Speaker 1: President Trump heading back is Iran demands financial compensation. The
Speaker 1: President now demanding peace talks include compensation from the regime
Speaker 1: for a half century of death and destruction stretching all
Speaker 1: the way back to nineteen seventy nine against Americans. Vice
Speaker 1: President Advanced telling Fox the talks are still in a
Speaker 1: middle stage.
Speaker 2: This thing is not over. It's obviously not at the beginning.
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of the game, and we're applying
Speaker 2: a whole host of tools, diplomatic, economic, military tools to
Speaker 2: ensure that we get the best outcome for the American people.
Speaker 2: I feel quite confident we will get there, but we're
Speaker 2: still a bit in the middle of the game.
Speaker 1: Retired Colonel Mai Journegan is a former Rocky Invasion commander
Speaker 1: and Heritage Foundation visiting Fella. My good to be with
Speaker 1: you this say afternoon. The President does appear to be
Speaker 1: looking at the economic portion of this. Again, out of
Speaker 1: what Jade Vance was saying there just a moment ago,
Speaker 1: here's what he told Axios. He says, we're only semi
Speaker 1: negotiating with them. We're just watching Iran with its huge
Speaker 1: inflation and the fact they have no money. He stressed
Speaker 1: that Iran is in quote very bad shape economically and
Speaker 1: has no money to pay its troops. The US naval
Speaker 1: blockade has exacerbated the Iranian regimes economic crisis. Trump said,
Speaker 1: it will work out. It always works out. It's like
Speaker 1: a chess game, Trump said of the back and forth
Speaker 1: with Iran. So the plan seems to be to choke
Speaker 1: out the Iranian regime with economic strangulation. But the president
Speaker 1: tried that some weeks ago. It didn't work.
Speaker 3: Hey, good afternoon, John, You're exactly right. It is working.
Speaker 3: It's still long game. The Uranians are losing five hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars a day. They have eighty five percent inflation.
Speaker 3: At the end of that quote, it says they're running
Speaker 3: out of money to pay their soldiers and their police.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, they're playing subsidies to their population to
Speaker 3: keep them compliant. They're running out of money to pay
Speaker 3: that too. Their currency is trading a two million reality
Speaker 3: to the US dollar. They cannot open the blockade because
Speaker 3: they say the Straits of Hormuz aren't closed, but actually
Speaker 3: they're only closed to Iran ships continue to get out
Speaker 3: every day. I'm reminded John of David Bow and Queen
Speaker 3: Song under pressure because that's what the Iranians are feeling
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Regardless though the Foreign Ministry says that they've got the
Speaker 1: upper hand. Listen to the Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Speaker 3: Here, Madame Mique.
Speaker 4: As long as the US naval blockade remains in place
Speaker 4: under UN General Assembly Resolution three three one four, a
Speaker 4: naval blockade of this kind amounts to an act of aggression.
Speaker 4: As long as other US violations continue, the necessary conditions
Speaker 4: will not be in place for US to say that
Speaker 4: the Strait of Horror Moves has become a safe waterway.
Speaker 1: You know, that is the one card that they've got
Speaker 1: to play, is threatening shipping in the Strait of Horror Moves.
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to take it away from them,
Speaker 1: and until we do, they're going to keep playing this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's important to notice that the Iranians are running
Speaker 3: out of assets and options. My friends at US Space
Speaker 3: Force were telling me that the Iranians shot close to
Speaker 3: one thousand missiles a day at the beginning of this
Speaker 3: Now they're shooting eight to twenty a day. That's orders
Speaker 3: of zeros of magnet that they're not being able to
Speaker 3: get resupplied. Similarly, they're striking drones. As they leave the waterway,
Speaker 3: saying that it is closed, they throw one little final
Speaker 3: shot of yeah and don't come back. And so what
Speaker 3: you're seeing from the Foreign Minister is you're seeing floundering
Speaker 3: publicly and internationally.
Speaker 1: So last week we were reporting on a deal that
Speaker 1: Aman was cutting with Iran that may allow Iran to
Speaker 1: control traffic inbound to the Straight of Horror Moves and
Speaker 1: that Oman would handle traffic that's outbound for the Straight
Speaker 1: of Hormones. And it seems to me that for the
Speaker 1: United States giving Iran any kind of controller veto power
Speaker 1: over who goes in or out of that straight would
Speaker 1: be disasters, particularly when we've got an entire fleet of
Speaker 1: warships up there in Bahrain in the fifth Fleet Headquarters.
Speaker 3: John, You're exactly right that claim. And the negotiations between
Speaker 3: Iran Oman Oman is ludicrous in my opinion, because imagine,
Speaker 3: you know an eighteen year old girl and she wants
Speaker 3: to go to the prom, and she wants a date,
Speaker 3: and she's negotiating with her eight year old brother to
Speaker 3: get a date instead of negotiating with other eighteen year
Speaker 3: old boys. And so that's what Ron is doing. They're
Speaker 3: showing progress to their internal population. Look, look we're doing something.
Speaker 3: We're negotiating something that doesn't matter and we can't enforce
Speaker 3: and nobody's going to agree to. But look, we're doing
Speaker 3: something instead of actually negotiating to give up their nuclear
Speaker 3: weapons and give up their claims to control the Straits
Speaker 3: and Core News.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see where all of this goes. Might be
Speaker 1: a little puzzling to some people at the moment, but
Speaker 1: we'll see. President Trump has pulled things rabbits out of
Speaker 1: a half before. We'll see if you can do it
Speaker 1: this time around. Mike, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Good to see you.
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