Trump WARNED Iran What Would Happen…Then THIS Lit Up the Night!

Iran just fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships. According to U.S. Central Command, Iran's IRGC targeted an American aircraft carrier and guided missile destroyer. Both ships dodged the attack. No Americans were harmed, thank God. Then the bill arrived. CENTCOM hit three Iranian crude oil carriers. Two were permanently disabled. The third was destroyed after the crew was told to abandon ship. So, Iran allegedly ordered the military version of FAFO and accidentally selected overnight shipping. Yeah. Oh, but here's where it gets really, really interesting, guys. Because this isn't just about three giant floating gas cans having the worst Tuesday imaginable. Iran still has missiles. It's oil exports matter. China's sitting quietly in the background like a guy at the poker table who still hasn't shown anybody his cards. And while that mess is unfolding, President Donald J. Trump has Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner bouncing between Vladimir Putin in Russia and Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine looking for movement toward peace. Well, at this point, you've got flying missiles, you've got tankers burning, oil markets watching, China lurking, Putin talking, and diplomats apparently collecting frequent flyer miles like Pokemon cards. Oh, and wait until you see how these pieces could fit together, guys. Go ahead and subscribe to the channel because apparently September decided subtlety was overrated. Oh, yeah. And if you need free Medicare help through Chapter, check out the description down below this video. I left their phone number and a link. 909-563-8279. You've been thinking about it. Go ahead and give them a call right now. Don't put it off another day. The average senior saving about $1,100 per year. And of course, if you enjoy the show, leave me a like on the way out. Consider it a tip for surviving this geopolitical circus together with me, all right? So, I want to rewind for a second because this part matters. Iran fires at two U.S. Navy ships, an aircraft carrier, a guided missile destroyer. Both dodge it. Nobody gets hurt. And CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper steps up to the mic and says, and I'm not making this up, if you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost. Taking out three of yours. Three for two. This is not a threat. This is a receipt written in advance. Now, Iran apparently read that as cute, but he's bluffing. Folks, I don't know about you, but the Navy does not do cute, okay? Within hours, three Iranian oil tankers were done. One near Karg Island, one near Jask, and one in the Gulf of Oman blown apart after the crew got the memo and abandoned ship first. Now, look, don't touch our boats. Turns out that's not a bumper sticker. This is a policy. Oh, and by the way, guys, this is exactly why I created the Ron Yates Report. Because missiles flying toward American warships, they make a great headline. But the question I care about is what happens after the headline. Does Iran hit back? Does oil jump? Does China step in? And does any of this eventually sneak into your life through higher gas prices, inflation, the markets, our investments? This is what I break down in the Ron Yates Report. What happened, why it matters, and what I'm watching next. So basically, while everybody else is staring at the fireball, we're looking for where the smoke is headed. There's a link in the description down below. Join the Ron Yates Report there. So, I want to go ahead and talk about the math that nobody in Tehran apparently did. The IRGC, Iran's own Revolutionary Guard, launched ballistic missiles at American ships. Not a rumor, not a talking point. CENTCOM confirmed it happened September 5th. They missed, both ships evaded, every American sailor went home fine. So, the IRGC accomplished exactly nothing militarily except waking up the one guy you really, really don't want to wake up. Now, here's the part that should terrify Tehran's war planners. They escalated against the strongest navy on earth. And of course, their return on investment was absolutely zero missiles landed and three tankers gone by morning. This is not an even trade. This is not even a trade at all. This is the IRGC lighting a match next to their own oil reserves and then acting shocked when the fire spreads. Sitting duck energy confirmed. US forces have blasted three Iranian oil tankers. A military light show, it claims, has put at least one of those ships at the bottom of the sea. Tonight, there are concerns about renewed fighting in the region, with Iran pledging to retaliate if the United States doesn't end its naval blockade. For those who thought tensions between Tehran and Washington had soothed to a simmer, a triple round of firepower blasting that belief out of the water. Three Iranian crude oil tankers destroyed all close to the Strait of Hormuz, one off the coast of export hub Karg Island, another near a port city in southern Iran. The ship, MT Kylo, blasted in the Gulf of Oman, seen smoking and on its side. The United States Central Command says it sunk and joined Iran's navy at the bottom of the sea. All of this in response to what America says was unprovoked and ultimately failed ballistic missile strikes on US ships. Via state television, Tehran labelled this latest attack at sea a war crime, threatening to intensify its strikes against US