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America is waking up to a dangerous new reality: negotiators will soon sit down with Tehran while the mullahs still threaten the Strait of Hormuz, and sober voices on Newsmax warned this is no ordinary diplomatic moment. Former Undersecretary Robert Wilkie and foreign-policy analyst Walid Phares made clear on Wake Up America that if Iran is allowed to keep its chokehold on that vital waterway, the consequences for global security — and American interests — will be severe.
Wilkie didn’t mince words: targeting Iran’s energy infrastructure raises legal and moral questions, but the regime’s use of civilian facilities as cover could make them legitimate military targets — and he even floated the old, hard plan of seizing islands in the strait to break Tehran’s grip. That blunt, strategic realism is exactly what too many Beltway elites lack; when dictators weaponize commerce we must remember the military is a tool to secure peace and protect American prosperity.
Walid Phares and other analysts on the program rightly warned that Tehran is adept at buying time when it suits the regime, and that any ceasefire or negotiation that leaves proxy forces or nuclear ambitions intact is a trap, not a peace. The American people deserve clarity: pauses do not equal victory, and trusting a regime that persecutes its own citizens is naïveté dressed up as diplomacy.
The stakes are unmistakably global. Closing or restricting the Strait of Hormuz would choke off a fifth of the world’s oil, and that reality forces other powers — including China, which depends on Middle Eastern energy flows — to react, whether in self-interest or opportunism. That dynamic is why world leaders and commentators have warned Beijing could be drawn into the crisis if Iran’s actions go unchecked; energy markets and supply chains do not respect appeasement.
Conservatives should refuse to sit on their hands while maritime law and freedom of the seas are threatened; President Trump and his team must keep pressure on Tehran and rally allies to protect commercial transit and punish predatory behavior. Calls for allied naval escorts and a robust multinational posture are not warmongering — they are the very definition of deterrence, and they force regimes like Iran to weigh the cost of escalation.
This moment demands American resolve: stand with our sailors, back our negotiators who demand Iran dismantle its military proxies and nuclear program, and make it clear to Beijing that the United States will never tolerate strategic blackmail over global energy lifelines. Hard power backed by clear diplomacy is how free nations survive; soft-footed concessions only invite more aggression, and hardworking Americans won’t accept a world where tyrants sell passage for ransom.
