“This is what the US blockade of Iran looks like,” says the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, “after the deployment of “more than fifteen warships and potentially thousands of soldiers, including possibly marines and special operations forces to enforce” the measure.
According to the will of the American president, Donald Trump, the goal is to prevent Iran from selectively allowing merchant ships to pass, so that it cannot continue to export its oil and import goods through its ports on the Arabian-Persian Gulf. “No ship transited to or from an Iranian port this Tuesday [14 April],” the newspaper asserts. “This indicates that the threat of the US naval power has, until now, been sufficient to deter Tehran from defying it.”
These American naval forces “faced six merchant ships coming from an Iranian port and forced them to turn back,” reports The Washington Post, citing official statements from the US Central Command (Centcom). The US thus “in less than thirty-six hours since the beginning of the blockade, completely interrupted commercial exchanges entering or leaving Iran by sea,” congratulates Centcom chief, B
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