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See full terms@mint mobile.com this is Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben Meiselas and this is your breaking news. Let's get to the latest developments in Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war against Iran. After Donald Trump threatening more genocide and war crimes earlier this morning by obliterating the whole civilization of Iran, the whole civilization will die tonight. Iran then said, why would we talk to you if you're talking about obliterating our whole civilization? Iran's cut off even any exchange of messages that Pakistan was trying to do because the Trump regime is begging Pakistan to try to come up with some deal or framework for negotiations with Iran. And now where we're at is Donald Trump is trying to negotiate for an extension to his own arbitrary deadline. U.S. and Arab officials say talks now center around getting a deadline extension. No deal. So the question is, with about four hours remaining, less than four hours remaining, the discussions center around can I get an extension on yet another arbitrary deadline that I've set and stating that if you don't comply with my deadline, I will obliterate your entire civilization. Now here is, here are some updates of where things stand. Sirens and explosions have been heard in the last few minutes over Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as Iran launches yet another ballistic missile attack targeting the Gulf nations. This being the first attack in roughly a week against Qatar's capital of Doha. Although a Qatari flag ship that was recently in Dubai and liquid find natural gas ship was struck a few days back by Iran in retaliation for the Trump regime and Netanyahu's attack on Iranian infrastructure. You have Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaybaz Sharif, he's requesting that Donald Trump extend his Iran deadline by at least two weeks while also asking Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. To this, according to Reuters on that news, that Donald Trump may be tacoing yet again that Donald Trump may be extending the deadline after talking about obliterating an entire civilization. The markets which were crashing today were further manipulated and bounced back on that news. This is the cycle that we live in. It is a humiliation ritual, frankly, for these United States of America. You see, there are audio listeners I'm showing on video, the S&P 500 surging on the news that Pakistan has asked for a two week extension of Donald Trump's deadlines after Iran cut off communication with Pakistan because Donald Trump said I'm going to obliterate your civilization. And then Trump and Netanyahu launch coordinated attacks on railway, on Carg island, on other infrastructure in Tehran. And now Iran is retaliating against the Arab nation, neighbors where there are American military interests. Also during these, I'm not even sure you call it mediations. Yeah. The IDF announced that it attacked eight bridges in Iran today. You know, it was, it was notable. You know, my, my eyes actually hurt a little bit. I really didn't get much sleep last night because I was following the developments and I thought at one point there could have been an opportunity for a ceasefire because I saw Iran's ambassador to. I didn't, I knew that Iran said that they would never agree to a ceasefire. So let me start off with that premise. They said they want a permanent security guarantee for themselves for the Houthis, for Hezbollah, for the Shiite militia groups in Iraq, they want full reparations for the war. They want to control the Strait of Hormuz. They won't give up their ballistic missiles, Shahid drones and FPV drones, and they want America off the military bases in the region. And they said that they. And they don't want a ceasefire because a ceasefire means temporary. And they view any ceasefire as something that Donald Trump will manipulate with Netanyahu and an attack during a ceasefire or try to increase the munitions that are depleted at this point. So Iran's like, why would we give you basically time to recover just when you're going to attack us again, that you will use the ceasefire in bad fate? So I never thought Iran would agree to a ceasefire. But hope springs eternal, right? So at, what is it, 2am my time, 1:30am my time, I saw this Iranian ambassador to Pakistan. He made some, like, positive comment. It was like, you know, I want to thank the great mediators in Pakistan and we'll hopefully have news soon. I was like, oh, you know, maybe. Maybe there's a breakthrough. I don't. I don't know. I mean, here was the post. I mean, this was the post. Really early in the morning. Pakistan's positive and productive endeavors in goodwill and good office to stop the war is approaching a critical and sensitive stage. Stay tuned for more. I mean, a bit cryptic, but one can view that as perhaps an overture or an opening to do something. And then as soon as I read that, I was trying to dig into any information I could find. What's going on? Is there a breakthrough? Is there a breakthrough? Boom. Then all of a sudden, the next thing that's over, the wire explosions heard in Tehran. And then Trump and Netanyahu just continued to bomb all of Tehran and Kharg Island. And then I was following all the bombings taking place. And then two, three hours after that, Donald Trump makes the obliterate your civilization post. And then Iran says, we're not talking. You've done all of this. There's no. We're not having any further negotiations because Donald Trump wrote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows? We'll find out. Tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. 