Trita Parsi

For the United States to accept that and recognize that is in and of itself a big step towards making that a permanent feature.

Now, these are not huge amounts of money, nor is it going to give the Iranians a lot of income, but it's going to give them geopolitical leverage.

And that is one of the features that may come out of this war, even if there is no agreement.

So I think it's important to recognize one thing.

Trump already said about two weeks ago, the United States is not importing oil from the Persian Gulf.

This Strait of Hormuz is important to Asian countries and to European countries.

It is not crucial to the United States any longer.

The entire Middle East is no longer crucial to the United States.

This is one of those problems that we have here in the United States in which we are overextended in a region that doesn't have a vital interest

for US national security any longer.

We're not in need of the oil from the Middle East.

The rest of the global market is.

And they were not willing to step up when Trump asked them to step up militarily and help.

And I have full understanding why they didn't.

It would have been a losing proposition.

And Trump has essentially said, look,

This doesn't bother or concern us any longer.

And as a result, if the rest of the world has a problem with Iranians charging a fee, then the rest of the world will have to deal with it.

You know what the rest of the world is going to do?

They're going to acquiesce to it.