Welcome to TUC TV. This is your global news channel. Amay Tusi and the IRGC are now being challenged with an expected crisis as oil spillage continues across the Persian Gulf along the coastline and the Islamic Republic have now reached max oil storage capacity around the Kag Islands.
This is a huge victory for the United States of America without a single shot being fired. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is paralyzing the regime from within. They are now also struggling to even pay their own members’ wages. We’re going to give you guys the latest updates on what’s going on in Iran as the currency, the rial, is collapsing once again.
It’s basically flatlining at this point because it’s struggling to even bounce back. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, also has some info from what’s actually been happening inside the country.
All right, first things first. Let’s go to Iran and our interactive map. According to the US Treasury, to the south of the country right around here, we got the Kag Island. You can see there we go.
And also along the coastline, we have a video from Iran showing the oil spillage, which is getting worse and worse. It is an environmental disaster at this point. But around Kag Island—so all the way from here and of course also from Bandar to probably around here and of course Bushehr as well—all these areas and down here, let’s do another line. There we go. All the way around here, we have massive problems with oil spillage because they don’t know what to do anymore. They have to now—they are now considering to completely shut down oil production and pumping out oil because they don’t know what to do with it.
There is—it’s almost impossible for them to even try to smuggle it out via the Pakistani border because they have considered that, they have attempted to send out some of the petrol out. So from all the way from here around Bushehr to Pakistan, they have done a few routes where they were basically transporting some of the oil, but that has not really been effective.
So they are definitely struggling according to Scott Bessent saying that not only that the Iranian oil storage is 100% full and they can’t sell, but their soldiers and members are not getting paid. We also have a video from one of the members of the IRGC who has leaked some information about what they’re actually eating because they’re only eating potatoes at this point.
Scott Bessent says, “Island, we have seen that there have been no loadings in the past three days completely because obviously they have been trying to load over the last few weeks. They tried to leave the Strait of Hormuz, the Americans stop them, they go back. So they’ve kind of stopped doing that. We believe their storage is full and none of the ships are getting out. None are coming in. So they are not able to store oil underwater. So, they’re going to start shutting down their production. We can see that that’s happening from satellite photos. But more importantly, this is a diabolical regime. They’re not able to replenish their weapons stock from abroad. So, I think they are on their last legs. The blockade, President Trump’s blockade has been a resounding success.”
So, this is the video I’m going to show you now from the Persian Gulf. 80,000 barrels of oil have now been spilled into the sea near the Kag Island.
You can see the thick oil sludge coating Iran’s coastline as it spreads through obviously the whole of the Persian Gulf. Satellite imagery shows that over the last few days, the massive oil slick stretching across dozens of square kilometers near Iran’s main oil export hub is continuing. Let’s go to the video from the coastline of Iran.
The guy in the video was saying that a lot of sea life, fish, and I believe some birds, they’ve all died, and he says that the whole island has been destroyed by the regime. “God help us all,” that’s basically what the man was saying in the video. This is disgusting.
I mean, we did see some satellite imagery that we showed you, I think about a week ago, a few days ago on this channel, which showed just outside around the Kag Island and of course the coastline in Iran. You could see the black marks that were basically the oil in the water. But this is the first time we’re actually getting raw footage, the actual videos coming in.
You can see the black sludge everywhere which, again, on the one hand it shows a disaster for the actual resources in Iran when it comes to oil, but at the same time the environmental damage is also insane. So a lot of things are happening at the same time, but the regime doesn’t care.
So, one of the things that they’re dealing with right now is angry members. Their own mercenaries are now filming and leaking information to the outside world because they have access to the internet. Don’t forget about that. The regime has access to the internet. Not only are they not getting paid according to one of them—I’m going to show you the video, I’m going to translate what it’s saying—but they are giving them one potato a day and a couple of pickled cucumbers basically, or gherkins. Watch this.
“It says but they’re not giving us any money anymore,” the speaker in the video says, “And we work hard every single day, day in and day out. And then of course they’re only giving us potatoes and pickled cucumber.”
That’s all they’re getting. Obviously people at the top are still having a great luxury life. It’s just obviously the minions at the bottom of the regime who are not getting anything anymore. They can’t even pay their own rents, and they’re not going to have access anymore to basic resources including heating because things are not going too well.
Also at the same time, the regime is focusing on pushing for more war because they’ve been itching for the return of the conflict because that’s the only way they can have some sort of distraction and also basic unity inside the regime. Because the so-called ceasefire and the blockade of Hormuz is paralyzing them and obviously has caused a massive infighting.
