Iran-U.S.: Diplomacy at the Top, Shooting Underneath
Iran is diversifying big time – not counting only on the overland corridors to Pakistan, subjected to U.S. secondary sanctions.
SHANGHAI – Only hours after the markets priced a possible U.S.-Iran deal, CENTCOM struck Iran’s Qeshm island in a “limited and defensive” manner. Qeshm is only a little over 20 km off Bandar Abbas and the hinge of Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz.
That may have been officially defensive; but the fact remains that CENTCOM is fighting inside (italics mine) Iran even as Qatar is “mediating” in Tehran.
The attack on Qeshm may have been a reply to Iranian fire at a…
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