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So by the time we have data in a weapon system able to strike a target,
the target's no longer there. Um, this is the reality. And so I don't know what we think we're going to accomplish by
going to back to where you know Einstein has been attributed by with the statement of you know the the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over again expecting a different outcome. Uh it will be insane for us to resume bombing uh thinking that somehow this time we're going to win. We're not.
It's just going to continue the failures of the past. The Iranians, on the other hand, have not only shown an ability to survive the best we could bring to bear,
uh, but thrive. Um, today they're producing more ballistic missiles underground than they produced above ground before the war. I'll say that one more time just so the audience
understand. Today, the Iranians are producing more ballistic missiles below ground than they produced above ground.
Uh, there's a historical precedent. You know, we uh during World War II, we we targeted German fighter production. We wanted to bomb their fighter production
so they couldn't build fighters to challenge us in the air. And as the war progressed, you know, the the most u German fighters were built, I think, in the second half of 1944,
you know, after we've been bombing the hell out of them because they went underground. Um, that's what's happened here. So, our bombing campaign has
accomplished absolutely nothing. We we have not achieved any of our objectives.
Yeah. And uh uh you know just to get a bit of perspective on this too uh you
know in light of the next question I wanted to ask you Iran has not been not only have they not been sitting on their
hands uh militarily uh but they've also been rebuilding quite rapidly almost taking a a note from the Chinese and how
fast things are going up. But according to Iran's housing foundation, Alazer reported that about 37,000 houses and commercial buildings that were damaged
in the war have been uh rebuilt and repaired. So that I mean that's a massive thing. And I've even seen
things, you know, can't can't verify the veracity of things on social media necessarily, but I've seen Iranians post they're all over X and they're posting
about how, you know, uh, their society is very very hunkered down for war and actually doing everything they can to
uh, provide what people need in times of war, which only makes it more difficult for war to break the backs of uh, of
people. But uh now I want to ask you though Scott about uh the uh diplomatic kind of flur we've seen in the
alternative uh mode of development in the world the multipolar world. We saw um Arachi and Putin meet recently and
then Putin talked to Donald Trump. Now we have Abasarachi going to Beijing where he's going to meet um with his
counterpart Wangi. And then we're going to have uh perhaps supposedly in the next week or so about 8 days 9 days uh
Trump meet with Xiinping. Uh this at least is reportedly the case as of right now. So what do you make of these
developments? So a lot Iran has been definitely making uh a lot of diplomatic activity of late especially when it
comes to Russia and now China and Pakistan and regionally it's been quite a flurry. What what is there anything significant about this?
Well,
let's start again. It's we always have to start at some place and let's start with the following factual statement. Uh
the United States is agreement incapable which is important to understand when we speak of Iraqi going to Russia and Iraqi
going to China. Uh why? Some people say it's to create the conditions for a successful negotiation with the United
States. Um wrong. The United States is incapable of making an agreement. Um we
can't be trusted. Uh this this speaks volumes about how this war is going to end because people think this is going
to end with some sort of um you know concessionbased agreement between Iran the United States where Iran you know
gives away on certain points and uh and the United States now has an agree the United States cannot make an agreement with Iran. We're incapable of it. We
can't sustain it. We're liars. We're cheaters. We're thieves. We're scoundrels. Um, you know, we were negotiating with the Iranians back in
June when uh the Israelis attacked with our permission, our support and on February 28th when uh when we surprised
attacked them together with Israel. Um so, you know, the Iranians have now understood that there is no deal to be
had, no agreement to have United States because the United States can't be trusted uh at all. Zero trust. And so
what they're doing is they're going to other parties to see what kind of framework can be built in this
non-negotiation environment. Um you know how do you how do you deal with the United States when there can be no
agreement because the United States will never adhere to an agreement where we we can't be trusted. And so they reached out to the Russians and of course
Vladimir Putin made the phone call to Donald Trump. But the Russians are the one who came up with the t with the term agreement incapable. It's a Russian belief that Donald Trump is incapable,
the United States is incapable of an agreement. You know, for the Russians,
this redefineses their entire diplomatic approach to the United States. If you go back to December of uh of 2021 when they submitted draft treaties to both the
United States and NATO, um both of those treaties said right up front that the way this crisis ends in Ukraine is with
treaties in writing ratified that you know have consequences for failure to comply. This is the Russian approach.
This is what an agreement capable nation does. But Russia now has come to the reality that the United States is
agreement incapable. There will never be a successful negotiation with the United States so long as Donald Trump is in power. So how do you live with an
America like this? And that's this the the issue that Iran and Russia are struggling with. Iran and and China are struggling with the Chinese too are
coming to the understanding that you simply can't negotiate with the United States because the United States is incapable of negotiating in good faith.
If you take a look at some major things that have happened with China in the United States recently, um you have um
you know the United States put pressure on Panama to uh to close down you know a Chinese operated port in in the canal zone. Um the Chinese responded by
basically saying any any company that does business in this uh in this port facility will never be allowed access to China. So nobody's doing business
because everybody wants and needs access to China. And that's their retaliation.
And now the United States of course has s sought to put sanctions on Chinese uh oil refineries that buy Iranian oil. And the Chinese government's come in and
said uh no um if anybody puts secondary sanctions on Chinese companies for uh doing their business uh then China will
retaliate. China's not putting up with this anymore. So I don't know what the president thinks he's going to accomplish by going to meet with the Chinese at this juncture. But uh the the
Chinese are not in the business of trying to facilitate a negotiated settlement to a conflict knowing that the United States is agreement
incapable. And so we're looking at the rest of the world seeking to build a framework um that um allows for you know
the sustainment of economic um you know discourse between these these these parties um and keep the United States
out of it. um you know block the United States from being able to interfere. Um and it also means that the way this is
resolved isn't um you know through compromise but through the absolute defeat of the United States that it's not about giving Donald Trump the
opportunity to walk away that would be an agreement which the United States which Iran knows the United States will violate but to crawl away. Um that is
look the balls in there and and the Iranians are driving this this thing.
There was a cute little meme where Donald Trump said, "I have all the cards." And he's holding cards in his hands, but if you look, it's an Uno deck. And you know how you lose Uno?
You lose Uno by having all the cards.
And then you show the Iranians and they got fewer cards and they're the right cards that they can throw away. And so Iran's winning. Iran's going, "That's right. You've got all the cards." Um,
this is where we're at right now. The United States um is probably not going to be given a face saving mechanism out.
The Russians are working on that. But again, the it's the United States is agreement incapable. We're not capable of having a momentary moment of uh
integrity where we can sit down and negotiate in good faith. Um it's it's got to be a very frustrating experience for the Russians and for the Chinese u
both of whom believe in international law, contract law, treaty law. Um and you know, both of whom are continuously
frustrated by America's inability to stick to a deal.
Yeah. And we've seen uh uh China make a pretty big step in uh publicly authorizing uh through the central
government that companies essentially ignore all US sanctions particularly on
Iran which they've done anyway but uh to make this a matter of policy is really definitely a step up and it and I mean
some have surmised that this meeting uh won't happen at all but uh even if it does uh Scott, you know, uh maybe you
can help us understand we have the two major wars in the world right now. Of course, the the US war in Iran and the proxy uh war on Russia by
US NATO. Uh both these conflicts seem to be heading in a similar direction where uh they're yeah the United States is
showing no interest in negotiating what are actually fair terms based on the realities on the ground. Uh so are are
they are they both headed toward uh uh essentially the only solution being the United States uh losing and and and uh
having to pull back and pull out uh uh and and how that seems like a very long
venture indeed with a lot of pain and uh consequences uh for the world uh if that's the case.
Well, we're uh let me again just make the following because you just asked a very pertinent
question and if you have other analysts on here, geopolitical analysts, military anal analysts, they'll go through a
similar thought process that I would go through to, you know, to treat that that that question with the um you know, the
accuracy that it deserves. But see, we'd be doing standard geopolitical analysis.
we'd be doing standard military analysis, standard political analysis. That's not how this works anymore.
We, the United States no longer functions as a um as the nation state that it used to be. you know, a state, a
constitutional republic where the presidency is, uh, you know, the powers of the presidency are held in check by,
you know, the notion of, uh, checks and balances, separate but equal branches of government, a judiciary that was independent and a legislative branch
that uh, you know, controlled the power of the purse and um could say no to uh,
to a sitting executive. Um, you know, we have forgotten the uh the warnings issued by James Madison when he wrote
the Federalist 10 and Federalist 51. The warnings of factionalism to avoid it at all costs and just in case factionalism
does take hold and seek to empower an executive with near tyrannical uh powers that we have checks and balances and
that we have to maintain these checks and balances to preserve the constitutional republic. Well, we have just that's been all thrown away. We don't function as a congressional as a
constitutional republic today. We function as a cult of personality. Uh where Donald Trump has transformed
himself from you know the the chief executive of a constitutional republic to a dictator a selfanointed dictator.
He called himself a dictator at the World Economic Forum where he also acknowledged that he doesn't believe in the constitution. He believes only in his personal sense of moral um what's
right and wrong. Um no I'm sorry. You're the American president. the Constitution defines what you believe in and what you don't believe in. But he doesn't believe
in the Constitution. Um, and if you take a look at his pattern of behavior, I mean, his social media postings alone uh
the other day where he posted 11 within a very short period of time, often which were violent, contradictory, and always
um promoting himself. Uh we can clearly say that Donald Trump suffers from narcissistic personality disorder of the
most malignant kind. uh this means that you know he is antisocial um and he is psychotic in his antisocial
behavior. Now in the state of New York that diagnosis can get you involuntarily committed meaning that the state has the right to come in and put you into an
insane asylum until they can um get treatment that that makes you compatible with society. We have a president who is literally insane. Literally insane. Now,
I know the MAGA mouth breathers out there won't like when I say that, but I don't care because it's an accurate reflection. Prove me wrong. Uh, if
anybody's going to try and say what this president does is normal, um, then you're not normal. This president behaves in a manner which is totally
incompatible with how government's supposed to be functioned. And so that's my way of saying, Danny, that we we're if you're trying to look at this from a
standard geopolitical standpoint, you're not solving the problem. The problem isn't a geopolitical problem. The problem is a domestic political problem
linked to the fact that we have a cult of personality that has hijacked them,
you know, the American presidency and that we have a Congress that has subordinated itself to this cult of personality and we have a Supreme Court,
a judiciary that either is working in alliance, open alliance with this president um or is just being ignored.
The Supreme Court being ignored, it's you know, warnings ignored. So, you know, th this is where we're at. You can't solve a problem unless you
accurately define the problem to begin with. And if you're defining this problem as a geopolitical problem, there will be no solution because the solution
doesn't lie on the reality on the ground. The solution relies on the fantasy in the mind of Donald Trump,
what he deems to be relevant. And so we need to, you know, understand that if we're going to be talking about how do
we solve this problem, the question is how do we um, you know, manufacture a narrative that will allow this president
to walk away from this war. Um, the narrative doesn't have to be fact-based.
We know it won't be fact-based, but it has to be a narrative that the president feels comfortable enough, you know,
committing to so that he is politically viable. This is about Donald Trump's political legacy. This is about the world that exists between Donald Trump's
left left earlobe and right earlobe. Um and that's the only thing that we should be talking about if we're looking for a solution to this problem. And that's why
I think um Iran has gone to Russia and China because we know now that Russia understands that this this US government
is agreement incapable which you know it's it's interesting. I don't know. Do you talk to Gilbert Doctor? Um
I do not I never have but uh I don't know does and all that, you know, and I I I you know, you know, I read what he writes just because he puts us down.
We're apparently some sort of uh you know, Putin apologist cabal, the alternative media darlings. He calls us
uh who are unrealistic in everything we say about Russia. Um, but he was very critical of Vladimir Putin's uh phone
call to Donald Trump because he said it was demeaning for Vladimir Putin to be uh talking about Donald Trump surviving another assassination attempt and demeaning to be talking about, you know,
Melania Trump and all this stuff. How dare Vladimir Putin talk? And what I would say to Gilbert Doctrine Putin is a
50 minutesgenius and you're not. Uh because Vladimir Putin understands that the problems that are faced today are not geopolitical in nature, but it's
psychological in nature. And Vladimir Putin is playing the psychological manipulation game because that's the only game out there when you're dealing
with a malignant narcissist who's sitting at the helm of the United States government, a man who's created a cult of personality. And if you're going to
make any inroads into um influencing the thought process of this psychotic um
antisocial narcissist, um you have to stroke his ego. And that's what Vladimir Putin did. It wasn't demeaning for him
to do that. It was necessary. And I think you're going to see the Chinese work in a similar game. Although the Chinese aren't as good at at it as uh as
Russia is, but if there's going to be a meeting, it's going to be a meeting where the Chinese are going to have to manipulate Donald Trump's um you know,
psychologically. It's not going to be a meeting that's going to be, you know,
focused on reality, per se, because we already know that the Chinese have drawn a red line, a line in the sand. So have the Russians. Um,
always love it when uh Gilbert Doctoro talks about the weakness of Russia. I don't know. Hey Gil, what do you think of that last post of the Russian Ministry of Defense about Victory Day?
Um, if the Iranians if the Ukrainians do attack uh Russia on Victory Day, what did what did they say they were going to
do? Oh yeah. Um it they've ordered all civilians and diplomats to evacuate the center of Kiev because they are going to
rain down fire in hell uh with ballistic missiles eradicating the entire center of that city. That's weak. Gil, maybe
you don't understand what Russia's been doing over the course of the past several years. They've been doing something that goes far beyond simply trying to win a nonwar because it is a nonwar. Uh they've been, you know,
dealing with sanctions. um they've been dealing with the economic problems that occur. There's a reason why there's healthy economy and that's because Russia hasn't gone into full war mode.
I'm just bringing up because Gilbert Docro and others out there Seymour Hirs just published another piece in his Substack which just again manifestly
underscores the level of ignorance that exists within Seymour Hirs's brain about Russian reality. Um but it's that the
thing is it's it's thoughts like this that you know people pick up upon to create an you know a a counternarrative
that gets fed to the president of the United States. You know a lot of the thinking right now about Iran is driven by the foundation for the defense of
democracy FDD which is a Washington DC think tank that is literally an adjunct of the Israeli foreign ministry. In fact, when it was first created, uh they had a uh it was with a Hebrew lord. So,
at least they were honest that they worked for the foreign ministry. Today,
they pretend to be this independent nonpartisan think tank, but it's an Israeli operation.
And they're the ones who are making up narratives that are fed to Scott Besson,
fed to Marco Rubio, and then fed to the president and fed to Pete Hegath. they can create this fictional narrative around which um the president, you know,
creates his fake world that he that he operates in. Um you know, there's there's no reality here. There's no reality about Russia. There's no real
reality about Iran. There's no reality about anything. And if you've got to understand that when when we talk about Washington DC today and problem solving,
we have to bring in the human dimension and the fact that we have this narcissistic president who's mentally ill. And how do you have a logic-based
conversation with a mentally ill individual? The answer is you don't.
Yeah. And I've seen arguments too floating around about uh the you know uh Iran, China, Russia that these countries
need to uh fight the US head on uh very directly if they're ever going to uh
succeed in uh you know moving forward and and and developing in the way that they want. Uh, and you know, we've been talking a lot, Scott, over the years,
and despite the I think the the the massive uh uh I guess volume of uh
critics, at least in terms of the uh noise decibel uh on everything that you just said. Uh we hear, I mean, the
reality speaks for itself. Uh Iran right now is stronger than it was uh before February 28th. Russia is stronger than it was prior to February 2022. Um,
China, why would the hell would China need to fight the United States headon when uh it keeps growing at this break neck pace? And it seems like actually
things like the Iran war can help very key industries that it has like its own renewable energy industry. Why would it need to fight the US head on? I mean
that it it I feel like there's a lot of um uh bluster and kind of chest thumping
that goes into an analyzing the current world situation when it seems that uh the world is moving in a different
direction from the United States. And this isn't to say that the United States can't cause damage that it can't um certainly make things very difficult and
that it doesn't have any power projection at all. Certainly that is would be a complete a lie. But at the
same time uh I don't see where a lot of the arguments we've been making over the years have been uh burst us under. We
even we have Hezbollah fighting not only for its life but fighting in a very valiant manner. Um one that shows that
Hezbollah was not dead after the 2024 ceasefire. So we can go on and on and on but the examples are there and uh the world seems to be shifting in the
direction that we've been talking about it shifting in contrary to this whole like well Russia's weak for not doing this and China's weak for not doing that
and Iran is weak for not uh you know amassing a million troops and uh marching thousands of kilometers to
confront the Israeli regime you know like these fantastical notions but your final reaction to this unless we have about four or five minutes left um I I
don't know I see the reality I I I think these are just facts. I'm not I'm not even speaking ideologically here.
Yeah. Again, I just want to start off that um you know,
if you and I are going to be held accountable, and we I think anybody who speaks uh publicly um should be held accountable for their words, um then
people need to be fair because you and I are trying or were trying um to connect the dots in the fact-based world, you
know, and it's it's frustrating when you say, "Okay, logic because I just want to remind people that I I I I did this professionally for a number of years. Um
the the dots I connected um impacted national level decision-m in the United States. It impacted uh the decisions made by General Schwarzkov during the
Gulf War. It impacted major arms control decisions. It impacted uh decisions about war and peace. um you know my my
dot connecting um advised presidents of the United States and advised secretary generals advised prime ministers of a
number of foreign nations um and every time I presented a connect the dot type assessment uh it turned out to be right so I have a pretty good track record of
doing this I'm one of the better connect the dot people out there um but to do connect the dot analysis it has to be
fact-based you have to deal with a world that has uh rules and regulations. There has to be, you know, a a an environment
uh where when you connect dots, you can predict outcomes. You can predict behavior patterns. Uh with Donald Trump,
we're literally talking about um an insane man. And there are no dots to be connected because they don't exist. He's
a man who can change the uh the playing field um you know literally one minute after he defines it with a certain
social media post. So it becomes almost impossible to do to connect the dot analysis because there is no stability.
There is no foundation of reality here.
We're dealing with a fantasy world in the mind of a sick demented individual.
Um and he's surrounded by people who are incapable of telling him no. Um, and so you know, you know, people keep saying,
well, what's going to happen in the future? I don't know. Can you predict the future actions of an insane individual? And the answer is no, you
can't. What we can predict is economic reality. And we know, for instance, now that the pipeline runs out uh hasn't run out. The last energy shipment that left
the Middle East on February 28th, the ride to California yesterday, and there's nothing in the pipeline following it, which means we are going to have an economic crash. oil is going
to go through the roof and there's no amount of manipulation that can be done to change that. The president might be able to do things with uh a tweet here and there in order to manipulate the
market. So he and his children and his the people close to him make millions of dollars through insider trading by hedging or by you know going long or
going short um you know it's criminal activity and the fact that nobody's calling it out or when they called out nobody's taking action. We literally
have a criminal cartel in power today literally. I mean the the the market manipulation is that's where you can
connect the dots very easily on the posts the president puts out and the the the the bets that are made or the
investments that are made and um how the post influence that and how people make a lot of money. Um but that's a game you can only play for a certain period of
time before reality kicks in. Um the reality is going to kick in soon.
There's going to be an absolute collapse of the market um and collapse of the American economy. prices are going to go through the roof and this is political
suicide for this president who has a midterm election coming up. And how does the midterm election then uh the the you
know the fact that uh there may not be a uh a pathway to victory for this president that he may have dug himself such a deep hole that conventional
political behavior no longer applies and therefore he'll say that he has no other option but to shoot the moon uh you know
go allin or whatever stupid phrase that Pete Hagith will come up to justify you know continued war crimes. Um and and so
it it's I mean it's it's it's impossible it's impossible to come up with sound uh analysis to say well this is what's going to happen tomorrow. Logically
speaking we should have walked away from this war the moment we uh we should never have gotten involved in this war.
Uh but you know we did um and the moment we had the ceasefire the president should have declared victory and gone home and you know found a way. I mean
there's ways to spin it. The Russians say that they're ready to uh help remove the 60% enriched uranium from Iran,
bring it in and dilute it, make it no more. Sounds like a victory to me.
Wouldn't you think so? I mean, if we say that that's our biggest worry about nuclear weapons capability, get rid of it. Um, but this president didn't and
now he can't. Uh, there there are other things that we could have done. We could have negotiated with the Iranians some sort of mechanism that guaranteed shipping out of the straight of Hormuz.
That's a victory. We suddenly emptied all the tankers. We have the global econom victory, victory, victory, victory, winning, winning, winning,
winning. But that's logical connection of the dots. And we're not allowed to do that because Donald Trump is a
psychotic, insane individual, incapable of,
you know, consistent performance over time.
Yeah, it's certainly a hole that's getting bigger and bigger. uh the longer that goes on. I mean, even just in the last couple hours, there were reports by
Reuters about the latest intelligence assessment on Iran's nuclear capabilities. It's uh so-called nuclear
program. and uh you know it's unchanged and that didn't have to be the case because Iran was more than willing to negotiate throughout this in well before
the hostilities and then of course uh during the ceasefire has been more than willing to negotiate uh terms on at le
