Escalating Conflict: New Fronts & Global Oil Threat

really the other issue Joe is the way that this is all escalating spiraling even So there is Now contact between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in Lebanon on that appears to be a new front that is opening up We're just getting news of a tanker targeted off Oman the Strait of Hormuz not far from here which we you know Joe through the weekend haven't we have talked about is a crucial choke point for commercial shipping and particularly oil and gas at 20 percent of the world's oil and gas passing through there That is effectively I did manage to speak to a former Iranian commander in Tehran with close connections to the government He when I spoke to him denied that the Iranians are targeting civilian places in this region but it is though leaving governments here furious and that seems to be backfiring on Iran turning local governments that might have had some sympathy for the Iranians against them