You make a good point about the $300 billion in investment. That will have to be up to the government in Tehran when it comes to signing off on any specific investment. But once the US carriers leave, I’d suggest that a lot of the leverage that Trump still has will vanish–no one is going to come back to the strait after the this humiliation. If Trump wants some graft for the deal, the Iranians can probably tell him to pound sand by that point.

Thanks for the suggestion about accessibility colour thing. I had no idea what you were talking about so I went down a bit of rabbit hole. It looks like none of the colours on offer from Substack meet the regulations, so I just removed them.

All you have to do is click on the ‘no thanks’ at the bottom. If you already have an account with substack it automatically goes to the article.