Israel BURNS After Massive Iran Missile, Cluster Munitions Barrage; Fires and Craters Across Cities Times Of India Mar 13, 2026 #IranIsraelWar #ClusterMissile #IsraelUnderAttack
Iran launched another ballistic missile strike on central Israel, sending air raid sirens blaring across several cities. Dramatic videos online show a massive fireball and thick smoke rising after the impact. The missile carried a cluster warhead, scattering explosive sub-munitions across multiple locations. Emergency teams reported damage at several sites, including a building fire in Shoham, a crater on a highway, and damaged vehicles in Rishon Lezion. Despite the destruction, authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries. The attack marked the sixth missile launched towards Israel since midnight, underscoring the relentless pace of Iranian barrages as the regional war continues to escalate.
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Iran has launched another missile strike towards central Israel with initial military assessments suggesting the secondsballistic missile carried a cluster bomb warhead. The attack triggered air raid sirens across multiple cities in central secondsIsrael late in the evening. Viral videos circulating online appeared to show a massive fire following the missile secondsimpact. Footage shared on social media captured flames and smoke rising from an area shortly after the strike, though secondsthe videos have not been independently verified. According to preliminary assessments based on footage and impact secondspatterns, the missile may have carried a cluster munition warhead. Such warheads disperse multiple smaller submunitions secondsover a wide area, increasing the spread of damage. Emergency responders reported damage at at least three locations secondsacross central Israel following the attack. One of the impacts sparked a blaze on the roof of a building in the minute, secondstown of Shan. Another impact left a crater on a highway while several vehicles were reportedly damaged in the minute, secondscity of Rishon Leon. The scattered impact sites are consistent with the pattern expected from a cluster munition minute, secondsstrike. Despite the damage, authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries. First responders reached the minute, secondsaffected areas quickly as emergency teams assessed the situation and secured the impact sites. The strike marked the minute, secondssixth missile attack launched towards Israel since midnight, reflecting the continued pace of Iranian missile minute, secondsbargages amid the expanding regional conflict. minute, secondsZarazir, a city located in northern Israel, sustained massive damage in Iran's missile attack overnight on March minute, secondsth. Shortly before a.m., Israelis woke up to the roars of Iranian missiles minutes, secondspenetrating layers of Israeli air defenses and making a direct impact. minutes, secondsSeven firefighting teams were immediately dispatched to the scene after the missile struck a residential minutes, secondsstructure. The blast damaged nearby homes and sparked a localized fire. minutes, secondsThe Magen David Adom Ambulance Service said nearly people suffered injuries in the Iranian onslaught. Israeli media minutes, secondsreported that one of the bargages directly hit three buildings causing significant damage. The MDA said minutes, secondssustained minor injuries from glass shards and a woman in her s was moderately wounded after being hit by minutes, secondsshrapnel in her back. The woman was taken to Ramba Medical Center in Hifur while the other victims were evacuated minutes, secondsto Hach Medical Center in Afoula and the Italian hospital in Nazareth. As per Yet report, minutes, secondsfootage shared by news agency the Associated Press showed damaged homes and vehicles as well as a large crater minutes, secondsin the ground. The Israeli military said it was operating with emergency services at the scene to clear debris. Zazir minutes, secondscouncil head ATF Griffat said heavy damage was recorded at the site and that one of the houses was completely minutes, secondsdestroyed. The city is located around km north of Jerusalem near the border with Lebanon. minutes, secondsMissiles exploded on the houses. Half of our houses were damaged. Several people were injured, but thank God nothing big minutes, secondshappened to people, mainly damage to the houses. I was leaving my uncle's house in a vehicle when the missile hit this minutes, secondhouse and the one below. I felt the roof of the vehicle fall on me. I was at home. Everything in the house fell apart. Everything was destroyed. minutes, secondsThe IDF said it is investigating the circumstances of the Iranian ballistic missile impact in the northern town of minutes, secondsZazia. IDF said the home front command forces both regular and reserve are minutes, secondsoperating in coordination with emergency organizations at the impact site and conducting a situation assessment in minutes, secondscollaboration with emergency and rescue bodies with the aim of securing the area. minutes, secondsThe strike occurred during a night of repeated alerts in northern Israel after the IDF detected multiple launches from minutes, secondsIran toward the region. Sirens also sounded following rocket fire from Lebanon. minutes, secondsHezbollah had also launched more than rockets on Israel in coordination with Iran. minutes, secondsSirens sounded in the southernmost city of Alat following the launch of Iran's ballistic missile. The Times of Israel, minutes, secondsciting the IDF's initial assessment, minutes, secondsreported that the missile was likely intercepted and no injuries were reported. minutes, secondsMeanwhile, Israel launched wave of extensive strikes on Tehran. This comes as explosions took place in Thran and minutes, secondsKarage. The IDF said several waves of Israeli air strikes in Tehran, Shiraz, minutes, secondsand Avaz on March th hit several Iranian military sites, including a subterranean ballistic missile manufacturing and storage site. minutes, secondsThe military said the underground site in Shiraz was used by Iran to manufacture and store ballistic missiles minutes, secondswhich were set to be launched toward the state of Israel. minutes, secondsIn Arvas, the IDF said it struck several headquarters of various Iranian regime bodies, including the IRGC ground forces minutes, secondsand Iran's internal security forces. The military said dozens of Iranian soldiers were operating at the headquarters that were targeted. minutes, secondsDramatic escalation in the Middle East conflict as Iran unleashes wave after wave of missiles in a massive coordinated strike. Iran's Islamic minutes, secondsRevolutionary Guard Corps has released footage it claims shows the nd wave of missile launches under its ongoing military campaign known as True Promise minutes, secondsThe video shows multiple ballistic missiles blasting into the night sky as chance of Salahu Akbar echo in the background. minutes, secondsThe exact location and date of the footage could not be independently verified. minutesAccording to the IRGC, the barrage included several types of missiles, minutes, secondsincluding Imad, Kadra, Kiar Shic, and the advanced FATA missile. Iranian officials also claimed suicide drones minutes, secondswere deployed alongside the ballistic missile strikes. minutes, secondsTehran says the targets included the Israeli city of Tel Aviv as well as American military bases across the region. minutes, secondsThe strikes were launched under the slogan Leba Kame, a rallying cry pledging loyalty to Iran's supreme leadership. Iranian officials say the minutes, secondsoperation commemorates what they call the martyrs of the Ramadan war. minutes, secondsBut the missile campaign did not stop there. Within hours, Iran announced a rd wave of attacks under a new operation code named Ya Shodid Aliab, minutes, secondsmeaning oh severe in punishment. minutes, secondsThe IRGC said the strikes honored senior Iranian military figures, including the late commander of the revolutionary guards, Lieutenant General Hussein Salami. minutes, secondsIran claims the attack targeted the US Navy's fifth fleet base and other American military facilities in the region along with what it described as minutes, secondsstrategic locations inside Israel including Tel Aviv and the southern port city of IAT. minutes, secondsThe weapons reportedly used in the assault included heavy corre ballistic missiles carrying two-tonon warheads, minutes, secondssome of the most powerful missiles in Iran's arsenal. Officials say additional missiles involved in the strike included Kadra missiles with multiple warheads as minutes, secondswell as Immad and KBAR Shican missiles carrying one-ton payloads. minutes, secondsSoon after Iran announced yet another operation, the IRGC said it had launched the th wave of operation true promise minutes, secondsfor targeting deeper inside Israeli territory. minutes, secondsAccording to Iranian statements, the barrage included Koramshshire, Kibbar, minutes, secondsShi Khan, Fata, and Immad missiles aimed at locations including Kiryat, Shimona, minutes, secondsand Hifer. Iran also claimed the strikes were directed at US- linked military sites connected to the fifth fleet. minutes, secondsMeanwhile, Israeli media reported that large explosions were heard across the greater Tel Aviv area shortly after air raid sirens sounded across the city. minutes, secondsThe report suggests Israeli air defense systems were activated as the missiles approached. The situation remains fluid minutes, secondswith both sides exchanging strikes as the war between Israel and Iran threatens to widen across the region. minutes, secondsAnd with wave after wave of missiles now being launched, fears are growing that the conflict may be entering an even more dangerous phase
Mojtaba Khamenei’s First Message Comes As US Medevac Flights Move Wounded Troops From Gulf | Trump Hindustan Times Mar 13, 2026 #SaudiArabia #USTroops #TruePromise4
Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s first message has opened a brutal new front in Iran’s war beyond Israel, with Saudi Arabia now taking direct hits as U.S. troops stationed there are wounded and flown out on emergency medevac flights. Tehran’s “True Promise 4” barrage of drones and missiles has repeatedly targeted Riyadh, key U.S. bases and vital oil infrastructure, forcing Saudi air defences to intercept dozens of incoming projectiles even as some slip through, causing casualties, damage and deep anxiety in the kingdom. With 19 injured American service members evacuated from Saudi Arabia to Germany and Riyadh vowing it “reserves the right to respond,” the Gulf is staring at a dangerous escalation that threatens both regional stability and global energy supplies.
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Majaba Kamei's very first message as Iran's new Supreme Leader is already being linked to fresh blows against US forces after USKC tanker went down in Iraq with multiple crew reportedly dead. America quietly launched a secretive medevac airlift from Saudi soil. Iran surging True Promise operation is leaving US soldiers wounded across the region and pushing Gulf capitals on edge. With the American death toll slowly mounting, Ali Larijani's earlier warning about the heavy price for assassinating Kmeni now echoes ominously. He is trying to tempt with the blood of American soldiers. Anyway, they lie about their own soldiers being killed. They say five or six died and every now and then they claimed that in an accident more died. As news broke of the KCtanker crash in Iraq, US troops were already being flown out of Saudi Arabia on medevac flights, signaling that the human cost of this war is spreading across the Gulf. One dedicated medevac mission reportedly carried wounded American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia to a military base in Germany for urgent treatment. US media say at least two of those injured were hurt when an Iranian drone exploded near their vehicle on Saudi territory, underlining just how close the war has come to American boots. Altogether, around to American troops are now believed to have been wounded since the USIsrael conflict exploded into open war. Those injured include soldiers based not just in Saudi Arabia, but across multiple Gulf States, from airfields to logistics hubs. On March th, US Central Command confirmed that a KCtanker had crashed in Western Iraq and all six crew members were dead. Iraqi resistance groups, however, claimed their air defenses actually shot the aircraft down and that all six crew members on board were killed in the strike. The IRGC says the tanker fell from the sky while it was mid-refuel with a fighter jet, while the US keeps silent about the cause, fueling speculation that more is being hidden. Based on official numbers, Washington now admits to at least eight troops killed and over wounded since the war began. Tran counters with a far more dramatic figure, claiming that more than American troops have actually been killed since February th. As each new US casualty is reported, the earlier words of Iran security chief Ali Larijani ring louder in Iranian media as proof that Washington is paying the heavy price he promised. He is trying to tempt with the blood of American soldiers. Anyway, they lie about their own soldiers being killed. They say five or six died and every now and then they claim that in an accident more died. Look at how many American soldiers were actually killed in this region. Now I heard some of these soldiers have been taken prisoners in one of the regional countries. I think it would be better if Trump admitted he was wrong. He was fooled and manipulated by Israel. You wanted to say it was America first, but it ended up being Israel first and America last. So correct it, understand and admit your mistake. Why are you struggling using any excuse to speak crudely? A president using vulgar and cruel language is not good for him. They just laugh at him. A person at that high level should speak appropriately and in proportion to their position. Trump said for Iran's future leadership, I am the one who should give an opinion. In my opinion, the person is very foolish. He doesn't understand. No country would accept it. Especially Iranians who have always shown intellectual maturity. They are the owners of civilization. Then you Trump come and say you want to choose the next Iranian leader. It's a very foolish thought. Mr. Trump once said that he was tempted based on Netanyahu statements to attack Iran. That is the capacity of a president of a country. He was tempted like that. You have squandered all of America's interests. Now look at how much this war has cost America. The American people need to know what cost Mr. Trump's temptation has incurred for them. The US's prestige in the region has been shattered. These countries in the region sometimes speak out against it, but they know that the US is no longer seeking their security. We haven't closed the Strait of Hormuz. It's closed naturally. No one can pass because there's constant conflict there. They attack our boats. We are forced to attack them. They attack our ships. We have to attack their ships. Therefore, it's unsafe. Anyone with cargo in a ship can't go from here. Therefore, a disruption in maritime transportation is created. Americans should know that we will not leave them. You have left a pain in our hearts. We won't leave you. You must accept that you no longer have the right to violate Iran. Accept that you have been insolent. Which international law says that a country can say it has attacked another country because of its own desires. The end of the war and settling will happen when they realize they no longer have the right to transgress against Iran and compensate for the damages inflicted upon the Iranian nation. This filth they have created on the international stage will have a heavy price. You have committed an assassination against the leader of Iran. It's unprecedented. The price for this will not be small. We will leave them be. This war has a lot of consequences. It doesn't just limit itself to Iran. It's an achievement that will prevent anyone from doing such things again. Mr. Trump had a taste of Venezuela. He thought he could do this immediately to Iran, too. And now he's stuck. He shouldn't be let go. He must pay for this. They thought they could do something with some ethnicities that turn them against the government and create the idea of separation. For example, going and talking to the Kurds and provoking them. They are unaware that Kurds are a very original Iranian ethnic group. Now, there might be disagreements within them, but these Kurds know what the Americans did to Syria while they were in power. We had previously told our European friends as well that if you participate in the war, we will be forced to get involved with you. They know that we have no interest in expanding the war, but if they intervene themselves, we have no choice but to retaliate. But I admit that Europeans didn't pay attention to Trump in this regard, and they are right because he has been disloyal in various cases, striking at the arteries of Europe and humiliating them. Those Saudi medevac flights took off against a backdrop of relentless Iranian attacks on American aligned countries all across the Gulf. Saudi Arabia has faced wave after wave of Iranian drones, scrambling its air defenses to intercept most of them, but not all. On March th, Riyad announced it had intercepted drones launched from Iran in yet another wave of strikes. Saudi officials said the drones were aiming for the eastern province, Prince Sultan air base, and the vital Sheaar oil field. Since February th, Iran has repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Riyad, US bases, and key oil facilities inside Saudi Arabia. Riyad insists most incoming threats were shot down, but conceds that some still slip through, causing casualties and damage. On day one of the war, Saudi officials said they had repelled missiles aimed at both the capital and the eastern regions. The kingdom blasted the barges as blatant and cowardly attacks and publicly reserved the right to respond at a time of its choosing. By March st, Saudi Arabia reported intercepting missiles that were heading for Prince Sultan air base and Riyad's main airport. That same day, a US base in Saudi Arabia came under attack and one American soldier later died from his wounds. The strike on the Alkage area killed two foreign workers and wounded at least a dozen more, according to Saudi statements. Iran's operation True Promise has now entered a new phase with the IRGC launching yet another barrage against US and Israeli targets. Following Majaba Kmeni's first address, Iran's army vowed to fight until the last breath, signaling no interest in backing down. Thran describes this nd wave of strikes as just one part of a broader retaliatory campaign aimed squarely at the US and Israel. The IRGC says it fired heavy missiles and explosive laden drones at targets in the heart of Tel Aviv, trying to stretch Israeli defenses to breaking point. Iran claims it used its Amad, Khadar, Kaashi Khan, and Fata missiles in this latest strike wave, showcasing much of its advanced arsenal at once. The IRGC also says it hit bases belonging to what it derisively calls the terrorist American army, insisting that US forces will keep paying for Kmene's assassination.
Iran's Rare Exception For 'Friend' India: Two LPG Tankers Pass Through Hormuz Blockade Times Of India Mar 13, 2026 #iran #india #straitofhormuz
Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Iran has allowed two Indian-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers to safely sail through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint critical for global energy shipments. The move comes as Iran continues its conflict with the United States and Israel, raising concerns over regional shipping and oil supplies. According to Indian officials, a crude tanker carrying Saudi Arabian oil is expected to arrive in India on Saturday after passing through the Strait around March 1. The move brings big relief to India, which has seen citizens grappling for cooking gas cylinders amid the West Asia conflict.
