A Firm Response at Sea Will Help, Not Hinder, Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
American inaction only makes the ayatollahs more daring.
August 13, 2021
A Firm Response at Sea Will Help, Not Hinder, Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
American inaction only makes the ayatollahs more daring.
On July 30, an Iranian drone attacked the Mercer Street—an oil tanker operated by an Israeli-owned company—killing one British and one Romanian citizen, thus escalating Tehran’s ongoing clandestine maritime war with the Jewish state. As the “ultimate guarantor of freedom of navigation in the world’s oceans,” the U.S. “shares with other countries responsibility for protecting this essential principle,” writes Robert Satloff. Yet the Biden administration is likely reluctant to retaliate, out of fear that doing so will derail the already stalled talks to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. Such thinking, Satloff explains, gets things exactly backwards:
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