Steve Yates
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191 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
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In recent times, we've begun to see video going out showing extremely long gas lines in Tehran and some other areas, and a little bit more evidence of what the strain of the blockade and other financial measures is imposing upon the country at some point.
Of course, the theocratic regime has no heart for the suffering of the people, but at some point,
It has to get in their way of being able to pay soldiers.
And the divide that Secretary Bessant talked about of when the regular army chooses no longer to aim its weapons at its people and says there's got to be a different way.
That's the kind of sort of end of the Cold War down with the Berlin Wall moment that we might be knocking on.
But we didn't get to know when that was happening imminently in the Cold War.
We might not get to know when it's imminently happening in Iran, but what you're alluding to is we feel like we're definitely getting some of that correlation of forces together for that.
Well, I think that the maximum pressure is the right added ingredient.
I think it could have been more maximum earlier on.
I think that this uh Operation Economic Outcast is the right nuclear level economic toolkit.
Uh the thing that's coming in just a matter of weeks, that's the acid test of that, is the Xi Jinping visit to Washington, DC.
And does this apply equally to Chinese?
These entities as it has to others.
If it does, then I think that what you are describing as those dominoes falling in Iran fall faster.
I don't think that they have control over the strait.
I think they have the ability to terrorize the strait, and that has forcing us a particular kind of reaction from commercial insurers, and it's uh fewer vessels going through.
But it's really America that has control over pinning them in.
I think what we have not done as well is show that there are ships still going out from the non-Iran parts of that Gulf.
Uh and uh the escorts have worked to a degree.
Our government has numbers that are somewhat impressive, but it's it's hard when the commercial available sources have a number that's much lower than what the government has.
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