Iran will completely shut the strategic Strait of Hormuz if Trump executes threats to target Iranian energy facilities, the country’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Sunday.
Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48-hours, suggesting a significant escalation barely a day after he talked about “winding down” the war, now in its fourth week.
In their Sunday statement Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also said companies with U.S. shares will be ‘completely destroyed’, if Iranian energy facilities were targeted by Washington and energy facilities in countries that host U.S. bases will be ‘lawful’ targets.
I don’t know enough about all this, but how difficult is it for them to keep it shut? Do they just bomb any boat that tries to go through it?
Don’t even need bombs, it’s not very wide that can shoot at them with artillery very easily.
Merely threatening would be enough.
and insurance costs will do the blockade.
No, they allow boats they clear through. Boats have obscured ownership, most are registered to the same three countries, little backwaters, so if they attack one specifically, it’s because they got word their ownership is billinaire US or Israel or connected.