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[music] [music] Welcome to TUC TV. This is your global news channel. Amay Tusi and the United States military have resumed their air strikes against the IRGC positions in Iran for the second night in a row. The Islamic occupation forces earlier today launched yet another round of attacks on international vessels. An oil tanker was targeted, and of course, the back and forth uh continues.
We will give you guys the latest update also on what's happening in Beirut and other cities in Lebanon. As the IRGC's Hezbollah branch continue to cause absolute mayhem on the streets of Lebanon, they are preparing for a civil war in order to confront the Lebanese government because, of course, the Lebanese side and the Israelis are signing an agreement in order to disarm Hezbollah completely using military force. Now, this is obviously broken by the Americans.
We will talk about all that in general because we are getting some latest videos there from Lebanon about the riots on the streets. First, let's talk about what's going on in uh Iran, in the southern parts of the country, over the last uh few minutes. Right, there is u once again the major targets that we had. So, first things first, this is a straight of H hallm. We had a number of IRGC naval assets, and these are basically the speedboats that they have. They decided to start targeting vessels around the Gulf of Oman, and obviously an oil tanker was targeted over the last few minutes.
The Americans started to uh fly over the southern parts of Iran, and explosions were started, well, started being reported initially in the island of Gish, the big island that you can see on the screen, and also once again around uh uh Sir, as well as I think we are getting another update in terms of the locations of these strikes to the west of Bandar Abos, which is the port in Iran. I'm just going to get that verified and confirmed for you guys. But what we do know, according to the US military, that the strikes tonight are have been bigger than last night. Uh, and I think we have a statement from the US Central Command, which we will go to shortly.
But we can also show you what's going on in the skies of the Middle East: the massive US aerial refuelers. So, these are the refueling tankers that are flying around to support the fighter jets and the bombers uh over the Persian Gulf and also the Gulf of Aman. A lot of them, as you can see, are around the United Arab Emirates. And of course, we are going to talk about the UAE because the Islamic Republic, obviously over the last couple of months, officially declared the UAE as an enemy state. So, until now, they've had "Death to America," "Death to Israel," and now they have "Death to the Emiratis."
But uh today, the RGC have been having more emotional breakdowns about the role of the UAE and their friendship with the Israelis. Uh, so they are lashing out, and we're going to also show that shortly. But uh second night in a row, we've had strikes by the Americans, and second night in a row, we've had essentially riots by the IRGC Hezbollah on the streets of Lebanon, where we're going to go to the one of the videos. We were see, I think this is actually from Valley in Lebanon, they terrorists are blocking the highways is in protest to the agreement between Lebanon and Israel. They're just, just another casual, absolutely casual Saturday in Lebanon.
As you can see, there are complications, of course, when it comes to Hezbollah. They have to be a coordinated effort between the Americans, the Israelis, and the Lebanese government because Hezbollah have embedded embedded themselves within society in Lebanon, especially in the south, but also inside the political system, government, parliament of Lebanon. And you're going to have to metaphorically, but also literally, drag them out. And this is what's going to happen over the next few weeks and few months.
I think we're getting some updates from uh the southern parts of Iran. Okay, we're going to talk about what the IRGC have been doing as what they call retaliation, even though they were the ones who started this. [snorts] They have been targeting Bahrain, and they claim, so firstly, let me just quickly uh show you where they've been hitting. They are claiming, by the way, the the Islamic uh Republic, that they started hitting from around Busher towards Bahrain. These were missiles and drones.
Now, the main target being this tiny, tiny country of Bahrain that is obviously the enemy of the Islamic Republic and a huge supporter of the United States. Fortunately, the air defense system and the support from the Americans has successfully worked out well because they, I think, both the Bahrainis and the Americans, have successfully shot down at least nine Iranian drones that have been launched by the IRGC. So, at least nine drones, none of them hit. Once again, they are wasting their missiles and drones.
We've had the same thing over the last uh few weeks. We've had a couple of rounds of conflicts. Obviously, as you know, this is, it's called ceasefire, but as President Trump said a few weeks ago, "Ceasefire in the Middle East simply means that, you know, you you will be shooting at each other in a more moderate manner. That's ceasefire." And uh but we've had a couple of rounds between Israel and the Islamic Republic, between the the Americans and the Islamic Republic. And every single round, the IRGC launched uh a bunch of uh missiles and drones and essentially wasted them because nothing was actually hit. There were a couple of debris, and it hit Jordan or Lebanon a couple of times. Um, and that's it.
