The MeidasTouch Podcast - Iran Just Responded…
Episode Date: September 14, 2026MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Iran’s response to Donald Trump as Trump claims Iran desperately wants to make a deal with the United States, while oil prices surge and markets face renewed... turmoil. Meiselas breaks down Iran’s latest message, Trump’s claims, and the rapidly developing situation in the region. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MEIDAS at https://www.oneskin.co/MEIDAS #oneskinpod Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Iran is responding to Donald Trump's frantic claims earlier today where Trump said Iran desperately wants to make a deal.
They're failing and I'm going to determine whether or not I will reengage with Iran.
Well, senior Iranian officials are saying the following.
As we've repeatedly stated, we do not seek negotiations for a deal with the United States.
Donald Trump is making more false claims in order to try and manipulate the market.
another senior Iranian official in Tehran said that Trump is the one who is desperately seeking a deal
in order to try and influence global oil markets as the price of diesel and gas continues to surge
to record highs and as the American people are suffering.
Professor Mirandi, who I had here on the Midas Touch Network last week, I did a good interview
with him. Check it out. He posted the following. The failing Trump regime wants to make a
deal quickly and badly. Trump must first carry out the obligations in the MOU that he personally signed.
Recall earlier this morning, Donald Trump wrote, the failing nation of Iran wants to make a deal
quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the USA will choose to engage the concept of which
we are open to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump. It's a concept of a
framework. Let's see if that manipulates the market again. It doesn't, Donald. The market continues.
to implode on the American consumer and the American people right now.
Then Donald Trump, of course, needs to blame everything on former President Biden
after Iran publicly rejects his latest scam.
And Donald Trump says, I just hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America
were caused by Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden administration, not by, quote, Trump,
even oil was higher under Biden than it is right now.
and we prevented Iran from having a nuclear weapon with the temporary exception of oil.
Prices are coming down sharply and oil will drop like a rock as soon as the military conflict with Iran is over.
And that will not be long.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, the sexual predator, the vile criminal Donald J. Trump, the sicko con artist, bankruptor.
And we are seeing that happen.
And fast forward here in these United States.
Treasury Secretary Bessent up to.
How's your economic D-Day going today, Bessent?
Because we saw that photo of the Iranian president and Iranian foreign minister with all of the
bricks block nations.
They're strengthening their economic cooperation with Iran Besson.
So what's you up to Bessent?
Let's take a look.
He posted the following message moments ago.
Treasury launched Operation Economic Outcast to cut off all financial lifelines to the Iranian
regime.
and its enablers.
That's why I issued a new call for whistleblowers
to come forward with tips about those who facilitate Iran's terror.
We need a tip line.
Who's cooperating with Iran's terror?
Really, the terror like how the Trump regime
slaughters little girls in Manab and Lamar,
and the recent wedding in Syrac County
and the family in Kesham and the genocide going on in Gaza.
I can continue to go.
On and on.
But I wonder who's cooperating with Iran, whistleblowers, tipsters.
Can you help Treasury Secretary Bessent?
China's foreign minister Wang Yi and China's president Xi Jinping?
We're helping Russia's foreign minister Lavrov and their president Putin is like,
it's us and we want to help them with nuclear capabilities and their civilian nuclear program.
Prime Minister, Monea of India is like me, me, everybody, all the BRICS nations.
Look at us. Look at us. And Bessent, though. Inspector Gadget, Bessent is on the job.
1-800 whistleblower. If you know who's fine. Can you get any more embarrassing economic outcast?
The only economic outcast is the United States right now because of you idiots, you pathetic losers who have done this to the United States.
And by the way, I'm not making a Democratic point, liberal point, centrist point, Republican point.
It's just the reality.
These people are pathetic.
Besson goes on to say, to anyone worldwide with information on these lifelines, this is your chance.
This is your chance.
If you have actionable information for treasury, you may be eligible for an award.
You're going to get a sticker from Besson.
Besson's going to give you a little sticker, everybody, no matter where you live or who signs your paycheck.
If you see something, say something.
Bessent will give you a participation sticker, everybody.
I mean, can you get any more pathetic than this?
