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And you know, these talks may find turbulence here because just moments ago, our colleague Trey Yinst says that a regional intelligence official tells Fox News that quote, "The straight of
Hormuse is under full IRGC control and effectively closed at this moment.
Multiple vessels have been forced to turn around since this morning as they attempted to pass through the straight."
Trey adds this as well. the IRGC opening fire on at least one vessel as part of the closure policy they declared last night.
This is not at all the way President Trump suggested Iranian officials were cooperating with this trade and we're going to talk in just a moment about how the markets all the indices went up because of it.
But the fact that Iran
and the IRGC is effectively trying to step in and reassert control is not going to be met kindly with the president.
>> No, it's definitely not as the president said it was going to be. Um and also it's for those of us just watching on the sideline who don't understand, you know, necessarily all the military um you know, all the military components that are going on here. I'm actually surprised that they can take control of of the Straits of Hormuz at this point.
Um I thought that they had been more degraded um militarily and not able to do that.
I don't know about you, Charlie, but this is um this is very shocking.
>> Or maybe not. So
>> well it's it's not you know it's not
difficult to make threats and to uh you know as they have throughout the history of the of the revolution. Uh Iran has met which is why we are the only reason they have any power is because
they're willing to do whatever it takes to um to to bully people into being afraid to to pass through there. Uh but what the thing that I'm sort of baffled by here is I don't know what their long play is.
play is. If their long play is to try to
get the world to come to their side, I don't think this is going to work. If anything, this is going to pressure uh countries that have been a little bit reluctant to get involved to get involved, but I don't think it's going to be to get involved on the in on their side. Um, I think the United States has demonstrated a far uh better and fairer ability to uh keep international waterways open for all people for uh free and fair uh trade and and Iran has done the exact opposite.
So I don't
really know how what what their long play is by doing this right now.
>> And and why did it happen? I mean is it possible that there you know there was also in in conjunction with this deal there was a ceasefire in Lebanon um there so is it I I don't have information on that but it's possible that maybe that was broken and and could that have triggered that
>> maybe but
>> because remember yesterday the president wrote um on True Social he said Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer.
They are, and he put in quotes, prohibited from doing so by the USA.
Enough is enough. Three exclamation points. Thank you, President DJT.
So, I mean, I don't know if this has anything to do with that, but that's a pretty strong statement to say publicly um to Israel.
>> It is. But but to go back to a point you were making just a moment ago, Rachel, about Iran taking control of the strait.
That's important because Iran did not before the war started ever have control of the straight for the reason Charlie's mentioning. Every strait on the planet under the UN's convention of the law of the sea says no one controls it. And yet we have seen it. And in this statement
from a regional intelligence official to Trey Yinst saying that the Straight of Hormuse is under full IRGC control and effectively closed at this moment, adding that the IRGC has opened fire on at least one vessel is a level of asserting control that Iran has never done. And so it's pushing its bounds. To your point, Charlie, about the long game, we have no idea because Iran's never been more militarily defeated and their ability to take control of that straight would be in the greatest question. The where this goes now is
with talks having expected to gotten underway this weekend in Pakistan, this throws a huge wrench into that.
>> Yeah. And also into the oil prices, you guys.
>> Yeah. which
>> eventually we'll see that at the end of the day that's what all of this winds up being about is about the economy and it is the one piece of leverage that Iran has for 99% of the rest of the world they just are eager to obviously there are a lot of uh political uh things going on there but generally everybody all these other countries they just want healthy
countries they just want healthy
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