The US war against Iran is entering a new phase. It appears that the United States considered partnering with Israel at the outset of the operation, as it did with the United Kingdom to overthrow Mossadegh. If this is true, their sole objective would have been to cut off China’s supply of Iranian oil and gas. However, if Tehran manages to draw Ansar Allah into the conflict, it could backfire on the United States, potentially triggering a global economic crisis with the closure of the Straits of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb and the disruption of international maritime shipping. This is why Donald Trump is attempting to leverage Saudi Arabia and pressure Turkey to sever ties with Russia.

The rhetoric is already proportional to the military escalation of reciprocal blows, thus far calibrated, while the United States and Iran continue their strange “negotiations.”[1] The statement by Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, father of the 1979 Islamic Revolution—and guardian of his grandfather’s mausoleum—has enormous resonance: he asserted, peremptorily, that the US war against Iran began with the coup d’état[2]— or a CIA coup through “Operation Ajax”[3]— who had overthrown Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq 73 years ago (sic!), when Mossadegh was the sovereignist prime minister who had nationalized Iranian oil.

The reciprocal bombings, falling into an “eye for an eye/tooth for a tooth” pattern, make it clear that the battle between the United States and Iran will lead to control of the Strait of Hormuz (“The “Northern Corridor of Iran” and the “Southern Corridor of Oman” which define control of the Strait of Hormuz”)[4].

This has nothing to do with Netanyahu’s main objective—he had dangled the heights of glory before the highly impressionable Trump, who himself ignored the warning of his former Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and chose to cling to the Mossad’s delusions—because Netanyahu was not aiming for a media-driven regime change, but for the definitive impotence and balkanization of Iran (according to the Hebrew version of the  Maariv newspaper)[5] thanks to the instrumentalization of the Kurds of Iran and Iraq.

The massive funeral procession for Ayatollah Khamenei drew 43 million mourners, primarily young people and women, which strengthened the government. Is a new sovereignist revolution of young people and women in Iran now intertwined with the Islamic Revolution?

In a memorable interview, former British diplomat Alastair Crooke debunks the 14-clause Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as nothing more than a “blatant scam”[6] Since Trump himself declared at the recent NATO summit in Ankara that the “MoU was over”.

Nevertheless, today, after dealing heavy blows to Iran’s oil, petrochemical, and electrical infrastructure, Trump let slip that the United States would take control of the Strait of Hormuz and would be paid “a lot of money for it[7]. It is estimated that the revenues from tolls and/or fees in the Strait of Hormuz, which should accrue to their true sovereign controllers, Iran and Oman, amount to $1 trillion annually. Could Trump’s idea be to interfere in the protocol of the Strait of Hormuz sovereignty agreement between Iran and Oman to secure his share?

The United States is 10,300 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz, in the heart of the Persian Gulf, where Washington had 50,000 troops and 19 military bases, while Iran sovereignly controls 1,400 kilometers of coastline in the Persian Gulf. Following the meeting between Trump and Erdoğan at the NATO summit, according to Alastair Crooke, Turkey “will play a more significant role” in Lebanon, in collaboration with its ally, the controversial interim president of Syria, Al-Jolani/Al-Sharaa, whom Trump pardoned in Ankara for his notorious “terrorist” past, and who was supposed to have been captured, for which the United States had offered a $10 million reward.

Alastair Crooke underestimates the issue of acquiring the “dream” F-35 aircraft, which Turkey had already paid for in advance [to the tune of $1.4 billion], and he considers their military value to be greatly exaggerated since they ceased to be “stealthy” following Iran’s invention of an infrared radar system [it should be noted that this is a project that has been blocked since Erdoğan acquired Russian S400s, which triggered new US sanctions against Turkey].

Alastair Crooke defines Turkey as a “Muslim Brotherhood country”[8] — with a military base in Qatar — and does not believe that Erdoğan will hand over the Russian S-400 defense systems to one of the six Arab petro-monarchies of the Persian Gulf [as Trump demands]. He also criticizes Erdoğan, calling him a“chameleon”who“skillfully played Putin.

The regionalization of the battle for the Strait of Hormuz (one must pay attention, for example, to the collision of Saudi Arabia with the Yemenis of Ansaralah), on the verge of reaching the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, is now forcing President Erdoğan to choose his position between Trump and Putin.

(La Jornada via Réseau International)

1.“Iran says continuing talks with mediators to “prevent escalation,” Al-Arabiya, July 13, 2026.

2.“The conflict that supports Israel and Iran, with the acquiescence of United States, has a long history,” Deutsche Welle Español, June 26, 2025.

3.“The operation of the CIA against Mohammad Mosaddeq, the germ of the conflict between United States and Iran,” Nerea Pardillo, Ondacero, March 2, 2026.

4.“El “Corredor Norte de Irán” y El “Corredor Sur de Omán” Que Definen el Control del Estrecho de Hormuz,” Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, Substack, July 12, 2026.

5.“ הפלישה שלא היתה : התוכנית הסודית להפלת המשטר האיראני  ”, יוסי מלמן וג’ונתן ברודר, ביולי 9, 2026

6.“Alastair Crooke: The United States and Iran exchange massive strikes,” Dialogue Works, YouTube, July 11, 2026.

7.“Trump says US reinstating Iran naval blockade after new clashes,” Al Arabiya, July 13, 2026.

8.“The Muslim Brotherhood as assassins,” by Thierry Meyssan,  Voltaire Network , June 21, 2019.