Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran
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Art Hunter
Mar 30, 2026, 1:39:04 AM (5 days ago) Mar 30
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While there has been significant public speculation about U.S. troops potentially seizing Kharg Island, such a mission comes with significant peril, said Michael Eisenstadt, director of the Military and Security Studies Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. It may be safer, he said, for U.S. forces to lay mines around the island and use it as a pressure point to compel Iran to remove any mines it has laid in the Strait of Hormuz.
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