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Trump Panics as Iran Issues Ultimatum!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Iran issuing an ultimatum to Trump that has Trump panicking on Saturday. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and...

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Entdecke weitere Angebote, in deinem Aldi Nord. Aldi." "Goodest für Aller." Donald Trump is losing it on Saturday as Iran just issued an ultimatum around making it very clear. It is not opening up the straight of "Hormuz." Even after it completes a deal with Oman, which is about to be finalized,

until the United States complies, essentially with all of the terms that were in the memorandum of understanding. Also, ad-dok, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, confirmed our reporting here on the Midas Touch Network from late last night that Iran did indeed successfully strike and Abu Dhabi tanker by the Oman route in the straight of "Hormuz."

Let's go through what's happening this morning. Donald Trump behaving like the lunatic that he is.

He's posting AI images of himself dressed as a forestar military general again in an AI image with General Patton and MacArthur. He's posting these images of the White House when it was originally being planned and constructed, but let's talk about what's happening in the real world, not in Donald Trump's bizarre dystopian wasteland that has sadly become the United States. Iran's foreign minister, Iraq, G, said the following moments ago about Iran's negotiations

with Oman. The negotiations are ongoing and given the technical complexities, a temporary route is currently being worked out. In my view, says Iraq, "We are very close to reaching a final agreement with Oman." The United States has nothing to do with this agreement at all. We just need to be very clear about that. However, this step should not be interpreted as

reopening the straight of Hormuz. That's what is going on and propaganda. Media here in the United

States. That's what Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and others in the despicable Trump regime are trying to do. They want to manipulate the markets and take credit for Iran's deal with Oman and then claim, "Aha, the straight is open." And J.D. Vance, moments ago, was on state regime media because he needs to continue to manipulate the markets and continue the Ponzi scheme, so I'll show you what he just said in a moment as well.

Going back to Iraq, G, again, Iraq, G, the Foreign Minister of Iran said, "Don't interpret at all." What we are doing with Oman as reopening the straight of Hormuz, the reopening of the straight of Hormuz is contingent on other conditions, including the United States making amends for its violations of the memorandum of understanding. Then Iran, through the Secretary of its Supreme National Council, the group closely linked with the Ayatola, and this is reflecting

at the highest level of Iran's decision making what the final ultimatum is. Here's what it says.

In the name of excellence, until America corrects its behavior, the straight of Hormuz will not open. Again, this is the official statement I'm showing you right here from Iran's Supreme National Security Council. They publish this in English. And again, you're probably not going to see this on any news network in the United States that at least is on TV. Until America corrects its behavior, the straight of Hormuz will not open. Correcting behavior

means they have to spell it out like a C-spot-run book for Donald Trump because Donald Trump and the United States propaganda is so utterly flagrant. Correcting behavior means one,

never threaten Iran with any language or insult the sanctities of this nation too, and the war

and aggression against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq forever. Three, lift the naval blockade and withdraw its naval and air forces from around Iran. Four, pay the damages of the two wars of aggression and imposition on Iran without any reduction or reduction at all. Five, lift the cruel and illegal sanctions against the Iranian people. Six, unconditionally released the frozen and stolen assets of the Iranian people.

These are the demands of the Iranian people who have been relentlessly present in these squares and streets for 160 days. That's referring to all of the Iranians by the tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands in Tehran Square who continue to show up to show protest against the Trump regime and to show that they're not going to be surrendering. And of course you saw what happened at the Ayatollah's funeral in both Iran and in Iraq where there

Were millions of mourners who showed up there.

Council. They say we will never back down whether in war or negotiation as I said at the outset

of this video as well. United Arab Emirates confirming the mightest touch reporting that the adnak tanker adnak is the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company that their tanker transiting the strait of Hormuz was struck. There have been over the past what several days, four or five are so tankers that Iran struck disabled destroyed in the strait of Hormuz, a few tankers, the Houthis

destroyed in the Red Sea. Remember the organization UK MTO that used to publish these things?