Maybe you can.
Eric Trump posting photos aboard U.S. military helicopters doing joyrides with him over Ireland.
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
Taxpayers paid for it as this account explains.
Also, we learned that we probably knew this before,
considering that the U.S. has set up a series of concentration cameras.
throughout the United States, where the United States puts immigrants.
This is what we saw this morning.
Ice signage described small metal cages where the Trump regime put immigrants in little dog cages as calming areas.
And these calming areas were in places like the concentration camp for immigrants in Florida called alligator alcatraz, where the Trump regime would boast how they wanted immigrants to be eaten by alligators.
and the detainees would be put in these little dog cages
to reflect on their behavior choices,
manage their emotions, and reduce their stress.
This is what the Trump regime is doing and did.
It's disgusting.
Now, what else are we learning as Iran's responding
to Trump's pathetic panicking this morning?
Well, according to diplomatic sources,
while I was reporting the following,
Saudi Arabia and Israel earlier today held talks mediated by CENTCOM with the aim of helping the Saudis
defend themselves against the Houthi army through intelligence gathering and other means.
And so there are hundreds of American personnel right now in Saudi Arabia, working with MBS on our taxpayer dime.
We have the Trump regime intelligence officials mediating and working to bring next.
Netanyahu into this as well, with MBS, the crown prince who's given Donald Trump and Trump's family
billions of dollars in order to stop the Houthi advances that we are seeing.
Here's how Al-Arabia described it earlier this morning.
Here, play this clip.
Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, has met with U.S. Central Command Chief
Admiral Brad Cooper in Jetta today.
They reviewed bilateral relations and the latest regional developments.
after President Trump told MBS that the U.S. would provide intelligence and targeting assistance
as the Iran-backed Houthis make significant gains along Yemen's Red Sea coastline.
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Now, let's take a look at this map right here.
Yemen's Ansarala, they called here the Houthis,
but the more appropriate name is Ansarala,
is saying the following, that Saudi forces carried out 54 air strikes over the past 24 hours
using F-15 in Typhoon from bases in Saudi Arabia.
Ansarales says the treasurous aggression will not go unpunished and without retribution,
God willing, these statement ads, we should expect to see more Houthi strikes against Saudi refineries.
and now U.S. Netanyahu, MBS working together in order to try to stop the Houthi advance.
The Houthis continue to now move east, getting closer to Aiden, getting closer to some of these eastern cities.
But the Houthis, Ansarala, controls all of Western Yemen right now.
The Saudi Crown Prince, MBS, is apparently taking an emergency trip tomorrow to talk with El Sissy in Cairo.
Think about what the importance also.
of Egypt with the Suez Canal right now as well, because that's the only other way Saudi Arabia
can try to get its oil out at this point by going north through the Suez Canal as the Babel
Mondab Strait, the chokehold is cut off by Ansarala by the Houthis right there. The Houthis have
said also that they would consider potentially even stopping Saudi Arabia at the Suez Canal.
So pay attention to what's happening there. Also, as you know, for the east.
West pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been shut down, has been severely damaged by the Houthis.
MBS blames the Iraqi resistance, which is also part of the Iranian access of resistance.
The Iraqi resistance says, we wish we were the ones who destroyed the East West pipeline
in Saudi Arabia.
But that would be our brothers on Sarala, but MBS thinks it would make him look weak if he
admitted that he can't defend against the Houthis, so he rather blame it on Iraq and
the Prime Minister of Iraq.
Iraq for stopping, for not stopping the Iraqi resistance. So pay attention right there. And then just more
ranting and raving like a lunatic by Donald Trump this morning. This is what he posted moments ago,
while all of this is taking place. Concerning AI, when in the history of business, did anyone
see the leaders of an industry call for regulation that have strongly implemented will drive them
into oblivion and bankruptcy? AI taking over the world, destroying humanity and all other things bad,
is a hoax. No different from Russia, Russia.
Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeachment hoax one, impeachment hoax two, and all the other
hoaxes and scams that America was forced to endure through the destructionist and devious,
foul play and illegal conduct.
