Trump GOES MUTE as 5 TANKERS ATTACKED in 24 HOURS!!!

Donald Trump has gone mute as Iran has. targeted five tankers that have been. escorted by the United States military. through a different route in the Strait. of Hormuz than the one controlled by the. IRGC. Let me repeat that. Iran has now. struck five ships with a combination of. drones and missiles severely damaging. these five tankers. And the tankers that. we know about because the normal. reporting service has actually been.

covering up the extent to which Iran has. successfully been targeting these. tankers, but we've been able to identify. it with some open-source intelligence. accounts that have also made visual. confirmation. The Iranian speedboats. have been able to disable these five. ships from Saudi Arabia, from Qatar, from other areas. And they're sending a. message, which is the memorandum of. understanding. governs that the IRGC controls the. Strait of Hormuz. And don't take our new.

relationship together as a sign of. weakness. If you follow the US lane, which is not the authorized IRGC lane in. the Strait of Hormuz, you will be. targeted. Now, these ships were struck. by Iran right before the NATO summit. began in Ankara and during it. We knew. about that one ship, and then there were. two ships that we reported on. And now. there's a total of five ships, three.

other ships. Um and all of those ships, they share one thing in common. They are. using the area in the Strait of Hormuz. that the United States has been trying. to guard with our airplanes and with the. US Navy vessels and with the US. equipment and telling the ships use this. lane, and Iran said, "Nope, you use. those lanes, we're striking you down.". In fact, over VHF Channel 16, the IRGC. Navy see these fast boats right here.

They're small boats, but they carry a. punch and a sting because all you got to. do is direct the drones to hit the. tankers or these VLCCs or you have, you. know, a missile, boom. You can hit these. tankers and disable them with one shot. And here's what the IRGC Navy put over. VHF Channel 16. Captain, 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. This is say by Navy. We will shoot you. down if you don't turn around. And by. the way, you look right now at the. marine traffic data, at the other. satellite data on the Strait of Hormuz. And you're seeing that the Oman lane as. it's being called that the Trump regime. tried to open is effectively all shut. down at this point and all the traffic.

flows going through the IRGC. So, a. Qatari-owned LPG tanker, the Al Rakayet, a Saudi-owned oil tanker, the Wedyan, a. UAE-owned LPG tanker, the Al Mariah, and. then we learned about one that wasn't. reported from a day ago or so. And then. one that was just hit moments ago for a. total of five. You see right here. Look. at this visual right here. You see. Kashab right there by the Oman side of. things. And this is exactly where the US.

was trying to guide these tankers out. and Iran, one after the other, are. shooting these ships down. Now, this. again happens as Donald Trump had that. disastrous arrival to Ankara for Turkey. where Donald Trump didn't have his. faculties. He was didn't know where he was. He. needed to be held by Erdogan to even. walk. Trump's made no comments about. what's going on here. Yesterday he. commented that nobody knew what the. Strait of Hormuz was and that he's the. first person to learn about the Strait.

of Hormuz and has got a lot of money, he. says, a lot of money. Just to remind. you, here's what he said before leaving. to Ankara in Turkey about the Strait of. Hormuz. Let's play this clip. >> The. uh Strait. and the famous Strait of Hormuz is. 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. >> And then Donald Trump also said. yesterday that things are looking very.

good with Iran. They're very close to. doing a deal. It's going to be a big and. powerful one. He said, "We're doing very. well." Here, play this clip. >> And hundreds of billions they have more. money than they've ever made. And we're doing very well. 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 Xi. >> And then Donald Trump threatened the. sovereignty and the existence of Iran. yesterday as well and said, "Yeah, but. if we don't do the deal, I may just. obliterate all 91 million people. I may. just kill everybody in Iran." That's. what he said yesterday and Iran said. today, "We're not afraid of you. In. fact, if you try to violate the. memorandum of understanding," which Iran. says that says use the. Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz. lanes, not You can't just open up your. own lane. "We will hit your ships.".

Here's what Donald Trump said. >> They may be 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 1 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 in. I would say. a small part in of an afternoon. Every. plant will be gone. And they know that. >> Here's a message from one of the IRGC. top officials, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, to the delusional president of America. who today threatened 91 million. Iranians. I say, "Before this, as the. president of a rootless country with a.

250-year history, you had spoken in a. similar language about wiping out Iran's. several-thousand-year-old civilization. And the result for you was nothing but. defeat, desperation, and a request for. negotiations and a ceasefire. The. Iranian people are strangers to the. language of threats, so speak to the. people of Iran with respect. Otherwise, we will respond to you in another. language." Also, Iran's foreign. minister, Araghchi, who's also one of. the lead negotiators along with MB. Galibaf, posted some of the images.

coming out of Tehran and Qom, QOM, where the massive funeral procession of. the Ayatollah Khamenei has been taking. place. This is what Araghchi says, "Millions of proud Iranians rallied in. unity to honor Grand Ayatollah Khamenei. and his legacy. Neither them nor our. brave armed forces are moved by any. threats. Paragraph 13 of the memorandum. of understanding is clear. Negotiations. on a final deal will not commence if.

