🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's parliament moves to bar its attackers from Hormuz until war damages are paid as Washington's own establishment admits America couldn't beat Iran
The deal deadline slipped, and Tehran raised the stakes instead: a new bill in parliament would deny strait access to any country that damaged Iran until compensation is paid, layered on top of a toll regime where ships already pay up to $2 million a voyage.
Into this walks Ambassador Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council senior fellow who served Bush and Clinton, and delivers the most honest establishment assessment of this war anywhere.
He calls the regime bad guys in the same breath as this: America has not demonstrated it can beat them, and the options won't improve with time.
His verdict on the deal everyone said couldn't work, measured against the war meant to replace it, lands in six words: "The Strait of Hormuz was open."
Hear his inside story of pushing back on a president over Kosovo and winning, the Cold War playbook he says Washington abandoned for bombs that failed, and why he refuses to get angry at Netanyahu.
And his Ukraine assessment: a patient case that Russia is actually losing this war, with a century of Russian history to back it.
@AmbDanFried @WeTheBrandon
