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Toni Waterman: US Correspondent on the US saying military ships have been sailing through the Strait of Hormuz · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the UIA is in deceipting missiles and drones hitting
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  Speaker 1: from Iran that are edited again. Why, Well, it's Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Project Freedom, which aims to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: to have some US Navy destroyers and US flag merchant
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  Speaker 1: ships sailing through the strait, which is starting to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Waterman, US correspondent, Future Story on News with US
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Tony, what's the lightest to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well? President Trump just put a social media post out
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  Speaker 2: saying that the US has destroyed seven Iranian fast boats
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  Speaker 2: that have tried to interfere with this effort to guide
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  Speaker 2: ships through the Strait of Muz. This is something that
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  Speaker 2: Iran has denied, and in this social media post, the
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  Speaker 2: President has also said that Iran has managed to damage
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  Speaker 2: a South Korean cargo ship, suggesting that Soul come to
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  Speaker 2: join this mission to reopen this vital waterway. But what
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  Speaker 2: we have seen today is really this back and forth
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  Speaker 2: of attacks not just at sea, but also on land.
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  Speaker 2: The UAE the United Arab Emirates saying that they have
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  Speaker 2: been responding to multiple drone and missile attacks, some of
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  Speaker 2: those actually connecting wich structures on the ground there's been
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  Speaker 2: a fire reported at a petroleum site in the country,
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  Speaker 2: also damage to some structures. So this is really threatening
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  Speaker 2: what is a pretty shaky cease fire at this point,
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  Speaker 2: but also really risks spiraling this situation out of control
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  Speaker 2: and entering a new front in this war.
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  Speaker 1: And we're seeing the price of oil respond to that.
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  Speaker 1: What are the chances this thing blows out and we're
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  Speaker 1: back to square one again? They're fighting well.
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  Speaker 2: I guess when you speak to certain experts, they'll say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, despite the optics the way that everything looks
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  Speaker 2: right now, we are in fact progressing towards a peace deal.
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  Speaker 2: There are these conversations that are taking place in exchange
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  Speaker 2: of proposals throughout the weekend, so there is discussion, there
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  Speaker 2: is dialogue that is still taking place. But certainly this
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  Speaker 2: announcement by the President on Sunday to start guiding these
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  Speaker 2: ships through the Strait of Hormuz has opened up another
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  Speaker 2: area in this conflict because the strait is really Iran's
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  Speaker 2: main leverage point right now, so the US appears to
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  Speaker 2: be trying to chip away at that by pushing these
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  Speaker 2: boats through. But experts say that even if they're successful
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  Speaker 2: in getting ships through, this waterway. This is not a
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  Speaker 2: permanent solution to this problem because those ships are not
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  Speaker 2: going to return if that area is not yet secure,
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  Speaker 2: if there is still fighting taking place.
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  Speaker 1: Tony wodoman I, US correspondent, Great to have your analysis
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