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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Donald Trump has walked himself right into a fatal trap. Things are spiraling out of control in connection with his disastrous and unlawful war in Iran. The footage that you just saw there at the beginning of this video is the moment that an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile struck the city of Dimona in southern Israel. Dimona was hit by that medium-range ballistic missile.
So was another southern Israel city known as Arad. Dimona is heavily fortified, and that's where Israel's nuclear facilities are based. And the fact that Iran was able to strike that facility is of very significant import indeed.
And that followed the fact that the United States and Israel earlier in the day had struck Iran's nuclear facility, the Natanz nuclear facility, which was supposedly obliterated last June. So in response to the U.S. and Israel striking Natanz, You then had Iran striking that facility that I just mentioned before.
Now, Donald Trump posted the following message as well, as things continue to escalate. This is a ridiculous message. Donald Trump writes, If Iran doesn't fully open, without threat, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. So Trump delivering an ultimatum that the United States and Israel will destroy all of your energy facilities. We are going for, apparently what he seemed to say there is your civilian infrastructure as well. So What happens? Escalation, of course. And Iran continues to try to show escalation dominance. Donald Trump makes a threat.
Iran responds. Trump and Israel strike the energy facilities in Iran. Iran responds by striking the facilities in Qatar and Haifa and Saudi Arabia. So the spokesperson for Iran's armed forces says that if Donald Trump and Israel attacks their energy infrastructure, there will be immediate attacks on the energy infrastructure's
of all of the Arab nations that are allied with the United States, information technology infrastructure, desalination infrastructure, which would basically cause the Arab nations to run out of water in the surrounding areas very quickly. So Trump makes those threats, and Iran responds essentially immediately.
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Chapter 2: What ultimatum did Trump issue to Iran and what was its significance?
I mean, just think about this. When Donald Trump and the United States just removed all of the sanctions on Iranian oil, that allowed Iran to get $14 billion as a reward. So think about it. When former President Obama made the nuclear deal with Iran over a decade ago, which Trump and MAGA excoriated Obama for, but which created oversight with the International Atomic Energy Agency,
was able to conduct these daily or at least regular inspections and to make sure that Iran could not enrich the uranium. Donald Trump pulled out of that deal during his first term, but at the maximum, the payments that were made to Iran, which were viewed as reparation style payments, whatever you want to say. Max $1.4 billion.
And that's what MAGA and Trump, remember, they'd always be like, cash, planes full of cash, and this and that. And they would always exaggerate it. And they would always kind of misrepresent what it was. But in the past 24 hours alone, the US has allowed Iran to get $14 billion in oil revenue. It's the first time the US will now be buying Iranian oil since 1996.
And it's all happening, as Barak Ravid says, in the middle of a war against Iran. Now, the head of Iran's parliament, M.B. Ghalibaf, is just mocking the United States. He posted this meme that says, "'Sorry, we're sold out.'" Lifting sanctions on Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. Sorry, we're sold out.
Mocking Treasury Secretary Scott Besant making this concession to Iran because Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz. And... Iran's like, thank you. This is the greatest offer we've ever received and we haven't even asked for anything. You're just giving it to us because the price of a barrel of oil is surging.
By the way, on Donald Trump's threat that he's going to obliterate the energy infrastructure of Iran and Iran's response saying, okay, you do that. We'll knock out the desalination plants and energy infrastructure of all of the Arab nations. That's only further causing oil to surge and Bitcoin is crashing. By the way, gold, which is usually viewed as a safe haven, crashing as well.
The leader of the parliament in Iran also posted the following. If the Israeli regime fails to intercept the missiles in the highly protected Dimona area ā remember, that's what I shared with you at the beginning of this video ā One of the strategies it seems that Iran is employing right now.
Yes, they're going after Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and other areas, but now they go after the smaller towns that may have less of that in patriot systems, which have been spread thin. And Iran had been able to target some of those THAAD and Patriot systems and the satellites that are able to detect the ballistic missiles and the Shahi drones.
So Iran is finding an ability to more successfully strike in Israel. So about 150 to 200 injuries in the southern Israeli cities, Arad and Dimona. I'll just show you some of the other footage right here. You could see some of it right here. We'll just throw the B roll up here. of other scenes of when these ballistic missiles hit in Dimona, when Arad was hit as well.
