Ben (16:26)
But then right then you get a post. I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be. Their naval ships are all 159 of them at the bottom of the sea. That is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our minesweepers are clearing the strait right now. I'm hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump we have zero minesweepers in the Strait of Hormuz right now, yet alone a tripled up level of the only time we tried to put a minesweeper in the Strait of Hormuz was during the first round of negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan, where a minesweeper tried to get into the Strait of Hormuz. And then Iran's Navy, the Saipan Navy, announced over the public radio, saipan Navy, Saipan Navy, turn around or we will shoot. Sepa Navy, SEPA Navy, turn around and shoot. And then the US Navy responded, we're turning around. We're turning around. And the US Navy ship retreated. The minesweeper retreated. And we tried to do that during the last round of negotiations. And Iran said, all right, we're going to leave the negotiations and we're going to blow up your ship. And the United States proud, strong, powerful navy backed down. And then the US Lied about it and said that's not what happened. We had two minesweepers. They said they did a complete east to west route through the Strait of Hormuz. It was a successful mission. And we started clearing the mines. Then we saw the video and the video actually confirmed what Iran said happened, not with the United States happened. Then we're supposed to move on to the very next lie. I mean, Donald Trump then also says over here during the negotiations how we're going to shoot and kill the small boats. And it's like, okay, look, if you want to do that, then go to war. I've said this before, there's a war path. Trump's already committed war crimes. He's a war criminal. He should be tried at the Hague. I don't want to see further escalation. I don't want to see war. Just so you know where I personally stand. However, if you want to talk about killing, death, destruction, blowing up, if you want to, if you want to, to bomb Iran to the Stone Age and you think you can dominate them in a war, you have a war option. You didn't achieve these results in a war and now you're in negotiations. In negotiations, at the very least, you have to respect the other side's right to exist as a threshold matter. Also in a negotiation, you need to make some concessions. Iran has been clear that it wants to negotiate within its ten point framework. You agreed to the ten point framework. I'm sure if you give Iran many of them, the points in the 10 to 10 point framework, even though they're saying there are non negotiables, I'm sure they'll agree to certain things. I bet you they'll agree to a nuclear deal that's similar to the Obama JCPOA deal, probably a little weaker than the Obama because they believe they've won this war and they now control the Strait of Hormuz. During the Obama negotiations of the nuclear deal, Iran didn't control the Strait of Moose. They now have something they didn't have before. So I think you can get a weaker version of, of the Obama deal. Then you can probably open up the Strait of Hormuz totally. However, Iran probably wants to recoup certain amount of losses that it incurred in the war. It claims Those losses are $262 billion. I'm sure there's room for negotiation. They say 262 billion, you say 100 billion. Maybe the first $100 billion in toll fees or money that's made by opening up the Strait of Hormuz goes to Iran and then it's fully open in response. The US can say, we have a multinational coalition of lots of countries, Europe, Asian countries, Middle east countries. They bring their navy in as well to ensure permanent safe passage and that Iran's not able to close down the Strait of Hormuz again, but it stays open, Iran gets a payment. Iran keeps its ballistic missiles and drones, remove most of the sanctions against Iran. What I described as probably the only outcome of how you could reach A negotiated settlement, if you're like Ben, but then we have to concede all of these. Oh, and Iran will want permanent security guarantees for Hezbollah, for the Houthis, and for the Shiite militia groups in Iraq. So if you can concede those things, and that's probably where the negotiations end, and you could declare it a victory in a way, you can open up the Strait of Hormuz, but you'll have to pay Iran. You can get back the Obama deal, which you were mocking for so long, but it was actually a strong multilateral deal. That's probably the best case solution that exists. But you can't go into the negotiation. I'm going to kill you if you don't negotiate. And Iran's response, if you're gonna kill us, then kill us, then do it, then go to war. And we'll see how that works out. We know from reporting from the Wall Street Journal and others that the United States is running very low on munitions. It'll take about six years to replenish the munitions. If there were to be a war that breaks out in Taiwan right now, the United States does not, according to the Wall Street Journal and other sources, have the capabilities, like, to even help Taiwan at this point, because in just a short period of time, 54 days, we basically have gone through all of our stockpiles over there. That's. That's not a good sign right there at all. And this is the current status of things. And I think one of the things that Iran also threatened is that. And it said this kind of very matter of factly, they wrote through their FARs new agency and MERs and Tasnim, they said, well, one of the things that we should probably take into account as well