The only good news for the regime in Iran is that the big infighting and the coup has now stopped basically because Ahmed Vahidi, who’s the leader of the IRGC who’s basically in charge of the country, his side has won. They are now in charge. So their infighting—they have been successfully crushing the other sides of the regime and the government.
So technically things are calm relatively, but obviously the rest of them are not helping the others. So it’s not looking good, but they are focusing on inviting the Americans back into Iran. So this is Ibrahim Azizi who’s the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. He and the government legislators have now announced a 50 million euro bill for the assassination of President Trump.
Anybody anywhere in the world, if they are able to successfully take out President Trump, they will be getting 50 million euros. Now 50 million euros in Iran is huge because the currency has collapsed, but they’ve saved up their money. That’s part of the government budget and they basically introduced this new bill in parliament in Tehran in order to do this.
Now, after the first two—there were we’ve already had two failed assassination attempts against President Trump that were tied to the IRGC. Well, we see overall we had about three or four, but two of them were linked to the IRGC over the last two, three years. And but now they think that it’s probably best if they just create some sort of reward.
So, anybody out there, whether you’re a Democrat or a trans activist or whatever you are, you can try to take out President Trump and you get paid by the regime in Iran. The issue is that they don’t understand. I mean, there will be some crazy people who think that they’re going to get paid, but you’re not going to get paid.
Even if you successfully take out President Trump, the US Treasury is not going to allow you to get paid. But the whole thing makes no sense. They are just desperate to provoke President Trump to return to the conflict. Meanwhile, the rest of the proxies and the Islamists, including the ones in Gaza, have been continuing to refuse to disarm, and they’ve been obviously rallying the troops to attack Israel again.
The IDF and Mossad discovered what was happening in Gaza over the last week or so. They received the approval and the green light from the Israeli government in order to carry out an assassination against the Hamas leader, the military leader Ezzedine Al-Haddad in Gaza. Mossad and the IDF intelligence were operating for about a week and a half monitoring his behavior, where he’s going, what sort of movement he’s having.
Eventually, a few hours ago in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces carried out this massive assassination. This is the video. Now, we have been in touch with the IDF. The initial assessment suggests that the assassination has been successful, but we have to wait for confirmation as they have to see it obviously with their own eyes to ensure that the Hamas military leader has been taken out.
This will be a huge move in the fight against the Islamic Republic’s proxies because in terms of senior and experienced leaders that they have, whether it’s Hezbollah or Hamas, there are not many of them left. Because the more the Israelis take them out, the more they have to promote the younger ones and the inexperienced ones.
So there’s only a few left who are from the old guard of the IRGC’s proxies. But this is a statement from Israel Katz, the defense minister in Israel, saying, “Under the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and myself, the IDF is now striking in Gaza against the arch-murderer Ezzedine Al-Haddad, the leader of the military wing of Hamas and one of the architects of the October 7th massacre. Haddad was responsible for the murder, abduction, and injury of thousands of Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers. He held our hostages in cruel captivity, launched the terrorist attacks against our forces, and refused to implement the agreement led by US President Trump to disarm Hamas of its weapons and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.”
He continued by saying that the IDF and Shin Bet are effectively implementing the government’s policy of containing threats and preemptively thwarting our enemies.
“We will continue to act with strength and determination against anyone who took part in the October 7th invasion,” the statement continues, “This is a clear message to all the murderers who seek our lives. Sooner or later, Israel will get you.”
And of course this is the wider message not just to the proxies but to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran. The Israelis obviously have confirmed that they are not done. We also had President Trump earlier on saying—well, late last night essentially President Trump said that the military decimation of Iran is to be continued.
So the job is not done yet, but they’re just waiting for the blockade of Hormuz to continue doing its job well. And obviously it’s doing a great job because the IRGC can’t even pay their own members. And obviously the more that happens, the easier it will get to bring down the regime when the Iranian people, led by the immortal guard, are called out to come out to take to the streets.
At that moment, you’re going to have a lot of these police officers and soldiers or whatever they are, security officials as part of the current regime in Iran, they’re not going to have any appetite to follow orders to kill their own people as they also did obviously in January in the uprising.
A lot of them refused to follow the orders, just disappeared. That’s why the Islamic Republic had to bring in mercenaries from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to carry out the massacre. There is also the situation with the visit of President Trump to Beijing successfully. Apparently, according to the US government, discussions between President Trump and Xi Jinping managed to get China to at least publicly take the American side because they have to.
