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First tool is obviously not costless, and second tool can’t be continued for long. BUT, what if you slow-play the deal, and even after you sign and pretend you have to ratify or whatever, you throttle the passages still in guise of missing mines etc?

IRAN WOULD PROCEED WITH CLEARING MINES FROM THE STRAIT DURING A 30-DAY WINDOW FOLLOWING AN AGREEMENT - NIKKEI CITING SOURCE

Into the ether : knowing full well that I have very little idea about how Iran’s politics works, here is what we can impute from revealed preferences. (a) they want to stay in power (duh), (b) don’t want to be attacked again and (c) seems like they don’t care about being set back by say 5 years on the nuclear program but 15 years is no-go

If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution. This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability the inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel. Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. I personally am a skeptic of the idea that Iran cannot be denied the ability to terrorize the Strait and the region cannot protect itself against Iranian military capability. It is important we get this right.

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