America Once Took Millions of Barrels a Day Through Hormuz — an Iranian Analyst Says Barely a Trickle Is Left

America Once Took Millions of Barrels a Day Through Hormuz — an Iranian Analyst Says Barely a Trickle Is Left

Over the past four months, tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have thrust the Strait of Hormuz back into the global spotlight. The conflict has not only intensified instability in the Middle East but has also revived one of the oldest strategic assumptions in international politics: the importance of the Strait of Hormuz to the U.S. Thus, central is this assumption that many Iranian officials and analysts now des…