00:00I mean, the Strait of Hormuz does remain closed for the time being.
00:04Negotiations seem to have hit something of an impasse.
00:07I mean, not much progress since that one round of direct talks in Pakistan.
00:11Are you not surprised, though, that the U.S. hasn't managed to force Iran back to the negotiating table?
00:17No, no, no. These are radical.
00:20So these are people who don't care about, if it were a normal nation like a European nation,
00:25that when their people were suffering and things.
00:27But these are people who will literally beat a woman to death because some hair shows through her job.
00:32So we're dealing with people that the conditions which they have to suffer, the regime doesn't really care about that.
00:40So all they care about is one thing, and that's survival.
00:43And, of course, the destruction of their enemies, which now includes most of the Gulf states.
00:50So, no, we're not dealing with normal folks.
00:52And so what we're trying to do, and, of course, the essential part of that is now, remember, the people
00:57in Iran have no guns.
00:58And if they had a way to defend themselves, this would be a whole different prospect.
01:03But they can go out and literally kill 30, 40, 50,000 people.
01:07We don't know how many.
01:08They could just mow them down because they demonstrated against the government.
01:13So we're dealing with people that life is of no value to them.
01:17And what America is trying to do and the rest of the free world is trying to get them to
01:23just be normal.
01:24And if they don't choose to do that, if they choose to react, then it will have to go to
01:30another level.
01:31But right now, the strength of Hormuz is open to people who are not dealing with Iran.
01:35It's close to the Iranian ships and ports, but the rest of the folks are able to function.
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