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Trump Panics as Iran Demands His Surrender in Islamabad!!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Iran showing up to the Islamabad ceasefire talks with its entire leadership structure to demand Trump’s full and complete surrender within the 10 point framewo...

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Donald Trump is panicking as negotiations have started in Islamabad in Pakistan

between the United States and Iran, Iran showed up with force.

Iran brought all of its top national security advisors, it's top foreign policy advisors,

it's top parliament leaders on the other hand the Trump regime sent. J.D. Vance, Steve Whitkov, like a random real estate guy that Donald Trump knew from his real estate days and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, I mean the difference between the arrival of Iran and Pakistan, so Iran was greeted like heroes in Pakistan with a huge team of like all of its top leaders, right for all of this talk about all the leadership in Iran was assassinated

and like a whole group right here of like a dozen of the top leaders of Iran they showed up in

Islamabad for these negotiations and again you can see the motorcades that they're driving and you can see how the Pakistani military greeted him, shaking the hands of foreign minister, Rakjam, showing you the b-rollet here of showing Pakistan treat the Iranian leaders like conquering heroes, like the victors of the war, all the Iranian leaders smiling, having a great time, showing supreme confidence it seems and look at look for yourself and on the other hand you had

J.D. Vance arriving with his wife Ushah, like going down the stairs, just a very different scene right here and I just don't know, doesn't seem like the Trump regime is taking this seriously at all and think what they're just dealing with you know a group of people in Iran that don't know what they're doing, I mean Iran has people who are veteran diplomats and negotiators handling it and we've got Ushah, J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkov, I mean like are

you absolutely kidding me, I mean just look look at the names right here of all of the top Iranian

officials who are there now the posture of this negotiation tells you everything you need to know

Iran sending a huge team of all of its top leadership, all of its top parliament leaders, national security council leaders, foreign advisor leaders, on the other hand the United States sending not even the Secretary of State Rubio isn't even there the fact that you just have J.D. Vance, his wife Ushah, Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkov, that tells you everything about the dynamic, that essentially the Trump regime is conceding defeat at this point and or not taking it seriously

and Iran has already got the United States to agree to its 10 point negotiation framework

where the U.S. has basically given up every single critical point in favor of Iran,

I mean Iran controls the straightive removes, keeps its ballistic missiles in rich uranium, long-term security guarantees, full reparations, all sanctions get removed. So what Iran is doing is they want to put the dagger in right now and they all want to be there for this historical event to force the surrender of the Trump regime and the mighty United States.

That's how Iran sees this. They see this as all of them want to be there for the historical

moment where they embarrass and humiliate the United States because this is what Trump has done to the United States of America. There's no other way to view it and an intelligence officer from the region who's really done a good job covering this Danny Citronitz and I mean he's so what he devoted his career to. Here's how he describes it with all of those people from Iran that you see on the list showing up. The Iranian regime is treating the current negotiations

with a high degree of seriousness, viewing them as a potential platform to advance its core set of 10 guiding principles that the U.S. administration has signaled that it is prepared for these principles to serve as the basis for negotiations. From Tehran's perspective, this is not merely a diplomatic process aimed at de-escalation, but rather a strategic opportunity to shape the terms of a broader agreement. One that would include not only restrictions,

but also meaningful economic relief, which Iran urgently needs. Importantly, Iran does not perceive these talks as negotiations to end hostilities, per se. Instead, they are seen as a vehicle to consolidate and formalize a new strategic reality grounded in what Tehran considers to be

Its achievements during the conflict.

that the combination of its perceived battlefield gains and the current U.S. administration's openness to an agreement creates a rare window of opportunity. This window could enable Iran to secure substantial economic concessions, while simultaneously reinforcing its position as a dominant

regional power in the Gulf. And just think about this, who's there with the United States?