They've stopped doing that by and large. And they announced say, well it's only a voluntary publishing obligation. So part of the market manipulation scheme has reached there. I don't know

if that's because of the change in leadership within the UK having a new prime minister. I don't

know if it's connected or not. I just know that they pretty much stop publishing when the tankers are hit. And Iran at this point, you know, Donald Trump's like, we're about to make a deal and Iran's begging for a deal. Iran's like, okay, you move a tanker through that Oman route. That's not the IRGC route. We're going to strike it. So as I noted at the outset of this video, what happened was Iraq, Chi, and the Iranian National Security Council released that statement.

So what does the Trump regime do? Remember, United States is out of its interceptors. It's out of its attackums. Navy destroyers are out of its anti-belistics. The US is out of weapons. And the weapons that the US promised to Arab nations for its security umbrella have run out as well. Saudi Arabia

is run out of approximately 87 percent of its interceptors. And that's why we saw Saudi Arabia

entering into an alliance with Turkey. Saudi Arabia already has the alliance with Pakistan. So now there's this alliance that they're referring to as the Mecca Agreement, which is Saudi Arabia Pakistan and Turkey because the United States doesn't provide security in the Middle East anymore. We're going to be seeing a lot of this. A lot of shifting of the world order as the US has demonstrated its incapable of having a leadership role in the world at all. By the way, that will have

second, third, and fourth level of consequences, though for future generations. It will hurt our bond market. It will hurt our ability to attract money and investment into the United States. It will hurt the value of the dollar. It will create a lot of strain on the US debt because

this kind of Ponzi scheme debt that the United States is running up 30 to 40 percent of all

debt accumulated by Trump. It really depends on things like the Petro dollar. It depends on companies continuing to buy our bonds. It depends on a stable bond market. So in Trump destroys

that it becomes very difficult to deal with that massive amount of debt. I think it's important

we talk about that because lots of people don't talk about 40 trillion in debt and Trump's responsible for the more than any other president. He's 35-40 percent of that. Jay DeVans says, "Look, we're having these conversations with Iran." He says, "What's taken so long right now is we're testing them. We're testing Iran. We want to see if they're open to change. Long term change." So that's what's taking so long. That's what we're doing. We've really reduced their asymmetric

military capabilities. I mean, it's so embarrassing that this is what the United States has become. They're not even good liars. They're like pathetic liars. You're a play this clip. What it is that we've done here. We've destroyed their nuclear program. We've destroyed their conventional military. We've radically reduced their -- what you might call their asymmetric military abilities. And right now we're trying to see if they're willing to make the kind of

long-term changes that would be necessary to have a better relationship with the United States. And if not, that's fine, too. We're just going to keep on applying the pressure that we can apply. More from Jay DeVans, right here he goes, "Okay, you may also be wondering, why is this deal taking so much time?" And he said, "Well, because the Iranians they laid out such a large number of minds. We're working with the Iranians right now to try to

figure out how to remove all of these minds from the straight-of-arms. And that's taking some time." Here, play this clip. "Countries, particularly, Oman, have been talking about how to ensure the safe flow of traffic. The one problem, of course, that the Iranians laid a large number of minds at the beginning of the war. And so what we're really working through now is how you can actually set up a traffic scheme so that the ships that pass can pass through safely,

that includes, of course, the mining that also includes a commitment from the Iranians that they're not going to fire at commercial vessels." And then Jay DeVans says, "Look,

You may hear Iranians talk about tolling and that they want to charge tolls f...

through the straight-of-premous advances like look. There are some hard liners in Iran that are

pushing that, but the people we're talking to really say that that's not going to happen. Really, because I just showed you what they're far in minister saying who's been very consistent, relentlessly consistent since March, saying this over and over again. I've showed you at the entire level, I've showed you at the IRGC level, I've showed you every aspect of the Iranian leadership level, civilian military, spiritual, and kind of supreme level leadership.

