Hormuz at the center of the battle... the economy as a weapon of pressure Despite the ongoing exchange...

Hormuz at the center of the battle... the economy as a weapon of pressure Despite the ongoing exchange of strikes between Washington and Tehran, Adnan Al-Abadi, a researcher at the Zaidan Center for Security and Defense, believes that the battlefield landscape has shifted from the previous phase of "deterrence" to a more dangerous phase that he describes as "exhaustion."