00:00It was a strategic mistake to launch the war in the first place, especially without consulting
00:04the Gulf Arab governments. But then the Iranians decided to reply with their own strategic mistake
00:12by attacking the Gulf countries with such force, particularly. They haven't kept their targets
00:20just constrained to U.S. military assets, but they've now expanded to include U.S. interests,
00:28according to their spokespeople. So desalination plants and electricity plants, gas-producing
00:36facilities, they say that these have ties to American companies and therefore are legitimate
00:42targets. I don't think that that's exactly why they're targeting these things. I think what
00:47they're doing is they're now trying to replace their former forward defense policy where they
00:54supported militias in places like Lebanon and Yemen and Iraq to keep the war far from their borders
01:01to now trying to take actual control over the economies of the Gulf countries via their control
01:10of the strait and therefore deciding what the foreign policy and the security cooperation
01:15arrangements that these countries will have.
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