That they're all saying the same thing. These are bad lies. These propaganda also shows your weak because Iran watches this, Jay De. And they're like, how pathetic is the United, they look at us like we're pathetic. This audience of trying to manipulate the market,

short-term in the United States, and propaganda is your Fox News audience base. It's ridiculous,

and it's not helpful. It's not how adult leaders should behave. Regardless of political party, you're playing this clip. You see some people within the Iranian system, of course, talk about tolling the Iranians, if told us they have no plans to toll the straight-of-horre moves, but again, we're going to see what actions actually happen. What's been going on for the past week or so? And then, Jay De Vance has but don't worry, the RX expectation is you're going to

see the same amount of oil and gas come out of the Gulf that you saw before the conflict started. Here, play this clip. Neil, what would an acceptable status quo be for the straight? Well, our expectation is you're going to see the same amount of oil and gas come out of the Gulf

that you saw before the conflict started. That is what the Iranians have told us that they're going

to do. That's what the entire Gulf coalition wants to do as well. But, you know, we don't trust.

We verify. We actually look not at people's words, but at people's deeds. You know, I want to contrast that, though, with what Treasury Secretary Besson said yesterday, because Besson said the straight-of-horre moves is just a body of water and we don't need it. We're going to build all of these pipelines, so we're not even going to need the straight-of-horre moves anymore. That just think about that's the position of the Treasury Secretary that we don't even need the straight.

I mean, that's, again, part of this whole Ponzi scheme. And then this idea that you are going to build these oil pipelines and that Iran's not going to be able to easily destroy the oil pipelines. You know, you, again, are operating from a position of ignorance. It'll be easy to destroy the pipelines and it costs billions of dollars to construct. And also, there's more than just oil. There's more than just crude that comes out through the straight-of-horre moves. I mean, there's a lot of products and

produce and food and agricultural byproduct. All this stuff comes a healing. And there's so many different things that come out of the straight-of-horre moves other than crude. And so it's still going to be very necessary. And this is what your position is here. Play this clip. Well, our expectation is you're going to see the same amount of oil and gas come out of the Gulf that you saw before the conflict started. That is what the Iranians have told us that they

are going to do. That's what the entire Gulf coalition wants to do as well. But, you know,

we don't trust, we verify. We actually look not at people's words, but at people's deeds. You see some people within the Iranian system, of course, talk about tolding the Iranians have told us they have no plans to toll the straight-of-horre moves. But again, we're going to see what actions actually happen. So then, JD Vance, who's a very odd guy. I mean, can you think of someone who's stranger than JD Vance? That's not even his real name. He's had three personalities,

three, like actual, like part he's been through. He's like a chameleon. He's been three different persons, like in high school he was gay and he was, you know, not named JD Vance, then he became anti-gay, then he became like I'm for Appalachia, you know, and I'm anti-Trump, then he became like pro-Trump, anti-LGBTQ, like he's a chameleon. He's like, he just says, you know, whatever, I guess, I don't know who is this guy. But anyway, here he is attacking Abdul Al-Sayed. And that's what

he said. He said he thought he was gay in high school. Here play this clip. Of course, he's going to make personal insults. He's also gone after my kids. He's just kind of a odd guy, but I think that it's telling that instead of talking about what he wants to do to make the lives of Michigan nurse better, he takes personal insults at me. I'm the vice president. It comes with a territory. I think the guy's crazy and would be a terrible senator for the people of Michigan. We're going

to make that case. And obviously the people of Michigan are going to make their vote.

Okay. So that's what he said. Now, what's Abdul Al-Sayed saying in response?

Abdul Al-Sayed said the following, let's just play this clip. Abdul, go on. Donald Trump seems to be going to give to the Republican party. What do you say to that? I'm going to give to the state of Michigan, God willing, and hope to win this election.

He says if you pardon the language, you're full of s***.

At least I don't let mine go in the middle of the old office. And you saw that rally we covered on the mightest touch network. The Abdul Al-Sayed rally in

Michigan with Pete Buttigieg. Man, it was inspiring. Here's what he said at that rally. Let's play it.

Now, Mike, I'm just going to remind you, if you don't know how to say the name, keep the name out your day and mouth. We're just calling me Abdul. But I got some opinions about his name. See, it's very fitting for him, Rogers. Because that's his answer every time a corporation or Donald Trump tells him to do something. Mike, we need you to put a data center in the back yard. Roger. Mike, we need you to hike there, prescription drug prices. Roger.

