Dr. Clemens Chay

Researcher in the Geopolitical & Domestic Affairs of the Gulf Arab States

Force Without Freedom: The Long Game in the Strait

A stranded vessel on a waterway

Read the full article HERE.

I dissect, in this piece for ORF Middle East, what Washington’s Project Freedom, an operation designed to “guide” stranded vessels out of the waterway closed by Iran, means when it only survived a one-day arc. Despite Washington’s naval blockade, Tehran’s low-cost asymmetric arsenal is sufficient to sustain maximum disruption for months to come. Diplomacy and coercion must still move in tandem.

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