John Batchelor: I welcome Gordon Chang, and we’re very pleased to speak to our colleague Rebecca Grant, Vice President of the Lexington institute. Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is shut. Is that accurate? Highlights below, and full audio clip here. Rebecca Grant: No. Even the UN says, in a notice to Mariners: The Strait of Hormuz is open. There are active mine clearance operations underway, and watch out there’s one mine over here, and here’s the lat long [coordinates]. But the Strait is open.