Iran Issues Major Warning after Trump Surrender

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3:52Ben Meiselas:Iran has just issued an urgent response to Donald Trump and the United States after Donald Trump's total surrender and capitulation in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has posted the following message on its social media accounts. Iran is only a few days away from a nuclear bomb with a wink emoji. It's a photo of a cave because Donald Trump said, I'm going to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. The Iranian social media accounts have posted the following message. Once upon a time in the Stone Age, Iran is only a few days away from a nuclear bomb. Wink face emoji. Now, you'll recall that Donald Trump has said that he's no longer pursuing Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz, which he just announced a day ago, because he said that it's been such a successful operation that he doesn't even need to do it anymore.

4:50Ben Meiselas:The truth is, is that as Donald Trump tried to get a number of cargo ships and tankers out of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran demonstrated that it still had a strong grasp and control over the Strait of Hormuz. A South Korean tanker, a UAE tanker, and the port of Fujairah were all hit by Iran as Donald Trump tried to escalate. So then Donald Trump gave up and said, we're not doing this anymore. So Donald Trump then declared a ceasefire over the existing ceasefire from Epic Fury. He goes, no, that was the Epic Fury ceasefire. This is the Project freedom ceasefire. It's a double ceasefire. You see, and Iran was like, we don't know what the hell you're talking about.

5:36Ben Meiselas:You're imagining negotiations with yourself. And you can just see what Iran is doing and saying as Donald Trump spews this propaganda to US media, which manipulates the market for Donald Trump and Trump's rich buddies. here's what Iran's foreign spokesperson, foreign minister spokesperson had to say. Iran's foreign spokesperson minister says the following, the concept of negotiations requires at the very least a genuine attempt to engage in discussions with a view to resolving the dispute. And it's citing international law. It needs good faith, then meaning that negotiation is not a disputation, nor is it a dictation, a deception, an extortion, or a coercion.

6:31Ben Meiselas:Then Iran's social media accounts also posting a drone that was shot out of the sky recently by Iran. I know Donald Trump says, Iran has no military, no Navy, no anything. While they're still striking American drones out of the sky and they've paraded around one of these drones. And this is what they write. Display of the enemy's captured spy and hostile drone in the Persian Gulf waters at the nighttime gathering of the people of Hormuz Island. The latest capture by the armed forces becomes a guest in the street epic. You can see it right there. More from the Iranian social media accounts. They write the following.

7:09Ben Meiselas:Please keep your tweets concise in the coming hours or day. No more than one page. There There is no need to repeat old words, for example, write Id or Ibad. Iran's foreign minister spokesperson also writes, Wooden-headness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary sign. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. And that's a passage from Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam.

7:53Ben Meiselas:It's actually a great book. One of the books that really got me interested in international affairs was when in eighth grade I picked up a book called The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. And that really piqued my interest in putting me on a course of really studying this stuff. So I know that book very well. In fact, Iran's social media account also responds to Donald Trump's post of yesterday where Trump gives up and says, we're done with Project Freedom and the Iran social media accounts write, all the stuff they did these last three months, totally unnecessary. regardless of the outcome.

8:29Ben Meiselas:It was an unnecessary operation and unnecessary suffering for all. Tremendous. So then as Iran is now saying, we're days away from a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb, right? You saw their post. Donald Trump goes into the Oval Office and he's doing a press conference with UFC fighters to talk about a UFC fight that's going to happen in a few weeks at the White House. By the way, I think this UFC fight is going to be the biggest failure ever because anything that Donald Trump dies and turns to crap. But anyway, he's surrounded by UFC fighters. Very bizarre. And a reporter says to Donald Trump, so you realize Iran is not submitting.

9:10Ben Meiselas:They're refusing to submit. And then Donald Trump lashes out at the reporter. Why do you say that? You don't know that. And the reporter's like, Iran has fired at US Navy ships in the past few days. so you don't think that they're not submitting? Here, play this clip. You're facing an opponent right now in Iran that has refused to submit. You seem optimistic now as you may be pushed through 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 refuse to submit? You don't know that. You don't know what's going on behind. They were firing on US ships a few days ago.

9:45Man, a few days ago is a long time ago. 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 what's not to submit? So they had a Navy with 159 ships and now every ship is blown to pieces.

10:03Ben Meiselas:Next, a reporter says, so what are the status of the talks then, Donald? And Donald Trump in the Oval Office says, well, we've had some good talks before and we've had some good talks as well recently. Donald Trump has not had any direct talks with Iran and Iran has not had any direct talks with Donald Trump's regime. Pakistan is serving as an intermediary, and what will happen will report on it. Iran will provide its framework. It's the same 10-point framework over and over again. They've broken up the framework into phases now to try to make it easier for Trump and his regime to understand, but they've presented it.