He says that the dangers of AI are a scam like Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Interesting that he's saying that this morning where we apparently learned that much of Don
Jr.'s wedding was funded by a Russian oligarch, including the island in the
Bahamas, the music and fireworks brought to you by Putin's buddy, a Russian oligarch right there.
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
The AI hoax, the data center hoax, Donald Trump is calling it right now.
And then Trump goes on to say that President Xi of China just announced China will be doing
absolutely nothing to stand in the way of AI, he says.
And then Trump says, I'm not happy about this.
I'm not happy about what's going on.
I mean, just ranting and raving like a lunatic.
Then Donald Trump goes, the 5,000 Trump dividend
to be given to all adults in the United States
due to the fact that our country is taking
in trillions of dollars of economic development investment.
And pure success is being criticized by Democrats
who are hoping that it never happens,
but it will.
As an example, the Democrat said the great big, beautiful bill,
one of the largest ever approved by Congress
or signed into law by a president happened,
despite the Democrats saying it would be
impossible to get approved or the gift of 1776 I gave to our military last year.
The 5,000 dividend will happen because people deserve it. Vote Republican. I mean, what a lunatic
con artist is. Interesting because the latest data about the deficit increasing right now is that
the deficit is the highest it's been essentially forever right now, more than it even was last
year for the full year. Our debt has increased to over $40 trillion. Trump responsible for 30% of it.
Other countries are dumping U.S. Treasury bonds at a record pace. The 10-year Treasury note,
the 10-year Treasury yield just hit over 5%. The 30-year, well on its way to 5.5% right now.
And so if you brought in Donald $20 trillion and all these factories are going up, Donald,
Where are the factories, man?
Where's the money, man?
You want to do your hands like this, you pathetic loser?
Where the hell is the money?
Show me the money, you con artist, you sexual predator, you deviant.
Are you stealing it?
Because if there's really $20 trillion out there,
is that in the Qatari bank account?
Because the American people are suffering as a result of your regime's despicable behavior.
Also, this morning we also learn that the artist Maclemore,
has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour
after making headlines for saying,
Free Palestine on stage.
During his appearance in Shearin's tour earlier this month,
Macklemore told the crowd,
a big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour
in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this
and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart.
Free Palestine, I said, free Palestine.
I want those words to be loud and clear
so that the people all the way in God,
to the occupied West Bank, know that we have not forgotten about them.
MacLamore was on the bill to perform at eight of the ten shows.
Sheeran has left on his stadium tour, which will resume on September 19th in Philadelphia.
And more reporting is coming out right now that it may have been Robert Kraft and the craft group
that kicked MacLamore off of this tour for speaking out on behalf of the Children of Gaza.
Last Monday in the middle of all the media attention
surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife,
Ed told me, Ed Sheeran told me that Robert Kraft called him.
We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month.
That's where the Patriots play, which is owned by the Kraft group.
Ed told me that Kraft said,
I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium.
Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners
and collectively they gave him an ultimatum.
If McLemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.
So McLemore has been dropped from the last leg of Ed Shearin's tour because the stadium owners are saying you can't be in our stadiums.
I might add, most of those stadiums are funded by our taxpayer dollars.
Most of these billionaires are funding their stadiums from us.
And I'll give you another thing that's not talked about that much about the ownership of sports teams.
Did you know that under this ridiculous Trump tax code, that owners are able to effectively
write off their full investment in sports teams over the course of 10 years at an amount of
around a quarter of a billion dollars a year?
So they get to deduct that amount from their annual income while the asset appreciates.
They get to deduct their investment over the course of a 10-year period where the asset
appreciates significantly.
So when Donald Trump is giving these massive tax cuts
to the billionaires directly and also for things like private jets,
remember the sports team tax deduction.
I teach about it in my sports law class,
and the students are often like, what that?
We never knew that that's what you get to do
if you own a sports team?
Absolutely.
So think about it.
You buy a team for $2 billion,
then you get to basically deduct that amount over the
course of a 10-year period, the full amount over a 10-year period, and then if the asset
increases and then you sell it, then you basically call it capital gains or however you want
to do it and then you further get to or you take out loans against the appreciated value
of the team.
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