LIVE: KUWAIT LAUNCH STRIKE ON IRGC IN IRAN – ISLAMIC REPUBLIC VOW REVENGE
Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2CTV. This is your global news channel, I am Amaya Tusi, and the Kuwaitis have launched an attack on the IRGC in Iran.
This is quite fascinating because about a week ago, almost a week ago—yeah, I think it was about 7 days ago—we received confirmation that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, both of them did conduct attacks on the Islamic Republic, but that they were mostly covert operations and they didn’t publicly announce it until now.
Today the Kuwaitis have done the same but this time quite publicly and openly. They have also arrested a number of IRGC personnel from these little tiny boats. The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic has now confirmed this and has a statement for us. He’s having a bit of a meltdown. The Abbas Araghchi has now vowed to take revenge.
Okay, so we’re going to give you guys the latest update on what’s going on in the region. Of course, we have a live feed from the Strait of Hormuz as usual. Now, let’s talk about what’s going on between the Kuwaitis and the Islamic Republic. Kuwait has now launched an attack on the IRGC navy in the Persian Gulf and also the Iranian ports in the south of the country.
They have also successfully arrested a number of IRGC naval personnel. And there is a statement we now have from the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, the mini foreign minister because he’s tiny, Abbas Araghchi. He’s not happy about this.
He has said: “In a clear attempt to sow discord, Kuwait has unlawfully attacked an Iranian boat and detained four of our citizens in the Persian Gulf. This is illegal. This illegal act took place near islands used by the US to attack Iran. We demand immediate release of our nationals and reserve the right to respond.”
The IRGC headquarters and Ahmed Vahidi, who’s in charge of the IRGC, have now also said that they are preparing a retaliation unless the Kuwaitis release the Islamic terrorists.
Now the problem with this is that don’t be surprised if over the next few days we’re going to get Greta Thunberg and all the other weirdos marching on the streets with Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn saying, “Release the hostages.”
They’re going to claim that these guys are hostages of Kuwait. Of course, that’s not true. They are terrorists and they have obviously been causing trouble and the Kuwaitis had every right to stand up against this Islamic tyranny.
Now, that aside, President Trump has now arrived in Beijing. Tomorrow we’re going to have full live coverage about this visit to Beijing where he is to meet with Winnie the Pooh, the president of China. And there’s going to be a whole ceremony and dinner, state banquet.
There is going to be a lot of things, but we already are getting a lot of briefings over the last few minutes on what is going on in China because President Trump is not just going to have some fun over there. The topic of Iran has already come up and it seems like President Trump is pressuring the Chinese communists to tow the line.
First we’re going to go to the vice president JD Vance who was recently sent to Pakistan a few weeks ago because he was perceived as the softer one when it comes to the Islamic Republic, and even he failed to get the IRGC to surrender.
He now said that after speaking with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the vice president says that President Trump needs to feel confident that we have put a number of protections in place for any sort of negotiations such as the fact that the Islamic Republic will never have a nuclear weapon.
Let’s quickly go to JD Vance: “Look, I agree with the president that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We’re obviously engaged in a very aggressive and very engaged diplomatic process to try to ensure that that doesn’t happen. And the president has a lot of options as he said repeatedly. There are options diplomatically. There are options on the military side. But the fundamental goal here is the president wants to make the world safe, but particularly the American people safe from Iran having a nuclear weapon.
And one final point I’ll say on that is nuclear proliferation is one of those challenges that people don’t realize it’s the biggest threat to America’s national security and it’s not obvious until it is because what happens if Iran gets a nuclear weapon? Then multiple Gulf Arab countries are going to want to get a nuclear weapon, then multiple countries from there are going to want to get a nuclear weapon.
The goal of preventing nuclear proliferation is probably the single most important thing that we can do to keep our people safe for the long term. It’s absolutely a worthy goal. But of course, the president and I and the entire team, we care about the American people’s financial situations. It’s one of the reasons why we passed the working families tax cut. It’s one of the reasons why we’re so focused on fraud. We care about how the American people are doing economically. We’ve also got a number of other challenges. Of course, the president has to confront all these challenges simultaneously.”
