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Iran Strikes Back at U.S. Forces as War Suddenly Escalates

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Iran striking back after Trump ordered the United States to attack Iran. Get 20% off all IQBAR products. Text TRUTH to 64000. (Message and data rates may app...

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After the United States targeted Iranian infrastructure and violated the ceasefire, Iran has struck back Iran has targeted American military infrastructure as well. Things are escalating. This MOU is clearly falling apart.

If you even wanted to say it was in place at all, here's what we are learning.

The IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, says that it's Navy has now responded to the United States' strikes on Syracke. The IRGC says that it has struck U.S. military positions in the region. After it accused Washington and Trump evaluating the Islamabad memorandum of understanding by carrying out military strikes on Iran's coast, sent com moments ago, or slightly earlier

announced that it conducted powerful strikes against Iran. The Iranian statement notes that the U.S. attack followed and Iranian response to the passage of a ship through what Iran called an unauthorized route in the straight of her moves and of Israel's violation of the Lebanon ceasefire. The IRGC cites to claws five of the memorandum of understanding, which says Iran has full

responsibility for controlling the passage through the straight of her moves. And the IRGC is charging the U.S. of attempting to undermine the MOU, which clearly says Iran is in charge of those arrangements. The IRGC warned that it would further escalate against the United States military. If the United States continue to strike Iran and Iran says they are not backing down.

If there are ships that use the unauthorized route by Oman and do not coordinate with the IRGC, the IRGC will blow up those ships. Iran says we're ready for war. Y'all were the ones who were begging us to enter into this memorandum of understanding. And of course earlier today, the Wall Street Journal confirmed some of our reporting

that we were doing weeks ago. And my interview with Congress member Himes, who's the Democratic ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, where we all talked about how these U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the UAE were obliterated by Iran. And that total obliteration was covered up by SENCOM, which didn't want to admit just how

Bad the damage was to these U.

Iran says we're ready.

“We'll shut down the straightive removes again.”

We're ready to go. We're ready for war. IRGC public relations just put out the following statement in full, following the violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon a few hours ago.

The treaty breaking U.S. regime, as always, violated its commitments and under the pretext

of preventing the passage of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the straightive or moves, launched an air attack on the coast of the Islamic Republic of Iran. So the IRGC, safe and navy, responded to this aggression by striking the positions of the U.S. terrorist army in the region, according to clause five of the Islamabad memorandum, arrangements for controlling the passage in the straightive or moves are with the Islamic

Republic. Now, pull back for a second. Whether you like that passage of the memorandum of understanding, or you don't like that passage, it really doesn't matter what your feelings are because the undisputed fact

“is that Iran is correct that that's what clause five of the MUU says that Donald Trump”

signed in Versailles.

If you don't like that clause, then don't sign it.

If you believe that you destroyed the Iranian navy and their military and their infrastructure and that Iran begged for this and you had the upper hand and the negotiation, then to negotiate a different term, but you signed it, the memorandum of understanding is binding, the final agreement is a long-form version to implement the terms of the MUU, the memorandum of understanding, which is a short form of agreement, but the MUU is a binding agreement.

And truly it pains me as an American to see our government under the Trump regime enter into a clear and unambiguous agreement, breach the agreement, and then behave like buffoons and say, "But you and the ones who breach." No, I can read the MUU, I know what the MUU says, and you signed it, you don't like it, you don't sign it.

But Donald Trump is whole life and others in his regime are deal breakers. They're frauds.

“That's what they've been their whole life.”

And so that's what they're doing. They're frauds and their predators. Now, you have an Iranian parliament member responsible for national security, Abraham Azizi, he writes the following, the U.S. attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations once again. The failed U.S. president has shown he has no commitment to the principles of negotiations

or a ceasefire.

This reckless violation of the ceasefire will, as always, lead to retreat and regret on

their part. The blame game does not work anymore. Now, Dolphin Iran, this account, which is very close and linked with MB Gallabov, Iran's parliament leader, so much so people say this is like the unofficial account of Gallabov writes the following moments ago.

