Transcript of Iran Escalates Tanker Attacks as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Rise New

Iran did it again. While Donald Trump is ranting and raving like a lunatic and bragging about his diesel deal with Putin, yesterday Iran struck 2 more tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and they appeared to be 2 VLCCs, those very large crude carriers. One of the VLCCs seemed to have struck a landmine. Another VLCC seemed to be struck by an IRGC either drone or missile as it was trying to exit the Strait of Hormuz. So in the past 10 days or so, from October 1st to October 10th, 11 tankers have been struck by the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz. Since September 28th, that number is probably close to 15 to 17 tankers have been struck by the IRGC. And the IRGC has released video of what went down. And then people inside one of these VLCCs released video. I'll show you that in a moment. Iran also issued an urgent warning to all remaining tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and told them to immediately go to the Dubai anchorage and not to move at all, and that any movement would be deemed hostile. and Iran would strike any of those tankers. And we did see at least a lot of tankers complying with Iran's instruction go to the Dubai anchorage.

Also reporting yesterday from Bloomberg that Iran basically has the same, if not even more, of its ballistic missile arsenal than it did before Trump and Netanyahu launched this catastrophic war. Perhaps even more drones, better drones, better ballistic missiles, better cruise missiles. And this report also talked about how Iran is working with Russia, both in terms of Iran giving Russia weapons and significantly Russia giving Iran weapons. And one of the things that Iran really was looking for, because Iran gave Russia the, uh, Geran-4, Geran-5 initial prototype, the Shaheds, that Russia turned into the Geran-4, Geran-5, which is kind of a more advanced jet-powered drone technology. Iran wants the Geran-4, Geran-5s, which they likely have as well. The Trump regime says we don't believe it. Iran's military is at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz. It's at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Iran isn't telling the truth.

Here's the thing.

Iran built its military bases underneath mountains and underground, and the United States military bases are all exposed. And I guess the Trump regime never thought it through, which they probably should have, that if you launch a catastrophic war against Iran with Netanyahu and you start slaughtering little children in the country, they're going to fight back. And your military bases are exposed and you don't have anti-drone interceptors and your ballistic interceptors, your PAC-3s and your Patriots or your THAADs, each time you shoot one of them, it costs about $4 to $5 million each Patriot missile, and 2 are fired at the same time. So about $10 million each time you're going to intercept an Iranian Drone or cruise missile or ballistic, which is much cheaper. I mean, some of the drones are $25,000, $30,000. Some of the cruise missiles are $100,000, $200,000. The ballistics are slightly more expensive. Um, but you know, a THAAD interceptor that the Trump regime uses, about $11 million per THAAD interceptor, and you shoot 2 at the same time, so $22 million. Um, in any event, uh, we, the United States and the Trump regime, depleted all of the interceptors pretty much.

Iran's built up all of its ballistics and drones and cruise missiles, and they're all underground. So, and Russia is, uh, helping Iran. And Russia said it publicly at the latest Turkmenistan meeting, the CIS, the old Soviet countries that are now, you know, supposedly independent and sovereign. They all met in Turkmenistan and They talked about how, well, they invited Iran as an honorary guest, and Russia talked about how, you know, they're helping Iran, and that Putin said, we're strategic partners in all regards. The message is pretty clear there. Then you take a look at what's happening in Saudi Arabia. You know, MBS, I guess, thought when he would do all these quid pro quos with Trump and Kushner that he was getting protection. And I guess MBS thought that he could escalate against Ansar Allah and attack Sana'a, and that what? Ansar Allah, the Houthis, were just bluffing. They weren't bluffing. They've developed their technology as well. And it's like the Trump regime underestimates Iran, Saudi Arabia, MBS underestimates Ansar Allah, and we're seeing what happened. Ansar Allah hit Terminal 3 of the King Khalid Airport in Saudi Arabia. It resulted in 309 people at the airport injured, 12 people at that Saudi Arabia— it's their main airport in Riyadh.

Okay. 12 people were killed, including 1 American. 309 people at the airport were injured. The scenes inside the airport were apocalyptic. I have videos of what went down in there. And so you have this massive escalation, this regional war that we've been warning about and talking about. It's here. It's not, is there going to be a regional war? There is a regional war and Trump looks weaker than ever. MBS looks weaker than ever. And we're seeing, you know, massive, massive amounts of chaos and death and devastation. And Donald Trump's out there bragging about some diesel deal with Putin where, I don't know what, Trump gets the equivalent— the United States gets the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil, or 2 million barrels of diesel, which is what goes on one VLCC, one of those very large crude carriers. So it's, it's not a lot. So let me show you here first. This is video released by the IRGC, and this was then confirmed by other independent sources of one of the tankers. This tanker struck an Iranian mine in the Strait of Hormuz. You can see what this looks like. Play this clip. Then I'll show you another VLCC that was struck by the IRGC.