I’ve been saying this for the past two, three years that at the end of the day, the likes of China and Russia will only support their own partners and allies when those guys are useful and are strong. A perfect example is Syria under Assad. The moment that place was going down, the Russians just stopped supporting it. They said, “Okay, you can come to Moscow. You can stay here. We’ll get you an apartment, but Syria is gone.”
Same thing in Iran. China and Russia, they had a chance to get involved last year in June, a year ago during the 12-day war. They didn’t get involved. Obviously, Tucker Carlson promised you World War III. Didn’t happen. They also had another opportunity to get involved two months ago. Tucker Carlson said there’s going to be a World War III. Russia and China didn’t get involved. Obviously, indirectly, they continue to support the regime. That’s different. But they did not join the conflict because they realized the regime in Iran is not winning anymore. There’s no point.
You could give them a bit of support because of the alliance that they have. But the conversations between the Americans and Chinese include several pressure points. So in terms of the nuclear pressure, China has now said that the Islamic Republic should never obtain a nuclear weapon. That’s the US position. In terms of the Strait of Hormuz, China said that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open without any toll, any payment system or anything like that. That’s obviously they want to create a new system. The Americans and the Chinese now agree that it should be open.
The reason for that is because China didn’t really care whether Hormuz was open or closed because China had a relationship with the IRGC to allow the Chinese vessels and tankers to come in and go out.
But since the US blockade started, the Chinese vessels have been struggling. One or two of them did go through, but obviously most of them got stuck and they realized, well, America is more powerful than the regime in Iran. So the Chinese said, “Yeah, actually we’re always on the same page. The Hormuz should be open,” because they know they can’t really go to destroy Hormuz anymore. China is obviously prioritizing itself, not their so-called junior partners in Iran.
In terms of security, they have said that they will not send weapons to the IRGC. Obviously, they are saying that—they could lie, but the Americans will be keeping an eye on the satellites and everything else to ensure that that doesn’t happen.
And the US-China trade compared to the Iran-China trade, you can’t even compare that. And President Xi knew this, that the reason that Beijing held this massive banquet and the red carpet and the YMCA everything when President Trump came—because this visit could have been an extremely cold and clinical visit, but it was with a lot of pomp.
It seemed like they are two allies. Obviously, they’re not allies. They are rivals. But China had to take this seriously because the trade between the US and China is over 400 billion US dollars. Now, that’s every year, but China and Iran trade is tiny, and it’s only in millions of dollars, the tens of millions. And also, it’s one-sided.
So, it’s not really in the interest of China to sacrifice its own position by trying to get involved in the war in Iran because they know if they want to use hard power, it’s probably best to save it for Taiwan. They really care about Taiwan. Why would they waste hard power for a dying regime in Iran? Mike Waltz, the US ambassador, also said that this was a huge outcome after the visit by President Trump.
Let’s quickly go to Mike Waltz.
“And I’ve got to tell you, to see the Chinese backing away from Iran after meeting with President Trump was a huge outcome of this,” Mike Waltz states.
“How did they back away from Iran?” the host asks.
“Well, they said they agreed no nukes, no militarization of the Straits of Hormuz,” Waltz replies, “And you can’t be tolling the Straits of Gibraltar or Straits of Malacca or the Straits of Hormuz because you see it as a source of revenue. So that was a huge, huge step in our direction.”
“Did he believe that he was telling the truth, Xi, when he said that they’re not supplying anything to Iran?” the host asks.
“Well, we’ve seen actually—we’ve seen China backing away even from some of this dual-use,” Waltz explains, “But the blockade is preventing it one way or another, and the blockade is key.”
And that last part is the main point because obviously, as anybody would say, like, do you trust China? They would just say that. Obviously, they would just say that. Yeah, obviously if they just say something, “Oh yeah, we’re not going to send weapons to Iran,” you can’t believe them. But the main point is they got China to say it, but it’s not really about what they say. It’s not even about them saying, “Yeah, of course we were going to agree.”
It’s about the fact that they can’t because the Americans are controlling the Strait of Hormuz. So, China had to say that because they knew at this point it doesn’t really matter. They can’t actually send anything through the Strait of Hormuz, and any cargo plane that goes through Iran is being monitored. But again, the problem is also about what’s going to happen to the junior members in the regime.
That’s why you have so many foreigners right now walking around the streets of Iran. The people you see—all these rallies that are dying down a little bit in Iran, the pro-regime rallies—they’re all foreigners now.
The crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, has released a new statement saying that he’s now requested the Iran Transitional Justice Regulation Committee—basically this is part of the transitional government that is announced as the opposition—to provide its opinion on two important matters: first, the criminal liability of those in the regime who collaborated with the structure in Iran of the Islamic Republic to basically harm the citizens of Iran, and secondly, the confiscation of the property of protesters and their families.
Basically, the crown prince is preparing before the final call to get the immortal guard and the Iranian people to come to the street again. You have to get things ready behind the scenes, and this is part of that messaging. Let’s quickly go to the crown prince with the English subtitles, and then we’re going to get your reaction.
“Darin Rosto Afroi,” the crown prince speaks in the video, “Roast. Bashar.”
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we can now quickly go as the Israeli Defense Forces have just launched a massive strike on IRGC’s Hezbollah wing in Tyre. Let’s quickly go and see what is going on over there.
So, we don’t know what they’ve hit yet. 30 have been injured, apparently. Okay. Well, we’ll figure out—we’re waiting for the statement to find out what they have taken out, the Israeli Defense Forces in Tyre. Uh, but that was a big hit obviously.
So the Islamic Republic, obviously in terms of the results so far of this conflict, they’ve lost their military bases. Their air force has been completely hammered. The IRGC Navy have lost all their big vessels and assets. They just have the little tiny boats, the speedboats. They’ve lost their military leaders. They’ve lost their political leaders. They’ve lost their supreme leader. They have now obviously lost access, well, to trade when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz. The oil storage capacity has now reached its maximum, and they can’t even pay their own members’ wages. They can’t transfer money or weapons to their proxies, and everything is going absolutely fine.
So it seems like the regime in Iran continues to struggle, and President Trump, without even a single shot being fired in the last few weeks, continues to reduce the regime and their capabilities. Of course, their nuclear capability has also been massively reduced, and the ballistic missile program.
So it seems to be an extremely one-sided war so far. But let’s quickly get some reaction while we wait for intel from the Israeli Defense Force on what they actually hit in Tyre.
“What would your dad consider a victory or defeat of the regime?” a viewer asks.
“When the regime surrenders or gets dragged out,” the host answers.
“Please stay safe tomorrow. I need my daily dose of 2CTV,” another comment reads.
“Yes, don’t worry. I’ll be fine,” the host says, “Tomorrow is our rally, of course, the United Kingdom rally in central London. I will be there making a speech. We just got an update, by the way, that our good friend Nick Shirley from the United States has successfully managed to enter the United Kingdom despite the fact that Keir Starmer has been trying to ban everybody from coming to Britain for tomorrow’s rally. Nick Shirley is coming tomorrow, and he’s going to be making a speech at the United Kingdom protest.”
“Which rebel group will be first to openly fight the control?” a viewer asks.
“You just listed all of them, yeah,” the host responds.
“Free Iran, Javid Shah. Iran, I hope, is free before 2026 ends,” a comment says.
“Well, I’ve always said this will be a very long, long campaign because of how big Iran is as a country and how ruthless they are,” the host reflects, “They don’t tend to just surrender. You’re going to have to drag them out.”
“Your hair looks fabulous today,” says Snook.
“Thank you,” the host replies.
“Any statement from Shah Reza Pahlavi today?” Kevin asks.
“Oh, I’m assuming Kevin posted that before I showed you the video of the crown prince,” the host notes.
“When the money stops flowing to their soldiers and mercenaries, the game will soon be over,” Marcus comments.
“But again, it will be the next stage, the next phase, which will be what they call the final battle,” the host explains, “It’s only at that point that what you said, Marcus, can be assessed because that’s when we can judge the behavior of those who haven’t been getting paid because they know that the regime is not on their side. You know, they don’t even care about their own people.”
“The US should just offer a bag of potatoes to IRGC members to retire their bosses,” a viewer jokes.
“If oil gets on your Navy ships, we should bill them,” another suggests.
“News, Justin Tucker has a new baby rattle,” a comment says.
“Okay,” the host notes.
“The final battle may be much more decisive now. The troops are opening their eyes to one potato and a dill pickle every day,” a viewer observes.
“Yeah, it’s a slow death,” the host agrees.
“We could probably start the revolution in Iran by sending Costco hot dogs,” a comment suggests, “Costco also apparently sells Iranian flags in LA, which is quite good.”
“Pakistan is smuggling Iran oil through its land border and highly likely selling it to China. Shocking part, Trump knows this,” a viewer states.
