Transcript of Trump Just Attacked Iran...

This is a breaking news alert. The Trump regime has once again escalated the catastrophic war against Iran, striking tankers right off of Kharg Island. State regime media Fox is now confirming senior US officials have told Fox the United States military has struck targets near Kharg Island and Jask. The targets include Iranian oil tankers. This is part of a larger effort to squeeze Iran economically. The strategy includes sinking and disabling Iranian oil tankers. Now, earlier we started to hear explosions one after the other near Kharg, 2 explosions, then another explosion, an explosion heard near Jask. And it turns out it was indeed the Trump regime striking Iranian oil tankers, not military targets, oil tankers like pirates. Now, this, as Iran warned the United States, If you strike our oil tankers, we will unleash a massive retaliatory strike against U.S. military bases in the region. As you know, we've been reporting here on the Midas Touch Network that Iran has been rolling out new ballistic weapons, ballistic missiles, and other weapons that it has been using with a great degree of success. And Iran made this warning before the United States just struck multiple Iranian oil tankers off of Kharg.

Here was a statement from one of the military spokespeople over in Iran. The aggressive U.S. military has issued a warning to Iranian tankers to evacuate in order to attack them. Therefore, I announce that any attack on Iranian tankers will result in the targeting of U.S. bases in the region by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. we can be expecting Iranian retaliatory strikes in the very near future. We will be monitoring what's going to be taking place in Jordan, in Kuwait, in the UAE, in Erbil, Iraq, at the Al Udeid base in Qatar, uh, and in other Arab nation neighbors of Iran. Now, earlier this morning, you'll recall there was a lot of activity over the Strait of Hormuz and within the Strait of Hormuz. An advanced US MQ-1 drone was intercepted by Iran earlier and destroyed by Iran over the skies of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran released footage of the moment it struck the U.S. MQ-1 drone. I'll also show you that in a bit. Also, the Iran Navy announced that one of the U.S. military's most advanced unmanned underwater vehicles was seized by the Iranian armed forces at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz during a complex intelligence and field operation and brought into Iran.

Iran has since published numerous photos and videos of this AUV— autonomous underwater vehicle— and it does appear to be the Dive LD model, which is the cutting-edge, highly classified U.S. technology, new U.S. technology, Iran now has it in its possession. Iran will be able to reverse engineer this, likely give it to Russia and China. This is a massive loss that the US lost one of these Anduril Dive LDAUVs right here. Iran announced the capture of this AUV as follows: The early morning capture of the US military's most advanced 2025 unmanned submarine shows that no advanced technology can get past our surveillance layers in the Strait of Hormuz. Dominance over the Persian Gulf belongs to our young technologists. Go back to the Bay of Pigs, is the statement that Iran made. So, in the course of several hours, Iran struck a U.S. MQ-1 drone in the air and then struck a Dive LD underwater vehicle As well, and then issued that statement. Now, what was the Trump regime's response? The Trump regime admitted that one of its AUVs— that's underwater autonomous vehicles— was captured, but they claimed that it simply malfunctioned. No classified centers, an outdated older model.

We didn't even care about it as well. That's what CENTCOM claimed. However, Iran released a video. of the AUV, and it was not what CENTCOM said. Once again, surprise, surprise, the Trump regime is a lion because they're liars about every damn thing. Now, this is the video that the IRGC released showing the intercepted US Navy Dive LD, top-of-the-line, highly classified, uh, AUV drone that the Iranians now have in its possession. Play this clip. Iran's parliament leader, MB Ghalibaf, posted the following image. Knock knock, he says. Well, it seems the most modern U.S. intelligence AUV just had a knock on its door from the IRGC Navy. U.S. Navy AUV program knocked out. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Araghchi of Iran says after 47 years of sanctions, the U.S. went to war with Iran on behalf of Israel. The fallout has been disastrous for America, including its standing worldwide after failing to achieve its aims. through sanctions or war. Washington's novel solution is more sanctions. Seriously? Well, and the other solution is, I guess, to strike Iranian oil tankers. That's what the United States Navy has been reduced to, and CENTCOM has been reduced to destroying oil tankers of another country to put the economic squeeze on them because that'll make them want to do a deal with you.

