4 U.S. Warships Tried to Enter the Strait of Hormuz—Iran Launched an Attack | Lawrence Wilkerson

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Let me start Larry with what has happened in the last two days. One of them was the American tankers oil tanker tried to, you know, to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran hit at least they fired some sort of missiles, cruise missiles toward the tanker, just a warning sort of missiles, but last night we learned that the United States tried to four US warships tried to enter this this Strait of Hormuz, which it was the same sort of reactions from Iranian.

[00:00:37]And we had the American attack on the city of Bandar Abbas, which is close to the Persian Gulf.

[00:00:45]And then Iranian response on Kuwait American base in Kuwait.

[00:00:50]This is putting that aside. On the other hand, Donald Trump is trying to sell us that everything is going well, we're going to reach some sort of agreement, and even J.D. Vance yesterday said the same thing.

[00:01:04]Moments ago before coming to this live, here is what the head of Iranian parliament tweeted.

[00:01:11]He says three three points in his tweet. One, we cease concession not through dialogue, but with missiles. In negotiations, we merely make them understood.

[00:01:27]I'm going to make them understand.

[00:01:28]>> Right.

[00:01:29]>> We have not trust We have no trust in guarantees or words.

[00:01:35]Only actions are the measure. No actions will be taken before the other side acts.

[00:01:42]The winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war for the day after. Here is what it Do you see Do you Do you feel any sort of negotiations or talk or peace happening?

[00:01:59]>> Your understanding. Yeah, no, they're >> [clears throat] >> uh the United States is strange is strangely silent right now.

[00:02:08]Um and let me let's put it into time frame. I judge it in the like 12 hours ago. So, it's 10:00 p.m. at night.

[00:02:17]Um that is early morning uh Iran time.

[00:02:23]And there was no action.

[00:02:26]24 hours before that is what you just described where the four ships tried to go through the the the strait.

[00:02:34]And Iran stopped them. We Again, we don't know if they fired missiles directly at the ships or but it stopped it. And then response to that the United States uh attacked the the they launched some bombs, but apparently they didn't hit anything important.

[00:02:52]However, uh the Iran fired a a a missile as a warning shot at the air base in Kuwait from where those flights these combat air patrols had originated.

[00:03:08]Um then 24 hours before that there had been a similar uh ship tried to sneak through. Iran stopped it. That one the United States killed uh four sailors in in small boats. So, they actually they hit Iranian targets.

[00:03:24]So, as we look at this progression, on day one it was very aggressive. They hit and killed Iranians.

[00:03:32]Day two they fired shots, but they didn't kill Iranians.

[00:03:37]And now in the last 12 hours they haven't responded at all, the United States.

[00:03:44]So, that tells me that there's um there's something going on that uh Iran has delivered a message to the United States and I think the combination of that missile that was fired at Kuwait cuz they they put the US on notice, "We're going to destroy this airbase if you keep this up."

[00:04:05]You know, we're not going to We're not going to break the ceasefire, but if you continue to attack and provoke, we're going to take out that airbase.

[00:04:12]And as a consequence of that, I right now we've seen we've seen at least I don't know if it's permanent or or at least a temporary standing down of US aggressive missions against Iran.

[00:04:29]Uh Iran's positions have been very very clear.

[00:04:33]Uh and the this is they were contradicted yesterday by what Donald Trump said. Iran wants uh immediate sanction relief and they want un- their assets unfrozen.

[00:04:45]Trump yesterday says, "No, no, there's not going to be any immediate sanctions release and we're not unfrizing a single thing."

[00:04:52]Uh Iran's going to maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump says, "No, no, no, no, they're not." So, despite claiming, "Oh, yeah, we're really near an agreement."

[00:05:03]If what Trump is saying reflects the US position, they're nowhere near at all.

[00:05:10]But uh the United States keeps coming back to the nuclear issue.

[00:05:16]Iran has said, "That's for discussion later. That's not for discussion now. The the now issue is get the relief sanction relief, return the frozen assets, we'll we'll maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz, and this war against the Palestinians and Lebanese has got to stop now."

[00:05:41]>> Carl.

[00:05:42]Well, I think Larry has uh described it pretty well. I would add that uh his last point, which I think is adamant with the Iranians, ain't going to happen.

