Richard Goldberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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that seemed to be enough to change the psychology of the market to get ships moving out faster and we've cleared a lot if not almost all of the product that was bottled up on the other side of the straight at this point that's a huge relief to the market and so
The Iranians have not gotten some big, massive financial windfall.
In fact, because they haven't been quick to make more concessions, we have not unfrozen any funds.
And because the duration of the license was only 60 days and we're still dealing with terrorists who are still acting like terrorists.
They're not finding buyers on the open market outside of the Chinese.
So the IRGC is watching their supposed effective control of the Strait of Hormuz washing away.
Ships are coming out under U.S.
protection, U.S.
escort or other sorts of military protection and deterrence.
They're not getting paid tolls.
Nobody is looking like they're overly afraid of them.
Even with one-off strikes against tankers, the market price has obviously gone down tremendously.
Stocks can start rebuilding.
And they're not getting any money.
They're still bleeding out financially.
So we're seeing this frustration rising from that side of the IRGC committee running the country that was opposed to the deal in the first place, lashing out, seeing if they can't disrupt the market, slow down or stop shipping, shake down President Trump for more money.
And he's responding by saying, I'm not playing that game.
We're going to keep the straight open.
I'm going to militarily continue what is effectively sort of
backing into project freedom at this point and respond militarily until we see an end to this harassment and rather than sort of going straight to major military operations inland strikes critical infrastructure things like that he's very focused and i think that's the right move very focused on the straight of war moves the the direction to admiral cooper clearly has been
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