AntiWar.com reports: “U.S. Begins Bombing Iran After Multiple Tankers Struck in Strait of Hormuz.”
SINA TOOSSI, [email protected], @SinaToossi
Toossi is a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy. He posted Wednesday morning: “Trump’s statement today that the Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding is ‘over’ should not come as a surprise” since it was designed to create conditions for wider negotiations. However, “those conditions have largely collapsed. The Israeli war in Lebanon has not ended. Iranian frozen assets apparently remain largely inaccessible. The U.S. has revoked Iran’s oil waiver. Threats, explicitly prohibited by the MOU, never ceased. And the Strait of Hormuz has remained fiercely contested.”
Last month, Toossi’s piece “Even if Iran benefits from this deal with Washington, any peace is likely to be temporary” was published by The Guardian.