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Prominent Iranian pushes 1979 playbook: Tehran should take 200 American hostages and occupy U.S. bases

U.S. Sailors aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy monitor operations in the ship's Combat Information Center while transiting the Arabian Sea, as American forces enforce the naval blockade against Iran on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (CENTCOM)'I call on officials to declare Jordan and six Gulf countries hostile states'