thousand people have died in the ten month long unrest with damascus blaming gangs for the violence james corbet editor of an independent news website based in japan the balance if the observer mission will bring any plausible results. the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to.

people have died in the ten month long unrest with damascus blaming armed gangs for the violence james corbet editor of an independent news website based in japan dowd's if the observer mission would bring any plausible results. the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its citizens but personally i'm not sure what is more ridiculous about this story be the idea that the the autocratic focus of the arab league states.

trade it will go ahead with its threat to block the vital strait of hormuz oil transit route but james corbet editor of the independent report thinks the threat is unlikely to be carried out anytime soon. i think there is no doubt there is some provocation and some testing of the waters quite literally and figuratively going on right now and certainly with the rands recent threats to to block the strait of hormuz now we see the americans sending ships through there to sort of test the defenses so to speak so so i think there is definitely some cat and mouse going on right now and i think at this point it is saber rattling and testing both sides testing to see how far the other is going to go canned and as i say at this point i would be extremely shocked to see iran actually pulling out the the option of of mining or otherwise blockading the strait of hormuz because that seems to me that that's that's pretty much the last part of their sleeves so i don't think they want to put it on the you know on the table too early oddly enough i think the further that iran is pushed into a corner here than

strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if the west stepped up its sanctions james corbet editor of the corvette report website says tensions in the region will only rise if the u.s. and its allies continue to pressure iran i think it's quite remarkable.

hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if indeed the west did step up the sanctions james corbet the editor of the corporate report he says the tensions in the region will only rise if the u.s. and its allies continue to pressure iran. i think it's quite remarkable to think that france and the u.s. and other countries would be willing to step up sanctions that have already had such a profound effect on the iranian people on the basis of their hunch that erodes iran is developing nuclear weapons as as france has basically put it it's quite remarkable because that really does is tantamount to an act of war and and really the i think the only logical outcome for this is another increase in military tensions between the countries involved in that region that are already on the knife edge of military tension so it is quite an explosive thing to be talking about and i think of the escalation in recent weeks with the recent ten day military drill in in the straits of hormuz has to be weighing heavily on the minds of of the u.s. and others but but i think really the idea that iran would

thousand people have died in the ten month long unrest what's damascus blaming gangs for the violence james corbet editor of an independent news website based in japan the balance if the observer mission will bring any plausible results. the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its citizens but i personally i'm not sure what these more ridiculous about this story be the idea that the the autocratic focus of the arab league states are going to presume to pronounce on the democratic leanings of that the syrian government to work with the international community is supposed to take what they see with any sort of moral authority but clearly these are not people in a position to be lecturing on this but i think as i say i think the the report has been pretty much preordained and i would be very surprised to see that it concludes anything other than the fact that the assad government is to blame for what's going on in syria right now. and a former libyan rebels are now chanting

the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important aldrete if the world stepped up sanctions james corbet editor of the colbert report website says tensions in the region will only rise of the.

strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if the west stepped up sanctions james corbet the editor.