Iran Sets Negotiation Conditions as Tensions With U.S. Escalate

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0:30Ben Meiselas:Iran's top military leadership just delivered a message to Donald Trump and his regime. Also, they delivered a message to the markets, which Donald Trump is trying to manipulate as the markets are crashing, as diesel and gas prices surge, as the American economy is in shambles. Donald Trump is going to be rushing to try to announce fake deals, or Donald Trump's going to try to do further market manipulation. And so Moshen Razai, who is the top military official and advisor in Iran to Mojtaba Khomeini, posted the following message, and making it very clear that Iran feels that it is in a stronger position than ever before.

1:12Ben Meiselas:Here's the message from Moshen Razai. He says, Iran has announced seven conditions for starting any negotiations to the U.S. government. Tehran's message is clear and unambiguous. If Washington wants to escape the quagmire it has created for itself and avoid getting further entanglement, it has no choice but to accept Iran's rights and conditions. And among the conditions includes ending the war on all fronts, meaning that the United States and the Netanyahu regime need to immediately get out of Lebanon. They need to get out of Gaza. They need to ensure the Palestinian state is recognized. The Trump regime needs to unfreeze Iranian assets, and the Trump regime needs to end the U.S.

1:59Ben Meiselas:naval blockade. These are among some of the conditions that Iran says that Trump needs to agree to before Iran's ever willing to even begin a dialogue with the Trump regime again, or with Qatari mediators, or with Pakistani mediators, or whoever. Meanwhile, Iran's parliament leader, top civilian official, MB Galabaf, sent the following message. The era when your F-35s and F-15s get hunted down and you have to report them damaged has already begun. What was once pure nightmare fuel is now the daily reality. live with it. And M.B. Galabaf posted the Pentagon Inspector General's report, which showed how the catastrophic war in Iran has already cost the United States somewhere close to anywhere from$35 to$50 billion, whether you look at the Inspector General's report, CENTCOM's new report, or the Congressional Budget Office's report.

3:02Ben Meiselas:And also the Inspector General's report listed all of the aircraft that were destroyed by Iran. And also, I believe the Inspector General's report is just kind of the tip of the iceberg of what really went down. But it shows that F-15s, F-35s, A-10s, KC-135 strato tankers, the E-3 AWAC, among other military aircraft and equipment were destroyed. And MB Galiboff made this post in response to General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs message at a recent military summit this past week, where General Dan Cain was like, in the future, what we will have to make sure we focus on is the ability for our equipment to be tracked and for our equipment to be followed by the adversary, that our adversaries are getting increasingly sophisticated in the future.

3:55Ben Meiselas:So MB Galiboff is like, in the future. What about right now? We're able to track that right now and we're doing it right now. So you can try to posit this as some future hypothetical, but this is your current nightmare reality. This is what General Dan Kane just said. So you can see for yourself, play this clip. How quickly technology is changing the character of war. And this means our joint force needs to do two things at one time. First, we need to prepare the joint force to win in this kind of conflict. We have to assume from now on that our formations will be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum, and tracked in real time.

4:40And we have to transition the joint force to be prepared to fight and win our future wars by generating and delivering lethality at scale with an agile, optimized, high-low mix of combat capabilities to give the young members of the -

5:01Ben Meiselas:And now while you have Pete Hegsitt talking about mandatory testosterone testing, where if you're 30 years or older in the military and you're a man, they're going to test your ability to get spontaneous erections or whatever the hell they're talking about. In Iran, one of the things that they're showcasing is that they have this group of female FPV drone operators right there. And they're saying, look, we just want to have the top level people operating modern warfare equipment while you have Pete Hegseth talking about, send me, send me here, Send me there. Isaiah. I'm quoting Bible passages to justify never ending wars and sending U.S.

5:45Ben Meiselas:service members to their death. By the way, do you all remember when MAGA in 2024 is like Biden's going to send me to wars in the Middle East? No way. Donald Trump's going to end all wars. And then the Trump regime renames the Department of Defense to the War Department. And then their slogan is, send me to die in reckless, catastrophic wars on behalf of Netanyahu to help cover up child sex trafficking rings for Donald Trump. No freaking thank you right there. While the American people suffer. Just so you saw, Pete Hegseth was at Texas A &M. And he did this whole propaganda fest there. and then he addressed some of the ROTC, some of the service members in training there and some of the students.

