Trump Goes Mute as Iran Rejects Deal

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Donald Trump has gone silent as Iran is rejecting his ceasefire proposal.

Iran says that they just believe it is another trick.

They have no interest in negotiating with Donald Trump or his regime.

Unless Donald Trump agrees to full reparations.

From this war against Iran.

And there are strong security guarantees that the United States and Israel will not attack.

And invade Iran again.

Iran is also demanding that the United States and Israel essentially remove all military bases

from the region to which the Trump regime, I guess, has responded after,

claiming there was going to be these powerful ceasefire talks by removing everything

from Donald Trump's schedule today.

Look at Donald Trump's revised schedule today.

It consists of executive time and meetings close to the press the entire day.

You know, Caroline Levitt is purportedly holding a press conference shortly,

which we will be covering here on the Midas Touch Network.

But as it relates to Donald Trump, he's going to go MIA today

as we have thousands of troops heading to the Middle East,

expect it to arrive in the next 24 to 48 hours for a possible ground invasion

and folks, despite what you hear from Donald Trump and his regime,

it's important to observe what is happening in the region.

Iran still controls the strait of Hormuz.

They've now created basically a toll system where they're making money

controlling the strait of Hormuz.

There is still an escalating war taking place right there.

LNG liquefied natural gas is running in very short supply.

Qatar energy just declared a force measure as have a lot of the main companies

in these Arab nations.

There is a lack of supply of fertilizer that's now being exported.

Helium is not being exported.

We have major major issues.

And as you know, costs are going up.

And Donald Trump just continues to try to manipulate the market here,

both overtly and what he's posting and saying,

and what his regime is posting and saying,

and especially when they go on financial programs.

And behind the scenes, it seems that Trump and his regime,

especially with an SEC that doesn't enforce anything,

are looking to manipulate the markets by having people participate in market activity

that has the power of trying to control markets.

But ultimately in the long run, it's going to backfire when you do manipulation like that.

Just take a look at what Iran state regime media is saying.

Iran does not accept the ceasefire, fundamentally entering such a process

with those who have violated their commitments is not logical.

It's a statement coming right from Iranian TV.

From the Islamic Republic also on their regime media, they say,

the Islamic Republic of Iran insists on the fulfillment of its strategic objectives

in confronting the hostile front.

Only if those objectives are achieved would an end to the war,

not merely a ceasefire be possible.

And Iran has reviewed the American proposal for a ceasefire

and considers it excessive.

Iran says its defensive operations will continue.

Until its conditions are met, the first condition for ending the war is a halt

to attacks and assassination.

Tehran has conveyed through a regional intermediary

that it will continue defending itself.

Iran also says it will not allow Trump to dictate the timing of the war's end.

One of the things we learned today through a really strong NBC exclusive

is that the way Donald Trump has been getting his information

about the war has been through two-minute highlight or hype reels

that his team prepares for him to pretend that the war is going great.

So they just clip together two minutes of US and Israel bombing things

and blowing things up.

They show that to him.

They don't give him any other information.

He doesn't ask for any other information.

And this is how he's being briefed on the war.

So Trump is getting a daily two-minute highlight reel of the successful US strikes in Iran.

Basically explosions and winds raising concerns that he may not be getting the full picture

of the war setbacks included.

NBC was the first to break that story.

So as we wrote on the Midas Touch Network,

they're literally editing the war down to wins only.

So he doesn't react badly.

Think about how insane that is for a commander in chief

and how dangerous that is for the world.

Meanwhile, the head of Iran's parliament, M.B. Galibov,

posted the following message this morning.

We are closely monitoring all US movements in the region,

especially troop deployments.

What the generals have broke, the soldiers can't fix.

Instead, they will fall victim to Netanyahu's delusions.

Do not test our resolve to defend our land.

Just 24 hours ago, Donald Trump and his regime were saying this guy,

M.B. Galibov, the president of Iran's parliament,

was their, quote, hot option to become the new leader of Iran as the Trump proxy,

the way Donald Trump has the authoritarian, delsy Rodriguez running Venezuela.