This was taken inside of the tanker. These tankers hold, you know, the barrels of oil in them. Let me show you what that looked like. This is a harrowing scene from the inside. You can see it. Here's another video from the inside of that tanker. So you can see again the chaos after it was hit. And you can see in the background too, it looks like there's another ship that's burning. In the Strait of Hormuz. Could you see that as well? But let me show you this video right here.

Okay, okay.

Then let me turn our attention and turn your attention to the King Khalid Airport in Saudi Arabia and show you some of the scenes there. This is after the Houthis on Sirallah struck Terminal 3. Now, the Houthis warned that they were doing what they called a full air embargo, same way Saudi Arabia has an air embargo over the Sana'a Airport. On Sirallah, that's the capital of Ansar Allah, the Houthis. They said, okay, we're warning anybody who uses this Riyadh King Khalid Airport. There's no safe flights, nothing safe other than humanitarian, uh, other than it being used for humanitarian purposes. Otherwise, we're going to strike it. And they did. And so let me just show you some of the images inside King Khalid so you can see for yourself. Here, play this clip. We have another clip of what that looked like. Let's play it. Now, the warning from the IRGC. Let me just read you these statements. This one over here, IRGC, a rogue supertanker carrying crude oil, which was attempting to leave the unauthorized Strait of Hormuz route, suffered a massive explosion after hitting a naval mine on a route declared to be dangerous.

The supertanker, which had turned off its navigation and positioning system, is burning in a huge fire after hitting a naval mine, so that its fire is clearly visible to people living on the coast. The IRGC announces that a terrible fire will be the end of any offending tanker that tries to ignore the security and laws of the Strait of Hormuz. Victory comes only from God, the Almighty, the Wise. And then the IRGC issued a warning over VHF Channel 16. This was also confirmed by UKMTO. By the way, when I read this to you, I'm confirming it from multiple sources. As well. Like, I'm not just reading one source. I mean, we're seeing it visually, you know, and I'm just giving you a little bit of a summary of what's happening.

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IRGC issued a warning over VHF Channel 16 to 6 vessels anchored around 16.5 nautical miles north-northwest of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Ambria Intelligence said in an alert the vessels were advised to heave up anchor, exit the area immediately, and transit to the Dubai anchorage, which they Uh, ultimately did. I also talked about how Iran issued a warning 2 nights ago saying any of these tankers that are involved in these ship-to-ship transfers, where a smaller ship basically goes and hugs the coast of Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, it's loaded with oil, it goes right next to one of the VLCCs, they basically connect a hose and they pump the oil from the Smaller ship into the bigger ship, and it takes many hours. And they try to do that a few times, hook up a few of the small ships, fill up the VLCC, the very large crude carrier. And Iran says, we know you're doing that, and we're going to strike any ship that's stationary as well. It's not just if you're traveling through the Strait of Hormuz. We saw a strike off the coast of UAE, the west side, Dubai, the east side.

Um, Fujairah, and also a strike off of Dubai. And so it's not just the quantity of strikes, it's where they're striking as well, is to me of a lot of significance here as well. Um, and we talked about Russia supplying the ballistic missiles. The Trump regime says that's not true, Putin would never do that, we trust Putin, we don't entrust our intelligence community. Um, this is a statement from Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson regarding Donald Trump's statements about it would be a small price to pay for more gas to avoid nuclear bombs in San Diego and Iran— in San Diego and Los Angeles. Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson says, to frighten their own people, they conjure up an imaginary enemy in the sky to overshadow the real threat on the ground. The real danger lies neither beyond their borders nor in the skies over Los Angeles and San Diego. It lies in a ruling establishment that has imposed an illegal war on the world with global consequences. The US president has even described the destruction of Los Angeles and San Diego as a very small price to pay. This is a textbook example of the politics of fear, frightening people with an imaginary threat, portraying the destruction of their own cities as an acceptable price to pay and diverting their attention from the real danger.

The statements over there. The Iran Embassy South Africa posted this photo. Yes, we are the descendants of those you once knelt before, and this time the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to make history repeat itself. This is after Marco Rubio referred to the catastrophic war in Iran as part of a clash of civilizations where the the West is essentially on a crusade to destroy the Iranian civilization. And then Iran's parliament leader and basically the top civilian political guy, MB Ghalibaf, says, Throughout history, we Iranians have faced those who declared themselves masters of the universe and sought to erase ancient civilizations. They came in fire and flame, only to depart in dust and shame. Those who chase Alexander's legacy will share Valerian's fate. You will kneel. That's the statement over there. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is doing impressions of Iran's leaders. Here, play this clip.

