FOX News host Jesse Watters dissects key conditions of the U.S-Iran memorandum of understanding, including the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s commitment to abandoning its nuclear weapons program, on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“Here’s the bottom line,” Watters said. “They’ll never have a nuclear weapon. The strait’s open. The ayatollah’s dead. Their military’s whipped. And we did it in three months with no ground troops. And Mohammed’s not getting a penny until he performs. And none of these pennies are even ours.”
“As a bonus, the United States is now the world’s biggest energy exporter,” Watters continued. “And hopefully, fingers crossed, we rewired the Middle East so they make love, not war. And we don’t have to babysit them. Trump actually set the stage for peace in the Middle East in his first term by bombing the hell out of ISIS and whacking Iran’s top general.”
Trump just landed in Paris.
After the G7, 47 swung through the French capital to commemorate America 250. The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. They toasted the occasion in the world’s largest royal palace.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We’re going to Versailles for dinner with some of Europe’s great people. And we’ll see how that works out. I think it’ll be very good. The President will be there with Madame. And I think we’re going to have a good time.
WATTERS: The President signed another treaty at dinner. More on that in a sec. But the Europeans are already telling 47, merci…
They gave the boss a big gift. The EU trade deal. We raised tariffs on them and they dropped a bunch of tariffs on us to zero…
The atmosphere was intoxicating. Deals seemed to turn Trump on.
TRUMP: You know, deals are amazing. I’ve done them all my life. I’ve gone into deals that were 100% and they don’t happen. I’ve gone into deals that there was no chance of getting them done. And it happens. And they happen easily. So you never know with deals, do you? But you’re going to find out pretty soon. I think it’ll be done. They want to sign. They want to get back to a normal life.
WATTERS: And Fox News alert. President Trump just signed the Iran deal over dinner.
TRUMP: It’s signed.
WATTERS: They snapped a pic of the sheet and emailed it to the gay Ayatollah. Without Wi-Fi, he’ll probably get it Friday. And primetime just got our hands on the deal.
We’ve read it three times. It’s only two pages. The headline?
Iran’s nuke program is over. Forever. The mullahs have agreed, at the very least, that their enriched uranium stockpiles will be destroyed on sight.
And that the International Atomic Energy Agency, which means us, will supervise. Since Iran can’t dig it out, we’d be the ones doing it. They only get sanctions relief after the dust is destroyed.
And if Iran backs out, they’ve still agreed that they’ll maintain the current status quo of their nuclear program. And the status quo is, they have no nuke program. The uranium’s buried.
The centrifuge is shattered. And their scientists are all dead. So, status quo is still bueno.
Even then, Iran agreed to this. Quote, we shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. And if Iran so much as comes near the sites, it’ll be trouble.
TRUMP: We have Space Force cameras on every single door, every. Well, there are no doors. They’ve been pretty well shattered. if somebody walks in, and he’s got a badge with his name on it, like, Mohammed something, which is about a 50-50 guess, Mohammed something, they can tell the name. They can give you a serial number.
WATTERS: Moving on.
The Strait immediately opens. No attacks, no tolls. And we slowly lift the blockade.
Iran’s allowed to sell oil again. That means two things. One, the price of oil’s gonna fall.
So will gas prices and inflation here. And two, China can’t buy sanctioned Iranian oil at a discount anymore. They have to pay full price.
Oil closed today in the 70s, which was the exact same price it traded at before the war. So we’re back. And here’s where it gets a little cute.
It says after 60 days, Iran can talk to Oman and the Gulf states about how to manage the Strait under international law. Now, people are saying that that means Iran can go back to tolling. No.
Tolling the Strait is illegal under international law, and the Gulf states would never agree to tolling. They just put that language in there so that Iran can save face. And this just in.
For the first time since the start of the war, Iran didn’t fire at a single vessel in the Strait. It’s a pretty good signal. Next, there’s gonna be a $300 billion fund where Gulf neighbors, not us, Gulf neighbors, will invest in rebuilding Iran.
TRUMP: Any relief they receive under this deal, they’ll have to get based on merit. And it won’t be from us. We don’t have to give them anything. But some people may want to invest. Like, what are you gonna do? Say you can never, ever invest in a country? I mean, it’s pretty tough… They need investment because we did a trillion and a half, maybe $2 trillion worth of damage. So somebody’s gonna have to help them out.
WATTERS: This isn’t free money. The deal says that we control who does business in Iran. Quote, we grant all required licenses, waivers, and permissions needed.
That means if Iran screws around, they don’t get any investments. Their country doesn’t get rebuilt. Usually after we win wars, we like to rebuild the loser.
Japan, Germany, the South, after the Civil War. When neighbors do business, they usually don’t go to war because war’s bad for business. That’s the thinking here.
Next, in terms of sanctions, the United States will only lift sanctions as a part of the final deal. That means not now. That means when the dust’s been destroyed and Iran signs the final deal, which is only gonna get tougher.
The deal also says the United States won’t be reducing our force posture until the final deal is signed. That means the two carrier strike groups remain in position, locked and loaded. Also, Iran has to keep their dog on a leash.
Hezbollah has to stand down. If they attack Israel, Israel can hit back and hit back hard. But Israel, they have to behave, too.
TRUMP: We have a little dispute over Lebanon. I say you can do a little softer touch, baby. You don’t have to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it that’s from Hezbollah.
WATTERS: A senior official tells Primetime that Netanyahu thinks the deal’s a home run if Iran complies. But he’s skeptical. Here’s the bottom line.
They’ll never have a nuclear weapon. The strait’s open. The ayatollah’s dead.
Their military’s whipped. And we did it in three months with no ground troops. And Mohammed’s not getting a penny until he performs.
And none of these pennies are even ours. And as a bonus, the United States is now the world’s biggest energy exporter. And hopefully, fingers crossed, we rewired the Middle East so they make love, not war.
And we don’t have to babysit them. Trump actually set the stage for peace in the Middle East in his first term by bombing the hell out of ISIS and whacking Iran’s top general.
TRUMP: This was years in the making. You know why? Because I was the one that killed General Soleimani. And if I didn’t kill General Soleimani, we probably wouldn’t be talking right now about this deal, because he was a mad genius. A lot of people forget that. The tough guys, you know, the tough guys that would drive the country right down the tubes.
WATTERS: Then Trump terminated the Obama deal, and in his second term, the president visited the Middle East first. Remember? Beefed up the Abraham Accords, sold the Arabs’ A.I. Cha-ching. And came home with trillions of American investments. Last week’s airstrikes and Project Freedom sealed this deal. American deterrence is back.
And the Guard lost its leverage over the Strait when we started secretly shepherding tankers out. Senior U.S. officials tell Fox News that they don’t trust the Iranians. They’re not in the trust business.
But the Iranians in private have been saying all the right things. Now, that doesn’t mean anything. This is a performance-based deal.
If they BS us, we slap back the sanctions and the blockade and maybe bombs away.
TRUMP: If I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head. If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave, we’ll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head.
WATTERS: Now, you’re hearing a lot of noise about the deal. Not everyone’s gonna love it. I get it.
But Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, polar opposites, both say it’s good. So what happens next? The talks in Switzerland this weekend are critical.
In the first 30 days, the Iranians prioritize. We’ll see how serious they are. One thing’s clear, the mullahs know Trump’s serious.
