...home geographic advantage (unlike us, they aren't having to move ships far away ...

And with the response by global markets Monday to the attacks on the refineries in the region, the closing of neighboring refinery due to drone strikes, Iran assuredly understands that it can toy with the global finances with their low tech strikes on refining. Crude ship sailing by? Blow it up. Repeatedly.

This attack on Iran by our Gov't was arrogance at best, though I can think of many other more direct ways to describe it. It was a knee jerk reaction to throw the pain of media obsession with Epstein Files to whoever else they could throw it on to distract them. They achieved their goal and will continue to use this approach in whatever way is necessary to continue that result. Netanyahu is doing the same thing, now that the hostage issue with Gaza is losing steam. You don't change "leaders" in a crisis, so expect regular manufactured crisis.

IP