on a phased uh negotiation process that would lead to uh perhaps um you know outcomes that both sides all sides could
could like and could agree to. Iran certainly isn't going into things maximalist like the US, but here we are.
Trump can seems to not be able to uh pull back from maximalist kinds of demands. And therefore, Iran has no
reason to make any kind of uh reason even reasonable concessions that would just end the war. Uh not even uh
concessions that would hurt Iran. Just things that could just end this. But here we are. Yeah, we'll have to keep talking about this guy because uh it
seems like we're in for a more of bumpy above a bumpy ride ahead in the weeks and months as we enter the hot summer
around the world. But uh I want to make sure everyone knows that your website and your Substack are in the video description, scottr.com. So definitely go there and support.
Yeah, a quick um I'm I'm we we you know we brought up Gilbert
Doctoro um and he has a alternative um viewpoint. But it's important to understand that the world isn't static.
The world changes, the world moves.
Russia's entering the fifth uh year of uh of this conflict, a conflict that I and others didn't believe would last
more than a couple weeks early on. I thought the Russians were committed to a war. Turns out they were committed to a negotiation, but the United States is negotiation incomp, you know, incapable.
Um, and so it's turned into this prolonged um war that went from getting Ukraine to the negotiating table to a um
proxy conflict against the collective west, a completely different conflict.
Um the Russian economy today is completely different than the economy that existed at the beginning of this conflict or even the economy that existed two years ago. Um everything
about Russia, the the internal domestic realities of Russia have also altered over time as Putin consolidates uh power
in a time of war. Um and you know these are these are things that you don't do.
You don't you don't get this information best long distance. It's better to go there. And so I will be traveling to Russia again for an extended period of
time. uh the purpose of which is to you know get up to speed on um as much of the present Russian I've always said
when I go to Russia my job is to collect the Russian reality and bring it back to the United States to help overcome Russophobia. But if I'm operating on a
two-year-old information um what I do is I actually reinforce the rustophobes because I might be saying things that were accurate two years ago but may not
be accurate today and then allows them to you know denigrate and weaken the argument. So, it's important that you stay constantly up to speed. Um, so if you could go to my uh my my website,
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I couldn't have said it better myself,
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this for . Where does the are they getting the jet fuel to maintain this wet? That's a good question. s or less.
The military of course is has its own closed loop and we will we will acquire jet fuel. We can get it uh regionally
and all that stuff. Um but the military has capabilities uh to acquire fuel that the civilian market doesn't have. The other thing is we're willing the
military can pay more. Uh that's why we spend $8.2 few trillion dollars on a lot of money.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is the military is what the one of the biggest polluters on the planet. It uses a lot of energy. A lot of energy. Needs a lot of energy.
So, uh uh with all that said though,
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“Project Deadlock”: Iran Vows Defiance as Trump Weighs Resumption of War | Ep. 59
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I'm Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News, dropsitenews.com. It is Tuesday, May 5th. Welcome to our regular weekly live stream.
There are a lot of developments happening in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
At the center of the news right now is the fact that Donald Trump is engaging in a significant escalation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Not only does the U.S. have this naval blockade, but now Trump launched something that he calls Project Freedom, where the United States
is claiming that they're going to be escorting merchant vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran is still ferociously maintaining that it has the legal authority and the tactical authority right now to continue controlling the Strait.
All of this is taking place against the backdrop of Donald Trump vacillating between making very
extreme threats to bomb the hell out of Iran again, to destroy its civilization, and then looking for an off-ramp.
We've done a lot of reporting on what's been happening on the diplomatic front.
The foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Arachi, has been engaged in a very intense diplomatic campaign.
You of course had the humiliation of Trump in recent days when Arachi was in Islamabad -Pakistan and Trump claimed that J.D. Vance was on an airplane going to meet him.
The Iranians were saying we have no intention of engaging in direct talks until the United States unconditionally lifts its military blockade and ensures that the ceasefire is going to be real,
not just in Iran, but also in Lebanon and on other fronts.
There's been an exchange of messages indirectly through the Iranians and the United States, primarily through the mediator Pakistan.
Iran still maintains that the core of its conditions for negotiating an end of the war are contained in its original 10-point plan,
and they say that the issue of Iran's nuclear enrichment is off the table until there are actual, real technical negotiations.
I'm joined now by my colleague, Ryan Grimm, and we go straight now to Tehran, Iran,
where we're very honored to be joined by Abbas Aslani.
He's senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies. People may also be familiar with Abbas. He regularly appears on Al Jazeera.
Abbas, thank you for joining us from Tehran. A pleasure to be with you, Jeremy.
Abbas, let's begin by the latest developments.
The U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this morning was directly asked if the military action on a low-intensity level that we've seen
in the past in the Strait of Hormuz means that the ceasefire is over.
He said that it's not, but Iran is saying that what the United States is doing with its naval blockade and this escalation itself constitutes a violation of the ceasefire.
Give us your analysis of what's happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz.
Jeremy, you know what is taking place in the film and the case that the United States wants to pressure Iran economically as well
as militarily, and they are trying to test the role of Iran in terms of backing down from its position at the negotiating table.
But in the meantime, they somehow seem not to be aiming to resume the recent conflict
that we witnessed in the past couple of months or a few weeks.
And they have been somehow trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz through different tools.
Iran didn't, you know, yell under military campaigns.
So it is not expected to see Tehran also exhibiting any sign of weakness and disregard under economic pressure or, let's say, political discussions.
And this is the case that the Trump administration, which is simultaneously is pursuing that diplomatic
track with Iran, has not been able to create enough leverage to pressure Tehran to get the concessions they expect in relation to the nuclear program.
And also now we are talking about the Strait of Hormuz itself.
And this is an implicit, you know, admission of their failure in meeting their strategic objectives in the war.
So that's why they are resorting to different tools and methods in order to compensate. And we are seeing at different, let's say,
occasions, they are trying different methods.
And the timing of the recent announcement by the U.S. in order to escort tankers,
you know, all of a sudden they are now caring about the humanitarian aspect of those vessels and tankers in the region, which is,
I think, difficult to buy, because that was the United States, which also they targeted the
Iranian vessel, you know, then our backing, which was coming back from India and they were
unarmed and they were not in the military battlefield.
They did it because it was fun and amazing.
But now Trump's saying that he's going to help, you know, vessels.
This is not something which he could be somehow aligned with their previous actions.
But this in the case that the longer this naval blockade or the closure of the
strait goes on, you know, the consequences also could be significant.
The United States is pretending that it does not care about those consequences.
But in action, what happens, you know, in the case that they want to control the situation, the shock that might be created as
a result of this closure and the blockade for the global energy market, the impact in
the U.S., or the allies of the United States for the region is important.
And I think this has been a cliché and I have said it several times. That's the story of who will blink first.
The United States wants to pressure Iran in order to blink and to make those concessions.
They want, which is for Trump, it is full surrender.
It is like exporting the highly enriched uranium from the country.
It is halting the enrichment of uranium in Iran. And the story goes on.
But that is also a case that they have been trying to achieve this through different,
you know, tools they have not been able to achieve it.
And the point is that if this is an attempt to find an off-ramp from the situation or exit the dead-end formula,
this has not been, you know, working so far.
And maybe this is closing the remaining windows for diplomatic resolution.
And the timing is important at a time that Iran offered a proposal in order to address those, let's say, sticking points.
It could be done in a two-stage process.
First, ending the war, reopening the Strait of Hormones and lifting the naval blockade and a number of certain measures.
And in the second step, they could somehow move toward, you know, addressing the nuclear-related issues and the sticking points and lifting other sanctions in order to be able, you know,
to clinch an agreement. The aim to separate them, to decouple them,
was to make them somehow accessible because Iran saw those serious gaps on those issues and
thought that maybe the immediate and urgent, you know, challenges could be decoupled in order to find a middle ground on them.
This could somehow create, let's say, an atmosphere which could be somehow positive in moving toward further agreement on the remaining issues.
And the trust deficit is very important in this process. Iran does not trust the United States.
They were negotiating twice, and specifically at the time that they were thinking that progress was
being made, the country was attacked militarily along with Israel.
And that's why Iran, again, has this reservation that maybe all these efforts are kind of,
let's say, deception tactic in order to attack the country again.
So in order to change this atmosphere, you know, having an initial agreement on ending the war, reopening the Strait of Hormones, lifting the blockade, could be working as a, let's say,
gradual trust building measure in order to pave the way for further potential agreement.
But what is taking place in the field in the case that the United States is not seeking that kind of, let's say, negotiation or resolution.
At best, what they are seeking is a full surrender from Iran inside, which Tehran does not accept.
And this further complicates the path down the road.
And this is why even talking of negotiations here in Tehran, some are saying that this is the continuation of the battle.
It is not just, I mean, the guarantee that the United States will engage in serious discussions to find a mother ground.
What they want is a unilateral, let's say,
10 minutesvictory in this game that which is going to be Iran losing and the U.S. winning, which is not acceptable for Iran.
And that's, I think, going on.
And in order to create leverage, the U .S. announced a recent move.
Or the second scenario could be that, you know, the U.S. is buying time.
They are not after a, let's say, political agreement.
And they want to somehow spend some time in order to revive the military presence and posture in the region.
In order to, again, weaken Iran through different tools, from naval blockade to military threats and actions.
And the list goes on that this will continue for a long time.
And that's why I think this has further complicated the situation.
And we are seeing that the United States is, you know, announcing the recent, you know, announcement.
If their aim is to create leverage, this is creating, you know, more and more of,
let's say, distrust in Iran toward the United States.
And this is not facilitating the process toward an agreement.
And yesterday, Abbas, there was an explosion at the Fujairah port in the UAE.
I'm curious from your perspective, who was responsible for that strike?
What is the kind of official statements that have been made about the Iranian leadership about that strike?
And how is Iranian leadership viewing the increasingly kind of rogue approach that the Emiratis are taking when it comes to the GCC?
You know, having left OPEC, having really like linked themselves very tightly to Israel, making much
more kind of aggressive statements about Iran than any of its neighbors or former allies.
So how is Iran thinking about the Emiratis in particular?
Well, there has been no official confirmation, at least from the Iranian side, that they have been doing this.
So that remains officially unclear that what was the source of the attack. But in terms of the current status quo,
Jeremy, it couldn't hold for long without any tensions.
And it was somehow predicted from the very beginning that this cannot continue.
I mean, the naval blockade for a long time.
And at one point in time, we could have been witnessing such kind of tensions, which for now, it seems to be somehow limited.
And the moves have been done in a calculated manner.
But the risk of any escalation or things getting out of control is yet there.
And any moment this can be possible.
And the resumption of, let's say, a bigger conflict than hostility is yet foreseen.
And it is possible.
But in terms of what the role of Emiratis, they have been facilitating the U.S.
and Israeli aggression against the country.
For the past years, they have been working with Israelis. And logistically, they also helped the U.S.
and Israel in this aggression against Iran.
And even after the ceasefire, the fighter jets mirage from UAE also, they violated the Iranian airspace.
They also, there were reports that they have attacked facilities in the southern island of Laouan.
And also in the recent announcement that the project that was announced by Trump, in order
to somehow reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or to break the closure, the Emirati ships were
included in order to move, along with the U.S. destroyers, and to conduct this, let's say, this project.
So that's why this creates tensions.
And this was somehow, let's say, predicted that a tension could be happening in the region.
So this is somehow, from Iranian perspective, a shared destiny. If there's going to be insecurity for Iran,
that can also include the neighboring states. If Iran cannot have its vessels or tankers
transit in the Strait of Hormuz, and there is naval blockade, the others also will not be able to do so.
Iran was reopening the Strait of Hormuz after the ceasefire. The Iranian foreign minister posted a, let's say,
15 minutesa tweet on eggs back then, about the reaction from the American side.
And the U.S. president was to double down on the amount of the pressure against the country.
So that creates some impediments toward making a progress in this track.
Some were saying that if the U.S.
shows actions or moves based on the good faith, the U.S. might respond in kind and take in some positive measures.
But what happened proved this wrong, and in reaction to the Iranian positive move, they tried
to somehow react negatively and in a different manner.
And this indicates that the U.S. might interpret any positive action from the Iranian side as a sign of weakness, and this, again,
can make the process even much more complicated.
So that's why we ended up in a recent situation whereby we saw the tensions arising
in the Strait of Hormuz, and this might also provoke an escalated situation.
And that's question that why, you know, also if the U.S. is genuinely seeking political
agreements with Iran, why they are resorting to this kind of actions at this time, specifically at a time that the Strait of Hormuz
could reopen on that agreement, Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, they could lift the blockade, and they could end the war.
But why are they, you know, doing this and is somehow meaningful?
And UAE has been encouraging Israel and the United States in order to resume hostilities and
aggression against Iran, but I think from Iranian perspective, any war or any act against the
country cannot go unanswered or without any cause for those who are trying to provoke that conflict.
You know, Abbas, because we did some reporting on this, you're mentioning something that I think we should really emphasize here that you're referring
to soon after the ceasefire, or just before the ceasefire, which was originally going to be a two-week period, was set to expire.
There was mediation of the Pakistanis and several other regional players, and I also understand China was playing a role in this, where there
was an attempt to try to broker an extension of the ceasefire and try to get Iran and the United States back on a path to another round of direct talks.
What I was told by Iranian officials was that Pakistan had told Iran that Trump is
going to announce an extension of the ceasefire and a lifting of the naval blockade, and
that the reason that Foreign Minister Arachi posted that tweet that said that they were reopening the Strait for all commercial traffic was based on that understanding.
18 minutesAnd what happened right after Foreign Minister Arachi did that is that Trump posted his own message on Truth Social that said thank you
to Iran, and it referred to it as the Strait of Iran.
And then moments later, I don't remember how many, but I think it was within two hours, maybe even less than one hour later,
Trump then posts an additional message in which he says he's extending the ceasefire.
Okay, that was part of what the Iranians understood what was going to happen.
And then he said, but we're keeping the naval blockade in place. And then Iran responded to that by saying, okay, we go back to the status quo.
My understanding was that Pakistan assured Iran that a certain series of events were going to take place and Iran did its part, Trump
initially did his part, and then he erased it all an hour or so later with that subsequent tweet.
What's been happening, though, and it hasn't gotten much attention, and I really want to ask you about this, is that as Iran has
been confronting this naval blockade that the US has imposed, it certainly has hurt the Iranian economy.
But Iran has been fast-tracking deals for land bridges, for instance, through Pakistan or Afghanistan,
looking at using trains for alternative commerce and expanding its relationship.
Some of these had been in the process of negotiation for many years, the Pakistani agreement,
for instance, and after Foreign Minister Arachi went to Islamabad, the next day after he left,
the Pakistanis announced that they were effective immediately implementing third country transit to Iran through Pakistan. This was a huge deal for Iran.
But what I understand from Iranian officials, and this is what I want to ask you about, is that they're looking at ways to
counteract the economic and supply chain impact of the military blockade in the short term, but
they're also envisioning a day where a new set of rules are imposed on the Strait of Hormuz, including the potential imposition of a
toll, including Iran making bilateral and strategic relationships with a variety of countries.
I want to hear your explanation of this dynamic.
Iran's short-term moves aimed at trying to counteract the impact of the naval blockade, which is real, and then also its long-term
planning on how it wants to administer the Strait of Hormuz, which the Supreme Leader, Moshe Abahameini, also referred to in his most recent statement.
One thing, Jeremy, is that Iran is not looking at this card.
I mean, the Strait of Hormuz has a negotiating card.
It has been among court demands of Tehran at the negotiating table, and they do not seem to be abandoning this strategic leverage or
asset, because Iran and the world now know that the country has the capability and potentiality
in order to disrupt the energy transit in that waterway, and this creates with a leverage,
which is a strategy, and this can work as a deterrent factor in future stopping and preventing any additional aggressions against the country.
The economic aspect like Iran charging fees for the transit of the vessels or tankers in
the Strait has been very much highlighted, but I think the security aspect is much more,
and the strategic, you know, perspective to this is much more important than anything else, and there have been talks about that in case of any potential agreement between the two sides,
who can act as a guarantor of this piece and, let's say, the durability of that accord.
Let's say an objective or, you know, guarantor which can function as a guarantor of peace
in the region could be the Strait of Hormuz itself and the new protocols by Iran,
because this can stop when the United States again in future, they want to attack the country, they might think twice before engaging in any round of military intervention.
So that's why Iran is looking at this issue from, let's say, a security perspective, and
abandoning that might, you know, pose some existential risks for the country.
But more than, I think, the recent aggression was not the most important salvo, but the
most important, I would say, element in the process has been how to end the war.
So that's, we are seeing that the battle between the two sides on the conclusion terms yet continues.
The United States wants to somehow deprive Iran from this strategic leverage and asset, but Iran yet insists that it has to, you know,
keep that leverage in order to make sure that it will remain safe, because for Iran the rapid cessation of the hostilities was not the final gain, I mean, gain and aim,
but it was to remove the shadow of the war from above the country and to make sure that in the long run this will not be repeated.
And in terms of Iran's, let's say, moves that were somehow met by actions which were somehow contradictory to the momentum or the process,
we have seen this several times.
Sometimes this is a question that why we see this amount of, let's say, contradiction with Trump has been saying or doing from what
he says and what he does, whether this is somehow by chance, I think there has been somehow an intentional paradox or contradiction which
aims to create confusion among Iranians or even in the region.
Trump wants to seem unpredictable and through this course he has been trying to somehow gain
benefits or, let's say, to get concessions from every actor in other fields, including in this
game, he wants to get it from Iran inside.
And that contradiction, I think, is intentional and that's why in the meantime that you're seeing that negotiations are being pursued, the U.S.
responds to Iranian proposal.
However, he says it is not good, but he is responding to that proposal which he considers as inadequate or insufficient.
But in the meantime, they are announcing the decision to escort tankers in order to break
the closure adopted by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
And right after the talks in Islamabad, they announced the naval blockade which seems that it
was pre-planned, maybe whether that was plan B or even plan A from even before
the U.S. delegation coming for Islamabad for the round, one of the talks that is the question, I think, which is serious.
And you look at these developments, I think we have been seeing this tall track from
the United States and they are seeking, let's say, to pressure the country and to get
the concessions, but he has been talking, you know, or defining different goals in this game.
On the initial days, they were talking about regime change, destroying Iran's military infrastructure and bringing
chaos and stability to the country and so on.
But later on, because they were unable to achieve their goals militarily, they tried to redefine it and pretend that the aim was to
make sure that Iran would not be able to acquire nuclear weapons.
Iran was not enriching uranium and he was saying, you know, prior to the aggression that they were able to obliterate Iran's nuclear facilities.
So this is that contradiction.
But one thing which is, you know, making Iran and Iranians hesitant about the U.S.
intentions in this process is that the U .S. president keeps repeating, you know, keywords like
Iran's behavior in 47 years, or civilization will die, or they will destroy the infrastructure, and
things like that, you know, indicate and codify his actions in a manner that this is not just limited to Iranian nuclear program.
And the take here is that even if there is a potential agreement today between Iran and the United States, the other day they
might raise, you know, new issues like the ballistic missile.
The other day it's going to be Iran's presence in the region.
And this will go on until the moment that they make sure that they have been able to weaken Iran, even the disintegrate the country.
And the more they can, you know, fully cost and losses on Iran, the better it will be for them.
So that issue of trust, or lack of trust, is very significant in this process.
And, you know, Trump said that Iran has to pay a big and heavy price for its behavior in the past 47 years.
He posted that right after, you know, exactly just right after the United States had responded to Iranian proposal.
You know, is he seeking a diplomatic resolution or let's say agreement with Iran?
Or the other day he announced this, you know, the decision to escort the tankers.
And this is creating a situation whereby, you know, you cannot rely on what the U .S. is saying, but also what it is doing.
And their military posture is in the region also being intensified.
And this might, you know, suggest that the United States might be again, like in the past, having something in mind, but, you know,
but a public is saying something different. And this is somehow further complicating the situation.
I'm sorry, maybe if I forgot part of your question, if it could repeat so I cannot miss it.
Now, I just, I mean, you can, this can just be very, very brief, but I wanted you just to comment on the fact
that Iran is expanding its alternative commerce capacity by brokering deals with its land border neighbors
like Pakistan and Afghanistan and seeks to dramatically expand its rail system and its overland system of commerce.
Well, in the face of the naval blockade,
for sure Iran is not going to remain idle.
And the country has been under sanctions, you know, for decades.
In the early of 1980s, Iran faced sanctions and in the course of time, you know,
the sanctions became more significant in terms of the intensity and the implementation.
And by the new naval blockade policy, I think back in the past, it was like,
you know, controlling the banking and insurance regulations, things like that to control Iran's oil sale.
But this time they're using hard power and military power.

