Iran’s poking at West heightens risks of military missteps

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran doesn’t seem to want to tangle with a stronger U.S. military. Instead, Iran is poking and prodding its Western antagonists in ways apparently designed to avoid triggering war.
Still, that approach holds the prospect of heightening the risk of missteps that could lead to an armed conflict with global consequences.
The pace of provocation has picked up with Iran reporting it’s seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. That came after the U.S.