U.S. Strikes Iran

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2:32MeidasTouch:I'm Ben Mycelis, and we have some breaking news to report. The United States has launched massive, massive strikes against Iran, striking in the heart of Tehran, striking in Syriq, Kargan, Minab, Bandar, Abbas, Hangom Island, Asulia. We have anti-aircraft weapons going up all over Iran right now. There are skirmishes reported at sea between Iranian and U.S. forces, despite Donald Trump saying Iranian naval forces have all been destroyed. There appears to be a massive Navy battle that's taking place right now. United States officials had said that the targets that were attacked are in southern Iran, and they include air defense systems, radar, and drone command.

3:22MeidasTouch:But it appears that it is much larger than this, and that this is a massive strike that Donald Trump is saying he's doing to try to get Iran to make a deal with him. I think it will have the exact opposite impact. Now, Iran is preparing for a massive retaliatory strike. I think they're also preparing to close down and shut down the Bab al-Mandib strait in the Red Sea. I think they're going to be activating the Houthis shortly. We don't have confirmation of that yet, but we believe that that is a move they said they would execute on. Folks, you can expect a barrel of oil price to be in the$150 to$200 per barrel of oil very, very soon.

4:06MeidasTouch:And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, but we've seen the markets crashing. We've seen the United States economy crashing. Donald Trump probably just made, of all decisions to make, the worst possible decision imaginable. I believe the Iran retaliatory strikes we will be seeing shortly are going to be massive. I think we're going to see the Mideast on fire with infrastructure being blown up around the Mideast. I think this is where it goes. I think that this is the escalatory trap, precisely what we've been warning about now on the Midas Touch Network for over 95 days as this war is now in day 104, 105 as it continues when Donald Trump would say, we're about to make a deal.

4:54MeidasTouch:We're so close. I enjoy talking to the Ayatollah's team. We're really close. Give me two days. Give me one day. All Ponzi schemes that Donald Trump has run in his life. The rubber eventually hits the road and he eventually goes bankrupt. And folks, I believe we are seeing a moment right now. And when history is written, I think the answer on the social studies exam is going to be sadly quite easy when we look at what has been the cause of the great American calamity. I mean, we're seeing it right here unfold before our eyes. Here's again a map where we see some of the locations reported. Asulia, Bandar Abbas, Manab, that's where the United States military previously killed 168 little girls and have denied doing it, or Trump has denied it, despite us knowing the Tomahawk missile.

5:47MeidasTouch:So they're going to go back and try to kill more people in Manab, Kargan, Sirik, Qesham, the Hargham Islands right there. Explosions being reported in multiple areas right now. Iran's Parliamentary National Security Committee says Iran may expand its territory in the next war after previously extending its territorial claims to the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, bye-bye Bab al-Mandib Strait. I can pretty much predict for you we're right now West Coast time, 3.11 p.m. I'm sure when I give another update later tonight, we'll hear the Bab al-Mandib Strait has been shut down by the Houthis. And I think what we are going to be seeing very soon is the retaliatory strikes from Iran into Bahrain, into Kuwait.

6:38MeidasTouch:And frankly, I don't think they're going to hold back when it comes to some of the other areas. I think Qatar is fair game at this point. I mean, because you had the Qatari mediators who showed up in Iran today and they were trying to, I guess, work to bridge the gaps that we always knew were the gaps because we had Iran lay out their framework back in March. Donald Trump agreed to their framework back in March. He reposted Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, what the framework was. And then Donald Trump and Vance and Rubio said, you know what? We don't know. We don't know why they're misinterpreting what we're saying.

7:22MeidasTouch:They don't understand English over there. So maybe that's why they got it wrong. No, Donald, you reposted on Truth Social the framework for the ceasefire. So we can all maybe say, wow, I don't think there, I'm just suggesting that you could make the argument. Why would there be a ceasefire that deals with Hezbollah or Lebanon or this or that? That's what they agree to. It's moot, whatever, F your feelings, they're moot. Because the reality is, is that Donald Trump agreed to that. I'm not giving you spin. Go back and look at his social media post. He reposted foreign minister Aragchi of Iran. That was, when was that?

8:12MeidasTouch:You know, the first time they called the ceasefire in April, early April. Okay. That's what you did. If you didn't want to live with those terms, then don't agree to it. If you wanted to do this, do this back then. I don't think you should have done this. Let me be very clear. I think you're a war criminal. I think everybody who's in the chain of command in Manab and some of these other war crimes should be tried at the Hague and brought to justice. And I say that as a proud patriotic American. But if you were going to do this on June 10th, why wouldn't you do that on April 10th and 11th? You created the worst possible outcome and circumstance because Donald Trump's decision-making tree is the dumbest worst that there is.

