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Sagar

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

So we don't know exactly where and what, but you can take a couple of different clues.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

So in this ship and in a previous ship that was seized yesterday, I think it was yesterday that you guys

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

covered, both of those were either en route from China and are suspected to have some sort of either military technology or assistance and or there's a specific chemical I was reading about, which is very helpful to the Iranian missile program.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

And so actually, what this blockade has been about now so far in terms of the actual enforcement actions has been on trying to quell any of the military technology or military infrastructure needed

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

to rearm for the war, not necessarily just for oil, which I think, again, you would only really do if this wasn't about economic pressure, but you intended to restart the war.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

And this was kind of a message to the Iranian war machine, who is doing its best to dig itself out and to re-up for any potential

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

reigniting of hostility.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

So again, it's very, very unclear the number of ships that have actually gone through and haven't gone through, but it is a major escalation to be boarding Iranian ships at sea in the middle of a blockade, also at a time where allegedly in some sort of a ceasefire.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

It definitely puts all of the talks at risk, but more so, it just shows the mixed messages that are happening in Tehran.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

I also spoke to a couple of people, and one of the different, I mean, this is basically in the open source as well.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

The biggest difficulty for talks with Iran are actually very similar to ours.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Who does the vice president speak for?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Does he speak for the president?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Who does Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who do they really speak for, right?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Everything with the vice president, they have trust, but it's not really negotiating with him if he's calling back to Trump eight different times.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Well, Golubov and those guys, they don't have total authority necessarily to make a deal.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

So they've got to go through this Byzantine network of IRGC couriers to get to the supreme leader.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

How alive and awake is he?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

Nobody has any idea, right?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
4/21/26: US Seizes Iranian Ship, Energy Crisis Spirals, Trump Says No Ceasefire Extension

And so on the Iranian side, that's why I think you saw with the foreign minister when he's declared the straight-