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Ep. 3799 Iran SHUT DOWN the Strait of Hormuz, Then THIS HAPPENED … · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now as you're watching this, the USS Gerald Ford, the most powerful warship ever built, just entered the Strait of Gibraltar and is pushing east through the Mediterranean.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At current speed, it'll be within striking distance of Iran by Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In response, Iran did something, it hasn't done in decades, not since the Iran Iraq War of the 80s.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They took over the single-most important oil choke point on planet Earth and shut it down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's what happened next that has the entire world on edge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tuesday morning, February 17th, Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced live fire naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Missiles launched from warships, missiles from coastal batteries, missiles from inland sites, all of them hitting targets inside the Strait while Tehran
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  [SPEAKER_00]: declared the waterway temporarily closed for safety and maritime concerns.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Iranian navy commander of rear admiral Tang Sari stood on the deck of an Iranian warship and announced that Iran maintains total 24-hour intelligence surveillance over the state, including its surface, aerial and subsurface, and that Tehran has no red lines
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to controlling this waterway meaning, there's no limit to what Iran is willing to do to maintain control over the straight of Hormuz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Analyst confirmed this is the first time Iran has announced a closure of the straight since the 1980s when they laid mines across the channel during their war with Iraq.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back then, it took the U.S. Navy months of mine sweeping to clear the waterway, dozens of ships were damaged.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S.S.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Samu would be Roberts nearly sank after hitting an Iranian mine in 1988.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what we have to understand here is that Iran just told the world, they're ready to do it again if necessary.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's the part that turns this from a military drill into a geopolitical chess move.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the exact same time, these missiles were hitting the water, trumps on voice, Steve Witt Koff and Jared Kushner were sitting inside the residents of the Omani Envoy in Geneva, conducting the second round of indirect nuclear talks with Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now the timing wasn't an accident, this was a message.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran was telling Washington, you can send your negotiators, you can send your carriers, you can send your threats, but we control the choke point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you push us too far, the entire global economy,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: pays the price 13 million barrels a day 31 percent of all seaborn crude oil passes through that straight China gets the bulk of its energy through that straight over 80 percent of its oil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Same goes for India, Japan, South Korea, a prolonged closure doesn't just hurt Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It detonates a bomb under the entire world economy and oil prices started climbing the very same day, just a few hours of temporary closure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, hours before the drill,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Supreme Leader Ayatolika Mani delivered a message aimed squarely at the two American aircraft carriers sitting in the Arabian sea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He warned that the strongest army in the world might sometimes receive such a slap that it cannot get back on its feet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he added, of course, a warship is a dangerous apparatus, but more dangerous than the warship is the weapon that can sink the warship into the depths of the sea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now he's talking there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: about anti-ship missiles, Iran has hundreds of them positioned along its coastline, the college-fars, the noir, the cadare.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Can they actually sink a U.S. supercarrier?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, most analysts say that's extremely difficult given our layered defenses, but of course there's always the risk that they most certainly could cause serious damage and casualties.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the United States is not taking those words and actions lightly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We now have 40,000 troops in the region.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The USA Abraham Lincoln Carrier, strike group, was already in the Arabian Sea two weeks ago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Pentagon deployed the USS Gerald for the most advanced worship ever built to join it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's two supercarriers, five air wings across five countries, F-35s, F-18s, Tomahawk Cruz missiles,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and that and Patriot air defense systems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the largest American military concentration in the Middle East in over two decades.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this buildup didn't come out of nowhere.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On February 3rd, just two weeks before the straight closure, six Islamic Revolutionary Guard gunboats tried to seize a U.S. flag tanker in the straight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The ship ignored their demands and continued under Navy escort.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The same day in F-35 shot down in Iranian drone that was approaching the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two incidents, same day, and neither side escalated further.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but SENTCOM issued a very blunt warning afterward.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. military will not tolerate unsafe Islamic guard actions, including weapons, pointed at American ships.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So here's the reality.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Both sides right now are flexing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Both sides have leverage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran can threaten the global oil supply.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: America can threaten Iran's existence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And both sides demonstrated this week that they're willing to go to the edge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the key in all of this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With this massive US military buildup, both sides are still talking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's actually the signal, Iran's foreign minister just said that after the Geneva round of talks, that a new window had indeed opened and that both sides have agreed on guiding principles with Iran expected to present detailed proposals within two weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran closed the straight
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and kept talking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a country that wants war.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a country negotiating from a position of calculated aggression, showing what it could do while leaving the door open for a deal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But President Trump appears insistent that whatever deals made is going to be made on American terms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that is precisely where Venezuela
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  [SPEAKER_00]: comes in, most particularly, then as well in oil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that's where the latest talks with Albertan separatists also come in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, a direct line to both Venezuela and Albertan oil would completely insulate America from any Middle East oil shock.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran may think it's negotiating from a position of strength and threatening the state all they appear to be doing is hardening Trump's resolve to make the United States the hemispheric center.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of western oil production and reserves for the entire world, and that would indeed change the entire geopolitical map in terms of the historic leverage that Middle Eastern countries have been able to levy most especially Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll obviously continue to watch very closely how things play out, especially in the next 48 hours.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it does appear that the positioning of so many pieces on the geopolitical chessboard are beginning to finally make total and game-changing sense.
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