Every Iran confrontation eventually arrives at the same 21-mile-wide stretch of water between Oman and Iran. This is the physical, financial and military system that makes Hormuz the most valuable and most vulnerable passage on Earth — and what actually happens to oil, ships and insurance when it is threatened.
Congress moved this week to let Washington punish the biggest buyers of Russian oil with tariffs of up to 100%. India reacted within a day. The interesting question is not whether the bill becomes law, but how its mechanism actually bites, and why it was softened from 500% to 100% on the way.
The U.S. Treasury has launched the most aggressive Iran sanctions campaign ever attempted: five sectoral designations, nearly sixty new targets, and a written timeline for every country doing business with Tehran. This is how the machine actually works, and why enforcing it is harder than announcing it.
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