The Iran Blockade is Back
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It's Tuesday, July 14th, and the American Navy is heading back toward the Gulf. We start here. President Trump tells Congress we're going back to battle with Iran. The White House makes a point of saying that ground forces are not going to be used in this operation. A blockade returns, this time with a controversial caveat. The next senator from South Carolina will still be a Graham.
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You could argue that the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran was not just a military ceasefire, it was an economic one. After all, the US had taken the extraordinary step of going to war with Iran. The goals were to decimate the Iranian military, prevent them from building a nuclear weapon, break their support of proxy groups in the region, and perhaps spark a regime change in the process. And while the administration has said some of these goals were accomplished, it all came at a huge cost. During this conflict, Iran started doing something it had never really done before. It was now jamming up the Strait of Hormuz by sending explosive drones at cargo ships. While President Trump continued to insist Iran did not hold any cards in this war, they did.
Why is the U.S. announcing renewed military action and a blockade against Iran?
It clearly held sway over the world economy. Qatar taking the extraordinary step of pausing its liquefied natural gas production. With shipping still halted in the Strait of Hormuz, where one-fifth of the world's oil passes through, prices are now up more than 25%. Does that give you more urgency to make a deal? Why doesn't it?
Well, I'll tell you, the primary urgency, and I said this, it wasn't covered properly, but the primary urgency is that we can't let
Iran have a nuclear weapon.
That, you could argue, is why the U.S., with no Iranian nuclear materials in its possession, no regime change, went to the bargaining table and struck the ceasefire agreement. At least the Strait of Hormuz would be open. But we know what happened next. Iran continued shooting at ships. Traffic has slowed once again. Well, yesterday, any questions we had about whether the ceasefire could still be resuscitated were put to rest. As President Trump announced, the U.S. is reinstating its blockade of any ships coming in and out of Iran. ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers is with us. Karen, it sounds like we're turning the clock back a few weeks. What is happening here? Yeah, I mean, we're a month after the president signed with really great fanfare the short-term ceasefire peace agreement with Iran.
Right. And now, you know, the president last week had said that in his view, he thinks that that ceasefire and memo of understanding, as it was called, is over. It was dead. But now we're actually seeing the practical implications that all of the key points in that memo are all reversed. They're done. There is clearly no ceasefire with Iran at this point. We have seen multiple rounds of strikes between the two countries over the last week. 47 years in a row, they were pushing people around.
They're not pushing us around.
We're pushing them around. The Iranians have declared that they are closing the Strait of Hormuz. Remember, the U.S. had given a license to Iran to be able to sell oil. Well, that got revoked days ago. And then the big announcement from the president yesterday that the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports would go back into effect.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:15
2
Why is the U.S. announcing renewed military action and a blockade against Iran?
2:15–5:59
3
How did attacks in the Strait of Hormuz push the U.S. to reinstate a naval blockade?
5:59–19:04
4
What is the president’s proposed 20% toll on Strait of Hormuz shipping and how would it work?
19:04–29:02