How Iran's Wartime Mindset Is Reshaping the Strategic Logic of the Persian Gulf
By Sasan Karimi
📍For decades, policymakers and military strategists in Tehran debated whether the Strait of Hormuz should remain merely a strategic deterrent or evolve into an active instrument of statecraft.
🔶Throughout successive crises, Iran generally refrained from employing this leverage, despite frequent political rhetoric suggesting otherwise. From Tehran's perspective, only an extraordinary wartime environment - one perceived as threatening the very survival of the Iranian state - could justify such a transformation.
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