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“Iran is holding the global energy market as a HOSTAGE.”

Al Arabiya Geopolitical & Security Analyst Riad Kahwaji argues Iran cannot confront the US militarily but can still damage the global economy through energy disruptions.

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00:00Iran does not hold strong core to hurt the U.S. militarily.
00:06They don't have the ability to really successfully hit any of their warships.
00:12They've tried continuously in the last war and they failed.
00:17They have limited capability against the air superiority.
00:22So the Iranians cannot do much to defend themselves from the U.S. attacks and they cannot retaliate
00:31against the U.S. directly, effectively.
00:34They can hit some of the bases, but again, the losses are negligent for the U.S.
00:46However, Iran can cause a lot of damage to world energy by targeting refineries, oil fields
01:00in the neighboring countries.
01:01So they've been targeting the Gulf countries, the energy facilities over there.
01:07And also now they're threatening to cut the international cable lines, you know, for the
01:13Internet and the fiber optics, you know, that go through the straight waters.
01:19And that will cause a great deal of harm to the Internet, you know, globally.
01:28And so Iran is still playing the same trick of blackmailing the international community,
01:36that we are now holding the global energy market as a hostage, and now they're threatening
01:43to interrupt the international communications.
01:47So they play dirty, let's put it this way.
01:50They play it this way.
01:51They cannot confront the U.S. militarily, but they can cause damage to the international economy.
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