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This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Batchler, Gregory Coppley's, Defense and Foreign Affairs and Strategic

Hyphen Policy.com to watch the reporting of the strategic value of events.

We turn now to Iran, the Ayatollah's funeral, the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands,

perhaps millions who turned out in celebration of his life, and swearing revenge, we're told

by headlines, but there's more to it than that. Within these last

hours, confirmed a Qatari tanker was struck in the Oman Channel of the Strait of Hormuz.

As Saudi tanker reported struck, perhaps in the same channel, the Oman Channel is on the Oman side of the strait.

Oman and Iran are the two countries that can claim to have authority in the Strait of

Ramos.

That's the narrowest passageway as you emerge out from the Strait.

Two strikes against two significant members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

One of them, Qatar, an arbiter for Iran these many weeks and will continue to be,

not only for Iran, but also from Islam, also from Hamas, all the fingers or legs of the octopus in Doha,

and yet they strike one of their tankers. Can't explain it.

At the same time, the report is that Iran is landing and sending away cargo from their shipping

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