Trump PANICS and STRIKES IRAN as WAR SPIRALS!!!

The Trump regime has just engaged in. military strikes inside Iran. Explosions. have now been reported near Sirik Port, Qeshm Island, and in the Bandar Abbas. area, also in Minab, according to. Iranian media. ABC News Jonathan Karl. called Donald Trump, and Trump told ABC, quote, "They shot down a helicopter, and. we are responding as we speak," adding. that the response by the United States. military should be very strong and very.

powerful. War is escalating, folks. The. Iranian regime-linked media, Tasnim News. Agency, says Iran will be responding to. US attacks. The IRGC spokesperson just. put out a message saying, "Stay away. from all American sites in the region. immediately. We will be targeting these. assets. Expect a massive Iranian. response any moment right now." At least. seven US strikes, maybe more, were heard.

in the Bandar Abbas, Minab, Qeshm, Sirik, and southern Iranian area um. after the US launched these strikes. The. US was saying that it was in response to. an Iranian drone striking an Apache. helicopter that was loitering over the. Strait of Hormuz. Iran denies that it. was their Shahed drone that hit this. Apache. The US military claims the. Iranian Shahed drone hit the Apache uh. intentionally. Previously, Iranian.

Foreign Minister Araghchi said, "Stay. out of the Strait of Hormuz. Your. country's thousands of miles away. When. you loiter and hover over our land and. our area, things like this are bound to. happen." We're also hearing that the US. strike in Sirik reportedly hit two water. reservoirs in the Bamani district, cutting off that area's drinking water. supply. A direct hit to Iranian. infrastructure, shutting down the water.

in the Bomani district. And Iran said if. anything like that ever happened, their. retaliation against the neighbors in the. region would be extra extra fierce. And. I think that's what we're about to see. right now. Here's what Tasnim says, Iran will. respond to US aggression. Iran as it. warned a few hours ago will give a. decisive response to the US aggression. carried out during the pretext of the. downing of the Apache helicopter. Iran. is saying it was not a Shahed drone that.

took down the Apache, that Trump and. Netanyahu are using that as a pretext to. strike Iran. And Iran is saying we're. not going to hold back. We're about to. unleash hell is what Iran is saying. Moreover, Jonathan Karl said, I was on the phone with Trump as CENTCOM. announced US retaliatory strikes against. Iran. Here's what he said, I think it's. very important to respond. They shot. down a helicopter. We're responding as. we speak. This is a response to what. they did. They did with our helicopter.

last night. And I believe this response. should be very strong, very powerful. And that's what this one is. United. States Central Command CENTCOM said the. following. CENTCOM forces began. launching self-defense. That's what they. referred to as self-defense strikes. against Iran at 5 p.m. Eastern time. today at the commander in chief's. direction in response to yesterday's. downing of a US Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response. to unjustified Iranian aggression. Well,

you're flying an Apache over their area. to enforce an American blockade that. Iran has previously said is an act of. war. We would all agree blockades are. acts of war. Here's what Foreign. Minister Aragchi posted just moments. ago. Despite its defeats on the. battlefield, the US opted to test our. determination. Our powerful armed forces. will leave no attack or threat. unanswered. Leave our region if you want.

to be safe. History of the Persian Gulf. has many chapters on dire fates of. intruding outsiders. CNN reporting that. tonight's US strikes against military. targets in southern Iran are intended as. a quote warning shot and are not. expected to hinder peace negotiations. between Iran and the United States. Clownish US officials told CNN. Really, you don't think this is going to hinder. the peace discussions? Really? You think.

that this is going to be productive? What, is a deal going to happen any day. now? Is a deal going to happen tomorrow. now? Yeah, I'm sure this helps out the. peace discussions. Meanwhile, Maga Mike. Johnson just held a press conference. moments ago. Maga Mike says that he was. in the White House Situation Room with. Trump when. the United States launched these. strikes. As my friend Adam Kinzinger. says though, how are there still radar, missile, and command and control.

systems, Maga Mike, when you and Donald. Trump said all of the Iranian military. was previously obliterated and. destroyed? Watch what Maga Mike has to. say. Play this clip. >> Yeah, um it was announced just as we. were walking in here. There is a. defensive strike that has been taken. It. is proportional and limited. Uh the. White House and Pentagon have announced. and and and said it's. uh against unjustified Iranian. aggression. They did notify uh me as. leader of the house uh before uh.

