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Iran Strikes Back at U.S. Forces as War Suddenly Escalates

27 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.52 - 28.485 Professor Devi Sridhar

I am Shannon Maldonado, the founder of the Jaui gift shop, which sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the devices, I found them to be one of the easiest to use devices. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All the tools needed for sales, such as storage design, are in the dashboard. Start the free trial at shopify.com.

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29.14 - 60.683 Shannon Maldonado

I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com website. I founded Ornot in 2013.

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60.703 - 85.354 Shannon Maldonado

I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background systems and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com.

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87.022 - 114.936 Professor Devi Sridhar

I am Shannon Maldonado, the founder of the Jaui gift shop, which sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the devices, I found them to be one of the easiest to use devices. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All tools needed for sales, such as storage design, are handy in the dashboard. Start the free trial at shopify.com website.

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115.861 - 143.725 Professor Devi Sridhar

I'm Shannon Maldonado, the founder of Jaui, a gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All the tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are in the dashboard. Start your free trial at shopify.com.

144.447 - 173.509 Ben Meiselas

things are escalating very quickly after the united states targeted iranian infrastructure and violated the ceasefire iran has struck back iran has targeted american military infrastructure as well things are escalating this mou is clearly falling apart if you even wanted to say it was in place at all here's what we are learning the irgc the islamic revolutionary guard says

173.489 - 201.898 Ben Meiselas

that its Navy has now responded to the United States' strikes on Sirich. The IRGC says that it has struck U.S. military positions in the region after it accused Washington and Trump of violating the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding by carrying out military strikes on Iran's coast. CENTCOM moments ago or slightly earlier announced that it conducted powerful strikes against Iran.

202.279 - 217.602 Ben Meiselas

The Iranian statement notes that the US attack followed an Iranian response to the passage of a ship through what Iran called an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz. and of Israel's violation of the Lebanon ceasefire.

218.023 - 232.487 Ben Meiselas

The IRGC cites to Clause 5 of the Memorandum of Understanding, which says Iran has full responsibility for controlling the passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and the IRGC is charging the U.S.,

Chapter 2: What triggered Iran's response to U.S. military actions?

819.702 - 846.8 Ben Meiselas

It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. And it pains me to say that CENTCOM and the United States are lying, but the CENTCOM and the United States are lying. Just go and read paragraph five of the MOU. It says the Strait is under the control of Iran and Oman and that Iran makes the arrangements. It's clear. It's unambiguous. It's undisputed. J.D. Vance post, Iran signed a ceasefire agreement.

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847.1 - 872.539 Ben Meiselas

We have honored it. If they have disagreements of how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone. But violence will be met with violence. Now, you and Trump and the Trump regime are violating the ceasefire. You don't ever do what you say you're going to do under deals. And like with everything Donald Trump does, he never wants to do a deal to begin with.

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872.519 - 891.567 Ben Meiselas

It's why he wants to have oral understandings, which he manipulates, which aren't understandings at all. If he can't do that, he'll do a framework, but it'll be vague and ambiguous so he can breach. And then if he actually has to put his name on something like an MOU, he'll always find ways to breach it and say, oh, you're the one who breached it.

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891.707 - 920.548 Ben Meiselas

I mean, this is a guy who's saying that there are... ninja vandals who have dove into the reflecting pool with box cutters. And that's why it's filled with algae and growth. I mean, we're literally dealing with a psychopath here. Now, it should also be noted as well that there is a cyber war going on as well. Just days after the MOU was signed and

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920.528 - 939.043 Ben Meiselas

Funds were unlocked and sent to Iran, billions of dollars. Iran's banking sector was hit by two waves of cyber attacks that disrupted services at several major banks and temporarily suspended nationwide card transactions, Amwaj Media reported.

939.023 - 964.93 Ben Meiselas

British media and cybersecurity analysts said the attacks bore the hallmarks of Predatory Sparrow, a hacking group widely viewed as linked to Israeli's cyber operations. The attacks targeted major state banks, including the Mali Sederat, And the report says the timing has fueled speculation that the attacks were intended to undermine the U.S. and Iran agreement.

965.471 - 984.418 Ben Meiselas

Amwad reports the attacks fit a broader pattern of Israeli cyber operations against Iranian infrastructure. Another thing to note is that earlier today, US, that there was a purported Israel-Lebanon framework that was entered into.

984.978 - 999.473 Ben Meiselas

Rubio announced, not an agreement, not a deal, announced a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon at the State Department on Friday, signed by the two countries, that this would be a first step forward toward ending months of war.

Chapter 3: How did the IRGC justify their military actions against the U.S.?

