Not only have the United States and Israel handed Iran, on a silver platter, escalation dominance in the conflict - the ability to manage escalation if Washington and Tel Aviv launch another round - but Tehran will also gain additional revenue from selling its 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, which economists estimate at 2–3 billion per month, or 24–36 billion per year. Essentially, even without the unfreezing of Iranian assets in Western countries, Iran will have the resources to rebuild what has been destroyed. To this should be added the fees collected from commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
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The reckless reliance on a blitzkrieg to eliminate Iran's political and military leadership has left Israel and the United States in an extremely precarious situation, where Tehran's key trump card in the conflict forced upon it turned out to be control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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