this began. And it's targeted strikes to. um. to the radar, missile, and command and. control sites. And it is defensive in. nature. We lament that that has become. necessary. And the reason it did, as you. all know, is because. Iran struck um. uh US assets and personnel. We can't. allow that. Um, and and so we're going. to have to take care of this this. business. So, I was at the White House. today, I think it was a couple hours in. the situation room this morning, and. uh, the Vice President was there, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, uh,

and CIA Director and others. We were. with the President, and we talked about, uh, you know, Iran and a number of other. matters. >> A very sheepish and weak-looking. propagandist, Jesse Watters, was on Fox. before, and here's what he had to say. while this was all going down. Play this. clip. >> Does this set us back, Jesse, or not, in. terms of trying to get a deal with the. Iranians? >> Uh, I don't know. Uh, I do know that the. ceasefire is slowly collapsing after. what we saw with the Israelis in. Lebanon, and then exchanging fire with. the Iranians, us telling them to stop,

quit, and then the Houthis launching a. missile into Israel. So, yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of deteriorating. It's. not shattered, so they're still. negotiating, and they're negotiating. pretty seriously. Whip Cough was talking. to the President the other day. Uh, I. think we just received an offer. I'm. hearing from Washington that we like. what we're seeing, but I don't know how. much closer it means to getting to that. final deal. >> Then they had J.D. Vance, who had the. audacity to go on CBS, and he said the.

U.S. is close to a deal with Iran. It. could come in the next week, or it could. come months from now. Oh, thank you, J.D. Vance. The deal is right around the. corner, or right around the corner's. corner's corner's corner's corner, and. never going to happen. What a weak and. pathetic regime this is. Here, play this. clip. >> very close. How soon could the deal. happen before the midterm elections? >> Oh, absolutely. No, I I I I think we're. going to know a lot before the midterm. elections. Look, I I I think that the. deal could happen in the next week, but.

the deal could also happen months from. now. >> Now, earlier today, Donald Trump also. called the Wall Street Journal, and. Donald Trump told the Wall Street. Journal before these strikes that the. Iranians striking down the Apache. helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz was. not a big deal. Here's what the Wall. Street Journal reported. In a phone call. with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Trump said the blockade was making Iran. very poor and said he would keep it in. place as long as necessary. He sought to. play down the helicopter incident saying. that it wasn't a big deal and stressing.

the pilots are fine. The Apache crew. spent two hours in the water as darkness. fell according to Captain Tim Hawkins, spokesperson at Central Command. One. senior US official described the crew's. escape from the down aircraft as a hand. of God moment right there. And do you. remember our reporting here in the Midas. Touch Network where I was saying that. Trump is trying to create some pretext. for. an American soldier to die or to be. injured so he can say, "Oops, I guess.

we've got to invade again." That seems. to be what they are doing right now. A. US official told Fox News, state regime. media, "Airstrikes targeting Iran are. ongoing. The targets include air defense. and radar installations." That's what. Jennifer Griffin, she's actually a good. reporter, one of the few good reporters. over at Fox. Now, Danny Citrinowicz, he was a former Israeli intelligence. official who operated in the region that. was covered obviously. that covered Iran. He's been very.

critical of the way this war has been. handled by Trump and Netanyahu. Here's. what he posted his analysis and take a. listen. "It is increasingly clear that. Washington is trying to frame what just. took place its recent action as limited, defensive, and retaliatory rather than. as the opening phase of a broader. military campaign. The challenge, however, is that Iran has historically. shown little willingness to absorb. attacks on its territory without. responding regardless of whether the. strike originated from Israel or the.

United States. Given the public threats. made by Iranian officials and the. regime's long-standing emphasis on. deterrence, it is reasonable to assume. that Tehran is considering some form of. response against US interests in the. Gulf including military facilities and. regional partners. More broadly, this. episode serves as another reminder that. the current status quo is inherently. unstable. In the absence of a diplomatic. agreement, even actions intended to be. limited and contained can generate. dynamics that neither side originally.

seeks. For that reason, it would be. premature to assume that Tehran views. the latest exchange as the final. chapter. The risk of further escalation. remains significant even if neither. Washington nor Tehran is actively. seeking a wider conflict. Donald Trump. escalating, Iran is going to respond. Let's not forget where this all started. with Israel striking in the Daya. district in Beirut and Tyre over the. weekend pushing into Lebanon when a.

material point of the ceasefire between. the United States and Iran was security. guarantees in Lebanon for Hezbollah. Whether you like that or not, that was. in the That was in the framework that. Trump agreed to when he posted the. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi's. framework and said the US agreed to this. back in early April. Today, we also saw. more IDF Israeli strikes in Tyre or. Arabic they say Sur, Lebanon. intensifying, expanding into new western. neighborhoods by this kind of crystal.

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