And believe if you filter extreme content of a song. By the welcome to day here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now iran has the International Community to stop washingtons destabilizing actions in the persian gulf that comes after shot down an American Military surveillance drone over the strategic strait of hormuz on thursday the us president has spoken out on the incident saying the Islamic Republic has made a major miscalculation. Well i made a big mistake and i made a very bad mistake ok sorry i misunderstood and i think youll find out anything you want youll find out youll find me arguing there are obviously obviously you know were not going to be talking too much about it were going to find out they made a very big mistake well it is the 1st direct confrontation between the 2 countries that made the current tensions which began when washington quit the 2015 you can you deal with all these kind of baqubah. In terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have be
Both for being here so michael lets start off with the geopolitical aspects of everything going on here we know the importance of the strait of hormuz when it came to congress can you tell us how this has been a thought baran in the past its been a contentious period contentious area for quite some time you can go back to the to the socalled tanker war during the iran iraq iraq war and then subsequent events leading up to that when iraq was shipping oil through. Canadian ships im sorry on kuwaiti ships and and they were they were attacked by iran and as a consequence reagan. Knocked out some of the Oil Platforms that were there in a very restricted air strike and then stopped and then there was the escort the armed escort afterwords. Of these ships and then you fast forward again to about 2008 there was another another episode in which. U. S. Ships were patrolling the area trying to keep the waterways open and once again small iranian ships are boats rather would try to buzz it and att
Responses on thursday morning prices spiked after u. S. President donald trump responded to the incident on twitter brant crude prices surged as much as 3. 9 percent while west texas intermediate jump by 6 percent before falling back to the mid pfizer around noon iranian officials claim the drone was in their air space when it was down while the u. S. Armed forces directorate for the region Central Command insisted that the drone was attacked over International Waters now joining us deeper into the dilemma are david mack ommaney the c. E. O. Of mckelvey Wealth Management and former pentagon official Michael Maloof thank you both for being here so michael lets start off with the geopolitical aspects of everything going on here we know the importance of the strait of hormuz when it came to congress can you tell us how this has been a soft spot for iran in the past its been a contentious period contentious area for quite some time you can go back to. To the socalled tanker war during the
Both so i thank you so much for coming tonight. Thank you to everyone here at the lyceum. And then thank you for everyone on zoom and joining through cspan as well. Before we start i would like to inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for later viewing. My name is Angelique Moss and im the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister City Committee. We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for th
Inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for later viewing. My name is Angelique Moss and im the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister City Committee. We are a volunteer City Committee that promotes educational and Cultural Exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. This is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of dday. Tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. Holian. For our 12th annual dday commemoration lecture dr. Kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late John Marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. He is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the Northern Virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 T Michael Miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. His father served in the Us Army