The MeidasTouch Podcast - Iran Strikes Again as War Escalates and BRICS Pushes Back

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the latest developments involving Iran as Iran launches more strikes, targets additional tanks, makes major moves on the world stage through BRICS, and escalates its nuclear standoff. Meiselas breaks down the rapidly developing situation and what it means for Donald Trump and the United States. Car Shield: Visit https://CarShield.com/meidas to lock in your coverage today and protect yourself from expensive car repairs. 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 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iran strikes again. Another tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by the IRGC. This is at least the third vessel that has been hit in the last four days by Iran. And we've seen zero U.S. retaliatory strikes taking place, even though Donald Trump said, we're going to go tanker for tanker. Now, in the past 24 hours, in addition to Iran striking yet another, tanker in the Strait of Hormuz that was trying to use that southern Oman route. There have been seven massive major developments that favor Iran in Donald Trump's catastrophic war against Iran. Let's talk about those seven things. Number one, Iran continues to strike

tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The latest data we're seeing, like on September 11th, Only one tanker got through the Strait of Hormuz when before the war it would have been dozens and dozens of tankers getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Number two, Iran's appearance at the Bricks Summit in New Delhi was a home run for Iran. There was a declaration issued at the end of the Bricks Summit where these Bricks nations led by India and China and Russia really stood shoulder to shoulder with Iran's President Pasechkian and Iran's foreign minister Arraghi. And the declaration supported Iran against these unilateral sanctions and secondary sanctions imposed by the Trump regime.

That's number two. Number three, Iran's allies, the Houthis, Ansar Allah, the more appropriate name that they're called in the region. They continue to advance. They're on the road to Aden, the Saudi monarchy, which supports their proxy government group in Yemen, the PLC. They are on the retreat, and there are a lot of question marks about the survival of the Saudi monarchy now, with MBS looking very weak. He gave Trump and Kushner all this money, and in return he got the Trump role. middle finger, the Trump fraud that we're used to seeing over and over again. So that's number

three. Number four, Iran announced that it is doing a deal with Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which it is going to be announcing on Monday. There's going to be a meeting in Muscat in Oman, where all of these Arab nations are invited, and this is going to be a massive meeting where Iran's going to say, here is what we and Oman agree to regarding who controls the Strait of Hormuz. This is the route, the Iranian route, the only legitimate route. And Iran is going to say, look, once the United States gets back to the memorandum of understanding, the economy's open. Everybody can use the Iran route.

Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and all these Arab nations are going to be there to watch the signing of this. Iran and Oman deal. Another major development at the BRIC summit that I think is worth mentioning as well. The United Arab Emirates leadership, the royal family from Abu Dhabi held a meeting with President Pasekian of Iran. And of course we know there were massive tensions there during the war with the UAE being a member of the Abraham Accords, with Israel. UAE, allowing the United States to use a lot of their bases and their land to do strikes on Iran. Iran then struck lots of areas within the UAE. But now the UAE's hedging, right?

Before it would be unfathomable that they would hold a meeting on the sidelines of bricks with Iran. They held a meeting on the sideline of bricks with President Poskean and Foreign Minister Araghi. That's a very big development right there. And then the next major development as well, as we're listing all seven right over here, Iran is considering pulling out of the nuclear non-proliferation pact, which they're a signatory. They're like, why would it be a member of this nuclear non-proliferation pact when it just hurts us? Being a member of this and just producing civilian nuclear energy allows us to become a target of the Trump regime. It shows weakness. So maybe we pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation pack. And some