How pathetic are you to think that that's what's going to make Iran want to do a deal? No, Iran's going to climb the escalatory ladder. I previously showed one of the top military advisors to the Ayatollah, Mohsen Razai. Remember, I showed you his interview yesterday. He says, look, we have all of these new hypersonic ballistic missiles. If we want to take out your damn aircraft carriers that are just sitting there in the Arabian Sea, We can take out both of your aircraft carriers easily. Do you see what the Axis of Resistance allied the Houthis are doing right now in Saudi Arabia? They're using the same missile technology that we created for them, essentially. We've got the Castle Breakers, we've got the anti-ship ballistic missiles that go at an incredibly fast speed that you won't be able to stop. We just— this is what Iran's view is, that if they strike the aircraft carrier, it's gonna kill hundreds of US sailors, Navy sailors, and Marines, and that that could potentially marshal some support of the American people against Iran, when Iran knows that all they gotta do is wait this one out a little bit and keep on striking U.S. bases in the region, and the U.S. economy goes deeper and deeper into a Great Depression, which is where the U.S. economy is heading right now as a result of the Trump regime's utter disastrous, uh, policies— or no policies at all, just Just winging it.

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We all know the price of crude right now. Both Brent and WTI rapidly approaching $100 a barrel. You look at some of these spot prices and you're all well over $100 a barrel. You wanna talk about diesel right now and the crack spread there, we're talking about $100, $150. I mean, huge crack spread amounts right there. The price of diesel, if you're filling up with diesel, is what? On average, over $6 a gallon. The price per gallon of gas will be approaching $5 very soon. These strikes have only caused the price of crude to go up even higher. This is a total calamity, folks. Now, Iranian channels close to the IRGC are stressing the importance of the US AUV now in the Iranian hands. They're saying we are going to reverse engineer this stuff. This was the footage, by the way, showing Iranian air defenses intercepting and destroying that US MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz. You can see it for yourself right there. And let me remind you as well what took place over the past 24 hours as the Houthis struck really hard in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia says 73 wounded as the Houthis attack Ansar Allah, attack civilian and energy sites over there.

And they attacked— I mean, just go look at some of the locations where they hit. I mean, they hit Abha, they hit Jazan, they hit a new— a number of areas. And the Jazan refinery again is in flames. Take a look right here. Missiles from Yemen towards Saudi Arabia. See for yourself. Take a look at the Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Let's play this clip. Now, as, uh, MB Galibafaran's, uh, parliament leader posted, it's simple. The oil and gas production chain here is sprawling, accessible, and exposed. American oil and gas companies across these waters and facilities share that exposure. Strike our assets and you get struck. We've already proven it. Ask the bases that are no longer viable. And that's right. Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery hit again on Monday, the latest in a series of Houthi strikes that have kept the 400,000 barrel per day plant offline for weeks. And here are some more Uh, shots being fired. There were 10 to 30, 40 explosions in southern Saudi Arabia throughout the night and more. I mean, in terms of these ballistic missiles, take a look at the Houthis on Sirallah firing missiles and drones right over here over the past 24 hours.

You can see for yourself. Let's play it. And finally, let me share this with you. Iran released this video, a look at their Castle Breaker missile. You can see it for yourself. Let's play it.

With satellite imagery revealing at least 15 US military installations in complete or significant ruins, the Kheibar Shekan appears to have been a highly effective choice for the Iranian military. But what makes this missile so effective? Firstly, the Kheibar Shekan relies on solid fuel and mobile launchers. This enables its rapid deployment and makes it difficult for enemy forces to target on the ground. Once deployed, it can travel up to 1,500 kilometers. Secondly, interception is very difficult because the Kheibar Shekan reaches its target within minutes and can change direction before descending. Finally, it has a heavy warhead that weighs between 450 and 600 kilograms, Making it capable of easily destroying multi-level structures.

Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu said the following: We have to complete this mission to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. Means defeating this necessary to defeat this regime. It will fall. We must bring it down. Eliminate Hezbollah once for all. Eliminate Hamas. Now I ask a simple question. Who fought for us? The answer is clear. Nobody else will do it. Only I alone can fix it. As he's like destroyed southern Lebanon, killing a ton of innocent people there recently. More deaths in Gaza we've been reporting on as multiple schoolchildren were killed this past week heading to their first day of school. We've been reporting on that. That's your update. We got you covered there. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody.

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