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Trump Goes Silent as Iran Strikes Ship

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going silent as Iran strikes a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz and makes good on its warnings. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Re...

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Hormuz.

This is precisely what I predicted was going to happen in the first video I did this morning.

Moments ago, we learned the following. A UK MTO United Kingdom Maritime Warning stated the following. Attack, attack. A cargo vessel has been hit on the starboard side by an unknown projectile, causing damage to the bridge. Master has reported no casualties and no environmental impact.

Obviously, Iran is exerting its newly claimed control over Hormuz after yesterday's

Omani route breakout. Remember, Iran said you cannot go through the Oman route, the Oman passage.

You need IRGC approval. And if you try to test us, we will knock out your ship that is precisely what happened. And I have been saying, yes, the oil prices have been dropping on the Brent crude futures. But I said there is massive instability and edge dropping based on massive market manipulation. And remember this morning, I shared with you the data under the two years in the Biden administration

following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And I said, look at what the prices were there. Way higher, I said there's far more instability now. And also, we see there's far more instability in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine responding by attacking the Russian oil depost yet the price of Brent crude was $73 and made absolutely no sense

to me at all. And Donald Trump, after manipulating the market all day, yesterday in Treasury Secretary Bessent doing the same look, he has no items today on his calendar where he'll be talking to the press who knows maybe he shows up. He hasn't posted anything on social media. It is a fraud in plain sight that is taking place. Another open source intelligence account explains how this container ship was hit by a projectile sailing in the forbidden corridor

of the Omani waters. Again, that's the video I did this morning because I said, this is what's going to happen. And it's going to happen quite frequently. And the fact that two US aircraft carrier fighter jets drones that are going around the Strait of Ramos 24/7 couldn't protect this container

Ship in the Omani waters is a reminder.

And I've been showing you the actual satellite data of the ships that are pinging that they are in the Strait of Hormuz. And you'll see right here that yesterday there were ships trying to get through the Omani route. You see right here that the ships have been turning around and they either

use the IRGC route or they don't get out of the Strait of Hormuz. That's what's going on.

You know, foreign minister, Iraq, she spoke with his counterpart in Oman, the foreign minister of

Oman to discuss regional updates. And here's what they said coming out of this meeting that they

agree that for a temporary 60 day period that they will allow for there to be free transit through the IRGC controlled area and the Strait of Hormuz. But that's for a limited 60 day period. And thereafter Iran intends to charge fees billions of dollars in fees. And the Wall Street Journal didn't article about that today. But we didn't need that from the Wall Street Journal because Iran has been saying it. And they've been doing what they're saying and we can read

what's in the memorandum of understanding. Iran intends to charge environmental service fees,

protection fees as the overall toll structure where they plan to make billions and billions of dollars.

And by the way, we can actually show you data, show you receipts, show you audio. I mean, this isn't some cloak and dagger stuff right now. I mean, this is happening in plain sight. So for example, ships have turned around in the Strait of Oman when the IRGC issued the warning. We have the audio of the SAPA Navy. That's the IRGC Navy. SAPA Navy is SAPA Navy. Turn your ships around, turn your ships around where we will strike you. And the ship that didn't turn around got hit.

That's what happened here. I'll show you this. Let's play this audio of the SAPA Navy, the IRGC

Navy broadcasting this. We have the satellite footage of the ships turning around. And then we have

the Trump regime Donald Trump, Bessant, Rubio, manipulating the markets. Let's listen to the audio. Let's play this clip. We got the following message from Iran's lead negotiator and the leader of their parliament. And Begalboff, he writes, "America falsely claims our unfrozen assets will buy their agriculture, interesting." The only crop we're harvesting is what you planted. Decades a mistrust.

It's organic, abundant, and homegrown. But apparently the U.S. only exports GMO soybeans,

broken promises, and trash talks. That's what they think of the United States and that's what

the rest of the world thinks of the United States. So you have Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who refused to participate in the Switzerland technical talks regarding the MOU because he didn't want to be associated with it. So he already shows divisions and the negotiating team by him not being there and just having JD Vance, Kushner, and Whitkoff at the Switzerland talks. You're the Secretary of State, dude. That's literally your job as the top diplomat to be there.