The United States is attempting to attack Iran's monitoring and protection infrastructure for the straight of Hormuz, repeated attacks on fixed facilities in southern Iran, indicate that previous attacks have been unsuccessful. Hits have been reported in Syracon, Kesheum, over the past 24 hours. The United States is tried to establish a new route in the straight of Hormuz, but failed

due to Iran's swift response. The straight is now effectively blockade in and passages only occurring with Iran's coordination. Until the United States fulfills all of its commitments, traffic through the straight will not return to normal. The main indicator for Iran is the situation in Lebanon, Iran is on the verge of a reciprocal

response and more reciprocal responses we're hearing from others in the IRGC to follow. And so what that post is alluding to as well, is that these strikes by sent come by the United States military are actually aimed at disabling Saipa Navy outposts and radar that it uses to control the straight of Hormuz with its IRGC Saipa Navy that the United States claims doesn't exist in the bottom of the seat.

And so Iran says we see the targets that you're hitting and we know its intention is for you to open up alternative routes to try to get cargo ships and other VLCCs out of the straight of Hormuz using non IRGC controlled routes. We're not going to allow that to happen. Recall that yesterday foreign minister Iran, Chief of Iran called his counterpart, the

foreign minister of Oman after Rubio and the Trump regime tried to force Oman to say that they will not enforce any tolls or fees in the straight of Hormuz.

Earlier today, Oman came out with a statement or was leaked to Bloomberg and ...

through what Oman had said to European Union countries and other countries.

“It does business with, no, we will be charging fees with Iran.”

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plus get free shipping to get your 20% off text truth to 64,000 text truth to 64,000 that's truth to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply, C terms for details. Ahmed Vahidi, who's closely aligned with the IRGC, posted the following based on clause five of the Islamabad agreement.

The arrangements for controlling passage through the straight of foremoves are with the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, America, by inciting various parties sought to violate this commitment to which the necessary response was given in it shall be so henceforth. In the event of repeated aggression, our response will be more extensive than this and

again, Iran's making it clear.

“If a VLCC, those of those very long cargo container ships, right?”

If the vessels don't use Iran, Iran doesn't care, this is not Iran is not scared. Donald Trump has admitted that the U.S. is on the verge of globe, is that we're on the verge of global depression and the U.S. is about to tank bottom. Trump's already tank the economy. Iran knows how desperate he is.

They're not backing off and they've further cemented their relationships now. With Middle East countries and they feel that they're ready to take on the U.S. They know Donald Trump's not going to commit ground forces and they know that Donald Trump at this point has lost and he's scared and he shouldn't have launched this unlawful and catastrophic war in the first place with Netanyahu.

We reported earlier, of course, when the U.S. launched these attacks on Syracc, SENTCOM,

then bragged about it in a social media post, SENTCOM forces conducted a powerful response.

They say U.S. aircraft struck the Iranian missile and drone storage locations on coastal radar sites. And they say how this was a powerful response to yesterday's attack on a commercial ship. And they said the unwarranted aggression by Iran violates the ceasefire. It doesn't.

It doesn't. It doesn't. And it pains me to say that SENTCOM in the United States are lying, but the SENTCOM in the United States are lying. Just go and read paragraph five of the MOU. It says the straight is under the control of Iran and Oman. And that Iran makes the arrangements.

It's clear. It's unambiguous. It's undisputed. J.D. Vans post Iran signed to ceasefire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements of how the MOU is being applied,

they can pick up the phone, but violence will be met with violence. Now, you and Trump and the Trump regime are violating the ceasefire. You don't ever do what you say you're going to do under deals.

And like with everything Donald Trump does, he never wants to do a deal to begin with.

And it's why he wants to have oral understandings, which he manipulates, which aren't understandings at all. If he can't do that, he'll do a framework, but it'll be vague and ambiguous so he can breach. And then if he actually has to put his name on something like an MOU, hello, we

find ways to breach it and say, oh, you're the one who breach it. I mean, this is a guy who's saying that there are ninja vandals who have dove into the reflecting pooled with box cutters.

That's why it's filled with algae and grow.

I mean, we're literally dealing with a psycho path here.

“Now it should also be noted as well that there is a cyber war going on as well.”

