“A big win for President Trump IF the Strait opens and stays open.”
As part of The Panel on Special Report, that was my instant reaction when Bret Baier asked all five of us to assess the just announced two week cease-fire in the battle with Iran. While Dasha Burns, Mark Penn and Juan Williams demurred one way or the other, Kellyanne Conway agreed with me and elaborated, citing President Trumps long established pattern of negotiation having brought about at least a temporary win.
The test of how big a win it actually is will be revealed in the rest of the two weeks. The crucial issue is, can whomever in Iran wrote the check promising the would open actually be able to cash it?
If so, the worlds oil supply will surge a bit and the remnants of the Iranian regime will have a chance to inventory the destruction that has rained down on their forces for five weeks.
If the Strait doesnt reopen to unmolested traffic, or the attacks on Israel and our Gulf allies dont cease, another round of the third Gulf war will soon commence.
The first round began with the disaster of the and the massacre and kidnapping which followed on October 7, 2023. With a combination of help and hurdles, the U.S. under the (maybe) direction of President Biden stood with our embattled ally, and Israel struck back hard against Hamas to the south, Hezbollah to the north and from the Houthis across the Arabian peninsula. The Jewish State absorbed the first direct attack from Iran with our help. The reality of the menace from Iran and its proxies was revealed to the world.
When President Trump returned to the Oval Office, the Israelis got their hostages back because of pressure brought to bear by the president and his team. hold and the remnants of Hamas and the forces Hezbollah retreated to their tunnels and hideouts, all of their senior leadership dead.
The next round began in June of 2025, with Israels Operation Rising Lion and ended with Americas . The Iranian nuclear program was obliterated and its air defenses shattered. The people of Iran then rose in December to demand change and were massacred in January. The world saw clearly the lunacy of the Khamenei 1.0 regime. The U.S. and Israel planned their next attack.
They struck with devastating results on February 28 with and Operation Roaring Lion. At the enormous cost of 13 precious American lives and a score of seriously wounded U.S. soldiers and dozens of casualties in Israel and the Gulf States, the allies shattered every aspect of the terrorist regime in Tehran.
We dont know who is running what in Iran, but we have more forces en route and anywhere from a day to two weeks to assess the massive intelligence haul of the past 96 hours, which includes the near miraculous American airmen and the fractured, frantic and ineffective response of the disabled IRGC to the chance to capture one of our invaluable warriors.
The rescues humiliated the Iranian regime â again â and ongoing damage to their military industrial base continued unabated. Within the hours of the incredibly complex rescue missions also came again, to drop Massive Ordinance Penetrators on two locations in Tehran in the midst of the rescue operation as IRGC senior leadership unwisely gathered.
The public doesnt known who is left alive on the IRGC side, but reports of a critically wounded and still more erasures from the IRGC command structure leaves the regime tottering. There is still no internet for the people of Iran. The remnant is afraid of us, Israel and their own people.
his ultimatum. His never-evolving critics denounced his language though it got through to whomever is running the bunkers in Iran. (Its absurd to read the post by President Trump as threatening the Iranian people when the “civilization” he was referring to was manifestly the one oppressing the “Great People of Iran,” the one which the president stated in the post had ruled for 47 years through ”
