00:18Iran just drew a line in the water.
00:21Hours after President Trump announced a bold new U.S. operation in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:26Iran fired back, not with weapons, with a warning.
00:31And it came from one of the most powerful voices in Iran's national security establishment.
00:39Ibrahim Azizi, chairman of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission,
00:45went straight to X, and he did not mince words.
00:48His message?
00:49Any American interference in the new maritime regime of the Strait of Hormuz
00:54will be considered a violation of the ceasefire.
00:58He went further, calling Trump's announcement delusional posts
01:02and flatly declaring that the Persian Gulf would not be managed from Washington.
01:06He even dismissed the entire framing as a, quote,
01:10blame-game scenario that nobody would believe.
01:15So what exactly triggered this response?
01:18On Sunday, Trump announced Project Freedom, a U.S.-led operation to begin guiding neutral
01:25third-country vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning, Middle East time.
01:30He framed it as purely humanitarian — hundreds of ships stranded, tens of thousands of seafarers
01:37stuck, food and supplies running low. CENTCOM confirmed the muscle behind it — guided missile
01:43destroyers, aircraft, unmanned platforms, thousands of service members.
01:51Trump's message to anyone thinking about interfering was simple — don't.
01:57But here's the catch. The operation appears to focus more on guidance and coordination than
02:03full-armed escorts. It's a show of presence as much as a show of force.
02:11Iran sees this very differently. After months of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets
02:18and Iranian retaliation, a fragile ceasefire is holding — and Tehran has used that window to
02:25assert something significant — new maritime rules over the Strait of Hormuz. In their view,
02:31they now run that waterway. Iranian officials have said before they'd allow safe passage,
02:37but only on their terms — sanctions relief, a halt to a tax, not unilateral American management of a
02:45Persian waterway. 20% of the world's oil and gas moves through that strait. Prolonged disruption has
02:54already pushed gas prices to around $4.45 a gallon in the U.S. — higher in California.
03:02Global supply chains are strained. Shipping companies are on edge. Analysts are now watching
03:08one very specific question — if a U.S. destroyer and an Iranian asset end up in the same stretch
03:14of
03:15water Monday morning, does the ceasefire hold? Both sides say they want to avoid escalation,
03:21but both sides are also refusing to blink. Project Freedom launches, Iran has issued its warning,
03:28and the most important shipping lane on the planet is holding its breath.
03:32We're watching this closely. Stay with us.
03:51We'll be talking about it now.
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