Rory Stewart

But also, they are so furious with what US and Israel did.

Why?

Because what they did is they bombed Iran, they killed hundreds of schoolchildren, and they did not topple the regime, right?

So all the people who were supporting the crown prince, the formal shah and everyone, who were promising that if we're nice to the American and Israel, there's going to be a lovely toppling the regime and a democratic future is going to emerge.

It's all nonsense, right?

So I think they're in the sort of bind that you would feel in if a government that you really, really hated and that you'd been trying to get rid of

suddenly vindicated you in a war against someone else.

And we've also talked a lot about the economy and the impacts on the economy.

And we'll be doing some more episodes around this.

And the honest answer is the economic damage to this is very, very lasting.

In the best case scenario, vessels might start moving through the strait next week.

But you can see all the ship owners saying we need many, many more assurances before we start sailing our vessels.

There's going to be a massive log jam because there are thousands of vessels and it's quite difficult navigating them through.

There are thousands of sailors who need to be evacuated from these boats.

There are certain bits that are ready to move.

Fertilizer, for example, is ready to move.

It's stockpiled in places like Qatar.

but it's missed a lot of this year's growing season.

So the impact on this year's growing season is dramatic.

Oil can be moved relatively more easily.