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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/04/irans-leaders-have-severed-strait-of-hormuz/
Iran's Leaders Have Severed Their Own Lifeline by Closing the Strait of Hormuz
(Telegraph-UK) David Blair - The hard men running Iran have threatened to "set on fire" any tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Many countries depend on this narrow channel through which a fifth of the world's seaborne oil flows, but none more completely than Iran itself. Last year, Iran defied sanctions by exporting 1.7 million barrels of oil every day. Its tankers steamed from the oil export terminal on Kharg Island through the Strait of Hormuz and onwards to their destinations. Now, they will be going nowhere. By halting traffic in this waterway, Iran is severing its own windpipe and crippling its own economy.