Trump Just Attacked Iran...

0:00Ben Meiselas:This is a breaking news alert. The Trump regime has once again escalated the catastrophic war against Iran, striking tankers right off of Karg Island state regime media. Fox is now confirming. Senior U.S. officials have told Fox the United States military has struck targets near Karg Island and Jask. The targets include Iranian oil tankers. This is part of a larger effort to squeeze Iran economically. The strategy includes sinking and disabling Iranian oil tankers. Now, earlier, we started to hear explosions, one after the other near Karg, two explosions, then another explosion, an explosion heard near Jask.

0:43Ben Meiselas:And it turns out it was indeed the Trump regime striking Iranian oil tankers, not military targets, oil tankers like pirates. Now, this, as Iran warned the United States. If you strike our oil tankers, we will unleash a massive retaliatory strike against U.S. military bases in the region. As you know, we've been reporting here on the Midas Touch Network that Iran has been rolling out new ballistic weapons, ballistic missiles, and other weapons that it has been using with a great degree of success. And Iran made this warning before the United States just struck multiple Iranian oil tankers off of Karg.

1:26Ben Meiselas:Here was a statement from one of the military spokespeople over in Iran. Quote, the aggressive U.S. military has issued a warning to Iranian tankers to evacuate in order to attack them. Therefore, I announce that any attack on Iranian tankers will result in the targeting of U.S. bases in the region by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We can be expecting Iranian retaliatory strikes in the very near future. We will be monitoring what's going to be taking place in Jordan, in Kuwait, in the UAE, in Erbil, Iraq, at the Al-Udeed base in Qatar, and in other Arab nation neighbors of Iran.

2:11Ben Meiselas:Now, earlier this morning, you'll recall there was a lot of activity over the Strait of Hormuz and within the Strait of Hormuz. An advanced US MQ-1 drone was intercepted by Iran earlier and destroyed by Iran over the skies of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran released footage of the moment it struck the US MQ-1 drone. I'll also show you that in a bit. Also, the Iran Navy announced that one of the US military's most advanced unmanned underwater vehicles was seized by the Iranian armed forces at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz during a complex intelligence and field operation and brought into Iran.

2:54Ben Meiselas:Iran has since published numerous photos and videos of this AUV autonomous underwater vehicle. And it does appear to be the Dive LD model, which is the cutting edge, highly classified U.S. technology, new U.S. technology. Iran now has it in its possession. Iran will be able to reverse engineer this, likely give it to Russia and China. This is a massive loss that the U.S. lost one of these Anduril Dive LD AUVs right here. Iran announced the capture of this AUV as follows. The early morning capture of the U.S. military's most advanced 2025 unmanned submarine shows that no advanced technology can get past our surveillance layers in the Strait of Hormuz.

3:48Ben Meiselas:Dominance over the Persian Gulf belongs to our young technologists. Go back to the Bay of Pigs is the statement that Iran made. So in the course of several hours, Iran struck a US MQ1 drone in the air and then struck a dive LD underwater vehicle as well and then issued that statement. Now, what was the Trump regime's response? The Trump regime admitted that one of its AUVs, its underwater autonomous vehicles, was captured, but they claimed that it simply malfunctioned, no classified centers, an outdated older model. We didn't even care about it as well. That's what CENTCOM claimed. However, Iran released a video of the AUV and it was not what CENTCOM said.

4:38Ben Meiselas:Once again, surprise, surprise. The Trump regime is a lion because they're liars about every damn thing. Now, this is the video that the IRGC released showing the intercepted U.S. Navy dive LD, the top of the line, highly classified AUV drone that the Iranians are now having its possession. Play this clip.

5:25Ben Meiselas:Iran's parliament leader, MB Galabaf, posted the following image. Knock, knock, he says. Well, it seems the most modern U.S. intelligence AUV just had a knock on its door from the IRGC Navy. U.S. Navy AUV program knocked out. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Arag Chiavaran says after 47 years of sanctions, the U.S. went to war with Iran on behalf of Israel. The fallout has been disastrous for America, including its standing worldwide. After failing to achieve its aims through sanctions or war, Washington's novel solution is more sanctions. Seriously? Well, and the other solution is, I guess, to strike Iranian oil tankers.

