July 9, 2026 • 11 mins
1. Breakdown of the Ceasefire & U.S. Military Response
President Trump considers the ceasefire with Iran finished, citing frustration toward Iranian leadership. Diplomatic efforts have effectively collapsed.
- Strikes on Iranian radar systems and anti-ship missile sites.
- Attacks against dozens of Iranian military targets.
- Efforts to reduce Iran's ability to threaten maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Warnings that additional strategic infrastructure could be targeted.
2. Iranian Retaliation
- Launching missiles at U.S. military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait.
- Threatening further retaliation.
- Rejecting what it describes as American "bullying and extortion."
3. NATO and Broader Foreign Policy
- Trump's participation in the NATO summit.
- Pressure on NATO allies to increase defense spending.
- Support for Ukraine through Patriot missile systems.
- Strategic discussions involving Turkey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We will sit down at the table and negotiate and
see if the smart people in that system can take
over from the crazy people. Well, here's the basic deal
that we cut. The basic deal that we cut was
we'll lift our blockade if you stop shooting at chips,
but if you shoot at ships, we are going to
punch back, and we're gonna punch back harder than ever before.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That was the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
They said they would stop shooting at ships. And what
happened twenty four hours ago they start shooting at ships again.
Now they were good, they were well behaved for about
a week, but then they start shooting at ships. So
the deal is very simple. If they shoot at ships,
we're going to knock the hell out of them. And
it's that simple, and that's the basic way it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a
major story for you coming out of Iran. Donald Trump
is declaring now that the Iranian ceasefire is over and
America is hitting back at Iran hard at this hour. Well,
the President's also saying now wants to make a deal,
but they're crazy and sick people. We have all the
(01:05):
audio and the breaking news. It's the forty seven Morning
Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We have major breaking news. President Donald Trump is making
it crystal clear, as far as he's concerned, the ceasefire
with Iran is over.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Let me be clear, this is not speculation. That is
exactly what he told reporters while attending the NATO summit.
His words were blunt to me, I think it's over.
I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum,
They're led by sick people. The president United States of
America making sure that we hit back extremely hard against Iran.
(01:43):
And here's how they described it on ABC News and.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The other breaking story at this hour, the US striking
Iran right now, a US official telling ABC News at
this hour, Tonight's operations are bigger in scope, meant it
a greater Iron's ability to threaten ships in the Strait
of Hormuz. Sencom releasing images of last night's attacks, saying
they struck defense systems and coastal radar. Iran tonight saying
it has targeted US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait,
(02:08):
and tonight promising more retaliation at this evening. Amid these
new US strikes on Iran, oil prices already surging at
our gas price is set to go up again. Rachel
Scott leading US off.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Tonight tonight as the US launches a new attack on Iran.
The second and twenty four hours, President Trump now declaring
the ceasefire over.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them,
in with this scum. You know what scum is. There's
something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The new US strikes, hitting Iran's coastal radar sites and
anti ship missile locations as a larger attack than last night,
when eighty targets were hit. It comes in response to
IRN firing on three cargo ships near the Strait of
Her Moves. The big question what comes next? Overnight Iran
launching missiles at US bases in the goal those missiles
(02:59):
intercept it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Now as you're going to hear there, even ABC News
making it queer the present hitting back very hard. The
President was also asked about what we can expect moving forward,
and here's part of what he had to say in Turkey,
we're not attacking.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
At the highest level, the highest level of the bridges
which we can knock down.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I would say, in one day, we knocked down every
single bridge interrand.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There's not a thing they can do about it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
They're electric manufacturing facilities right their electric plants where they
make their electricity in there.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
We will if we have to take them out. I
don't want to do that, but if we have to,
we'll take them out.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
They have desalinization plants, will take them out if we
have to.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Hate to do that. That's probably the one I would
like not to do. Least. We attacked carg Island last night.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
We knocked out a piece.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I said, don't touch the oil because maybe we'll take
over Cargylan.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
We may take over. There's not a thing they can
do about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And that wasn't all the President had to say about
the warnings of what attacks could happen moving forward, what
targets could happen, even taking over their island, which is
where their oil comes in and out of. President Trump
also said he's just sick and tired of dealing with
the Iranian negotiators.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I don't want to deal with him and him with
this scum. You know what scum is. There's scum, there's
sick people.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
President Trump opening the NATO summit by declaring, in his view,
the agreement with Iran is off.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Appearing visibly angry, the President repeatedly criticized Iranian leaders.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They're liars, their cheats, they're sick people.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
His comments came hours after renewed US strikes on Iran.
