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Countering Iran’s endgame

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Countering Iran’s endgame
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The Iran war has reached a dangerous tipping point. Events of the last week have demonstrated what looks like Tehran’s end game. After almost seven months since it started on Feb. 28, the US-Iran war has morphed into a stalemate for a while because Iranian hardliners believed that time was on their side: The US blockade had taken a firm grip, sanctions tightened, Tehran’s isolation deepened, and its military capacity was devastated. However, the US was not able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, wh

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