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Iran has allowed two Indian flagged liqufied petroleum gas carriers to sail through the straight of Hormuz amid the ongoing war with United States and Israel. According to a Reuters report, a crude tanker is expected to arrive in India on Saturday carrying Saudi Arabian oil after sailing through the strait around March The move came after Iran's envoy to India, Muhammad Fatali, confirmed that India had safe access to the straight of Hormuz. Yes. Yes. You can you can see the the future and I think that after two or three hours because we believe that we believe that Iran and India our friends are are no no our our uh we have common interest we have common faith is our suffer and vice versa and for this reason governments of India help us and we should help the government of India because we have common faith, common interest. We believe as a ambassador in India, we believe that common faith, we have common faith in the region and for this reason all the high ranking officials from Iran uh instructed uh the embassy of Iran in India that paved the way for the Iranian Indian government. Earlier the Indian government assured the citizens that petrol and diesel remained in adequate quantities at all petrol pumps. However, the government said that LPG remained a concern. Retail outlet I mean no fuel dry situation has been reported. Petrol pumps or diesel in retail outlet container. Retail outlet pumper action or suspend. All the retail outlet dealers are also directed to strictly follow the guidelines while dispensing fuel. Any violation will invite very strict action. LPGs of concern major portion state of horm panic buying panic buying. See LG crude inventories are very high are in good position. Our refineries are working at % capacity or more. Refineries inventories are fine. So is the LPG. So, LPG shortage. PNG connection is because we don't have the shortage of uh PNG. Now if I if you uh are talking about the LPG um uh the bottom line is that I mean the major important the more important point is whether we are able to supply uh LPG to the domestic consumers or not. And the answer is yes. I think that's not uh relevant. The important thing is the supply to the domestic consumers which we are doing. See this this is a very dynamic situation. I mean it is like you use it and you fill it. Thank you. Iran's supreme leader Masta Kamei has declared that the straight of Hormuz will remain closed calling the strategic shipping lane a tool of pressure as the war with the United States and Israel intensifies. Furthermore, the strategic leverage of blocking the strait of Homus must absolutely continue to be utilized. Studies have been conducted regarding the opening of additional fronts where the enemy possesses very limited experience and would be exceptionally vulnerable. Their activation will proceed if the state of war persists and will be carried out strictly in consideration of our strategic interests. As we had warned and without committing any aggression against those countries, we have merely attacked those very specific bases. From this point forward, we will regrettably be compelled to continue this course of action. Although we still firmly believe in the essential need for friendship between ourselves and those neighboring countries, Iran's newly appointed Supreme Leader Muchaba Kamune has declared that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, calling the strategic shipping lane a tool of pressure as the war with the United States and Israel intensifies. The message was read out on Iranian state television as Kam has not appeared publicly since succeeding his father. According to reports, the statement urged unity among Iranians and warned that all US military bases in the region must shut down or face attacks. Kam also vowed to avenge those killed since the start of the conflict. He said only a limited portion of that revenge had been carried out so far and promised that retaliation would remain among Iran's top priorities. The declaration comes as tensions across the Gulf continue to escalate. Furthermore, the strategic leverage of blocking the strait of Homus must absolutely continue to be utilized. Studies have been conducted regarding the opening of additional fronts where the enemy possesses very limited experience and would be exceptionally vulnerable. Their activation will proceed if the state of war persists and will be carried out strictly in consideration of our strategic interests as we had warned and without committing any aggression against those countries. We have merely attacked those very specific bases. From this point forward, minutes, secondwe will regrettably be compelled to continue this course of action, although we still firmly believe in the essential need for friendship between ourselves and those neighboring countries. In the latest incidents at sea, several civilian cargo ships were attacked in the Gulf region. A US-owned tanker off the coast of Iraq was struck by an explosiveladen unmanned speedboat, killing one person and causing heavy damage to the vessel. Another tanker heading toward an Iraqi port also reported a fire on board after being attacked. Meanwhile, a Chinese cargo ship was hit by an unidentified projectile near the straight of Hormuz, forcing the evacuation of all crew members. The escalating attacks have triggered fears of a major global energy crisis. The International Energy Agency warns the world is facing what it calls the largest oil supply disruption in the minutes, secondhistory of the global market. Oil prices have already surged close to $a barrel. Despite the volatility, US President Donald Trump downplayed the economic impact, saying higher energy prices could benefit the United States. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said short-term pain at the pump could help resolve a long-term energy challenge. He also acknowledged that the US Navy is not yet prepared to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Since taking power, Muchaba Kam has maintained a low public profile. His message to the nation was delivered by a state television presenter rather than appearing on camera himself. Kam, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Kamune, had long been seen as a powerful figure behind the scenes in Iranian politics. Reports say he was lightly injured in the strikes that killed his father. His mother and wife were also among those killed during the USIsraeli attacks. With the Strait of Hormuz under threat and tensions rising across the Gulf, the conflict is now sending shock waves through global energy markets and international shipping routes. Hey, hey, hey.
Iran just hit nuclear weapons storage silos in Turkey as NATO's air defence overpowered - OPTM OPTM Mar 13, 2026
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The opening scene you need to picture today isn't just another plume of smoke over another Middle Eastern city. It's the sound of air raid sirens wailing secondsover the Turkish countryside. The kind of sound that hasn't been heard there in decades. We are now on day of this conflict. And if you thought you secondsunderstood the playbook, I need you to throw it out the window because what just happened in the last hours is the geopolitical equivalent of an earthquake. secondsWe have some breaking news coming in. secondsSirens were heard early on Friday at Turk's Inkurik air base, a key NATO facility where US troops are stationed near the southeastern city of Adana. secondsSirens blared in the early hours of Friday morning at Turkeykey's Insurlic Air Base, a critical NATO installation. secondsEarly this morning, air raid sirens shattered the quiet near Insurlic air base in southern Turkey. We are getting reports that are still sending shock secondswaves through intelligence agencies from Ankura to Washington. For the first time since this war began, Iran has just crossed what many considered the final minute, secondsred line. They have directly targeted a NATO installation on Turkish soil. And not just any installation, the Interlic air base. Now, for the average viewer, minute, secondsthat might sound like just another military installation, but I need you to understand the gravity of this. in Sirlic is one of the most sensitive and minute, secondsstrategically critical pieces of real estate in the entire NATO alliance. minute, secondsBuried inside hardened aircraft shelters at that base under lock and key and guarded by US Air Force personnel are an minute, secondsestimated US nuclear bombs. We're talking B-thermonuclear gravity bombs. Iran just launched ballistic minute, secondsmissiles at a facility storing American nuclear weapons inside a NATO member state. Let that sink in, guys, for a minute, secondsmoment. The first week of this war, Iran was hitting Israeli military bases and air defenses. Standard fair. The second minute, secondsweek, they closed the straight of Hormuz, stranding over a thousand ships, minute, secondsincluding oil tankers, and started hitting civilian vessels with drones. That was the escalation. But day minutes, secondsthis is a different war entirely. This is a direct challenge to the military architecture of the United States and Europe. While the corporate media is minutes, secondsquibbling over whether a viral video actually shows the strike or old footage from Aleppo, the reality on the ground minutes, secondsis terrifying. NATO air defenses did intercept missiles multiple times now. minutes, secondsBut the fact that Iran is willing to test those defenses to send projectiles screaming toward a base that houses American nukes tells you that Thrron has minutes, secondsdecided that the old rules of engagement no longer apply. And before we dive into the hypocrisy of the western reaction, minutes, secondsthe frantic diplomacy, and what this means for the potential invocation of article I have to ask you to do something. We are one of the few outlets actually connecting the dots here, minutes, secondsactually telling you the truth about who is aggressing whom in this theater. If you believe in honest journalism that doesn't just parrot Pentagon press minutes, secondsreleases, please take a second to hit that like button, share this video far and wide, and subscribe to the channel. minutes, secondsYour support is the only thing keeping this kind of independent analysis alive. minutes, secondsNow, let's talk about what the Pentagon and NATO don't want you to fully grasp. minutes, secondsThe narrative being spun in Washington is one of unprovoked Iranian aggression. minutes, secondsBut that is a lie so brazen that it deserves to be called out right at the top. Why does Iran have missiles pointed at Inkerlick? Because in is the primary minutes, secondsstaging ground for the very American and Israeli aircraft that have been bombing Iran relentlessly for the past weeks. minutes, secondsThe United States has been using Turkish airspace despite Ankara's claims that they haven't given permission. The bombs are falling and they're coming from minutes, secondssomewhere to conduct what is essentially an unprovoked war of aggression against the Iranian people. minutes, secondsYou have US Air Force KCStrata tankers refueling jets that are dropping munitions on Iranian cities. In fact, minutes, secondsjust in the last hours, a US KCStrat tanker crashed in western Iraq. The Pentagon is calling it an accident, minutes, secondsa mid-air collision. But Iranian sources and regional resistance factions are saying that aircraft was hit by missile minutes, secondsfire. They claim all crew members were killed. The Pentagon denies it, of course, but what's interesting is the minutes, secondslocation and the timing. These tankers are the lifeblood of the air campaign. minutes, secondsWithout them, Israeli and American jets can't reach their targets deep inside Iran. So, while the US is using bases in minutes, secondsTurkey, in Qatar, in the Gulf States to choke the life out of Iran, they have the audacity to cry foul when Iran minutes, secondsfinally decides to hit back at the source. The hypocrisy is staggering. So, what exactly happened in this strike? minutes, secondsAccording to reports filtering through Iranian news agencies like Press TV and the Thrron Times, the focus wasn't just minutes, secondson random military hardware. It was surgical. It was intelligence-driven. minutes, secondsThe drones and missiles that got through, and make no mistake, some did get through the much vaunted NATO air defenses went straight for the weapon minutes, secondsstorage areas. We're talking about the facilities that house those US B-nuclear bombs. Now, let's be clear about minutes, secondsthe physics here. Conventional warheads cannot trigger a nuclear detonation. You can't hit a nuke with a missile and cause a mushroom cloud, despite what minutes, secondsHollywood tells you. These weapons are stored in vaults called WSprotected by permissive action link codes. But the minutes, secondsmessage here isn't about physics. It's about psychology. Iran just sent a message to every NATO capital. Your minutes, secondsnuclear umbrella is not an umbrella. It is a target. They are telling the alliance that parking nukes on Turkeykey's southern flank m from the Iranian border doesn't deter Iran. minutes, secondsIt just puts those warheads in the danger zone. And you have to ask yourself, why does NATO store nuclear weapons in Turkey? It's part of a cold minutes, secondswar era nuclear sharing agreement designed to deter the Soviets. Today it's aimed at deterring Iran, but as minutes, secondswe're seeing, it's actually acting as a massive target painted on Turkish soil. minutes, secondsNow, the reaction from Ankura has been fascinating to watch. And if you're looking for a deep state actor who is playing D chess, look no further than Turkish foreign minister Haken Fedin. minutes, secondsThis is a man with a history deeper than the Mariana Trench. Fedan used to be the head of the MIT, Turkeykey's National minutes, secondsIntelligence Organization. He is known in diplomatic circles as being extremely close to the Iranians. So much so that minutes, secondsIsraeli officials have reportedly called him Thran's man in Ankura. minutes, secondsIranian president Mr. Van Massudeskian's statement today fits perfectly into the minutes, secondscontext which we have mentioned. That is the statement of we will not attack a place that does not allow attacks and we minutes, secondsapologize for having attacked so far is essentially the statement that we have been emphasizing. minutes, secondsWe spoke with our Iranian friends. We said that if this is a missile that veered off path that's a different matter. But if there's going to be more minutes, secondsof this it may be a one-off. But if there's going to be more of this and our advice to you is to be very careful. minutes, secondsNobody in Iran should embark on such an adventure. minutes, secondsFrankly, I discussed this issue with US Secretary of State. minutes, secondsPresident Erdogan has to make angry statements to appease the nationalist crowd. But Fedan Fedan is on the phone with his Iranian counterpart. He's minutes, secondsprotesting, yes, but he's also negotiating. Turkey is in an impossible position. They are a NATO member with the second largest army in the alliance. minutes, secondsThey host American troops and American nukes, but they also border Iran. They buy Iranian gas, and they share a deep minutes, secondssuspicion of Kurdish separatist movements with Thran. minutes, secondsThe smart money says Turkey is not going to trigger Article over this. They're going to do what they always do, minutes, secondscondemn, consult, and then try to mediate. They don't want a war with their neighbor and they certainly don't want to be the excuse that drags all of minutes, secondsEurope into a nuclear tinged confrontation. And now day hitting in. Do you see the strategy? Iran is not minutes, secondsfighting a conventional war for territory. They are fighting a war of attrition designed to impose costs until the West cracks. Every drone they launch minutes, secondscosts a few thousand. Every missile the US fires to shoot it down costs millions. Every time a tanker gets minutes, secondsharassed in the Gulf, insurance premiums skyrocket and shipping grinds to a halt. minutes, secondsIran is playing the long game. They are betting that the American public, facing high gas prices and an endless war, will minutes, secondsturn against this adventure long before the Iranian military runs out of missiles. And the US keeps falling into the trap. The USS Abraham Lincoln, Iran, minutes, secondsclaims it caused severe damage to that carrier. The Pentagon denies it, but they always deny it. What they can't minutes, secondsdeny is the optics. They can't deny that their KCis lying in pieces in the Iraqi desert. They can't deny that a minutes, secondsFrench soldier has been killed. The first NATO combat death. They can't deny that air raid sirens are now sounding in minutes, secondsBahrain, in Qatar, in every Gulf state that hitched its wagon to the American Star. So where does this leave us? NATO is in a crisis. Their spokeswoman, minutes, secondsAllison Hart, is issuing statements condemning the targeting of Turkey. But behind closed doors, there is chaos. minutes, secondsTurkey is refusing to open its airspace fully for strikes on Iran, which is rendering the southern flank of the alliance useless. The United States is minutes, secondsbegging for a ceasefire. We've heard Trump's envoys are scrambling, but Iran is in the driver's seat now. Why would minutes, secondsthey stop? They have exposed the vulnerability of the nuclear storage sites. They have shown that American bases are not sanctuaries. They have minutes, secondsdemonstrated that they can reach NATO territory and make the alliance think twice about escalating. The worst day hasn't come yet. Because if Iran decides minutes, secondsto really turn the screws, if they start sinking tankers instead of just stopping them, if they launch the hypersonic missiles they've been holding in minutes, secondsreserve, we are looking at a confilration that makes the last days look like a skirmish. For now, the world minutes, secondsholds its breath. Turkey is trying to walk a tight rope. Iran is playing chess while the US plays checkers. And the people of the region are the ones paying minutes, secondsthe price for this insane, unprovoked war of aggression started by the US and Israel. Keep watching. Keep questioning minutesthe official narrative. And for goodness sake, prepare accordingly. This is far from
US treasury secretary abruptly told to leave interview by Trump; returns shaken | Janta Ka Reporter Janta Ka Reporter Mar 13, 2026
The Iranian retaliation and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have pushed the oil prices to soar globally. Even Donald Trump and his administration are under immense pressure. This was seen on Friday when a senior cabinet colleague of Donald Trump was pulled away from a LIVE interview by the US President. When he returned, he could barely speak. This, Rifat Jawaid argues, shows the stress that the recent losses of US service personnel and the overall impact by the Iranian response have caused to the Trump administration.
