Trouble in the Strait

Wake Up To Money

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Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington get the latest following the US blockade of Iran's Ports. We bring you the legal reaction to the US and Iranian operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Plus, a Gulf-based business owner tells us how the conflict is affecting there chain of pubs and cafés in the region.

Elsewhere we gets the Trade body reaction to the EU's new Entry-Exit System became fully operational on Friday.

And hears from one company who are putting specialist artificial intelligence robots into its boardroom.

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0:36.7	Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.9	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:41.9	What have been the consequences?
0:43.2	14 hours in of the US blockade of Iran's ports.
0:46.6	We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world
0:52.6	because that's what they're doing.
0:53.7	They're really blackmailing the world.
0:55.2	We're not going to let that happen. We'll get the latest on the situation around the straight of
0:59.4	Hormuz, the legality of it all as well. We'll speak to a businesswoman in Dubai about the hit
1:04.6	to sales in her cafes and bars. We'll find out which big bank has invited a specialist artificial
1:10.6	intelligence robot into its boardroom and...
1:14.0	There were a few people crying and we had limited information, so we didn't really know what was going on.
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