Trump Escalates Iran Conflict as Fears of Wider War Grow

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How did the White House signal a potential prolonged war with Iran?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
all hell is breaking loose as america's psychotic president donald trump is declaring that he will be doing an all-out war with the united states military against iran this can take several weeks perhaps even months but there is no more ceasefire which never existed in the first place Donald Trump is saying all out war. Specifically, he's leaking to Barack Ravid, who's his personal stenographer at Axios, that the White House is preparing for what could turn into a long round of fighting in Iran. It could last several weeks or even more. A U.S. official said the current escalation could last a significant period of time. It could be a day or two. It could be a week. It could be a month. We're going to slap them a bit so they understand that we're not fucking around, the U.S.
Ben Meiselas 0:54
officials said. We're not fucking around, all right? So we're going to slap Iran. So the Trump regime launched a massive military strike. along the coastal cities and even inland in Iran as well, striking the Akhtakhan Bridge in the Golston Province in northern Iran, also the Gorgan Railway. They also struck deep in Iran as well. striking what appears to be an air base also near the Bushir power plant as well. We'll go through that piece by piece here. The U.S. military confirmed to Barak Ravid it attacked two railway bridges in northern Iran with cruise missiles as part of the strikes on Wednesday. U.S. officials were telling Barak Ravid, This is the first U.S. strike against infrastructure in Iran since the April 8th ceasefire.
Ben Meiselas 1:51
You can see right there some of these bridges and other infrastructure that was hit. As Professor Pape says, ABC has also confirmed that coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile sites, IRGCC2s were hit. And this would be relevant, of course, if you were going to invade Keshem or Karg Island in the Gulf. and donald trump has said that he's thinking about taking over karg as he calls it he's going to take over karg or take over keshem is what he's saying this is what centcom just put out as well they put out this video bragging that it just hit 90 iranian military targets in the airstrike from last night they targeted defense systems coastal surveillance assets missile and drone storage sites naval capabilities and military logistic infrastructure along Iran's coastline.
Ben Meiselas 2:46
But then Iran responded as well. Iran targeted American military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. We have video footage of that as well. Let me show you what it looked like as several Iranian ballistic missiles directly impacted right around the US military base in Bahrain. Let's play it.
Ben Meiselas 3:23
Here's another angle of a direct impact at the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. Let's play this clip.

What specific U.S. strikes on Iranian infrastructure were reported?

Ben Meiselas 3:37
The IRGC said this is the first stage of their strikes on their Gulf neighbors that have U.S. bases and use U.S. infrastructure to attack Iran. I'll show you more of what some top Iranian leaders are saying right now as well. Let's get to the chase. They're not backing down. They said, if you're gonna do all-out war on Iran, we're prepared for all-out war against you, the Donald Trump regime, against the United States, and against all of the Arab nations. We are ready to bring down the global economy If you're trying to destroy the civilization of Iran, Iran is not messing around either. Show you these photos right here of the U.S. strikes that hit the terminal and runway of the Iranshahr Airport in Iran.
Ben Meiselas 4:28
deep kind of inland in Iran right there. Also, U.S. airstrikes hit the IRGC barracks in Bushehr. You can see the facility ablaze right here. The Bushehr nuclear power plant is located nearby as well, though the power plant itself had not been hit. You can see this map right here of the airstrikes in Bandar Abbas, Kesham Island, Bushehr, Chabahar, Sariq and Conor Rock right there as well. Donald Trump was posting images and videos of the United States strike, bragging about hitting the airport, bragging about hitting the bridges, bragging about burning Iran down. Donald Trump says this is in retribution. Think about the sicko, the psycho U.S.

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