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From the Straits of Hormuz to the skies over Tel Aviv, the US-Iran deal to end the war isn't a diplomatic triumph, it's a strategic defeat on the scale of Vietnam – and the world knows it.

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the global south, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges in his latest Substack piece.

In this reprint from the US magazine Counterpunch, an anonymous Cuban surgeon paints a graphic and painful picture of how the current US oil and petrol embargo is killing his patients.