Gregg Carlstrom
speaker
466 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Gregg Carlstrom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Donald Trump wants the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, but he has no good way to do it.
It was a very vaguely worded memorandum, which turns out not to be a good way to draft a diplomatic agreement.
And the dispute here is around the fifth paragraph in particular, which states that Iran will make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels.
through the strait.
Now, the Americans read that to mean Iran will remove the mines that they have scattered through the Strait of Hormuz and they will unlock it and allow ships to travel through.
And that's it.
But the Iranians read something more into that language.
They think that also confers a right to administer traffic through the strait.
So to decide which vessels can move and when.
And obviously, the Americans disagree with that.
So for weeks, they have been helping Iran
to escort tankers through the southern route of Hormuz, which goes through Oman's territorial waters, doesn't cross Iranian waters, and therefore the Iranians have no say over what happens there.
Iran quite unhappy with that because it thinks it erodes what it believes to be its right to control traffic.
It depends on who you ask, right?
The Iranians say that it is now shut altogether.
They made that announcement a few days ago.
Donald Trump continues to insist that actually the Strait is open.
But what's relevant here is not what the Iranians or the Americans say.
It's what ship owners and insurers think.
Do they believe...
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