Trump is stuck in Iran. Here’s one idea that could offer a way out
And even a deal to stabilize the strait would only address a new crisis thrown up by the war while not come near meeting US concerns over Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.
Batmanghelidj also suggested the arrangement could offer Tehran a strategic boost and “make the point that the strait is not going to go back to the status it had before the war, as a way of underlining that it was not defeated, that it was able to preserve its agency and its power through the conflict with the US.
If the strait remains a no-go zone for most civilian ships, grave reverberations from the war will get worse, as global oil reserves erode, the prices of oil-based products like diesel and fertilizer spike, and a potential liquid natural gas shortage looms in Europe this winter.
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