Sorry if you don't want to do it, that's what you're job is. But instead Rubio's meeting with the Gulf Council cooperation countries this week. He's meeting with Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, and others. Notably Saudi Arabia is not on a schedule. Saudi Arabia doesn't want to meet there, live it, and all these countries are live it. And they're saying the U.S. Security and Brella failed. And these GCC countries want to try to figure out how and I did a video on this this morning as

well to do reconciliation commissions and figure out how they can be come more closer allied with Iran because they need protection. And the U.S. hasn't provided it all they get from Trump and Rubio is fraud and lies and catastrophic invasions. And then fraud about the catastrophic invasions that cause death and destruction to the economy. So Marco Rubio is there in the Middle East. And he's meeting with these Gulf countries, these Arab nations and Rubio's like, no one can charge

Tolls.

tollic mechanism. How would you enforce it? The way it's enforced today, Rubio, a run knocked out a ship

and y'all go silent and y'all go silent and then just say everything's going fantastic to manipulate the markets for your right wing oligarch buds. Here play this clip. You go through the streets and think about it this way. If you have, if it's not even workable, let's suppose that we went crazy for it. And lost our minds completely and decided to agree to have a tolling or a theme mechanism. How would that work? It's not doable because what's the

consequence for not paying? Let's say it ships as well. I'm not going to pay the fee. It's not like a toll on a road. You don't get to take it in the mail. They get shot at. You shoot at one ship. You sink one ship. No other ship is going to move. So that sort of system is not only unwise. It can't happen. It's not even workable. So you might as well abandon the fantasy now. Then Marco Rubio says in our relationship with Almanus fine, because Almanus says they're not in favor

of a tolling system. Read the damn M-O-U-U idiot. We can see the text. And I know you want to say, "Oh, there's no algae in the reflecting pool. Don't believe your eyes." No January 6 wasn't an insurrection. We're not going to talk about the 2020 election. I mean, COVID was caused by Dr. Fauci. I mean, all of your ridiculous life. Can we speak about the truth, please? The M-O-U says that there's a 60 day period where there won't be tolls. There won't be charges. But then

after 60 days, there can be. It's in the M-O-U, the document. And it's also in the technical discussions that happened after. Here, let's play this clip. Is the curb by lateral relationship with O-Mon

now in a good place? And all of you convinced they're not playing games with respect to that issue?

I mean, I owe a relationship with O-Monus fine. I mean, ultimately, there's not going to be any fees or tolls. There's not going to be any. And they've signed, you know, they were there in the meeting today. And they said it that they don't in favor of a tolling system. So that's good. I do have to ask

because it's just a few weeks ago. All right. Well, Brubio, what about the $300 billion

reconstruction fund that the U.S. has guaranteed Iran that's in the M-O-U? True. The M-O-U doesn't say that that $300 billion has to be paid directly by the U.S. But Trump is a signatory to a guarantee of $300 billion to Iran in the most basic principles. That's a guarantor. So it's got to come from somewhere, Rubio. So did you speak with the Arab nations about the $300 billion? Because the Trump regime said that money is going to come from the Arab nations and not us.

So surely, that came up. Did it, Rubio? Here, play this clip. Mr. Secretary, in the meeting with the GCC allies, did any of them make any commitments to pay

into this $300 billion reconstruction fund? I was not discussed. I mean, that reconstruction

code. That's way down the road. And that's something, you know, that'll be dealt with at the appropriate time in this process. But that was not discussed by anyone. So that wasn't discussed. So that's just

a fraudulent provision. That's what Donald Trump has done as whole life. He never honors a contract.