Thick orange smoke seen rising over bandar Abas onto Iran's
main naval base. US Central Command launched what it called
a series of powerful strikes, hitting more than eighty Iranian targets,
including air defense systems, radars, and at least sixty small boats,
all after the US has Iran attacked three tankers in
(05:06):
the Strait of Horror moves.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I think for Judid last night was absolutely necessary. Those
are very strongness points.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Trump also revoked a waiver allowing the sale of Iranian
oil on the world market. In response, atop Iranian warned,
the era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere.
We don't fold. Iran retaliated with a tax of its own,
saying it launch strikes on eighty five American military targets
in Mahraine and Kuwait. The attacks came during a pause
(05:36):
and negotiations as Iran holds a massive days long funeral
for Ayatola Ali Khamani, the Supreme leader, killed on the
first day of US Israel attacks on Iran.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
We say, go and do your funeral stuff, and instead
of it at the set shooting rockets at chips.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
At the summit, the President also unloaded on Alliance members
for not doing enough to help the US against Iran.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
We protect them, then I did for us. Think of
it because it work.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The Trump Administration's message couldn't be stronger, and the media
is clearly carrying that message. After the President said so
bluntly what he thought about the deal being over and
what could come next, and the White House laying it
out again, saying for decades, Iran has used terrorism, proxy,
malicious hostage taking, attacks on American troops, and threats against
(06:24):
allies as tools of its foreign policy. President Trump says
for forty seven years, Iran acted as the bully of
the Middle East, and he said that error is ending now.
The White House also emphasized that these latest operations are
about much more than retaliation. They're about preventing Iran from
ever becoming a nuclear weapons state. President Trump's to the
(06:46):
United States is prepared to target additional strategic infrastructure if necessary,
including their critical power facilities. He also suggested the US
could dramatically increase pressure on Iran's vital oil infrastructure, including
carg Island, the country's primary oil export terminal, with a
threat that we may take it over. The administration has
(07:10):
also reinstated those major oil sanctions against Iran, tightening the
economic screws once again after determining Tehran violated the ceasefire agreement.
Those sanctions are intended to cut off revenue that Washington
says helps finance Iran's military and their terrorist proxy networks. Now,
if you just take a step back, this isn't happening
(07:32):
in isolation. President Trump is making these announcements while attending
the NATO summit, where another major story is also unfolding.
The White House says Trump has fundamentally changed NATO by
pushing America's allies to shoulder more of the defense burden
rather than relying overwhelmingly on US taxpayers. The administration argues
(07:53):
that increase defend spinning by NATO members is now helping
American manufacturing and strengthening the US defend industrial base as well.
Trump also announced that the United States will license Ukraine
to manufacture Patriot missile defense systems, while leaving open the
possibility of future F thirty five sales to Turkey as well.
(08:15):
So in one trip overseas, what you're seeing is multiple
fronts of American foreign policy moving by the President simultaneously
continued pressure on Iran, NATO burden sharing support for Ukraine's
now air defense systems, strategic discussions with Turkey as well,
and then the diplomatic regions across the Alliance. The White
(08:38):
Houses also point to what they say are encouraging economic
developments at home. President Trump highlighting walmart decision to lower
grocery prices and urge other retailers to follow suit. He
also argued that falling oil and gasoline prices should translate
into lower prices for American consumers across the economy immediately.
(08:59):
And the administrator is also celebrating several new investment announcements
this week, including Apple reported thirty billion dollar investment in
US semiconductor manufacturing and additional manufacturing expansion in Texas, presenting
them as evidence that industrial investment continues flowing into the US.
(09:19):
The White House once again is also urging Congress this
week to advance additional legislation on defense funding as well
as election security out of the midterms, making those priorities
a centerpiece of its domestic agenda. Now, why is the
White House talking about all of this right now? They're
proving that the President is not just focused on Iran.
(09:41):
That you can do multiple things at once, And the
biggest question today is whether a RAN chooses further escalation
or if they actually want to get a deal done.
The President saying this from Air Force one hours after
he had his big meetings at NATO.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We hit Backbuche on trying.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
To full sale military conflicts.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I don't know would win it very quickly is another
way of doing We have any ways we can win,
but we've already won militarily.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
They have very little, They have very little.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Left, and they want to make a deal so badly.
They called a little while ago. They want to make
a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're
worthy of making the deal. I don't know that they're
going to honor the deal.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
If they want to make a deal, why do you
think they attacked commercial lessons, Because.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
It's not crazy, to be honest with you, it's so crazy.
