Brett Erickson, an American expert on financial crimes and geopolitics:
The United States must immediately end the US naval blockade, the Iron Gate task force, and economic exclusion actions.
It is now clear that Iran still has significant ammunition reserves and has enough capabilities to escalate conflicts to a level that America will not be able to defend against in the region.
If the US cannot apply enough pressure on Iran with a naval blockade, it has failed, and if it can apply such pressure, but Iran increases the level of conflict in response, then again the US has failed. Meanwhile, the only daily result is that Iran is approaching the point where it has no choice but to respond and will inevitably cause more economic losses to the world.
We must ask the Trump administration to stop following this path, accept the existing strategic reality and make a decision that will benefit both the American people and the world.