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How Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade puts Iran’s military on the ropes

Team Iran, perhaps fatally, miscalculated in Islamabad last weekend.

Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf believed he could play out the clock and give a battered Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps breathing room to regroup.

Ghalibaf naively bet that Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz –– and the 25% of the global oil traffic that flows through it daily –– would afford the IRGC a badly needed reprieve.

But Vice President JD Vance quickly disabused the IRGC hardliners of that notion.

Team USA didn’t fly 7,500 miles to negotiate, but to demand the Islamic Republic’s unconditional surrender.

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Now President Donald Trump is going for the IRGC’s jugular.

On Saturday –– notably, as talks were ongoing –– Trump ordered two US Navy destroyers, the USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. and the USS Michael Murphy, to force their way through and transit the Strait of Hormuz while a hapless IRGC Navy stood down.

In doing so, the United States has made it clear that the vital waterway is now this war’s Ground Zero.

It is, as we’ve long assessed, the decisive terrain of the conflict.

Either Trump controls it, or he risks forever owning........

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