Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali: INSIDER- Trump Begged Iran For “FAKE STRIKE”; Tehran Said NO; Iran’s Hypersonic Missiles Hit US Bases

by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-3-2026, recorded 9-2-2026].

INSIDER: Trump asked Iran to accept a "fake strike" — and Tehran said no. In this 2 September 2026 episode, Zulfiqar Ali shares what he says he heard from inside the room about Trump's messages to Tehran and to Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir, and defence analyst Pravin Sawhney explains why the Strait of Hormuz cannot be reopened by the US "except by tactical nuclear weapons," why Iran's hypersonic cruise missiles are hitting US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan with no interceptors able to stop them, and why Iran — now guided by Chinese BeiDou-3 and Yaogan satellites — believes it has won this war.

We also break down the biggest structural shift of the week: the Makkah Defense Alliance is now formal, with its secretariat in Riyadh and a Pakistani general as its first Secretary-General — the "Islamic NATO" that Pravin Sawhney says will make Pakistan the number-one conventional military power in the Islamic world within three years. Plus: the SCO summit in Xinjiang (new SCO bank, 10-year strategy, Erdoğan–Sharif–Putin trilateral), why nobody is buying US Treasury bonds, the petrodollar's "nose dive," and the one window of hope — Xi Jinping's September visit to America and a possible Trump–Xi–Putin meeting at APEC in November.

Source note: Pravin Sawhney is a former Indian Army officer, editor of FORCE defence magazine and one of South Asia's most widely read military strategists; Zulfiqar Ali is the host of Transition Protocol and states that he was involved in the creation of the petrodollar system. Insider claims in this episode are the host's account and have not been independently verified; analytical conclusions are the guest's assessment. This is a Transition Protocol production.