[00:05:55]Bibi is going full hog and looks like he might go for the entire country of Lebanon before it's over with. And he's even got people in Beirut now screaming and hollering because he's attacking with the Air Force assets that clearly aren't Hezbollah. Or if they're Hezbollah, it's a real stretch to prove that they are.

[00:06:16]Um so that's the fly in the ointment as far as I see it tactically on the ground that Bibi Netanyahu is paying no attention to this at all. But a bigger problem, I think Larry just referred to indirectly perhaps, but nonetheless he referred to it. And that is that if we do have any diplomacy going on even through third parties, through Oman, Pakistani, whomever. If we do have any going on, how do you conduct it coherently when Donald Trump makes these pronouncements all the time? Which are probably as divorced from anything they're doing on the ground with third parties in terms of diplomatic maneuvers completely. So you get one person people exchange, whatever on the ground that forms some view of one particular issue like for example the Strait of Hormuz. And then all of a sudden Donald Trump comes out and condemns Oman or some other egregious move. How the hell do you do any coherent diplomacy with your prime diplomat, and that's what the president is supposed to be, really making these pronouncements all the time. They're disconnected from reality and disconnected probably most of the time from the diplomacy being conducted, third party or otherwise. I don't know how you do this. I simply don't. And is it just to keep everything so confused, so essentially Bibi can do what he wants to whenever he wants to.

[00:07:46]Now he's expanded in Gaza.

[00:07:49]And he's going full bore again in Gaza.

[00:07:52]And he is talking about this was in the Haaretz headline this morning. He's talking about 70%.

[00:08:01]How do you get 70% of Lebanon and stay anywhere near the Litani River?

[00:08:06]Um this is crazy. It's just crazy. I You can't figure out what's happening and I think it reflects Trump's desperation.

[00:08:15]I think he does not know how to get out of the mess he's got himself into but he does have some visceral view that he needs to.

[00:08:25]>> Hey look this [clears throat] this just came across the wire.

[00:08:30]Uh from Donald Trump.

[00:08:33]Iran must agree that they will never have nuclear weapon or bomb.

[00:08:38]The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open no tolls for unrestricted uh shipping traffic in both directions.

[00:08:46]Um all water mines bombs if any will be terminated.

[00:08:52]And we have removed through detonation numerous such mines with our great underwater minesweepers.

[00:08:58]Iran will complete the immediate removal and or detonation of any mines that are left. Which will not be many.

[00:09:06]Ships caught in the strait due to our amazing and unprecedented naval blockade which will now be lifted.

[00:09:14]May start the process of heading home.

[00:09:17]Say hello to your wives husbands parents and families for me your favorite president.

[00:09:22]The enriched material sometimes referred to as nuclear dust which is buried deep underground with virtually collapsed mountains.

[00:09:31]Caused by our powerful B-2 bomber attack 11 months ago sitting on top of it will be unearthed by the United States, which it is agreed is the only country along with China with the mechanical capability of doing soil or doing so.

[00:09:48]In close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and destroyed. Doesn't make sense, but that's what it says.

[00:10:02]No money will be exchanged until further notice. Other items of far less importance have been agreed to. I'll be meeting now in the Situation Room to make a final determination. Thanks for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump.

[00:10:17]Uh There's so much wrong with that. Uh you know >> And who wrote it for him? I mean >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> A hodgepodge of Defense Department, State Department, and Trump's lackeys. I mean, who wrote that crap for him?

[00:10:31]>> Even Miller.

[00:10:33]>> No.

[00:10:34]Uh >> I don't know if that's Miller. There's there's there's this one woman, young woman. She's in her 20s. I I wouldn't be surprised if she's writing you know, she's being told what to write. She's She writes it. Uh with the mines as an example, uh the United States hasn't exploded a bunch of them, number one, but by the Department of Defense's own estimate, it's going to take six months to clean the mines up. Six months, okay?

[00:11:01]So, and that's assuming that there's no threat uh from Iran. Uh the Iran is not going to allow the United States to come in and quote dig up the nuclear dust. That ain't happening.

[00:11:17]Um there would be if any Iranian that agreed to that, there'd be a coup.

[00:11:23]Uh so uh you you've got that. And Iran has, you know, we'll we'll see what is actually going to be agreed upon in the situation room.

[00:11:33]The things that Trump says all all these other items of less importance, those are actually the key items.

[00:11:41]>> Yeah.

[00:11:43]Colonel, I really really feel that Stephen Miller