David French

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

The memorandum of understanding was supposed to fully reopen the Strait.

It obviously did not.

Iran was still exerting control.

And so the bottom line is, right now we are in a position where

Iran now believes it is essentially the owner-operator of the Strait of Hormuz, and it is going to exert a certain degree of control.

Iran believes it has essentially defeated Donald Trump and is entitled to all the bounties of its victory.

And then Trump understands that the Strait, it's finally gotten through to him that the Strait has to be open, but he doesn't, still doesn't actually have a plan for that.

And it's very hard to see a clear path forward.

David French?

Yeah, and I think David's exactly right that I think there are some people in the administration, maybe Trump himself, who thinks, ha-ha, the straight didn't hurt us.

Now,

There are other countries, allied countries, that are feeling the pain more than we are.

But we are feeling some pain.

But I also think it is an immense – he – the very idea that he would enter into a worse deal than Obama had –

is that's like the red line.

That's the third rail.

That is the thing that if he has, that's when he reacts volcanically.

And I don't think there's any way for him to look anyone in the face and say that I have a better deal than Obama

if Iran is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, charging tolls, fees, commissions, whatever term you want to use, dictating the routes that tankers have to use and merchant ships have to use, firing missiles at our Gulf allies to enforce its rule, if he's in that position plus giving the billions of dollars,

that have already been sort of outlined as part of the memorandum of understanding with these sort of vague future assurances about the nuclear program.

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