that Donald Trump. bragged that you were pirates? That our. proud Navy has become pirates? That's. what was the brag. We're like pirates. We go and take the crude from the.

VLCC's. You're the United States Navy, damn it. Not a bunch of pirates. And that's what you've reduced the. United States to. And now you hit the. coast. And you threaten ground invasion of that. civilization right there that's showing. up like that. Like that. Let me share with you right now what. Donald Trump said in the Oval Office.

about not knowing where the straight of. Hormuz is and nobody knew where it was. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. Here, play. this clip. The straight. and the famous trait of hormones nobody. ever heard of, but it's some it is a. that is some big money machine. I'll. tell you what, when you look at the. numbers, Michael, >> some big money machine. Would you look. at it, Michael Dell, whose stock went up 4% that day after.

that, would you look at it a money. machine? you know, to other civilizations and to other. places. And once the United States, although not under the Trump regime, there was more to life than some. transactional short-term zero. manipulation of markets. Okay? The. Iranian civilization has been around for. thousands of years. Learn your history.

They view the straight of Hormuz as. integral to their sovereignty, as. integral to what the civilization. stands for and defends. And you're out there saying the. incredible amount of money that we can. make in the straight of Hormuz. Just saying it like that. And you wonder. why.

you've rallied everybody around the. Ayatollah. People who perhaps wouldn't. have been rallied around the Ayatollah. Rallying around. Trump has a unique. ability to unite people against him. But. sadly, it's against the United States. And we live here under this fascist. regime. this reckless, malicious, unprepared, weak regime right here.

You believe this is an existential. battle, Donald? You threaten ground invasions, and then you enter into. ceasefires after threatening to destroy. civilizations in Iran. And then you think you're just going to. pepper some strikes. on the coast of Iran and it'll be chill. I got news for you. I got news for you.

Every damn day you are systemically. breaking and destroying. the American economy, the American people's standing. internationally. It is a true humiliation. That's why I. said that to everybody too. This is not. Democrat, Republican, independent,

political party, political party. I'm just speaking the truth and the. common sense. Donald Trump yesterday. threatening to obliterate 91 million. Iranians. They heard that. You said that. during the Ayatollah's funeral, threatening to kill 91 million people, acting like you're still working on the. deal. The deal's done. It's theou. Well, that doesn't exist anymore. 20 days. Technically, Trump started breaching. within 24 hours, but it's gone. Here's.

what Trump said from the Oval Office. Let's play it. I think we've got that clip. Do we not. got that clip, Jeremy? in the Oval Office where Trump talks. about 91 million people. Do we have that. clip? >> Maybe making a deal. I don't know. We'll. make either. Look, we're going to win. one way or the other. We're either going. to make a deal or we're going to finish. the job. Okay? And it won't be tough to. finish the job. Uh I'd rather make a. deal because I don't want to affect 91.

million people. We can knock down their. bridges in one hour. We can knock out. their energy supply. all of those big. plants that they built, big, beautiful, modern plants. They had a lot of money. They don't have any money now. We. haven't given them any money. But we can. knock out their electricity and power. generating plants and. I would say a small part of an. afternoon, every plant will be gone. And. they know that. I hope you're happy,

Michael Dell. I hope it was worth the. money, Michael Dell. standing back there looking like the. freaking Adams family behind you. That's. what it looked like to me. as Donald Trump says things that'll be. your legacy, Michael Dell. That's what people will remember. Images. like that of you, of your wife standing. there. Future generations of Dells. will remember that more than anything.

you've done about making money, more. than philanthropic. money into Trump accounts. People. in the future will remember you. in that Adams family scene behind Donald. Trump right there as he threatens to. wipe out a civilization. as people like you, Michael Dell, and. your wife standing there help destroy.

the United States of America for what? 4% 5% of your stock price going up. That's what people will remember you. for. Images just like that. Seriously, how dare you and your. betrayal of our country. We know that. Donald Trump and Herman Monster behind. him and Ted Cruz and everybody. We know. We know who they are.

