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President Trump demands compensation from Iran · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm marry am Mashery and this is the Iran
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  Speaker 1: War today, our BBC News briefing bringing you up to
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  Speaker 1: date with all you need to know from the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours in the US war with Iran. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with some of today's key developments.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Iran warns the Strait.
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  Speaker 1: Of horm Moves will remain closed until the US meets
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  Speaker 1: its demands, but Donald Trump says he wants comfort compensation
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  Speaker 1: from Iran. Oil prices rise as an agreement between the
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  Speaker 1: US and Iran and the Straight of hor Moos looks
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  Speaker 1: increasingly unlikely.
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  Speaker 3: Again, Iran chooses Mossern.
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  Speaker 1: Razai to be the new security chief, alongside six new
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  Speaker 1: appointments to the Revolutionary Guards and the Armed Forces. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the conditions to open the Strait of horm Moves haven't
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  Speaker 1: been met.
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  Speaker 3: That's according to the Iranians. One of the things they.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted was for the US to provide compensation. More on
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  Speaker 1: that shortly, but that request has prompted, did the US
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  Speaker 1: president to post on social media? He said, I am
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  Speaker 1: likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all of the people
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  Speaker 1: that they have killed and gravely wounded. Well, this latest
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  Speaker 1: reaction from the US President comes after Iran said talks
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  Speaker 1: with Oman on new shipping lanes are almost complete. Bat
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  Speaker 1: said the opening of the Strait of Hormus would still
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  Speaker 1: be subject to certain conditions. Well, let's remind you of
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  Speaker 1: what the foreign minister said.
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  Speaker 4: Negotiations with Aman are regarding the determination of a new
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  Speaker 4: maritime route in the strait. These negotiations have progressed. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I can say they are in the final stages and
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  Speaker 4: the old existing routes will be replaced with new ones.
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  Speaker 4: Specialists are currently working on the maps. Of course, this
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  Speaker 4: does not mean the opening of the strait. This agreement
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  Speaker 4: may take place, but the opening is contingent upon the
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  Speaker 4: fulfillment of a set of other conditions, which have in
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  Speaker 4: any case conveyed through intermediates.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that was the foreign minister there.
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  Speaker 1: Although he didn't reiterate those conditions last week, the regime
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  Speaker 1: did say they include a number of things, an end
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  Speaker 1: to US threats against Iran and hostilities against Iran's regional allies,
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  Speaker 1: lifting the naval blockade that's currently in place on boats
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  Speaker 1: entering and exiting Iranian ports, and withdrawing US naval and
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  Speaker 1: air forces from near Iran, as well as payment of
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  Speaker 1: war damages and indeed the removal of sanctions. On top
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  Speaker 1: of that, the unconditional release of Iran's frozen assets. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't appear to be something the US president is considering,
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  Speaker 1: especially since he posted online that the US wants compensation.
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  Speaker 1: In an interview with Axios, Donald Trump said his administration
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  Speaker 1: is watching economic pressure mount on Iran.
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  Speaker 3: He said, we are low keying it.
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  Speaker 1: We are only semi negotiating with them, which is watching
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  Speaker 1: Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have
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  Speaker 1: no money. It will work out. It always works out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a chess game. Well, those comments didn't go
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  Speaker 1: unnoticed by the Iranian regime. The Foreign Ministry spokesman said,
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  Speaker 1: lights out or lights on, Iranians showed they are professional
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  Speaker 1: chess players. What joining me now is our North America
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Daniel Bush and our Middle East correspondent Donaldson. Daniel
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  Speaker 1: to you, first, remind us what Donald Trump said exactly
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  Speaker 1: in that interview.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he seemed to suggest that he may ratchet back
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  Speaker 5: military pressure on Iran, that they are semi negotiating in
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  Speaker 5: the president's words. This comes after multiple times in recent
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  Speaker 5: weeks where President Trump has threatened to do the exact opposite,
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  Speaker 5: to ratchet up military pressure, to increase the war, at
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  Speaker 5: one point recently saying that he had held off on
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  Speaker 5: an attack that would have been the biggest since World
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  Speaker 5: War II in the history of the world. So this
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  Speaker 5: was an effort by the press and apparently to at
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  Speaker 5: least sort of lower that temperature a little bit and
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  Speaker 5: suggests that hey, the US can wait Iran out. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: that is a gamble here in the United States, where
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  Speaker 5: there is a midterm election coming up just around the
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  Speaker 5: corner in a couple of months, and there's mounting pressure
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  Speaker 5: on President Trump to move quickly to end this war,
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  Speaker 5: to reopen the strait of horm moves to lower the
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  Speaker 5: price of oil and more. And so the present suggesting
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  Speaker 5: over the weekend that he may not be in a hurry, Well,
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  Speaker 5: he may not be, but his party certainly is here
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  Speaker 5: in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: So the prospect of a peace deal, then, Daniel, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the US president.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's about as far off as it has been
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  Speaker 5: for several weeks. It's been a little bit of a
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  Speaker 5: holding pattern. But just in that true social that you
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  Speaker 5: posted a moment ago where President Trump introduced a new
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  Speaker 5: demand on Iran. In response to the Iranian suggestion of compensation,
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  Speaker 5: claims President Trump saying there that he now wants compensation
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  Speaker 5: for Iran for decades of what he says has been
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  Speaker 5: violenced from the regime. That is not likely to be
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  Speaker 5: something that Roan would agree to. President Trump also pointing
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  Speaker 5: out that he would want compensation for the victims who
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  Speaker 5: were killed in mass protests there earlier this year. Again
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  Speaker 5: not something that Iran would presumably be interested in entertaining.
