Admiral John Kirby
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first heard Apr 2026
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I suspect the first reaction that they're having, Jen, is just continued distrust.
I mean, remember the last time they agreed to sit down at the negotiating table with Mr. Kushner and Mr. Wyckoff, you know, two attacks happened.
So they feel like they've been burned in the past by all this rhetoric pre-negotiation and during negotiations.
So I suspect that when they hear him talk like that, it just reinforces their level of distrust.
And I think that probably helps
you know, feed the bluster that you're hearing coming out of Tehran, the tough talk before they go in.
They're not going into this.
They're certainly going in, as Rob says, with a good degree of leverage, but they're also going to go in with a high degree of mistrust over this administration and their motives.
It would be a huge undertaking militarily.
I'm not prepared to say that it couldn't be done militarily, but to do it and to sustain an opening, a safe opening of the strait would require months and months of hard work by not just the United States military, but frankly,
militaries in the region and hopefully even militaries who aren't in the region, such as our European allies.
I mean, just the convoys alone, Jan, just—I did that mission back in 88.
That's time-intensive, ship-intensive.
We had 500-plus ships back then.
We have only 300 or so now.
We would need help to do it.
And the convoys are slow, and you've got to be constantly on your toes going through that narrow strait.
Also, you need eyes overhead.
You're going to need constant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets flying over the straits so you can see with an unblinking eye everything that's moving in that water 24-7.
And you might even have to navigate.
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