9:01MeidasTouch:This is why he bankrupts everything he freaking touches. And I say this in a non-political way, go look at his past. The guy doesn't build shit. He bankrupts everything over and over again. And he's, you couldn't script a worse way to play this out. And he's still playing it out the worst possible way right now. Because if you're going to do this, if you think the lesson to be learned is another air campaign, if you think that was the lesson, that you do just an air campaign and you're going to do Iranian regime change, or they're going to say, oh my God, they're attacking us again by air. Donald, what do you want?

9:44MeidasTouch:What do you want in the deal, man? Oh, now we're going to negotiate with... No, there's no chance of a deal right now. What are we talking about? So you drag this out, literally the worst outcome. You drag this thing out for 104 days. Now you engage in yet another invasion, another attack, another strike against Iran, air strike. And we'll follow through. Is there going to be a ground invasion right now? Because if your goal was to actually achieve the outcomes that you're not going to achieve, And by the way, let me be very clear. My view is that the deal that was agreed to should have been just done because the U.S.

10:26MeidasTouch:lost the war the first time. That was just the reality. We shouldn't ignore what the reality was. The U.S. should never have been in the unlawful and catastrophic war in the first place brought in there by Netanyahu. And the U.S. should have just left the strain of her moves. That's what I think the outcome should have been. Come up with some Obama-style JCPOA deal for the nuclear material and just get out and let Oman and Iran run it with the help of allies and maybe other Arab nations and just get the hell out. But this is how you're playing it right now. On June 10th, escalating these attacks, and now we have this major, major strike that's taking place across Iran.

11:08MeidasTouch:And Iran's going to retaliate very, very, very hard. Let me also make that point. Here's how M.B. Galabaf, Iran's parliament leader, someone close to him posted, attacks on Iran have begun. Strikes have occurred in Manab and Bandar Abbas. Iran has immediately begun responding. The United States has stated the purpose of these attacks is to change Iran's stance on negotiations, while from Iran's perspective, the goal is the implementation of a comprehensive regime change program. Iran will respond to these attacks in ways different from past planning. In other words, this ain't going to be a tit for tat.

11:52MeidasTouch:This is going to light the Middle East on fire. That's what they're saying. That's what this escalatory trap was all about. That's what was going to happen. And to see the Trump regime slow roll into this thing every damn day reporting on it and telling you this is what's going to happen, this is what's going to happen, this is what's going to happen. And then seeing it happen, even though we predicted it, it still is baffling to see it done in such a Stupid, coarse, idiotic way that this is, and by the way, I am not in a conspiratorial way, not in a conspiratorial way at all, but I want to raise very serious questions and red flags about the Gulf of Tunkin, I mean the Apache helicopter incident right here.

12:51Okay.

12:52MeidasTouch:And again, challenge me, call me out, put it in the comments. All good. The story from Trump and the Trump regime, an Apache helicopter flying very low over the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a Shahid drone. Shahid drones are big. These are not the little FPV drones. Shahid drone, it's like the size of a van, okay? Almost the size of an Apache. I will grant you the Apache's bigger than a Shahid drone, but what, maybe 30 % bigger, 40 % bigger? Not like whatever. So just help me understand the damn story here that led to this escalation in the United States view. Apache flying low, okay? Okay. Over the straight, let me be very clear what this image is though, before you flash it.

13:52MeidasTouch:I did a depiction here of what, show what the real Apache looks like though. I think, okay, this is a real Apache, just so we know. I want to be very clear when I put up an AI image versus putting a real Apache. This is a real Apache, just so you can see what a real Apache looks like. And this is, as I inputted what the story was that the Trump and CENTCOM were saying, the Apache was flying low, a Shahid drone, which is actually probably bigger than what's depicted there, lodged between the two pilots. And then the pilots miraculously, while a Shahid was locked, was logged between them, lodged between them, they managed to make, and they were already low, they managed to then make this evasive maneuver where they were able to crash land in the Strait of Hormuz, kind of jump out, and then survive.

14:51MeidasTouch:And the Shahid drone never went off. It never went off. It never exploded. what are we that that's the I mean is anybody else gonna say this is what I'm saying I don't want to veer into oh conspiratorial land you're gonna challenge that story that story makes no effing sense to me at all and if you go back a few weeks remember what Trump said publicly he said the way we'll get back into the war is if we have some of our troops who are targeted or injured or killed. So to me, he choreographed the damn plan of what was going to happen. And by the way, whether you believe something more choreographed took place, or you just think that that's really what happened.

