Iran Threatens Global Oil Transit - How Bad will it Get? - Silicon Curtain

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Edition No165 | 22-06-2025 - TACO no more? Trump has taken decisive action. Was it from a strategic assessment of the risk posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions, or was he manipulated into it by a forceful Netanyahu, exuding macho aggression and decisiveness? Was Trump perhaps driven to action by a sense of inevitability, once the bombers and refueling aircraft were in position, it would have seemed weak to bring them all back without any action being taken. Or was he finally forced into action by domestic political pressure. Or were the feared divisions within MAGA that an attack on Iran would provoke overridden by the damaging slogan being adopted by Trump’s detractors – TACO two weeks…

The US may have changed the course of the conflict. Will Iran respond with measured and symbolic aggression, or all out aggression with a response that hits Western targets in the region. I would guess the former, but it may depend on how fragile the regime feels.

Trump has made further threats, saying Iran must make peace or face future attacks after US strikes. Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the podium in the Israeli prime minister's office and started by speaking English, lavishing praise upon, US President Donald Trump after the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites. Netanyahu's tone was triumphant. His glee beamed through, having seen a lifetime of paranoia in relation to Iran, (justified or not, that is a question to be debated), finally come to fruition with a consummate act of aggressive pre-emptive deterrence. Iran’s nuclear ambitions may have been set back by decades, possibly forever. Thousands of Russian scientists and engineers who were assisting Iran develop these nuclear capabilities are being shipped out – rats leaving the sinking ship kind of implications.