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The cease-fire and memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran are clearly over. On Tuesday, U.S. Central Command restarted its blockade of all Iranian shipping and ports, which comes after three days of U.S. airstrikes in reprisal for Iranian attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf. 

The thing to keep an eye on, though, is the belated entry into the wider war of the Houthis, a designated terrorist group that runs much of Yemen and has terrorized the Red Sea for years. The Houthis’ entry into the conflict, which was announced on Tuesday with ominous threats (and reprisal strikes on neighboring Saudi Arabia), turns a war that Trump is already struggling to manage into a potentially even wider conflict, with nasty implications for world trade and oil prices. 

The cease-fire and memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran are clearly over. On Tuesday, U.S. Central Command restarted its blockade of all Iranian shipping and ports, which comes after three days of U.S. airstrikes in reprisal for Iranian attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf. 

The thing to keep an eye on, though, is the belated entry into the wider war of the Houthis, a designated terrorist group that runs much of Yemen and has terrorized the Red Sea for years. The Houthis’ entry into the conflict, which was announced on Tuesday with ominous threats (and reprisal strikes on neighboring Saudi Arabia), turns a war that Trump is already struggling to manage into a potentially even wider conflict, with nasty implications for world trade and oil........

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