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US President Donald Trump has urged Iran to wave the white flag in the ongoing conflict wven as Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought desperate international help against the Islamic Republic. Rifat Jawaid examines the growing anxiety within the US administration over its existing stalemate against Iran.



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Three topics to discuss tonight. The entire might of the Donald Trump administration today decided to engage
with the media by holding three separate but parallel press conferences to explain their stand on the constant
humiliation faced by Iran in the state of Hormos. Trump himself addressed the media as did two other uncouthed thugs
from his cabinet, namely Pete Hexath and Marco Rubio, who literally announced the end of the American military campaign
against Iran. The central theme of their press conferences was to secure international support against Iran. So
much for the bravery of the world's hottest country. The illegal settle colony of Israel is grabbing global
headlines for its inhumane treatment of two activist from Gaza bound flirtila.
There are fears that these two activists may be killed by Israel. In the UK,
Israeli poodle Kammer and the members of his pro- genocide government have continued to push the fake agenda of
anti-semitism. Star has received much needed support from the BBC and Sky News who have wasted no time in broadcasting
fake stories to keep the fake narrative on anti-semitism alive. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also,
in tonight's video, Iran's new Lego film has a you are fired message for the deranged occupant of the White House.
So, please stay tuned. The situation in the state of Hormos has remained extremely tense as the UAE accused Iran
of firing missiles for the second day running. However, Iran has rejected the claims. But the Katamul Ambia brigade of
the IRGC has warned the UAE of unbearable consequences if it allowed its soil to be used for an attack on
Iran. This came a day after the UAE's Fujera port was set on fire in a missile attack. It was widely believed that Iran
had fired missiles targeting a US destroyer when it tried to enter the state of Hormuz and one of those
missiles hit the Fujera port. Iran state media press TV today released audio
claiming that this was the conversation between the Islamic Republic Sepah Navy and the woman from the US destroyer the
moment the US warship tried to enter the state of Hormus US Navy warship 121 this
is Sepan avi station you must alter course and go back to the Indian Ocean immediately if you don't obey my order you will be Targeted out.
This is coalition warship 121. Engage in transit passage in accordance with international law. No challenge is attended to you.
US Navy worship transiting in the vicinity 4j report and man. This is sap navy. This is sap navy last morning.
Last warning. Last warning. Close to high island.
Attention all vessels. Attention all vessels. Attention all vessels in Oman sea. This is Iranian sepan Navy. If you
see any warship in your vicinity, keep a distance more than 10 miles from them because I'm ready to open fire on them.
Press TV also released its own simulated video illustrating the facts behind the failure of the US armed forces during
its transit stunt. The words of the Iranian government, not mine.
April 11th, the Gulf of Oman near the Fujera port. US destroyers Frank Peterson and Michael Murphy.
We traverse the straight at high speed to minimize exposure. Understood, sir.
4 minutesStep one, electronic warfare and hack radar.
While Iran is engaged in negotiations with the [music] Americans in Islamabad,
these two naval giants make a covert push through the straight of Hormuz.
Steep two camouflage ships appearance using false identification. They present themselves as Omani commercial vessels.
Disable radars and board [music] as civilians. The deception is pre-planned.
Under the cover of a ceasefire and ongoing talks in Pakistan, the two destroyers begin their mission,
employing electronic warfare and disabling their automatic identification systems. Maintain course through the channel.
Shallow [music] water reading confirmed. Proceed with caution.
By choosing a shallow route, they take on significant risk.
Confirm position in the channel. Suspect vessel is stationary.
The IRGC Navy grew suspicious of the two destroyers moving under a force flag. Try to zoom in on them.
Hopes of catching [music] the IRGC Navy off guard do not yield favorable results for the Americans. Deploy a Recommen vessel immediately.
Sir, several small boats are approaching from a distance.
IRGC fast attack boats move in to intercept the two US destroyers. Increase speed.
The destroyer, Frank Peterson, initially attempts to continue its course, [music]
but quickly detects cruise missile radar lock and is forced to stop by IRGC vessels.
The surprise operation turns into panic for the Americans.
Warn them. We're connected. They can hear us now.
121, this is Sepa Navy Station. You must alter course and return to the Indian Ocean immediately. If you do not comply with this order, you will be targeted.
Over.
This is a coalition warship 121. Engage [music] in transit passage according to international law. No challenge is intended for you.
US Navy warship transiting in the vicinity of the Sea of Oman. This is Sepa Navy. This is Sepa Navy.
Last warning. Last warning. Last warning. It's [music] a moment of life or death. Commander, what do we do now? The warning is too serious to ignore.
Launch a drone as a warning. A Shahed drone takes flight.
Commander, a drone is heading straight toward us.
The Shahed's flight is mesmerizing, but this may not be the good moment to watch it. Holy crap. Shahhead, [screaming] run.
As the ships insist on continuing their course, a final warning is issued,
leaving them only minutes away from destruction. Turn us around. We're pulling back.
The order to retreat is given. Unable to pass through the straightforward moves,
both destroyers ultimately withdraw before being destroyed.
The US had claimed to escort two commercial ships as part of its project freedom, but Iran termed this claim
fake. But did the US manage to escort any more ships through the state of foremost on the second day? This
question was posed to Secretary of Tagri Marco Rubio today. Listen to his very confident reply here. This is how brave
the US military is against a country which has faced illegal sanctions for 47 years.
The two US ships that safely cross the straight of Hormuz. Are other ships being told it's safer to get back to regular levels or are we still going to
see limits in place for the foreseeable future?
Well, for obvious reasons, I'm not going to broadcast who we're talking to or who we're telling them to move. I mean, we want these operations to be safe. And I think as as it unfolds and ships get
through, we'll make those announcements after the fact just for operational security purposes. But the goal here is pretty simple. establish a zone of transit that is protected by a bubble.
The United States, both naval and air assets and then allow ships who want to move to move through there and get to market to begin to increase confidence
in the ability to do so. That doesn't happen in . It takes time to set up that bubble and gain that confidence,
but that's the goal. We have been in touch. We've been in touch, I don't know, with a bunch of different uh liners about moving and uh we're hoping
to continue to improve the security situation and we'll start to see some of that movement and we'll announce it as it happens after the fact. We're not going to be like broadcasting, hey,
tomorrow at 12 ship X is going to be coming through for obvious reasons because that degrades the security. But we feel confident we're going to be able to achieve that. Look, it's not going to
solve the whole straits problem. It's going to solve a lot of it. But it's important to challenge what Iran is doing. Now guys, again I want to if you take anything away today and I can't
tell you what to write, but we Iran cannot be allowed to normalize this control of the streets. It's completely unlawful, illegal. Uh it's it's
outrageous and every country in the world should be joining us and condemning it and doing something about it. But the United States has stepped up and is trying to do something.
Then Rubio dropped this bombshell by saying that the operation epic fury was effectively over.
9 minutesThe operation is over. Uh, epic fury is the president notified Congress. We're done with that stage of it. Okay, we're now on to this project of freedom.
Today was quite a remarkable day for the rogue regime of Donald Trump. There were three separate press conferences by
Trump, Rubio, and racist Hexith, all trying to convince Americans about the imaginary success of the US military
against Iran. Hexath was also challenged about war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu literally calling the shots during the
conflict. Just see the discomfort on his face while responding to this question.
Clearly, you don't have much to say when the question is about your boss's boss from Tel Aviv.
Liam Cosgrove with Zero Hedge. Uh, in recent weeks, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's head of MSAD have stated their intent
not to cease uh combat with the Iranians. Netanyahu put this on Twitter.
Israel's head of Assad said Israel's goals are not finished until the Iranian government collapses. And so they're referring to the government that President Trump has brokered a ceasefire
with and is working on a lasting peace um in the region with. And so that's you know something many Americans especially American farmers are hoping he does get
to a lasting peace. And uh so if President Trump is successful in that and the Israelis are explicitly stating their intent to continue fighting at a
later date, how can you ensure America doesn't get roped back into a war if that comes? And secondly, uh, with Netanyahu comfortable tweeting something
like that out, and also Netanyahu has continued bombing Lebanon despite President Trump expos your question is based on the false premise that somehow
President Trump is being pulled in by Prime Minister Netanyahu to any of these actions. And I'm that's where you're going. Just to be clear, President Trump
has led at every step of this based on his view of American interest and America first. And we're grateful that Israelis have been very capable partners
at many steps of this. and they may have some objectives that times that are slightly different than ours, but there's only one hand on the wheel
ultimately directing this whether it's Project Freedom or previously Operation Epic Fury, and it's President Trump. So,
we're grateful for their input, their insights, the existential nature of the threat they face from an Iranian bomb,
the capabilities that they can bring to that, but ultimately the coordination will happen with the leadership of President Trump. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you.
And coming back to Trump, he remained true to himself, deluded in his own fantasy world.
That's not the way we play. No, we do it the oldfashioned way. And they should wave. They're very proud. Maybe you
won't see a white flag, but essentially that's already what they are. They need they should wave the white the flag, the white flag of surrender. With each day,
the resumption of war is becoming increasingly likely. The more the US tries to test the Iranian resolve in the
state of Hormos, the more the region will be pulled into another round of military conflict. It remains to be seen
if Iran indeed translates its threats into reality.
At the end of the day, this is about Iran's future as a regional superpower and a permanent end to the Israeli
hegemony in the region. This illegal settler colony run by a bunch of dreaded war criminals and bloodthirsty
terrorists is the single biggest source of mass murders and widespread bloodshed in the Middle East. As I speak, this
rogue apartheid settler colony is facing global condemnation for its inhuman treatment of two members of the Gazabon
flirtila which was intercepted by Israeli terrorist who had also kidnapped all the activist before subjecting them
to torture. Two activists namely Spanish national Saf Abu Kashek and Brazilian
Thiago Aila today appeared before a kangaroo court in the southern city of Ashcolon for their second hearing after
their kidnapping last week. The supporters fear that they could even be killed by Israeli terrorist. While
Israeli terrorists carry out unlawful activities in the settler colony with the blessing of the wider west, it's
heartening to see that Greece of all the countries, Greece has started an investigation into war crimes by Israeli
terrorist Israel Katz, who calls himself the defense minister of his rogue settler colony. This comes after the
Hindu Raja Foundation, an organization that takes legal action against individuals accused of war crimes in
Gaza, filed a formal complaint against cats with Greek lawyers on the 21st of January. Talking about Gaza, Israeli
human devils today killed at least two more innocent Palestinians in Gaza in another violation of the ceasefire.
While Israelis are determined to disturb the peace in the Middle East, the poodles in the UK are busy destroying
community cohesion by continuing to raise the fake bogey of anti-semitism. I say fake because Israeli poodle
today once again held what he called an anti-semitism summit. He justified it in light of recent stabbing incidents in
London. Look, one attacker suffering from mental health issues stabbed three individuals, including one Muslim and
two Jews. But Israeli slave stammer, who is married to a Jewish woman and whose cabinet is dominated by pro-Israeli
Zionists, went around town claiming rise in anti-semitism. But he doesn't talk about Islamophobia even though one
victim was Muslim. This is the true face of this crook. Clearly, he is using this
fake stunt to push Zionist propaganda through schools and other educational institutions. Giving this disgraceful
man cover fire are outlets such as the BBC and Sky News. Today, Sky News reported a breaking news item claiming an arson attack on a former synagogue.
In reality, that former synagogue was sold to Muslims many years ago and is now being redeveloped as a mosque. But
you wouldn't hear this fact in the Sky News broadcast.
Breaking news to bring you now from the Metropolitan Police. They say the counterterrorism police are investigating arson at a former synagogue.
This building behind me is the East London Central Synagogue, which was recently purchased by a Muslim organization. Because of this, there was
a lot of controversy online. But let me address some of these issues. Number one is that this building was actually not in use for many years, decades in fact.
It was not used by anyone. Number two is that this was a public sale open to all.
Anyone could have bought it and it was up for sale forever.
16 minutesIn fact, we should be happy and take it as a positive that it's going from one place of worship to another place of worship. Whereas it could have been turned into a block of flat or a
nightclub, but now we're reviving the act of worship from one faith group to another. Number three is the fact that this was all done with full legal
procedures. The Muslim organization Ashhati purchased this with all legal terms and procedures. They didn't do any shady business or any under the table
deals. In fact, they actually put down a deposit of that's a quarter of a million pounds for them to purchase this. So, let's stop
all the negative comments [music] and turn this into something positive.
The BBC too joined this propaganda as if there were an instruction from the UK government to orchestrate this fake
narrative. This is what the BBC headline read that you can read on your screen in one of its pieces. But inside the body
of its report, it did quote a Muslim resident of the area highlighting that the former synagogue is now being
17 minutesconverted into a mosque. And yet this rogue organization went ahead with its original headline. Such is their
collective desperation to turn everything Jewish that tomorrow if I'm attacked by someone and since I play cricket with a lot of Jewish friends
these rogue propagandists would say former teammate of Jewish cricketers gets attacked in an incident which
highlights a rise in anti-semitism. This is the lunacy of the British institutions these days. I will now leave you with another Lego masterpiece.
Tonight's video takes a dig at Trump's previous avatar as a host of the TV reality show The Apprentice.
Turn the lights on me. Only on me.
Stop looking at the world burning.
Look at my hair. Look at my tie. I am the best.
[screaming]
I draw the borders with a Sharpie pen. I fight the experts. I don't need the men.
They say, "Sir, the science says it's going to crash." I say, "Shut up, loser,
and bring me the cash. I stared at the sun and I didn't go blind because I have the greatest, most beautiful mind. I treat the nukes like a video game. If the city explodes, well, they know my
name. I hold the map upside down. Who cares? The world is mine and you're just a spare.
I'm the king of clowns on the golden throne. I love the sound of my very own.
The world is a joke and I'm the punchline, [music] but I'm drinking the blood like it's vintage wine.
Puppets dance while I tweet from the bed. I'm the greatest disaster that you ever Look at the peasants begging for bread.
I give them a circus and speeches instead.
Oh, stop with the tears. I haven't paid taxes in [music] 70 years. I press the red button just to see the flash. I treat the Constitution like a piece of
trash. H my rallies are huge. My ratings are high. So who cares if a couple of million diets reality TV season finale and I'm the star [music] of the Grand Valley.
You are destroying us all.
But look at the ratings. Best ratings ever. Water is rising. I have a boat. A gold boat. You don't. You are a fool.
I am a genius. A very stable genius. Help us. I am God. [screaming]
[music]
I'm the king of clowns on a golden throne.
I love [music] the sound of my very own tone. The world is a joke and I'm the punchline, but I'm drinking [music] the blood like it's vintage wine.
Dance puppets dance while I tweet from the bed. I'm the greatest disaster that you ever face.
[laughter]
You're fired. All of you. Get out of my planet.
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Pepe Escobar: China JUST Humiliated Trump’s Sanctions – Iran NOW Controls Hormuz
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Hi everybody. Today's Wednesday, May 6,
2026. And our dear friend, our brother Pepe Escobar from where Pepe, are you join you're joining us?
Yes, I'm still in paradise. Nema in the in the Andaman Sea in one of the islands. I'm here until the weekend and
then it's hardcore. It's going to be China, Russia, and NATO stan in sequence. So, so I'm enjoying my last
minutes here in peace and quiet with now with the storm every day. The storm came earlier today. So, we're not going to
have storm while we were talking. The storm already came. And of course, and I have a question for you, Nema.
Where's the war? Is the war over?
I think the storm is coming. That's why I want to just destroy the calmness that you're living in right now.
Let me start Pepe with Iranian foreign minister going to China. I think when you look at what has happened recently
going to Russia and right now to China and and we know what's going on because Donald Trump is going to be in China if
I'm not mistaken on May 15 14 he's gonna go there next Thursday. Yeah,
Thursday next week. Yeah, I I'll be there but I'll be in Shanghai. I'll be follow I'll be following the whole thing from Shanghai. It's much more
interesting. So let me zoom out a little bit. What is happening considering the big power policy as we we we're witnessing right now with the Iran,
Russia, China on one side and the United States on the other side.
Yes. Uh well this week is particularly impressive Nema because last week we all remember that Arashi went to St.
Petersburg and he talked not only to Lavrov but he was received by Putin and they talk for one hour and a half.
What did we have today?
Arashi goes to Beijing and he talks to Wangi for I would not say an hour and a
half but over an hour. So this is it's something that I have been insisting on
my columns and on my podcasts for quite a while for months in fact. This is the RIC,
the Primacov triangle revamped.
When the great uh Yvani Primacov as um foreign minister of Russia in the late
1990s, he came up with the idea of the RIC which at the time many of us were
calling the Primacov triangle. there was Russia, India and China as the three main poles in Eurasia and for the integration of Eurasia.
We can say that uh I would say since the uh the bricks summit last year and
especially this past few months and especially now after the 50s something
days of the war against Iran the new RI the new primacov triangle is definitely
Russia, China and Iran because these three are at the forefront of building a new system of international relations.
Three BRICS members, three Shangai Corporation Organization members and two of those are right behind Iran in the war. Not only with diplomatic support,
but other forms of support, including military. This, of course, these are state secrets, but we all know some of
what the Russians uh sent to Iran and some of what the Chinese also sent to Iran. And of course, the most
interesting thing is the invisible part of their military help to Iran. So, it's
not an accident. On the contrary, it may be seen as a coincidence or or an
accident, an accident, I'm sorry, by those idiots in Washington that Arai
goes to Russia and then goes to China to talk at the highest level
because now we have something that turned the chessboard around again.
Last week we had Russia essentially uh telling uh Iran and telling the world
at large and then by phone uh Putin telling Trump directly over the
phone that Russia now is all in and Russia backs Iran and if there's going to be
I would say a semblance of a peace deal in the future, Russia will be involved Today we have the confirmation that
China will also be involved and Iran and Arashi and the leadership in Iran
starting with Ayatam Moshava Kame. They want Russia and China to be I would not
say physically on the table, but spiritually and metaphorically they will also be at the table for any sort of
agreement that we might reach to end the war. But what happened these past few
days is a roller coaster, Nema. Uh we we've seen it. It it's completely nuts.
We were almost on the verge of a restart of the war. We were like, I would say probably minutes towards a restart of
the war. There was that whole uh UAE Kabuki which is still not clear what
really happened. The we know by now that it was a false flag. We can say I would
say with a 100% certainty especially after the IRGC formally said it was not
us. We have nothing to do with that. So the UAE media which there's no free
media in the UAE. It's a bloody uh monarchic dictatorship based on slave labor. There's no there's nothing
liberal, not to me mention free press in the UAE. They start blaming Saudi Arabia.
So now we have the possibility, not the possibility, now we have blame for a false flag perpetrated by Saudi Arabia.
7 minutesBut the most likely perpetrators are the usual suspects and we know who they are.
and they wanted essentially to restart the war and to have the UAE as
part of the the restart. After all, the UAE what MBZ is trying to trying now what MBZ is doing with the UAE is
turning the UAE into an Arab Israel. And it's not uh by accident that many people in Iran are talking about the the Hebrew
states ofi United Hebrew Emirates. I love I love this definition. It is a United Hebrews
because they're completely aligned with the Zionists. They are aligned uh with the Trump administration. They are
aligned with with the Zionists. They um have enormous financial interest related
with the Trump family and with those grifters around Trump investments in the American economy 1.4 4 trillion maybe
which is an immense amount it's it's more than their sovereign wealth fund in fact uh construction of data centers all
across the UAE buying loads of weapons from the US and of course very very
close relations uh with the desk cult in West Asia to the point that uh in the beginning of this week Netanyahu called
MBZ they were coordinating the next steps.
So we were really on the brink of a restart of the war. And then suddenly Nema out of the blue we have uh the
baboon of Barbaria saying that operation epic [ __ ] is no more
of course is no more if Iran capitulates what's in his mind. if there is an
Iranian capital otherwise he will start bombing bombing bombing bombing bombing Iran again. So this is where we are now.
It can change tomorrow. It can change the next few days before his visit to uh to China to meet Chiinping next
Thursday. Next Thursday and Friday where he's going to arrive very very important and this is the headline for all of us.
Uh and in fact I want to title my the column that I'm already write. I started writing before talking to you Neiman.
Trump arrives in China with zero cards in his hand.
And I I I we could even say less than zero especially after the failure of
that uh lastm minute nonbloade blockade or helping a blockade or a derivation of
the first blockade. You know, we we don't know how to call it. He called it a project humanitarian whatever freedom.
That thing lasted less than two days because everybody could see that it was
a joke. No insurance company, no tanker owner would dare
uh navigate following the American instructions uh which essentially Omani territorial
waters uh and and the Pentagon is basically saying look you go there you turn off your transponder and you pray
if you're lucky you'll be able to cross this this was the what the pentagon was basically saying. Uh so no no nobody
used that uh transit uh path.
People were still trying to get uh the green light to go through Iranian territorial waters um you know ask for
permission pay the toll provide all the documents blah blah blah blah blah uh and the the rules of course they they're
changing all the time. Now we have a Persian golf authority. Fantastic with the logo. Lovely. And the procedure very
detailed. And now it's email. I love it because now you can do everything by email. Uh pay in real. So uh it's
evolving on the Iranian side of the management of the straight over moves.
Everything is evolving very fast. So so they are streamlining the process and probably they have arrived at the final process. probably going to stay like
this for a while and then of course they will discuss with the Omanis how it's going to to be. The Omanis are going to have their own toll boo on the other
side. No problem. They have the right to as well. But this new uh juridical status of the straight over that's it.
It's not going to change and it's not going to change on the negotiating table assuming there is a negotiating table.
So Trump arrives in Beijing with nothing. He launched a war
12 minuteswhere he lost in absolutely every vector
of of the whole picture. It's a comprehensive strategic defeat. Not a single objective from the beginning.
Consider the objectives at the beginning were completely absurd to start with that. They wanted uh uh decapitation,
regime change, a color revolution lasting a weekend in Thran and a new story so they could go to Iran and take
over natural resources and of course among other things take over the straight of Hormuz.
Not only they didn't get any of the above,
virtually all their military bases across West Asia have been virtually destroyed
at a at a 90% of them are destroyed and they're not coming back. Those Arab
idiots are not so idiot to have that coming back because in the future once again they will be bombed because of these military bases. And now they have
to uh I would say uh coordinate how they're going to uh their conviviiality with Iran is on a completely new terms now.
And Iran once again now it's a big power. It's not only a big regional
power in West Asia, West Asia in now it's a big power not at the level of the top three but
getting there and everybody is going to have to live with it. The global south and the global north.
So what so what Trump has been doing especially these past is it's a
reflection of his absolute incompetence and
bewilderment right he canled the pro projac humanitarian blah blah blah that
14 minutescrap in less than two days because he saw that nobody bought it and people could see that this was a bluff.
So uh the reg regime the the the management of the straight of Hormuz is not going to change the situation the
whole person Gulf is going to be very uh it's a completely different story and then comes uh the UAE question which at
the moment we could say is the more pressing one how Iran is going to react
to the fact that now they know for sure that the UAE was part of the war from the beginning and the UAE collaborated
on very target targeted attacks against Iran throughout the war. So Iran has not
even started to answer this question or to send messages because uh what happened with those
ballistic missile volleys and drones they were not Iranian. So Iran has not started to punish uh the UAE. It will
happen. Well, it is already punishing in a sense, Neima, because the new map blocks Iranian uh UAE ports.
So, UAE cannot export oil from Fujyra anymore. They will have to h ask for
permission from the IRGC Navy and where to navigate, pay the tolls, you name it,
which they refuse to do. Oh, very simple. If you refuse to do, you won't be able to export oil. Simple as that.
So, this is the more the most pressing question at the moment. And of course,
we don't know if this uh ceasefire, end of the war, whatever PR operation that Trump proclaimed from
yesterday to today, we don't know if this thing is going to hold for the next a few days or so or if this is just another
tactic. So, the Iranians are caught a little bit off guard and then we have the restart of the war during the weekend. Anything is possible, Neima, as we know.
Yeah. Exactly. What has happened I think yesterday was significant the attack on Fujera it was there are two ports in the
UAE Ferra in the other one is H Fakan yes both of them were used to export oil
and the capacity was drastically reduced yesterday from 3.5 to 4 million barrels
a day reduced to 500,000 barrels a day it's it's it's drastically you know they have the operation. I think whoever did that was successful.
Not only that, together with the map,
the new map that Iran has introduced so far,
they they're just literally they're they're not going to be able to export that much of oil from, you know, from these two ports.
Pepe, when it comes to the case of the straight of hormones, you've mentioned the new mechanism being defined by the Iran. You know what is what we've
learned so far that the payment is going to be in real in real they have to the issuance of guarantees
you know it it it would be within the Iranian banking system
exactly let me let me find I'm trying to I have zillions of stuff here and when I
when I want to what when I want to find something it's always please give me give me A second, Nema. Uh,
I want to find uh the the exact terms.
No, it's not here. Oh god. So,
okay. Not this. This. Okay. Maybe this one. Okay. Ju just a second.
I'm I'm very sorry. Yes. Uh, okay. Here they are.
uh priority payment in real but this is interesting Nema when they say priority payment
uh probably there is a sort of escape clause that if you don't have real that might accept U1