So, we're going to quickly go back uh to Lebanon, and then we're going to go to the statement from SenCom about what's going on right now as we speak in the southern parts of Iran. There is there are all these billboards, especially around Beirut, that currently says "Lebanon first." It's like "America first." "Make Lebanon great again." Hezbollah militants are not happy about that because uh these billboards used to say "Thank you Islamic Republic of Iran." So, they've decided to start burning them down. Absolutely normal behavior, apparently, by this is the road that takes you straight to the international airport in the capital, and they are having a meltdown over a billboard. Normal, normal behavior in the Middle East by the third world.
All right. So, uh what happened earlier, uh which resulted in uh what you were seeing now by the the US military once again hitting the IRGC positions, was because uh following yesterday's and two days ago, when the IRGC decided to target uh commercial vessels, even though everybody's agreed that the straight of horrors must be open for at least 60 days, you know, in the name of the memorandum of understanding, does there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding about theou today. They once again targeted another one near the Ghandland. So, right by the straight of horses.
I'll show you on the map, but we have a video. It's very, very poor quality, but you will just about be able to see the smoke at the back uh towards the end. So, it's very poor quality. But if you, Okay, if you're looking at the the T in the 2CTV logo, come down slightly to the left. This way to the left. Just a bit to the left. You can see a bit of terrible quality. It's not, I did not film this. So, it's don't, don't blame me. But this is from Mer News, the Islamic Republic uh propaganda media outlet. So, they they proudly filmed this, by the way, saying that, "yes, we we hit them. We we attacked yet another innocent civilian ship," and uh so yeah, smoke rose from this uh vessel that was struck by the IRGC.
And we do have a statement from the foreign ministry from Bahrain, and then we're going to go to SenCom. All right. So, Bahraini uh foreign minister have called the attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard CP on their country a blatant violation of Bahrain's sovereignty. Flagrants a threat to the security of citizens and residents, and a blatant breach of international norms. I I love how the Bahrainis expect the IRGC to respect international norms. There's nothing normal about the Islamic occupation in Iran. Obviously, they're going to go crazy.
So, uh we now have this uh update from SenCom. Um, yes, the US Central Command forces conducted additional strikes against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander and chief's direction after yesterday's US strikes in response to the Iranian attack on Everly vessel. Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit another vessel this morning. This happened at 4:30 a.m. Eastern time. The Panama flagged tanker was transiting near the straight of Hmos with more than 2 million barrels of crude oil.
SenCom forces uh launched strikes today in a direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping. US military aircraft targeted Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and mine layer capabilities. Commercial vessel air transits through the straighta hormos continue. US forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.
So, obviously, the the Americans must respond every single time because it's not even actually about the United States in this situation. It's about all these oil tankers. Obviously, that's the live feed we are we are having from the straight horrors right now. In case you don't know, the red dots, the red ones, are the oil tankers, and the green ones are the just the commercial vessels. The Americans will have to respond every single time because the actual commerce will be disrupted because if there is no one there to stand up for them against the IRGC pirates, then they're going to be too scared. They're going to surrender to the IRGC navy, and then the whole global economy will be affected. It's it will be effectively another blockade without it being a blockade.
So, the Americans will have to keep hammering, and every single time it's a perfect excuse for the Americans to hit because these are strategic strikes that they're not just actual retaliations. This is the same thing we had by the Israeli Defense Forces over the last few weeks. If you want to do retaliation, if you want to do punishment strikes, you identify where missiles or drones were launched from and you hit that. That's it. They are hitting the defense air defense systems. They are they're hitting radar systems. They are hitting the communications infrastructure. So, we know what they're doing. It's these sort of incidents are perfect excuses for the Americans, for the Israelis, to keep hammering what I call the "foreplay stage" of what to come next.
