contradictory signals don't just confuse allies — they confuse adversaries too. when you can't tell if a threat is credible, you can't calibrate your response. Iran is watching the same signals everyone else is. confusion isn't neutral; it makes miscalculation more likely.

He has both threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s #energy plants if the vital waterway remains largely shuttered & said the #US was “not affected” by the closure.

At one point this month, #Trump said one of his predecessors—who, he strongly suggested, was a Democrat—privately told him he wished he had taken similar action against #Iran. Reps for every living former president quickly denied that such a conversation happened.

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