Trump’s “Americanise” of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran’s “secret” plan?

Will Trump return to the military option and its strikes on Monday? And what embarrassing retreat did his deputy, Vance, reveal?

U.S. President Donald Trump has returned to the state of confusion and disarray that characterised his strategic plans in dealing with the Iranian crisis and its political and military developments by announcing yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is “American territory” and that he will issue a decision to annex it to the “homeland” in the coming days as part of a new military escalation that may begin its first round next Monday.

The Strait of Hormuz will enter military, political, and economic history as the trap and the most prominent sign of the imminent collapse of the American empire, following the paths of the British and French empires (the Suez Crisis of 1956) and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan at the hands of the Afghan “mujahideen”.

The Iranian cunning that changed all equations was embodied in the long-term strategic patience and the use of the Strait as a trap to ensnare the American prey and drag it into a long war of attrition. Trump’s ignorance of history, geography, politics, and strategic thought was a significant aid.

Here, we are not discussing military resilience demonstrated in the three wars: the Israeli war and the dual Israeli-American wars (the current one and the twelve-day war that preceded it), along with their surprises involving highly advanced missile and drone capabilities. Rather, we are talking about the current Iranian strategy that coincides and parallels with the current six-month war, which consists of prolonging the war to continue until the American midterm elections in three months, toppling Trump and his Republican Party, and removing them from power in a humiliating and disgraceful manner at the same time.

The new Iranian leadership was well aware of Trump’s fatal weakness, just as it understood the rising anger prevailing in American public opinion due to the war his country is waging purely in favour of Israel. Therefore, Iran did not provide President Trump with the exit he was seeking and looking forward to, which he wanted to use to announce a “fake” victory in the war by reopening the Strait of Hormuz to international commercial navigation. Iran did not make the concessions Trump wanted, and it adhered to its six “impossible” and legitimate conditions, such as the complete lifting of the blockade, the lifting of economic sanctions, the release of all frozen assets, and the payment of more than $400 billion in compensation for the destruction caused by the American-Israeli aggression.

There is a consensus among the vast majority of American strategic experts on the inevitable defeat of America in the “Hormuz War” and the necessity of withdrawing from the Middle East to minimise losses, especially in the upcoming legislative runoff elections. It has become clear that this message has reached President Trump and his ruling pillars, most notably his deputy, J.D. Vance, who stated today, “The priority in the war on Iran has become focused on working to reduce oil prices, not on its nuclear programme, its ballistic missiles, or toppling its regime.”

The American aircraft carriers, destroyers, and naval fleets have been defeated by the high and unexpected Iranian capabilities and will to withstand the American-Israeli aggression in all its stages and branches. Due to this “management” and its success, Iran has come to control the global economy by asserting its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and building and supporting strong resistance arms in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Gaza. This not only allows it to prolong the war but also to expand its scope.

Just as the noble Arab nationalist leaders controlled oil prices during the 1973 war (King Faisal bin Abdulaziz and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan) and famously declared that oil is not more precious than the blood of martyrs and, more importantly, raised it to an acceptable level at that time, Iran is now repeating the same scene. It controls oil and gas prices, both up and down, by placing its hand on the entrances and exits of the Strait of Hormuz and on the American taxpayer’s pocket, who has started to complain about rising prices and the cost of living in his country to fund Israeli wars.

The American “fighter” Ilhan Omar, who has become a source of troubling annoyance and chronic insomnia for President Trump due to her presence in Congress, has intensified this annoyance by winning her party’s Democratic nomination to run in the upcoming midterm elections with a success rate of 80 per cent. She, along with her colleague Rashida Tlaib and her colleagues Zahra Mamdani (the Indian) and Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed (the Egyptian), will hasten the departure of Trump and his party with the support of the ballot boxes and the American voter, dedicating this departure to all the martyrs in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq. They see it as distant, but we see it as very near.

In conclusion, we say that the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister’s response to Trump and his ramblings about the “Americanisation” of the Strait of Hormuz, by stating that “straits cannot be annexed by a tweet or a threat, and that the Strait of Hormuz was and will remain under Iranian, Arab, and Islamic sovereignty (due to Oman’s partnership in it),” is noteworthy.

Trump will backtrack on this nonsense against his will, just as he has backtracked on all his previous threats in a disgraceful and humiliating manner.

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