NO END IN SIGHT: Trump says no new talks with Iran scheduled as next steps appear murky

So, in the meantime, President Trump. trying to crank up the pressure on Iran, issuing a new warning to Oman as the. standoff over the strait drags on. The. president also making clear that. stopping Tehran's nuclear program is his. top priority. >> On the expiration of the memorandum of. understanding, are you any closer today. to reaching a final deal to end Iran's. nuclear program? And are. >> to make a deal, but they're not going to. make the kind of a deal that I feel is. necessary. Look, we're in there for one. reason. Iran cannot have a nuclear.

weapon. You understand that. Iran cannot have a. nuclear weapon, and they won't have a. nuclear weapon. >> All right, picking up our coverage again. today, Trey Yingst live in Tel Aviv. joins us now. Trey, hello. >> Yeah, hey Bill, good morning. With the. memorandum of understanding expired, both the United States and Iran have. indicated the status quo will continue. with no deal on the horizon. Overnight, another vessel was targeted in the. Strait of Hormuz with an unknown. projectile. This is taking place while.

Iran and Oman continue talks about the. strait. The US naval blockade remains in. place, and President Trump has warned. Oman against getting in the way as he. pursues a better deal. Now, the Iranians. have also released new statements about. the conflict with the country's. president, Masoud Peseschkian, saying in. part, quote, "Patience, solidarity, and. hope are the keys to Iran's resilience. in the face of ever-increasing external. pressures and threats." And Iran's. parliament speaker saying this. >> And let me make it clear.

Until America implements its commitments. under the memorandum of understanding, including lifting the blockade and the. release of frozen assets, lifting the. oil sanctions, ending threats and. military operations on all fronts, and. other conditions that America has agreed. to, the strait will not be reopened. >> On Monday, US negotiator Jared Kushner. indicated that conversations are still. taking place with Iranian officials. He. added that President Trump will wait for.

the right deal. >> Where do negotiations stand with the. Iranian regime? >> Yeah, so so right now President Trump's. been very focused on the economic. pressure. He really feels strongly about. the blockade. If you look at the Iranian. economy, it's it's way worse off. It was. bad before the war. It's way worse off. now. But President Trump's been very. very very clear on why he took the. actions he took, which is he believes. that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And if Iran is willing to you know. finish the deal that they've been. discussing with us to give up their.

their ability to create a nuclear. weapon, then then obviously he's willing. to make a deal that could be great for. the Iranian people and and and he's it's. something he would be be open to. But. right now they're not showing any. interest in in doing something that. makes sense for us. >> Right now the region is stuck in a cycle. of talks and strikes. There are no. indications this will change in the. coming weeks. Bill. >> Trey, thank you. Trey Yingst, Tel Aviv. Dana.

>> Let's bring in Rebecca Heinrichs, senior. fellow at the Hudson Institute. While we. were watching Trey's report, we noticed. that the Iranians, they feel pretty. comfortable to all get together now. Rebecca, that's different. >> Yeah, it is different. And Dana, the. Iranians haven't backed off their. original demands and in fact they're. making more audacious demands even. publicly, now saying that they want the. United States to remove the blockade, they want reparations for the military. activity that has already taken place. And clearly President Trump is very. frustrated with the Omanis. The Omanis.

are an ally of the United States. But if the Omanis are suggesting that. they may be okay with the Iranians doing. things like demanding tolls of the. straight, clearly that's not going to. work for President Trump and the United. States and he's making that very clear. that the Iranians under no circumstance. with Oman or not, they cannot control. the straight at all. >> Jack Keane with us yesterday. Iran. threatening again. This is what he. thinks. Watch. >> I have been saying and I and I think the.

Wall Street Journal has picked up on on. it from their sources. that the Iranians likely given the. midterm elections are coming will. increase the volatility and violence in. the area to demonstrate to the American. people. that the management of the war is not. going good. >> Okay, 77 days away from that vote. How. much credence do you give that theory? >> I think that that's right. I mean, President Trump clearly has settled into. this preference of a strategy to dry up.

the Iranians ability to reconstitute. some of their military by this economic. blockade, by increasing sanctions, and. then by trying to get some ships, as. many as we can, along the coast of Oman. But, as you just heard from Jack Keane, we do know that the Iranians are going. to be busy trying to do exactly what we. don't want them to do, which is. reconstitute their military forces, and. they're going to try to embarrass. President Trump by shooting at these. ships in the strait and by trying to. undermine his efforts to to move oil.

