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0:00Something happened overnight that nobody
0:02saw coming. Not the analysts, not the
0:05generals, and definitely not Tehran.
0:07Missiles in the sky, a mysterious
0:10message from Trump that's got the entire
0:12legacy media scratching their heads, and
0:15a shattered regime that's on the brink.
0:18Stick with me to the very end of this
0:19video because I'm going to show you
0:20exactly what the end game of this war
0:23really is and why Iran is more panicked
0:27than ever. Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve,
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0:43Nations are racing to build the future
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0:58that everybody treats those like three
1:00separate stories, but they're not.
1:02They're one story showing up in three
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1:19grab your seat. Yesterday, US forces
1:22decimated two Iranian rocket launchers
1:25on Larak Island, roughly 410 miles from
1:28Iran's crown jewel oil hub at Kharg
1:32Island. CENTCOM officials said that the
1:33Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC,
1:36had been caught red-handed prepping
1:38rockets loaded with sea mines to fire
1:41directly into the Strait of Hormuz, and
1:43so CENTCOM said, in effect, Iran created
1:46the threat and US forces eliminated it
1:49specifically to protect civilian
1:51mariners, commercial shipping, and the
1:54free flow of global commerce. So, this
1:56wasn't some open-ended offensive. It was
1:59a limited precise action, and it came
2:02just days after the US had already
2:04finished clearing the Strait of Hormuz
2:06mines to reopen it for shipping. Iran,
2:09being Iran, didn't take it quietly.
2:12Hours later, the IRGC's Aerospace Force
2:16launched ballistic missiles at two
2:18US-linked bases in Jordan, but once
2:21again, none of it worked. It was all for
2:23naught. Jordan's armed forces confirmed
2:25they intercepted eight incoming missiles
2:27before any of them could do any damage.
2:30At the very same time, Iranian forces
2:32launched a drone attack on the airbase
2:35in Dubai. The UAE defense ministry
2:37confirmed that the drone was effectively
2:40detected and immediately shot down. So,
2:43in one night, Iran fired basically
2:45everything it had left at three separate
2:48targets across two countries, and they
2:50came away with zero. Zero confirmed
2:53hits, zero Americans or allied
2:56casualties, zero.
2:58But Trump wasn't done.
3:00Take a look at this. This is what Trump
3:03posted on Truth Social. Two dramatic
3:06AI-generated video showing explosions
3:10ripping across Kharg Island with Trump
3:12saying, quote, Kharg Island being blown
3:16to smithereens. Now, if you don't know,
3:18Kharg isn't just any target. Before the
3:22war, it handled 90%
3:25of Iran's total oil exports. Kharg
3:29Island is essentially Iran's ATM. You
3:31know, you obliterate Kharg,
3:34and you have effectively annihilated
3:36Iran's single most important platform to
3:39export oil.
3:41Now, there's a twist to this. Of course,
3:43there is no indication that Kharg
3:45actually got obliterated. Neither the
3:47White House nor the Department of War
3:48has confirmed an actual strike, and
3:51Iranian state media has said nothing
3:53about it. And the legacy media, of
3:54course, is completely perplexed over why
3:56Trump would post it. And Forbes called
3:59it bizarre. Forbes is just a left-wing
4:02liberal trash at this point, but it's
4:04beyond pathetic. Precisely because it's
4:06so easy. It literally takes no brain
4:09cells whatsoever to figure out what
4:12Trump is doing here. It's a clear
4:14psychological message. Trump is
4:16reminding Tehran
4:19that their most valuable economic artery
4:22could literally be wiped out any moment
4:25he chooses. It's Trump's way of
4:28demonstrating that he has infinitely
4:30more power and escalation options than
4:34Iran has. And
4:36it's a reminder to Tehran, and
4:38particularly their conciliatory wing,
4:40right? Their their parliamentary wing
4:42that wants a deal.
4:44It's a reminder that there is no way
4:47they are ever going to even come close
4:49to winning this.
4:51Whether or not Kharg actually got hit,
4:53the message landed. Nothing in Iran is
4:56safe.
4:57And the president wants them to know
4:59that.
5:00And it gets worse because the military
5:02side of things is just one clamp of this
5:05two-sided vise grip. The other side is
5:09the economic devastation that's been
5:11unleashed by the United States. Many are
5:13calling it the single most effective
5:16economic military strangulation of a
5:18country that we have ever seen. Um Iran
5:21is losing an estimated 4 to 500 million
5:25dollars a day in lost GDP and economic
5:27output. US efforts are doing more damage
5:31to Iran than we did to Afghanistan or
5:34Iraq or Libya or Serbia, more than any
5:38country since the Korean War, Vietnam.
5:40And the key here is that the economic
5:43front isn't just missiles and oil
5:45terminals. It's banking.
5:47Treasury Secretary Scott Bassent has
5:49launched what's being called Operation
5:52Economic Outcast. And again, the key
5:54here is that this campaign looks
5:56fundamentally different from the
5:58sanctions theater that we've seen for
6:00the last several decades. So, on August
6:0324th, the Treasury sanctioned nearly 60
6:06individuals, companies, and vessels tied
6:09to Iran's shadowy economy, their black
6:11market economy. But, 4 days later came
6:14the real gut punch. The Treasury began
6:17the process of cutting off the United
6:19Arab Emirates branches of Egypt's
6:22state-owned Bank Melli from the US
6:25financial system entirely. And that's
6:28because those UAE branches allegedly
6:31processed about $1.8 billion
6:33for 103 suspected Iranian shadow banking
6:36fronts since 2024, including entities
6:40tied directly to Iran's Defense Ministry
6:42and the IRGC. So, for the first time,
6:46Washington isn't just chasing shell
6:48companies. It's going after the banks
6:51that let those shell companies function,
6:53forcing them to choose between do you
6:55want worthless Iranian cash,
6:58or do you want access to the American
6:59financial system? It's your choice.
