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Tensions Rise in Hormuz: Trump’s Iran Policy Faces a Critical Crossroads

As the United States considers disengaging from the Iran conflict, it is simultaneously striving to maintain its influence over the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial maritime route through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply was previously transported before the outbreak of war.
A recent development has exposed the evolving approach of President Donald Trump, who initially pledged to safeguard the waterway’s freedom of navigation, only to later encourage other nations, particularly in Asia, to take the initiative in re-establishing passage through the strait.
Trump has also stated that the US imports “almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait” and therefore does not require control over the vital waterway.

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