Fox host Brian Kilmeade: Strait of Hormuz must be open to consider war in Iran “successful”
Kilmeade: “There is no scenario where we leave this operation in the next two to three weeks and we say, ‘Let them open it up,' and can consider it successful. There is just no way.”
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From the April 3, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): The key, what Iran has, why they are holding on according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page -- and I don't know anybody that would really argue this -- the only reason why Iran is surviving this war is because of the strait. The Iranians think that is it, if they can hold the strait they win. And we can't leave without opening up that strait. There is no scenario where we leave this operation in the next two to three weeks and we say, ‘Let them open it up,' and can consider it successful. There is just no way. They are now getting millions of dollars in tolls to help them survive from other countries that have to prove their worth and they're not collaborating with us in order to get through. We can't allow that.
CARLEY SHIMKUS (CO-HOST): Yeah, no doubt, and I think the administration knows that. Iran is proving that they can hold the world economic hostage. So you can't leave that region without controlling the strait. And there are indications that it could last longer than two to three weeks, I was reading that the USS George H.W. Bush departed Norfolk on Tuesday. It takes about three weeks to get there so just think about the manpower and the resources that it takes to move that vessel. If it takes three weeks, then is that preparation for further involvement and a longer period of time to do just that and transition from, you know, drones and airstrikes to securing the strait along the coast line?