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Turning Point USA spokesman on Iran: “It looks like we're sort of ignoring the strait for the time being”
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From the April 9, 2026, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
ANDREW KOLVET (HOST): So where does that leave us? I think it leaves us in a position where the strait is currently not operating. Still, the Strait of Hormuz is not closed. And as we remember, as you might recall —
BLAKE NEFF (HOST): It is closed. It is closed.
KOLVET: Yes, it is closed. As you might recall, we have President Trump's expletive-laced Truth Social saying open the —
NEFF: It wasn't really laced. It was just one. It was just —
KOLVET: Well, fair enough.
NEFF: Yeah. Open the effing strait.
KOLVET: Open the strait. And so, that is not open yet. And that was a key, I guess, pillar of establishing this two week ceasefire. So it's unclear what's going to happen. It seems that momentum is racing towards Islamabad on Sunday — on Friday and Saturday, this weekend. President Trump has indicated that JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner are going to be leading those negotiations. And it seems to be that the calculation is even though the strait has not been opened back up, you see a little bit of saber rattling on Truth Social from the president saying we're armed and ready. Everybody's getting ready to go if we have to.
But they want to see if this peace proposal can play itself out and actually net some good results for the country. So, it looks like we're sort of ignoring the strait for the time being — at least for the next two days, it appears until a peace negotiation is able to play itself out. So we're going to see what happens, but fragile peace to say the least, and it does not seem that the Iranian regime is buckling necessarily. They're defiant.
NEFF: Well, it seems — the reason we got here is we attempted to do regime change, and it didn't succeed. Let's be frank. And —
KOLVET: We turned over the the top of the Iranian regime. But, yeah, the IRGC, the regime is still in power, still entrenched in that country, still running things. It's very clear.