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As I predicted, the last night's downing of American KCrefueling planes that killed six US military personnel has secondsbadly impacted the mental condition of Donald Trump. Not just Trump, the entire US administration is now clueless about secondswhat it should do to deal with the Iranians. whilst the entire Iranian leadership yesterday came out in the secondsopen to interact with members of the public. And then something extraordinary happened. A top member of the Trump secondsadministration was giving an interview to Sky News UK when Trump summoned him and he had to abruptly leave the secondsinterview. You have to see his tone and mental condition after his return. This and Trump's subsequent social media post secondsand comments made to the media paint a sorry picture of this US administration. secondsThis would be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in my video tonight, secondsan Iranian woman explains the true meaning of Allah Akbar to the West. So please stay tuned. The news of six minute, secondsAmerican personnel's death after a pro-Iranian Iraqi group claimed it had destroyed two US refueling planes minute, secondsappears to have adversely impacted Trump's mental condition. This was clear in the US military's desperate action minute, secondstoday. According to Donald Trump's social media post, the US military obliterated the Iranian military facilities in the Kir Island. He wrote, minute, secondsand I quote, "Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of minute, secondsthe Middle East and totally obliterated every military target in Iran's crown jewel, Kir Island. Our weapons are the minute, secondsmost powerful and sophisticated that the world has ever known. But for reasons of decency, I have chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure on the island. minute, secondsHowever, should Iran or anyone else do anything to interfere with the free and safe passage of ships through the minutes, secondstraight of Hormos, I will immediately reconsider this decision. During my first term, and currently I rebuilt our military into the most lethal, powerful, minutes, secondsand effective force by far anywhere in the world. Iran has no ability to defend anything that we want to attack. There minutes, secondsis nothing they can do about it. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, nor will it have the ability to threaten the United States of America, the Middle East, or for that matter the world. minutes, secondsIran's military and all others involved with this terrorist regime would be wise to lay down their arms and save what's left of their country, which isn't much. minutes, secondsThank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. End quote. Iran has warned that no oil minutes, secondsfields in the region would be safe if the Americans and their Israeli masters decided to attack its oil facilities in minutes, secondsthe Kerg Island. This latest action by the US military, if true, is a desperate reaction to the downing of two KCmilitary planes in Iraq last night. Now, minutes, secondsthe Wall Street Journal is also reporting that Iran has successfully hit five more American refueling planes in minutes, secondsSaudi Arabia. Now, this is truly spiraling out of control for the Americans. If this doesn't give you a fair idea about the current mental agony minutes, secondsof the Trump administration, then watch this. This guy Pete Hex simply lost the plot when he launched a tirade against minutes, secondshis own country's media for not carrying his government's propaganda. Yet, some in this crew in the press just can't minutes, secondsstop. Allow me to make a few suggestions. People look up at the TV and they see banners. They see minutes, secondsheadlines. I I used to be in that business and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, a minutes, secondsbanner or a headline. M East War intensifies, splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside visuals of minutescivilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that's what they do. What should the banner read instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate? minutes, secondsBecause they are. They know it and so do you, if it can be admitted. minutes, secondsOr more fake news from CNN. minutes, secondsReports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Straight of Hormuz. minutes, secondsPatently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do. Hold the Strait hostage. minutes, secondsCNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unserious report. minutes, secondsThe sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. minutes, secondsAnother example of a fake headline that I saw yesterday. War widening. minutes, secondsHere's a real headline for you for an actual patriotic press. How about Iran shrinking, going underground? See, you minutes, secondssee, Iran's leaders are hiding in bunkers and moving into civilian areas. minutes, secondsThe only thing that is widening is our advantage. minutes, secondsNot to mention our Gulf partners stepping up even more now going on the offense and have always been with us on the defense with collective and minutes, secondsintegrated air defenses. You don't have such a meltdown when you are winning the war. Then I'm told that the Americans minutes, secondsare sending thousands of more troops in the region. You tell me if this signifies victory for the Americans. minutes, secondsThen this happened. Scott Bessant was giving an interview to the Sky News from the UK. He was abruptly pulled aside because Trump wanted to meet him minutes, secondsurgently. This happened on Friday morning. When he returned after almost hours, he looked shaken and was barely minutes, secondsable to speak coherently. He was asked if Trump was stressed, but his reply was something totally different. I listened minutes, secondto you on the president. Sorry. Oh, okay. minutes, secondsOkay. No problem at all. See you shortly, Mr. Secretary. You have to work that in. minutes, secondsMr. Secretary, I I have to say it's a first, I'm sure, alas as well, that uh an interviewee has been pulled away to minutes, secondsgo to the situation room. How was the president? Was he was he stressed? minutes, secondsUh no. The the the president is in great spirits. Uh the Iranian mission is minutes, secondsproceeding well ahead of schedule. And you know, I have to tell you, well, that I'm a teenage teenager who is minutes, secondsconsidering uh military service. And I can give this team my highest compliment. from President Trump to the minutes, secondshead of the joint chiefs to the secretary of war. I would they say that I would trust my child's life in their hands. minutes, secondsIn contrast, the Iranian leadership, minutes, secondswhich the entire might of the US administration says has been decimated and is hiding in bunkers, was on the streets in Thran today and meeting minutes, secondsordinary members of the public. This included the National Security Council Chief Ali Larijani, President Masud minutes, secondsPeshkan and Foreign Minister Sayyad Basaraki among others. Compare the stress on the faces of the rogue members minutes, secondsof the US government to how relaxed and fearless these Iranian leaders looked even in the face of indiscriminate bombings by the Americans and Israelis. minutes, secondsI'm not sure. minutes, secondsMama. minutes, secondsThank you. Thank you. minutes, secondsHow are you? minutes, secondsLook for minutes, secondsI will leave you with the clip of this Iranian woman who sent this powerful explanation of the Allah Akbar or God is the greatest for the people of the west. minutes, secondsHey American people, whenever you hear Allah, you usually think an explosion would follow because this word has been misused by extremists like ISIS members. minutes, secondsBut I want to tell you what it really means. Allahbar means God is greater than anything and more powerful than minutes, secondseverything. Allahbar means God is greater than the US aircraft carriers and that's why we did not fear when they minutes, secondsappeared in the Persian Gulf. Allahbar means God is greater than the US Bbombers and that's why we do not run minutes, secondsaway. That's why constant explosions and fire jets flying over our heads. minutes, secondsAloha means God is great. minutes, secondsAllah great. minutes, secondsAllahbar Allahbah Allahbah minutes, secondsAllahbah Allahbah Allahbah. minutes, secondsDid you see what just happened? An explosion. really happened right behind me and people did not run away. They minutes, secondsthey didn't fear. They just kept chanting Allahbar because Allahbar means God is greater than anything. God is minutes, secondsgreater than any superpower in the world and their equipment and their weapons. minutes, secondsSo we are not afraid of the United States of America because God is greater and God is with us. minutes, secondsThat's it from me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so because that's one of the many ways you minutes, secondscan support independent journalism. God bless you all.
Why the US Is Sending 2,200 Marines to the Strait of Hormuz Money over history and Geld über Geschichte Mar 13, 2026
Why is the United States sending 2,200 US Marines to the Strait of Hormuz? In this video, we break down the growing crisis in the Persian Gulf and explain why this strategic waterway has become one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world.
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important energy corridors on Earth, with nearly 20% of the world's oil supply passing through it every day. As tensions rise in the Middle East, the deployment of US Marines and naval forces could signal a major escalation in the region.
In this analysis, we explore the military strategy, geopolitical implications, and global economic impact of the US deployment. What role will these Marines play? Could this lead to a larger conflict in the Gulf? And why does control of the Strait of Hormuz matter so much for global energy markets?
Watch until the end to understand the real reason behind the deployment and what it could mean for the future of the Middle East and global security.
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On the th day of this war, a reporter asked Donald Trump when it would be over. Trump thought about it for a moment, then he said, "When I feel it. secondsFeel it in my bones. Not when Iran surrenders. Not when the Straight of Hormuz reopens. Not when a ceasefire is signed or a diplomatic framework is secondsagreed. When the president of the United States feels it in his bones. It is the current timeline for ending the most disruptive military conflict the global secondsenergy market has ever seen." On the same day that answer was given, the Pentagon announced it was sending Marines and a Navy amphibious assault secondsship to the Middle East. The ship is the USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault vessel based in Japan. It is now sailing toward the Gulf, carrying with it what secondsmilitary planners describe as a marine expeditionary unit. Helicopter gunships, secondsarmed infantry, special operations teams, armored vehicles, transport aircraft, and landing craft designed to put troops on a hostile shore. The unit secondswas requested by US Central Command and personally approved by Defense Secretary Pete Hexith. The stated mission to help reopen the Strait of Hormuse. This is secondsthe moment the source script correctly identifies as the turning point nobody wants to say out loud. What began as an air campaign, American and Israeli jets minute, secondsand drones and missiles striking Iranian military targets from altitude, from standoff distance, from the safety of the sky is now on day th becoming minute, secondssomething else. The Marines who are boarding USS Tripoli in Japan are not bombing crews. They are infantry. They are the people you send when you need to minute, secondstake something physically, hold something physically, or fight someone physically in a confined space near water. Their arrival in the Gulf will minute, secondschange the nature of what is happening there. It will also expose them to a threat environment that is unlike anything an American marine has faced since the last time the United States put ground forces into the Middle East. minute, secondsAnd the last time that happened, it took two decades to end. Hegsith held a press conference Friday morning. He stood at the podium and said the United States is minute, secondson plan to defeat, destroy, disable all of their meaningful military capabilities at a pace the world has never seen before. He said US and minute, secondsIsraeli forces have struck more than Iranian targets since February th. He said Iran's production lines, minutes, secondsits military plants, and its defense innovation centers are defeated. He said Iran's leadership is desperate and hiding whether that they have gone minutes, secondsunderground cowering. And then he used a specific word. He said that is what rats do. Then he said something that shifted minutes, secondsthe tone of every news conference of this war. He said we know the new so-called not so supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured. No minutes, secondsevidence was provided, no photograph, no medical report, no intelligence assessment read into the public record. minutes, secondsHexath said he knows Moshtaba Kam, the man who one week ago was named Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, minutes, secondsthe man whose first public statement was delivered without video or audio on Thursday is wounded and likely disfigured. He pointed to the absence of minutes, secondsvideo as proof. He said Iran has cameras. It has voice recorders. If the Supreme Leader is capable of appearing on television, why is his statement minutes, secondsbeing read by a news anchor? His father dead. He's scared. He's injured. He's on the run. and he lacks legitimacy. Hexath told reporters, "It's a mess for them. minutes, secondsWho's in charge? Iran may not even know." And one hour later in Tehran, a public rally was held for Alcud's day, minutes, secondsthe annual event that draws tens of thousands into the streets of the Iranian capital. Standing at that rally, minutes, secondsvisible to photographers, visible to the crowd, were two senior Iranian government officials, President Massud Peskin and Ali Larajani, the head of minutes, secondsIran's Supreme National Security Council. The same Larajani who days ago threatened to turn off the lights across the entire Middle East within minutes, secondsminutes if America touched Iran's power grid. Both men were present. Both men were in public. Neither man was underground. Neither man was cowering. minutes, secondsNeither man was behaving like a rat. The rats, it appears, had planned a public rally. This is the information gap that defines day of this war more minutes, secondsprecisely than any missile count or ship attack or oil price number. The United States Secretary of Defense stood at a Pentagon podium and described Iran's minutes, secondsleadership as broken, hidden, and disfigured. The Iran he was describing simultaneously held a mass public rally attended by its president and its top minutes, secondssecurity official in broad daylight in the capital of the country that is supposedly being destroyed at a pace the world has never seen. Between those two minutes, secondsrealities, Hexath's podium in Thran's streets lies the actual state of this war on its th day. And into that gap, minutes, secondsthe United States is now sailing Marines. To understand why deploying Marines to the Strait of Hormuz is different from everything that has minutes, secondshappened before in this war, you need to understand what the strait actually looks like as a military environment and why the people who know it best have minutes, secondsbeen the most reluctant to send anyone there. The straight of Hormuz is km wide at its narrowest point. On one side is Iran with a coastline that stretches minutes, secondsfor hundreds of kilometers along the eastern shore of the Gulf. On that coastline, Iran has spent decades positioning anti-hship missiles in minutes, secondshardened installations, mobile launchers, underground facilities, and concealed batteries designed specifically to engage naval vessels trying to force passage. These are not minutes, secondsimprovised weapons. Iran's coastal defense missile inventory includes systems with ranges measured in hundreds of kilome, meaning a missile battery minutes, secondslocated well in land from the Iranian coast can still reach a ship in the middle of the strait. The United States has been striking Iranian military targets continuously since February minutes, secondsth. It has struck more than targets. According to HEG, but here's the problem that no press conference can resolve. Iran's coastal missile minutes, secondsinfrastructure was built to survive sustained air attack. The launchers are mobile. The missiles are stored in underground bunkers. The crews disperse minutes, secondsand relocate. Destroying a missile launcher takes one strike. destroying every missile launcher, every mobile launcher, every underground storage site, every crew with the knowledge to minutes, secondsoperate the system. That is a different order of magnitude entirely. And it is the precondition that American military planners described to Sentcom before any marine goes anywhere near the straight. minutes, secondsTreasury Secretary Scott Bessant said this week that Navy escorts for commercial ships through the strait could begin soon. He added that before minutes, secondssuch escorts begin, the military is planning to target land-based anti-hship missiles that Iran has deployed near the waterway. The sequencing is logical. The minutes, secondsproblem is that Iran has had two weeks to watch American targeting priorities and adjust accordingly. Every mobile launcher that was in a fixed location on minutes, secondsFebruary th is now somewhere else. The intelligence picture that existed before February th, built from years of satellite observation, signals, minutes, secondsintercepts, and human sources has been partially invalidated by the movement of the very assets it was designed to track. The Marines on USS Trip are not minutes, secondsbeing sent to operate in a cleared environment. They are being sent to force the creation of one. The mission seizing or neutralizing Iranian held minutes, secondsislands near the strait or establishing positions that could screen commercial shipping from missile attack is the kind of operation for which marine expeditionary units were specifically minutes, secondsdesigned. The MEU can launch helicopter assaults, land amphibious forces on a hostile shore, and establish a perimeter minutes, secondsin contested territory faster than any other American military unit. It can also suffer casualties faster than any other American military unit in exactly minutesthese conditions. The source material notes what Iranian leadership has said publicly in response. Forget about ceasefire. Iran's senior military minutes, secondsfigures have stated that Iran has unlimited missiles, that it has America by the throat, and that it does not intend to let go. Whether that is true minutes, secondsor rhetoric, it describes the environment the Marines are sailing into. Iran's Laurani made the broader stakes explicit when he appeared publicly in Tran on Friday. The same minutes, secondsday, Hexth called Iranian leaders rats hiding underground and refused to engage with the latest American overtures on stopping the war. The shipping numbers tell the story of what is at stake. minutes, secondsAccording to Lloyd's List Intelligence, minutes, secondsonly ships have transited the Straight of Hormuz so far in March minutes, secondsIn the same period last year, ships made that passage. That is a collapse of approximately %. More than minutes, secondscargo vessels are anchored outside the straight waiting. The insurance market has withdrawn. The world's shipping companies will not send their crews into those waters at any price the global economy can currently sustain. minutesEuropean nations, including Germany, minutes, secondsFrance, and Italy, are no longer waiting for American naval escorts. They are talking directly to Iran, asking permission to pass. India has moved minutes, secondsfurther. Indian diplomats have reportedly secured an arrangement allowing two LPG tankers through the Strait as part of a bilateral discussion minutes, secondswith Thran. Countries that are formerly at peace with the United States are quietly negotiating with the country the United States is currently bombing every minutes, secondsday. This is what Iran's strategy looks like when it works. Not military victory, but political fragmentation of the coalition, or in this case, the minutes, secondsabsence of a coalition that the United States assumed would hold together behind the war. Sentcom's own planners acknowledged to Congress this week that minutes, secondsthey had not fully incorporated a scenario in which Iran would actually close the strait. It was considered a possibility, not a plan. The plan was minutes, secondsfor a quick campaign. Mosh Debba would be discredited. Iranians would rise up. minutes, secondsThe war would end in days. Trump said days, maybe a week. On day th, Marines are sailing toward the narrowest minutes, secondspoint in the world's most critical energy corridor. The bones have not felt it yet. Here is what the deployment of Marines actually tells you about minutes, secondshow this war is going. Stated not in the language of press conferences, but in the language of military logic. You do not send a marine expeditionary unit to minutes, secondsa theater of operations where the air campaign has already achieved its objectives. You send a marine expeditionary unit when the air campaign has not achieved a specific objective minutes, secondsthat now needs to be achieved by other means. The objective in this case is the straight of Hormuz. Two weeks of the most intensive American air campaign minutes, secondssince the Second World War have not reopened it. The drone boats are still there. The mines are still there. The coastal missiles are still there or they have been relocated but not destroyed. minutes, secondsThe % collapse in shipping traffic is still happening and so the Marines are coming. This escalation has a logic and the logic is economic as much as minutes, secondsmilitary. The global economy cannot sustain % reduction in Gulf shipping indefinitely. Oil prices have traded minutes, secondsbetween $and $per barrel in the last two weeks, swinging on every statement made by every official on every side. The strategic petroleum minutes, secondsreserve has released million barrels in an attempt to suppress prices. But that reserve is finite and the release is a stop gap, not a solution. The minutes, secondssolution is the strait. And the strait will not be reopened by statements at Pentagon press conferences. Hegs said on Friday that this is the most intense day of bombing yet in Operation Epic Fury. minutes, secondsHe said Iran's air force is gone, its navy is gone, its missiles are being depleted, its leadership is underground. minutes, secondsHe put a $million bounty on Moshtaba Kame through the State Department's Rewards for justice program. Nine other Iranian officials were added to the same minutes, secondslist. Larajani, the intelligence minister, the interior minister, the IRGC commander, and others. The United States government is now offering money minutes, secondsto anyone who can provide information on the location of Iran's Supreme Leader, minutes, secondsthe same man it cannot confirm is alive or dead or wounded or functional. Trump told Gleaders in a private call this week that Moshaba is not in good shape and that nobody knows who is the leader, minutesso there is no one that can announce surrender. Read that sentence carefully. minutes, secondsThe president of the United States told the leaders of the world's seven largest economies that his war has reached a point where no one on the Iranian side is in a position to end it, even if they minutes, secondswanted to. There is no phone number to call. There's no authority to negotiate with. Peskin has no real power. Mojaba is the supreme leader and the IRGC minutes, secondsanswers to him or to whoever is actually making decisions in his place. Moshtaba cannot be reached and the IRGC which has its own institutional interest in minutes, secondscontinuing this war is not looking for a way out. Steve Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy, has sent a message through Oman. Lauriani responded publicly at the minutes, secondsAlkud's day rally visible to the crowd and the cameras by refusing. That is Iran's answer to the latest American peace signal. A public appearance in minutes, secondsThran on the day America said Iranian leaders are hiding underground with a message that the strait stays closed, minutes, secondsthe war continues, and the only acceptable outcome is American withdrawal from the region. And yet the Marines are sailing because what else do minutes, secondsyou do when the air campaign has run for weeks and the strait is still closed and the bones have not told you when it ends. The source material makes a minutes, secondscomparison that deserves to be taken seriously. This is not Afghanistan, minutes, secondswhere America fought for years in mountains against fighters with small arms and improvised explosives. Iran has ballistic missiles, drone boats, sea minutes, secondsmines, coastal anti-hip missile batteries, a proxy network that runs from Iraq to Lebanon to Yemen, a new Supreme Leader whose location and minutes, secondscondition are unknown to American intelligence, and a population that, according to the CIA's own assessment, minutes, secondshas not risen up against its government and shows no signs of doing so. It has something else Afghanistan did not have. minutes, secondsoil and the ability to use control of the world's most critical energy corridor as leverage against every country on Earth that needs fuel. The minutes, secondsMarines will arrive. The most intense bombing campaign yet will continue. Trump will wait to feel it in his bones. minutes, secondsThe bones may be waiting a long time. In the meantime, in Tehran, at an alkud's day rally, Ljani and Peskin stood in front of tens of thousands of people minuteswhile Hegsth called Iranian leaders rats. The crowd was chanting. The cameras were rolling. There was no bunker. There was no hiding. There was minutes, secondsinstead a very public message to Washington. We are still here. We are still standing. And you are still sending more. Two of Marines are sailing toward the straight of Hormuz. minutes, secondsAmericans are already dead. Trump says he'll know when it's over when he feels it. Iran says it will keep fighting until the last American base in minutes, secondsthe Middle East is closed and every soldier is on a plane home. One side has a gut feeling. The other has a strategy.
