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All right. Before we get started, let me correct some of my history here.

Last week I talked about Iran discovering the straight-of-heart moves is like one of their weapons that they can like use. Turns out, my bad bad they actually did this in 2011 and 12 on

December 27th um the vice president threatened to close the straight and it was basically over the

same thing like you keep messing with us we're going to shut down the straight that's my bad

they actually have discovered this before it's actually been a scene of standoff, like, way back into like 1988, too. There was a battle. The U.S. Navy, I'm going to read straight from the Wikipedia. The U.S. Navy waged a one-day battle against the Iranian forces in the strait. The battle was dubbed Operation Praying Mantis by the U.S., which launched

the retaliation, which was launched in retaliation of the mining of USS Samuel B. Roberts on

April 14th. The U.S. sank one of the Islamic Republics of Iran's Navy Freights. And yeah, so they've been doing this fighting over the straight

for a while that's my bad I missed that one all right let's do this

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