00:00Well, certainly the new leadership that we've installed by killing the previous leadership is already less risk averse and more
00:07anti-U.S.
00:08But the key dynamic here, Tom, is that Iran feels it needs control of the strait for two reasons.
00:17One, to reestablish strategic deterrence because it assumes that the U.S. and Israel will at some point in the
00:23future attack it again.
00:24And two, as a source of money, because it doesn't believe the U.S. is going to come forward and
00:31give it the flows of money it needs both to reconstitute its defense industrial base and also to improve its
00:38economy.
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