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The United States and Israel's war in Iran rages on and things are going from uglier to catastrophic for the United States right now. What you just saw there at the beginning of this video are some big US And Israeli strikes in Tehran. And no doubt the US And Israel is striking Tehran and Iran significantly. Lots of targets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Also lots of civilians in Iran dying as well. But Iran is striking back, hitting U.S. interests in neighboring countries and hitting the interest of neighboring countries that support the United States as well. We have some updates to report. Right now we are learning that there was a United States F15E Strike Eagle that was shot down over Iran. Fortunately, the US Pilots were safe and they managed to make it out, but a direct hit on an F15E strike E strike Eagle over Iran. In addition, one of the things that we're learning about is that CENTCOM is asking the Pentagon right now to send more military intelligence offers officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida to support the operations against Iran for at least 100 days, but likely through September. And so what that means, what we're able to glean is that the Trump regime sees this war against Iran and this war that's now engulfing the entire Middle east and perhaps even reaching beyond lasting at least 100 days or through September, probably longer, probably into 2027. One of the internal fights that we're learning about within the Trump regime is between Hegseth and Marco Rubio. Secretary of Defense Secretary of State Sean Matthews broke the story. Here was his scoop. Hegseth and Rubio are feuding over the US Approach to war in Iran. Rubio and Hegseth are at each other's throats whether the U.S. should send troops to Iran. Gulf official says U.S. weighing special ops deployment. Hegseth wants U.S. boots on the ground. Rubio does not. And one of the things that the Trump regime falsely leaked yesterday was that the Kurds from Iraq and I guess northern Iran as well, we're doing an invasion of of Iran. And the US Was just lying about this. Some of the Kurdish leaders had to immediately respond because they were also being targeted by Iran. And these Kurdish leaders were saying, that's just false. We haven't sent a single Kurdish soldier into Iran at this point. Just an entirely false statement by the United States. And what appears to have happened is that the Kurds were rejected the United States demand and coercion to be the boots on the ground and invade Iran. The US and specifically Donald Trump has betrayed the Kurds consistently. Trump betrayed the Kurds to Turkey during Trump's first term. And Trump betrayed the Kurds again to Syria, extinguishing the Kurds autonomous territory area in Syria. When Donald Trump supported Al Jelani, the Al Qaeda leader who now runs Syria, that's the guy who went into the Oval Office who used to have a $25 million bounty on because he led Al Qaeda and Trump was spraying perfume on him and sniffing him. So it seems to have happened is that the Kurds rejected the Trump coercion to invade Iran. So the United States just made it up in typical Trump fashion. Line said the Kurds are invading in order to try to provoke an attack by Iran against the Kurds, maybe hoping that that will then get the Kurds to respond. That's just one of these Trump gimmicks and lies that he thinks like works in the movies but doesn't work in real life and actually has led to the conflagration, the burning inferno that is this Middle east getting much worse. I mean, for all of the strikes taking place on Tehran right now, I mean, Iran still has its Revolutionary Guard spokesman, Abraham Dul Fakari, out there holding press briefings. He says the Iranian sacred multilayer defense will continue with full force. They're out there still striking Israel, still striking Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and still striking Bahrain and the neighboring areas. The US claims that the Iranian strikes are down about 83%, but the US lies about everything. The Strait of Her Muse is essentially closed still. Maybe one or two ships get through, but overall, the Strait of Her Muse is closed. Iran has successfully targeted Qatari oil interests and nearby oil interest as well. So, for example, Qatar announced yesterday that it's set to fully shut natural gas liquefaction. Restarting natural gas liquefaction after a complete shutdown would take about two weeks. Once restarted, Qatar would need at least another two weeks to reach full capacity. And Qatar is the second largest liquefied natural gas LNG exporter in the world, and they are shutting it all down. Think about the implications there. And as we learn those implications, you can see it in the data, the Midas Touch network. We show you charts, we show you graphs, we show you facts. We don't give you spin, we don't give you propaganda, just the facts. So Brent oil prices as of last night surged above $82.50 a barrel, with gas prices up nearly 20% since January. And, you know, it seems that those