Exposing Saudi and UAE attacks on Iranian soil and Netanyahu's trip to the UAE

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0:01 Hello. It is Wednesday, the 23rd of Ordibehesht 1405, May 13, 2026. Mr. Trump's trip to China, where his main negotiations will take place tomorrow and the day after, Thursday and Friday, is said to focus on three issues: tariffs and the trade war between the two countries; Taiwan and China's claims for Taiwan's return to China and its annexation by China; and the war in the Persian Gulf, the war of America and Israel against Iran. On tariffs: the trade war between the two countries, which had intensified when Mr. Trump took office, reached

1:02 a kind of ceasefire last year, last October, and it is expected that these negotiations will not bring any surprises on this issue either, that they will pass smoothly, and that this ceasefire over import and export tariffs between the two countries will in effect remain in place. However, Mr. Trump has taken along capitalists and entrepreneurs such as Mr. Elon Musk of Tesla and his other ventures, as well as Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, whose chips are in fact the most essential product for the development of

1:57 artificial intelligence, and also Mr. Kelly Ortberg, if I'm not mistaken, who is the CEO of Boeing. He wants China's markets to be opened to American goods, investors, and their products, so that American agricultural products in particular can also be sold there. On the other hand, regarding Taiwan, which China considers its breakaway province, a country that has no seat at the United Nations and has survived next to China with American support, China

2:54 will probably demand a halt to the sale of $11 billion in weapons, which Taiwan has already paid for but whose delivery to Taiwan Mr. Trump has suspended for now. As for Iran, just today some American officials revealed that during the war of America and Israel against Iran, China secretly supplied weapons to Iran. At the time it was also said that the downing of American aircraft, in two cases or at least one case, was done with a shoulder-launched, high-tech anti-aircraft weapon, and China had kept quiet.

3:51 So Mr. Trump will probably both demand a halt to arms deliveries to the Islamic Republic and ask China to help with the peace negotiations with Iran and use its influence over the Tehran regime to achieve peace. However, the Islamic Republic is not so obedient to China that China can pick up the phone, say something, and the Islamic Republic will do it. Perhaps Russia has much more influence in this regard. But both Russia and China are certainly playing a complicated game with America: even if they promise to help with the negotiations,

4:48 behind the scenes they may do dozens of other things. Indeed, this war in the Persian Gulf, which Mr. Trump foolishly started following Mr. Netanyahu's lead, has in practice created geopolitical complexities in the region that may change the political chessboard of the Middle East. For example, today the office of Mr. Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, announced and revealed that during the war with Iran he secretly traveled to Abu Dhabi and met with Mohammed bin Zayed, the ruler of the Emirates. Likewise, the head of the Mossad, Israel's secret service, traveled to the Emirates twice during the war. The Emirates, which signed the Abraham

5:47 Accords with Israel and now has the darkest relations with the Islamic Republic among the six Persian Gulf countries. It has also been revealed that the Israelis sold the Iron Dome air defense system they built to the Emirates. It was also reported that both Saudi Arabia and the Emirates carried out attacks on Iranian territory in retaliation for the Islamic Republic's attacks on their soil. In the case of the Emirates, it was said that it attacked the refinery on Lavan, but in the case of Saudi Arabia there has been silence so far, and no one has said which part of Iranian territory the Saudi air force probably attacked. But it was also revealed that Saudi Arabia carried out attacks

6:44 against Kataib Hezbollah and some other parts of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi, which are groups close to the Islamic Republic, or even in a way dependent on the Islamic Republic, in retaliation for the drone and missile attacks that the Hashd al-Shaabi carried out during the war against Saudi Arabia, Saudi oil facilities, and other countries on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf. So we can see that this war has in practice caused other conflicts in the region as well, and if the fire of war flares up again, these conflicts may take on larger dimensions. Meanwhile, Shargh newspaper has published a report on the confusion surrounding receiving unemployment insurance, and in fact

7:49 the runaround between the Ministry of Labor, which must confirm the worker's unemployment and send it to the Social Security Organization to pay, and the Social Security Organization, which refuses to accept it. Shargh gives examples, especially regarding journalists. In any case, this unemployment insurance doesn't cover all the unemployed who are on the way, and the unemployment insurance that is paid amounts to nothing given the high prices and living costs. The rise in food prices continues. Meat is at nearly 2 million tomans per kilo, chicken at nearly 500

8:42 thousand tomans, and other items, cooking oil, rice and so on, are each rising in price daily. We have said before that this is only a prelude, in fact a foreshock of the great economic tsunami that is on the way and will probably be accompanied by inflation of several thousand percent, as well as unemployment in the millions, which has already begun with layoffs and the closure of various businesses. Meanwhile, on the American side, the U.S. Department of Labor has published the producer price index, which in the 12 months ending at the end of April reached its highest level since December 2022, and

9:43 figures of 3.6 and 3.8 percent have been cited for the U.S. inflation rate, which is higher than expected. And now that both sides, both Mr. Trump and the rulers of Tehran, are talking about resistance and resilience, the question is whether Iran, with Trump's naval blockade and the economic pressures, can be more resilient and hold out longer, or America, with the pressures on its economy and the elections ahead of us. Whichever side backs down and agrees to accept the other's demands, one thing can be said: if, for example, we put the economic pressure in America at

10:35 one, the economic pressure in Iran will be more than 10, more than ten times greater, and in fact the main victims of this policy are the people of Iran, people who are being sacrificed for 440 kilos of uranium, the product of a futile nuclear project whose end result, suppose it becomes 6 atomic bombs or even 60 atomic bombs, has no deterrent value, accomplishes nothing, and most importantly will be of no use to people's lives. Like the experience of the Soviet Union, which had enough atomic bombs, enough nuclear weapons, to destroy the Earth twice, but whose people, in the end, with the collapse of the regime, struggled with poverty and hunger. Nasrin Sotoudeh was released from prison today on

11:30 bail. She had been taken to prison since the 12th of Farvardin, when they raided her home and seized her mobile phone, laptop and so on. She was released today, while Reza Khandan, her husband, who is a civil and political activist, is still in prison. Last night an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale, with several aftershocks, struck northeast and east of Tehran, with its epicenter mostly around Pardis and Bumehen, at a depth of 10 kilometers. Two theories are now being put forward. One is that these earthquakes release the earth's energy and therefore prevent a big earthquake. The pessimistic theory is

12:25 that these are foreshocks that herald an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above in Tehran, which would of course claim many victims. The last time was in 1830, during the reign of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tehran and Shemiranat in these same areas, which, relative to the population of Tehran and Shemiran at the time, is said to have killed 30,000 people and destroyed dozens of villages and so on. But Mr. Pezeshkian, who on the one hand is the head of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, where they approved shutting down the internet this way, and presumably this "Internet Pro" and

13:20 making it expensive and selling it, and the "white" internet and so on, are resolutions of this Cyberspace Council chaired by Mr. Pezeshkian, today issued a laughable order to Mr. Aref, his first vice president, to go look into it, find a solution to this internet shutdown problem and carry it out. In short, this action of his brings to mind that famous story told about Karim Agha Buzarjomehri, a general in the time of Reza Shah, who around the year 1308, I think, was both commander of the 1st Tehran Brigade, which later became the 1st Tehran Division, and Minister of Public Works in the cabinet of Mr. Mehdi Qoli Khan Hedayat, Mokhber ol-Saltaneh. In the morning, as brigade commander, he would write a letter to

14:14 the Minister of Public Works saying, "We need this, this, this and this." Then in the afternoon, when he sat behind the ministry desk, he would write: "Not approved." Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.