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[00:00:00] ganda to reality as Washington's war against Iran produces
[00:00:03] contradictions that are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal, we
[00:00:07] examine how the BBC reported Evans capture of
[00:00:11] of sophisticated US submersible while Fox News continued selling
[00:00:14] a battlefield narrative increasingly challenged by
[00:00:18] events. On X, Trump's claims from 911 to the war
[00:00:22] a against Iran ignite ridicule anger and growing calls for
[00:00:25] accountability. The New York Times examines the economic
[00:00:28] consequences now. threatening Trump's political fortunes, while
[00:00:32] Lamon exposes a Europe increasingly unable to influence
[00:00:36] the decisions made in Washington. We break down the numbers
[00:00:40] behind
[00:00:40] a Iran's unprecedented missile operations and the mounting pressure
[00:00:44] on
[00:00:45] of US military defenses before hearing a striking warning
[00:00:49] from American commentator Tocker Carlson about war,
[00:00:52] propaganda and the media. Welcome to season two of Expose, the
[00:00:56] award winning show that leaves no stone unturned.
[00:01:06] From the BBC confronting story Washington could not
[00:01:09] successfully
[00:01:10] a buried to Fox News confidently declaring Iranian attacks
[00:01:14] a failure while the wider reality tells a far more
[00:01:18] complicated story. Tonight we examine how two major
[00:01:22] broadcasters framed the warring narrative. Here are the headlines.
[00:01:26] Narrative. Here are the headlines. For it exposes Washington's.
[00:01:30] report exposes Washington's submersible cover up,
[00:01:33] Fox News declares victory while reality tells another
[00:01:40] of story.
[00:01:44] From Washington's
[00:01:46] of increasingly desperate attempts to
[00:01:47] of control the narrative of its war against Iran, to western
[00:01:51] broadcasters recycling military claims contradicted by events
[00:01:54] on the ground. Tonight we exposed the propaganda behind the headlines.
[00:01:58] Joining me are: broadcast media expert Fuad Itayim and Analyst Sima
[00:02:02] Itayim. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. So, a great deal
[00:02:06] has happened this past week in the familiar world of failed US propaganda
[00:02:10] surrounding the illegal war against Iran. Perhaps the most
[00:02:14] astonishing episode was Washington's confusion over this unmanned US
[00:02:18] submarine captured by Iran at the entrance
[00:02:20] of the straight of hormos. Western media initially treated the claim
[00:02:24] with considerable skepticism,
[00:02:26] but then Palmer Lucky, the founder of Anderill. uh
[00:02:30] directly contradicted Centcom's attempt to dismiss this vehicle as
[00:02:34] some you know insignificant older model and he actually
[00:02:37] confirmed that it was anderal dive
[00:02:40] of LD that had operated in Centcom's area of operation for months and
[00:02:44] provided what he described as significant value before it's captured
[00:02:48] by the Iranian forces so the BBC, unlike
[00:02:52] of much of American media at least examined it ans claimed
[00:02:55] seriously so let's take a look at
[00:02:58] of that. Now Iran claims it seized an
[00:03:02] unmanned American submersible in the street of homo saying
[00:03:06] submersible in the street of Homus saying its forces have taken the vehicle as
[00:03:09] a prize, it's thought there are seen in the picture below
[00:03:13] from the US department of defense. Iran's revolutionary guard said
[00:03:17] in a statement that they captured one
[00:03:19] of the most modern smart, unmanned underwater vehicles
[00:03:23] belonging to the US military at the entrance to the straight
[00:03:26] in a complex intelligence and operational action. The US
[00:03:30] hasn't yet responded to those
[00:03:32] a claims, well control
[00:03:33] of the straight has become a key factor in this war. Iran has blocked
[00:03:37] access for most shipping since the start
[00:03:38] of the conflict, whilst Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed America is in
[00:03:42] control
[00:03:43] of the key waterway. Well, with me now is GR Goal from
[00:03:47] a BBC's Persian language service, BBC Persian, so
[00:03:49] of JR, what more do we know about these claims? Just today
