🇮🇷 Iran thinks closing the Strait of Hormuz is leverage? Wake up, it’s suicide.
Shutting down this narrow choke point is pure scorched-earth self-destruction.
The strait is now a minefield: Iran is laying naval mines and hitting ships, while the U.S. has destroyed 16 of its mine layers.
Mines are indiscriminate, floating death traps. It took over 6 months to clear them after the 1991 Gulf War, and the same will happen now. Civilian crews are paying the price.
Tehran is effectively cutting off its own oil exports (nearly 20% of the global supply), one of the last lifelines it has under sanctions, while everyone else reroutes and moves on.
Iran loses far more than anyone.
It antagonizes neighbors, crushes its people economically, strands 20,000 innocent seafarers, and leaves itself with zero allies.
Tehran, this ends you first.