We know who they are. It's people like you during this moment. who truly were the enablers. who were. the people who aided and emedded this. type of behavior as well. And I look to. people who I once respected as well, like Mark Cuban, who I've seen in the. Oval Office also like that. I look to. people who I once respected as well, other business leaders who I saw. not just bend the knee but normalize.

this madness. this madness that will result in. devastation. for future generations. You have Donald Trump also uh in that. Oval Office press conference as he spews. that nonsense. as he's out there talking about nobody. knows the straight of Hormuz. We're doing very well with Iran. We're.

just not getting good coverage for it. We're doing very well, everybody. He's. just a con artist. He's just a scammer. We're not doing very well in Iran. We. lost the war. We lost. >> hundreds of billions. They have more. money than they've ever made. >> You could play the clip. >> Hundreds of billions. They have more. money than they've ever made. And we're. doing very well. We paid for the war.

many times over. and then Iran. We're. doing actually equally as well. We're. just not getting the kind of coverage. that we should, but we have eviscerated. them military. And the bottom line is. our country is strong. We have the. greatest military anywhere in the world. I was with President. What we're seeing as well is several. fast boats operated by the IRGC were. targeted in the port of Suri, meaning that it seems the United States.

killed some people as well in this. strike. Um, explosions from US strikes. are heard in Sar Bond Abbas as well, Keshim Island also. Um, and we're seeing. photos right now of these fast boats. that are being operated by Iran. They're. being struck. I have zero doubt that the. straight of Hermuza is about to be shut. down and oil will be over $90 very soon.

Very very soon. And and here's the thing. as well, and this is where Donald Trump. screws even over the people in his own. inner circle. You know, they were they. were shorting the hell. out of crude in order to try to. manipulate that market. And they're. about to get squeezed. They are about to get all those people. because oil's about to shoot up. It's. going to be 90 bucks by this evening. I. mean, right now it's already in the 80s.

It's going to be 90 95 bucks. Straight's. going to be closed. Iran's never going. to open the You think they're going to. do a deal again? Theou's done. Iran has gotten their 50 million barrels. or 75 million barrels out that they were. unable to get out, a lot of it during. the blockade. They're prep they're. prepared in Iran right now. for about 18 more months.

I think now because they got all their. oil out. They sold they were ready. They. knew that thisou would fall apart. This. is what I've been warning that they were. preparing for that. So. they were ready for it. And so now they. c they can probably wait us out 18. months. And so what's what's the Trump. plan here? You going to do ground. invasion right now? You going to do. ground invasion? Show the overhead of.

comm the funeral procession. Thyron. pull that up, Jeremy. Just the photos of. the funeral processions that we see. You're going to do a ground invasion. Yeah. You're going to do a ground. invasion? Yeah, that's your plan. You're going to. do a ground invasion of that? Really? That's the game plan? You're going to. you're going to you're going to send US. troops there?

Yeah. You're going to send Americans. there? You think those people are going. to view our. American troops as heroes? By the way, who who is going to. even let you use their airspace at this. point? Netanyahu. This is Netanyahu's. dream come true right now since theou. Netanyahu wanted thisou. not to work at all. This is a dream come. true for Netanyahu.

Who who gonna be who's who's on your. team, right? NATO. who you're threatening while being at. the NATO summit in Ankora, Turkey. They're they're going to want to join. this. They're in. that's who you think wants to help you. out. Who's going to help you? the group that I've been referring to as. the Islamabad Quartet, Pakistan, Qatar,

Saudi Arabia, Turkey. Do you think you you think. they're going to want to be involved in. uh the war right now? I can assure you. Pull up the image right here of these. fast boats. that were operated by the IRGC that the. US targeted. I can assure you that if. you killed anybody in these attacks, Iran is going to strike back hard. And. guess what? They have their missiles. They have their navy. They have.

their drones. They have all of it. Buckle up. War is back. War is back because we literally have. the dumbest and most dangerous people in. charge of the United States right now. We literally have the stupidest, most. idiotic, genocidal maniacs running the. United States right now. And everything. we've seen here was so utterly utterly.

predictable. Utterly predictable. and Sentcom's post. US Central Command forces, we've begun. launching a series of powerful strikes. against Iran to impose a heavy cost for. targeting and attacking commercial ships. crewed by innocent civilians in an. international waterway. Shut the hell. up, SenCom. Don't enter into theou. If you want to go to war, which by the. way, I don't think you should. It's a.

catastrophic and unlawful war. Then then. then just shut up. Shut up and stop turning the Navy into a. bunch of pirates. And. you you you want to you want to sell. that to the American people where the. casualties will be in the tens of. thousands. Don't act like, oh, we're doing a. powerful cost by hitting areas in the. straight of Hormuz and we're going to. hit some. No, you're destroying the.

lives of the America. You're toying with. the lives of the American people and. you're making people suffer. Gas prices. are going to go through the roof. Inflation's going to continue to sore. Markets are going to crash right now. while Donald Trump's there waddling. around like a cognitive and physical. deteriorating thing. in Ankora, Turkey. while talking about taking over.

