Vera Bergengruen
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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There wasn't more detail than that.
We didn't know what would happen to those tankers, what would happen to those ships, who's going to be doing this.
He said that other countries had signed up to help the U.S.
with this blockade, which seems very unlikely and we still don't know which countries those are.
So I think when we first saw that, you know, I guess our main question was, does the U.S.
have the capability to even do that and who's going to be doing it with them?
What they are hoping is that they are going to impose so much economic pain by not allowing these ships through that they are going to choke off the little bit of remaining revenue that is coming into what's left of Iran's economy.
And that without the tolls, without the ships, without being able to sell oil…
that they are going to impose so much economic damage on Iran that they are basically going to blink first.
Of course, the flip side of that is that it's also going to cause big pain to the global economy.
So now it just becomes a matter of who can withstand the most pain.
And from speaking to officials and analysts, I mean, it's kind of a toss-up.
Right.
It's basically kind of, you know, the way the president has described this, it's a necessary short-term pain that everyone is going to have to suffer in order to, you know, really severely weaken Iran and bring them back to the negotiating table or at least force them to give up more concessions.
And he's been very clear on that.
One of the most striking things to me about how the president has conducted this war is that he's often quite blunt about the costs.
And he kind of says that he's, you know, everyone should be willing to bear them.
So, so far, very few ships were going through.
So from speaking to analysts and military experts, they say that, you know, the handful of ships that have been going through, it's quite easy given that it's a very narrow waterway for the United States that has the assets in the region to basically position themselves to intercept those ships.
And we've seen them really use these capabilities last year, you know, more extensively.
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