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Israel-Iran crisis climbs ladder of financial risk

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The outbreak of armed conflict between the two nations is a perilous new front in the ongoing Middle East hostilities. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists discuss the dissonance between a mild market response and the manifold paths to further escalation. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt-out of targeted advertising.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not a Rogers news.

0:38.5

Now, I think there is a risk that oil investors are underestimating the risks involved.

0:44.0

The kind of storming scenario of this has to be really bad until Iran closing of the

0:50.7

Strait of Hormuz is slightly misleading because Iran could do all kinds of small

0:55.8

disturbance like using its drones, using its boats to affect the export channel by those oil

1:03.3

tankers.

1:05.7

Even there's a credible risk that even a small kind of small scale of effort on Iran's behalf to try to disrupt the oil trade,

1:16.1

disrupt the oil routes, will be bringing significant risk to oil market.

1:20.6

That's not being priced in right now.

1:24.0

The crisis in the Middle East has widened to a new and more perilous front.

1:27.4

On Friday, June 13,

1:29.2

Israel launched a series of strikes on Iran, seeking to eliminate what Israeli Prime Minister,

1:34.0

Benjamin Netanyahu, has publicly decried as existential threats posed by ballistic missiles

1:39.1

and what he claims is a rising nuclear weapons program. The initial attack employing

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