Gen Jack Keane: Iran will NOT comply with a deal

We have with us our friend General Jack. Keane, retired four-star Army general. and obviously Fox News senior strategic. analyst. And we're going to spend the entire hour. with Jack because I think it's. absolutely worth it. Um. and of course we're going to focus on. Iran here, General. Um three things it seems to me uh are. our objectives. Maybe two. One of them's. my objective for whatever it's worth. That is to keep the Strait of Hormuz. open.

That is to make sure they never have a. nuclear weapon. And then the third point that we've. discussed before, defeat the regime. Because my my attitude is we're not. going to be able to contain this regime. forever, certainly after the president. leaves. And certainly if the Democrats come into. power and certainly if some of these. Republicans come into power, I just. don't see it and I don't see the. American people. willing to keep a cap on that regime for. 10, 20, 30 years. So, how do you see all. this and all the objectives?

>> Well, I agree with all of that. Um I. think what's happened here. we went to a ceasefire on April the 7th. began negotiations almost immediately on. April the 8th with the Iranians. And the reason for that was because they. shut down the Straits of Hormuz. We. started the operation February 28th, they shut the Straits down. on March the 2nd. And after living with. that for a month. prices started to move up the spiral.

But certainly there's huge economic and. political implications of all of it. The president, his team, felt the. Iranians were sincere about willingness. to negotiate and we began a series of. negotiations that lasted over 90 days. And even came up with a signed agreement. referred to as the memorandum of. understanding which had only one. agreement in it. Everything else was a promise for the. future after 60 or so days of. negotiation. The one agreement was Iran.

would open up the Straits of Hormuz and. remove all their interference and. restrictions. United States would remove. its blockade. We removed the blockade. several days later the Iranians began to. interfere with the Straits of Hormuz. Literally after their president had. signed it and after ours had signed it. And we have said on this show multiple. times. you cannot trust the Iranians. They will. lie and cheat. And even if. they make a deal. you and I came to the same conclusion.

they will not comply with it. And look what happened. They signed a. deal and they didn't comply with it. >> Be sure to like and subscribe for all. the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch. full shows streaming now on Fox 1.