America’s ‘growing’ blockade of Iran is ‘going global’

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The latest evolution of the U.S.-Iran conflict is the American blockade of vessels going to or coming from Iranian ports, and this effort on the part of U.S. forces is “going global,” War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.

While the bombs, missiles, and drones have stopped flying, the United States and Iran are engaged in an economic war to see which side can withstand more pressure as both economies suffer.

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