Julian Borger
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489 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
Julian Borger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what they're saying to the ships that are trapped in the Gulf is, if you follow this route, we'll be watching you.
We can protect you from afar, but we have lots of
things in the air.
We have helicopters and planes and anti-drone capabilities.
And we will also help guide you through what is a very perilous and narrow channel to get out of the strait and to escape the Gulf.
The US bet is that the shipping companies and also the crews on these ships are desperate enough to take that risk under US protection.
Yeah, I think that there is a chance.
I think what shipping owners are doing at the moment is watching what happens to the first few ships.
Two have been confirmed so far, seeing what happens and see if other ships get out.
And it's possible that others will decide they were going to take the chance just to get their ships and to get their crews out.
But at the moment, on the whole, the shipping owners, from what we hear, and certainly the insurance companies are very cautious about this.
What they want and what they're holding out for is an agreement between Iran and the US that they will both lift their blockades and let all the shipping out and open the strait again.
That's what Iran has put on the table, the kind of mutual lifting, but without any discussion about the other issues like nuclear and security.
And that's something that the U.S.
has not gone for.
Instead, they've gone for this sort of more unilateral solution of trying to open a channel out of the strait without Iran's permission.
Well, sometimes he affects not to really care about the Strait of Hormuz and he says, well, high oil prices help U.S.
oil producers.
But on other times, he seems almost desperate to get this resolved because high petrol prices in the U.S.
are beginning to buy.
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