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  Speaker 5: So it's the latest example of just when there seemed
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  Speaker 5: to maybe potentially be breakthrough in diplomatic talks, president Trump
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  Speaker 5: introduces more wrinkles into it, and when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: the Strait of Horror Mooz still pretty far off from
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  Speaker 5: a deal. At least one of the United States would
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  Speaker 5: seemingly be willing to accept.
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  Speaker 3: Daniel, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's cross back to Middleast correspondent John Donnison, who is
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem, and John, do you feel that we're a
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  Speaker 1: stalemate in the Straight of hor Moose?
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  Speaker 3: What's the feeling in Israel on that.
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  Speaker 7: I think that's a pretty fair assessment. The Strait of
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  Speaker 7: horn Moose hasn't reopened in any meaningful way despite numerous
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  Speaker 7: spledges from President Trump that it would happen soon, and
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  Speaker 7: encouraging words that progress was being made. I don't think
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  Speaker 7: there's any appetite from either the Americans or the Iranians
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  Speaker 7: to resume full scale war. But the carrot of diplomacy
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  Speaker 7: from the United States hasn't worked, and the stick of
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  Speaker 7: military action hasn't worked either. So yeah, we are in
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  Speaker 7: a bit of a holding pattern. And I think the
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  Speaker 7: fact that the price of oil is going up again
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  Speaker 7: reflects that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about one of Iran's conditions, John,
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  Speaker 1: because one of those conditions is an enter hostilities against
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  Speaker 1: regional allies.
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  Speaker 3: But is Israel likely to ever agree to that.
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  Speaker 7: No, I don't think it is. And it's important to
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  Speaker 7: remember that we have three unresolved wars in this region.
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  Speaker 7: We have the war between the United States, Israel and Iran.
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  Speaker 7: We also have the war in Gaza, which that is
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  Speaker 7: still rumbling on at a lower level, and also the
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  Speaker 7: war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbola. And particularly with
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  Speaker 7: regards to the conflict in Lebanon, Iran has insisted that
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  Speaker 7: that must be part of a broader peace deal. They
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  Speaker 7: want Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where they
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  Speaker 7: continue to occupy a large part of the country. And
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  Speaker 7: although there has been a dialing down of violence in
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  Speaker 7: southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops remain there Hezbola, Iran's Allai
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  Speaker 7: obviously not happy with that. There is the possibility of
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  Speaker 7: violence flaring up, and there is an appetite in Israel
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  Speaker 7: for that water resume with elections coming up here in
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  Speaker 7: Israel too, and similarly with Gaza, there is an appetite
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  Speaker 7: to continue the fight against Hamas, another ally of Iran.
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  Speaker 7: So no, I don't think there is any likelihood that
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  Speaker 7: Israel is going to say it is prepared to stop
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  Speaker 7: its aggression as Iran would see it, against the likes
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  Speaker 7: of Hamas and Hezbolla.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, John, thank you very much, Daniel, thank you to
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  Speaker 1: you too. Well, investors are digesting the latest developments and
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  Speaker 1: what they mean for the markets and indeed for those
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  Speaker 1: oil prices. Well, let's cross live and speak to our
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  Speaker 1: business correspondence, Smearra has sagn Samra, what of oil prices
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  Speaker 1: and indeed markets being doing today.
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  Speaker 6: Well, look, oil prices are again under a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 6: As I came in the last check, we saw that
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  Speaker 6: Brent crude was trading at around eighty seven dollars a barrel.
