Karim Sadjadpour
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Hey, Joyce.
Happy to be here.
Hi, Joyce.
It's great to be with you.
Well, it's an important question, Joyce, and it raises a question I'd actually like to ask of Paul towards the end of my answer.
But the bottom line at the moment is that Iran continues to want to exercise control over the Strait of Hormuz, and I don't think that they are going to want to give up that control anytime soon.
They believe controlling the Strait is both a revenue stream for them
and a deterrent against potential future attacks by the United States and or Israel.
And the challenge here is that obviously Iran's Gulf neighbors are deeply impacted.
There are some countries like Saudi Arabia who have found
alternative routes to get their oil out from the Strait of Hormuz through the Red Sea, although Iran's Yemeni proxy, the Houthis, are threatening to block that channel.
The United Arab Emirates is looking at alternative ports, so they're no longer reliant on the Strait of Hormuz.
But then there are some countries like Qatar, one of the world's largest producers of LNG, liquefied natural gas, which doesn't really have any alternative routes.
And so when President Trump launched the war at the end of February of this year, he laid out several objectives.
One was to further obliterate Iran's nuclear program, to destroy its missile program, to destroy its regional proxies, and potentially even unseat the regime.
And unfortunately, those objectives, not only have they not really been achieved, but we've in the process lost the Strait of Hormuz as an international waterway.
One question I'd love to know from Paul is how China sees this and whether China is okay with an outcome of Iran charging tolls or charging administrative fees in the Strait of Hormuz.
Because certainly no countries in the Persian Gulf want to see that outcome.
I would say no countries in Europe want to see that outcome.
But given how much of that energy that passes through the strait is bound for China, China's role here will be very important.
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