Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 7/14/2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News. We have a lot to discuss. Moments ago, U.S. CENTCOM announced more strikes on Iran.
What happened in CENTCOM’s announcement of renewed strikes on Iran and where did they target?
We are currently monitoring what's happening right there. These strikes, again, appear to be significant in scope, mostly targeting the coastal areas in Iran. But we are certainly seeing an escalation taking place. We'll note that there is a lot of infrastructure being hit that doesn't just always appear to be military infrastructure. Recovering that, Iran's response, recovering, for example, water and electricity infrastructure have been hitting Kish, Iran, by the United States. Iran is striking back as well, and there is all-out war taking place right now in the Middle East. The latest reporting that we're getting is that Iran was able to strike a Kuwaiti Navy vessel, The Kuwaiti army is confirming that Iranian missiles struck a Kuwaiti Navy vessel.
What you're seeing on screen right now is not the naval vessel, but another tanker that Iran was able to strike off of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump claims that the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, Trump said a 20% fee, a mafia protection fee to be paid to the Trump regime or Donald Trump, who knows, for his protection over the Strait of Hormuz. You see the protection right there, everybody? That's a tanker right there that was loaded up to leave the Strait of Hormuz, did not use the IRGC route. Iran struck that. By my count, over the past three days, Iran has been able to hit somewhere in the range of five to eight tankers and hit them hard. I mean, for those who are listening on audio, I mean, you're seeing a massive tanker sinking right now in the Persian Gulf.
And this is what Iran warned that it would do. This is what their Saipan Navy, their IRGC Navy said they're going to do. should be also be noted that moments ago the blockade by the u.s officially went into effect the blockade that was removed from the memorandum of understanding by the mou is now back in place right now and iran has previously stated once that blockade is in effect that they would consider shutting down the bab al-mandib straight in the Red Sea. It should also be noted Iran has released photographs of what it is saying or locations that it struck in Bahrain, in Kuwait, off the coast of Oman, in the UAE, in the surrounding Arab nations. Qatar. And so they've released these photographs.
And one of the things that has been deeply disconcerting to me, frankly, as a reporter trying to find out the objective damn facts for all of you and report on it is, you know, we'll see these Iranian strikes. Then we'll see video often of the Iranian strikes hitting the targets that it claims it's striking, whether again, that's in Jordan or Kuwait or Bahrain or Qatar or wherever. Then we'll get a message out from CENTCOM or one of the Arab nations saying, that says actually what you saw may have been debris and the Iranian missiles were actually all stopped and the Iranian drones were all stopped. And then we see the satellite footage and then Trump denies it and CENTCOM denies it. But I see the satellite footage and trust me, I don't want to be like Tasneem News Agency is showing me this and that's more reliable than what I'm seeing from CENTCOM.
That's a hard thing to... More often than not, these satellite footage images appear to then be legit. We then learn about what's happened as we did during the first 40-day war. And I'll show you what we're seeing. I'll show you this over in Jordan. And what appears to be in this video is some of these U.S. Patriot interceptors stopped working after after some of the initial strikes and it appears to be showing you know iran successfully hitting targets in georgia i'll just i'll just show you here let's play this clip
now uh you take a look at the markets today and i take a look at them to see What's going on? I mean, we have the most unstable geopolitical environment imaginable with the strikes taking place in the Middle East and the full-fledged war there, a full-fledged war taking place right now with Russia's invasion of
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:11
2
What happened in CENTCOM’s announcement of renewed strikes on Iran and where did they target?
0:11–6:31
3
How did Iran respond and which regional assets were reportedly hit by missiles and drones?
6:31–17:50
4
Why are satellite images and contradictory CENTCOM claims creating confusion about strike outcomes?
17:50–26:32
5
How are the Middle East escalations affecting oil markets, gas prices, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
26:32–37:24
6
What is Congress doing (or not doing) — is there movement on war authorization and emergency funding?
37:24–54:33
7
How will Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing be conducted and why are 10‑minute limits controversial?
54:33–1:04:02