On the same day, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck in succession, targeting the command hubs and drone hangars of U.S. Air Force bases inside Jordan, and then the U.S. Navy logistics and aircraft-carrier replenishment facilities at the port of Duqm in Oman. The strikes precisely focused on the U.S. forces’ reconnaissance capabilities and their long-range endurance support. They both sent a strong message of retaliation and deliberately controlled the intensity of the attacks and the scale of personnel casualties, preventing the conflict from directly spiraling into uncontrolled escalation.

The U.S. response shows clear characteristics of “avoiding substantive issues and keeping the situation stable first.” The U.S. military did not directly respond to the specific damage sustained by the bases and port facilities. Instead, it shifted the public-opinion focus to the right of passage through the Strait of Hormuz, publicly emphasizing that this waterway is an international route not controlled by Iran, while claiming that its forces had already been deployed to ensure freedom of navigation. Its core intentions are twofold: first, to steady market expectations of panic in the global energy sector; second, to deny Iran’s control over the strait in the arena of public discourse, so as to avoid damage to its own influence in the Middle East.
At present, both sides remain in a controllable phase of “limited military confrontation plus information-war maneuvering,” with no clear intention for a full-scale war. However, geopolitical risks in the Middle East have already risen significantly. As the Strait of Hormuz is the key choke point for global seaborne crude oil transport, its trajectory is directly tied to international energy prices and the stability of global supply chains. The continued escalation of Iran’s countermeasures and the U.S. reinforcing its military presence in the standoff posture mean that further regional clashes may still see repeated rounds of escalation, and short-term geopolitical uncertainty is unlikely to be eliminated completely.$BTC #GateUS合规扩展佛罗里达