Now, the Islamic Republic are threatening to completely cancel the upcoming talks with the United States. I'm not really sure what they even bothering at this point, [laughter] but they are also having a bit of a meltdown because the clerics, so in case you don't know, for some reason you got the clerics in Iran and the Ayatollas who were basically in charge, and they had the IRGC under their control. obviously the supreme leader Ali Ky when he was alive. Over the last few months, we've had a bit of a change in the regime. So, you've basically had the IRGC military pushing out the Ayatollas. They are now in charge. They have this invisible leader, the "Gayatah," one-legged "Gayatah." And then you also have the the government who are just the puppets.
Now, a lot of the clerics and Ayatollah have been pushed aside. The remaining members of the clerics are effectively absolutely insane. So, they are now under the control of the IRGC. So, it's basically flipped. What we've had is that 62 of the 86 members of the Islamic Republic's Assembly of Experts. This photo is from years ago, by the way. Every single person, almost every single person, is now dead. Uh, although some of them are still alive because some of them they do live until 300 for some reason. Uh, [snorts] but uh they've signed a letter demanding that the the Islamic Republic's government negotiators respect the Supreme Leader Moab red lines, calling any deviation a religious violation. But basically, "you're doing jihad accidentally. Oops. I was trying to negotiate with the Americans. Oh no. I committed jihad against my own regime." That's basically what they mean. [snorts]
And uh so 62 out of the 86 are even crazier than the other ones. Right? The statements that they have now released. These people, by the way, the Assembly of Experts, are the same people who choose the supreme leader. So, these were the people allegedly who elected Moaby, the son of Ali harmony, as the new supreme leader, even though we don't even know where he is. Right? But the majority of these guys, the IRDC put a gun to their heads to sign the approval. Now, we have 62 of them becoming even more hardline than before because they've realized, "I think you're going to have to go crazy." So, they are saying that nuclear is not negotiable. It's going to be great, guys. Everything's going to be fine with these negotiations. The straight of hormones must remain under the Islamic Republic control. Lovely. And all sanctions must be lifted.
I'm not really sure how they're negotiating, 'cuz usually if you're going to take a lot of things, you're going to have to give something. But, you know, they're just taking, apparently. By the way, none of this is going to happen because President Trump is not going to agree to any of this because uh that's the whole point of this fake talks, uh because they it's just dancing around at this point. Anyway, uh all sanctions must be lifted, and all US forces must leave the Middle East permanently. Just leave the whole region. Just let the Chinese take over, essentially. That's what they mean. And also, compensation for war damages. That's the reparations that they've been talking about for some time now. It's the same red lines we've had before, and they are slightly worried that the government of the Islamic Republic are making concessions, way too many concessions, and they're saying that that the negotiators are betraying the Supreme Leader. So, "we're going to go hunt them down and kill them if they don't behave because what they are doing is accidental jihad." You know, we've all, we've all done it, right? You know, you wake up on a, you know, Friday, you go out with a few friends, you get drunk. At the end of the night, you might commit accidental jihad, and then the next day you wake up with a hangover. You regret it. But by that point, it's too late because the Assembly of Experts will be on top of you, and not in a good way.
Right. Uh, we also have this uh absolute insanity uh from the Islamic Republic state media, saying that, "We are using the negotiations as a tool to gain time and resources," which is not really a surprise, but it's important for the world to see this in case some people are falling for the narrative, Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent, and all these guys, that the Islamic Republic is peaceful and we should just end the war and just walk away and we're going to be friends with the IRGC. Everything's going to be fine. Just, just watch this. This is Mahi Muhammadi, who is a strategic advisor to, let's go. "We need time and we need resources. We're at war."
Well, he's extremely camp, as you can see, the his voice and the way he speaks. But he's supposed to be the alpha figure sent by Kalib, the speaker of parliament in Iran, because he's been attacked. Kalibuff, one of the negotiators, is getting hunted down by the IRGC crazies, right? They're all IRGC, obviously, but the crazy side because they are saying Galibbuff and JD Vance are probably having a secret affair at this point. H, probably with the Pakistani field marshal because JD Vance apparently also has him in his relationship for some reason, and uh they don't trust Alib. So, he had to send his strategic advisor on the state media to basically say a more hardline things. "We know we're not even negotiating. This is just fake. We know it's fake." [clears throat] But uh yeah, the guy is not that alpha. Next time, send someone like stronger with a deeper voice. "We are not negotiating." Uh, but uh yeah, that doesn't really work.
