Murtaza Hussain
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first heard Jul 2026
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If the Arab countries around Iran decide to make deals with Iran to end the war and say they won't use the territory and airspace to be used for attacks against Iran, absent agreements like that in the region, I think that the war will probably continue.
And it won't continue in a way which is favorable to anybody.
Well, absolutely.
This is close to a worst-case scenario for how the war could escalate because the reason the global economy is not imploded to the degree it could have because of the war is because there was this pressure valve in the Bab al-Mandeb and the Red Sea, which a lot of the oil, not all of it, but much of it from the region could have been pumped from this pipeline across Saudi Arabia and then through the Suez and so forth or down through Asia.
That's now...
theoretically, if this announcement holds and they really do enforce it, that option is closed now.
And what also is happening is Saudi Arabia is being brought into war much more directly, whereas they've been somewhat more aloof from the conflict to date.
And, you know, I think this is now a situation where the global economy, economies in Asia and Europe will be very existentially threatened on a short time frame.
And the U.S.
also will be impacted very greatly.
So the fact that the war even got to this point is very, very alarming.
And the fact that the Houthis and the Iranians are now taking this step is very, very dangerous because it suggests they themselves have now decided that the process of
prospect of a negotiated solution is unlikely or almost impossible at this point.
And they're using their own nuclear option here or their own, one of the highest escalatory options that they had on the table that they had not deployed in the first few months of the war.
And I think that the calculation is that if the U.S.
cannot make a diplomatic agreement, if it can't be trusted or they can't have a consensus in the U.S.
system strong enough to push forward with the deal, then the only other option is to basically send a very, very strong deterrent message by destroying the global economy, destroying the U.S.
economy.
And basically laying down a marker that no president will ever want to do this again because it was so painful.
If you can't make a deal, you can at least inflict that lesson.
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