Benoit Faucon
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2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 10 Aug
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What they don't want is to have a situation where fees will be paid for crossings because they feel it would basically will take their entire economies hostage from Iran.
Arab Monarchies on the other side of the Gulf first got uh bombed and effectively got dragged into a conflict they didn't want to have because they were hosting in most cases, you know, US bases.
And now basically they're facing another consequence of the war, which is uh the fact that uh Iran wants to take control and is adamant that it will keep control of the Strait of Armers, meaning effectively that it will
turn the spigots of their oil exports on and off at will.
They don't want that consequence but they also know that they need to somehow engage with Iran to have a say or at least have some understanding and how this is gonna be handled going forward.
So the leader of that conversation has been Oman.
But Oman is really sort of coordinating and and consulting with the other countries.
What they don't want is to have a situation where fees will be paid for crossings because they feel it would basically
will take their entire economies hostage from Iran.
There was an interesting development where a number of these countries, when I'm thinking especially about Qatar, which has no alternatives, they started to basically emulate Iran's tactics.
They uh hired crews that can navigate with their radio signal off and that's exactly what Iran has done for a long time.
The other one has been uh using alternative pipelines, so the UAE has a pipeline that ends in the the port of Fujera, which is
in the Gulf of Oman, it's outside the Strait of Omuz, and Saudi Arabia has a pipeline that also diverts uh to the Red Sea and with the the option uh effectively to um export foods these Sumate pipelines so going to the Mediterranean.
It gives two options.
One option is you're gonna have Iran that can hold or stage the exports of oil from its neighbors and effectively their biggest source of income.
Or you have the other option which is a return to war from the US.
So far the US is or more opting for economic pressure on Iran, but the problem we have is there is no understanding between the different parties.
One Iran wants to have full control and the other one uh refuse effectively to have that control, especially if it comes with payments.
But the messaging that is coming out of the rallies today is really that war could restart.
It's a message of revenge.
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