They're a little bit out of good Trump, but they
want to make a deal badly.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The President I said to America, saying that on his
way home on Air Force One. And here's what the
big takeaway is. The United States is demonstrating that not
only is a Trump administration willing to respond militarily after
attacks on international shipping, President Trump has also warned that
these additional strikes will remain on the table, emphasizing that
(11:02):
the objective is to eliminate a rand's ability to threaten
maritime commerce and prevent the region from advancing towards a
nuclear weapon. Now, the coming hours and days, well that's
going to determine whether Ranback's down or whether this confrontation
enters another phase. The one thing that is certain this morning,
the ceasefire that many hoped would stabilize the region appears
(11:24):
to have collapsed, and the United States has made it
clear it intends to respond with overwhelming force if American
interests or international shipping are attacked.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Thank you for listening. To the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
We will sit down at the table and negotiate and
see if the smart people in that system can take
over from the crazy people. Well, here's the basic deal
that we cut. The basic deal that we cut was
we'll lift our blockade if you stop shooting at chips,
but if you shoot at ships, we are going to
punch back, and we're gonna punch back harder than ever before.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That was the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
They said they would stop shooting at ships. And what
happened twenty four hours ago they start shooting at ships again.
Now they were good, they were well behaved for about
a week, but then they start shooting at ships. So
the deal is very simple. If they shoot at ships,
we're going to knock the hell out of them. And
it's that simple, and that's the basic way it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a
major story for you coming out of Iran. Donald Trump
is declaring now that the Iranian ceasefire is over and
America is hitting back at Iran hard at this hour. Well,
the President's also saying now wants to make a deal,
but they're crazy and sick people. We have all the
(01:05):
audio and the breaking news. It's the forty seven Morning
Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We have major breaking news. President Donald Trump is making
it crystal clear, as far as he's concerned, the ceasefire
with Iran is over.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Let me be clear, this is not speculation. That is
exactly what he told reporters while attending the NATO summit.
His words were blunt to me, I think it's over.
I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum,
They're led by sick people. The president United States of
America making sure that we hit back extremely hard against Iran.
(01:43):
And here's how they described it on ABC News and.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The other breaking story at this hour, the US striking
Iran right now, a US official telling ABC News at
this hour, Tonight's operations are bigger in scope, meant it
a greater Iron's ability to threaten ships in the Strait
of Hormuz. Sencom releasing images of last night's attacks, saying
they struck defense systems and coastal radar. Iran tonight saying
it has targeted US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait,
(02:08):
and tonight promising more retaliation at this evening. Amid these
new US strikes on Iran, oil prices already surging at
our gas price is set to go up again. Rachel
Scott leading US off.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Tonight tonight as the US launches a new attack on Iran.
The second and twenty four hours, President Trump now declaring
the ceasefire over.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them,
in with this scum. You know what scum is. There's
something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The new US strikes, hitting Iran's coastal radar sites and
anti ship missile locations as a larger attack than last night,
when eighty targets were hit. It comes in response to
IRN firing on three cargo ships near the Strait of
Her Moves. The big question what comes next? Overnight Iran
launching missiles at US bases in the goal those missiles
(02:59):
intercept it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Now as you're going to hear there, even ABC News
making it queer the present hitting back very hard. The
President was also asked about what we can expect moving forward,
and here's part of what he had to say in Turkey,
we're not attacking.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
At the highest level, the highest level of the bridges
which we can knock down.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I would say, in one day, we knocked down every
single bridge interrand.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There's not a thing they can do about it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
They're electric manufacturing facilities right their electric plants where they
make their electricity in there.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
We will if we have to take them out. I
don't want to do that, but if we have to,
we'll take them out.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
They have desalinization plants, will take them out if we
have to.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Hate to do that. That's probably the one I would
like not to do. Least. We attacked carg Island last night.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
We knocked out a piece.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I said, don't touch the oil because maybe we'll take
over Cargylan.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
We may take over. There's not a thing they can
do about it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And that wasn't all the President had to say about
the warnings of what attacks could happen moving forward, what
targets could happen, even taking over their island, which is
where their oil comes in and out of. President Trump
also said he's just sick and tired of dealing with
the Iranian negotiators.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I don't want to deal with him and him with
this scum. You know what scum is. There's scum, there's
sick people.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
President Trump opening the NATO summit by declaring, in his view,
the agreement with Iran is off.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Appearing visibly angry, the President repeatedly criticized Iranian leaders.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They're liars, their cheats, they're sick people.
Speaker 9 (04:43):
His comments came hours after renewed US strikes on Iran.
Thick orange smoke seen rising over bandar Abas onto Iran's
main naval base. US Central Command launched what it called
a series of powerful strikes, hitting more than eighty Iranian targets,
including air defense systems, radars, and at least sixty small boats,
all after the US has Iran attacked three tankers in
(05:06):
the Strait of Horror moves.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I think for Judid last night was absolutely necessary. Those
are very strongness points.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Trump also revoked a waiver allowing the sale of Iranian
oil on the world market. In response, atop Iranian warned,
the era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere.
