Negotiations between the US and Iranian delegations in Pakistan ended on Sunday without any results. The Americans, led by Vice President JD Vance, have already left for home, and experts are thinking about what could come next. According to Just the News, the US president could opt for a solution that has not been talked about much: a naval blockade of Iran. Previously, Donald Trump threatened the total destruction of Iran through bombing and possibly a ground attack. Experts believe that the blockade could be Trump's trump card. The strategy has already been used in Venezuela.
Trump used a naval blockade to weaken Venezuela before launching the operation to capture the Venezuelan leader. Experts believe that a well-organized blockade will suffocate the already damaged Iranian economy. In addition, it will intensify diplomatic pressure on China and India, cutting off their access to one of their key sources of oil. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford that led the Venezuelan blockade is now in the Persian Gulf, alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln and other major naval units. «It would be very easy for the US Navy to exercise complete control over what does and does not enter the strait now,» Rebecca Grant, a national security expert at the Lexington Institute, told Just the News. President Donald Trump has suggested that the option of a total blockade is on the table. On Sunday, after the failure of negotiations in Pakistan, he published the press article on his own social network Truth Social.
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