Iran BOMBS 5 U.S. Military Aircraft; Big Confirmation From DC As IRGC Hits KC-135 Planes In Saudi Times Of India Mar 13, 2026 #iranisraelwar #iranuswar #donaldtrump
In a big success for the Iranian military, five U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft were struck and damaged during an Iranian missile strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal citing U.S. officials. The aircraft — identified as Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling tankers — were hit while parked on the ground during the attack. Officials said the planes were damaged but not destroyed and are currently undergoing repairs. No personnel were killed in the missile strike. The strike has raised concerns about the vulnerability of key U.S. military assets in the region. Refueling tankers such as the KC-135 play a crucial role in sustaining American air operations, allowing fighter jets and bombers to remain airborne for extended missions across the Middle East. Watch.
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In a big success for the Iranian military, five US Air Force refueling aircraft were struck and damaged during secondsan Iranian missile strike on Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia. secondsAccording to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing US officials, secondsthe aircraft identified as Boeing KCStrato Tanker aerial refueling tankers secondswere hit while parked on the ground during the attack. Officials said the planes were damaged but not destroyed secondsand are currently undergoing repairs. No personnel were killed in the missile strike. The strike has raised concerns secondsabout the vulnerability of key US military assets in the region. Refueling tankers such as the KC minuteplay a crucial role in sustaining American air operations, allowing fighter jets and bombers to remain minute, secondsairborne for extended missions across the Middle East. The revelation came just hours after another US Air Force minute, secondsrefueling tanker crashed during operations linked to the ongoing war over Iraq, killing six American minute, secondsservicemen on board. Authorities have not yet confirmed the cause of the crash, but ruled out the involvement of minute, secondsenemy fire. However, Iraqi resistance has claimed that its fighters shot down the aircraft with a missile fire. No proof has been released for this claim. minute, secondsThe twin developments, damage to multiple tankers, and the deadly crash underscore the growing risks surrounding minute, secondsthe expanding US military presence in the region as war with Iran continues. minute, secondsEarlier, American forces lost three fighter jets in Kuwait in what was described as friendly fire. No loss of minutes, secondslife or injuries were reported in those hits. minutes, secondsAll six crew members aboard a United States Air Force KCrefueling aircraft that went down over western minutes, secondsIraq have now been confirmed dead. The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace on March th during minutes, secondsthe ongoing American military campaign known as Operation Epic Fury. minutes, secondsUS Central Command earlier said the aircraft went down at around p.m. minutes, secondsEastern time while operating over western Iraq. Initial reports confirmed four fatalities, but authorities have now confirmed that all six crew members minutes, secondson board the aircraft were killed in the incident. Officials say the circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation. However, the minutes, secondsUS military has stated that the loss of the aircraft was not caused by hostile fire or friendly fire. The identities of minutes, secondthe service members have not yet been released. Military officials said their names will be made public only after at least hours have passed following notification of the victims next of kin. minutes, secondsThe incident comes amid heightened military operations across the Middle East as the United States continues its campaign against Iran and its regional minutes, secondsallies. Meanwhile, an Iraqi resistance group has claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft. However, the group minutes, secondshas not provided any evidence to support the claim and the US military has not confirmed that the crash was the result of an attack. minutes, secondsEarlier, three F-fighter jets were shot down in over during an active combat situation. minutes, secondsIn that incident, the six aircraft personnel aboard the fighter jets ejected safely and were recovered in stable condition. minutes, secondsDuring its ongoing Iran campaign, the US military has so far reported seven fatalities while another have been minutes, secondswounded. Pentagon spokesman Sha Parnell said eight soldiers face severe injuries. The US has deployed a large minutes, secondsnumber of aircraft, soldiers, and warships to the Middle East as part of its military operation against Iran minutes, secondsalongside its ally Israel. The campaign began on February th when US and Israeli forces launched strikes on minutes, secondsIranian civil, political, and military sites. minutes, secondsIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kami was killed in the first wave of strikes along with several political and military leaders. minutes, secondsSince then, the conflict has expanded into a broader regional conflict with Iran continuing to target Israel and US military assets in the region. minutes, secondsTwo US soldiers were injured after the USS Gerald R. Ford suffered a non-combat related fire on board. Reuters quoted minutes, secondsthe US military on Thursday. In a statement, the military said that the injured sailors were receiving medical minutes, secondstreatment for non-life-threatening injuries and were said to be in a stable condition. The US military added, "There minutes, secondsis no damage to the ship's propulsion plant, and the aircraft carrier remains fully operational." minutes, secondsThe USS Gerald R. Ford is taking part in operations against Iran and is currently located in the Red Sea. minutes, secondsThe US Central Command and Department of War have shared videos showing missiles being launched from the warships towards minutes, secondsIran. Uh where we are is in a very strong place giving the president of the United States maximum options. And from minutes, secondsthe beginning, from this podium, we haven't stated how long it will take. minutes, secondsOur will is endless. Ultimately, the president gets to determine uh the end state of those objectives, right? But minutes, secondsbut what he's said continually and I want the American people to understand is this is not endless. It's not protracted. We're not allowing mission minutes, secondscreep. The president has set a very specific mission to accomplish. Uh and our job is to unrelentingly deliver that. Now, he gets to control the minutes, secondsthrottle. He's the one deciding. He's the one elected on behalf of the American people when we're achieving those particular objectives. And so it's not for me to posit whether it's the beginning, the middle, or the end. minutes, secondsThat's his and he'll continue to communicate that. minutes, secondsIran and its proxies have continued attacks on US military installations in Gulf nations. A pro-Iran Iraqi militant minutes, secondsgroup announced a fresh operation against US military bases in the region. minutes, secondA pro-Iran Iraqi militant group announced a fresh operation against US military bases in the region. The armed minutes, secondsgroup Sarah Alia Alam said it carried out seven massive attacks across Iraq. minutes, secondsThe targets American installations. minutes, secondsThe Iraqi Shiite insurgent faction also released footage showing the launch of a swarm of drones. The group also claimed it targeted vital US assets in Kuwait. minutes, secondsThe footage shows masked militants preparing drones for a strike. A handwritten message purportedly for the US and Israel was tied to the drones. minutes, secondsThe drones were then launched in the dead of night to evade enemy detection. minutes, secondsOn March th, the group said it carried out four operations targeting US bases inside and outside Iraq. In a statement, minutes, secondsthe militant group said, "In fulfillment of our religious duty and in retaliation for the blood of the supreme leader, the minutes, secondsmartyed Imam Ali al-Husini al-Kamei and in deterrence of the aggression that led to the martyrdom of a group of young minutes, secondsIraqi resistance fighters, our brave mujahedin carried out four qualitative operations targeting American bases minutes, secondsinside and outside Iraq during the past hours. Similarly, on March th, minutes, secondsSarah Alia Alam, which means Brigades of the Guardians of Blood, released footage showing its targeting of the US Victoria minutes, secondsbase at Baghdad airport with a swarm of drones. The footage shows preparation and reconnaissance of the military base minutes, secondsfollowed by the launch of the drone swarm and the precise strike on the target. Sarah Alia Alam is a faction of minutes, secondsthe Islamic resistance in Iraq is carrying out daily strikes targeting American and Israeli bases and interests minutes, secondsin Iraq and the region in response to the Israeli American aggression against Iran that began on February th. minutes, secondsMeanwhile, drones were launched late Wednesday toward the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Smoke was seen rising from the minutes, secondsarea of the airport in Airbiel following the attack. Associated Press reported that one intercepted drone fell near a minutes, secondshotel in the Sad Abdullah Conference Hall complex in Airbil, a venue for high-level political meetings while minutes, secondsother attacks were launched towards Sullemania. minutes, secondsIn Iraq's holy city of Najhath, a powerful show of loyalty emerged where pilgrims gathered for a ceremony minutes, secondshonoring Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Kamei. Crowds raised portraits of Kamani who was killed during the minutes, secondsearly days of the war between Iran, the United States, and Israel. The ceremony quickly turned into a political message minutes, secondsof defiance. Many pilgrims pledged loyalty to his son and successor, Mujaba Kameani, who was recently chosen as the minutes, secondscountry's new supreme leader after his father's death. Supporters at the gathering said the leadership of the minutes, secondsKameani family would continue guiding Iran's resistance against its enemies. minutes, secondsThe display in Najaf highlights how Iran's leadership transition is resonating beyond its borders, minutes, secondsparticularly among supporters and religious networks across the
Jiang Xueqin: Iran War Trap Ends U.S. Empire, New World Order is Here Danny Haiphong Streamed live on Mar 13, 2026 #israel #iran #trump
Prof. Jiang Xueqin argues that a deep dive into game theory & history can accurately predict future events. Prof. Jiang gives his shocking predictions for the US-Iran War, economic collapse, the new world order, and the future of Israel in this wide-ranging discussion. Prof. Jiang is the host of the popular educational channel Predictive History:
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Hello everyone, welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by Professor Jang Suin of Predictive History. Professor secondsJang, thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks for having me, John, Danny. Yeah. Well, let's get right to it then, secondsProfessor Jang. So, I wanted to ask you just right out the gate. Uh, in prior shows and in prior programs, you have secondssaid that the US Empire will lose the war with Iran even before the war began. secondsWell, now we are over days in this and I want to ask you if you believe we are witnessing your predictions in real secondstime and what have you made of Trump's words today that Iran is actually on the verge of surrender despite the fact that secondsyou see and I can pull up some of those images. We see Iranian officials or the Iranian president, the Iranian foreign minister, they're all out in the streets secondson on coups day uh without a security detail. what what talk about your predictions of how this war will go and minute, secondwhether we are seeing them bear fruit now. minute, secondsRight. So what's interesting about this war is that the Americans and Iranians have different strategies and therefore minute, secondsthey live in different um political realities. So for the Americans and the Israelis, they believe that what they minute, secondscan do is decapitate the regime uh the government and they've done that by killing the Alata K&A and then put this minute, secondspressure on uh the military by bombarding uh air defenses and military infrastructure and then exert tremendous minute, secondspressure on the civil population by embargoing the economy and then by um embedding themselves and promoting put minute, secondsin certain dissident groups uh whether they be religious, political, or ethnic groups in um Iran. They hope to create a minute, secondscolor revolution to eventually overthrow uh the government. Okay. Basically, what they're trying to do is provoke a civil minutes, secondswar in Iran. And so that's the American strategy. And from their perspective, it does seem as though things are going to minutes, secondsplan because again they have um decapitate um the the ali the supreme minutes, secondsleader in the first day and um they've hit civil infrastructure. So they destroy these oil departs in Tran. So minutes, secondsyou might have seen this video footage of black um uh clouds and black air in in Tran these past few days. um and they are embargoing the um Iranian economy. minutes, secondsSo they do believe it's going to plan. There's talk of them arming insurgents. minutes, secondsUm from the Iranian perspective, their strategy is very different. They understand that the very basis of the minutes, secondsAmerican American empire is actually the global economy. So if you put enough pressure on the global economy um you minutes, secondswould eventually force America to call uncle. So, so what we so we're seeing uh the first few uh days are sustained minutes, secondsattacks on American military in installations throughout uh the GCC. Uh the the American fifth fleet is based in minutes, secondsBan. Um you are seeing sustained attacks on Israel and in the first few days minutes, secondsactually um the main purpose of Iran was to degrade the air defense of both the Israelis and Americans basically to minutes, secondsblind them. And from reporting, it seems as though uh the Iranians have achieved this objective, meaning that uh most of the interceptor inventory is gone, minutes, secondsmeaning these Patriot missile defenses are no longer relevant in this fight. minutes, secondsAlso, what's much more relevant is that it seems that much of the radar system um is now depleted. meaning that minutes, secondsbasically with $shiad drones um Iran can cause tremendous damage to minutes, secondsthe GCC and Israel. We we're already seeing that in Dubai where um airports minutes, secondswhere banks where data centers um are being um attacked. Now, one major minutes, secondsadvantage that Iran has that the Americans don't have is that the Iranians are able to calibrate their attacks. Um, and what I mean by that is minutes, secondsthe Americans is go and do shock and all. They try to blow as many things as possible. Whereas the Iranians, they actually try to figure out what pressure minutes, secondspoints are in the GCC. So, what they're trying to do is they're trying to split off the GCC from the American Empire. minutes, secondsThey're trying to um cause instability within these different kingdoms uh minutes, secondswhether it be Bahrain or uh UAE or Saudi Arabia. Uh they're basically trying to provoke a civil uprising against these minutes, secondsGulf monarchies and they're trying to basically uh splinter the alliance uh because by controlling Hummus they can minutes, secondssay to the GCC that if you play ball we'll let your ships uh through. That's very appealing to the GCC because the minutes, secondsreality is that uh they depend on the G on their home moves not just for um oil exports but they also depend on the on minutes, secondsthe for food imports as as well. Also we have to remember that um if Iran want to minutes, secondsdestroy the entire GC GCC it could do so. So um uh Trump has threatening has minutes, secondsthreatened the cement infrastructure of Iran. Basically they destroy the dissalination plants uh the lexure grid minutes, secondsand Iran's response was that if you do so then we will destroy uh the dissalination plants of the GCC and destroy the oil refineries of them as minutes, secondswell basically causing their economies to collapse because remember uh the GCC require uh uh uses the desalination plants for % of its freshwater supply. minutes, seconduh meaning it doesn't have organic freshwater um supply. So Iran has far more advantages than than the United minutes, secondsStates in this war. So for these reasons, I actually think that from a military perspective, um Iran has um minutes, secondsmore advantages. From a political perspective, it's it's night in day in that this war is extremely unpopular in the United States. minutes, secondsum about threequarters of Americans did not support a strike against Iran. And now that the war has started, you have minutes, secondsmore and more Americans confused as to the strategy and purpose of this war. minutes, secondsAnd Trump himself has failed to articulate a clear strategy. And it seems as though the re the rationale minutes, secondsbehind this war changes every day. So maybe in the beginning it was about protest now and then it became nuclear weapons. Um and now it's uh it's because minutes, secondsIsrael was going to attack first and so United and Iran was going to retaliate against both the United States and Israel and therefore United States had minutes, secondsto preempt um you know Israel's preemptive strike. Um so from a political perspective right now in America it's it's very much a divided minutes, secondsnation whereas in Iran it's complete opposite where the death of the Ayatollah and also on the first day minutes, secondsremember uh an American tomahawk missile struck a girl school in the south of um Iran that killed about score girls. minutes, secondsThese are primary school girls and most of them are actually the children of Islamic revolution re guard members. And minutes, secondsso what what that has done is galvanized nation to resist and to defend their sovereignty because if you're Iranian, minutes, secondsyou've so you've seen what the Americans have done uh across the border in Iraq. minutes, secondsYou've seen what they've done in Libya and Syria. Um this is a war of destruction. The Americans are hoping to break um um Iran into ethnic archives, minutes, secondswhat we call bulcanization and divide and rule Iran and basically destroy Persian civilization. And many minutes, secondsIranians will not tolerate this. Um so for the Iranians, this is a fight to the death. For the Americans, this is a war of choice. So from a military and minutes, secondspolitical perspective, Iran has the advantage. And last of course is economic where uh the American economy is very dependent on the GCC. In fact, minutes, secondsyou could argue that the GCC is essentially the lynch pin of American empire because what they do is they sell minutes, secondsthe oil um uh in petro dollars and then they recirculate these petro dollars back into the American stock market. And minutes, secondsof course the golf marketies do that because American provides milit military production. But you know the first day minutes, secondsuh when this war began what what what we know is that these bases these American military bases were abandoned and in minutes, secondsfact uh the soldiers went changed into civil clothes and went to hide in uh hotels and that's why Iran was striking minutes, secondsthese hotels and so these Gulf monarchies now are forced to uh reconsider their vaselage minutes, secondsto the American empire. So what we're seeing I think is very much the collapse of the um American empire. minutes, seconds[clears throat] minutes, secondsYeah. I mean that seems to be exactly what what is happening. Professor Jang, minutes, secondsbut then you know what do you believe is uh behind the Trump administration and minutes, secondsthe United States Empire then going all in and continuing and saying they're going to continue on with this war till further notice. It seems like this is a minutes, secondstrap of their own making. But we know that there are diff, you know, there's lots of interests in war. We know the US empire is built on war and war supposed minutes, secondsto make certain people rich. War is supposed to ensure that an empire expands. We can go on and on and on. But what exact but this seems to be not minutes, secondshappening these kind of things. the