Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran-war-trumps-antics-offer-no-easy-victory-anyone

And yet Trump has instructed the US Navy to interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran: "No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."

US Central Command tried to inject some order into the latest edict from their commander in chief by saying the US Navy "will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports".

However, those are the ones that are currently paying Iran the tariffs. The idiocy of this move has oil market specialists burying their heads in their hands.

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Hasan Ahmadian, an Iranian academic and political commentator, said that the blockade assumed that Iran cannot break it by force, and that it would take the US a short time to break Iran and control energy prices.

Both assumptions were risky.

USA has already lost this war. It remains to be seen how big the defeat is.

This is what happens when your plan (to topple the regime by killing the ayatollah) is stupid and you don't have a plan b.

*Everyone has already lost this war, Iran has just lost less arguably in the long term.

I disagree. Iran's objective in the war is to humiliate the USA and make it clear to the future that it is a grave mistake to engage them, if by the way they lead to the lifting of sanctions or the tacit acceptance of their program nuclear it's an extra

Remember that their leaders, the death of their mass population does not give a damn