Transcript of Trump Prepares Iran Invasion on Election Day

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Ben Meiselas breaks down a New York Times report that the Trump administration has prepared plans for strikes against Iran, possibly beginning on Wednesday, November 4, right after the midterm elections. He discusses reported US military timing, the positioning of three aircraft carriers, and Iran's movement of equipment and launch vehicles.

The episode also covers claims about a division within the administration, alleged Israeli intelligence about chemical weapons that Meiselas calls a false-flag attempt, stalled negotiations over Iran's seven conditions, and statements by Trump about possibly killing civilians. Listeners get a timeline of the escalation and the competing claims made by officials and commentators.

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This episode's transcript on Trump's possible Iran invasion plans was made with HappyScribe's AI note taker.

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Ben Meiselas00:00:57

As Donald Trump's election prospects get even worse, all reporting indicates that the Trump regime is preparing a massive attack against Iran in the next 24 hours. The latest reporting is that CENTCOM's plan calls for strikes to take place in Iran on Wednesday. To be clear, it's almost Wednesday in Iran, and there will be massive strikes, according to the latest reporting by The New York Times and others. It should also be noted that Iran's armed forces are moving equipment and tactical launch vehicles in its western regions right now, preparing for the US strikes and preparing to respond.

Iran's state-run Fars News agency posted this image of the globe that says, "Without geographical restrictions," referring to the order by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini, that Iran should strike wherever, whenever. That is the plan right now. So let's talk about what's happening. According to The New York Times, the US military has prepared plans for strikes against Iran beginning as early as Wednesday, November 4, following the midterm elections, with three American aircraft carriers positioned in the region for these strikes.

US officials say the optimal window for the operation is limited, as one carrier must return to its home port after early November. The timing also coincides with moonless nights, providing the darkness preferred by the US military for these massive strikes. Also, interesting timing: Wednesday, November 4 marks the 47th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran by Iranian students in 1979.

It's why a lot of accounts point to Wednesday as the day when these strikes will take place. Now, it should also be noted: Israel has shared intelligence with the Trump regime, alleging that Iran is preparing imminent chemical weapon strikes against the United States. This was also being reported by The New York Times, but I think anybody with half a brain realizes that this is Netanyahu's attempt to try to cause a massive false-flag incident to permit the Trump regime to do this massive, catastrophic escalation, which will certainly result in a massive backfire situation.

The Trump regime officials apparently are saying within the Trump regime there's a division. Hegseth, Admiral Brad Cooper, and others want to strike. JD Vance and others are saying this is just another version of Iraqi WMD claims. This is not true. Of course it isn't true. It's Netanyahu lying, especially as we know that in Israel, Gadi Eisenkot, who is the opposition leader, is forming a government right now with the Arab bloc that would remove Netanyahu from power.

And this is what Netanyahu does over and over again. And this morning, Iran has released a rare broadcast on state TV, preparing and instructing citizens to survive a nuclear strike, including sheltering for at least 24 hours. This was issued by Iran's Isfahan Emergency Services, and this comes among lots of warnings. Will the United States consider a tactical nuclear strike? Now, on the one hand, yes, Tucker Carlson says a lot of things, and he said that this is what's being planned.

Set aside what Tucker Carlson said, though, for a moment. The Trump regime has actively talked about, regardless of what Tucker has said, we've seen their statements about tactical nuclear strikes of the Isfahan Mountain Range. And we previously heard Senator Murphy, who actually suffered recently from a stroke, in our thoughts and prayers, and we hope that he gets better. He said that he saw intelligence about what the Trump regime's plan was before Senator Murphy had that stroke. And he said that if the Trump regime does what we believe they're going to do based on the intelligence, it would be the biggest catastrophic situation, perhaps in recent world history.

And so you can judge for yourself what Senator Murphy was talking about. Now, the same time all of this is going on, the Trump regime is trying to act like there was progress being made towards a deal with Iran. Iran made it clear that they are not close to a deal with the United States, saying zero progress has been made on reaching an agreement and no concessions were made on the nuclear issue. Oil prices were crashing on the Trump regime manipulation before the elections. Recall, the Trump regime also was lying all day that they're going to cut off military aid to Israel, which we know to be just more Trump gimmick and more Trump fraud heading into the election.