[00:03:53] Iran revolutionary guard
[00:03:54] in a statement, they say, as you
[00:03:56] a just said, an operation, they have managed to seiz
[00:04:00] US sophisticated underwater vehicle,
[00:04:04] unment vehicle in the entrance of a straight of hormos, they said
[00:04:08] this vehicle is capable of sebit
[00:04:11] mapping, detecting minds, intelligence
[00:04:15] gathering, also checking on pipes and
[00:04:18] underwater cables
[00:04:20] a and
[00:04:20] we have heard in the past week that us has
[00:04:24] been using these kind of vehicles to detect the
[00:04:28] minds that has been. laid by the Iranian to
[00:04:32] of prevent shipping in the straight of hormos and in some cases the report was saying
[00:04:35] they have been
[00:04:37] of successful. the significance here is
[00:04:40] obvious, mean Washington first attempted to minimize the capture only for the
[00:04:44] manufacturer itself to undermind that narrative by Washington, so this is actually
[00:04:48] precisely how official credibility
[00:04:50] of erodes. the public is told one version, then facts
[00:04:53] emerge and the facts themselves expose these gaps, and is
[00:04:57] that the more frequently that happens, the... more Americans are forced to
[00:05:01] look beyond their own government and also media institutions
[00:05:05] for information specifically they can actually trust and find reliable
[00:05:09] at one point now uh let's move from contradiction. to
[00:05:13] outright comedy. Fox News has run with headline US military
[00:05:16] confirms all Iranian attack attempts failed, but one
[00:05:20] basic reality complicates this triumphant narrative that they're claiming US
[00:05:24] military operations can no longer rely on Kuwait or the UAE following the
[00:05:28] damage inflicted by Iran, following the damage inflicted by Iran, given that
[00:05:32] these bases, have been reduced to rubble, public congressional hearings
[00:05:36] involving and secretary of state Marco Rubio have also made
[00:05:40] it pretty hard to conceal the extent of casualties and the
[00:05:43] losses, particularly involving radar systems and missile
[00:05:47] defenses, and regional reports have described significant
[00:05:50] damage, particularly following Iran's latest attack on the al-az base in
[00:05:54] Jordan. Let's watch Fox's version.
[00:05:57] Okay, In the
[00:06:01] Middle East, US forces delivering powerful response to the latest act of
[00:06:05] Iranian aggression, the military taking out five oil tankers in
[00:06:09] response to attempted attack on US warships. Steve
[00:06:12] Harrigan is live in Tel Aviv with the latest, hey
[00:06:14] Steve. Angeley, Iranian forces
[00:06:18] continue to try and fail to take out US
[00:06:22] military ships in the region, and they are paying heavy price for
[00:06:25] doing so. Centcom just post doing so. Centcom just
[00:06:29] posted, no US Navy warship has atempted attacks failed.
[00:06:33] Meanwhile, US forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian tankers
[00:06:37] in just the last week. These vessels were part of a multi-billion
[00:06:40] dollar shadow network that... funds the IRGC and
[00:06:44] Iran cannot defend them. Now right after the US destroyed
[00:06:48] those five Iranian tankers, uh, Iran tried once again
[00:06:52] to hit US forces inside of Jordan. They launched a ballistic missile
[00:06:56] attack. Jordan says 18 of those missiles were intercepted,
[00:06:59] two them fell harmlessly an uninhabited
[00:07:02] area. So the reporter
[00:07:06] speaking from Tel Aviv uh sounds almost euphoric, yet nearly
[00:07:09] every sentence is presented as an unquestionable. fact, while the
[00:07:13] wider battlefield tells a far more complicated story. yeah, and this is the problem with
[00:07:17] propaganda maskerading um a journalism, it collapses the
[00:07:21] moment viewers begin uh comparing the broadcast
[00:07:25] narrative with independently reported events.
[00:07:29] yeah, and fox news
[00:07:29] has repeatedly done this, demonstrated this willingness to just shape facts around Washington's
[00:07:33] preferred narrative, so actually the real question here when we're pointing this out is not why
[00:07:37] do they keep doing this, because that's a useless question, it's more
[00:07:40] how much longer is there all gonna continue believing this?
