Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 6/4/26
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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is your Breaking News. Earlier today, Iran and Russia announced that they were signing a $25 billion memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the nuclear sector, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said, highlighting expanding collaboration between the two countries on major nuclear energy projects. Putin was discussing this deal that was just announced and Putin said, Iran is a friendly state for us.
What recent nuclear deal has been made between Iran and Russia?
I believe that the Iranian leadership and the people of Iran trust us. They fully trust us. And by the way, in the future, this uranium could be used once we reduce the enrichment level. This uranium could be used for peaceful purposes for nuclear power and our nuclear projects in Iran under the IAEA control. Note the word could. Could be used. In other words, Russia is asserting itself even more the same way China is as protectors of Iran. We know that there's an alliance there to begin with. And when the Trump regime is out there saying Iran can have no nuclear dust, no nuclear material at all, right? what's Russia and China doing? Well, we saw China through Xi Jinping meet with Foreign Minister Aragchi, and they had very productive meetings.
And we know that we believe China's providing a lot of technology and other capabilities, likely of military variety to Iran. And what's Russia doing? Russia's saying, we're going to do a $25 billion nuclear deal together. Think about the statement that that is sending right now. So in normal times, you would expect the president of the United States of America, as opposed to the president or leader of Russia, to speak out against that, right? I mean, that would seem to be putting a massive wrench in any of the American preconditions with Iran. And the question is, how is Donald Trump responding? Does Donald Trump respond with strength or does Donald Trump respond with weakness? Well, let's find out.
Let's turn the page. As I tell my daughter, Ximena, let's turn the page and let's look what happens. Let's see where spot goes. See spot run. Let's see where spot goes on the next page. Breaking. The Pentagon is expected to cancel plans to provide Tomahawk missiles to Germany, citing concerns that Russia could view the deployment as an escalation. Pentagon likely to cancel a missile sale to Germany over fears of Russia, over fears of Russia. If you've been watching the Midas Touch Network, you know that the United States, through its chief allied commander, Grinkiewicz, who's the NATO allied commander, rather, The US has informed NATO generally that the US is going to be pulling out critical missile cells and other defensive weapons and other things that were promised to the NATO alliance also out of fear over Russia.
Just notable, right? Russia doesn't seem to have the fear over the United States because doing a $25 billion nuclear deal with Iran right now would seem to be a little bit worse than the Pentagon providing tomahawks to Germany, right? But I want you to understand what's going on in the global geopolitical climate right now. Because if I'm seeing this, what do you think our NATO allies are seeing? What do you think Asian countries, African countries, Central America, South African, South American, African, European country, Nordic states, what do you think? How do you think they're viewing these moves right now? Moments ago, Putin said the following about Iran. The people of Iran have shown cohesion and their will to fight.
This is a factor that undoubtedly should be taken into account as we find a solution to this crisis. Here's what Putin said about Trump. We understand the U.S. administration is distracted. They are forced to tackle this issue now. Putin said the following about Trump as well. Trump says he didn't expect the Ukrainian problem to be so hard. Some things don't seem too complicated, but as soon as you delve into the problems, it turns out there are too many unknowns. Once again, you know, I'm not a rocket scientist here, but it does seem like Putin is mocking Donald Trump, continuing to engage in moves.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:34
2
What recent nuclear deal has been made between Iran and Russia?
0:34–14:11
3
How is the U.S. responding to the Iran-Russia nuclear cooperation?
14:11–19:23
4
How is the geopolitical landscape affecting U.S. allies?
19:23–24:27
5
What does Putin's recent statement about Iran signify?
24:27–50:18
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How does Iran's security architecture impact its negotiations?
50:18–1:04:59