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Iran's Red Sea Threat Raises Stakes for Trump

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump panicking in the situation room as Iran plans to shut down the Red Sea if Trump carries out his threads to blow up Iranian energy infrastructure....

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Mit Wieser klick to pay, einfach beim nächsten checkout auswehren. Donald Trump is panicking as Iran has more cards to play Iran, turning its attention to the red sea, and the Bob Alman-Dab Strait. After Donald Trump yesterday threatened to once again obliterate the Iranian civilization, Donald Trump gave an interview yesterday with state regime media, which calls itself Fox,

and Donald Trump threatened to blow up all of the bridges, energy-infestructure, roads,

and other infrastructure that Donald Trump believes that his whim he wants to destroy, unless Iran decides they want to make a deal with Donald Trump. But Donald Trump says they're telling me that they want to make a deal. Iran is saying we don't want to make a deal at all, and Iran is saying we're turning our

attention to the red sea, the IRGC, now putting out statements that we will ensure that

all shipping traffic, not just in the strait of Hormuz, but just in general, and the region is shut down so that the United States feels real pain, the IRGC strongly hinting, that the Bob Alman-Dab Strait in the Red Sea is next, that they're going to shut down the same way the IRGC and Iran controls the strait of Hormuz right now, the IRGC, of course, allied with the Houthis in Yemen, the Houthis in Yemen previously demonstrated an ability

to shut down traffic in the Red Sea, and they've just been waiting for the orders to be activated by Iran and by the IRGC. Donald Trump held an emergency meeting in the situation room last night. They then leaked that meeting to Barack Revede over at Axios, who posted the following. Trump held a situation room meeting Tuesday to discuss a massive offensive in Iran that will be wider in scope than the current strikes around the strait of Hormuz, three sources with knowledge,

said, and of course, Barack Revede is the Trump regime's personal stenographer. He just puts out whatever they want the message to be for that day, and Barack Revede was saying last night, that the sources in this situation room meeting are saying the Trump regime is planning, quote, "devastating strikes on strategic targets in Iran." And as I noted, Donald Trump threatened he was going to blow up all the bridges, energy and infrastructure, desalination plans. He used

the word desalination plans, and other civilian infrastructure as well. You just take a look though even what was happening yesterday, and some of the mass of strikes by the United States in Iran, at least 10 Iranians were killed and more than 15 wounded in a U.S. strike on the Iranian Army's 388th mechanized infantry brigade in Bampor and South Eastern Iran. And so a lot of these massive strikes that we're seeing by the United States are indeed having lots of casualties,

but Iran is also responding very powerfully as well. Iran has been striking back in Bahrain in Kuwait, in Jordan, in the United Arab Emirates, in another surrounding Arab nations. We've been covering those strikes. And of course the IRGC warning the U.S. and U.S. allies, all energy export routes will be shut down. That includes the Red Sea, the IRGC statement. The enemy must expect the closure of other oil and gas export routes that serve the interest of the Americans and

its allies. And one of the things that we've just seen in the past 48 hours as Iran climbs the escalatory ladder, as Trump escalates the attacks on Iran. Iran has been, they've hit what, seven, according to Sengkamp, Iran hit at least seven tankers in and around the strait of per move in the past seven days and four tankers in the past 48 hours. And with respect to those four tankers, some of those tankers got pretty far outside of the strait of Hormuz as well.

Iran has been shifting to using cruise missiles versus drones against these t...

the cruise missiles harder to avoid more lethal, more damaging. And that's why we've seen a lot of

these tankers, these images of these tankers just kind of sinking in the Persian Gulf. And we have

lots of video of Iran striking these very large cargo containers and these very large cargo ships. Now, we've been sharing with you some of the footage of Iran's response. For example, the Iranian

Revolutionary Guard set fire and destroyed US military logistics and support center in Kuwait's

Mina Abdul-Apport, an industrial and refining area in the south of Kuwait, Missile Alert Syrians in Bahrain, home of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. Also, struck, I'll show you this video right here of the Iranian Shahid drone slamming into US interest in Kuwait. You can see for yourself play this clip. Iran has been releasing videos of the drones of the ballistic missiles that they've been using.

Here's one such video and here's another video that

Iranian forces released about their launch of retaliatory strikes targeting US bases. Let's play this clip.

Here's a photo of a possible Iranian ballistic missile impact on a US base in Jordan as well. And I'll share with you this Iranian strike in Jordan. You can see the Patriot Interceptors really aren't working that well with respect to the strikes coming from Iran. Here play this clip. You have a map right here of the US military bases targeted by Iran during the past three days as well. Iran's released satellite footage image of ballistic missile strikes of the US base in

Qatar, the Al-U.D. base. Here we have the Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain, the Command and Control

Center, significantly damaged. Here another Command and Control Center in Al-Ali Al-Salam Air Base in Kuwait, seriously damaged. But you take a look right here. Folks at the satellite and the Marine traffic of the strait of Hormuz and you'll see there's pretty much zero traffic anywhere other than the Iranian route. As you know, the US has reimposed the blockade though in the Persian Gulf. Iran has then shut down the strait of Hormuz and then the US has blockaded Iranian ships.

