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Blockade bites hard at Iran’s borders — Trump can’t cave now

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To understand the economic devastation Iran is now experiencing, look no further than the trucks choking its borders.

Thousands of them have lined up at land crossings into neighboring Turkey and Afghanistan, with many drivers sitting idle for weeks.

They are there because overland routes are the only way that Iran can circumvent the punishing air and naval blockade imposed by the United States — but the regime can’t escape the cumbersome customs and security inspections that cause endless bottlenecks at the border.

Yet to listen to Iran’s leaders, you’d think they held all the cards.

At the UN General Assembly in New York this week, Tehran named its price for a deal: Lift the blockade, release frozen assets and end the “economic war.”

In return, it pledges to halt its attacks on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway it has no right to close.

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