But the one piece of leverage, the only piece of meaningful leverage Iran has had has been to interrupt the flows of energy flowing out of the Persian Gulf. Right. We had 20 million barrels a day, round numbers flowing out before the conflict started through the east west pipeline and the UAE pipeline. Close to 5 million barrels of that has been diverted. We've got increased production. It was pretty easy to do a few other places. (03:05–03:14)
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