We've seen a few of these ships leave the Iranian side of the strait of Hormuz but there's no other shipping leaving at all. Iran has effectively shut it down and they've demonstrated with cruise missiles, not even using the drones anywhere that there's going to blow up each ship. I mean, seven ships in seven days, any ship to the US may be tries to escort Iran as blowing up. Remember what I've been saying now? I've sound like a broken record when I've been talking

about the strategic petroleum reserves, strategic petroleum reserves. And I've been saying crack spreads, crack spreads, three to one crack spreads. And you're probably like Ben, why have you why have you been saying this for weeks and weeks? Because I knew how important it is. And so the crack spread price per barrel has now had $68 per barrel right now, which is like the highest ever. And the crack spread is the difference between the price of crude, which by the way is going up.

And I think in the next 48 hours, we'll probably be close to $90. A barrel may be even higher.

It's already passed 80. But that crack spread is the difference between that and the price at the refineries. And so now both the price of crude and the so the crack spreads going up with it. And the refinery price are both going up significantly at the same time. Oil crack spreads are going out of control, which is a strong signal. I've incoming shortages, especially in diesel. And that's precisely one of the things that I've been warning about happening. Now with all of

this taking place, last night Donald Trump has been posting weird photos of himself at UFC fights,

Weird photos of himself with Xi Jinping, or weird photos of himself Xi Jinpin...

statue and he writes clean on it. And you know, and then he gave that real demented interview with state regime media Fox, where he claims that Iran wants to talk to him, they're trying to make a deal with him, just completely and other lies and just totally deranged. Here, play this clip. Three days ago, we had a deal. When was the last time you spoke with an Iranian official? Well, that me, but let's say my representatives, I have spoken to them.

But my representatives are with the course of, well, actually, an hour ago, and what message was delivered? They want to make a deal, but every time they make a deal, they break it, they don't want

to die. People don't want to die. Yeah, about an hour ago. And what message was delivered?

You better make a deal. You're not going to have any, you're not going to have anybody left. We're being very careful with this Iranian population as you know, but I said, you better make a deal, you're not going to have anything left. And you think they will? They should. I don't know if they will or not. So, thank you for speaking with Fox News. Thank you. Thank you very much. And then after coming up with that lie, Donald Trump then says, Iran, they lie about everything.

All they do is lie. Here's what he says. Let's play this clip. They said they didn't want

a nuclear weapon. Well, they say that everything they say is a lie. They lie. I have never seen anything like it. They also come out and they'll tell you we never discussed nuclear and we're a room for five hours. That's all we discuss. And then walk out and say nuclear was not discussed. Everything was discussed. And then even though we know the straight and poor moves is closed, Donald Trump pretends that it's open. Let's share this with you. On Monday, you announced that the United States is

reimposing the US blockade of Iranian ports. So to know, shipping data trackers indicate that just 10 vessels passed through the straight-aporn moves on Monday, less than 10 percent of what

normally goes through this critical waterway. When you say the straight is open, what do you mean?

It's open if people want to go through it. And we're not opening it for Iran. That's the only one that's closed for it. It's closed for Iran both in and out. But it's open now. A lot of things have happened throughout the last few months. Pipelines are being built. We're coming up with great alternatives, including Texas, including Alaska. You've called. And here's where Donald Trump said he's going to blow up their power plants. Let's play it. Do you anticipate that the

strikes were seen this week against Iran will expand? Are you considering hitting energy targets or other locations in the last round? I'll save the energy targets for last. But ultimately, we'll hit energy targets. But we're going to hit them very hard tonight. We're going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. We're going to hit them very hard the night after. And then next week, it gets really bad for them. Because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges.

We're going to knock out all that power plants. We're going to knock out all their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate. And then as I shared with you, yesterday, I just want to show it to you one more time that Iran's deputy foreign minister posted or he was

giving interview, Garbabadi, and here's what he had to say. He was we're not, we're not negotiating

with him. There's nothing else to talk about. There's just full fledge war in the region right now with really no way out. Here's what he has to say. Let's play this clip. Iran did not, they don't leave the negotiating table. It was America that taught the Islamabad memorandum. And we, in fact, did not take any action in this regard. So look, the idea that they want Iran to return is a request that will not be realized.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be the first country to request negotiations in the face of these criminal American actions. We will not request negotiations with America. And if America thinks that by tightening in circle of actions against us, military actions, economic sanctions, we will ask to go back and negotiate it is mistaken.

We are never mentally. They are mistaken. Secondly, if they think we will widen the

state of Hormuz, they are mistaken about that too. This is currently a very key capacity.

This two actions will not happen. There you have it folks. Let me know what you think. We'll keep you posted, of course. Throughout the day, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content. Add free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also give memberships the others. Let's keep growing together.

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