00:00Trump threatens new strikes on Iranian infrastructure as ceasefire crumbles.
00:05Washington, June 10th. President Donald Trump has warned that he is very close to ordering a new
00:11wave of military strikes against Iran, this time targeting the country's power plants,
00:16bridges, and other strategic infrastructure, as Tehran continues to reject U.S. demands for a
00:21negotiated deal. We are very, very close to launching a major operation, the main objective
00:27of which is to destroy the infrastructure that the Islamic Republic relies on for both its defense
00:31and its economy, Trump told Fox News. The president's warning came in response to the
00:36Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, shooting down a U.S. Army Apache helicopter over the
00:42Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. Both crew members survived and were rescued by an American
00:47sea drone. Iran has taken too long. Trump's tone has shifted dramatically from optimism to ultimatum
00:55in recent days. On Tuesday, he told reporters that the U.S. and Iran were in the final throes of
01:02what
01:02will be a very, very good deal. But by Wednesday, his social media posts struck a far harsher note.
01:10Iran's military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their navy and air force,
01:16doesn't even exist anymore. They have been completely defeated, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
01:21Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle East is dead. They've taken too long to
01:29negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price, he added.
01:35The president's frustration stems from weeks of stalled negotiations over a permanent ceasefire
01:41to end the war that began when the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28th.
01:47U.S. strikes and Iranian retaliation. The latest escalation was triggered by the downing of the
01:53Apache helicopter on Monday. U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, responded by striking Iranian air defense
02:00systems, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, targeting the
02:06cities of Jask and Sirik, as well as Ketchum Island. The IRGC retaliated early Wednesday by launching
02:13ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. Kuwait's military
02:18announced it was intercepting hostile targets, and Bahrain also activated its air defense systems.
02:24According to a U.S. official cited by Reuters, nearly all of the Iranian missiles and drones
02:29were intercepted, with no reported U.S. casualties. The New York Times confirmed that while Iran launched
02:35multiple missiles, there were no reports of damage to U.S. bases. Iran claimed it had targeted the
02:40Ali al-Salam Air Base in Kuwait and facilities of the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain, as well as
02:46F-35
02:46hangars at the Allah's Rock Base in Jordan. Special Forces Raids on Iranian Territory
02:52Trump suggested that any new operation could involve U.S. special forces conducting raids to seize and hold
02:59areas of Iranian territory. The raid by the special forces refers to locations that the United States
03:05determines must be reached. Our special forces must reach those points and launch operations to
03:11control those areas, Trump said, without specifying whether this would involve a sustained ground
03:16presence. He insisted that such special operations would not violate U.S. laws of war, arguing that they
03:23constitute retaliatory strikes in response to Iranian attacks on U.S. assets in the Middle East.
03:29Congressional War Powers Challenge. The president's threats come just days after the House of
03:35Representatives passed a War Powers Resolution, directing Trump to remove U.S. forces from
03:40hostilities with Iran. The measure passed on June 3rd by a vote of 215 to 208, with four Republicans
03:47joining all Democrats in support. The resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 86, was introduced under
03:54the War Powers Act of 1973, which requires the president to obtain congressional authorization
04:00for military action within 60 days. That deadline passed on May 1st. The War Powers Act is not a
04:08recommendation. It is the law, said Representative Jared Golden, Democrat from Maine, who voted for the
04:14resolution after opposing earlier War Powers measures when the administration was meeting its
04:18notification obligations. If the president has a case to make about why this conflict is in America's
04:24interest, he must come to Congress and make it. That is the only way to bestow any continued conflict
04:30with the legitimacy our system of checks and balances requires, Golden said. The resolution now moves to
04:36the Senate. Even if passed, Trump retains the authority to veto it, and overriding a veto would
04:42require a two-thirds majority in both chambers. Trump has dismissed the House resolution, arguing that the
04:48ceasefire agreement signed on April 8th technically ended major hostilities, and therefore, the
04:5460-day War Powers clock has been reset. He also claims that retaliatory strikes in response to
05:00Iranian attacks on U.S. bases do not require congressional approval. If they attack the U.S.,
05:06we must attack back. Now it is time for the U.S. to attack Iran, because Iran launched attacks on
05:12U.S.
05:12bases in the Middle East on Tuesday night, Trump said. Iran's diplomatic response. Iranian Foreign
05:19Minister Abbas Arakji has warned that his country would leave no attack or threat unanswered, and that
05:25the U.S. had suffered defeats on the battlefield. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bakai accused
05:31Washington of damaging this diplomatic process through the contradictory messages it sends, its repeated
05:37shifts in positions and demands, and worst of all, through repeated violations of the ceasefire.
05:43Bakai said Iran needed to reassess the situation, adding that any diplomatic process required a minimum
05:49of stability. Parliament Speaker Mohamed Bagher-Golabov, Iran's chief negotiator, said Tehran's response had
05:57changed the equation of a ceasefire on paper and its repeated violations in the field. Israel joins the fight.
06:04The crisis is not limited to U.S.-Iran exchanges. Over the weekend, Israel launched two waves of
06:11airstrikes across Iran, including against the country's largest petrochemical complex, after
06:17Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut.
06:23Iran's military said it was halting attacks on Israel for now, but warned of much harsher and more
06:28forceful actions if Israeli aggression and hostile acts, including operations in southern Lebanon,
06:34continue. At Trump's urging, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to halt preparations for another
06:41strike on Iran, though Israeli defense minister Israel Katz made clear that Israel would continue
06:47striking Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump told Fox News on Sunday that he was not happy Israel had struck
06:54Beirut without coordinating with the U.S. military. Last week, Trump confirmed he had called Netanyahu
07:01crazy during a phone call and used expletives to express his displeasure with Israel's military
07:06onslaught in Lebanon. The fragile ceasefire collapses. The ceasefire brokered by Pakistan in early April,
07:15which was meant to pause hostilities and buy time for negotiators to hammer out a long-term peace
07:20agreement, has effectively collapsed. Both sides have exchanged intermittent fire for weeks,
07:26but the latest escalation, including the downing of the U.S. helicopter, the U.S. strikes on Iranian
07:32radar sites, and Iran's missile attacks on U.S. bases, represents the most serious breach of the
07:38truce since it was signed. Lebanon has complicated the picture further. Iran is reportedly seeking a
07:44separate ceasefire to protect Hezbollah before returning fully to negotiations with the U.S.
07:50Israeli leaders believe Iran is trying to carve out a zone of immunity for Hezbollah in southern
07:55Lebanon, which would erode Israel's regional position. Any Iranian attempt to tie Lebanon and
08:01Iran and attack Israel will be answered forcefully, as it was yesterday, Katz said in a statement.
08:07What comes next? With the War Powers Resolution moving through Congress,
08:11Trump threatening new strikes, Iran refusing to capitulate, and Israel continuing its campaign
08:17against Hezbollah, the Middle East appears to be spiraling back toward full-scale war.
08:22Trump told Fox News he had a message for Iran after its latest assault on Israel.
08:28You've shot your missiles. That's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal.
08:32But Iran's leadership has shown no indication of backing down. As one analyst noted,
08:38neither is willing to compromise, and the red lines both sides have drawn through Lebanon and the
08:43Strait of Hormuz make the path to de-escalation increasingly narrow. For now, Trump insists that
08:50Iran still has an opportunity to negotiate, but warned that the opportunity is running out.
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