(Henry Jackson Society) Barak M. Seener - Alongside its defense of maritime security, plans could be advanced and promoted to facilitate overland trading routes - especially in concert with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It is economically advantageous for goods to take three days to go from Haifa to Dubai instead of three weeks via the Suez Canal. The UK and U.S. governments should adopt a unified stance on a hierarchy of escalation in the face of Iranian aggression. This should be communicated to Iran along with a shared commitment to respond along these lines to aggression by Iran or its proxies. This may have the desired effect of putting Iran back in its box and helping to reassure the UK's regional allies. The writer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.
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