So what you're watching here is uh footage of US strikes uh on Iran that were carried out on July 8th. By the time we're going live now, uh the US has struck Iran 170 times in the last two days. So the war is definitively back on. uh And Iran is also striking us in [00:00:21] Jordan and many other countries where we have bases. And of course, uh the Israelis are. thrilled about what's happening. More war! They're psyched and obviously it's a disaster for us, Iran and the rest of the world. Ana has more facts. I sure do. And in fact, uh [00:00:41] Israel isn't satisfied with simply going to war with Iran and having multiple theaters of war in the Middle East. They're of course still talking about the likelihood of going to war against Turkey, but- Let's focus on Iran for the purposes of this discussion because [00:00:58] there was some confusion today following strikes that were seen in Chabahar uh in southern Iran. And at first the thinking was, well, the United States has reignited this war, so those are US strikes. But it turns out that the United States came out and said, actually, no, those [00:01:16] were not our strikes. Then Israeli media confirmed that these bombings were carried out by Kuwait and Bahrain, meaning that some of our Gulf allies have decided to retaliate against Iran, even though Iran has been striking US military bases inside these countries. There were also [00:01:33] some strikes in Abbas, which is uh the capital of Iran's oil producing province. And so the strikes that have been carried out by the United States this time around appear to be a little more strategic than the seemingly indiscriminate bombing the US was engaged in at the very beginning [00:01:52] of this war. As for Israel, DropSite News is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war with Iran is quote, not over while Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel is prepared to strike Iran again with even greater force if it deems it necessary. [00:02:08] Kat said the Israeli military is prepared to resume fighting to regain air superiority and strike Iran again, including a third time if necessary, adding the campaign is not over. Now, it's unclear if or more importantly, when Iran will retaliate against Israel because [00:02:29] Israel is the whole reason why this war started in the first place. so far, doesn't appear that Iran has taken any hits at at Israel. Now US Central Command said late night on Wednesday that on Wednesday they had struck about 90 military targets to further degrade Iran's [00:02:48] ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, if you see the locations of the various US strikes, it's very clear that these strikes are intended to weaken Iran's capability in attacking commercial vessels. Iran's Health Ministry said at least 14 people [00:03:04] were killed and almost 80 people were injured. the first two days of the US strikes. So I'm sure that death toll is probably going to uh increase in the coming days. Now Iran said that it did hit back with missile and drone strikes targeting US military bases in Kuwait [00:03:23] Bahrain and Qatar. Iran says that the US targeted railway bridges on the route to the holy city of Mashhad. where of course the late supreme leader was due to be buried and they did continue [00:03:39] on after a short delay with the ceremonies. But Iran's foreign ministry said that the attacks while Khamenei's six day funeral procession was underway signified Washington's inability to comprehend the depth of Iranians patriotism and loyalty to the revolution's ideals. And [00:03:59] I should just say, I mean, if anything, what we have accomplished through this war, Cenk, is really getting the Iranians to rally around the flag. Because if you look at the footage of the various events having to do with Khamenei's funeral, you'll notice that there are now [00:04:16] tens of millions of people out on the streets. Now additionally, a railway bridge in the town of Akkala in the northeastern Golestan province was hit with cruise missiles, and that's according to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. who said there were no casualties. The line [00:04:33] plays an important role in transit and trade with Central Asia and is part of an international corridor that links Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. So again, kind of providing more reinforcement [00:04:48] to the notion that the US is striking economic. infrastructure and it does look like these strikes are more strategic. A Tehran based businessman in fact told the Financial Times the following, that the rail line had been used while the US was engaging in blockades of Iranian ports. [00:05:06] He said when the blockade was on people would use it, yet it has very limited capacity. Each train from Xi'an in China would only carry about 03,800 tons. But attacks were also reported on electricity infrastructure in Chabahar and uh Qanarik in Southeast Iran causing three [00:05:27] electricity transmission lines to go out of service and cutting off power to parts of the region. Now, if anyone is hoping that maybe things will kind of calm down a little bit and Trump will encourage peace negotiators to get back to negotiating. Ben Shapiro is [00:05:46] making clear that he is vehemently against it. And in fact, he thinks it makes us look weak if we are pursuing diplomatic means to end this war. He has a different idea in mind. Let's take a listen. So what exactly could be done? Well, first, we could force open the