Greenland. Enough is enough. Look at. this fool. Seriously, look at this fool. How does any American I look, I would. much rather take JD Vance. over this thing? The hell do we have here with this. thing? You know, it's it's it's it's it is. tr truly.

a. failure at every level of our system. from the media, political accountability. And by the. way, I'm looking at Democrats as well. Don't think I'm like, "Oh, the dem you. you know what? You stand up to this. fascism right now and you can't. equivocate during these moments at all.". Right now, I'm not even I'm not speaking. as a political species. I'm speaking as. a freaking American person right now.

And I look at that thing waddling around. anchor a Turkey as he threatens. invasions of Greenland, as he attacks. NATO, as he recklessly and maliciously brings. us back into war with Iran. that no American wants to be into. So he go, "We're winning. We're winning, everybody. We're the Navy is destroyed.

Oh, look how great I'm doing. They're. begging for a deal. They really love the. deal. They're begging. They're begging. me, guys. Guys, they're begging me. Everybody, they just they're so begging. And we've destroyed their navy. And we. destroyed their their sat their. satellites and we destroyed their. radars. Guys, we destroyed every They're. begging for a deal. They're begging for. it. They're begging for it. No, they're. not. They're They're really not. They're.

really not. You idiot. And you just got. the United States into this horrific war. again. that I don't think anybody should have. thought that we were that we were out of. attacking Keshum and Sakirk the Hard. region. during the Ayatollah's funeral. Yeah. Straight up her moves is getting. shut down for sure. For sure.

It is truly. truly I mean you know like you think you. think to yourself. how bad can it be? How much damage can. one person do to the United States of. America? I mean, I think that this exceeds. I think this exceeds. some of the worst expectations about how.

you dismantle and literally ruin and. destroy everything. Jeremy, do we have. video. of. the. Iranian processions of some of the. people who are out there? Some of the. people, the millions of people who are. out there. Do we have video of of some. of those processions that we can just uh. throw up? That's not B-roll. Um. I just want to How many clips do we. have, Jeremy, of what's going on? Okay,

let let me share with you. I I I want this episode to go a little. longer as well right now because of the. breaking news. I I want to um gather. some of the updates for us right now. because we're back at war. We're back at war again. A war that none. of us want to be involved in. against. Iran when we've seen.

even what's happened. And by the way, we. didn't need to see these images to know. we shouldn't have been in this. catastrophic war. But this is who Donald Trump right now. is. getting us back into a war with. Let's. play clip number one.

Let's play clip number two. [music]. Let's play clip number three. [music]. [music].

Play clip number four. >> Yeah. According to Trump's personal. stenographer, Barack Ravid, tonight's US retaliatory strikes against.

Iran, targeted air defense systems, coastal surveillance system, surfacetoair missiles, anti-ship cruise. missiles, drone launch sites, and port. facilities in southern Iran. I've got uh video as well. Um, I'm going to share with Jeremy to pull. up the video that we're about to pull. up. Um, fire seen burning at the port of.

Shahid Hakani in Bandur Abbas, southern. Iran, following tonight's wave of. I'm not calling them retaliatory. strikes. That's just, you know, you. know, it's like retaliatory preemptive. I that's just that's just not what's. happening. Okay. Since thisou was. entered into, it's been sickening for me. to watch. how the US violated theou at starting.

right away. It was sickening as someone. and and I think part of the sickening. realization was. also me reflecting on just more. historical context and I'm like. perhaps this is how we always were but. because it's happening in such an. obvious way right now and Trump is so. flagrant and dumb and stupid and. transparent about it I'm like did I you.