And, they're going to do it because they. understand that the the election is. coming up and and President Trump does. not want to resume military operations. Um and so, um I I'm of the mind that the. sooner the better, the United States. does have to resume military operations. alongside the Israelis who have been. very helpful for the United States in. degrading the Iranian capabilities. >> And, we also heard from Jared Kushner. who had met with the Hamas and he spoke. to Trey Yingst. He He gave a little bit. more detail on those conversations. Watch here. >> I mean, they said all the right things,

but obviously it's very, very hard to. trust, uh you know, a terrorist. organization that uh that committed. these these terrible atrocities, but we. had a very cordial. um meeting uh and um and they said all. the right things. And so, uh we're going. to give them a chance to perform, but. it's going to have to be based on. actions and steps and um and I I hope it. will be true. >> What will you be looking for as this. continues? >> Well, I mean Hamas has to actually. completely lay down their arms and and. comply with this.

effort to. destroy essentially all of the tunnels. that Hamas has dug along Gaza before the. Israelis can can leave the area. And so. I think that the magic words from Jared. Kushner there was um that he gave to. reporters that they're they're not the. United States is not going to pressure. Israel at all to leave the region until. Hamas is gone. And so that's what I'm. going to be looking for. Um but it's not. going to take much looking Dana because. I have no confidence that Hamas is going. to do that. Hamas' very existence. is really based on killing Israelis,

killing the West and fighting the West. And so um until Hamas is completely. destroyed, I I don't suspect that. Israel's going to be willing to leave. the Gaza area. >> You're right about that to this point. Rebecca, thanks for coming on. Rebecca, I'm going to ask you both those topics. Thank you. >> President Trump delivering a new warning. for Iran making it clear he's in no. hurry to make a deal until they agree to. give up their nuclear ambitions. Last. hour he posted on Truth Social that no. conversations are going on or are even.

scheduled. Retired US Navy Rear Admiral. Mark Montgomery is a senior fellow at. the Foundation for the Defense of. Democracies to help us puzzle through. this. Here's what President Trump said. yesterday about Oman. >> You said you would bomb the S out of. Oman if they got in the way of reopening. the Strait of Hormuz. Would you say you're out of patience. with Oman as strategic partner? >> I don't think they behaved very well, but we'd handle them very easily just. like we do other things. >> Um can you give us the context about. Oman's position here?

>> Uh so Oman is on the southern end of the. Strait of Hormuz and Iran on the. northern edge and so geographically they. both are very involved in it. Now, as. you know, the Strait of Hormuz is an. international transit way. The two countries can speak to each. other. They should not make some kind of. deal where they control the Strait of. Hormuz or they toll it. I'm not sure. Oman is attempting to do that. Oman is a. long-term. ally or partner of the United States. Um. I think that we they've been helpful for. us in creating a southern transit, a.

very southern transit scheme uh through. their waters um over the last. uh 4 months. Uh but the president I think his warning. was overdone. But the president was. attempting to remind them that they. should adhere to international uh law. when making when having any discussions. with Iran. >> And what do you make of some say who. that Oman and Iran are thinking about. doing this tolling system in the Strait. of Hormuz? >> Well, certainly Oman didn't have that.

intent originally, right? Originally. Oman's a a uh they're a victim of Iran. in the sense that Iran has actually. bombed them several times over the last. uh. uh 6 months. Um I I think Oman is. looking uh and Qatar who's a mediator. are looking. uh for a way through this so they can. get flow going back through. But Oman. had better be careful here. It mean they. are. uh a partner of the United States and. President Trump clearly does not want a. solution that includes tolling or fees.

of of any kind. And I think in the in. the end Oman will bend back towards the. US point of view on this, but the lack. of any US IRGC or US Iranian um. uh discussions are probably forcing this. issue forward. >> Okay. Let's also ask you about this. because Jared Kushner has been there. Well, he's been everywhere helping the. president. Uh in particular, he was. talking about uh his conversation with.

Hamas officials yesterday. He spoke to. our own Trey Yingst. Here's part of that. interview. >> You met with Hamas officials yesterday. Do you think they're genuine about. peace? >> I mean, they said all the right things, but obviously it's very very hard to. trust uh you know, a terrorist. organization that uh that committed. these these terrible atrocities, but we. had a very cordial. um meeting uh and um and they said all. the right things. And so uh we're going. to give them a chance to perform, but. it's going to have to be based on. actions and steps. >> And I think he sounds, you know,

skeptical. Um of course, Hamas would say. all of the right things. The question is. what will they do and how would we know? How will you assess that? >> Well, look, I'm glad he took that very. skep- That was a very skeptical answer. and he's right. I mean, this is a. terrorist organization that's been a. terrorist organization for decades. Um. it's vowed the you know, the the end you. know, from the river to the sea, the. ending of the. of the Israeli state and I and the. genocide of the Israeli people. So, there's. the the. the old Reagan axiom, trust but verify,

is trust but verify verify verify with. these guys because I don't trust them. I. don't think you can get a a. uh a true agreement out of Hamas and and. I think Jared Kushner was kind of. reflecting that in his answer. >> All right. All right, Mark Montgomery, we appreciate you coming on the show and. say hello to your colleagues over there. at FDD. President Trump says the US has no plans. to extend the 60-day ceasefire for talks. with Iran and that there are no talks or.