strait. [00:06:02] I know we haven't even tried it. We didn't try it. We could do it. We could. If you think that the US military does not have contingency plans for opening the strait of Hormuz along with our allies, you're out of your mind. We do. We just decided we didn't want to because we got chicken with Saudi. And we were told by our magical negotiators that a deal was [00:06:21] in the offing, which was a lie. It wasn't true. If we could open the strait, we could destroy Harga Island, which is their oil export facility. We could destroy the South Paris gas field. We could basically put their economy on unsupportable legs. We could put the regime into its death [00:06:37] throes. Those are all things that we could do. Or we could just walk away and let our allies do any or all of those things. We could do any of those things. But here's the thing we should not do. Demonstrate weakness by going back to the table and pretending once again that they are reasonable, rational people. [00:06:55] In order to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, we would need to dedicate, I mean, the troop commitment for that type of operation, because it's not just about snatching control, it's about maintaining control, and we do not have the troops necessary to make that happen. Additionally, [00:07:12] Tom Nichols over at the Atlantic of all places, which shocked me. uh has the complete opposite take from Ben Shapiro. In fact, he writes uh that the president is still considering two terrible ideas. First, he has returned to talking about seizing Karg Island, an operation that [00:07:31] would require a considerable commitment of ground forces and inevitably lead to US casualties. Second, he has again raised the possibility of striking Iran's infrastructure, including bridges and desalination plants. Such installations, he writes, if they are significantly contributing [00:07:49] to Iran's military effort, might be considered legitimate targets. Trump, however, seems to have in mind immiserating the civilian population as a means of driving the regime to the table, which would be a serious violation of the laws of war. But the one thing I disagree with [00:08:07] Nichols on in this analysis, is I don't think the US was ever serious about a peace deal. I think it was all lies. think JD Vance, the vice president, was being honest when he said the MOU is really about getting the oil flowing again. And basically preparing for more kinetic [00:08:25] warfare against Iran. That's exactly what happened. That was the plan from the very beginning. There was never any real good faith effort at peace here. Yeah. So uh first, let's start with m Israel first m and Ben Shapiro. So of course, what does he want? More war. And who [00:08:44] does he want it from? Us. So I don't know if these people are still even bothering to pretend to be Americans or care about American interests. So that whole segment, of course, was you have to do what Israel wants and Israel always wants more war. But of course, we are [00:09:01] the victims and we are doing self-defense. What does Iran have to do with self-defense? Nothing, it doesn't matter. doesn't matter. The Israelis have ordered war and we have more war. And every time in the media they will tell you, it's just a coincidence. Just a total and [00:09:17] utter coincidence that we do exactly what Israel wants nearly 100 % of the time. Hey, look, it's 98%. We sold some planes to Turkey that they didn't want. See that, you have 2 % freedom left. Congratulations, Americans. But of course, no one else points out that Ben Shapiro, Mark [00:09:33] Levin, Laura Loomer never argue for American interests. They always pretend that American interests are identical to Israel's interests, very coincidentally. No two allies have identical interests and Israel and America have nothing uh that is similar here. don't like Hamas and Hezbollah. I hate to break into American media who think Hamas and Hezbollah are the [00:09:53] biggest problems America faces. They're not anywhere near us. outside of Israel, they're not even our enemies. They have no reason to be our enemies other than no, you must all do everything Israel. commands you to do, attack your uh neighbors, attack their enemies. No, [00:10:11] no, Israel's not Uncle Sam and they, god damn it, man. So anyway, so now we're back into this disastrous war. Of course, the question that Ana asked is the one that everybody's asking, which is, is this uh back to war permanently or is this uh another one of these flare ups? [00:10:29] And then we go back to pretending there's a ceasefire, more flare ups, and it goes on and on and on. And to what end, right? If we want to deal with the Iranians, we already have the outline for a deal, just do the damn deal, do the damn deal, right? But no, no, no, no, must obey, must kneel to a foreign government. So in this case, there's two different issues. [00:10:50] One is the Omani route, and that's the route that some of the ships were taking that Iran has not authorized. So Iran hits them on the Omani route. I don't know if they should have hit them or not hit them. That's not my business, okay? And so if you want to be pissed about that, so that's a violation of the ceasefire fine. At the same time, we have been violating [00:11:11] the ceasefire nonstop because part of the MOU is that Israel must withdraw from Lebanon. And Israel has already said we're never going to do that. We're going to steal southern Lebanon for greater Israel, right? So and if you