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Since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in February, the Strait of Hormuz has become the flashpoint of the regional conflict in the Middle East.
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President Trump today repeated his demand for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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A whole civilization could die tonight unless Iran agrees to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz.
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Back in 2019, we actually published a video piece
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that explained why this narrow strip of waterway has been at the center of tensions between the US and Iran for years.
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It ended with this line.
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Each run-in has the risk of escalating into war.
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One that could disrupt the jugular of the global economy in the process.
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Now that war is here.
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Thousands have been killed and millions of lives disrupted as violence has exploded across the region.
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All of us on the planet are directly tied to the Strait of Hormuz through inflation,
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through transport prices, through any imports we get, and also through our food chain.
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So let's revisit the Strait of Hormuz to explain why the
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strip of water has become Iran's most effective weapon to inflict pain on the global economy and take control of the war.
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20% of the world's crude oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
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A lot of it goes to Asia, but the drop in global supply during the straits closure has
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driven up the price of oil to over $100 a barrel at its peak, up from about $70 a barrel before the war.
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In the US, that means that the national average price of gas has spiked to over $4 a gallon.
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But it's not just oil that moves through the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Rose in the Strait has just cut off a major source of supply of natural resources,
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so energy resources and fertilizer and metals and sulfur,
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other products, helium gas that the global economy desperately needs.
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And there is still no clear path to reopening it.
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Iran can't realistically compete with the US and Israel in a direct military confrontation, So their strongest weapon is control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Strait of Hormuz was shockingly easy to close.
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So the start of the war caused insurance companies to put
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a hold on insurance for ships moving into the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
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You had this sort of steady pace of, you know, sort of drumbeat of attacks on ships.
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And that's been enough to keep the Strait all but closed to ships that don't have Iran's permission to travel through.
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Trump knows that the U.S and its allies are feeling the pain, and he has swung between different strategies and demands to reopen the strait.
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He put out this statement saying if Iran doesn't open it immediately, we're going to bomb oil plants, desalination plants, etc., etc. And today, he's saying really the exact opposite,
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that we don't need the strait open.
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It's not our problem.
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But Iran seems intent on continuing to use the Strait of Hormuz as a high-value bargaining chip.
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They seem to be hanging on to control over the Strait of Hormuz, which in the short run is a major win for them.
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Oil exports are actually higher now than they've been in a couple of years.
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For a lot of those exports, Iran will get a really high price.
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All that adds up to is to a big increase in oil revenues for Iran.
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The longer the US holds out, the longer it will shoulder the blame for starving the global economy of essential items.
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Nobody knows where Iran's inflection point lies.
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It's been a remarkable amount of pain that Iran has been able to withstand.
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Keeping the strait closed, kind of keeping the pressure on the global economy to indirectly pressure the United States.
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I'd say Iran's been remarkably successful in this.
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Trump's threats to destroy civilian infrastructure
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if Iran doesn't permanently reopen the strait might also not be as effective as he thinks they are.
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There is very little the U.S can do,
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you know, short of a full-scale invasion of the country to keep that strait open against Iranian political wishes.
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Opening the strait wasn't the main U.S objective when the war started.
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It was already open.
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But now that it is closed, Iran can put pressure on the U.S back off its stated goals like dismantling or restricting Iran's nuclear program.
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That could make things tough for Trump as he negotiates over the strait.
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The president needs an off-ramp for the war in Iran as casualties mount
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and its unpopularity drags down his approval ratings in a crucial midterm election year.
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The US seems to be looking, really, fairly desperately for ways to extract itself from this.
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The lowest acceptable solution is just to reopen the strait and get some kind of Iranian agreement to allow ships through there.
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However this ends, Iran has proven how essential this waterway is to the well-being of the global economy
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and how many losses they're willing to endure just to keep it under their control.

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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה

שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה B2 מבוסס על הסרטון “Iran's strongest weapon”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: strait, Iran, Hormuz, global, economy. בסרטון הזה יש 57 משפטים ו-853 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 5:19. הדובר מדבר בקצב טבעי של כ-160 מילים בדקה, קרוב לשיחה יומיומית. רק 81% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.

אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה

15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:

מילההגייהמשמעות
strait שם עצם/stɹeɪt/מיצר \ מֵצַר
waterway שם עצם/ˈwɔːtəweɪ/נְתִיב מַיִם
desperately תואר הפועל/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/נואשות
barrel שם עצם/ˈbæɹəl/חָבִית
desalination שם עצם/diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/התפלה
dismantle פועל/dɪsˈmæntəl/פֵּרֵק
escalate פועל/ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/הִסְלִים
helium שם עצם/ˈhiː.li.əm/הֶלְיוּם
sulfur שם עצם/ˈsʌl.fə/גָּפְרִית
starve פועל/stɑɹv/גָּוַע
casualty שם עצם/ˈkæʒu.əlti/חָלָל
confrontation שם עצם/ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/עִמּוּת \ עימות
restrict פועל/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/הִגְבִּיל
explode פועל/ɪkˈsploʊd/הִתְפּוֹצֵץ
bargain שם עצם/ˈbɑːɹɡən/מִקָּח

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנהבסרטון
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיוhas become · has been · have been killed
סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולהhave been killed · are directly tied · is closed

הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה

הדובר משתמש ב-10 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו doesn't, don't, can't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.

  • הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: desalination /diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/, inflection /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
  • מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, desalination /diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/, unpopularity /ˌʌnˌpɒpjʊˈlæɹɪti/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, indirectly /ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛk(t).li/

צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:

  • /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: waterway /ˈwɔːtəweɪ/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/
  • /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: barrel /ˈbæɹəl/, desalination /diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/, dismantle /dɪsˈmæntəl/, unpopularity /ˌʌnˌpɒpjʊˈlæɹɪti/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/
  • /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: strait /stɹeɪt/, reopen /ɹiːˈəʊpən/, disrupt /dɪsˈɹʌpt/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, barrel /ˈbæɹəl/

איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה

  1. הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
  2. התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
  3. הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו strait, waterway, desperately.

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