00:00:03.000Iran is being forced into desultory missile launches.
00:00:05.000Those are facts, despite the New York Times or the economists' best efforts to tell you that somehow Iran is winning.
00:00:11.000There's no metric by which Iran is winning.
00:00:14.000The best you can say is that the United States is not winning fast enough.
00:00:16.000But the United States is, in fact, winning.
00:00:19.000We're breaking down the latest updates out of Iran, how the U.S. military is enforcing its control of the Strait, and what President Trump has to say about it.
00:00:26.000I spoke briefly yesterday about the fact that the president seems discombobulated and unstrategic.
00:00:31.000In his narrative approach, a lot of comments are saying, What about the war in Iran?
00:00:34.000How's that contributing to Republican unpopularity going into the election?
00:00:38.000And of course, the fact that we are in a war that has now lasted from March all the way until September has confused people.
00:00:46.000It's the reason why I thought that the MOU and the unilateral ceasefire were bad ideas.
00:00:52.000If you are going to win the war in Iran, that also requires you to explain to the American people that you actually are winning.
00:00:57.000And one of the shocking things that's actually happening right now is that the United States, believe it or not, is in fact winning.
00:01:03.000And there's a reason why President Trump is no longer seeking a renewed MOU with Iran.
00:01:07.000And the answer is because the United States has successfully reopened the strait to a large extent.
00:01:14.000Not only that, the United States' sanctions are really biting.
00:01:19.000The Iranian rial is now 2.1 million to the dollar.
00:01:23.000Last night, the United States struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:26.000Again, Iran is trying to re control the strait because they've lost control of it.
00:01:31.000And the United States is stopping them.
00:01:32.000The president says the strikes are large and powerful.
00:01:34.000And in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the strait, which currently has no mines, they have been completely removed or detonated.
00:01:41.000And the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down at our military base in Jordan.
00:01:45.000If the failed nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level.
00:01:50.000But it will not be the biggest attack of them all.
00:01:53.000And when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:01:57.000Trey Yingst, who is Fox News' Middle East reporter, had a call with President Trump, and he explained what the president is thinking.
00:02:05.000I just spoke with President Trump, who indicated that if the Iranians respond to these U.S. strikes against their country, the president said they'll be hit much harder.
00:02:15.000He went on to say today's strikes were a very big hit.
00:02:18.000And if it goes a third time, they're going to be totally wiped out as a country.
00:02:23.000Now, I asked the president what was hit tonight in Iran, specifically in the southwestern part of the country next to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:29.000President Trump says a lot of radar and added that they were trying to rebuild the radar systems, and the United States was watching.
00:02:37.000And then just before they completed this construction, that's when these strikes took place.
00:02:43.000The president says the USS George Washington, that new aircraft carrier that arrived in theater last week, is loaded to the gills with ammunition.
00:02:51.000And he indicated that they have enough to continue this fight against Iran, again, if the Iranians do decide to respond.
00:02:58.000As for any sort of possible agreement with the Iranians, President Trump says, I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on.
00:03:09.000Treasury Secretary Scott Besson points out that we are having massive economic success against Iran.
00:03:15.000Again, you have gigantic, there's video emerging from Iran of lines that are probably miles long waiting to get gas because they have tremendous shortages.
00:03:22.000Like all the shortages are beginning to bite.
00:03:24.000Essentially, there's nothing left in the country.
00:03:27.000And now it's only a matter of time until the regime is faced with some sort of internal challenge.
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00:04:48.000So, you know, kinetically, we destroyed their Navy, we destroyed their Air Force, a large portion of their missile and drone inventories, and more importantly, Probably 85 or 90 percent of their factories that have the ability to rebuild those.
00:05:03.000So, they have been extreme, they are in extreme distress militarily, but financially, we are starting to see.
00:05:14.000You interviewed me at the Economic Club of New York in the spring of 2025, and I said, we are going to collapse the Iranian currency.
00:05:35.000Again, the administration needs to explain what's happening in Iran and how the United States actually is winning at extraordinarily low cost against a key American opponent.
00:05:43.000Besson, by the way, points out that the Strait of Hormuz won't even be a choke point in a couple of years because everybody is building pipelines that go the other way.
00:05:52.000We could see the Iranians are trying to use the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point.
00:05:56.000It's not a choke point for the U.S., but it is a choke point for many other countries.
00:06:03.000But that will be bypassed in two years.
00:06:06.000In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be like a worthless piece of water that the oil will be going on pipelines across land.
00:06:18.000So, again, there's a lot that the Republicans can say going into 2026.
00:06:22.000And one of those things is that actually Iran is losing.
00:06:28.000And the president put out a statement I'm not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported.
00:06:32.000I couldn't care less if they signed a worthless to them agreement.
00:06:34.000I like our position now much better with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait and their economy totally collapsing.
00:06:39.000They're just playing out the inevitable.
00:06:41.000When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?
00:06:42.000Now, obviously, it's easy for the president to say that, given the fact that last time the Iranian people rose up and tried to fight, 50,000 of them were murdered in the streets.
00:06:51.000But there aren't going to be a lot of choices for the Iranian people in the very near future because when everything runs out, how does the Iranian regime pay its own fighters, for example?
00:07:00.000Now, it is being reported that Iran is seeking help from wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, Russia.
00:07:04.000Because it turns out the Russians, as always, are the bad guys.
00:07:08.000They're not wonderful Christians who are looking to simply.
00:07:11.000Enforce rigorous sex roles or anything like that.
00:07:13.000The Russians are a nefarious force in the world.
00:07:15.000According to the Financial Times, Russia has been secretly supporting Iranian missile development since 2023.
00:07:21.000And the goal was to help Iran develop missiles capable of taking out U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East.
00:07:26.000So if we had waited around for long enough, they would have ended up with that kind of weaponry.
00:07:30.000They had apparently tried to develop a ramjet propulsion system that would allow Iranian missiles to fly at several times the speed of sound.
00:07:38.000That would give Western air defenses less time to react, increasing the impact of such an attack.
00:07:41.000So again, the Russians were perfectly willing to help out throughout all of this.
00:07:45.000Russia, Iran, China, they stand behind all of the world's major conflicts at this point.
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