[00:07:44] exactly, when governments repeatedly exaggerate victories and conceal the
[00:07:48] failures, uh, they're not simply losing control of news cycle, they're
[00:07:51] losing the trust the public. we've lost, perhaps Washington's
[00:07:55] greatest, perhaps Washington's greatest propaganda failure,
[00:07:59] every contradiction is pushing the public further away, is pushing the
[00:08:02] public further away from official narratives and closer to
[00:08:06] the uncomfortable truth. thank you for and seamo.
[00:08:09] thank you.
[00:08:16] from a New York Times warning that Trump's costly walls could turn the economy
[00:08:20] into his greatest political layability to lemon skating
[00:08:24] assessment of a Europe powerless to influence the very
[00:08:28] policies whose consequences it most endere, the mainstream media
[00:08:32] exposing the mounting cost of Washington's relecless
[00:08:35] rule. Here are the headlines: New York Times
[00:08:39] Trump's New York Times Trump's wars. become and
[00:08:43] economic
[00:08:44] Europe pays while Washington calls the
[00:08:46] shots
[00:08:54] from an American economy increasingly burdened by Washington's war
[00:08:57] to a Europe discovering the limits of its own political
[00:09:01] relevance, limits of its own political relevance. The consequences
[00:09:05] of Trump's fing far beyond the battlefield. Joining us are digital
[00:09:09] media experts Simayim and analyst Fuad Itayim. Hello, welcome
[00:09:13] to both of you. We begin with you, Simon. Thank you. So the U.S. war of
[00:09:16] aggression against Iran has not only taken its toe on the American
[00:09:20] economy or
[00:09:21] you know domestic politics, but actually the consequences could now
[00:09:24] increasingly shape the primary elections as well.
[00:09:28] So, and and while this is happening, Europe finds itself actually paying the
[00:09:31] price for the decisions, right, over which it appears to have virtually
[00:09:35] no influence whatsoever, because it's tropped by this inability to restrain
[00:09:39] Washington's increasingly reckless policies in west Asia. has to go along
[00:09:43] with, okay, so the New York Times begins actually with the domestic consequences
[00:09:47] in costly conflicts with Canada and Iran, loom over Trump's
[00:09:51] mid-term pitch. Tony ROM argues that Trump has plunged the United
[00:09:55] States deeper into costly conflicts, rattling
[00:09:58] financial markets, threatening higher prices and unnerving republicans
[00:10:02] ahead the 26th election. So ROM writes, the
[00:10:06] president's attacks on Canada and his new bid this week to block some of
[00:10:10] its exports to the United States, some of its exports to the United States all
[00:10:14] together, risk damage to American states and domestic industries
[00:10:18] border, and his ongoing war with Iran contributed to another spike in gas
[00:10:21] prices, with the average cost of a gallon of gas topping.
[00:10:25] $4.22 nationally, so the article then continues,
[00:10:29] while the economy once might have served as Mr. Trump's source of political
[00:10:33] strength, it has recently become his greatest liability, one that
[00:10:36] may jeopardize Republicans continued hold on the House and the Senate
[00:10:40] in November. Yeah, so this is what happens when governing is replaced by a
[00:10:44] personal impulse, and the administration behaves as though policy can
[00:10:48] be imposed by royal decree, without calculation,
[00:10:52] without consequence or accountability or anything like that. and on the
[00:10:55] other hand, an ordinary American ultimately pay the price for all
[00:10:59] these fantasies that CMA is highlighting through higher
[00:11:03] prices, economic uncertainty and wars, they never even
[00:11:06] imagine that they can endorse, yeah, and the damage is not just confined to the
[00:11:10] United States, because Trump's aggression and constant sabotage that we see
[00:11:14] in and out, has also exposed Europe's extraordinary
[00:11:18] political weakness,
[00:11:20] and we're seeing the the peak of this now, lemond in Pierre
[00:11:23] Ramon's war in Iran. every day the world reminds
[00:11:27] Europeans that they lack the ability to influence decisions made in the US,
[00:11:31] argues that six months into
[00:11:33] the US-Israeli entities war against Iran truly
[00:11:36] influence Washington, truly influence Washington, I mean even through
[00:11:40] the media, they have to remind them, so the article states indeed, many European
[00:11:44] diplomats view themselves as guardians of US
[00:11:48] rationality and not as independent actors, such a
[00:11:51] strategy does not seem sufficient to build a foreign policy, especially
[00:11:55] an era of neo-royalism, the term used by American political
[00:11:59] scientists Abraham Newman and Stacy Godard in the Journal
[00:12:02] International Organization to describe the transcendence the West Felion
[00:12:06] model, a world where states, first and foremost, the
[00:12:09] US, under Donald Trump are increasingly governed by personal clicks
[00:12:13] rather than administrations, and Europe has
[00:12:17] voluntarily reduced itself to anxious spectator waiting
[00:12:21] to manage the consequences of decisions made by one man in Washington.