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  Speaker 6: You'll remember that last week, on the hopes that there
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  Speaker 6: could be some sort of deal to reopen the strait,
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  Speaker 6: we saw that the price of oil was trading at
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  Speaker 6: about eighty dollars. So clearly, from an investor point of view,
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  Speaker 6: that oil price is climbing because, as John pointed out,
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  Speaker 6: that STALEMATEGG continues and there doesn't seem to be any
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  Speaker 6: indication that there's going to be any let up or
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  Speaker 6: any cessation of the violence, or coming together for any
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  Speaker 6: kind of an agreement. And that means that the crucial
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  Speaker 6: shipping way, the Straight of Horror moves remains closed to
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  Speaker 6: so much shipping. And remember that a fifth of the
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  Speaker 6: world's energy supplies, namely oil, passes through that strait. What's
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  Speaker 6: making this even more complicated is when you look at
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  Speaker 6: the global oil reserves that had really blunded some of
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  Speaker 6: the early impact of the war. Those reserves are now
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  Speaker 6: at critical levels, and so we could be emerging quite
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  Speaker 6: soon into an energy emergency because the strait remains closed.
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  Speaker 3: Samara, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Inside Iran, they've appointed a new leader of the
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  Speaker 1: National Security Council. Moss En Resai is a former commander
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  Speaker 1: of the Revolutionary God. He'll now have a key role
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  Speaker 1: in deciding how Iran pursues the conflict with the US
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  Speaker 1: and Israel. As well as this, Iran has made six
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  Speaker 1: new appointments to the Revolutionary Gods and the armed forces.
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  Speaker 3: I'll to help us understand what all this means.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined by Baron Abossi from BBC Persian and Baron
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  Speaker 1: who is this new security leader and how important is
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  Speaker 1: this appointment?
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  Speaker 2: So he was the commander of the yo Jesid Islamic
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  Speaker 2: Revolution and in regard course for sixteen years, including during the
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  Speaker 2: war between Iran and Iraq back in the nineteen eighties,
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  Speaker 2: which lasted about eight years. So he was at the
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  Speaker 2: center of the most consequential decisions in the history of
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  Speaker 2: the Islamic Republic. He wrote a letter to the former
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Leader, Royal Homenia about the end of the war,
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  Speaker 2: saying that if ira wanted to continue fighting against Iraq,
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  Speaker 2: it needed a lot of resources, military and financial resources,
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  Speaker 2: which was described as shocking by the then Supreme Leader,
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  Speaker 2: and shortly after Iran accepted a cease fire deal with Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: His appointment to the Supreme National Security Council is significant
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  Speaker 2: because this body is one of the most important decision
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  Speaker 2: making bodies in the Islamic Republic when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: making decisions about the war, of course, but also foreign
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  Speaker 2: policy national security. We don't know why his predecessor was outside,
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  Speaker 2: because Mohamad was appointed only in March, so it's I
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  Speaker 2: think it's too early to say whether mos aresol is
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  Speaker 2: appointments would signify a fundamental change to run the strategy
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  Speaker 2: towards the word, but it definitely is a significant change
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the people who are sitting at the
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  Speaker 2: table and making those decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And there are be more appointments to the revolutionary regards
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  Speaker 1: the armed forces. What are all these appointments tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the direction in which Irana is going.
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  Speaker 2: So it seems that moshal Baramene is trying to put
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  Speaker 2: his own stamp on the security and political establishment. These
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  Speaker 2: people who've been appointed today, they are not new faces.
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  Speaker 2: They've been in the security and military apparatus for decades.
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  Speaker 2: But he's trying to show that he's in control. He's
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  Speaker 2: in charge. One of the interesting appointments is the appointment
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  Speaker 2: of one of his key alloys or centaire to the
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  Speaker 2: head of Passage paramilitary force that is in charge of
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  Speaker 2: One of his main role has been the crackdown on
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  Speaker 2: anti government protests inside of your own. He was outsted
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  Speaker 2: under Mohabo's father, the previous Supreme leader. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: he's been brought back into the fault it shows that
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  Speaker 2: Moshabo Homony is trying to reassert his control. He's been
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  Speaker 2: absent from the public eye since this start of the war,
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  Speaker 2: which killed his father and reported left him injured. There
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  Speaker 2: have been questions about who is really making the.
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  Speaker 1: Decisions, whether he's even alive or not exactly, questions about
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  Speaker 1: that right he hasn't been.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing there has been There hasn't been any videos or
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  Speaker 2: audio of him. So it seems that he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: send this message that he's in church, he's in control,
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  Speaker 2: and he's making the decisions.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Baron, good to talk to you. Thank you very much. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're joining us on YouTube, TikTok, sounds, radio or TV,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your time. We'll be back at the
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  Speaker 1: same time tomorrow with the Iraun war. Today