Keep increasing sanctions. Iran can’t afford the strait to be closed any more than SA. Keeps us out of it. Trump is patiently working this. And, it’s working. We have oil here... harder to refine, but better than sending sons, daughters and weapons.
Let’s sit one out, for a change.
Agreed.
Amen. Foment ethnic troubles in Iran, too. Support the secession of the Akhwazi Arabs and the Balluchis, and Kurdistan as well. It’s how the Soviet Union and the UK totally Fd up the subcontinent and the ME. The same tools might well improve matters in Iran.
Exactly. Why give up a winning strategy? Part of the reason the Iranians are doing this is to shake up that game because they're losing it.
If the EU would do its duty toward a member state it would tell Iran to knock it off or they pull out of the nuclear deal and enact their own sanctions. The EU wants it both ways, a cozy commercial arrangement with Iran and the clout of a major international player. It can't have it both ways.