Afrasianet - The American weekly "Newsweek" went to a metaphorical representation and considered that Iran's use of the privileges of its geographical location in general, and its coastline controlling the Strait of Hormuz in particular, is a weapon that exceeds the effects of the nuclear bomb, but in the fields of restriction on the global economy, international trade, and the supply of oil, gas, and energy in general.
The current scene between Washington and Tehran is enough to manage what looks like a game of musical chairs between the resumption of the war, or its suspension to go to negotiations, before the resumption of bombing and siege, and then relying again on negotiation sessions announced by the White House, and Tehran is content to deny it, not even through the foreign minister, but through the spokesman.
Preventing Tehran from going further with its nuclear program, cutting off any possibility of enriching more uranium to enough levels to produce a nuclear bomb, and completely disabling its long-range missile industries were among the stated goals behind the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Today, that war has entered its sixth month, the actual and practical element that has become the most prominent element on Washington's war agendas is the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring international navigation. Fuel and does not end with congressional and state renewal elections.
In another reading of this conclusion, it is already clear that Tehran has succeeded in imposing this type of "atomic bomb" not driven by enriched uranium, but rather the waters of a short, narrow strait 280 km long and 56 km wide, through which about a third of the world's total liquefied gas, more than a quarter of global oil consumption, and the coasts of Iran and Oman pass.
The situation around the strait today is nothing but a practical exercise in what could happen at Bab al-Mandab on the Red Sea, if the Houthis join the wars of the Straits on behalf of Iran.
Trump had written on his platform that the United States was ready to strike Iran "with levels of military terror and force not seen since World War II," and Tehran responded that the statement was "nothing but a new lie," and this exchange was a new episode in the series of musical chairs, and the rope on the tractor as it looms.
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