Snapshot · The Ben Shapiro Show
Iranian IRGC Navy broadcast a warning that all vessels must receive IRGC permission and use designated routes to transit the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting Trump's claims of US control.
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Shapiro turns to the Lebanon-Israel dimension of the Iran MOU, where Secretary of State Rubio's diplomacy — encouraging the Lebanese army to secure more territory from Hezbollah so Israel can withdraw — is being undermined by the vice president's parallel track of wrapping Lebanon into the Iranian appeasement portfolio. If the US is simultaneously telling Lebanon and Israel not to act against Hezbollah because it might upset Tehran, the entire Lebanese track collapses. Then the hammer falls: Shapiro plays actual IRGC Navy radio audio announcing that any vessel attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz without IRGC permission or on unauthorized routes 'is responsible for any consequences of any danger.' Trump, in a clip, says shipping fees on the Strait would be 'unacceptable.' The MOU explicitly contemplates such fees after 60 days. Reality, Shapiro concludes, is going to force a reckoning — and the administration's current posture of denial cannot hold.
While Trump insists the US controls the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC Navy is broadcasting live warnings that no vessel may transit without their permission. The MOU explicitly includes future shipping fees, which Trump says would be unacceptable — a contradiction Shapiro says reality will eventually force a reckoning on.
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