15:48MeidasTouch:It's almost a mood. I mean, I wouldn't say it's a full mood point, but the fact that you have an Apache flying low in the Strait of Hormuz, knowing that the Iranian boats and drones are in that area, are you using the Apache as bait? I mean, that's the best case scenario. What do you think is going to happen right there? Because there is a war. There's no real ceasefire. Despite what you tell the American people. And as New York Times is reporting, hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough faded after a Qatari mediation team left Tehran on Wednesday without making any progress in the talks. Now, Israeli security officials are saying Israel is not involved in the U.S.

16:36MeidasTouch:strikes on Iran at this stage. Huh. They all, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks. This is why we don't elect idiots to office. This is why you shouldn't elect lifelong losers and failures and idiots to these positions. You saw his temperament with Kristen Welker. You saw the bright red face turning orange and red when asked the most basic questions. that's the guy who was in the situation room today with Pete Hegseth, with J.D. Vance. That's your crew that is making the dumbest, most destructive decisions that will not just set our country back. but will affirmatively cause just irreparable harm.

17:55MeidasTouch:This was your plan after all of this. And shame on every damn traitor, Republican, MAGA, not support that this was the outcome you wanted. We're not reigning in this with a war powers resolution. This is the outcome that you wanted. Gas is going to be$8,$10 a gallon soon. You'll see, you want to see oil shocks happening? That's going to be the defining attribute of this summer, oil shocks. That's what's coming. I mean, I'm not, I'm speaking not in fear. I'm speaking in reality right now. There ain't no deal happening anytime soon. Let's be very clear about that. You want to see what the price of gas is going to be tomorrow?

18:51MeidasTouch:You want to see what inflation is going to be next month? What have I been saying on the Midas Touch Network? I said inflation this month. I predicted, I undershot. I gave you a conservative guess two months ago. I said 4.1 % was my prediction in April. 4.2 % CPI. you know what it's going to be next month? Four, five. Four, six. You want to know what it's going to be the next month after that? Five. You want to know what it's going to be by the end of this year? Six. It's going to be between five and six. Maybe more by the end of this year. By the time the guy is done, it's going to be like 10 to 12.

19:48MeidasTouch:I mean the worst case scenario with the worst person but what precisely people warned about is what is unfolding before our very eyes right now. Shame on anybody who supported this, who still supports it. I view you as traitors. I really do. You screwed up this for everybody. You screwed up this country for everybody. You really did. Not to say this was a perfect utopian, far from it. You know, and as I reflect on this disastrous World Cup as well, As I reflect on banning a Somalian referee because he's from Somalia, the brazen racism permeating these sick, despicable, vile war criminals in the Oval Office, it truly, truly sickens me.

21:05MeidasTouch:Just so you know, when I explain to you what the official narrative was about the Shahid drone striking in the middle of an Apache helicopter, show the real photo, Jeremy, not the AI. Show the real photo. Okay. Just so you see what an Apache looks like. So their version of events is that the Shahid went right through the middle. I guess, because it was lodged between the two while they were very low, didn't explode. The force of a Shahid, can someone do basic physics right now as well? So the Apache helicopter flying low and fast, a Shahid flying low and fast, the Shahid with that force goes through the Apache, just kind of lodges in there like it's a pigeon or something, like it's a pigeon that hits the windshield or something.

22:07MeidasTouch:And then it didn't send the helicopter into a spin out. They managed to just kind of get it and get it and get it and then crash landed into the strait and then they survived and then some electronic drone saved them, some unmanned electronic drone vessel saved them. That's what they're going with. Let's just see here. I mean, our propaganda media here is like North Korea on steroids. I remember when I used to show you some of those clips from Russia, with some of the Russia propaganda and those TV that would, you know, I remember showing you that stuff. And I'm like, this stuff here makes that look like pretty, pretty tame.

23:04MeidasTouch:Watch what they said on Fox. And that he is getting closer to the targeting of Iranian power plants and bridges. He told Fox that the Iranians are tapping the U.S. along as it relates toward reaching a negotiated settlement to formally end this conflict. The president also talked more broadly about his efforts to reach that settlement, ultimately telling Fox News that they had a chance to sign a deal and survive, and they have not yet done that. What I found very interesting, though, was what the president told us about the downing of that U.S. Army Apache helicopter earlier this week. The president provided some new details into what took place.

