English transcript

No country, no country should actually hold those straits as hostage.

The foreign minister of the UAE, ABZ, has said, we will not be blackmailed by terrorists.

What does that actually mean?

It means you can't bully your neighbors, your supposed partners.

Look at, for example, Yalda, what's happening today in the Strait of Hormuz.

The straits, and I'm sure your viewers know this, is a really narrow international waterway

that allows for the passage of ships and vessels, which carry a whole range of things, whether

it's gas or oil, 20 percent of the world's oil come from here, or petrochemicals, 70 percent

of the world's petrochemical needs come from the Gulf.

So it's a really powerful and important passage.

No country should actually hold those straits as hostage because the recipients of those

flows actually go to the entire world.