Now, Iran says the US response to its seven preconditions was, quote, "not convincing," and the US must fully and explicitly address Iran's seven conditions, particularly Mohsen Razai, who's the top adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini, said America's response to Iran's rights and demands was not convincing, and they must fully and explicitly address Iran's seven conditions and act upon them. Only in this case will the Strait of Hormuz be reopened. Meanwhile, Iran's president, Mossad Pezeshkian, said, "Let them assassinate me.

I'm ready. If the people stand with us, even if they assassinate thousands of people like me, the enemy will not be able to do a damn thing." Pezeshkian also said, "Look, if they want to keep this economic blockade and we reach a point where we have to cut off gas and electricity to cultural centers, to avoid cutting supplies to production facilities, that would be better than a thousand speeches. We must ensure that production remains operational. We need to establish a culture of I should consume less so that production can keep on running."

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Ben Meiselas00:06:57

Iran's MB Galabaf, the main parliament leader, the lead negotiator with the United States, being done now expressly just through intermediaries, says, "We have given the Americans a firm response. The ball is now in the Americans' court. If Washington makes another strategic mistake, it will face a new battlefield and be even more desperate to find a way out." Also, a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran and Washington remain far from a deal, rejecting excessive US demands.

The US wants Iran to address the nuclear file right now. Iran says, "We are not going to have any discussions about any nuclear file unless and until our seven conditions are met. Then we will open up the Strait of Hormuz. Then we can move to having possible discussions about the nuclear file. But Trump regime, you claimed you obliterated our nuclear weapons a long time ago, and so there's nothing to even talk about at this point. We don't trust you. We don't trust that you're ever going to fulfill any type of MOU. So you do the seven conditions or don't do the seven conditions, and we will respond accordingly."

The deputy commander of the Iranian armed forces said the following: "We, as military personnel, never analyze threats from a political perspective. We only think about defense. We are prepared to respond to any level of threat, and our duty is to be ready for war. The Iranian army and the armed forces are 100% prepared to respond to the enemy at any level of threat, and we are now ready to fulfill our duty. We, as military personnel, operate behind diplomacy, providing the leverage that diplomats need for negotiations so that they can appear strong at the negotiating table.

This is the greatest responsibility of the armed forces." Iran's deputy foreign minister, Ghar Babadi, says, "We do not tie our foreign policy to elections in other countries. The US election is an internal matter for their country. What is important is that Iran is neither waiting for the US election results nor aligning our policies with them." Trump also says that he may have to kill lots of Iranian civilians after the midterms when he resumes the war. He told state regime media this morning, "I'm not looking to kill lots of people, but if we have to, we'll have to."

Trump said when asked what will happen after the election on Iran, "We could finish them off or we can be nice and let thousands of people live that would get killed in a war." Iran's IRGC, meanwhile, says it has put Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini's orders into action and will respond immediately and effectively to any threat without geographical restrictions. Should also be noted that Israel has issued instructions to reopen bomb shelters as tensions rise over the possibility of renewed war with Iran.

Mayors and local officials in Israeli settlements have issued instructions to reopen bomb shelters. Let's take a look at what's going on in Tehran right now, where you have the people in the center of Tehran out with signs like this. "We killed Trump," it says. "There will be blood. We killed Trump." They're burning Trump flags right now. They're holding Trump flags right now. There are photos of this right now taking place. Meanwhile, when Donald Trump said that he was going to cut off aid to Israel, we all knew it was a lie. Netanyahu responded right away. Here's how Netanyahu responded.

Let's play this clip over here.

Speaker 400:10:11

And just to wrap up quickly on that breaking news about the aid to Israel, the Israeli finance ministry now reportedly telling local media here that they were entirely unaware of any intention by the US to cancel that $4 billion in aid. So it really is a political and financial earthquake here in the region.

Speaker 500:10:35

Thank you. We'll watch the follow-up from there.

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Ben Meiselas00:10:36

Netanyahu completely denying Donald Trump's claim that he would cut off aid. We all know that's an election day gimmick.

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Ben Meiselas00:11:43

Also, Donald Trump admitted that he struck Iran last night, as we reported here at the United States at the MidasTouch network, that the United States struck Iran's Qeshm Island. He said, though, it's not a big deal, not a real war. Here, play this.

