Mark Champion

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58 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Aug

Mark Champion’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It will identify a temporary channel for a period, perhaps 40 days, in which shipping traffic will be able to
go back and forth through Hormuz and, you know, sort of more or less opening up the strait.
To the best of our knowledge, it will identify a temporary channel for a period, perhaps 40 days, in which shipping traffic will be able to go back and forth through Hormuz and, you know, sort of more or less opening up the strait.
And there'll be an agreement in principle on the collection of fees.
and on control, where the Iranians would control traffic going into the strait close to their shores.
The Omanis on the other side would control traffic going out.
We've been here about half a dozen times before, and, you know, President Trump has delivered a
all kinds of sort of final warnings and stuff that just hasn't sort of materialized.
In essence, he's stuck.
The stocks of Tomahawk missiles, which are long-range precision missiles,
that those were always low and a lot of it was used at the height of the war earlier this year.
And the same goes for interceptors, Patriot interceptors, which are extremely important as they're the only thing that can really bring down ballistic missiles.
And those stocks are very low.
He needs a deal, but he needs a deal that looks like a win for him.
And that's going to be hard because at the moment, all that's being discussed is the status of the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war and is only an issue now as a result of the war.
It's not exactly a victory if you end up
with an outcome where none of the things that you said you were going to a war have been dealt with, such as the nuclear program.
But you have got a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that gives Iran control that it didn't have before the war.
The outcome of the war, in essence, is that Iran gained a piece of leverage it did not have before the war.
It proved to be very effective.
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