conversations going on or scheduled. Retired US Marine Colonel Mike Jason. joins us now. Uh welcome to you, sir. Please do give us your thoughts on the. current situation and what you see. happening next year. >> Hey, good afternoon, Sandra. Uh what I. see is that the Iranians are running out. of assets and options. You know, their. economy before this all started was. ranked either 23rd or 52nd depending on. the measure, but they're importantly. both measures they're behind Nigeria and. Bangladesh. And let's park on that a. minute. Bangladesh, known for cyclones.

and mudslides, had a stronger economy. than Iran did before all this started. So, what we're seeing is now that the. the recent period of ceasefire has. ended, I think the Iranians are trying. to continue to drag this out. They're. wary of increased military consequences. They are struggling with the economic. consequences. And so, I think this is. moving towards its end game. >> Okay. That seems to be. the message that we're getting from the. administration in that sit-down. interview with Trey Yingst.

and Jared Kushner. He suggests that the talks are more. robust than they have been yet during. this war. Listen. >> The conversations between the US. government and and different areas of. the Iranian government at all. areas is probably more robust. than it's maybe ever been. We are having. very positive and active conversations. and we'll see what happens. >> Are you hopeful when you hear that? >> You know, as a as a former fighting man. for America whose boots have been on the.

ground, any conversation that stops. kinetic action is good, whether. temporary or hopefully long-term. So, I. remain optimistic and I remain hopeful. You know, the challenge is remaining. that the Iranians are busily replacing a. lot of their government leaders with. IRGC generals and colonels. The IRGC is a maximalist knows. negotiator. They want to keep nuclear. weapons. They want to control the Strait. of Hormuz. And so, while negotiations. are continuing, the people that we're. negotiating with some have been deemed.

inefficient and replaced and others are. being replaced so that the Iranians can. continue to claim their military. prowess. >> Do you believe that we have time to be. patient here? >> Absolutely. All the time is on the. United States' side. The Iranians have. 35% of their population working. They. have 85% inflation. Their real is. trading at 2 million to 1 US dollar when. 10 years ago it was trading at 30,000 to. $1. So the economic strangulation is.

working. The Straits of Hormuz are not. closed. They're close to Iran. You know, 10 to 15 ships are getting through every. day and that's because of the queuing to. come through to have your papers checked. by the United States Navy. So Iran can't. control who goes in and out of the. Straits of Hormuz. The United States is. and so all of this economic pressure is. increasing the Iranians. challenge with what they have with to do. with what they want. >> Based on everything you just said, what. do you see as a time frame here?

>> I don't want to step on the president's. decision space. But I believe what we're. seeing is the acceleration of the. degradation of the Iranians economy. And. specifically, if the president decides. to resume kinetic strikes, there were. 5,000 targets that have already been. struck. We have 20% left. Those are the energy. infrastructure. That's going to cause a. problem. >> Got it. Colonel, always good to talk to. you. Thank you very much for joining us. today. Right now, President Trump saying that. the United States has no active or.

scheduled dialogue with Iran as a 60-day. peace window window expires. Let's bring. in Dr. Nazeem Moiny, Middle East. Institute Associate Fellow, raised in. Tehran, immigrated here with her family. at the start of the revolution. She. writes about Washington's four wrong. assumptions about the Iran war in a new. Wall Street Journal op-ed. Nazeem, always good to have you with us. In this piece, thank you. In this piece, you say American negotiators assume that. there is a fixed pain threshold at which.

the regime will break. The problem may. not be Tehran's threshold is. unreachable, but that Washington keeps. stopping short of it. Explain. >> So I was specifically referring to the. memorandum of understanding reached on. June 17th for about 60 days. It just. expired yesterday and. was critical of it because. by every calculus Iran was suffering not. being able to export oil and the. economic pressure was ratcheting up. The.