I think that's the case will be the backup currency if if it's very complicated for uh your insurance
company or the the owners of the tank or whatever to get Iran Ian real uh number two uh bank guarantee uh in
Iranian banks. So this can you tell me Nema if this is a complicated operation?
How do you get a bank guarantee in Iranian banks? Can you do this online for instance?
Yeah, you can do this online. Yeah, they have various applications to do that and it's going to be so easy to get it if we use the banking online system. Yeah.
Okay. Thank you. Okay. Point number three. If a country has caused damage to Iran in the recent war, it must first
pay the damages. Wow. Before obtaining passage permission. How is how you going
to ascertain what kind of damages and how can you pay these damages? This is this is very vague
for Okay, I'll give you a practical example.
Um drones or uh coming from the Siggonella base in Sicily in Italy. This means
Sicily as a member of NATO facilitated that will will Italy have to pay damages and how they're going to do that. So,
it's very complicated.
In the case of the Persian Gulf neighbors, it's much much easier. And I'm sure the Iranians have a list of
everything that was targeted coming from bases in uh um Persian Gulf in the
Persian Gulf neighbors. But, uh from Europe was going to be much more complicated.
Anyway, this is this is point three. It seems that Italy together with France and the United have to pay it. I think
yes because they are NATO of course they are NATO members but how you going to how you are going to identify
case by case you are you going to attribute to NATO in Brussels or to the individual nations? Well, I'm sure I'm
sure sooner or later they'll come up with a detailed procedure for all that because we don't have the document. We have some sort of summary of the document. Yeah.
Is you're right. So, uh this should be built to NATO in Brussels. In fact,
they should send the bill to NATO headquarters in months outside Brussels.
This would be the right thing to do and have a a battery of international lawyers backing them up.
Okay. So, at least we know more or less the pro the procedure. Uh and this is this is my favorite point number four.
In all documents the correct title Persian Gulf must be written.
This is brilliant. This is absolutely is that this oh hey idiots this is the Persian Gulf. It's not the Arabian Gulf.
Gulf of Trump all that crap. No Persian Gulf. It has always been like that. So there you go. So this is going to be
part of the uh it's going to be on the table Nema assuming they start some sort
of negotiation probably after Trump's visit to China. It's not going to happen early later this week or early next
week. Not not yet. Only after he comes back from China.
But theoretically theoretically and apparently and this is being spun. We don't know if it's true
or not. They are working towards a one page only memorandum of understanding
which will be very very vague but it will be let's say the starting point of
a long negotiating process. If Nema we get this uh memorandum of understanding in the next few days or early next week,
I would say this is already a victory considering where we were at the start of this week where the war was uh the
restart of the war was practically inevitable. So why is this happening now?
desperation,
not only desperation for everything that went wrong by this war of choice, but of
course he's going to China next week with less than zero cards and
what sort of pressure he can exercise over the Chinese. Less than zero. Once again, can can you imagine if he had a war going on on top of it?
So in his mind he took the war off the table to talk to the Chinese. But the Chinese are going to say, "Look, you
started this war. You provoked this war." And today the key adjective
uh the Chinese used after the meeting between Arashi and Wangi. This war is
illegitimate from a Chinese point of view. Nema, this is immensely serious because this means
that everything related to the war is illegal.
Everything. Everything. So this this is the Chinese starting point.
It by the way it happens to be the Iranian starting point. It is an illegitimate illegal war, a war of
choice. Illegal under any aspect of international law.
and the United Nation charter whatever whatever you know so uh I'm sure uh she is going to make
this to Trump face to face very very clear
so we see that the approach by Beijing and the approach by Russia is slightly different
let's say they progress in parallel I'll give another example immediately after Ariakshi Lavrov Putin,
Putin picked up the phone, he called Trump and he was basically saying, so this is what is not in the Kremling
transcript and it was not leaked by Ushakov.
This is the real uh you know the heart of the matter which obviously they cannot leak it this way.
uh Putin was offer uh was giving a helping hand to Trump essentially. That's why this call lasted
over an hour and a half. He explained the Iranian position in detail knowing that Trump wouldn't he he cannot process
this. It's too much information and he doesn't have he doesn't know the doseier to understand what the Iranians want to
do. probably putting uh uh talked about the 14 points, not only the three major points but the 14 points in detail
and then he said look if you if you're entertaining any ideas of ground
invasion uh going to car uh you know send destroyers to the uh street of
Hormuz or don't do anything rash because your uh situation your position after that is going to be infinitely
worse than your position now which is already horrible. So think seriously about your next steps.
So a after uh I would say that two or three days after that there was an impression that Trump did not get the message.
Why? because he launched this project humanitarian liberty freedom whatever scratch
operation freedom yeah operations operation freedom assuming that everybody would love the idea that the Americans will be there to protect
tankers to cross the street of Hormuz but obviously people who know the terrain uh insurance
companies tank owners you name it they look at the map they look at the situation and say he's they're not going to be able to protect anything because
they won't even get there in the first place. If they get near the straight of our mus, they will be sunk all of them
with and the and the name already promised every day, okay, if you come here, that's it. This is your destiny.
So, it's no wonder that this thing lasted less than . Cancelled by Trump himself.
It was so the failure was so spectacular that he he just cancelled and forget
about it. Okay. But he kept the previous blockade. The previous blockade technically is still there. But even the
previous blockade is not blockading much because as we all know Nema you know our audience knows they are very far away.
They are in the Arabian Sea in the southern Indian Ocean. They have to patrol an arrow over a thousand kilometers. They simply cannot do it.
There are many ways to evade it. You can turn off your transponder. You cannot you can navigate close to the Pakistani
uh territorial waters. That's it. And it's no wonder if you go to t uh tanker trackers, it's all there. It's back and forth all the time.
But of course, he could not cancel both at the same time now. So he so he cancelled the second one which was completely stupid but the first one
theoretically still there but it's not blocking anything and of course the consequences for the
global economy continue and that's that's the key uh worry for
all of us and for everybody around the world because there is a trickle of tankers crossing the street of Hormuz and going especially to Asia.
And most countries around here in Asia,
they are desperate. Those that depend on energy from the Gulf, they are they are becoming now really really desperate.
So there's got to be some sort of movement to unblock the situation. The Iranians are ready to they are ready to
discuss straight of our moves on the table with the Americans. But starts with the first the first point that there's a logical sequence.
We need written guarantees backed up by the guarantors and that includes especially Russia and China that there
won't be another war against Iran and against the axis of resistance. If the Americans refuse that, there won't be any there will be nothing to negotiate
to start with and they will never get to talk about Hormuz and the nuclear dosier. It's a it's the
third stage is much much much it's further away for Iran is not a priority.
They are willing they can make some concessions on the nuclear dosier but only if you solve the first one which is the most important one. No more wars.
No,
but even that Nema, okay, let let me ask you. You are an Iranian negotiator,
you get a written assurance by the United States government that they're going to not they're not going to launch
another war against you or against the Axis of resistance for that matter. Can you trust them?
No way you trust them. No way. It's impossible. Yeah.
I don't Nobody seems to care about whatever document that the Trump administration would sign at the end of this, you know, sort of conflict, but
they know that this war going to continue in my opinion and in some way,
you know, you may mention that Donald Trump himself said that the operation epic fury is over, but in what sense is that over?
In what sense? Yeah, it doesn't mean anything in my opinion because the war I don't see the United States lifting the
sanctions. I literally don't see that happening. They may, you know, release some frozen assets, Iranian assets. That
could happen, but that doesn't change the game. That doesn't change the the face of the conflict. Just remember,
Pepe before the United States announcing two weeks of ceasefire, they did an operation in the southern part of Islam,
you know, they wanted to exhaust each and every opportunity they have to do something against Iran. Mhm.
Then right before this new phase of the conflict of the war in my opinion is that Donald Trump announced
two days ago and you know not last night you know the night before he said that we are we are doing it something like
operation freedom let's go and open up the straight of foremost not only the operation free freedom together with the sanctions they tried to impose on China
Chinese refineries they said that if they want to work with Iranians, we're going to we're going to, you know, san
they're they're going to be under sanctions. Chinese American sanctions.
Then what has happened? What was the response from China? China said, "You're going to sanction them. We're going to support them.
You can work with Iran and we're going to support you against the United States."
This is the game. you know, they're trying to do their best to put pressure on Iran, but it doesn't seem that they're getting to the point to
understand that Iran is totally prepared, in my opinion, for a major war. As we talked today, they they're preparing for a major war with the
United States, the third round of the war. And this is the problem. You don't
see any sort of, you know, consistency in the Trump administration. That's why it's so difficult to deal with this sort
of situation they're dealing with right now. Iranians I'm talking about and and I don't see this war coming to an end. I
don't see Donald Trump being able to do something. You know this one page memorandum and memo they're talking about what does it mean?
This is this is just simply nothing. It could be the framework as you mentioned but who's going to negotiate on this
framework? I don't see the capabilities in the Trump administration. I don't see anybody serious in negotiation.
And that's the problem. That's a huge sort of, you know, difficulties that not only Iran, I would say Russia is
experiencing with the Trump administration. And how do you see Pepe when it comes to China, China seems to
me that since the war in Ukraine started, they're getting closer to Russia and Iran.
They're they're sort of you remember in during the first year of the war in Ukraine, many people were arguing that
China would sell Russia for the for Taiwan and they're going to make some sort of deal with the United States on Taiwan. That's that didn't happen. And
right now there may be somehow some people are arguing the same thing that Donald Trump gonna go to China. He's going to make a deal on Taiwan and
Russia China would cooperate with the United States against Iran. What is your understanding of that?
No. No. Absolutely no. There there won't be any deals involving Taiwan or otherwise.
Basically uh once again as we know he has less than zero cars in his hand for
the Chinese this is protocol. The first uh um summit was had to be postponed.
Uh if if they could they would postpone this one because there's nothing as substantive to talk about. So okay it's
there. It's uh in the protocol. Okay, we get we do it and we get rid of it because they know there won't be any breakthrough. And of course, on top of
35 minutesit, they cannot trust anything coming from Trump. And third, they know that the overall strategy and this goes way
beyond Trump. This is in the national security strategy is the forever war against China by all means necessary.
encirclement, containment, harassment,
you name it. And this is not going to change. So, they're going to keep following everything that they uh deliberated for the the five-year plan.
Um they are in the technological race.
They are on full speed ahead. uh in terms of sanctions, they don't care
about sanctions anymore, which was the case of this response uh when they were the Americans were targeting their oil
refineries. Basically, the Chinese said under Chinese law,
that's it. The these companies have to follow Chinese law and what you're doing is illegal. So, bye-bye.
And from now on, this is going to be on other uh sectors of the economy. So the Chinese are not playing uh defense
anymore. They are reacting immediately afterwards in in an offensive manner.
So that that changes completely. So that these what the Americans had so far these uh levers of pressure like it
started last year when they in April last year when there were that volley of sanctions against the Chinese.
You could see that the Chinese response already a year ago was very different.
They resisted from the start and now they are not only resisting resisting
but they are counterpunches which is the case with the oil refineries.
So that's it. So what what sort of uh leverage Trump has to pressure China?
Not much. And now if he is serious about finding uh we don't know if he's serious or not. He he doesn't know what he wants
with the with the whole Iranian uh horrible adventure.
Who's paying the price for all that? The global economy especially very fragile nations
which uh they probably going to be facing famine in a few months in the sec certainly in the second semester. So
this means there's got to be some sort of of resolution in the next few weeks.
Otherwise, the global economy, the spiral downwards of the global economy is going to be even more horrible than
the what is being predicted at at the moment. And of course, his domestic situation is catastrophic. That's the
only thing he thinks about. He is condemned to be a lame duck president.
And anything can happen when you become a lame duck president. You're easy prey for everything. It could be anything. A
destitution, impeachment, send him to jail or whatever. Everything will be open. And not only him, but his cronies
as well because this is a mafio system with lots of grifters profiting from it.
Starting with his sonin-law, which is probably the grifter in chief. And guess what, Nema? He
himself, Kushner himself appointed the new negotiator of the Trump team. And guess what? The guy's an IDF, a Zionist asset.
He's going to in theory be an advisor to Witkov.
It's a joke.
It's a It's a joke. It's How can you possibly take these people seriously?
Yeah. And the Iranians said over and over again, "We're not going to the same table with these two idiots. That's it.
The only one that he they would possibly talk to is Vance." And Vance for the moment is uh out of the picture. Maybe he'll come back later, but that's it.
There's nobody to negotiate with.
And of course uh theoretically the United States has a secretary of state
which by the way today was saying something astonishing.
He said that basically we're trying to get uh the situation including the street of moose back to where it was.
He actually said that.
Wait, what what is is this guy has an IQ of what 10 12? Maybe he is confessing a
strategic defeat in front of the whole planet and he still doesn't understand that. Unbelievable.
You provoked this whole thing. Go back to where it was. Obviously, if you haven't if you haven't done this war,
spend zillions of uh of dollars uh destroyed a great deal of the Iranian uh infrastructure
now destroying the infrastructure of the global economy. No, no, none of that would have happened.
So, it's your fault. So, it's going to be very hard. Nemo,
you're right. It's going to be practically impossible. Who are the Iran is negotiating with in the next round if there is a next round.
And on top of it, they're going to have this backup, this diplomatic backup of both Russia and China. The Russians are now deeply implicated in the whole thing.
And uh if if Trump really wants to find an off-ramp for him, he's going to have to listen to the Russians.
And the Russians can force Trump to back off in many aspects.
But that's it. Now Iran is far from being alone. Iran Iran is supported by
two superpowers. That's another that's a completely different ball game.
And the Trump administration is supported by virtually nobody, even the vassels.
Europe doesn't exist.
Political suicide and obviously the Persian Gulf, the only ones are the UAE.
And that's why the UAE question from now on is going to be the burning question in the Persian Gulf. We know that the
Persian Gulf is the sorry the GCC is already split. Uh we know that Saudi Arabia is playing a very clever game of
Saudi Arabia theoretically is part of trying of trying to find a solution.
Today are actually called the Saudi Arabia foreign minister. So they they are talking. Do they talk to the UAE
foreign minister? No. Because they are at war against Iran.
So the UAE is the burning question. The Arab Israel in the UAE, if they don't uh
get their act together, they can be smashed in the near future and destroyed easily.
But that's very very dangerous. Across the waters from the Persian Gulf, the Iranians look over there and said, "We have to take care of these people."
very very dangerous and it's a master state as well.
That's why they get along with Trump so well. That's why MBZ gets along with Trump so well because it's a a mini monarchy mafia
setup and and the day Pepe I think the day
that the United Arab Emirates decides to do something against Iran that would be the end of the United Arab Emirates and
nobody would care about them and nobody will care nobody even the Arabs the Arabs won't care about them
Not to mention the rest of the the the global south. Mhm.
Because there, you know, we have Israeli forces in United Arab Emirates. We have American forces. They're doing a lot in in this country. And that, you know,
they don't understand. They're living in a house of glass and it's so much fragile the situation they're in. They don't understand that.
They don't understand it.
They definitely don't understand and uh and they are arrogant uh very unilateral because as you know
there's only one deciding individual that's MBZ and nobody else.
It's a oneman rule for all practical purposes and of course the family around.
Uh it's a hardcore dictator a monarchic dictatorship based on slave labor on top of it
selling a fiction to the whole planet and obviously people gullible enough they bought into the Dubai dream which
from the beginning was an enormous fiction. The Dubai uh business model is already collapsed. So what they have
left is Abu Dhabi and selling oil which they were dreaming of selling 5 million barrels a day using especially Fuja
right but if there is a resumption of the war which
is still quite possible let's say from 1 to 10 the possibility is probably around nine
45 minutesexactly yeah you would say that right around nine There may be a resumption of the war.
Perhaps not now, but eventually. Yes.
And if Iran establishes like they established in this past war until the ceasefire at
least that the UAE is part of it. That's it. It's bye-bye UAE.
Pepe the expo the spokesman of Iran Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee he said
that what axis reported in terms of the tax being agreed between Iran and the
United States is wish list not a reality a wish list yeah it is a wish list from the the American
point of view certainly from the Iranian point of view the point everybody knows the the main Iranian points and also
most people know that the Americans will will refute them. They will never accept them.
Yeah.
So once again, probably there's only one person in the outer galaxies who could bridge the gap. Vladimir
Putin. There's nobody else. It's not going to be Xinping.
Uh the Chinese will never get uh you know their hands dirty with this thing first of all because they they would
refuse to discuss Iran with Trump. Uh the Russians is different because uh Putin has this uh I would say the global transit apart from Europe.
Putin can talk to anybody all over the planet apart from the Europeans and is influential
and of course Trump listens to him is one of the very few.
So apart from that there's not there's no there's no uh possible solution for this creeping dementia.
And it's a a a president on the way to dementia surrounded by absolute idiots
who not only don't understand Iran, they don't understand Iran, they don't understand West Asia, they don't understand Eurasia, they don't
understand the multipolar world, and they don't understand how fragile the super super superpower is.
There's no there's this classic imperial mix of arrogance and ignorance.
And in their case now is uh when you look at the Secretary of Forever Wars,
it's a mix of nastiness and stupidity.
And none of us could ever imagine that nastiness would be so stupid and stupidity will be so nasty.
Just look at the secretary of Forever Wars. He's the personal incarnation of this syndrome.
Here is what was reported.
So there's going to be the war will be back. Nema, what what is your after Trump Cinping?
I would say if Donald Trump many people in Iran are talking about
it's going to happen before Donald Trump going there and their argument is that this weekend then yeah exactly because they're thinking
that this weekend is the the initiation of the war. I don't know if that would happen. Many people are somehow that happening.
There's no meeting next week. The Chinese are are going to cancel it obviously.
If they started that would be the cancellation somehow of the meeting and I think today as we talk Arai is talking
with China because nobody believes the Trump administration anymore and they they can today they they they say
something and the moment you know in two hours in two minutes they're going to change the whole game because they have no strategy nema as we
all know they improvise and then they improvise vis on the previous improvisation and then they even forget
what they improvise there. There's there's zero strategy on everything. The
only thing that probably is registers in Trump's mind that he needs an offramp.
He's in the in the middle of a monster jam and he cannot find a way out.
Desperately needs that. But we know that Iran is not going to give it to him. But
Iran has no interest to, you know, in helping Donald Trump on the contrary. Exactly. They don't want to help him.
You know, this is the problem. And he here is what came out. Pepe Caitlyn Dorsbus, a new New York Post reported.
She reported that she had a she she says that I have now confirmed this myself
through a Pakistani source familiar with the mediation efforts. My source said that my source said there are multiple
versions of the document. the document that axis was multiple versions. Yeah.
And that the details are still being worked out on which variant will be
acceptable to both the United States and Iran. It seems that there is no agreement, you know, a large on this
document. That's why, you know, it's so amazing. Before agreeing on anything,
Donald Trump announcing it. Go ahead. is so there are differentus and of course there's gonna there's a a back and forth there's no question about
that to get to a finalou in itself is going to be immense assuming we get
there because the positions are completely apart in every sense including the the
order of the the procedure now the procedural order and uh the
uh the key focus se the sequential key focus for instance uh it's going to be very
hard to convince Trump that the first thing to be discussed is the end of the war of and other wars
first of all because he cannot commit to that and he will not commit to that and even if he does he can tear it up like
he did with JCPOA once again there's no trust And even if you have for for instance
the Pakistanis are not strong mediators enough to impose anything. The Omanis
same thing. The only ones who will be able to impose something and impose some order in the discussions will be the Russians. Do the Russians want to do this? No.
They have their horrible fish to fry,
including the possibility of those uh lunatic terrorists uh interfering with
the May 9 uh parade in um on Saturday and this is a serious threat. But at
least the minister of defense already said if you do this, okay, we level Kiev. Pay attention.
we level Kiev. I'm not sure it's uh th those people in Kiev register that yet.
And the Russians are losing their patience. And of course inside Russia,
uh it's something that uh I'm dying to get uh the inside view when I get there
later this months. People are losing their patience with the whole thing as well.
Especially now that you have infrastructure being attacked nearly every day uh the oil installations, oil refineries and all that. People are
starting to get really really pissed in Russia.
So there is pressure now a little bit everywhere. Okay, let's solve this problem once and for all. So this is
Russia's priority. They don't need to become moderators in somebody else's war.
They have their own war to solve first.
Right I'm not that much familiar with the mindset of the Chinese government. But
if I were to mention one single outcome of these two conflict in Ukraine and in the Middle East for the chi for
54 minutesfor the Chinese position would be if the empire attacks you, you don't back down, you fight back.
Exactly. And is does that mean that the China would not give some sort of you know
I would say some sort of offramp to the United States or helping the United States with the case of Iran and Russia
or instead of you know cooperating with the United States fighting back with the case of Taiwan because it doesn't mean
it's all it's not all about Taiwan it's about how they can put pressure on China in the straight of Mala Exactly. It's
Malaa. You're right. Uh this was the theme of one of my columns last week. Uh and and Malaa is inevitable sooner or
later. Hormuz was a test. They lost. So they're going to get even angrier
and now driven to okay we couldn't do it in Hormuz, but we we're going to do it in Mala.
And that's why that uh military cooperation agreement signed between Jakarta and Washington so dangerous.
This might be the first uh you know the first plank of the strategy. We get that
and then we force the Indonesians to have overflight rights for American military planes. Then we try to set up a
base somewhere. There you go. It's inevitable. So, the Indonesians already made a big mistake.
And so far, I have not seen there's a lot of criticism in Indonesia about it,
including from their own Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by the way. But don't forget, the head of the government is a military man,
very close to Suarto in the past. When Suarta was deposed, he wanted to run for president thinking
that he would be elected. He was not. He was biting his time all the time. And now that he is a president,
don't forget, you know, these are these are old military reflexes. And they were very very close with the Americans all the time.
So,
you know, this veneer that he has of a progressive guy and all that, that's not a real story. It's dangerous. It's very dangerous.
So, Malak is inevitable, Neiman. Inevitable.
Uh, but the thing is they now that they are very very angry because they lost Hormuz
and Hormuz was the preamble to get to Mala. Now they're gonna have to start from scratch.
But it's the same thing because the war is against fundamentally against China.
The Chinese everybody in China knows that even people who don't follow politics.
So the position of the the Chinese government is comp very complex in a
sense that they of course they want uh the straight of Hormuz to be fully open
because after all everything that they need goes through Hormuz.
This is one of the things that Wii told Arai today.
But at the same time, he was talking about the sovereignty and the rights of
the Islamic Republic of Iran. This means the Chinese understand if there is a
toll booth and it would involve many of their own tankers or they have an arrangement their tankers go for free.
So, so they are not as touch as other nations. For instance, the Japanese and the South Koreans, they're going to have
58 minutesto pay the toll. The Chinese, not necessarily.
Of course, this depends uh this interferes with the other uh Chinese suppliers because China buys oil from everybody in the Gulf.
So the Chinese would want these tankers to go through as well. And that be then it starts to become complicated because
they have to tell the Iranians look maybe we can find an arrangement for all of our tankers coming from the Persian Gulf.
But they they understand perfectly uh the question of sovereignty,
independence and the fact that the the Iranians are establishing a new management system in the straight of our mus. The Chinese understand that very very well.
After all the the war is against them and they understood that the American blockade the American blockade was also against them.
Yeah. And and is still there.
So u but the Chinese are masters at navigating all that silently
right. But the fact that uh they are coming out openly and saying that everything
uh directly linked to this war is illegitimate. This means completely illegal. That's enormous. This means
that anything the Americans are doing is illegal or will do later is illegal because the original premise was and is illegal.
So uh it would be fantastic. Obviously we won't have this scene. Can you imagine Nema Cin being telling this to
Trump in his face to face?
And obviously Cining is going to say that with, you know, sipping a little bit of tea,
you know, a smirk here, you know, almost a smile. Probably using a metaphor from one of the from the tongue dynasty,
but I'm sure he's going to say it. Yeah.
And obviously Trump Trump won't know how to answer something like this,
especially because the whole thing is his fault. Yeah. Let's see what would happen. Pepe,
I think we are heading toward a storm in my opinion, but let's see what would happen.
Oh yes, this is going to be quite something.
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much for being with us today.
Thank you. Thanks all of you uh all over the world.
And don't forget the struggle continues and continue.
Don't let your guard down because it's uh all of us against the usual suspects and it's a fight to the finish.
Exactly. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you, Pepe. Chow chow. Byebye. Cheers. Bye.

