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Trump's Iran Escalation Fuels Ground Invasion Fears

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump planing a ground invasion of Iran as his air strikes fail. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://...

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"I'm a fan of my friends." "It will then cause a massive escalation and things are already escalating very, very quickly." "Aron has also said that it will then send ground forces to some of the nearby Arab nations where there are U.S. bases."

"And I think this will be a complete and utter disaster."

"But I think if you see the strikes that are taking place right now by the United States in certain coastal areas of Iran, it appears to be prepping the terrain for a ground invasion." "Now this comes at a time as well that there are other media outlets confirming U.S. casualties since the U.S. escalated." "This war in Iran recently." "We've been reporting now for several days that we've seen these Medivac airplanes in the area." "I've been showing you the before and after satellite footage of a base in Jordan where there seemed to be mass destruction at some of the barracks there."

"And I said, "Well, that's where the U.S. troops are staying." "And I believe the U.S. troops were there when this strike took place." "And I said it seems that those Medivac planes likely have to be dealing with this." "I mean, take a look right here at the King Faisal Air Base from about 48 hours ago." "You'll see the before and after on this satellite footage."

"I mean, it was hit hard." "And now you have CBS and other saying that there were several casualties of U.S. troops." "Centcom has remained silent." "They don't know if these were fatalities or serious injuries." "Apparently, sources are saying it's not fatalities, but I think Centcom is covering all of this up."

"It does seem to be serious injuries, although we need to get more data there." "But if you take a look at what just happened in the past 12 hours at a separate air base in Jordan." "So what I was just talking about there was the air base, the King Faisal Air Base." "And those barracks, which were hit hard by Iran." "But take a look in the past 12 to 24 hours."

"What was going down right here?"

"Take a look at the Moafak salty air base in Jordan right here.

"I'm going to play for you some of the B-roll, so you can see for yourself what was going on."

"Now, according to Jordan, they say they intercepted all of the ballistic missiles from Iran." "They say there was no damage at all. There was lots of damage." "And the Patriot or Fat Interceptors," which were supposed to be supplied by the United States. "They were either totally in effect if you're keep playing the B-roll of some of these images." "As you see the Iranian ballistic missiles smashing into this area of this air base that's occupied by US forces in Jordan."

" Either the Fat Interceptors are not existent. Either they're out of munitions in Jordan."

"And I think Iran realizes they're probably out of munitions. They're ineffective."

"Or something else is going on because it appeared that the ability of the interceptors to actually stop the Iranian ballistic missiles."

"Right now, was under 20% as I was analyzing the strikes that were taking place." "I mean, there were some other areas like the interceptors in Iraq seem to be doing a little bit of a better job." "But Iran's been striking back hard in the air, Bill region in Iraq and Kurdistan regions as well." "I mean, Iran was able to strike hard there. There are multiple casualties being reported over there." "Or Iran's been hitting a Bahrain really hard Iran hit an AI facility that's used by the US, the Babko fueling facility there."

"Or Iran's been striking hard in Kuwait."

"Or Iran's been striking hard in certain areas of Oman."

"Or Iran continues to control the straight of Hormuz." "There's been zero shipping through the so-called US Oman Lane at this point." "And so if you take a look, Iran says they have more ballistic missiles than ever." "They have more shahid drones than ever." "And they don't appear to be bluffing right now."

"And so, as I've been warning about, it's this increase of this escalatory ladder, this escalatory trap that Donald Trump is falling right into." "You have one of the lead advisors to Ayatollum, Ojaba, Moshe Razai."

"And he's been out there saying, "Look, we're done with negotiations."

"This idea of negotiate back to war, negotiate back to war." "We're done with it, we're in a war posture in Iran, and we're prepared for kind of all out war at this point." "U.S. Sentcom began announced earlier in the day yesterday that they were beginning the strikes." "And they said, "All right, we're done with our strikes every day now. It's been day after day, strike after strike from Sentcom." "But Iran has been responding every single time, and Iran has been climbing the escalatory ladder."

"As well as Iran says that it was able to strike down an MQ9 drone over Bushir, about 30 to 35 MQ9 Reaper drones have already been shot down by Iran." "Since the disastrous and catastrophic war began, that's over a billion dollars there of just MQ9 Reaper's alone." "And again, one of the most disconcerting things is Sentcom kind of covering all of this up, all of the damage that's happening." "None of this is really being reported out, so we've got to look at the satellite footage and assess for ourselves what's happening."

"And again, what appears to be taking place is as Donald Trump is he previously leaked to Barack Revede. We're going to keep on bombing him really hard. We're going to take out some of their watch towers, you know, by Bond or Abbas, you have Pete Higgs and posting these photos. I'd like the destruction of some of the maritime watch towers. But that's going to make them want to do a deal with us.

That's going to make them want to negotiate with us. And what we've always been saying is, "No, quite the contrary.

