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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Brandon Weichert says conversations with people currently or formerly connected to the CIA have convinced him Washington has long considered a strategy built around two pressure points inside Iran. Kurds in the north. Baluchis in the south. “I am convinced the plan has always been to try to... gin up a Kurdish front from the north and a Baluchi front from the south.” Weichert stresses this is his assessment, not a confirmed U.S. plan. But he thinks more extreme options are increasingly plausible for one reason: Washington wants to reassert control over the Strait of Hormuz without committing to the kind of massive ground war that physically taking and holding it would require. And that leaves policymakers looking at increasingly unconventional ways to pressure Tehran from within. Brandon Weichertshow more

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 A ceasefire to what end? That is the question nobody in government seems to be asking. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert says Trump floats extreme ideas, from striking underground nuclear facilities to seizing Kharg Island, less as a strategy and more to test the reaction. When the pushback comes, he pulls back. But the problem is that these ideas still move markets, militaries, and enemies in real time. The consequences are real, even when the plan is not. Brandon Weichert

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🇮🇷 The total breakdown in communication over control of the Strait of Hormuz suggests that this confrontation will not end with a peace deal or a diplomatic compromise. Brandon Weichert stresses that despite financial incentives or external pressure on shipping routes, regional actors are focused on sending a non-negotiable message. Miscalculating the depth of domestic public support and assuming military pressure would force a shift toward compliance stands as a massive intelligence failure. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's immediate objective is simple: get the U.S. out of the Strait of Hormuz without allowing Iran to dictate who passes through it. The problem is that Tehran now sees Hormuz as its leverage. That may be the central problem with Washington's strategy. Economic warfare can avoid a ground invasion and nuclear escalation. But if Iran believes control of Hormuz is essential to its survival, sanctions may only convince Tehran to hold the strait tighter. The war may have moved from missiles to economics. The underlying confrontation hasn't moved an inch. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸 The argument for staying in the Middle East right now is the exact argument that produced the Iraq surge. Brandon Weichert names it directly: you made the mess, you have to clean it up. That's the logic Kagan, Nuland and Keane sold Bush in 2005. It made Iraq worse. The complication is money. Gulf states holding hundreds of billions in U.S. treasuries don't want Washington walking away from a Strait of Hormuz it broke. Brandon says he knows what they're telling Trump: fix this. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸 The argument for staying in the Middle East right now is the exact argument that produced the Iraq surge. Brandon Weichert names it directly: you made the mess, you have to clean it up. That's the logic Kagan, Nuland and Keane sold Bush in 2005. It made Iraq worse. The complication is money. Gulf states holding hundreds of billions in U.S. treasuries don't want Washington walking away from a Strait of Hormuz it broke. Brandon says he knows what they're telling Trump: fix this. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸 Brandon Weichert warns that a ceasefire or deal with Iran may only be a pause, not the end of the crisis. While reports suggest the U.S. has heavily depleted its stockpile of long-range precision weapons, Brandon says he remains concerned by suggestions that Washington could revisit military action within months if negotiations falter. His concern is that even a partial replenishment of U.S. munitions could convince the White House that military options are back on the table. "They assume Trump is going to restart hostilities, quote, soon." Brandon Weichert

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