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The conflict in Iran just took a turn. Listen to this. The U.S. military strikes three Iranian oil tankers in a new round of retaliation. Yeah, John, good afternoon. We are tracking these latest developments as the U.S. military says they targeted three Iranian oil tankers after U.S. warships came under direct attack from the IRGC. This all started on Friday night when, according to CENTCOM, multiple waves of missiles were fired by Iran at a U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided missile destroyer. That drew that U.S. response, targeting these Iranian oil tankers, and it raises real questions now about this new battle for the Strait of Hormuz. We do know that CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper released a statement saying, let the message to the IRGC be clear. If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours. Cooper goes on to say we will not hesitate to defend American forces and, if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet. All of this taking place as the ongoing U.S. naval blockade is affecting the Iranian economy that, coupled with the ongoing sanctions, are targeting regime officials in Tehran. The Trump administration hoping that this changes Iranian behavior and eventually changes the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. But again, it's going to because this is completely unsustainable and I'll show you why. It costs $100 million to build an oil tanker and now three of them just vanished. And here's why that happened. Listen. Ballistic missiles have never been fired at a U.S. aircraft carrier before in combat and the U.S. military just proved that if you do that, it's not going to work. And since it's not working, Iran has announced a new secondary blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. This is interesting. Listen. Iran announcing plans for an exclusion zone near the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. strikes three Tehran oil tankers in response to attacks on U.S. warships. So how do you think this is going to end for Iran? Because I feel like, to me, this is not a very good idea for them, especially since their economy is struggling so badly as it is. Yeah. Well, I think it's a We're already seeing that President Trump's not going to tolerate Iran behaving in this rogue regime manner that so many American presidents before him have put up with. The U.S. Navy, as Secretary Wright said, is operating in an incredibly effective manner, constricting Iran's ability to export oil and to evade the sanctions that they've tried to evade for decades. And so the enormous pressure that both the U.S. Navy blockade and the Department of the Treasury's efforts under Secretary Besant to go after the banks and to go after the counterparties who are enabling Iran, this is going to bear fruit. It's bearing fruit now. It's destroyed Iran's currency. And that's why Iran just announced that now they're going to put their own sanctions and now they have their own blockade when they already had a blockade. And it didn't work because the U.S. Navy trapped Iran in this area of the world and decided to let every other ship pass through. Look at this. It does come as the region looks for ways around the contested waterway. And they're getting around it. The oil producing nations of the Gulf are actually building alternative pipeline routes that will no longer entail oil going through the Strait of Hormuz. Wow. And the Iranian chokehold, to the extent they have one, and I can tell you they do not have one. We are in control of the Strait, but to the extent that they can threaten their neighbors once we leave, that will not exist anymore. And how is Iran doing that? Well, they were building missiles and they were building drones and they were telling everybody else, don't mess with us. But now that's gone and everybody's going around the Strait of Hormuz, which means even if Iran does rebuild to some extent, there will be nothing left to threaten, which means their leverage over the world economy no longer exists. Watch this. This squeeze is in fact being felt a whole lot more by Iran than it is by the U.S. And a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that the United States is now willing to take out these Iranian tankers. Has that ever been done before? At this level? No, there have been similar things in the past, in the 90s, for example, off the coast of Kuwait. But at this level, it just hasn't taken place. Remember the backdrop here. There is a massive amount of economic pressure on the Iranian regime. Iran currently is facing extensive U.S. sanctions. The naval blockade is in place, making it nearly impossible for the Iranians to export crude oil. And then you have this operation that is overseen by the U.S. Navy to get millions of barrels of crude oil out of the Persian Gulf each and every day. So then what's the point of Iran's announcement that they've got some new plan for how to control the Strait of Hormuz? The whole reason for this was to manipulate public opinion. The whole reason for this was to get people to think Iran is now stronger than they've ever been and that they're never going to give up and that they're never going away and that they control things in the Strait of Hormuz, even though they are being controlled in the Strait of Hormuz. And this is about