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Trump concedes ground in peace talks amidst Iran’s kamikaze dolphin claims | Janta Ka Reporter
Janta Ka Reporter
May 6, 2026

US President Donald Trump is understood to have agreed to make several concessions to achieve long-lasting peace deal with Iran. This also includes the US releasing Iran's billions of dollars. Pakistan will continue to play the role of a mediator with even Saudi Arabia discharging a key role. Trump on Tuesday had announced his decision to abruptly end his Project Freedom in the Persian Gulf amidst reports of Iran planning to deploy marine animals to hit undersea targets. Rifat Jawaid examines the perceived surrender by Trump in this conflict..



Transcript

The deranged occupant of the White House, namely Donald Trump, has finally appeared to have made peace with the new
reality on Iran that there is no way he can defeat the Islamic Republic militarily.
Hence, his latest proposal to accept the broad Iranian framework to start fresh negotiations via Pakistan.
Trump's latest climbdown is another round of humiliation that this Israeli clown has heaped on himself since this
entails postponing the discussion on Iran's nuclear program to a later date.
Then today we heard bloodthirsty terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to his American slave in the White House as
soon as he heard that the US and Iran were close to ending the military conflict. This was on a day Israeli
terrorist continued to carry out more ceasefire violations in Gaza. In the UK,
politics has begun to heat up on the eve of the crucial local body polls that could trigger the political demise of
the Israeli lap dog Kama. This would be the broad focus of my video tonight.
Also in this video, a short AI clip by Iran mocking Trump. So, please stay tuned. So the Israeli clown from the
White House today finally realized that he wasn't going to be able to defeat Iran either militarily or diplomatically. Yesterday he had
abruptly decided to end his so-called project freedom which was about according to him escorting commercial
ships from the state of Hormos despite Iranian blockade. This was immediately after Trump, Pete Hexet, and Marco Rubio
addressed three separate press conferences with a lot of fanfare as they made fake claims on the bravery of the US military. I made a video on this.
You can watch it here.
Today, Trump told reporters that his country had started a serious negotiation, serious discussion with Iran that could end the conflict between the two countries permanently.
Though Trump tried his best to sound a beat by repeating his lies, reporters asking these questions kind of knew the truth.
I'll bridge this. Here you go. You're facing Wait, wait, this will work. You're facing an opponent right now in Iran that has refused to submit.
You seem optimistic now that you may be closer to a deal. What's different about this moment now than in other moments where a deal has seemed close?
Well, why do you say they're refused to submit? You don't know that. You don't know what's going on. Fired on US ships a few days ago.
Yeah, I know. A few days ago is a long time ago, you know, in the world of war a few days ago. No, they want to make a deal badly and we'll see if we get
there. If we get there, they can't have nuclear weapons. You know, it's very simple, but uh what's not to submit? So,
they had a navy with 159 ships and now every ship is blown to pieces and lying at the bottom of the water. They had an
air force, lots of planes, and they don't have any planes. They don't have any anti-aircraft.
They don't have any radar left. Uh their missiles are mostly decimated. They have some they have probably 18 19% but uh
not a lot by comparison to what they had. And their leaders are all dead. So I think we won.
Now it's now it's only a question of look if we left right now Iran, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. You would call that we're in good shape, right? Fantastic.
We're in good shape.
And uh now we're doing well. Now we have to get what we have to get. If we don't do that, we'll have to go a big step
further. But with that being said, uh they want to make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last ,
and it's very possible that we'll make a deal.
Trump's blabbering aside, the truth is that the US has agreed to make several concessions to end the conflict against Iran, according to the Axios website.
Among other provisions, the deal would involve Iran committing to a moratorum on nuclear enrichment, the US agreeing
to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds and both sides lifting restrictions around
transit through the state of Hormuz. Now you tell me how this is not a further capitulation for this Israeli lab dog
from the white house. He launched an illegal attack on Iran to occupy the country by installing his puppets there.
That's what he had thought. That didn't happen. This was never going to happen.
He wanted Iran to end its enrichment program permanently. Trump's Secretary of Tagri, Marco Rubio, had arrogantly
spoken against the need for Iran to produce its own civil nuclear energy,
adding that Iran could buy that from the US instead.
If Iran wants a peaceful civil nuclear program, meaning they want nuclear power plants like other countries in the world
have, there's a way to do it and that is you build a reactors and you import enriched uranium to fuel those reactors.
That's how dozens of countries around the world do it. The only countries in the world that enrich uranium are the ones that have nuclear weapons. Iran is
a they're claiming they don't want a weapon, but they would be they're what they're basically asking is to be the only non-weapon country in the world that's enriching uranium. And the level
at which they enrich it is really not relevant per se because really if you have the ability to enrich at 3.67%,
it only takes a few weeks to get to 20% and then 60% and then the 80 and 90%
that you need for a weapon. Today, Trump is believed to have made peace with a scenario whereby Iran continues to carry
out its peaceful nuclear enrichment program, albeit at around 4%.
We've got the details of this 14 point plan according to Axios. Under the banner, US and Iran closing in on
one-page memo to end the war. We've got these a five-year ban on nuclear enrichment, which would be less than the 20-year ban President Trump previously
said he didn't like. There would be limits of 4% enrichment after that.
There would be a ban on underground nuclear facilities, a vow to never seek a nuclear weapon, commitment to enhanced
nuclear inspections, and an end to restrictions on travel through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, if indeed both sides agree on this,
this would be a far worse deal than what Iran had agreed under the JCPOA during the Obama administration.
This was the deal that Trump had torn into pieces.
Today, Trump is also considering releasing billions of dollars to Iran.
Once again, this is something he had repeatedly mocked Obama for doing so.
This should have been done by Obama. He went the other way. He was giving him cash. He sent plane loads, a Boeing 757,
took the seats out and put green, green cash, 1.7 billion in the plane. Every
bank in Virginia, DC, and Maryland was stripped of their cash. They took out all the cash from the banks. They put it
into a plane, a Boeing 757 packed with cash and they flew it to Iran and they let these guys just I don't know what
the hell they did with it, but they took it and then gave him billions and billions of dollars and bribed him
basically to be friends. And then there are talks to lift sanctions on Iran. All this to lift the Iranian blockade of the
state of Hormuz. How utterly stupid is this of the deranged man who likes to call himself the most powerful person in
the world. The state of Hormuz wasn't even an issue before 28th of February.
Today, this has become the single most powerful bargaining chip for Iran to bring Trump to his knees. Now, as soon as Trump's terrorist Israeli master,
Benjamin Netanyahu, learned about a possibility of a deal between Iran and the US, he called his lap dog in the
White House. Whilst we don't know what happened in that phone conversation,
it's not difficult to understand or second guess the content of that conversation.
The last time Trump had softened up his stand on Iran, this Israeli human devil had flown to the White House to force
his slave to attack Iran. And the consequences are for everyone to see.
To understand Trump's sudden change in attitude on Iran, it's also important to pay attention to one more piece of
reporting. Yesterday, both Pete Hexed and joint chief of staff General Dan Kaine were asked to comment on the Wall
Street Journal report claiming that Iran could possibly be using kamicazi dolphins to attack the US Navy in the
Persian Gulf. This was after several reports, including by the Wall Street Journal, suggested Iran had trained
marine animals to act as suicide bombers to hit enemies undersea targets.
You said that uh the attacks by Iran so far are below the threshold of restarting major combat operations. What
is that threshold? And then uh for Secretary Huggth, are there still concerns about mines in the straight?
And can you kind of clarify these reports of kamicazi dolphins that we've heard about?
I haven't heard the kamicazi dolphin thing. It's like sharks with laser beams, right?
Um uh the threshold of restarting is a political decision above my pay grade.
What I'll say is it's more low harassing fire right now. It feels like Iran is grasping its straws to try to do something across the southern flank. to
to your question, David, their command and control structure remains very fractured and uh I think they're struggling to maintain control down
echelon at the edge, but um we're still it's still pretty low-level kinetics at this point in time.
Uh and I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamicazi dolphins. Uh but I can confirm they don't. Now before you reject this assertion as some kind of
imaginary sci-fi stuff, the concept of military dolphins is very real. The US
military itself established its marine mammal program in 1959 to train bottl-nose dolphins and sea lions to
detect underwater mines and locate intruders.
They use natural echolocation to mark mines with boys for human divers to neutralize later. The Soviet Union too
ran a similar program in Crimea after the USSR's demise or collapse, whatever you call it. Some of these dolphins were reportedly sold to Iran in 2000.
Russia allegedly revived its program after the 2014 annexation of Crimea with satellite imagery from 20122 showing
dolphin pens in Savasto Harbor. So don't rule out anything as being outrageous
when it comes to Iran's retaliatory maneuvering. Iranian foreign minister Sydas Arachi was in China today where he
met his counterpart Wang Yi. This is what he said after that meeting.
Fore! Foreign! Foreign!
Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.
bast since the illegal settler colony of Israel is responsible for the current Iranian conflict. This Thursday's local
body polls has suddenly become very interesting in the UK. That's because its outcome could spell the political
demise of Israeli lap dog kastama. The Green Party which has taken a principled stand against the Ghaza genocide is set
to perform really well in these elections. We will see what happens in time. But the unprecedented
attack on Green Party chief Zack Pollansky, who himself is a proud Jew,
shows what is at stake here. This has also exposed London's Metropolitan Police whose chief had publicly
criticized Pollansky because he refused to accept the desperate attempt to raise the bogey of anti-semitism linked with
the recent London stabbings. Met police chief Mark Rowley is also facing calls to resign for his biases towards Israel
in the current conflict. Declassified UK today published the details of his secret meetings with a vile Israeli
woman Otolli in the recent past. This woman who calls herself the ambassador of the rogue settler colony in the UK
has repeatedly called for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and even justified the Gaza Holocaust. And if
this wasn't enough, Rowi has now been served with a legal notice by the Palestine Coalition for making a defamatory allegation against the group.
And what we've seen is many of these marches, they set out with an intent um to march near synagogues etc. And every single time we put conditions on to
prevent that. And even that intent causes me concern that they repeatedly ask to do such things. The group says this is far from the truth and has
demanded public retraction of this outrageous claim and an apology. The Met Police had said that it will release a
full statement in due course. But the Palestine Coalition today said it has already sent a legal notice to the
office of London Mayor who oversees the functioning of the Met Police Commissioner. Anyway, I will leave you
with this short clip of Trump being beaten in a card game by Iran's Katamia Brigade spokesperson. Of course, it's an AI generated clip.
15 minutesAll right. Uno. And again, plus four.
Okay. So, you have only one card. Yes. Uno.
Game over. I have all the cards right now. Yes, but you lost.
That's it for 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
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Katie Halper
May 7, 2026

Grayzone editor and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal argues that a London stabbing fits a strange pattern of crimes being used by Keir Starmer and pro-Israel groups to criminalize Palestine activism.



Transcript

Chapter 1: Setting up the UK stabbing story
Instantly after this stabbing, Kier Starmer appears in a national briefing and declares that pro Palestine marches
are responsible. The marches. It's the marches. Take the marches.
And that this is an ancient hatred and that it needs to be criminalized. So what I'm saying is who benefits?
Set this story up because this is kind of incredible and they do go very well handinand. So if you read the headlines,
there is a Jew a stabbing of two Jewish men that happened in London, right?
It fits perfectly with what's taking place with Palestine Action, which is that the British establishment, it's
fully invested in the relationship with Israel. It's funded heavily by extremely
wealthy Israel first billionaires as in the US. Um, you know, Kierce Dharmmer
Chapter 2: Max on Starmer’s pro-Israel rise to power
relied heavily on pro-Israel money from one billionaire in particular whose name I'm forgetting, but also who funded labor together, Morgan Mweeny's outfit,
which is now this, you know, at the center of this scandal. Don't have time to talk about that. The cons the Tories
are even more enthralled to very wealthy pro-Israel donors. The
Israeli government has a very strong presence as we saw through the Israel lobby UK hidden camera documentary in British politics to the point where the
Israel Israeli embassy has issued direct payments to British politicians.
Uh then you have CST, these kind of paramilitary type groups like the Shomim in Jewish neighborhoods that function as
an ancillary of the police. They're very powerful there. You can't the a figure like Kier Starmer his entire rise
is should be the subject of a film because he's like wooden. He's cardboard. He has the the personality of a filing cabinet. How did he get there?
He got there because the pro-Israel British establishment did not want Jeremy Corbin to be able to rule. They
saw the complete collapse of their entire ideological program in the form of Jeremy Corbin. So Kier Starmer was
just the person who was available who also had the deep connections as the former um you know DPP, the public
prosecutor, uh someone who was tied into the establishment through uh you know the trilateral commission and all these other networks and so he rose to power.
So now he is fulfilling his ultimate purpose as the British establishment fears a complete loss of control in the
Chapter 3: Britain shredding basic rights on behalf of Israel
post October 7th era. Uh this is all about restoring control and they're restoring control ultimately on behalf
of a foreign apartheid entity and they're doing it through the courts with Palestine action just shredding
enshrined British rights like jury equity and they're also doing it through
uh sort of mass securitization you exploiting every opport opportunity
possible and that's what this stabbing represents. But this stabbing took place in a broader context that I'll talk
about in a second. But just to to explain what happened here, uh I guess last week, a very mentally ill man who
is I think a S Somali immigrant to the UK or Sudanese, I I can't remember which, but he's, you know, Muslim, so
that makes him the perfect that that's why this could be classified as terrorism. Yeah.
He stabbed two Jews. I think they were visibly Jewish like they were orthod ultraorththodox in Golders's Green which
is a Jewish majority neighborhood in London and left out of the whole story was that he stabbed uh he stabbed a
Chapter 4: Stabbing suspect also attacked Muslim flatmate
flatmate or a neighbor of his at his flat who was Muslim right also left out I mean this was sort of mentioned in passing he has a long
history of attacking people including a police officer uh several others he was I think committed to a mental institution and then he was referred
referred to Prevent, which is the British counter radicalization program,
which raises questions about um you know his contact with law enforcement over time, right?
Chapter 5: Starmer uses the stabbing to target Palestine marches
Instantly after this stabbing, Kier Starmer appears on in a national briefing and declares that pro Palestine marches are responsible. The marches,
it's the marches. and that you know this is an ancient hatred doesn't relate to any real world events and that it needs
to be criminalized. If you're going to these marches and you're saying globalize the antifada then you must be punished. He said that explicitly.
This stabbing, just like the shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia at a Hanukkah
observance, had nothing to do with the pro Palestine or Palestine solidarity movement. It has no connection. And this man was just randomly attacking people,
including Muslims. Right. Exactly.
So they're exploiting this opportunity to shut down activism that threatens them because they fear a complete loss of control.
They've lost the support of the public on this issue and they're willing and they're willing to demonize their own
base. Here Starmer demonizing a large part of the Labor Party basically saying if you support Palestine you support
terrorism and you should be criminalized there. That's that's that's where they're at. like they're not even using politics anymore. It's
there there there's no carrot. It's all stick.
And so this event took place with as I said in the context of a larger series of events. Do you remember the attack on
Chapter 6: Strange details about the "arson" attack on Jewish ambulances
ambulances also in the Golders Green neighborhood uh in I believe March.
Okay. There was some grainy footage of some men setting fire to ambulances belonging to a um Jewish
emergency response organization called Hatutsah, right?
You know, you would think that would be classified as terrorism if this stabbing was just on the way just you know on the
basis of the the politics of the moment. But those men who carried this out were let
go on bail instantly raising serious questions about that. Then there was another attack
on um it was like a strange arson attack or a drone kind of flew into the the
Israeli embassy in London on the same day I think as a
a failed and very half-hazard arson attack on the offices of Iran International
which is based in London and is effectively ly controlled by Israel and is the main satellite network used to
stir up unrest and and regime change chaos in Iran. It's the main anti-Islamic Republic network.
And then there was a strange arson near a a synagogue. And today Sky News is
Chapter 7: Arson near mosque reported only as “former synagogue”
reporting that a former synagogue faced an arson attack. Okay. A former synagogue. Oh yeah, we have that. Yeah.
Yeah. No mention of the fact that it is now a mosque. Yeah, it's insane.
Okay, but here's the thing that links all of these attacks together is that in almost every case, the culprits appear
to not have been ideologically motivated and were paid by some foreign entity
Chapter 8: Obscure Telegram channels "found" by pro-Israel intelligence groups
via Telegram in crypto which is untraceable.
and another telegram channel which was magically discovered by
pro-Israel or just straight up Israeli intelligence linked outfits like site intelligence and the foundation for the
defense of democracies another telegram channel just completely obscure to the public took credit for these attacks and
calls itself a shab alyamin like al-isama like the right hand of Islam
and declares that they are doing so in the name of the axis of resistance and Iran.
And so now the British media, especially like the Tory media, like the Telegraph is blaming Iran for all these attacks.
Chapter 9: Max asks who benefits from the crimes
And Kier Starmer has now decided that he will also blame Iran.
9 minutesSo who benefits from this? Does does it does it form? There you go. who benefits from these attacks that are being carried out by criminal actors who are not activists.
The guys who attacked Iran International, you would think, oh, if they were like really motivated politically, they would be Persian. Like
they would be Iranian supporters of the Islamic Republic because this this network has gotten people killed in Iran. Lots of people killed. It is like
an evil network that provides instructions on like how to carry out Molotov cocktail attacks and how to
where which targets to attack, which officials to kill. It's a completely evil network. So, you would think uh maybe some Iranian immigrants to the UK
would have gotten uh you know upset and and attacked it. No, these were like
white British citizens, like white Englishmen who were teenagers who have no politics at all. And it looks like
they just did it because they wanted to get the money, the crypto sent to their wallets from some random account. They
probably were discovered because they had some criminal conviction in the past and all they had to do was just throw some piece of like some burning
basically like a burning bag of dog to this building. So this other Telegram channel could blame Iran by taking
credit in the form of this shady group Ashab Alyamin that never existed before. Uh we wrote about it at the Grey Zone.
Wyatt Reed did an article. It's claiming credit for attacks on Jews all across Europe. And in one attack we looked at,
it was actually uh someone just broke into a car in a Jewish neighborhood in I think Antworp and the car actually
belonged to a Moroccan woman, but they said, "Oh, Jewish car attacked in Jewish neighborhood. Iran takes credit."
So what I'm saying is who benefits? Yeah,
Iran doesn't benefit from this. Iran is going to get its ambassador removed over this. This is all about gin getting the
Chapter 10: Trying to drag the UK into war on Iran
UK to to step up its involvement in the USIsraeli war on Iran and all the other
European countries that aren't participating. And you know what else happened has been happening for over a
year in another Commonwealth country after Australian Prime Minister Anthony
Albani recognized a Palestinian state or announced his intention to do so. These attacks started happening in Australia.
This all started first in Australia and the um Australian police investigated it and Albani came out with a statement
declaring these are paid actors. He actually said paid actors are behind these attacks. And what he meant was
criminal elements were being paid by crypto by a foreign entity to attack
synagogues in a half-hazard way. And it's important to mention that the first synagogue that was attacked in this manner in Australia was in Melbourne and
it was a non-zionist congregation which is considered very controversial and hated by most uh Australian Jews who are
very Zionist. So why would they pick that target? Huh? Right?
Because uh you know that's the easiest one to go after.
Chapter 11: Israeli intelligence almost certainly involved
So I think Israeli intelligence is involved in one way or another here. I don't know. I can't I can't prove how
they're involved, but it seems almost certain to me that Israeli intelligence is behind the telegram channel claiming credit for all these attacks on behalf
of Iran. I mean, you you look at these communicates and they refer to Israel as like a legitimate state, right?
Compare that to like Hezbollah communicates or any access of resistance communicate. They don't call Israel Israel. It's Palestine or occupied Palestine.
Right. Right. Right. The Zionist entity.
Again, I mean, the this should be a huge story for media to pick up on, but they just report what's being essentially fed
to them or they provide the most superficial view of it possible. This is like a gigantic international scandal
that deserves deep investigation.

