Trump Orders Strikes on Iran as Escalation Risks Grow

The Trump regime has struck Iran yet again trying to provoke Iran into attacking US military bases in the region. In order to then allow Israel to say it must launch a major preemptive strike and then pull the entire region into all that war. It seems obvious this is the Trump regime plan. Iran sees what the Trump regime is trying to do. Donald Trump does not want to do a massive escalation at this point on his own. He knows the American people are not behind that. That's an understatement. So he wants to provoke Iran. Have Iran issue a response to these strikes that the US is doing and then say, ah, you see, Iran attacked us. We had no choice. That's what the cowardly Trump and Netanyahu regime are setting up. So over the past few nights, we have actually seen the Trump regime striking in Iran in the Kesham Island area, particularly hitting some surface-to-air missiles that are in this region. And then last night we saw the US strike, not just Kesham Island, but also Bandar Abbas, Syrac and Jask. And so Iran is denying that that actually took place. Although we have visual seeming to suggest it did take place. Iran seems to be striking back at the US drones, the Lucas drones that the US is using, as well as the MQMs, the MQ-1s and the MQ-9s, which the US is sending over Kesham Island, Bandar, Abbas, Syrac, and Jask. But Iran is trying to act like, well, this actually isn't happening because they don't want to have this provocation that then gives the US the ability to say, all right, well now we're going to strike because Iran has the situation exactly where it wants it. It controls the straight of Hormuz right now. The price of gas and diesel is still very high. This catastrophic war is deeply unpopular. Iran behind the scenes has been engaged in this massive diplomatic effort and also this massive economic outreach effort as well. The diplomatic effort, I'll talk about a little bit in this video. But Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, spoke with the foreign ministers of 14 other countries just in the past 48 hours. On the economic front, we've been I'll talk more about in this video, Iran's held major meetings with Russia and with China. And then you have the Trump regime out there through sent-com posting basically help wanted classified ads on X and other social media accounts saying, if you know where Iran's nuclear capabilities are, we'll give you a cash reward of $20 million, just DM us on X. I kid you not. That's what sent-com actually posted. Also sent-com announced a new initiative. It's not midnight. It's not midnight hammer. They're now calling it another name like that. They're like, we're doing Operation Iron Gate. Operation Iron Gate. I'll talk to you what the talk to you about with that is in a moment as well. Let's just go through this piece by piece and I want to show you what's actually happening right now because this ain't getting reported anywhere. Okay, so for the second night in a row, there have been reports of explosions in several cities in southern Iran. So late last night, explosions were heard in the Suza area. I'm Kesha Milen, Bandar Abbas, Syrac and Jask. And then there was little confirmation about what was actually taking place. There was a US strike that was confirmed a little while ago a few days back. And then the US yesterday also said that it struck this tanker, this commercial vessel rather by the Gulf of Oman. I'll talk about that in a moment. But that's really it. There was no other mention of this. The US didn't mention it. Iran didn't mention it. And it did seem like a fighter jet struck the Iranian surface to air missile launchers on Jask and Kesha. After several missile launchers, we're firing at these jets because we heard these four explosions. This would have been the first time two different locations have been hit on the same night before it was just in Kesha. But then Iran state media Tazniim said the following. The sounds of two explosions heard in Kesha were related to the management of the Strait of Hormuz. And no injuries have been reported on the island so far and informed source stated in an interview with the Tazniim reporter. These sounds were related to the Strait of Hormuz and contrary to some speculation, no damage had occurred on Kesha Island until the time of the sending of this news. This informed source denied the news published about an attack by the United States on Kesha. So again, let me just kind of translate this for all of us when they talk about the management of the Strait of Hormuz. What that means is that they're striking tankers that are not following Iran's management of the Strait of Hormuz. If ships are going out through that southern route by Oman, Iran's management is they're striking each of these tankers. They're striking the cargo ships and we've been reporting on the fact that what almost every day there's another tanker or multiple tankers that are struck in the Strait of Hormuz. But again, as I noted at the outset, Iran is not acknowledging that the US has struck certain areas in Kesha. Because what they would then have to do is then they would have to respond, you know, in a way that may be bigger than what they are, what they strategically want to do now. They're fine just knocking out this tanker, that tanker, this tanker, and that tanker. And if the US and Netanyahu engage in a massive escalation, they're prepared for that. But they're being cautious at this point as well because they don't want to give an excuse for Trump and Netanyahu to do a Trump and Netanyahu want to do. It's also important that I mention here. I'll do another video on it this morning, but Netanyahu is about to be out of power, right? The president of Israel, Herzog, just gave the green light for Gotti Eisenkot, who is the leader of the Yashar party. That's the main opposition party to Netanyahu's La Kud party and Gotti Eisenkot and the Yashar party is forming a government right now with the Arab block. And they're going to have 65, 68 seats in the parliament, which would make Gotti Eisenkot the prime minister of a new coalition government. So Netanyahu's desperate. He