Mike, we need you to rubber stamp this war. We shouldn't be fighting. Roger. Mike, this one's Donald Trump. I need you to lick these boots. Roger.

I think I speak for all of us here in Michigan when I say that we are done with Rogers. Go back

to Florida where you belong. I made you a longer video on Hillary Clinton's interview on the

Pivot podcast. But here's what she said this morning. But it's just another example of the

absurd world in which we are living that you've got up the president of the United States obsessing over a failed, pool job, a construction job gone wrong to hear over saw, just like what he's doing now on the south lawn, tearing it up, the helicopter landing zone. I mean, honestly, the guy is so out of it right now, unhinged, obsessed and focused on all the wrong things. Maybe we should be happy messing around with the reflecting pool and nothing, not starting another war somewhere else.

More from Hillary Clinton here about this was really on point. Let's play it. You know, when I was in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I had meetings. I was an a senator. I had meetings in some of his palaces and they were quite reminiscent of what we are seeing in our own White House. It's just insane. Is that hard for you to watch or just or like, I'll tell you. It's sad to me. It's sad that it's so tackied up and it's a reflection of, you know,

his narcissistic personality and his need to feel important, including sticking gold embellishments all over the walls of the travel office. I was in the Oval Office, you know, under gosh, I think Carter, you know, Bill, obviously, you know, that house, you know, I'm a buy and et cetera. And I'm looking at what he's doing to it. And this is a man who can't concentrate. This is a man who is mine apparently goes to where can I add more gold instead of

how do I get out of Iran without looking like the looser that I am? We'll get to that. How do I begin to, you know, deal with AI, which is a serious threat to our security, our labor force, and so much else. His mind is about, what are these things that reflect my need to appear

important? And so that's what he spends his time on? You should be the secretary of taking

down the gold. Isn't that a good idea? Yeah, secretary of planning it up, fit. And I want to highlight what Zorn mom Donnie said this morning, because there's so much of this discourse out there that's trying to divide us and classify people, oh, you're this, you're that, you're the other, listen to what mom Donnie says, play this clip. If you think about this year called 2,028, that's resonating with you as, oh, they could be a pretty good contender for the Democratic

nomination for president. Is there anybody out there? It's just, as you and your wife are sitting back talking about life politics, anybody out there that says, oh, you're just sitting on the edge of Roosevelt Island right now, you just cast out your right, you're like, let me do this. Let me just fish. Because

it can't be you, so like, is there anybody chose it? First of all, not me. Of course not, yeah.

I think we have a number of choices. I know that people are making their own choices,

of whether or not they want to run. What I'm hopeful of is we're seeing a lot of examples of what

It can look like to have that focus on the working person.

isn't just something you say. It's something you have to deliver. And that in doing this,

we're not running away from the Democratic Party. We're going back to what the party used to be. You think about FDR and LaGuardia. You think about the new deal. That's what the Democratic

party once was. That's what it could be again. And if we want to win, I think that's what we have to

become. You know, and just fascinating because, you know, these magas are like, this is radical. You know, I'll tell you what's radical. What's radical is you ripped away people's health care,

Donald Trump and Haga. You've made an impossible to afford homes. You've gone involved in never-ending

wars. You've ripped down the White House. You are allowing Trump to do that 21,000 stock trades and make billions of dollars. You've sold out the United States to foreign interest. Private equity

is running rough shot over homes and sports and everything, imaginable, making people's lives.

You're putting data centers and everyone's backyard. That's radical. And you're using Pokemon memes to try and all and you're stealing music. Did you see they stole Taylor Swift's music on their TikTok videos and she had to do a copyright claim and then Trump was like, she's not going to like this. Why are you stealing people's music and copyrighted stuff? It's ridiculous. And so like Nintendo is demanding that U.S. officials stop using Pokemon and Nintendo

in their memes, especially their war memes involving war crimes. That's radical. That's crazy.

That's crazy behavior by this regime that is a radical, extremist regime. Thanks for watching.

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