regime was hurting not being able to pay. off the proxies or even its own. employees and and workers. So I was just. saying that you know if the US had. stayed on that track, we could have seen. meaningful weakness on the Iranian part. and we could have gotten meaningful. concessions. >> So do you think that breaking point is. anywhere in the in the near future? >> That's another angle to this. So we. should not. consider Iran a rational actor. It's a. revolutionary state. A revolutionary.

states by definition are willing to bear. costs that far outweigh any benefits. they get. We don't know where the. revolutionary states breaking points are. but we do know that they respond to. pressure. >> All right Nazie, thank you. very much. Good to have you with us. today in the continuing story of the. Iran war. Thanks for your insights. Great to see you as always. [clears throat]. >> Great to see you. >> But first President Trump now says there.

are no talks or conversations with. Iranian officials aimed at ending the. almost 6-month conflict. The 60-day. window for a broader solution has now. officially expired. But the president. insists the Strait of Hormuz is open and. operating. Also tonight Iran is denying. a report from the United Arab Emirates. or of Iranian missiles targeting the. UAE. Senior White House correspondent. Peter Doocy reports tonight live from. the North Lawn. Good evening Peter. >> Good evening Brett. Officials in the UAE. say that Iran launched two ballistic.

missiles towards their country. The. Iranians have come out to say that is a. false flag accusation. Experts watching. this are not surprised the Iranians. still have the ability to do this but. they are starting to wonder how many. more ballistics does Iran have? >> The Iranians are running out of assets. and options. >> Now President Trump wants leaders in. Tehran to twist in the wind, announcing. there are no talks or conversations. going on or scheduled with the Islamic.

Republic of Iran. The naval blockade. remains in full force and effect. The. Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All. water mines have been removed or. detonated. That's different than this. >> The conversations between the US. government and and different areas of. the Iranian government at all. areas is probably more robust. than it's maybe ever been. >> Sources tell Fox there's no. Trump-Kushner contradiction and that the. president wants his team not to engage.

until Iran is ready to make a deal. While he waits, the president is posting. a new map of the Strait of Hormuz marked. as new US territory. >> I like the idea of declaring it a. territory. >> The latest hurdle, according to the. Institute for the Study of War, IRGC. Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and. his inner circle would likely accept a. deal with the United States if the. United States surrendered to the. regime's demands. Vahidi's actions. suggest that Vahidi and his faction are.

unlikely to accept a deal that falls. short, even if failing to reach an. agreement would risk renewed conflict. >> The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared. in proportion to the enemy's actions and. aggression to inflict an even heavier. defeat than before. >> That's why the Iranians are now eager to. shift the battlefield away from nuclear. sites and to the Strait. >> The Iranians haven't backed off their. original demands and in fact they're. making more audacious demands.

>> It's unclear tonight how long officials. here are going to let this pause in. peace talks with Iran go. If it's just. going to be a few days or maybe. it could be long enough to get people. talking about something else ahead of. the midterms, right? >> Peter Doocy live in the North Lawn. Peter, thanks. >> We're building it very rapidly. Uh plants are being built. Uh. a lot of equipment is being built. The. Patriots in particular are being built.

The THAAD system is going up. We have a. lot. Every one of our contractors is. building four to five plants right now. Uh and we're in very good shape. But, uh for some of the more sophisticated. stuff, we'd certainly like to have more. >> President Trump talking about the status. of the US military arsenal. Join us now, Michael Duffey, Under Secretary of War. for Acquisition and Sustainment. Thanks. for being here. >> Thank you for having me, Craig. >> Okay.

Are we okay? If the president says tomorrow, we're. going to have this sustained effort. inside Iran, do we have the munitions to make that. happen? >> Well, I think President Trump, uh. Secretary Hagel, Seth Chairman Cain have. all stated clearly, we are ready. Uh the. US military can uh defeat any threat at. the time and place of our choosing. And. I think that remains true today. >> Okay. That cuz that's what I was going. to ask you. You told Congress in March, we have the weapons we need. But, that.

was 5 months ago. Take a listen. >> Trump just He didn't say adequate. He said the US has the ability to fight. wars forever. Virtually, we have an. unlimited supply of weapons and. munitions. Where did he get that from? Who told him. that? Was that you told him that? Was it. Secretary Hagel, Seth? Who told him we. have an unlimited supply of weapons? >> I haven't been a participant in the. conversation directly with the. president. >> Do Do you believe we have an unlimited. supply of weapons? >> I believe we have the weapons that we. need.

>> And that's what you're saying here. But, you you've got 55 days bombing the. Houthis, 13 days defending Israel, and. now 5 and a half months and counting in. contact with with Iran, you still. believe what you said there? >> Well, I do and I think that's why. yesterday's announcement is such a a. demonstration that President Trump, Secretary Hagseth are committed to. rebuilding the military, revitalizing. the defense industrial base so that now. and for the future we will have the. weapons that we need.

