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Three reasons the US shouldn’t use Marines to guard commercial vessels from Iran

By Tom Rogan
Published August 4, 2023 10:00am ET
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Three reasons the US shouldn’t use Marines to guard commercial vessels from Iran
In this photo released Tuesday, July 28, 2020, by Sepahnews, Revolutionary Guard's speed boats circle around a replica aircraft carrier during a military exercise. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter targeting the mock-up aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz according to footage aired on state television on Tuesday. | (Sepahnews via AP)


The threat posed by Iran to civilian shipping, in particular from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is real and unacceptable. Still, it would be a mistake for the Biden administration to deploy U.S. military personnel to guard commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

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