The two‑week ceasefire, brokered just hours before US President Donald Trump’s threat of “total annihilation” was set to take effect, remains highly tentative. Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that Tehran now understands it can wield control over the Strait of Hormuz as a potent “weapon of mass disruption.”
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