The renewed US-Iran conflict is escalating and threatening to spin out of control
US President Donald Trump last week threatened to broaden the war unless Iran stops attacking ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
While the Iranian economy is in dire straits, with rampant inflation, chronic shortages of medicines and a crumbling economy, “Tehran will accept the inevitable economic hardship that another US naval blockade will entail, believing that its own pressure on the global economy by closing the Strait of Hormuz… will force Trump to blink first,” Nasr added.
Iran could target “a network of key ports” in Gulf states in response to US strikes on the Iranian port of Chabahar, the semi-official Fars news agency warned on Friday.
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