He views negotiation as a way to sucker punch. He believes that the good faith that's supposed to occur is for suckers and losers. And by the way, Iran realizes that that's why they've built a tiered system in this agreement where they get the benefits first. They get funds unfrozen. They get the blockade removed. They get the sanctions waivers and those things have happened. So Rubio, another question for you, buddy. The MOU did not include a specific number of years

during which Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon. So what's it going to be, Rubio? You got some specifics. And Rubio says, have the MOUs not even really a deal. It's just a framework of an outline to negotiate. No, no, no, Rubio. I hate to break it to you. The MOU has binding provisions. It is a short form, but it is binding. And yes, it creates obligations for future negotiations. But there are binding provisions in the MOU that then get implemented, not changed, implemented through

a longer agreement. That's why these Trump regime people are all such freaking frauds. Watch

what Rubio says. Let's play this clip. Mr. Secretary, the MOU did not include a specific number of years during which Iran could not develop a nuclear weapon. Should a final agreement have a specific number in his U.S. push up with that? No, that's why we're MOU would not have that because the MOU is not a final agreement. And MOU just creates the construct and the outlines for an negotiation. And there's no doubt that as part of that negotiation, very specific terms, like years and limits

Will be discussed.

All right, well, Rubio, are you aware of any of the frozen money that Qatar holds being transferred

already to Iran? We know that that happened. It's undisputed that happened. What is the lying

Rubio say? Because these people lie about everything. Everything. Everything is a lot. I'm not aware. I'm not familiar. I'm not aware about that. Well, what happened, Rubio? I'm aware about it. The rest of the world is aware about it. The Arab nations you're meeting with are aware about it. So when you say stupid shit, when you say stupid stuff like that, people are like, okay, you have no credibility. You have no credibility at all. Sorry, I cursed your play this clip.

Are you aware that has any or are you aware of any of the frozen money that Qatar holds

being transferred already to Iran? Well, I'm not aware of that. I don't think anyone in our system

has said that. So I don't know if you're responding to some news or anything that's out there, but it's about right now. We're not aware of any money. Know how we agreed for any money to be transferred. Okay. So that all that money is still there. As far as we know. That's all I understand. And there's no agreement on that point. So the better way to get it. And then you bring in Michael Bullos. Tiffany Trump's husband Donald Trump's other son and law. It's like a family

affair. You've got Kushner and Switzerland. Michael Bullos. Bullos. Tiffany's husband sitting next to you in the meeting in UAE with MBC, the president of the UAE and the

head of Abu Dhabi. Really? That's what that's what you do. Do you also realize that makes you look

but that you have Bullos sitting there? What is this? An internship? A nepotistic internship. What are you doing? And Rubio was asked about it. Can you clarify why Tiffany Trump's husband was sitting next to you at the meeting in Abu Dhabi? Doesn't that make the US look stupid? He was there to see his brother who lives here. He was just there to like hang out and catch up. By the way, I'm going to show you that Rubio said that. He's there to hang out and catch about

straight everybody. That's great. The American economy right now is in the trash. The American people are suffering. But guess what? Tiffany's husband. He's just there hanging. He's chilling with the crew. What in the hell is going on here? Play this clip of Rubio so you can hear for yourself.

Mike was just Mike. Mike Abu Dhabi. He's there to see his brother. Let's see. He was just there to see

him catch up. What did he know? No, no. That was a working lunch, right? So that was, but he was but the conversations around him had to do with he was just here because his brother let's see. And I'm a good friend of Mike. So we had a chance to catch up. Thank you. Thank you. It does. Not even late. And a Steve Ratner explains the Trump administration has already

authorized $20 billion for Iran before the final long form deal. It's in the MOU. Iran's got it.

