Erin Burnett to Telegraph’s Correspondent Reporting Condition at Strait of Hormuz: ‘Stunning,’ ‘It’s Completely Controlled by Iran’

EXCERPT:

BURNETT: "It is stunning, though. It seems like what you saw for your own — from your own eyes is a strait closed to international shipping, but completely controlled by Iran. Just — I mean, you're talking about thousands, hundreds of boats, right? I mean, its tangible, what you saw."

BLOMFIELD: "Yes. And I think this is the challenge because, you know, how do you open this? How do you get rid of those boats? We've heard Donald Trump saying, 'I'm giving the order to hunt down, destroy, kill those boats. But it's very hard. They can hide in coves and caves on the Iranian coast, and then they can disguise themselves in this armada, this swarm of boats that crosses the strait every day. It's very easy to mine the world's most important waterway. It's much harder to remove those mines. It's going to be a problem that experts I've spoken to, and I'm sure you've spoken to, say is going to persist a lot longer than when this strait is eventually reopened."