Benoit Faucon
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first heard Aug 2026
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The problem is all these routes are congested.
In some cases, they're basically being stopped.
The alternative land routes didn't have the capacity to handle which used to go on much bigger carriers, which was these large container ships.
We're talking about huge quantities coming by sea.
And Turks, especially carrying security checks, so making things much more complicated for goods to cross in and out of Iran.
And that created further delays.
To customers.
We've seen some goods typically having the cost of transportation in the cost of the actual good coming from 5% to 30%.
Apple News Today · Trump wanted to rein in Disney. Now it’s fighting back in court. · 19 Aug 2026
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We're talking about a regime that is not about to bow down and retreat.
It's kind of the opposite.
It's a regime that is extremely emboldened, whether that's justified or not.
You have a lot of revolutionary guards saying this time we're not gonna do defensive, we're not gonna do reactive, we're gonna do offensive, meaning we may strike first if we think we're gonna be struck.
They also appointed new leaders.
You had a full reshuffle of the military, getting their sort of military decision making ready both inside and outside.
not just hardline, but a much more powerful figure than the previous one.
And he was actually the head of the revolution guards during the war with Iraq.
So it's very significant.
kind of a veteran security official called Tahib, whose job is gonna build an internal intelligence system because they think there's gonna be domestic unrest triggered by the outside.
So all this gives more sense of a regime getting ready for war than a regime about to strike a bus deal.
Apple News Today · What to know about cyberattacks on U.S. water infrastructure · 6 Aug 2026
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Benoit Faucon is a reporter with The Wall Street Journal.
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