EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 9 MIN
President Trump informed us that Iran is in a state of collapse
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
In the second segment of the first hour of The Charlie James Show on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, Charlie James focused on a dramatic escalation in rhetoric concerning the war in Iran. James analyzed a social media post from President Trump made earlier that morning, in which the President claimed that Iranian officials had "informed us that they are in a 'State of Collapse.'" James discussed how this announcement coincided with a stalemate in peace talks, as Trump reportedly rejected a new Iranian proposal that sought to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without addressing the regime's nuclear program. The segment highlighted the internal chaos within Tehran following the death of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Operation Epic Fury, with James weighing the administration's "maximum pressure" strategy against the ongoing economic strain of rising oil prices affecting listeners in the Upstate.
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00:00 Well, this morning, ah just before the markets opened, President Trump tweeted out that he said, Iran has just informed us that they are in a state of collapse. They want us to open the Hormuz Strait as soon as possible as they try to figure out their leadership situation, which I believe they will be able to do. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So what does he mean? That. 00:29 they're in a state of collapse. Well, first of all, politically, they're in a state of collapse because they've got two sides, at least two sides fighting against each other. And by the way, let's not forget, we're still fighting Iraq, Iran right now, still fighting them. 00:47 I know lots have happened, uh but that's still going on. But they're in more than just a political collapse. They are about to be in serious hardship. And it has to do with their oil. The oil in Iran, listen this, this guy Hugh Hendry said, Iran's oil system isn't built to pause. 01:16 It's built to flow. It's a flow system. So what President Trump has done with this blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, they can't get their oil out of there fast enough. Some are sneaking through, yeah. 01:31 So you've got these tanks, these big above ground so-called, for lack of a better term, reservoirs where the oil is stored until it can be pumped into these tankerships and then they go off to whomever the customer is. Well, that oil is not leaving those reservoirs. 01:52 but the oil is still coming into the reservoirs. According to Hugh Henry, if you pause long enough, the whole machine breaks. Interrupt that flow and the problem isn't just lost revenues of like 40, 50, 60 billion dollars. That's the least of your worries. The problem is physical and it's irreversible because when you suddenly shut off the well, remember there's no 02:22 Physical storage the pump they pump they load they ship. That's the way it's supposed to go if they can't load they can't ship and they can't pump and Then suddenly you're shutting off the wells and The pressure underground that drops fast So all of that heavy sticky stuff the oil it starts to gum up Gums up all the tiny holes in the rocks and becomes like glue it traps the oil it makes it 02:51 really hard to extract and once that damage is done, it is permanent. The more Iran is actively either through theater or through bluff, the more it sits in a standoff, the more it is actively destroying the one thing that it actively depends on and that's oil. And that's the trap. And you're not reading about this in the mainstream media. Because this is where the gap between the narrative of the media and the price 03:20 stops being subtle and irrelevant and it's why stock markets have priced something entirely differently. The Iranian system, the adversary, cannot afford to stay disrupted without hurting itself and that's what's happening in the marketplace. So you got, I mean just imagine that. Imagine you got a small kitchen. You go out there and you plant some, you know, some tomatoes in your yard. You have a bumper crop of tomatoes. 03:50 All of a sudden, you're picking these tomatoes, they're ripening up and your kitchen's starting to fill up with tomatoes pretty soon. What do you do? You got to stop picking those tomatoes. And those tomatoes just rot and die on the vine. Literally what's happening, or should I say figuratively, what's happening in Iran right now. And this, I believe, was part of President Trump's plan. What I hope President, well, President, King Charles will address today, 04:18 is exactly why Great Britain hasn't lifted a finger to help us. They are in direct threat from the people in Iran and they have done nothing. Listen, Keir Starmer's got to go. Keir Starmer's got to get gone. He has not been an ally to the United States. And if you go back and you listen to the ladies over there at Promethean Action, um they will lay it all out for you. That in truth, 04:47 In actuality, Great Britain has ...
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