Dana El-Kurd

Which is a real problem for any kind of American negotiation, because this was always a thing that the Iranian government never did.

Right.

They had the military capacity to hold the straight.

The reason they didn't do it was that it would start a war.

But now you've started the war and now you've opened Pandora's box and you can't put the fact that they can do this militarily back into the box.

Yeah.

Right.

So now they're just being like, fuck it.

You guys can't actually defeat us militarily before the entire world economy collapses.

Like, fuck it.

Give us the straight.

Mm hmm.

Now, I do want to mention something about some of the oil tankers, which is that, okay, the whole situation is very murky.

But Iran has been, I mean, obviously, it's been allowing its own tankers to go through, which is not a huge amount of oil, but it's some.

We got a reported case.

The statements on this were released by the Thai government and also a Thai oil company called,

where the Thai basically foreign minister called the Iranian government and said, hey, we have an oil tanker here, will you let it through?

And they went, yeah, sure.

So there seems to be some kind of process by which countries can do some kind of negotiation with the Iranian government and be let through.

What exactly that looks like and the details of it are really unclear.