S8 Ep1129: Jonathan SAYEH— The naval blockade on Iran represents the "maximum pressure" campaign, effectively dropping Iranian oil exports to zero; this economic strangulation poses an existential threat to the regime, which struggles to pay its personnel, and recen
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Jonathan SAYEH— The naval blockade on Iran represents the "maximum pressure" campaign, effectively dropping Iranian oil exports to zero; this economic strangulation poses an existential threat to the regime, which struggles to pay its personnel, and recent direct missile exchanges suggest diplomatic understandings between the U.S. and Iran have collapsed. (14)
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Batchler. I welcome Jonathan Saya of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| 0:50.9 | to help me interpret the headlines pouring all around us about the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:57.0 | Reuters. Iran escalates attacks across Gulf. Trump says U.S. reinstating naval blockade. |
| 1:04.4 | Subhead. U.S. and Iranian forces exchange missiles and drone attacks and clashed over control of the |
| 1:10.2 | Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:11.4 | as President Trump said the U.S. would be reimbursed 20% on all cargo shipped through the |
| 1:17.2 | Strait of Hormuz. I believe there have been five rounds of shoot and shoot back between |
| 1:23.1 | Iran and its neighborhood and the U.S. |
| 1:34.6 | Many of the capitals of the Gulf Cooperation Council have been struck or they've been aimed at. |
| 1:39.7 | And it looks like we're back to the fighting before the memo of understanding. |
| 1:43.3 | So I welcome you, Jonathan, to help me sort this through. |
| 1:46.5 | Iran is showing its teeth. |
| 1:52.7 | It's showing that it does have lots of missiles that it had successfully hidden or buried from the first onslaught of the U.S. Navy. |
| 1:55.3 | It shows that it's willing to shoot its neighbors at its neighbors, |
| 1:59.2 | especially American bases at its neighbors. |
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