Barely three weeks after the signing of the Islamabad MOU, the U.S. is already actively seeking to undermine it.
By militarily imposing a parallel shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington is attempting to create geopolitical leverage at the expense of eroding the mandates of Paragraph 5, which explicitly assigns Iran the authority to make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels.
A similar pattern has been unfolding in Lebanon, where the U.S. is bypassing Paragraph 1 of the MOU by establishing a parallel process.
Iran's patience with U.S. actions was already running thin. By now revoking the oil export waivers in direct breach of Paragraph 10 and resuming military operations against Iran in violation of Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the MOU, the U.S. is significantly miscalculating.
The American administration must understand that geopolitical leverage is not a unilateral privilege; it is reciprocal, and Iran has demonstrated that options are equally available.