vessels. From Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, It's simple. If Iran shoots at US ships, we will destroy and sink their oil tankers. Our planes, ships and subs can strike them all. All this just one day after Donald Trump labelled the situation not a war, but A war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. Small potatoes to a president, but to the public there is a big price tag. It's kind of a pointless war, you know, that's just making everything more expensive for us. It's Labor Day weekend in the US and petrol prices are spiking, stinging those trying to get away for the public holiday. We could do without the war. We could do without any problems in this world and just leave peacefully. In the United States, Lily Greer, 9 News. So here's the actual scoreboard, guys. CENTCOM permanently disabled the tanker MT Downey off of Karg Island, disabled another one, the Stark one near Jask, and the third one, the Kylo, also nicknamed Noxon, got hit so many times in so many critical spots, the crew basically sprinted for the lifeboats before America even finished the sentence fire. Yeah, the crew was forced to abandon ship. Now, somebody smarter than the IRGC might ask, hey, why blow these up instead of just taking them? Free oil? No explosion? No mess? Now that's a great question. Wasted on people who thought firing on a US carrier was a good Tuesday plan. These tankers weren't just boats. CENTCOM says that they were part of a multi-billion dollar shadow network funding the IRGC directly. So Washington didn't just sink metal. It sank the checking account. Defense Secretary or Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summed up the entire US foreign policy toward Iran in one sentence. Stop shooting at our ships and we'll stop sinking yours. Simple math. Iran apparently failed it anyway. Now, if you know someone who still thinks that Iran is winning this, go ahead and send them this video right now. Let them see the receipts for themselves. Go ahead. I'll wait for you guys. Now, I do want to break down the ratio. Because some people online got real worked up about it. Three tankers for two warships? That's not enough. Relax, guys. Relax. Nobody traded a $13 billion aircraft carrier for a rusty oil tanker. This is not how this works. This is not a hostage swap. It's punishment. Every time Iran shoots and misses, America removes a chunk of the machine that pays for the shooting in the first place. Think of it like this. Your kid keeps accidentally throwing rocks at your car. You don't throw a rock back. You just take away his bike. Then his phone. Then his allowance. Pretty soon, he's got nothing left to throw with or to throw at all. This is essentially the whole strategy. Iran keeps swinging. America keeps repossessing. Three ships gone. Zero American ships damaged. Zero Americans hurt. Somewhere in Tehran, somebody's doing some really uncomfortable math right now. So, we hope that they're bad at it. So far, confirmed. Now, I want to talk about Iran's actual military situation. There's no real Air Force to speak of. There's no Navy that can stand toe-to-toe with a U.S. carrier group. What they've got is missiles and speedboats and vibes. That's about it. That's their entire arsenal. So, when the IRGC fires at an American aircraft carrier, it's not a battle. It's basically a guy that's throwing pebbles at a tank and hoping that the tank feels threatened. Let me tell you something. The tank did not feel threatened. The tank sank three of their boats before lunch. It's after IRGC attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. allied bases. So, I spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio just after those strikes were announced. That ship, in many ways, has sailed. No pun intended with regards to the straits. Because if you think about it as a moment, I mean, at the core issue here is they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. I have to remind people that continuously. This is all about the fact that they want to possess a nuclear weapon and threaten the world with it. And we'll never allow that to happen. And I mentioned the fact that the president of Iran came out and said, we'd like to get the MOU back intact. And he said, forget that. The secretary of state did. Meanwhile, President Trump now sending a stark warning to Iran, posting on Truth Social this. In part, if the failed nation of Iran retaliates for the very justified attack, they will be hit again. And at a much harder and higher level, there'll be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Let's bring in retired four-star general, Fox News senior strategic analyst, General Jack Keane. General, I know you've always said there were 20 percent of targets we didn't hit on epic fury one. Are you happy with operation epic economic fury two, perhaps? Are you happy with this tactic? Yeah, very much so. I mean, what Secretary Bassett is doing is unprecedented. He's attempting to isolate from Iran all of their revenue sources, cause true economic peril to them on a scale that we've never seen to isolate a country financially and economically and all of their networks and just shut them down in that sense. And I love the objective that he's trying to achieve here. It's economic collapse of the nation. What's not stated is what the objectives have been in the past to obtain a good negotiating position with the Iranians. That's not the objective here. And I think there's a realization