Fox News host Jessica Tarlov on Wednesday shared bewilderment about President Donald Trump and his administration’s potential deal with Iran amid the temporarily halted war, noting he could become the first U.S. leader “in recent memory” to leave Iran without sanctions.
“I mean, the deal, the 10 points that they sent in in response to our 15 points, allow them, as Dana [Perino] said, to control the Strait of Hormuz and to decide what they charge,” Tarlov said Wednesday. “So that could be $2 million per tanker and they split that with the Omanis.”
The sole liberal co-host on “The Five” continued, “Or then the FT reported this morning a proposal to do a dollar for every barrel, and they want it to be paid in crypto, which would be untraceable, and we know that because Donald Trump loves to be paid in crypto.”
Iran plans to charge one dollar’s worth of cryptocurrency for every barrel of oil that shipping companies transport through the strait, Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for the country’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the Financial Times.
Tarlov on Wednesday noted that this isn’t the only unwitting result of Trump’s disastrous war, which he launched in late February for numerous and often contradictory reasons but was ostensibly halted Tuesday after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire.
“No shutting down of the nuclear program, you can continue to enrich uranium,” she said. “The leadership, not a problem, can keep supporting those proxy forces — that’s the Hezbollah problem — and then, that sanctions would be lifted.”
Tarlov continued, “We already took off $14 billion in sanctions. This would go even further, and Donald Trump would be the first president, certainly in recent memory, that didn’t have economic sanctions on Iran.”
When co-host Jesse Watters asked where exactly she stands on the two-week ceasefire Trump announced Tuesday, Tarlov said, “I stand, I think, in reality that there is no ceasefire.”
She explained, “We know that Israel was sending rockets back to Iran. We know what today has looked like in Lebanon with what the Israelis are doing there. It’s one of the highest death toll days. So, the ceasefire was a complete fiction.”
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he would halt strikes on Iran amid their ongoing negotiations with the U.S. and lifted his national state of emergency, he said the deal does not require Israel to halt strikes on Lebanon against purported Hezbollah forces.
Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed at least 203 people, including children, and wounded more than 1,000 in Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called the attacks a “blatant violation” of international and humanitarian law.
Tarlov has regularly criticized Trump on the air. After his staggering threat on Easter Sunday to target civilian infrastructure in Iran, she wrote on X, “What an embarrassment this man is.” Trump raged at Fox News the very next day to take her “off the air.”
