Trump Weighs Massive Escalation in Iran As Houthis Threaten to Close the Red Sea’s Critical Strait

carried by the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency. This adds a sense of real urgency to the talks. It also makes a massive military action by the U.S. more likely.

Iran is still trying to find a way to collect “reasonable service fees” for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. It’s hard to overstate how terrible that would be, not just for Hormuz continue reading …