Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 3/31/26
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This has been on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News. We've got a lot to discuss regarding Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran. Things continue to escalate. Donald Trump and his regime continue to spread disinformation that there are very productive negotiations
What recent events are affecting Donald Trump's war in Iran?
taking place and that Iran is totally and utterly obliterated. While Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's parliament just adopted a law that says that they will officially institute a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz. And as we speak right now, throughout Iran, they are staging what they are referring to a night of defiance of Epstein coalition airstrikes. And so what they are simulcasting, I guess, across all of Iran are hundreds of thousands of peoples in different cities who are protesting or who are coming out to support the current regime. And again, let's be very, very clear. This is propaganda, you know, and this is intended right here as well to send a message. But when you have one side of the media, the Trump propaganda that's out there,
that says they're totally obliterated and people are begging for us to come in and they want us to make a deal so badly. And when you can observe that the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz, that they're still striking their Arab nation neighbors where there are American military interests, when you can observe the fact that there are still, again, huge groups of people in the hundreds of thousands in various cities that are being simulcasted.
What disinformation is being spread by Trump's regime regarding Iran?
The post right there was from a University of Tehran professor. When you see the parliament of Iran meeting and functioning, and yesterday you had the spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry hold a press conference saying, we did not have any negotiations with the United States. We are... We've stated our non-negotiables and what they are. We need to keep ballistic missiles and Shahi drones. We'll never give those up. We need permanent security guarantees for us, for the Houthis, for Hezbollah, for the Shiite militias in Iraq. We need full reparations. We need American military bases out of the Middle East. If you agree to our non-negotiables, we can start negotiating, and then we're willing to enter into a sustainable peace agreement.
So one of the tactics that the Trump regime is using now to jawbone the market, to manipulate the market, They realize that Trump's social media posts don't work anymore to do that or they work minimally. So now they leak things to like the Wall Street Journal and other legacy media outlets to then repost that.
How is Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz impacting global politics?
Or they'll like give a media like an out of context statement. And then like The Wire will publish, you know, from what I just told you about the Iranian negotiating position. It's like Iran says they want peace and they're looking for a peace deal. It's like that gets published over the wire and it's like not everything else that's in context where Iran says we're not going to agree to anything unless these things are met. And then we can agree that they're sustainable and long-term peace. But we control the Strait of Hormuz. We get reparations. We keep ballistic missiles. In the future, we enrich uranium. We're recognized as... sovereign over the straight of Hormuz. You agree to all of that and there'll be peace.
And then the media here will be like, and they said they wanted peace. Then the market goes up and it's like, okay. The reality is Iran strongly controls the straight of Hormuz right now. They've instituted a toll system. They're letting Chinese vessels go, some Indian vessels go, a few Pakistani vessels go, having nothing to do with the United States at this point. And they've been very clear. If you try to get through and you don't get permission, we will target you. And they've done that over and over and over again. We see over the past 12, 24 hours, they struck a Kuwaiti flagship off the port of Dubai. They hit an oil depot in Haifa. They hit a big infrastructure area in Kuwait as well. The militias in Iraq continue to target American interests there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:24
2
What recent events are affecting Donald Trump's war in Iran?
0:24–1:49
3
What disinformation is being spread by Trump's regime regarding Iran?
1:49–3:03
4
How is Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz impacting global politics?
3:03–11:20
5
What are Iran's non-negotiable demands in peace talks?
11:20–12:45
6
How is the U.S. military strategy being influenced by Trump's decisions?
12:45–18:20
7
What implications does Trump's war in Iran have on the economy?
18:20–23:44
8
How are international relationships shifting due to the conflict in Iran?
23:44–1:02:48