Trump Publicly Reverses Course on Iran

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2:25Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump had a complete meltdown at 11 p.m., and he once again surrendered to Iran in public after saying he was going to bomb the effing S out of Iran. At 11 p.m. at night, Donald Trump posted the following, The USA is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran at levels of military terror, strength, and power not seen since World War II. Pretty odd to refer to America's involvement in World War II as military terror. A very strange way to refer to the United States military other than to make a pretty stunning admission to say that it is involved in terror, but that's what Donald Trump refers to our military as pirates engaged in terror.

3:16Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says, despite this, despite the terror, despite this, although let me be very clear, under Donald Trump, he has used the military to inflict terror and war crimes, and he is a terrorist. So I'll be clear about that. Maybe he's being honest, at least for once there. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to hold off on any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. Folks, we're not even in framework territory anymore. The perimeters, the perimeters of a deal have been agreed to. this would include the immediate complete and total opening of the Hormuz Strait.

4:03Ben Meiselas:You said it was already open. So what are these perimeters going to do, Donald? And an end to Iran's nuclear threat. You mean what they agreed to in Obama's JCPOA? Go on. Trump says, based on this request, I have agreed for the future benefit of the world. WORLD is in all caps. And likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a deal. The country of Israel joins me in this commitment. Israel joins him. Netanyahu, the war criminal, the genocidal maniac, joining another genocidal maniac of terror. Get to work, everybody, and get it done.

4:50Ben Meiselas:Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. Now, on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, they have now formally rolled out their plan where Wall Street can buy early access to posts like this for$100 ,000 in order to take advantage of the market manipulation. Remember the idea was being floated to do that. Well, now it's official. And I wonder how many Wall Street firms took advantage of that for certain types of markets. And then after Donald Trump posts this, that we were going to inflict military terror, but now the perimeters of a deal, everybody. So after Donald Trump said that, where are we at right now?

5:38Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump posts the following. a photo of himself or a video of Dana White. Holy crap, Donald Trump posts. Holy crap. Dana White says it best. Trump is the ultimate American badass. That's what Trump is posting. Then he posted AI image of himself kissing Jesus on a cross. Yeah, he is a real sicko. After posting about the military terror he wants to inflict, he then posts himself kissing Jesus on a cross. really a sicko. He posts an AI image of himself in the Revolutionary War, a random photo of himself at either his criminal trial. I think this is him at his criminal trial saying, only Trump.

6:22Ben Meiselas:That was the post, only Trump. He posts a bizarre image and an AI manipulated image of Bruce Springsteen. And he writes, what happened to Bruce Springsteen? Then he posts a photo of himself and says, President Trump ages in reverse as his health is obviously collapsing. He posts a photo of himself walking next to an AI alien. He posts threats at Greenland. He's doing that again. No military terror at the moment with Iran, Donald Trump says, because we've done the perimeters of a deal. But hello, Greenland. Donald Trump's going to take your sovereignty, this weird picture of himself lurching over mountains and what purports what he claims is Greenland, I guess.

7:10Ben Meiselas:And he says, hello, Greenland, as he wants to take it over. A weird AI image of himself as Elvis, then a photo of himself inspecting the columns at the White House. This is what he writes. President Trump is fixing our wonderful White House, Just like he is fixing our country, it's in his DNA. He's like a real psycho. Like a real sicko, psycho scumbag. Then he posts this. The triumphal arch prior to affixing the magnificent statues and artwork. What are you even talking about? It's an AI image of what he wants the arch to be. Then he does this weird image of the United States flag in Venezuela and calls Venezuela the 51st state.

7:55Ben Meiselas:Right now, I mean, Venezuela is suffering right now after these two earthquakes. Dulce Rodriguez from the Maduro regime is still in charge. Donald Trump has stolen$13 billion from Venezuela. The people of Venezuela are suffering. The people aren't getting rich in Venezuela. but now Donald Trump has moved on to Greenland and Venezuela after threatening to blow the effing S out of Iran. These are all posts he's made. By the way, he's made dozens of other posts like that. I'm not going to show you all of them. You get the point about what a sicko he is, but that's what he's posting, okay? Let's talk about the real story of what went down.

8:32Ben Meiselas:Earlier yesterday, Iran was able to strike hard in Kuwait, striking areas where the United States has its HIMARS and other equipment. Iran struck hard yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz. Two more tankers were hit trying to use that U.S. route by Oman. Iran struck hard in Erbil, Iraq. And then, because the Houthis, part of the axis of resistance with Iran, the Houthis have shut down effectively the Bab el-Mandab Strait for Saudi Arabian tankers. The Saudi tankers now have to use a route that will add two to three weeks for the tankers to travel because they can't get through Bab el-Mandab. The Saudi Crown Prince MBS spoke with Donald Trump earlier yesterday.