know you know I I I must have previously. bought into. a [snorts] lot of the propaganda that. was being spread by Trump, Netanyahu, and others. I mean, I'm talking as like. a younger person. As a younger person, when you would hear all of these things. about Iran and this and that and that. and that, and then when I'm able to. assess the video and look at it and. observe the behaviors and be objective. and say, "Okay, well, it seems that, you. know, I don't it seems like we're the. ones acting in bad faith here. I mean,

where's like we're the ones who are. continuingly violating it. I mean, obviously, if you do an agreement where. you basically say Iran's going to. administer the straight of Hermuz, and. then you try to open up your own lane, which you couldn't do during the war, and you try to use the ceasefire to. attain things that you didn't during the. war. It's like, okay, you didn't win the. war. And then when Donald, we won the. war, we won the war, we won the war. We. didn't, we didn't win the war. Why are. you bragging that we won a war that we. didn't win? We lost the war. And by the. way, okay, we lost the war. You don't. have to win every You don't have to. pretend to win everything.

I won. I won. I won. I won. I won. Okay, you know what? We shouldn't have gotten. involved. It was catastrophic. I don't. mean to downplay how horrific it was, but okay, you lost. So, don't learn learn the lesson from. it. Learn the lesson from it. Don't fall. into a perpetual escalation trap. But. the thing is, when you look at Donald. Trump's behavior in his whole life, it. is one massive escalation trap that. results in bankruptcy. That's his. businesses. That's his meme coins.

That's COVID. That's everything. He's He. can't do a deal. He can't actually He. can't get a thing done. He can't do it. He can't do the damn thing. He. frauds and then he blames, but he can't. do the thing. And so if there was any. fortunate thing during co it's that he. lost the election and that it was able. to be handed to Biden who was blamed for. all of the stuff that Trump did and then. you know our system and also I think the.

weakness by the justice department other. things weren't able to do what it needed. to do to hold you know a prior criminal. regime accountable. There was this. breakdown of the supreme women. I I. could go on and on and on. I'm not doing. the full diagnosis here yet you know but. you get it. Um, but now we have two and. a half more years of this. Two and a half more. And he's never. going to be able to solve it because. he's not a solver. He's a destroyer. He's a troll. He's someone who looks at something he.

he mocks. He makes fun of. He calls. Maloney a stalker. He lies and says. he can't resolve anything. And he's demented. like he's truly a. demented figure who who goes. I'm doing great. I'm doing deals. I'm a. good deal maker. You know, it's like, dude, shut up. I. mean, truly a pathetic thing in the It's. just It's just a grotesque thing in the.

Oval Office who's not smart, who who. blabbers and lies about every damn. thing. Let me show you right now. fire. scene burning at the port. You see right there kind of kind of. chopped me off right there as well. But. I think you uh you you can see right. there.

So I I want to get us more data. I'll. probably of course report live uh. tonight as well. um you know uh more Israeli drone. strikes in Gaza as well. uh taking place um obviously I've been. covering the Israeli strikes in southern. Lebanon as well. Um the these strikes by. the United States on Iran do seem to be. uh significant. I expect Iran's response.

uh to be significant. Play the B-roll so. people can see, you know, what the sites. look like. uh right there. Um yeah, I expect Iran's respon response. to be very serious. I expect they'll. shut down the straight of Hormuz. I. expect oil to be 90 to $100 again per. barrel very soon. I expect Donald Trump. to then say, "We're done. We're done. We're done." Iran's not done. And Iran's. been emboldened by the funeral as well.

I think they knew it would be a large. crowd. I think that they're probably. even. um. surprised isn't the right word, but I. think that they are emboldened by the. crowd sizes that they've seen come out. for the Ayatollah right there. I think. the message that that sent um the rest. of the world that they're going to. continue the processions in Iraq, the. Shiite communities there. You know, Iran. can also shut down Babel Mandab.

straight. Like, let's not forget that in the Red. Sea, right? We're talking Persian Gulf. Iran never played its Babel Mandave. card, which it can play. It wouldn't. shock me if they play that card as well. because they know I mean the the the the. thing is Trump showed the cards. He. doesn't have them. The US doesn't have. We've depleted about 50% of our. inventory. of missiles,

of interceptors. Um, we've, you know, Trump has described how. close we are to a global economic. depression. and that's why he had a rush into theou. JD Vance has talked about the reason we. did theou was to replenish the stocks. referring to our oil stocks which aren't. replenished. which aren't we're depleting our oil. strategic reserves in Cushing at a huge.