The United States is going it alone. You don't have countries like the UK or France or anyone from NATO. You don't have anyone else from the region. You've got JD, Banson, his wife, Ushah. You've got Jared Kushner, Trump, Sun and Law, and Steve Woodkov, like a random real estate guy who knew Donald Trump, who's been a horrible, horrible, want to be diplomat thus far. Just think about the dynamic, Iran smells blood, Iran sees what's happening and views this as an opportunity

based on this dynamic. Now, what Donald Trump posted when these negotiations began in Islamabad last night into the morning this morning, here was Donald Trump's negotiating tactic. Great exclamation point. He posts on a social media platform. Very cool seeing the wave of empty tankers heading to the U.S. to pick up some desperately-needed crude for Hormuz starved markets.

All the tankers on the map below are empty, VLCCS. He sees two million barrel capacities each

currently heading for the Gulf Coast. U.S. crude exports are about to boom. Like, do you have the most basic understanding about the way the oil markets work as an international oil market? So, a supply shock in the straight of Hormuz has a crippling effect, not just on the straight

of Hormuz, but on the United States as well. That's why we're all paying more for gas right now

because the prices are set basically on an international basis for the supply that's out there. Who are you even posting Donald? Who is your source for this? Do you realize how clownish this looks? Also, it should be noted that one of the things that the United States agreed to as a precondition for these settlement negotiations or these peace so-called peace negotiations when they agreed to the Iranian framework, the ten-point framework, is that there would be

security guarantees not just for Iran, but for his Bola in Lebanon, for the Houthis in Yemen, and for the Shiite militia groups in Iraq, but as the ceasefire negotiations or these negotiations as part of the ceasefire have been taking place and Islam about we're seeing Israeli air strikes,

reported in Lebanon right now, Israel claims that it's detecting a drone attack from Lebanon.

And here's what works being reported on drop site. Israeli strikes hit South Lebanon power station

as attacks intensify. You can see the electricity generator right here that was struck and damaged in southern Lebanon right here and we have video of it. Israeli fighter jets struck the power station in southern Lebanon's, not be taught district early Friday, north of the Latani river according to Iran's state-linked mayor news. There were air strikes taking place throughout the day. You know, and this is leading up to the negotiations that are taking place right now. So we'll be

following that as well. We'll be keeping you updated there. Also, U.S. intelligence is now claiming that China may soon be sending shoulder-fired air defense missiles to Iran possibly via third countries to hide their origin, China denies the claims, calling it false and urging

de-escalation. But as I said before, Iran's never been stronger and more powerful internationally.

Donald Trump basically made Iran into a major international power, not just in the Middle East, where it's the strongest power basically there, but in the entire world right now. They control these straightive hormones and they say they're not given that up in the negotiations and that they're going to be charging $2 million per tanker. We'll keep you posted if that's impacted at all by these negotiations. They get to keep their ballistic missiles in drones and they also say

that they get to enrich uranium under the deal that they entered with Donald Trump as part of the framework for this negotiation. Now, we will be following if there's any changes to the negotiating framework, but Donald Trump agreed to the 10-point negotiating framework by Iran. And now,

I mean, the reports are the China's providing Iran with supplies.

we all we knew that China was doing it before Russia was obviously doing it before the sanctions basically have already been removed from Iran to begin with for their ability to sell oil,

sanctions against Russia have been removed right now. And so that's what we got going on there.

At the same time, you have that going on. You have gas prices here in the United States, surging. All right, Donald Trump's like everything's going great. Look how much. No,

US gas prices spike 21.2 percent in March. It's the largest monthly increase since 1967.

21.2 percent increase in March. Also, one of the things that Iran has been saying, Iran is reporting that it is unable to find mines that it laid in these straightive premises. Nicholas Kristoff reports. He goes maybe that's true, but this is also convenient for Iran. This keeps the main ship lane and international waters effectively closed, but ships can still pass safely if they go closer to Iran through Iranian territorial waters between Iraq and her moves islands.

