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U.S. military operations have degraded Iranian capabilities, but they have not altered Tehran's belief that it can outlast Washington or continue threatening neighboring Arab states and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. A coordinated revenue-denial campaign across five principal channels, beginning with Kharg Island's loading infrastructure, is more likely to produce a verifiable agreement than continued attrition alone. Although the administration has adopted important components of that strategy, the revenue channels that finance Iran's endurance remain substantially open.
Opinion
On July 8, President Trump announced the annulment of the MoU with Iran in response to the IRGC strikes on three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The announcement was followed by a massive U.S. bombardment of Iranian strategic assets, and retaliatory Iranian strikes on U.S. assets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. The resumption of hostilities once again threatens to embroil the region in conflict and endanger global energy security as the IRGC announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Virginia
Virginia households have paid $573 more for gas since the U.S.–Iran war began in late February, a recent congressional report found, placing them among the citizens who have experienced the highest fuel costs jump in the nation. The war involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran has disrupted energy markets and oil shipments, especially through the […]
California
(The Center Square) - Prices at the pump have once again changed course and begun to rise after a month of steadily easing on consumers.
Missoula
Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Minnesota
(The Center Square) – Minnesota gas prices continued to fall Monday following reports of a coming U.S.-Iran peace deal that is already easing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.
Missoula
The evolution in America of rationales for the cascading growth of presidential power, which began in earnest in the post-war world and followed a trajectory through the expression of the Imperial Presidency before reaching new heights in President Donald Trump’s authoritarian pretensions, has long found traction in the misappropriation and misuse of Justice Robert H. Jackson’s famous aphorism, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
Missoula
One of the grave consequences for American constitutionalism of the untrammeled concentration of power in the hands of President Donald Trump — the putative goal of Project 2025 — is his total control over the Department of Justice. There is no separation between President Trump and his Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former criminal defense lawyer, no independence between the White House and the DOJ. What Trump wants, Trump gets — the governing principle of authoritarianism.
(The Center Square) – A top Iranian official says a deal to end the conflict between the U.S. and Iran is not imminent, despite earlier suggestions from U.S. officials that an agreement could come as soon as Monday.
