Iran Just Responded…

0:00Ben Meiselas:Iran is responding to Donald Trump's frantic claims earlier today, where Trump said, Iran desperately wants to make a deal. They're failing, and I'm going to determine whether or not I will re-engage with Iran. Well, senior Iranian officials are saying the following, as we've repeatedly stated, we do not seek negotiations for a deal with the United States. Donald Trump is making more false claims in order to try and manipulate the market. Another senior Iranian official in Tehran said that Trump is the one who is desperately seeking a deal in order to try and influence global oil markets as the price of diesel and gas continues to surge to record highs and as the American people are suffering.

0:48Ben Meiselas:Professor Mirandi, who I had here on the Midas Touch Network last week, I did a good interview with him. Check it out. He posted the following. The failing Trump regime wants to make a deal quickly and badly. Trump must first carry out the obligations in the MOU that he personally signed. Recall earlier this morning, Donald Trump wrote, the failing nation of Iran wants to make a deal quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the USA will choose to engage, the concept of which we are open to. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. It's a concept of a framework. Let's see if that manipulates the market again.

1:27Ben Meiselas:It doesn't, Donald. The market continues to implode on the American consumer and the American people right now. Then Donald Trump, of course, needs to blame everything on former President Biden after Iran publicly rejects his latest scam. And Donald Trump says, I just hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America were caused by sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden administration, not by, quote, Trump. Even oil was higher under Biden than it is right now. And we prevented Iran from having a nuclear weapon with the temporary exception of oil. Prices are coming down sharply and oil will drop like a rock as soon as the military conflict with Iran is over.

2:10Ben Meiselas:And that will not be long. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The sexual predator, the vile criminal, Donald J. Trump, the sicko con artist, bankruptor. And we are seeing that happen. And fast forward here in these United States. What's Treasury Secretary Besant up to? How's your economic D-Day going today, Besant? Because we saw that photo of the Iranian president and Iranian foreign minister with all of the BRICS block nations. They're strengthening their economic cooperation with Iran Besant. So what you up to Besant? Let's take a look. He posted the following message moments ago.

2:50Ben Meiselas:Treasury launched Operation Economic Outcast to cut off all financial lifelines to the Iranian regime and its enablers. That's why I issued a new call for whistleblowers to come forward with tips about those who facilitate Iran's terror. We need a tip line. Who's cooperating with Iran's terror? Really, the terror like how the Trump regime slaughters little girls in Manab and Lemaire and the recent wedding in Syriq County and the family in Keshem and the genocide going on in Gaza. I can continue to go on and on, but I wonder who's cooperating with Iran. Whistleblowers, tipsters, can you help Treasury Secretary Besant, China's foreign minister Wang Yi and China's president Xi Jinping.

3:40Ben Meiselas:We're helping Russia's foreign minister Lavrov and their president Putin is like, it's us. And we want to help them with nuclear capabilities. And their civilian nuclear program, prime minister Moni of India is like, me, me, everybody, all the BRICS nations, look at us, look at us. And Besant though, inspector gadget Besant is on the job. 1-800 whistleblower. If you know who's, Can you get any more embarrassing economic outcasts? The only economic outcast is the United States right now because of you idiots, you pathetic losers who have done this to the United States. And by the way, I'm not making a Democratic point, liberal point, centrist point, Republican point.

4:24Ben Meiselas:It's just the reality. These people are pathetic. Besant goes on to say to anyone worldwide with information on these lifelines, this is your chance. This is your chance. If you have actionable information for Treasury, you may be eligible for an award. You're going to get a sticker from Besson. Besson's going to give you a little sticker, everybody, no matter where you live or who signs your paycheck. If you see something, say something. Besson will give you a participation sticker, everybody. I mean, can you get any more pathetic than this? Maybe you can. Eric Trump posting photos aboard U.S.