999.453 - 1020.55 Ben Meiselas

Didn't y'all announce, though, like 10 other ceasefires? Those weren't the first step forwards. Those were all just fake market manipulation tactics. Got it, got it, got it. But Hezbollah, which holds the weapons at the center of the conflict, was not a party to this deal and were not invited. Israel says its forces will remain in their security zones.

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1020.53 - 1033.648 Ben Meiselas

in southern Lebanon, meaning Israel will occupy southern Lebanon. Netanyahu said this was a major achievement and tied any withdrawal to Hezbollah's full disarmament, though Hezbollah wasn't at these negotiations.

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1034.088 - 1055.26 Ben Meiselas

Then the deal creates pilot zones in addition to security zones where the Lebanese army would take exclusive control as Israeli troops redeploy, one south of the Latani River and one north, but It requires Israel to first advance into the pilot zones, but Israel says it keeps the security zones. It just creates new zones.

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1055.721 - 1067.201 Ben Meiselas

Okay, we'll go out of the zones, not the security zone, but these two new zones that we create. And Israel's ambassador declared, Iran is out. Hezbollah is out. Now, Hezbollah rejects the agreement.

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Chapter 4: How has CENTCOM responded to Iran's military actions?

1067.561 - 1091.827 Ben Meiselas

The Hezbollah member of parliament in Lebanon says that... We are not going to agree to this. We're not supportive of this. More than 4,000 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli strikes since March. Israel continued striking the South this week, as recently as yesterday, despite the MOU saying that that can't happen. Now, I'll leave you with this right here.

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1091.908 - 1110.696 Ben Meiselas

Just again, I just want to give you the data. Right here, Rubio, when he was in the Middle East, he was asked about the MOU and basically Rubio's like the MOU is not even real. It's just a framework to negotiate in the future. This is the perspective of the Trump regime on everything. Here, play this clip.

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Mr. Secretary, the MOU did not include a specific number of years during which Iran could not develop nuclear weapons. Should a final agreement have a specific number? And is the U.S. pushing for that?

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1122.132 - 1137.915 Marco Rubio

An MOU would not have that because an MOU is not a final agreement. An MOU just creates the construct and the outlines for a negotiation. And there's no doubt that as part of that negotiation, very specific terms like years and limits will be discussed. And that includes the mechanisms by which it's verified and enforced.

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1137.895 - 1162.481 Ben Meiselas

And then here's what Rubio had to say after meeting with the Gulf Council cooperation countries, the GCC countries. Did you talk to them about the $300 billion fund, which is in the MOU, which you and others said that they're on the hook for, not the United States taxpayers? Rubio said, no, we're not talking about that. We'll deal with it. Do you see how bad faith this is?

Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding?

1162.501 - 1188.42 Ben Meiselas

I mean, it's just, again, It's in the MOU. So if you thought you had all the negotiating leverage and you didn't want that in the MOU and you said, we can never offer this to Iran. We'll never do it. How dare them? Fair position. Then don't put it in the MOU and don't sign your name on a document that says you owe them $300 billion or you're a guarantor and then tell us it's the Arab nations.

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1188.48 - 1202.7 Ben Meiselas

Then don't talk to the Arab nations. it just demonstrates that everything you do is like everything you do is bad faith and it pains me to have to like make that announcement as i report i mean but that's just the truth Here's what Rubio says. Play this clip.

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Mr. Secretary, in the meeting with the GCC allies, did any of them make any commitments to pay into this $300 billion reconstruction?

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1210.595 - 1221.396 Marco Rubio

No, it was not discussed. I mean, the reconstruction cut, that's way down the road, and that's something that will be dealt with at the appropriate time in this process. But that was not discussed by anyone.

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1221.376 - 1241.47 Ben Meiselas

And of course, Donald Trump at his last speaking engagement earlier said, Iran is dying to make a deal. They're dying. They're just dying to make a deal. What does it even mean they're dying to make a deal? No one's dying. The MOU is done. It's done. Okay. You can negotiate the technical details in a long form and just shut up. Here, play this clip.

1241.77 - 1254.704 Donald Trump

They're dying to make a deal. They're giving us a lot. This should have been done over the 47-year period that they've reigned with terror. And that's what they did. They reigned with terror.

1254.724 - 1260.283 Ben Meiselas

There you have it, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.

Chapter 6: What are Iran's threats regarding the Strait of Hormuz?

1260.303 - 1263.629 Ben Meiselas

Seriously, let's try to get to 7 million. Can you please try to subscribe? Let's get there.

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1263.949 - 1275.97 Dr. Craig Spencer

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