People talking about the effects of closing the straight being bad for multiple countries. Can Iran enforce a sort of selective closing, like the houthis did? Allowing ships as long as they dont trade with the usa? Or maybe only allow countries that dont host usa military bases?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Iran could enforce selective closing very easily because they can shoot across the strait from the coast. It's a mountainous region where Iran has a bunch of missile installations which would be very difficult to dislodge. Iran can also trivially enforce a full closing because the strait is very shallow. All they'd have to do would be to scuttle a couple of corvettes there, and it would be completely impassible. Full closure would be the nuclear option.