5:07Ben Meiselas:military helicopters doing joy rides with him over Ireland. Don't worry. Don't worry. Taxpayers paid for it, as this account explains. Also, we learned that we probably knew this before, considering that the U.S. has set up a series of concentration camps throughout the United States where the United States puts immigrants. This is what we saw this morning. ICE signage described small metal cages where the Trump regime put immigrants in little dog cages as calming areas. And these calming areas were in places like the concentration camp for immigrants in Florida called Alligator Alcatraz, where the Trump regime would boast how they wanted immigrants to be eaten by alligators.

5:51Ben Meiselas:and the detainees would be put in these little dog cages to reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions and reduce their stress. This is what the Trump regime is doing and did. It's disgusting. Now, what else are we learning as Iran's responding to Trump's pathetic panicking this morning? Well, according to diplomatic sources, Waller's reporting the following, Saudi Arabia and Israel earlier today held talks mediated by CENTCOM with the aim of helping the Saudis defend themselves against the Houthi army through intelligence gathering and other means. And so there are hundreds of American personnel right now in Saudi Arabia working with MBS on our taxpayer dime.

6:43Ben Meiselas:We have the Trump regime intelligence officials mediating and working to bring Netanyahu into this as well with MBS, the crown prince who's given Donald Trump and Trump's family billions of dollars in order to stop the Houthi advances that we are seeing. Here's how Al-Arabia described it earlier this morning. Here play this clip. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has met with U.S. Central Command Chief Admiral Brad Cooper in Jeddah today. They reviewed bilateral relations and the latest regional developments. It comes after President Trump told MBS that the U.S. would provide intelligence and targeting assistance as the Iran-backed Houthis make significant gains along Yemen's Red Sea coastline.

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8:38Ben Meiselas:Now let's take a look at this map right here. Yemen's Ansarallah, they called here the Houthis, but the more appropriate name is Ansarallah, is saying the following, that Saudi forces carried out 54 airstrikes over the past 24 hours using F-15 in Typhoon from bases in Saudi Arabia. Ansar Allah says, the treacherous aggression will not go unpunished and without retribution, God willing, the statement adds, we should expect to see more Houthi strikes against Saudi refineries. And now U.S., Netanyahu, MBS working together in order to try to stop the Houthi advance. The Houthis continue to now move east, getting closer to Aden, getting closer to some of these eastern cities.

9:26Ben Meiselas:But the Houthis, Ansarallah controls all of western Yemen right now. The Saudi crown prince, MBS, is apparently taking an emergency trip tomorrow to talk with El Sisi in Cairo. Think about what the importance also of Egypt with the Suez Canal right now as well, because that's the only other way, Saudi Arabia can try to get its oil out at this point by going north through the Suez Canal as the Bab el-Mondab Strait, the chokehold, is cut off by Ansarallah, by the Houthis right there. The Houthis have said also that they would consider potentially even stopping Saudi Arabia at the Suez Canal. So pay attention to what's happening there.

10:10Ben Meiselas:Also, as you know, for the east-west pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been shut down, has been severely damaged by the Houthis. MBS blames the Iraqi resistance, which is also part of the Iranian access of resistance. The Iraqi resistance says, we wish we were the ones who destroyed the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia, but that would be our brothers on Sarala. But MBS thinks it would make him look weak if he admitted that he can't defend against the Houthis. So he'd rather blame it on Iraq and the prime minister of Iraq for not stopping the Iraqi resistance. So pay attention right there. And then just more ranting and raving like a lunatic by Donald Trump this morning.

10:51Ben Meiselas:This is what he posted moments ago while all of this is taking place. Concerning AI, when in the history of business did anyone see the leaders of an industry call for regulation that have strongly implemented will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy? AI taking over the world, destroying humanity and all other things bad is a hoax. No different from Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeachment hoax one, impeachment hoax two, and all the other hoaxes and scams that America was forced to endure through the destructionist and deviance, foul play, and illegal conduct. He says that the dangers of AI are a scam like Russia, Russia, Russia.