to lead to big changes in that country. Just to stay with the Strait of Hormuz for a moment, you've also noted that you say the U.S. and China actually have more in common than we disagree on when it comes to safely navigating the Strait of Hormuz. That's wild. I think the question for a lot of Americans is really how much can we trust China? They are still taking oil from Iran. So how do you navigate that situation? Well, one of the things we've done and what the president's done is fantastic sequencing. So we are running Operation Economic Outcast right now. And this is the greatest economic isolation operation in the history of the world. Now we have the blockade. And because of the blockade, the oil is not getting out. So there's probably only about 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil left that China hasn't bought. So that will run out soon. There it is. China can't have any more of Iran's oil. They've bought all they're going to get their hands on. And now Iran, who wants to be hostile and wants to threaten this area of the world and wants to build up a massive military arsenal to enable them to do it forever, they have now isolated themselves from their biggest customer. Think about that for a second and watch this. And there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. So the blockade is is the blockade is working. That's crazy. Like nothing we've ever seen. And the combination, you know, everyone says, oh, sanctions don't work. I can tell you they're working. And sanctions are one of the most powerful one to punches in the history of economic isolation. Did you ever imagine as treasury secretary what a major role you would I think that's been part of the problem with past administrations that we have separated economic security from national security. So I came into office saying economic security is national security. It is security is economic security. Because think about this. If China can't get oil from Iran, remember, they were buying 90 percent of Iran's oil. Where are they going to get it from? Venezuela, the United States. They're going to get it from the good guys. And that means the regime support network that helped these countries avoid U.S. sanctions and play games and empower criminals all over the planet is gone. 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And so the United States has effectively found a way to bypass Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz. As we saw this weekend, they are still doing provocative action in this area, not just against commercial vessels, but now against the US military. But remember, a new US aircraft carrier just arrived in theater, the USS George Washington. And President Trump told Fox News it is loaded to the gills with ammunition. We know there are fighter jets on board and 5,000 sailors that are prepared to bring the fight to Iran. The US isn't going anywhere. Whatever plan Iran had that they thought was going to get them to the midterm elections and then end this entire thing, it doesn't seem like Trump is even thinking on such a short term basis like that. It's like Iran is playing this short game, just buying for time a few days, a few weeks. But Trump is looking at 20, 30 years in the future here, and that is going to lead to massive security for our entire country. And all of this talk about how Iran is stronger than they've ever been, we're not hearing that anymore. If you go to MS Now or you go to CNN, it's hard to find any Iran articles because they only want to broadcast bad news about what's happening in Iran that they think is going to help collapse Trump during the midterm elections. But that news is gone. The only news we're getting sounds like this. Look. All of these things are going to come together to drive Iran to the negotiating table or to make significant concessions. It's just a matter of time. Wow. You know, the administration and several people in the administration have said there may not be a nuclear deal. That's something that we have heard. And a lot of people have just kind of assumed. But the pressure that the US and other countries are putting on Iran, it's it's immense. So is it safe to say that this pressure is working and ultimately we could see this war end? Well, the war is going to end. There's no question. And President Trump has been clear from the very beginning that anyone who knows him, who has worked for him, who has watched his rhetoric over the last decade, knows that he's a man of peace and that the president wants to have a stable, prosperous Middle East that will help America be stable and prosperous. There's no question that's the president's goal. The question is, how do you achieve that with an Iranian regime that is extremist, that has been pushing a radical agenda and violence for 47 years? And I think the best way to do that has consistently been what the president has done, which is to put in place this enormously effective U.S. Navy blockade after destroying the Air Force, destroying the Navy, destroying much of the leadership, destroying a lot of the nuclear program last year, and then putting in place this economic sanctions package that's the most impressive ever put in place. If no one can do business with Iran, if they have no product, no oil to sell to their customers like China who are buying 90% of Iran's oil, how are they going to power up their military