00:00Iran doesn't appear to be showing flexibility when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz,
00:04but is this turning more into an economic war than it is to anything else?
00:09Because I think a lot argue that the Strait of Hormuz was open
00:12before the U.S. and Israel launched the very first attacks on Iran.
00:17You're correct. It was open, and it has always been for the Iranians an economic war.
00:22In the Iranian military doctrine, they know they cannot compete with U.S. technology,
00:27with U.S. intelligence, with the scope, the scale, and the size of the U.S. forces.
00:33But by striking the Gulf Cooperation Council and denying the world the commodities,
00:38in addition to the energy, from the GCC,
00:41you, in essence, are bringing the world under Iran's pressure point.
00:45So this is how Iran, in essence, tries to create a strange diplomatic coalition of misery and pain
00:52to, in essence, allow Iran to justify control of the Strait of Hormuz
00:56and a larger role over regional affairs.
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