Dinesh D'Souza

I think that Iran had the opportunity early on to try to rally the Muslim countries in the region the way the Palestinians have and make this seem like a war against Islam.

Iran was so dumb that they didn't do that.

They actually began to attack bases and assets in these countries, thus making it really easy for really rich and powerful Muslim countries to go far beyond what they have done before, not merely to denounce Iran, but freeze Iranian assets.

limit Iranian access, even talk about joining the U.S.

and Israeli initiative if the attacks continue.

So Iran has done something, I think, monumentally stupid, and that it has alienated its other potential allies in the Muslim world, even in the Middle East.

Forget about Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia.

I'm just talking about Muslims in the region.

This, I think, was a catastrophic blunder.

Now, with regard to the regime change, here is my view.

Trump did not sell this expedition as a regime change war.

And I don't think that for him it is.

Trump would be very happy to immobilize the Iranian ballistic missile program, incapacitate Iran as a potential destructive terrorist power in the region, and finally have commercial traffic flowing freely through and around the Strait of Hormuz.

Very interestingly, Myron said, hey, these Iranians, they don't even have any ships.

They don't have a navy.

And then two minutes later, they're controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

Well, how do you control the Strait of Hormuz if you don't have any ships and you don't have any navy?

The truth of it is, Iran has been trying to have a kind of cordon, a circle around the Strait of Hormuz.

By the way, if you build the Panama Canal and it's very expensive to operate the canal, you can charge tolls to people who go through the canal because this is an asset that you've created.

The Strait of Hormuz is not like that.