40 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran. Then in Response to that, Iran says, we don't even want to be speaking through any intermediaries at all. Then the markets were crashing. And then in the past, you know, the Wall Street Journal, citing three Iranian officials, says Iran has cut off communications with the US and then Donald Trump came begging back again through Pakistan. And now the negotiation is over. Two, it's a negotiation over. A negotiation for, for an extension. Can we even negotiate to negotiate an extension of the deadline? Donald Trump said, now, again, I don't care what political party you're from, Democrat, Republican Independent Party overseas. You don't like politics, whatever. This behavior is utterly deranged, 25th Amendment demented stuff right here, right? Obliterate your civilization if you don't meet my deadline. And then saying, actually, can we negotiate for an extension of time? And the markets are all over the place and the accumulation of this is just weakness. The United States of America. This does not make us look strong. This makes us look so damn weak and pathetic, like a failed Trump bankrupt organization, that all of the weird, grotesque stuff about Trump organizations in the past that caused them to go bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. That's the United States of America right now. It is really damn embarrassing. I don't know how anybody goes, oh, that makes us look tough, really, to go and say you're going to obliterate a civilization. And there's already been the war crimes that have been committed. This already exists. I mean, let's speak with clarity about what's taking place before the communications cut off between the Pakistanis and Iran. What Iran reportedly told Pakistan mediators is that their current stockpiles sit at 15,000 missiles and 45,000 drones, indicating both a willingness to continue the conflict and a capacity for extended exchange of fires between them and the US And Israel. That number is always consistent with what I thought it was. I think they're probably exaggerating by about 20%, 25%, based on my studies of reading all of the literature and studying all. And, you know, I do deep dives and really dig in here to figure out, you know, to, to, to study their stockpiles. What it was part of my studying is I look to see the weapons that they're giving Russia. I factor in the, you know, because Russia has their own warehouses that make these drones and ballistic missiles, they're sending it back through the Caspian Sea to Iran. I think about how quickly. And they can make a thousand of these drones a month or more. They could make 500, 600 ballistic missiles a month, perhaps more in there. And then I think you add Russia's capacity. We don't know how much weapons China is providing as well. This seems well within the range. Even if you discounted and said they're probably exaggerating by 25 to 30%, they still have a lot of drones, a lot of missiles, because they've been preparing for precisely, precisely this moment right here. And that's where things stand right now, an obliterate civilization post. And then later, you have a negotiation over a potential extension, and the extension would be two weeks. So then we do this entire timeline, this loop, all over again, and then April 7th becomes, you know what, April 21st. Then the countdown goes there, and then they bring it into May, and then they bring it into July. Sound familiar? Sound familiar? This is what Trump's done his entire life. That's the thing he though. And you have to understand his pathology. And I think Iranians have studied it and they have a plan and they understand it. Donald Trump's plan, whether it's with his corporate fraud, his misconduct, the way he litigates, the way he handles things, is just drag it on and on and on and on. Keep lying. The fire hose of lies over and over again. That overwhelms people. Lots of people don't have the stamina to deal with so much lies all of the time, because lots of people want to just live their life and just be like, all right, enough. What do you want me to do? Or you bend to it. Because sometimes someone thinks bending to it's easier than just fighting it, and it isn't. You then become consumed by it. And like the way a zombie bites you, you basically become kind of the Trump Maga, miserable zombie when they went once. He gets you kind of trapped in that world, but what he wants to do is just drag things out over and over and over again. He could stew in his misery and his malignant narcissism. He doesn't care. He doesn't. He's soulless. He doesn't. He doesn't feel things. He's. You know, he's. He's a. He's a grotesque creature. He doesn't care about any of. He doesn't have feelings. Most people do. Most people, if you lie or you say things that are incorrect or you do things, you. You feel certain things that compel you to change. Not. Not him. So he'll just try to drag it out and drag it out. Just think about COVID all of his litigations, right? He just, you know, his bankruptcies never ending, and then he just tries to find who's going to be my scapegoat and who am I going to blame this all on and how, who can bail me out? And then I just do it again. That's his whole shtick. That's his whole, that's his whole gimmick right here. And so he's hoping somebody will bail him out. I mean, you know, you know, right now Pakistan has a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia. Pakistan is self interested in making a deal for its own view of national prestige to deliver for the Saudis and the United States to try to make a deal with Iran. Iran realizes that Pakistan isn't really a true meet a true neutral in this situation based on its defense packs that it also has with Saudi Arabia and based on, you know, Pakistani crypto funds investing in Donald Trump and Witkoff's World Liberty Financial and you know, and, and things like that. And so Iran realizes that. And so Trump just wants to drag it out and drag it out and drag it out and drag it out. And that's why I say, you know, mistakes become blunders and blunders become, you know, massive errors which become catastrophes, which become bankruptcies ultimately because he keeps on dragging it on and on and on and on and on. You know, I forget who I was having this, I've been saying this a lot today to people, you know, I was saying, what's very fascinating to me is to think about this moment in time and compare it to the Great Recession of, you know, 0809, right around 0708 when it started, right, the Great Recession, which you had all of these, you know, you know, these, these mortgage backed securities that were bundled together and these subprime mortgages were sold. And once people started having foreclosures, you know, people started looking at the portfolio of who owned these basically these defaulting bundled subprime mortgages. And then Lehman Brothers had lots of exposure. So there was a run on Lehman Brothers and all of a sudden the Lehman Brothers stock crashed based on a panic that they had a great deal of exposure into the subprime, you know, mortgage backed security bundling issue. Right. So I think about that and I think about, wow, these subprime mortgages, that's what led to a great recession because it started to be internalized or externalized that these things, that these, that these products would default. And then it had this