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How the war in Iran is shifting from bombardment to a test of wills
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Mr Trump’s war on Iran has morphed from all-out bombardment to a volatile, costly standoff at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
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Anton Troianovski
WASHINGTON – On the morning of April 23, a senior Iranian official wrote on social platform X that the country’s fighters were hiding in sea caves near the Strait of Hormuz, preparing to “devastate the aggressors.”
Eighteen minutes later, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat” that is “putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.”
