Trump Crashes Out as Pakistan Meeting Backfires

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What desperate measures is Donald Trump taking regarding Iran?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
Things are getting very desperate for Donald Trump right now. He's quite literally begging Iran to negotiate with him. He's basically saying, please show up in Pakistan. Tell me what you need. Iran's like, you have to agree to our 10 point framework and we don't just want to be there with Witkoff and Kushner. You got to send J.D. Vance. And so. Right now, it's unclear if Iran's even going to show up. All of the leaks that we're hearing to the media right now is the Trump regime is going to be showing up in Islamabad for talks that may take place as early as tomorrow. And still, as of this recording, we're hearing from Iran, unless Donald Trump agrees to the preconditions, There's no point of doing this.
Ben Meiselas 0:38
And I mean, you have Iran's president, Pozeshkin, making posts like this. You have Iran's foreign minister, Araghchi, making statements like this. The leader of their parliament, MB Goloboff, making statements like this. So I just want to share with you, here are the statements Donald Trump is making. Here are the statements that the Iranian leaders are making. Donald Trump is sending people to Islamabad. As of right now, Iran is making public statements still that they don't want to do that until the preconditions are agreed to and that they don't see any utility in just Donald Trump ranting and ranting like Lindick.

Why is Iran hesitant to participate in talks with Trump?

Ben Meiselas 1:13
So judge for yourself using just these statements. But let's just go through what's happening right here. So what we heard is that senior Pakistani government sources have told Reuters that Pakistan is confident it can get Iran to attend talks with the United States. But Trump is trying to lean hard on Field Marshal Munir in Iran to try to get Iran to show up. Then Donald Trump's just posting things like this. I mean, it's ridiculous. Here's Trump's post. I'm winning a war by a lot. Things are going very well. Our military has been amazing. But if you read the fake news, like the failing New York Times, you would actually think that we're losing the war. The enemy is confused because they get the same media reports, and yet they realize their Navy has been wiped out.
Ben Meiselas 1:59
So Trump says the real issue here is Iran reads the New York Times. So they're confused about what's happening. I mean, how ridiculous of a statement is. Then Donald Trump's like their former leaders are mostly gone. This has been in addition to everything else. Regime change, exclamation point. So Donald Trump's claiming that the fact that the Islamic regime is still in power, that that is regime change. And then Trump's like the anti-America fake news media is rooting for Iran to win, but it's not going to happen. No one is rooting for them to win. I think what we're asking for is that there be no war crimes committed, no genocide committed, period, especially in the name of the United States, and that there be truthful data about what the hell is really happening here and that Americans know what is actually going on because there's the largest oil supply shock in history and the largest supply shock of a lot of other things.
Ben Meiselas 2:54
It's going to cause massive economic pain, and it already is. Then Donald Trump writes, the Iranian leadership has forced Hundreds of ships towards the United States, mostly Texas, Louisiana and Alaska to get their oil. Thank you very much, Donald J. Trump. And what are you even talking about? Iran has four ships to the United States. I mean, are you saying that the U.S. exports a lot of oil and then there's a lot of drilling in the U.S.

What statements are being made by Iranian leaders about negotiations?

Ben Meiselas 3:18
? Actually, on a drilling basis year over year, drilling is actually down slightly now from under former President Biden. But regardless, no one doubts that the United States exports and has a lot of oil, a lot of crude. I mean, nobody doubts that. The issue is, is that oil is connected to an international market. And when there's a supply shock, it impacts WTI crude and Brent crude. It has an effect. That's why our gas prices are high. So again, just give us the facts. Just tell us the truth. I mean, again, just deranged statements by him. And then he goes, the Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran.

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