Ben Shapiro
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So the idea would be that the Islamic Republic would ensure
that they would essentially allow traffic to happen through the Strait of Hormuz.
That is not a permanent matter.
That is something that will have to be settled within 60 days.
And that is all that says.
It doesn't say this is a permanent opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
It doesn't say anything remotely like that.
In fact, according to United States intelligence agencies, as CNN reports, U.S.
intelligence agencies have recently assessed Iran can effectively shut down access to the Strait of Hormuz at will from now on.
So basically, we are bribing them, as we will see when we get to the monetary flow, which is going to happen to a regime that has not changed its behavior, will not change its behavior.
The money is going to start happening like immediately and has already started happening.
We committed to immediately allowing oil to flow in and out of Iran, and they committed that they will allow traffic to happen within the next 30 days, but no final settlement has been reached.
The president essentially admitted as much, by the way, at the G7.
Here he was suggesting that if we had not done this deal, there would have been a worldwide depression, which is an admission that Iran controls the straight.
All right, finally, most importantly, most importantly, because again, all these other things, you could theoretically kick the can down the road on all these other things.
Because let's say that the United States basically just pulled out and said, listen, we've done what we've done on the nukes.
Our allies have oversight.
Okay, let's say that we had said that about the ballistics.
We've done what we wanted to do.