John Bolton: One Country Would Be Really Upset in Closing Strait of Hormuz, China

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BOLTON: “You know, they‘ve had one military enemy since October the 7th and the Hamas attacks on Israel. It‘s not going well for Iran. Do they really want to come after the United States and have not just two military enemies, but the biggest military enemy they‘re ever going to face? Maybe they will. We‘ll see. Other things people have talked about, like closing the Strait of Hormuz and preventing oil and gas exports from the Gulf, it‘s possible that they would try that. There would be one country that would be really upset by closing off those exports, and that would be one of Iran‘s only friends in the world, China, which depends on oil and gas from the Middle East, critically. So I think Iran‘s got a tough decision. I think the notion that they would come back and negotiate seriously is illusory. They have used negotiations for 30-plus years to beguile the West, to drag out their program. It‘s simply a ruse for them to buy more time.”