Tucker Carlson

So, like, it would be up to them.

You know who it's not up to?

The United States, which has effectively controlled the Persian Gulf for your entire life, but not anymore.

Now it's up to Iran and Oman and their allies or regional partners, the other five GCC countries, maybe Iraq.

At the Western end, who knows?

But not the United States.

And by the way, not China or Russia either, but the two countries whose territory touches the Strait of Hormuz, they're in charge now.

And by in charge, that means in charge of, in effect, the Persian Gulf.

Because the overwhelming majority of the commodities, mostly oil and gas, but not just oil and gas, fertilizer, sulfur, the rest that you've heard so much about for the last hundred days, flow through that strait.

And so Iran is now at least an equal partner with Oman in determining how much it's going to cost the rest of the world to get their commodities out of the Persian Gulf.

How much oil producing, gas producing nations will pay to get their commodities out of the Persian Gulf.

Iran, that was not true on February 27th.

Apparently it's going to be true into the future.

So that power, the power to determine who gets their commodities out of

the most energy-dense region on the planet, by definition makes you into a major player, if not a regional hegemon.

You're certainly a big deal.

People can't dismiss you as a rogue terror state at that point because you control, in effect, a fifth of the world's oil and gas.

Paragraph six, the United States of America undertakes with its regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed upon plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Republic of Iran.

Not just the reconstruction, not just rebuild the things that you blew up, but help our economy going forward.

Economic development.