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Iran Has Three Options Now. Two Are Terrible.
The US bombing of Iran's three most important nuclear sites this weekend has set off a range of opinion and emotion. This includes relief that Tehran's atomic weapons program will be set back significantly; awe at the military efficiency of the US attack; and worries that it will incite a deadly Iranian response. For me, it also conjured up personal history.
I visited Iran briefly before the 1979 revolution on a Navy destroyer, pulling into the southern Iranian naval port of Bandar Abbas to top off our fuel tanks. That port guards the northern passage of the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes more than a fifth of the world's oil and gas.