Uh, but the IRC also, uh according to the IRIB, calling out the United Arab Emirates as an enemy, saying that, "The human price of what you assisted was more than 3,500 Iranian martyrs." By that, they mean terrorists. But let's quickly go to this public meltdown. For terror. I'll explain. Well, the only explanation is that, I'll explain what he said, that he was in a coma for a few months and he just woke up and he doesn't actually know what's going on because he, he just said, in case you couldn't read the subtitles, "We have an by attack the amiratis the UAE, you have the blood of the Iranian marts on your hands." By that, he means the IRGC terrorists who have been killed, right? And then he says, "We haven't attacked any of our neighbors." "Where have you been?" "You haven't attacked any of your neighbors. We are best friends with the Arabs. Iranians and the Arabs absolutely fine. No issues." Okay. Okay. And then saying, "Yeah, we were just attacking Americans. We accidentally hit you for some reason." Yeah.
Uh, but uh that was about, how long was that? That was, in fact, I can confirm, a 1 minute and 8 second clip of the overall rant that this idiot was make was doing against the Emiratis. It was just gibberish. He could have just done it within about 10 seconds. "Hi, my name is Abdul and UAE. You're naughty. We're going to kill you." Done. Straightforward. You don't have to go a poetic. It's not worth it. You're wasting everyone's time.
Anyway, uh also I think, yes, we know they're doing it again. All right. So, the Islamic Republic are now [sighs] actually considering to suspend the remaining uh part of the negotiations with the United States of America because they are a little bit upset that the Americans are hitting Iran today. The according to the IRGC, the negotiators view the strikes as a breach of Article 1 of theou and are discussing whether to cancel the talks, which should be happening uh today and tomorrow. So, well, tomorrow and the next day, basically, and this will be in Switzerland, and nobody has uh departed yet.
For the record, these were supposed to be their technical talks, which is not really even at this point meaningful because usually you have technical talks with any level of negotiations when the bigger picture has been agreed and then you deal with the details. you I don't know what details they're working on considering that the the bigger parts of the negotiations, the overall concept, the Americans are on this side, the Islamic Republic is so far away, they are basically in Australia. So far away now, they're not even, neither side are surrendering on their red lines. So, I'm not really sure what technical talks we're going to have, regardless of any of this. So, apparently, they're now stalking. So, that's lovely.
Also, they are claiming that the Americans are breaking the ceasefire while they are shooting at commercial vessels. Hezbollah continues to attack the Israelis. So, the IDF are not just going to sit there. They've been dealing with this for decades and decades. Right? So, the Israeli Defense Forces have launched massive strikes again at uh in the southern part of Lebanon, in Nabatier Nabat al Faraga, and uh there is uh it's still basically an ongoing weird, chaotic riot that is happening in Beirut and other parts of the south, actually, u, which uh we're just waiting for more information. Obviously, we've already showed you guys two videos from tonight. Obviously, last night we showed you more videos from the riots. Uh, the we're having some difficulties with getting more videos coming tonight from Lebanon, but we, we're going to wait on our team to sort that out. H, but uh considering that both Hezbollah and the continue to break the ceasefire, I'm not really sure if they, they can sulk. You can't sulk. You started this. Now take it. Sit down and take it. You'll enjoy it.
Uh, okay. The Prime Minister of Israel has also, obviously, we're getting close and close to the Israeli elections. So, at this point, the Israeli politicians become even more hardline. It's just like France when Emanuel Macron, every single time he's standing, he gets really, really rightwing. Uh, so the Prime Minister of Israel uh made a uh very robust presentation and speech earlier, and uh first he was saying that, "well we can't really deal with the Palestinian state issue at this point because there a bunch of terrorists." He also said that, "I'm going to show you this clip. This is the most robust section of it." He said that, uh, "who cares about the consequences in political consequences." Uh, he said that, uh, "if we need to enter Lebanon, we will enter Lebanon. If we need to operate there with overwhelming force, then we will." Uh, and uh, so we can, I think, quickly go to that and then come back.
