'ACT OF WAR': Iran issues DIRECT warning to US, foreign allies

. "FOX AND FRIENDS" STARTS NOW. >> Ainsley: MATCHES THE BIRD. WEARING BLUE. >> Lawrence: HE DID. >> Brian: THIS HOUR IN MIDDLE. EAST, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. EXPECTED TO ROLL OUT WHAT. TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT. CALLS TOUGHEST SANCTIONS IN. HISTORY IN IRAN. >> Ainsley: TREY YINGST LIVE. FROM TEL AVIV WITH THE LATEST, HI, TREY. >> Trey: THE UNITED STATES IS. SET TO UNLEASH ECONOMIC. SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN TO. PRESSURE THE REGIME IN IRAN.

SCOTT BESSENT WROTE ON SUNDAY. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND. OVERWHELMING MIGHT OF OUR. MILITARY HAVE DISMANTLED IRAN'S. MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND. WEAKENED THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM. WE ARE BEGINNING D-DAY. THE ECONOMIC PRESSURE COMES AS. IRANIAN REAL CROSSED 3 MILLION. TO 1 U.S. DOLLAR. HISTORIC LOW. THE HEAD OF IRAN SECURITY.

COUNCIL SAYS NOT A SINGLE DROP. OF GAS WILL BE EXPORTED AND IRAN. WILL REGARD ANY COUNTRY. PARTICIPATION IN OR SUPPORT FOR. AMERICA AN ACT OF WAR. REPORTS INDICATE CROSSINGS ARE. UP 400% OVER LAST FEW WEEKS. UNITED STATES IS OVERSEEING. VESSELS THROUGH A SAFER SOUTHERN.

PASSAGE. STILL THE IRANIANS REMAIN. DEFIANT. >> THE FACT THAT THE UNITED. STATES HAS ONCE AGAIN MOVED FROM. MILITARY THREATS SAYING IT WILL. STRIKE AND SO ON TO REVIVING OLD. PLAN SHOWS THEY ARE TRULY. DESPERATE AND HAS NO SOLUTION. FOR THE GREAT IRANIAN NATION. THEY KEEP BRINGING OLD PLANS. BACK TO THE SCENE. >> Trey: THE U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE. REMAIN IN PLACE. IN TERMS OF U.S. MILITARY.

MOVEMENT, ASS ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS. HEADING HOME, THIS AIRCRAFT. CARRIER BROKE A NAVY RECORD AND. IS BEING REPLACED BY THE. USS GEORGE WASH USH WA. WASHINGTON. THE PRESIDENT SAID THE STRAIT IS. NOW U.S. TERRITORY. >> President Trump: I VIEW THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ AS AN AMERICAN.

TERRITORY RIGHT NOW, AN AMERICAN. TERRITORY. >> Trey: THE QUESTION REMAINS. WILL THIS ECONOMIC PRESSURE LEAD. TO NEW DEAL OR RETURN TO COMBAT. GUYS. >> Brian: IF WE'RE GOING TO PUT. SANCTIONS ON, PRESUMABLY ON. OTHER COUNTRIES THAT DEAL WITH. IRAN. IF THEY TRADE WITH INNER00, THEY. WILL BE SUBJECTED TO SANCTIONS, THAT MEANS PAKISTAN. PAKISTAN SET UP A TRADE DEAL. WITH IRAN AND TURKEY SET UP A. TRADE DEAL WITH IRAN.

PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED ON CHINA AND. RUSSIA, BUT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE. IN THE LINE OF FIRE AND THAT IS. A TENUOUS SITUATION. >> Trey: ABSOLUTELY, TWO POINTS. TO NOTE HERE. PAXTON STANI FIELD MARSHAL IS ON. THE GROUND IN TEHRAN TODAY. TRYING TO WORK OUT BEHIND THE. SCENES WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. THERE IS NO DIRECT COMMUNICATION. BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND. IRAN AND THIS COMES ON HEELS OF.

MASSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. AGAINST THE REGIME. SECOND THING PRESIDENT TRUMP. INDICATED ANY COUNTRY AROUND THE. WORLD DOING BUSINESS WITH IRAN, PROVIDING SANCTIONS RELIEF, WOULD FACE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES. OF THEIR OWN. UNITED STATES IS TRYING TO PUT. INTO PLACE A PROCESS THAT WILL. PRESSURE TEHRAN AND DETER ALLIES. FROM DOING BUSINESS WITH THE. REGIME AS TO ISOLATE IRAN FROM.

THE REST OF THE WORLD SO THEY. WILL CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR. WE HAVE BEEN STUCK IN STRIKE. SAYS AND STATEMENTS WITH NO END. IN SIGHT. >> Lawrence: FIRST PLAN WAS TO. USE STRAIT AS LEVERAGE AND LOOKS. LIKE THE ADMINISTRATION HAS THAT. UNDER CONTROL AND THEY CAN'T. PLAY THAT GAME. THEY WILL DO SOME TYPE OF. STRIKES HERE AND THERE ON. DIFFERENT CARGO SHIPS BUT THEIR. NEXT PLAN IS THE NOVEMBER. MIDTERM AND I'M CURIOUS WHAT IS.

THEIR STATED PLAN, HOW DO THEY. PLAN ON LEVERAGING THAT AGAINST. THE PRESIDENT? >> Trey: SO THE IRANIANS THROUGH. PROPAGANDA OUTLET TALK ABOUT THE. MIDTERMS. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS THE MIDTERM. IS NOT AFFECTING HIS POSITION. OFFICIALS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE. COUNTRY'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND. HINTING AT FACT THEY MAY TRY TO.

ADVANCE WHAT REMAINS OF THAT. PROGRAM. IRANIANS CONTINUE TO SAY THEY. ARE IN CONTROL OF THE STRAIT. REALITY ON THE GROUND IS. IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT, CROSSINGS. ARE UP 400% OVER THE PAST TWO. WEEKS BUT DOWN 90% FROM PREWAR. LEVELS. WHAT IS THE UNITED STATES HAS. BEEN ABLE TO DO IS OVERSEE. VESSELS TRAPPED IN THE GULF OUT. OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. THIS ALLOWS GULF CRUDE OIL FROM.

ALLIES TO BE EXPORTED AND IT IS. UNDER CUTTING IRANIAN EFFORTS TO. MAINTAIN THE WATERWAY. U.S. OFFICIALS HOPE THIS WILL. CHANGE IRANIAN BEHAVIOR. THIS POINT WE'RE LOOKING AT. WEEKS AND MONTHS AHEAD WITH. IRANIANS REMAINING DEFIANT. WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT IS THE. POSSIBILITY OF PROTEST ERUPTING. INSIDE OF IRAN AND THAT IS A.

LEGITIMATE CONCERN FOR OFFICIALS. IN THE IRANIAN CAPITAL. >> Ainsley: THANK YOU. "NEW YORK POST" HAS EXCELLENT. ARTICLE CALLED -- ON FRONT. COVER, CALLED SCARED STRAIGHT. AND TALKS ABOUT HOW IRANIAN. LEADER IS UNDER PRESSURE BECAUSE. OF HIGH INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, GRIP ON THE STRAIT HAS WEAKENED, CASH IS TIGHT, TOP LEADERS ARE. URGING THE REGIME TO FIND A WAY.

OUT, IRAN OIL EXPORTS HAVE. DROPPED TO NEAR ZERO. TREY SAID THERE IS FLOW THROUGH. THE STRAIGHT AND IT REPRESENTS. 400% SPIKE, MEANING IRAN HAS. LOST PARTIAL CONTROL OF THE. STRIKE. I HOPE THIS PRESSURE AND. SANCTIONS TODAY, THERE WILL BE. CONVERSATIONS. YOU BROUGHT UP A GOOD POINT, THAT IS NINE WEEKS AWAY, HOW. LONG CAN THEY HANG ON? >> Brian: THEY COULD WAIT AND. TRY TO BE OCTOBER HELLACIOUS.

IF OUR PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING AND. WE LACK ECONOMIC GROWTH, WE WILL.