opposite is. So what then do you say given that the American empire as you're saying is uh collapsing from this war minutes, secondswhy then uh continue on digging this uh the hole of this trap deeper and deeper? minutes, secondsRight. So um I think the best explanation for why this war started and why this war is progressing the way it minutes, secondsis is a lethal toxic combination of both hubris and desperation. minutes, secondsSo uh let me take some time to explain what I mean. Okay. So the very premise of the American Empire is something called the Mckender Heartland thesis. minutes, secondsAnd this was actually um something that the British developed. Okay, so the British was an island. It didn't it had minutes, secondsa very low population. And for it to control the world, it had to control the seas. So it built the world's greatest minutesnavy. Um and it made sure that this navy was the most dominant in the world. And in fact, they designed the navy to be minutes, secondsable to defeat the next two great naval powers combined. minutes, secondsAnd um and so the but with a navy a navy is useless against a land power. And so minutes, secondsthe great fear of the British uh imperialist is that a great power where would emerge in the Eurasian heartland. minutes, secondsOkay. So basically Europe and Asia and at this time there were several candidates that that could have emerged and we're talking about the th century minutes, secondsby the way that could have emerged to uni unify the Eurasian heartland and create this continental minutes, secondsum trade system that would negate British naval power. Okay. So the candidates were uh the Ottoman Empire, minutes, secondsuh the French, the Germans and the Russians. These four great powers. Um and that's what led ultimately to the minutes, secondNapoleonic wars. Okay, seven wars fought between France and uh the British and their allies. And you can actually see minutes, secondsthe NPC wars as as ultimately an economic trade war in that the Poland wanted to create a continental trade system and the British had and the minutes, secondsBritish uh refused to let him do so because that would mean the collapse of the British economy. Um and so the minutes, secondsBritish basically had an infinite printing machine called the Bank of England. They financed uh Europe to fight against Napoleon seven times and minutes, secondsthey lost six times but ultimately they won and they had and they had no choice because the British economy like the American economy is essentially a Ponzi minutes, secondsscheme and so and so they have to keep on financing until they beat Napoleon. minutes, secondsAfter Napoleon was defeated, uh Britain um became the global hedgeimon and then it focused its attention on trying to divide and conquer Germany and Russia. minutes, secondsSo in the th century uh Britain engaged in something called the great game with Russia where they fought for Central Asia because again Britain minutes, secondscannot afford for Russia to unify uh the heartland because if Russia did that it could build a railroad system so that minutes, secondsall trade um could exist could just happen within the continent and then extend to Africa as well as the Middle minutes, secondsEast. Um and in of course in the th century uh Britain and Germany fought two great wars and America came in to minutes, secondssave Britain in the end and prevent Germany from unifying the uh heartland. minutes, secondsOkay. So that's the main idea uh behind the American Empire and it's still true today. And um after the Soviet Union minutes, secondsfell uh America had this unipolan moment where it could extend its empire through throughout the world and this empire minutes, secondscame to an end actually in when Putin invaded Ukraine and with um Russia essentially winning this war in Ukraine. minutes, secondsThere's a great fear that Russia, Iran and China would come together as partners uh in breaks and then they minutes, secondscould unify the heartland economically and then extend to Europe uh Middle East and um Africa basically bricks plus and minutes, secondsthen they could just dump the US dollar and right now the United States is sitting on $trillion in debt and if minutes, secondsand it's a Ponzi scheme so if other nations stop buying US dollars, then uh America would be left holding a bag um and then the bomb would explode in their minutes, secondsface, the American economy would collapse and you would see a revolution on streets in America. So in other words, America didn't really have a minutes, secondschoice but to prevent Iran, Russia, and China from forming a heartland alliance. minutes, secondsNow the problem with an empire is that once you become desperate, you make silly decisions and the reason why is minutes, secondshubris. Okay? uh the belief that you are invincible and America developed hubris minutes, secondsprimarily because for the past years America could do whatever wanted in the Middle East. So in it took America minutes, secondsexactly two weeks to steam o steamroll over um Iraq and um they did it so with minutes, secondsvery little casualties and they did so with u massive political support in the United States. And so America just minutes, secondsbelieved it was invincible. And this sense of inevitability and invincibility um cemented itself throughout the Middle minutes, secondsEast uh because America um even though it caused a lot of havoc and destruction, it was still triumphant in Libya, in Syria, uh throughout the minutes, secondsMiddle East basically. And so from their perspective, what's the difference between, you know, Iraq and Iran, right? minutes, secondsSame name, just one other difference. minutes, secondsAnd so that's the idea of hubris. And this hubris um basically got um basically blinded Donald Trump with with minutes, secondsarrogance um in Venezuela because remember back in on in January January rd double force swept into um Carac uh minutes, secondsCaracus and basically kidnapped Maduro without and there was no American casualties. It was a miracle of the minutes, secondsAmerican military. Um, it was almost like as though God wielded. Um, and so that made Trump extremely arrogant and minutes, secondsthat probably convinced him that he could do anything he wanted because he had the most powerful military in the the world. And so um um so he basically minutes, secondsordered the invasion the attack on Iran believing that decapitation strike the in the first day um would cause the minutes, secondsregime to collapse because it was so uh hated by the people. Remember in January there were also these protests in Iran. minutes, secondsSo um it was a severe miscalculation and it was caused by again a lethal combination of both hubris and desperation. Huberous in that the empire minutes, secondsthought it was invincible, desperation in that it had no choice in the matter but to start this war in order to maintain its hegemony throughout the world. minutes, secondsThen, Professor Jang, uh, will this, minutes, secondswe've heard some rumblings in Wall Street Journal about a possible land minutes, secondsinvasion, US troops being sent to try to seize the coastline in the midst of especially the Straight of Hormuz minutes, secondscrisis. Uh, at the same time though, you have the US Navy saying they can't escort tankers. You have uh reports that minutes, secondshave not been confirmed. the USS Lincoln needing to retreat because they got hit. minutes, secondsThe USS Gerald Ford uh having mysterious fires and of course the tankers that were downed over Iraq just in the last minutes, secondshours. But do you see uh US troops uh uh coming uh to Iran to invade? And if so uh game theory that for us, will you? minutes, secondsSo what people forget is that in uh when America did shock and all there was tremendous military push back against the doctrine of shock and all. minutes, secondsBasically, um Donald Ronfield, who was the secretary of defense at that time, minutes, secondsand his um uh assistant Paul Woleritz believed that America could go in with minutes, secondsair power with very little ground troops and they could very quickly decapitate the regime by destroying its command and control centers. minutes, secondsAnd America could do this cheaply and quickly. And the entire joint chiefs of staff, the generals who knew what they were doing were against this plan. They minutes, secondsthought it was insane. They fought went against um centuries of milit military doctrine. From their perspective, you minutes, secondshave to fight the war conservatively and to win. You just can't gamble with uh war. So I believe at that time um they minutes, secondswent in with troops and the joint chief of staff actually initially asked for half a million troops because that was what they believed they needed minutes, secondsto win this war. and uh it became a political uh dog fight and ultimately minutes, secondsBrumsfield and Wolfitz won and their gamble paid off massive dividends and minutes, secondsever since then America has um adopted its shock and all policy. Now the problem with shock and all is that minutes, secondspeople forget but at that time Iraq didn't have any ear defense. Okay. It didn't have any way to defend against minutes, secondsAmerican invasion. And part it's and that was partly because by that time Iraq had suffered over years of minutes, secondsAmerican sanctions. So the economy was depleted. Uh the people were in low morale and the soldiers were not really minutes, secondspaid. Okay? So they didn't really have that much air defense. And then when Saddam Hussein was um basically advised to get a defense, his response was, minutes, seconds"Listen, if the Americans came after me, minutes, secondsthen they would eliminate the main adversary to Iran in the Middle East. So minutes, secondswhy would they do that? That would be just be insane." And honestly, if they came, I couldn't really defend myself either. Okay, so that was his thinking. minutes, secondswas extremely logical and rational, but unfortunately the Americans are were not logical and rational because they're an minutes, secondsempire. So, um people forget that was an anomaly. It was not a real war. minutes, secondsUm but this war in Iran is a real war. minutes, secondsAnd in a real war, you need to use ground troops. Why? Because ear defense is meant to minutes, secondsdefend against the air. So the way you counter air defense is actually with ground troops. Okay? And in a in a real war actually the ground troops are the minutes, secondsbread and butter. The infantry are the bread and butter um of your military. So the Americans have been living in a fantasy world for the past years and minutes, secondsnow they need to adapt to the real world if they are to win this war. Now, I understand that then ground invasion minutes, secondswould be political suicide in United States because the war is not very popular. And quite honestly, Donald Trump would need to institute a national minutes, secondsdraft in order to get the combat soldiers that he would need for a ground invasion. And by the way, half a million minutes, secondsis just the bare minimum. You probably want two million troops if you are to fight this war properly. Okay? So half half a million is is what they are minutes, secondsproposing. and they would need national draft in order to get this number of troops. And you you can imagine the minutes, secondspolitical opposition in United States if that were to happen. Plus, what most military analysts would tell you is that minutesAmerica is not equipped to fight Iran because Iran is a mountain fortress and America doesn't have the logistics minutes, secondschains, the manufactured capacity uh and an inventory to launch a multi-war uh sorry, a multi-year minutes, secondsuh ground invasion of Iran from multiple vectors. Okay, so we're talking uh you would need to control the servos and then you would need to come in from the minutes, secondseast, the west, and then north. Um so it's a very complicated thing and this would take about a two years to actually plan properly but in these two years minutes, secondsIran would get enough assistance from the Russians, the Chinese and others in order to properly prepare for this minutes, secondsground invasion and therefore you need to do it as soon as possible before Iran can fully recover from this um from from minutes, secondsthis war. Okay? So a ground invasion wouldn't work but they have to do it if they actually win this war. Now I understand okay there are people who say minutes, secondswhy not just declare a victory and go home and then end this war it's not as minutes, secondssimple as that. Okay this when a war starts war developed its own momentum. So, let me play out for minutes, secondsyou using game theory what happened if Donald Trump were to say, "You know what? We got we got the we got the Ayatollah. We've destroyed their nuclear minutes, secondsweapons program. We've destroyed their obstics program. We've made the world safe for um for Israel. Let's just go home, guys. Goodbye. See you later." minutes, secondsOkay, here's what would happen. Okay, minutes, secondsfirst thing that would happen is Iran would say to the GCC nations, "Hey, man. minutes, secondsUh the Americans came and destroyed our nation. Most of our civilian military infrastructure is gone. We need repar minutes, secondsreparations. You either pay us reparations or we'll come and invade you guys. Okay. And GC nation is like but we minutes, secondsdidn't do anything. And the Iranians will be like, well, you know what? minutes, secondsYou've been hosting American bases for the longest time. Also, you they use your airspace to attack us. Also, you're the guys who are financing this war minutes, secondsbecause of your investments in the American economy. And so, if if the GCC nations refuse to pay repar reparations minutes, secondsand Iran would cause civil uprisings um in these um nations, remember these minutes, secondsare unpopular corrupt monarchies in the GCC. Um Ban has basically fallen um and minutes, secondseveryone else could fall as well. uh UAE is uh can be easily taken out. And so minutes, secondswhat these GCC nations would then say to Iran is let's make a deal. And the deal is very simple. We have $trillion in minutes, secondsour sovereign war funds. We're going to help you finance the rebuilding of your nation. And also when our ships go for the Stra of Hummus, we'll pay you a tax minutes, secondsbecause now you are the defender of the straight of Homus. Okay? So that's the GCC. Basically the GCC which was a lynch minutes, secondspin of the American empire now trans transfers over to Iran and they become the client states of Iran. That's the first major consequence. The second minutes, secondsmajor consequence is um if you are Japan and South Korea for the longest time you've been buying US treasuries at an minutes, secondsinflated price you're basically paying a tax a tribute to American empire in order to ensure that American empire defends you. Well, you just saw what happened um in the Middle East. So, minutes, secondsyou're like, why am I doing this? Why am I hosting these American bases? When when a war starts, these guys, these or American soldiers will minutes, secondsjust fly home. Uh so, first of all, get out of here, guys. We don't we don't watch anymore. Second of all, we're not going to buy US treasuries because minutes, secondsclearly um uh the United States is not a re reliable ally. Okay? So South Korea and Japan would remmilitarize minutes, secondsand basically become much more self-sufficient economies and stop buying US treasuries. Um then you would minuteshave um Europe which would which which would then be like why are we fighting this war in Ukraine again? Oh wait a minute we're fighting this war because minutes, secondsAmericans asked us to fight this war. In fact the Americans asked us to pay % of our GDP in order to finance this war in Ukraine. Also, Americans are asking us minutes, secondsto draft our soldiers, which is political suicide in our countries. It might cause a civil uprising. Um, but we have no choice because there are lots and lots of American bases in Europe. minutes, secondsBut after you saw what happened in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia, then you're like, you know what? We don't actually need these American bases. So, why don't you guys go home? Okay. So, minutes, secondsthen American Empire is just kicked out of everywhere. They're forced to close most of their uh um global bases, and you're like, "Okay, fine. We'll just go minutes, secondshome." is is not what Trump said in the first place. America first. Make America great again. Forget the rest of the world. Let's focus on the Western Hemisphere. Again, it's not that simple minutes, secondsbecause remember, America is a Ponzi scheme that depends on the rest of the world buying US dollars. And as long as the US dollars buy, sorry, as long as the rest of the world buys US dollars, minutes, secondsthe Ponzi scheme can continue. Once uh Japan, China, South Korea, Europe, the GCC stop buying US dollars, what minutes, secondshappens? You have economic collapse. Uh and once you have economic collapse, you have civil discontent. We're talking minutes, secondsabout something much much worse than the great depression. Take the great depression and magnify by times, you come close to the calamity uh that is minutes, secondsahead uh for America. And so uh it's very possible that if you were to retreat uh from the from the GCC, you minutes, secondswould cause a chain of events that would lead to blue revolution in America. And so if you are the elite in America, your minutes, secondsoptions are wait for the revolution to happen sooner or later or send in ground troops with a hope that you know you minutes, secondspray to God enough then you can uh maintain your empire. minutesYeah. Yeah. Well, uh I wanted to then get to how you believe then given that these are the possibilities how uh it minutes, secondswill actually transpire professor Johnny especially in terms of the impact on the world uh with this war because you know minutes, secondswe had already been talking about on this show for many years now uh the emergence of a new world order that is not dominated by US hijgemony. uh how do minutes, secondsyou see this war and its aftermath um affecting the the wider world given that minutes, secondsit's not only a regional war war but it's become a global war a world war in many respects and you've talked about uh minutes, secondsthis being a not just a prelude but actually a a part of a world war II scenario that we are in minutes, secondsright so people don't really appreciate how unique and unsustainable the American unipolar moment was think of this where just an average American, minutes, secondsokay, and we're just talking about like like a middle class American. Well, he can have any day of the week, okay, for breakfast, avocados from Mexico, uh, minutes, secondswhite wines from Chile, uh, he can book a flight on the website and very cheaply minutes, secondsfly to Maldis for a week-l long vacation and just US dollars to pay for everything. minutes, secondsum he can go to Europe for the summer uh for the internet. He can communicate with people from all around the world. minutes, secondsAnd this is unsustainable because a lot of it depends on people's belief minutes, secondsthat the American Empire is invincible and therefore have no choice but to be a vassel to this empire. And that's what minutes, secondssustains this unipolar moment. But now that you have this aura of inevitability and immutability collapse uh punctured minutes, secondsby this war in Iran, then people no longer believe in the American empire. minutes, secondsAnd so what you'll see are three major trends happen in the next to years. minutes, secondsAnd quite honestly, the nations that are uh most willing to embrace these three minutes, secondstrends will emerge from the classical empire uh the most vibrant. Okay. And these three major trends are number one deindustrialization and deurbanization. minutes, secondsOkay. So what I mean by that is that it is silly that we have so many mega cities around the world. Uh think about minutes, secondshow many cities with million plus people there are around the world. And it's silly and stupid because we depend minutes, secondson food to uh live. And these people in the cities, they're not growing food. um minutes, secondsand and where they're getting food is uh importing this food uh from overseas or internally. Okay. So you have basically minutes, secondsa specialization of agriculture throughout the world where basically just one nation just does one uh um uh minutes, secondsone cash corp um you know growing bananas or avocados whatever okay but that's just really silly to do. Um, and minutes, secondsyou but you can do this as long as you have cheap oil because cheap oil allows you the fertilizers to grow food but also cheap oil allows you to transport minutes, secondsthis food throughout the world. Um, but again it's all premised on cheap oil.