That’s absolutely right. We already have the best comment in the live chat. Melly says: “Give up the uranium.”
Yes, I think that should be the just one sentence from the Americans. They should just say that, nothing else, to the Islamic Republic.
Now, the White House has also released footage from a few hours ago when President Trump officially arrived in China and something happened very quickly. The United States intelligence with the help of the CIA decided to release a lot of information as President Trump arrived in China.
This was on purpose so the media stopped talking about what China has been doing behind the scenes when it comes to their support to the Islamic Republic. Chinese companies with links to the CCP discussed secretly selling weapons to Iran through third countries and third parties in order to hide shipments.
The latest US intel has also been confirmed by officials saying that they’re not actually sure whether the weapons were actually delivered or not. But they have obviously also suggested that China considered sending the portable anti-aircraft missiles to the Islamic Republic previously and they are already helping the regime in Iran with intelligence satellite support and high-tech tools in order to help with drones and missiles.
Of course, yesterday we had the confirmation that again US intelligence—they keep releasing things this week as we are basically having the Trump visit to China on purpose—yesterday we had the confirmation that the Chinese satellites were exposing the details and locations of the US troops in the Middle East to help the IRGC launch missiles and drones at them.
This is to basically give a whole portfolio and a folder to President Trump to go to Beijing and tomorrow he’s going to obviously have the official meeting with President Xi and to say: “There we go. We have a list of all the things that you have done over the last few months and obviously over the last few years but definitely the last few months during the conflict. This is what you’ve done. This is what you’ve sent to the Islamic Republic.”
And considering that China is already in a very, very bad place economically, politically, national debt in China is completely astonishing right now. The housing market is completely chaotic. The whole system is unstable and they are also in the middle of a trade war with the United States.
So, President Trump by visiting China, he’s doing the carrot—obviously, this is the carrot and sticks approach—but the folder he’s taking is the stick. Let’s see. Tomorrow is going to be very crucial obviously, and not just when it comes to the relationship between the US and China, but obviously the war in the Middle East.
A couple of minutes before we came live, I also received the latest information about what is happening in China tonight, which I will get to in a second. But Central Command, CENTCOM, has also released this statement and the video saying four weeks ago, CENTCOM began implementing the blockade against the ships entering and exiting Iran’s ports.
As of today, American forces have redirected 67 commercial vessels, allowed 15 supporting humanitarian aid to pass, and disabled four to ensure compliance. And these are obviously the IRGC ones.
Earlier this week, CENTCOM forces ensured that two commercial vessels turned around to comply with the blockade after communicating via radio and firing warning shots from small arms, clearly demonstrating that US enforcement remains in full effect and every single day we are seeing more suffocation.
Again, as I’ve been saying the last few weeks, the blockade of Hormuz is not really just destroying the finances of the Islamic Republic. It’s also destroying the oil storage and the access to the resources themselves because as this continues, they’re going to have to stop pumping and there’s going to be a big problem inside the country. There’s going to be a shortage and then there’s going to be more chaos.
But I don’t think we’re going to get to that point because things are escalating very quickly over the next few days, over the next week or so—could be any moment really as the Islamic Republic and their intelligence suggests that they are ready for an imminent ground invasion.
Now, we don’t know exactly when this imminent ground invasion is going to happen by the Americans, but it seems like the IRGC are refusing to surrender with the negotiations and the nuclear deal. So, it seems like that’s inevitable.
Of course, President Trump is currently in China for the next couple of days. So, we don’t know if they’re going to do it while Trump is in China or whether he’s going to come back and we have to wait for the weekend. Again, he is unpredictable. You can’t really guess when he’s going to do what exactly.
