Iran Drops Reality Check….

0:00Iran is responding to the Trump regime's efforts to try to manipulate markets today. The Trump regime is trying to make it seem that there are breakthroughs in the negotiations. CBS and others have been reporting that discussions between the United States and Iran have moved into a quote, technical phase. And this is being reported as some major breakthrough. And Iran is making it very clear. Iran will make no concessions and show no flexibility over its nuclear program, even if the United States accepts its proposal to reopen up the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran is saying, look, we've put forward our non-negotiables since last March, and we've remained consistent and nothing has changed.

0:46The only thing that we've now are saying is that all of our conditions must be accepted by the Trump regime at once. We're no longer even okay for a phased implementation of the conditions that existed in the Memorandum of Understanding. Either agree to the conditions or we will continue to control the Strait of Hormuz and treasury yields in the U.S. will continue to surge. Gas and diesel prices will continue to surge. And so we've been reporting here on the Midas Touch Network that Iran conveyed seven conditions to intermediaries and the U.S. side. And these were the conditions of you got to have your troops leave bases in the Middle East.

1:29Israel needs to leave southern Lebanon. You need to unfreeze Iranian assets. You need to provide tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars for Iranian reconstruction based on the damage the Trump and Netanyahu regimes caused in the catastrophic War. Iran will maintain its ballistic missiles and drones and military arsenal. And in exchange, Iran will then agree to open up the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran will control the travel through the Strait of Hormuz and will reserve the rights to potentially toll the Strait of Hormuz. But they will work with Oman to do that. And they've already worked out a deal.

2:08Iran's made that very clear from the outset. Yet today we saw reports, Iran and US talks enter technical stage. Iran and US negotiations are moving further along than they ever were before. Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner were feeling optimistic. Sources were saying that Iranian leadership was feeling optimistic. And I was like, didn't you all just realize that this is the same market manipulation we've been seeing over and over again. Just look at the statements that one of the main advisors to Ayatollah Mojtaba, Moshen Reze, was saying in the past 48 hours. He was making this very clear what was actually taking place.

2:49Here's what he said. He says, here's how Iran views diplomacy. We're not returning to past diplomacy. We're no longer returning to the situation of Islamabad and the MOU. He said, here's what we've agreed to. Seven conditions. We're putting them in writing. We've conveyed them to Pakistan, Qatar, and other intermediaries. President Pazeskian of Iran and Foreign Minister Aragji went to New York with instructions that they could transmit these terms. And this is what Moshe Razai says. There's no discussion whatsoever that these conditions should change, that a new condition should be removed or added.

3:27Talk is enough. Negotiations are enough. Now we must act. If America does not fulfill the conditions, we will neither open the Strait of Hormuz, nor is there negotiation on the table to change what these terms are. Razai said that the conditions must be implemented all at once and said that the U.S. has been given only four or five days to do so. After that, he says Iran will determine the next step without specifying what that actually would entail. But we previously reported that on the Midas Touch Network. So the idea that there are some technical talks or breakthroughs, it's pure, unadulterated market manipulation.

4:09And on the market manipulation, I mean, you're literally seeing stocks spike, oil slide, and gold jumps after CBS reported that US and Iran talks have entered a, quote, technical stage, citing this Al Jazeera reporter who had sources. Sources said, you know, in the meantime, one of Iran's top advisors to the Ayatollah also said the following about the Trump regime's sanctions that would try to block Iranian aircrafts from landing in foreign countries. And this is what one of the Ayatollah's top advisors just said as well.

4:46Ben Meiselas:Alignment with America in implementing hostile policies will remain etched in the memory of the Iranian nation, even though our strategy in this regard is clear. Flight in the region is either free for all or for no one. If Iran is denied the possibility of flight and access to airport services, no country in the region will have this possibility either. So when we hear, for example, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are now blocking Iranian aircraft from landing there, what the Iranian leadership is saying is we're now waiting this four or five days to see if the Trump regime will agree to all of our prior terms that we've been putting out there since March.

5:30Ben Meiselas:The Trump regime needs to agree to it all at once. If they do that, then the Strait of Hormuz can be open once again. Or if the Trump regime doesn't do that, Iran's going to reserve the rights to take potential action against the airports of other countries that are blocking the Iranian aircraft. I think it is notable that the Trump regime's efforts right now have been largely targeting Iranian civilians, right? I mean, the blockade, if you will, that's been taking place, I'll get to that in a moment, in the Arabian Sea is blocking Iranian civilian tankers. We're not talking about battleships or any type of weaponry.

