OPINION - EDITORIAL
Why Trump was right to not hit Iran
By Post Editorial Board
June 21, 2019 | 7:57pm
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President Trump was right Thursday night in declining to strike Iranian assets: A military escalation serves Tehran’s interests, not America’s.
The long-term game is already in Washington’s favor, as sanctions have pushed Iran’s economy into a nosedive. And a strike like the one reportedly planned, targeting multiple Iranian missile batteries and radar, possibly killing an estimated 150 Iranians, would have been a wildly disproportionate response to the shooting down of a drone.
Far better to point to Iran’s actions as fresh reason for US allies to get behind Trump’s sanctions regime, rather than seeking to undermine it.
Note, too, that Tehran’s ultimate threat, to close the Strait of Hormuz, actually poses the biggest problem to China — which now gets the lion’s share of the oil that ships through the Gulf.
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In refusing to escalate militarily, the president simply stuck to his own strategy of squeezing Iran economically. That’s not weakness, it’s wisdom.
But Tehran should not be confused. If it continues to test America’s resolve with acts of violence, it should have no doubt the president will act.
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