In terms of the Arabs, of course, the Kuwaitis did what they did. They attacked the IRGC navy. They also obviously arrested a number of their personnel. Reuters has also confirmed that during the actual conflict since it started, now that we have more information about Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
As I said last week, we had the confirmation that Saudi Arabia and the UAE also conducted attacks. Some of the information we now have is that Saudi Arabia launched strikes initially on the IRGC proxies in southern Iraq which is obviously not too far from Saudi. This is right literally by the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The information that we have, if I quickly go on the map for you guys… so that’s obviously Iraq in the middle. And we then have Saudi Arabia here. So in southern Iraq around just to the east of Rafha in Saudi, we had a couple of strikes by Saudi from this side obviously launching the missiles towards the Iraqi territory.
Of course, for those who are familiar, all this area, we got a huge chunk of IRGC proxies. Although I accidentally went into the Kuwaiti territory, so ignore the tiny bit—the Iraqi proxies are not in Kuwait. They would be in big trouble if they were there. They launched the attacks there.
But we also did get confirmation that Saudi Arabia also launched attacks in the southwestern part of Iran to the north of Bushehr to hit a number of IRGC missile launchers as well. So there has been a lot of activities.
Of course, the UAE has also done a number of attacks from here towards the Iranian territory. But all this obviously was confirmed, but we just received some more information tonight about the activities that they did separate to what we’re talking about tonight when it comes to Kuwait and the Islamic Republic.
Also, as we speak, speaking of obviously the Arabs, there is a bit of a drama between the state of Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Over the last few hours, we received confirmation from the Israeli government that Prime Minister Netanyahu actually went to the UAE secretly during the war. And that information is slightly disputed, but we now have evidence.
The official statement from the PM’s office in Israel: “In the midst of Operation Roaring Lion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the United Arab Emirates where he met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed. This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE.”
Of course, this wasn’t publicized because it was in the middle of the war and if you see any aircraft going towards the UAE, the IRGC could have tried to target it. Obviously, they were never going to be able to successfully hit it because the air force in Iran was slightly hammered by the Americans.
Shortly after that, the Emiratis released this statement denying this, saying: “The United Arab Emirates denies reports circulating regarding an alleged visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the UAE or receiving any Israeli military delegation in the country. The UAE reaffirms that its relations with Israel are public and conducted within the framework of the well-known and officially declared Abraham Accords and are not based on non-transparent or unofficial arrangements. Accordingly, any claims regarding unannounced visits or undisclosed arrangements are entirely unfounded unless officially announced by the relevant authorities in the UAE. The UAE calls on media outlets to exercise accuracy and professionalism and to refrain from circulating unverified information or promoting misleading political narratives.”
The interesting thing about this is that they didn’t attack the Israelis, they attacked the media. Now, there has been some speculation about this because firstly, we have the evidence. This is from the 27th of March and Avi Scharf actually pointed this out that two Israeli planes—obviously they use it for top figures including the prime minister—landed in Al Ain in the UAE on the 26th of March, the night before, and then went back to Israel after 4 hours.
Now the Emiratis obviously said: “Yeah, we haven’t had any visit from Israel.”
Now the theory here is that this whole visit was supposed to be a secret and it seems like there may have been a leak that was going to be reporting this anyway. Somebody in the media was going to report this as a leak earlier today. So the Israeli government decided to control the leak. This is obviously a normal practice in politics. You basically self-leak to control damage.
And it seems like once the Israelis did that, the Emiratis woke up and they didn’t check that. So all they saw was the media reporting that apparently the Israeli prime minister went to the UAE. So they basically blamed it on the media, the Emiratis saying: “Yeah, we just found out. The media are saying that the prime minister of Israel was here. He wasn’t here.”
No, we saw the plane. By the way, somebody went there, somebody VIP from the top of the government. The Emiratis also said nobody from Israel has come here. So obviously that’s a lie because we know the plane did go there. But I think that’s just a miscommunication because obviously somebody was going to leak it. The Israelis decided to self-leak it. The Emiratis were not told that the Israelis decided to self-leak. So the Emiratis started to attack the media.
Everything’s going absolutely fine in the Middle East as you can see. But some breaking news from Beijing. As I said, tomorrow we will continue our live coverage of the visit by President Trump. There’s going to be a whole banquet.
