Captain Fennell
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 12 Apr
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Yes, Steve.
I mean, the president clearly didn't like what happened that came out of the talks and
Islamabad, and he saw that his team was moving in to do what had been on their plan, which was to start clearing the Strait.
And so he sent through yesterday two guided missile destroyers, the Michael Murphy and the Frankie Peterson.
And this is in response to what Iran had put out on Thursday, the 9th of April, this chart that shows where they laid mines.
It was the first time since the war started that Iran had even acknowledged
that they put out mines.
And there's a, if we can get the chart up, it'll show a red box in the center of the Strait of Hormuz.
There it is.
And so where it says hazardous area is where the old traffic separation scheme was that ships would go in and out of the Strait of Hormuz.
The two quarters to the north of that that go through Iranian waters, through Keshav and the Rock Island on the inbound and then south of Larik Island on the outbound,
Those were established in mid-March by the Iranians, and some ships were paying this toll to Iran.
So when the talks failed here last night, you know, the Iranians thought that they had checkmate on us, and then the president's team countered that with saying, hey, we just sent two destroyers through, and, you know, you don't lead in a mind-sweeping effort sending two Aegis destroyers through.
Now, Admiral Cooper down in CENTCOM said that –
You know, this is the beginning of setting the conditions for mine countermeasure clearances to ensure the Strait is fully clear of sea mines.
And there was some, you know, conversations about drones and unmanned systems and other EOD services.
And I think the president said, I'm not going to play this game.
I'm just going to blockade this and everybody's going to suffer until the world finally gets enough of this and tells Iran to stop.
And so I'm very glad that he's done this.
It is escalatory in the sense of economic escalation for the rest of the world.
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