Aya Batraoui
speaker
1,547 appearances
186 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Aya Batraoui’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 149 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 35.
Appearances
U.S.
Central Command says the operation helped two U.S.-flagged merchant vessels transit the strait.
And President Trump said seven Iranian speedboats were also shot down.
Iranian news outlets reported that two were civilian ships and that five people were killed aboard.
The UAE has long been dissatisfied with OPEC's production quotas and curbs on output.
But its fallout with Saudi Arabia over the conflict in Yemen and other regional issues appears to have accelerated its exit from the Saudi-led oil cartel.
OPEC, which stands for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, will now have just 11 states as members after the UAE's exit.
The group has lost member states before, including Qatar and Angola in past years.
Oil exports from the Gulf have been disrupted by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The UAE now produces roughly 1.9 million barrels of oil a day, according to research firm Kepler, about 40 percent less than before the war.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
The two vessels were seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz.
That's the key waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil was passing before the war began nearly two months ago.
Iran, which is blocking most ships now from transiting through the strait, says the seizure of today's vessels is in response to the U.S.
seizing an Iranian cargo ship and its crew on Sunday.
They called it an eye for an eye, an oil tanker for an oil tanker.
The U.S.
Navy is positioned in the Arabian Sea, blocking Iranian ships from entering or exiting the strait.
Iran said the seizure of the ship violates the ceasefire, and there's no word yet on whether the two sides plan to meet again for another round of talks.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Showing 761–780 of 1,547 · page 39 of 78
← Previous
Next →