Ben Shapiro

I mean, the Iranians are still firing and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Well, again, the president is not wrong about this.

And as I say, this has impacts for China.

According to CBS News, Pakistan is quietly allowing Iranian military aircraft to park on its airfields, potentially shielding them from American airstrikes.

Iran also sent civilian aircraft to park in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan's reliance on China for military assistance has risen dramatically over the past decade.

A Stockholm International Peace Research Institute study showed that China supplied about 80% of Pakistan's major arms between 2020 and 2024.

So this entire negotiation with Pakistan in which Iran and China are aligned, again, what President Trump is doing in Iran is in fact largely directed at China.

In fact, yesterday, the US Treasury cut off some 12 entities that were enabling IRGC sales to China

According to the Treasury Department on ExQuote Today, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating 12 individuals and entities for their role enabling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' sale and shipment of Iranian oil to the People's Republic of China.

The IRGC relies on front companies and permissive economic jurisdictions to obfuscate its role in oil sales and funnel the revenue to the Iranian regime.

Instead of using this revenue to support the struggling Iranian people, the regime directs it toward weapons development, backing terrorist proxies, and funding security forces that suppress citizens' freedoms.

So, again, that is correct.

So recognize what the president is doing in the Middle East is directed against China.

It is part of a broader plan that is depriving China of its oil supplies and its allies.

Now, again, what the president is doing here obviously requires sacrifice on the part of the American people.

And people have said the president should explain that more clearly.

The biggest sacrifice right now is, again, inflation when it comes to the gas prices.

That's very real.

People are experiencing it.