If a deal is reached, Iran could receive nearly $500 billion. And by the way, probably more than that as well. That's the reality while the American people are the ones who suffer. We got new PCE, the Fed's preferred inflation data today. PCE inflation jumped to 4.1% year over year in May. It's the highest inflation in three years. And it's due largely to the war in Iran's impact core PCE inflation, which excludes food and energy rose to 3.4% the highest in fall of 2023. Donald

Trump's promise when he ran for office is that he would bring down prices. They are increasing and they are increasing at a very, very quick rate. So it's the exact opposite of what he promise. But it's not only that as Heather Long notes, Americans are getting squeezed right now in other ways. They're not able to save anything at all. The personal savings rate for Americans has dipped below 3% one of the lowest readings in the past 15 years. People are dipping into their savings

in order to survive. Personal savings rates for May 2025 for .9% personal savings rate for May 2022. 3% and there's been this downward trend. And you saw you may have heard about this. That Apple has announced that all of its price products will be having massive price highs. Mac world reports. Apple is implementing significant price highs across Macs and iPads. At least $100 to $200. The Mac mini rising to $799 from $599. The iPod air increasing by $150.

Some of its other Mac book pros increasing significant amounts. $100. Why? Because of massive inflation. The price of chips are increasing as well. That's AI inflation, data center inflation.

While these companies try to make record profits and the consumers are the on...

screwed right now. U.S. petroleum inventories. What they have in the we keep it in

an Oklahoma and the international inventories continues to deplete. U.S. petroleum inventories

depleted by another 10 million barrels and have fallen a total of 151 million barrels since the

U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February. This is still happening because what Trump and Rubio was saying happening in this trade of removes is not happening. So when you see the price of Brent, $70.53, it's BS. It's market manipulation. It's pure and simple market manipulation. And then when the oligarchs have somebody in office who wants to hold them accountable, they manipulate the markets. And they say, well, the market expectations

are going to make it so that we know how to jack up our prices. Then we'll take the record prices. So they figure that someone like Trump gives a massive tax breaks, massive, other benefits, massive other kind of subsidies for them. And so they're okay. Well, lower, lower. Then when it's someone who holds them accountable. Then they raise the prices. And then they blame it on it's the market expectations of instability. Really market expectations of instability because

it seems like the expectations should be pretty high right now of instability based on a catastrophic war and the current condition of the straightive hormones. I'll note a few other things as well on the instability Netanyahu, giving a speech earlier, there are still tasks we must carry out. There is still much more we must do against Iran. There is still much more we must do against Hamas. There is still much more we must do in Lebanon. It's his speech. He ain't going anywhere.

He ain't going anywhere. They have demanded in these Lebanese ceasefire talks more land in Lebanon. They go in the south. That is our security zone. But we need to go even more. We need pilot zones,

pilot zones and security zones. So we're going to basically take it all over. That's what they're

asking. And the Lebanese like we thought we were here to discuss a ceasefire. Now you want more land in Lebanon. You want pilot zones and security zones. What do we even did? That's what's happening with those discussions. Israel's defense minister. His name is Israel Tats. His first name is Israel. Says we are not allowing civilian populations to return to Lebanon. More than that, the first line of villages inside the security zone has been completely destroyed. We completed it 100% destruction.

That's what you're bragging about. You're bragging about genocide. You're bragging about annihilation. Really? I mean, that's what that's what they said this morning. You have JD vans out there. This was from unheard and so Rob Amari did a great job reporting on this. This is what he quoted JD vans as telling him after leaving Switzerland. The Emirates by far the most hawkish by far the most pro Israel country in the Gulf. They're having conversations with

Iranians that have never happened before, including with the IRGC. You can't be because they don't

trust you anymore. They need to reconcile with Iran because the US security umbrella is over. And maybe it's also statements like this, JD. This is what JD told Sirab Amari. The Iranians were like fine. Fine. Wilson, somebody from the IRGC, to hang out in Doha with someone from

SENTCOM. And that's how we're going to settle a lot of these disputes. JD vans said a board

air force too. Fine. We'll send our IRG. If you really want them to hang out with SENTCOM, we'll send it fine. That's how JD vans who says he's not really familiar with the whole diplomatic thing while Rubio refuses to show up as well. And that's how things are going right now. Well, what we have Tiffany Trump's husband or boyfriend or whatever. Hang an out at our diplomatic

meetings and Kushner and the while Kushner is trying to raise $5 billion from his fund.

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