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And with that, we bring in retired forstar general Jack Keane, Fox News senior strategic analyst, former Army vice chief of staff, and now chairman of the Institute for the Study of War General.
Good to have you with us, Jennifer and Jonathan have laid out uh what they're learning from the Pentagon and from the Israeli sources on the ground.
Where does this stand right now in terms of your take on what's going on in the Strait and this ceasefire, General?
Well, certainly we're moving into a different aspect of this, you know, with the ceasefire. I I do think uh the violations of the ceasefire in terms of firing into into Israel or at at US bases, some of that will just sort it out in the next 48 hours.
But we gave up using military operations as a leverage to get a deal here by making a ceasefire. It doesn't mean Martha we don't still have leverage because we truly do.
And that leverage is making certain that the Iranians understand this is a twoe deadline and a twoe deadline only.
And if you don't accept our conditions that we're putting forward in Islamabad and we can't get a deal in two weeks, then we are absolutely going to return to combat operations.
Operations. That is real leverage. and what the Iranians are going to be about in those negotiations because it is predictable.
It's like dealing with Putin. Uh the the Iranians here are going to want to delay and extend the negotiations and and convince our negotiators that they really are close to making a deal,
but we need a little bit more time. Then what happens? Let's extend the ceasefire another week or two and maybe a little bit further than that when we get closer to the deal.
What are the Iranians up to in doing this? What they truly want is as much time as possible to delay to let the recovery of oil prices, the recovery of the political system system itself and take the pressure off of the president that certainly understandably he feels.
So his inclination after several weeks of not making any progress, he's not willing to go back to and return to combat operations. That I believe is the path that the Iranians are on.
If they're on the other path and they're willing to give up the conditions and meet, excuse me, meet the conditions that President Trump's team is laying down, all for the better. I'm just highly skeptical about them. This much I know. one, we have severely damaged Iran and they are in a much weakened condition to be sure and our military uh people have laid that out in spades uh to that damage.
But they're still in charge and believe me, Vahiti, the IRGC leader, and Gabalof, the uh speaker of the parliament, they are hardliners as much as anybody else who's been in charge of Iran. And that is what
why this uh ceasefire is taking place because they knew full well
>> that the only objective they had in closing the straits of Amuse was to stop the war and they they have achieved that.
But the reality is if they if they're truly willing to make a deal here that that is another matter because I know this President Trump is not going to make a bad deal.
He knows these guys. He's negotiated with them more than any previous president has. And he knows they're full of BS at times that they're going to obiscate. They're going to promote lies.
And our team obviously has to be aware of all of that going into. I'm assuming that they they understand that the backs stop we have here is the president himself.
>> He's not going to take a bad deal if we return to combat operations.
So our audience understands we do have an ace in the hole here so to speak. We do have a strategic asset that we can put to employ here and that is Car Island.
>> Car Island we can wait to the very end of our operations and take control of it or destroy it. If we take control of it we can use it as leverage with the Iranians.
90% of their oil distribution comes from K Allen. The first thing we would say to them is you have to give up all of your nuclear enterprise to us.
You have to hand it over the enriched uranium. What centrifuges you got left? What cascades you got left? The same deal that Bush imposed on Gaddafi when we went in and dismembered and took away the program and other things we can use
Car Island for. If you don't do that,
>> then we're going to destroy 90% of your oil distribution. that would likely collapse the regime in terms of its economic capability. It would cause an economic collapse. So, we still have
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