What happens when the cheap oil goes away? Well, you have food supply issues. Okay. So these million people in the cities doing whatever you know whether it's um cryptocurrency scams or gambling on poly market or uh engaging in uh derivatives um creating derivatives um creating AI um you know like like it's all just useless and silly. People need to grow food and so that we can eat. Okay. So if you're if you are really into AI, guess what? You're going to be really really screwed without access to cheap energy. So stop this AI stupidity and go back to growing food. Okay? So that means getting people out of the cities and back to the farmland to grow food to create more sustainable supply chains. And again, you have to do this or your people going to starve. I'm I'm tell I'm telling this this entire world, okay? Give up your delusions about AI. It does nothing. It'll get you nowhere. minutes, secondsMake sure your people have access to food and water. Okay, that's the first major trend. The industrial minutes, secondsuh Professor John, it seems like we've uh lost you here. Uh you said uh make sure to prepare for to to grow food, minutes, secondsfocus on food. Uh but you are frozen. If you can hear me, uh maybe you could refresh your uh browser. Um as you have minutes, secondsuh frozen, I will also Oh, there you are. All right. Yeah, sorry. minutes, secondsYou're back. So, so I mean I have a basic point which is like the industrialization and urbanization require cheap energy and once you lose minutes, secondaccess to cheap energy, you have to worry about having s sustainable food supply networks. That means you have to minutes, secondsmove people back to the to the countryside to grow food in order to feed your your population. Okay, that has to be done. Okay, that that's my first point. minutes, secondsMy second um trend, the second trend that's very important is the idea of remilitarization. minutes, secondsMeaning that in the future people are going to fight over resources. And so you need to remmilitarize your minutes, secondspopulation. And what this means ultimately is the return of nationalism and in some examples minutes, secondsum for the greater good is through nationalism. There are some other nations that will become theocracies uh the embrace of religious faith. Okay. minutesBut like the idea of this like this multicultural, minutes, secondsmultipolar, sorry, multicultural, global diversity, DI, all this nonsense, it has to go away. Just just throw it out. minutes, secondsOkay? No more diversity, no more multiculturalism. Just focus on who we are as a people and the need for us to minutes, secondsbe cohesive in order to defend our nation. Okay? So re remilitarization, minutes, secondsthe return of nationalism and the um third major uh trend is the breaking up minutes, secondsof these of of the global economy and the creation of merkantile trade networks. Okay. And that could be minutes, secondscooperation among certain nations and that's what we should see in Europe uh where Europe becomes its own trading block and no longer engages with the minutes, secondsrest of the world. But it can also mean that a certain nation becomes dominant in a region and post its will in that minutes, secondsregion. So I see um Israel achieving something called the greater Israel project and being able to control trade minutes, secondsuh throughout the Mediterranean um the Middle East and Africa. Um in East Asia there'd be competition between South minutes, secondsKorea, North Korea, Vietnam, Japan and China for resources minutes, secondsand um and they need to create um their own independent supply chains especially minutes, secondsJapan um Japan is in this sort of scenario the most disadvantaged because they don't have uh enough resources to minutes, secondsfuel their uh advanced manufacturing economy. minutes, secondsAnd so we could see u a very aggressive remarized Japan over the next uh few minutes, secondsmonths. In fact, Prime Minister Taki has voiced tremendous support for this Israel US war against Iran and she's minutes, secondspromised to send missiles and um ammunitions in defense sorry over to the Middle East to support this war. Okay. minutes, secondsSo so so these are the three major trends that we should see over next few months. um nations adopting uh more de-industrialized policies, minutes, secondsum nations uh adop embracing nationalism and then also uh nations trying to create their own independent uh supply minutes, secondschains. And the irony of course is the the nations that benefit the most from globalization will be the ones that minutes, secondsactually have the toughest toughest time adapting to the new world. That includes of course um United States, China, uh Germany. Um yeah, minutes, secondsI wanted to ask you uh Professor Jang about uh the you you made a comment about greater Israel and the attempt to minutes, secondsachieve it. Um what do where do you see that now given that uh Iran doesn't seem like it's on the verge of collapse. It minutes, secondsseems like its government is very much intact and uh now even the collective west is admitting this and I think Europe is on the phone with Iran right minutes, secondnow trying to get a deal to move their cargo and their commercial vessels through the straight of Hormuz. Um but minutes, secondsalso Israel is in heavy fighting with Hezbollah and uh part of the greater Israel project will also include Iraq and we see the resistance downing minutes, secondsrefueling tankers. So there's certainly opposition to this and we haven't even gone into Yemen yet uh with what could minutes, secondshappen if the Babe is closed. So uh what do you make of where the greater Israel project is right now and how that will minutes, secondstake shape in the days and weeks to come? minutes, secondsOkay. So, Israel is a very sorry. So, Israel is a very difficult minutes, secondsnation to understand because of their theology, because of their understanding of their place in the world. They call themselves God's chosen people. Okay? minutes, secondsSo, from an Israeli perspective, okay, minutes, secondsif you are a religious extremist, this war is is going according to God's plan because how do you achieve the greater Israel project? Well, you achieve the minutes, secondsgreater Israel project by removing America from the Middle East. Uh, and you achieve the greatest Israel project minutes, secondsby basically destroying the GCC. Um, and and ultimately um to achieve the Greater Israel project, you you eventually have minutes, secondsto go after um Turkey and Egypt as well because the greater Israel, if you see a map, um it actually extends from the minutes, secondsNile to the Euphrates. Iran actually is actually not part of greater Israel. minutes, secondsOkay? So in other words, these religious extremists want this war in the Middle minutes, secondsEast in order to um move forward to accelerate um the greater Israel project which they believe is what God promised them through their ancestor Abraham. minutes, secondsOkay. So in other words, from an Israeli perspective, your real objectives in this war is not to defeat Iran. Okay? minutes, secondsYou want to weaken Iran, but it's not really feasible for you as small nation to defeat Iran. Okay. So, what are your real military objectives that you can actually say? Well, first of all, it's minutes, secondsto u destroy the American empire and force Americans out of the Middle East. minutes, secondsIt's to destroy Saudi Arabia because actually part of Saudi Arabia is is part of the greater Israel project. And to minutes, secondsdrag Turkey into this war because the south of of Anatolia, Turkey is actually part of the greater Israel project as minutes, secondswell. So that's what you want to do. And and if this war drags on and the Americans sends in ground troops, then minutes, secondsyou are then you're actually um accelerating God's plan. Um also what people don't recognize is that this minutes, secondsdestruction in Israel, this these religious extremists think that it is the will of God. Okay. So where are the Iranians striking Tel Aviv? Where are they not striking really? Jerusalem. minutes, secondsThere's a huge difference between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. People don't really appreciate Oh, sorry. Sorry that was a mistake. minutes, secondPeople don't really appreciate the political dynamic in uh Tel Aviv. minutes, secondsJerusalem and T sorry people don't really appreciate the political dynamic in Israel. Tel Aiv and Jerusalem are two opposing centers of gravity in Israel. minutes, secondsTell Tel Aviv is the western looking, the open, the cosmopolitan, the secular, minutes, secondsthe democratic um version or face of Israel. Jerusalem minutes, secondsis the inward-looking, the um um religious, theocratic, a conservative um minutes, secondsface of Israel. And guess what? They hate each other. And if Tel Aviv were to minutes, secondsbe destroyed, okay, meaning like the open cosmopolitan democratic sector, Israel would be destroyed in this war. minutes, secondsGood. Because that is God's will. God doesn't want these um you know open western eur western uh Jews in Israel. minutes, secondsUm he wants them to repent. He wants them to engage in redemption. And in the Jewish theology, redemption is only possible through pain, suffering. Okay? minutes, secondsYou need to commit sin uh in order to force God to punish you and then you engage in a long process of minutes, secondsself-reflection um self revitalization in order to fully embrace God. Okay? So in other words, minutes, secondsthese religious extremists are hoping to use this war to inflict so much damage and pain on minutes, secondsuh secular Israel that they see the they see the error of their ways and they embrace God fully. And if you don't do minutes, secondsso, well then go away. Go back to Europe. Go back to America. Who cares? minutes, secondsOkay. But Israel, they want they want Israel become a theocracy uh because of this war. So I I know it's hard to minutes, secondsunderstand uh because most of us are not religious and when we hear this we think it's all insane but unfortunately right minutes, secondsnow the religious fanatics have control over uh the national security operatives the military of Israel and they want to minutes, secondsuse this war in order to bring the Jewish people closer to God. and they believe that by doing so this will um minutes, secondsaccelerate the coming of the Messiah and usher in the messianic age. So from their perspective it's all going to going according to plan um and they have minutes, secondssome surprises in store for the world for example um the Actic mosque which I think will may be destroyed in this war. minutes, secondsWell, also, Professor Jang, the US military has been infected by this um kind of uh uh uh religious extremism. Uh minutes, secondsyou've probably seen the reports of plus complaints uh from the military religious freedom foundation uh by US minutes, secondstroops uh saying that they were told that uh this war was all part of God's divine plan and they were to they there minutes, secondswere multiple references to the book of revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ minutes, secondsbecause of this war. So uh you know I think a lot of people are interested first John hearing your uh take on uh minutes, secondshow this uh rel religious extremism we see and this is when we talk Israel and of course the collective west it's minutes, secondsgetting worse and worse uh contrary to how people view Iran actually um minutes, secondsand I'm wondering how you see that affecting not just this war but also the world as these changes is the end of minutes, secondsunipolar dominance by the United States uh really becomes much more apparent from this war and of course uh you know in the coming days and weeks. minutesRight? So um I've always argued that this war is esquetological. Okay? minutes, secondsMeaning you can't really explain this war from a purely geopolitical lens. minutes, secondsYes, I do know that I spent the early part of this discussion talking about why empire needs to engage in war. But minutes, secondsyou know there are alternatives to um what they're doing. Okay. So the first alternative is just become friends with minutes, secondsIran. You know remove the sanctions uh return to the nuclear deal the Obama era nuclear deal and engage in trade with minutes, secondsIran. And look the Iranians are pumatic people. They would welcome American investment. They would welcome the opportunity to sell their oil to America. Okay that's your first option. minutes, secondsBut if you don't want to do that option, minutes, secondsthen you can also choose a strategy of economic strangulation, meaning that you basically embargo Iran. You know, Iran minutes, secondssells most of its oil to China and that's a shadow fleet. Well, you can embargo uh Iran because if you just look at the map, the American military base minutes, secondis everywhere, right? So, you have options. the worst thing you can do is actually go and attack Iran because then minutes, secondsyou find yourself in this sort of situation where now you're losing the war and you're forced to send in ground troops if you are to win this war and minutes, secondswe've already discussed why that would be suicidal both militarily, minutes, secondseconomically and politically. So then the question then is why do they pick the worst option and um it's minutes, secondsesqueological where there are people in the United States um and these are secret societies and these are different minutes, secondssecret societies who who believe this they believe that a war in the Middle East once it's started it will create a minutes, secondsser a chain of events that will lead eventually to the end of the world the end times and this and this and for minutes, secondsdifferent secret societies this could mean different things. Okay. So for the Freemasons it would mean the creation of Paka a one world government and the minutes, secondcoming of an AI surveillance state um where Jerusalem is the center of the world. Okay. Then you have these minutes, secondsmessianic Jews um called um the Shabbat Lubich movement and there are others as well. Okay. But the most famous who minutes, secondsbelieve that um this war will initi initiate something called the war of Gaul and Magog which is really the end minutes, secondsthe final battle of humanity where the world basically attacks Israel and this will force the return sorry the coming minutes, secondsof the Messiah um the intervention of God basically and the coming of the meic age uh where God can live will live with minutes, secondshis people uh the Jews. Uh and then the Christian Zionists um believe that this minutes, secondswar will um initiate the go war of Gog and Mog and then Jesus will return to minutes, secondssave Israel from its enemies and then all Christians who believe in Jesus will be raptured up into heaven before uh minutes, secondJesus ushers in the millennium, the messianic age and then you have the final day of judgment. Okay. So, I understand this is sort of like bonkers, minutes, secondsbut I mean most people in this world happen to be religious. Uh, Christian Zionism is about a quarter of the minutes, secondspopulation of America. You know, you have this uh movement called Christians United for Israel, million members, minutes, secondsand their only um goal, million members, their only goal is to ensure that American politicians minutes, secondshelp bring about the end the end of days. Um and these are the people who actually are funding these West Bank settlements which are clearly against minutes, secondsinternational law. Right? So you have these all these um Israeli settlers in the West Bank who don't actually work and they have like large families. It's all being funded by Christians United for Israel and other Christian Zionists. minutes, secondsSo this plan has been in motion for decades. I would even I would argue even for centuries. Okay. So they want to minutes, secondsusher in the end of days. And so there are certain things that that will happen that will surprise people and it makes minutes, secondsabsolutely no sense but it's all according to their theology um their esquetology. Okay. So what will happen minutes, secondseventually is the Alexic moss will be destroyed um and in fact there's been discussions on social media how this minutes, secondswill happen. Basically the idea is okay for the past few years they've been conducting archeological digs under the Alexic moss which which is the third minutes, secondsholiest site in Islam by the way and so the foundations of the Alexic Mahas are very unstable and so basically if an minutes, secondsIranian missile goes astray and we we won't actually know if it's Iranian missile but of course we blame on Iranians then the there'll be control demolition of the ice mos okay so so minutes, secondsagain look it's all speculation it's all rumors but if it were to happen then you will know that it's all for minutes, secondsesquetological purposes. Um and um and and of course um and also like this is minutes, secondshard for people to understand but anti-semitism the rise of anti-semitism in the western world is also part of this es esquetology because in both the minutes, secondsJewish and Christian esquetological understanding of things the Jews must return to Jerusalem to seek redemption minutes, secondsto seek repetit uh so sorry to seek u the love of of God to unify with with God. And that basically means bring minutes, secondsbringing the Jewish diaspora back to Jerusalem. Now, as you know, most Jews, minutes, secondsmany Jews in the Western world live very nice lives. Uh they're very successful. minutes, secondsOh, you froze. Uh Professor John, you said they're very successful if you come back. minutes, secondsYeah. So, so yeah. So, they're successful and then they won't come back voluntarily. Well, then you make them. minutes, secondsAnd again, I know this sounds crazy, but please remember this war in Iran is crazy. It makes absolutely no sense why minutes, secondsthe Americans are fighting the war they the way the way they are. And it it and like honestly, it doesn't seem as though minutes, secondsTrump and his people really care. And you know, their response to this growing unpopularity um of this war in America is maybe to institute a national draft. You know, minutes, secondsthere's talk of deploying the National Guard to quell unrest uh throughout the um throughout America. You