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Iran is not trying to collect fees from vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It is trying to normalize the fact that it grants permission. The fee is a signal; the transit protocol is the prize. And by the time enough ships are moving through the corridor Iran designed and administers, the quest
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Two crises, one continent, the same gap. In the Gulf a deal with Iran is closing on terms Europe did not set. In Ukraine a hypersonic missile hit Kyiv and Europe answered with a statement. The fault line is identical in both cases: a bloc that keeps issuing positions it has no independent means to e
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The deal taking shape between Washington and Tehran is being sold as the end of a war. Read the terms and it becomes something narrower: the West is paying to reopen a strait that Iran closed, and it is calling the payment peace. The nuclear file, the stated reason for two decades of pressure, slide