is that a lot of the Internet cables that connect global Internet activity and hook up to data centers, one of the big areas of connectivity, connection points, goes right through the Strait of Hormuz would be, you know, it's definitely raises lots of national security concerns if you're using the Internet to attack us. And so that may be on the table. What may be on the table? Cutting the Internet and basically shutting it off globally with, with the Internet cables that go on the seabed. And so Iran has a plan of how it responds next. And if Trump, if you, if you want the smoke and the fire goes, go for it. Like, that's what Iran's saying, you know. And, you know, Donald Trump, you know, continues to make posts like this, let's kill the ones who don't want to deal. If the if there are two factions in Iran, one that wants a deal and one that doesn't, let's kill the ones who don't want a deal. Trump doesn't need a deal to get what he wants from Iran. And Iran's responded with a unified voice. You had their parliament leader, M.B. goliboff, their president possession, their foreign minister, their Iraqi, their judicial leader. So basically all of the kind of, you know, forces like from the spiritual side to the parliamentary side to the civilian side to the military side, all of them reposted each other's statements. And the statement that they all posted, basically identical, reads as follows. In Iran, there are no radicals or moderates. We are all Iranian and revolutionary. And with the iron unity of the nation and government, with complete obedience to the supreme leader of the revolution, we will make the aggressor criminal, we will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions. One God, one leader, one nation and one path. That path being the path to victory for Iran, dearer than life. And they all posted the same message. And then you had Iranian media saying it's ironic that the US Is claiming that we're in chaos and panic and having all of these leadership struggles when the US and Donald Trump and Hexith have basically fired 20 of its top generals, admirals, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, you know, cabinet members, you know, the Trump regime is the one that's in utter chaos right now. And this is what the FARS new agent FARS News Agency writes. The IRGC intelligence organization's reaction to the chaotic political situation in America. The President of the United States speaks of division in Iran while over the course of the 50 days of the war, I think we're at 54 now. His popularity has dropped to 35%. Six political and security officials and 20 military generals have resigned, including while we have a naval blockade. The Secretary of the Navy while our army is at war. The chief of staff at the army, four star General Randy George. General George and his wife. You know, these are beloved military figures fired by Pete Hegseth. You know, and previously you had the head of Southcom resign or was pushed out because he didn't support the war crimes blowing up the fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela. You had the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs get fired by the Trump regime. So that's actually where the chaos is happening right now. And then you had Donald Trump hold a press conference and we'll talk a little bit about him. You know, what went down in this press conference today and the purpose of the press conference, I guess, was supposed to talk about lowering prescription drug prices, where Donald Trump makes up numbers like he reduces prescription drug prices by 600%. In essence, if you're buying a product for a buck, that means the pharmaceutical companies are paying you $600 to buy their $1 product. So it's just, you know, utterly ridiculous. And the feed cut out. And then Donald Trump said the following. Let's just play the video. But Donald Trump did. Let's play. He said, I could use a shit. Said I could use a shit. He goes around talking in the Oval Office about taking a shit. And I mean, look, we could say, you know, why is that important? I mean, first off, it's just like, why are you publicly articulating that you have to take a shit in the Oval Office. And then it's also the context of where. Of like, what's going on here as well. Like, he was having this disastrous press conference where he's making up that he saved the lives of eight young women in Iran. Beautiful young women, little girls, these very young, very young girls, very young women. He saved up. And he makes up this whole story about how he saved that there are these eight young women, very young, very young, very pretty. Wants to make that very clear. They were about to be executed by Iran. And then Donald Trump calls up Iran. He says, even though he claims that he's not talking to them, but in this fan fiction, he called them up and released the women now. And Iran's like, we're not going to do that, Donald. We're at war. And Donald's like, if you don't do it, I'm going to make a very mean social media post. Post. How mean is it going to be? Donald says Iran. And Donald Trump says there will be many capital. There may many capital letters, there may even be a curse in it. And then Iran says, we're going to release those beautiful young girls to you. We're going to release them. Thank you. You don't want to mess with this anymore, right? I mean, that's Donald Trump's fan fiction of what went down. He's not speaking to. He's said in the same press conference that he's not talking, that they're not talking right now, and that he has all the time in the world, yet apparently he's negotiating with them. Them of eight young, beautiful girls.