know, like minutes, secondsTrump's cabinet has basically moved on to American military bases. And the people that would be most responsible minutes, secondsfor National GeForce minutes, secondsNo uh Gnome, they've all moved to American military bases. And why would they do that? Okay. So, it seems as though something has been being prepared for America. minutes, secondsWell, uh, Professor Jang, you know what's what you're describing here. I'm wondering how it clashes with capital then because we know that finance cap, minutes, secondswe know that the military complex, they have very I wouldn't call them rational given everything that we talked about so far with how this war has transpired. Uh minutes, secondsbut there are I think uh understandable uh uh uh disagreements and you know irreconcilable contradictions that they minutes, secondshave with uh the Iranian government uh whether it's uh you know uh wanting to minutes, secondsuh maintain hegemony and ensure as you said earlier that Russia China Iran cannot uh unite at a political economic minutes, secondsand military level and we could go on and on and on of the straight of four moves for example to have control of that to be able to ensure uh you know minutes, secondsso-called freedom of navigation aka dominance of all trade routes to cut off China and anyone uh else uh who needs to minutes, secondsbe dominated uh in to ensure that their trade routes uh are directed by the US and therefore will benefit US financial minutes, secondsinterests. So how does this development that you're describing clash or align or some or both? How help us understand uh minutes, secondswhy there is because in many ways what you're describing could very well clash with it. Uh so how does how does it all minutes, secondscome together. Okay. So unfortunately um the estology of these religious minutes, secondsextremists and transational capital their interests are aligned. Okay. So uh let me explain why. So this esquetology minutes, secondscomes from these occultists who spent their entire lives um reading the Bible minutes, secondsand trying to interpret divine um providence uh and divine intention in in minutes, secondsthe Bible. Okay. So they feel feel as though this Bible is is actually the words of God and God has laid out this plan in the Bible. So if we're able to minutes, secondsinterpret this code properly, then we have then we have an understanding of God's plan and therefore we can enact it in our world to accelerate the return of minutes, secondGod to to our world. And famous occultists in the past include um Isaac Newton. Um people don't appreciate that minutes, secondshe spent most of his life actually studying the Bible and you know him creating the laws of physics was minutes, secondsactually just a um function or a side function of his intense study of of the Bible because he's he's trying to understand the mind of God. Okay. minutes, secondsAnother very famous occultist is Sab Zevi. Um a modern-day occultist that just recently passed away but who's extremely influential is named Rabbi minutes, secondsSneren who was the global leader of something called the Shabbat Lug movement. Okay, so we don't actually need to know these people. We we just know that there are these people in the shadows who are planning all this. Okay, minutes, secondsnow if you're not a cultist, you're interested in the movement of the stars, minutes, secondsyour movement, you're interested in the grand scheme of humanity and therefore you have insight to certain historical patterns that emerge. Okay, so the world minutes, secondsthat we're living in um the patterns that are emerging, the collapse of empire, this is how all empires collapse and this something that cultists minutes, secondsunderstand. Okay. But from their perspective, this isn't just game theory or this isn't just uh the nature of minutes, secondsempires. For for them, they believe it is actually the intention of God. Okay? minutes, secondsSo um so from their perspective, you can actually change events, but what you can do is accelerate events, right? So if an minutes, secondsempire is collapsed, and these empires usually about years, years to collapse, um that would create tremendous human suffering, right? Look, minutes, secondslook, look at the collapse of the Roman Empire and how many wars, how much bloodshed was um was conducted because of the collapse of empire and the minutes, secondscollapse of the empire led to the dark ages, right? About a thousand years when Western civilization had to reconstruute itself. Well, minutes, secondswhy can't you accelerate the class empire in order to build a better world? minutes, secondsWouldn't that be um a much better way of doing things? Yes, you c you cause a lot of pain and death in the beginning in the short term, but it's long-term gain, minutes, secondsright? Short-term pain for long-term gain. That's like literally how they think. Okay, so that's how these esquetologists or cultists think. Now, minutes, secondslet's look at transnational capital. minutes, secondsOkay, and Jeffrey Epstein, if you read his emails, he was actually very interested in geopolitical events because he understood that from geopolitical chaos, you can make a lot minutes, secondsof money, right? Right. So the famous saying is when there's blood on the streets buy. Okay. So Jeffrey Epstein was going around getting conf minutes, secondsconfidential information from people like Peter Menston who was the um oh sorry is Menson and and anyway he was minutes, secondsgetting conf confidential information from a lot of powerful people around the world in order to better gauge how geopolitical events uh would map out. minutes, secondsOkay. Um, so transition capital is interested in war, interested in destruction, interested in chaos because minutes, secondsthat's the best time to buy. Okay, so let's imagine that there's this war raging in the Middle East. Let's just minutes, secondssay that there's this uh civil war raging in America and there's a lot of destruction. That's great for you as minutes, secondstransnational capital because now you can sweep in and buy resources for really cheap, right? Um and the faster minutes, secondsthis d disruption happens the more profit you can generate in uh at the end at the end of the day. So what we're minutes, secondsseeing in the world is a massive alliance like this grand alliance between the military-industrial complex minutes, secondswhich benefits more these esquetologists these occultists who want to accelerate the end of the world and these transnational capitalists who believe minutes, secondsthat when the world burns then is the best opportunity to buy. Otherwise, I mean, if you trust your capital and you're sitting on billions billions of dollars, what do you what do you buy? minutes, secondsBecause US dollar is a scam, uh, real estate is a scam, cryptocurrency is a scam. Well, you know, if you destroy the minutes, secondsworld, now you can buy up these resources, water rights, uh, mining rights for really cheap. Um, and during minutes, secondsthe re rebuilding process, you can make a lot of money, right? So, so, so, so that's how these things work. [snorts] minutes, secondsYeah. Well, uh, Professor Jang, I wanted to then ask you, uh, we're getting, uh, minutes, secondsreports, uh, that, uh, you know, the United States, the empire, it's going through great lengths to try to mitigate the massive consequences of this war. minutes, secondsUm, you know, they've, uh, lifted sanctions temporarily on Russia. They minutes, secondsflooded they've tried to flood the market with reserves from countries a part of the IAEA. minutes, secondsNone of it is reducing prices actually in the last several days. Uh it's it's nearly risen back to $a barrel and minutes, secondsthe trend actually is is just up and up and up. Uh reports are that this crisis energy crisis is worse than the s minutes, secondscrisis already by a factor of two. Um and it's just started. What happens uh minutes, secondsuh Professor John, when Iran saying that our oil will be going to $a barrel, minutes, secondswhat happens then when it does? Because everything that we talked about up until this point, including what you just said, uh will play a factor in this, I I minutes, secondsassume. So, what happens then? Because that's that's a major economic crisis that uh um you know, I don't think we've minutes, secondsreally faced uh before or at least to this magnitude. minutes, secondsYeah. So look, the reality is that the old world, the world of global uh minutes, secondsglobalization, it's dying and it's it's and this war is going to kill it. minutes, secondsThere's actually no going back to the old world. And we're heading to and we're heading towards a new world of chaos, uh instability, resource, minutesscarcity, which is really how humans have lived most of their lives. So if you just go back to s minutes, secondsum and look at what happened s, well probably the same thing will happen um in our world um over the next few years. minutes, secondsSo in the short term what governments are going to do is they're they're going to try to compensate for the lack of access to cheap energy and basically so minutes, secondsin Southeast Asia we're seeing work from home. We're seeing the implementation of day work weeks. eventually they'll move minutes, secondsto lockdowns uh very similar to COVID a as well because the reality is that minutes, secondswithout cheap energy it's impossible for the modern nation state to sustain the populations that that they have right um minutes, secondsyou can't feed tens of millions of people based on food imports and cheap energy so um u these nations are going minutes, secondsto struggle and you will see lockdowns you will see food rationing uh throughout the world. They have hour, secondsactually no choice in the matter. These airlines are going to have to close down. People cannot fly around the world whenever they want anymore. It's too hour, secondsexpensive and it's and it's too pointless uh to uh to do so. So, hour, secondsum prices will go will skyrocket uh es especially for plane fairs, especially for meat. Um and so that's a short term. hour, secondsUm in the midterm um you will see conflicts throughout the world. So this could include civil unrest. Um this hour, secondscould include political revolutions. Uh because remember these governments around the world most of them are not hour, secondsdemocratic and most of them are extremely unpopular and most of them are actually sustained by the power of American empire. hour, secondsum especially uh in this in Islamic world um especially in South America. hour, secondsAnd so once American empire fades and American empire is not able to provide hour, minute, secondsuh a material lifestyle then the revol the population is going to revolt and you will see the rise primarily of like hour, minute, secondsright-wing nationalist movements and we're already seeing that in Europe. um um and and and I and that's just going hour, minute, secondsto be a natural trend. Um in the long term, you will see um massive hour, minute, secondsum remunerization and a massive restructuring of society. hour, minute, secondsOkay. So, one thing that these nations need to resolve is the aging crisis especially in Europe, especially in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan. hour, minute, secondsWhichever nation is able to resolve the aging crisis as soon as possible will come out of the coming chaos the most hour, minute, secondsvibrant nation. And I think that there's one nation in the world that I think hour, minute, secondsactually has a solution to the aging crisis and that's Japan. Why? Because the aging crisis in Japan is the most hour, minutes, secondssalient. Uh it could destroy the economy. And so what I think will happen is that Japan will institute a national hour, minutes, secondseuthanasia program. So if you're over um you will volunteer to um you you hour, minutes, secondsknow Yeah. But but but but but I'm sorry this is hard. Okay. But I mean like the world that we're going into, we have to hour, minutes, secondswe have to really plan ahead and imagine the darkest possibilities. Um so so yeah it's not a pretty picture. hour, minutes, secondsYeah. What's so interesting I was just looking at the rankings. Uh two of the biggest countries uh I guess we could count Gana as food self-sufficient. It's hour, minutes, secondson the rankings internationally but China and Vietnam are two and three and the rest of the countries you can see very low. US western countries very very hour, minutesvery low. So in the hardest of times uh it'll be very difficult for the collective west to be able to sustain itself. And I think that's why we see hour, minutes, secondstoo profess and the collective west US this kind of extremism that you say complements so well the wararm mongering hour, minutes, secondsthe desperate attempts to uh basically blow up the world are are so salient. Um because I I I do think that there is hour, minutes, secondsthis um there is this real urge from uh those who uh control Washington. Some hour, minutes, secondspeople call them the Epstein class to ensure that uh that they are covered that their that their behinds are hour, minutes, secondscovered as things continue to uh spiral for for the system that they uh control. So, Professor John, any final comments? hour, minutes, secondsAnything you want to say about the um you know about the Iran situation, the global situation as as it relates to it uh that we might not have said so far. hour, minutes, secondRight. So the western nations, Europe, hour, minutes, secondsNorth America are the ones who are who will suffer the most in this age of tribulation. And a lot of the reason why hour, minutes, secondsis that for the past years, these nations have the best lives. Like if you're a baby boomer, you had the best possible life. You probably you probably hour, minutes, secondslive better than the Roman emperor. Um so it was just a very unsustainable um lifestyle. And these baby boomers, hour, minutes, secondsthey're clinging on to empire because it's empire that gave them all these worldly benefits. And they're leaving a hour, minutes, secondsterrible legacy for their children and their grandchildren. And quite honestly, they don't they don't seem to care. hour, minutes, secondsPeople don't really appreciate the impact of baby boomers on imperial policy. Basically, baby boomers are like, you know what, I have another hour, minutes, secondsyears um left. I want to make sure that I'm enjoying the world and hour, minutes, secondthat means I want the American empire to um to keep on going. Okay. So, so a lot hour, minutes, secondsof it is driven by this demographic, the baby boomers and their children, their grandchildren, basically us. Okay. We're going to inherit a really screwed up hour, minutes, secondsworld. And if we seek to live to to replicate the lifestyle of the baby boomers uh which is materialistic, hour, minutes, secondsselfish, utitarian uh we will destroy the world and will destroy us in the process. So right now the world needs to hour, minutes, secondshave a spiritual awakening and abandon the consumerism, hour, minutes, secondsthe materialism, the individualism of the baby boomer generation of the American empire which has led us to this hour, minutes, secondsmoment and really ask yourselves what is meaningful, hour, minutes, secondswhat is what gives us pleasure, what makes us happy and the answer of course is family and community and purpose. So in this age of tribulation, hour, minutes, secondsthose who are most able to survive it are those who commit themselves to the betterment of humanity basically by hour, minutes, secondshelping um your neighbors by being an open, generous, and kind person. You hour, minutes, secondsdon't have to take a cruise uh vacation every summer. You don't have to vacation in the Maldes. You don't have to have hour, minutes, secondsavocado every single day. But what you do need, what you really want is to love your children and to teach your children to be kind, open, and generous people. hour, minutes, secondsWhat you what really gives you happiness and joy is to help your neighbor in need, to see others in need and hour, minutes, secondscontribute your life altruistically to their improvement. So this is a turning point in humanity and those that cling hour, minutes, secondson to the materialistic selfish individualistic life will be the first to hour, minutes, secondsum fall into depression. Uh and those who embra who are incapable of a spiritual awakening will thrive in in this new world. hour, minutes, secondsYeah. Yeah. Well, Professor Chang, it was uh great to have you back on the show. So, we'll have to do it again soon as things transpire. We'll head out of hour, minutes, secondshere together. I want to thank everybody who watched today uh and who gave a super chat who became members. I can pull those up really quickly as I tell hour, minutes, secondsyou that I have both uh Professor Jang's Substack and his YouTube channel in the video description below so you can check hour, minutes, secondsthose out when we are done here. I also have all the places to support this channel as well uh from uh the uh hour, minutes, secondsSubstack, Patreon, and much more. So everybody, thanks so much uh uh for joining me. Sorry we couldn't get to hour, minutes, secondsquestions. We are short on time. Um I really appreciate all of you for all your support in this time and for of course spreading the message far and hour, minutes, secondswide, which can be done by hitting the like button. That will keep this show going. Without further ado, everyone, hour, minutes, secondsuh, have a good rest of your, uh, week weekend and, uh, we will continue with the updates on this war. All right, take care. Thank you again, Professor J. hour, minutes, secondsAnything you want to say to the audience as we head out of here? No. Thanks for watching. All right, bye-bye.
Iran's Missiles DESTROY Five KC-135s in Saudi Arabia, Kharg Island Strike BACKFIRES Danny Haiphong Mar 14, 2026 #Iran #trump #refuelingtankers
Iran has destroyed 5 US refueling aircraft in Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Airbase as Trump announces US forces "obliterating" Iranian military installations at Kharg Island in preparation for a GROUND INVASION. Meanwhile, numerous tankers have come under Iranian fire in the Persian Gulf, leading to massive panic in the oil markets and among US military planners themselves - Danny Haiphong reacts!
