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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-890255
The Strait of Hormuz Is Iran's Last Weapon
(Jerusalem Post) Zvika Klein - Iran lost the first round badly. Its nuclear sites are rubble. Its air defenses are gone. The Revolutionary Guards have taken casualties they won't acknowledge for months. By any military measure, Tehran is beaten. But it isn't finished. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced last week that the Strait of Hormuz is "closed to our enemies" - staking a territorial claim over a waterway that belongs to no one country and carries a fifth of the world's oil every day. American gasoline prices are up about 25%. Iran is not trying to win militarily. It's trying to win politically by making the cost prohibitive. The Strait of Hormuz isn't Iranian territorial water. It's an international waterway governed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a treaty Iran has signed. No country gets to privatize a global chokepoint. No serious power should accept that arrangement.