Behnam Ben Taleblu
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515 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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Right.
threatened tankers saying, if you don't use pre-approved routes, we'll strike you.
And you see at the same time, diplomatically, the Islamic Republic trying to get Oman to force it to amplify its talking points about what the future of this trade should look like.
And then you also see the Islamic Republic trying to get all of these tankers and shippers to sign up with its own kind of insurance Ponzi scheme and register.
You know, if this is a free and open international waterway, why do you have to register with the Navy of the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism?
We may have felt, I mean, the blockade is something that Trump term one flirted with at the tail end of the administration.
I think for oil market reasons, for escalatory reasons, I think it avoided doing it.
I actually think it would have been wiser to do it earlier, but we are where we are.
So I think the administration is trying to balance the security concerns with the economic concerns.
And if I have to be brutally honest with you, the U.S.
has fought the war and also managed the ceasefire.
And I try not to make this a political statement, but it's done so politically.
Meaning it's done so with an eye towards the media.
It's done so with an eye towards markets, and particularly the oil market and energy prices.
It's done so with an eye towards the midterms.
And then perhaps the final thing, which is, I would say, the more responsible one, is to fight it with an eye towards munitions, because we do have a munitions crisis as well.
So the U.S.
isn't keen to rush back into conflict, given how much it would move all of those vectors, all of those M's into the red.
Media, markets, munitions, you name it.
But at the same time, the Islamic Republic understands this and they understand so much about this kind of economic based midterm craze for the U.S.
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