Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 7/7/2026
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What breaking news does Ben open the episode with about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz?
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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and this is your breaking news. And indeed, there's a lot of very important breaking news that we need to discuss. Most notably, the United States has announced that they are officially revoking the general license which authorized the sale of Iranian oil. The U.S. announced that it would no longer be allowing Iran to sell its oil and to transport its oil for sale outside of the Strait of Hormuz. There's been at least three ships that have been struck by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours. That's reflected in the underlying data, but it seems the number is closer to around five ships and that just the UK Maritime Authority is only reporting on three of these ships.
To be very clear, all of the ships that were struck by Iran were going through a route that the United States tried to open up after the MOU was entered into closer to Oman. And these are ships that turned off their satellite transponders, if you will, their AIS signals, which would signal where they were going. And they tried to, in the kind of dark of night, follow a route that the US said that they should be following. And Iran had previously struck ships doing just that. And after the MOU was entered into, Iran had warned all ships that pursuant to paragraph five of the memorandum of understanding that was entered into 20 days ago, if you use the route that is not authorized by the irgc you will be attacked by the irgc they gave the warning the us tried to use the mou to accomplish things that the us was not able to do during the war sad realization to see the levels of bad faith engaged in by the united states and the trump regime
after this MOU was entered into, basically violating every term right away from entering into another MOU with Lebanon and Israel, which basically permitted Israel to be, or Netanyahu's regime in Israel, to indefinitely be in southern Lebanon and actually to take new areas that they call pilot zones in addition to so-called security zones in Lebanon. That would be in violation of Article 1 of the MOU with Iran. When Rubio took his trip to the Middle East, he noted that he wasn't even going to be discussing giving Iran $300 billion in development funds with the Middle East countries, which the Trump regime said the Middle East countries would be investing in Iran.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:17
2
What breaking news does Ben open the episode with about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz?
1:17–18:24
3
How does Ben describe Iran’s attacks on commercial ships and the UK maritime reports?
18:24–24:01
4
What evidence does Ben present that the MOU with Iran was violated and who broke it?
24:01–39:43
5
How does Ben link U.S. market manipulation, oil prices, and alleged Trump insider shorting?
39:43–50:03
6
Why does Ben say the U.S. revoked Iran’s general license to sell oil and what does that mean?
50:03–1:47:01