But apart from what I’ve already mentioned in terms of the US intelligence on purpose keeps releasing some details about what China has been doing over the last few months to help the IRGC. This is basically just to get President Trump to put pressure on Winnie the Pooh saying: “Don’t do it. Naughty naughty Winnie.”
And we’re now getting information. So according to the Americans, the US and China have now agreed that no country should charge shipping tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. The State Department has confirmed that the issue has been discussed between Marco Rubio and Wang Yi, who is the foreign minister in Beijing, and this has been discussed today before tomorrow’s big meeting between the two presidents.
So already the Americans have got the Chinese to slightly publicly betray their own ally because the official line from the Islamic Republic is right here—Strait of Hormuz. We are now going to have a new regional order in the Middle East. We’re going to be fully in charge. We’re going to charge commercial vessels and tankers. We’re going to have a toll system. If you’re going to go through, you have to pay the IRGC.
So the official statement now, the official admission: China has agreed with the Americans that that cannot happen. Obviously, it’s not in the interest of China for the toll system to exist anyway. Even though the Islamic Republic could make exceptions for their friends in Beijing to not pay a toll. We get that. But it’s still going to cause disruptions which is obviously damaging the global economy.
So the Chinese have verbally agreed but there’s no treaty in this. This is just the beginning. Clearly, this is the American government trying to send a message to the world. We’ve gone to Beijing this week fully prepared. We know exactly what we’re going to push them on and we are already winning. We already got China to betray their own ally. That’s the messaging coming from the United States.
Okay. We now have a statement from the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, Abbas Araghchi, on what I mentioned about the secret visit by the Israeli prime minister to the UAE. So Araghchi is now saying: “Netanyahu has now publicly revealed what Iran’s security services long ago conveyed to our leadership. Hatred of the great people of Iran is a foolish gamble. Collusion with Israel in doing so is unforgivable. Those colluding with Israel to sow division will be held to account.”
So according to the foreign minister in the Islamic Republic, they already knew. They knew weeks ago that BB went to Al Ain in the UAE and according to the foreign minister, he’s already told the cardboard supreme leader Mojtaba. They didn’t tell us, but you know, they already know. The Islamic regime apparently already knew, and he’s now threatening the Emiratis.
Now you see why the Emiratis had to deny this visit saying, “Yeah, it didn’t happen,” even though there is evidence. But I don’t really think much has changed because it’s been a week since the Islamic Republic already publicly declared the UAE as an enemy state. So there is already a war declared on the Emiratis from Tehran. I’m not really sure what else they can do because they’ve already been launching a number of drones and missiles towards the Emiratis over the last few days.
So I wouldn’t really worry much about it. We are getting a lot of additional US forces and troops moving to the Middle East to help with the defense of the allies that includes the United Arab Emirates. But that will be the next stage.
Dam Dave says: “Amaya, to what do you attribute Starmer’s unusual unwillingness to resign? Could a foreign power have sway over him throughout his tenure? Explain his behavior.”
No, because this is normal in British politics. Every single prime minister when they’re going down and everybody wants him to go—his own party or her own party is basically pushing him out—they always refuse to leave. It’s absolutely normal until they can’t refuse anymore.
We had the same with Liz Truss. We had the same with Boris Johnson. We had the same with Theresa May. We had the same with Margaret Thatcher. It’s normal behavior. They always do it. They always basically try to live in denial, saying: “Yeah, everything’s fine. I’m going to stay as prime minister for 20 more years until they come.”
Tomorrow is a big day in British politics because Wes Streeting, who’s the health secretary of the Labour government, is now going to be resigning and he’s going to launch a leadership challenge. Of course, we’re going to give you guys the live coverage on that.
Are China’s ships running a blockade? Fake news. They’re not running the blockade. They can’t run the blockade, but they have exceptions. So, the Islamic Republic would allow them to basically pass. The problem is that they then have to deal with the Americans who are on the other side, the eastern parts of the Strait of Hormuz. So, it’s a double blockade.
“2CTV investigates how long it will take Iran to fully run out of oil storage, oil apocalypse.”
