Trump and Iran in battle of the blockades – The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  He's switching from an air campaign, which could only take you so far, to this naval blockade.

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  We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world, because that's what they're doing.

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  They're really blackmailing the world.

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  We're not going to let that happen.

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  I don't think in itself it's going to bring an end to the war, but it is a piece of leverage which they haven't had.

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  This would have to last many weeks and into months for it to have any real impact upon the Iranian economy.

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  It 's the battle of the blockades as Trump threatens to lay siege to Iranian ports in a move designed to pressure Iran back

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  to the negotiating table and reopen the Strait of Hamuz.

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  From The Guardian's Today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

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  Well, I'm happy to be joined again by Patrick Winter,

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  our diplomatic editor, but increasingly the latest Iran war correspondent.

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  Thank you for coming up to speak to us again.

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  So just about a week ago, we were talking about a ceasefire that had been agreed between the US and Iran.

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  But now the US has imposed its own blockade on Iranian ports,

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  despite pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz being a key part of that ceasefire.

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  What's going on and what does that look like in military terms?

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  Well, sure.

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  I think it's actually one of the first sort of semi-sensible things the Americans have done in this war.

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  And I mean, obviously on the surface, it seems paradoxical in the sense that the Americans are trying to get the Strait

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