and be the hostile aggressor in the Middle East that threatens the world economy? It is impossible. And with the Abraham Accords and the new coordination between countries like the United Arab Emirates and Israel, a security apparatus is being built right now that will outlast even America's involvement in this region. Even if the communists take over America in 2028 with AOC as president and dissolve our border and dissolve our military and pull this whole thing out, by then this situation in the Middle East will be wrapped up. It will be different forever. It is being forever changed as we speak. And there's no going back from the Under the president's leadership, a group of us are running as hard as we can over the next few years to take away any leverage that our adversaries might have against us. And back to your question on China, we don't want to decouple from China, but we need to de-risk. We've got to de-risk. So we're bringing semiconductors back here because there's a big choke point there that 90% of the precursor chemicals that go into U.S. medicines come from overseas, mostly from China. And it's just these things that over the years that we just didn't pay attention to strategic needs, critical minerals. We let the U.S. used to control critical minerals and we let that get away. And the Chinese try to use it like a choker collar. And in a couple of years, it won't matter because we will be self-sufficient. That's how Trump's doing everything. And when you listen to what the treasury secretary just said, and you equate that to what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz with the blockade and the sanctions and the special military operation over there, which is not a war, people call it a war, but that's not what this is. This is a humanitarian operation to get ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, keep the world economy afloat. But here's what it means for the immediate future in Iran. It appears, and you would know best, that Iran is facing an economic pressure, the likes of which they've never possibly seen in their 47 years as a regime that they're dealing with now. You're reporting that the, you know, two million rial to one U.S. dollar. That's crazy. Crazy stuff. But I'm curious, are the Gulf allies all in? Are they buying into this pressure and are they helping? They have to. They can't do business with Iran anymore. Some Gulf allies are. And just given our location at the moment, I want to be careful with what we're reporting here, but there is certainly concern among Gulf allies about the possibility of coming under Iranian attack, given the fact that during Operation Epic Fury they were targeted with missiles and drones. And each country has its own position on moving forward with Iran and the region and what their posture should be, both offensively and defensively. But the economic toll on Iran can't be understated. Right now the Iranian rial is at a historic low, more than two million rial to a single U.S. dollar. Inflation is rapidly rising inside of the country. And you have countries like the UAE, for example, that have taken economic action similar to the United States against Iran, cutting off trade with the country and further trying to isolate the regime in Tehran from the rest of the world. So if you can't do business with Iran without falling into this U.S. sanctions umbrella and being put on a quote unquote economic enemies list, no one's going to do that. So no one can buy anything from them and anyone who tries to is going to be put on a U.S. sanctions list. That doesn't make any sense. Who wants to do that at a time when the U.S. is now the go-to for energy on the world stage? Who's going to want to do that when U.S. sanctions actually matter? And this is what's so pivotal when you're the Treasury Secretary talking about how we're going to do this financially and militarily because it's all part of U.S. national security. No country wants any piece of that right now. China also is the big wild card here because remember when this whole thing started, people said, oh, Iran, you know, they're part of the regime support apparatus. They're getting support from Russia. They're getting support from China. They're going to have all these weapons coming into the country. No one's going to be able to do anything about it. Shipping containers full of drones are going to get dropped off. These guys are going to be around forever. None of that's actually happened. And you want to know why? China does not benefit from a foreign military controlling where it gets 90% of its oil in a way that they can't stop. Simple as that. If Iran were to gain the ultimate destructive capability, which they were working towards and told U.S. negotiators they had achieved, they're not going to stand for that. China's not stupid. They're not going to let that kind of operation happen. And that's why you haven't seen them jumping in. You have not seen them get into this on the side of Iran like they were on the side of North Korea back during the Korean War or on the side of any of America's adversaries in recent memory. They're sitting this one out because they secretly want the U.S. to win. They secretly want Trump to win. The only people who want Trump to lose are the communists in America who want to bring the Soviet Union right here. What do you think about that? I will see you in the next video.