US president frustrated with unenthusiastic response after appealing for help to wrestle control of the key strait from Iran.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz has effectively closed to most shipping since the United States and Israel attacked Iran \u2013 sending energy prices soaring worldwide.<\/p>\n
The marine channel in the Gulf had been the gateway for 20 percent of global energy supplies.<\/p>\n
What difficulties does this pose for US President Donald Trump?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong><\/p>\n James Bays<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Eli Bremer \u2013 Republican strategist and retired major in the US Air Force<\/p>\n Andreas Krieg \u2013 Associate professor at the School of Security Studies at King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n Patrick Bury \u2013 Defence and security expert at the University of Bath and a former British Army officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US president frustrated with unenthusiastic response after appealing for help to wrestle control of the key strait from Iran. The Strait of Hormuz has effectively closed to most shipping since the United States and Israel attacked Iran \u2013 sending energy prices soaring worldwide. The marine channel in the Gulf had been the gateway for 20 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}