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INTERVIEW: Trump is planning the most horrific holocaust in history
George Galloway
May 6, 2026

In his latest words, 'blow Iran from the face of the earth.' And complete indifference in the West, says Prof Seyed Marandi. We've been portrayed as sub-human for so long that it doesn't bother anyone.



Transcript

Well, let's hear what our esteemed professor S. Muhammad Marandi, the professor of English literature and
Orientalism at the University of Tehran thinks of this. Professor, thanks for
joining us again. Now, I I stress as I always do, you don't speak for the government of Iran. Neither can we
expect you to know everything that's happening inside the government uh of Iran. But there's a very clear dichotomy
and that is that either Trump is desperate to get this over with and is
prepared to give peace a chance or as our poll suggests he intends to return
uh to the face of the war and that your people therefore will be facing very difficult times indeed as will the
entire world. Which of these two possibilities do you think is the more likely?
Well, thank you very much for George.
It's interesting. Right before your program, I was on with Pierce Morgan again. And as usual, he calls me the
spokesperson or the mouthpiece of the regime as he loves to call it. And I don't know if he thinks he's insulting
me or flattering me, but unfortunately no one has ever offered me that position in Iran. Uh so maybe he could put a good word in for me somewhere.
I think it's it's the the real question, George, if for me
is that Trump has until up to now said he's going to obliterate Iran. He said he's going to send Iran back to the
stone age. He said he's going to wipe out the civiliz Iranian civilization.
And now he says this there in western media we haven't seen any outrage in the UK in the US we
haven't seen bold headlines condemning him for this and we haven't seen a single major journalist these
journalists that have millions of followers or hundreds of thousands of followers who knows how many of them are real or not but none of them have come
have shown outrage not before and not now. It's normal to say I but if you
heard to say this about Iran, but if someone in Iran, let's say some obscure
uh MP from some far off city in Iran that you've never that I've never even heard of
comes out and says, "We will wipe the French people from the face of the earth, or we will wipe the I don't know,
the French people." Imagine the outrage or the the response of Western media which we often see some person who is
not even in charge. They quote him and then they attribute things to him or they misquote him or they distort what he says. We we've seen that a lot how
they would twist the wording and then uh make what the president or some former president had to say. But here Trump, an
English speaker, not the greatest greatest of English speakers, but he has said the same thing in different ways so
many times that uh it's clear as day what he's threatening to do. He's
threatening to carry out the most horrific holocaust in human history
by far. And even if he doesn't choose to carry this out, this is itself terrorism. You're you're being
threatened. Your entire family, your neighbors, your neighborhood, your city is being uh threatened to be demolished,
but complete indifference in the west.
4 minutesWe also saw this earlier when when he spoke about Cuba, and we should never forget what's what's going on in Cuba
either. the the Cuban people are besieged and they're being terrorized and and Trump has threatened in the past to destroy Cuba. But again, no outrage,
nothing in the in the so-called civilized world. So, they have demonized us so much in the Western media. They've
they've depicted us as subhuman for so long that it doesn't bother any of these elites.
it. I'm I know that it outrages many many decent people in in the UK and in the US and across the the world and
across the West, but among the elites that have seen class, it's not even something that deserves to be discussed apparently.
Well, of course, uh you make the point that he doesn't speak English very well.
That's definitely a problem. uh but that he speaks entirely contradictory English
is uh is more of a problem. It's not actually possible not being a psychiatrist to decipher
uh one Donald Trump from another and there are many multiple Donald Trumps.
So on the principle that in the words of uh uh a very good friend of mine once at
the top of the tree in British political journalism,
half of all political news is entirely made up, entirely invented and then much of the other half is exaggerated,
distorted, halftruth and all the rest. But the half of it is literally made up.
Did Barack Ravid of Axios for the seventh time this morning make
up the story that a peace deal between the US and Iran was in his words
imminent? Yes, it was completely fabricated and it is believed here that this was to
manipulate the markets and by manipulating the markets uh people around Trump and around Wickoff and
probably Kushner too have have made most probably a huge amount of money
today. But there is no truth to it. Of course, there are other reasons to manipulate the markets. U if they can keep the price of oil, paper oil down,
at least it serves a psychological purpose. Even though you know better than I that oil is not being sold uh on
the spot market in in prices, anything that are similar to $100, it's roughly
$150 $140 per barrel of oil. Sometimes it goes even much higher. But this is
all in order to keep people uh quiet to have uh to prevent uh panic. Uh but but
at the same time a lot of people are making a lot of money. I heard that there's evidence that again people have
been making uh have been moving money around or moving money around right before the
announcement by u Axios and Axio in general George you know this and I'm I'm
sorry for uh saying this because I know your audience knows these things better
than I but Axio is just Wickoff's uh psychological warfare tool
And uh I never take it seriously and I don't think anyone else should.
Well, there's paper oil and there's also uh paper blockades. Uh and it seems to
me and I've been following it with very great attention as you'd expect that uh
Iran is now in complete control of the Straits of Hormos. However many blockades are announced,
however many times it's said to be blockaded, however many times even the British government pretends that it sent
nonexistent warships to the region. The truth is
Iran commands the straits of Hormuz like a colossus
and greater control than ever exercised before.
And therefore there must come a limit even for the fools in the stock market
in those who fall for this axios uh set of fictions.
Iran has the straits. It's not actually going to walk away from that control, is it?
No, George. It's uh Iranian territorial water. This these are not international waters. This is a myth that Western media likes to uh create. Uh in fact,
Western journalists sometimes contact me, legacy media journalists of course,
and express outrage that this is against international law. And first I tell them, well, I think the war was against international law.
The Iranians were minding their own business and so your outrage about the rate of hormones really doesn't uh mean
too much to me. But uh but I also then tell them that this is not interseat.
This is the terri territorial water that exists between Iran and Oman.
And uh Iran has not signed up to any uh international agreement
uh which would deny it the right to control those waters. But uh there's no doubt in my mind at least that the
United States has been failing from the beginning. At the beginning of the 12-day war last year, Trump demanded unconditional surrender. They failed.
They lost the war. The Israeli regime couldn't even keep fighting for 12 for more than 12 days. They were be begging for a ceasefire after eight or nine
days. Then the Americans decided that the Trump regime decided to come in far more powerful than the Israeli regime
with all of its American weapons. And at the beginning, he demanded unconditional surrender. again
after 39 days he Trump accepted the Iranian Penpoint plan for peace as the
framework for negotiations. So he lost the war. That's the second war that he lost. Then after that with the ceasefire
that he and Netanyahu broke which if if they had ab if the ceasefire had been carried out right now the global
economic crisis would not be nearly as bad as what it is but because Netanyahu refrained from carrying out the
ceasefire and then Trump sided with Netanyahu even though the Pakistani government said very clearly that Lebanon was a part of the ceasefire.
the the straight of hormonals remain closed for much of the shipping that uh is supposed to go through it. And I
should point out by the way that the straight of Hormos has never been closed. It was only closed to ships that belong to the five countries that
assisted the United States in carrying out its assault on the Iranian people. Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, and Bahin. So Netanyahu prevented the the deal from being implemented and then Trump imposed a siege. So if Trump did not impose a siege on Iranian ports,
we wouldn't be where we are today. But even there he failed because Trump said,
"Okay, I'm imposed a star." And they thought they were starving the Iranian people, gloating that Iranian people were starving. They're not starving, but
you know, they that was their hope and it just shows how inhumane the Eps class is. But okay, if they're succeeding,
then why did they have to carry out this operation the day before yesterday? All they had to do was sit back and relax
and wait for Iran to crumble. It was because the siege was failing to in
instead of hurting instead of bringing the Iranians to a point of of of collapse, they're bringing the global
economy to the point of collapse. And so Trump in his desperation carried out this operation, hoping that the Iranians
would could allow him to let these tankers through. and the Iranians didn't. So again, he failed. So the
first world war failed, the second war failed, the siege failed, this operation failed, and now we're waiting for Trump
to most probably carry out an assault on Iran, another not another war, because
the war is not over. after the 39 days of of aggression we we the siege on Iran
on Iran which is an act of war this would be a continuation of the Ramadan but in any case we are waiting for an
assault it's not for certain but it is widely believed here that the threat of an assault on Iran is quite high as we
speak and no one should take anything that Trump says about peace agreements uh or anything like that seriously.
And were that, God forbid to happen, uh, what would the Iranian response be?
Oh, it would be decisive, George. The Iranians would hit back very hard. And I think that by now the Americans should
have learned their lesson. They have always miscalculated when it ca when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran
and the access of resistance. The people of Iran, the people of the axis of resistance are are extraordinary. Uh
their resilience, their resistance is unbelievable. Look at Lebanon today,
George. the uh the ISIS and al-Qaeda people who they brought to power who also insulted
uh the churches in Syria. Uh these same just like the the Zionist regime does
when it takes churches in Lebanon and insults St. Mary who for us one of the chapters of the Quran is named after St.
Mary. Jesus to Muslims is is in to Shia in particular. He's infallible. He's one
of the prophets alongside Prophet Muhammad and Abraham and Moses as as an infallible prophet. So constantly
insulting I mean the the two are the same, the ISIS and al-Qaeda and the Zionist enemy. But Hezbollahan, the
resistance and its supporters which are Christian and Jews and Muslim, Shia and Sunni, the resistance, despite being surrounded by these sinister forces,
look at their resilience today.
Look at how badly the Israeli regime is being punished by the resistance. And every time every time an an successful operation is carried out in their rage,
they go and bomb civilians. They go bomb families. They murder entire uh you know extended families out of rage and spite.
So the resistance whether in in Lebanon or in Yemen or in Gaza or in Iran or in Iraq is is extraordinary and the
resilience of the people is uh is something that I think is beyond the comprehension of the likes of Trump. So if they attack, Iran will hit back hard.
And uh in my belief George uh we are heading for a deep recession as it is and if this continues for much
longer it's going to be a depression but if there is war then I think there will be a very deep depression because
especially I mean there are two types of war one is if Trump carries out a short war and the other is a long war a short
war is very dangerous in the sense that once Iran starts striking back. Trump will in his arrogance and because of his
ego will demand more strikes against Iran. So a short war can end up in a long war again which could last for weeks.
So let's imagine that we do have a war that lasts a while. More infrastructure will be destroyed. If critical infrastructure is destroyed then Iran
will strike critical infrastructure but also in the critical infrastructure of these regimes in the region that hosts
US forces. We are in the month of May and in in weeks in less in two or three
weeks it is going to become very hot in the Persian Gulf and in the Arabian Peninsula. Just like in Russia they have
general winter here uh the Iranians have general summer I suppose the uh it will be very difficult for the Americans to
fight under such circumstances and if critical infrastructure which they threaten to strike and destroy in Iran meaning electrical power plants well if
they do that then Iran will have to do the same and if that happens these regimes will
become impossible to live in not only for uh people, ordinary people, but also
18 minutesAmerican soldiers, the uh the aggressors. So, I don't think this is going to end well at all for the United
States. It's not going to end well for these family dictatorships that are complicit in war. But again, it's Trump and the Trump regime is obedient to to
Zionism. And the Zionists don't care about the American people or the global economy. They don't care about the Indian economy or the Ugandan economy or
the economy of Argentina or the EU. They care about Zionism. They don't care about the American people. So Kushner
and Whit, their allegiances are clear and uh Netanyahu and Trump are more than willing to sacrifice the world for the
sake of this ethnosremacist and genocidal regime. So although it sounds crazy but it is quite possible
that uh war could be the United States could restart the war and it could lead to the complete devastation of all oil
19 minutesand gas assets and electrical power plants in the Persian Gulf region and that would mean that there would be no more oil or gas or anything else for
years from this region and that I think would mean that we would live in a very very different world in the months ahead
god forbid. Now finally as a professor distinguished professor of English literature I know that you'll be
familiar with the work of my countryman Arthur Conan Doyle uh the author of uh
the Sherlock Holmes series of which I'm a very great uh fan. Um, you'll recall
therefore uh his uh apherism about the the dog that didn't bark uh or the shoe that didn't drop.
I'm wondering about Yemen, which is, as I look at this so far, the dog that
didn't bark or the shoe that didn't drop. Is there a reason why Yemen has
not yet become involved in a big way in this confrontation?
If they do become involved, what would be the consequences of their involvement? Well, just as a small
footnote, uh I'm a big fan of his work and of Sherlock Holmes, but interestingly, he wasn't a big fan of of
his own uh stories on Sherlock Holmes and he wanted to get rid of Sherlock Holmes, but uh but ironically that's
he's known for Sherlock Holmes. Uh Yemen, George,
I think the best way to put it is that everything depends on the escalation ladder. The Iran, the axis of resistance did not start this war.
And every time we saw escalation, it began with Trump and Netanyahu. Not the Iranian, not the Iraqis, not Yemen. So
it depends on how far up the escalation ladder uh the American Trump goes and
Netanyahu goes. If it goes the higher it goes, the more the more engaged the axis of resistance will become. And the same
is true with Iraq. Iraqis can do much more the resistance than they did. But it was decided to have a manage escalation. The same is true with Iran.
If uh I'm sure your audience remembers during the last day of the war, the 39
day war, the Ramadan war, the Iranians hit exceptionally hard and or also on another occasion when uh the the the
Epstein coalition bombed Iran's south par gas field, the Iranians immediately struck back very hard and destroyed key
elements of Qatar's uh gas installations and that caused Trump to put out a true social tweet saying this won't happen
again. So the it depends on what the United States wants. Iran does not want a global economic crisis. Iran does not
want war. We are not wararm mongers unlike the United States and the Israeli regime. But we will not appease the
enemy. Iran is not like those countries that when Trump threatens them with uh
trade warfare, they back down and accept the the US demands on tariffs and so on.
Iran is not going to appease Trump. Iran will it will be steadfast and it will hit back hard and make sure that Trump
regrets what he did. How can how do we know that? because Trump accepted Iran's 10-point plan uh during the last day of
the war. That was a humiliation for the for for Trump and many people attacked him for that and that's why his
spokeswoman afterwards said that no, we threw it into the bin, the Iranian 10point plan. But it was clear he accepted it, he tweeted, he posted it.
So everything depends on the United States.
Iran does not want war. Before this war started, people were doing business.
Iran Iran wasn't even controlling the trade of Hormos. The biggest mistake that Netanyahu has made and the same the
same is true with Trump is launching this war. They have caused Iran to taking control of the straight of which
which will remain in Iran's hands from now on. this any Zionist, any of these fanatical Zionists should be outraged
that Netanyahu's own war and his own wararmongering has led to the shift in
the balance of power away from the Israeli regime, away from the United States and to the benefit of the global
majority, the axis of resistance and of course Iran. And just one final point,
George, the world is sick and tired of the Israeli regime. Not only have they seen two and a half years of genocide,
but now they're seeing that their the well-being of people across the world is being threatened by this monstrous regime and the Trump regime. I've been
speaking to a number of Indian reporters separately. They didn't come to Iran together but by coincidence I met uh
them uh within two days and a number of them in Tehran and there they saying that in India which you know is uh the
government has had a bad track record when it comes to Palestine and the Palestinian cause and the genocide.
These journalists who come from different political backgrounds and different media outlets have been telling me that the mood in India has
changed and it has turned against the Israeli regime for the most part and against Trump. So when they lose India,
you can imagine how bad things are across the world.
Amen. Professor Mande as always go safely. You are in the eyes of all of us here at the mother of all talk shows.