23:47He says an Iranian drone lodged into this Apache helicopter between the two pilots and the drone was on fire, but it didn't explode. And the helicopter was flying quite low. And within seconds, these pilots were able to bring this helicopter down into the sea. And ultimately, the president called it a miracle because had this drone exploded, these pilots would have been killed. And we know the rescue was a first in U.S. military history. This unmanned sea drone ultimately was deployed after it was ordered by President Trump to rescue these two U.S. service members. And they are now recovering following this incident at sea.

24:26And so just a remark.

24:30MeidasTouch:Without a sense, without a sense of irony, that's what they're going with. that the Apache flying low, a Shahid drone, which a Shahid drone is massive. I mean, it's not like a 747, but a Shahid drone, it's like the size of a car, like the size of a sedan. It's big. My depiction here is far, this is an AI depiction. The Shahid depicted there is far smaller than what a Shahid actually looks like. Here, Jeremy, I'll try to get you a photo to scale of what a Shahid looks like relative to kind of human beings so people can see the size of a Shahid. And so you're saying the Shahid, which is the size of like a Toyota, hits the Apache, gets lodged between the two pilots.

25:24MeidasTouch:They managed to land it at sea with no injury. Stop. Just stop it. Come on. And again, I'm not trying to veer into some conspiracy. This story doesn't make any sense. If you told me that it was, yeah, this is a Shahid drone in Ukraine, which I'm just showing you the scale of the size of a Shahid, just so you can see relative to the people. Because they're saying that this lodged between two people, so that that would have lodged between there. That's their, that's their, if you told me, Hey, it was actually an FPV drone, you know, one of those smaller drones that use the fiber optic cables to avoid the radar detection, right?

26:14MeidasTouch:That's why they have to have all those nets right now to stop the FPV drone. If you told me, Hey, that's what it was. And that kind of, you know, it hit it and it lodged between them. You know, those are smaller, you know, you know, those are like the size of a box, or maybe smaller, or like a typical drone you'd see there. I would say, okay, that makes a little bit sense. A Shahid drone? Come on. Come on. Come on. And right now, as I mentioned, for those just watching, the war has escalated. The US striking lots of targets. Iran says strikes on US ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz have now begun with the IRGC preparing a historic operation per a source close to Iran's Goluboff.

27:07MeidasTouch:Remember, there are lots of ships right now stuck in the Strait of Hormuz that are U.S. interest ships and Western-affiliated ships that have been stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, despite Donald Trump saying earlier, We've got out 100 million barrels or whatever the hell he said that, you know, despite the lies about we've been getting all these ships out of the blockade and that Iran's navy has been destroyed. No, those ships are in the strait and Iran has its fast boats and it can go to those ships right now, pick them off pretty easily, pretty easily. And Iran activates the Houthis and they shut down the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

28:01MeidasTouch:Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf shut down, Bab al-Mandab Strait shut down. That's where I think we'll be going. U.S. airstrikes have now hit the South Pars gas complex in Sula and Bashir province. So remember that South Pars gas complex that Iran rebuilt? And then remember Iran struck North Pars, Qatar? Well, now we're seeing the U.S. strike the infrastructure of Iran, for which we know Iran will strike the infrastructure of all of these Middle East countries. That's where this is going to be headed, folks. and we're going to be keeping you posted every step of the way right here. It is notable that Israel is saying Israel is not currently involved in the ongoing round of U.S.

29:01MeidasTouch:strikes against targets in Iran. Officials tell Khan News. I mean, I'm not believing this. It's just interesting that they would put out, that Israeli officials would put out a statement like, we're not involved in this after Trump saying, I hold all of the cards and I tell Netanyahu what he's going to do. So it's just fascinating that they would at least publicly claim that there's not a link there. I mean, of course we know that there's a link there. And so what can we expect over the next hour, two hours, five hours? What are we looking for? We're looking at Iran's retaliation, as I noted, FARS, Iran's state media reports that Iranian forces will be going after these American ships in the Strait of Hormuz, knocking them out, disabling them for good.

30:06MeidasTouch:It's one of the first things they're going to be doing. Bob al-Mandab Strait, Red Sea, activate the Houthis. I think it's a fair prediction to make right now. Shut it down. Or create the circumstances that instill fear that the Houthis will be able to shut it down the way the Strait of Hormuzza shut down, right? So then you'll have both waterways shut. Oil, I mean, I expect 15%, 20%, 30 % increases pretty soon. Obviously, inflation. But the broader question here, what the hell are we doing? What the hell are we doing? You truly believe that doing these strikes will encourage Iran to want to negotiate with you?

31:12Really?