think I'm exaggerating, no, Israel cats many other. ministers in their cabinet and in Netanyahu said they are not withdrawing. They're not [00:11:30] going to withdraw during this so called ceasefire. They're not going to withdraw afterwards. And very, very, very likely be based on their statements. They are never going to withdraw because this is all about land expansion for an obviously fascist empire in the middle of the Middle East with weapons of mass destruction. That is a huge danger to the world. But this [00:11:51] time we're on the fascist side and it breaks my heart as an American. We should not be on the side of darkness and the ones that are invading and attacking all of their neighbors and taking their land. So but we have to do all their dirty work for them because everybody in Washington says, if you don't serve Israel, you're an anti-Semite and your life should [00:12:08] be destroyed and pulverized. So now, we've got more people involved in this war. They hit the Northern Railways. there's a couple of possibilities as to why I hit the Northern Railways. One is the economic reasons, the other is Well, the funeral procession was going to go in that [00:12:25] area. And a lot of the other countries in the Gulf are Sunni and Iran is Shiite. So maybe they want to send a message, yeah, we don't respect your grand Ayatollah that's the head of the Shiite sect of Islam. Shiites and Sunnis have been fighting for literally over 1,000 [00:12:42] years. So that could have something to do with it. But overall, we're right back in the soup, right back in the mess. 170 bombs is, and the bombing runs is an enormous amount. That is not a slight tweak. And so is this just about the Omani route and hey, we get a little bit [00:13:00] back and forth and then cool down for a minute? I mean, I hope so, but it doesn't look like it because this is not like the other bombings during the ceasefires. The other bombings would be two, three, four bombs send a message both Iran and the US. Iran did the same thing here, tried to send a message two, three bombs in the Omani route on ships. And America [00:13:19] said, no, 170, right? Let alone the Kuwait Bahrain and whoever else bombed Northern Iran. So right now, it looks like full scale war. Trump is of course a maniac. So he says two different things at all times. He said the ceasefire is over and we're back to war. And then [00:13:41] today he said, the Iranians called and they're begging. to go back to a ceasefire. That's a total lie. It's corroborated by zero people, total imagination, fantasy of a borderline lunatic that's our president. So is the ceasefire over or are we about to go back into ceasefire? [00:13:59] Well, Trump tells you both things. That's obviously impossible. And again, he's a raving madman. So we have a raving madman who listens to a fascist government and none of these people care 1 % about American interests. So likely you'll all be forced back into the war and [00:14:15] all the terrible consequences that flow from that. And then later they'll pretend that it had nothing to do with Israel and golly gee, it's just a coincidence that we follow their orders every single goddamn time. Okay, so a little bit of uh background info that [00:14:31] I think is really relevant to kind of figure out what's going on right now. The war is on and anyone who's trying to downplay it by calling it a military operation, or pretending like we still have a ceasefire is delusional. I think that we have degraded, people's minds [00:14:49] in this country have been degraded because we've redefined what it means to be in war. What we're experiencing right now is a war, okay. Iran did not violate any MOU, okay, they didn't. The MOU makes clear that they will maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz. uh the United [00:15:08] States was trying to do some tricky, posicky nonsense of having ships transit through the strait on the Omani side in order to basically ensure that Iran cannot establish uh the approved [00:15:24] routes for these ships to travel through. And look, here's the thing, Trump wants the war to end, but he doesn't want to accept the fact that the United States lost. This was a dumb war. which is why every previous administration that was being pressured by Netanyahu to enter [00:15:41] this war refused to do so. Every other administration was intelligent enough and we don't have a lot of intelligent administrations in this country. Let's just keep it 100, but they were smart enough to know. If we attack Iran, this is a country that has a far more superior military [00:15:58] capacity. capability than Iraq did. The landmass is larger, the terrain is more challenging, and they're gonna shut down the Strait of Hormuz, we're not gonna do it. But Trump was stupid enough to do it, now why? Well, because he has morons in his ear who play him like a fiddle. [00:16:13] And so Alex Ward over on X reported the following. Israel shared new intelligence with the US that it said indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said. Iran for years has vowed openly to retaliate against Trump for the assassination [00:16:33] of Qasem Soleimani. So basically you have the Israelis in Trump's ear and Netanyahu has done this before. He did a press tour where he purported that the Iranians have an active plot to assassinate Trump. Well, he was just in Trump's ear again. And this is what happens with Trump. He makes [00:16:53] decisions on the fly. He's unhinged and now we find ourselves in another