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Chapter 3: How did Iran respond to the U.S. and Israel's military actions?
They already couldn't afford anything else. Americans are suffering and starving. It's never been worse right now. Inflation is surging out of control. Markets are crashing. Donald Trump is posting photos of himself. On Rolls Royces, in the early days of Mar-a-Lago, and we showed you yesterday, he was posting photos of golden sneakers that he's selling.
And he goes, look, when they bought my sneakers in Riyadh for $180,000. They ain't buying those sneakers anymore, Donald. I think that all these Arab nations thought that they were doing pay-for-play schemes with you and that you would play, meaning protect them. And you ain't doing that. All you're doing is writing all caps social media posts.
ranting and raving like a lunatic and posting these deranged photos of yourself from what, like the late 1980s or 1990s when you were best friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Also, Donald Trump made a post attacking David Sanger of the New York Times for an article published earlier yesterday questioning what objectives are there even in this war, like what the hell is even happening?
Here's what Donald Trump writes. The United States has blown Iran off the map, and yet their lightweight analyst at the New York Times, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals. Yes, I have, and weeks ahead of schedule. Their leadership is gone. Their Navy and Air Force are dead. They have absolutely no defense, and they want to make a deal. I don't.
We are weeks ahead of schedule, just like their incompetent election coverage of me. the failure the failing new york times always gets it wrong okay well we see iran i showed you the videos we see iran actually shooting ballistic missiles and shahid drones with more effectiveness than earlier in the war as well. They control the Strait of Hormuz right now.
In fact, they're so confident and cocky with their control of the Strait of Hormuz, they're now making bilateral deals like with India. They're making these one-off deals saying, if you pay us $2 million, we'll give you naval escorts. Remember how Donald Trump was like, America and our allies are gonna do Navy escorts through the Strait of Hormuz. Well, the US isn't. Iran is.
Iran did a naval escort of an India frigate, India cargo ship, maybe fuel ship as well, through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is apparently working on a deal with Japan right after the Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi came to the United States. It seemed that she got humiliated here, by the way. The people in Japan
The people in the diet there, the people in general are like, what the hell was that appearance? It seems that though what came out of that is Japan buying some Russian oil, maybe Iranian oil, and trying to cut a deal with Iran for their ships to get through the Strait of Hormuz. I'm not really sure what you think you've accomplished, Donald.
As Scott Lincecum writes, after more than two weeks of consistent bombings, new US intelligence suggests that Iran's regime is actually consolidating its power, unlikely to collapse, and now led by a cadre that's more extreme than before. And so-
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Iran's missile strikes on Israeli cities?
And now Donald Trump says, good, when Robert Mueller dies. If you didn't like the guy, just don't say anything at all. And Robert Mueller's investigation of your ties to Russia, we're seeing it play out right now. I mean, you're a Putin bootlicker, in my opinion. I mean, you remove the oil sanctions against Russia. Everything you're doing is helping Russia.
You're sending your entire regime over to try to help Putin's puppet in Hungary, Orban, get elected. Rubio's there. You're sending everything. There's CPAC Hungary right now. Your conduct, Russia's one of the biggest beneficiaries of this war while Russia's working with Iran to target and kill Americans right now. Let me leave with the following, okay?
Because there's two very serious crises taking place in the United States as well, in addition to obviously affordability crisis and lots of other issues that are happening. But Hawaii is facing its worst flooding in 20 years. 5,500 evacuations, a 120-year-old dam at risk, homes and roads destroyed.
In Nebraska, there are historic wildfires that have burned over 800,000 acres, killed one, and are threatening ranches. Trump has not said a word about either of these, but he did start posting photos of him in front of Mar-a-Lago on top of Rolls Royces. While America is at a war that he provoked, that he created. This is what Iran's police chief said yesterday.
If you are not capable of preserving Greenland, submit a request and we will come. The Trump regime looks weak. They're getting mocked by Iran. And I'll just leave you with this right here. This is the moment a drone was shot down in Bashir, Iran. Iranian sources claim it was another MQ-9 Reaper drone, which now by my count, we probably have lost about 15 of these Reaper drones.
Iran still has its air defense system that it's utilizing. on a day-to-day basis. More lies from Trump, more despicable conduct from Trump, more horrible behavior. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thank you, everybody, for watching.
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