>> The announcement you're talking about is. the 22.9 billion-dollar Tomahawk. contract. Why is that significant? How. many missiles does that buy and when. when are they usable? >> It's significant for a number of. reasons. Number one, it's a multiple of. production of what we've seen since the. Biden administration. The president has. made it clear to industry that we can't. do it without them. We need them to step. up and I believe this deal demonstrates. they're stepping up on a number of. fronts. Number one, we have convinced.

industry, not just Raytheon but Lockheed. in the Patriot announcement two weeks. ago, to invest billions of dollars of. their own money to build the workforce, the supply chains, the factories that we. need to get multiples of production of. these key munitions. Not only have we incentivized industry. to put the money forward, much like a commercial business would, we've been able to hold the unit price. constant over that seven-year period. And thirdly, we're creating jobs, 3,000 jobs out of.

this deal alone in Tucson, Arizona to. train the workforce that will be able to. produce these weapons for the next. generation of warfighter. >> So, these headlines about the stockpile. have been ugly. You know, Reuters, "US. has used virtually all of its long-range. precision missiles during the Iran war.". That's from August 4th. Washington Post, "There's a clash between the president. and Hagseth in Camp David over Iran. missile depletion concerns." AP, "Pentagon pushes defense companies to. boost weapons production after concerns.

of depleted stocks." When these stories. pop and you go to like the Center for. Strategic International Studies and they. talk about the remaining stockpile. You. know, they have some scary numbers. there. Are those wrong numbers? >> Well, we would always like to have more. weapons than we have right now, which is. why we are so focused on. engaging with our industrial partners, entering these deals and ensuring that. we ramp the production of these key. missiles as quickly as possible. We're. making up for lost time. The Biden. administration did not deliver. They did.

not focus on developing the industrial. base that we need in order to ensure. that we have munitions for the. foreseeable future. President Trump and. Secretary Hagel set out to deliver. >> Yeah, but you know, the big beautiful. bill had a lot of money in there, but. over half the procurement inside there. hasn't been obligated yet. Why is that? Why is it taking so long? >> Well, I think first of all, that was. intended to be 2-year money. We have accelerated spending actually. faster than in 2 years and working very.

hard to get it out the door within this. first year that it was made available. But you know, rebuilding the military. costs money and that's why President. Trump put forward a $1.5 trillion. budget. These multi-year procurement. deals which allow the department to. contract with industry over a period. that extends beyond the traditional 1. year of an appropriation. The previous. longest contract was 5 years. These are. 7-year deals because when we spoke to. industry, we asked what would it take to.

get you to be able to deliver the. weapons that we need and fund that. growth that we need. Develop that. workforce, create those jobs, build that. supply chain and expand those factories. And what we found was a 7-year deal in. the case of Tomahawk 7,000 munitions, in. the case of Patriot 14,000 missiles. made it worthwhile for the industry to. put forward the money that they needed. in order to create. >> I mean that's really pricey. Will you. make low-cost interceptors? I mean.

there's there's all these threats of. drones, um you know, the high-end stuff for. missile attacks, maybe, but but is there. going to be another iteration that maybe. cost less and can be done faster? >> There absolutely is. President Trump's. direction has been build them rebuild. the military across the board. And so in. addition to these uh deals that we're. rolling out, we're in the midst of. negotiating off of a framework deal that. we signed with uh some of the new. entrants like Anduril, Kratos, Zone 5, Leidos that are building low-cost cruise.

missiles that are not intended to. compete with uh the Tomahawk, but will. complement it in a high-low mix that. will allow us to have much greater. volume to deliver the war fight to the. enemy. >> Do you think that you'll ever mobilize. defense industrial base. you know, working 7 days a week, two. shifts? Do you think that's going to happen or. going to need to happen? >> I absolutely do. I think you're seeing. the industry right now lean in to. expanding the uh the shifts, the working.

shifts. Uh in many cases, actually, our shortage. right now is material. Like we have to. get enough material through the system. so that if we have two or three shifts. to make sure that they're producing at. the volumes that Lockheed and Raytheon. and Anduril and these other uh essential. uh industry partners uh need in order to. develop uh at the pace that we're asking. them to do. >> Cuz our enemies are reading the. articles, too. >> That's true. Uh and they're reading the. article that notes that we just cut a. deal to produce 7,000 Tomahawks, and I.

hope that they're reading that very. closely. >> Well, thank. >> Be sure to like and subscribe for all. the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch. full shows streaming now on Fox 1.