To economically blockade Iran, Trump is getting serious.

On April 14th, the U.S. Central Command officially announced that more than 10,000 Navy, Marine, and Air Force personnel—carrying more than 10 warships and dozens of aircraft—are currently tightly blocking all ships entering and leaving Iranian ports in and around the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
Put simply, the United States wants to cut off Iran’s most critical economic lifeline—oil exports . Once the ports are sealed, oil tankers can’t get out, and every day it loses several hundred million, all in an effort to force Iran to back down and return to the negotiating table.
Over these past two days, Iran has been unusually quiet. Not only has it not issued tough statements, it has even said it would proactively pause Iranian oil-tanker activities to avoid a clash with U.S. forces.
It’s clear that Iran is pinning its hopes on a second round of talks and doesn’t want to spoil the opportunity for that second round.
Now it looks like Iran is in a very passive situation: economically under blockade, and having already given up the will to keep fighting militarily—next, it will be taken in hand again by Trump.
In the past few days, U.S. stocks have surged sharply, and many individual shares have already climbed back to levels seen before the outbreak of the war, seemingly suggesting that the United States is going to win.
Now the situation is the United States and Israel as the knife, and Iran as the fish—let’s see how the two sides will argue and sort things out at the negotiating table. #美伊局势和谈与增兵博弈