Charlie Kirk Show producer says the potential Iran deal is “not a perfect deal” and “would be getting us back to the situation before the war”
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From the May 28, 2026, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
ANDREW KOLVET (HOST): We got news this morning that broke from Axios, and it's a potentially massive, massive deal. And that is the US and Iran reach deal for a 60 day peace ceasefire, but need Trump's final approval, officials say.
So the way this has gone down is that — you got to understand, dealing with Iran is very, very difficult right now. They got carrier pigeons going to their supreme leader. It's tough to get word back and forth. So if you're, you know, quibbling over a dot on an I or how a t is crossed, it takes roughly about three days to get that back and forth. OK? So they say that Iran — Iran has not officially confirmed this, but US officials are saying that Iranian senior leadership have said that they have approval to sign this deal.
So what's in the deal? The deal says that the strait will be opened. OK? The blockade will be lifted. Iran will not harass the shipping lane, and the US will end its blockade. So this will happen in proportion of the restoration of commercial shipping, a US official said. The MOU will include an Iranian commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon, the official said. It will also state that the first issue to be negotiated in this 60 day window will be how to dispose of Iran's highly enriched uranium and how to address Iranian enrichment. OK.
So let's just set out the stakes here for you. So, got to get that shipping lane open. Right? We've got midterms. We got high energy prices. There is pressure politically, domestically to get that gas price under $3 nationally. OK? This would put us on the road to do that. OK? Yeah. We are net exporting. We have all this energy in the United States. These are all good things. China's coming to us. Lots of others are coming to us. Venezuela sending us 10 million barrels of oil. All those things are good developments. But internationally, you have to understand, there's still a pressure on that gas price, on the energy prices, and that has a political consequence. You better believe it that the president is keenly aware of this. Yes. He's willing to endure some pain here, but he's also a pragmatist. OK?
President Trump wants a few days to think about this, but that blockade would be lifted. Iran would agree to allow the straight to be open. This would help them economically. There's no question. Estimates have it at about $500 million a day that Iranians are losing by not being able to access the strait for shipping of energy internationally. Also, they have a lot of worry about their wells backing up. Once that happens, some of those oil wells cannot be reopened. You do permanent damage to those wells. And the first item up for bids during the 60 day peace fire will be how to deal with and dispose of the dust, the nuclear dust that's there. Now that is open for interpretation. There's a lot of different parties involved, a lot of different ideas of how to best do it. Some say China, some say Russia. President Trump says that's off the table. I think President Trump wants a few few days to think about this because he wants the US to directly oversee the disposal of said nuclear waste.
BLAKE NEFF (HOST): It's not a perfect deal.
KOLVET: It's not a perfect deal.
NEFF: I want to say that.
KOLVET: The whole the whole war is an imperfect war.
NEFF: The whole thing's not perfect. In truth, a lot of this is — it would be getting us back to the situation before the war, which is strait open —
KOLVET: Except —
NEFF: Free trade, and we're agreeing to negotiate on the nuclear issue, which we were negotiating when the strike started.
KOLVET: So just to be clear, though, what is different is that they have apparently — and this is part of the background that I have been, you know, exposed to on some of these calls. The difference right now is that they have finally conceded that they will not have a nuclear program and that they're willing to dispose of said nuclear.
NEFF: Iran has always said they're not planning to build a nuclear weapon. We don't believe them, of course.
KOLVET: So, well, there is some interesting insight on that. One school of thought, one theory of the case is that the old supreme leader was never going to do it. He just wanted to posture. He just wanted to — when we got rid of him, the new leadership for a while was actually willing to do it. So, actually, things got more risky in the immediate aftermath. Right now, it appears that the moderates are ascending.