Robert Malley
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322 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And on the other hand, they have no alternative to their geography, which is they're neighbors of Iran.
They can't afford to be in a situation of hostility, of open hostility with Iran, given what they've just experienced.
So they're going to both try to get even closer to the U.S.
security-wise, if possible, and try to restart conversations, dialogue with Iran.
And we're seeing that including from countries like Saudi Arabia, like the United Arab Emirates.
I mean, again, all I could go by is sort of press reports.
It looks like it is reopened to some extent.
But there's some, you know, obviously Iran, what Iran doesn't want, particularly now, is to give up a card that it has acquired as a result of the war.
You know, the one from their perspective, you know, they always are looking for means of deterring attacks.
The nuclear program has one deterrent, the missile program, the drone program.
Perhaps the tool they found that is most effective and which they inherited as a result of the war was their ability to open or shut the Strait of Hormuz and therefore hold the global economy hostage.
Even since the memorandum of understanding was reached, there have been a number of tit-for-tats over the Strait of Hormuz because the U.S.
was trying to get some of the ships transiting along the Omani coast outside Hormuz.
of Iranian control, and Iran obviously didn't want to give up that leverage, certainly in the middle of negotiations over the broader deal.
So the state of Hormuz is living under the shadow of potential Iranian attacks to try to make sure that they maintain control and that they send the message that if they want to, they could close it again.
That's their goal right now.
Longer term, a number of countries are looking to see can they bypass the Strait of Hormuz so that they are less dependent on it and less subject to Iranian attacks.
That's a longer term project.
Right now, again, what you hear from a number of Gulf countries is they dislike to their core the notion that Iran can assert any form of sovereignty, control, any form of payment, whether it's a toll or whether it's anything else.
You know, what Iran is getting are two things, greater access to some of its own frozen assets, assets that have been frozen by the U.S.
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