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Iran's Threats of Military Destruction Have Proved Hollow
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - The Iranian regime has recently managed to close the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit through which 20% of the world's oil passes. Hundreds of ships are now loitering outside the Gulf while Western powers work up a plan to reopen the waterway. Closing the Strait harms Iran as well, hampering both its oil exports to China and its imports of food and other supplies. It is a sign that Tehran is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Of the 2,000 Iranian drones and more than 500 ballistic and cruise missiles fired into neighboring countries since the start of the war, the overwhelming majority have been intercepted. The few that sneaked through have caused a handful of deaths and injuries and destroyed some military equipment, but no major base has been disabled.