Updated
Updated · Fox News · Jul 19
Steve Forbes Urges Trump to Keep 1 Strait Open and Topple Iran Regime
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Jul 19

Steve Forbes Urges Trump to Keep 1 Strait Open and Topple Iran Regime

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 19

Summary

  • Steve Forbes called on Donald Trump to treat the Strait of Hormuz as a non-negotiable U.S. priority and to intensify efforts to bring down Iran’s government.
  • Nine straight days of U.S. strikes on Iranian targets framed his argument that diplomacy and “fake ceasefires” should give way to sustained military pressure.
  • Forbes said air power should be enough to avoid ground troops, but he kept that option open and argued the U.S. and Israel could help embolden anti-regime elements inside Iran’s military.
  • At Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, he cast Hormuz as part of a two-century U.S. commitment to freedom of navigation, comparing it with the South China Sea and citing the Barbary wars as precedent.

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