Abir Abu Omar

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592 appearances 128 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6 Sep

Abir Abu Omar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 128 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 47.

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Bloomberg News Now · US and Iran Exchange Strikes, Nepal Floods Expose Gaps, More · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

That risk had always been present and now we're seeing it ticking up again.

Bloomberg News Now · US and Iran Exchange Attacks, Nepal Races to Find Missing, More · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

The situation is still very fragile. matched

You're talking about a ceasefire deal that is no longer in place. matched

You're talking about wider negotiations that are no longer happening. matched

And you're really talking about movement in the Strait of Remuse that has picked up but is nowhere near where it was pre-war levels. matched

And so the situation is, to use the same word twice, still very fragile and could pick up anytime soon. matched

And the frictions that you saw in the early hours of this morning certainly do. matched

provide the case uh for how things could get appended at any moment. matched

But for the time being, these are not skirmishes that we hadn't seen over the past couple of months or so. matched

We'd seen Iran retaliating by striking countries in the region like Jordan, like Kuwait, like Bahrain. matched

That risk has never really left uh the room. matched

That risk had always been present and now we're seeing it ticking up again. matched

Bloomberg News Now · Warsh Speech Hours Away, Nepal Flood Toll Rises, More · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

you have analysts and Iran itself saying that is not possible because the only people that are aware of where those explosive devices fall in the Strait of Hermuz are Iranian officials.

Our own Bloomberg economics team suggests that while that could be or while there could be some truth to the argument from the United States, it's really highly unlikely that all mines have been removed.

Bloomberg News Now · Fed's Jackson Hole Conference, Nepal Death Toll Increases, More · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

Goldman put out a report suggesting that we are back to uh two-thirds of the amount of shipments from the Persian Gulf that were there before the war had started.

That amounts to about fifteen to sixteen million barrels of oil on a daily basis and crude products.

And uh I was speaking to our energy colleagues earlier and they noted that that kind of falls in line with some of Bloomberg's own estimates.

Bloomberg News Now · Nvidia 'Crushes Expectations', Focus on Jackson Hole, More · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

President Trump and the United States have made those claims multiple times before, but we have from multiple different fronts saying that that's not entirely true.

One is the IRGC saying that the only parties that are involved or know about where those explosives are in the waterway are officials in Iran.

We of course had the head of the IMO last week saying that no ships are making their way in the Strait of Hermuz in a natural way and that the

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