Israel’s Channel 12 quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that the emerging US-Iran deal sends a dangerous message to Iran.
According to the official, the deal demonstrates to Iran that using its control over the Strait of Hormuz can be as powerful as a nuclear weapon.
He added that President Trump views the deal as an economic arrangement that allows the opening of the Strait and is contingent on dismantling Iran’s nuclear program.
“But what comes after Phase A remains unclear,” the official warned.
US Senator Lindsey Graham conveyed a similar message in a warning he issued on Motzei Shabbos, saying that a deal ending the war due to the perception that Iran cannot be prevented from its reign of terror over the Strait of Hormuz and its Gulf neighbors will lead to “a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.”
(YWN Israel Desk-Jerusalem)
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Its easy to say you don’t like the deal because it sends the wrong message. However unlike the people saying this who can just sit back and do nothing Trump has no such option because he must deal with the reality as it is. And the reality is that the Strait cannot remain closed indefinitely because the price of energy will keep rising, the world will run out of enough fertilizer and the economy will go into a recession.