[00:12:25] for a continent that once claimed that
[00:12:28] strategic autonomy has instead become an uncertain pawn,
[00:12:32] unable to restrain American power, even when its own economies
[00:12:36] and security are placed somehow at risk, and
[00:12:39] this may be actually the defining lesson here, and we see it even with west Asian countries,
[00:12:43] which is that this unquestioning alliance that you may have to Washington does not buy
[00:12:47] you influence, just like it doesn't buy security, so it's merely guaranteing that
[00:12:51] when Washington is acting recklessly, Washington is acting.
[00:12:55] lessly its allies just inherit the consequences because they're forced to play along and
[00:12:59] yes at time to political paralysis abroad. Trump's wars are
[00:13:03] producing consequences that neither America nor Europe appears
[00:13:07] prepared to confront. The question now is confront. The
[00:13:11] question now is whether those are paying the price will finally demand
[00:13:14] accountability. Thank
[00:13:16] you.
[00:13:22] From rewriting history and contradicting. his own administration
[00:13:26] to dismissing deadly war as small
[00:13:29] potatoes. Donald Trump found himself on the relentless fire
[00:13:33] this week as X turned his latest claims into a spectacle of
[00:13:37] outrage, ridicule and growing demands for accountability. Here are
[00:13:41] the headlines. Trump's lies go viral from
[00:13:44] 9/11 fantasy to Iran, war denial,
[00:13:48] lawless king. Muchary turns into mounting
[00:13:51] impeachment pressure.
[00:14:00] x was a blaze this past week with Donald Trump facing torrent
[00:14:04] of ridicule over a string of extraordinary claims from
[00:14:08] 9/11 to the war against Sedan while calls for impeachment began
[00:14:12] spilling beyond social media and told television
[00:14:15] screens. Joining me are social media expert Sima and Analyst
[00:14:18] Form. Hello um once again sima. Thank you so much
[00:14:22] for that. So as you pointed out X has
[00:14:24] been on. fire, frankly pinning Trump as liar at every corner that it can, from
[00:14:28] his bizarre 9/11 claims, to the contradictions over the war on
[00:14:32] Iran, users showed him no mercy, they were mocking him relentlessly, and the backlash
[00:14:36] has now grown into a serious public conversation about beachment, this ridicule
[00:14:40] conversation about beachment, this ridicule can look funny, but it's actually very
[00:14:43] serious, so let's begin with claim that left many users stunned quite
[00:14:47] frankly as Trump appeared to place himself at traumatic national tragedies as
[00:14:51] they consider it, so Aaron Rupar writes, Trump
[00:14:55] claims he was basically lifted out the rubble on 9/11,
[00:14:59] two fireman, big strong guys, they grab me under the arms, got to get
[00:15:03] out of here, and they literally lifted me up and they started running with me, but a
[00:15:07] community note, which you find these have come to the rescue quite
[00:15:10] often, points out that Trump was miles away from ground zero at the time,
[00:15:14] speaking by phone from his office and that his story lacks corroborating
[00:15:17] evidence, so here is Trump claiming to have been there, if he
[00:15:21] got two firemen, we thought it was coming down top of us and two fire.
[00:15:26] big strong guys and i'm not the smallest guy in the world, they
[00:15:29] grab me under the arm, got to get out of here, and they literally
[00:15:33] lifted me up, this is not easy to do, i'm big.