Iranian parliament leaders are saying, maybe we push this through. Maybe we expedite removing ourselves from the nuclear non-proliferation pack. And then finally, the last major development. Just thinking about the past 24 hours, folks. Not the past 24 years. The past 24 hours. Then we had Donald Trump in Ireland further be clowning himself, his regime. And sadly, I say this as an American, the United States, with Donald Trump attacking Canada again, attacking the UK, attacking NATO, Donald Trump lying and making up that he's speaking with the Houthis and the Houthis promised him. Don't worry, Donald, you're good in the Red Sea. Even though we control the Bob El-Mandab Strait and all of Western Yemen, you've got to be. our word, Donald. So that's what Donald Trump said. He had a conversation with the Houthis,

just like he makes up in lies that he had conversations with the Ayatollah before and he has conversations with Hamas. He just makes up these things. By the way, one of the Houthi leaders responded, this guy's a clown. And then the main Houthi leader, Al Houthi, himself, mocked MBS, the Saudi Crown Prince and the royal family in Saudi Arabia. And they said, you clowns, dance. for Donald Trump, the ultimate clown, just dance in front of him more. And I of course showed you Ansarala, the Houthis celebrations in sauna, their capital, the fireworks, all the people with the candles up, partying and celebrating the fact that they now control all of Western Yemen, all of the islands nearby, they control the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Effectively, they control all of

the Red Sea. And some of the Houthi leadership says, you know what, we can do also? Don't think we stop at the Bob Elmondeb Strait. Think about what we could do with the Suez Canal. And it should also be noted. Think about some of the relationships here between Xi Jinping and El Sisi of Egypt, being in Egypt recently announcing a new multilateral security architecture in the Middle East, as the Trump regime is no longer having a security umbrella in the Middle East. complete and utter failure we saw. By the way, we're getting new images. I'll just show you the B-roll of it here from when Iran struck Jordan last week and the U.S. had to use like 60 to 100 of those pack three interceptors probably cost the U.S. somewhere between half a billion

dollars to a billion dollars and the U.S. bases in Jordan were absolutely slammed as well. 8 F-15s that we know of were destroyed or harmed, although CENTCOM says lightly damaged. We know that's not the case. We know that they were seriously damaged. Black Hawk helicopters, other expensive equipment was severely harmed. By the way, you have the U.S. acting Navy secretary, a guy by the name of Hung Cow. He was telling media this past week that the Bahrain base was blown to hell over the past several weeks by Iran when Iran responded and at the beginning of the war, those Bahrain

fifth fleet destroyed. That's why the two aircraft carriers that are positioned outside of the Persian Gulf, in the Arabian Sea, rather, area, by the Trump regime, they're not getting food and supplies the way they need to because Bahrain's the main logistical port. And so we now have to rely on Diego Garcia, which is thousands of. and thousands of kilometers away. And so the supply lines are shot. So while Iran is launching, kind of, I called it yesterday, a pincer move in the Middle East, you know, really from Yemen to Iran, to the Iraqi resistance, from all sides the Trump regime is surrounded. Donald Trump doesn't

know what the hell he's doing. Dude's making up that he's having conversations with Houthis. and so you have these profound developments taking place. And so, of course, Iran continues to strike in the Strait of Hormuz over there. As I noted, last year, 31 tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz on September 11th. Right now, on this September 11th, one tanker crossed. And I'm thinking our salt caverns, our strategic petroleum reserves here in the United States, are so damn low. This week, if something major doesn't change,

I mean, we could see diesel quickly get to $7 a gallon, $8 a gallon. The price of gas, $5, $6 a gallon. By the way, where I live, that's already the price here in California. Where you live, it may be that way as well. The nationwide averages are record highs, and it's just getting worse and worse and worse each day. Take a look over here. This is a photo, Foreign Minister Araghi with Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister of China.

When we saw China give lots of powerful statements at the Brick Summit in New Delhi, India, supportive of Iran, India did as well, Russia did as well. I mean, the 18,000-word declaration that came out of the Brick Summit was a real condemnation of Trump regime, unilateralism, Netanyahu regime genocide really called it out in a way that we haven't seen a statement like that jointly issued with that level of coordination before. I noted earlier in this video, Iran is preparing a triple urgency bill to potentially withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. And they're saying, look, if you are going to only respect us, if we have a nuclear weapon, before we weren't doing it for that purpose, why wouldn't we do a nuclear weapon?