threats continue. Honor your signature.". In other words, to Donald Trump, "The. more you threaten us, paragraph one, as. further. reiterated in paragraph 13, says, "Stop. threatening us. If you treat us with. respect and dignity, we'll do a deal. We. can then get to the nuclear file. Until. then, until you make sure that Netanyahu. leaves Lebanon, until you stop trying to. open up your own lanes in the Strait of. Hormuz, we ain't we ain't being moved by.

that." And I'll just remind you too, Donald Trump I guess trying to. intimidate the Iranians yesterday, also. says, "My soldiers are strong. I want my. soldiers." He calls them "my soldiers to. be strong and physically strong. soldiers. These are big men," he says. Okay, play this clip. >> Like we'd like to have strong soldiers. I want my soldiers to be strong. physically. And we have strong soldiers. And when the bad guys see our soldiers. out on the streets of Washington and you. saw that, Jeff, you were saying you.

said, "I never saw so many big, strong, good-looking people.". And. it's all based on merit. So, our military's got merit-based. Everything we do is merit-based. >> Meanwhile, I'm sure you've been seeing. some of these images coming out of Qom. following the Tehran procession for. Ayatollah's funeral. I mean, some. massive images right here. Iran broke. the record for the largest funeral in. history. During the three-day ceremonies. and processions honoring Ayatollah.

Khamenei, 23.7. Yeah, 23.7 million passengers used the. metro buses. Um this figure is not. taking into account the millions that. attended the Qom funeral ceremony. Footage shows Qom in the morning. We'll. show you the aerial footage. Shows an. overwhelming crowd of mourners filing. the are filling the Jamkaran Mosque in. Qom ahead of the farewell ceremony to. Khamenei. Play this clip.

>> Another image right here, you can see. the people. in Qom. This was posted by Tasnim. More. photos over here. Another image of the massive turnout for. the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei that. Glenn Diesen posted. I'll just show you. photo, photo, photo, photo, photo. Look. at Look how big this is. This is in Qom. right here. It's a relatively small. desert city relative speaking in Iran. I.

mean, just look at the mosque right. there filled up. I'll show you the. helicopter footage also here. Let's play. that helicopter footage. I I do want to remind everybody else. that this isn't just a funeral for. Ayatollah Khamenei. It's also his.

granddaughter right here. Here's a photo. of his. granddaughter Zahra over there also. killed in the Israeli-US air strikes. Of. the Ayatollah was his granddaughter. Zahra and her coffin is right there. Bushra Khamenei, Khamenei's daughter and. Zahra's mother, Missab Khamenei, his. son-in-law, Zahra who you see right. there in in in that side of the. family. were all killed as well. You can see the.

people I did a video on it this morning. how lots of signs threatening Donald. Trump's life at the Iranian. at the funeral procession for Ayatollah. Khamenei. So, that's where we're at right now folks. and I'll just let me read you this. because I think it's important for our. understanding. This is what Hadri Zahra. Zizi says, "Iran's interpretation of. Article 5 of the MOU is that the. reopening of the Strait of Hormuz must. exclusively follow Iranian arrangements. Therefore, the opening of the southern.

routes by Oman and the IMO without. Iran's consent is seen as a breach of. the MOU. The same article also uses soft. language regarding coordination with. other regional countries. It refers to. dialogue with Oman, discussions with. other Arab nations in the Persian Gulf, which is also interpreted in Iran as. non-binding. This is one area that from. day one was identified by analysts. >> [snorts]. >> as a case in which the text was too. broad and open to interpretation to the. point of allowing potentially.

contentious readings. I disagree with. that. I think it was pretty clear. reading that Iran controls the Strait of. Hormuz when you read the language. And then he goes on to say, "By. targeting a Saudi and Qatari tanker in. the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is trying to. send a signal that neither the signing. of the MOU with the US nor its desire to. improve relations with Gulf Arab states. should be interpreted as a green light. for regional countries to move freely. through the strait while disregarding. Tehran's claim to control and manage the.

waterway." Iran says, "We won the war. We control the Strait of Hormuz. Follow. what we say or we're going to keep. striking down these tankers, one after. another, and we're not afraid. We know that the US is running low in. its strategic petroleum reserves, very. low, tank bottom. We know that the. United States economy will go into a. great depression if you start the war. Do it. You saw the 15-20 million people across. Iran. Let's even call it 5-10 million. people. You see the people who are out. there for the largest funeral procession. ever? You see it? You think that we are.

worried right now? If anything, the. funeral procession has emboldened Iran. and all of the things that Trump and. Netanyahu and others were saying. I. mean, you look at the visuals right. there in Iran. That's not AI. That's. what it looks like. That's what's going. on in Iran right now. So, you can say, "Oh, Ben, they're paying for those. people to be there." Well, but you told. me they were broke. You told me Iran doesn't have money. They're paying for 10-12-15 million. people to show up. Doesn't look like it. to me. I think I could evaluate what I'm. seeing there. It doesn't I'm just trying. to provide objective damn facts about. what I'm seeing.

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