Iran Strikes U.S. Base and Ships as War With Trump Escalates

0:00Ben Meiselas:Iran is now saying it was able to strike 10 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz following the United States strikes against five Iranian civilian oil tankers yesterday afternoon. I showed you last night Iran's retaliatory strikes in Jordan against the U.S. Muwafik al-Salti base, the Prince Hassan Air Base, and the King Faisal Air Base in Jordan, where those U.S. interceptors were not effective in stopping the massive, massive barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles. But now Iran is saying they were able to strike 10 vessels in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on five Iranian oil tankers. And the IRGC says that it struck the U.S.

0:54Ben Meiselas:destroyers, the USS Delbert D. Black, DDG-119, and the USS John Paul Jones, DDG-53, with ballistic missiles in response to the U.S. strikes. against Iran's civilian oil tankers. Now, CENTCOM denies that this took place, but we have a lot of indicia that at least the strikes on the tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran says it hit, we believe that took place. And we're getting a lot of reports out there that seem to indicate that once again, CENTCOM is lying, but we're gonna bring you this information as soon as we get it here at the Midas Touch Network, also CENTCOM, claiming that no U.S. troops were injured or killed.

1:44Ben Meiselas:That's contrary to what we're hearing from people on the ground. And we know that CENTCOM and the Trump regime has a very clearly documented history of lying about the casualty count. In fact, yesterday, we learned that close to 30 additional injuries were reported and kind of snuck on to the list of casualties that are being kept on a separate set of books that don't relate to the war because the Trump regime says it's just miscellaneous operations. I mean, we believe, by the way, that the casualty count is closer to 3 ,000 to 5 ,000, even though the Trump regime now claims it's closer to 850 or 870 injured with 18 killed in action.

2:33Ben Meiselas:I want to carefully go over with you what happened. I want to remind you. So you have CENTCOM bragging about striking Iranian civilian crude tankers. How odd, the proud United States Navy bragging about destroying crude tankers, and the United States military is claiming they're doing that in response to Iran trying to strike US aircraft carriers. So you're going after oil tankers belonging to Iran? The United States Navy is behaving like pirates, so very, very deranged behavior right there as well. But then Iran responded after CENTCOM published video that had struck these five Iranian civilian oil tankers.

3:20Ben Meiselas:The IRGC ballistic missiles launched in Jordan, hitting Muwafik al-Salty Air Base, Prince Hassan Air Base, and King Faisal Air Base. We saw some cluster munitions that were used, which evaded those United States interceptors. But also, as we've been talking about here on the Midas Touch Network, Iran has improved not just the quantity of its ballistic missiles, but the quality. Remember those so-called castle breakers we've been talking about here on the Midas Touch Network? The Kaibar Sheikhan ballistic missiles, those were used. The M-odd ballistic missiles were used. The Qadar ballistic missiles were used by Iran, and we saw all of those in action.

4:07Ben Meiselas:Now, what appeared to be taking place is that for every one ballistic missile shot by Iran, the U.S. doctrine is fire two to four Patriot interceptors per incoming missile. The cost of each Patriot interceptor is about$4 to$5 million per interceptor. So you can kind of count, and I'll show you the B-roll right here, of the interceptors in action during the first two waves of Iranian ballistic missile strikes. Somewhere around 60 interceptors appear to have been used. So we're talking on the low end,$240 million of our taxpayer dollars were used in these interceptors to$500 million, perhaps even as much as$1 billion in interceptors were used as the U.S.

5:00Ben Meiselas:further dwindles its very low supply of Patriot interceptors. And as I noted, those castle breakers are able to avoid interceptors. And Iran's strategy, first wave of ballistic missiles, you saw a lot of the interceptors by the United States work. Second wave of ballistic missiles, you saw those interceptors work. By the third wave, the interceptors were not working anymore and were not even being fired. And Iran was having direct hits on all of those bases. Now, Jordan country claims that they were able to stop all of these ballistic missiles and that except for two, which hit in other areas and that there was no damage.

5:42Ben Meiselas:But we know over and over again that that's usually not true. And we have seen them just lie and CENTCOM continue to lie. So Iran claims 10 vessels were also hit. It says it struck eight oil tankers, and then it says that it struck the USS Delbert Black and the USS John Paul Jones. Traveling is stressful enough. You're at the airport juggling a coffee, your phone's about to die, and suddenly TSA wants your laptop while you're digging through your bag and you're holding up the entire line. That's why I've been loving my Noble all-in-one carry-on. Most luggage is basically just like a box on wheels.

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7:14Ben Meiselas:And I want to show you this. Take a look at this is new footage, different than what I was showing you last night. This is footage of an American Patriot surface-to-air missile battery engaging a massive incoming salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles over Jordan last night. Didn't the Trump regime say that Iran's out of weapons? Not only are they not out of weapons, they've got more and the quality's better. And this is just the opening act. Iran has a massive inventory. Watch this for yourself. Here, play this clip.

8:05I'm out of here, I'm out of here. I'm out of here, I'm out of here. This thing, this thing, I don't understand.

8:22We're down there. It'll down.

8:54Ben Meiselas:And let me show you what was going down in Jordan, where you had a bunch of young Jordanians. They're at like a rooftop restaurant while the strikes are taking place, and the Jordanians were celebrating the Iranian missiles over their skies. As one individual notes, this should scare the Jordanian monarchy more than the actual missiles, because the people of Jordan are standing in solidarity with Iran over the monarchy's connection with the United States, as particularly embodied by the weak and pathetic Trump regime, the imperialistic nature of the Trump regime combined by the weakness that people see it for what it is there.

9:41Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip right here.

10:13Ben Meiselas:And with all of that taking place, what's the Trump regime doing? Of course, attacking Canada, the Trump regime posting new tariffs against Canada because Canada responded dollar for dollar to the United States tariffs. So the Trump regime is tariffing Canadian dairy and Canadian alcoholic beverages. Okay, you want to show that they're not sending dairy into the United States or alcoholic beverages in significant quantities. And while all of that was going on, the White House posted, hey, listen, the legend of Trump, it's like Zelda. This is what they're doing. You can see for yourself just how pathetic it is.

10:53Ben Meiselas:Play this clip.

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11:28Ben Meiselas:And then there's this footage right here showing four medium range Iranian ballistic missiles making direct impact. You can see for yourself. Let's play.

11:49Ben Meiselas:So you can see the Iranian response. The Trump regime strikes five Iranian vessels, Iran responds by striking 10 vessels and hitting Moafic, Faisal, and multiple other bases in Jordan. You saw for yourself what that looked like. We're going to keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch network of these developments. But obviously, Donald Trump has no clue what the hell he's doing. Pete Hegseth, a failed Fox Weekend host who couldn't run a veterans nonprofit, a lifelong loser, doesn't know what he's doing. The US got rid of all of its top generals. By the way, we should never have been involved in this catastrophic war to begin with, with Netanyahu, which was done for Trump to cover up the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.

12:42Ben Meiselas:But you fire all of your top generals during the war as well, all of the people who know what they're doing. And now we have Hegseth and Trump and Admiral Brad Cooper of CENTCOM, who's demonstrated himself to be completely incompetent and a total idiot. It's really sad to watch the United States. Well, I guess this is the karma that Donald Trump gets. Just shocking, shocking. I guess not shocking when it comes to Donald Trump. We hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I I wrote a book. It's called WTF America.

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