Why wouldn't we have nuclear capabilities at this point? So that's what they're saying. And then you have all of the Netanyahu regime officials saying stuff like this. This is Smutrich, the finance minister over there, very close to Netanyahu. It is not impossible that when the Iranian regime is backed into a corner economically, it will escalate militarily. We are prepared for this, both for attack and defense. And if that happens, we will destroy all of its energy infrastructure, both internally and externally. And this will collapse the country.

I hope it will also put the citizens there in a situation where they have nothing to lose, nothing to eat, nothing to drink, nothing. And they will rise up and overthrow the regime. Like, what the hell are you talking about? Like, I know that y'all are genocidal maniacs, but who are you trying to fool here? I guess American media and propaganda. And what you're saying is so untethered from reality. You know, once you have a family, a car problem isn't just a car problem. We're constantly driving with our kid and our dog.

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D-I-D-A-S for 20% off. Iran right now is not just a regional power. They're a quasi-global power. They've been retreated. They've been treated with more respect than they have as a civilization for quite some time, maybe even hundreds of years. Iranian leadership will tell you that. When they went to BRICS, they were treated as an equal when it came to India and China and

Russia and other nations. They were looked at as the country that took down the Trump regime, and thus the United States of America, when Trump and Netanyahu threw everything their way. So here's what India's Prime Minister Modi had to say about the growth of bricks, too. Friends, while strengthening bricks, we must also define the direction of global reform. Today, the global south, by the way, which includes Iran, is on the front line. of global crises, but it remains in the back row of decision-making. We must transform this pyramid of privilege into a platform of partnership, he says. And this current structure of global governance is changing, is changing. And Iran and India and China and Russia and all these other BRICS nations

are shoulder to shoulder. Think about it. Treasury Secretary Besson, what was it? Three weeks ago, talked about economic D-Day, isolate Iran. If you do any business with Iran, we're coming after you. All these countries proudly saying, we're building a new multilateral global architecture with Iran as a major tentacle in that. That's the message being sent. And what's Trump doing? Trump was attacking NATO. This was Donald Trump yesterday in Ireland attacking NATO. Here play this clip. prime minister. No, where the Rutherlandau could have involved, Mr. President. Oh, thank you very much.

But I put it down because why the hell are we helping them? So, you'll be hearing that later. But I just want to thank you. I want to thank this country is a fancy. Then Donald Trump said that, indeed

it was Iran, he claims, that attacked the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia. Right? Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, shut down now, five to seven million barrels a day, go through that East-West pipeline. Now it's shut down. The Houthis have taken credit that they did it. Saudi Arabia is afraid that if the Houthis get credit for it, that'll make the Saudi monarchy look even weaker. So they are blaming the Iraqi resistance, which is also part of the access of resistance with Iran. But the

Iraqi resistance is saying, we'd love to have done it. Like, we want to do it. But we can take credit for that honor. It's our brothers, the Houthis. And the Houthis, like, we did it. And Saudi's like, no, the Iraqi resistance did it. And Trump's like Iran did it. Which is fascinating that Trump would say Iran did it after Trump claimed that Iran doesn't have a military anymore. And they're dying. And they're about to collapse. Here's what Donald Trump said here. Play this clip. Is Iran responsible for the attack on the East-West pipeline? And what do you think Saudi Arabia is where you'd be able to get that? Well, I think they are, probably they are.

You know, they're on the balls of their feet right now. But I think they are. They've been in charge of that for a while. We've had to... I know it's just so utterly pathetic. And then Donald Trump, of course, said, the Houthis called me. They desperately want to speak to me.

Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it. A while, we've had discussions. Houthi's called us, and they don't want to fight with us. They let us know. They don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them. They don't want us to go after them.

But they've called and they've talked to us and they don't want us to. They would much prefer not having us involved. And they're letting most ships go through. There's just one country that they're not too happy with. And we'll get that straightened out. Now, contrast that to the language that's being used by President Poseshki in here, the president of Iran, and he was asked about that meeting he had with the United Arab Emirates. He spoke with the royal family, the leader of Abu Dhabi, right?