10:40Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump will send a counter plan, which is all the stuff that Iran said are non-negotiables. Then Donald Trump will claim that the counterplant our discussions with is a discussion with Iran and that Iran's close to agreeing and then it manipulates the market. Anyway, here's what Trump says. What are the stats of these talks? If they're very good, just give some insights to it. Well, we've had talks and we've had some good talks before, as you know, and all of a sudden the next day they're like, they forgot what happened. You know, they're proud, like these guys are proud. Nobody more proud than these guys.

11:16Sometimes they fight on pride because, you know, they're injured, they're hurt. No matter how great you are, you get hit by somebody else that looks like them. It's it's very tough, but they have great pride. These people are great pride. The others do, too. And it means have great pride.

11:31Ben Meiselas:We want them. Trump says we'll make a deal, but we're not going to talk about deadlines. Play this clip. I think you'd be like a little tough. Have a good time, everybody.

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13:44Ben Meiselas:But right before Donald Trump said, we're not talking about deadlines, he called up state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And he told Brett Baer, this will get done in a week. Remember the, I called a two week death spiral with Trump. Just give me two weeks, give me a week, two weeks, give me a week. And what he hopes is that we all forget about this. A week becomes a month, a month becomes a year, a year becomes eight years or 10 years and, or 12 years, and there's no healthcare plan. It's coming in two weeks, coming in two weeks. Here's what Brett Baer said. Let's play it. I had a phone call with the president a short time ago, and he is optimistic about this deal, this memorandum of understanding, thinks it is going to lead to things.

14:25He's cautiously optimistic, I should say. But thinks, and I asked him what the timeframe would be. He puts it at a week, getting everything wrapped up.

14:35Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump held a press conference with Melania. I purportedly it was about Mother's Day and the crowd started laughing in Donald Trump's face when Melania mentioned that Donald Trump is empathetic. Let's play it. Most know my husband as the strong commander in chief, but his empathy transcends the role and shape a caring leader who constantly remembers each and every American soldier is someone's child. Then Donald Trump is talking about how by sea, by ocean, by water. And he goes, when lots of people use the word sea, they think they mean eyes, but they actually mean the water. That's what Donald Trump is saying.

15:22Ben Meiselas:Let's play it. Like it, but the numbers speak for themselves. If you really get down, you see drug traffic coming into our country's way down. and by sea, by sea, by ocean, by the water. You know, a lot of people say, what do you mean by sea? Is it sea like vision? No, it's the SEA, but it's down 97%. And Trump says, look, we're dealing with people who very much want to make a deal. Here's what he says as well. In the case of Iran, we're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. We're not going to let that happen. And we won't let that happen. And so we're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much.

16:02And we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us. We have it very much under control. The blockade is unbelievable. The Navy's been incredible. The job they did is like a wall of steel. Nobody goes through. In particular, the Iranians are not getting anything through one way or the other. So they're out of business. And we'll see whether or not they are agreeing. And if they don't agree, they'll end up agreeing shortly thereafter. So that's the way it is.

16:32Ben Meiselas:And Trump also says that he was expecting the markets would be down 25 percent. And they're not down 25 percent. So things are great. And they all want to go there and elsewhere. We just hit a new high in the stock market. The stock market's the highest it's ever been. And I expected that the market would be down 20, 25 percent. I was willing to do that to get rid of a crazy country. Crazy. The people like, you know, you talk about regime change. Their first level leaders are dead. Their second level leaders are dead. Some of their third level leaders are dead. I call that regime change. But I thought we'd be down maybe 20 percent and we're up.

17:14The stock market's higher now than when we started this war. And I thought oil prices would go to 200, 250 dollars. It's at$100 now.

17:24Ben Meiselas:And he also says, even if the oil goes up to$200 a barrel, it'll be worth it. 20 % and we're up. The stock market's higher now than when we started this war. And I thought oil prices would go to$200,$250. It's at$100 now. And I think you're surprised and I'm surprised. But even if it went to$200, it would have been worth it. And then he attacks Pope Leo. Let's play it. Well, I can tell you this, that as far as the Pope is concerned, and it's very simple, whether I make them happy or I don't make them happy, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And he seemed to be saying that they can. And I say they cannot.

18:09Because if that happened, the entire world would be hostage and we're not going to let that happen. That's my only message.

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