They know that. I tell them that all the time. I say, you guys are fricking crazy. They are. They speak, we will kill. We will kill everyone. Everyone. We will kill everyone. And I hear like 20 guys behind him. He's talking, we will kill everyone. This is— they don't talk that way anymore, by the way. We will kill everyone. And behind, I got 20 guys, praise be to Allah, praise be to Allah, praise be to Allah. And I say, I do, I say, man, you guys, you're really— you're crazy.

Donald Trump is saying we can end this all really quick. Iran doesn't realize how nice we are to them. Let's play this clip.

Do a little bit extra before the election thinking it's going to hurt us, but we could end it really quick. They don't know how nice— they don't know how nice I've been to them. They don't know how nice I've been to them, even though their Navy has been obliterated.

And then Donald Trump says we will rename the Strait of Hormuz to the Trump Strait. Let's play this clip.

It's been knocked to hell. Radar gone. They needed radar. We're taking out more barrels of oil right now from the Hormuz Strait. We're thinking about renaming it to the Trump Strait. I don't—

Trump was also asked if he spoke with MBS. Here was Trump's response. Let's play it.

Absolutely.

Okay. Did you talk to MBS on the plane on the way back?

No, but But I will be speaking to him. And, uh, what happened in Saudi Arabia is not acceptable. Thank you.

Now, you may recall back in 2025, the Trump regime launched a war against the Houthis, which the United States lost. People don't talk about that a lot, but remember, that's when Pete Hegseth and the whole gang of Trump regime rejects or the Trump regime idiots were talking on the Signal chat, and they invited the reporter onto the Signal chat. And then all these planes started— remember the planes would like fall off the aircraft carriers, and like the helicopters would like mysteriously crash? And back in 2025, people believed what the Pentagon and CENTCOM were saying. Oh, I guess it's just a lot of accidents taking place. And then the Trump regime entered into a deal with the Houthis, and Trump was like, they're so courageous, they're so brave, and we have an understanding. Remember he did that? And so Ansar Allah recently, as you know, just taken over all of western Yemen, the Bab el-Mandab Strait area. They're pushing east, encircling an area called Taiz City. Saudi Arabia backs a proxy government in Yemen in other areas, which headquarters is Aden or Marib or some other areas over there. But they're against the Ansar Allah. Ansar Allah controls kind of the prime area, which is the area in, uh, the west, which is right by the Red Sea.

Um, and so Saudi Arabia uses its proxy group to impose its will on Ansar Allah. Ansar Allah— also, the Houthis are Ansar Allah— they respond by striking in Saudi Arabia. We've been following all of those strikes. A few days ago, they struck the Riyadh airport, King Khalid, killed a few people. And then yesterday, there was that massive strike at Terminal 3 that killed 12 people, including an American. and injured 309 other people. Ansar Allah also has been able to strike refineries in Riyadh, refineries in Yanbu, refineries in Abqaiq, refineries in Jeddah, refineries in Jazan, refineries, you know, all throughout the, the various, um, various areas where the big refineries are in Saudi Arabia. Um, so that's where we are, where we're at now, this full-fledged regional war. And Iran fully controlling the Strait of Hormuz. And that's why we're seeing the price of diesel and the price of gas very high. It costs $1.5 million a day to basically have a VLCC deliver whatever is in their barrels of oil, whether it's crude or diesel or whatever the product is. $1.5 million a day. And before the war, it was about $30,000 a day. So that already adds $30 a barrel.

And now Donald Trump wants to scapegoat Zelensky and then act like, oh, we have this great deal with Putin and it's going to lower the price of diesel. And as I've told you, it's such a small amount of diesel for the global market, it doesn't add anything of significance.

Right.

We're talking about maximum 2.2 million barrels, but what Trump, Trump wants to blame, cuz he's a loser. So everything was going great. We were doing so amazing, but Zelensky screwed it up. Zelensky, that, that's where he's going with all of this. Right. And Zelensky keeps on striking the refineries. That's what's— that's his scapegoat. It's obvious what he's doing. Blame Canada, blame Zelensky, blame NATO, praise Putin. That's Trump's strategy. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching. Oh, this is coming out now. Here, homestretch. WTF America. The first page is dedicated to you. The book is about the Midas Mighty, how the Midas Mighty formed, how this movement can help, I think, bring democracy throughout the world and fight back against authoritarianism. For the Midas Mighty and everyone else who wakes up, checks the news, and can't help thinking, WTF. Yeah, get the copy, ebook, hardcover. Thanks for watching. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can preorder your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.