Reinforcing Iran's control of ships passing through the straight. In other words,

it's not in Iran's interest to find those mines and clear the international passage.

Also, one of the things that Wall Street Journal just reported Iran's mislocate

abilities, not severely destroyed during the war, as Gregory Brue explains, a war launched largely to neutralize Iran's ballistic missile program, lasting a month and ending with Iran in control of the straightive removes, succeeded in destroying roughly half of its missiles and destroying disabling or bearing about half of its launchers. That means they still have half and they are going to be able to quickly build up right now as well. And as part of the negotiating

framework that Donald Trump agreed to, Iran gets to keep its ballistic missiles and Shahad drones, and FPV drones, and it can keep on building them up, faster and faster and faster,

while they control the straightive removes. But Donald Trump goes on social media to post

the Iranians don't seem to realize they have no cards. Other than a short term extortion of the world by using international waterways, the only reason they are alive today is to negotiate. The Iranians are better at handling the fake news media and public relations

than they are at fighting, Donald J. Trump. What do you mean by that? What do you mean by that?

I mean, look at the straightive removes. Only two ships transit at the straightive removes in the past 24 hours again, according to data shared with NBC by SPG Energy Oil, marking the lowest level since this for a very long time. Even during the war, there were about 10 to 15 ships, tankers that were being able to go, that negotiated with Iran directly on a bilateral basis. Right now we see what we saw two cargo tankers and not cargo tanks. Two cargo

ships, not tankers. No tankers at all have gone. Just cargo ships that are Iranian flag zero tankers thus far. According to senior Iranian state media figures, they claim that Donald Trump already accepted additional preconditions for these negotiations that they claim that Donald Trump released Iran's frozen assets. They claim that Donald Trump has agreed to a cap of 15 vessels a day once the straightive removes opens. We'll keep you posted there.

And of course earlier in the day, Donald Trump was saying, while he was on the tarmac that Iran's Navy is gone, that they don't have any leaders, that their military is obliterated, play this clip. No, one way or the other, it's going well. The Navy's got the Air Force is gone. We'll enter your craft is gone. The leaders are gone. The whole place is gone. So we'll see how it turns out. Donald Trump says that the straight will open automatically, even if we don't do anything,

let's play this one. No nuclear weapon. That's 99% of us. Yeah, but that'll open up automatically. Yeah, it's just, yes, but the straight will open up. If we just left the straight's going to otherwise they make no money. So the straight's going to open, but what we have is, don't nuclear weapon, but we'll open the straight anyway. Don't forget, we don't use the straight. Other countries use the straight. So we do have other countries coming up and they'll

help out, but we don't, we don't use it. It won't be easy. It won't be. I would say this. We will have that open fairly soon. Then our reporter says, "So what's your backup plan if like all this fails?" And Trump's like, "We don't need a backup plan." You know, all he wants to do was talk about like his

Golden arches and golden ballrooms.

ballroom. It's interesting. His former national security advisor, John Bolton, is also saying,

you know, Donald Trump, he's a Bolton ghost, Trump is panicking right now. He says,

he says, Trump just wants out. Trump knows that he's lost. He knows he's a loser.

Trump's going to take whatever deal Iran gives him. And then just try to claim a victory and

then just get out of there. But it's basically been total and utter surrender by the United

States. I mean, just agreeing to Iran's 10-point framework, like I said, Iran keeps the straight of Iran against the Iranian. Complete security guarantees for Iran and its proxy groups.

You know, you just go on, go on. All sanctions against Iran are moved. All U.N. resolutions

against Iran are removed. And again, just take a look at some of these images. You see, foreign minister, Iraq, to your arriving and be gallab off arriving. All their top leadership right here. And the gallab office is leading the negotiating team. But you have Iraq, gee, you have Mugadam, Akbar, and Madyan. I mean, look at this list of people. I mean, United States brought in JD bands, Jared Kushner, Steve Woodcoff, geez. We're going to keep you posted on the

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