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Strangling Iran: Will Trump’s endgame win out?
Will Washington tie its measures together so financial pressure becomes a noose that follows Iranian trade on the sea, in the air, through banks and possibly across land borders too? And makes the routes still left to Iran impossibly expensive?
The Islamic Republic of Iran is about to seize the Arabian Peninsula in a tenaza, whose tweezers are two straits vital to the world economy: Ormuz, the exit from the Persian Gulf, and Bab el-Mandeb, the entry from the Indian into the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. And the pressure is already reaching Kiev, to which Trump calls for a stop in his bombing campaign against Russia. The current war in the Middle East confirms the maxim of Prussian Mar…
The Iran war has become a conundrum for Donald Trump, with no easy way out. Continuing the war could increase oil prices, domestic political pressure, and the cost of his election, and backing down would mean accepting the fact that military threats and pressure have failed to force Tehran to surrender. In the meantime, Iran, relying on a war of attrition and increasing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, is trying to trap Trump between two costly…
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