huge number right here. and so now we wait for more information. about these strikes. now we wait for Iran's. retaliatory respon response, which I. believe is going to be massive. And. here I'm going to show you. uh. this is how it's being described by a US.

official. A US official calls tonight's. strikes on Iran punishment, not proportional. And it won't be over for a bit. that our. intention is to punish Iran. It's also. the language of a predator. It's also. the language of a predator. You're going. to punish them. Okay. Well, they're. going to punish you. They're going to. punish you and they're going to punish.

the American people. Who does this. benefit? Who Netanyahu? Who who who else. does this benefit? Who who who is winning out of this? How. how is how is this winning here? Pull. this up, Jeremy. Iran's Shahed Hagani port in Bond Abbas. is ablaze. And the official statement. from the US, punishment not. proportional. Okay. Well, you'll see. what the response is from Iran.

Punishment not proportional. And we'll see how that impacts the. American people who want no part in. this. And then when the American people. see, okay, well, you've been saying, everything's going good, it's going. great, Iran doesn't have a navy, they. don't have a military, they don't have. everything, they don't have everything. Things are spiraling out of control, by. the way. Has Russia's invading Keev with. ballistics, and Keev doesn't have and.

Zalinsky doesn't have the interceptors. I mean, you're seeing war rage across. the world right now. And this is what. happens when. you put in power. somebody like Trump. I. show the photo Jeremy if we've got it of. the fire seen burning at the port of. Shahid Aani in Bondurabas. That's what. it looks like in Iran right now during. the Ayatollah funeral. That's what it looks like. And the.

response from US officials, punishment. not proportional. And then what they said when they. revoked. the general license to Iran, which is as President Trump and the. administration have repeatedly affirmed, theou in effect with Iran is entirely. performance-based. Iran will only reap. benefits if they exhibit good behavior. Okay? That's not what theou says. and. any responsible media outlet which.

doesn't exist should be explaining to. the American people that theou is. actually the inverse of that. The only. time Iran was required to give is when. the US performed. If you look at theou. of how it was structured, the US had to. unfreeze sanctions, give $300 billion, which then Marco Rubio said we're not. even looking at doing. They had to. ensure a permanent and enduring.

ceasefire in Lebanon. They had to allow. Iran to administer the strait of Hormuz. They had to unfreeze close to 13 billion. dollars in sanctions against Iran. And. then when those things were accomplished. based on the good behavior of the United. States, then Iran would open up the. nuclear file for negotiation. when the. JCPOA under the Obama administration did. the exact thing.

over a decade ago. So, it was a good behavior. I mean, I'm. not again, I'm not saying I'm not like. it's not that I'm cheerleading on Iran. I'm just letting you know theou was a. good behavior test for the US, not a. good behavior test for Iran because the. US lost the war and Trump and Vance. begged for the deal and Iran structured. the deal in a way that was advantageous. for Iran. That's what the deal was.

And the US proceeded to violate it at. every point in time. Then the July 4th weekend ended. Iran is. holding its funeral processions. Donald Trump's at NATO bashing NATO. allies. And now war is back. And again, people have been so lied to by corporate. news, by the Trump regime, that this may.

come as a surprise. This ain't a surprise. This was the inevitable result 20 days. into theou that this was going to. happen. And let me be the bearer of bad. news right now. This is what will be. happening for the next two and a half. years. That's what and and it will be getting. worse and Trump will fall deeper and. deeper into escalatory traps and he will.

get deeper and deeper outmaneuvered by. people who one view this as survival of. their civilization. too that are being run by PhDs and very. intelligent people who are strategizing. They're not the cavemen that the Trump. regime pretends they are. Trump is the. caveman that he accuses the Iran.

Iranians being. And rather than being in. a cave, he's in his freaking junkyard in. the White House. that he's turned DC into this literal. cesspool. while. He just dude like blah Georgia Maloney. I'm This is a stalker. I'm gonna post. this. Look at Obama. Democrats. No. I. mean, it's dumb. It's dumb and it's. dangerous that you have somebody like. that who who thinks I'm I'm the best at.

nuclear because my uncle John was an MIT. professor. So, I know more about nuclear. than anybody. Really? Do you think you. know more about nuclear than the nuclear. physicist in Iran? You know Peskian. who's the president of Iran is a. cardiovascular surgeent and one of the. preeminent physicians in Iran. You know. MB Galabaf is a PhD who actually fought. in wars and has a and has a long history. of nuclear negotiations. You know,

foreign minister Aragchi of Iran. actually wrote the preeminent. negotiation book that's used by foreign. ministers across the world and actually. has a developed plan. And now you see. the Iranian people right there. showing their solidarity with the. Ayatollah. while Donald Trump is puttering around. NATO talking about invading Greenland.

