If they can't keep it open, this war will, in fact, be an American defeat before very long, because the entire world, including the American people, will react to the price of oil if the strait stays closed very long.

The second job is we're going to discover that the Revolutionary Guard is tougher than we thought it was, better connected, and have at least 200,000 people who are true believers, and they have no future. I mean, Trump can say unconditional surrender. These folks know if they lose power, they have no future.

And the third challenge is: how do you arouse and organize the street, the 85 million or so people in Iran who do not want the current regime, but they're unarmed, they're unorganized, and that has to be solved.

It is about a worldwide, religiously motivated, ideologically driven, totalitarian movement that is dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization. And as a part of that process, is dedicated to the destruction of the United States.