[00:15:37] they lifted me up and they started running with me, i said fellaas, i
[00:15:41] can run myself, but they were amazing, but they thought it was coming
[00:15:45] down, it didn't come down
[00:15:46] there,
[00:15:50] so what's striking is the sheer audacity of attempts to rewrite
[00:15:54] history or on the event that's been so extensively documented, and it's
[00:15:58] not merely exaggeration, it's claim that social media users can dismantle
[00:16:02] literally within minutes, yeah
[00:16:03] and actually i remember all the way back in the day there was a on tv he was on the phone
[00:16:07] someone on tv, he definitely was not there, and so the contradictions actually don't stop there, has
[00:16:11] owned what it calls the conflict, what it calls the
[00:16:15] conflict with Iran, this the operation, so reporter asks
[00:16:19] Trump, how can he deny the conflict with Iran is a war
[00:16:23] when uh US service members have died, so this is how it
[00:16:26] went uh bulwart clips reporter goes, the vice president said
[00:16:30] yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with Iran as a war, if this
[00:16:34] is not a war, what exactly is it? Trump goes, call it a
[00:16:37] military conflict because it's small potatoes for us, it's not a big
[00:16:40] thing. reporter goes, "18 people have died, it certainly
[00:16:44] doesn't feel like small potatoes. 18 service members have died, we're seeing
[00:16:48] record long deployments. so trump goes, why is it record long? how long are we in vietnam? he
[00:16:52] loves saying this. uh, we're in five months now, it's nothing,
[00:16:55] you know, according to trump. so here's the video of that encounter, please looks,
[00:16:59] mr. president, uh, the vice president said yesterday that he would not describe the
[00:17:03] conflict with Iran as a war, but the US resume strikes for the first time."
[00:17:07] in recent weeks, can you explain to the American people, this is not a war, what
[00:17:11] exactly is it? well, I tell you what, lot of people don't call it a war, I
[00:17:15] call it a military conflict, because it's it's small potatoes for us,
[00:17:18] it's not a big thing, we did Venezuela and we did
[00:17:22] this, and Venezuela we lost nobody, and this we lost
[00:17:26] 18 people, uh, and Vietnam you lost
[00:17:30] 100,00 people, and in other conflicts you lost tens of
[00:17:33] thousands of people, and 18 people have died in this, it doesn't feel like small.
[00:17:37] potatoes, 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
[00:17:41] deployments, you initially said this, record long, why is it record long? so the
[00:17:44] 80 air, how long were we in Vietnam, how long were we in
[00:17:47] Vietnam, how long were we in Vietnam, we're in five
[00:17:51] months now, we've and you did in five months, they're not going
[00:17:55] to have nuclear weapon, that's what we
[00:17:57] did, small
[00:18:00] potatoes for his president, perhaps, but certainly
[00:18:04] not for the families of those killed, as you're highlighting, s'? or
[00:18:07] soldiers and during prolonged deployments uh for
[00:18:11] unnecessary war of aggression as some actually perceive it, the
[00:18:15] contempt in that language is kind of astonishing. yeah, trump is
[00:18:18] astonishing, and
[00:18:20] you know the next post highlights actually the absurdity, even more clearly, this absurdity that
[00:18:23] we've been talking about. the vice president says trump won the
[00:18:27] Iran war, well Trump insists there is no war at all, so look at this, global
[00:18:31] war desk wrote JD vanson Trump just gave two very different
[00:18:35] descriptions the Iran conflict. like JDV
[00:18:38] goes, nobody has won a war in the last 42 years of American history, president
[00:18:42] Trump did that by winning the Iran war, and then Trump winning the Iran
[00:18:46] war, and then Trump goes, we will not give payouts on because it isn't
[00:18:50] a war, side by side, so according to
[00:18:53] Vance, Trump won the war, and according to Trump, it wasn't a
[00:18:57] war, same administration, two completely different
[00:19:00] descriptions side by side, shameless, shameless, so it's an absolute
[00:19:04] clown show, even towards their soldiers.
[00:19:07] Yep, yeah, it's definitely clown show, and it's political
[00:19:11] double speak at its most blatant, they want the glory of winning a war,
[00:19:15] while avoiding the legal, political and financial consequences of admitting that one
[00:19:19] exists, yeah, and as ridicule, it has intensified online, impeachment has
[00:19:23] increasingly entered the conversation, as you mentioned, and it's gone beyond
[00:19:26] X. Mr. Producer Rich Sementa wrote, rep Jamie
[00:19:30] Raskin admits, everybody on our side understands that
[00:19:33] impeachment is critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against.
