He said just 10 minutes later, the Iranians made a new offer on paper, and it was better if what they mean by opening the straits is, yes, The straits are opened as long as you coordinate with Iran, get our permission or we'll blow you up and you pay us. That's not opening the straits. Those are international waterways. They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it. (02:40–02:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that Iran is attempting to control access to international waterways by requiring coordination and payment.
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