7:02But, of course, the real prize still out
7:04there is China, which buys roughly 90%
7:08of Iran's exported oil. If Treasury
7:10applies if the Treasury applies that
7:14same pressure to Chinese financial
7:16channels, Iran's last major lifeline
7:20could be next. While Trump unleashes a
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10:32So, you combine the military pressure,
10:34Lar and Allen, straight-up horn moves,
10:36demining, the looming threats over CAR
10:39with an economic pressure campaign
10:42that's finally targeting the banks
10:44instead of just the shell companies, and
10:46you get a regime that's being literally
10:48strangled from every direction at once.
10:51So,
10:52this raises the question, what then does
10:54winning actually look like here? I mean,
10:57obviously, Trump has all the cards. Iran
10:59has literally nothing. They've been
11:01rendered militarily inert. Their economy
11:04is in shambles. The the what is it now?
11:06It's I think we're talking what, 2
11:09million rials per dollar at this point.
11:12They're uh increasingly internationally
11:15isolated. They're being starved of the
11:17half a billion dollars of oil exports
11:19exports per day. All the while, we just
11:21inked that Venezuela deal. We have more
11:24oil than ever. We're literally swimming
11:26in oil. So, what does winning actually
11:30look like here?
11:32We have to remember that this was never
11:35about full regime change that involved
11:37American ground troops or like that
11:39option was ruled all you know, for all
11:42the analysts oh it's inevitable. We're
11:43going to have to have ground troops for
11:44all no, that option was ruled off the
11:47table immediately because of the blood
11:48and treasure it would cost. Instead from
11:51the very beginning the objective was
11:53threefold.
11:54Deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
11:56Keep the Strait of Hormuz functionally
11:58open regardless of Iranian threats and
12:01dismantle the ring of fire right the
12:03proxy of networks of Hezbollah and
12:05Houthis and Hamas that Iran built up to
12:08project power without paying the price
12:10directly.
12:12On the nuclear front satellite
12:13reconnaissance and intelligence suggests
12:16that Iran's program has indeed been set
12:18back 10 to 15 years at least.
12:22On Hormuz Iran's traditional leverage
12:25over the straight has been just
12:27completely wiped out and and it's not
12:30just because US forces have
12:32basically taken over Hormuz. It's
12:35because Gulf states are actively
12:37building pipeline alternatives through
12:39the Red Sea through the Gulf of Oman and
12:42even a potential Israel Jordan Saudi
12:45Arabia corridor into the Mediterranean.
12:49Within a year or two up to 40% of the
12:52world's oil trade might not even need
12:54the straight anymore. It's absolutely
12:56stunning. It's been rendered relatively
12:58irrelevant globally speaking. And on the
13:01proxy network Hamas has been decimated
13:03by Israeli forces.
13:05Uh Hezbollah is being dismantled by a
13:09combined Israeli and Lebanese effort and
13:12the Houthis are being challenged uh by
13:14within their own nation in Yemen and are
13:16essentially cut off from Iranian funding
13:18and weaponry meaning
13:20they can harass uh but not seriously
13:23threaten.
13:24So this is what Victor Davis Hanson is
13:27calling Trump's Anaconda strategy.
13:30Squeeze relentlessly, let Iran pop off
13:33missiles and drones in desperation, and
13:36just hit back hard every single time.
13:39All the while expecting Tehran
13:42to attempt maybe some kind of October
13:44surprise before the midterms, try to
13:46hurt Trump politically.
13:48Last night's failed strikes on Jordan,
13:50the UAE,
13:52I think were exactly that kind of
13:54attempt, and of course it failed. It
13:56failed miserably. And in the meantime,
13:59the Iranian people can't afford food,
14:01they can't afford milk, they can't
14:03afford electricity, gas, diesel, or
14:05kerosene.
14:07So, that population is increasingly
14:10realizing either they're going to turn
14:11on this regime en masse
14:13or they're going to starve.
14:16I mean, it really looks like those are
14:17the only two options here. So, that's
14:20the real story behind the headline. It's
14:22It's not just that a few missiles got
14:24shot down over Jordan. It's not that
14:26just Trump
14:28uploaded an AI video about Kharg Island,
14:31you know, and going viral and all. It's
14:33It's It's that every layer of pressure,
14:36military, financial, diplomatic, it's
14:38all compounding at the exact same moment
14:42uh that a a leaderless fractured regime
14:46is more or less just trying to hold
14:48itself together with nothing but
14:50propaganda and failed retaliation
14:52strikes.
14:53Trump didn't need to invade Iran to
14:55bring it to its knees. He just needed to
14:57make sure it could not sell its oil, it
14:59couldn't bank its money, and it couldn't
15:01control its own airspace, and couldn't
15:04even prove its own supreme leader is
15:06still alive for that matter.
15:09So, that's not a stalemate. That's a
15:11regime in the process of collapsing
15:13under its own weight.
15:15And Trump is simply standing back,
15:17applying pressure,
15:19and letting physics
15:20do the rest.