[00:19:37] president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant
[00:19:41] king, we won't hesitate to use it if we need to use it,
[00:19:44] not no, not yes, if we need to, after he already
[00:19:48] called him a king. here's the interview, peach
[00:19:52] president trump, do you support that? would you want to move to impeach
[00:19:56] president Trump? should democrats retake the house? look, everybody on our side understands
[00:20:00] that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for
[00:20:03] constitutional self-defense against a president acting like
[00:20:07] a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king. uh,
[00:20:11] on the other hand, Donald Trump already is 50% the impeachments
[00:20:15] of a president American history, and we saw what happened last time,
[00:20:19] he incited mob to storm the capital, to
[00:20:23] attack his own vice president and congress, we impeached him in the house,
[00:20:27] and we could get only seven republican senators to join us, we were 10
[00:20:31] short again because of Mitch McConnell, so you don't, you don't support impeachment, you
[00:20:34] think it would be waste of time? no, impeachment is not... Taboo with us, it's not a
[00:20:38] fetish with us, we understand it's not a panacea, it is a tool in the toolbox,
[00:20:42] we will not hesitate to use it if we need to use it, but we also understand the
[00:20:46] framers gave it to Congress rather than the Supreme Court because they wanted. to
[00:20:50] contextualize impeachment in the whole sphere of things we got
[00:20:54] to deal with, like getting healthcare back to our people, because they've thrown millions of
[00:20:58] people off their healthcare with the medicaid cuts and the destruction the aca
[00:21:01] tax credits.
[00:21:05] well, well, what began as
[00:21:09] mockery online is now intersecting with an
[00:21:12] unmistakably serious political question, how many ordinary
[00:21:16] claims can accumulate before accountability follows? thank you seam.
[00:21:20] Fuad: Thank
[00:21:21] you.
[00:21:28] From a massive Iranian ballistic barrage and strained patriot defenses to
[00:21:32] threaten persion golf shipping lanes and increasingly militarized
[00:21:35] skys. The numbers are exposing the mounting pressure on American
[00:21:39] forces and the widening vulnerabilities of Washington's regional
[00:21:43] war. Here are the headlines: 30, 40 missiles,
[00:21:47] 12 launch sights. Iran overwhelms the... american defense
[00:21:50] narrative. Patriot under pressure, US
[00:21:54] defenses struggle as the battlefield
[00:21:56] expands.
[00:22:04] This week, the numbers tells the story Washington may struggle to spin an
[00:22:08] unprecedented Iranian missile operation, strained American
[00:22:12] air defenses and rapidly militarizing region
[00:22:15] stretching from Jordan to the Persian gulf. Joining me our senior
[00:22:19] researcher.
[00:22:24] Thank you, the most significant development was a
[00:22:27] one's largest reported ballistic
[00:22:30] operation against us positions in Jordan
[00:22:33] precisely. Now under operation punishment the
[00:22:36] aggressor, between 30 and 40 missiles were reportedly
[00:22:40] launched simultaneously from 12 bases across central and western
[00:22:44] Iran, primarily targeting az airbase.
[00:22:48] Now reports indicate Iran. used Koram Shah missiles equipped with
[00:22:52] cluster or submunition warheads designed to spread explosives
[00:22:55] across wide areas and the apparent objective was not
[00:22:59] only to not only a single point of impact but
[00:23:03] rather air fields, maintenance facilities and aircraft
[00:23:06] shelters, yeah you know this distinction actually matters
[00:23:10] enormously because the defense system may intercept individual missiles but actually
[00:23:13] repeated waves combined with dispersed submunitions can
[00:23:17] rapidly overwhelm and exhaust interceptor. is
[00:23:20] this the exactly, and according to sources,
[00:23:23] sema, patriot pack th batteries are reportedly
[00:23:27] fired around 100 interceptors against the first wave, yet
[00:23:31] were then unable to respond effectively to subsequent
[00:23:35] waves, and the explanation is still contested here because interceptor
[00:23:38] stocks may have been either depleted or elements the system may have been
[00:23:42] damaged, either way it exposes serious
[00:23:46] vulnerability here, heba a defense system costing enormous.