6:08Ben Meiselas:We're blocking food and medicine getting into Iran. The latest Trump regime sanction of saying Iranian aircraft can't fly into other airports is against Iranian civilians who are traveling to different locations. It should be noted, as I talked about earlier today, that Xi Jinping and China made it very clear that they will not go along with any Trump sanctions unilaterally imposed against China, and China would welcome Iranian flights there. But going back to the so-called blockade that's taking place in the Arabian Sea, as I talked about earlier this morning, looking at some of that Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, it does also look like the Trump regime has pulled back its aircraft carriers, whereas they used to be right at the entrance of the Gulf of Oman.

6:59Those aircraft carriers appear to be moved much further out into the Arabian Sea because Iran has also been able to

7:07Ben Meiselas:demonstrate that some of its new anti-ship missiles are able to reach where those aircraft carriers were. And then we saw, I think, the concomitant move by the Trump regime to pull those aircraft carriers back. Other notable developments as well today, Iran and Saudi Arabia's foreign ministers met each other. You had a RAGC meeting with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister. So that was an interesting development. Also, we learned through new reporting, leaks from the U.S. intelligence community that China's assistance to Iran in providing satellite imagery of U.S. bases, of U.S. military assets in the Middle East may have been far more extensive than initially reported.

7:58Ben Meiselas:You know, Donald Trump was asked when he was with Xi Jinping, did you raise anything about the Iran war? Did you bring anything up? And Donald Trump's like, yeah it's great everything's amazing everything's going well let me show you what donald trump said here let's play this clip right here president trump did you discuss the war with iran during your discussions with president she did you discuss the war with iran did he offer you we did we did do you think there will be progress made in the creative i think we're gonna do great

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9:59Ben Meiselas:Also, it should be noted that the U.S. intelligence community also leaked the following out. So two major U.S. intelligence community leaks today. One was regarding, and I think these were intentionally done on the same day. One is how China was providing satellite and surveillance to Iran. The other major U.S. intelligence community leak was the following. The U.S. intelligence community assessed that Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, according to classified documents that were provided to Congress. The assessment has raised concerns among some U.S. lawmakers over Trump's agreement to support a Saudi Arabian civilian nuclear program.

10:41Ben Meiselas:Because if you can downblend and make things non-nuclear grade, you can upblend and make them nuclear capable and you can further enrich the uranium. And so that was leaked as well. I want to point this out, too. you had Iraq's prime minister, al-Zaidi. He gave a speech this morning at the United Nations and his words talking about how there's a replica of the Babylonian king Hammurabi at the United Nations. And listen to what he has to say, though, about how the United Nations needs to be a place that restrains or protects smaller powers and midpowers from domination by the bigger powers. Who do you think he's talking about here?

11:29Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip right here. Here at the United Nations headquarters,

11:37there is a replica of the steli of the Babylonian king Hammurabi. It has an inscription which reads, laws are made to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak. In today's world, we find the weak being oppressed because it is the law of the powerful that governs, not the power of the law.

12:07Therefore, the question of Palestine remains central to any discussion of stability in the region.

12:19There will be no room for security in the Middle East without a just solution for this issue and without establishing the right of the Palestinian people to their land, to self-determination, and to establishing their sovereign state.

12:36Ben Meiselas:We also heard from the Lebanese Prime Minister Salam this morning about how Lebanon wants Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territory. This is one of those seven conditions that Iran has put forward as what needs to be met if Iran's going to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Here, let's play this clip. We want it to end. We want the ceasefire consolidated. We want Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territory up to our internationally recognized borders in accordance with the 1949 General Armistice Agreement and as affirmed by Resolution 1701. We want the release of all our detainees, the safe and dignified return of our people to their villages and towns, and the reconstruction of what the war has destroyed.

13:26It was in that spirit that the lebanese state entered into negotiations with israel under the kind auspices of the united states of america and its president for which we are grateful with a view to reaching arrangements that ensure an end to the war and the restoration of lebanon's full sovereignty the sovereignty to which we are committed is indivisible it requires israel's withdrawal from all lebanese territory it equally requires the extension of the authority of the lebanese state through its own forces over the entirety of its territory with weapons held by the state alone and then we heard

14:07Ben Meiselas:from iran's president uh possess skin who went on state regime media fox last night and here's what he had to say let's play we never sought war we do not seek war i deeply believe that humans should not cause the death of another human. We are supposed to be the chosen beings of creation. When we can resolve issues through dialogue, we shouldn't resort to killing one another. But with the instigations conducted by Israel, they have imposed this war on us, but we do not wish to continue. It's America that must choose whether it wants to end this or not. There you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think.

14:48Ben Meiselas:And so clearly more market manipulation by the Trump regime over here. The technical talks, I mean, they just use this language, technical talks. These are the same terms that Iran has agreed to previously, that Iran not agreed to, but put forward back in March. They haven't moved away from those terms. If anything, Iran has just said, we're not going to phase them all in at different points. We want them all done right away first before we open up the Strait of Hormuz. So that's the latest. We'll keep you posted. I just want to make sure you have the full set of facts there. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers.

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