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August 6, 2019

Iran Now Owns the Persian Gulf, Thanks to U.S. Inaction

And everyone else in the Gulf understands what’s happening.

This spring and summer Iran has attacked six foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf; tried to block a British ship in the Strait of Hormuz; flown a drone next to an American ship, forcing the U.S. to shoot it down; and captured another British oil tanker. All of this, writes Steven Cook, is proof that the United States is abandoning the Persian Gulf, despite decades of promises that it would never do so, and letting Iran effectively take over:

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August 6, 2019

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