Blockade? Bombs? Why not … both? An argument does exist for the latter, but it depends on the application.
For now, though, Donald Trump wants to hurry matters along in Iran. The naval blockade has succeeded in creating an economic “death spiral,” and that will only get worse as the IRGC runs out of places to store the crude it can’t afford to stop pumping. Trump wants that pressure to either force Ahmad Vahidi to surrender Iran’s uranium stores, or to force someone else to force Vahidi out, perhaps horizontally. A return to full-scale bombing on the shock-and-awe basis might give Vahidi more room to operate, however, although Trump clearly threatened that again this morning.
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