Just days after the MOU was signed and funds were unlocked and sent to Iran billions of dollars, Iran's banking sector was hit by two waves of cyber attacks that disrupted services at several major banks and temporarily suspended nationwide card transactions. Amwaj media reported British media and cyber security analysts said the attacks bore the hallmarks of predatory sparrow, a hacking group widely viewed as the link to Israeli's

cyber operations. The attacks targeted major state banks, including the mellys at Iraq, Tejarat, and the reports says the timing as field speculation that the attacks were intended to undermine the US and Iran agreement. Amwaj reports the attacks fit a broader pattern of Israeli cyber operations against

Iranian infrastructure.

“Another thing to note is that earlier today, US that there was a purported Israel Lebanon”

framework that was entered into, Rubio announced not a agreement, not a deal. It announced a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon at the State Department on Friday signed by the two countries.

This would be a first step forward toward ending months of war.

Didn't you all announce though, like 10 other ceasefires, those warrant the first step forwards, those were all just fake market manipulation tactics, got it, got it, got it. But has Bola, which holds the weapons at the center of the conflict, was not a party to this deal and were not invited. Israel says it forces, its forces will remain in their security zones in southern Lebanon,

meaning Israel will occupy southern Lebanon, Netanyahu said this was a major achievement and tied any withdrawal to his Bola's full disarmament, though his Bola wasn't at these negotiations, then the deal creates pilot zones in addition to security zones where the Lebanese army would take exclusive control as Israeli troops redeploy, one south of the Latani river and one north, but it requires Israel to first advance into the pilot zones, but Israel says it keeps the

security zones, it just creates new zones, okay, we'll go ahead of the zones, not the security zone, but these two new zones that we create and Israel's ambassador declared Iran is out, has Bola is out, now has Bola rejects the agreement, the his Bola member of parliament in Lebanon says that we are not going to agree to this, we're not supportive of this, more than 4,000 people in Lebanon have been killed and Israeli strikes since March, Israel continued striking the south this

week as recently as yesterday, despite the MOU saying that that can't happen. Now I'll leave you with this right here, just again, I'm just want to give you the data right here, Rubio when he was in the Middle East, he was asked about the MOU and basically Rubio's like the MOU is not even rail, it's just a framework to negotiate in the future, this is the perspective of the Trump regime on everything here, play this clip. Mr. Secretary, the MOU did not include a specific number of years

during which Iran could not develop nuclear weapons, should a final agreement have a specific number

“in his U.S. push up for that? No that's why we're MOU would not have that because MOU is not a final”

agreement and MOU just creates the construct in the outlines for an negotiation and there's no doubt that is part of that negotiation, very specific terms like years and limits will be discussed

and that includes the mechanisms by which is verified and enforced. And then here's what Rubio

had to say after meeting with the Gulf Council cooperation countries, the GCC countries, did you talk to them about the $300 billion fund which is in the MOU, which you and others said that they're on the hook for, not the United States taxpayers, Rubio, the now, why don't I why not talk in about that? We'll deal with, do you see how bad faith this, I mean, it's just, again, it's in the MOU, so if you thought you had all the negotiating leverage and you didn't want that

in the MOU and you said we can never offer this to Iran, we'll never do it, how dare they're position fair, then don't put it in the MOU and don't sign your name on a document that says you owe them $300 billion or you're a guarantor and then tell us it's the Arab nations, then don't talk to the Arab nations. It just demonstrates that everything you do is like everything you do is bad faith and it pains me to have to like make that announcement as I report,

I mean, but that's just the truth. Here's what Rubio says, play this clip.

Mr. Secretary, in the meeting with the GCC allies, did any of them make any commitment to

Pay into this $300 billion returnstone?

cut, that's way down the road and that's something that I'll be dealt with at the appropriate

“time in this process. But that was not discussed, man. And of course, Donald Trump was last”

speaking the engagement earlier said Iran is dying to make a deal. They're dying, they're just

dying to make it. What does it even mean? They're dying to make a deal. No one's dying. The MOU's done. It's done. Okay? You can negotiate the technical details in a long form and just shut up here, play this clip. Yeah, dying to make a deal. They're giving us a lot. They should have

“been done over the 47 year period that they've reigned with Tara and that's what they did. They”

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