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We're back with a Fox News alert on the Middle East. CENTCOM just announced a new wave of strikes against Iran began moments ago. That marks the ninth consecutive night of attacks against Iran. This follows the death of a third US service member and the death of two US service members in Jordan who were killed during Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes on US assets. Unidentified remains were also found at that site uh raising concerns that it could be the missing service member.
Uh I will bring it out to the table for discussion. Tommy, I'll start with you.
One thing I want to point out is this this the ninth round of strikes. So, one of the kind of points of contention here is what are we hitting and is it civilian infrastructure cuz there's international rules against that. The verbage and wording of everything CENTCOM and the DOW and State Department have put out or or the US the administration have put out has been listen, they they'll say things like we hit 119 116 telecom towers that could be used for Shaheed drones. So, they are connecting the civilian infrastructure to the military operations which the RGC essentially operates within Iran to begin with. So, there really isn't a good way to discern between the two to begin with and and so we almost are in a sit and wait to see how effective these strikes are.
>> Right. Well, I think that it is notable that it's the ninth consecutive night of strikes. I don't know if this is in direct response to the killing of our service members or if this was the plan all along. I guess we're not sure, but you have to assume that things are going to ramp up due to the attacks on our service members and if those continue, you have to imagine that President Trump is not going to stand for that and I would expect him to escalate accordingly. I think there's going to be a lot of discussions this week, you know, to the point we've all been making of what's really next. How does this impact our economy? Are some Republicans going to get cold feet because we're a couple months from midterms. All things we're going to find out this week, I'm sure.
>> [snorts]
>> Uh Lisa, Secretary Wright said we're at 2/3 of pre-conflict traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. He may have said that today or uh yesterday. So, the idea is to kind of tell the American people, "Hey, we're still moving uh tankers through the strait. It's not closed." We're doing our blockade, but a lot's getting through. Don't worry too much about gas prices." >> Yeah, and also changing the way that we get that through as well. I think some of it's been on land and uh but yeah, that's an important information to get out. Not quite pre-war levels, but pretty good and getting much better, which is positive news. Uh also, one thing I wanted to point out is that President Trump, we all remember that speech that he gave in Saudi Arabia in May of 2025 where he said the future of the Middle East was commerce, not chaos. While we have chaos going on in in Iran right now, there has been some interesting news with Iraq on the commerce side. Uh ahead of that bilateral meeting with President Trump on July 14th, I believe, the new Iraqi Prime Minister who took office in May wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post laying out about, "Hey, look, we need to rethink our relationship with the United States. Commerce, investment, the US Chamber of Commerce announced recently over $60 billion worth of deals, roughly 50 with US companies as well as the Iraqi government. Here's why it might matter in pertaining to what's going on in Iran. I spoke with retired US Navy Vice Admiral John W. Miller, who's also my friend's dad, but helpful helpful guy to know. But he he was talking about how the Iraq has operated under um you know, Iranian influence since the Iraq war. Also talking about how um the new Prime Minister has said and stated and has taken efforts uh to rein in some of these Iranian-backed Shiite uh militias who have carried out attacks on US forces and regional partners as well.
Um so, just sort of interesting where President Trump both with the Abraham Accords and then trying to sort of rewrite the relationship with um, Iraq just, you know, seeing how it's playing out
um, as we're following all this in the Middle East. I've been up since 3:40 a.m. So I hopefully that made sense.
>> No, it did. Certainly. [laughter] Yeah,
but you know, on that note, the Trump administration says they're keeping oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Obviously, uh, let's take a listen here.
>> We're at a little under 14 million barrels a day from the Arabian Gulf region. That's 2/3 of pre-conflict traffic, dramatically up from where we were back in March. What we're doing is assuring that that oil and gas and other products can flow through the Strait of Hormuz with or without Iranian cooperation.
>> Yeah, I'd like for you to respond to that as well.
>> You know, I think that the the problem that we have here is that, you know, these gas prices and everything that uh, we're seeing across the country are still very high and uh, and you know, Americans they don't think about this in terms of the Strait. They they, you know, that's something they probably didn't think about at all before this entire conflict began. Uh, and so I think that one of the things that they're paying attention
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