wants a national security incident to try to blow up Gotti Eisenkot trying to create this coalition government. Trump is desperate. And all of these war hawks in the United States are trying to push Donald Trump to engage in this war before the Democrats officially take control of the House and the Senate. The Wall Street Journal reported last night hawkish outside advisors have been calling Donald Trump since election day, urging him, resume the attacks now. We need you to strike now. They argue that his legacy depends on forcing Tehran to surrender. It's nuclear program. Didn't Donald Trump say that he destroyed their nuclear program last year? And also these hawkish voices and also the headsets and the admiral coupers and all of the people who want to do this war. They still are under the complete fabrication that they're spreading. And okay, if we just attack Iran a little more, they're going to give up their sovereignty and want to make a deal with us. If we just torture them more, they're going to cry uncle as treasury secretary. Okay, Iran is not crying uncle. Okay, they have won the war this far. They have more ballistic missiles. They have more cruise missiles. They have upgraded drones right now. They are prepared if there is an escalation. What we've seen thus far from Iran is a fraction of what they can actually do in terms of climbing the escalation ladder. That's pretty obvious when you look at what their true capabilities are right now. And so any major escalation with Iran would then render a very catastrophic response from Iran that would plunge the world into a global economic depression. The likes of which we haven't seen in a century plus at this point. So I want to give you a sense of what's going on over there. Now sent com, Trump regime, admiral Brad Cooper, Mr. Podcaster. Remember the admiral of sent com, the commander of sent com Brad Cooper. Remember he started the podcast last week where he talks about eating french fries and playing basketball and how he'd love to be like a bartender and drink beers on the beach. He was sharing that during his podcast. One of the things that sent com just showed as well. They released a video that they disabled a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman on November 7th. After they say the ship civilian crew ignored repeated warnings and attempted to violate the naval blockade against Iran multiple times. It said a US military aircraft fired precision munitions at the stern of the St. Kitts flag MV who done now should also be noted though that this ship really wasn't laid in it didn't have things on it at all. So just a weird target to strike. The notably the last time US forces disabled an Iranian vessel was July 15th as Matt Bernal explains sent com should have at least hit a vessel that hasn't been transmitting an AIS signal for the last week. This thing is empty at an anchor off of UAE for the last two days, having arrived there from Sohar. So like, what are you even doing here? But what they're trying to do is provoke Iran to do a response that escalates more than it is so that Netanyahu can say, "Ah, I'm doing a preemptive strike." This is a preemptive strike, that's all it is. Now, Centcom also announced that it is launching a task force, it says, and it is called an Iron Gate. It says, on November 7th, Centcom directed the establishment of a task force that will support ongoing US government efforts to prevent Iran from using ground routes to transport advanced weapons and other materials. Just pause there for a second. Remember what I've been saying over the last few weeks as we've been doing these videos together? I said, okay, there's this, I suppose blockade by the Arabian Sea, the US has two aircraft carriers over there right now. I said, but what about the Caspian Sea? What about Turkmenistan? What about Iraq? What about Afghanistan? What about the borders of Iran? Iran's able to transport through these other ways. There's highways it can use. There's railways it can use. There's shipping, certainly not as easy as the straight of Hormuz and shipping, but they can still do it. And I was pointing that out there. It's not a secret. I'm just like, everybody knew that was what was going on. So now they're saying, okay, now we're gonna stop it. They go, now we're gonna stop it. We're gonna call it Iron Gate. Admiral Brad Cooper has directed the formation of Task Force Iron Gate, an internal staff of approximately 20 civilian and military personnel based in Tampa, Florida. The new SENTCOM team will coordinate with other US government agencies on preventing the movement of advanced weapon systems, dual use technology, sanctioned materials, and illegal revenue streams across Iran's land borders and Caspian Sea. They say, why Tampa? That's interesting because all of the US bases in the Middle East have been destroyed by Iran. That's why. So SENTCOM shows this photo right here of Iran's borders, but notice what is missing from this photo by SENTCOM. The other countries that are actually bordering Iran. So let's talk about if it's feasible to do this Operation Iron Gate. As Matt Bernal, who's very on point here, explains, you will note that SENTCOM's map of Iran's borders does not label the countries on the borders. Iran has about 3,600 miles of land border and 1,500 miles of sea border. 