Uh, what is going on with this? Okay, here we go. >> "Who cares?" as as I said before, as we get closer, because we got two big elections. You got the midterms in the United States. That's going to be crucial because if the Democrats take over, then it's over. The Islamic Republic will be saved for now. Uh, but uh there's also the elections in Israel. There's a massive political pressure on NetanyO. So, he has to be seen to be actually robust and strong, not just in terms of rhetoric, but in terms of action. So, he's, he's now going to be working with Lebanon to achieve the disarmament of Hezbollah. Even though a lot of the the right-wingers in Israel still don't really trust it because they're like, "How can Lebanon actually help disarm Hezbollah? They haven't been able to do it." Yeah, I get that. But NetanyO knows something has to be done.
And the other point is Iran. He's already vowed, "it's not over." And the Israelis will continue until the regime in Iran collapses. And the Americans, despite the negotiations, President Trump came out a few days ago saying, "Of course, if Israel decides to attack the Islamic Republic, we will back them." So, and the IRGC know this, that that's why they are also using the talks to just buy time to get resources. It's not really going to help them, but they can try.
The Prime Minister also said that in terms of Lebanon, "Israel will stay in the yellow security zone that keeps us safe." And this is a huge achievement despite the fact that there will be tiny withdrawal from parts of uh Lebanon. And he said, "because what did they try? They tried to get us out of there through all kinds of means, all kinds of pressures." That, of course, did not happen. "I thank President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their involvement and their contribution." Marco Rubio's role in this has been absolutely crucial. He has managed to actually, to be fair, achieve more in terms of the diplomatic efforts between Lebanon and Israel than anyone else any other secretary of state in a very, very long time, and it moved very quickly.
Obviously, we are still at the point of talks, as in, it's just words. The Lebanese side and the Israeli side are saying, "Yes. Okay, we're going to work together to disarm Hezbollah." It's, it's easy to say. It's not easy to do. You got a bunch of Hezbollah weirdos right now blocking the streets in Beirut, blocking the streets in other southern parts of Lebanon. You're going to have to use force, and Lebanese armed forces need support because, you know, they're weak and feeble, but there has to be coordination, and apparently there is going to be. So, we'll see.
Um, and the Israelis, the Israeli government, have reassured everyone, "If there is no progress in terms of defeating Hezbollah working with Lebanon, then the Israeli defense forces will stay in the south, they will return to the other parts. If they withdraw, they're going to go back." So, that's why one of the Hezbollah MPs in the Lebanese parliament, this is Hassan Fatalah, he has now said that, "The Lebanese government cannot enforce the Washington agreement. Without Hezbollah, nothing will pass." He's vowed to block the implementation, saying that, "Hezbollah will hold its weapons. We will not disarm." And they've also accused Washington of torpedoing the Pakistani sponsored talks. This is theou, the memorandum of understanding. Uh, he called the government the Lebanese government's concessions as "a gift to to Israel with no effect on the ground," and warned Netanyahu not to rush announcements to Israeli society.
Yeah. I mean, we don't really expect Hezbollah to make an announcement saying, "Oh, well, the the Lebanese government and the Israeli government have made an agreement. Sure, we're going to surrender." Obviously, they're going to fight back. It's a stupidity. The whole thing is stupidity. Lebanon need to sort out their parliament because if they re, this is wartime. Sometimes you need exceptions. Right now, your parliamentary system is preventing you from doing your job to keep your country safe because they have MPs in parliament. They have connections in government. That's part of the whole arrangement, by the way, which is really messed up in in Lebanon. You can't have terrorists in your parliament or your government. You're going to have to sort that out. Suspend the whole thing. It's war time.
Uh, we're getting a quick update. Bandara lang has been hit as well in Iran. H, so, just a quick uh update on what's happening in the southern parts. We have had already g and sirk, and uh we can actually go to this side. Yes, actually, it's down here. We are now getting explosions over here. Not too far from uh kiche. And also, I think, uh surprising Jess has not been hit tonight. Uh, so these are the areas that has been hit massively.
Uh, so I think there's a statement by President Trump, which we're going to go to now. Uh, let me just confirm that's actually, yes. Okay. President Trump has now said that, "The United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites for violating the ceasefire agreement again. It is very possible that they will never learn. There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we are successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist." President DJT.