9:24Ben Meiselas:that's after he sent his brother Prince Khalid bin Salman on Wednesday because Netanyahu wasn't leaving the United States. Netanyahu was just like remaining there and like staying around Donald and Hegseth and Rubio because Netanyahu wanted the United States to escalate and to hit all of the power plants, civilian power plants and bridges and other civilian infrastructure in Iran. And so MBS then had to send his brother, who's the defense secretary in Saudi Arabia, to go and meet with Donald Trump and to meet with J.D. Vance and others because Netanyahu wasn't leaving. So they had to send his brother, Khalid bin Salman.

10:11Ben Meiselas:And then yesterday, MBS was like, dude, what the F are you doing? You are not going to strike Iran. Iran's prepared to blow up our infrastructure and Qatar, and it's going to cause global catastrophe. You know all those quid pro quo deals we do together? You know how we gave money to Kushner? What the hell are you doing? What the hell are you doing? You're going to get everybody even deeper into World War III right now? Don't you dare do it. So that was one of the influential factors that had Donald Trump surrendering. You then had Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, he spoke with the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia as well, and the Turkish foreign minister, and the Pakistani foreign minister.

10:54Ben Meiselas:And here's what Aragchi said when he spoke with Saudi's foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan, the Pakistani foreign minister, and he also spoke with the Qatari foreign minister. This is what Aragchi said. Any aggression by the United States will be met with a decisive response. Any active aggression or hostile action by the U.S. and the Zionist regime, Israel, or the participation and cooperation of countries in the region will be met with a decisive and appropriate response from our powerful armed forces. He warned that regional governments assisting any U.S. or Israeli attack would be treated as participants and that their infrastructure would be destroyed, that Iran was locked and loaded.

11:39Ben Meiselas:Iran's Foreign Minister Aragji said the following to Pakistan's Army's Chief Field Marshal Munir. He said any U.S. military attack will be met with the harshest of harsh responses. Iran will respond decisively. And it should also be known, New York Times reporting, Iran previously used the ceasefire to coordinate with proxy groups, including Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi militias on a plan to escalate if the U.S. resume strikes. The strategy aims to raise the costs of war for Trump by targeting U.S. allies, disrupting oil supplies and shipping, and increasing regional instability. Recent attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure by the Houthis, shipping near the Suez Canal, shutting down the Bab el-Mondab Strait and other areas hosting U.S.

12:35Ben Meiselas:forces are presented as part of this coordinated campaign. Iran was prepared. The U.S. has also run out of its PAC-3 Patriot interceptors. It's run out of its THAAD interceptors. It's also run out of the appropriate amount of Navy destroyers in the region, and the Navy destroyers have anti-ballistics. The U.S. has run out of those as well. and Iran's just striking hard. Iran hit Kuwait recently, as I said. Here's the map of all of the bases that Iran's been able to hit from July 9th through July 24th, including Muwafiq Salty base in Jordan, which resulted in three service members being killed.

13:15Ben Meiselas:I mean, Iran has obliterated these U.S. military bases in the region. And in the U.S. strikes, Iran has hit the U.S. bases. The U.S. dropped a 2 ,000-pound bomb in Keshap Island on a home, killing three Iranians, including a little child. The New York Times confirmed the report that, yes, Trump is bombing homes and committing more war crimes in the area as well. Um, let me, let me read for you this scathing, scathing, um, report in the New York times from some top people in the region. This is what the report was called in Iran. The U S appears headed for a strategic defeat allies fear with none of Trump's aims accomplished in the Strait of Hormuz closed U S allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

14:12Ben Meiselas:Robert Niblett, a former director of the Chatham house. that's like an independent think tank in the UK on defense issues, called the Iran war a strategic loss and an embarrassment, adding, for U.S. allies and those who rely on the U.S. for security, this is confirmation that you can't trust the United States, he continued. People won't forget that their security and their future were dragged into question by an unpredictable and wavering U.S. foreign policy. Ali Vyaz, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group, said, quote, this is the crisis of credibility of the U.S. Neither its military prowess nor its diplomatic promises can ever be trusted.

14:58Ben Meiselas:Aaron David Miller, a former American negotiator, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the conflict has undermined U.S. deterrence and credibility and antagonized America's allies and delighted its adversaries. You can see why. A reminder, WTF America is the book I wrote with my brothers. It comes out in October, but please, if you can, pre-order it now. Our publisher has been telling us it's very important that we push the pre-orders because it helps guide further promotional efforts and where we're going to do a book tour and how we should try to promote this book and get it in the hands of as many people as possible.

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