00:00There's another twist in the tale. The story just coming in from United States of America.
00:05U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for the attacks on Indian ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
00:11Just moments ago, he took to social media platform Truth Social to post Iran's totally rebuffed drone attack last night
00:20against Indian ships.
00:21Leaving the Hormuz Strait is totally unacceptable.
00:25President Trump is now blaming Iran for the attacks on Indian ships.
00:31He says, and I quote, they better get their act together and fast.
00:37President Donald J. Trump.
00:39This after India summoned the U.S. Sharia Affairs Jason Meek and expressed strong displeasure over the U.S. bombing
00:50of merchant vessels and tankers with Indian crew.
00:53In fact, three Indian sailors have lost their lives and three ships being targeted over three days in the Gulf
00:59of Oman.
01:00But U.S. President Donald Trump is blaming Iran for a drone strike on an Indian ship.
01:07Earlier, President Trump had called off strikes on Iran at the 11th hour.
01:11But when details of the agreement apparently leaked out from the Iranian side, President Trump hit out at Iran just
01:19moments ago.
01:20He said, and I quote,
01:23The terms that Iran leaked out to the fake news have nothing to do with the terms that were agreed
01:29to in writing.
01:32What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth.
01:41Very dishonorable people to deal with.
01:50The question is, a couple of hours ago, President Trump said that a deal was in the pipeline.
01:58He indicated that a deal would be inked when there's a meeting in Europe.
02:03He seemed to indicate that the paperwork was being put in order.
02:08And within a couple of hours, he's blaming Iran for leaking details of what is a non-deal or not
02:15the deal that was agreed to in writing.
02:18And then he says that they're very dishonorable people to deal with.
02:24And the twist in the tale where he blames Iran for the drone attack on ships with the Indian crew.
02:31I quickly want to cut across and bring in my colleague Pranay Upadhyay for more on this.
02:37Pranay, what should we make of President Trump's latest post on Truth Social,
02:42where he's blaming Iran or Iranian drone strikes on Indian ships, saying it's totally unacceptable?
02:50Gaurav, this is very ironical.
02:52Well, because U.S. CENTCOM social media posts clearly indicates the U.S. Navy has owned,
02:57in fact, the government of India has also summoned U.S. charge of the affairs, Justin Meeks,
03:02twice within a span of like five days for these drone attacks and these missile attacks targeting the vessels on
03:11which the Indian crew was on board.
03:13So clearly, this clearly shows that either the Supreme Commander of the U.S. military is not breathed properly or
03:21he's trying to deceive.
03:24Because when the U.S. CENTCOM, I'm really baffled how to react to that thing because U.S. Navy has
03:31owned these targeted strikes
03:34and, in fact, they have called it as part of their naval blockade.
03:37But as far as the social media posts of President Trump is concerned,
03:40Gaurav, this is not for the first time Trump has scuttled or Trump has, you know, defamed the Iranian claims.
03:47This is yet another opportunity or yet another occasion where Trump has said that whatever Iranian...
03:54President Trump insisting there would be a deal in the next couple of days and that perhaps either over the
04:02weekend or early next week there could be a meeting in Europe
04:05and some kind of a framework agreement could be inked if he's saying that you're dishonorable people, you cannot be
04:13trusted,
04:14what you're saying is not true, what we agreed to in writing is not what has been leaked to media
04:19or to fake news.
04:21What should one make of whatever is happening?
04:25Gaurav, you can very well see here that President Donald Trump is really nipped with the Iranian approach that they
04:31have leaked
04:31because if you see his sentence, he writes there in the social post that this is certainly not in good
04:38faith.
04:39So he did not want all these details to be posted on social media or leaked to media or come
04:46out in open.
04:47But certainly there are negotiations going on, there is an agreement,
04:52and in fact President Donald Trump indicated, but you know that President Trump is a kind of a leader who
04:57does not want to share his byline with anyone.
05:00So he wants a word to show that his pressure has worked, Iran has succumbed, Iran has capitulated and in
05:07fact Iran is signing...
05:14Pranay, Pranay, keep tracking that story, I will come back to you four more.
05:17This message from President Trump on Truth Social, it's just a bolt out of the blue because the markets had
05:24actually rallied.
05:25There was hope that there would be an agreement.
05:28There was hope that finally peace may prevail.
05:33But suddenly President Trump issues a statement on Truth Social where he hits out at fake news, where he hits
05:40out at Iran.
05:41He hits out at Iran saying that you're dishonorable people, this is not the agreement that had been agreed to
05:48or had been accepted.
05:50And that, just some time back, he had said that there would be a deal over the weekend and then
05:56he blames Iran.
05:57He blamed Iran for attacks on Indian ships, leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
06:02He took to Truth Social to post Iran's totally rebuffed drone attack last night against Indian ships, leaving the Hormuz
06:12Strait is totally unacceptable.
06:15They better get their act together and fast.
06:19President Donald J. Trump.
06:21We will decode what he says, what he means.
06:26That's a task that's easier said than done.