It's going to make Iran not want to do a deal with you, and it's going to cause Iran to escalate in the region, which is what we're seeing now." And another big development I highlighted yesterday, Iran striking hard inside Saudi Arabia, lots of explosions there. I don't think the Saudi Arabian interceptors were able to, you know, stop all of that. What's fascinating to about Iran's strategy is that they seem to be looking at which countries have, you know, some of the more vulnerable areas, when it comes to the patriots, interceptors, and the fat interceptors, it's notable Iran hasn't yet struck into Israel.

I think they know that in that area, they have a lot of, you know, the golden dome and so Iran's like, you know what?

We're going to focus on right now because the US is attacking our civilian in...

So we're going to attack your infrastructure in the region, in areas that are far less guarded than Israel.

At this point, so we're going to strike the Arab nation neighbors and their interests where the American military bases are there.

We're going to maintain control of the strait of Ramus. We've got the Houthis on standby in the Red Sea, ready to shut down the Babelman Dobstrait. They're also working with Allied groups in Somalia, and they are prepared to do that to choke off the Babelman Dobstrait upon, you know, any moments notice. And then Iran's testing, okay, Saudi Arabia, how strong or weaker they are interceptors. Jordan, the interceptors, very weak, keeping the Jordan bases.

And like right now with impunity, because one of the things I've been warning about too, that people in the military have been warning about the American munitions, the interceptors,

or have been reduced to levels where America's basically run out of the interceptors to give its allies.

So, you know, Iran's able to, you know, send these shahids, send these interceptors and see which areas are weak.

Jordan's weak, keep on hitting Jordan over and over again. Bahrain's weak, let's escalate, not just to the fifth fleet area, which may be more well guarded. Let's hit some AI, AI data centers. You know, let's hit some other areas that, you know, help the United States military coordinate. Some of these strikes hit Bahrain, hit Kuwait, you know, hit some of these areas.

And again, any ships that try to pass the straightive or moves in the non-IRG sea lane around shuts down. And while all of this is happening as I've been warning about these strategic petroleum reserves, our tank bottom right now in the United States.

And so we're right now in this global catastrophe that I've been warning against.

Let me share this video with you. You can see even as the US has been striking bridges in your Bonda or a bus.

You'll see, you know, these Iranian trucking convoys basically just go through the sea bed right here.

And we'll show you what this looks like. The riverbeds rather here play this clip. You know, we're going to go this far, let's go this far, let's go. Let's go this far, let's go this far, let's go this far. Let's go this far, let's go this far, let's go this far.

Now, we'll all share this with you as well. This footage right here from Iran's Tasnim News showing the bridges that have been hit hard here. Here play this clip. The US has also now sent as, again, as they continue to escalate this evacuation order. US Department of State due to the high tensions in the Middle East.

The security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalate. We remind Americans in the region of the continued need for caution and encourage them to monitor the news for breaking developments. American's traveling in or through the region should also check with their air carriers to make sure their flights are still scheduled. American should reconsider travel to the Middle East is what the State Department is saying. Let me just show you some of these Iranian shahids buzzing over the Middle East.

So you can see, and Iran has thousands of these shahids. They have thousands of the ballistic missiles and they are ready to go. They have whole underground cities of this and they are ready to go. Here, let me just show you this, this shahid so you can see for yourself. Here play this clip.

Right, so Donald Trump falling right into the escalatory trap.

So the options are, at this point, having Donald Trump ripped to shreds the memorandum of understanding that he was never going to abide from it from the outset.

You either just go home and leave, which is what should happen. This is a catastrophic and unlawful war. The Trump regime is involved in terroristic acts. They've been killing children, killing civilians, destroying bridges with civilians driving on them, engaging in absolutely heinous conduct.

The United States should just leave, get out at his point, or the next step b...

In fact, all it's doing is Iran escalates.

It's certain areas in Saudi Arabia.

The first time they've hit Saudi Arabia since the very beginning of the war, which now, by the way, Pakistan is in a defense pack with Saudi Arabia.

So Pakistan says, if you hit Saudi Arabia, we can't meet it.

We have to take the side of Saudi Arabia. You have Iran escalating and saying, look, well, we're going to hit, you know, certain, you go after Bond or Abbas, we're going to go after some of the other ports in the other Arab nations nearby.

We've got the Bob Bel-Mandab straight. We're ready to shut down as well.

And so, you know, Trump's running in this recklessly and carelessly. Trump's next step is, you know, and you've been seeing a lot of these kind of neocons saying, you know, do the invasion, take over, cash and take over, cash and so they prep the terrain around cash. You know, they knock off the bridges around Bond or Abbas to try to cut off reinforcements, getting into Bond or Abbas right there on the port right there by cash. And in theory, the idea is, you then put the special forces on cash. You say, we control the straightive from moves. You probably then, you know, send more B2 bombers to bomb the pickaxe mountains.

Because they know that's one of the things that where Trump's like, we got a bomb pickaxe. As they believe that could be an area where Iran may be developing, you know, it's nuclear, you know, nuclear program or potential capabilities. They bomb pickaxe mountain. And then Iran's going to respond if they do that by esky, by, you know, escalating, you know, more than ever. So that's where we're at right now with all of this.

We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I just want to kind of give you the update of where I think things are moving.

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