NOURNEWS – The United States and Israel appear to be shifting pressure from military warfare to an oil blockade in an effort to weaken Iran economically and bring about a change in its government. But a recent Haaretz analysis overlooks a key variable: Iran is not merely capable of absorbing pressure; it can also shift the cost of that pressure onto the other side.

Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is open, while Washington continues to speak of economic pressure and a blockade of Iran. But data from Western media outlets paint a different picture: maritime traffic remains low, U.S. diesel inventories have fallen to a 40-year seasonal low, American farmers are facing a growing crisis, food prices are rising, and U.S. Patriot interceptor missile stocks are being depleted.

Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Major General Mohsen Rezaei has said the Islamic Republic will send Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to hell” and prove that his “great mistakes” have brought the Zionist regime closer to its end.