If Iran refuses to deal, the United States could strike Kharg Island militarily and apply new financial weapons against the "shadow fleet."
A case study of the Gaza conflict, part of Harvard Business School's famous case-study course, shows inexcusable bias against Israel.
The American Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is not an attack on Iran (that would be redundant), but on China.
The Iran conflict has entered the phase of a strategic pause – on the part of the United States, which is after bigger game.
Decapitation is no longer sufficient to win a war against an enemy that can decentralize its war-fighting apparatus.
ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and IRGC (Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps) are ideologically similar, but IRGC actually runs something.
NATO has proved itself the fair-weather friend, by sitting out the latest bar fight and even hampering American operations.
NATO has become an all talk, no action body, and the Iran conflict proves it is a paper tiger that has outlived its usefulness.
Iran cannot stave off a ground invasion with the conventional weapons left to it, but it could use chemical and biological weapons.
The Strait of Hormuz is an effective straitjacket for the entire world outside of Iran, by reason of global oil pricing.