So what the Trump regime was telling Politico, they're hot.

He's hot.

He's hot.

M.B. Galibov, are you listening to what this guy's writing and saying?

Meanwhile, Turkey has been pressing Gulf Arab states not to join the US and Israel

and war against Iran.

Ankara has been urging Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar,

and others show restraint through intensive diplomatic outreach.

Do not join Netanyahu's war as Turkey's leader, Erdogan,

has continuously been calling this war.

Iran's president, Masoud Pizeshkin, responded to Turkey's leader by saying,

the resolute position of my brother, Erdogan,

President of Turkey in condemning the war-mongering Zionist regime,

are commendable.

The proud nation of our friendly and brotherly country of Turkey has for many years,

steadfastly played a role in solidarity with the aspirations of the Islamic Ummah.

By the grace of God, we will traverse this proud path together.

As I also said, don't listen to the words, watch and observe what's actually happening.

And Iranian missile hit near an industrial area in the Ghev Israel.

The target was likely the Rohtem industrial zone near the city of Dimona,

where Israel actually has their nuclear bases.

Among the key industries in this area are phosphate extraction facilities,

operations related to uranium contained in phosphate rock,

and Israel's ammonia plant, not to mention in Dimona,

that's where all the nukes are.

You have that going on.

Separately, you take a look at what's happening in Iraq right now.

This deserves more attention because a war in Iraq is apparently starting again,

or at least the beginning potentially of that.

So what happened was seven Iraqi army soldiers were killed,

and 13 were wounded after a U.S. air strike hit the clinic

and an engineering department at the Habaniyah base in Anbar.

So that base, which is shared by the Iraqi army,

and the PMF-Hasht al-Shabi,

it's like a Shiite militia that's relating, that works with the army,

was struck in two consecutive U.S. attacks, March 24th and March 25th.

So this all happened in the past 24 hours.

Baghdad called the strike as a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty,

especially because a military medical facility was hit.

They'd begun their diplomatic and security consultations, consultations,

but Iraq authorized the Shiite militias to retaliate against the United States,

and then we saw in camp victory the Shiite militias using the FPV,

those first-person viewing drones, to destroy a Black Hawk and the radar system there

with a drone swarm that was circling around the area with impunity.

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Israel's intelligence director is now giving their own timeline for this war against Iran.

Israel intelligence, their director, is saying regime change in Iran will take a full year.

So we need to be spending a year there is what Israel ultimately wants.

In my opinion, just Netanyahu buying more time in order to keep himself in power

while he continues to engage in war crimes and heinous conduct, in my opinion.

A Pentagon official says recent US back this is an important pivoting for a moment.

Because we're talking a lot about the Middle East, rightfully so.

It's Trump's unleashed to war there.

But Trump's has boots on the ground and has engaged in wars across the country, across the world right now.

I mean, recent strikes in Nigeria, for example, right?

Invasion of Venezuela where now the chief torturer in Venezuela has been promoted to the defense minister role by Delce Rodriguez.

The person who was the biggest torturer of all the pro-democracy groups is now basically the number two to Delce Rodriguez there in Venezuela.

You know about Donald Trump blowing up all of those fishing boats, right?

Off the coast of Venezuela without explaining why I just calling them narco terrorists with a lot of evidence that they were just fishermen and fishing boats.

So now there's, you know, there's boots on the ground.

There's ground invasion and Ecuador.

Ecuador is run by a right wing, the Trump Maga puppet, Navoa, whose family is also, you know, wealthy family from the area right wing.

The right wing oligarchical family.

And so a Pentagon official says that the recent U.S. back strikes inside Ecuador are just the beginning of wider military campaigns by the United States throughout Latin America.

So the operation in Ecuador is called Operation Total Extermination.

Okay, you have Operation Epic Fury in Iran Operation Total Extermination, which sounds like it's right out of Hitler's playbook in my opinion is what they're calling this in Ecuador began with a joint U.S. Ecuador strikes near Columbia's border and may expand to more land attacks across the region.