We don't fold. Iran retaliated with a tax of its own,
saying it launch strikes on eighty five American military targets
in Mahraine and Kuwait. The attacks came during a pause
(05:36):
and negotiations as Iran holds a massive days long funeral
for Ayatola Ali Khamani, the Supreme leader, killed on the
first day of US Israel attacks on Iran.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
We say, go and do your funeral stuff, and instead
of it at the set shooting rockets at chips.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
At the summit, the President also unloaded on Alliance members
for not doing enough to help the US against Iran.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
We protect them, then I did for us. Think of
it because it work.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The Trump Administration's message couldn't be stronger, and the media
is clearly carrying that message. After the President said so
bluntly what he thought about the deal being over and
what could come next, and the White House laying it
out again, saying for decades, Iran has used terrorism, proxy,
malicious hostage taking, attacks on American troops, and threats against
(06:24):
allies as tools of its foreign policy. President Trump says
for forty seven years, Iran acted as the bully of
the Middle East, and he said that error is ending now.
The White House also emphasized that these latest operations are
about much more than retaliation. They're about preventing Iran from
ever becoming a nuclear weapons state. President Trump's to the
(06:46):
United States is prepared to target additional strategic infrastructure if necessary,
including their critical power facilities. He also suggested the US
could dramatically increase pressure on Iran's vital oil infrastructure, including
carg Island, the country's primary oil export terminal, with a
threat that we may take it over. The administration has
(07:10):
also reinstated those major oil sanctions against Iran, tightening the
economic screws once again after determining Tehran violated the ceasefire agreement.
Those sanctions are intended to cut off revenue that Washington
says helps finance Iran's military and their terrorist proxy networks. Now,
if you just take a step back, this isn't happening
(07:32):
in isolation. President Trump is making these announcements while attending
the NATO summit, where another major story is also unfolding.
The White House says Trump has fundamentally changed NATO by
pushing America's allies to shoulder more of the defense burden
rather than relying overwhelmingly on US taxpayers. The administration argues
(07:53):
that increase defend spinning by NATO members is now helping
American manufacturing and strengthening the US defend industrial base as well.
Trump also announced that the United States will license Ukraine
to manufacture Patriot missile defense systems, while leaving open the
possibility of future F thirty five sales to Turkey as well.
(08:15):
So in one trip overseas, what you're seeing is multiple
fronts of American foreign policy moving by the President simultaneously
continued pressure on Iran, NATO burden sharing support for Ukraine's
now air defense systems, strategic discussions with Turkey as well,
and then the diplomatic regions across the Alliance. The White
(08:38):
Houses also point to what they say are encouraging economic
developments at home. President Trump highlighting walmart decision to lower
grocery prices and urge other retailers to follow suit. He
also argued that falling oil and gasoline prices should translate
into lower prices for American consumers across the economy immediately.
(08:59):
And the administrator is also celebrating several new investment announcements
this week, including Apple reported thirty billion dollar investment in
US semiconductor manufacturing and additional manufacturing expansion in Texas, presenting
them as evidence that industrial investment continues flowing into the US.
(09:19):
The White House once again is also urging Congress this
week to advance additional legislation on defense funding as well
as election security out of the midterms, making those priorities
a centerpiece of its domestic agenda. Now, why is the
White House talking about all of this right now? They're
proving that the President is not just focused on Iran.
(09:41):
That you can do multiple things at once, And the
biggest question today is whether a RAN chooses further escalation
or if they actually want to get a deal done.
The President saying this from Air Force one hours after
he had his big meetings at NATO.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We hit Backbuche on trying.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
To full sale military conflicts.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I don't know would win it very quickly is another
way of doing We have any ways we can win,
but we've already won militarily.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
They have very little, They have very little.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Left, and they want to make a deal so badly.
They called a little while ago. They want to make
a deal so badly. I just don't know if they're
worthy of making the deal. I don't know that they're
going to honor the deal.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
If they want to make a deal, why do you
think they attacked commercial lessons, Because.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
It's not crazy, to be honest with you, it's so crazy.
They're a little bit out of good Trump, but they
want to make a deal badly.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The President I said to America, saying that on his
way home on Air Force One. And here's what the
big takeaway is. The United States is demonstrating that not
only is a Trump administration willing to respond militarily after
attacks on international shipping, President Trump has also warned that
these additional strikes will remain on the table, emphasizing that
(11:02):
the objective is to eliminate a rand's ability to threaten
maritime commerce and prevent the region from advancing towards a
nuclear weapon. Now, the coming hours and days, well that's
going to determine whether Ranback's down or whether this confrontation
enters another phase. The one thing that is certain this morning,
the ceasefire that many hoped would stabilize the region appears
(11:24):
to have collapsed, and the United States has made it
clear it intends to respond with overwhelming force if American
interests or international shipping are attacked.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Thank you for listening. To the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
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