Fox guest: Iran's ability to enact fees in the MOU gives it “coercive control over the Strait of Hormuz”
Rebeccah Heinrichs: “The Iranians will say they just want to collect environmental tolls. They are not going to call it tolls, they'll call it fees. That's tolls. Brian, that's worse than before Epic Fury.”
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From the June 17, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILLMEADE (FOX NEWS HOST): Lets talk about the deal. What concerns you most about what we now know about this deal, as we await two days for the formal reading of the deal?
REBECCAH HEINRICHS (GUEST): Well, first of all, Brian, Epic Fury was so successful and economic fury is so successful. And President Trump was right to initiate it. And we really have the Iranians in a vice, which is why I'm concerned that we would permit the Iranians access to their oil when as we relieve this blockade. They would essentially have billions of dollars back into the IRGC coffers. I know the vice president continues to say this will be conditions-based. But, as far as I can tell, this isn't even being put in escrow accounts to trap it, to make sure the IRGC complies. We have no reason to believe that they will. So they will be flooded with cash almost immediately.
My second big concern is that the deal does recognize Iranian governance with other Gulf States over the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the Iranians will say they just want to collect environmental tolls. They are not going to call it tolls, they'll call it fees. That's tolls. Brian, that's worse than before Epic Fury. The United States cannot permit Iran to have coercive control over the Strait of Hormuz. And so, to me, those are the two big ones tied with, I think, the fact that once you release sanctions you really lose your leverage to enforce what we want on removing and dismantling Iran's nuclear program.