If you are the strongest military in the world, why can’t you force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and let vitally needed commodities out to the rest of the world, including you?

What we've learned is we’re really not as powerful as we said we were.

That’s bad for us, but it’s also dangerous because it invites aggression. We need to fix that by being honest about what just happened.

No more lying.

Israel is your client state. This is like taking orders from your housekeeper, which you would never do. Why would you do that if you had self-respect?

Why can't the U.S. get its proxy, its client state, effectively its employee, Israel, under control? Why is that the one thing that's never on the table?

Why can’t this president or any president say no to Israel? We have a right to know why.

There are, believe it or not, a lot of people in the White House who care about the United States; they're not all whatever you think they are, zombies doing Bibi's bidding.

Some of them can see very clearly where this is heading. It's heading toward a nuclear strike by Israel on Iran — that's obvious. And that would be a world-historic disaster.

“France’s conduct over the past year—including initiatives aimed at limiting Israel’s ability to fight in Iran and a complete lack of willingness to take concrete steps to help Lebanon disarm Hezbollah—has led Israel to view France as an unfair mediator," an Israeli official said.

Iran is demanding fees from vessels it’s allowing to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Strait is effectively under full IRGC control.

They decide who gets to go through, but more importantly, who doesn’t.