Ian Bremmer
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12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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the deal that was signed in the memorandum, which Trump believes is the Iranians can sell oil, but they don't have control of the Strait.
The Iranians believe, no, we have control.
So that's why we are still seeing fighting.
You note that I'm mentioning fighting between Iran and the US and the blockade.
I am not talking about the Houthis.
There is a secondary fight going on between the Houthis and the Saudis.
The Houthis are an important proxy of Iran.
They see that they have more ability to get cash out of Saudi Arabia because the Strait of Hormuz is now shut down.
So they're demanding a whole bunch of money.
They want $10 billion upfront from the Saudis to ensure safe passage.
The Saudis don't wanna give them that, but the Americans have no part of that negotiation.
The Iranians are telling the Houthis to go, but the Iranians have no part of that negotiation.
And as long as the Saudis pay off the Houthis sufficiently,
which I suspect they will do, and they have been paying for tens of thousands of salaries in the Houthi-controlled territories of Yemen for the last few months, as long as they up that rate sufficiently, that's not likely to be an ongoing fight.
So we're talking about Iran versus the US.
The Israelis for the time being, not a direct part of that war, though obviously they did initially go to war with the Americans back in February.
That's why it's still going on.
Now, the other thing we need to talk about is the fact that despite the war still going on, the Americans and the Iranians continue to act with a lot of restraint.
Yes, the Strait is closed, but the Americans are not hitting out at the leadership of Iran or the military leadership of Iran.
They're not trying to kill the new Supreme Leader.
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