Iran Claims 19 Ships Targeted as Strait of Hormuz Crisis Escalates

The MeidasTouch Podcast

Host Ben Meiselas discusses the escalating maritime crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting Iran's claims of targeting 19 ships. The ep

Key takeaways

• Iran claims to have targeted 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz within the last 48 hours.
• An NBC report reveals eight U.S. Marines suffered traumatic brain injuries from an Iranian cruise missile strike.

Main topics

• Strait of Hormuz maritime security
• U.S. military casualties and cover-up allegations

Notable quotes

A traumatic brain injury, a TBI, is never a non-serious injury.

Conclusion

The episode warns that official government narratives regarding mariti

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:00) While Donald Trump continues to threaten Iran and Trump continues to lie, saying the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has announced that it has targeted 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 48 hours. Two days ago, it said it targeted seven ships, and in the past 24 hours, it said it targeted another 12 ships. The Trump regime's CENTCOM claims that this is all a lie and that no ships were targeted. However, we are now learning that many Marines were actually seriously injured aboard a tanker about two to three weeks ago when Iran said it struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, which CENTCOM denied. Here's what we are learning about that. An Iranian cruise missile struck a ship in the Strait of Hormuz two weeks ago, injuring eight U.S. Marines. This was an exclusive report last night by NBC. These Marines suffered smoke inhalation and possible traumatic brain injuries with concussion-like symptoms. However, the Pentagon and CENTCOM says that they were not seriously injured. This is how three U.S. officials responded to NBC when they were confronted with this data. This comes at a time where U.S. forces have been helping to try to get ships to use the Oman route, that southern route in the Strait of Hormuz. Let me be very clear, as someone who was a former litigator who represented people who suffered traumatic brain injuries, in car accidents and trucking accidents, and I'm not even talking about traumatic brain injuries from Shahi drones and cruise missiles. A traumatic brain injury, a TBI, is never a non-serious injury. Hence, it is called traumatic brain injury, okay? And these individuals, these service members, these Marines who are suffering traumatic brain injuries, will have their lives forever changed for the worse. And so if the Trump regime is now lying about this, how do you believe that these 19 ships were actually not targeted in the Strait of Hormuz? Because Iran talked about the prior ships that were hit and Marines injured, and that has been covered up. Now, as you also will be aware, a few days ago, the Pentagon updated its website where it lists the killed in action and injured in action and it added 29 sailors and eight marines so it's possible that these eight marines that were added to the system a few days back Are the eight Marines aboard that tanker who got those traumatic brain injuries, who I guess were working to try to get these tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and Iran was able to strike them? What about the 29 U.S. sailors? And as I've said before, this is just the tip of the iceberg in my view. And I think there are perhaps thousands of service members who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. from the Shahid cruise and ballistic missile strikes at the U.S. military bases by Iran that are being covered up. And the Trump regime just says, ah, it's just a headache, so we don't need to report. These aren't really combat missions taking place. Regardless of whether these 19 tankers were targeted in the past 48 hours, as Iran says, what we know is happening in the Strait of Hormuz is there have been loud explosions throughout the night. And both nights we heard massive, massive explosions nonstop. And many believe, and my sources are telling me as well, that for sure Iran has been launching these missiles that release mines in the Strait of Hormuz and that Iran has been able to put out lots of mines in that southern route of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, that would be consistent. with the satellite imagery we've been seeing over the past 24 hours. And I think it also explains the extra desperation of the Trump regime to try to manipulate the market and claim everything's going good and we're now bringing out more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than even before the war started, which we know is all false. And folks, this is why we got to look at satellite. We got to look at surveillance. We've got to look at the sources in the region. We got to do our due diligence when we do this reporting. It's what's so important for me here at the Midas Touch Network. So make sure you hit subscribe, by the way, to this YouTube channel. Double check you're subscribed. Let's look at the satellite footage right here. These S1 images, right? No new vessels were seen in the Strait of Hormuz for 24 hours. Now there's the Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and other satellite imagery that exists in this region. The Trump regime has banned Planet Labs and other satellite imagery here in the United States, but there are other satellite imaging throughout the world that we can look at here at the Midas Touch Network. And so we know in the past 24 hours. that there are no ships that have been going through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, these are very large ships, a lot of them. They're called very large VLCCs. And so we would be able to see them and map what's happening if