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Key China-Iran infrastructure exposes critical hole in Trump's war strategy

The U.S. is trying to choke off Iran’s economy at sea, but a growing China-linked rail corridor is giving Tehran a workaround that Washington cannot easily shut down without risking a wider conflict.As freight traffic between China and Iran increases along an overland route beyond the reach of American warships, the dynamic is exposing a core limitation in the U.S. strategy: maritime pressure is powerful, but it doesn’t fully extend across Eurasia.According to Bloomberg, cargo trains running from central China to Iran have jumped from roughly one per week before the blockade to one every three...