Iran Just Crossed Trump’s Red Line—His 2-Word Ultimatum Has Tehran PANICKING!

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:03]Operation Epic Fury.

[00:00:08]Tonight, Iran just tested President Trump's red line, and the Trump administration answered in the only language Tehran understands, strength.

[00:00:17]While negotiators are still working towards a deal, CENTCOM says Iran launched a ballistic missile towards Kuwait and attacked drones near the Strait of Hormuz.

[00:00:26]The message from the White House is brutally simple.

[00:00:29]America will talk, but America will also shoot back.

[00:00:34]And now Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has revealed the two demands that matter the most. Not 10 demands, not endless weakness, not two.

[00:00:43]I'm just two, no nukes and open sea lanes.

[00:00:47]So, here's the question.

[00:00:49]Is Trump negotiating a deal or forcing a surrender?

[00:00:53]You see, this is bigger than another Middle East headline.

[00:00:57]The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important energy choke points on Earth.

[00:01:01]And if Iran believes it can squeeze the world economy by threatening passage, every family in America pays the price through fuel, shipping, inflation, and instability.

[00:01:10]President Trump clearly understands that, which is why his team has moved fast with Oman and made freedom of navigation non-negotiable.

[00:01:18]Mnuchin said the president wanted to punk a punctuate freedom of navigation in the strait.

[00:01:24]He reportedly warned that there would be consequences if Oman or its institutions enabled any tolling scheme.

[00:01:31]And then came Iran's public spin job, claiming that there would be no tolls, only charges for maritime services and environmental protection.

[00:01:40]Nice try.

[00:01:41]A tax by another name is still leverage, but here's the real point. The Trump administration is not haggling over details from a position of weakness.

[00:01:49]It's reducing this negotiation to terms Iran cannot fake.

[00:01:54]Right? Can't fake its way around.

[00:01:57]Surrender the highly enriched uranium and keep Hormuz open.

[00:02:00]That is peace through strength and Tehran knows it's not on its side.

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[00:03:24]Now, back to the main story because this is where it gets even more important.

[00:03:27]See, Iran was not just talking tough.

[00:03:30]According to CENTCOM, it launched a ballistic missile towards Kuwait and multiple drones near the strait, and US forces responded immediately taking out the threats before they could do more damage.

[00:03:42]And that's the part the media always misses. Under President Trump, deterrence is not a press release. It's action. And when you line that up with Besant's and Trump's own warning from the cabinet table, you can see the full doctrine taking shape in real time.

[00:04:01]So, we have this uh Iran announcing it will not impose tolls for transit through the strait, but will instead charge fees for maritime services and environmental protection.

[00:04:19]>> [clears throat] >> And will you be collecting tolls or fees against the passage through the waterway?

[00:04:29]>> There is no toll.

[00:04:38]We are not leaving any taxes, and we do not wish to collect any tolls.

[00:04:47]We should emphasize two matters. First, that the measures or moves taken by Iran and Oman are aiming at arriving at a protocol or a dynamic to ensure the safe passage through the waterway.

[00:05:05]This is a very responsible move, and it is in line with international law as well as the national interest of both our countries, and above all to the greater good of the international community. And it is quite natural that the services provided in through this waterway, including navigation and other movements with respect to safeguarding the environment within the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, all these acts entail certain expenses.

[00:05:46]However, they cannot be described as tolls or fees.

[00:05:54]>> Yeah. So, they're going to use the environmental excuse.

[00:05:58]Iran tried the word game there. No tolls, just charges with a different label.

[00:06:03]Now, the White House answer was Scott Morrison saying Trump made freedom of navigation in the strait non-negotiable.

[00:06:10]>> President wanted to punctuate freedom of navigation in the strait. I had a call with the Omani ambassador this morning, and he assured me that there were no plans for tolling the strait. As he said, our countries have had 200 years of good relations. He wants to have another 200 more. And you know, I told him that this was a non-starter, and he did not want to risk either the Omani individuals or Omani financial institutions they getting sanctioned.

[00:06:43]>> So, percent making clear Oman got the message on the sanctions.

[00:06:49]Next, he raises the pressure on Tehran itself laying out Trump's red lines on uranium nukes and open transit.

[00:06:56]>> And going back and forth, and President Trump has made it very clear. He talked about it at the cabinet meeting that he he has several red lines. And Iran has to turn over their highly enriched uranium. They cannot pursue nuclear weapon. And the Strait of Hormuz, back to your question on energy, has to free transit. Navigation of the seas has to be free and open as it was before. So, he's not going to take a bad deal. He's going to make a great deal for the American people.

[00:07:28]>> And that's what President Trump does best, making deals. And the red lines are clear. No bomb, no leverage over the strait, no bad deal. Overnight, CENTCOM says Iran pushed anyway with a ballistic missile towards Kuwait and attacked drones near Hormuz.

[00:07:42]Fox reports that they had a uh Iran carried out an egregious ceasefire violation overnight.

[00:07:51]>> President Trump said a deal with Iran was largely negotiated. Now he says talks aren't quite there yet, but he still says an agreement is within reach.

