LOS ANGELES (OC).– U.S. and Iran trade attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and elsewhere in Iran, showing that country with ballidyic missile qnd drone capability cn neutrqlie a modern military with its land, air and sea assets watching the U.S. military neutralizxe by an Iranian terrorist force. Iran doesn’t hvave a modern military but they do have the terrorist infrastructure necessary to neutralizing the greatest military on the planet. Trump hasn’t figured out a way to neutneuralizing Iran’s terrorist capability, trading blows with the Persian nation, causing more an inconvenience than a military victory. Trump hasn’t figured out a military strategy that would end the IRGC;s terrorist dominance in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, instead trading blow with the U.S. whenever possible. Tit-for-tat attacks with the U.S. have only worsened the situation, unaqblej to say when it will stop.
Striking Qatar,. A mediqtor in peqce talks tody shows the extent to which Iran ignores global calls for a lasting peace. Whatever Iran’s missile and drone attacks on U.S. targets, ir does nothing to bring both sides to the peace table. Iran can’t face the fact it continues to destroy its own infrastructure every time it exanges military strikes with the U.S., where each exchange sets Iran back a little further. Iran wants to show the world thay it can take on the U.S. military, something not possible. Iran wants Trump to concede that he can’t defeat the Persian Nation no matter what the military setbacks. Every military expert watches Iran lose more military assets, only rely on drones and ballistic missiles to hold the U.S. back.j But growing cssualties prove that Iran can’t keep pace running up qgqains the U.S. military./ Neturalizing the IRGC becomes trump’s top pirrority.
Iran can’t continue trading blows with the U.S., knowing its economy and currency take a toll on the Persian public. Finishing the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this week, the calls of “death to America,” “Death to Israel,” have begun to die down, forcing Iran to took carefully at its remaining military assets. Regardless of the tit-for-tat attacks, Iran will likely signqal to Pakistant and Qatar that it’s ready to get back to the peace table. Only the IRGC can’t acceot that military strikes on the U.S. or its allies are no longer feasible. Trump sees the damage the Iran War does to U.S. and global energy markets, knowing evertime theer’s more fighting, the price of oil nd inflation goes up, huring U.S. consumers and the economy. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) cardiac arrest has put a new perspedtive on things for Trump who wants a diplomatic solution.
India reported that one sailor was reported missiong, 23 rescuded after an IRGC drone strock th engine compartment of a cargo ship attempting in the Gulf of Oman tried to to transit the Hormuz Strait. Trump sayid that the Strait of Hormuz was open, despite insurance carriers saying it was to treacherous to cross the Hormuz Strait. Whether or no the Stait was closed or open, the risks for transiting the Strait were too hazardous to give a green light to insurance companies. No matter what Iran’s losses, the IRGC thinks that closing the Strait give it the kind of leverage needed to claim sovereignty over the international waterway. Trump spends too much time of retaliatory strikes on Iran’s military assets than neutralizing the IRGC. More IRGC attacks on commercial shopping shows the world that the U.S. is not really in control of the Hormuz Strait.
Asserting control over the Strait of Hormuz proves to Iran and the Arab Gulf States that the U.S. isn’t really in charge of the Strait. IRGC has proven that it doesn’t take much military assests to close a global waterway. IRGC insists that it has sovereign control of the shipping lanes, telling global shipping cariers that it’s in charge to setting the conditions for transiting the Strait. Claiming sovereignty, the IRGC insists it can set the fees for transiting the Strait, charging whatever it wants in transit feeds. Trump won’t back down from the position that the Hormuz Strait must be a free international waterway with no provision for the IRGC arbitrarily charging fees for transiiting the global waterway. Iran isn’ concerned for who has control the the Strait of Hormuz. Eventually, iran will get the message that it can’t close the strait for global shipping companies.
Trump and Iran’s new Ayatollah Mojbaa Khamenei must figue out where they’re taking the war, right now in a destructive pattern of death and destruction. Trump isn’t askinfor the moon, he wants the IRGC to stop attacking commercial ships in the Stait of Hormuz. When it comes to negotiating the nuclear options, Trump should put than on hold until the U.S. and Iran can agree on opening up the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping. Given the dilapidated stait of affaris to Iran’s nuclear enrichment industry, Trump doesn’t need to pressure Iran on its nuke industry. Whether agreed to or not, the Strait of Hormuz is not for the sale to the highest bidder, it’s an international waterway capable of serving the global community or turning the community into an international nightmare. Trump must figure out a way to deal with the IRGC before it’s too late.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineCiolummist.com and author of Dodging The Buollet and Operation Charisma..
