The Ben Shapiro Show - July 14, 2026


How Trump Just Reset the Persian Gulf


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The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Persian Gulf, between the Strait and the Indian Ocean. Iran and its Persian Gulf allies have long maintained control of the strait, but the United States wants to reclaim control of it. President Trump has threatened to charge tolls to keep the Strait open.

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00:00:00.000 Well, some of us have been saying the exact same thing over and over and over about the Iranian regime, like the whole time.
00:00:07.000 The Iranian regime has zero desire to resolve this conflict through actual diplomacy.
00:00:10.000 America, in return, should stop pretending that Iran might just come around one of these days and suddenly become peaceful and nice part of the family of nations.
00:00:18.000 I'm going to break down exactly what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz, what the heck happened with the MOU, whether or not the U.S. will be charging tolls in the Strait, how Iran and our Gulf allies are reacting, and all the possibilities for what's going to happen next.
00:00:29.000 Over the weekend, Things got hot in Iran again, as of course they were going to, because Iran was never ever, as I have explained many, many times, Iran was never going to give up control over the Strait of Hormuz. 0.53
00:00:39.000 They were not going to do it because if they did, it would demonstrate weakness.
00:00:44.000 And if they demonstrated they did not control the Strait and they had no forward capacity and no nuke, that makes the regime insanely vulnerable.
00:00:50.000 So they were never going to just give up the Strait.
00:00:53.000 So CENTCOM began strikes again over the weekend.
00:00:56.000 CENTCOM announced on Saturday night at 7 15 PM Eastern today, U.S. CENTCOM forces began launching the third round of strikes this week.
00:01:03.000 Against Iran, after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces blatantly attacked MVGFS Galaxy, a Cyprus flag container ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:12.000 A civilian crew member is missing.
00:01:13.000 The vessel is unable to continue the journey due to an onboard fire and significant engine room damage.
00:01:18.000 Iran was provided yet another opportunity to demonstrate adherence to the MOU after being held accountable for earlier attacks on commercial vessels, but has again failed.
00:01:26.000 In response, the U.S. is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran's ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait.
00:01:34.000 The strikes are being carried out at the direction of the commander in chief.
00:01:38.000 CENTCOM did release footage of its first use, I believe, of unmanned sea drones attacking the Bandar Abbas naval base.
00:01:44.000 This is a naval base that is located along the north shore of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:51.000 You can see these unmanned boats that are approaching the port.
00:01:58.000 And again, they're essentially one way suicide explosives that are directed against Iranian assets.
00:02:05.000 You see blowing up the port there, blowing up the dock.
00:02:11.000 CENCOM announced a third night of strikes on Monday night as well.
00:02:15.000 Now, the president put out his own statement.
00:02:18.000 He said, The Hormuz Strait is open and will remain open with or without Iran.
00:02:23.000 We are reinstating the Iranian blockade, so named because it is only stopping Iran's ships or customers from entering or leaving. 0.71
00:02:28.000 All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. 0.55
00:02:32.000 The USA will be, from this point forward, known as the guardian of the Hormuz Strait, but as such, and as a matter of fairness, they will be reimbursed at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped.
00:02:40.000 for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the world.
00:02:45.000 The process and formation will begin immediately.
00:02:47.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.
00:02:50.000 Now, as far as the, the toll here, the 20% toll, I'm not a huge fan of the 20% toll simply because, again, this is an international waterway.
00:02:58.000 I understand that we are absorbing the cost of keeping it open, but it is also in America's interest to keep the waterways open.
00:03:05.000 And if we start charging tolls, then that creates impetus for other countries to also try to charge tolls.
00:03:10.000 So not a huge fan of the toll.
00:03:12.000 With that said, Should we be reimbursed in other forms by other countries?
00:03:18.000 Sure.
00:03:18.000 Should they contribute their part to keeping the strait open?
00:03:20.000 If it's an international waterway, the answer is absolutely.
00:03:24.000 And whether you choose to do that through a toll, which again, not loving the toll, or whether you choose to do that by negotiating better trade deals, whether you choose to negotiate that by forcing other countries to increase their spend on their own defense mechanisms against America's enemies, that's fine. 0.61
00:03:40.000 Again, the Iranians jumped right in and they said, oh, well, you know, if the president's going to charge tolls, so should we. 0.89
00:03:45.000 Iran has always been the guardian of the straits, will remain so forever. 0.79
00:03:47.000 20% is, of course, too much. 1.00
00:03:49.000 We will be fair.
00:03:49.000 So, again, they want to control the strait.
00:03:52.000 They want to charge their own tolls.
00:03:53.000 President Trump says, listen, we had a deal.
00:03:55.000 They broke the deal. 1.00
00:03:56.000 Iran is now getting their ass kicked. 1.00
00:03:59.000 It was a done deal. 1.00
00:03:59.000 We had a deal. 1.00
00:04:01.000 And then they broke it.
00:04:02.000 They always break it.
00:04:03.000 We've had 10 deals with these people. 0.61
00:04:05.000 And so we're just going to hit them very hard.
00:04:08.000 And we're going to keep the straight.
00:04:10.000 And we'll probably run it.
