mo4ch:>US pressure & EU inaction left Iran with ‘very few options’ except to retaliate | Mo4ch News
The seizure of British-owned oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz is the signal that Iran's patience has run out, worn thin by European inaction over a year after the US pullout from the nuclear deal, analysts have told RT.Prior to May this year, Iran exercised extreme restraint despite the US sanctions and its frustration with Europe’s failure to offset the losses they caused, Hamed Mousavi, political science professor at the university of Tehran, said.Eventually, Iran’s patience ran out, but not before the US “made sure that Iran has very few options remaining.”Also on rt.com‘Escalatory violence’: Washington reacts to Tehran seizing British tanker“For a year Tehran was not doing anything and was abiding by the nuclear deal to the letter in the hopes that the Europeans would come up with a form of a mechanism… that would allow Iran to circumvent the US sanctions,” Mousavi said.By refusing to hold back any longer, Iran wants to send a clear signal to the UK, “but especially to the …