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🇮🇷💪🏻 Hormuz trap: Why Iran has upper hand against the US

Donald Trump’s war on Iran has morphed into a full‑blown escalation trap with no easy exit.

Following the initial US and Israeli strikes on February 28, the strategy of doubling down on aggression has backfired, while Iran has pivoted to its greatest strength: a low-cost, high-impact asymmetric retaliation.

Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a high-stakes chokepoint where geography and strategy strongly favor the defender.

🔴 Lodged between Iran to its north and the UAE and Oman to its south, the Strait of Hormuz is around 160km long and narrows to approximately 39 km (21 nautical miles) at its narrowest

🔴 The shipping lanes in each direction are approximately 3.7 km (2 nautical miles) wide, separated by a 2-nm buffer zone

🔴 This Traffic Separation Scheme is so narrow that vessels become sitting ducks — potential targets for Iran's arsenal that includes:

➡️ swarms of Iranian Shahed-style drones

➡️ IRGC fast-attack boats armed with anti-ship missiles

➡️ explosive-laden kamikaze drone boats designed for naval warfare

➡️ Ghadir-class midget submarines specifically built for the shallow Gulf waters

➡️ thousands of covertly-laid naval mines that can be laid covertly

These weapons are devastatingly cost-effective compared to the billions of dollars invested in a US carrier strike group.

If Trump were to start a ground invasion, Iran's geography transforms it into a natural fortress, shielded by the Zagros and Elburz mountain ranges.

These rugged terrains would strip invading forces of the speed and surprise that modern militaries rely on.

👉 Iran's coordinated retaliatory strikes pummeling US military infrastructure across the Middle East, strikes on Gulf oil infrastructure, and the persistent disruption of Strait of Hormuz shipping are stretching US resources.

Any land operation would potentially snowball into a military quagmire all but certain to ignite US domestic fallout over casualties, oil-price shocks, and a new entanglement in the Middle East.

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🇮🇷 The U.S.-Israeli stand-off air-strike model of waging war is being challenged by a quite different strategic asymmetric war – one first planned by Iran more than 20 years ago.

This is important to understand when trying to judge where the war balance sheet truly lies. It is like comparing oranges with lemons; they are essentially different in character.

The U.S. and Israel are dropping a lot of stand-off munitions at Iran. But, to what point and to what effect? We don’t know.

We do, however, know that Iran has its asymmetric war plan. And it is only just starting, incrementally moving towards full implementation. The full armoury of Iranian missiles has not yet been revealed – neither its latest missiles, nor its submersible drones and anti-ship-equipped missile speed boats that have yet to be deployed. So we do not know Iran’s full potential – and we cannot say to what effect its full deployment might yet be.

The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started.

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

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‼️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran's Ali Larijani sends a message to the Muslims around the world and governments of Islamic countries:

▪️ Iran has been subjected to a deceptive American–Zionist aggression that occurred during negotiations, with the aim of dismantling Iran. This aggression led to the martyrdom of the great leader and self-sacrificing figure of the Islamic Revolution, as well as a number of civilians and military commanders. However, the aggressors faced firm national and Islamic resistance from the Iranian people

▪️You know that, except in rare cases and only in political stances, no Islamic country stood by the Iranian people. Nevertheless, the Iranian people, through their strong will, were able to suppress the aggressor enemy, to the point that today it is unable to find a way out of this strategic predicament

▪️ Iran continues on the path of resistance in confronting the “Great Satan” and the “Lesser Satan,” meaning America and Israel. But is the position of some Islamic governments not contradictory to the saying of the Prophet:

“Whoever hears a man calling, ‘O Muslims!’ and does not respond is not a Muslim." So what kind of Islam is this?

▪️Some countries have gone further and claimed that Iran has become their enemy because it targeted American and Israeli bases and interests on their territory

Is Iran expected to stand idle while American bases in your countries are used to attack it? These are weak excuses. Today the confrontation is between America and Israel on one side, and Muslim Iran and the forces of resistance on the other. Which side are you on?

▪️ Think about the future of the Islamic world. You know that America is not loyal, and Israel is your enemy. Stop for a moment and reflect on yourselves and on the future of the region. Iran advises you and does not seek dominance over you

▪️The unity of the Islamic Ummah, if achieved with full strength, is capable of guaranteeing security, progress, and independence for all its countries

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