‘What Does It Mean To Close The Strait of Hormuz?’ (S01E47)

badlands podcast by borzou daragahi · Apr 10, 2026 · 10m

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Friday, April 10, 2026, Istanbul

You can’t totally blame Donald Trump for not being able to imagine that Iran would close Strait of Hormuz. Nader Itayim, Mideast Gulf editor at energy and commodities focused Argus Media, said many energy analysts long doubted Iran would pull off such a move, even as it regularly warned that it would.

“I was part of that group that believed this was not a thing that could happen—at least not in the way that it did,” the energy analyst told me in an interview.

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