prices are going up to $100 a barrel, which could be absolutely crippling for the world. And in terms of your gas prices, you may see $4 or more a gallon very soon. And Iran knows that. That's why they continue to target oil interest. Oil tankers. This is what Trump was warned about from his generals and admirals, top military leaders. And Trump just had a feeling. He felt it wouldn't happen. An oil tanker has been hit by a large explosion in the waters off of Kuwait yesterday, resulting in a massive oil spill. And this is in addition to the news I gave you about Qatar. China's government ordered their largest oil refineries to suspend diesel and gasoline exports amid the Strait of Hormuz closures. So that's what's going on right there in the Middle East. But if you said, hey, can it get any worse than that? The answer is that it can. And if you look at what's actually happening on the streets of Iran, it is not looking good. Donald Trump and his regime turned a very unpopular Ayatollah Khomeini, who was 85 years old, who the people were turning against, even his Shiite supporters. She's a Shiite spiritual leader. We may not like that because he's a terrorist and he was an authoritarian. He was a religious leader, not just for Iranians, but for the Shiite community in the region. And again, bad person, terroristic, hateful, all true, but was becoming unpopular. Now, all we did was empower a more far right wing extremist version of that Ayatollah. The new Ayatollah Machaba. His son was the one responsible for the protest massacres. So you just got a worse Ayatollah, basically, than a very, very bad ayatollah. And I'll just show you what's going on in the streets right now in Iran. It's not the protesters who are out there saying throughout the regime, because they're terrified. The last time they did that, the last time they went out there, Trump said, I got your back and didn't have their backs and allowed them to be massacred. Also, if you are a pro democracy protester right now, and Donald Trump and his regime is out there saying that they don't support democratic leaders in Iran and they support someone else from the Islamic Republic who would be friendly with the Trump regime, why would you go out and protest? If you did, you would say, well, I'm going to do this and the Trump regime is going to throw me under the bus and they are going to. And I'm going to get killed by the new Islamic Republic leader because Trump's going to just hoist up an Islamic Republic leader. So Trump's plan is so awful for all of those reasons and more. So now, the demonstrations that you see are not people asking for democracy. Even though we know they're there, they're terrified, we know they're there, and our heart goes out to them. Let me be very clear. That's where my solidarity and heart goes out to. Most importantly, my heart goes out to Americans. I mean, but I'm a citizen of the world, so I hope everybody in the world's okay. But I want to make sure that American people here get health care and that American people are taken care of and American people are having healthcare ripped away. So let me be clear about that first, as Donald Trump's out there engaging in this war apparently because he said, said Israel was going to strike first. But large demonstrations in support of the Iranian government continued night after night. Last night, for example, in Iran, you have crowds gathering to mourn the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, who is now viewed as a martyr. It's the point I wanted to make. He was getting unpopular. The economic problems of Iran were catching up to him. And now he's viewed as this incredible, this martyr amongst the Shiite community for how, despite how awful he was, Trump did that. And now he's further radicalized people in the region against the United States. So what's your game plan now, Donald? Take a look at some of these protests right here that you can see. I'll just show you what it looks like in the Laurestin province in western Iran. I mean, drop sites done a good job aggregating this. A mountainous region of these agros range home to about 1.7 million people. I mean, they're out there chanting, death to America. I mean, just watch what they're doing. Here, play this clip. When you take a look at the Kuza Stan region, southwestern Iran, bordering Iraq, I mean, look right here, oil rich province. I mean, they're out there, tens of thousands, if not more pro Ayatollah protesters screaming Magbar Pahlavi screaming death to Pavlovi. And Trump doesn't have Pahlavi's back. Think about that. Trump's repeatedly said, I don't have Papavi's back. Trump says he wants another Islamic republic leader. What the hell's Trump doing here? And just so you see who's out there, who's emboldened by all of this, this is what Trump has caused. Here, play this clip. Then Donald Trump held that bizarre press conference yesterday where he couldn't even like he struggled to speak and he was trying to say, electric, your electric bills are actually coming down. He was like, I didn't even understand what he's saying. Here, play this clip.