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Iran DESTROYS MQ-9 Drone Over Hormuz, Gulf States HUMILIATE Trump | Mohammad Marandi
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live 98 minutes ago #iran #trump #iranwar

Mohammad Marandi joins the show to discuss the latest developments in Iran's retaliation to the war as Trump shows major signs of desperation for a deal on US terms. We review the latest news and analysis on not only the war, but the regional situation in West Asia and the state of the empire in day 69 of US Israeli aggression.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Hiong. As you can see, I am joined by Professor Muhammad Mandi joining from Tran. Uh,
Professor Morandi, good to see you again.
Hi Danny, very glad to see you too and uh thank you very much for inviting me.
Of course, everyone hit the like button as you come on. That helps boost the uh show in YouTube's algorithm. So uh
personal Randy how about we start with this uh there's been a flare in the last 48 of course uh you know we
haven't spoken in about a week or so in the last 42 48 to there's been a lot of activity in the straight of
Hormuz uh it just in the um last there was footage going around
here's the cradle sharing it from FARS news of an MQ9 Reaper drone which was shot down over uh the straight of
1 minuteHormuz. And this comes for us as there are reports about this project freedom.
Trump said that he was going to escort ships uh through the straight of Hormuz as a humanitarian mission and then it was cancelled very abruptly. Now,
reports coming out of NBC say that Saudi Arabia, Oman, uh, and many other Gulf countries had actually shut down their
US access, uh, or the US's access to military bases and their assets in the
region uh, which prevented Trump in the United States from engaging in Project
Freedom. So, uh, person, what is your impression of the, uh, situation right
now, uh, when it comes to the war? And what do you mean? It seems like there's kind of a cascading, uh, number of
humiliations that the Trump administration is incurring as they drag on this period of no peace, but also
2 minutesa bit of hesitation in restarting the war, despite all the clamor about it.
Yes. I mean, if we just go back during the last year, during the 12-day war,
Trump demanded unconditional surrender after a couple of days, I suppose. I don't remember exactly when he said that. And that war
didn't end well. And it was clear that when it came to a one-on-one confrontation with the Israeli regime,
even though the United States was involved, they were refueling Israeli regime jets. and uh Jordan was helping the radar systems and the Persian Gulf.
All of them were assisting the Americans and the Israeli regime and Turkey's uh airspace and the US bases in Turkey were assisting with the war against Iran.
Um and um yet despite all that, the Iranians won the war even though it was a blitzkrieak attack.
3 minutesSo when the United States came in with a much larger force than anything that the
Israeli regime could muster, of course the Americans did take part in the 12th day war on one strike. but on on
Iranians nuclear installations. But uh when they the United States prepared for
the Ramadan war the which began with the assault on the school children and the
leader and uh other uh political and military figures.
Again, Trump when that started, he demanded unconditional surrender. It's as if in the West, they can't get over
this notion that Iran is a sophisticated society. It has a high degree of public
legitimacy, the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's people are resilient,
resistant, its armed forces are competent, and capable. They just can't seem to comprehend this. it just doesn't
fit with that orientalist narrative of theirs. And of course,
Trump has had successes across the world in bullying countries uh over tariffs and and and a host of
other issues except for China, but he's bullied India, he's bullied the Europeans, he's bullied the Latin Americans and and and so on.
So in the in the in this in the 39 days of fighting we went from unconditional
surrender to one point plan as the framework for negotiations. That was a humiliating
uh defeat and Trump was attacked for it uh left and right in the United States.
he was ridiculed and then his uh spokeswoman she said no no no we are you know we threw it in the bin but he
accepted this and that's the only reason why Iran halted the fighting otherwise Iran was more than prepared to continue but it was a symbolic defeat for the
United States for Trump in particular and uh I mean I whenever I say the United States I mean the Trump regime
and elites otherwise American people are against war. They're against this war and they're they're victims like
everyone else. But u so then we had the ceasefire negotiations
and during this period especially with the siege that the United States imposed again they were claiming that they'll
starve the Iranian people. They're gloating thinking that they'll starve the Iranian people. That hasn't worked.
It shows their inhumity uh that they tried to starve ordinary people but it failed and what happened instead was
that the entire world its suffering became worse thanks to Trump. So Trump and Netanyahu and the Zionists have
imposed economic crisis on the world and then after the ceasefire they made it worse and worse by violating the
ceasefire and then imposing a siege on the straight of Hormos and uh it obviously wasn't going well
otherwise we wouldn't have had this operation or or or project freedom uh if if if all they had to do was just sit
back and wait for Iran to collapse if things were going Well, so obviously they weren't going well. This also failed and it was clear from the
beginning that it would fail. It's a I think it's a it was a sign of desperation and uh so regardless of what the reasons
were behind it, whether the Saudis did uh prevent the Trump from using their
airspace or whether they that was not the case, it wouldn't have made a difference. say they would not they
7 minuteswould have failed as they were failing when this uh they started because their hope was that the Iranians would be
intimidated into not responding and that was not the case and we saw regardless
of who struck the Emirates some say the Iranians did it some say the Saudis did it did it some say the Americans did it
but regardless of you know that a number of ships were hit and uh nothing came
out of this So, another defeat for Trump. And as I was telling you before the show, the belief is that there's a I
mean, this has been the belief for a couple of weeks now that a an attack could be imminent and they are on full
alert in Iran. It could be tonight, it could be tomorrow, it could be over the weekend. No one knows. It may not happen. Uh I mean the belief is that it
shouldn't happen because we're approaching the uh meeting between President Xi and uh of China and and the
and Trump the president of the United States and uh but then again we're talking about Trump and he's not sane. I
was telling you before the show that you have to put yourself into the head of an insane person if you want to try to
analyze Trump. And for you and I and your entire audience uh except for maybe one or two who may be uh listening on behalf of the Trump regime.
I don't think we have any insane people among us. I'm pretty sure we don't. So
uh the the it's failure after failure and if the United States attacks again they will fail. They will they will only
make the world economic crisis worse and probably make a global uh depression inevitable. Right now we are definitely
heading for a major recession and if this continues for much longer it will be a depression. But if we get into a war, even if it's a short-term war, I
think the depression would be it would be pretty
I think we can be say with confidence that there will be a depression and if it and if even if it's a short war uh it
it could lead to a major depression depending on if the United States starts targeting and there and Netanyahu starts
try targeting Iran's vital infrastructure then Iran will strike the Israeli regime's vital vital infrastructure and the vital infrastructure of bases and and regimes
across the Persian Gulf who are part of this. Remember, without these five Arab regimes and Jordan,
the United States can't engage in war against Iran. It's just not possible.
Logistically speaking, it's not possible. So, we are where we are. It's failure after failure for Trump. But uh
there are those in Iran who believe that Trump is uh gambling and he's desperate.
But he thinks that maybe this time around if he bets the house and the car and everything,
if that's what you say in English, uh then you know he has a chance to win back everything and uh leave this
victorious. But in my opinion, it's inevitable that this is going to be a catastrophic failure for the United States thanks to Trump and Netanyahu in
particular because at the end of the day, the driving force behind this catastrophe is Zionism.
Yeah. Oh, well that begs the question,
President Mart, you said, you know, you made a I think a a really interesting comment when you said that regardless who was who has been responsible for the
uh strikes that are have been happening in and around the straight of Hormuz in the last few days, um you know, uh some
people have been pointing out could there be some kind of Israeli involvement, sabotage. You had the UAE saying that they were activating their air defenses. Well, then against who?
And then Iran says that actually the US was causing all kinds of chaos through uh friendly fire and this uh haphazard
project freedom which um you know uh killed Iranian civilians. I believe two boats were hit. But overall, Iran is
pointing the finger right back at for every single strike. It seems like that happened in the last 48 to on the United States, including the Korean
vessel, the South Korean vessel, which uh was hit in the straight of Hormuz.
They're saying that they had no part in that either. So uh uh all in all it seems like the results are the same that this is not making the situation better
and uh Trump had to uh go out uh you know uh with his tail behind uh between his legs and and stop this regardless of
the reasons. But now it seems like the Gulf countries are either being thrown under the bus or they are smartening up maybe to the fact that if this escalates
uh if Project Freedom would have escalated into a full shooting war,
well, we know who would be paying the price for that. It would not be uh it would not necessarily be Israel. It would be the Gulf States in particular. But what's your thoughts on this?
You're right. I mean, there are no casualties among the Iranian military.
no Iranian military boats or ships or speedboats were attacked. And so it just
shows how incompetent the uh the military of the United States is and they've been hitting they hit civilian
boats. The people who uh were on those boats. They are they're civilians. They they they've been named. They the
survivors were uh interviewed and the boat and the damage was you know seen.
It's evident for all. But that's just how the Trump regime works. They when they bomb schools, they don't take responsibility.
In that case, I think it was intentional. And here it may have been intentional, too. I mean, they may have struck these civilian targets uh
intentionally. Who knows what goes on in the minds of these of these uh Epstein class
employees? But um but the important thing is that every day that goes by, we're heading closer towards a global catastrophe.
And right now, the world is like a patient who has a fever. And all we see
is the fever, but we don't see what's going on inside. So all we see now are high prices, high high oil prices,
energy prices or food prices. But we don't see that uh all those products
that were coming from the Persian Gulf u petrochemicals and fertilizers and different forms of energy and refined
goods. All of those are part are will be are used in all sorts of different factories and production lines and
businesses. And uh each one of these that's cut off is going to create uh is
going to cause disruption. And so you're going to have disruption across the world in the coming uh days and weeks.
Grow and grow. uh because now finally the the shortages the real shortages are
beginning to emerge. So each day that goes by without Trump trying to find a reasonable solution, a peaceful solution
is only going to make things a lot worse.
But uh the United States does not have the will to do so. The Zionist lobby does not seem uh interested in allowing for the ceasefire agreement to be
implemented. the the Zionists and the and Netanyahu are hellbent on keeping
the flames u keep keeping up the flames and uh to continue the slaughter in
Lebanon to continue uh pushing for confrontation in the Persian Gulf region. And so, uh, you know, this
this escalation, uh, it doesn't seem as if there's anyone in the White House who has the ability to,
uh, discontinue the escalation.
Well, in the beginning of the program, I showed the uh what seemed to be the refueling engine of the MQ9 Reaper drone
shot down, and there's just been many reports uh now for us that is showing what you're saying that things are getting worse. And it's not necessarily
getting worse for the Iranian side. Uh not only are there reports seemingly every time uh any kind of US aircraft uh
military uh uh you know uh military aircraft gets close to Iran, it is targeted. But there's also the fact that Iran has been rebuilding the bridges,
the homes that have uh that were uh partially or fully destroyed uh during
the uh war. Uh there's also uh the announcement of the uh Persian Gulf
Authority uh Persian Strait Authority that uh uh Iran has announced which uh
by itself sent oil prices rising again uh because it showed that Iran is not capitulating. Maybe you can go into some
detail about about these things like what about Iran's trajectory right now
is making it so hard for uh the United States and of course its Israeli uh uh
you know backers uh to make a concerted decision about what
it's going to do. It it feels very much like they're kind of trapped uh damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation.
Yes, I think uh what for example Axios did yesterday was clearly an attempt to uh manage the markets and to manipulate
the markets and it it worked with some success at least on uh on you know paper
oil as as they say but on the spot market it's a a very different situation alto together so I'm sure I'm sure that
lots of money was made yesterday thanks to the fake Axios report uh on this onepage agreement between Iran and the United States which was fabricated.
There was no such thing at all. It was a fabrication from fabrication from beginning to end. And I would imagine
this because here the belief is that Axios is controlled by Wickoff in this in the U for psychological warfare and
for market manipulation. So the belief here is that some people must have made a lot of money yesterday uh with Axio
report and Axio does that regularly and no one should take Axio seriously. It is just a tool for for psychological
warfare but more importantly now increasingly just for market manipulation. the these people have become so greedy and they've been making
so much money by manipulating the market that they just seem to have forgotten the the original reason why Axio was uh
being used as a tool. So they can bring down the prices for uh on paper but that's not going to change the
reality because every day that goes by the deficit in uh in in oil is going to increase the deficit in n in LNG and
natural gas and in in in all the pharmaceutical products helium and in
and the fertilizers all these things are just going to increase and of course these Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf are not making any money. So, they're
probably going to have to withdraw cash from their assets, you know, from the west, from the stock market, the bond
market, and they're not they're obviously not contributing anymore to the bond market and the stock market. So there's so many ways in which you know
as we move forward things are going are getting worse and uh but um and you know we discussed earlier that
the supply line chains across the world are are being affected and we're going to economist say that we're going to be
seeing this uh more clearly during this month the month of May. So it's not
good. It's all bad. Every day that goes by it just gets worse for Trump. It gets worse for Netanyahu. The world sees who's behind all this misery. It is
Netanyahu. It is Zionism. Two and a half years of uh of genocide and now and now this you know country even countries
like India or the Europeans or the Australians or New Zealand and Canada who who supported genocide
uh and the genocidal regime during the genocide. Even they are not spared or the British. not being spared by the
Israeli regime and Netanyahu and and his sidekick Trump.
Yes, very true. President Marie, one question I I I really wanted to ask you,
you know, RT did a report where they asked Iranians on the streets uh what about their gas prices? And everyone
said that uh the price of gas uh to refuel their vehicles has actually not gone up and that uh that it's remained
steady throughout this whole crisis. And they're referencing things I had no idea about, you know, fuel cards, this kind of thing. I mean, Iranian society even
even for someone like me who uh tries to understand. I don't I don't. So, can you help us under right now in the United
States because of this war as far as California, you have prices nearly $7 a gallon. uh here in the east coast it's
somewhere between four to5 dollar a gallon 450 460 uh on average and it only is getting worse. What's going on here?
Why it seems like what the US has done and what Israel has done is as you said it has attempted to starve and destroy
the world economy uh to achieve objectives they truly can't achieve. So uh maybe you can help us understand this
contrast. What? And is it is it true? Is it true that Iran is able to keep uh things very steady for uh the people
there uh while the rest of the world is kind of at the whims of the US at least much of the rest of the world maybe not the whole world?
Well, the price of gasoline in Iran uh is uh in in American gallons would be
um 10 cents uh sorry 4 to 10 cents a gallon.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah. I I hope none of your viewers have have collapsed or they fainted. Everyone's going to move. Be care now.
We're going to have droves of uh you know, we had Tik Tok refugees at Shiao Hong Shu. Soon we're going to have little mini uh uh boats showing up on the shores of Iran.
Yeah. So, yeah. So it's something it's around I think u four to 10 cents a gallon depending on the rates. There are
three different rates for for for gasoline at the at the pump. And um yeah
so and to also to make it worse Iranian
electricity is subsidized. Iranian uh all energy in Iran is is heavily subsidized which is not really a good
thing either. I mean uh it it increases consumption and and waste and
obviously does not create an incentive for uh investment and so on. But in any case that that is a reality. I mean,
good cheap energy is a good thing, but the government is heavily subsidizing Iranian gasoline and energy for ordinary
Iranians. There there have some small moves to rectify this uh limited moves, but uh we are where we are right now,
especially when it comes to gasoline. Yeah.
And there's no shortage, at least for now, we have no shortage.
Wow. Yeah. Well, uh, the, uh, I think this kind of proves we we didn't need a U. I don't know if you saw there's a US
intelligence report, uh, Professor Morandi, that just came out that was,
uh, the Washington Post Post reported on saying that Iran has the ability to outlast Trump's uh, blockade for months,
they say. And they threw in another uh little uh bone there saying Iran's missile and drone arsenal is still very
formidable. But I think just what you said there, it seems like there's a big commitment to uh ensure that yeah any
any any blockade will be thwarted even at home. But there's also this reality that US intelligence is sounding the
alarm that doesn't matter how long the United can the United States go months uh trying to uh use its navy to chase
around tankers uh you know outside of the Persian Gulf. Uh I don't know. But what's your reaction to this? This this it seems like there's some linkages
between what you're saying and in this report. Well, you know, it's also about water.
Remember when Netanyahu used to say that we don't have any water? Well, we still do. We haven't run out of water either. So,
so I just drank it for the sake of netting alco, you know, I wasn't thirsty, but I
I could I couldn't I couldn't refrain from doing that.
Anyway, um yeah, so we have water, we have gasoline. Look, I mean, the economy is hurting, right? They bombed a lot of factories.
They bombed hospitals. They farmed they bombed pharmaceutical factories. They bombed uh the Iranian steel industry.
They've bombed petrochemical plants. U they've bombed the Iranian gas fields. They they've done a lot of damage.
They've murdered many people. They've bombed colleagues at university. They bombed many universities.
many universities in many university buildings engineering buildings mostly and they've bombed they've murdered
they've assassinated professors the Americans and the Israelis and what they would do is wait for them to go to see their families u and so when they when
they go to see their families then they would they would kill them their families and their neighbors together um they bombed I mean I I think I told you
this before on the show that a friend of mine a very close friend of mine who I speak to at least three, four times a
week. His brother-in-law, he's a businessman, small businessman. He hired two truck drivers uh to take goods from his city to another city or vice versa.
I don't know. And Americans, and it was in the south, Americans bombed both trucks and murdered the the truck drivers and of course all the good
destroyed. So, you know, this is this is Trump. This is the United States. These are US pilots. These are Zionist pilots.
They're they have no sense of morality. They have no moral compass. They're you know
evil. But uh this is what we face. So there is hardship and of course the siege is without a doubt has an impact.
I it's not as if it's just a joke. It does impact. We have inflation and
uh you have inflation. you have u people who've lost jobs more difficult and and of course the the
government is not uh you know the most I mean previous governments too I'm not blaming this administration but you know
different administrations in Iran they've had their own uh you know incompetence and you know corruption and
shortcomings and then when you have a a crisis like this obviously it gets it gets worse
significantly more. So, but the thing is that the Iranians know why they are suffering. They know that it's war that
it's an unjust war. They were minding their own business and then twice in less than a year they were assaulted.
Forget the maximum pressure sanctions that collective west imposes. forget all the other crimes that they carried out.
The the uh armed insurrections that we insurrection that we saw a few months
28 minutesago and support for terrorist groups in Iraqi Kurdistan and across the
Pakistan alongside the Pakistani border with Iran all that you know but but people see that we they're way too
against it. So it makes them more resilient, more patient
and of course the government has to do more to deal with these the problems that we have in society as a result of
all these crimes. So that is true. But as I was saying
earlier, the if the United States is winning this siege warfare, this attempt as many American senators were gloating
on Fox News saying we're starving Iranians. They don't have any food to eat. Obviously taking pleasure in this idea. But um but that's not happening.
And if it was hap if it was happening uh then why would Trump go and carry out this project freedom or attempt to carry
out project freedom? He would he would show patience. So uh there's a reason why he was impatient but that failed
too. So we are where we are. Uh it may be that the United States will launch an attack tonight, tomorrow, the day after,
over the weekend. Uh but that won't work either. it'll only only make things much much worse. There may be a land attack.
This is these are things that they're for they are uh they're foreseeing. I mean they're not it's not for sure that any of this
will happen. But the belief is that that's what the Americans are prepared for. They didn't bring all these this equipment. a lot of the equipment they
brought into the region during the ceasefire to the Emirates and Kuwait um and Bahrain apparently in particular
there are lots of ground troops and a lot of equipment that they brought in uh much of the the air force in Qatar and
audi Arabia and uh and the Emirates too. So, you know, this the Iranians are
uh recognize that they they believe that the chances for another assault by the by Trump and Netanyahu are high,
but it's not going to make it any better for them. It's only going to make the global economic situation far worse, and it is not going to cause Iran to change
its position on the straight of hormones. The Iranians have prepared themselves for a ground offensive.
They'll probably allow the Americans to take uh a island whatever it is they want to take like an island or two a few islands
or uh the main area in the mainland and then they'll start bombing them and uh and as you know we discussed this before
summer is approaching the month of May is a transition month it is for just like we have in the Russians have general winter we have general summer in
in the Arabian peninsula is going to be extremely hot and if there is war and the Americans do indeed carry out their threat hats to destroy Iran's critical
infrastructure, then Iran will do the same to the Israeli regime and the US proxies in the Persian Gulf region,
which would mean that those countries will become uh empty of its population because it'll just not be possible for
people to live there anymore. That's the same would be true with American troops.
So, you know, again, it goes back to what you and I what I was saying before the show. uh you would think that the
United States under Trump would say that okay enough is enough let's go for a solution but uh you and I and your
audience we don't have the ability to go into the head of an an insane psychopath
uh or at least you know not completely sane but definitely a psychopath uh the mind of a not completely sane
person but who is a psychopath we don't have that ability thank god And hopefully none of us will ever have that
capability. Uh so it's it's impossible to um to predict what will happen in the
days ahead. You would again as I said earlier, you'd think that because of the the heat and you'd think that because of
uh the visit to China that the United States would not take this course of action. But the Iranians are fully
prepared. They believe that Trump is not a person who is sane and rational and uh
he doesn't care about his country. Uh Netanyahu doesn't care about the United States. Zionists don't care about the United States. So everything is possible.
Yeah. Well uh you might have seen Professor Randi Trump's latest comments.
I'll just read them. that there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender and then after that the selection of a great and acceptable
33 minutesleader apostrophe s uh we and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners will work tireously tirelessly
to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction making it economically better bigger and stronger than before Iran will have a great future make Iran
great again I mean this almost is beyond uh uh parody at this point. We even had
Jesse Waters on Fox News. I don't know if you saw this when Project Freedom was called off. He said that this is an attempt by the Trump administration to
give Iran the ability to save face. And then Politico said that there were Gulf sources telling them that actually Trump
is trying to save face with uh these measures to uh uh you know uh uh keep
the war at this very uh low level and to keep the blockade going while also uh
you know not restarting strikes. It's it's it there's a lot of contradictions here, but I think all of them point to um a bit of confusion on the part of the
US uh administration on what to do from here because as you said strikes could happen. I'm sure there are many in the side of the Pentagon.
Tweeted from like minutes ago, I suppose. Yeah, this is minutes ago.
Yeah. Would indicate that he wants to carry out attacks probably and murder Iranian leaders. And this is the law of
the jungle that uh the west has created for the world. Murder Iranian leaders,
slaughter Iranians, probably kill a few more hundred kids. And Western media will pretend that you because Western
media is as morally bankrupt as the regime itself.
You know, we look at what's happening in Lebanon. Every day they're carrying out slaughter, but Western media is looking away. And it's not like in Gaza where
the west western media pretended that we have no one there. They all it's full Beirut is full of Western journalists
and journalists linked to Western media but it's no different than the coverage in Gaza that we had for two and a half years. No difference at all.
They will try to look away or they will try to justify the atrocities. They will, you know, just like when they would say the Hamas, you know, minute
Hamasled police, whatever, just to justify the slaughter of police officers and people who are protecting the aid
and the aid workers in in Lebanon whenever they bomb a building, they'll say, you know, Hezbollah strongholds,
Hezbollah targets and, you know, just to justify the slaughter of I mean, all those mainstream western journalists in
Beirut, almost all of them, I would guess all of them are just a bunch of criminals and they are uh uh they are
genocide uh they're they're genocidal because they're trying to u they're trying to you know hide the genocidal
attacks and uh you know they're despicable people but in any case uh it's going to fail just like in Lebanon
in Lebanon they'll fail and Trump will destroy the global economy he's hellbent if he if he goes down it goes down this
road then I think everyone should brace themselves for impact because if we do have that sort of war where he targets
uh Iranian leaders I've heard senior Iranian officials say that they will target these Arab family dictatorships.
Uh they said that you know because they will be complicit in this war then the palaces and Doha and in the Emirates and
you know their you know their their leadership they will be targeted too because this is unacceptable to Iran.
So, we're entering potentially uh the final phase and that would be a very we will be living in a very
different world after that. But we'll see. Maybe Trump is just talking nonsense. But here they are prepared for a major assault.
And uh speaking, you know, speaking of Israel, they are as the United States is kind of playing footsie with uh renewing
war on Iran. Israel is committing these horrific atrocities uh targeting rescue workers just like they did in Gaza um desecrating even Christians.
Have you heard outrage coming, you know, out from London or Paris or Brussels? Any sanctions for all the atrocities?
No.
Nothing. Because they are, you know, they're a bunch of criminals. They're a bunch of genocidal monsters uh bound to the Epstein class
just like their journalists, just like their media. This is a class of people who rule over the entire West and
journalists, the diplomats, they're all tools of this powerful oligarchy, this powerful Epstein class,
the Zionist uh oligarchy. And so that explains everything you it's it's you know when
it's there's no other way to look at it when you see every families being m wiped out every day in Lebanon entire family is
being wiped out every day in different parts of the country and no one in the west even you know the
guardian or you none of them really they don't care some may give some you know
little limited coverage and others will ignore it completely. But that's just,
you know, they're just their tools. It's just how it is.
Yeah. And these are the same people who uh continue to debate and reject Iran's
notion that Lebanon should be included in any uh agreement that is made to uh
end the war or even the ceasefire. the ceasefire itself. Iran said that Lebanon and all fronts should be included and uh
these the media the western media they they bulk at it. will be they will be included.
And these Western journalists and diplomats uh through their silence, they're only enabling the United States to push them
over the cliff. Them and their families and their communities and their countries and and the entire world over over the cliff because that's where the
world is going. That's where the world economy is going. It's going over a cliff. Yeah. And you know, Iran said, you know,
in response to uh Trump's uh uh you know, unconditional surrender, this whole Axios uh playing the markets, it
seems like with the this memorandum of understanding uh report uh on peace. Iran said that
the United States is not going to get out of this war without paying reparations. So uh the question then is
for somebody who who blinks first because the United States for all of I know that there's a lot of people out there who believe that the US can just
go this path and this route forever no ma you know with Trump's irrationality and uh as well as you know
the US's lust for war and its obsession with blockades and oil and all of this that can just go on like this forever.
That is actually not the case. I don't believe that the US could go on and on and on forever and ever and ever uh uh plunge you know a great depression
actually causes a lot of calamity even for uh the rich they tend to shrink uh in number when great depressions happen
always uh there's fewer of them after a great depression so uh there will be powerful powerful people wanting to prevent this but nonetheless who blinks
first Rosani because Iran is saying nope we are not going to let the US off the hook without reparations and of course
without all these other terms that uh they have yet to budge on. Well, first of all, you're you know,
you're right. The the the very wealthy their numbers will decrease. But even those who remain very wealthy and powerful,
will life be easier for them or will they feel less safe?
uh will people who are outraged by the fact that their lives have been destroyed by these elites
by the Epstein class will that lead to these people feeling more safe or less
safe the remainder of the uh of those wealthy so that's something that they should be contemplating but I think we
all know the answer the Iranians have already shown extraordinary resilience just like in Lebanon just like in Gaza
just like in Yemen in Iraq. So that resil
Iran's culture, its heritage, its its civilization, its religious heritage, it
makes it an extraordinarily unique in its in its resilience and resistance.
And we've seen that it defeated a superpower and along with all its proxies and the collective west which
backed it up a single country with a couple of regional allies with the same ideology and the same worldview that
ethnos supremacism is im immoral and uh the Palestinian people should not be
exterminated. That's the you know that's the sin of the axis of resistance. It's quite simple and no one will join it in
this region. All the other countries are selling oil to the Israeli regime,
transporting oil, buying gas, do you know doing trade and business in this case of
the UAE. They're full allies of the Israeli regime. But um that is the sin.
But in any case, I think it's clear that the Iranians will be resilient. They'll resist no matter what harm comes their
way. If there is war, there will be more harm. There will be more deaths. There will be more children massacred by uh
the Epstein coalition. But the world economy will collapse and the world will blame Trump and Netanyahu and the Zionist for it. The world sees who
brought this upon people across the world, people in the west, people in the United States, people across Europe see that the Trump and Netanyahu have
brought this calamity upon them. We know that from Joe Kent, his resignation letter, who's behind this war. It's the
Zionist. It's the Zionist lobby. It's Israeli regime. So, you know, there's no hiding that. And after two and a half
years of genocide, and then you add this to that, I don't think this is good for the Israeli regime either.
You know, person Abasarachi the just one thing Danny uh I've been I've met uh
a number of Indian journalists in the last few days separately to uh they came
separately to Iran. one in a group and uh one group of Indian journalists came as a group and another journalists came
separately and I I I had interviews with each of them separately and uh
what I've been told by journalists is that the mood in in India has changed.
So initially there was a lot of support of course by Modi for this genocide and
uh and many Indians for whatever reasons they were siding with Israel. Many Indians were opposed to genocide and not
not at all just Muslims. Many of you know my my Indian friends have from day one have been saying that but the
numbers are changing and in India the mood has changed. That's what the consensus is from the the people who I've spoken to. So when the Israelis
have lost India then what's left?
Yeah. Well uh you know I wanted to ask you what you believe. you know,
Abasarachi was in Beijing and uh he met with Wangi and he said that, you know,
China now sees that the Iran uh after the war is different than uh before the
war and alluding to Iran having transformed and uh sensibly being in a in a better position uh after the war
than before the war. I'm curious on what you believe uh he's talking about in particular and if you could outline
maybe the the the thinking here because um you know all we here in the United States and the west is you know Iran has
been obliterated its navy its air force its military uh its society's in tatters its economy is collapsing all you know
the whole nine yards so uh what is Abatrai then talking about when he says this well Adchi the Iranian foreign minister
before that he went and saw President Putin a few days ago and President Putin spoke about you know he was he was he
was obviously impressed by the resilience of the Iranian people in the face of this
and the the Chinese uh officials who've been speaking with the foreign minister
and his delegation they've been saying the same thing everyone is impressed that Iran was able to withstand this uh
barbaric assault uh where that really the collective west was fully behind the United States. Those you know uh there
were those who directly supported them and there were those who indirectly supported them but everyone was on the side of the United States. The same
people who support the extermination of the Palestinian people, Canada, the EU,
the UK, Australia, you know, New Zealand and so on. Although those who support the extermination of Palestinian
children, they and who support the extermination of the Lebanese uh children, they also support the extermination of Iranian children.
That's why we don't have any outrage.
Have you seen whenever Trump says he's going to obliterate Iran or send it back to the stone age or wipe out Iran civil,
he's been saying it, you know, different ways and forms for weeks. Have you seen a single Western government condemn this? Have you seen a single major
powerful western journalist who has like a hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands or millions of followers tweet about this? How he or she is outraged?
Have you seen western like the Guardian or the New York Times say this this mass murder he wants to commit a a holocaust
an un uh you know unequaled holocaust in human history? No. Because the they're utterly and you know they're utterly bankrupt. They're morally bankrupt. Mhm.
So they, you know, the day before yesterday,
uh, I was on Pierce Borit's show once again and he was saying that so he brought so and so
fool on his show. I don't remember the name and said he he said that, you know,
Iran has been utterly defeated and it's only for political reasons that the United States has not taken the straight of Hormos and
Morgan was saying that he believed it and I said, "Well, then just take it over. let's move in and then I said that why don't you just take it over and then
you can make us refugees like the Palestinians and take all that and said Trump may want to do that and you know
that's you know even though he'll never be able to do that but uh but that's just how that's what happened
to Palestine and actually there was a conversation before I was on air between these people on Palestine and one of
them you know this old man who pretends to be like some knowledgeable person like really disgusting person was saying how
49 minutesuh Israel is the only democracy. I mean this genocidal uh these genocidal maniacs stolen the
land of the people uh of Palestine sent them into concentration camps and then wiped them out. You know they've been
doing this genocidal I mean it's October the 7th is not the beginning of the story. It's one of the later chapters of this whole uh dark episode of history.
But that's you know that's the western political. So now they can say all they want that you know Iran has been defeated in the west but outside of the
west and and I think many ordinary people in the west they recognize that this was a major defeat for Trump and
for the empire and he can try his luck again tonight. I with this tweet perhaps that's what he's going to do tonight or
tomorrow. But it's not going to it's not going to improve his position. Again,
it'll be a gamble, but it'll be it'll be he'll lose the house.
Yeah. person in the last or so that we have here uh uh can you talk about the gamble speaking of gambles that the UAE in particular is making
here because even in the reports about project freedom and the Gulf states like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia uh uh rejecting
use of their assets of the US assets in their country to uh uh uh keep project
freedom going. Uh the UAE has been cited still as the uh loyal partner of the
Trump administration and uh we saw in the events of the last week how the UAE was playing along it seems with uh a
kind of escalation narrative uh claiming that Iran was striking them and that um you know that they were going to make
Iran pay and of course the days have passed and uh they have done absolutely nothing But nonetheless, it seems like
the UAE has made a huge roll of the dice uh for the Israeli and US side here.
What do you make of this? And uh why why is it happening now? Why is the UAE this with this straight of Hormuz crisis that
the region is going through that Iran has essentially taken full control of? Um why why would they do this now?
Well, first of all, I wouldn't be too optimistic about Saudi Arabia or or anyone else. And uh we don't know. I
mean, obviously, it failed the operation. And Trump tried to pretend that it was the Pakistanis who contacted
and had and I'm sure it had nothing to do with Pakistan. This was just a failure. And it doesn't matter who said
what or did what, but I wouldn't be too sure about the Saudis. And and I know that the Iranians are not uh
they're they're they're carefully watching uh US forces in the region and if there is an assault then you know the
Saudis and the others are they're all uh they're all complicit just like they were last time around. So we'll have to
wait and see about that. some report in some newspaper is not uh enough to for us to make an assessment about the
future or even whether that is that was even true at all. Even if it was doesn't mean that it's going to change the course of events in the days ahead.
So we'll we'll we'll have to see about that. But the UAE is, you know, it is it has it is a close ally of the Israeli
regime. It has been um pursuing policies uh to the benefit of
the Israeli regime in Yemen in in the Sudan. It has helped with the genocide there uh and the genocidal war in Yemen
where back then it was allied with the Saudis and of course Qatar and Turkey and others back at the beginning they were all in it together. But then when
53 minutesthere was a fallout between them and there was a siege on Kata then Turkey and Katar sort of distanced themselves from from the genocide in Yemen. But um
but in the Horn of Africa throughout and Somalia the the
UAE has been a close ally of the Israeli regime. I think Muhammad bin Zed is um
you know just like many of just like Saddam Hussein when these people are surrounded by yesmen and people who won't tell them the truth
and they have enormous wealth and whatever they want happens they become delusional
and Saddam Hussein it was because of his own you know stupidity and uh
delusional behavior that he brought the destruction upon Iraq,
you know, as we saw and I think that Muhammad bin Zed is probably being his advisors are
giving him feeding him the sort of information that Trump's adviserss are feeding him
and uh both are detached from reality as far as I can understand. You're asking me a question. I'm speculating here. I
can't say for certain, but I think that Trump is to a degree detached from reality. And I think Muhammad bin Zed is
definitely he and his the gang surrounding him and his people, they're definitely detached from reality.
There's no doubt that people in even in the Emirates, I mean, when when the war was happening across the Arab world,
people were supporting Iran. If you looked online and you people were supporting Iran. The only people who oppose Iran were the Wahhabis and the
Salifist. The same people who've been funded by the Kataris and the Saudis and others for decades and who are pursuing
imperial the imperial agenda. They've been doing that for decades whether Libya or Syria or Iraq or or anywhere in
the world but uh or across Africa you know buku haram and all these other criminal organizations.
So except for them, people are supporting Iran and and the axis of resistance. Why? Because they know these Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf are not
doing anything for the for Arab people and for the region and their their agents and and proxies and and the
Emirates is the worst of the worst. And I doubt that Emirati is themselves because it is a police state. I mean,
um,
Pearson Morgan likes to pretend that Iran is a police state. He's clueless.
He's I know you invite him. I know you often are saying, "Hey, come here. You can check it out for yourself."
Invited him many times. He can go to my class. He can go where he can take a taxi and he can, you know, he'll he'll
hear all sorts of things. But, uh, what but is a police state where they check everything and no one says anything.
People don't talk politics. Uh, these,
you know, anyway. So I think that he's delusional and that's going to probably if this continues it's going to bring an
end to the United Arab Emirates or it's going to bring an end to uh the reign of the the the ruling family
and uh I mean I have a few people who uh travel to andor uh live periods of time
in the UAE that contact me and uh you know there were reports that during the
shooting war when the United States and Israel were attacking Iran and Iran was retaliating. Uh that Israel had sent uh
troops, whatever that's worth, uh and the so-called Iron Dome system to the UAE. But I've heard for years that the
UAE is just full of Israelis, Israeli spies. Um they have multiple flights every day.
Multiple flights every day. Busan has offices there. U Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And uh I mean look at the track record. A lot of people were surprised. Oh, UAE left OPEC. Wow, the UAE is really uh diving head first with
also the Arab organization for oil producing countries. I mean they won't even sit with the you know the other US proxies in the Persian G.
No. Yeah. And so it's a really uh you know what what the UAE did to Yemen. Uh you mentioned support for the uh
Wahhabists and all these uh you know uh jihadist proxies. That's what they all do. Yeah. The UAE is involved in that too. Yeah.
So they're all you know Sudan, Libya, Somalia.
Yep. Yeah. So uh and now it seems like the rubber is really meeting the road president you know when it comes to uh
their future because uh continuing to go down this path when the US is on a kind of a suicide mission for them uh the
United States can at any time uh if it had a need to could just like they did in Afghanistan pack up and get the hell
out. But uh the Gulf uh uh people who live in the the the Gulf states uh they
can't really do I mean they may be forced to do that but uh nonetheless uh that region is they bribed Trump so much and Trump
milked as he would say himself he milked them so much. He did. Yes.
And Trump Trump brought Trump Netanyahu brought about their destruction.
Yeah. Uh, person uh any any final words before I uh conclude here?
No, no. I just uh hope that everyone tries to be as active as possible online, offline, supporting. We shouldn't forget the children of Gaza,
the ch children of Lebanon. Uh they're killing gazins every day. Western media is trying to hide it from every people.
We have to be on the streets. We have to be, you know, we have to protest. We have to be more active online. We have
to awareness, revive that momentum that existed last year before these regional regimes helped Trump whitewash his
genocide and and imposed that fake ceasefire when they were when that the leaders of the region went to Egypt for
that uh monkey show with Trump. Uh that helped that helped end the the momentum.
you remember all the people on the streets from Sydney to Madrid to you know everywhere it was amazing. We have
to work, everyone has to work to revive that and uh hopefully the Iranian people, their
resistance will bear fruit and uh that will help the people of our our sisters
and brothers in Cuba and Venezuela who uh that will hopefully ease the pressure on them so that they can breathe more.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean there is a concerted effort. Iran world, you know, worldwide we know uh Russia, China,
they've been helping Cuba as well. It's not like uh there isn't any uh there there are forces in the world that are
on the right side and uh we we do have to continue to speak up especially, you know, uh didn't even get to talk too
much about this in the last several days, two week, but there was another flotilla that tried to sail. Um and yes and we have to we have to keep uh
reminding people because they've been keeping it out of the news in the west. Yeah.
The western media has been very silent about this. They they boycotted this flatillaa. The previous flotilla had had
more coverage ever since the regional leaders went to Egypt.
you know, Erdogan, Cece,
Abdullah, all you know, the these death spots in the Persian Gulf, they all gathered there among others. They w
watched Trump's genocide. Trump imposed this fake ceasefire. Every day they've been murdering Palestinians since. And
that has caused the momentum on the streets across the world to die down.
And that has allowed Western media to uh ignore what's going on. So we have to
push to revive that. The the heroes who were on the flotilla did did that to remind us about what was happening in
Gaza. So it is our responsibility to uh to remind ourselves and to remind everyone else uh about what's going on
and that they are starving Palestinian children. Uh Palestinian children with special needs are in really really bad
shape. And uh hopefully we can all do our own bit to help.
Yeah. Yeah. And uh Israel has detained imprisoned two of the leaders of the most recent flotilla. They are still being held tortured supposedly. Yeah.
Sif Abu Kashek and Thiago Aila are still uh in Israeli custody and uh that might last for quite a while. So everyone
should definitely be paying attention to Western governments don't care. No.
And they and and they were they were kidnapped in international waters, not in uh in Palestine.
Not in Palestine.
Yeah. So, everyone uh as President Randy said, that's why it's important to be active. Continue to spread the word about these things. Uh we'll be back here tomorrow 1:00 p.m. Eastern time.
I'll let you know uh what I have cooking then. But uh everyone, thank Press Morandi as we go. Uh it is my birthday,
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Iranian forces strike US vessels in swift retaliation for tanker attack: Top military comm
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Ebrahim Zolfaghari, the spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.

A spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said on Thursday that Iranian forces gave an immediate and decisive response to a series of US military aggressions in the strategic waters of the Strait of Hormuz and along the country's southern coastline.

In a statement, Ebrahim Zolfaghari noted that the "aggressive, terrorist, and outlaw" US military, in violation of a ceasefire, targeted an Iranian oil tanker.

The vessel was transiting from Iran's coastal waters in the Jask region, heading towards the Strait of Hormuz.

In a separate but simultaneous incident, another Iranian ship came under attack while entering the Strait of Hormuz, directly opposite the UAE's Fujairah port.

Concurrent with these fresh acts of aggression, the spokesperson said that US forces, operating in coordination with certain countries in the region, launched airstrikes against civilian areas in the coastal provinces.

These aerial attacks reportedly targeted locations along the coasts of Bandar Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island.

According to the statement, Iran's response was immediate and decisive.

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Spokesman of Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central HQ:

The aggressive, terrorist, and pirate US military has violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker traveling from Iran’s coastal waters near Jask toward the Strait of Hormuz



3:12 PM · May 7, 2026

The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran launched a swift counterattack, engaging US military vessels east of the Strait of Hormuz and south of the port of Bandar Chabahar.

The Iranian operation inflicted "significant damage" on the American warships, he said.

The spokesperson warned that the "criminal and aggressive" US and its allies must recognize that the Islamic Republic of Iran will, as it has in the past, deliver a crushing response to any act of aggression or violation "powerfully and without the slightest hesitation."

Earlier, media reports said Iranian naval and missile forces had delivered a swift and precise response to yet another act of US aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing American vessels to flee after sustaining damage.

A senior Iranian military official confirmed to IRIB on Thursday night that, following the unprovoked attack by US military aircraft on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, attacking enemy units in the Strait of Hormuz came under intense Iranian missile fire.

The aggressor forces suffered direct hits and were compelled to retreat in disarray.

It comes a day after US President Donald Trump suspended the so-called ‘Project Freedom’ after just 48 hours, which was aimed at forcing open the Strait of Hormuz.

It marked another humiliating retreat from the American side in the past few months.

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Iranian missiles force US aggressors to flee Strait of Hormuz after tanker attack
Thursday, 07 May 2026 8:23 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 07 May 2026 9:53 PM ]
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A senior Iranian military official said on Thursday night that following the unprovoked attack by US military aircraft on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, attacking enemy units operating in the Strait of Hormuz came under intense Iranian missile fire.

Iranian naval and missile forces delivered a swift, precise, and powerful response to yet another reckless act of US aggression in the Persian Gulf, forcing enemy units to retreat in disarray after sustaining direct hits, according to official reports.

A senior Iranian military official told IRIB late Thursday night that following an unprovoked attack by US military aircraft on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian forces immediately targeted the attacking enemy units operating in the Strait of Hormuz.

The aggressors came under intense Iranian missile fire and were compelled to flee after suffering significant damage.

“The attacking enemy units in the Strait of Hormuz came under Iranian missile fire and were forced to flee after sustaining damage,” the official stated, emphasizing that Iran’s armed forces remain fully alert and prepared to decisively neutralize any threat against the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters and vital maritime routes.

Meanwhile. Fox News reported that the US military carried out attacks on the ports of Qeshm and Bandar Abbas, but stressed that these attacks do not mean the start of war.

Strong parliamentary response

Nasrollah Pejmanfar, the chairman of the Article 90 Commission of Iran’s Parliament, issued a firm warning to the enemy.

He said that any missile launch or attack against Iran is considered a direct criminal act by the United States, and Iran will respond with similar action targeting the Americans.

Today’s attacks on the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian islands constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire, and the Americans should expect a harsh and proportionate response, Pejmanfar stated.

The United States is the root cause of every incident against Iran, and we will directly target American bases in retaliation for these aggressions, he added.

This latest provocation is directly linked to Washington’s reckless, failed “Project Freedom” operation.

CENTCOM: US forces attack Iranian military facilities

In a desperate attempt to cover up their humiliation and justify further aggression, US Central Command (CENTCOM) issued a fabricated statement claiming its forces had “intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks” and carried out so-called “self-defense strikes” against Iranian military facilities.

CENTCOM falsely asserted that “no US assets were struck,” while boasting of hitting Iranian missile sites, command centers, and surveillance nodes.

Iran has repeatedly proven that it will not tolerate such violations of its sovereignty. Any aggressor that dares to threaten Iranian waters or assets will face immediate and crushing consequences.

US forces, in blatant violation of international norms and the fragile regional ceasefire, fired on the Iranian-flagged tanker as it attempted to reach its destination, an act widely condemned as piracy on the high seas.

Iranian forces, acting in legitimate self-defense, immediately engaged the US units responsible for the provocation.