We just want to go back to the status quo. I mean, he couldn't even decide. And now we've handed new hardened, hard lined Ayatollah choke point control over the Strait of Hormuz through which 20% of the world's oil and other critical commodities like fertilizer and helium transit [through the Strait of Hormuz]. And this new Ayatollah is newly empowered now, not just empowered globally against the United States, which he is. It's the United States that wants the truce. It's not Iran. (31:15–31:31)
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