By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Rhetoric between Iran and the US is ratcheting higher.
On Monday the Iranian Supreme Leader called attention to US naval activity in the Straits of Hormuz. He reminded the world that Iran controls the Straits and the United States is permitted there only by Iranian largesse.
And yesterday, the deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard announced on Iranian national television that if the United States continues it aggression against Iran --- Iran will close the Straits to the US and her allies.
Them's fighting words.
One third of the world's oil passes through the Straits every day.
I cannot determine if this rhetoric is the onset of new tensions between the United States and Iran or if it is a revival of old tensions.
What I can say is that Iran is speaking very boldly.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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