S8 Ep1131: Jonathan Schanzer reports on the restart of hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz, where oil prices have hit $87 per barrel. The US is conducting air strikes against Iranian naval assets and drone bases. Schanzer questions why these strategic targets were n
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 July 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Jonathan Schanzer reports on the restart of hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz, where oil prices have hit $87 per barrel. The US is conducting air strikes against Iranian naval assets and drone bases. Schanzer questions why these strategic targets were not hit earlier in the conflict. (3)
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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. The headlines in London. Oil hits $87 a barrel as battle for Straits of Hormuz alarms energy markets. |
| 0:56.3 | Subhead, U.S. launches airstrikes as Iran targets tankers with cruise missiles. |
| 1:03.1 | The President of the United States has used language consistent with war restart. |
| 1:09.4 | I welcome Jonathan Shanzer, |
| 1:11.3 | the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. |
| 1:15.5 | I urge you all to watch very carefully the FD.org site, |
| 1:19.3 | as well as the Long War Journal, for updating on these matters, |
| 1:23.6 | consistent with the other reporting that had been going on for some time that the war never |
| 1:28.3 | really stopped. It was a game of language with Congress having to do with the mandate that |
| 1:34.7 | the president has 60 days before he must come to Congress for continuing a war. |
| 1:40.3 | Jonathan, a very good day to you. The rinse and repeat metaphor does not apply here because this time there's |
| 1:48.6 | suggestion that Iran is not defenseless in any fashion, that it is prepared its IRGC and its leadership |
| 1:58.1 | to sustain the pounding and now underway that the decapitation strikes in the |
| 2:04.8 | beginning of the conflict, February 28th and the 1st of March, did not lead to a fall of the regime, |
| 2:11.0 | nor even any hesitation on the part of the regime. The chairs were filled. They go forward |
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