6:30Ben Meiselas:And he was like, send me, send me to war and send, I need to go to war, right? That's what, when you, when people always answer our call, send me to war. Anyway, here's what Hanks had said so you could see for yourself. Let's play this clip. This is actually our first stop in what you see up on the screen right there, which we're calling the send me tour you know your book of isaiah uh chapter 6 verse 8 the lord said who will i send and isaiah says lord i'm here send me send me and if you think about it across the 250 years of our country i know you got 150 years of this great core here over 150 years of this core and 250 years of the country there have been men and women who raised their right hand and they said, send me.

7:19Send me to go fight the Redcoats. Send me to go fight the Communists. Send me to go fight the Islamists. And you are saying, send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years. If we don't have Texans like these out there on the front lines, we don't have a republic. So we need the nation to raise their right hand and say, send me. I'll serve something greater than myself, God and country. I'll swear an oath to something timeless, the Constitution, that doesn't bend, it doesn't break, and that we swear that oath to to defend. It's not about a political party. It's not about a point of view.

7:57It's not about an ideology. It's about a belief in our declaration and our Constitution and the principles that those stand for, this ground that we stand on, that we pledge to protect, our homeland.

8:10Ben Meiselas:In addition, Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary, one of their top military advisors, advisor to Mojtaba Komeini, Moshin Razai. He says, the U.S. and Israel actions could also push Iran to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Razai said Iran has not yet decided to leave the treaty, adding that the decision would depend on Washington's future actions. He said, Iran remains committed to the late Supreme Leader's religious ruling against nuclear weapons and has not changed its nuclear doctrine, but quote, we do not know what will happen in the future. As you may recall, there was a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini, who was murdered by the Trump regime, along with Khomeini's daughter and granddaughter and son-in-law and other family members.

8:59Ben Meiselas:They were having dinner when the Trump regime and Netanyahu murdered and slaughtered them all, and the little girls, and his daughter. And he had a fatwa that said, a religious edict that basically said, don't develop nuclear weapons. And again, they agreed to the JCPOA under the Obama administration. Now, as Iran is sending those messages as well, you also have Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, as mailed by Guy. He says, Iran will use the General Assembly coming up in the UN to speak about the crimes committed against the Iranian people seven months into the war. Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi will meet with a significant number of foreign counterparts on the sidelines, including Pakistan's foreign minister with a range of issues expected to be discussed.

9:44Ben Meiselas:And you'll recall at the UN Security Council this past week, both China and Russia voted to veto further U.S. Security Council sanctions against Iran. And that was a major defeat at the Security Council by the Trump regime. Every couple knows the thermostat fight. One person's freezing, the other sweating. Somehow nobody ends up sleeping well. When you wake up after a bad night's sleep, you feel it the entire next day. That's why I really like the idea behind Orion Sleep. Orion is a smart sleep system that fits right over the mattress you already have and adjusts the temperature to help you sleep.

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11:20Ben Meiselas:And among the war crimes committed by the Trump regime, there are numerous, but one of them obviously was slaughtering the little girls at Manab Elementary School, where 167 little children were slaughtered at the outset of the war. The Pentagon actually has, Bloomberg did a great report that the Pentagon has officially made a finding that the U.S. Manab slaughter resulted from a cascade of failures, outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility, compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1 ,000 strikes in 24 hours, over-reliance on Palantir's Maven AI system, which personnel wrongly expected to flag stale data, and Hegsitz 90 % cuts to the civilian harm mitigation teams.

12:15Ben Meiselas:The site Manab Elementary School had visibly operated as a school for nearly a decade. It was on Google Maps as a school and had its own website. UN reported this week as well, said the failures went beyond negligence and constitute war crimes. Remember, I did the report earlier this week about the finding of war crimes. And look, Trump's a war criminal. Admiral Brad Cooper's a war criminal. Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. They deserve to be tried in The Hague and everybody in the chain of command who was responsible for the slaughter of the little children in Manab, the slaughter of the children in Le Maire, the sports hall, where there was a volleyball practice.

12:55Ben Meiselas:And they used these new tungsten pellet weapons, and they sprayed a thousand pellets and killed these children playing volleyball in Le Maire at the beginning of the war at the sports hall. Also recently, the Trump regime killed the family at a wedding in Syrac County and injured over 90 people when they escalated the war. Again, they also killed a family in Keshem. The Trump regime is a regime of absolute war criminals. And so even the Pentagon's finding that this took place, but the Pentagon's investigation has been basically frozen. The Trump regime is not allowing it to be released because they want to cover it up.