The problem with that is that they haven’t really been completely transparent inside Iran about anything really when it comes to military or natural resources. Nobody will be able to fully assess that. CIA has been trying to get some intel on the ground and Mossad, but nobody really knows.
All people have is just they kind of guesstimate. That’s why some of the reports say they’ve got weeks. Some would say they’ve got a couple of months. We do know it’s not going to be that long. If not weeks, it will be one or two or three months max. Some reports did say they could go for another 3 months or four months, but they would not last a year, let’s just say. But by that point, everything will be different anyway. But even if there’s no military action and if they just continue the blockade, the regime will just collapse.
“Corbyn was my MP 97-24. He is not a good guy.”
I don’t know what that’s got to do with anything in the world.
“Will the IRGC claim victory regardless? Free Iran.”
But they are like the Pakistanis. They just declare victory even when nothing is happening. So nobody really cares. Let them declare victory. Let them be happy.
Seems Ping Pong is in the dog house.
“Heard you were looking for Armen’s discussion group. Link can be found under all of his videos as a mod there. Would love to see you join.”
Is it Discord? I’ll check it out.
“2CTV, I respectfully request to be recognized as an official 2CTV troll. Where should I register? Please advise.”
We do hold auditions if you want to be a troll. So all you have to do, Jeff, is to be creative and come up with some insults or attacks. Otherwise, you know… most of the trolls, we do need some new trolls because all these left-wing trolls and the Islamist trolls that we have on the channel, they are running out of energy.
The best one we’ve had recently is Fatima. Fatima who is from Pakistan. She’s very sensitive about Pakistan as an entity. So I don’t know where she is tonight. Hopefully she will be watching. She’s funny. I enjoy trolling the trolls. That’s my job here.
“Who is getting humanitarian aid? People or the IRGC?”
“2CTV, when they make the movie about this…” We already had this question last night.
“The IRGC needs Jesus.”
That will just burn them. He’s the hardest working carpenter I know from Mexico. I think everybody’s drunk and it’s only Wednesday today.
Big spender. “What about the Russian superyacht that was allowed to pass?”
I didn’t make that decision. I’m not really sure why that was allowed to pass. So, we don’t have the intel on that.
“We have made progress with the US and China regarding the Strait of Hormuz – Keir Starmer 2026.”
Yeah, Keir just takes credit for absolutely everything that happens around the world. He actually did mention—you think that was a joke—today he mentioned the war in Iran again while the rest of parliament were talking about his resignation and he said: “Yes, of course, the war in Iran, the visit to China…”
Like, yeah, the visit to China is by President Trump, not you. It’s nothing to do with you or the United Kingdom. Why are you even talking about China? Why is he taking credit for everything?
“China has leverage. 97% of key F-35 minerals come from China. While the IRGC is targeting undersea internet cables that can cut off Apple, Microsoft…”
They are not targeting undersea internet cables. The IRGC threatened to target the undersea internet cables, but they are not doing it. And so that hasn’t… they talk a lot, you know.
When they were supposed to use dolphins to lay sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, then they realized, well, that’s a terrible idea. If they lay sea mines, it’s going to blow up their own ships and all the other vessels that are going through. They didn’t think that one through.
“Did you know the Strait was originally named Mo? Then the Ayatollah’s mom floated through there. The rest is history.”
It’s a good joke actually. Not bad.
“I miss Fatima,” says Ivan.
Yeah, Fatima, wake up.
“Not Discord. It’s a site called Skool.”
Oh, I didn’t know that. I’ll check it out.
Someone says: “Tusi is working for the IRGC. He’s storing their oil in his hair.”
See, that’s how you audition as a troll. That’s a good one. I use… my hair is oily? It’s not even oily. And there was that conspiracy theory apparently that I use hair gel. What am I, 12? What sort of adult would use gel on his hair? Oh dear.
Okay, so let me just double-check. What we are going to do now ladies and gentlemen, we are going to continue this conversation.
Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I’m Amaya Tusi and we are the media.
