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And here's what Jonathan says.
He said, I just got off the phone with the president.
I asked if he was OK with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz.
He told me that there actually may be a joint U.S.-Iran venture to charge tolls.
So here's the, this is the president negotiating.
How can we get a piece of the action here?
We're thinking of doing it as a joint venture, the president said.
It's a way of securing it, also securing it from lots of other people.
So here's the president saying, okay, I can work with this.
We can figure out a way to make this happen.
military's withdrawal from the Middle East is an Iranian demand.
I don't anticipate that that's actually going to be the case.
I don't know what that's.
The rest of the Middle East is very happy with the United States.
So the idea that we would leave the entire Middle East doesn't seem likely.