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7/18/2026, 10:39:45 AM
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All right, now to the Middle East. The US striking Iran for the seventh straight night, hammering key coastal infrastructure targets.
>> The Iranians also carrying out attacks on America's Gulf allies as the regime threatens to carry out a full-scale offensive.
>> Maline Rivera is live in Washington with the details.
Good morning, Maddie.
>> Hi, good morning. That's right, guys.
The US and Iran are accusing each other of now attacking civilian targets.
The US has hit roads and bridges around Banderabas, a strategic port city near the street of Hermuz.
Their aim is to isolate the IRGC from resupplying.
SenCom touted the destruction of one observation tower in particular, which they say significantly weakens the IRGC's ability to coordinate attacks on ships.
The US is denying Iran's claim that it's hitting civilian infrastructure, arguing it's been striking military targets with one goal in mind.
I think what we're in the process of doing is making it impossible for the regime to control the straight of Hormuz from that same land mass from the islands from from the latoral area that borders the straight itself and then further inland uh where the roads and bridges and railroads are at their ability to move supplies not only around the country but into and out of the country.
On the other hand, the US says Iran has been the bad actor, carrying out these attacks on civilian ships and damaging a water dalination plant in Kuwait.
Iran is refusing to back down, carrying out retaliatory attacks on US targets in the Gulf region.
An adviser to Iran Supreme Leader saying if US strikes continue for several more days, we will move into a phase of fullscale offensive operations.
But as Iran tries to assert control over the state of Hermoose, Sentcom is refuting the regime's claim that two oil tankers were sunk.
Sentcom saying like most IRGC claims, this is false.
Nevertheless, oil prices have spiked as a result of the tit fortat.
Iran's currency taking a hit too though as it plunges to a record low against the US dollar.
Charlie, Charlie, Lara, and Griff.
>> Thank you, Maddie. Thank you, Maddie.
>> Yep.
>> Certainly, the economic conditions in Iran are absolutely devastating.
It's I think the one over 1.9 million real to the one US dollar.
Um serious serious
pressure but certainly no hope whatsoever that uh that the peace deal that they were working on is going to work at this point.
>> Yeah. But this you I think people have to also remember these are not reasonable people that we're dealing with in Iran.
And I think the president deserves so much credit for what he's actually been able to do.
Look, if this was easy, previous presidents would have done it.
But this president has taken it on.
Obviously, now they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
They're not going to be able to develop a nuclear weapon at this point, which is great for the whole world.
But you look at where they are right now.
Yes, they're economically, you know, in dire straits.
But they really are so depleted otherwise.
The president always talks about the fact that their military is so depleted.
They have no navy.
They have no air force.
They strategically taken out their their missile production sites, their missile sites.
Um all of it has lent itself to a place where I think the US is in the best position to see something positive happen here.
It was never going to be easy. It was never going to be clean. Um but you know, then they put out statements like, "Oh, we're going to go on the offensive with what?"
>> You know, they they it's it's kind of you expect it to be a lot of lies from the
>> No, that's exactly right, Laura. I mean, this is remember Baghdad Bob during the early days of the Iraq war saying, "We've got him right where we want him."
And of course, that was all propaganda.
That's what you're seeing out of the IRGC and the head of the IRGC Ahmad Bahiti who was originally the first commander of the coups force going all the way back to the previous Ayatollah's regime that now you are seeing the fact that when we had uh negotiators at the table in Pakistan and and the foreign minister and the speaker of the parliament that were trying to do this memorandum of understanding you had the IRGC in vahiti that simply wasn't willing to stop and now We are at the battle of Hormuse and the bridges uh that were struck are in places like Bandar Abas which is along the straight right Bashure the the places we are hitting along here and there's Bondar boss there that is right along the straight because the IRGC was always saying that the the cards they were holding were the control of the straight of Hormuse and so President Trump is saying no you're not going to get that and you're right they don't have anything to throw militarily at us but one thing that I think the president gets a lot of credit uh is that he still is leaving the option on the table of cutting a deal.
If you ultimately come back to the table, that's great, but
we're not going to tolerate you to try and wage a battle for the straight of Horse.
And it's pretty clear that we're going to continue squeezing the grip on that.
Yeah. And they clearly mis uh misjudged the president if they thought
that because it was an election year
that they could play games because this
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