[00:23:51] um is only as effective as its ability to stain repeated
[00:23:54] attacks somewhere, yes, and at see the
[00:23:58] escalation is equally dangerous for. after us strikes
[00:24:01] reportedly destroyed iranian tankers, eran
[00:24:05] warned oil cruise in emirati, kuwaiti and Bahraini
[00:24:09] ports to leave, signaling that commercial infrastructure linked to
[00:24:13] US military operations could increasingly be drawn
[00:24:16] into the confrontation, which means you
[00:24:19] know that... "the war is slowly but surely expanding geographically, even
[00:24:23] countries attempting to remain on the margins, we see now
[00:24:27] confronting direct economic and security consequences, yes, yes,
[00:24:31] true, and here the skies reflect the same escalation, um,
[00:24:34] according to source sources, Iran issued critical aviation
[00:24:38] warning covering parts the Gulf of Oman
[00:24:42] and the Arabian sea up to um, FL100
[00:24:46] citing military activity, electronic warfare and possible.
[00:24:50] electronic warfare and possible GPS intervention
[00:24:53] interference. Saudi Arabia has also activated
[00:24:57] extensive US aerial surveyance, refueling and
[00:25:01] fighter deployments have intensified across the region as well. In other words, the
[00:25:05] battlefield is no longer confined to a single front. It now
[00:25:09] extends undergrounds, extends across the sea and throughout the
[00:25:12] airspace. Yes, and and the figures here Farah
[00:25:15] reflect
[00:25:17] you know that Washington is confronting precisely what it. sought to
[00:25:20] avoid, yes a prolonged regional war in which every new
[00:25:24] military response creates additional fronts
[00:25:28] and from dozens of
[00:25:30] from dozens of ballistic missiles and exhausted defenses
[00:25:34] to threatened shipping, lanes and militarized skies. the
[00:25:38] numbers reveal a conflict growing costlier, more complex
[00:25:42] and increasingly difficult for washington to control. thank you hibancima, thank
[00:25:46] you.
[00:25:53] The US war of aggression against Iran is also producing increasingly
[00:25:57] uncomfortable voices from inside the United States itself. Tucker
[00:26:01] Carlson, a prominent. american political commentator and former Fox
[00:26:05] News host argues that Washington's media establishment
[00:26:09] has abandoned its responsibility to inform the public
[00:26:12] instead helping sustain what he describes as a war
[00:26:15] driven by interests far beyond those of ordinary
[00:26:19] Americans and the soul interest of Zionis Israel. Let us watch
[00:26:23] this video posted by the Clash report
[00:26:25] together. Everybody knows the only reason
[00:26:29] we're having this war is because "Israel wants it,
[00:26:33] this is their last chance, they believe, this
[00:26:37] presidency is the last presidency where they're going to have unequivocal
[00:26:40] bipartisan support,
[00:26:43] period, you can't primary every Thomas Massy, and there's a
[00:26:47] whole army them coming at some point, because everyone can see what's going on, and you can
[00:26:51] shut down x, and you can shut down the internet, you can be like Great
[00:26:54] Britain and arrest people who protest Israel, but attitudes are not
[00:26:58] going to revert to what they were five years ago, sorry, and they know this, so this..."
[00:27:02] last chance, what's so
[00:27:05] amazing is that Israel, which at least is acting in what
[00:27:09] it perceives to be its own national interest
[00:27:11] is joined by its shils in the United States
[00:27:15] of course, but really it's only other ally in
[00:27:19] this is the American news media, whose job it is to tell you
[00:27:23] the truth and inform
[00:27:24] you as what's happening, to tell you, hey,
[00:27:26] wake up, the world could be changing and it's going to affect
[00:27:29] you and your family, that's their job and... Instead, they've been
[00:27:33] lolling you to sleep with the same variety of
[00:27:36] transparent lies and
[00:27:38] propaganda. Ladies and gentlemen, with that
[00:27:42] we conclude our expose for tonight right here on Press TV. Until next week, question the
[00:27:46] headline, trace the source and never surrender your
[00:27:48] judgment.
[00:30:30] You're on warns.