There's different Emirates in the UAE. One of them's Abu Dhabi, the other's Dubai. There's others as well. And you see, this was Iran's vision for jubriads. closer bonds between Iran, Arab nations, Turkey. And it's going to be a big deal when they meet on Monday in Oman. And all the Arab nations are there recognizing Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. That's what's likely going to happen on Monday.

And Iran keeps striking tankers in the Strait of Frickin Hormuz. That's what's happening, folks. Let me show you what President Poseskian said about, he reiterates once again that Iran doesn't have a problem with the UAE. He says our problems are with U.S. bases in the region. Play this clip. We have no problems with the UAE. We have no problem with any of the regional countries. We have problem with the American bases located in these countries and from which they are attacking us our country.

The UAE, the Emirates, and other countries of the region are our brothers. We have been living together for a long time, and we have had trade. We have supported each other. So this is the U.S. who has come here and established bases, and from those bases they martyr our children, they attack our infrastructure and target our leaders, commanders, and people. In fact, the problem is that the friendly and neighboring countries should not allow enemies to utilize their soil to attack our country. Right now, we have a good relation with the UAE, and we can expand it.

And with other countries, the same happened. So we would like to have a sincere relation with all of them. However, it is the U.S., which does not want this to happen. And the reason is that they want to utilize our petroleum reservoirs of the region, and instead they are selling weapons and missile to the regional countries in order to scare us from each other and pit us against each other. It is actually exploiting the capital of the region, and also it is destroying the peace and stability.

We, with the neighboring and regional countries, can share our powers in order to help each other and establish security and help our people in order to promote our culture and economy again. And finally, President Possessed Gane of Iran issued the following message. If Americans are warriors, let them face our valiant military. military forces. Why wage war on civilian infrastructure, food supplies, and livelihoods? If they're human, why deny people access to water, food, and medicine? Our people can't be bullied into submission. Iran won't surrender. Because if your warriors, Hegsa, if you got the warrior ethos, why don't you fight us? Send your troops. Let's go. Or you do. Or you do. Or you do. You have the warrior ethos? Why don't you fight us?

Send your troops. Let's go. Or you just want to bomb Manab, the elementary school with the little girls you slaughtered. 168 little girl slaughtered. Or Lamard. The sports hall where little girls were playing volleyball who were slaughtered at the beginning of the war with a new weapon that was tested by the United States on the little girls. By the Trump regime, these pellets that spread and killed so many. or the recent slaughter of people at the wedding in Syrac County that took place,

which led to this latest round of escalation. Or Keshem, the family where the Trump regime dropped a massive bomb, just a random family in Keshim. Or the Iris Dina, right, the Navy ship, that at the beginning of the war was taking part in a naval parade in India. Interesting, right, because the bricks summits in India right now, part of being a part of that Indian naval parade was you couldn't have any ships with weapons. You had to remove all weapons. And so a U.S. submarine at the beginning of the war destroyed the Iris Dena, this Iranian naval ship.

And there were so many members of the Iranian Navy unarmed who were drowning. And Hegesith gave the order, show no quarters, let them drown. So the Sri Lankan Navy had to save as many people as they could, and a lot of people died. And then Hegsith bragged about it. Look what our submarine did. You killed unarmed people, and then you let them drown. So, folks, that's where we're at right now. War strikes in Hormuz, a prominent role by Iran and bricks.

The Houthis continued to advance, now moving east towards Aden and the south, and moving east in general. The Saudis are in retreat. Iran and Oman announcing the deal. The UAE holding this meeting with Iran hedging and now seemingly showing they're doing their best to support or try to get back into Iran's graces if they can. Iran potentially pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. Donald Trump behaving in a deranged manner. Right. Look, folks, that was in the last 24 hours. 24 hours. And have you been hearing any of this really on corporate news or news? There's some international news doing a good job, but this is important. This is historic stuff.

And Donald Trump, the Houthis called me. And the Houthis are like, we didn't call you. You're a clown. And they're right. They didn't call him. and he is a clown. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you so much, everybody.

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