“Yeah, of course,” the host replies, “Everyone is—I already showed you on the map the border crossings, and they have kind of stopped that because that was not the most effective way of getting the oil out of Iran. It was too much hassle, and it was completely chaotic. Now you can see the spillage across the Persian Gulf because even with that method, you can’t trust the Pakistanis to be organized and disciplined. That was the problem.”
“Is it time to take out the pumps to the oil wells?” a viewer asks.
“Not really, because they can’t really produce anymore,” the host says, “They’re going to shut down the whole thing themselves.”
“How come Iran didn’t do a preemptive strike while Trump was in China?” another asks.
“Because the Islamic Republic is not holding any cards or any strength,” the host answers, “They can’t—it’s you’re not dealing with a strong military or strong country in that sense. They are a bunch of terrorists who are hiding in bunkers and caves, and they come out every now and then with their missile launchers and then go back into hiding. They’re not brave. It’s not like you’re dealing with some sort of like massive communist Russia army where they come standing in front of you with their tanks and everything else. They’re just a bunch of weirdos who are just occupying Iran as a country. Because if they do any sort of preemptive, well, they will be completely destroyed. It doesn’t matter where President Trump is. Whether President Trump is in China or on the moon or in Bangladesh having curry, the US military would annihilate the Islamic Republic if they do a preemptive strike because President Trump has these things now—it’s been invented recently, it’s called phones, mobile phones or cell phones if you’re in the US. They could tell him wherever he is. He can still get the updates. He doesn’t have to wait for a fax machine. So everything is quick these days.”
“Immortal guards will need US-Israel backup. Agree,” a viewer comments.
“They already have them,” the host says, “At least the Israelis.”
“Could the US send in our own oil tankers to Iran to take the oil?” a viewer poses, “Iran still won’t get paid for it, but they won’t have to dump it, and we can use it for our oil reserves and normal use.”
“Well, they will be shot at, but yeah,” the host responds, “They’ve got missiles and drones. To be fair, the Americans don’t really need the oil from Iran. But, yeah, the IRGC will just shoot at anyone, and that just resumes the war.”
“Inside or outside, Iran is great as it means wherever they are hiding—UK, Canada—they should be extradited and have nowhere to hide,” a comment reads.
“Yes, absolutely,” the host agrees.
“The new IRGC plans to raise revenue charging Starling space tolls on their satellites,” a viewer jokes.
“Imagine,” the host laughs, “You think we can get Trump to blockade the channel? It would guarantee the end to the small—”
“Actually, that’s a good idea,” the host interrupts himself, “Get the US Navy to do a blockade of the English Channel.”
“Will Trump stay until midterms if necessary?” a question asks.
“It depends,” the host answers, “Depends on what the opinion polls are saying at that point. But we still have a few months left. So if the war—the strikes resume, even if they resume at the end of June, let’s just say, or beginning of July, it won’t—they won’t have to take that long. It will just be a few more weeks or a couple of more months before the Americans withdraw.”
“For tomorrow, include this Churchill speech about tyranny. It mentions tyranny within or without. We will march together against it,” a viewer suggests.
“Yeah, the problem is I can’t really plagiarize because it’ll be too obvious,” the host notes.
“That was a joke about Tucker. He talks nonsense like a toddler,” a comment clarifies.
“Oh, that makes more sense. Okay,” the host nods.
“In your introduction, there is a very beautiful young lady talking into a microphone. Your wife?” a viewer asks.
“Yes, she is my wife, Danielle, and also the CEO of TCTV and occasional street reporter,” the host smiles, “She did it a couple of times. She enjoyed it.”
“BBC reports Iran has seized a floating armory in the Gulf of Oman from China. Can you confirm?” a viewer asks.
“I haven’t received any intel on obviously if the BBC is reporting it,” the host says, “That means that the IRGC have claimed it, but I have not seen that. Should we check the BBC? When did the BBC say this? BBC? Come on. I rarely go on this website anymore these days. No, that was yesterday. What are you talking about? That was on the 14th of May. It’s not even close to breaking news. That was the same one that they got yesterday. No. Yeah. No, that has nothing to do with now. No, absolutely not. That’s the ship that they got near the Fujairah port in UAE, outside of the Strait of Hormuz near in the Gulf of Oman. That was, yeah, that was the one from yesterday. Okay. Anyway, I panicked. I was like, ‘What? How is the BBC getting information before me?’ All right.”
So, we’re going to continue this conversation with the members of TUC TV Plus. We’re waiting for more updates from the IDF. Thank you so much for watching. I’m Amay Tusi and we are the media.
