Now, this is the Mark Simone show on 710 W.O.R.

Well, it's Monday. There's a lot going on. We'll get you caught up on everything. We'll get the latest on Iran. We'll get to Eric Swalwell. It's over for him. We'll get to Mamdani in a silly grocery store. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman.

Next governor of New York, we'll get to Artemis, the spacecraft, and the astronauts.

We'll get to the masters and a whole lot more.

We'll get to Kamala Harris.

It became the laughing stock of the Internet on Saturday.

We'll explain why.

So as we speak right now,

blockade is beginning. President Trump has decided to put up a blockade on the Straits of Hormuz.

Now, most people, just casual watches of the news, you know, they watch the evening news,

and they quickly read the paper. You're a victim of the news. You know, they watch the evening news, or they quickly read the paper. You're a victim of fake news. You've been given a false impression. If you watch the Sunday shows, they really go out of their way to just totally mislead the public. A couple of things you've got to know. Fact. We get no oil out of the Straits of Hormuz. We don't need it for anything. It could be closed forever and it doesn't affect the United States.

If it's closed, if it's blockaded, if it's closed, it completely screws up Iran. It's their only source of revenue. Oil. That's all they do. They sell oil. And if the Straits of Hormuz are blocked,

they can't sell any oil and they've got zero revenue coming in. It also screws up China. They are

heavily dependent on Iranian oil. So it really messes up China. That's one reason we're not rushing to get it open. Now, here's another fact. We can open the Straits of Hormuz at any time, anytime we feel like it. It's an easy thing to do militarily. We've got the plan on how to open it. Admiral Cooper, Sentcom could execute that in a second. As soon as he gets the go-head could totally open the Straits of Hormuz.

We're not going to do that for a while because the longer it's closed, the more it hurts China.

It completely takes all revenue away from Iran.

And also, it helps the United States.

Not only don't we need that oil, but if the Straits of Hormuz are closed,

it actually helps us. We make more money because if it's closed, Europe, India, many countries

that are totally dependent on that oil, now have to buy from the United States. We are actually

oil rich right now. We've got more oil than we need. We're an exporter of oil now. In fact, right now we're the biggest exporter of oil in the world. So as long as the Straits of Hormuzer closed, a lot of these countries who used to buy that oil now have to buy it from us. And they're also thinking that after a while, they're going to start to realize,

you know what, this is a better supplier. Straitzahormuz, Iranian oil, there's always a risk.

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