13:39Ben Meiselas:It should also be noted that Iran's allies, Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, they've been striking hard in response to Saudi Arabia's escalation. They struck hard in Riyadh at the International Airport was hit. Numerous tankers and storage facilities were hit in Riyadh as well. And there's been a lot of reporting that MBS is basically frantic right now and telling Donald Trump, you know, look at all these quid pro quos that we did together. We need, you better get involved right now in this war and we need you to strike the Houthis otherwise. The Saudi monarchy is very, very, very much in danger right now.

14:25Ben Meiselas:Just a fact about the Saudi monarchy for you right now, you may be saying, don't they have their own military? Or like, what the hell is happening with Saudi Arabia? Don't they have all this money? Saudi Arabia keeps a very weak military because the royal family is terrified if they had a strong military that there would be coups against this family that takes for themselves. So they keep their military weak. They've become reliant on a U.S. and Netanyahu security umbrella, which is collapsing. And so MBS is basically saying to Trump, look, you know, if you don't do these strikes against the Houthis in Sanaa and some of the Western Yemen areas like Al-Molka and other areas that they took over and the Saudi monarchy falls, this could be a cascading event of the Jordanian monarchy and all these other monarchies that were doing all of these deals with Trump and his family.

15:20Ben Meiselas:By the way, I'm sure you saw by now the interview that I did with the pro-Houthi journalist, Hussein Al-Bukhaiti. And Hussein Al-Bukhaiti's brother, Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, is also like one of the top governors in Ansar Allah as well. He's one of the top Houthi officials out there. But Hussein Al-Bukhaiti is also a top Houthi reporter out there. And I asked him how Trump's recent war failures changed the perceptions of U.S. military power in Yemen. Here's what he told me. Let's play it. This actually helped Ansar al-Houthi in Yemen after the prosperity guardian and how Trump left Israel to protect his ships from attack, getting attacked.

16:05But after that, we continue to target Israel it kind of kind like kind of a good reputation for for inside Yemen because at that time people knew that we should not be afraid with the United States we should from the United States we shouldn't be choosing the side that is like an ally to the United States we should choose the other side because it show us how the United States actually cannot and is not able to conduct war like they they used to do before and this is this is as well has given the people in the entire region as we say here that if you if you you are naked if you think that you are covered by the united states like the united states giving you want an umbrella, you, you still naked.

17:01That umbrella will not cover anything.

17:04Ben Meiselas:More from Hussein Abu Khatti here. He told me that in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen for the Houthis, for Ansarallah, they now have, they say Trump is a fool. And not only is Trump a fool and a liar, but they say that they have a name for people who are just like congenital liars, people who lie and never keep their word. In Yemen, they call them a Trump. Like if you're a liar and you deceive people and don't keep your word, the nickname for you, like the way you curse somebody is like, you're like Trump. You're like a Trump is like a word for liar over there. This is what they say. This is how they view the Trump regime, like laughing at him right now.

17:45Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. We look at him here in Sana 'a and maybe in all Yemen as like someone who is a fool. who doesn't want who doesn't know what to say. He doesn't know what not to say. He just like what comes to his mouth. He will just say it and is actually making the reputation of the United States as one of the country that's considered the free world, making it bad. And even here, I mean, if somebody will, will, will, will break an agreement or a word with someone. We call him Trump. Pete Hegseth, again, war criminal, vile human being. When he was on this Texas A &M trip, he was asked about the Washington Post reporting that the Trump regime, Hegseth, they're covering up the death count, the killed in action count in this catastrophic war in Iran.

18:41Ben Meiselas:And Hegseth is saying, no, you know, we would never do such a thing. Listen to what Hegseth had to say. You can hear for yourself. Let's play it.

19:17and it's not something the United States of America does. It's totally made up. It's fake.

19:23Ben Meiselas:And with all of this taking place as well, you have Ben Gavir, who's very high up in the Netanyahu regime. He said the following, if we get the Palestinians out of Gaza, that means more lives for us. And then Gaza can become a real estate arena. It can become a beautiful coastal gem. Settlements need to build there. A lot of things done need to be there. And so that's what the Trump Netanyahu crew is saying right now. Now, Donald Trump supposed to be in Camp David today. He left early. Lots of people view that as a sign of potential escalation against Iran or the Houthis. We saw a B-1 takeoff at Royal Air Force Base in the UK.

20:09Ben Meiselas:There's been lots of alerts throughout the Middle East and the various embassies from the various U.S. embassies, you know, warning people that there may be major security events taking place there as well. But, you know, you have Iran sending this message saying, we're not afraid, we're not scared, we're ready to go. So that's where we are right now. We'll keep you all posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, y 'all. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, Pre-order our new book, WTF America, today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description.

20:47Ben Meiselas:Let's do this.