Now, as I always tell you, don't take Trump literally; take him seriously. And the other thing I always tell you, read between the lines and read the tone and certain wording. So, for example, during the the war, when he said, "We're going to," what did it say? They were going to, "w a whole civilization will be wiped out tonight." Everybody in the liberal media were having a meltdown, say, "He's going to go commit genocide." It's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down." Wording is Trump language. You need to translate it, and he was basically talking about the infrastructure, right? Certain things, when he says, sometimes it's what he says, sometimes what he doesn't say. This is the first time, and for a very long time, Iranians, 'cuz obviously the Iranians really want to focus on the fact that differentiate between Iran and the Islamic Republic, so the Americans, Marco Rubio, President Trump, everybody else, usually say "Iran," they mean the regime, right? For the first time, President Trump said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist."
This statement is still Trumpian language, right? But it's actually quite calm. You know, he gets shouty against the RGC every now and then. He's going to, "I'm going to destroy the bridges," right? It's quite focused. He says, "It is very possible that they will never learn. There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic will no longer exist." This is again, this doesn't necessarily mean that the Americans are now suddenly going to launch an invasion tomorrow or next week and just go in like immediately. But this is to prepare the mindset.
We are getting to a point where I think pro, I mean, if you were to just guess or analyze the situation, we were supposed to be having a bit of a break until the midterms because if you, if you start the the allout war, the great war of the Middle East, just before the midterms, and if that drags on again, and it feels, if it feels like it's not winning immediately, which is a really weird thing because everybody is impatient and Everybody expects wars to be done within 2 days, it's going to affect the result, and the Democrats will take over, and then they're just going to cause more chaos. Stop the whole thing. But we might also, as I've said this before the last few weeks, we might get to a point where you nobody can wait until after the midterms, the Americans, the Israelis. It's going to be very difficult for President Trump to keep playing this dance because he, he's been doing this uh weird rhetoric where one minute it says one thing, next minute, the one minute says, "I'm now best friends with the supreme leader in Iran." The next minute he says, "uh yeah, you know the military will stay in the Middle East, whatever," right? He keeps doing that to buy time, just to like the markets go well, the oil flows, everything's fine. "Don't worry about it. I'm definitely not coming up with a new strategy uh to uh defeat the regime." Just, "you know, don't worry about it."
But it's going to be very difficult because the IRGC clearly know this. They know that the Americans are buying time for the midterms. They know that the Prime Minister of Israel also has the elections coming up. So, they are trying to rush into the all-out war. It's in the interest of the RGC. It's their big gamble: All out war. So, we might get to a point, you know, it's still, it's the end of June right now. Potentially, there's, there's no guarantee. If this whole thing continues back and forth, back and forth, by August, you might have a situation where there's going to have to be an escalation. But that's also a big gamble for the Americas because they're going to have to get it done way before the midterms. Just get it done by September, October, something, if, if they are able. It's not going to be easy, but at least you're going to have to go to the American voters and say, "It's not done yet, but look at the list of achievements." So, it's the only way.
Okay. Um, I think uh, okay, let me just quickly get some quick reactions because more is coming. Bill says, uh, [sighs] "what cities outside uh Thran are ripe to take over?" It doesn't really work that way. Um, you can't just take over cities because doesn't really do much. Um, you're going to have to either take strategic places, and that includes the islands in the Persian Gulf, or if, if you're focusing on nuclear, then, you know, you can send in your Delta force and others to the nuclear facilities. But again, that, it's, it's just theory, and it's, it's like if it was a video game, it doesn't really work that way. Um, you need to actually completely eliminate the foundation of the regime so they're not going to be able to be a threat if you are dropping people down.
Uh, what is going on with Goldie? It's been 5 days. I think she's making changes to the channel. Uh, that's why. Henry says, "And if you listen to the legacy news outlets, the US has lost." I know, for some reason. [clears throat] "And Trump is on the phone with the IRGC begging for an offramp. The US is winning." Yeah. The offramp. President Trump has had many offramps for the past few months. He could have literally signed a deal and get out of this and is still refusing to do it. Why do you think that? Stop listening to the media. Kevin [clears throat] says, "Sending Saudi Arabian paid African mercenaries." No. Uh, someone else says, "us to Okay. uh weaken the regime as as much as possible and arm the Iranian people who oppose them." Yeah. I mean, again, on paper, academically speaking, that's the best option. Implementing it is not easy, but yes, that is the best option. Weaken the regime even more, and then try, try your best, find a way to arm the Iranians.