[00:08:01]>> Iran is very much intent. They want very much to make a deal. So far they haven't gotten there.

[00:08:06]We're not satisfied with it, but uh we will be. We will be either that or we'll have to just finish the job.

[00:08:13]But uh the navy is gone as I've said a thousand times. The navy is gone. Their air force is gone.

[00:08:19]Everything's gone and they're negotiating on fumes.

[00:08:24]>> Perhaps complicating matters this morning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it targeted a US air base in what CENTCOM calls an egregious ceasefire violation. Ceasefire uh violation and uh CENTCOM says Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. Iran calls it retaliation after US forces shot down five Iranian one-way attack drones over the Strait of Hormuz. The US says it also hit an Iranian ground control station in Bandar Abbas before it could launch a sixth drone. Both nations are warning of more aggressive action if necessary. President Trump is threatening Iran and Oman if they strike a deal to control the Strait of Hormuz as well and he's brushing off concerns that he's facing political pressure from the midterms maintaining Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says they'll see if they can make progress in the coming days.

[00:09:14]>> Now the president's preference, Mr. President, your preference as he's told us repeatedly is always to negotiate these things and to figure out if you can have agreements. Diplomacy is always the first option.

[00:09:23]And we continue to work on that through your envoys that Mr. Woodcock and and Kushner and others, Vice President, who've been very involved. And if we we there's an agreement to be made, we want that to be made.

[00:09:34]>> And regarding Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the president says he's not comfortable with Russia or China taking it.

[00:09:47]>> [cough and clears throat] >> So even with Trump still leaving the door open to a deal, Iran kept poking the bear got hit back fast. Department of War literally telling people that the Patriots are in control.

[00:10:00]Here is what they posted. Department of War, take a look at this post.

[00:10:06]Good morning, Patriots.

[00:10:08]Good morning, Patriots are in control.

[00:10:10]We are locked in.

[00:10:15]So continuing here, we have the post capturing the mood. Lindsey Graham says they should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize.

[00:10:25]>> this off. If he can get Saudi Arabia, the center of Islam for the entire world, to recognize the Jewish state Israel, he'll have ended the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going on for thousands of years. They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize. If he can do that, and I think he can, it's the biggest change in the history, in the modern history, and in the ancient history of the Mideast, where the Arabs and the Jews live together, where it becomes a center of power economically, not a powder keg. And once you put Iran in a box, and he's going to do that, we're going to have peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Nobody thought that was possible. I believe it's possible, and there's one guy can do it, Donald Trump.

[00:11:15]>> So Graham talking big about Trump's ability to force peace through strength, and the battlefield receipts back it up.

[00:11:20]The Pentagon says US forces took out Iranian drones, and Trump warned Hegseth is ready to finish the job.

[00:11:28]>> carried out a new wave of strikes in Iran. The Pentagon confirming to Fox that US forces struck four Iranian drones posing a threat to the Strait.

[00:11:37]CENTCOM also bombing an Iranian military site that was seconds away from launching a fifth drone.

[00:11:43]We're told these strikes were purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire, quote unquote.

[00:11:50]This comes just after the president called a high-stakes cabinet meeting at the White House today. The main topic?

[00:11:55]Iran.

[00:11:56]>> Well, I think we're doing very well. I think they are starting to give us the things that they have to give us. And if they do, that's great. And if they won't, then the man on my left is going to finish them off.

[00:12:06]>> The man on his left? Pistol Pete.

[00:12:10]>> We're going to use maximum lethality and we're going to bring them to their knees. And so, whether it's their navy that's at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, their air force, their air defenses, or their defense industrial base, they may have missiles, but they can't build more right now. And they can't build more drones right now. And they can't build more ships.

[00:12:27]>> Nope. And they won't be able to. Trump's not going to let them.

[00:12:31]So, what this really means is that President Trump has compressed the entire Iran file into one brutally effective formula. Comply or get weaker by the hour.

[00:12:44]The deal is still active, but only because the Trump administration is proving every single day that violations will be punished immediately.

[00:12:52]Iran cannot enrich uranium, threaten the Strait, launch drones, and expect endless Western concessions like it got during previous administration.

[00:13:00]Those days are over.

[00:13:01]Trump is showing the region that our and our allies and our enemies that the United States will protect navigation, crush provocations, and still leave the door open for a serious agreement.

[00:13:11]That's not mixed messaging. That's leverage.

[00:13:13]And that is how you negotiate when America is led by a commander-in-chief who actually believes in American power.

[00:13:19]So, here's the bottom line tonight.

[00:13:22]President Trump's doing exactly what strong leadership looks like.

[00:13:25]He's pursuing a historic agreement with Iran, but he's doing it from a position of dominance, not desperation.

[00:13:32]The administration's made the terms very clear. Turn over the highly enriched uranium, keep the Strait of Hormuz open, and stop testing the United States.

[00:13:40]If Iran wants to deal, there is a path.

[00:13:43]If Iran wants to keep playing games, the Trump administration has already shown it's fully prepared to finish the job.

[00:13:50]That's why the panic is not in Washington this time. The panic's in Tehran.

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