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Iran was not bluffing when it said it was going to raise the price of oil to over $a barrel in retaliation to the secondsUSIsraeli war of aggression. And its latest move changes everything. Five air force refueling planes have been hit by secondsan Iranian ballistic missile strike at the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia. The US Air Force has confirmed secondsthis to the Wall Street Journal, but of course, Sentcom has not commented. And of course, we might hear in the next secondshours to days that these refueling tankers were subject to some kind of accident, some kind of malfunction, as secondswe've seen over and over again with the USS Lincoln, the USS Gerald Ford, of course, those F-fighter pilots that secondswere down, three of them, uh, over Kuwait. uh we will hear some excuse but nonetheless Iran has taken credit for secondsthis and this is a major escalation in this oil war now that Iran is waging minute, secondsagainst the United States following the closure of the street of Hormuz the Donald Trump administration has minute, secondsattempted to spin events right now away from Iran's retaliation which has been historic in nature toward its own minute, secondssocalled powerful strikes on Iran and the most latest of these is its strike on Carg minute, secondsIsland. So Donald Trump has announced that Carg Island has been obliterated. minute, secondsThe crown jewel of Iranian oil exports, minute, secondsDonald Trump says was hit hard. It was only military installations that were hit though and oil infrastructure was minute, secondsspared. And why is this? Because the Trump administration is incredibly afraid of these rising oil prices which minute, secondsnow hover around $a barrel for crude. And this comes as the United minutes, secondsStates has announced that to I believe the Wall Street Journal confirmed of a Marine minutes, secondsExpeditionary Force unit will be sent uh via Japan to the Middle East in what minutes, secondsmany believe is going to be a potential invasion of Car Island or an invasion of the Iranian coastline in order to reopen minutes, secondsthe Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump himself cited the Straight of Hormuz as why he struck Car Island. But Iran has minutes, secondssaid that not only has it not been obliterated militarily in Car Island, minutes, secondsthat its air defenses were operating just hours after the strikes, but that oil production indeed has not been hit minutes, secondseither. Now, % I believe of Iranian oil goes through Kar Island. So any attempt to invade and destroy it would minutes, secondsbe not just a major escalation but a huge war crime meant to destroy the lives of Iranian people. But minutes, secondsnonetheless, this all marks what is a critical turning point in the war. A KC minutes, secondstwo of them were hit over Iraq. One was landed at the Bengurian airport in minutes, secondsIsrael. The other crashed over western Iraq and all of its crew members died, minutes, secondsincreasing the number of killed to at that time. This was just hours ago. minutes, secondsBut we have updated numbers from Sentcom saying US service members now have been killed and about have been minutes, secondsinjured in this war. This is likely a massive undercount. Iran is not trying to kill US service members. It has been minutes, secondsvery meticulous and precise in its strikes on US assets in the region. It has been hitting its radars. It has minutes, secondstaken out all of the eyes of US air defense systems. It has taken out key uh infrastructure minutesof the US military all over the region including just shutting down the bases. minutes, secondsAludated the headquarters of SenCom is not operational at this time. So these strikes by Iran are precise, but minutes, secondsnonetheless, these bases were not evacuated and it is likely from sources uh from friends of this show, Scott minutes, secondsRitter to Larry Johnson, it is likely that casualties are higher. Uh so this is a major escalation. We are seeing minutes, secondsIran be very meticulous about how it is handling the closure of the straight of Hormuz now moving toward oil minutes, secondsinfrastructure in the region. So that not only is a straight of Hormuz closed for commercial oil and otherwise uh minutes, secondsbusiness, but the surrounding area, the ability to trade at all is being completely and utterly shut down. and minutes, secondshitting the KCoil tankers in Saudi Arabia marks not just an escalation in minutes, secondsthe uh oil war, but these refueling tankers are critical to ensuring that the US air minutes, secondsforce, those who are coming off these fighter jets that are coming off the aircraft carriers are able to reach minutes, secondstheir destination. And Saudi Arabia has just exposed itself as a major participant in this war. You might remember that when this war began and minutes, secondseven before it as the US was preparing to strike Saudi Arabia, what did they say? They said that they were not going to allow their airspace to be used for minutes, secondsattacks on Iran. But with these five tankers being hit, Iran has just exposed to the entire world that Saudi Arabia minutes, secondshas been using their US assets in the region or I should say they have been forced to use their assets in the region minutes, secondsto strike Iran. No more because Iran will make sure that these bases are inoperable as they have in other parts minutes, secondsof the Gulf and these refueling tankers is a warning shot. Hitting them, minutes, secondsdestroying them is a warning shot that this will only continue to get worse. Now, Tran, according to US officials, minutes, secondsthey have been surprised. Financial Times reports that Iran's retaliation has shocked them. that Iran has fired minutes, secondsplus missiles and drones over this two week about span at Gulf states and hundreds itself at Israel. A former US minutes, secondsofficial told the Financial Times, "No one has done more with less than the Iranians." Uh these Shahed drones, these cheap drones that only cost about, you minutes, secondsknow, tens of thousands of dollars, have hit radars, ports, bases, and oil facilities. They have shut them down. minutes, secondsAnd we have uh uh UAE, we have uh uh Kuwait, we have uh uh Saudi Arabia and minutes, secondsuh Qatar, they're all talking about either shutting down their oil production or lowering it dramatically. minutes, secondsSaudi has announced lowering it. Qatar says they can't ship their gas right now because of the threat of Iranian missile strikes. And these US officials are minutes, secondsadmitting that we didn't anticipate how they would react to this war. And they're also saying this to CNN saying they didn't anticipate what would happen minutes, secondswith the closure of the straight of Hermuz. So all of this is coming as a big surprise to the United States and of course to Israel which has been very mum minutes, secondsabout its bravado of late. You might have noticed that Benjamin Netanyahu is subject to massive rumors about not being present, maybe even being dead. minutes, secondsWhere is Netanyahu? Everyone's asking. minutes, secondsPeople are scrutinizing recent speeches he has given as possible AI videos that do not demonstrate that he is around. We minutes, secondshaven't seen Netanyahu comment on his ex in a couple of days. And according to some his son who is very active on Yayer minutes, secondsNetanya yay Netanyahu is very active on uh X. He hasn't commented in five days. minutes, secondsSo many are speculating that there is a possible issue for Netanyahu that he may not be minutes, secondswith us any longer. Of course, we can't confirm this and we won't confirm this right now here, but nonetheless, where is Benjamin Netanyahu? Israel has been minutes, secondspounded by joint strikes by Iran and Hezbollah. So interesting is that while Iran and Hezbollah will sometimes minutes, secondsannounce how much they have fired, they fired about hours ago and then of late though they have not been minutes, secondsreporting how many missiles are getting through. But the IRGC has seen that % minutes, secondsof all of their missiles at Israel now are hitting their targets. And that means everyone that uh Israel is being minutes, secondsbludgeoned, that they are being pummeled by ballistic missiles no matter how much they censor the uh damage on the ground. minutesYou may recall that Israel actually doesn't allow their so-called citizens to film the missile strikes. We've seen minutes, secondsvideos across social media of people trying and then being turned away by Israeli security officials. And we've minutes, secondsalso know that Israel has up to a -year prison sentence for those trying to record. And we also know, mind you, that minutes, secondsthere are many who will listen to these directives. Why? Because % of Israel supports this war of aggression on Iran. minutes, secondsThey want to see Iran topple. They want to see the last national uh uh sovereign nation uh the last minutes, secondssovereign nation in the region able to uh support the resistance, support Palestine, support Hezbollah, support national liberation movements across the minutes, secondsregion. They want to see it destroyed because they want greater Israel. They want unfettered dominance in the region. minutes, secondsSo uh we know that there are many who will actually just let this happen. uh minutes, secondsand they will follow dictats of the uh you know of the Israeli government. minutes, secondsNow it's about to get a lot worse. The refueling tankers being hit over Iraq a couple days ago and then in recent days minutes, secondsin Saudi Arabia that really hurts militarily and of course the straight of Hormuz closure really hurts militarily. minutes, secondsBut there are two major moves that Iran and its allies have announced that are about to make the situation even worse. minutes, secondsSo Iran has said to CNN through an Iranian official that they are going to allow a limited number of oil tankers minutes, secondspass through the straight of Hermuz on a condition that will shock you and that is that if the cargo is traded at the minutes, secondsend of the day once it is traded it for compensation it has to be compensated in minutes, secondsChinese UN. So that means that Iran is not just trying to strangle the US minutes, secondseconomically and the entire world that follows it as vassels economically uh through oil price increases but it is minutes, secondstrying to get to and it is working toward getting to the heart of the US dominated financial system itself the minutes, secondspetro dollar. So this is a major move that if it is to occur will send the US minutes, secondspanicking to a degree we have not seen in any war in history. And arguably that's already happening. Arguably minutes, secondsthat's already happening with moves toward Car Island. The Trump administration is signaling that it is willing to destroy the entire oil minutes, secondsmarket. the entire entire oil economy at the heart of US financial dominated capitalism that is willing to destroy minutes, secondsall of this in order to meet its so-called objectives in Iran, which we've gone over in this program have already failed. They have not met their minutesobjectives and they're not going to meet their objectives. Regime change, they're not going to meet that objective. minutes, secondsGetting rid of Iran's ballistic missile systems, they're not going to meet that objective. Getting rid of Iran's nuclear program, they're not going to meet that objective. minutes, secondsuh uh obliterating Iran. I don't know what you know what other fantasy the Trump administration has and Israel has, minutes, secondsbut they haven't met those objectives and they're not going to. You may have seen during Kud's day, Alud's day in Iran, founded in in solidarity with minutes, secondsthe Palestinian people and the Palestinian liberation movement and Palestine in general. Uh it's been happening every single year. Massive rallies in Iran. You may have seen minutes, secondsAbasarachi. You might have seen Musad Preskin. You might have seen Aliat Larijani, these top Iranian officials minutes, secondsfrom the president, the national def uh uh security council secretary and of course the foreign minister. Uh they were there without a security detail. minutes, secondsThey were walking the streets and what did Ali Larani say? Heath had called uh Iranian officials rats. He said that minutes, secondthey were rats hiding at the moment underground in bunkers. They're not hiding in bunkers. But Ali Larani, the minutes, secondssecretary of the National Security Council in Iran, what did he say? He said, "We're out here with the people. minutes, secondsWhere are your leaders on Epstein Island?" I mean, this is the level of of cope. This is the level of humiliation. minutes, secondsThis is the level of trolling that is uh really impacting the United States minutes, secondsempire at this time. the oligarchs, the elites, they are absolutely losing it because not only is Iran hitting the militarily very hard that US bases, minutes, secondsevery western mainstream media outlet has had to acknowledge are destroyed. minutes, secondsSo, not only is this happening, but you also have Iran now hitting at the economy. And when the economy crashes, minutes, secondsthey're already saying, Wall Street Journal fan that this is worse than the s oil crisis, and it's just been days. What happens in weeks? The Trump minutesadministration says this could go on for weeks. They said that they're going to do this as long as it takes. Donald Trump has said whenever in my mind I want to end this war, it'll end. Well, minutes, secondsone week, two weeks. How long can the United States really wait before the oil markets come crashing down? And there are reports that oil tank that oil minutes, secondsfacilities now in the UAE that now we see Bahrain firing ballistic missiles uh minutes, secondsat Iran. What's going to happen now to Bahrain which has already had its oil facilities hit. They're going to be hit minutes, secondsmore and the naval fifth fleet base there is going to be hit more. So this is getting out of control. This is minutes, secondsgetting out of control and the United States cannot handle this. And now I just want to report give you the report minutes, secondson what Iran said about the Car Island strike because mind you this is a prelude to a possible invasion of Iran. minutes, secondsthese Marines that are coming can take about two weeks to get from Japan to the Middle East. Uh they said that they heard explosions on Car Island. minutes, secondsThat they did attempt to damage military for fortifications, the naval base, the airport control tower, the helicopter hanger there. Uh they also indicate minutes, secondsthick smoke rising from that island, but they said no oil infrastructure was confirmed. So they aligned with US reports there and they warned any minutes, secondsattacks on any infrastructure would lead to the destruction of all oil and gas facilities in the region affecting US minutes, secondsand allied interests. Now mind you Donald Trump has also threatened to destroy all of Iran's electrical grid and turn the lights out of Iran minutes, secondsaltogether. and Ali Labrajani, the secretary of the National Security Council in Iran, said that they would do the same to the Gulf and effectively end minutes, secondsUS the US's military presence there by uh default. So Trump has claimed that he shrunk all military targets, but that minutes, secondsdefenses were reactivated within or after an hour of the attack. And he said minutes, secondsuh destruction of Iran's missile capabilities occur have occurred as well. But the th round of operation minutes, secondstrue bombers for went off without a hitch. And we see the results now all over uh Tel Aviv, central Israel. Hifa minutes, secondsalso is being pounded. We see a US tanker now burning off the coast of the UAE and that oil has not been minutes, secondsinterrupted on Car Island. So, a lot of this feels like bravado. A lot of this feels like an attempt to build a case minutes, secondsfor victory. But if the US invades Car Island after what Iran has demonstrated, minutes, secondswhat stops these Marines who will be sent into a mountainous slaughter? What stops Iran from absolutely minutes, secondsdevastating not just the Marines that are going to be heading there, but to intensify their attacks on uh US assets in the region again. Because remember, minutes, secondsregardless of how many missiles we think Iran has right now, which Israel says about before the war started, minutes, secondsprobably a low estimate. high estimates go up to a plus thousand to more than this given that uh there is minutes, secondsdemonstrator proof now that the launchers that Israel said they destroyed during the -day war likely minutes, secondsweren't the case and we know that the US has been lying from the beginning of this and Israel too because they're hitting decoys that Iran has set up some minutes, secondssay with Chinese support uh allowing uh Iran to purchase inflatable decoys and of course we've seen the thermal paint minutes, secondsthat they have put on the ground uh to mimic helicopters and uh um air power, minutes, secondsfighter jets, etc. that have been hit. And Sentcom says, "We did it. We won." minutes, secondsBut the truth is is that Iran's military capabilities are well intact, especially their drone program, which I believe minutes, secondsthese estimates are in the hundreds of thousands. And the low estimate by CNN and others have said but is a lot because all it's taken is one, minutes, secondstwo, three fired at these assets to render them in inoperable. Drones have minutes, secondstaken out these radars in the UAE in Jordan. This is uh this is a major minutes, secondscrisis for the United States at this time in Israel. They are trapped. This is a Iran didn't even have to lay this minutes, secondstrap because they knew that the United States and Israel were going to attack. minutes, secondsHow quickly did Iran respond once the uh missiles hit the school in Iran, killing minutes, secondsthose plus school children, the young girls uh the Manab school in Manab minutes, secondsreally quick within hours. So they were ready. And now lastly, I wanted to say minutes, secondsthat in addition to ddollarizing the world economy uh through the enforcement minutes, secondsof Chinese UN being used uh for oil tanker uh compensation if allowed to minutes, secondspass the straight of our moves which Iran said they will if you use Chinese UN. But minutes, secondsalso we have not talked about onella the Houthis which in recent hours just said minutes, secondsthey will enter the war eminently. And what will they do? Well, we already have tanker activity moving to the Red Sea minutes, secondswhen oil prices get above closing on I believe it is my minutes, secondsunderstanding from what I'm hearing from Ansar and Yemen and the fact that they have not come into the war. They're going to close the Baba mendup straight in the Red Sea when the moment is right. minutes, secondsThis is a miscalculation by the United States. Huge. The US empire taking a huge miscalculation. Israel was already minutes, secondsdecimated by Yemen's successful campaign to close the Red Sea from uh to minutes, secondsbefore the ceasefire through minutes, secondsA lot port gone. We don't hear about activity from a lot. Iran doesn't even have to hit it. It's gone. It was gone before the war. Now we are seeing what minutes, secondswe will see what will happen when Yemen ons the Houthis close the Red Sea and Babam with the straight of Hormuz minutes, secondsclosed. You think you think the oil crisis is bad now Wall Street Journal now financial oil tycoons analysts they minutes, secondshaven't seen nothing and you're underestimating that because they're not even taking that into account. They you know this is what always happens. you know, the western mainstream media all minutes, secondsover talking to their talking heads and the think tanks everywhere. They're saying, "Oh, well, Answer all hasn't entered." And they they don't want to minutes, secondsobviously, you know, it's been a couple days. They don't want to. No, they're going to enter. And when they do, it's minutes, secondsgoing to be at a time where it acts as the uh uh further, minutes, secondsyou know, just deepening of a massive wound that is opening up. And so Iran has fired in the last couple days minutes, secondshundreds of missiles at US assets, but also in conjunction with HZA at Israel. minutes, secondsUh the casualties are mounting. Donald Trump and his administration is getting more desperate to make it seem like it minutes, secondsis winning this war, right? So it's about to make a fundamental mistake. minutes, secondsThey're not going to learn from what Iran just did to the refilling tankers in Saudi Arabia. No, they're going to keep sending they're going to send these minutes, secondsMarines to likely to Kar Island or likely to the Iranian coastline. They're going to try to open the straight of minutes, secondsHermuz by force. And we are going to see something we have not seen in modern really in in US military and imperial minutes, secondshistory ever, which is not just a defeat at the hands of gerillas, the people, the masses, which we've seen in Vietnam, minutes, secondsin Korea. Uh we've seen this over and over again, right? They didn't have technology that could match the US military, but nonetheless, they were minutes, secondsable to after years to um to destroy US war efforts. minutes, secondsBut but this time around, Iran has military capabilities. Even just the drones alone minutes, secondswill make any kind of attempt by US warships trying to deploy Marines via whatever it is uh whatever means they minutes, secondsare going to try to uh a raid on the coast or what have you. They're going to ensure that there's going to be massive minutes, secondcasualties and that when those massive casualties hit, what do you think is going to happen to the oil markets in the economy? What do you think is going to happen to popular sentiment in the minutes, secondsUnited States? What do you think is going to happen to the Trump administration? It's all looking like a big blunder because it is. Because it minutes, secondsis. Because this was never a war the US could win. And why? Because I've been saying it here on this program. People have laughed. Danny, why do you say minutes, secondsHezbollah is strong or any kind of factor? Look it. They've been obliterated by Israel. They've been obliterated um by the empire. What? minutes, secondsIran. Iran's weak. Operation True Promise two, three. Oh my god. You know, Operation and two so weak. three didn't really do anything. Did some minutes, secondsdamage, but it didn't really stop anything. Right? Over and over and over again, I was told, "Nah, these forces, minutes, secondsthe resistance, they're nothing. They're they're dead." Right? minutes, secondsBecause they couldn't stop the genocide in Gaza. Yes. They couldn't stop US military presence or Israel from existing. Yes. Uh there is still the minutes, secondscapacity of the US Empire to do massive damage. But that damage doesn't change the arc of history right now. Now the arc of history is that the US empire is in decline. It is in desperate decline. minutes, secondsIt is in chaos and crisis. It has an economic, political, military system that cannot sustain itself. It at this minutes, secondstime that it is overstretched and now it is outmatched because the the so-called enemies now I've been saying this on my minutes, secondsprogram. I'll say it here again. The socalled enemies of the United States which aren't enemies to us are the people of the United States. to me, you, minutes, secondswhoever's watching this, they're not, right? They're not your enemies. Really, minutes, secondsnobody should be your enemy. Because like other countries in the world, minutes, secondsnormal countries in the world, we should be talking and trading with each other, minutes, secondsliving in cooperation, and building a better world, addressing real problems, minutes, secondsright? But no, the US because it's an empire, because it's built on profits for the few at the expense of the many, minutesbecause of the military-industrial complex, the banks, the oil tycoons, minutes, secondseverybody, all of these oligarchs, these forces, they they just want to take everything. So, they need to destroy Iran because Iran doesn't jive with that. They don't want that. But Iran, minutes, secondsRussia, China, these countries, forget about it. The US cannot win a conventional war, unconventional war, an minutes, secondsasymmetric war. They can't even win a nuclear war. They won't win a nuclear war. They won't. Why? Because nobody minutes, secondswins a nuclear war. So no victory is uh available to the United States at this time. That is the state of the empire. minutes, secondsSo that is what's happening right now. minutes, secondsIran has the initiative. Iran has seized the initiative. Iran has the momentum. minutes, secondsIran is dictating terms. Iran has demands that no aggression will ever happen to it again and it's internationally guaranteed and they're going to continue to hit US bases, minutes, secondsIsrael until they get it. They're going to escalate their targets. They're going to hit not only where US personnel are, minutes, secondsbut every single energy infrastructure that is there in the region is going to be hit. Why? Not because they want to minutes, secondssee people with the lights out or they want to just they want to destro they don't even want to destroy the global economy but they know it's the leverage that they have so that this eventually stops. minutes, secondsThe US can't defeat that everybody. The US cannot defeat that. And if the US tries to defeat that they will be defeated. And that's what's happening minutes, secondsright now. They will be defeated. Oh yeah, Israel too defeated. Already defeated. Where's Netanyahu? minutes, secondsShow yourself. minutes, secondsBut no, this is the situation that we're in and you're going to continue to see reports from me as I'm off from live stream streaming for a couple days as minutes, secondsI'm away from my usual location. Uh I'll be back next week, but you'll get updates from me like this. Uh possible interviews pre-recorded. But everybody, minutes, secondshit the like button if you like what you heard. Subscribe if you haven't. 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