"Let's get the boom booms going," says Valerie. Kevin says, "Bring back the blockade of Iranian ships." Or, "told the problem is that the other from the other side of Persian Gulf, you're going to have the blockade by the IRGC." If you want to get it messy, you can. The Americans struggled with that. So, you're going to have to go harder. The Americans were still being quite soft, but for obvious reasons, in terms of the Arab states being at risk, the the US forces bases being at risk. There were a lot of complications with that.
"Is a civil and religious war inevitable in Lebanon now?" It's, it's getting very, very close. And I think if there's going to be actual progress between Israel and Lebanon, and it's highly likely because again, political pressure on Netanyahu because of the elections, he's going to have to be active. He can't just say words. Sorry, guys. I'm dying again. First, acid acid reflux, and then uh hiccups, and then, yeah, and now I'm seeing dots. It's the heat wave as well. It doesn't really help. Uh, right, I'm back. [clears throat] [snorts] Uh, but yes, Hezbollah will have no other option but to start a civil war. Uh, so we are getting, we are getting very, very close, much closer to what I call the "great war of the Middle East," the war to end all wars in the Middle East. Again, it's, it's a saying; doesn't really mean all wars will stop. It's like the first world war, which calls the second one. [laughter]
"Nice to be informed," says Rick. "Thank you." Tanya says, "Why can't we use satellite images of tunnels, close entrances, trap them inside, and use bunker busters and collapse them? I don't get it. Please explain." They have massive tunnel networks. A lot of the entrances are not visible. They have hidden entrances and exits. You might think that you found one. And they were doing it. The Americans and the Israelis were hitting the entrances, but then they pop out from somewhere else. It's absolutely insane. They thought about this, obviously, for a very long time. They knew that they have to have uh backup plans in case they get trapped. So, you can't, you know.
Sofa says, uh, "lest we less we forget the IRC is guilty of sponsoring terrorism and regional instability for 47 years. Just a friendlier reminder of how terrible these people are and how many people they have killed. They are literally insane." Yes, "no more money just uh opinions," says Rick. I don't know what that is. "where we could be coming to a global tipping point soon." I would still call it the regional tipping point rather than global. But yeah, because again, China and Russia will stay out of it as they have because President Trump will keep threatening them anyway.
"Say hello to my little friends," says Hexath in 2026. Pete Hex, "IC stole the US military's phrase at the time and place of our choosing. those little bastards. They're trying to mess with us with the phrases we use to mess with them." Yeah, but they, they think they've been clever. Nobody cares. They, they, they said that last night, "We're going to attack uh the place and time of our choosing," and they just decided to launch a couple of, a few drones at Bahrain. Really? Is that the best you could do? All the barking coming from the RDC. That's the best that they could do. Okay.
Right. We, Okay, there's something hap, there's something happening. I need to get this verified 'cuz there's a lot of information coming in that is not completely confirmed. I'll wait for the team to, what? Okay, ignore [clears throat] that. "Make Lebanon free from Islamop fascism," says John LA. "Thank you." And uh Brigadier General Aiv, IDF, says, "IDF and the US are totally coordinated. Don't believe the TV and IDF plans for war to continue in two to four months against the Iran. War is not over for the IDF." Yes, obviously. Of course. And Julian says, "Stop drinking all those chemical drinks. They are bad for you. Just drink water. Fanta did nothing wrong." And uh, "Thank you for this channel. Israeli propaganda channels are getting harder to come by that you may and please continue to fight. Amazing." Okay, fair enough.
And we might be getting almost instant retaliation from the IRGC shortly later tonight. I think they, we just have to wait for them to wake up again uh and do something. But by the time they decided to attack last night in Bahrain, everybody was in bed. It was basically early morning. So, I'm going to keep an eye on their situation. It's going to be a long, long night for the rest of us uh at 2CTV. Uh, and if uh it escalates both in Iran and also in Beirut, Lebanon, we will, of course, continue the live coverage. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Amay Tusi, and we are the media. [music]