cascading effect. What's so shocking to me, and you tell me in the chat what you think that kind of thing, like a subprime mortgage, you know, exposure issue causing a panic that leads to this bank going bankrupt and that bank going bankrupt and, and all of these issues. I'm not even sure that would register as news on Tuesday afternoon at 1:52pm Pacific Time like that. It would trigger some sort of panic and that. That would have a run on Lehman and Lehman would go bankrupt like we have. I don't think I'm exact. I don't want to be hyperbolic. So push back on me if you think I'm being hyperbolic. So I'll. I'll. I'll lower my estimate. It seems like every single day since Donald Trump's Liberation Day, the tariffs against the world, that we have some version of data that would give the same types of red flags of the subprime crisis. Like three to five times a day, like before I eat lunch, if I eat lunch during a day, because I'm sometimes reporting so much, there's like three to five instances where something like that happens and it kind of barely registers, you know, and it is a testament to the resiliency of the market, the resiliency of things. But, you know, I mean, the level of supply shock that's taken place right now, when it comes to crude, when it comes to helium, when it comes to liquefied natural gas and petrochemicals and fertilizers, which is a byproduct that, you know, that's created all of these things, even if the war ended right now at this moment, that supply shock is the biggest supply shock in since the 60s. And so the part that's I kind of grapple with is the casualness of the language sometimes, that this is all somehow, you know, normal and this is somehow just regular, regular behaviors is why is wild to me. And what I fear, what I fear is the movie Don't Look Up Everybody. Remember that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, I think it was on Netflix, right? Don't look Up. And then they had a. Everybody that they. They knew the meteor was about to hit. And there was a whole movement of don't look up, don't look up as it. As the meteor is about to crash. And then as the meteor is crashing, there was like an Elon Musk type character who was thinking, how do I capitalize on the media? Can I mine the meteor and make money off of it? And by the time people were like, okay, that meteor is about to hit, it was too late. And I won't tell you the ending of the movie, but, you know, you could Google it if you want to know the ending. But I fear that there's this kind of, there's this cognitive dissonant, there's this separation from reality. And it almost is like we're living in this simulation where the news is this alternate reality and it's not registering that it is the reality that's happening on a day to day basis right now. And it's having massive impacts that are going to be felt generationally for a long time. While all of this is taking place, too. J.D. vance is in Hungary right now holding campaign rallies for Viktor Orban, the Putin sycophant, the Putin bootlicker, as part of an effort by the United States to destroy NATO and destroy the European Union. And so both the United States and Russia are working together to campaign for a Putin proxy for a Kremlin proxy in Hungary, while Donald Trump is threatening to obliterate a civilization, the Iranian civilization, not the Islamic Republic, not the regime or the Ayatollah, the Iranian civilization. And for those watching and for those on audio, the Iranian people came out, they, people who are critical of the regime are out there, you know, famous Iranian celebrities who were very critical of the Ayatollah and the repression, and also just people in Iran in general, they're out there by the bridges, they're out there by the energy facilities and the nuclear energy facilities for civilian use and the electric grids and all of the places that Trump and Netanyahu say they're going to bomb. You've got the Iranian people out there saying, if you're going to bomb it, you're going to, you're going to kill us also. You know, that I heard people are saying, well, isn't that a war crime as well, being on, you know, putting yourself on the bridge or using human shields? Isn't, isn't Iran doing a war crime by having those people there? I mean, this is their civilian infrastructure. You know, you, you know, to me, if you're like, if Trump and Netanyahu were like, we're gonna bomb schools and electric power plants and we're gonna bomb bridges which are used by civilians, and the civilians are like, well, we're gonna go there. I don't, I don't know how you say that's a war crime for the civilians to be in the civilian places, you know, and then, you know, Trump and Netanyahu say, well, these, these, this infrastructure. I mean, I'm just watching right now. It's just, I don't know, I'm gonna say just, I'm watching right now on the screen, little girls and I think to myself about the little girls in Manoba Manob elementary school, where 165 little girls were murdered by the Trump regime. And I think about the hospitals in Iran that have been blown up and the universities that have been blown up and the civilians who have been killed across Iran. The gym where there were so many young people, you know, who were killed by Trump and Netanyahu. I think about Gaza, I think about Beirut, I think about Lebanon in general. And I just think about basic and core humanity, Right? I mean, I just think about these are human beings, you know, and as I looked at those people there, I think about when I'm walking around my neighborhood, these are. These are people. These are. These are human lives. And so when Trump's out there, we're going to obliterate the civilization. We're going to obliterate these people. We're going to obliterate these human beings. These are wives and mothers, grandmothers, children, brothers and sisters, husbands and fathers, aunts and uncles, dentists and doctors, school teachers and lawyers, construction workers and farmers, engineers. You know, I know Donald Trump says these are animals. These are. These are animals. They want to be bombed. They. They love it when I bomb them. I mean, that's what someone of the Epstein class would say. That's what someone who, in my opinion, has been a lifelong predator would say. They want it. They told me they want it. They. They want to feel the pain. They want to be hurt. Sick, sick, sick stuff. And it should sicken you. It should sicken you to the core to see that, you know, and let me share with you the presentation that was made by the Iranian ambassador