“The more successful that the US and it’s Arab allies were in bringing ships through the southern route and the Oman route, the more certain it was that Iran had to strike that.”
The memorandum of understanding agreed between Iran and the US was doomed to fail because what Donald Trump agreed to “eventually was going to be utilised by Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz”, says former Rear Admiral in the US Navy and Senior Fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies Mark Montgomery.
Mark Montgomery was speaking to Kait Borsay on The Evening Edition on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday, from 7-10pm.
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