Mike Waltz

U.S.

Ambassador Mike Waltz says the Strait of Hormuz is too important to the global economy to be choked off or attacked by those he calls two-bit pirates.

Russia's ambassador says it's not pirates threatening maritime security, but Western countries with what he calls their lawless actions, including sanctions and seizing vessels.

China's ambassador says the root cause of the blocked Strait of Hormuz

is what he calls the illegal military actions by the U.S.

and Israel against Iran.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the United Nations.

All options are on the table.

The president's prepared to escalate, to deescalate.

He means it when he said nothing that benefits Iran is coming out of the strait.

Engagement, any type of infrastructure that is being commingled, that is being used to move military hardware, is absolutely a legitimate target, as are power plants, the grid, and other things that are being used to power Iran's war economy.

Which, oh, by the way, the IRGC controls an estimated 40 to 50% of.

So it's

The president will move up an escalated an escalation ladder responsibly as our amazing military will follow those orders with him as a commander in chief until Iran comes to the table and and really lives up to a responsible deal that the vice president has put on the table.

It cannot and will not ever have a nuclear weapon.

Everything, absolutely everything's on the table and the president's made it very clear.

He is prepared to escalate, to deescalate this conflict as he should be.

But I just wanna get ahead of this other ridiculous and frankly irresponsible narrative that

This would somehow constitute a, quote, war crime that we've heard from Democratic politicians, the media and others in the international community.

That is wrong.