Rising US death count in Iran war drives Trump toward escalation

and oil exports by recently resuming the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military has redirected seven commercial vessels and disabled one ship to prevent it from entering an Iranian port, Centcom said in an update on Monday.

However, Nasr was skeptical that the U.S. could break Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz without a “much larger continue reading …