00:00I think it's a real test for the UN, right, as a function, as something that functions to,
00:04that can solve global problems. What is the purpose of the UN? The UN was supposed to be
00:09a place where you could peacefully resolve global conflict. Right now you have a country
00:14who is unlawfully, criminally, and illegally taking possession of an international waterway
00:19and blowing up commercial vessels and putting mines in the water. I don't know if people
00:23appreciate, like, how outrageous this is, how unacceptable it is that any country would fire
00:28and try to sink commercial vessels or put mines in the water? Both of these things are illegal.
00:33And so we're going to take it to the UN and we're going to give it another chance to be
00:36a forum
00:37in which we're not even asking people to commit troops to the region and help blow up the Iranian
00:41boats. All we're asking them to do is to condemn it, to call on Iran to stop blowing ships, to
00:46remove
00:46these mines, and to allow humanitarian relief to come through because there's humanitarian aid
00:51that's trapped. That's it. This is a very modest request. And if you're telling me that the
00:56international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that, then I don't know what
01:01the utility of the UN system is if it can't even solve something as straightforward as that.
01:05The president, our president, has proven time and again that his preference is peace.
01:09But Iran must accept the reality of the situation and come to the negotiation table and accept terms
01:15that are good for them but ultimately good for the world. The diplomatic path, if there's a real
01:19diplomatic path, I'm not always going to be one, but if there's a real diplomatic path and we continue to
01:23explore it. Steve and Jared are working on that very hard. If there is one there, it could be one
01:28that leads them to reconstruction, to prosperity, and to stability, and to not posing a threat to the
01:32world. The alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat.
01:38I know what the right choice is for Iran. I hope that the people over there making decisions will
01:42make the right one. While this project steadily progresses, Operation Epic Fury, economic fury,
01:48I'm sorry, continues to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime and what remains of their
01:54already frail economy. Today, inflation in Iran is 70 percent, and their currency is in total and
02:01complete freefall. U.S. sanctions enforcement is stepping up. It's moving in lockstep with the naval
02:05blockade to degrade Iran's capacity to generate, to move, and repatriate revenue. It directly targets
02:12the regime's primary revenue lifelines. The blockade alone is costing Iran as much as 500
02:19million dollars a day in lost revenue. Ninety percent of total Iranian trade has been halted,
02:25causing permanent damage to Iran's oil infrastructure as wells are forced to shut in.
02:31Now, what's really important for you to report and for everyone to understand is this is not an
02:34offensive operation. This is a defensive operation, and what that means is very simple.
02:39There's no shooting unless we're shot at first. We're not attacking them, but if they're attacking
02:45us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that. You're not going to let some fast boat
02:49come up on a ship and shoot it up. We're going to respond to it, and we've been successful at
02:53it.
02:54Well, it's been challenging to deal with them diplomatically because, for example, an offer
02:57will be made and then it takes five or six days to get a response because you have to get
03:00it through
03:01the whole system. They have to find the supreme leader wherever he hides. They got to get him to
03:04sign off, and that's their system. Their system has always been multi-layered in this way. It's
03:08obviously become more complex because of the damage they suffered during the war. But look,
03:13suffice it to say Iran has to pay a price. They're not going to change their position out of the
03:16kindness of their heart. There has to be a pressure point on them that causes them to realize they
03:21cannot continue to close the straits or they face crushing economic consequences, but also global
03:29diplomatic isolation, which they have proven in the past to be susceptible to. But you're right,
03:33they have a high pain threshold, but they don't have an unlimited pain threshold. Nobody does.
03:37The second thing we're doing is we're going to the UN. Everybody loves the UN, right? We're trying
03:41to go to the UN, and we're saying, okay, countries of the world, condemn this. Say that it is wrong
03:46for you to put mines there. It is wrong for you to shoot at commercial vessels. Guys, that's what we're
03:51talking about here. These guys are bombing commercial vessels. They're not bombing naval vessels. They're
03:55bombing commercial tankers. It's just outrageous. That needs to stop, and it needs to end. And if it
04:02doesn't, then the world should be diplomatically and economically isolating Iran as well.
04:06But if we live in a world where global shipping lanes can be taken over by countries, that'll
04:10have a direct impact on Americans in the short and the long term, and we can't let it start by
04:15Iran
04:15doing it. And we're the only ones that can do anything about it. Their plan was they were going
04:19to build this conventional shield where they would have so many thousands of missiles and drones and
04:22rockets that they couldn't be attacked. And behind that conventional shield that they were trying to
04:27build, they would then break out and do whatever they wanted with their nuclear program. They no longer have that
04:31conventional shield. Okay? We told you guys from the very beginning, and we're very consistent in
04:36this messaging, the operation that has concluded was going to destroy their navy. They have no navy
04:41left. They don't. Not a navy. They have small boats and Boston whalers, but they don't have a navy left.
04:46They don't have an air force. I challenge you. When is the last time you read or heard about an
04:50Iranian
04:50jet flying anywhere? They don't have an air force. Their missile launching capability has been
04:55substantially degraded, and their industrial base, their defense industrial base, has been severely,
05:00severely damaged. So their ability to build a shield behind which they could hide their nuclear
05:05program was wiped out. That's a very substantial achievement, and that was the purpose of this
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