war or the war reigniting. And the global economy is going to crash Cenk, that's the big issue here. Okay, the Iranians, they win simply by surviving and time is on their side. Everyone knows [00:17:13] that the longer this war goes on, the longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the worse it's going to be for the global economy. And to get things flowing again, you don't just snap your fingers and it happens. Let's say the war ends today. It's still gonna take [00:17:30] months for things to normalize in the straight, which is why it was so incredibly important to end the war immediately. But no, we're back on and so Israel, you're right, ecstatic. They've been wanting this. But the global community is going to be furious with Israel because [00:17:46] everyone knows that this war began thanks to Israel. And what's Israel gonna do? You guys are just a bunch of Jew haters. It's not that we've destroyed the world with our bloodlust and absolute desire for endless conflict. Yeah, so look, I'm done trying to prevent it. [00:18:05] I tried my hardest, we all tried our hardest. And before the first war, before the second war, before the reigniting the third portion of the war. But Israel totally controls Washington. [00:18:22] So there's nothing we can do, guys. It doesn't matter, even if you all voted against incumbents tomorrow, there's not enough primaries left. They beat Thomas Massey, so that means that the Republicans 100 % serve Israel. The Democrats are now panicking a little bit because they're [00:18:37] beginning to lose their elections for serving Israel. But it's too late. Whatever the consequences are going to be, it's gonna happen. so just- we're occupied and that's why we're being forced into this war. And they could cry about it all day long. I don't care about them at all. [00:18:54] Everybody in Washington is a bunch of liars that constantly try to manipulate you into believing that we're not occupied by Israel when it's the most obvious fact in the world. And what are the consequences that's going to happen to Anna's point is that, yeah, our [00:19:12] media can keep trying to brainwash people like a bunch of obvious like propagandists. But our cable news doesn't go to the rest of the world. And the rest of the world can see things super clearly. Yeah, there's tons of Israeli propaganda in some of the European countries [00:19:28] and Western countries as well. But it's not as thick as it is here and in the rest of the world it barely exists. So no, everybody knows this war is 100 % for Israel. The only people that don't believe that are people who are brainwashed by our Israeli media in this country pretending [00:19:45] to be American media. So they're all going to be furious at Israel because the economy is going to suffer terribly through this war. And so let's see where the consequences wind up. I hate it, I don't want it, I don't want there to be any consequences. I don't want [00:20:00] there to be any war, but it's baked in now, it's over. And should you be mad at the people who brought you this war? Obviously, and then they say that I've now started seeing on social media jank. You can't say that. the war's consequences should be laid at the feet of the people who [00:20:16] started the war. So they know terrible consequences are coming. And they don't want it blamed on the people who started it. Who started it? American politicians who are disgustingly corrupt and are traitors to this country. Disgustingly corrupt American media who's always, we'll [00:20:34] learn our lessons from Iraq. Yeah, but not fake weapons of mass destruction. Right back to fake weapons of mass destruction. serving Israel, not having learned. There's no lessons to learn, they're corrupt. They work for a different country. It's so obvious if you're not hypnotized [00:20:51] and brainwashed by American, Israeli media. so, yeah, and of course, Israel. is definitely, definitely their fault. And when the economy goes south, and when we have more Americans [00:21:06] returning in coffins, yes, you should definitely. be furious at the Israeli government. They are not our allies. I believe they are our enemies that have decided that they're going to take every dollar and every part of our military and they don't care about our interests at [00:21:26] all. But that's why I'm more angry at American politicians and media, because they're supposed to look out for their own country. Yeah, they're a fascist. war mongering country that is totally out of control and an obvious pariah state who have brutalized in a disgustingly fascist way [00:21:43] the Palestinians for the last 58 years. As every liar in American slash Israel media here in America has told you that the Palestinians are the terrorists. No, the Israelis are the terrorists that are terrorizing the entire planet and they brought you this war. And when this war goes [00:22:01] disastrously, yes, you should be furious at Israel. And then they'll say, just because we murdered all these people and started terrible wars that destroyed your life, how dare you criticize us? No, bow your head to us, they'll say. Well, no one's bowing anymore. No one's [00:22:19] bowing anymore to a foreign government like Israel. You want to get us to try to bow? We won't. We're Americans and we're proud and we hate that our government is captured by this tiny nation. Yes, with tons of billionaires on their side that are using that money to [00:22:38] totally buy our media and our Congress. Those are facts. uh