Trump is bombing Iran again and blundering again. He has no grasp of his enemy | Sina Toossi

The president is behaving as if the battleground is the same, but it isn’t. Iran has leverage and knows it And so to war. Again. After a ceasefire and a hiatus, Donald Trump is now into the second day of a new phase of bombing Iran, with the US military claiming to have struck 170 Iranian targets in the past 48 hours. This is no surprise. Speaking at the Nato summit in Ankara this week, Donald Trump said he believed the US-Iran memorandum of understanding was “over”. He described Iran’s leaders as “evil, sick people” and threatened renewed military action and even a new blockade of Iranian ports, while also leaving the door open to further negotiations. Those remarks followed a fresh round of US strikes on southern Iran after Tehran attacked commercial vessels transiting the southern part of the strait of Hormuz, outside the shipping corridor it had designated, and were also the precursor for the attacks. Late on Wednesday, explosions were reported across a further three locations in Iran. Conflict will only escalate from here. On Truth Social, the US president wrote: “This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Yet