11:33Ben Meiselas:Interesting that he's saying that this morning where we apparently learned that much of Don Jr.'s wedding was funded by a Russian oligarch, including the island in the Bahamas, the music and fireworks brought to you by Putin's buddy, a Russian oligarch right there. Russia, Russia, Russia. The AI hoax, the data center hoax Donald Trump is calling it right now. And then Trump goes on to say that President Xi of China just announced China will be doing absolutely nothing to stand in the way of AI, he says. And then Trump says, I'm not happy about this. I'm not happy about what's going on. I mean, just ranting and raving like a lunatic.

12:13Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump goes, the 5 ,000 Trump dividend to be given to all adults in the United States due to the fact that our country is taking in trillions of dollars of economic development investment and pure success is being criticized by Democrats who are hoping that it never happens, but it will. As an example, the Democrats said the great big, beautiful bill, one of the largest ever approved by Congress or signed into law by a president happened despite the Democrats saying it would be impossible to get approved or the gift of 1776 I gave to our military last year. The 5 ,000 dividend will happen because people deserve it.

12:51Ben Meiselas:Vote Republican. I mean, what a lunatic con artist he is. Interesting because the latest data about the deficit increasing right now is that the deficit is the highest it's been essentially forever right now, more than it even was last year for the full year. Our debt has increased to over$40 trillion. Trump responsible for 30 % of it. Other countries are dumping US treasury bonds at a record pace. The 10-year treasury note, the 10-year treasury yield just hit over 5%. The 30-year well on its way to five and a half percent right now. And so if you brought in, Donald,$20 trillion and all these factories are going up, Donald, Donald, where are the factories, man?

13:37Ben Meiselas:Where's the money, man? You want to do your hands like this, you pathetic loser? Where the hell is the money? Show me the money, you con artist, you sexual predator, you deviant. Are you stealing it? Because if there's really$20 trillion out there, is that in the Qatari bank account? Because the American people are suffering as a result of your regime's despicable behavior. Also, this morning, we also learned that the artist McLemore has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour after making headlines for saying free Palestine on stage. During his appearance in Sheeran's tour earlier this month, McLemore told the crowd, a big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart.

14:28Ben Meiselas:Free Palestine, I said. Free Palestine. I want those words to be loud and clear so that the people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them. McLemore was on the bill to perform at eight of the 10 shows. Sheeran has left on his stadium tour, which will resume on September 19th in Philadelphia. And more reporting is coming out right now that it may have been Robert Kraft and the Kraft group that kicked McLemore off of this tour for speaking out on behalf of the children of Gaza. Last Monday in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me, Ed Sheeran told me that Robert Kraft called him.

15:13Ben Meiselas:We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month. That's where the Patriots play, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum. If McLemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. So McLemore has been dropped from the last leg of Ed Sheeran's tour because the stadium owners are saying, you can't be in our stadiums. I might add, most of those stadiums are funded by our taxpayer dollars.

15:51Ben Meiselas:Most of these billionaires are funding their stadiums from us. And I'll give you another thing that's not talked about that much about the ownership of sports teams. Did you know that under this ridiculous Trump tax code that owners are able to effectively write off their full investment in sports teams over the course of 10 years at an amount of around a quarter of a billion dollars a year. So they get to deduct that amount from their annual income while the asset appreciates. They get to deduct their investment over the course of a 10-year period where the asset appreciates significantly. So when Donald Trump is giving these massive tax cuts to the billionaires directly and also for things like private jets, remember the sports team tax deduction.

16:43Ben Meiselas:I teach about it in my sports law class and the students are often like, what that? We never knew that that's what you get to do if you own a sports team. Absolutely. So think about it. You buy a team for$2 billion, then you get to basically deduct that amount over the course of a 10-year period, the full amount over a 10-year period. And then if the asset increases and then you sell it, then you basically call it capital gains or however you want to do it. And then you further get to, or you take out loans against the appreciated value of the team. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to, and then you ban free speech.

17:21Ben Meiselas:You ban free speech. like standing up for children and women being slaughtered in Gaza and in Lebanon. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.

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