1,100 miles of the sea border is along the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. Around 400 is on the Caspian Sea of the 3,600 miles of land border. Around 1,000 is shared with Iraq, another five to 600 is shared with Afghanistan, five to 600 is shared with Pakistan, 700 is shared with Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan is notoriously neutral and will certainly not assist the United States. You could pause there, Turkmenistan recently hosted the meeting of all of the former Soviet countries. Iran was an honorary member over there. The Taliban runs Afghanistan. So good luck with that. Iran's leaders were recently meeting with the Taliban. The Iraqi government may help us publicly, but the pro-Iranian presence in Iraq with groups like the Iraqi resistance will all but guarantee little is done. And the Kurds who got screwed over by the Trump regime early in this war and got screwed over consistently by the Trump regime, they aren't going to be in a hurry to help the United States again. Pakistan will not be in a hurry to help us either because whenever the US tires of this conflict, Pakistan has to live next to Iran. So task force iron gate is worthless. Like everything the administration has done to date is an intended to sound like something is being accomplished without doing anything at all. But if you wanna know what is being accomplished, Russia is secretly strengthening Iran's missile capabilities ahead of the escalation that many expect in this catastrophic war with the US. According to internal Russian defense documents that were actually attained by the group Dallas Analytics, but you don't even need to look at these super secret documents. Iran's top security officer, the top advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba-Komene, whose name is, you know what now? Motion-Razay, he was in Moscow at the Kremlin, meeting with Putin, they announced gas pipelines together, military cooperation together, increased railway together, increased nuclear plants together. Russia invest heavily in Iranian nuclear plants. There's the Bushier plant, which is a joint venture, but Russia says it's gonna invest in a lot of other nuclear plants in Iran as well. Also, you had major visits with top Iranian leaders and Wang Yi of China, whose China's foreign minister, all those dual-use components go from China to Iran as well. Very, very, very clear that that's what's happening. While Donald Trump's Operation Economic Outcast, investments like Operation Economic Outcast, it's like Russia and China have been increasing economic cooperation with Iran, even beyond what it was before. Iran's been attending all the major conferences from BRICS to Shanghai cooperation organization to the Turkmenistan one. And in the past 48 hours, Iran's foreign minister, Aragchi, spoke with the foreign ministers of Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Cyprus, Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Tunisia, Iraq and Pakistan, reaffirming the country's legitimate right to defend and sovereignty and national security, with a lot of those countries also putting out statements that reinforce that as well. You have the IRGC spokesperson, Brigadier General Hussain Mouhabi, saying that Iran's aerospace force has undisclosed capabilities ready for a third round of fighting. If and when a third wave of conflict with the enemy begins, these surprises will be unveiled and deployed operationally, astonishing the entire world. The IRGC spokesperson also says, look, if the country's leadership decides to revise its nuclear doctrine, the necessary preparations will be made. The assets of hostile countries are not confined to their geographical borders. Their material and non-material assets are within our reach, basically saying, look, there's a Fattwa that was previously passed in Iran by the old Diatola who was killed by the Trump regime, saying don't develop nuclear weapons at this stage. Iran has the engineering capability, the technical capability to turn on enrichment if it wants to. It has better engineering, better technology than Pakistan, than North Korea, than many other nuclear countries. And it has not, as of now, done the enrichment that it needs to to get into that plus 60, plus 90% enriched kind of range, which could basically form a nuclear weapon at this point. You had Obama's deal in the past as well, the JCPOA, which Trump pulled out of. And so, you know, Iran is considering, well, given the way Donald Trump says, if Iran has a nuclear weapon, I would have to treat him differently, Iran's like, well, then you kind of leave us no choice at this point, but to do that. So just the same way that Donald Trump basically encouraged Kim Jong-un of North Korea to get a nuclear weapon by pulling out of the JCPOA with Iran, Trump is basically encouraging Iran to increase its abilities to get nuclear capabilities as well. And Iran sees Donald Trump as being kind of utterly weak and feckless at this point. I shared this with you yesterday, but I think it's worth sharing again. This is the Iran IRGC Aerospace Park, that's open to the public right now in Tehran, where they have been showing off the types of weapons that they use against the US. This is like public, it's in the city center, anybody can visit it right there. Like, they're not hiding what they're, they're cape-a-pillocks. Like, they're doing museum displays over there. Here, let's play this clip. (dramatic music) (dramatic music) And while they're doing museum displays, SETCOM, led by Podcaster, Admiral Cooper, and by the way, it was motion-razae who posted mocking the United States yesterday. He was like, "So now your Admiral became a podcaster?" Like, we don't even know who to deal with anymore. You know how Trump's like, we don't know who to deal with in Iran. We don't know who he could even talk to anymore. Like, that's Trump's, like meanwhile, you know who all the leaders of Iran are. Go over with you. Iran's responses. So your Admiral's a podcaster. That the president is out there. I don't know, golfing or whatever. Whatever, you know, making weird noises and speeches. We know who are we supposed to even deal with? Do we speak with JD? Do you speak with Hexith? Who are the people in the United States who even know what the hell they're talking about? But you have SETCOM posting rewards for justice, offering rewards of $20 million. And possible, just possible. Not guaranteed. Possible relocation for information about Iran's nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community or the movement of any of the above. Possible movement. We'll see, we'll see about that. But by the way, first off, ridiculous. Like, this is what the US has been reduced to doing an ad on Hexith. If you know where Iran's nuclear capabilities are, Can you DM us, but also? Also, who would trust Trump with a deal like this? He's made it violates every deal. He ain't going to pay you 20 million dollars. 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