here. And likely after what Secretary Rubio just said reinforces it because it was the MOU where there was a deal in it to open the Straits of Hormuz. We removed our blockade accordingly. And the Iranians, four or five days later, violated it and began to disrupt the Straits of Hormuz again. I think there's a realization that even if you do negotiate with this regime and they make a deal, which they did in the MOU, both presidents signed it, they're not going to comply with it. So if that's the end state, a negotiated settlement, and we refinance the regime as a result of it, they would never sign anything unless we remove sanctions and remove frozen assets and give them money to recover. What does that really get us? It gets us passing the Iranian regime to the next administration to cope with it. That's not where President Trump is. And it's not where he started. And I don't believe it's where he's going to finish. And I think Secretary Besant has put us on a path here to attempt to achieve their economic collapse. And if we have to use military capability in addition to that, I believe that president will come to that decision. He will not pass this problem on to the next administration to solve it as it was passed on to him after 47 years to solve the problem. That is the path we're on. I think Secretary Besant has got an excellent vehicle to move us in the right direction. So I see we're slowly opening up the straight. We're getting about 30 to 35 tankers through. We've got to get up to over 100, I guess. So here's the truly embarrassing part. Iran keeps escalating anyway, over and over, like they're hoping repetition somehow changes the outcome. It doesn't. It has never once changed the outcome. At some point, sitting duck stops being an insult and it starts being a diagnosis. Iran's military leadership just keeps on writing checks. Its actual capabilities can't cash. And every single time the bill comes due in tanker parts. All right, guys, real talk here. Okay, this war has been declared basically finished more times than I care to count on both hands. And yet here we are again, another missile launch, another response, another headline that sounds exactly like the last 12 headlines, right? I get the whiplash. I feel the whiplash. But here's the thing nobody's saying out loud. Every single one of these, like it's not actually over moments is Iran's decision, not America's decision, okay? Nobody in Washington's out here begging for round 13. Iran just keeps walking back into the ring, getting knocked down and acting surprised gravity still works. It's less forever war and more the world's most expensive game of whack-a-mole. Except like every mole belongs to the IRGC and every whack cost them another tanker. Yeah. So at some point, the definition of insanity kicks in, doing the same thing, expecting a different result. Iran hasn't hit that point yet. Apparently we're all still waiting. I would definitely call Iran like how your mom or your dad might've said, oh, they're just hardheaded. Iran is clearly hardheaded. So here's a question everybody keeps asking. And honestly, it's a fair question. If Iran's economy is supposedly on fire and their Navy's a joke and their tankers just keep on ending up on the ocean floor, how do they still have missiles to launch, right? Now somebody's, somebody's clearly restocking the shelf. Okay. Nobody's waived the sign receipt around yet. So let's be careful here. Reportedly, allegedly, according to folks who watch this stuff for a living, Russia and China have been floated as possible suppliers, keeping Iran's weapons cabinet from going completely bare. Makes sense strategically. You know, Russia needs friends right now. China needs oil. Iran's desperate for both weapons, buyers and friends. So it's less alliance and more like three countries under us pressure holding hands in the dark. Is it confirmed? No. Is it convenient timing? Oh, absolutely. So we'll take the receipts when they show up, but until then consider this the world's least trustworthy group project. So while the IRGC is out here losing tankers back home in Iran, it's not going great either. Gas lines, food lines, an economy that's basically flatlining while leadership just keeps on insisting everything's fine, which is actually it's usually the exact moment when things are really not fine. There have been unconfirmed reports circulating of unrest, protests, friction between civilians and citizens and regime enforcers. Nothing verified enough to kind of hang a headline on, so I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But when a government spending its energy, but when a government spending its energy shooting at aircraft carriers instead of feeding its own people, something's clearly cracking under the hood. You can only tell a population the fight is worth it for so long before the population starts asking worth it for who exactly, because it's clearly not the regular Iranian family standing in line for bread. It's not working out so well for them. The IRGC picked this fight. The Iranian people, they're the ones that are unfortunately having to pay for it. This is not strength. This is a house built on a fault line. Reports indicate the United States is ramping up efforts to export oil through the Strait while escorting 40 commercial vessels on Tuesday. While the critical waterway remains a source of regional tension, officials believe the recent U.S. strike further degraded Iran's ability to threaten the Strait. Inside of Iran, economic pressure is mounting. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Fox News, We are telling friends and foes, do not deal with this evil regime. The Iranian rial continues to deteriorate in value as the Iranian people are starting to feel the strain. Look, I'm not in favor of sanctions, but I'm not in favor of war either, because both have a negative impact on our lives and drive inflation higher. The only way the situation can improve is through negotiations, although they don't seem to support negotiations either. Now, let's make this personal, because I know what you're thinking at the pump, right? Ron, why do I care about these tankers near Karg Island? I have never seen Karg Island. I'm not planning a family vacation to Karg Island. I couldn't find it on a map with a flashlight and a search party. Well, here's why, guys. Oil is a global market, okay? It doesn't matter that America produces a ton of oil. When there's chaos in the Gulf, traders panic everywhere. And panic shows up as a number at your local gas station. So, it's genuinely one of the dumber features of this whole system. We don't need Iran's oil. We barely even touch Iran's oil. And yet, somehow, the price still twitches every time a tanker near the Strait of Hormuz has a bad day. With midterms right around the corner coming up in a couple months, you can bet that this is going to be talked about a lot. So, no, this is not just a somewhere else story. This is a your wallet story wearing a foreign policy costume. So, while tankers are sinking in the Gulf, a completely different chess game is happening in Moscow. Trump's envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Wyckoff, sat down with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, three plus hours behind closed doors. Then, they hopped over to Kiev the very next day to sit down with Vladimir Zelensky. No fireworks, no dramatic breakthrough announced. Just Putin's team calling the talks constructive. Which, as diplomats speak for, nobody stormed out. So, I would take that as a win. But here's the fascinating part. This is happening at the exact same moment that Iran's getting squeezed from every direction. Coincidence? Maybe. Convenient? Oh, absolutely. So, picture President Trump's team working two chess boards at the same time. One with missiles and tankers. One with red binders and translators. And somehow, both boards keep circling back to the same country. Iran's name keeps coming up in rooms Iran wasn't even invited to. This should make somebody in Tehran very, very nervous. So, here's my theory. Trump ended eight wars. Eight. Didn't get the Nobel for it. The actual winner apparently felt so awkward about it that she tried to hand it to him herself. He said no. Which, honestly, might be the most Trump sentence ever recorded. But forget the trophy case for a minute. Watch the strategy. If Kushner and Whitkoff manage to pull Russia toward an actual peace deal with Ukraine, Iran loses its last real friend with a functioning military and a seat at the table. No Russia, no China stepping up fully to fill the gap. No real allies left standing. Just Iran. Alone. Out of tankers. Out of leverage. And out of excuses. This is not a guest pulled from thin air, guys. This is just what happens on a map when your only friend gets busy making peace with someone else. Tehran should be watching those Kremlin meetings a lot more closely than they currently seem to be. Now, I do want to finish with the part that should really keep Tehran up at night. Karg Island, guys. This is Iran's main oil export hub. The place that's responsible for the overwhelming majority of their crude oil exports before all of this even started. It's already had one tanker disabled right off of Karg Island's coast. Now, nobody in Washington has touched the island itself. Yet. Same with Iran's broader infrastructure. Power grids. Key facilities. Untouched. For now. This is not mercy. This is math. America is still holding cards. It has not played yet. So, here's Iran's actual choice. Stop shooting or keep finding out exactly how much more expensive this gets for you. Every missile that they launch removes one more excuse for restraint. Every tanker that they lose is one more receipt in a stack that just keeps on growing. Don't touch our boats. Turns out, that warning was never a bluff. It was a promise. And promises apparently get kept. Now, folks. We told you Iran was bluffing. Turns out, we were right. Again. Three tankers gone. Zero Americans hurt. And somewhere in Moscow, the next chapter of this whole thing, it's already being written in a red binder. CNN buried half the story. You didn't need them to. You got the receipts now. Now, before you go, think about the guy at the gas station wondering why prices keep creeping up over a war that's supposedly not even about us. Send him this video. Not to scare him. So that he actually understands why. And if this video opened up your eyes even a little bit, hit the like button on your way out. It's totally free. Hey, guys. Real quick favor before you go. Hit the like button. It's totally free. And remember, when this video ends, Iran, Trump, Putin, China, and the oil markets unfortunately do not agree to stop doing things until my next upload. It's very inconsiderate of them. I know. This is where the Ron Yates Report gives you an advantage, guys. 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