You wonder why Canada bought submarines. from Germany. You wonder why NATO bought. the Awax from the Saab Bombardier group. and not from uh Boeing. You wonder why. people are moving away from the dollar. You wonder why you've destroyed. generations. of stability for generations if America.

can ever rebuild out of this. And I. don't mean to leave us on a down note. I. don't mean to lead leave us with this. question mark of what's happening. But I. do want to leave us with a understanding. that truth matters. and that every step of the way I hope. you've seen that in a nonpartisan way. The reporting here has been spot-on.

precise predicting exactly when this was. going to happen. And I take no pride or. pleasure in it because what that means. is the United States is back at war. What that means is that more people will. die. What that means is we fall deeper. into the escalatory trap. What that. means is the markets crash. What that. means is that things become far less. affordable for you. Inflation surges.

What that means is that we're heading. for a great recession, which most. Americans are already in. What that. means is when Donald Trump says, "I. don't want to be Herbert Hoover cuz he. was a great depression." You know who. says things like that, people who get. people into depressions are out there. saying, "I don't want to get into a. great depression." You don't go on an. airplane and your pilot goes, "I hope I. don't crash this thing." You don't go. into a surgery and your surgical go, I.

hope I don't screw up. My hands are a. little shaky. I don't want to be that. kind of surgeon. No, you don't have. former President Obama. I hate to be the. guy who brings us in a depression. I. don't want to be that guy. Folks, folks, folks, truth matters. Isn't a pro-democratic. message. This isn't a pro-Republican. message. This is a humanity message. And.

I see someone saying Zara. Yeah, that's. the granddaughter of the Ayatollah who. was killed by Trump and Netanyahu. You may have seen or heard my daughter. enter the house about. 10 minutes ago when I see the photo of. Zara, the Ayatollah's granddaughter who. was killed by Trump and Netanyahu. Do we. have that photo, Jeremy, of Zara, the.

granddaughter of the Ayatollah who was. killed? She looks very similar to my. daughter, Himea. And I see the humanity or the inhumanity. in all of this. I don't see this as, oh, I hope the. Democrats uh do this or I hope the. Republicans do that. Like, if you wanted. to come to a YouTube channel that wanted. me to give you, well, I think the. Democrats need to do this because this.

is how the Democrats win and uh here's. what we should do to the Republicans and. we should be more like this. Sorry. Sorry. not the channel. I want to focus. on how we fight for humanity. And if the. Democrats want to be better fighter for. humanity, good. But stop the. That's what this channel is about. Fight. for humanity. Fight for human beings. Fight for decency. Fight for that. That's what I'm fighting for right now. more than oh, you know, I hope this.

Yeah. I mean, I believe we're run by an. incompetent fascist regime, so I'd like. to see them out of power. I'd like to. see investigations take place. I'd like. to see some lever of accountability. I. don't want our Congress to look like the. Duma in Russia or even worse, it's so. pathetic it's not even in session. It. hasn't even worked a fre a single. freaking day. But this is a humanity. channel. And I am livid right now. I'm livid at. these predators in the Oval Office.

these predators. who have just inflicted yet again. catastrophe, calamity. for what? For what? For Michael Dell and the Adams family. behind Donald Trump. So four so so the stock price could be. manipulated 4% here, 4%. You know what? In the long run, you just screwed it.

We'll see see what happens to to to this. long term at this point. Angry angry. Well, there you have it. I'll be back. Well, I I'll do some videos now. I'm going to uh. knock out a video on on the update. It's. just it it really uh. you know it's it's as someone says I.

totally feel you've been livid. It's. sad. I I it is it is it is sad the. damage and destruction by this regime. All right, I'll leave you with that. I'll see you next time. Bye. Want to stay plugged in? Become a. subscriber to [music] our Substack at. midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps. from Ron Philipski, ad free episodes of. our podcast, and more exclusive content.

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