So Columbia is also saying this is a violation of their sovereignty.

The intercept was one of the first to report this.

So where's the U.S. striking in Ecuador?

Well, let's take a look.

The U.S. said it helped bomb a drug camp in Ecuador, but it was a dairy farm.

The New York Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed groups training camp.

Residents say it was actually a dairy farm.

And as New York Times investigated these videos that had been posted by the Trump regime showing strikes, which they claim are narco terrorists.

The strikes appear to have destroyed a cattle and dairy farm, not a drug trafficking compound.

According to interviews with farm owners, four of its workers, human rights lawyers and residents and leaders in San Martin, the remote farm and village in Northern Ecuador where the strike took place.

Horrific, horrific stuff right there.

And I don't want to neglect what's happening in the rest of the world, right?

You've got Donald Trump just a few weeks before the election in Hungary wants Putin's puppet Orban to stay in power.

Trump keeps posting photos of himself in Orban.

He hasn't posted anything in 10 hours.

But yesterday, the day before that, he's been making post-ept or post one of the reasons Donald Trump may have gone silent is.

Woof, those Republicans lost big, big, big in Florida, huh?

Democrats flipped House District and a Senate District, the House District that covers Mar-a-Lago and a Senate District.

Both areas that Trump won big in 2024.

So what's Maga Mike saying with all of this? What's Maga Mike saying?

Maga Mike is asked this morning by the press, the Pentagon is supposedly dispatching 2,000 troops.

How is that not boots on the ground, Maga Mike? Watch what he says.

Well, there's talk about the Pentagon is supposedly dispatching 2,000 troops.

How is that not put?

How is that not putting boots on the ground? You said we're not a war.

How is that not a escalation of war for Iran?

I think it said the signal to Iran that they better get their act together.

We need to resolve this quickly and that's the President's interest and that's ours.

It's everyone's. We need the Operation Epic Fury is almost done.

I mean, I think the mission that was very clearly defined in the beginning, the objectives have been met.

We have to get the straight-of-formers straightened out.

And we need our international partners to help with that because it's a giant project that involves everybody around the world.

At some level. So I'm optimistic that's going to happen.

The build-up of troops is very different than boots on the ground.

We don't have boots on the ground. I don't think that's the intention.

But I think Iran should watch that build-up and they need to take note of that.

They have to...

Maga Mike is then asked, so is it your position that we're still not at war?

I mean, seems like we're at war, Maga Mike. Is that what you're saying? You're playing this clip.

Speaker, you said a few weeks ago that we are not at war with Iran. Is that still your position?

I think we're wrapping up Operation Epic Fury. That's what I think.

And I think it will be done in short order and that'll be right on schedule.

And then more from Maga Mike right here. Let's play it.

I don't even think they would agree to vote on a bill that would simply restock our munitions.

We've used some of those, as you know, in Operation Epic Fury.

And we've got to do that. It's a necessity. The first job of the federal government is to protect the people.

Democrats, I don't think we can count on their votes to do the simple basic responsibility of Congress.

And so it is part of reconciliation and probably we'll see.

Yes.

And then finally, you have Maga Republican Congress. I'm going to lease them a claim who says,

I hope it doesn't get to boots on the ground, but if we do it and Trump says we need to do it, it's worth it.

This is what the Maga Republicans are saying. Let's play it.

It feels like this weekend is going to be... I mean, interesting.

And given that we're talking about the Marines and the 82nd Airborne troops going there to assist in opening the straight.

Yeah. Look, I'm finally proud to say some of our allies are actually helping out.

I hope it doesn't get to boots on the ground. That is a big hope.

But at the end of the day, we have got to make sure that we can have trades through the straight of her moves.

Take a look at what's happening. The world is coming together for the first time in a long, long time against the terrorist state of Iran.

And that's a good thing because if we want economic prosperity in that region, you had Jamie Diamond on your program, we have to have stability in that region.

And I think this is one of the biggest steps that we've seen in a long time to have stability in that region.

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