00:04:12.000 We'll become the guardian of the straight.
00:04:13.000 Maybe we'll call it the guardian angel of the straight.
00:04:16.000 Remember this they killed 52,000 protesters so far.
00:04:19.000 As of this moment, the number is 52,000.
00:04:22.000 So who's going to protest?
00:04:24.000 And a lot of people are surprised about the protesting that they haven't.
00:04:28.000 But nobody's going to protest when they get shot.
00:04:30.000 They have AK 47s. 0.91
00:04:31.000 They have machine guns aimed at people's heads.
00:04:35.000 If you move one foot further, you get shot. 0.93
00:04:37.000 And then they'll shoot 10 of them and everybody flees. 0.76
00:04:40.000 Who's not going to flee? 0.99
00:04:41.000 They don't have guns.
00:04:43.000 So they're a bad group of people.
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00:04:49.000 They're a bad group of people.
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00:05:58.000 Now, again, the president has a habit of trying things.
00:06:00.000 And then when reality says differently, then he changes his mind. 1.00
00:06:04.000 That obviously has happened with the Iranians. 0.97
00:06:06.000 He says the MOU is a test and they failed. 0.59
00:06:10.000 Well, was the MOU that your negotiators brought back, was that a side saddle MOU?
00:06:16.000 Was that built to fall apart?
00:06:18.000 It was built to test.
00:06:20.000 It was a test.
00:06:21.000 We didn't know.
00:06:22.000 Look, memorandum of understanding when you're dealing with sleazebags don't mean much.
00:06:29.000 And they don't mean much when you're dealing with honorable people, too, because it's a memorandum of understanding.
00:06:33.000 It doesn't mean much.
00:06:34.000 And I said, why are we even, you know, it's a standard tactic in the U.S. That you go to a memorandum of understanding and then you go to the deal.
00:06:42.000 I said, just go to the deal first.
00:06:44.000 But you know what?
00:06:45.000 It was sort of a test.
00:06:46.000 And they weren't there.
00:06:47.000 They didn't honor the test.
00:06:50.000 We had this deal settled numerous times.
00:06:52.000 I said, watch.
00:06:53.000 I guarantee, watch.
00:06:55.000 And they never followed it.
00:06:59.000 Okay.
00:06:59.000 So again, the president taking the realistic position.
00:07:02.000 So what can happen here?
00:07:02.000 Well, theoretically, the United States can force open the strait.
00:07:05.000 Apparently, we already have, in part.
00:07:07.000 There are a lot of ships that are leaving the strait and that Iran is not actually tolling at this point. 0.93
00:07:12.000 We should be using the Saudi bases in order to do so. 0.63
00:07:14.000 I assume that that's actually the trade that was made. 0.94
00:07:15.000 So the Saudis over the weekend also hit Houthi bases in Yemen. 0.97
00:07:20.000 The Biden administration position had been idiotically that the Saudis should stop intervening in Yemen to fight the Houthis, who again are a group whose literal slogan is death to Israel, death to America.
00:07:32.000 And so the Saudis went to America, apparently asked for permission to hit Houthi bases. 0.99
00:07:36.000 We said yes. 0.86
00:07:36.000 I assume that came in return for us being able to use Saudi bases, our bases in Saudi, in order to strike at the strait, which of course is also in Saudi Arabia's interest. 0.86
00:07:44.000 If we force open the strait, I still believe we should either bomb or take Karg Island. 0.96
00:07:49.000 We should bomb South Parr's gas field.
00:07:50.000 We should completely destroy the possibility of economic recovery under the current regime. 0.92
00:07:56.000 That's what we should do.
00:07:57.000 And we should put them on their last legs.
00:07:59.000 Because otherwise, again, they'll just keep tapping us along. 1.00
00:08:04.000 Now, again, all the worst people, as I say, the horseshoe is very much in favor of Iran. 1.00
00:08:08.000 This, of course, includes Trita Parsi. 0.98
00:08:10.000 Trita Parsi is a Tucker Carlson wing of the Republican Party fan, also a de facto lobbyist for the Iranian government. 1.00
00:08:20.000 Trita Parsi, who is labeled Rokhana hilariously. 0.64
00:08:25.000 On Hassan Piker's Twitch stream.
00:08:27.000 He appeared with Hassan Piker.
00:08:28.000 Again, they're all the same thing. 0.99
00:08:29.000 It's all circle jerk. 0.98
00:08:31.000 Here's Treat a Parsi with Hassan Piker ripping on Lindsey Graham. 0.97
00:08:37.000 Look, to me, Graham was essentially a dying breed of hawkish Republicans who thought that there always was a military solution to whatever problem or non problem that existed in the world.
00:08:55.000 And drove the United States in an absolutely terrible direction.
00:09:01.000 And at every moment, there was this effort to sabotage diplomacy from his end, belittle it, and shift things back towards some sort of a muscular, military centric approach, which I think is ultimately has been disastrous for the world, but also very, very disastrous for the United States itself.
00:09:26.000 Again, Trina Parsi, the uniting factor between Hassan Piker.
00:09:30.000 And Tucker Carlson.
00:09:33.000 And of course, Trudeau Parsi's entire perspective is that Iran is the victim in all of this. 0.67
00:09:39.000 And actually, the only way to get them back on board is for the United States to make outsized concessions to the Iranians.
00:09:45.000 And this entire group of people believe the same thing, and that is that America is the bad force in the world. 0.93
00:09:50.000 All the fans of American power are the bad force in the world.
00:09:53.000 That is the entire shtick.
00:09:54.000 That is the entire shtick now and forever.
00:09:57.000 I don't know.
00:09:58.000 I kind of like America and think America ought to be more powerful.
00:10:01.000 Because its rivals are some of the most evil places on planet Earth. 0.99
00:10:07.000 And if you are sitting there with a Chinese flag in the background talking with an Iranian cutout about how Iran needs to be treated with kid gloves, I don't know, maybe that's a sign we should not be listening to you. 0.97
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