Donald Trump00:11:56

They had 159 ships.

Speaker 800:11:57

They got rockets.

Donald Trump00:11:58

Every ship, Brian, every ship is at the bottom of the sea. They had 288 airplanes. Every airplane is laying on small little pieces, tiny little pieces all over the runways of Iran. They have no airplanes. They have no anti-aircraft. We took some out last night. It was just a minor attack. It wasn't war. They built an anti-aircraft facility. It took them about two months. We watched it get built. As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely. Not big war. And you know when you talk about war, this isn't really war.

We haven't—I mean, we hit them very hard at the beginning, but that was it. We knocked out their nuclear capability. We knocked out their dust. There's thousands of tons of rocks sitting on top. And we have that under surveillance. If anyone went there, we'd hit it again. But we have it under—you know, we have space force that I developed into my first.

Ben Meiselas00:12:50

More of Donald Trump saying that he struck Iran last night. He says, "We may have to kill thousands of people. It's my decision if I want to kill thousands of people." Let's play it.

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Donald Trump00:12:58

We have everything good, but this isn't really war. We haven't shot anything. You know, war is like you would see Russia, Ukraine. That's a war. War would be the Second World War, where you just keep fighting and fighting, and there's no time to not fight. I mean, we don't even—we have them totally where we want. We could finish them off, or we could be nice and let thousands of people live that would get killed in a war. But when was the last time that we really shot anything?

We took over the Hormuz Strait. We have total.

Ben Meiselas00:13:32

More of Donald Trump saying that. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 500:13:34

President, we know we had to take this little detour because Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump00:13:39

We had to do it.

Speaker 500:13:40

But after the election.

Donald Trump00:13:42

And it's been totally successful, by the way.

Speaker 500:13:44

Yes, sir. It's been one of the greatest victories of this administration. But what's going to happen after the election day, after today? What's the next move?

Donald Trump00:13:52

Well, we'll see. Look, I'm not looking to kill lots of people, but if we have to, we'll have to. But I'm not looking to do that.

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Ben Meiselas00:14:00

Donald Trump then says it is a fake rumor that we are low on ammo, but then admits we are low on certain types of munitions. But he blames that on Biden and Ukraine. Let's play this clip.

Donald Trump00:14:10

We'll have so many patriots within a year, and we're stocked up now. You know, they had that fake rumor that we were low on ammo, and we really weren't. We were low on certain things, and the word low is too strong, but we were sort of diminishing our thing because we gave so much to Ukraine under Biden, and much more so than Iran. We use very little on Iran by comparison. We gave $350 billion worth of equipment to Ukraine, and we never asked for money. And you know, I still give to Ukraine.

I give it through the European Union, but they pay us 100% on the dollar for it. We still give them, but they pay us.

Ben Meiselas00:14:47

But Donald Trump says that all of the money we are losing in this catastrophic war in Iran, we're getting back because we own Greenland now, he claims, which is a total and utter lie. And Fox was trying to push him off, like, go away. What crazy things are you saying? And he said in the last 24 hours that Greenland has given us $5 trillion by owning it, so that offsets all of the catastrophic costs in an already catastrophic war. Here's what he says. Play this clip.

Donald Trump00:15:12

That Europe has been good. Remember, they just gave the United States the greatest gift we've ever given. Do you know what it was? Greenland. We just got Greenland.

Speaker 500:15:23

And you negotiated that, Mr. President.

Speaker 800:15:25

Well, it's a military deal with Greenland.

Donald Trump00:15:27

All Iran should have negotiated a better deal.

Speaker 800:15:30

Well.

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Speaker 100:15:30

Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us. I know you're going to be watching the results from the White House tonight.

Donald Trump00:15:35

I am. I am. And I think the results are going to be better than you think. We did the tour. I did a tour for 30 days, and I want to tell you, those stadiums were packed. We had people nobody's ever seen there. I think they had a big effect.

Ben Meiselas00:15:50

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas breaks down new reporting from The New York Times on the Trump administration’s plans for a possible invasion of Iran. As Americans head to the polls, Meiselas examines what the reported plans entail, how Iran is moving its weapons into position, and how quickly the situation could escalate.

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