Strait of Hormuz Deal Faces Uncertainty

Ryan talks with ABC News Correspondent Jordana Miller about the latest efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a reported attempted Houthi attack on a vessel, and questions surrounding U.S. munitions stockpiles as tensions with Iran remain at a standstill.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Verah and Farah
accident attorneys from Tampa's Bring In. ABC News correspondent Jordana
Miller coming to us live from Israel this morning with
all the latest out of the Middle East, and Jordana,
I want to start with the latest on the deal
to reopen the Straight offom Moves. We had heard it
might be announced yesterday. That didn't happen. Were we at

(00:23):
this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right We're still hearing that the deal is close to
being finalized, but no announcement yet. And I think some
of the details of the arrangement are leaking out, but
again it's hard to confirm what is in that deal
until we actually see it. But the good news is
that it appears Aaron has agreed to share control of

(00:48):
the straight and Form moves with Oman, and that of
course means sharing it by extension with the West and
with the United States. There are some conflicting reports whether
there'll be a middle lane that will be controlled or
managed by a European consortium. It's unclear, but it looks

(01:11):
like Iran will control the northern the northern lanes where
and all vessels coming into the Straight and formus Oman
will have control over those exiting. This is a temporary
arrangement for sixty days. No fees will be levied, from
what we understand, and then this will allow the sides

(01:33):
to move on to talk about the nuclear issue. And
Iran is looking again to get those waivers for selling
oil and gas on the market, right They kind of
want to go from this back to the MoU and

(01:54):
there get As we know, the Irnians are so hard
up for money they want to see those waivers put down. Now,
the question is if this deal is actually going to
be finalized. To be honest, Ryan, it sounds a lot
like what we heard about before that nearly two week

(02:15):
escalation between the United States and Iran. This was a
similar deal that was crafted out before that Iran agreed
to and then at the last minute said no, no, no,
and we saw how that ended with fighting back and forth.
So it's unclear if, for example, the Supreme Leader Moshav
Kalmani has signed off on this. It's unclear if the

(02:37):
Revolutionary Guard have signed off on it. It doesn't matter
if Iran's political leaders that we interface with, right, we
meaning the United States, people like people like the foreign
minister or the President of Iran. They don't hold the
final say right over whether a deal goes forward or not,

(02:59):
so we're kind of in a holding pattern. There was
one report overnight of what looks like an attempted attack
on a vessel near off the coast of Yemen, probably
again the hutis, but no damage to a vessel, and so,
you know, relatively speaking, it's been quiet the last you know,

(03:20):
twenty four hours, which you know for all of us
living here, that's good.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
News, right right. And so essentially we went from the
Strait needs to be reopened and it needs to be
returned to that free waterway that was in place before
the Iran war too. Iran is going to have control
over ships entering the Gulf through the Straits, and they

(03:44):
will share control with Oman, who will have control of
them exiting the Strait. So that's quite a shift from
what we originally wanted. We're joined by ABC News correspondent
Jordana Miller. Another thing I wanted to ask you about.
There's this report that President Trump clashed with the War
Secretary Pete Haiggs at the Camp David last week over
the state of munitions stockpiles. There's been an ongoing question

(04:07):
about how much of those stockpiles have dropped during the
Iran War. Do you have any insight into that. Have
you heard anything from your sources over there about these
munitions levels?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Right, So the Israelis, actually you're saying, first of all,
the shortage of munitions would not prevent the United States
from waging a significant campaign in Iran. They've kind of
downplayed these reports, and they've also clarified that from the
Israeli point of view, there's no major shortage of interceptors

(04:41):
or specific middle or long range missiles. Right. I think
obviously we heard from the White House from Caroline Lovett
call this fake news and a fabricated story, and she
says that the Washington Post contacted the White House and
they denied it, and that you know, the to the Defense,

(05:05):
the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and the President get
along very very well. You know. I think these kinds
of leaks that go on are they're insidious. I think
for various reasons, whether they're true or not true, they're insidious, right, right,
because someone is trying to leak information from the inside

(05:28):
and essentially subvert the decisions that are being made, undermine
the decisions that are being made by American leaders by
trying to influence the public, I think, and whether they're
and if they're true, they're also insidious because that is
obviously information that should be kept within the Pentagon and

(05:52):
the Department of Defense.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
You're letting our enemies and our adversaries know.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, right, And this is the kind of information that
you know should not be leaked publicly to our enemies exactly.
So I think either way this is these are problematic leaks.
But we haven't heard the Israelis, for example, and it's
a very free, vigorous press here, we haven't heard them say,

(06:17):
you know, we're concerned about this. The message has been
quite the opposite.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
All Right, ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller coming to us
live from Israel this morning with again all the overnight developments.
Jordana appreciated as always. We'll talk to you soon, tuckson
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