6:07Ben Meiselas:That's what the United States Navy has been reduced to and CENTCOM has been reduced to, destroying oil tankers of another country to put the economic squeeze on them. because that'll make them want to do a deal with you. How pathetic are you to think that that's what's going to make Iran want to do a deal? No, Iran's going to climb the escalatory ladder. I previously showed one of the top military advisors to the Ayatollah, Moshan Razai. Remember, I showed you his interview yesterday. He says, look, we have all of these new hypersonic ballistic missiles. If we want to take out your damn aircraft carriers that are just sitting there in the Arabian Sea, we can take out both of your aircraft carriers easily.

6:52Ben Meiselas:Do you see what the access of resistance ally the Houthis are doing right now in Saudi Arabia? They're using the same missile technology that we created for them, essentially. We've got the castle breakers. We've got the anti-ship ballistic missiles that go at an incredibly fast speed that you won't be able to stop. We just, this is what Iran's view is, that if they strike the aircraft carrier, it's going to kill hundreds of U.S. sailors, Navy sailors and Marines, and that that could potentially marshal some support of the American people against Iran when Iran knows that all they got to do is wait this one out a little bit and keep on striking U.S.

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8:59Ben Meiselas:We all know the price of crude right now. Both Brent and WTI rapidly approaching$100 a barrel. You look at some of these spot prices and you're all well over$100 a barrel. You want to talk about diesel right now and the crack spread there. We're talking about$100,$150. I mean, huge crack spread amounts right there. The price of diesel, if you're filling up with diesel, is what? On average, over$6 a gallon. The price per gallon of gas will be approaching$5 very soon. These strikes have only caused the price of crude to go up even higher. This is a total calamity, folks. Now, Iranian channels close to the IRGC are stressing the importance of the US AUV now in the Iranian hands.

9:45Ben Meiselas:They're saying, we are going to reverse engineer this stuff. This was the footage, by the way, showing Iranian air defenses intercepting and destroying that USMQ1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz. You can see it for yourself right there. And let me remind you as well what took place over the past 24 hours as the Houthis struck really hard in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia says 73 wounded as the Houthis attack Ansarala, attack civilian and energy sites over there. And they attacked, I mean, just go look at some of locations where they hit. They hit Aba, they hit Jazan, they hit a number of areas, and the Jazan refinery again is in flames.

10:32Ben Meiselas:Take a look right here, missiles from Yemen towards Saudi Arabia. See for yourself.

10:53Ben Meiselas:Take a look at the Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Let's play this clip.

11:09Ben Meiselas:Now, as MB Galibafran's parliament leader posted, it's simple. The oil and gas production chain here is sprawling, accessible, and exposed. American oil and gas companies across these waters and facilities share that exposure, strike our assets, and you get struck. We've already proven it. Ask the bases that are no longer viable. And that's right. Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery hit again on Monday, the latest in a series of Houthi strikes that have kept the 400 ,000 barrel per day plant on offline for weeks. And here are some more shots being fired. There were 10 to 30, 40 explosions in Southern Saudi Arabia throughout the night and more, I mean, in terms of these ballistic missiles.

11:53Ben Meiselas:Take a look at the Houthis Ansarala firing missiles and drones right over here over the past 24 hours. You can see for yourself, let's play it.

12:10Ben Meiselas:And finally, let me share this with you. Iran released this video, a look at their Castle Breaker missile. You can see it for yourself. Let's play it. With satellite imagery revealing at least 15 US military installations in complete or significant ruins, the Khaybar Shekan appears to have been a highly effective choice for the Iranian military. But what makes this missile so effective? Firstly, the Khaybar Shekan relies on solid fuel and mobile launchers. This enables its rapid deployment and makes it difficult for enemy forces to target on the ground. Once deployed, it can travel up to 1500 kilometers.

12:50Secondly, interception is very difficult because the Khaybar chicane reaches its target within minutes and can change direction before descending. Finally, it has a heavy warhead that weighs between 450 in 600 kilograms, making it capable of easily destroying multi-level structures.

13:13Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu said the following, we have to complete this mission to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. Means defeating this necessary, defeat this regime, it will fall. We must bring it down. Eliminate Hezbollah once for all. Eliminate Hamas. Now I ask a simple question. Who fought for us? The answer is clear. Nobody else will do it. Only I alone can fix it. As he's like destroyed Southern Lebanon, killing a ton of innocent people there recently. More deaths in Gaza we've been reporting on as multiple school children were killed this past week, heading to their first day of school.

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